The three of them continued their journey, but it didn't take long to hear a shocking news that Chen Gui, the king of the Five Lakes, had rebelled.

The King of the Five Lakes is the uncle of the current emperor, and the relationship between the two brothers was the best when the emperor was still there.

However, when the emperor had a serious illness and knew that his time was short, everything changed, and the military power in Chen Gui's hands was continuously dispersed in a very short period of time, and anyone with a discerning eye knew what it was for, and the generals under Chen Gui suddenly made a noise, but they were all suppressed by Chen Gui.

But this is not over, when the military power is almost seized, the emperor even ordered him to go to the national capital alone to be sealed, but this time life and death are unpredictable, in front of the imperial power, any brotherhood is a joke.

At that time, Chen Gui had two choices, one was to obediently listen to the order to see if he could save his life and become a wealthy prince in the future, and the other was to rebel and fight.

In the end, Chen Gui chose the former, gave up all military power, and went to the national capital alone to be feuded.

The first emperor did not treat him badly, and directly rewarded him with the richest Wuhu in Chen State.

Because this incident had a great impact at that time, even if the former emperor died later, the ten-year-old young prince succeeded to the throne, and it did not set off any twists and turns, which shows how the former emperor used to do so.

But not long ago, the Ministry of War received a report from the local garrison that a large army was found in the local area, and the Minister of War thought it was a false alarm, but after looking at the map, his heart suddenly sank, because it was not far from the fief of Chen Gui, the king of the Five Lakes, and it could be said that it was next to it.

Therefore, after reporting the matter to the emperor, the military department began to collect information about the king of the Five Lakes while conducting a strict investigation in the local area with great fanfare, and sure enough, it was found that Chen Gui not only trained 3,000 private soldiers in the fiefdom, but also secretly contacted the old department at the border pass, which was obviously preparing for a rebellion.

Chen Gui, the king of the five lakes, was not incompetent, and immediately discovered the actions of the imperial court, so he simply did not stop doing it, and directly rebelled, and captured several cities one after another under years of preparation.

This is good, Chen Guo, who is already a little struggling with the people, can be said to be making matters worse, and the imperial court, which is in a hurry, hurriedly mobilizes the surrounding garrisons to send troops to crusade against Chen Gui, the rebellious king of the Five Lakes.

But Chen Gui has been operating in the local area for many years, how can he only train 3,000 private soldiers, in fact, after the army was raised, these 3,000 private soldiers have expanded to more than 30,000 people, because these 3,000 private soldiers are completely trained according to the grassroots officers, and there are many veteran generals among them, and the tenfold expansion of the army has little impact at all.

But this is still not enough, Chen Gui has already made preparations, even the many garrisons in Wuhu that were placed by the emperor have already been bought by him, and the imperial court will not do it, as soon as Chen Gui does it, he immediately launched a lot of internal seizures of power placed in it, so in a very short period of time, he has 100,000 troops and has obtained the power to change the world.

Even if these soldiers and horses were not the elite soldiers and fierce generals of the border gates, his opponent was not a powerful alien race, but a more corrupt court soldier and horse.

What's more, against him, the imperial court does not dare to mobilize the people at the border, if there is another defection, this throne is not far from being replaced by another person.

Therefore, the imperial court could only mobilize more garrisons from all over the country, and then the military department began to meet all day and night to study, what to study, and who to be the commander.

The rebel army at the border pass was better, because they had been on guard for a long time, and the old troops under Chen Gui were placed in some remote guards, and they all had Xiongguan behind, and they would not be able to return to the hinterland at all for a while and a half.

But even so, the situation is not optimistic, after all, what the imperial court has to deal with now is not a rebel who is born in mud, but a prince who has rich experience in leading troops to fight, let alone finding a commander who is better than Chen Gui, even if you want to find someone with comparable ability, it is a difficult thing, and identity, camp, and tendency, these are all issues that need to be considered.

If you win, no matter who gets this credit, it will give the opponent's camp an advantage of at least a few decades, if you lose, hehe, you can already consider changing the dynasty, so not only the ministers are anxious, but even the little emperor who doesn't ask about political affairs all day long can't care about pampering the beauties of the harem, and his mouth is full of bubbles.

There are as many as 200,000 garrisons mobilized in various places, and the imperial court has not yet selected a commander, if Chen Gui was not busy reorganizing the army and dealing with the affairs of the occupied places, he would have killed them a long time ago, and the imperial court would not have chosen any commanders at that time.

Although it was a major event that shocked the world, Yan Xu and the three of them didn't feel anything.

For Yan Xu, Yan's father had already resigned and returned to his hometown, and he would not be involved in this matter at all, and although the eldest brother was also in the court, with the status of the other party, it was not his turn to speak, so Yan Xu was not in a hurry.

The iron-clothed guest is the same, he has no good impression of the imperial court at all, as for Li Poshan, needless to say.

But things will not develop as imagined, so when Yan Xu knew that the commander elected by the imperial court this time, his face changed on the spot, because it was his eldest brother.

Yan Xu is not a novice who knows nothing about officialdom, he was born in a family of eunuchs, even if he didn't study specifically, he still knows some of the rules of officialdom under the influence of his ears and eyes.

Father Yan was a member of the Sanpin back then, and he had crossed that threshold, and he had real power in the military department, so he had enough right to speak even if he opened his mouth in the imperial court.

But Yan Xu's brother Yan Liang is different, although he is only one grade lower than Yan's father, he is a fourth-grade official, but the difference between this grade is a level gap, the third grade and above are the real bigwigs of the imperial court, and the entire Chen State relies on them to operate, while the third grade and below belong to the middle-grade officials, who have certain rights, but they do not have much right to speak.

And Yan Liang's official position is not a real power to dispatch troops or logistics scheduling, but a very chicken paperwork, but the grade is relatively good-looking, in fact, it is not much better than the seven-grade county order, at least the county order is still a real power, known as the marquis of Baili, so it is not Yan Liang's turn to be the commander.

"Ironclad man, you rush to my brother's place at once, and be sure to keep him safe, and I will go home for a while, and then I will rush to meet you. Yan Xu frowned and packed up his things, while the iron-clothed man nodded to Yan Xu, glanced at Li Poshan again, then turned over and jumped out of the window, and after a while, the sound of rapid horses' hooves sounded.

Yan Xu rushed home in a hurry, at this time he urgently needed Yan's father's guidance, because this was beyond his ability, even if his strength had increased greatly, he couldn't understand what the ministers of the court were thinking, and he actually asked his civilian brother to lead an army of 200,000, whether he was crazy, or the ministers of the court were crazy.

Compared with Yan Xu's impatience, Li Poshan didn't care, but was full of expectations, after all, this person had long been accustomed to the atmosphere on the battlefield, for him, that was life, and it was also one of the few places that could make him feel alive after three hundred years.