Soon, the army led by Li Mu appeared.

The soldiers were magnificent, with flags flying, and the morale of the soldiers, all wanting to show the appearance of a victorious army in front of their fellow villagers.

Excited discussions and various voices suddenly emerged.

King Zhao also smiled and said to Zhao Kuo beside him: "Wu Xinjun, this time General Li Mu returns from victory. In addition to you, I finally have another general who can destroy other countries!"

King Zhao's words are sincere words from the heart.

In the past, both Yan and Wei were destroyed under the leadership of Zhao Kuo, and the process was not smooth. In other words, if Zhao Kuo is gone, the destruction country would probably not be destroyed.

But now it's different. Li Mu grew up and became the second general in Zhao State to destroy another country.

what does that mean?

It means that King Zhao does not need to think that Zhao Kuo can fight in Zhao State, which is of great significance to King Zhao.

If only one Zhao Kuo can fight, then no matter how arrogant Zhao Kuo is, King Zhao may have to endure it.

Of course, even though Zhao Kuo was not really domineering, King Zhao still had a vague tolerance towards Zhao Kuo now. This is like a company where the boss always speaks kindly to the boss who controls the company's real core technology.

After Li Mu, King Zhao was equivalent to obtaining the second employee who could control core technology, so Zhao Kuo was no longer the only one.

King Zhao felt that he was finally free at this moment! In addition, King Zhao said this to Zhao Kuo and had another meaning.

Disaster! Yes, as Zhao Kuo had guessed before, King Zhao hoped to be able to disagree with the relationship between Zhao Kuo and Li Mu and let Li Mu escape from Zhao Kuo's camp.

Since Li Mu is a general and the number one military officer in Zhao State now, as long as Li Mu can leave Zhao Kuo, it will definitely cause a significant blow to Zhao Kuo's development of his military power.

Otherwise, King Zhao's emotional intelligence is not low, so why should I deliberately refute Zhao Kuo's face here? After King Zhao said this, the smile that originally had on Zhao Kuo's face was obviously frozen.

A few seconds later, Zhao Kuo regained his indifference and smiled and said, "What the king said is, the old minister wants to congratulate the king."

It was said that it was congratulations, but as long as you were not blind, you could see that there was no smile on Zhao Kuo's face.

King Zhao was relieved to see Zhao Kuo like this.

I am not afraid of you being angry, but I am afraid of you not being angry.

At this moment, the eunuch Ling on the side spoke in time: "King, General Li Mu has arrived!"

King Zhao hurriedly put away his thoughts and saw that Li Mu's handsome car had gradually arrived.

A moment later, Li Mu strided hard to come to King Zhao: "My dear Li Mu has seen the king, but fortunately he has not humiliated his fate!"

King Zhao laughed, walked down to the imperial guards, and took Li Mu's hand affectionately: "General Li Mu, I have you, just like Boya has Ziqi."

If you have you in Zhao State, the world can be settled!"

The King of Zhao's praise for Li Mu immediately surprised the other ministers of Zhao who were present.

It’s not that Li Mu is not worthy of praise, but King Zhao’s words also praised Li Mu too much, right?

If Li Mu was praised so highly, then what about Li Mu's leading brother Zhao Kuo?

Many people's eyes subconsciously moved to Zhao Kuo, and then they saw that Zhao Kuo's face looked ugly and very ugly.

Suddenly, these ministers seemed to have a premonition in their hearts.

"Can you say that Wu Xinjun and Li Mu..." This premonition was quickly deepened.

King Zhao personally took Li Mu's hand and took the imperial carriage. The monarch and his ministers returned to the palace together.

This is a routine matter, but King Zhao and Li Mu talked and laughed at the imperial guards, but everyone saw it.

Zhao Kuo's carriage was the first after the imperial carriage where King Zhao and Li Mu were. Zhao Kuo's expression was very calm throughout the journey, and there was no sign of any turmoil.

Soon, the convoy returned to the Zhao State Palace City and arrived at the Zhao State Temple.

This time, King Zhao and Li Mu stayed alone in the ancestral temple for half an hour, which made the ministers outside talk a lot.

"What are the king and the general discussing in it?"

"Aren't the king and the general talking in the car just now?

I guess I'm still talking now."

"I didn't expect that the king would have such a temper with the general."

Zhao Kuo stood calmly at the head of the ministers, suddenly coughed and said coldly: "Can the ministers interfere with the matter of the king?"

As Zhao Guoxiang, everyone immediately shut their mouths when Zhao Kuo spoke.

But after shutting his mouth, everyone suddenly felt that Wu Xinjun was very unhappy.

Why is Wu Xinjun unhappy?

Everyone began to secretly guess in their hearts again.

After all, as the prime minister of Zhao, Zhao Kuo's mood can really affect the fate of many people and even the destiny of many countries! Finally, King Zhao in the ancestral temple came out with Li Mu's hand, and the expressions of both of them looked very happy.

