Hearing Xiao Mo's self-recommendation, in the imperial study, everyone looked at Xiao Mo in disbelief. [Full text reading]

First, compared with the peace envoys, responsible for the defense of Shangyuan City is undoubtedly a more dangerous task, if it is a peace envoy, then the grassland coalition army may still abide by the custom of the two armies not to kill the envoys, although it is dangerous, but there is still hope for survival. But if you are in charge of the defense of Shangyuan City, after the city is broken, the hope of survival is extremely slim. Escaping after the city was broken was a felony. Xiao Mo did this, but he was really asking for his own death.

Second, although it is customary for the Chu Dynasty to supervise the army with literati, in comparison, the image of Xiao Mo's literati is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Zirou, what do you mean is to personally lead the army to fight against the grassland barbarian?"

Emperor Chu Ling asked Xiao Mo incredulously.

Xiao Mo nodded and said, "That's right, I hope Your Majesty will allow it." ”

"But......" Emperor Chu Ling hesitated: "Where the soldiers are fierce, Zirou, can you really deal with it?" ”

Xiao Mo nodded and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, in the past two months, the grass people have been thinking about a strategy to resist the grassland alliance at home, although they dare not say that they are safe for Your Majesty, but they are also quite confident that the grassland barbarians can not go further." ”

Hearing Xiao Mo's words, Emperor Chu Ling hadn't waited yet, but the ministers were already frowning slightly.

But they all felt that Xiao Mo lacked qualifications and even less experience in leading the army, so he was not enough to take on the heavy responsibility of defending Shangyuan City against the enemy.

I just wanted to speak out to advise Emperor Chu Ling, but I suddenly thought of the fact that Emperor Chu Ling was furious because of refuting Xiao Mo's words, and then thought that in fact, all the prison troops were inexperienced, and under the strength of the grassland coalition army, in fact, anyone defending was the same, so they all acquiesced Looking at the firmness and confidence in Xiao Mo's eyes, Emperor Chu Lingdi had already slipped to his lips and couldn't say anything about his refusal, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked again: "Zirou is really confident that he can resist the enemy outside Shangyuan City?" ”

Xiao Mo nodded seriously, and said yes.

Hearing Xiao Mo say this, Emperor Chu Ling finally made up his mind and raised his voice: "Declare the decree, canonize Xiao Mo as the privy envoy, the scholar of the Zhongshu, and the attendant of the Chongwen Palace." (Note 1: The Privy Decree is directly under the Privy Envoy, and generally speaking, when the ancient literati supervised the army, they would be given such an official position, and when they returned to the court, they would be withdrawn. Zhongshu Sheren is the official of Zhongshu Frugal and Zhengzheng, who is responsible for drafting the emperor's decree and is also the fifth grade. Hearing Emperor Chu Ling's will, several ministers wanted to refute it, but they were all calmed down under the hints of Prime Minister Zhang Qian and Privy Envoy Wang Han.

1 is by no means a person who can only talk about it, under the helplessness of himself and others, he can only trust Xiao Mo.

In this way, under Xiao Mo's self-recommendation, after a lapse of two months, the official was finally reinstated, among which the post of "Zhongshu Provincial and Frugal Affairs" was promoted to the population of Zhongshu House and obtained the post of cardinal banquet, and the promotion was so fast that it can be said that it is rare in the ages.

However, Xiao Mo was not the slightest bit complacent about this, he knew very well that with the canonization of these official positions, the burden on his body was heavy. "Thank you, Your Majesty." After Xiao Mo knelt down to thank him, he said again: "However, the minister still has something to ask Your Majesty. Emperor Chu Ling asked, "What's the matter?" Xiao Mo asked: "Just now, I heard that the DPRK and China are discussing the matter of moving the capital?" Emperor Chu Ling nodded in acknowledgement. But seeing Xiao Mo said seriously: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is inappropriate, our army has been defeated again and again in the past two months, and the morale has been low, if Your Majesty moves the capital, the front-line soldiers will inevitably mistakenly think that Your Majesty has escaped from the battle, leaving them alone, the morale will only be lower, and even it is possible to escape because of this, but it will only make the current situation of my Dachu more and more unfavorable, so the minister implores Your Majesty, before the fall of Shangyuan City, do not talk about moving the capital again." After thinking for a moment, Emperor Chu Ling's face showed a resolute look, and he said categorically: "Just like Zi Rou said, I hope that Zi Rou will not let me down in the future." "One by one, one by one, when Xiao Moguan was reinstated, served as a privy councilor, and took charge of the defense affairs of the front line, everyone was in an uproar.

Especially when the world learned about Xiao Mo's peace and war in the imperial study, the various reprimands of Xiao Mo in the Confucian forest before ceased instantly, and began to praise Xiao Mo for his wisdom and bravery, long-term vision, and ability.

Although no one would really think that Xiao Mo would be able to turn the tide, because of this, Xiao Mo's move to lead the army to resist the barbarian autumn this time added a lot of tragic colors, and Xiao Mo's prestige was not only restored in a short period of time, but also raised a new high again.

