Nong Buwu was escorted to the palace by the guards, and the worries of the officials did not dissipate because of Nong Buwu's retreat.

At the beginning of the founding of Daning, the chieftain of the Yue people in Jiaozhou also took the opportunity to set off a massive rebellion. In the end, the imperial court sent strong generals and elite soldiers to Jiaozhou to suppress the rebellion. Although it took three years to finally suppress the rebellion, it also cost the court a lot of money. Military expenditures, food and grass, and a large number of soldiers died of diseases caused by miasma, which can be described as a tragic victory.

Now that the chieftain of Jiaozhou is rebelling again, if the imperial court goes to war again for this, I'm afraid it will repeat the same mistakes. I don't know how much Daning's national power will be consumed, and how many Daning soldiers will die in the deep mountains and old forests in the south of Lingnan.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the three prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River have just been plagued by locusts this year. Now Jiaozhou is waiting to be rebuilt. There are too many places to spend money. It is not appropriate to engage in war. Since these chieftains are willing to negotiate with the court, as long as your majesty Removing King Qi from the position of Governor of Jiaozhou can stop the army and make peace, so it is better to convict them and remove King Qi for now, and make plans in the future." Yin Zhi, Minister of the Ministry of War, came out and put forward his own proposal cautiously.

"I think Yin Shilang's opinion is the opinion of a veteran who seeks the country." Du Zhen, Shaoqing of Si Nong, came out to join Yin Zhi.

"My minister agrees."

……

Many ministers in the palace came out to agree with Yin Zhi, many of them were not Wang Chong's henchmen, and they had no enmity with Qi Wang Xiao Jie, they simply felt that it was a good deal to remove a prince in exchange for peace.

In the west of Lingnan, there are high mountains, deep mountains and old forests, dense miasma, poisonous snakes and beasts. If the officers and soldiers want to go deep into it to wipe out the rebels, how much food will be spent and how many soldiers will be sacrificed.

Moreover, the rebel Yue people are active in the mountains and forests all year round, taking advantage of the right time, place and people. At that time, the officers and soldiers are likely to fall into a dilemma. The rebellion will be another heavy burden for the imperial court at that time, let alone the imperial treasury is stretched, no matter how much money the imperial court has, it will not be able to afford it.

But now that these rebel chieftains have offered to withdraw their troops and make peace as long as the imperial court removes Qi Wang Xiaojie from the position of governor of Jiaozhou, if the imperial court takes advantage of this to make peace, it can save the lives of countless soldiers in Daning. The whole Jiaozhou was spared from the flames of war, so why not do it.

Although this may somewhat hurt King Qi's face, compared with the lives of thousands of people and soldiers in Daning, it is worth it.

"I know your concerns, and I understand that you are all thinking about the country and society of Daning." Xiao Ji glanced at the officials in the palace, and said in a low voice, "But have you ever thought about it? , if I really follow the wishes of the rebel chieftain and dismiss King Qi, but if they are still dissatisfied, and I am willing to abdicate before I am willing to make peace, what will happen then?"

"Your servant deserves death!"

Xiao Ji's words were too harsh, and the officials in the palace were so frightened that they fell to the ground and apologized.

Xiao Ji quietly looked at the hundreds of officials kneeling at his feet. After a long time, Fang sternly said: "If the chieftain of Jiaozhou dares to make trouble, even if he becomes the emperor with me and Daning as the enemy, I will never condone it, and I will never fight with you." The rebellious ministers and thieves compromise. I don’t know that it is not easy to put down the rebellion, but since the chieftain rebelled, I will resolutely wipe it out. If it doesn’t work in one year, it will be two years. Jiaozhou chieftain rebellion."

"Since I have handed over Jiaozhou to King Qi, King Qi will be fully responsible for suppressing the rebellion. I will never dismiss King Qi just because of the few words of the rebel envoy, which will chill the hearts of the frontline soldiers. I believe that I will never You may be mistaken, you might as well stay in Luoyang and wait for the good news, I believe that after a while, there will be good news from Jiaozhou."

"My emperor is holy, Daning will surely win!"

All the officials worshiped again, calling them holy.

However, many ministers still found a different meaning from the emperor's words. It seems that the emperor did not criticize the king of Qi because of the matter of the noble concubine, and he still has a lot of trust in the king of Qi. King Qi is not out of the game, and may even be one of the important competitors.

……

As soon as Xiao Jie led the army to station in Xiang County, where the rebellion was the most serious, bad news came one after another. Almost all the rebels attacked a certain county town, but they could not attack for a long time. Ambushed halfway, heavy losses.

The rebel army defeated the reinforcements, and then took down the county seat in one go, looted wantonly and left, leaving only a devastated city.

Seeing that the rebels were so rampant, Xiao Jie's soldiers were naturally filled with righteous indignation, and they all challenged Xiao Jie to fight to the death with the rebels.

Xiao Jie was a little helpless. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the rebel army was not stronger than that of the officers and soldiers, but their biggest problem was that they were elusive and could be broken into pieces at any time. Exhausted officers and soldiers.

Xiao Jie was not interested in playing hide-and-seek with the rebels. Now that he knew the opponent's tactics, he had a way to force out their main force.

He knew that in order to move quickly, the rebels would not carry too much dry food with them. They had a special place to hide food in the mountains. As long as they found this place, they would burn all the food of the rebels, and the enemy would have no food to eat. The only thing to do is to fight with yourself quickly.

In the original book, Xiao Huang sent troops to quell the chieftain's rebellion and went deep into the mountains and old forests. He couldn't find the main force of the rebels for a long time, so he could only let the rebels play them around in the mountains, but in the end Xiao Huang still relied on his aura of the protagonist, By coincidence, they accidentally discovered the canyon where the rebels hid food and treasures. In the end, they burned the food of the rebels and forced the chieftain to lead the main force to a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers.

If I remember correctly, the place where Xiao Huang found the food for the rebel army was called Feihu Gorge, which means that unless the tiger has wings, it cannot leap over the canyon.

Xiao Jie believes that even if the protagonist is changed, the rebellious chieftain will most likely choose the same place to hide their food and treasures.

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