Night, hanging high.

The Provisional Imperial Council was held.

All the high-ranking officials of the Stormwind Kingdom sat around a large round table in the conference room, which was full of Ma Shen's personal interest, because it reflected this huge map of the world of ice and fire, modeled after King Arthur's round table, and at the same time, there were several chess pieces carved from exquisite black stone scattered above the clear map, some were a horse, some were a ship, and some were a samurai.

At present, the position of the Hand of the King, the position of the Imperial Prime Minister is temporarily vacant, and at this time, the main participants in the Imperial Council are the heads of the nine major departments of the Stormwind Kingdom and the former Great Lord, the current head of the intelligence agency, Hebrew.

Among them, the minister who was mainly responsible for the appointment, dismissal, evaluation, promotion and transfer of officials in the kingdom was called Abigail Davis, who was born into a declining aristocratic family.

The Minister of Law, who is primarily responsible for the judgment and enforcement of the laws of the Kingdom, is called Alexandre Abel, who is a bachelor by profession and a man of integrity.

The foreign minister who is mainly responsible for the diplomatic relations between the kingdom and other powers, as well as the ceremonial festivals, is called Adeline Guy, the only female minister among the ministers, who has an amazing affinity and is good at communication.

Mainly responsible for the household registration of the people, the civil minister of civil affairs is called Muliel Nasser, a former slave, including his father and grandfather, who is a slave with excellent logical thinking, good at calculation and coordination of affairs.

The Minister of Agriculture, who was mainly in charge of agriculture, forestry and miners, was called Yael Mulil, the son of an ordinary farmer.

The Minister of State Revenue, who is mainly in charge of the treasury, the salaries of officials, and various taxes, is Viscount Roque, who was abducted from Harrenhal and has excellent financial thinking.

Mainly responsible for supervising officials, the impeachment of the lawless Inspector is called Bai Kara, who was once a slave who served the aristocracy, and after liberation, he was the tax collector of the wharf, and he was very loyal to Ma Shen and had excellent talents, but because he was inflexible and meticulous, he was rejected by the tax collectors, and was later valued by Ma Shen, and after many investigations, he was canonized as the Minister of Supervision.

The minister who is mainly responsible for the construction of military weapons, equipment research, and engineering construction craftsmen is called Chelsea Josephine, a master craftsman.

The Minister of War, who was primarily responsible for the overall management of the kingdom's army, was temporarily held by King Ma Shen.

At the temporary imperial meeting held this night, both the ministers who attended the banquet and those who did not attend the banquet had a rough idea of what had happened during the previous banquet, so each minister sat upright in his seat at this time, and did not regard the meeting as an ordinary meeting.

"Your Excellency, you have worked hard to gather you together in the evening. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Ma Shen, who was sitting in the main seat, nodded and officially started the meeting.

"Lord Abigail, how are the officials who have been transferred this month?"

"It has been distributed to all parts of the kingdom. Abigail, the Election Minister, replied with the roster.

Officials at all levels, especially the transfer of middle and senior officials, need to be canonized by the king personally, and the people are unpredictable, in a short time together, Ma Shen can know their hearts through skills, maybe the original intention of the officials will be changed by reality after a long time, but there is still a certain preventive effect.

Not much else, at least not to give a careerist who is full of ambition from the beginning, trying to absorb nutrients and grow within the Stormwind Kingdom, and the soil for the development of foreign spies.

After asking about the transfer of officials, Ma Shen turned his head to look at the Minister of Civil Affairs, Mulier: "Lord Mulier, how is the situation of the retired soldiers?"

The Minister of Civil Affairs, Muliel, replied respectfully: "Retired disabled soldiers have been arranged to various villages and towns as grassroots units. ”

"Yes. Ma Shen nodded with satisfaction.

The royal family can use the retired disabled soldiers to firmly grasp the land outside the cities of the Stormwind Kingdom, and at the same time, the soldiers do not have to worry about what will happen to their future lives once they are disabled on the battlefield.

"Lord Luo Kun, is the treasury still sufficient?" Ma Shen turned his head to look at Luo Kun who was sitting beside him, in fact, Ma Shen knew well about the treasury funds, but he still asked according to the procedure.

With three large slave city-states, plus the small and bits of them, Ma Shen is confident that he will not be short of money for most of the future.

"It's enough, enough to sustain a big battle, as long as it wins. Luo Kun said with some concern, "But we still need to develop some more sources of income in the future, and the current income of the kingdom cannot afford the military expenses, administrative expenses, and the construction of some basic measures, such as road construction." ”

"With spirits and glass, it will solve this problem in no time. Ma Shen nodded and looked at the other minister.

The Imperial Council of the Stormwind Kingdom is divided into three steps.

Now it's time for the king's question-and-answer step.

The second step was for the viziers to report to the king about the problems encountered in the kingdom.

Finally, the third step is to discuss the time.

These three steps make up the entire Imperial Council.

After the due process was completed, all the ministers did not leave, but sat in their positions with more serious faces.

They knew that the king was about to talk about the main reason for convening the royal council.

"Do you all know what just happened?" After a moment of silence, Ma Shen's eyes swept over the familiar faces around the round table, "I killed the messenger sent by Dzekokao." ”

Hearing the king say this, the ministers were not surprised, and all sat quietly and listened patiently to the king's continuation.

As the king's loyal courtiers, although they have certain opinions, they understand that since the matter has happened, there is no point in discussing whether or not to do it before this time, and they can only make arrangements for the future now.

Whether it's preemptively, leading an army to march on the enemy, keeping them out of the country, or using tall walls to defend against the angry Dothraki on the borders of the kingdom is one way to go.

According to what the ministers knew about the king, they all thought that the king would choose the former.

However, to their surprise, the king did not intend to mobilize his army to attack, but instead issued a policy full of blood: the order to kill the barbarians.

"I intend to issue a decree, the main content of which is that anyone who takes the head of an adult male of the Dzheko tribe will be rewarded with 3 gold dragon coins in the Stormwind Kingdom, with no upper limit, and those with outstanding grades will be canonized as Pioneer Knights by the Stormwind Kingdom.

At this price, it is believed that countless mercenaries in the world are fighting for us. ”

Ma Shen gave a general introduction, but found that the ministers did not speak, but looked at each other a little.

"Your Majesty, I remember that this decree was practiced by a king hundreds of years ago, when the king offered money to reward the heads of enemy soldiers, but the effect was not very good, because the king could not distinguish which heads belonged to enemy soldiers, so that many mercenaries replaced them with other heads. Alessand, the Minister of Law, raised a suspicion.

"How should we tell if the head belongs to the Kao tribe, the Dothraki are all over the steppe, and it is not just the Dzekokao tribe, we can't attack indiscriminately, this will unite all the Dothraks. ”