In fact, Chen Xu was a little persuaded by Xiao Yao's reasons, but as the emperor of Chen State, he was still very concerned about Xiao Yao's practice of cutting first and then making his own opinions, plus Shen Keqing's words had been constantly echoing in Chen Xu's mind before, and he always felt that Xiao Yao did disrespect his majesty, and even didn't take him as an emperor in his eyes!

Therefore, Chen Xu specially summoned the important ministers of the imperial court to come to the imperial study to discuss the matter of Xiao Yao's initiative to negotiate peace with Qi State.

But these ministers still take party strife as the primary consideration, as soon as they heard that Xiao Yao had not received instructions from Emperor Chen Xu, he privately decided to propose an armistice and peace talks to the State of Qi, and the ministers on the prince's side of the camp seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and they all attacked Xiao Yao frantically, and all proposed to severely punish Xiao Yao, which made Chen Xu feel very depressed and angry!

Do you think I don't want to teach this Xiao Yao a lesson, let him know what is the difference between a monarch and a minister, and the imperial power should not be taken lightly! And as a minister, he should be virtuous and fearful! But what should we do after the lesson severely punishes Xiao Yao?

If Xiao Yao is severely punished, it means that he will continue the Northern Expedition and continue to attack the Qi State, but Xuzhou, which our tens of thousands of troops could not capture before, was completely taken down by his forward brigade in less than two months. Without Xiao Yao's firearms, can he still defeat the enemy so easily if he fights the enemy with a spear and a big knife as before?

So what Chen Xu needs now is for these ministers to provide him with some useful advice, if it is to support the continuation of the Northern Expedition, then who will Chen Xu recommend to replace Xiao Yao and continue to lead the army to the Northern Expedition! If you really want to hold peace talks with Qi Guo, then how can you seize the initiative and let Chen Guo have more advantages in this peace talks!

So now, when Chen Xu asked who could replace Xiao Yao, or how to refuse Xiao Yao's request to increase military spending, he saw that these ministers were all looking at each other, speechless, and the depressed and irritable anger in his heart came up again!

"What's wrong? Didn't they all have a lot to say just now? Now, why can't you put forward a single opinion? Everyone is clamoring to punish Xiao Yao severely, so after severely punishing him, who should we send to replace him? If you can't think of someone to send to take Xiao Yao's place, then we can only follow Xiao Yao's method and negotiate peace with Qi State? Chen Xu stared at the ministers and asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, now that we have occupied Xuzhou and successfully completed the second phase of the Northern Expedition plan, we still occupy the initiative in the Northern Expedition, so it is possible to fight or peace, which can be decided by Your Majesty personally! The reason why the ministers were so emotional just now and proposed to severely punish Xiao Yao was because he overstepped his authority and privately proposed peace talks to Qi without His Majesty's consent, which is indeed a great disrespect to His Majesty and contempt for imperial power, so Xiao Yao's behavior must be punished to set an example and correct His Majesty's dragon power! A minister stepped forward and explained.

"Hehe, after all that, it turned out that I was back here? It's up to me to decide whether to fight or to fight, so what else do I want you to do! What else would you do besides forming gangs in the court, squeezing each other, and attacking dissidents? Why can't I come up with a good solution to this problem? Chen Xu slapped the table hard, pointed at the ministers and scolded.

"Your Majesty is angry!" All the ministers were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and said.

"As for Xiao Yao's proposal for peace with the State of Qi without my consent, the reason for this, Xiao Yao actually explained to me in his secret letter to me, he said that the reason why he used his identity as the assassin of Xuzhou to propose peace to the State of Qi was to let me have a space to consider! If I am not willing to negotiate peace with the State of Qi, then I can completely ignore this peace and continue to send troops to attack the State of Qi, after all, that peace agreement was only proposed by a small Xuzhou assassin of his part, and it does not represent the State of Chen at all! Chen Xu said helplessly.

"It's just that the reason why he proposed to negotiate peace with Qi is also to take into account that the weapons and ammunition of his forward brigade now, as well as a lot of military supplies, have been almost consumed, and he can't continue to attack Qi State, and even if Qi State suddenly mobilizes a large army to counterattack Xuzhou, it will be difficult to defend with his current strength, so he proposed peace to Qi State, so that he can develop the local economy with peace of mind in Xuzhou, so that the lives of the people of Xuzhou will be better, In this way, our Da Chen's rule over Xuzhou will be more stable! Chen Xu also seemed to have made a decision, and said in a somewhat resolute tone.

"Your Majesty, since this peace proposal was put forward by General Xiao, and his reasons, we can't refuse, after all, as the commander of the front-line troops, whether he can continue to fight, only he knows best, we, the imperial court monarchs and ministers who are thousands of miles away, really can't ignore the lack of food and grass on the front line, and the lack of weapons, and forcibly ask them to continue to attack Qingzhou! Therefore, since General Xiao has already explained that he proposed to negotiate peace with Qi without authorization, so that His Majesty can have a room for reversal, then our court will not make any statement on this peace negotiation! First of all, Xiao Yao and Qi Guo will negotiate, if the negotiation is good, it will be beneficial to our Chen State, then we can acquiesce in this peace negotiation agreement, if they collapse the negotiation, or Your Majesty is not satisfied, then we can not recognize this peace negotiation agreement and continue to send troops to attack Qi State, that is also feasible! Xu Ling could see that Chen Xu needed to go down a staircase now, so he immediately came out to suggest it.

"Do you have any comments on Xu Shangshu's suggestions? Or have you already thought of a way to punish Xiao Yao severely and let him continue to fight for our Chen State? Chen Xu asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, Xu Shangshu's suggestion is very good, we all seconded it! Anyway, this peace negotiation was proposed by Xiao Yao, if the talks are good, we will accept them first, if the talks are not good, we will study how to continue the Northern Expedition and attack the Qi State! However, Xiao Yao's approach of cutting first and then playing this time is really inappropriate, Yichen only saw that the reason why Xiao Yao dared to do such a thing without imperial power was because there was no one in Xuzhou who could balance him and restrain him! Therefore, the minister suggested that we must send someone who can suppress Xiao Yao to Xuzhou to prevent Xiao Yao from doing anything lawless in the future! Shen Keqing also stood up and said, he knew that Chen Xu had made up his mind to agree to Xiao Yao's peace talks, if his side continued to dwell on the issue of severely punishing Xiao Yao, it would definitely only make Chen Xu even more bored with himself, and even take the fire out on the crown prince Chen Shubao!

"That's a good idea! You guys finally have a useful suggestion! Xiao Yao really needs someone to take care of him, but he can't let him mess around in a place like Xuzhou! So who should I send to Xuzhou? You must know that this Xiao Yao is relying on the fact that we need him now, and no one cares about him, even if he has the grace of knowing him, and it is his boss Wu Mingche, the governor of the Northern Expedition, this Xiao Yao dares to point at him and scold the old fox! Chen Xu nodded and said.

"We can send his father, Xiao Moke, to Xuzhou!" Shen Ke said lightly word by word.