A few days later, Su Muzhi rushed back to resume his life.

Because she was anxious to know the life and death of the King of Chu, Princess Shaoyang was also here.

After entering the hall, Su Muzhi's mood was very apprehensive, he first secretly glanced at Princess Shaoyang, then knelt on one knee, and saluted Lu Chen with a fist: "See the king, princess Niangniang." ”

Lu Chen didn't let him get up immediately, but said directly: "Explain the matter." ”

"Back to the king, on the river that day, there was a sudden wind and waves, the Hanyang public ship was attacked, and when Weichen wanted to rescue, it was too late, and the whole boat was full of people, and there was no ...... No one was spared. Su Muzhi said.

Hearing this, Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, then he pointed at Su Muzhi, and scolded angrily: "This king asked you to escort the Duke of Hanyang, and I told you a thousand times, there must be no mistakes!" What are you going to do!? Kindness!? ”

"The king is angry, and the sin of the ministers deserves death!" Su Muzhi said in a panic.

At this time, Princess Shaoyang couldn't help it, she stood up all of a sudden, and said angrily: "Su Muzhi! There are wind and waves on the river, why didn't your boat sink! ”

"This ...... This is an accident, Niangniang's Day mourning ......" Su Muzhi swallowed and salivaed.

"You!" Princess Shaoyang is extremely angry. That's her own nephew, where is the bloodline, and now that there is an accident, how can she not be sad.

Su Muzhi lowered his head tightly, knelt there, and didn't dare to speak.

After staring at him for a moment, Lu Chen frowned and said, "Su Muzhi, you are so derelict in your duty to escort the Duke of Hanyang, but you caused Chu Jun to be buried in the Yangtze River, you really deserve death!" However, remembering your past military exploits, this king can't bear to kill you, and from today on, he will demote you to a commoner and deprive you of all official positions! ”

"Weichen, thank Wang En—" Su Muzhi said in a trembling voice.

"Get out!" Lu Chen waved his hand impatiently.

I don't know how many times Su Muzhi has been cut down, and after he got outside, Sima Wen had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw him come out, he hurriedly greeted him, and asked urgently: "How is it?" ”

Su Muzhi smiled bitterly and said, "I have been demoted to a civilian." ”

"Okay." Unexpectedly, Sima Wen sighed, then patted Su Muzhi's shoulder, and chuckled: "Brother Gao Ming, Brother Muzhi, I didn't expect you to be able to guess the king's mind." ”

"Oh? Are you saying that the king also wants to kill Chu Jun? Su Muzhi asked in a condensed voice.

"Of course." Sima Wen said affirmatively: "The world has been unified, how can Chu Jun still be alive, you can rest assured, after the founding of the country, the king will definitely confer the title of a hundred officials, and at that time, your title will probably not be an earl......"

The next day, Lu Chen discussed the matter of the Chu army with the ministers.

Xiao Wang first put forward his point of view, saying that there has never been an elite sailor in the Wind Country, and the Chu army sailor is the best in the world, which can be of great use, and suggested that Lu Chen should not disband this army.

As soon as his point of view was put forward, it was opposed by Liu Yuan, who said: "If you want to fight a water war, there is only the waters of the Yangtze River, and now, Jiangnan has been decided, and it is useless for this water division to stay." ”

His explanation was also agreed by many people, but after thinking about it, Lu Chen still said: "Let's stay, my Central Plains Empire, can't do without the water division, for the army, the Chu army water division is also an indispensable part." ”

As he spoke, he said: "But the existing establishment still needs to be changed, the tentative water division is 200,000, with Ai Hu as the commander of the water division and Tan Lin as the deputy general, disarm as soon as possible, and in addition, dismiss the 100,000 county troops of Chu State home." ”

"Weichen takes the order!" Ai Hu and Tan Lin hurriedly intervened to give a salute, and the latter was even more excited.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Shuang's mansion.

With the surrender of the Chu State, Wang Shuang had already handed over the Tiger Fu, and now he has no command over the Chu Army's water division, but he has been the commander of the water division for many years, and his prestige in the army is still there.

For this person, Lu Chen also considered it carefully, and finally came to the conclusion that it was not available.

Therefore, Liu Yuan carried Wang Zhao and convicted Wang Shuang of a trumped-up crime, saying that he insulted Queen Xue at the beginning, and the crime should be beheaded.

After the latter received the edict from the king, he smiled on his back and said: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse!" If the Wind King wants to kill, kill it—"

Another pot of poisoned wine.

With the death of Wang Shuang, Ai Hu also officially became the commander of the water division, although there were many dissatisfaction in the Chu army, but it did not cause much backlash.

Subsequently, it was Lu Chen who personally rectified this Chu army, strictly enforced military law, reduced soldiers, issued Feng Army armaments, reorganized, replaced a group of middle-level generals, increased soldiers' salaries, and classified them into the Central Army of Feng Country.

And with this series of actions, among the generals of the Chu Army's naval division, many people who were more familiar with Tan Lin also began to compete for gifts and curry favor with him.

Next, it is time to deal with the matter of Chu Guan.

In this matter, Lu Chen took a lot of time, because there were too many files to read, he stayed up all night with the lamp, checked them one by one, and circled the files of those officials, the capable ones went up, and the mediocre ones went down.

In the end, many Chu officials also had good endings, and there were many who kept Wusha, but only for Chu Xiang and several other old ministers of Chu State, Lu Chen neither dismissed nor moved them, so he kept drying.

It stands to reason that Chu Xiang should be the first to solve the problem of Chu Guan, but after so long, there is still no movement.

On this day, Chu Xiang Zhang Heng couldn't help it, he was not a fool, and now that he had obviously understood what Lu Chen meant.

After sighing secretly, he had no choice but to go and ask to see Lu Chen.

In the hall, after seeing Lu Chen, Zhang Heng knelt down and saluted, and shouted loudly: "See the king——"

Now that the state of Chu has been submitted, he naturally has to change his name, Lu Chen also smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and said, "The old prime minister doesn't have to be polite, please hurry up." ”

"King Xie." Zhang Heng stood up tremblingly.

Lu Chen glanced at him and asked directly, "Is there something wrong with the old prime minister asking to see this king today?" ”

"That's right, my lord." Zhang Heng organized the language and said: "The old minister is already old, and he has been sick recently, and his health is not supported, and he may not be able to be an official anymore. ”

"That's it......" Lu Chen first groaned, and then didn't even hesitate, and said: "Okay, since the old prime minister has said so, then the king is not easy to force, yes." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Hengna hurriedly knelt on the ground again and shouted, "Wechen thank Wang En-"

With the resignation of Chu Xiang, several other old ministers of Chu State will also come to their senses and begin to ask to see Lu Chen and ask him to resign.

They are undoubtedly the wisest choice, because Lu Chen deliberately hung them, the meaning is already obvious, if they don't take the initiative to resign, I'm afraid it won't be long before they will be killed. Read the latest chapter of "Conquering the World Claw Book House" for free for the first time.