Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

As for the suggestions put forward by Lu Chen, Jiang Chengwan directly accepted them as always, and others had no objections.

The land of Gyeonggi is indeed crucial.

More than 30% of the resources of the Daxia Empire are gathered here. The spiritual energy is suitable, the spiritual soil is vast, the formations are complete, the people's hearts are stable, and spiritual canals are everywhere. Both politically and economically, it far exceeds other provinces. It is the absolute center of Daxia.

As long as there are no problems in the capital, the foundation of Daxia will not be shaken too much. Even if the world is in chaos, it will not be too chaotic to deal with.

Those who are good at fighting establish themselves in an invincible position and then go to war.

From a general perspective, internal hidden dangers should indeed be eliminated first. After all, not to mention the fact that there are many officers with noble general backgrounds among the Imperial Guards.

As for civil servants, the officialdom of Daxia was extremely complex and not only divided into pure and dirty.

In today's Daxia political arena, it goes without saying that Lu Chen has his own faction. Yan Song has been in power for many years. During this period, his disciples and former officials promoted and appointed are all over the world. They are also existences like big trees in the sky. Officials like Xiao Yun who came from a wealthy family are also the same. There are not a few, and there are also practical factions such as Liu Dongyang, Fang Ping, and Wu Yue, the Qing faction of Kedaoyanguan, the sect faction of the same sect, and so on.

Among them, there are naturally officials who have received more or less favors from nobles and nobles.

Among these people, some hold high positions, while others hold humble positions and are very inconspicuous. They may be high-ranking officials in the current dynasty, or they may only be in the seventh or eighth rank, or even low-ranking officials.

But even if they are not in the mainstream, as long as they have a position, they have a certain amount of authority. Even though some officials may seem inconspicuous, they can play a significant role.

After all, sometimes the higher the position, the further away from specific affairs.

If these people are doing things behind the scenes, they may cause great harm. The more critical the situation, the less able to ignore these details.

A large-scale inspection is still necessary.

However, this cannot lead to the rise of prisons, where these officials who have received favors from nobles can be beaten to death with a stick without any concern.

There is a degree to everything. After all, it does not mean that you have to sacrifice your life for the nobles after being favored. There must be officials among these people who are loyal to the country, dedicated to their work, and loyal to the court.

Lu Chen also added this later.

The purpose of a large-scale sweep is to eliminate hidden dangers, so there is no need to go on a killing spree. Too much violence will only affect innocent people and amplify the situation, forcing all those people to a dead end regardless of whether they are good or bad, which is quite detrimental to the situation.

After more than a year of governance, Lu Chen is no longer the evil boy who didn't care about anything and was bent on death and ascending to the throne, so he will naturally take this into consideration.

Therefore, he emphasized that people can catch them all first, but they can only control them, not embarrass them, screen them as strictly as possible, and verify their past, evaluations, actions during their employment, etc.

Jiang Chengwan took the trouble to listen to all Lu Chen's words, and then looked at Fu Hua.

"Fu Hua, let Xuanji Guard handle this matter."

"Yes!"

Fu Huan responded simply and neatly.

Checking, arresting, interrogating, gathering intelligence, and surveillance are the duties of the Xuanji Guards. They are handy and not difficult to do. It's just that the workload is a bit heavy and does not require the elite Xuanji Guards from the Xuanwu Guards to do it. It can be handed over to the new recruits.

With her, a top expert in the Guiyi Realm, watching over them, even if they had a hundred courages, they wouldn't dare to slack off and deal with the problem, let alone act recklessly.

After the general clearance was finalized, the next step was the issue of the capital's defense.

This aspect was not Lu Chen's expertise, so Gu Simiao stepped forward and proposed strengthening the defense of Tianyunguan in the east and the river bank area in the south to defend the capital.

Luojing is located in the center of the Great Xia Empire. In the north and west, due to Cangmingjing and Gu Simiao, as well as Lu Chen's terrifying reputation in the area centered on Sui and Yu states, the influence of the Xungui family is very low. It was necessary to send heavy troops to guard it. Taking this into consideration, Gu Simiao proposed that the Forbidden Army should be placed in the southern and eastern defense zones just in case.

