Zhao Chen left Wugong County on the fifth day of the fourth month and headed west!

Kang An left with hundreds of soldiers from the imperial camp following Zhao Chen!

However, this time their whereabouts were unusually hidden, and they were all dressed in the clothes of ordinary forbidden soldiers, so that they could not be known! Now the situation in Guanshan is dangerous, and Zhao Chen's every move may affect the battle situation in Guanshan, so he still pretends to stay in Guanshan!

On April 15th, they came to Dasanguan!

On April 18, they returned to Hanzhong! Even if they came back, they didn't alarm the ordinary people, only a few high-ranking people in the imperial court knew that Zhao Chen had returned!

After coming back, Zhao Chen immediately went to see Li Gang! When Li Gang saw Zhao Chen returning, he was naturally very excited!

The first thing the two discussed was the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters, and Zhao Chen told the original story of the General Staff Headquarters that had been established in Guanshan.

"In the future, there will be not only a staff headquarters, but also a staff department in each army, and even a staff organization in each division!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, is this a lot of people?" Li Gang said.

"Nope! The staff headquarters needs thousands of people, and the staff organs of various armies and divisions need very few personnel! These staff organs were originally set up to make it easier to command the army, but if there are too many personnel and the system is cumbersome, it is better not to set them up! Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty said yes! It's just that the Privy Council is going to be abolished? Li Gang said.

"Exactly! This matter has to be left to the teacher! Zhao Chen said.

"The old minister understands! There are also a lot of members of the Privy Council, and the others are easy to say, but Qu Duan ......," Li Gang muttered.

"Qu Duan, I will personally persuade you! I have written to him to take up a post at the General Staff Headquarters, but he has not been able to do so! When I came back this time, in addition to dealing with the affairs of Sichuan, there was one more thing to persuade him! Zhao Chen said.

Li Gang nodded, and then he was relieved! To be honest, Li Gang also knew that Qu Duan's talent was extraordinary, and he didn't want Qu Duan to waste his talent by staying in Hanzhong all the time! When he heard that the end of the song was settled, he was at ease!

"Sichuan, this is a very troublesome thing!" Zhao Chen knocked on the table with his hand and said slowly.

"Yes, Sichuan's problem is indeed a bit troublesome! In fact, the key lies in people's hearts! Li Gang said.

"Oh?" Zhao Chen said with some doubts.

"Since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, Sichuan has been unstable, and this is the key issue!" Li Gang said.

"Why have people's hearts been unstable?" Zhao Chen said.

"At the beginning, Emperor Taizu replaced Hou Zhou, but the land of Shu at that time was still under the rule of Meng Chang, the king of Shu! This Meng Chang is quite kind to the people, so his prestige in Shu is extremely high! After Taizu's army entered Shu, Meng Chang surrendered, and after Emperor Taizu's death, it was rumored outside that Meng Chang was poisoned by Emperor Taizong! Moreover, when Taizu's army entered Shudi, it burned, killed and looted, doing everything, and it took more than ten years just to transport those looted property! These made the people of Shu very dissatisfied with the imperial court! When Emperor Taizong was in power, he was very strict with Shu and the taxes were extremely heavy, so that Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun rebelled, and although the rebellion was quelled, Emperor Taizong killed more than 100,000 rebellious Shu people! Later, although the emperors of all dynasties have been appeased by Shu, few of the people of Shu have their hearts to the court! Li Gang said.

"I see! No wonder the cult was able to fan the flames and make trouble in Shudi! Zhao Chen nodded and said.

"Yes! Cults can make trouble, mainly because of people's hearts! The cult rebellion in Sichuan is easy to eliminate, but it is difficult to appease the people's hearts! Li Gang said.

"I will personally go to Sichuan to deal with this matter!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, are you going to Sichuan in person?" Li Gang was stunned for a moment and said.

