Everyone was shocked, of course, because of the news that Zhao Kuo wanted to lead the army in person.

This news did not make anyone angry in advance, so even Li Mu, Xiang Yan and others also showed shocked expressions on their faces.

As the prime minister, Xu Li was the first to come back to his senses and said hurriedly to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty, why should Your Majesty take such a risk?

Please think twice.”

Next, Pang Nuan, Li Mu and others also spoke one after another, wanting to dissuade Zhao Kuo.

As they said, this Western Expedition was different from any previous war, because the Western Expedition was a new and unknown enemy, and no one knew what would happen.

To put it bluntly, what if something unexpected happens along the way and Emperor Zhao Kuo dies on the way, what should I do if the newly established Han Kingdom?

Therefore, it becomes understandable that everyone now unitedly opposes Zhao Kuo's request to personally lead the expedition.

Subjects can take risks, but the emperor really cannot take risks because the emperor is really too important.

Faced with everyone's dissuasion, Zhao Kuo laughed.

"You guys... Of course I know what you think and I know that you are for my own good, but this time my commander's personal mission has been carefully considered, so don't object."

Don’t Zhao Kuo know the risks that the imperial commander-in-chief may bring?

Of course it is impossible.

But for Zhao Kuo, he knew very clearly that although he was a time traveler, he could only live for the rest of his life in this world.

Could it be that I just stayed in the imperial palace in the imperial capital, dealing with endless memorials day after day, waiting for the good news from afar?

No, that's not the life Zhao Kuo wants.

Since he has traveled through this era, what Zhao Kuo wants to do is to walk around the world, see this different place in the "ancient" and modern times, appreciate more customs and culture, see more beautiful scenery, and enjoy more victory! Qin Shihuang likes to travel around the world, Kangxi and Qianlong likes to go to Jiangnan, these are relatively safe travel, but Zhao Kuo does not like it.

For Zhao Kuo, his body had already incorporated the genes of adventure. What he longed for was to explore strange places and look forward to the new things being revealed in front of him! Therefore, Zhao Kuo wanted to lead the army in person! Therefore, even after listening to the opinions of these important officials of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuo still would not accept them.

After listening to Zhao Kuo's almost unquestionable decree, the important officials of the Han Kingdom present also looked at each other.

For them, although Zhao Kuo has always been very majestic, in fact, Zhao Kuo is willing to discuss with the ministers for many things. It is indeed a very rare situation to directly ignore the opinions of all ministers like today.

After a while of silence, Xu Li sighed and said, "Since Your Majesty is going to go to the battle, will he still be the prince's governor during the battle?"

From Xu Li's perspective, he is the person who is most loyal to Zhao Kuo, so even though Zhao Kuo's order sounds so unreasonable, Xu Li will not continue to question after he dissuaded him once, but instead consider how to arrange things according to Zhao Kuo's orders.

Zhao Kuo looked at Xu Li and felt satisfied. He was worthy of being my Uncle Xu. Although you don’t have much fame in history books, for me, you are the best candidate for prime minister! Zhao Kuo glanced at the ministers around him and said calmly: “Do you all have any objections?”

As the prime minister, Xu Li had already chosen to discuss the matter, and the other important officials of the Han Dynasty present naturally saw the situation clearly and expressed their agreement with His Majesty's personal expedition.

Zhao Kuo became more and more satisfied and laughed: "Since that's the case, then just like before, the prime minister Xu Li assisted the crown prince Zhao Qian in supervising the country. The usual affairs will be discussed and reported to the crown prince, the queen.

If there is any military and national affairs, then the two prime ministers, Xu Li and Pang Nuan, plus the four noble families of Guo Zong, Su Li, Lu Buwei and Xunqiu, will discuss it.

After the six noble families pass, they will report to the queen, and the queen will stamp the jade seal and pass it."

Although impulsiveness is impulsive, Zhao Kuo also knew that his expedition to the Western Regions was indeed different from the past. Maybe it would be normal that he would not come back in one or two years. Moreover, if he understands the Western Regions, it is very difficult to contact the Emperor's side. It is not like the previous war in the Chu eradication, which can be obtained in a few days.