The most elite Xuanwu Guards, Cang Ling Guards, and the less powerful Qingning Guards, Warrior Battalions, etc., are preparing for war on a large scale and are ready to go to war at any time. As long as there are signs of rebellion in the local area, they will immediately attack with the fastest speed. Quickly send troops to quell the rebellion, kill it completely with the force of thunder, and shock all directions.

In addition, she also made many suggestions regarding garrisoning troops in various places.

For example, ordering a defense change, asking the local Xuanji Guards to strengthen surveillance and sending intelligence back to the capital as soon as possible regardless of the cost, recalling key suspects to the capital, controlling their families, deploying troops to disrupt the original army organization, using both kindness and power on some generals, etc. .

As the Shenwu General of the Great Xia Empire and the top military general in the world, although Gu Simiao's political level is not very good, her military level is very strong. After all, she was already powerful in the northwest before she broke through to the Guiyi Realm. A world-famous general. After many years of fighting, she is not only extremely strong personally, but also top-notch in strategic vision, tactical command, overall view, etc. She is a complete all-round talent.

Even if one ignores her personal strength and only looks at her military qualities, she is a once-in-a-millennium generation figure.

During the Huangzhou Incident, if she had really taken refuge with Empress Dowager Zhao and led hundreds of thousands of Cang Ling troops to fight Jiang Chengdao, with the geographical advantage and the blessing of Empress Dowager Zhao's massive resources, it would have been hard to say whether she would win or lose.

Now faced with the chain rebellion that may be triggered by the flight of nobles, she is not easy to deal with, but she is also clear and calm.

Although Jiang Chengwan was a little unhappy with Gu Simiao, it was a private matter that could not be brought to the fore after all. As an emperor, she was never ambiguous in major matters and kept a clear distinction between public and private affairs. Naturally, she would not hold any prejudice against Gu Simiao because of her personal likes and dislikes. Take her advice.

For every suggestion Gu Simiao mentioned, she responded to it after careful consideration, either adding something to it, or asking questions, and finally nodded her head in agreement.

In this extremely serious situation, in front of all the important ministers of the country, it is too cheap to care about the love between children.

Gu Simiao finished what she had to say and had just sat down when Liu Dongyang and Fang Ping, who were not far away, stood up at the same time. They reported the situation in the capital during this period to Jiang Chengwan and expressed their thoughts on the recent changes. view.

Mainly the Ministry of War.

Liu Dongyang wanted to take this opportunity to vigorously clean up Daxia's military affairs, cut off redundant and incompetent legions, and take this opportunity to check the quota situation, and take advantage of the situation to eliminate some of the accumulated abuses in the military affairs.

Anyway, the situation is already like this, no matter how bad it gets, it can't get any worse. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves and blaming the emperor, we should try our best to do our job as Minister of War and find ways to improve the military and political affairs that have been declining as early as the Shenzong period in this inevitable change. Do something.

Fang Ping, Wu Yue and others also had similar thoughts.

The people present were all practical people, and no one could only talk meaningless nonsense. Therefore, they all put forward their own suggestions while there was no one in the way.

As one thing after another was established, the sky outside turned completely dark without realizing it.

It wasn't until the palace door was about to be locked that this emergency imperial meeting finally ended.

"All right."

Jiang Chengwan stood up slowly and said to everyone: "That's it for today. Thank you for your hard work. Please take a good rest when you get back."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Everyone stood up one after another, bowed their hands, and then left their seats one after another, preparing to walk outside.

"Lu Qing."

Just when Lu Chen was about to leave with the large army, Jiang Chengwan suddenly spoke and stopped him.

Everyone turned around and looked at Lu Chen and Jiang Chengwan.

Chai Hongyu and others frowned almost at the same time, and their eyes narrowed slightly as they looked at them.

Under the gazes of everyone with different expressions, Jiang Chengwan spoke with a natural expression and said slowly: "Don't go back yet, I have something to say to you."

???

Lu Chen's mind was filled with questions.

What the hell?

Is there anything you can’t say in front of everyone?
And just leave me alone? Where is Saint King Cangming? Even he can't listen?
Depend on! Aren't you afraid that he will misunderstand something?
Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at Jiang Chengdao.

However, the latter was wearing a thick visor as always, and nothing could be seen at all.

click
The sound of armors clashing sounded, and Saint King Cangming didn't seem to hear it. He turned around and left with the large army.

Looking at his leaving figure, Lu Chen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. (End of chapter)