From General Zhenguan to Marshal Dingyuan, although his rank rose, he was still within the entire imperial court at that time.
For Northern Xinjiang, there is actually no difference whether Di Xin is a second-grade General Zhenguan or Marshal Dingyuan.
He is in charge of the military, government and civilians. No matter how high his official position is now, he can only get thousands more households in taxes at most, and there will be no more bonuses.
The only advantage may be that when the four frontiers are fighting together, without a special purpose, he may not necessarily stand under Marquis Wu Cheng.
Because of their expertise in the combat environment and their different combat styles, they will decide who will be the overall commander based on the location of the main battlefield or whether it is offensive or defensive.
As for the imperial edict, the second most important reward for Di Xin, and the one he valued most, was a token.
With this token, Emperor Xin could travel from northern Xinjiang to the capital without sending a letter to the court.
Of course, the restrictions are very large.
The first restriction is the number of times.
three times.
The token has a special mark, which will be verified every time he goes to the capital. Once it reaches the mark three times, the token will automatically become invalid and will be taken back.
The second one is the number of people.
Emperor Xin, who had 90,000 elite soldiers, led his army to engage in a "thousand-mile diligent king" campaign, which no one could stand.
Therefore, holding this token, Di Xin could not bring more than 500 men at a time.
In Dali territory, in most cases, five hundred guards were enough to escort Emperor Xin from northern Xinjiang to the capital, not to mention that Zeng Hongshen, the innate great master, was among them.
But it is far from enough to rely on these people to operate in the capital city with a capital camp of 120,000 people.
The third is whereabouts.
With this token, Di Xin cannot reveal his identity when he arrives in the capital.
Unless there are some special circumstances, such as being hunted down by several strong men from the second realm last year, otherwise, after Di Xin leaves Northern Xinjiang, he must report his whereabouts to the local officials, and he cannot stay in one place for too long.
This was also to prevent Di Xin from taking advantage of the time he had left northern Xinjiang and not yet arrived in the capital to go to other provinces to do frivolous things.
If there was no such restriction, Di Xin could have walked all over the territory of Da Li and then took a detour to the capital.
In other words, without the third restriction, Emperor Xin could do whatever he wanted in Dali as long as he avoided northern Xinjiang and the capital.
A prince who has the right to inherit the throne walks freely within the territory of Dali.
Not to mention becoming a king, even the old emperor who is still lying on the hospital bed can't bear it.
The fourth rule is to limit the time.
Unless special circumstances occur, Emperor Xin is not allowed to stay in the capital for more than seven days at a time.
Other than that, there's not much else.
As long as Di Xin is not afraid of wasting times, even if Di Xin wants to go to the capital and drink bean curd and then come back, there is no problem if he doesn't do anything.
In fact, Di Xin suspected that King Cheng wished him to be like this.
But will Dixin be as he expected?
Of course it's impossible.
Because this reward was actually negotiated between Emperor Xin and the old emperor. Even the so-called restrictions were added by Emperor Xin himself one by one. The purpose was to increase the approval rate among the cabinet and King Cheng.
Naturally, if a reward is set for a large force like the Expeditionary Force that has made great contributions, it cannot be decided by the emperor in a flash.
Generally speaking, the emperor, the cabinet, and the Ministry of War among the six ministries each propose several such rewards, and then they are compiled together.
Among them, the Ministry of War can only make suggestions.
The emperor and the cabinet will select some of the summary reward suggestions, then change some conditions, and go through some necessary procedures such as wrangling. Finally, after both parties agree, they will stamp and announce it.
After becoming the king and supervising the country, there were more people who could make suggestions and make decisions.
Of course, the supervisory function was to replace the emperor in administration. Under normal circumstances, if the emperor did not ask questions, the two parties would still be arguing.
But now it's clear that this is not normal.
In order to add this token for traveling between the capital and northern Xinjiang to Emperor Xin's reward, the old emperor intervened.
Then there is no more.
Under these four restrictions, it was almost impossible for Di Xin to do anything superfluous except returning to Beijing to report on his work and visit relatives.
In seven days, five hundred people placed under the sun could do nothing in the capital city with complicated forces.
Di Xin originally wrote that the time was fourteen days, but was later shortened to seven days by King Cheng, before the token became a reward and was given to Di Xin.
However, what King Cheng didn't know was that whether it was seven days or fourteen days, it made no difference to Di Xin.
The fact that he could openly write out the restrictions meant that no matter how he changed it, it would not affect his true purpose of needing this token to return to Beijing.
What Di Xin needs is an opportunity to go to the capital in an honest and fair manner as King Yu.
Three opportunities would not be too many for him, but if it was only one opportunity, it would not be too few.
At most, when these three opportunities are used up, it will be the time for Di Xin and King Cheng to decide the winner.
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After glancing in the direction of the capital, Emperor Xin put away the imperial edict and looked towards Anjun Mountain.
An Junshan lowered his head slightly: "Your Highness!"
"You and Master Shen have worked hard during my absence."
An Junshan's voice said: "This is the duty of a humble official."
He really admired Di Xin from the bottom of his heart.
When King Yu said that he would go on an expedition to foreign tribes, even those who were closest to him found it a bit unbelievable. Even after he personally prepared everything and sent the expeditionary force out, for several consecutive days, he felt that it was untrue.
Without the permission of the imperial court, His Royal Highness Prince Yu actually led 30,000 people on a mighty expedition.
Except for Shen Qianhua, who knew him very well, no one knew how many times he was shocked in private.
Although he never made any mistakes in his work from beginning to end, it was not until the first good news came that he confirmed that he was not imagining it.
It was at that time that he finally felt that he was aware of the extent of His Royal Highness Prince Yu's ambition.
His Highness Prince Yu's ambition may not only be satisfied by one big departure.
It was at that time that he realized what kind of person he was following.
However, when he told Shen Qianhua his findings, he realized how happy the old fox was smiling.
His so-called delicate mind is nothing more than a babbling baby compared to this old fox.
But no matter what, from that day on, he devoted himself more carefully to the logistics work of the expeditionary force.
Then the good news came one after another.
When a year later, His Highness King Yu returned home in triumph, the once-annihilated Turks had become a trivial matter that was no longer worth showing off among all the glorious achievements of His Highness King Yu.