"The founding emperor dominated the world and shared it with the heroes, so that there is the prosperity of the Great Summer today."

Liu Yi said with emotion: "Chen Chong's strength is already a bit of a human being. The only pity is that the decisive battle in the river is imminent, but Chen Chong can only sit in Luoyang, which is the duty of the prince, and Chen Qianli, the general who gallops in the northern Xinjiang, will rarely show his majesty in the future. ”

"It's hard to have it both ways." Chen Xuan nodded and sighed, "You can't have both fish and bear's paws. ”

Not only Chen Chong, but Chen Xuan also had a little regret in his heart. With the strength of the country, more than a year of preparation, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in the river, preparing for the war of annihilation of the Roma Turks, only the first wave of Xia cavalry into the rear of the Roma Turks to sweep there were 80,000 people. In this battle, Chen Xuan originally planned to go to the river to supervise the battle, but Zhang Shanfu, the general of the marching division, opposed Chen Xuan's visit to the front line. The marching division made a full estimate of the cruelty of the war, and the armies of the Roma Turks and the Great Food Princes were mostly good at cavalry raids, and if Chen Xuan was too close to the front line, the marching division would instead divide men and horses to protect His Majesty the Emperor.

"Those who are emperors can't do things happily." Looking at the mountains and lakes outside the window, Chen Xuan sighed.

"Your Majesty thinks so, it is the blessing of my Great Xia army and people." Liu Yi owes his body, but he is not without regret in his heart.

Back then, he and Chen Xuan galloped together in the northern frontier, and many of the life and death robes who fought side by side were promoted to generals and generals, but Chen Xuan stopped at the captain. The most important thing in Xia is the elite soldiers. After the founding of the country, it gradually became a convention, the emperor concurrently served as the commander of the Dragon Tooth Army, and the prince's military rank was at most up to the rank of captain. Although the Xia State did not formulate the Great Rite Law like the Song State, under the insistence of the Five Prefectures, some of the conventions were not much different from the Great Rite Law of the Kanto region. For example, titles cannot be held concurrently, there is no fief if there is no military merit, the prince is not a general, no more than three generals are appointed by a nearby clan, and the fiefs must be thousands of miles apart, etc. The reason why Chen Xuan supported the crown prince Chen Zhong as the training envoy of the Luoyang regiment was also to make up for some of the regrets of the year in his son. Strictly speaking, the regimental training envoys in various places are all civilian officials, and Chen Chong's appointment as the Luoyang regimental training envoy is not a challenge to the century-old practice of the DPRK and China.

Chen Xuan considered the pros and cons, and finally decided that the royal car would only go to Kangguo, and the departure time would be set three days later.

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Luoyang, the regimental training embassy, Chen Zhong received a reply from Linquan Palace.

The emperor asked Chen Zhong to give a comprehensive consideration to the situation in the eastern part of the country, and then make a decision to the prime minister's office.

This is the advantage of the status of the crown prince, if it is an ordinary regimental training envoy, there is definitely no chance to participate in the layout of the entire Kanto, but His Majesty has already abdicated, so he hopes that the prince is familiar with political affairs. If the Protectorate does not object, the succession to the throne is strictly in order, and there is little room for fighting between brothers. Chen Chong's generation of princes, only Chen Kang is of the same age and experience, and he also succeeded King Kang as the son, and there is no suspense about the throne. The emperor of the Xia State had the custom of abdicating in old age, so the emperor let the crown prince participate more in state affairs before abdicating, which was also the default practice of the imperial court, and the five governments would not criticize the royal family for disturbing the imperial government.

However, Chen Chong's approach was different from what His Majesty expected. He did not do it alone, but invited several of the most powerful figures in Luoyang to discuss together. Wu Jie, the general of the camp, Yang Ren, the captain of the Protectorate Mansion, and Yuan Xingzong, the commander of Luoyang, put forward the performance after discussion, which is the voice of the entire Kwantung front, and this amount is different from Chen Chong's personal performance. For the prince's virtue, the Protectorate does not value personal ability, but a heartfelt attitude.

Sunlight shone into the study through the carved windows, and after the host and guest were seated, the servants retired after serving tea.

Wu Jie walked to a huge topographical map of mountains and rivers hanging on the wall.

The Song State was temporarily unable to go west, and his gaze fell on the Erbo Department entrenched in Yunzhou, slowly swept eastward, and finally fell on the old Zhao Xingde Department and the Han army that occupied the Jingdong Road of the Song State. "The army in the river is in a decisive battle, and I am powerless to look east. Within a year, the situation in the Kanto region must be stabilized. Wu Jie muttered, "The Han family is willing to attack the Liao State and drag the Khitans is good, however, Han Ningshuang is not a fuel-efficient lamp, in just a few years, she has thrown chess cloth, occupied the border corners, and the foundation has been formed, if she is allowed to attack Hebei again, it is easy to enter the Central Plains, and at that time I am afraid that it will replace the Liao State and become a big disaster in the northeast." ”

"Then ......" Chen Chongye walked to the topographical map of the territory and asked, "What does the general mean?" ”

"Since Han Ningshuang also said that she would attack Goryeo, she might as well agree to her, but it is better to divide the soldiers."