"Not bad! Sichuan is a very important matter, and although we now occupy Shaanxi, Hanzhong, Sichuan, and other places, it has always been difficult to enforce the decrees in Sichuan! This Sichuan has almost become a country within a country, and this phenomenon can no longer be sustained! If Sichuan continues to be like this, not only will the cult cause chaos, but other unstable things will happen in the future! If I want to conquer the world and defeat King Kang and Jurchen, I must first solve the problem of Sichuan! That's why I decided to go to Sichuan in person! Zhao Chen said.

"But, Your Majesty, will there be any danger?" Li Gang said.

"I go to Weifu, few people know my identity, what danger will happen?" Zhao Chen said.

"But ......" Li Gang has to persuade again!

"The affairs of the court are still handled by the teacher! In addition, all military affairs will be handed over to the General Staff Headquarters in the future! I want to rush to Sichuan as soon as possible, and today I have to solve the problem of Quduan first! Zhao Chen didn't let him say anything, stood up, and said.

Li Gang knew that Zhao Chen was a strong person, and once he made a decision, it would be very difficult for him to change, so Li Gang had to nod and agree!

"Thank you teacher! I hope that the world can be peaceful one day sooner, so that teachers can have a good rest! Seeing Li Gang's wrinkled and tired face, Zhao Chen sighed softly and said.

"To serve the country, the old minister is willing to do his best, and then die!" Li Gang shook his head and said with a smile.

At that moment, Zhao Chen didn't say more, and took a few people towards the Privy Council!

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The structure of the Privy Council in the Song Dynasty was also extremely complicated, and there were thousands of officials here!

Zhao Chen went straight to the innermost part of the Privy Council!

In the innermost room, Qu Duan was sitting at a desk reading a book!

He was fascinated, but as soon as Zhao Chen came in, he immediately raised his head and looked over! He was once the second only general in the Western Army, and his martial arts were extremely clever! Even if Zhao Chen enters the innate realm, he is far from being his opponent!

"Your Majesty!" After seeing Zhao Chen's face clearly, Qu Duan was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down and said.

He was shocked in his heart, and he didn't understand why Zhao Chen returned to Hanzhong at this time, and he didn't get any news! For a while, he was a little apprehensive in his heart!

"General Qu, let's get flat! What book are you reading? Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"The last general is reading the book of war written by General Di Qing!" Qu Duan Dao.

"Oh, it turned out to be General Di Qing's military book! General Di Qing is also a famous general of my Great Song Dynasty, he was in the process of conquering the Western Xia, every battle was clothed with hair, wearing a bronze mask, a person rushed to the front, brave, twenty-five battles before and after his life, did not taste a defeat! His demeanor is reminiscent! Zhao Chen said.

"Yes! General Di Qing has been on the battlefield for decades, and he doesn't know how many feats he has made, but he is still famous after a hundred years! Maybe thousands of years later, there are still people who remember his name! I'm far inferior to him! Qu Duan let out a long sigh and said.

Historically, Di Qing was a famous general of the Song Dynasty! Although Qu Duan is a famous figure in the Western Army in this era, he is still too different from Di Qing!

"Who said General Qu was inferior to him? As the saying goes, heroes are born in troubled times, but now is the troubled times, and it is the era of real heroes! I can guarantee that Yue Fei's name will be better than Di Qing in the future! Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty is right!" Qu Duan sighed again and said.

At this juncture when the Jurchen invasion and the Han people were about to be wiped out, anyone who could stand up to resist the Jin soldiers and establish meritorious deeds would definitely surpass Di Qing's reputation! After all, Di Qing was in a period of peace, and although the threat of Western Xia was great, it was far from being able to be compared with the female truth! The Western Xia only wreaked havoc in the northwest, while the Jurchens occupied the Central Plains and were about to exterminate the Han people! Yue Fei defeated the Jurchens in two great battles, and his name must be left in history!

"Why does General Qu look gloomy?" Zhao Chen looked at Qu Duan and said with a smile.

"Nothing!" Qu Duan shook his head slightly.

"General Qu, I asked you to be the chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff Headquarters, why are you unwilling to agree?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, the last general is not talented and incompetent, and he is not enough to hold this position!" Qu Duan bowed his head.

