"King, King, the Great Victory of the West Sea, the Great Victory of the West Sea!"

When Zhao Dan heard the news, he was discussing matters with the ministers.

So Zhao Dan nodded at Pang Nuan, who was eager to try it out, and said, "Pang Qing, come and read this good news."

Pang Nuan received the good news and said:

"My name Li Mu presented it to the king: I was ordered to lead my army westward, fight against the enemy Yiqubo's troops on the east side of the West Sea, and won it. Beheaded more than 8,000 people and captured 19,000 people. The enemy chief Yiqubo gave him the head. According to the king's order, I have built a city in the West Sea, so all the prisoners stayed in the city as coolies. I will lead my army back to Shuofang, and then return to Handan to pay homage to the king."

Zhao Dan thought for a while, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "This Li Mu is quite interesting... By the way, where is the memorial of the chief clerk? Take it to show me."

As a reward, the assessment of military merits is obviously the top priority, so the Zhao army has a special department to calculate military merits. When fighting, this department will send people to the army, and then calculate the number of enemies killed and submit it to Zhao Dan.

Since the highest position among these people is the person who is in charge of the merit book of the entire army, this position is called the chief clerk.

According to convention, the chief clerk is often held by people who have nothing to do with the chief general, in order to prevent the chief general from exaggerating his achievements.

Therefore, after the war ends, two memorials usually appear in front of Zhao Dan’s case, one belongs to the chief general and the other belongs to the chief clerk.

Soon, this memorial from the chief clerk appeared in front of Zhao Dan.

Compared with the memorials of Li Mu, the memorials from the chief clerk are much more detailed.

"In the battle of the West Sea, a total of 7,574 enemy troops were beheaded, 18,323 were captured, our army injured 2,052, and 889 were killed..."

As Zhao Dan looked at it, a smile gradually appeared on his face.

The number of the two memorials is not consistent. The numbers written on Li Mu's memorials are obviously more than those written on the memorials of the chief clerk.

However, this is also a normal situation. After all, some military achievements will be repeatedly counted by different troops. Only after reporting them to the chief clerks will they slowly check the weight and squeeze out some water.

From these two memorials, it can be seen that Zhao Jun’s victory this time was not very good, and he did win a big victory at a very small price.

When Zhao Dan thought of this, he felt relaxed.

In this way, even if the Hehuang area is taken down, the remaining work is to establish the ruling order of Zhao.

These four places are crucial for the Central Plains dynasty, Hetao, Hehuang and Hexi Corridors.

If these places are conquered or surrendered, the Central Plains dynasty will become strong and vice versa.

As powerful as the Han and Tang dynasties, they control at least three of these four places, so they can establish a prosperous era that will be remembered by future generations.

As weak as the Song and Ming dynasties, they usually can only control one or two of these places, and the result is that they can only be exhausted from dealing with the invasion of nomadic peoples for most of their time.

The main reason is that these places can provide a continuous stream of high-quality war horses. With enough war horses, the Central Plains dynasty can continue to fight north with its powerful national strength and defeat the resistance of the nomadic peoples again and again.

But once these places fall into the hands of nomadic peoples, they will quickly form a powerful cavalry and at the same time gain geographical advantages to the Central Plains, posing a huge threat.

So Zhao Dan also made up his mind to manage these places well and firmly control them in his own hands.

Although explosives have appeared, before large-scale mechanized troops appeared, cavalry was still the most mobile group in the world and must be taken seriously.

As long as these four places are held, no matter what the Huns and Turks or Mongolia are in Mobei, it will not pose any threat to Zhao State.

At this moment, the Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng suddenly spoke, "King, I think the Grand Commander has worked hard and made great contributions and has built many territory for the Grand Commander. Perhaps it is time to enfeoff the Grand Commander."

Zhao Dan was stunned for a moment and looked at Zhao Sheng with some surprise.

When did this guy get along with Li Mu?

Before Zhao Dan could speak, Yu Xin, who was standing beside him, suddenly spoke: "Master, I think the Grand Commander has been fighting for the country for many years. If the Grand Commander is allowed to stay away, it would be criticized that the Grand Commander is not treated as a hero, and he would still be granted the Grand Commander as the Grand Commander, and let the Grand Commander return to Handan."

Zhao Dan looked at Yu Xin again with a strange look.

To be honest, it is really not easy to have a suggestion supported by the leaders of Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin when it was just put forward.

As soon as Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin spoke, the others naturally agreed. Even Zheng Zhu, who seemed to be neutral, thought this was something that could be considered.

Among the many important officials in Longtai, except for Li Mu himself and Lian Po and Ju Xin who were still attacking South Korea, everyone else believed that Li Mu should be transferred back as soon as possible!

Zhao Dan knew it in his heart. It seemed that these important officials were still prepared for Li Mu.

However, this is understandable. After all, Li Mu is now the governor of Zhao State, but he is the governor of the military affairs of the northern counties. In extreme cases, he can directly collect 100,000 cavalry, which is definitely a powerful force.

More importantly, this powerful force is completely controlled by Li Mu, and there is almost no chance for others to intervene.

Although this approach ensures the strength of the border cavalry legion, it also makes it very easy for others to think that Li Mu is self-respecting.

Moreover, Li Mu himself has no ally in Handan, so it is not too surprising that this situation is today.

To put it bluntly, these guys are afraid that Li Mu will embark on the road of rebellion as the military power in his hands expands.

