If Taiwei Gao was standing in Chongzheng Hall today, he would probably have cut off his robber Wu Dalang on the spot...

That is the ambassador for the handling of Xingling Xuanfu! The six armies of the governor Shuofang, Fuyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Xihe, and Hexi! In order to increase the authority of Taiwei Gao, he had to give him a title of magistrate of the Privy Council. Now he surpassed Di Qing and Guo Kui, and he stood at a height that could only reach by famous generals in the country. Although Di Qing had been the Privy Councilor and Guo Kui had been the deputy envoy of Privy Councilor, neither of them had been the ambassador of Xuanfu and the chief commander of the Sixth Routes!

The power of such positions almost exceeded the deployment of the camps in the early days of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it seemed as if the greatest power of the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty had had. A military officer from the Song Dynasty would have a good end to this point?

Wu Haogu now proposed to grant such great power to Taiwei Gao, and the purpose was naturally to serve the country and the people... Under the wise leadership of Tian Khan Zhao Ji, all work, especially infrastructure and military construction, were carried out very smoothly.

If this trend continues, Yan Yun, the Northern Expedition, is likely to be ahead of schedule. At that time, Wu Haogu himself will probably be Xuanfu. If Gao Qiu is not allowed to be the first to try the waters, Wu Dalang will have to stand out! I wonder if a group of civil servants will hold the arch of the divine arm and wait to hit the first to stand out?

So Gao Qiu had to go and explore the road first... If there was really Fengbo Pavilion or something, Wu Haogu would be prepared.

"Your Majesty," Wu Haogu had already prepared the answer to Gao Qiu's question. "The six-way army refers to the army generals coming from six pacification envoys, not the troops being divided into six routes. The northwest army comes from six routes and has always been difficult to rule. Hundreds of thousands of troops do not have a commander, and each fights on its own. This is a taboo for soldiers and the way to defeat.

Moreover, the territory of the Western thieves has been greatly compressed, and the lands on the banks of Wuding River and Hejian are all for me. Shuofang, Fuyan and Huanqing troops can station troops in Yanzhou. This place is only 200 miles away from Xi'an Prefecture (Tiandu Mountain) where the Jinglu Army is stationed, and only 7 or 800 miles away from Lanzhou, which is not far away. If there is no general commander, Yanzhou, Xi'an Prefecture and Lanzhou cannot be matched, it is likely that they will be defeated by the Western thieves Khitan coalition forces."

Zhao Ji hesitated and turned his attention to the prime minister and important officials in the hall. All the important officials frowned and did not say a word.

Let Gao Qiu be the chief commander of the Sixth Route, and the promotion of spiritual support, and the right to deal with the situation is to be given cheap... Are you not afraid of Gao Qiu's rebellion? Oh, I'm really not afraid. Everyone knows that Gao Qiu cannot rebel, but Gao Qiu is a military officer after all! The ancestor system of the Song Dynasty was to control the military with literature. If Gao Qiu was the chief commander, wouldn't it become a military commander? In the Sixth Route Pacification, except for Tong Guan, who had the title of military commander, the rest were all literary resources.

"Your Majesty," I don't know how long it took, but the left prime minister Su Dongpo finally spoke. "The old minister thought it was unnecessary to set up the sixth general commander. Because the battle in the northwest has been prolonged, the roads in Shaanxi are exhausted, and the newly obtained Shuofang Road is in ruins. It seems unrealistic to destroy the Western thieves in one fell swoop. It is better to let the Western thieves temporarily and allow Qianshun and the brothers of Cha to reform themselves."

Su Dongpo's suggestion was indeed safe... but the price of the Khitans is still quite high now. Su Che sent a message from Xijin Prefecture that the Khitans asked the Song Dynasty to hand over the two states of the Salt and Shuozhou, and admitted that the Western thieves were vassals of the Great Liao.

It was okay to hand over the salt and the two states of Shuo, but it was a bit difficult to admit that the Western thieves were vassals of the Great Liao vassals. Because the Song Dynasty had always believed that the territory of the Western Xia was the land of the Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia was not an independent country, nor was it a vassal of the Khitan. If we give in on this issue, then the nine states including Xingling Yan Shuoliang Gansu Shagua would not be able to recover before the victory of the Song-Liao War.

Moreover, once the Western thieves "entered into Liao", it would be even more difficult for the Song Dynasty to recover the land of Yanyun in the future. Not only did they have to defeat the Khitans, but they also had to suppress the Xixia united with the Liao Dynasty in the northwest.

"No!" The left prime minister Cai Jing immediately stood up and sang a counter-top with Su Dongpo, "If the tiger returns to the mountain, there will be future troubles; if the enemy is in a day, there will be ten years of uneasiness. Now that the Western thieves are declining, our dynasty is in full swing. Even if we cannot capture Xingling in one fell swoop, we do not need to cede land and thieves, and we cannot recognize the Western thieves as a vassal of the Khitan."

"Is Cai Qing supporting Gao Qiu as the chief commander of the sixth route?" Zhao Ji asked.

Cai Jing shook his head, "Gao Qiu is a martial artist who is brave but not scheming. How can he command the six troops? In the eyes of his ministers, he can divide the six troops into two. The western route is governed by Hexi, Jingyuan and Xihe, and the eastern route is governed by Shuofang, perfunctory, and Huanqing, and the general commander Tao Jiefu. Gao Qiu is appointed as the former army and leads his troops westward to Xingling."

