Jingyang Palace.
When Zhu Qiyu arrived, the Wang family and the Hang family were dining with Empress Dowager Wu, and they also brought their eldest brother and second sister.
The eldest brother is Zhu Qiyu's eldest son, born to the Hang family. His name is Zhu Jianji. He is a few months younger than Zhu Jianshen. He has just learned to speak, but his enunciation is still unclear.
The second sister is Zhu Qiyu's legitimate daughter, born to the Wang family, and titled Gu'an. She is a few months younger than Zhu Jianji, and she can't even speak now.
The brother and sister had just finished eating and were playing on the couch under the care of their wet nurse.
Seeing Zhu Qiyu stepping in, he shouted excitedly in the direction of his father.
"The emperor is here, but it is unfortunate that you are here. The Ai family has just had dinner, otherwise you could still have a meal."
Queen Mother Wu was obviously very happy and in the mood to joke.
Zhu Qiyu took a quick look and found that he had indeed arrived at an unlucky time. The palace officials had begun to pick up the leftovers.
Zhu Qiyu sat down on the pier and said with the same smile without the courtesy of all the palace people and the Hang family.
"The concubine is scolding her son. It's his fault that he hasn't been diligent enough these days."
Mrs. Wu stretched her body, sat on the couch, picked up the second sister who could only scream "yaaa", and said with a soft hum.
"The Ai family has grandsons and granddaughters with them. Just go and help with your affairs."
The family talked together. Brother Ji can now stand, but he still likes to crawl around.
With the presence of two little children, the Nuan Pavilion was bustling with activity, which made Zhu Qiyu's gloomy mood dissipate a lot.
But after all, the two children were still young, and they got tired after playing for a while, so their mother took them down to rest.
At this time, Wu also stopped smiling and asked.
"But what troubles have you encountered?"
Zhu Qiyu didn't hesitate much and told Wu the news brought by Lu Zhong.
After thinking about it, I simply told him about Ren Li.
After listening, Wu's face was still calm, but her brows were also slightly frowned and she said.
"The matter you mentioned about Uncle Ning Yuan is indeed worthy of attention. After all, he made great achievements in this battle. After returning to the capital, if he is not rewarded and put to good use, he may cause dissatisfaction among his relatives."
"However, you don't have to worry too much. Even if he is from the Sun family, he can't make any trouble now. He can only use it to protect himself. He can never force the palace to rebel. It's amazing. You let him go to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. , just don’t let him take charge of the army.”
There are only a few important places in the capital.
The Jingying, Jingwei Command and Envoy Division, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and the Five Cities Military and Horse Division are basically the armed forces that the capital can mobilize.
Although the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army is the highest authority for military generals, it does not have the power to deploy troops, only to command them.
So in fact, Ren Li's problem is not difficult to solve. As Wu said, as long as he is not allowed to control the army, everything will be easy.
However……
Zhu Qiyu sighed and said.
"A ceremony is easy to talk about. Even if you have merit, it is easy to arrange it. However, the matter of ceremony makes my son feel a little wary."
"Xun Qi's power is deeply entangled. Ren Li is already a person who has very little involvement with Xun Qi in the capital, but he is still so suspicious."
"If he is really from the Sun family, then it is difficult to know how many other powerful relatives in the capital have evil intentions."
Zhu Qiyu has always felt a headache for his relatives.
Up to this stage, ancestral relatives have been the main source of military ministers, which is related to the military household system of the Ming Dynasty.
Hereditary kinship is actually a high-level military household system.
If you want to move, it will involve too much.
It's not like he hasn't thought about conferring some new honorary titles during this war.
But the problem is that the title of the Ming Dynasty is still very valuable, except for special circumstances such as the Battle of Jingnan.
He who leads an army to a great victory and kills over ten thousand enemies becomes a count.
If you want to be granted the title of Marquis, I'm afraid you'll have to capture Ye Xian or Tuo Tuo Bu Hua alive before you can just barely reach it.
During this war, there were a few who were worthy of being knighted, but they were only a handful.
People like Yang Hong, Guo Deng, and Tao Jin.
But the problem is that people like Yang Hong and Guo Deng are generals guarding the border. After being ennobled, it is impossible to withdraw them.
The rest who can claim their merits are basically generals with high status.
Just like Tao Jin, although he does not have a title, he still inherits his father's position and is closely related to the clan group and cannot be separated.
You must know that the intertwined relationship between honorable relatives does not only refer to senior honorary relatives with titles.
Down to the commanding colleagues, commanding officials, and the middle and low-level relatives of thousands of households, there is also an extremely huge network of relationships.
Moreover, this intricate relationship is either a life-and-death friendship of serving under the general's account, or it is an in-law relationship of mutual marriage.
This is much stronger than the so-called fellow villagers and fellow disciples.
Take Tao Jin as an example. Although he was only the governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, he inherited his father's position as commander of the Yangzhou Guard.
His wife was the concubine of Baoding Bo Liang Yao. After he was transferred to the capital, his son Tao Fu was the granddaughter of Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai. His concubine married the commander of the capital. He is the son of Ge Yuan.
Under such circumstances, even if he gives Tao Jin a title, will he be able to guarantee his loyalty? I'm afraid not necessarily!
He relies on these backgrounds, and as he rises through the ranks with his military exploits, he will naturally be bound by these backgrounds.
There are basically no people who have no real background and can be promoted by him.
Because such a person can kill at most a few thieves in a battle involving tens of thousands of people. Unless he is lucky enough to kill someone important, he will also need to be promoted step by step.
But in this way, they will inevitably integrate into these networks on their way up.
This point, compared with civil servants, is simply incomparable.
Civil servants were all selected from Jinshi. Before passing the imperial examination, most of them had nothing to do with officialdom.
Even if there are elders in the family who are officials, as long as they are not powerful officials like Yan Song, otherwise by the time they can influence the government, the elders will basically become officials.
Their relationship network consists of people from the same hometown and family, but this relationship is obviously much simpler and less stable than that of relatives.
Now that something like Ren Li has happened, Zhu Qiyu is really unsure about how to deal with these relatives.
If you want to use them, you don't know when there will be rebellion in the back of your mind, but if you don't use them, you have to use civil servants, which will inevitably lead to an imbalance between civil and military affairs.
After listening to Zhu Qiyu's words, Mrs. Wu also fell silent. After a while, she spoke.
"The Ai family can't give you much help with matters related to the outer dynasty, but based on the Ai family's experience in the harem for so many years, I can tell you."
"A person's position is not necessarily affected by the forces behind him. Everyone has a weakness. The key is whether you can really grasp this weakness."
Weakness?
Zhu Qiyu frowned and said nothing.
