? When Li Ke returned to the mansion, the moon was already in the middle of the sky. He didn't know how he came back. He only remembered that at Gao Yang's wedding, the group of people finally left the princess's mansion. At that time, Gao Yang and Fang Yiai toasted him. When he saw Gao Yang's face, he couldn't help but feel that he had not protected this sister. So, at that time, he asked someone to bring a big bowl to drink, and drank the six bowls of wine from Fang Yiai and Gao Yang. Li Ke didn't know what happened next! Li Ke shook his head, drove away the thoughts in his mind, and when he opened his eyes and looked around, he found that it was already noon. At this time, Ashi Nayun walked in gently and saw Li Ke woke up, he served him to wash and bathe and change clothes.

Li Ke had a lot of things in Chang'an, and Di Zhixun was in charge of Taiyuan, and Chen Qi was in charge of the Army Academy. He didn't need to worry about Taiyuan's problems. Therefore, he no longer had the intention to go back to Taiyuan in time and stayed in Chang'an City with peace of mind. As long as the Ministry of War or Li Shimin did not urge him, he would be prepared not to Taiyuan.

The wedding of Gao Yang and Fang Yiai ended in June. Li Ke was bored in Chang'an, so he went hunting outside the city every day or went to the stadium to play football, which made his life feel comfortable. His two sons, Li Ren and Li Yi, followed behind his butt, gained a lot of knowledge. In Taiyuan, except for teaching the two of them, he had no spare time to spend alone with his two sons, except teaching the two of them, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and essays. Therefore, during this leisure time in Chang'an, Li Ke deliberately brought his two sons with him to make up for his busyness in the past without taking care and education.

On that day, Li Ke had just returned from hunting outside the city. As soon as he entered the palace, he saw Yang En hurriedly coming.

"Your Highness, Eunuch Wang summoned you to the palace to discuss matters. You have been waiting in the mansion for a long time!" Yang En said.

"Go to the palace to discuss matters?" Li Ke was puzzled. He was just a foreign minister now and was not qualified to discuss matters at all. Now the people who discussed matters are the central ministers.

So, he was not too busy and handed over his two sons to Yang En and slowly came to Juyi Palace.

"Your Highness, you are back! I have been waiting for you for a long time. The emperor has called you into the palace to discuss matters!" Wang De said anxiously.

"Eunuch Wang, wait a moment, I will prepare to enter the palace with you!" Li Ke replied respectfully, and he did not ask Yang En what he was talking about.

Shaoqing and Li Ke's court uniforms were neatly dressed, so he entered the palace with Wang De to the Liangyi Hall. When he arrived at the door of Liangyi Hall, Wang De did not notify Li Shimin who was discussing affairs, but directly took him to the main hall.

When Li Ke walked into Liangyi Hall, he found that our bosses were all there, such as Xiao Yu, Xiao Gui, the minister of the minister of the clan, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, the minister of the secretary of the secretary, Cen Wenben, the secretary of the minister of the six ministries, and Wei Zheng, etc. However, when Li Ke was surprised, in addition to these people, the minister of the Ministry of War, Hou Junji, was also listed, and the king of the Eastern King Li Tai was also there. In addition, Li Chengqian, who was in charge of the affairs of the government.

"See Father!" Li Ke bowed to Li Shimin. Seeing Li Shimin nodding slightly, he stood up and saluted everyone and greeted everyone.

"It's really time for the third brother to come!" Li Chengqian said, with the full reproach in his words.

"I did not participate in the central government affairs, so I came late!" Li Ke did not make any excuses, and said the words in his heart.

"Discuss political affairs!" Li Shimin said lightly, his tone was plain, but his face seemed very unhappy.

"No" Li Ke bowed to Li Shimin.

"Your Highness of the Northern King, the war between Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty is inevitable. Today, news came from Shuofang that Tuyuhun invaded the border of the Tang Dynasty many times and deliberately provoked trouble. The Ministry of War has discussed with the emperor to prepare for war in advance, but the candidate for the head coach is difficult to determine. I also want to hear your opinions!" As the Minister of War, Hou Junji briefly talked about the topic of the discussion to Li Ke.

When Li Ke saw Hou Junji, he vaguely guessed that the theme of the court discussion was related to the Turks. Now that he heard Hou Junji say this, he confirmed his guess, but he was very calm.

"I wonder who the Ministry of War recommended?" Li Ke asked Hou Junji.

"Li Ji, the commander of the new army in Chang'an, Su Dingfang, the governor of Youzhou, Li Daozong, the Minister of Rites, and Chai Shao, the governor of Jinzhou!" Hou Junji said with no time to think.

In fact, these candidates were the candidates planned by the Ministry of War to hand over to Li Shimin for discussion with important officials. However, everyone had different opinions on these people, so they had no decisions and summoned Li Ke to Liangyi Hall to hear his opinions.

"The northern gate of the northern desert of Youzhou has stened the throat of the Turks' advance northward. If the Turks surrendered, they would not be allowed to take this opportunity to raise an army to attack. Therefore, the great governor of Youzhou, Su Dingfang, could not leave the garrison!" Li Ke said lightly. He did not want to participate in the battle with Tuyuhun, and he did not want to participate in the battle with him. Moreover, he said that the Turks would have ill intentions. He was not slandering the Turks. On the contrary, the Turks were in the Yinshan area and his power was not near Youzhou. Li Ke said that the Turks were Turks near Youzhou, and the governors who were divided by Li Shimin in the royal family of Ashina.

"Are you restless near Youzhou?" Wei Zheng asked.

"I didn't realize it, but the Tuyuhun army invaded the border, and the Tang Dynasty went to war with the Turks. The elite soldiers of the Northern Prefecture must be transferred to the west, and the important towns of Youzhou must act cautiously and not be careless!" Li Ke said to Wei Zheng. When discussing the government affairs, Li Ke showed his calmness and wisdom, and was not humble when speaking. He did not treat him politely because of the person who asked about it, and gave him face.

"Indeed, Your Highness is very considerate and Youzhou must be careful. Youzhou's great governor Su Dingfang should not leave Youzhou!" Changsun Wuji agreed very much and was in line with Li Ke.

Li Ke bowed to Changsun Wuji and said, "As for the other generals, I don't have much contact with them, so it's easy to evaluate them more. It's hard to tell who is suitable for the commander of the marching!"

This time, Li Ke had the intention of not participating in the fight, so he was so evasive. In fact, if he was asked to determine the commander of the pedestrian among these candidates, he would be the first to choose Su Dingfang. Because of historical records, Su Dingfang was a famous general in a hundred battles and had never lost a single battle in his life, which shows his ability to command the army; secondly, he would choose Li Daozong, a famous general of the royal family made great achievements in the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. His ability and prestige were enough to shoulder heavy responsibilities.

"Does Your Highness really have no suitable candidate?" Fang Xuanling asked. He knew the situation of the Army Academy through Fang Yiai's oral narrative. Through Fang Yiai's behavior and performance, he knew very well that Li Ke had the candidate who must have something to do in his heart.

"Fang Xiang, Ke really has no suitable candidate to recommend!" Li Ke said sincerely.

In fact, among these four candidates, Su Dingfang and Li Daozong were just a decoration, and everyone naturally ignored the two. The ones who discussed the most intensely were Li Ji and Chai Shao. Because Li Ji was a member of the princelings and a military figure under Changsun Wuji, the princelings and the princelings fully recommended Li Ji, saying that Li Ji had been garrisoned in Shuofang for many years and was familiar with the military and combat effectiveness of Tuyuhun. He was also a famous general in the founding of the Tang Dynasty and was qualified to take on great responsibilities;

Li Tai's Eastern King Party naturally did not want to see the prince's power, so he tried his best to stop it, saying that Li Ji had been training the new army in Chang'an for three years, but the combat effectiveness of the new army was still low in the past three years, and it was difficult to take on important responsibilities in this battle. This is enough to prove that Li Ji's ability to command troops is average and he cannot be the position of marching chief. In addition, Fang Xuanling did not indicate his attitude, and Xiao Yu did not support Li Ji as the commander of the marching, and Wei Zheng was also silent.

, Opponents and supporters were equivalent, and Li Shimin was also in a dilemma. It was difficult for everyone in the Political Affairs Hall to reach an agreement. He believed that this had already shown that Li Ji was not capable enough. Furthermore, through the rebuttals of Wang Gui and Xiao Yu, although Li Shimin didn't say anything, he was very dissatisfied with Li Ji's training of three new troops, the new army was weak in combat and difficult to fight. He felt that Hou Junji had trained an iron army that could defeat the Turks in four years.

, And it was the most difficult time in the Tang Dynasty. Now, you, Li Ji, have been training new recruits for three years. The Tang Dynasty has supported you with strong talents and financial resources. You don’t even have the average combat effectiveness of the Iron Army trained by Hou Junji. When Li Shimin thought about it this way, he felt very angry. This time he did not express his own opinions on the discussion between the two sides, but it was difficult for everyone to reach a consensus. He ordered Wang De to summon Li Ke to Liangyi Hall to discuss matters, wanting to hear Li Ke’s opinions.

In fact, Li Ji still has the ability to train troops, but compared with Hou Junji, he is naturally a little weaker. In addition, when he defeated the Turks, he mainly relied on the Iron Cavalry of Bingzhou and Youzhou. The new army of the Tang Dynasty was just a coordinated battle, but this time it was mainly the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and the iron cavalry of the Northern Palace fought together. Therefore, Li Ji did not dare to guarantee that he would train the absolute combat effectiveness of the new army, so he was misunderstood by everyone.

Li Ke's performance was obviously to stay out of the matter and not participate in this battle. Even Li Shimin himself could see this, but he himself knew that he could not blame Li Ke for this matter. Because, given the situation between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun, Li Ke was the most suitable commander, but he didn't want Li Ke to participate in this war. He didn't want Li Ke to participate in this war. He didn't want Li Ke's military achievements to be too dazzling, and wanted to put Li Ke in Taiyuan to put him in silence for a while. Therefore, he also knew that Li Ke was expressing his dissatisfaction and his grievances to him.

"Let's let the candidates for the head coach first! Let's talk about the issue of preparation for war. How many soldiers and horses should be given in the Tang Dynasty and how much food, supplies should be prepared!" Li Shimin said.

"Tuyuhun is a nomadic people. He can grazed at the bottom and killed the enemy with the upper hand. The development in recent years has brought their string control personnel to 400,000. If the Tang Dynasty wants to defeat them, the total force is no less than 400,000!" Hou Junji said, he was the Minister of War, and he knew the best of these questions. When Li Shimin asked, he naturally wanted to be the first to speak.

"Four hundred thousand?" Li Shimin also began to ponder, "How much food and grass is needed?"

"It's hard to make a conclusion on how long the war lasts!" Hou Junji replied seriously.

Hou Junji's famous military general and a veteran who has been through the battlefield, naturally others have no objection when he spoke about this conversation.

"What do you think?" Li Shimin thought for a while, looked up and asked Li Ke.

"Return to my father, Shuofang has more than 100,000 troops. As long as the court sends out another 200,000 troops, it is enough!" Li Ke said lightly, "As for food, grass and supplies, it depends on how long the war lasts!"

What Li Ke said basically has the same meaning as Hou Junji, and everyone doesn’t argue about this question.

In this way, with Li Shimin's silence, the Liangyi Palace fell into silence.

Li Chengqian wanted to say a few words, but he knew his ability, so he didn't dare to say too much, for fear that he would make Li Shimin unhappy when he said something wrong. Li Tai put himself in a position of soybean. As long as he was not discussing the issue of the main general, he would never speak. He did not understand military affairs and did not want to show off his power to leave a bad influence in Li Shimin's eyes. Other ministers really had nothing to say. Without the main general, it would be difficult to determine how many troops it was, and it was difficult to determine the food, grass and supplies. What could they say?

"You guys go down and discuss it! We will discuss it in three days!" Li Shimin said lightly, and he knew that he would not be able to come up with any results after a few days.

"promise"

The ministers agreed and withdrew from Liangyi Hall in turn.

Li Ke followed everyone out of the Liangyi Hall, and walked at the end, lowered his head and said nothing. Suddenly, he heard someone calling him, and looked up and saw that Li Tai, who had already gone away but had turned back.

"Is there anything wrong with my fourth brother?" Li Ke said with a smile.

"Qingque has just bought a few kilograms of good tea from Yangzhou these days. I want to invite my third brother to go to the mansion to have a tea!" Li Tai said with a faint smile.

"I am also thirsty, so I'll go to the Fourth Brother's Mansion to chat for a while!" Li Ke said with a smile. He knew very well that Li Tai invited him to the East Prince's Mansion was not as simple as drinking tea, and he must have other purposes.
Chapter completed!