The oval drawn by Xiang Yan looks very small, but in fact it contains a large piece of land.

All of them were included in this oval, including the Qinghai Lake and the Qaidam Basin in later generations.

In other words, the part drawn by Xiang Yan is basically equivalent to the northern half of Qinghai Province in later China.

Xiang Yan said, "Since this area is mainly dominated by this lake called the Xihai Sea, we call this area the Xihai Basin area.

This time, the combat plan of our 20,000 musketeers is mainly to conquer this Xihai Basin area.

As long as you can conquer this area, you will be considered a successful mission.”

After hearing Xiang Yan's words, the important officials of Zhao State present fell into thinking again.

This time, Li Mu said: "How many enemies are there in this Xihai area?"

For Li Mu, what he cares more about is of course these purely military issues. After all, Li Mu feels that he is likely to be the leader of these 20,000 soldiers this time.

Li Mu's question was immediately answered by Xiang Yan: "How many people are there? This may only be a true and complete number after we conquered the Xihai region.

But judging from our current information, there are at least millions of Qiang people in the entire Xihai area. According to the habits of the Qiang people, they will have at least 200,000 to 300,000."

The number of 200,000 to 300,000 obviously surprised the ministers present.

Pang Xian couldn't help but speak, "We only sent 20,000 troops to so many Qiang soldiers. Isn't it a little too small?"

Xiang Yan smiled and explained: "Although the Qiang people are all soldiers, they lack British armor and weapons, and they have no daily military training at all. Therefore, their 200,000 to 300,000 people are actually only 200,000 to 300,000. The civilians wielding wooden sticks and pitchforks are just more than 200,000 soldiers and horses are enough to really fight against such people."

Xiang Yan's explanation finally dispelled the concerns of many people present. After all, it is not true that these important officials of the Han Dynasty present led troops to fight and had a deep understanding of these military knowledge.

After listening to Xiang Yan's explanation, no one continued to question, so Li Mu took the initiative to speak.

"Your Majesty should not have decided the candidate for the chief general this time. My minister Li Mu is willing to take charge of the commander to go to the Xihai area."

For Li Mu, he is the kind of person who feels uncomfortable without fighting for a day. Since he already has such an opportunity to go to war, Li Mu is certainly unwilling to let go.

After hearing Li Mu's words, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but smile.

"Actually, I have already thought about the candidate for this battle in my heart."

As soon as he heard this, Li Mu's expression suddenly became excited, and his face was full of expectations.

Zhao Kuo's eyes did fall on Li Mu's face first, and he slowly spoke: "Taiwei Li Mu is now the number one general under my command. If he only leads 20,000 troops to fight, it would be a bit useless."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, the smile on Li Mu's face suddenly freezes.

The meaning of this sentence is actually quite obvious, that is, Zhao Kuo did not intend to let Li Mu be the main general this time. The reason has just been said that 20,000 troops are really useless.

Li Mu couldn't help but volunteer again: "Your Majesty, I can do it. 20,000 troops are not a problem for me."

Li Mu really wanted to lead the troops, but he really didn't mind whether he was 20,000 or 200,000 troops. All he thought about was fighting.

Zhao Kuo sighed and was about to speak when Xu Li, who was standing beside him, spoke first.

"Taiwei Li Mu, you have to consider your current identity.

Now you are the most powerful general in our Han Dynasty and the highest official minister in the Han Dynasty.

If even you can only lead 20,000 troops to fight, then how should the generals with official positions be with you?

So, you should not compete with those young people for the position of the leader this time, and give them some opportunities."

After listening to Xu Li's words, Li Mu was speechless.

Indeed, Li Mu is the most outstanding figure in the Han military. If even this number one person can only bring 20,000 troops to fight, the entire military system will be in chaos.

After thinking through the reasons, Li Mu could only sigh in frustration and said, "I understand. Since that's the case, let the other people lead the 20,000 troops."

For Li Mu, it is definitely a very, very unhappy thing to fight without a war.

Zhao Kuo looked at Li Mu's appearance and couldn't help but feel a little funny, so he said to Li Mu: "If you really want to fight this way, then isn't the rotational battle in the southwest still in progress now?

You can use my name to travel to the southwest to see how the battle situation is going on there, and also conduct a comprehensive assessment of the battle situation there."

For Zhao Kuo, the rotation war in the southwest direction has been going on for two or three years, and the war has never stopped there. Although the war reports have been sent continuously, it is necessary for someone to inspect the situation on the front line to relieve Zhao Kuo.

When Li Mu heard Zhao Kuo's words, he became happy again and said with a hurried smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I must check it carefully when I go to the southwest this time. Which guys are not attentive to fight? I will take it down and deal with it hard!"

Looking at Li Mu who became energetic again, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but laugh and shook his head.

This guy is really a war madman.

Even if Li Mu’s problem is solved here, Zhao Kuo will announce the appointment of a new chief general.

Zhao Kuo said directly: "I have already thought about it. This time, the chief general of the 20,000 musketeers will be Xiang Yan, the chief of staff of our Great Han Kingdom. As for the deputy general, the general Wang Jian will be appointed."

This time, Zhao Kuo planned to let Xiang Yan and Wang Jian lead 20,000 musketeers as partners.

As the chief of staff, although Xiang Yan is also a relatively high-ranking military general, he is not very high.

