Chapter 1098: Common Enemy

Where to deploy troops?

Xiao Wanchou thought for a moment and said, "I think the court can dispatch 10,000 troops from Dengzhou and Hezhou to rush to Yuzhou! Also, order the navy to go to Gaolin Port in Yuzhou immediately..."

Emperor Wen thought for a moment, then asked Yun Li: "Do you think that Duke Yu's arrangement is appropriate?"

"very suitable!"

Yun Li nodded gently, "However, the selection of the commander is a problem."

"That's true."

Emperor Wen nodded and said, "My dear ministers, who do you think should be sent to Yuzhou to lead the troops this time?"

When Emperor Wen asked this question, all the ministers looked at Xiao Wanchou and several other officials from the Ministry of War.

This matter is mainly the Ministry of War’s business.

Others can be nominated, but the final decision still has to be made by Emperor Wen and Xiao Wanchou, the Minister of War.

Seeing that no one was talking, Emperor Wen looked at Xiao Wanchou again, "Who do you think can be sent to lead the troops?"

"This……"

Xiao Wanchou was a little embarrassed. "The court came to Yuzhou to help this time, not only to prevent Yu State from making a surprise attack, but also to deter the scoundrels in Yuzhou and find out the truth about the Red Moon Cult! The one who goes to lead the troops should be both civil and military, and have a careful mind."

Listening to Xiao Wanchou beating around the bush, Emperor Wen immediately became impatient, "Just tell me directly, who do you think is more suitable to go!"

Xiao Wanchou laughed bitterly, "I'm afraid His Majesty will not agree with the person I recommend."

"Who?"

"Wu Du!"

"Wu Du?"

Emperor Wen frowned instantly. "When suppressing the rebellion of Prince An, Wu Du struggled for two months but achieved little success. In the end, it was you and the Crown Prince who led the troops to quickly suppress the rebellion of Prince An! Why did you recommend such a mediocre person to lead the army in Yuzhou?"

Emperor Wen looked at Xiao Wanchou with sharp eyes.

It seemed as if he wanted to see through Xiao Wanchou's heart.

Yun Li glanced at Emperor Wen secretly and understood in his heart that Emperor Wen suspected that Xiao Wanchou was forming cliques!

Xiao Wanchou bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial court is short of talented generals. I am afraid there will be another war between the imperial court and Shuobei in the future. This is the right time to train these generals..."

Listening to Xiao Wanchou's words, many people nodded.

The few generals in the court who are capable of fighting are already old.

On the other hand, Shuobei is full of generals, and most of them are rising stars.

To put it bluntly, those young and strong generals in Shuobei can outlast these old generals in the court.

If the imperial court does not train some younger generals, once these old generals are buried, the imperial court will be in a situation where there are no generals available once a war breaks out with Shuobei.

"Father, I think what Duke Yuguo said makes sense."

At this time, Yun Li also said, "When I followed Duke Yu to suppress the rebellion of Prince An, I also had contact with Wu Du. Wu Du failed to achieve success in the early stage, not because of his lack of ability, but because of the rainy weather in the south! In the later stage, Duke Yu and I went to the front line in person, and Wu Du also made many contributions. He would lead the troops in every battle. If he is trained, he should be a talented general in the future!"

"Handsome talent?"

Emperor Wen snorted coldly, "I think he is just a fool!"

Emperor Wen seemed to have a lot of complaints about Wu Du.

After hearing what Emperor Wen said, Xiao Wanchou and Yun Li fell silent.

Emperor Wen thought for a while, then said with a dark face: "Since Duke Yu and the Crown Prince both recommended Wu Du, I will give him another chance! Later, the Crown Prince will issue an order to order Wu Du to lead the troops in Yuzhou!"

"My son obeys the order!"

Yun Li was overjoyed.

Emperor Wen asked him to issue an edict, which was clearly giving him the opportunity to show favor to Wu Du!

Emperor Wen looked up at Xiao Wanchou and said, "Tell Wu Du that the court will give him one more chance. If he fails to do his job well this time, he can go train the new army!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Xiao Wanchou bowed and accepted the order.