So this time, Zhao Kuo also made a relatively complete design and arranged a total of six important officials to discuss and decide on possible emergencies.

These six people are all outstanding people from the Han Dynasty. There is absolutely no problem with the situation discussed by the six people together.

Just in case, Zhao Kuo also specially added a queen to supervise. Crown Prince Zhao Qian is still too young after all, but as Zhao Qian's biological mother, Queen Tian Wan, the former princess of Qi, has absolutely no problems in terms of knowledge and wisdom, which is enough to ensure that the worst situation will not occur.

After seeing that Zhao Kuo had made such proper arrangements, these important officials of the Han Dynasty could no longer say anything against him.

Zhao Kuo continued: "In addition, the Grand Marshal Li Mu, Minister of Intelligence Mao Sui, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Si, Chief of Staff Xiang Yan all followed me to the expedition and dispatched the Minister of Staff Sima Shang to Jiujiang County to be responsible for the next strategy for Lingnan."

Since he wanted to be in charge of the army, Zhao Kuo must also bring a group of people to accompany him, and Li Musui and Li Si and Xiang Yan were responsible for their positions, which happened to be a golden partner group selected by Zhao Kuo.

Xu Li thought about it and was still a little worried, so he couldn't help but say, "King, the old minister thought about it again, and felt that the 100,000 cavalry in the Western Expedition might be too few, otherwise it would be increased to 150,000."

Pang Nuan's eyes lit up slightly and he hurriedly said, "Even if it is, the old minister also thinks it is safer to add 150,000."

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but feel silent when he heard this.

In fact, Zhao Kuo also understood the thoughts of these two people. He just thought that getting more troops around Zhao Kuo can better ensure Zhao Kuo's safety.

Zhao Kuo rubbed his temples and glanced at the other ministers.

Xu Li coughed heavily and said, "What do you think of me?"

Obviously, Xu Li was implying that it was wrong, it was explicitly indicating that other people were others.

When the others heard this, they naturally spoke up and agreed with Xu Li's suggestion.

After all, everyone is an important official of the Han Dynasty, and they are closely tied to the interests of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, they don’t want something to happen to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo had no choice but to say, "Okay, then add the Western Expedition Army to 150,000."

Now, the State of Zhao completely occupied the north and south grasslands occupied by the previous Xiongnu and Donghu. In theory, if it is fully conscripted, it can recruit 400,000 cavalry, but now it is naturally no problem to recruit "only" 150,000.

After confirming this, the monarch and ministers discussed some details, and then the meeting ended.

It's still December, and winter has just arrived, and the Han Dynasty will have three months to prepare for the war.

After Zhao Kuo finished the discussion, he was in a very happy mood.

For Zhao Kuo, he has been fighting outside for many years, which has also given him a habit of feeling itchy when he hasn't fought for a long time.

Now that the war has been decided, Zhao Kuo naturally breathes a sigh of relief and just needs to wait for his ministers to arrange everything.

Zhao Kuo thought for a while and said to the eunuch beside him: "Let's go and take a look at the queen."

Zhao Kuo sat in the imperial palace and came to Tian Wan's palace.

After coming, Zhao Kuo was out of nowhere.

A female official knelt respectfully in front of Zhao Kuo and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the Queen and the two concubines took a few princes and princesses to visit the Imperial Garden today."

As he said that, the female official did not forget to twist gently in front of Zhao Kuo, revealing some beautiful figure that was fascinating.

Everyone knows that Zhao Kuo only has three women. If Zhao Kuo can be attracted by this, wouldn’t he immediately become His Majesty’s fourth woman?

Unfortunately, this female official was destined to be disappointed. After learning that his three wives, concubines and children were all going to the Imperial Garden, Zhao Kuo immediately went to the Imperial Garden.

In the imperial garden, light snow fell, covering the earth with a light white layer.

It was actually quite cold at this time, but the air in the Imperial Garden was filled with laughter.

Several princes and princesses formed cliques and played and hiding behind the snow-covered flowers. From time to time, one or two of them were hit by their brothers and sisters too accurately, so they went to complain to their mother with snowflakes.

