Ma Zhou didn't know what they said here just now, but he soon felt that the atmosphere in the hall was wrong.

He kept silent and said no further.

After a while, Li Shimin recovered and saw that Ma Zhou was still standing there, he raised his hand to signal him to sit down.

"Ma Qing, tell me, how did Chengqian calm the dissatisfaction of the ministers?" Li Shimin asked lightly.

Li Zhi and the others also sounded seriously when they heard this.

Upon hearing this, Ma Zhou probably told the memorial of Zhang Xingcheng and Zhu Suiliang to impeach Lu Chengqing and Zhang Wenguan to form a party for personal gain, and to attack the differences. Then Zhang Xingcheng went to Lu Chengqing's house to search the house with the decree.

After hearing this, Li Shimin wanted to evaluate Li Chengqian's approach, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find a suitable word. Finally, he just nodded and said, "I feel relieved when the court is stable."

Although Ma Zhou saw that Li Shimin was always in a bad mood, he felt that the subsequent matters must be reported to Li Shimin early, and he was silent and said, "Your Majesty has another matter. The Prince's Palace has been demoted to be the title of Xue Dading as a special official."

"Hmm?" Li Shimin was a little confused when he heard this.

Before Li Zhi could speak, he heard King Ji Li Shen questioning: "Is this a surplus?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Shen angrily when he heard this. This action not only scared Li Shen so much that he hurriedly lowered his head, but even the other three kings restrained their breath and tried to reduce their presence as much as possible.

Ma Zhou seemed to have not heard it, just watching Li Shimin wait for him to speak.

After a while, Li Shimin said in confusion: "Is Xue Dading doing this here going well, why didn't Chengqian add an imperial envoy to him to hold the throne?"

Ma Zhou pondered after hearing this but didn't say it.

Li Shimin knew that he would wave his hands to Li Zhi and others, signaling them to retreat.

Seeing this, King Han Li Yuanjia hurriedly stood up and led Li Zhi and the other two to withdraw.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince's move seems to be to improve the level of the six ministers." Ma Zhou waited for King Han and the others to go out before he expressed his guess.

I suddenly heard this was a nonsense, but Li Shimin understood what Ma Zhou meant.

Li Shimin thought about it carefully and said solemnly: "Ma Qing thought Cheng Qian's move would be profitable and harmful?"

"It's hard to say about this minister, but His Highness the Crown Prince just took the opportunity to grant the title of Xue Dading, instead of the six ministers of the ministers at the same time, you can know that His Highness the Crown Prince is still very cautious about this matter." Ma Zhou analyzed seriously.

Li Shimin thought for a while and hesitated: "Chengqian intended to stop setting up a left and right servant of the Secretariat, which is what I told me, but if the six Secretaries mentioned the second rank, wouldn't the authority still be too heavy?"

Ma Zhou knew it clearly that the father and son had always had a tacit understanding.

"Your Majesty, if there are no important officials in the court, it will be difficult to suppress the place. Moreover, the six ministers of the Ministry are deacons of six branches, and no matter how high the official rank is, the authority is limited." Ma Zhou expressed more of his views this time.

Li Shimin nodded when he heard this and said with a smile: "Chengqian is cautious in doing things this time. It is not enough to be done at once. It can be seen that the experience of the past two years has made him much more steady, so let him try first."

Speaking of this, he looked up at the door again, with a cold light in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "But you should pay attention to Luoyang. I heard Zhao Jie say that the steel mill that Chengqian is going to build here is extremely large. The steel that is planned to be refined can create weapons for the army of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can use hundreds of refined steel to make weapons.

And the remaining batch of steel can be used to build agricultural tools, which can be supplied to Shandong, Hebei, Huai Shang, and even Yangzhou and Jiangnan. This is a major event that concerns the world."

Ma Zhou had known about these things for a long time, and he was the one who guided Zhao Jie to see Li Shimin and said it. He heard this and bowed to receive the order.

The chaotic silence of the court calmed down Li Shimin's mood much better. Suddenly, he felt hungry and screamed. He waved his hand and said, "People are here to prepare lunch for me, and then send the chewynn and the others to accompany me to have a meal."

