webnovelvip Chapter 273 The Way of Balance
Chapter 273 The Way of Balance
Chapter 273 The Way of Balance
"Your Majesty, the horseshoes have all been nailed up, and the horses are ready for use." Li Daozong said.
Li Shimin nodded, and said: "Pharmacist will be the chief general, Zhijie and Jingde will be the deputy generals, and elite soldiers will be selected from the sixteen guards to form [-] cavalry."
If there is no horseshoe, 2 horses can form a maximum of more than [-] cavalry.
A cavalry is not called a cavalry just because it has a horse, and it needs a lot of training.
During the training process, the horse will inevitably break down.
From this we can see how much help the Horseshoe Datang has had.
"Your Majesty, the old minister is old and hasn't led troops for many years. Please order the selection of talents." Li Jing quickly refused.
He didn't know if Li Shimin was testing him, but in any case, he had no plans to lead the army again.
Li Shimin frowned slightly, and said: "Since that's the case, let's make a name for the pharmacist, and leave the training to Zhijie and Jingde, that's fine."
In fact, Li Shimin's favorite is Hou Junji.
Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong can only be regarded as fierce generals. It is definitely no problem to let them lead people into the charge, but as the coach, there are some shortcomings.
However, when dealing with Hou Junji, they were already biased. If Hou Junji was used in such a short period of time, it would definitely attract criticism.
Li Jing's refusal made Li Shimin very satisfied. After all, Li Jing's reputation in the army is too high.
His original intention was to make Li Jing famous, and he had no real intention of making him the general.
It's just that it can't be said by him.
This has nothing to do with whether Li Shimin trusts Li Jing or not, it is a way of balance.
"Your servants take orders!" Li Jing and the other three responded.
……
After the court was over, Lin Xuan came to the furniture shop.
Led by a buddy, Lin Xuan came to a yard.
There are more than a dozen people working in the yard, and some ready-made fonts are placed in the frame on one side.
When Chen Guangli and the craftsmen saw Lin Xuan, they stopped their work and saluted Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan waved his hands to let others continue to work, and asked Chen Guangli, "Old Man Chen, how much have you done?"
Chen Guangli said with some shame: "Because of time constraints, I only wrote more than 100 words."
Lin Xuan didn't think it was too little. Now it's just an experiment. More than 100 catties of lead are not enough to make all the characters.
Chen Guangli asked someone to bring over the completed typefaces for Lin Xuan to have a look at.
Lin Xuan looked at them and saw that they were all common characters. He nodded and said, "Have someone assemble these characters and try to print them."
"Yes!"
He Xinmin hurriedly asked someone to assemble it, and then ordered someone to find ink and paper for printing.
After fiddling for a while, the craftsman assembled the more than 100 characters, brushed ink on the bottom, printed it on the paper, pressed it and lifted it up.
Lin Xuan and Chen Guangli quickly looked at the paper, and more than 100 neat characters appeared densely on the paper.
The strokes of the characters are neat and clear.
A smile appeared on Lin Xuan's face, movable type printing was completed.
Now we only need to get a lot of lead and make a few more sets of typefaces, and then we can print a large number of books.
……
Manna Hall
Li Mu hurried in, holding a letter in both hands, and said: "Your Majesty, there is a secret letter from Tubo."
Li Shimin took the letter and looked at the wax, and found that there was no problem, so he opened the letter.
Since Lin Xuan told him about Tubo, he sent people to investigate.
Because Tubo is far away from the Tang Dynasty, coupled with altitude sickness, it took more than four months before the news came.
Li Shimin frowned, there was a big gap between what Lin Xuan said in the letter and what he said in the letter.
Songtsan Gampo felt insulted when he learned that his marriage proposal failed.
Tubo has just quelled the civil strife, and there are still some countries and tribes on the plateau, eyeing them.Even if he wanted to take revenge on Datang, there was nothing he could do.
But Songtsan Gampo was arrogant, how could he swallow his anger.