"I don't think so! You are a well-known all-rounder in the Western Army, and everyone knows it! You have also repeatedly defeated the Western Xia army before, how can you say that you are incompetent and incompetent? I think you have a grudge against me! Zhao Chen sneered.

"Your Majesty, the last general will never dare to have such thoughts!" Qu Duan Dao.

"Manly man, dare to act! Do you pat your conscience and say that you really have no complaints against me? Zhao Chen said disdainfully.

He also knows that Qu Duan is talented, but for Qu Duan's character, Zhao Chen looks down on him very much! Qu Duan's personality determines that he can't do really big things, Qu Duan can only rely on the existence of the strong, and can become the sword in the hands of the strong! It has been two and a half years since he called Qu Duan from Jingyuan to Hanzhong, and in these two and a half years, Qu Duan's temperament must have been completely smoothed out, and it will be much easier to use him again at this time!

Hearing Zhao Chen's words, Qu Duan was silent!

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister! This world is mine! The Jingyuan Road is mine, and the Jingyuan Army is also mine, and you used to be the Jingyuan Road Envoy, and you were able to control an army of 100,000 people, relying on the power given to you by my father! Is there anything wrong with taking back this power after I come to power? I have appointed you as a privy envoy to take charge of the whole government, isn't this power better than the original envoy? Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Your Majesty, this privy envoy of the last general is only in name only!" Qu Duan smiled bitterly.

"In name only? I have set up the Military Aircraft Division, and the power of the Privy Council is indeed much smaller! But I have only taken away the power to deal with emergency military situations, and if you really want to do something, with your position as a privy councillor, it is impossible not to do it! But look at what you've done in the past two and a half years? You read books and drink tea in the Privy Council every day, and you don't manage big or small affairs! Do you think that? Zhao Chen said.

Qu Duan bowed his head and was silent!

"Qu Duan, you are also a good man, are you really willing to watch yourself retire in the Privy Council, watch yourself waste your years, and achieve nothing?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty...... I ......" Qu Duan opened his mouth, and finally let out a long sigh!

"In the future, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others will remain in the annals of history, they are national heroes, even if Li Gang, Wang Shu and others help me defeat the Jurchens, they will also be famous for a generation! But what about you? Since the Jurchen invasion, you have not done anything beneficial to the country, you have been unknown, and the history books only record that you once served as the envoy of the Jingyuan Road and the position of privy envoy, and you have achieved nothing, do you think this is very good? Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty...... I ......" Qu Duan had a pained expression on his face, and finally he still sighed!

"A good man, a martial arts, a belly of talent, you have achieved nothing, not only do you feel aggrieved, but I feel aggrieved for you! Tomorrow, you will immediately go to Wugong County and take over the post of chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff Headquarters! I hope you don't let me down! In the future, all major offensive strategies will come from the General Staff Headquarters, and it can be said that this General Staff Headquarters has a bearing on the overall strategy of the world! If you do a good job, your reputation may not be as good as Yue Fei and Liu Qi in the future! Zhao Chen said.

"The last general knows!" Qu Duan gritted his teeth and said.

"Liu Qi, Zhao Zhe, and Wang Shu are all your old subordinates, and they will cooperate with you!" Zhao Chen said again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Qu Duan nodded.

"I hope that in the future, we can gallop on the battlefield together, destroy the Jurchens, and prosper the Great Song Dynasty! Quduan, I have high hopes for you! Zhao Chen said.

Qu Duan's face showed expressions of shame, excitement, excitement, etc., and he nodded again after a long time.

On this day, Zhao Chen entertained Qu Duan in the palace, and the two talked for a long time! Zhao Chen comforted Qu Duan seriously, and he found out that Qu Duan is actually very talkative, and his personality can be said to be "docile", so he doesn't have to worry about Qu Duan's rebellion! Moreover, Qu Duan's talent is indeed very small, after Qu Duan read the infantry drill code, he actually put forward many suggestions of his own, which made Zhao Chen overjoyed, thinking that he really didn't use the wrong person!