In this way, Xiang Yan could just match the position of commander of the musketeer. After all, musketeer is now equivalent to Chiyou's army. He is the most elite field force in the Han Dynasty. It is reasonable to let the chief of staff be the chief general.

As for the appointment of deputy general Wang Jian, of course it is Zhao Kuo's personal preference.

Zhao Kuo still admires Wang Jian very much. What he needs to do now is to give him a stage as soon as possible to show his full ability. In this way, the Han Dynasty will have another powerful general and can continue to expand its territory for the Han Dynasty.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's appointment, everyone had no other opinions. At most, they just sighed in their hearts that Wang Jian, a Qin man, was indeed Jian in the heart of the emperor. He was able to be so valued by His Majesty. He could once again serve as the deputy general of a unit in a short period of time after becoming a general.

Even if the meeting is basically over here, what the people present did not expect was that Zhao Kuo actually threw another bombshell.

Zhao Kuo once again said, "Although I will not be in charge of the army this time, since musketeers are the future combat method of our Han Kingdom, I think it is better to have a heavyweight figure as a military supervisor.

So I decided to let the prince Zhao Qian be the supervisor and follow 20,000 musketeers to go to the Xihai area to carry out conquest operations."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, everyone present was shocked.

This time it was Deputy Prime Minister Pang Qi the first time he spoke: "Your Majesty, you must know that the prince is only a 10-year-old child this year. Is it too early to let him go to the army at this time?"

After Pang Yan finished speaking, several other ministers from the Han Dynasty also spoke, expressing their agreement with Pang Yan's words.

“Yes, your Majesty.

The old minister thinks that it is better to wait until the crown prince is a few years older, and then we will consider letting him enter the army as a military supervisor."

"The old minister thinks that Your Majesty's intentions are very good, but this time is still a little too early."

"The prince is still too young after all. If he goes to the western plateau, it will be difficult to deal with if he is physically unwell, his Majesty."

In short, everyone's opinions were surprisingly unified this time, that is, they opposed Zhao Kuo's dispatch of Prince Zhao Qian to the western plateau to fight.

Faced with these oppositions, Zhao Kuo's expression was quite calm, because these oppositions had long been expected by Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo raised his hands and signaled everyone to be quiet, and then everyone immediately calmed down.

At this time, Zhao Kuo continued to speak: "I certainly understand all the worries about love.

But I also want to say something to you all, as the saying goes, jade cannot be made into a weapon without being carved. If the prince cannot understand the cruelty of war now, then he will lose his awe of war and will not know how much price it will cost to fight a war.

One thing I often say is that you can certainly fight in wars, but you cannot exhaust the power of the entire country because of wars.

Maybe we can tell the prince this truth, but after all, it has never been experienced by himself. He knows this truth and may not be able to do it in the future.

So of course, when the prince was still a young man, he would let him go to the army to see the cruelty of the war and how much consumption there was behind the war. In this way, he would be able to deeply understand this thing in the future and not become a military tyrant.

From another perspective, our Han Kingdom started with war. If the prince wants to inherit the throne in the future, he must be supported by the army.

If he had never had any intersection with these generals of the army and the soldiers at the bottom of the army, how could he have been supported by the army?

Some things do not need to be done until they become adults, but like the things I just said, although he is not yet an adult and is only a teenager in his 10s, he can do them.

So the decision will not be changed. I also hope that as my dear, we can understand me. After all, our original intention is the same, that is, to cultivate a wise and powerful second emperor for the future of the Han Dynasty, isn’t it?”

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, all the important officials of Zhao State fell into silence.

After a while, Xu Li sighed helplessly and said, "It's not impossible if the prince must go, but I still hope that His Majesty can promise one thing for the old minister, that is, the prince will definitely not be able to participate in any battle."

From Xu Li's perspective, he was still unwilling to let Zhao Qian get involved in a war like this. After all, as the crown prince, Zhao Qian is the future of the entire Han Dynasty.

But the problem is that Zhao Kuo's attitude is also very firm now. As a minister, Xu Li certainly cannot say that he has been fighting against His Majesty, the Emperor Zhao Kuo.

So it is no surprise that Xu Li and other ministers made concessions in the end.

After hearing Xu Li's words, Zhao Kuo immediately laughed and said to Xu Li: "Prime Minister Xu, don't worry. Zhao Qian is still a young man after all. From a physical perspective, he is indeed completely unable to take on such a responsibility, so he naturally cannot fight.

And this time, just in case, I will send my adopted son Zhao Zheng to follow the prince. Zhao Zheng is still older than Zhao Qian, and it will be safer to have him."

After hearing this, Xu Li and others had already taken the matter into consideration, so naturally they could not continue to say anything more. They could only say that the matter would be done as His Majesty said.

However, Li Mu kept turning his eyes around, and occasionally smiled at the corner of his mouth, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

You should know that Li Mu is the teacher in charge of teaching Zhao Qian's military strategy. The relationship between him and Zhao Qian is actually the best, because Li Mu is a straightforward person, unlike other teachers, who are old and boring.

However, at this time, Zhao Kuo did not notice Li Mu's expressions, because his energy was mainly focused on the game with the old prime minister Xu Li, otherwise he would definitely ask Li Mu carefully to see if this guy was making any wrong ideas.

After receiving the approval of Xu Li and others, Zhao Kuo showed a victory smile.

"Since everyone doesn't object, then this matter will be decided."
Chapter completed!