In the pavilion not far away, Zhao Kuo's three women looked at all with a smile, and their moods were different.

Yiqiuwei was ready to rub her hands and smiled at Tian Wan: "Sister Queen, look at how badly the young people are bullied by these older children. Let me do this, let the younger children come up to help these younger children, so that the older children can know what is wrong!"

Even with Tian Wan's grandparent cultivation, she couldn't help but feel a little urge to hold her forehead: "My good sister, why are you also an imperial concubine? Why are you still thinking about having snowball fights with your children?"

Yiqiuwei said with a smile: "The Queen's words are wrong. Although I am the imperial concubine, first of all, I am a woman from the grassland.

Although I am very happy to be with my husband over the years, I have no place to play with me. Just let me play with me!"

In the end, Yiqiuwei also pulled Tian Wan's sleeves up directly, as if her sister was acting cute to her sister.

Qiu'er, who was standing beside her, was holding two crying children in her arms, and looked at the scene with a smile, without saying a word.

Tian Wan was speechless, and after a while, she sighed helplessly: "Sister Yiqiu, can you make this reason every time?"

OK OK, you are awesome, go ahead."

Yiqiuwei cheered and was about to run out of the pavilion to participate in the children's snowball battle, but suddenly she was hugged by a person, and smiled and said, "Where is my concubine going?"

Yiqiuwei was startled, then happy, and turned around and hung on Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty, you are finally here!"

Yiquwei's jump caught Zhao Kuo off guard, and almost fell down with Yiquwei in his arms. He took two steps back before he calmed down, causing Tian Wan and Qiuer to exclaim.

Zhao Kuo was speechless and kissed Yiquwei hard on the red cheek: "My good concubine, you can really surprise me. Okay, sit down, I have something to tell you today."

Zhao Kuo told three women about his personal conquest of the Western Regions next year.

What surprised Zhao Kuo was that Tian Wan did not dissuade him after hearing the news, but smiled and said, "Since Your Majesty has made up her mind, I wish Your Majesty a victory."

Zhao Kuo exclaimed, unable to help but be surprised: "Queen, you didn't stop me?"

Tian Wan smiled gently: "Your Majesty is joking. I am Your Majesty's woman. I have long known that what Your Majesty wants to do is a great cause that other emperors will never be able to accomplish. How could I stop Your Majesty?

But then again, I still have one condition.”

Zhao Kuo asked curiously: "What are the conditions?"

Tian Wan stretched out her finger and pointed to Yiqiuwei next to her and said with a smile: "There is a woman here who wants freedom. Why don't you ask Your Majesty to let her stay by your Majesty and follow Your Majesty to the West to fight with you."

After Tian Wan finished speaking, before Zhao Kuo could reply, Yiqiuwei jumped up first: "Okay, that's it! Your Majesty, just take me with you!"

For Yiqiuwei, she really longed for the feeling of being free and free.

Although you can also run in the Royal Palace in the Imperial Capital City, the palace is still too young for the grassland children like Yiquwei! Qiu'er smiled when she saw this: "My sister Yiquwei can also make Your Majesty feel at ease, so as not to be seduced by the barbarian woman who came out of nowhere."

Tian Wan couldn't help laughing and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine of the barbarian, can also marry him, but I think it's almost enough to marry two, what does Your Majesty think?"

Zhao Kuo smiled and suddenly hugged Tian Wan and Qiu'er: "I think, let's talk about the concubines of the barbarians in the future. Now I should focus on the beautiful women in front of me! Okay, let the children play here, let's go back to the palace first!"

Tian Wan and Qiuer were naturally surprised by Zhao Kuo's behavior and shouted in unison.

"Your Majesty, the children are watching!"

"Your Majesty, it's still daytime!"

Zhao Kuo laughed: "Day during the day?

I said it was daytime, and I said it was nighttime, so it should be nighttime!"

Amid the laughter, Zhao Kuo took his three concubines and happily headed towards the bedroom not far away.

For Zhao Kuo, this is destined to be a happy day!
Chapter completed!