Zhao Ji nodded slightly. Cai Jing's suggestion was exactly what he wanted. The six soldiers were divided into two generals, so that they could restrain each other. The generals were all civil servants, and the generals were arranged to be deployed by military generals. They could not arrange one in one aspect, at least several had to be deployed, so that they could not control each other, and at the same time arrange for the internal officials to supervise the army. In addition, Zhao Ji could also grant formation maps to both the east and west. The generals below only needed to act according to the formation map to ensure that... they would be defeated!

Wu Haogu has been looking at Zhao Ji attentively and observing things, and he can do it too.

"Your Majesty," Wu Haogu said, "Zhong Fu has been using troops on the West Road for many days, and his progress is quite slow. It seems that he does not have the talent of the General."

As soon as he said this, even Su Dongpo was a little dissatisfied.

How can a military officer say that a civil servant has no talent? Moreover, who doesn’t know that Zhong Fu is a military officer? Nowadays, among the civil servants of the Song Dynasty, Zhong Fu and Tao Jiefu, who really understand war, are even worse at other people’s level.

Wu Haogu said again: "Although Tao Jiefu has talent, he is the Fuyan Road Pacifier, and is in charge of Yan'an. He is thousands of miles away from Xingling. How can he command the battle? If he cannot command, what is the use of this general?"

Cai Jing asked coldly: "Don't Wu Defense know how to plan and win a thousand miles away?"

"This is a record in "Records of the Grand Historian. The Basic Annals of Emperor Gaozu". Emperor Gaozu said: In the planning of the tent, I won a thousand miles away, and I am not as good as Zifang. But Emperor Gaozu of Han did not let Zhang Zifang replace Han Xin to supervise the army to fight? Tao Jiefu was good at strategizing and had the ability of Zhang Zifang. Gao Qiu was good at leading troops and fighting, no less than Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, and Xianggong Cai and Xianggong Su had the talent of Xiao He. Zhang Liang, Han Xin, and Xiao He were each in charge of their own affairs, and the Han Dynasty was established."

Wu Haogu's quibbling made Cai Jing speechless. However, if Gao Qiu heard it, he would probably not dare to admit that he had Han Xin's talent... Han Xin had no good ending!

Zhao Ji still frowned, as if he was very hesitant. After thinking for a while, he waved his hand to announce the severance of the court, but let Wu Haogu stay alone.

"Dalang, you are putting Gao Qiu on the fire!" As soon as the officials of the priests left, Zhao Ji treated Wu Hao Gudao in a complaining tone.

Wu Haogu smiled: "Your Majesty feels sorry for Gao Qiu?"

Zhao Ji sighed: "I originally wanted Gao Qiu to make some contributions, but I didn't want him to be a genius who uses military service. But I am doing this in my family law, what can I do?"

It seems that Zhao Ji still trusts Gao Qiu if he can say this in front of Wu Haogu.

"Your Majesty," Wu Hao Gudao, "Now we don't need Gao Qiu's reputation and don't act like destroying Xingling. Xiao Su's grandson will not be able to continue to talk about Xijin Prefecture... If the Khitan army really stationed in Xingling for a long time, then in the future, we will fight against the Khitan and the Western thieves at the same time, whether in the Northern Expedition or the Western Expedition in the future."

"It's not okay to use Gao Qiu to deploy for the former army?"

"Your Majesty," Wu Haogu shook his head, "It is not about the war now, but about the attack. Whether Gao Qiu leads troops to attack Xingling does not matter. What is important is to make the Khitans and the Western thieves believe that Gao Qiu will lead hundreds of thousands of troops from the six northwest routes to crush them! In this way, Your Majesty can defeat the troops without fighting. As long as the Western thieves surrender and the Khitan withdraws their troops, Shuofang will be rectified, and in a few years, it will be the end of the Western thieves."

Zhao Ji looked at Wu Haogu, "Dalang, what do you mean is to let Gao Qiu scare the Western thieves and the Khitan? Is Gao Qiu that scary?"

"It's not that Gao Qiu is so scary, but that His Majesty dares to value war-going generals and grants full power, which is enough to frighten the Western thieves and the Khitans.

Our dynasty’s population and wealth are ten times that of the Liao Kingdom and a hundred times that of the Western thieves. As long as the heroic lord is good at using it, destroying the thieves and pacifying the Liao Kingdom is just a matter of rebellion!”

Speaking of this, Wu Haogu bowed and bowed against his conscience: "Your Majesty is the hero of my Song Dynasty that has not been released for a hundred years. Now the Khitan and the Western thieves regard Your Majesty as the second Khan of Heaven! I also believe that Your Majesty will surely wipe out the thieves and restore the lost territory since Anshi!"

This is not a good thing in the Song Dynasty. If it was said publicly during the court meeting, the officials in the Song Dynasty would have to be impeached by the censors. How could they compare with the mediocre king Li Shimin? However, Zhao Ji is now determined to destroy Xia Ping Liao, so he thinks that Li Shimin is actually quite powerful. Naturally, he thinks that Wu Haogu's "treacherous words" are quite satisfying.

And it would be good if it was a big gesture to scare the Khitan and the Western thieves. After all, the war has been fighting for a long time now... Although it is going well, the material consumption of the northwest routes is also very amazing. Now 200,000 troops are mobilized and deployed, hundreds of thousands of people are busy transporting materials, and there is still a whole Shuofang Road to develop and utilize. Shaanxi Transportation Commander Si Ke has been complaining for a long time! If it can be over as soon as possible, rest for a few years, consolidate the results, and fight will be even easier.

"Can the Western thief be appointed as Xingling Xuanfu and the general commander and the six armies of the army will force the Western thieves to subdue?"

Wu Haogu smiled and promised: "When I arrived at Jiehe Commercial City, there will be some arrangements, so that the Western thieves will have no way out except to subdue them!"
Chapter completed!