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Li Shimin was very anxious, unable to sleep or eat.

"I want to eat plum vegetables and pork!"

"Your Majesty, the pork used for plum vegetables is pork, and that is cheap meat. You can't get a palace meal." The eunuch replied carefully.

Li Shimin was very haggard. He was tortured by himself and almost went crazy. One day he had to ask Shuofang's news a hundred times, but there was no news.

"I'm going to eat plum vegetables and pork, go and get it!" Li Shimin got angry.

The servant responded in panic and retreated. After a while, the imperial chefs in the palace had to make a dish of plum dishes and cooked pork. The imperial chefs actually used pork as ingredients to make the imperial chefs. Hey, the imperial chefs' faces were thrown away by him.

But the hard-working plum vegetable buckle pork just came to Li Shimin, but was scolded.

"What's the point of making this? Take it away and go to Li Ji Deli Food Shop to buy a roast duck. I want to eat roast duck."

"Your Majesty, the imperial kitchen can also make roast duck." The imperial kitchen cook was very old and entered the imperial kitchen since he was a child. From the Western Wei to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, to the Sui Dynasty, and then to the Tang Dynasty, he served many emperors. When he was old, he was even disliked by the emperor to cook. He would rather eat things from small folk shops. This is a shame.

"I just want to eat Li Ji's roast duck." The emperor was unreasonable, and the old chef had no choice but to obey the order.

The imperial kitchen in the palace can be said to have gathered famous chefs from all over the world. These people are not eunuchs, but like imperial doctors, some are trained in the palace and some are famous people outside the palace. Their usual cooking place is in the imperial kitchen, which is separate from the harem, and under normal circumstances, the emperor cannot be seen.

The imperial kitchen specializes in cooking, and the eunuchs who pass on the dishes are responsible for the eunuchs.

There are also special people responsible for purchasing ingredients, and someone must be responsible for inspecting and reimbursing the prepared dishes.

The emperor generally rarely uses food outside the palace, especially cooked foods like roast duck. But the emperor said that he could only do it.

The emperor was in a bad mood, so everyone could only be careful.

The roast duck was sent to the palace, sliced, probed with silver needles, carefully picked up silver chopsticks, and even tried it by a specialist.

When a plate of roast duck was brought to the emperor, it was already cold.

Li Shimin saw that the oil on the roast duck was condensed, the side dishes were cold, and there was no food at all. What is there to eat like this roast duck?

The roast duck he ate at the Li family is not like this. After sliced ​​and removed the bones, the roast duck from the Li family was wrapped in thin pancakes and put side dishes in. It tastes so great, fat but not greasy, neither old nor tiring.

"Switch to another dish, I want to eat beggar chicken!"

The eunuchs had bitter faces.

"Your Majesty, that dish is not suitable for the palace and does not meet the identity of Your Majesty."

The emperor is the dignified emperor, but he eats beggar chicken, which is too inappropriate.

"I want to eat!"

Just when Li Shimin wanted to slap the table.

An eunuch reported.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Yintai urgently reported."

Li Shimin frowned, "It's so late, why are you still urgent to play? Can't you play again tomorrow?"

"Your Majesty, it was Xiao Guan's urgent report, the Grand Governor of the Inner Road, the Minister of War, the General of the Left Wu Guard, Qin Qiong, and the governor of Shuofang, Li Chao, reported to the 800-li!"

"Qin Qiong's express report forwarded to Li Chao?"

When he heard that it was news from Shuofang Town, Li Shimin immediately felt spirited and spread it up quickly.

The report was forwarded layer by layer and was soon presented to Li Shimin.

The report was packed in a bamboo tube, with wax seals on it, with Li Chao's seal on it, and Qin Qiong's seal next to it.

Is it really Lingwu’s urgent report or the eight hundred miles quick report?

Open.

Lingwu's great victory, kill Liang Shidu, and restore Lingzhou City!

Seeing this news, Li Shimin looked overjoyed and watched carefully. After reading it in one go, he couldn't help but slapped the table with a palm.

"I just knew that Li Chao would not disappoint me. It was so good, and he did it so beautifully."

The excited Li Shimin was wandering around there.

The eunuchs also congratulated each other.

"The plum vegetable and roast duck are all rewarded to you!"

So happy, unexpected surprise.

With only 20,000 people, it has only been half a month since Lingzhou has been taken away. It is far from the two-month deadline they agreed on.

Without waiting for the subsequent 30,000 soldiers, these 20,000 people succeeded.

There was no loss of one soldier and one soldier. He killed Liang Shidu, seized Lingwu City, and even surrendered 30,000 soldiers and horses, obtaining more than 50,000 people.

