At the same time that Li Shimin and Concubine Yang were discussing Li Su in the palace, the clever and intelligent son in their mouths was now drunk like mud. Because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the government is also going to have a holiday, and before the holiday, Li Su has to gather all the officials in Dengzhou together, the main task is to eat and drink, by the way, summarize last year's work, and then report next year's plan.

Dengzhou is an Shangzhou, with four counties under its jurisdiction, large and small officials combined, there are more than 20 of them, plus the generals who are responsible for guarding Dengzhou's land and water armies, but the generals cannot leave their posts without permission, so Li Su had to prepare meals and send them to the army, and also prepared fresh meat such as cattle and sheep for the army.

However, when the day of today's banquet arrived, more than 100 people came to Li Su's mansion at once, except for the officials who were among the banquet guests, the others were their family members. After all, who doesn't know in the entire Tang Dynasty that the food and wine of the Qi Wangfu are unparalleled in the world, and taking the opportunity of the New Year, they naturally want to bring their families to see it.

Fortunately, Li Su's family has a big business, and there are many people in the palace, so for these extra people, arrangements were quickly made, officials and male family members were entertained by Li Su, and female dependents and young children were naturally represented by Wen Xin. The people of the Shandong Peninsula are fierce, and they are very good at drinking.

Although most of these officials are not natives of Dengzhou, they have been officials here for many years, and they are all contaminated with the fierce spirit of the Shandong Peninsula. As a result, the heroes couldn't stand the crowd, and the banquet was halfway through. Li Su lay down. The next day, he heard from Gao Zhong that the officials who came yesterday ended up getting drunk. Then they went crazy together and almost demolished the main hall of the Qi Palace.

Li Su was also very surprised by this, he usually felt that these subordinates were very competent, but until today he found that these guys, who had always been trusted by him, were all drunkards. Thinking about the fact that the heavy responsibility of Dengzhou's development was handed over to them before, Li Su was really a little afraid.

After the banquet of these Dengzhou officials, the next day was followed by a banquet for the royal officials, although the princes of the Tang Dynasty did not have as much real power as the princes of the Han Dynasty. However, the corresponding officials in the palace are very complete, but the positions coincide with the powers of local officials, so many palace officials only help Li Su with personal affairs, and their power cannot be extended to the localities.

Today's banquet is more lively than yesterday's, because the palace officials are all Li Su's direct subordinates, and they are very familiar with each other, and they don't care about joking, plus there are two activists Yanbei and Li Yong, which quickly pushed the banquet to **. But today, Li Su didn't dare to drink more, and pulled Xi Junmai and Su Dingfang to his side as shields. These two battlefield generals are not inferior in the wine field, with two to many, they did not fall behind, and in the end everyone else fell, but the two of them were only six or seven points drunk, this is the real wine jar, Li Su really regretted not bringing them with him yesterday.

In the second half of the banquet, the shallow ones had been carried down, the better ones were going crazy, and the better ones were forming a small circle to drink together. After all, the New Year, isn't it just to be happy, how to relax at this time, even if it is a man with Hedong lion at home, there is no need to worry about going home and kneeling on the washboard at this time.

Led by Li Su, Zhao Fu, Yanbei and Liu Renliang on Wenchen's side, Su Dingfang and Xi Junmai on the military general's side, and Li Yong, who is still a small soldier. Speaking of Li Yong, this kid really has perseverance, it may be that his father Li Xiaogong's bloodline is really suitable for the army, after he adapted to life in the army, even Su Dingfang admired the desperate strength he showed, and he had praised him in front of Li Su more than once, according to Su Dingfang's meaning, now Li Yong is already a qualified quasi-warrior, and now the difference is just to go to the battlefield to tear and kill once, and come back alive, then you can become a real warrior.

"Your Royal Highness, the taxes paid in Dengzhou this year have increased by more than six times compared to previous years, if it were not for the outbreak of the Goguryeo War in the last few months, our Dengzhou would have been hit the most, this year's taxes can definitely exceed ten times in previous years, and the income of the people has also increased several times compared with previous years, and now the people in Dengzhou are rich, and there is no hunger at the beginning, these are the achievements of His Royal Highness, and the officials respect His Royal Highness for a cup!"

Zhao Fu stood up, raised his wine glass and said to Li Su. Although he is not a royal official, but in the entire Dengzhou officialdom, except for Li Su, he has the highest status, and he is usually Li Su's right and left hand, so he is almost always responsible for handling government affairs, so he is now one of Li Su's direct subordinates.

"Haha, don't be modest, don't drive Zhao, who doesn't know now, I, the King of Qi, am a hands-off shopkeeper, and the main political affairs have to rely on you, Brother Yan, and Ren Liang to help me deal with it!" Li Su also picked up the wine glass, and by the way, pulled Yan Bei and Liu Renliang up. The two had no choice but to accompany Li Su and Zhao Fu for a drink.

Compared with Zhao Fuyanbei, these ministers, Su Dingfang, the head of the military generals, is lacking in interest, when he drank for Li Su just now, he also had a taste of borrowing wine to drown his sorrows, and now he is drinking alone, and Xi Junmai and Li Yong seem to have something on their minds, and they have nothing to say.

