Chapter 914

Li Shimin looked at Li Chongyi and said: "At the beginning, we brothers and I traveled the world together, and your father also worked hard. I watched you grow up, and now I want to ask you if you want to enter the court and enter the three provinces."

Three provinces, six departments and nine temples, according to His Majesty's meaning, skip the six departments and go directly to Menxia Province, one of Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province?
Li Chongyi beat his heart, bowed again and said: "Your Majesty, I have little talent and little knowledge. First, I have no qualifications, and second, I don't have the corresponding ability. Moreover, there are more suitable people in the court than I..."

Hearing these words, Li Shimin smiled helplessly, "Okay, I won't force you, stay in Jingzhao Mansion first."

Li Chongyi bowed and said: "The minister will leave."

Watching Li Chongyi walk out of the Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin looked at the little eunuch beside him and said in a low voice, "How is Kong Yingda studying those words?"

The little eunuch said in a low voice: "I asked before, and said that some words can be compared to see the meaning, but there are still many obscure words and sentences, and some strange symbols, which are still being studied."

"Really?" Li Shimin nodded and took a sip of tea.

The little eunuch stood aside with a straight face.

Li Shimin picked up another report, which was the report of Li Daliang, the general of Tubo. When he first arrived in Tubo, Li Daliang fought a battle with the big cannibal.

Guanzhong is very busy during the autumn harvest. Farmers are rushing to harvest grain, and they have to gather all the grain for the winter before winter.

Li Daxiong watched the carts of rice being sent into the warehouse, feeling very happy in his heart.

The rice in this warehouse is reluctant to eat on weekdays.

There are not many fields in the village where rice can be grown.

It is a little bit to be able to save a little bit.

In the early morning half a month later, Li Zheng was calculating the accounts for repairing the drainage canals of Chang'an City.

Li Lizhi, Wu Mei, and Xu Hui were also thinking about it.

Looking at the money written in the account, Li Lizhi didn't say anything but showed some displeasure on her face.

Holding the thermos cup, Li Zheng said, "We can make a little money, as long as we don't lose money. As long as we don't lose money when we build a drainage canal, we can earn some reputation."

Li Lizhi looked up at Li Zheng, "Since when did you care about your reputation?"

Li Zheng touched his nose resentfully and said: "The reputation of doing business is still necessary. We still need to make a lot of things, and we can slowly build a very well-known craftsman team."

Li Zhi hurried over with a letter, "Teacher, a letter from Daniel."

Seeing Li Zheng opening the letter, Li Zhi also sneaked up to read the contents of the letter. When he saw the words on the letter, he was dumbfounded for a moment, and couldn't understand the words on it.

After reading the contents of the letter, Li Zheng felt that he had already reached Daniel's place.

And after digging in some places, silver mines were also found.

Now Daniel is taking over the silver mining business with silence.

Daniel will be back in a few days.

After Li Zheng finished writing a reply letter, he handed it to Li Zhi and said, "Give this letter to Xu Jingzong, and ask him to send someone to deliver it to Daniel."

Li Zhi took the letter and said, "Teacher, how is Brother Big Niu doing now?"

"The letter says that Daniel is listening now, and he can return to the Central Plains before next year."

"Come back before next year?" Li Zhi thought about the day in his heart, and hurried away with the letter.

Daniel is coming back soon, silently let him take over the mining of silver mines, this old guy won't have to do arms trading business in the future, and it will be good to sit on the silver mines for retirement in the future.

After the autumn harvest, the village before winter also settled down comfortably.

Many people in the village were idle, and Li Zheng brought some mutton to the stables, and asked Duo to light a fire and roast the meat on his own.

The meat was almost cooked, Li Ke walked towards here.

Li Zheng waved his hand and said, "His Royal Highness, let's have barbecue together."

Li Ke was not interested in Li Zheng's small barbecue, so he said with a straight face, "Su Dingfang is here and wants to see you."

Since returning from the First Battle of Yinshan, Su Ding was conveniently named the deputy general of Zuo Wuwei, and has been working under Qin Qiong.

It seems that since then, Su Dingfang has never shown up again.

Du Hu was adding firewood to the stove, and Li Zheng was turning over the mutton slices on the iron plate.

Su Dingfang came to the stables, looked at Li Zheng who was having a barbecue and said, "Long time no see, Li Zheng."

Li Zheng was eating the hot barbecue, and motioned for Su Dingfang to sit down.

"Long time no see, General Su Dingfang." Li Zheng swallowed the barbecue and said, "This barbecue tastes good, General Su Dingfang will try it."

Looking at the slices of meat on the iron plate, Su Dingfang said in a low voice: "I prefer to eat meat in big bites, and it's too fragmentary to eat small pieces."

That's right, people in the army are generally more bold and unrestrained, and there are not so many details about eating meat.

Su Dingfang sat down and said: "Your Majesty has ordered me and Li Daliang to switch defense against Tubo."

Li Zheng wiped his mouth and said, "Switch?"

"Yes."

Su Dingfang frowned and nodded, "Your Majesty asked me to bring [-] troops to defend against Tubo, and General Li Daliang is going to guard the northeast border."

After hearing this, Li Zheng cupped his hands in the direction of Chang'an City and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

"..."

Su Dingfang still frowned and said, "Is that all?"

Li Zheng smiled awkwardly, "Otherwise?"

Su Dingfang put his hands on his knees, sat up straight and said: "I discussed with General Li Jing before coming here. You and His Majesty have been making arrangements for Tubo all along. Not even the ministers in the court have participated in Tubo affairs. From a certain point of view, you are in charge of the affairs of Tubo.”

Li Zheng nodded while eating the barbecue.

"If you talk about your understanding of Tubo, you must know it better than many people in the court."

"Where is it?" Li Zheng waved his hand and said, "I have never been to Tubo."

Su Dingfang looked at Li Zheng, "I have never been to Tubo, so I can draw such a detailed map of Tubo."

"..."

It seemed that the explanation was unclear, Li Zheng cleared his throat, "What exactly does General Su Dingfang want to ask?"

Su Dingfang nodded and said: "Your Majesty's intention to change defenses, and the situation in Tubo, I want to know."

It has to be said that Su Dingfang hit the point as soon as he asked, Li Shimin's intention to change defense against Tubo?The situation in Tibet?These two reasons are directed at Li Shimin's purpose.

Li Zheng flipped the barbecue on the iron plate, "Li Daliang has only been in Tubo for two months, and now he will change generals. In the future, our army in the Central Plains will take turns to defend against Tubo, which means that Tubo will always have our garrison in the future. "

Su Dingfang still looked puzzled.

Li Zheng put down the chopsticks for flipping the barbecue and said: "I have something to say to General Su Dingfang because I am a disciple of General Li Jing, and I hope General Su Dingfang will not say it."

Su Dingfang said loudly: "I treat General Li Jing like a teacher."

Li Zheng nodded and said: "Your Majesty's real intention is not when to repel the big cannibals. The so-called garrison is just a pretext. No one really thinks that our Tang army spent so much money to defend them against the big cannibals for nothing? The real intention is to Take the whole of Tubo."

(End of this chapter)

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