Seeing this, Ma Zhou hurriedly bowed and said, "After the matter is over, I will leave now."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Okay, Ma Qing will retreat first."

Ma Zhou bowed again and then stepped out.

Soon, Li Zhi and King Han Li Yuanjia and other three arrived.

When everyone arrived, the eunuch served a large pot of mutton soup, a dozen sesame cakes and some exquisite side dishes as Li Shimin ordered. Several people gathered on a round table and started eating.

Because Li Shimin didn't eat breakfast, he ate the food as soon as he came up, and he didn't slow down until he was half full.

During the meal, the three Li Zhi brothers kept pouring wine for Li Shimin and Li Yuanjia, and the dishes were very attentive, which made Li Shimin very pleased and praised the three of them without any worries. The three Li Zhi brothers were praised with sweet hearts, although they pretended to be shy.

Just when Li Shimin's family was trying their best to show their brothers' friendship and respect, and their father was kind and son was filial and happy, an eunuch hurriedly walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, King Wu, has a letter."

"Huh?" Li Shimin looked up when he heard this, and saw the eunuch holding a varnished envelope in both hands and asked, "Is it Ke'er's letter?"

"Letter from His Highness the King of Wu from Guangzhou." The eunuch trusted Li Shimin.

This time, Li Shimin did not hesitate. He put down his chopsticks, took the letter and glanced at the fire seal and hurriedly opened it.

While pulling out the letter paper, Li Shimin stood up and walked towards the Arhat bed and sat down to read the letter.

This is the first letter Li Ke wrote to Li Shimin after leaving Chang'an, so the letter wrote down everything that happened since he arrived in Yangzhou.

When Li Zhi and others saw that Li Shimin had received Li Ke, they threw them aside and had to sit at the dining table and wait awkwardly. They looked at Li Shimin with sorrow in their hearts and looked at Li Ke's letter.

Suddenly, he saw Li Shimin who was reading the letter, slammed the small table on the bed and scolded loudly: "What a bastard! He actually sent so many big ships overseas, so that Su Dingfang would not attack Goguryeo directly under the pretext of not having big ships."

Li Zhi and others were excited when they heard this, waiting for Li Shimin to continue scolding Li Chengqian. After a while, they saw Li Shimin finish reading all the letter paper in his hand, put it on the small table, and raised his head and laughed.

The four of them couldn't help feeling disappointed when they saw it, but when they saw Li Shimin looking over, they didn't dare to show it.

"Zhi Nu, Cheng Qian is indeed the best for you! He promised to give you the Big Roll Islands. Your third brother went to see it. It is very close to Quanzhou and the place is very good." Li Shimin said and picked up the letter paper and raised it to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi almost collapsed when he heard this. He showed an ugly smile with great difficulty and ran over to receive Li Ke's letter.

The three kings who were still sitting at the table looked at each other when they heard this. They didn't know whether to be happy with Li Shimin or sad for the fate they were about to face.

Li Shimin knew that Li Ke had sent a ship to transport 200,000 stones of rice, and was in a good mood and wanted to immediately summon ministers to discuss the matter of the Eastern Expedition.

Seeing that they all stopped eating, they rushed to the people and said, "Since you have all eaten, then go back first. I will summon the ministers who are walking here to discuss matters."

Li Yuanjia and the other two had to get up and surrender to Li Shimin. Li Zhi put down the letter and followed the three of them out in a daze.

The four of them left the yard where Li Shimin lived and were frowning. They no longer had the bright smiles they had in front of Li Shimin just now, and walked listlessly back to the yard where Li Zhi lived.

As soon as he entered the yard, King Ji Li Shen couldn't help it and said haggardly: "Why haven't Uncle Dao Wang come yet? Are you really waiting for us to be driven to the ends of the world?"

King Han Li Yuanjia, who was walking in front, looked back at him and said, "The King of Tao is powerless to turn the world back now."

King Han Li Yuanjia, King Yue Li Zhen, King Ji Li Shen were not qualified to covet the throne. The reason why he was brought to him by Li Zhi was because he did not want to be enfeoffed overseas.
Chapter completed!