Most of the taxes have already been collected for grain, grass and weapons, and as soon as the household department allocates money, grain, grass and weapons are not a problem.

If you put together these soldiers and horses, you can also make up a huge army, but the difficulty is the selection of the commander of the army.

Because of this candidate, the ministers quarreled in the court.

In the end, the elder of Shangguan Pavilion actually risked angering the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that now is not the best time to attack Darong. Da Rong is now a strong soldier, and the Rong people are brutal by nature, like fierce beasts and ghosts on the battlefield, on the other hand, our Da Chu side, the available elite soldiers are not much stronger, for today's plan, we should raise our strength, cultivate generals who can break the enemy camp, and then seek to attack the army after ten years. ”

He didn't say anything about the disasters of Da Chu for many years, and the increase in taxes caused public resentment, which was already a good speech.

But Emperor Jing Yuan still had a black face, slammed, and slammed his palm on the handle of the dragon chair, angrily reprimanding Shangguan Pavilion Elder: "Shangguan Cong, I asked you to recommend the commander who led the troops to attack Darong, not for you to demolish the stage!" Are you dissatisfied with me because you are so ambitious and angry with others to destroy your own prestige? Is it dissatisfaction with Da Chu? Or do you want to defect to Da Rong?! ”

The old man of Shangguan Pavilion was shocked, he didn't expect the emperor to say such a thing, so he knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty is angry, and the ministers eat the king's Lu, in this life, I only want to die for Da Chu's liver and brain, and there is no second heart!" ”

Emperor Jing Yuan snorted coldly: "I don't dare to forgive you." ”

Saying that, he no longer paid attention to the elders of the official cabinet, looked at the ministers, and said, "Who can be elected by the ministers to become the commander of this war?" ”

Well, most of the ministers in the palace were eager to shrink into the ground to prevent Emperor Jingyuan from seeing them.

Emperor Jing Yuan's face was gloomy, and he scolded in his heart, a group of things that can only be white-collar workers, and when he destroys Darong, the next step is to purge the dynasty? Replace all these corpse vegetarian people!

Emperor Jing Yuan turned his gaze and looked at the military department.

The surname of the military department is Dai, and he only took office six years ago? It is far worse than the previous military department Shangshu, and when he saw Emperor Jingyuan, he was furious, for fear that his position would not be guaranteed? I could only bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty? What do we think? The coach of this war is none other than Xing Laoguogong. ”

He also said: "Xing Laoguo is one of the six founding princes? Outstanding military achievements, five years ago, he led the army to quell the military disasters in various provinces and stabilize the Northwest Army? He will definitely be qualified for the position of the coach of this war. ”

As soon as this comes out? The whole hall was silent.

"What did you say?!" Emperor Jing Yuan was murderous, staring at the military department Shangshu, is this surname Dai a fool? How old is Old Duke Xing? He was sick last year, let alone let him go on the expedition? Is it possible to lose your breath halfway through wearing heavy armor? The surname Dai still dares to recommend him?

Five years ago, he would have let Xing Laoguo take command to quell the chaos? Is it because Xing Lao Guogong and Wei Lao Guogong have been old friends for decades? Everyone is one of the six founding princes, who followed the emperor's grandfather to fight the world, and the Northwest Army is the old department of Wei Lao Guogong, and will sell the face of Xing Lao Guogong.

But now Varong is not the same thing as the rebellion of the Northwest Army.

Useless stuff!

Emperor Jing Yuan scolded in his heart, looked at Ying Ge Lao, and said, "Master Ying, you are the minister of the Great Chu Zhu Kingdom?" What a high opinion, but it doesn't hurt to say. ”

Ming Shaoqing saw that his daughter-in-law's grandfather was named, but he didn't even move his eyebrows, in order to respond to the old man's ability, it was easy to deal with such things.

Sure enough, Master Ying said: "Your Majesty, there are three candidates for the minister." ”

Three candidates?

Emperor Jingyuan was overjoyed: "Aiqing say it quickly!" ”

Ying Lao said: "Your Majesty, the Duke of Yuan is also one of the six founding princes of the country, can fight well, Yuan Guogong has grown up in the army since he was a child, and he also made great achievements when he was young, so that the Duke of Yuan Guo can lead the army to take command of the war." ”

Emperor Jing Yuan's originally smiling face sank.

The Yuan family is really good, but the Yuan family is the queen's maiden family, and he has an army of nearly one million to be led by his relatives, can he still sleep at night?

Lord Ying knew very well that Emperor Jingyuan would not choose the Duke of Yuanguo, and said: "The second candidate is the Duke of England." The British duke is also one of the six founding princes, and the British duke, as well as their children and grandchildren, are all good martial artists, and they can also take command of the expedition. ”

But the British family and the Weiguo family used to be in-laws, and the relationship between the two families was very good, and this time the war was stationed in the northwest, and the Weiguo family was three generations in the northwest, who knows if he handed over so many soldiers and horses to the British government, would he turn around and avenge the Weiguo family? !

Emperor Jingyuan was suspicious by nature, and after returning from the Darong experience, he was even more sensitive and suspicious, and it was impossible to let this kind of thing happen, so he didn't speak.

Ying Lao understood and continued: "There is another person who is General Xu. General Xu Da once went out with Xing Laoguo Gong to quell the rebellion five years ago, and this person has excellent ability and many military achievements...... Although he is not very old and has little qualifications, he may not be able to take command of the expedition. ”

When Ming Shaoqing heard this, he laughed in his heart, Lord Ying is really powerful, these three candidates, the emperor can only choose General Xu.

But when General Xu was young, he was praised by Wei Guogong in the camp in Jingxi, and the emperor was not at ease to let General Xu take command, the most likely thing is that he still let Xing Laoguo be in command and General Xu Da be the main general.

And this time to fight Rong, unless the divine soldiers descend from the sky, it will be lost, General Xu is not a fool, he is very shrewd, and when the time comes, he will all listen to Xing Laoguogong...... Xing Lao Guogong is almost old, and he will definitely bring his two sons with him on this expedition, and it is very likely that his two sons will have the final say.

His eldest son and second son are all incompetent, and they will definitely misjudge the military aircraft, as long as General Xu obeys orders, after the defeat, he can use the sentence "obey orders" to put the fault on Xing Laoguo Gong and pick himself out.

So in the end, it was only Xing Laoguo's family that was used to sacrifice to the sky.

And Mr. Ying is not wrong, he recommended General Xu, not Xing Laoguogong.

I have to say that Ming Shaoqing has already felt Emperor Jingyuan's temper very clearly, and after Emperor Jingyuan was silent for a moment, he finally said: "Xu You is indeed good, but he has never been handsome...... Fate, Xing Lao Guogong is the commander of the war, and Xu is the chief general of the war, and attack the army together! ”

The choice of the coach was thus decided, and the old man Ying personally went to the Xingguo Mansion to issue the holy decree.

When Xing Laoguo received the order, he was in tears: "The old minister will not live up to His Majesty's trust, and he will definitely make that big thief pay the price for breaking through Longshan Mansion!" ”

The two stupid sons of Xing Laoguo Gong also happily received the order to thank them, and one by one they were eager to go out to fight now and destroy Darong.

Boss Ying smiled on his face, and he was also smiling in his heart: Heh, the founding of the Sixth Duke is not as good as a family, I originally thought that Xing Laoguo's family could have a good end, but this time, it seems that the whole clan will be wiped out, pitiful.