King Zhao glanced at Zhao Kuo, then said to the eunuchs beside him: "Eunuchs be ordered, come and read my will."

This is another small detail. According to common sense, unless a prime minister like Zhao Kuo takes charge of the battle, the person who reads the reward order should be Zhao Kuo.

Someone looked at Zhao Kuo again, but found that Zhao Kuo still had no expression on his face.

The eunuch ordered him not to neglect him, and immediately launched his already prepared decree and said, "General Li Mu destroyed Han and captured the King of Han alive, which was a great achievement, and I was very happy about it.

Li Mu was specially appointed as Wu Shengjun, and was given a thousand taels of gold, ten thousand acres of land, ten thousand slaves, five thousand silk and satin, and hundreds of good horses!”

As soon as this will was expressed, everyone present suddenly caused a sensation.

"This..." "The king actually rewarded Li Mu so much?"

"This reward is really amazing!"

The reward of physical goods like gold is actually not worthy of everyone's surprise. What really shocked the ministers of Zhao who were present was the title of "Wu Shengjun".

Wu Xinjun heard that he was the title of lord. This is an equal title with Zhao Kuo's Wu Xinjun, symbolizing that Li Mu has become the second only to King Zhao in the Zhao noble system! Many people even fell into great doubts.

You know, Li Mu is Zhao Kuo’s man! Zhao Kuo is Wu Xinjun himself, so another Wu Shengjun... Let’s look at Zhao Kuo’s opponent Zhou brothers. Due to previous punishment and surrender, Zhou’s brother Zhou Shaofen is just a nobleman now, and his younger brother Zhou Shaoliang is even more miserable, and he is a senior doctor.

Two Fengjuns competed against a Xiaqing and a Senior Doctor. This felt like two college students met with a high school student and a junior high school student. Their strength was too different, right?

Not to mention that Zhao Kuo has two allies, Pang Nuan and Xu Li, while the Zhou brothers have nothing left.

Could it be that the Zhou brothers have been abandoned by the king?

Many people looked at the Zhou brothers and found that the Zhou brothers' expressions were very calm. Even Zhou Shaoliang's mouth slightly shimmered, as if he was smiling?

Wait, why did he laugh?

The more sensible person seemed to understand something and looked at Zhao Kuo.

Then they discovered that Zhao Kuo's face... was ugly.

It's very ugly! As long as people who are not blind, they can detect the storm on Zhao Kuo's face! What's going on?

Li Mu is Zhao Kuo's man. Why is Zhao Kuo unhappy when Li Mu was rewarded?

Speaking of which, this is actually just a matter of more than ten seconds and a minute. No one even spoke except the eunuch order. However, for the old officials in Zhao State present, they seemed to have witnessed a major change in Zhao State's officialdom! After hearing the will of King Zhao, Li Mu was naturally overjoyed and said loudly: "Thank you, the king. I will do my best in the future and live up to the king's high expectations!"

King Zhao looked at Zhao Kuo intentionally or unintentionally, laughed and patted Li Mu intimately on the shoulder: "Then I am waiting for your performance, waiting for you to destroy more countries for me!"

Since the reward has ended, what will be held next is naturally a celebration banquet! At the celebration banquet, King Zhao directly ordered someone to set Li Mu's seat beside King Zhao.

Then, during the whole banquet, King Zhao kept drinking and talking with Li Mu, and almost ignored others.

Zhao Kuo, who was on the other side of King Zhao, seemed to be regarded as air by King Zhao this time.

Such an obvious manifestation also made the whispers in the banquet begin to spread.

“Did you notice it?

The king, Wu Xinjun and Wu Shengjun... It seems something is wrong?"

"Shh, what occasion is this? Don't discuss it randomly. If you have something to say, I'll talk about it later!"

However, the Zhou brothers seemed very happy and kept talking and laughing with several political allies around them.

Perhaps because he drank too much, King Zhao quickly left staggeringly.

Before leaving, King Zhao did not forget to pat Li Mu on the shoulder, and whispered loudly, "General, it's so interesting to chat with you. In the future, you will talk to me more about killing the Huns, hahahaha!"

After saying this, King Zhao staggered and left by the eunuchs orders.

After King Zhao left, the banquet did not end immediately.

A group of people immediately walked up to toast Li Mu, and all kinds of flattery words rushed towards Li Mu like a tide.

Li Mu obviously couldn't stand it anymore, so he smiled and politely, then stood up, raised his glass to come to Zhao Kuo.

"Mr. Wu Xinjun, I... I respect you a cup."

The eyes of the entire hall immediately fell on Zhao Kuo and Li Mu.

Many people think that Zhao Kuo and Li Mu are in the same group, so Zhao Kuo must have stood up with a smile and drank with Li Mu and said some congratulations.

Zhao Kuo remained motionless.

Not only did the body not move, but the mouth not move, it was like a statue.

The hall suddenly became quiet.
To be continued...