Of course, these rumors were sent out by Fan Xiang at Xiao Mo's instructions.

Xiao Mo's reputation was ruined a few days ago because of the peace talks, and he was spurned by countless people, if this situation continues, it will have a great impact on Xiao Mo's future plans. If you go to the front line, you will be resisted because of these things, but you can only make a mistake, so before the battle, Xiao Mo wants to try to save his reputation, but so far, it is 1 report, and he entered it directly, and among the countless craftsmen, he found Meng Gan, the weapons supervisor who was in a mess, and he was not polite to him at all, and grabbed Meng Gan and asked directly: "Lord Meng, how are the things I asked you to prepare two months ago?" After Xiao Mo was demoted to the people, almost everyone stayed away from him, but this Meng Gan, who was pulled by him, rushed to the Xiao Mansion to offer condolences as soon as possible, which made Xiao Mo couldn't help but look at this seemingly sleek Meng Gan again.

And after seeing that Meng Gan was still respectful to him, Xiao Mo asked Meng Gan to build some artifacts for him, and these artifacts played an extremely important role in Xiao Mo's future defense of Shangyuan City against the invasion of the grassland Di tribe, so as soon as he received the appointment of Emperor Chu Ling, he rushed to the Ordnance Division non-stop to inquire about it.

Meng Gan, who was arranging for the warsmith to be busy, was startled when he found that Xiao Mo suddenly appeared beside him, and after reacting, he hurriedly bowed to Xiao Mo and said, "Lord Xiao, according to your instructions, I have asked the craftsmen to rush to work day and night, and it is completed at this moment." Between the answers, Meng Gan's face was still puzzled, but he couldn't understand why Xiao Mo asked him to send craftsmen to create a large number of useless things.

After hearing Meng Gan's answer, Xiao Mo was overjoyed, and ordered: "Put all those things on the carriage and transport them to Shangyuan City as quickly as possible."

After hearing Xiao Mo's words, Meng Gan's face showed embarrassment.

He is just an ordnance department, and he can't order others to transport supplies to the front line at will.

Sensing Meng Gan's hesitation, Xiao Mo nodded and said, "Don't worry, you just do what I tell you to do, I am now in the original position of His Majesty's official mansion and hold the position of privy councilor, overseeing the front-line war." After hearing Xiao Mo's words, Meng Gan couldn't help but be overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Congratulations, my lord, this is what the lower officials will do." Then, Meng Gan seemed to think of something again, looked at Xiao Mo and said hesitantly: "My lord, the front line is dangerous, you have to be more careful." Seeing Meng Gan's sincere expression, Xiao Mo was slightly moved in his heart, patted Meng Gan's shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, with me, Shangyuan City will not be captured by Barbarian Di at will like more than ten cities before." After finishing speaking, he no longer had a polite relationship with Meng Gan, and after inspecting the utensils that Meng Gan had taken care of for him, he left in a hurry again.

Next, there is one more troublesome thing that Xiao Mo needs to face.

That is, how should he explain to the elders of his family that he went to the front.

That night, Xiao Mo spent a lot of time convincing the worried Xiao Shenyan, Xiao Shenxing and Liu, especially Liu, after learning that Xiao Mo was going to go to the dangerous place on the front line, he cried and made trouble, and resolutely refused to, but it took Xiao Mo a lot of effort to get her to agree, but she was still worried.

And just after Xiao Mo did all this, he had just returned to the study, and was thinking about how he should deal with it when he arrived at the front line, when the servants of the Xiao Mansion came to report that the deputy arranged by the imperial court for Xiao Mo, Lord Deputy Chengzhi, had come to visit, but the deputy Chengzhi did not take the initiative to state his name.

Xiao Mo was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect that Emperor Chu Ling would arrange a deputy for himself, so he hurriedly asked his subordinates to invite him.

When this person entered the study, Xiao Mo couldn't help but be stunned.

"How are you !???" After amazing the ministers for a whole morning, in the evening, it was Xiao Mo's turn to be stunned.

"Why can't it be me?" Zhang Yansheng sat calmly in front of Xiao Mo and asked with a smile.

Xiao Mo never thought that the deputy Chengzhi arranged for him by the imperial court turned out to be Zhang Yansheng!!

"Brother Zijia, the front line is a dangerous place for soldiers, how can Lord Cheng let you serve as the deputy commander?" Xiao Mo looked at Zhang Yansheng for a long time in a daze, and suddenly sighed and asked.

Zhang Yansheng shook his head and said with a faint smile: "The matter of me serving as the deputy commander is not what my grandfather meant, but I asked His Majesty for the decree myself, and I guess my grandfather should know about it at this time." Saying that, Zhang Yansheng arched his hand to Xiao Mo and smiled: "This time I made my own opinion, I'm afraid my grandfather is going to be furious, and I don't dare to go home now, otherwise with my grandfather's temper, he will definitely break my legs immediately, and then use this as an excuse to ask His Majesty to resign, but I also asked Zirou to save me, how about letting me live in Zirou Mansion today?" When he spoke, his expression was relaxed and calm, but he did not have the slightest nervousness and solemnity when he was about to go to the battlefield.