"Brother Su, you seem to have something on your mind, can you tell everyone about it?" Li Su could actually guess some, but he asked as if he didn't know anything.

"Your Highness, the last general has nothing to worry about!" Anyone can say what Su Dingfang is thinking, but he can't say it to Li Su, the boss.

"Hehe, in fact, if you don't say it, I also know, did you see that on the opposite side of Goguryeo, my Tang Dynasty's army is incomparable, and as a general, you can only stay in Dengzhou to protect the king, and you are inevitably a little depressed?" Li asked with a smile.

Since the war on the Goguryeo side, Su Dingfang and his group of warmongers have been itching, but unfortunately as the palace guards, they can't go anywhere without Li Su's permission, even the defenders of Dengzhou are freer than them, at least when the war on the front line is tight, the defenders in the rear also have the opportunity to be transferred to the battlefield.

"This ......" Su Dingfang saw that he was pierced by Li Su, and his face showed a little embarrassment, he was an ambitious person, a small palace Sima, and he couldn't satisfy his desire to be a marquis and worship a general, but if a military general wants to take the throne, the only way is to make meritorious contributions, so seeing others making meritorious contributions on the battlefield, Su Dingfang and those who have the same idea naturally can't hold back.

Seeing that Su Dingfang was embarrassed to say, Li Yong stood up impatiently and said: "Hehe, Liulang, didn't you once tell me that a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, you see that I am training so hard now, in fact, I just want to make a contribution on the battlefield, and then let everyone see, our Hejian Mansion is not just my father!" ”

"Good! Kurou is ambitious! Yanbei was the first to jump up and applaud very irresponsibly, and the others were also impressed by Li Yong, they didn't expect that the gentleman in the past would have such ambitions.

After listening to Li Yong's words, although he secretly admired him in his heart, he didn't want him to go to the battlefield anyway, after all, Li Xiaogong handed Li Yong over to himself and threw him into the army for training, after all, this was for Li Yong's good, and there was no danger, but if there was a good guy on the battlefield, then Li Su really had no way to explain.

It was precisely this kind of thought that Li Su immediately rolled his eyes at Yanbei's applause, and then ignored Li Yong, but said directly to Su Dingfang: "Brother Su, you don't have to worry about this matter, I already have an arrangement, after the New Year, I will send a batch of wine and meat to General Niu in the name of the labor army, and then you will count the people in the palace who are willing to go to the battlefield, and the labor army will stay in the army to serve, General Niu owes me a favor at the beginning, and will definitely help you arrange it." ”

Since his subordinates have the idea of going to the battlefield, Li Su will not stop him, if he can make meritorious service, even if he can't make meritorious service, he can also contribute to the war of Goguryeo, after all, he very much hopes that the war in Goguryeo will end as soon as possible, and then not only will there be a source of slaves, but also the commerce of Dengzhou can be restored.

"That's right, the reason why General Niu was able to break Tubo at the beginning was that Liulang made a lot of efforts, which made General Niu be named the Duke of the Kingdom in one fell swoop. In addition, thanks to our fight against the Tibetan ambassador, this triggered the war between the two countries, so in this way, General Niu also owes me a little favor, and I must make good use of it then! As soon as Li Yong heard that Li Su allowed the palace guards to go to the battlefield, he immediately jumped up happily, and Su Dingfang knelt down excitedly and bowed heavily to Li Su before standing up.

Li Su looked at Li Yong's excited appearance, but he showed a helpless face, but then turned to a resolute face and said: "Others can go, but except for you!" ”

"Why, why can't I go?" When Li Yong heard this, he immediately felt a cold water pouring down his head, and he was stunned for a moment and immediately asked with an angry face.

"When my uncle handed you over to me, I was responsible for your safety, and you want to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions? Yes, but only when I have consulted your father, and he has given you permission. Li Su said with a scoundrel face, now the New Year is about to begin, and after the New Year, Su Dingfang and they are about to leave, there are only a few days left, these few days to get the permission of Li Xiaogong who is far away in Chang'an, it is simply a dream, unless someone can make a phone call or telegram now.

"You...... If you ......, count yourself ruthless! Li Yong was not stupid, and immediately understood that Li Yu was deliberately making things difficult for himself. I want to resist, but I am now the palace guard, and my personal freedom is in the hands of Li Su, as long as he doesn't open his mouth, then he doesn't want to leave the palace for half a step.

Thinking of this, Li Yong sat on his seat angrily and began to drink with himself. Although Su Dingfang felt that Li Yong was a good seedling on the battlefield, he also knew that he had a special identity, even if he helped persuade him, Li Su would not agree, so he didn't speak again.

Although Li Yong used his power to temporarily suppress Li Yong's idea of going to the battlefield, what he didn't expect was that perhaps it was destined by God that not only did Li Yong use a special means to go to the battlefield, but even he was forced to risk his life to participate in the upcoming battle for the destruction of Goguryeo. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )