I was a little hungry. I woke up early in the morning and first walked the horse around and practiced arrows. Feng Lishi asked me to prepare some refreshments. The officials discussed for a long time, and probably had a dry mouth and a hungry intestines. Things should be discussed, but I can't be hungry. Let's take a break for half an hour."

The atmosphere in the hall was solemn, but the emperor suddenly wanted to eat breakfast at this time.

Feng Lishi smiled and replied, then went to the entrance of the hall to open the door, allowing refreshments to be sent outside.

But in a moment, a palace servant had already brought up a basket of breakfast.

Feng Lishi smiled and stood aside and introduced to the emperor.

"Sage, this is the sweet taro roll in Xiangmanyuan. The main ingredients are wonton peel and taro from Lipu, plus Gaochang raisins and Lingnan honey."

Luo Cheng looked at it and found that this snack was very exquisitely made. It was actually a fried snack. After steaming the taro, peeling it, adding raisins to the filling, wrapping it with wonton rind into small rolls, then frying it until golden brown, and then pouring it with honey.

The freshly fried fragrant roll is indeed very fragrant. It looks golden and slightly burnt on the outside. It is very crispy when you take a bite. The taro filling inside is very powdery and glutinous, and it has the sweetness of raisins.

The emperor took one of them in a few bites and nodded in praise.

And military generals like Qin Qiong even ate one mouthful, one plate and four taro rolls in one go, and they even wiped their mouths.

Even a great scholar like Wen Yanbo, although he was very gentle at this time, he still praised him.

"Sage, this is the gold medal scallion oil pancake. There are two salty and two sweet. The salty one is added with Jinhua ham mosaic, and the sweet one is added with Sanya coconut mosaic."

Luo Cheng picked up one and tasted a few bites. The golden scallion oil pancake with an appearance like an annual ring is crispy and fragrant on the outside, and the inside is soft and tough. After eating one, he didn't feel fat. It was indeed delicate and delicious.

The third one comes with amber walnut blossoming cake, but it is made of walnut meat, cuttlefish and eggs, and finally fried, which tastes good.

Then came the thin skin and thick flesh of crystal shrimp dumplings, as well as the fragrant, soft and tender fermented black beans, the phoenix quicksand bread, and the char siew egg tart.

"The last two are soup and porridge. The soup is stewed with Cordyceps flower, and the porridge is double waist health porridge."

All kinds of exquisite snacks were placed on the table, and finally porridge and soup came. Fortunately, there seemed to be many, but in fact, each one was very delicate, but the amount was small.

A military general like Qin Qiong who is in the age of fighting is not enough to make a spoon.

I will eat the same food. If I don’t have these two cups of soup and porridge in the end, it will be really not enough to see it.

The emperor didn't eat much, so he only ate a little of each.

"These rewards are given to the guards on duty outside the hall. They have worked hard, so they can eat while it is hot. These snacks and teas are not delicious when they are cold."

Feng Lishi said, "Your Majesty has rewarded them too much."

After having a snack, I had another cup of hot tea, which was really comfortable.

"My Dukes, I can taste this delicious food here with you today, thanks to the soldiers guarding the border. There are smoke channels on the walls and underground of this palace, which makes it extremely warm. However, in the border areas, even if it is cold and cold, they have to patrol the border as usual. The soldiers not only work hard, but even fight for their lives. Although the battle in Kucha was beautiful, the casualties reported by Anxi were over a thousand."

"More than 300,000 Kucha, the life of the Shi Nishi people is life, but are the lives of these more than a thousand soldiers not life?"

"If this battle is not won, then tens of thousands of lives may have died. Think about Yang Guang's campaign against Goguryeo and three battles. How many soldiers died? Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in foreign lands and their souls drifted away in another place."

"You are all from the Sui Dynasty. You should know that there is no peaceful time. It's just that someone is carrying the burden on us."

"So I have always thought that the soldiers on the frontier should be treated with preferential treatment. In this battle of Anxi, some people said that he overstepped his power, but I think this is a war and a big battle, so I am urgently following the power, so it cannot be considered overstepping power, nor can I say that he is a good man to mobilize troops."

"The only point is that he killed hundreds of thousands of people, should he kill so many people? Indeed, it seems that he doesn't need to kill so many people, especially the women, children, elderly and weak, and the post-cleaning of Kucha, is unnecessary, but in the long run, Cheng Yaojin's choice is not wrong."

"I was in Goguryeo back then, and I killed more than Cheng Yaojin. The people of Goguryeo called me a slaughter of humans and a god. Have I regretted it? I don't regret it. I bear the name of this slaughter, but it was exchanged for the imperial court's control over Liaodong. There is no longer any war outside the pass and blood is bleeding. Is it worth it? It's worth it! When I come again, I will still be this slaughter of this slaughter!"

"So I think that Cheng Yaojin killed the Rat Nishi's tribe, and he was also wrong to settle Kucha. When the Qin Dynasty entered the Western Regions, it was defeated by Shikui. Shi Nishi and Kucha had sent troops to fight with our Qin, but they were finally defeated, and they were defeated. But how long has it been? Then the rebellion was launched again. If our Qin Dynasty did not punish him severely, there would be no peace in the Western Regions in the future."

"More than 300,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of Kucha people were sold as slaves. Are they cruel? But remember, they are not Qin people! They are all enemies of the Great Qin. Don't talk about mercy to the enemy. The kindness to the enemy is cruel to us. Cheng Yaojin is right to massacre the city, but the ones he killed are all enemies of the Great Qin. You must remember this clearly."

"I know that the literati and officials do not like military men, especially those who kill. However, if there are no military men to defend the border and defend the country, even if the world is big, it may not be possible to set up a desk for you. Whether it is military generals or civil officials, they are ministers of the empire. What is the court?"

"The court is the team organization for the emperor to govern the world. There cannot be only civil officials or military generals in the world. But in the same way, there cannot be only military officials in the world. Without civil officials, there can be no military officials in the world. The combination of civil and military affairs is like the blending of yin and yang, and it cannot be neglected. The difference is just the difference in responsibilities, and each has its own duties."

"Cheng Yaojin was accused of being a slaughtered by the Qin Dynasty. This is a loyal minister."

Luo Cheng turned his eyes to Wen Yanbo, "No need to argue anymore. Things can be argued, but it is taboo to object because of opposition. Just make it clear. Cheng Yaojin made great contributions. He summoned Cheng Yaojin to Beijing and appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council!"

"Your Majesty, there is no vacant position for the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council!" Wen Yanbo said.

"Da Lin, if there is no vacancy, add one. I think the Privy Council is now a little short of one chief and two deputy, and one chief and four deputy can be appointed. Cheng Yaojin summoned to the capital and promoted to the position of deputy envoy of the second-rank Privy Council."

The emperor did not say that the fourth deputy envoy wanted to be given a gift, so no one asked again.

At this time, the emperor looked at Feng Deyi again.

"After the war, we must stabilize. After Cheng Yaojin returns to Beijing, Xue Wanche can be the left governor and Pei Xingyan can be the right governor. Xiao Yu will then be the left governor of Anxi, and he will be the left governor of Deyi, and then Changsun Wuji will take over the position of the Censor Central Chief."

Feng Deyi was stunned.

He never expected that he would be expelled from the center of the court. Although the Censor Zhongcheng was only the deputy chief of the Censorate, his position was important. During the Sui Dynasty, the Censor was only the third rank, and the Central Chief was only the fifth rank. However, now the emperor classified all the three ranks of the Sui Dynasty as the Censorate and had the third rank. The Censor Zhongcheng was the second rank, and he was of the same rank as the Secretariat and the Secretariat. The Censor Zhongcheng was also the second rank, and was one level higher than the Sixth Ministry of Shangshu.

Although he did not add the matter to the Pingzhang, he had to enter the Xuanzheng Hall to discuss matters and become the minister of the imperial meeting.

But now, he was directly demoted to Anxi as a censor. This is only a third-rank official, and it is still far behind the power and position of the Censor General.

This is obviously a derogatory one.
Chapter completed!