Wang Rong looked at the fifth candidate and said, "Fifth, let the Investigation Department always pay attention to the situation on the grassland, not only the Qiang, but also other tribes. ”

The fifth candidate nodded in agreement, turned around and left the Governor's Mansion. Li Sujie looked at Wang Wei and said with a serious face: "Duwei, will the imperial court also know the news of the civil strife in the Xuanwei split?" ”

Wang Rong nodded and said, "The inspector of the Imperial City Division is not a waste, the imperial court will take action when it receives the news of the civil strife." ”

After Wang Rong finished speaking, he came to the map, he pointed to the Western Regions with his finger, and said to Li Sujie: "Sujie, you see, the war in the west has basically stopped, and the Pingbei Army has also been withdrawn. ”

Li Sujie nodded clearly and said: "And the southern state of the state of Xuan is more than defended, and the progress is insufficient, it is difficult for the guards in the south to enter it, but it is very easy to prevent the attack of the country of Xuan, and the situation on this side is also very stable." ”

Wang Rong pointed to the grassland in the north and said, "It's good that the Badman is split, the prestige of the Bade Khan's Court has begun to decline in the hearts of the grassland tribes at this moment. This chaos on the grassland will continue for a long time. ”

Li Sujie nodded and asked, "In which direction does the imperial court think the imperial court will send troops?" ”

Wang Rong's gaze wandered over the three places of Lin He County, Fenchuan County and Hedong County, and said in an affirmative tone: "If it is after the autumn harvest, the imperial court will definitely gather the guards in the north and east, plus the tiger ben, Yulin, and the soldiers of various counties and counties, to conquer the Ji country and swallow the state completely." ”

Li Sujie listened to Wang Rong's words, his heart was shocked, and he asked in disbelief: "Du Wei, these eight guards plus the imperial court forbidden army plus the soldiers of various counties and counties, this is almost 500,000 people, such a huge army, is the saint going to drive the expedition in person?" ”

Since ancient times, the emperor who sits on top of 10,000 people will not speak lightly.

The emperors who drove the generals to go out with the respect of the emperor, such as the first emperor of Qin to sweep away the six countries, were all led by the generals of the Qin state, the most famous are Wang Jian and Wang Ben father and son. Wang Jian led more than 600,000 Qin troops south to destroy Chu, in order to dispel the suspicion that the suspicious Qin Shi Huang was afraid that he would support his army and stand on his own. When Wang Jian set out on the expedition, he asked Qin Shi Huang to "invite the beautiful field house and garden pond to be very popular", "to invite the field house as the descendant of the industry"; Before leaving Wuguan, he begged for Mitian five times in a row to show his loyalty.

For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a large army to the north to attack the Xiongnu, and he sent generals such as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to the expedition, while he himself sat in Chang'an, planning and planning for logistics.

With the respect of the emperor, the most famous positive example of the emperor's personal expedition is Zhou Shizong after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

Later Zhou Shizong took over the throne from his uncle Hou Zhou Taizu, when Hou Zhou Taizu had just died, and when he first ascended the throne, he encountered the top priority after the throne and resisted the attack of the Northern Han Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty took advantage of the new funeral of Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and when Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty had just ascended the throne and the people's hearts were unstable, he united with the Khitan to send troops south to Luzhou and Zezhou, in a vain attempt to destroy the Later Zhou in one fell swoop.

Later, Zhou Shizong overrode public opinion and decided to personally lead the forbidden army to go on the expedition. The Later Zhou army and the Northern Han Khitan coalition army met in the south of Gaoping County, Zezhou, and later Zhou Shizong stood still in the unfavorable situation of the vanguard rout, led his own soldiers, and supervised the battle. After the Zhou forbidden army in the main general Zhang Yongde, partial general Zhao Kuangyin and other generals led the charge, desperate fighting, bloody battle until the evening, the Northern Han Khitan coalition army defeated, this battle history called the battle of Gaoping, after that, the Northern Han no longer dare to speak lightly about the Zhou.

However, in history, there are more negative examples of the emperor's dignity and the imperial conquest.

For example, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who led an army of one million, drove three imperial expeditions to Goguryeo, which was entrenched in eastern Liaodong, but the first million army did not survive one out of ten; The second civil rebellion was hastily settled; The third time was because the peasants revolted everywhere in the country, and they had to make peace with Goguryeo, and they did things hastily.

The main reason for the failure of the three expeditions to Goguryeo is inseparable from Emperor Yang of Sui's indiscriminate command of Emperor Yang of Sui.

When the Liaoshui Division, Emperor Yang of Sui in order to prevent the generals from covering the attack, fighting alone, to strive for merit and fame to invite honors, so they ordered them to be divided into three ways, but where there is an attack military action, the three must be notified to each other, and the light army is not allowed to advance alone, and the military advance must first hear Emperor Yang of Sui, and wait for the reply order.

Emperor Yang of Sui also ordered the generals that if Goguryeo wanted to surrender, it should be appeased and accepted, and no more attacks should be made. When the city of Liaodong was about to be captured, the Goguryeo army in the city claimed to surrender, and the generals of the Sui Dynasty did not dare to continue the attack under the order of Emperor Yang of Sui, but played Emperor Yang of Sui first, and when the reply order arrived, the Goguryeo army in the city was ready to defend and began to resist again. This situation has been repeated many times, and Emperor Yang of Sui still does not wake up.

Another example is that after Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, he did not sympathize with the hard work of the soldiers, and insisted on going north to attack the Khitan in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and took over the location of the emperor who was raided by the Khitan army's light cavalry, and achieved the reputation of "the god of sorghum river cars".

Another example is Ming Yingzong, whose great-grandfather Ming Taizu started a bowl, "expelled Hulu, restored China, established Chen Ji, and relieved the people", drove the Mongols back to the grassland, established the Ming Dynasty, and launched thirteen northern expeditions against Mongolia.

His great-grandfather Ming Chengzu, "There are no righteous ministers in the court, and there are treacherous people in it, so they will raise troops to punish them, and they will clean up the evil on the side of the king." After launching the Battle of Fengtian and seizing the throne, he personally conquered Mongolia five times.

And to Ming Yingzong, although he had the desire to inherit the will of the ancestors, but did not have the ancestors' ability to use troops, and obeyed the eunuch Wang Zhenyan around him, resulting in the 200,000 army annihilated in the civil fort, and the military nobles and nobles who accompanied the expedition were killed and wounded, and he himself also got a nickname of "called the Son of Heaven".

Thinking about these bloody lessons, Wang Rong shook his head and said: "The Holy Dragon is not safe, and it is definitely impossible for the royal family to conquer in person, it is estimated that he will appoint the royal family as the commander of the army, it may be the prince, or it may be the prince or the prince of the county." ”

Li Sujie thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with anything, he had to say: "Forget it, don't think about it, the affairs of the imperial court are too far away from us." ”

Wang Rong nodded and said: "Instead of thinking about what these haves and don'ts, Su Jie, hurry up and train the soldiers, the troops of the Western Governor's Mansion should also be expanded, and the young and strong people will be recruited from the dependent homeless people and trained into village soldiers." The original township soldiers were assessed in martial arts, and all of them were included in the government soldiers. ”

Li Sujie was stunned when he heard this, his face was incredulous, he looked at Wang Rong and asked: "To promote qualified township soldiers to government soldiers, there must be 3,000 people, are you going to promote yourself?" ”

Wang Rong shook his head and said, "The war is estimated to be coming soon, and there is no time to care about these small sections." In this troubled world, only these soldiers can save the people of the city, and to put it selfishly, only these soldiers can save your life. ”