Li Zhi returned to the palace and was busy with the affairs of the dynasty, so he was so busy that the sky and the earth were dark. He met the tribute envoys from various countries and saw officials from all over the world coming to Beijing to gather officials. All kinds of red tape made him very tired. After a day, he didn't even have time to eat.

A grand feast was held in the palace in the evening, celebrating with foreign envoys and officials. However, facing the same traditional palace dishes, Li Zhi had no appetite.

At this time, he missed the special hotpot he had eaten in the Li family courtyard in Lanxi.

Although after eating the very delicious hot pot that day, I encountered an embarrassing thing when I went to the toilet the next day. The chrysanthemums were hot, as if I had eaten the hot pot again.

"Does Your Majesty have no appetite?" Wu clasped Li Zhi's shoulders.

"Those dishes are not very enjoyable. I'm tired of eating them. I miss the hot pot in Lanxi Lizhuang a little."

Wu smiled, "Your Majesty isn't you afraid of being so hot?"

"Although spicy, it's so satisfying. Don't say it, that Li Xiao is really a talent."

At today's Zhengdan dynasty meeting, Li Zhi specially arranged the envoys of Silla and Khitan before Gojuji and Tuyuhun, the Turkic envoys.

Every year, although envoys from all sides come to pay tribute, the location of envoys from various countries in the hall is actually ruled. The general rule is to arrange according to the strength of each country.

Since the powerful Turks were beaten to the point of falling flowers and flowing water during the Taizong period, and even the Xueyantu Khan Kingdom in Tiel was defeated, there was actually no country to match around the Tang Dynasty today. Although Turkic chiefs in the Western Regions are now powerful and began to annex the weak and claim to be Khan, they are no longer as old as before.

Even Goguryeo, a barbarian who dominated Liaodong for many years, was actually beaten by several emperors of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and now it is sunset and sunset.

But no matter what, the Turks, Tiele, Goguryeo, and Tuyuhun are old forces, and their locations in the halls of the Tang Dynasty have always been ahead.

Although the distant Western countries such as Fulin and Dashi are also powerful, they are too far away and stand in the middle every year, so they themselves don’t care much about it.

In the past, small countries like Khitan, Silla, and Japan have always been the last one.

However, this year, the Tang Dynasty actually allowed Silla and Khitan envoys to stand in front of Goguryeo. The Goguryeo envoys who were standing in front of the front in the past were arranged to the last place at the gate of the hall this year.

This is a strong signal sent by the Tang Dynasty in front of envoys from various countries on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The envoys of Silla and Khitan had been summoned to the palace many times before, and clearly received the signal sent to them by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty wanted to kill Goguryeo to death and let Khitan and Silla play the striker. If the two younger brothers perform well, after destroying Goguryeo in the future, the Tang Dynasty would eat meat and they could drink soup with them.

Khitan and Silla, one in the northwest of Goguryeo and the other in the southeast of Goguryeo. They have always been the targets of Goguryeo's external expansion and conquest. They have been many encounters and suffered a lot of losses.

They had always relied on the sect leader of the Celestial Dynasty to maintain their status. Now the Tang Dynasty is willing to send troops to help them teach their arrogant neighbor, Goguryeo, a lesson. They were too happy. Even if the Tang Dynasty fought Goguryeo, it was not really for them to help them.

But who cares about those things? Let’s fight Goguryeo to death first.

Everything is going smoothly.

With these increasingly smooth layout arrangements, Li Xiao's Ping Liao Ce has been sorted out more and more comprehensively by the tycoons in the court, and has formulated simple strategies into detailed strategies.

The more detailed the strategy was, the more surprised Li Zhi was.

Prime Ministers like the company commander Sun Wuji and Li Ji kept praising him.

"Talent, I want to summon Li Xiao."

Wu asked, "What is the position of His Majesty who wants to recruit Li Xiao?"

"Ping Liao Ce was made by Li Xiao. Such talents have the best overall view. I want him to join the Eastern Expedition to Ping Liao Army and let him join the army under Cheng Yaojin."

Joining the army is a very common position in the Tang Dynasty. If subdivided, there are various types of military personnel with different predecessors, and the positions of military personnel are also high and low. Important joining the army belongs to the senior generals of an army, and there are also various levels of military personnel in the army.

It is obvious that Li Zhi would not let Li Xiao be a small military officer who manages logistics food, pay or equipment at the 89th grade. If he wants him to go, he must use his strategic vision to make him a senior military officer.

"Your Majesty, if you join the army, you must first recruit him as a general of the guards. But Li Xiao is not a military household, nor is he a soldier. He is also the only son in the family, so he does not meet the conditions for recruiting soldiers in the palace."

"It's a special matter. I don't want Li Xiao to be a military soldier. I want to give him a senior military position, and at least he must be a fifth or sixth rank."

"Li Xiao is a white diary, and he is not a general. He is specially summoned into the army and is directly awarded a higher vocational vocational of the fifth and sixth ranks. I'm afraid that the army will not be able to convince the public?"

"He won't let him lead troops to fight, he will only give advice in the military tent. With Cheng Yaojin and Xue Rengui, who dares to do whatever he wants?" Li Zhi loved talent very much.

This emperor, who was in his twenties, was eager to truly gain military and political power as soon as possible. Therefore, in the past few years after he ascended the throne, he had been promoting talents, many of whom were officials who were born in a small family or were excluded and neglected during the reign of Emperor Taizong.

These people were promoted and reused by him personally, and they were all very loyal to the emperor.

Wu shook his head slightly.

"I think Your Majesty can summon Li Xiao, but I think Li Xiao will definitely refuse. I think this person is a strange person, with the heart of leisure and wild cranes, a person who can keep loneliness and be content with ordinary people."

Li Zhi didn't believe in the words of Wu's family. He didn't believe that there could be such a calm person, whether he studied literature or martial arts, whether he was a general or a gentry, who had the ability could truly reject the emperor.

Although some aristocratic families in the past were very arrogant and would refuse to become officials, there were few such examples. Li Xiao was just a small landlord, could he be so arrogant?

Why?

"I don't believe it, why don't we make a bet?" Li Zhi said.

"Does Your Majesty really want to bet? Your Majesty has never won the bet with me?"

Li Zhi patted his head helplessly, which is indeed a fact.

"I believe I can win this time."

"If I win this time, what will Your Majesty use as a lottery?"

"If you can still win, I will go back and give you all the manor and land of the King of Wu." Li Zhi said confidently.

The King of Wu was Li Ke, the emperor's third brother. He had no crime and was at fault. At this time, the emperor said that he would use his property as a bet on Wu's family. He had already revealed that he was going to attack the King of Wu.

Wu had long known about this, and he had even been involved in this matter.

This is a major royal family network headed by King Ke of Wu, who opposed the emperor, was ordered by Changsun Wuji, and Li Zhi, and the Wu family's helper has already opened up and is about to close the network.

"What if you lose, what will you take with me?"

"If I lose, I will learn to make Li Ji spicy hotpot myself, so that His Majesty can enjoy the food."
Chapter completed!