As long as Li Mu is transferred back to Handan, the Central Committee of Zhao will have a thousand ways to slowly mix sand for the border cavalry legion, thereby dividing the border cavalry legion and ensuring that the border cavalry legion will not be controlled by Li Mu alone.

In this case, even if Li Mu really has any disobedience in the future, the divided border cavalry legion is not enough to support Li Mu's ambition.

After thinking through the reason, Zhao Dan couldn't help but feel a little silenced.

Logically speaking, it is something that the king likes to do when suspicion of ministers with military power. Why isn’t I suspicion of Li Mu yet? These Li Mu’s colleagues are suspicious of me first?

You should know that there are a large number of Huyiwei spies lurking around Li Mu. On the one hand, these people are secretly protecting Li Mu, and at the same time they also play a role in surveillance and understanding Li Mu.

Over the years, Zhao Dan believes that he has enough knowledge of Li Mu.

This is a very pure soldier. What he prefers is to conquer the enemy on the battlefield and does not have much ambitions for politics.

Moreover, from a historical perspective, the northern troops of Zhao State have always been in the hands of Li Mu, but Li Mu never had any intention of rebellion.

Thinking of this, Zhao Dan couldn't help but breathe a long sigh.

Li Mu would not rebel. Zhao Dan knew this very well, but he could not explain it.

How to say, can it be said that after reading the historical books of later generations, Li Mu did not rebel until his death? No one believed this reason.

And he can't pass the test without being careless. After all, it can be said that almost all the important officials in Longtai don't want Li Mu to continue to control the military power of the north alone. Such a huge opposition is something that Zhao Dan, the king of Zhao State, cannot ignore.

It has to be said that the suggestions of several ministers are still very desirable.

The reason why Zhao State in history allowed Li Mu to take control of the military power in the north was because there were enemies such as the Xiongnu, Donghu and Yan State in the north. Due to the inconvenience of transmission of information, the centralization of power in Li Mu was able to make Li Mu arbitrary and mobilize troops as quickly as possible to deal with the enemy's invasion.

But now the Huns have been beaten away, and the Donghu dared not go south at all, and the Yan State has been destroyed. It is actually not necessary to give Li Mu such a large military power.

However, Zhao Dan did not think about this out of trust in Li Mu, and until today he was raised by ministers.

Zhao Dan pondered for a moment, then said, "If the Grand Commander is transferred back to Handan, then the ministers think that anyone can replace the Grand Commander and guard the north?"

When Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, heard Zhao Dan's words, a hint of joy flashed across his face and hurriedly said, "King, I think General Pang Qian has been in Yan State for many years and has had many dealings with Zhuhu, and has the experience of commanding cavalry warfare. He is the best candidate to go out of the north."

Yu Xin snorted softly and did not speak.

It’s not that Yu Xin doesn’t want to fight, but that’s because there is no one in the common people’s ranks to fight.

Since Li Mu is an important official in Longtai, he naturally has to send a general of the same level to replace Li Mu.

Among the common people, there is only a general who lives in Longtai, Lian Po, who lives in Longtai. It is impossible for Lian Po to go to the north to replace Li Mu, right?

Zhao Dan refused to comment and suddenly said, "Let's do this, there's no need to worry about the matter of ceasing the king. After all, although the Grand Governor has outstanding military achievements, he has no achievements in pacifying the Central Plains. If he rashly entrusts the king, someone may not be convinced. I am going to let the Grand Governor preside over the next battle to destroy the country. After the Grand Governor succeeds, it will be natural for the throne to cede. I wonder what the Lords think?"

After thinking about it, there is only one way.

You can't be a vassal, otherwise the number of nobles in the future will be a big trouble for the emperors of the future.

Therefore, it is better to raise the standard of enthronement so that the lords who have the merit of destroying the country can enthrone the lords. In this way, the number of lords will definitely be much smaller and reduce some trouble for future generations.

Anyway, there will be no large-scale attack on the Western Regions for the time being. It is a waste to let Li Mu stay in the north and advance and retreat with the Qin people. It is better to transfer Li Mu back to deal with the war in the Central Plains first, and then send Li Mu out to conquer the Western Regions after unifying the Central Plains.

In fact, this is also a kind of protection for Li Mu. Otherwise, Li Mu would have offended all his colleagues now. How could he still be in the political arena of Zhao in the future?

Zhao Dan didn't want to feel dissatisfied with Zhao because of the friction between Li Mu and these Longtai colleagues. That was really a big loss.

After hearing what Zhao Dan said, several ministers were silent for a moment, and then expressed the same viewpoint at the same time.

Zhao Shengdao: "What the king said is very true. Since the great governor is talented, he should take on the important task of conquering the world for the king."

Yu Xin said: "The great commander-in-chief's reputation is known to everyone in the world, and he is the best candidate for the commander-in-chief to go on the expedition."

The others also agreed.

Zhao Dan nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then thank you Pang Qing for your hard work to guard the north for me first. However, Pang Qing was old after all, and I felt that I could find someone to help Pang Qing. General Xu Li was a good candidate. So, with the Yellow River as the boundary, the counties west of the Yellow River were in charge of Pang Qing, and the five counties east of the Yellow River were responsible for maintaining stability. That's how it was decided."

Since you want to divide, then divide it directly to the end.

Compared to Li Mu, it was something that Pang Yan was even more worried about taking charge of such a large piece of northern territory.

But no matter what, Li Mu, who learned that the military power had been taken back, would definitely be dissatisfied.
Chapter completed!