There were eight thousand prisoners, countless food, grass, weapons, horses, cattle and sheep.

Well, there are more than 5,000 heads.

This Li Chao is really amazing.

"Li Chao is really the God of the Tang Dynasty!"

At the middle of the night, Li Shimin couldn't sit still.

"Immediately call the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall into the palace."

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, and the palace gate is locked." The eunuch reminded that the roast duck just now was sent in through the small window on the palace gate.

According to the rules, when the entire palace city was locked at night, there were many palace gates. Without the emperor's edict, even the officials of the gatekeepers had no right to open the palace gate.

Especially now, the palace ban is becoming more and more strict. At night, the door is locked and the street drums are not open until dawn, let alone let people enter and exit the palace ban.

"I can't wait to share this joy with all the prime ministers."

"Your Majesty, it's not too late to notify all ministers tomorrow morning!"

The eunuchs tried hard to persuade Li Shimin finally gave up the plan to let the prime ministers enter the palace overnight. The eunuchs also breathed a sigh of relief. Since it was a great victory in Lingwu and not a great defeat in Lingwu, it would be better not to make an exception.

If Lingwu and Zhang Chao were defeated, then things would be urgent. At that time, summoning the prime minister to the palace to discuss matters overnight was a helpless move. Now, there is no need for this.

Li Shimin was not in the mood to approve the memorial again.

He got up and went to the back bedroom. Empress Changsun was still wearing sweaters. She had been changed to King of Wei and was renamed Li Tai, who had returned to Li Shimin's name, read books there.

"Guanyin maid, please have two drinks with me."

Changsun put down the silver knitting needles, "Your Majesty seems to be happy?"

"Of course I am happy. Li Chao, he killed Liang Shidu and captured Lingwu. Without losing one soldier and one soldier, he captured eight thousand enemies, killed five thousand in formation, and surrendered 30,000 people, captured 50,000 people from Lingwu, obtained more than 500,000 cattle, sheep, horses, and land thousands of acres!"

"Ah, congratulations to Your Majesty, finally regaining Lingwu!"

"Haha, yes, I finally recovered Lingwu. It's hard to imagine that Li San, in half a month, killed all the Liang army that had been in charge of Shuofang for nearly ten years. After seizing Lingwu, Chang'an was stabilized. I don't have to worry about the Turks, and they will attack Guanzhong at any time and the troops will come to Chang'an City."

Changsun also exclaimed, "Wen Yuan is indeed not a paper talk, it is amazing."

"Wenyuan is like a god in his military service, and I have a better vision for using people." Li Shimin said proudly.

A long night passed.

The street drums sounded, and the gates and keys sent by the guards from the gates of the city gates were also welcomed.

The city gate and palace gates are opened one by one.

Officials who went to court and vendors who entered Beijing woke up in Chang'an City and became noisy.

All officials went to the Xiande Hall of the East Palace to pay tribute.

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, he has been very diligent, and has been court-court every day, and a grand court meeting will be held every five or ten.

The officials shouted long live the mountain, and Li Shimin shouted that he would be free from courtesy.

"All officials have something to report, but they have no time to retreat to the court!"

"My minister Wei Zheng has a memorial!"

Wei Zheng, who had just returned to the court from Shandong to appease the country, performed well and the people in Shandong were at peace. As soon as they returned to the court, they were appointed as secretary supervisor.

The Secretary-General is the chief of the Secretariat. The functions of the Secretariat and the Department of the Eastern Palace are similar. They both manage books and civil servants. They usually serve as consultant of the emperor. Although they are only in the fifth rank, they can accompany the emperor and participate in important positions in the court.

As soon as Wei Zheng held up the scepter, he asked Li Shimin to immediately transfer Li Chao back to the court and withdraw his troops. His reason was that as if he had finally settled down today, after the war, what the world needed was to recuperate, rather than take the initiative to activate the border quarrel.

Although the Liang army is weak, the Turks behind them will be too late to regret if they cause the Turks to break the peace agreement and go south again.

Then Feng Deyi submitted a memorial and asked to discuss moving the capital.

Li Shimin sat there with a smile on his face.

"Who else is going to report?"

"Your Majesty, please report to Wang Gui."

The content of Wang Gui's request was that the court had no need to establish any Protectorate and Jiedushi on the basis of the fifteen roads in the world, especially this Jiedushi, which was even more unnecessary. Moreover, the Jiedushi's authority was too high, even if it was a temporary envoy, it would be inappropriate.

"The imperial court had previously abolished the Taiwan Prefecture, but now it has established a military governor. Isn't this a regression?"

Faced with these opinions from the ministers, Li Shimin had a good attitude.
To be continued...