Regardless of the obstruction of the Tubo officials, they brazenly sent troops and started the road to unify the plateau.
At that time, among the Qiangs in the north of Tubo, Su Pi was the largest. After suppressing the rebellion, although Su Pi's attack was stopped, his threat still existed.So Songtsen Gampo decided to send Shang Nang, a prime minister with political and military talents, to attack Subi.After defeating Subi's resistance, Shang Nang took the method of appeasement, publicized Songtsan Gampo's policy of accepting followers, and treated the people of Subi the same as the households of the Tubo headquarters, so that they could live and work in peace.The nobles of Subi were allowed to retain their territory and pay tribute according to the regulations, and soon recruited and surrendered the various tribes of Subi. Since then, Tubo's territory has expanded to the south of Qinghai.
In the southwest of Tubo, in the south of Hotan, there is Yangtong (also known as Zhangxiong). When Langri talked about Zanzan, he married Tubo.After subduing Subi, Songtsan Gampo personally conquered Yangtong, and Yangtong surrendered to Tubo again.Songtsan Gampo married his younger sister Saimaga to Wang Yangtong as his concubine, and enticed him.
After winning over Yang Tong, Songtsan Gampo began to recuperate and prepare his troops.
These are the secret reports. After reading it, Li Shimin pondered.
After a long time, Li Shimin said, "Go find Lin Xuan!"
……
Lin Xuan took a few sheets of paper full of words and hurried to the palace.
Just when he arrived at the gate of the palace, he happened to meet Li Mu leaving the palace.
Seeing Lin Xuan was overjoyed, Li Mu quickly said, "The Marquis of Jingyang County quickly follow the old slave into the palace, His Majesty summons him!"
Lin Xuan originally came to ask to see Li Shimin, but he didn't refuse when he heard Li Mu's words.
On the way, Lin Xuan asked suspiciously: "Director Li, what is your majesty calling me for?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "This old slave doesn't know."
He didn't lie to Lin Xuan, he didn't know what was said in the secret letter.
But he knew that the secret report was sent by Tubo, but he didn't intend to tell Lin Xuan.
If there is some unimportant news, he doesn't mind telling Lin Xuan.
But when it comes to secret letters, he can't say anything.
Seeing this, Lin Xuan didn't ask any more questions.
"I see Your Majesty!" Lin Xuan bowed.
Li Shimin waved his hand, asked Li Mu to pass the letter to Lin Xuan, and said expressionlessly, "Look at it."
When Lin Xuan saw the contents of the letter, his eyes widened.
Songtsan Gampo must have been too violent. These things have indeed happened in history. Although he doesn't know the specific situation, it seems that it didn't happen so fast, right?
Could it be that the small universe exploded because of the failure to propose marriage?
Seeing that Lin Xuan had finished reading, Li Shimin asked, "What do you think?"
Lin Xuan said in a deep voice: "There must be a battle between Tubo and Tang Dynasty!"
In history, Songtsan Gampo sent troops to attack Datang after driving away Tuyuhun.
Now it seems that Tubo is still developing according to history, so Tubo will still attack Datang.
Li Shimin nodded, agreeing with Lin Xuan's statement.
It's not that he knows history like Lin Xuan.
But from the analysis of these news, he knew that Songtsen Gampo was a very aggressive person.
Now that they are preparing their troops, they must be preparing to attack the surrounding countries.
Tubo is now a powerful country, and the surrounding countries, except Datang, really can't resist it.
A person's ambition is unlimited. When Tubo destroys the surrounding countries, it will definitely attack Datang.
"How do you think Gao Chang should be restrained?" Li Shimin asked.
It is not Li Shimin's character to wait for the enemy to be stronger.
But Tubo is located on a plateau, and most people are not used to it. This time more than 100 spies were sent to sneak into Tubo, but only a few actually sneaked in.
With such an innate obstacle, he couldn't do anything even if he wanted to strike first.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, Tubo's combat power is not strong." Lin Xuan said.
(End of this chapter)