In the 19th year of Chongzheng, the Ming Empire was full of joy. Just after the New Year, Emperor Chongzheng issued an edict to confer the title of eldest prince Zhu Hezhi as the crown prince, and the whole Ming Dynasty celebrated.

Immediately afterwards, another shocking good news, whose explosion even surpassed the fact that the crown prince was enthroned!

What is more important than enthroning the crown prince?

If you only listen to the name, it is no big deal. It is the emperor who rewards the ministers.

Almost every emperor would do such a few times, which is really not a rare thing. However, what Zhu Cijing rewarded this time was not gold, silver, treasures, silk, satin, but titles and territory!

What's even more exaggerated is that he rewarded not one or two, but dozens of them.

This is an extraordinary event. In the Ming Dynasty, there were very few titles and territories that were rewarded to non-royal people. Only the two emperors, Taizu and Chengzu, had done the work of rewarding titles and territories on a large scale. It would be great if other emperors could reward one or two titles, and there were not more than ten, let alone dozens of them.

Zhu Cijiong's large-scale reward of titles and territory was not a whim, he had many considerations.

First of all, since he ascended the throne, he has fought almost every year, and countless soldiers sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty, fought in all directions, expanded their territory, and did not reward them, which is unreasonable;

Then, many civil officials also forgot to eat and sleep for the Ming Dynasty and fought day and night, making the Ming Dynasty more powerful than any previous dynasty. It is unreasonable to not reward it;

Finally, the most important point is that the royal family needs support. When he is in power, he can rely on his prestige to suppress all directions and maintain the stability of the Ming Empire. Once he is gone, what will his descendants rely on to maintain the stability of the Ming Empire?

You should know that the current Ming Empire alone has an unprecedented land area of ​​more than 40 million square kilometers. In addition to colonies and vassal states, the entire Ming Empire occupies almost one-third of the world's land!

In the face of such huge benefits, it is impossible to think about others without making any decisions.

And he cannot guarantee that all his descendants can be outstanding and outperform all the heroes. In this way, he must leave a group of people to protect their descendants.

These people are naturally these people who have obtained the title, that is, the so-called nobles. Because their interests are closely related to the royal family, once the royal family collapses, the possibility of their titles is slim, so they will never watch the royal family collapse.

In fact, there were some nobles in the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, they were almost killed by the eunuch Wang Zhen in the battle of Tumu Fort. So since then, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty has been getting worse every year, and they are often tricked by eunuchs or civil servants!

This time, Zhu Cijiu wanted to make up for this shortcoming and leave a group of nobles who protect their descendants.

The scale of this reward can be said to be second only to the reward of Emperor Taizu when the Ming Dynasty was established.

All the commanders of the first-class legion were named Dukes, with the following:

Duke Lu Xiangsheng of Guo State;

Duke Xu Cao Wenzhao;

Chuanting of the Ji State Gongsun;

Duke Chen Shilu;

Duke Deng Zheng Zhihu;

Duke Shen Huang Long;

Qin Liangyu, Duke of Ju.

In addition, two civil servants were named Dukes, namely:

Duke Ji, Bi Maokang;

Gongsun Yuanhua of Teng Kingdom.

All the commanders of the second-class legions were named Marquis, with the following:

Shucheng Hou Qin Gongming;

Guancheng Hou Mangui;

Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Gecheng;

Yang Geng, Marquis of Gucheng;

Chen Hui, Hou of Baicheng;

Zheng Xing, Marquis of Tongcheng.

In addition, two civil servants were also named Marquis, namely:

Sucheng Hou Wangzheng

Zhucheng Hou Song Yingxing

The commanders of all third-class legions were all named earls. Due to the large number of people, I will not list them one by one here.

Among all the meritorious officials, only Zheng Chenggong was not granted the title of Duke because he was the prince of Zhennan and was destined to inherit the position of Zhennan. The Duke was actually a small one for him. However, in order to reward him for his contribution, Zhu Cijing directly issued an order to change the Old Hong Kong Chenggong Zheng State to Zheng State and reward Zheng Chenggong as his fief.