Wu Jieyou grasped his fist on the right, put it in the area of Denglai on Jingdong Road, and made a false lead to the northeast: "Han Ningshuang and Goryeo have a grudge against the clan, and have the opportunity to destroy the Goryeo Kingdom to take revenge, and then give the promise of splitting the earth and sealing the king, lead the Han army to the northeast, let them concentrate their forces to attack the Goryeo Kingdom, and then enter the Tokyo Road with the people and horses of the Lord, and stick a knife in the back of the Liao people." ”

Yuan Xingzong muttered: "The Han clan also accepted the canonization of the Song State on Jingdong Road and sent troops to Goryeo, will the Song Dynasty agree?" ”

"There's no need to worry about that." Wu Jie smiled proudly, "I didn't have time to inform you that the Song State had just sent a secret envoy to contact our country to attack Liao. Deng Su wanted to make Yue Peng lead the troops to attack Liao, not only to collect the homeland of Hebei, but if the march was smooth, he even wanted to go straight to Youzhou, so that Liao could not combine the east and west. The Song envoy hoped that we would send troops to attack the Xijing Road of the Liao State and drive out the Erbo tribe entrenched in Yunzhou. I estimate that Han Ningshuang invited himself to attack Liao, and he was also influenced by the Song Kingdom, but ,...... It is better not to let the Han army and the Song army be connected in Hebei, Henan, and Jingdong. ”

"Song State attacking Liao?" Yang Ren was surprised at first, and then he was overjoyed, "God help me!" ”

Chen Chong, Yuan Xingzong, and Yang Ren all heard about this for the first time, and all three of them were overjoyed.

Some time ago, there were rumors that the Liao State sent secret envoys to Ezhou to make peace. Now that the rumors are self-defeating, if Song Liao goes to war again, the situation in the east can be regarded as stabilizing more than half. The matter of the three of them assisting Han Ningshuang in attacking Liao was also put aside for a while, and they once again confirmed with Wu Jie the decision of Song Guolian Xia to attack Liao. Wu Jie explained that Deng Su was secretly sent an envoy to the officers patrolling the border when he passed through the border, and he was still on the way, and the border patrol army reported to the Luoyang camp first.

"Deng Su used the Northern Expedition to consolidate his power," Yuan Xingzong pondered, "but this opportunity also helped us a lot." ”

"Exactly," Chen Chong also nodded and smiled, "If that's the case, it's just the right time!" ”

"The Protectorate should give Deng Su a marquis." Yuan Xingzong smiled, "It's a pity, this person really has a great contribution to the country." ”

The three of them laughed together, and the atmosphere in the study changed from solemn to much more relaxed.

"It's better to give Deng Su a marquis, it's better to give Zhao Xingde a prince," Yuan Xingzong half-jokingly said, "Kanto Haojie, it's a pity." ”

Hearing the word "Feng Gong", Wu Jie's face changed slightly, and he said lightly: "It's okay to give Zhao Xingde the title of Gong, if the three generals of Jingdong Road and the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Han army of the Han clan are used by me, there is no need for many troops from Guanxi, and half of the Song State will be at your fingertips." ”

He sneered twice and walked back to his seat. Yang Ren's face was also a little embarrassed. Chen Chong and Yuan Xingzong glanced at each other, and they both heard the meaning of the heart. Due to the decisive battle in the river, the Great Prime Minister's Office restricted the expansion of the scale of the Kwantung War, and for the generals of the Eastern Expedition, this battle was as uncomfortable as sheep pulling dung. In this limited war, Zhao Xingde became famous, and in less than two years, he jumped from General Quan to General, Feng Kaiguo, and was elected by the people of Kwantung as Shangzhu State, and the light overshadowed all the generals of the Kwantung camp. People are not sages, if Zhao Xingde is really given the honor of "Guogong", it will make the generals of the Xia State in the Eastern Expedition even more uncomfortable.

"General Wu is generous," Yuan Xingzong laughed dryly, and said mockingly: "However, Zhao Xingde's qualifications are still shallow, and Prime Minister Liu, General Zhang, and General Xu have not yet been crowned princes, where will it be the turn to get these juniors in the court." If you make an exception and seal the public, you will not be rewarded, but Zhao Yuanzhi will be roasted on the fire. Isn't it like the Song Kingdom, giving the princess to the generals to win over? It seems that it can only be fiefdomed. He looked at Chen Zhong and spread his hands helplessly.

"Lord Yuan said cautiously, Zhao Xingde already has a wife," Chen Zhong said with a smile, "My mother and the princesses are not easy to mess with. ”

"If His Royal Highness still wants to use Zhao Xingde," Yang Ren also smiled: "Can't let him enjoy Qingfu as a prince of the country." "Exactly," Wu Jie's face also softened, and said with a smile, "Zhao Xingde is in the prime of life, and he has to serve the country a lot." The four of them laughed, and they had passed the round. According to the practice of the Xia Kingdom, the minister can only be crowned a marquis when he is in power, and even if he has made great contributions to the country, he can only be crowned a prince after he is a servant, which can be regarded as a praise for his life's achievements. For example, Kou Zhun, the prime minister of the Jianzhang Dynasty, presided over the reconstruction of Chang'an, and he also entered the Duke of Qi after Zhishi. Therefore, in the eyes of the five governments, Feng Guogong is basically a "living dead" who withdraws from the political dispute between the DPRK and China and goes home to retire, just waiting for the coffin to be conclusive.

"Anyway, after Zhao Xingde collected this group of pirates, his power in the Kanto region cannot be ignored."

Yuan Xingzong is colorful. Wu Jie also nodded, no one can deny this fact. Zhao Xingde is simply like sprinkling beans into soldiers, Liaodong, southeast, Guangzhou, wherever he goes, he can pull out a group of subordinates and make a career, and others are far beyond it. Thinking of this, Wu Jie was also a little relieved, but listened to Yuan Xingzong say again: "However, Zhao Xingde married the eldest princess of Wu in Kanto, and he has an ambiguous relationship with Han Ningshuang, if these forces are combined in the future, it will be very terrifying." Therefore, the imperial court must make it clear at the moment that Zhao Xingde's title, the fief of the Marquis of Baoyi in Henan, and the newly granted land can only be inherited by the son of Mrs. Li. ”