Emperor Wen waved his hand and instructed Yun Li: "Okay, next you discuss with the other ministers how to administer this powerful medicine to Yuzhou!"

Yun Li accepted the order and immediately took over from Emperor Wen to preside over the court meeting.

The series of incidents in Yuzhou proves that there must be huge problems within Yuzhou. The issue that everyone is struggling with now is whether to punish Kang Guangyan first, or to order Kang Guangyan to find the problem first.

But if Kang Guangyan really colluded with the Red Moon Cult, asking Kang Guangyan to find trouble would be like asking a thief to catch a thief.

But if Kang Guangyan has no connection with the Red Moon Sect, continuing to employ Kang Guangyan will indeed be more conducive to quickly stabilizing the situation in Yuzhou.

Just when everyone was still discussing but still couldn't come to a conclusion, Xu Shifu suddenly said, "I think the court can continue to employ Kang Guangyan, but it needs to send an imperial envoy to Yuzhou to investigate whether Kang Guangyan has colluded with the Red Moon Cult!"

Listening to Xu Shifu's words, everyone's eyes brightened.

This perfectly resolved the previous controversial points.

Yun Li nodded slightly and looked at Emperor Wen again.

Emperor Wen nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: "Appoint Han Jin, the deputy commander of the imperial guards, as the imperial envoy, and Xu Yuncheng, the junior minister of the imperial clan, as the inspector general. They will go to Yuzhou immediately and conduct a thorough investigation of the Yuzhou bureaucracy! All officials who have colluded with the Red Moon Cult, from the governor of Yuzhou down, can be executed first and reported later!"

Hearing Emperor Wen's words, the ministers couldn't help but feel secretly shocked.

Kill first and play later!

No matter the size of the official position!

It seems that Emperor Wen is very angry about the Red Moon Cult!

However, after thinking about it, the ministers understood what he meant.

Emperor Wen must have been furious when Yuzhou was attacked by the Yu State.

But the bandits from Yu State had already retreated, and the imperial court was completely powerless against those villains. Emperor Wen must have been furious.

The Red Moon Sect and Kang Guangyan have run into the crossbow of Emperor Wen!

"How is the construction of the navy's warship going?"

At this time, Emperor Wen asked about Yun Li again.

"Reporting to the Emperor, we have already built two treasure ships, four tower ships, six grain ships and horse ships, and twenty warships!"

Yun Li reported everything in detail.

He had long guessed that Emperor Wen would definitely ask this question and had done his homework in advance.

Listening to Yun Li's report, Emperor Wen couldn't help but frown slightly: "It's been almost a year, and only so many warships have been built? Is it because of insufficient silver, or is it because the craftsmen are slacking off?"

"There is still enough silver to build warships."

Yun Li replied: "It's not that the craftsmen are lazy. It's mainly because the materials for building warships are transported over a long distance, which makes the speed of building warships a little slow! I have ordered Xiao Dingwu stationed in Yunzhou to send 30,000 prisoners to Hezhou to perform labor service..."

"That's good!"

Emperor Wen looked at Yun Li with satisfaction, then raised his eyes to Mu Shun and said, "Pass on my oral order and order Qin Liugan to go to Yuanzhou immediately to supervise the construction..."

Emperor Wen suddenly stopped talking halfway through.

After pondering silently for a while, Emperor Wen shook his head again and looked at Yun Li, "Forget it, you should send someone to supervise the construction of warships yourself! If that old man goes, the memorials he writes to you will annoy you to death..."

Qin Liu dares?

Yun Li's heart was moved.

The notoriety of Qin Liugan, this old rogue, is known to everyone in the court.

However, letting this old rogue do the work can indeed achieve twice the result with half the effort!

A few years ago, when we were about to go to war with Beihuan, my father ordered Qin Liugan to supervise the preparation of military equipment and food.

When that old rogue took action, no one in the court, whether civil or military, dared to complain.

Thinking of this, Yun Li immediately bowed and said, "Father, I think it would be most appropriate to order Duke Rong to go to Yuanzhou to supervise the construction of warships!"