Zheng Chenggong was also the only fief of the Ming Empire. The other fiefs of the Dukes were all in the colonies of the North American continent. The Duke rewarded tens of hectares of fertile land, the Marquis rewarded thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the Earl rewarded hundreds of hectares of fertile land. However, these must be slowly circled after the garrison and guards there were completed.

Once the decree of the reward is announced, it will naturally be another celebration, so I will not repeat it here.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiu began to mobilize his army to deploy globally to ensure security.

Originally, he thought that more than three million regular troops were too many, and some of them would be disbanded after the war, but he never thought that the Ming Dynasty eventually captured such a large territory and had to send troops to monitor and control the powers of the anti-Habsburg Alliance. As a result, the number of regular troops seemed to be a little insufficient.

Of course, these are all good things. The larger the territory, the stronger the national strength. If the anti-Habsburg powers are controlled, there is no need to worry about their development and threatening the Ming Dynasty in the future. Why not do it?

What he has to do now is to station these more than three million troops in the most suitable place to ensure that the overlord status of the Ming Empire is not shaken.

The army's garrison is mainly centered on five first-class legions, among which:

Army Grand Marshal Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army to station in Jinshan Port, responsible for the defense of the entire North American colonies.

The Zhongwang Army under his command, Yang Zhong, was stationed in Virginia and was responsible for defense on the East Coast of North America.

Deputy Army Marshal Sun Chuanting led the Qin army to station in Rotterdam to be responsible for the defense of the entire continent.

Under his command is the First Border Defense Army Corps stationed in Tsarist Russia;

The Second Frontier Army Corps stationed in Sweden;

The Third Border Defense Army Corps stationed in Wushan;

The Fourth Legion of the Border Force stationed in Denmark;

Dongjiang Army stationed in Britain;

Dingliao Army stationed in France.

Deputy Army Marshal Cao Wenzhao led the Guanning Army to be stationed in Guanning City, responsible for the defense of the entire North Asia.

Under his command, the Liaodong Army was commanded by Man Gui;

The Shaanxi Preparatory Corps commanded by Hong Chengchou;

The Shanxi Preparatory Corps commanded by Zuo Liangyu;

The Henan Preparatory Corps commanded by Wu Sangui;

The First Legion of the Expeditionary Force was transferred back to Kandahar to guard the defense of the entire South Asia.

The Second Expeditionary Army under his command was commanded by Qin Yiming;

The Jiangnan Preparatory Legion commanded by Zhang Yinghuai;

Liu Da was commanded by Guangnan Preparatory Corps;

The Yunnan Preparatory Legion commanded by Xie Chaozuo;

There are also Wuwei troops stationed in the Eurasian Canal and are under its jurisdiction.

Qin Liangyu led the First Corps of the Imperial Guards to garrison in the capital of Daming.

The Second Corps of the Imperial Guards under his command, commanded by Shi Kefa, was first stationed in Dongsheng Shenzhou. As for how to adjust in the future, he will have to wait until he abdicated.

The eight navy fleets were mainly scattered in various seas according to demand.

Among them, the Navy Imperial Guard Corps was stationed in Dongdaying to protect the safety of the capital;

The Beiyang Navy was stationed in Dunkirk to deter the anti-Habsburg Alliance Navy;

The Nanyang Navy is stationed in Xingchenggang and is responsible for the defense of the Nanyang waters;

The North Sea Fleet is stationed in Kingsoft Port and is responsible for North American waters;

The East China Sea Fleet is stationed in Nandaying and is responsible for defense in the southeastern waters;

The South China Sea Fleet is stationed in the Eurasian Canal and is responsible for canal security;

The Arctic Fleet is stationed in Tungus City and is responsible for Arctic waters defense;

The Navy Reserve Corps is temporarily stationed in Dongsheng Shenzhou to be responsible for transporting materials back and forth.

In this way, no matter where there is a problem, at least an army of more than 500,000 can be gathered in a short period of time. It can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty is already solid and the whole world is under control!
Chapter completed!