The sun is tilting westward,

Yang Dong left You Laosi's residence,

It's just that his expression at the moment is a little weird.

You Laosi is also ...... It's so unreliable!

Thinking of the conditions proposed by the other party just now, Yang Dong only felt full of helplessness.

"Boy, thank you for this set of exercises for the old man, your kindness and old man have written it down."

"My goddaughter, although her temperament is a little weird, but her appearance is a rare beauty. I'll leave it to you in the future, and you'll have to treat her well......"

"In addition, the task of persuading Xiaorou has to be handed over to you. With the relationship between the two of us as half of our son-in-law, it won't be difficult for you to do this, right? ”

When Yang Dong heard this, his whole person was stupid.

He was about to open his mouth to refuse, but was kicked out by You Laosi on the grounds of concentrating on cultivation.

That's it, let's take one step at a time!

Yang Dong shook his head and was walking forward, but he saw Shu Mouse's whole body turn into a gust of wind and rush towards him.

"Yang Gong, there's news!"

……

The Royal Palace, the Study,

The empress looked majestic, glanced lightly at the general in front of her, and said solemnly:

"Do you really plan to let your only son follow Xiao Dongzi?"

"Do you know what that means?"

Li Qiong's expression remained unchanged, and suddenly she knelt on her knees and knelt in front of the empress.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty!"

"Oh? What is Aiqing's crime? ”

The empress's eyebrows trembled slightly, and there was a bit of ridicule in her tone.

Li Qiong continued to kneel on the ground, and said in a firm voice:

"At the beginning, Xiongguan was surrounded by thieves, but the local military army ignored the friendly army, which is one crime; Yang Gong personally asked to send troops, but the old minister did not think so, this crime is two. ”

"The old minister doesn't dare to ask His Majesty for forgiveness, but my Li family now has only one seedling in Changle. The old minister implored Your Majesty to give Changle a chance for the sake of the Li family's loyalty for generations! ”

"Li Qiong, do you know what you're talking about?"

The empress frowned, and a touch of coldness flashed on her majestic face.

"A good general is not subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, do you really think that the Diwu Army is your Li Qiong's private army?"

Li Qiong obviously expected to be reprimanded by the empress, so she simply nodded her head directly and kowtowed heavily.

"Your Majesty wants to kill or chop, and the old minister will never say much."

"Do you think I won't dare kill you? Where is the dragon guard! ”

The next moment, several dragon guards didn't know where they came from, holding a bright long knife in their hands, and they actually directly surrounded Li Qiong.

"Li Qiong, Li Qiong, do you regret it?"

A hint of mockery flashed on the empress's majestic face.

"If you stay at the border pass, I may be afraid that you will lead the local military army to join the rebel Yang Yan. But you are so stupid that you have returned to the capital! ”

"What is the difference between you doing this and a sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger?"

Li Qiong was slightly stunned, and then a wry smile appeared on her face.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to test the old minister, since he saw Yang Gongxiong Pass and broke the enemy army, the old minister understands that a character like Yang Gong is a real pillar."

"But if that's just the case, the old minister won't choose to go back to Beijing to plead guilty. Because although the materials of the pillars are rare, it is not an exaggeration to meet once in ten years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years. ”

"But what really made the old minister want to go back to Beijing to ask for guilt, but it was not because of Yang Gong, but because of Your Majesty!"

The empress was stunned, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.

But she hid it well and was not noticed by Li Qiong.

At this moment, Li Qiong was still immersed in her statement, so she continued:

"Your Majesty doesn't know something, the sages once said - Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have. Although the pillars of the Great Zhou are lacking, they are not so lacking. ”

"What is really lacking is a king like Your Majesty who knows how to make good use of people."

Speaking of this, Li Qiong paused and secretly glanced at the empress.

Seeing that the empress was still calm and couldn't see her joy or anger, her heart suddenly had a higher evaluation of this majesty.

Your Majesty is so young, you can be pampered and not shocked, and you really have the shadow of a wise sage.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is a military general, and he will not be the kind of rhetoric and clever words of civil officials. The old minister just wanted to tell His Majesty that what really convinced the old minister was because of His Majesty's trust and measurement. ”

The empress bowed slightly, and at this moment, there was also a trace of entanglement on her face.

If she hadn't seen this General Li Qiong today, she wouldn't have felt that there was anything wrong with her removal of the position of the commander of the opponent's local army.

After seeing it, her evaluation of Li Qiong in her heart has changed a little.

Maybe...... The commander of the Ground Martial Army, can he continue to serve?

The Empress frowned slightly, and tapped lightly on the desk.

"Li Aiqing, how much combat power does the local military army still have?"

Li Qiong didn't expect that she would be suddenly asked such a question. But then, he seemed to think of something, and in a pair of tiger eyes, an iron-blooded aura on the battlefield burst out in an instant.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, hundreds of years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the sixteenth army established by Taizu back then really maintains its combat strength, but only one-twelfth of it."

"And the Ground Martial Army is the bottom-of-the-bottom existence."

"That's why, Lao Chen rejected General Manager Yang's request to send troops."

"Your Majesty doesn't know that most of these sixteen armies are now controlled by the clans. Although the commanders of these armies are still appointed by His Majesty. But the ones who really control them are all local powerful clans. ”

"As for the remaining half, most of them are like local military troops, stationed at the border or in bitter cold places."

"Those elite soldiers who were selected were first selected by powerful and wealthy families, and the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates could be distributed in the army such as the Diwu Army."

The empress frowned slightly, she was not unconcerned about Da Zhou's army. But since she ascended the throne, she has faced Lin Chunqiu's pressure step by step.

Being able to maintain the existing balance is already doing her best. As for the other armies outside the capital, she is more than willing and weak.

Even the Longwu Army and the Huwei Army, which she trusted the most at the beginning, were planted a lot of eyeliner by Lin Chunqiu, not to mention these sixteen local armies.

The empress sighed silently in her heart, the revitalization of the Great Zhou is really a long way to go.

However, with Xiao Dongzi's help, she can at least allocate her energy to clean up these local armies.

It's just that how to do it should be discussed with Xiao Dongzi.

"Li Aiqing, I understand what you said."

The empress's expression was upright, and her majestic face was full of seriousness at the moment.

"Li Qiong, the commander of the Diwu Army, obeys the order!"

"From now on, the local armed forces will be directly transferred by the military department as soon as they are needed. Commander Li Qiong, his sin is unforgivable. However, he knew that his mistakes could be corrected, so he temporarily took over as the commander to see the after-effects. ”