For Zhang Guifang's defeat, the king of Shang did not have such good patience, and issued a severe reprimand, if it were not for the bitter persuasion of the ministers of the court, he almost cut Zhang Guifang's military power and escorted him back to Chaoge to be punished.

Tantrums are temper tantrums, things still have to be solved after all, and the court also started to worry at this time, Chonghou Hu has become more and more powerful, but it makes the court have to take it seriously.

In today's court, there are only a handful of generals who can command troops more than Zhang Guifang, and there are only four generals of the demon family in Jiamengguan.

It's just that there is some controversy above the court about whether to send the four generals of the demon family to the Northern Expedition.

Speaking of which, in terms of strength, although the four generals of the demon family have their own means, they may not be much stronger than Zhang Guifang, but they are four people, and with the concerted efforts of the four brothers, they will definitely be able to take Chongcheng. This is the view of the positive side, and the main supporters are the military generals faction led by Huang Feihu, the king of Wucheng.

It stands to reason that King Wucheng commands the world's soldiers and horses, and he has the absolute right to speak on such military matters, but unfortunately, this time, it is not a cat or a dog who puts forward a different opinion, but the prime minister's son.

The reason for Zigan's opposition is also very simple, if the four generals of the Demon Family win, it is better to say, if they lose, what should they do? Who will they send? Zhang Feng or Chen Tong? Such a tactic of adding fuel is simply to weaken the power of the imperial court and boost the momentum of Chonghou Hu, which is really quite unwise.

And the solution proposed by Zigan is actually very simple, that is, with the momentum of thunder, gather absolute superior forces, and break through Chongcheng in one fell swoop, even if it is a knife to kill chickens, it is necessary to destroy Chonghou Hu as quickly as possible, so as to achieve the purpose of shocking the world.

This method is also a clever plan, but a new problem has arisen, to organize such a huge offensive, it must be to mobilize at least three levels of power, so who should the imperial court hand over the handsome seal?

You must know that since ancient times, there is no first, there is no second, between the generals, no one is willing to obey anyone, if there is no commander who can serve the public, that group of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals get together, and they will be in chaos first without waiting for the enemy to attack.

But now, there are only three people in the court who are enough to make the Taishou of each pass listen to orders with peace of mind, one is Huang Feihu, the king of Wucheng, the other is the Taishi Wenzhong, and the other, of course, is the king of Shang himself.

Taishi Wenzhong is now on an expedition to Donglu, so he naturally lacks skills. Huang Feihu, as the commander of the forbidden army, also has to defend Chaoge, but he can't leave easily. As for the Shang King himself...... This is inevitably too high to praise Hou Hu, and if it spreads, it will even make people laugh.

For this problem, Zigan naturally had a solution in his heart, and for this reason, he specially recommended the general Fei Lian as the commander of the Northern Expedition.

Speaking of which, Fei Lian's qualifications are old enough, and his son has made many military exploits recently, if there is no other candidate, it would have been a good choice.

It's a pity that this time it was King Wucheng's turn to oppose it with all his might.

"Although Fei Lian also has outstanding military achievements, after all, he has only been transferred to Chaoge in recent years, and if such an important task is assigned to him, I am afraid that there will be many dissatisfaction in the army. This is the reason for King Wucheng's objection.

Of course, this is all cliché.

The real reason is that Fei Lian's qualifications are really not low, if he really led an army of more than 100,000 to sweep away the Chonghou Tiger Rebellion, he is likely to be awarded the position of Northern Bohou by the King of Shang.

In officialdom, there are no permanent friends, only eternal interests.

Although King Wu Cheng is a martial artist, it definitely does not mean that he has low political sensitivity. On the contrary, as a general who commands the world's soldiers and horses, his ability in this area is definitely no less than that of civil officials such as Zigan and Jizi.

Although Fei Lian has a close relationship with the Wucheng Palace, he has not really married after all, and before he came to Chaoge, he used to be a subordinate general of Taishi Wenzhong, and it was seriously inconsistent with the interests of King Wucheng to hand over such great power to him.

According to King Wucheng's plan, the position of the Northern Bohou is naturally best left to the closest Su Hu. And those who broke through Chongcheng could be young generals such as Zhang Guifang and the four generals of the Demon Family, but they definitely couldn't be Fei Lian who was qualified to win the position of Beibohou.

In fact, to put this matter simply, that is, the two giants of the military - Huang Feihu and Wen Zhong, more or less have the meaning of parting with each other, Feilian's background has the shadow of Wen Zhong, unless he wholeheartedly surrenders to Huang Feihu, otherwise Huang Feihu will never see him on the rise.

Zigan naturally has a deep understanding of King Wu Cheng's thoughts, and he is also quite helpless in his heart.

He made this suggestion, originally he didn't have much selfishness, just for the sake of big business, but he didn't want the role of Fei Lian to touch the sensitive nerves of King Wu Cheng, after all, the army is the basic plate of King Wu Cheng, and as the prime minister, it is impossible for him to bypass King Wu Cheng to decide such a major matter.

What's more, whether there is a shadow of Queen Su Daji in this matter, he is also a little uncertain, in case he offends King Wucheng and Su Daji to death at once, it is really worth the loss, so he does not dare to insist on his opinion.

After going back and forth like this, the Northern Expedition was delayed, and the real headache for this matter became the king of Shang himself.

Now that the court has not been able to come up with a clear opinion, so that he, the king, cannot make a decision, he can only watch Chonghou Hu continue to run rampant, but he can only listen to the ministers bickering in the court, which is really annoying.

In the end, the prime minister has to do the work of the prime minister to solve the problem.

Zigan is Zigan in the end, after his proposal of Fei Lian was denied, he thought hard for many days, and actually proposed a candidate for the Northern Expedition that King Wucheng could not oppose, and this candidate was none other than Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen who was far away in Xiqi.

First of all, Ji Chang is also a person on the throne now, no matter how you calculate it, if he is to crusade against Chonghou Hu, his qualifications will definitely be no problem.

Secondly, Ji Chang already sat on Xiqi, no matter how much credit he made, it was impossible for the king of Shang to hand over Chongcheng to him again, and there was no conflict with the interests of King Wucheng.

What's even better is that Xiqi has 150,000 soldiers and countless good generals, if Ji Chang is allowed to crusade against Chonghou Hu, there is no need for the imperial court to send a soldier at all, just a holy decree issued by the king of Shang.

Moreover, no matter how fierce the two sides fought, the court did not have to feel sorry for those losses, and just sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, which was really beneficial and harmless.

As soon as this suggestion was put forward, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty immediately stood on the united front, saying that King Wen of Zhou was the best candidate to crusade against Chongcheng, and asked the King of Shang to make a quick decision.

When the king of Shang heard about this plan, the more he thought about it, the more he felt exquisite, and even if he made a decision, he drafted a holy decree and sent it to Xiqi, giving Bai Xuan Huang Yue, and ordering Ji Chang to lead the army to immediately send troops to the north to Chonghou Hu.

Of course, they didn't know it at this time, and it was this self-righteous trick that ignited the last fuse in the world and pushed the entire big business to an extremely dangerous position.

And King Shang, Zigan, Huang Feihu, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are all the culprits in this matter.

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