Great Tang princess

Chapter 33 The Art of War
To be honest, Li Yuechen agreed with this method in his heart.

Rather than sending all the people to one place, it is better to disperse into the states and counties in this way.

In this era, food production is too low, and it is not bad that every state and county can feed the local people. If there is any surplus, it will be considered a rich place.

"Hey... I hope that less people will starve to death." Li Yuechen whispered to himself behind the screen.

I read it online before. In ancient times, the famine was severe, and there was even a phenomenon of cannibalism.

Li Yuechen could only pray in his heart, hoping that such a tragedy would not happen in Datang.

After the next court, Li Zhi and his wife walked side by side.

Li Yuechen, who was leaning against the wall, immediately removed his serious expression, ran between the two of them with a smile, and walked back holding their hands.

The daughter was bouncing in the middle, Li Zhi and his wife saw her in a good mood.

This is the effect Li Yuechen wants, even if Li Zhi is angry in court, at least I can make him feel better.

It is easier for people to make the right decision only when they are in a good mood, so try to avoid making Li Zhi violent.

Once the emperor becomes irritable and makes a wrong decision, he will easily become chaotic from top to bottom. This is the disadvantage of autocratic monarchy.

……

The time has come to October, and winter is about to enter, and the clothes on my body have also thickened a lot.

Today happened to be a holiday. Li Yuechen took Shangguan Wan'er and his two sisters to practice yoga early in the morning, and then went to the house of his master Liu Rengui.

Liu Rengui was sitting in the pavilion, with hot tea on the table, while twirling the health ball in his hand, stroking his beard and nodding repeatedly to Li Yuechen, who was playing routines in the courtyard.

Originally, the princess said she wanted to practice martial arts, but Liu Rengui didn't take it seriously.

However, over the past few years, it can be clearly seen that he has really practiced with his heart, and his movements are extremely standard. It can be seen that he must have undergone solid training.

Li Yuechen finished the routine, grabbed the fence of the pavilion and jumped in: "Master, how is it?"

"Well, the princess is very talented, and she can see great progress through hard training!" Liu Rengui commented with a smile.

"Hey, this disciple trains hard every day." Li Yuechen boasted slightly.

Liu Rengui picked up the teacup: "If you can persevere, the princess's temperament is far beyond ordinary people... Start learning the art of war today."

"art of war?"

Li Yuechen was a little puzzled, saying that he didn't quite understand.If you practice martial arts, you should practice martial arts. Why do you need to start learning the art of war?

Maybe seeing the doubt in her eyes, Liu Rengui took a sip of tea lightly: "The princess doesn't know something, the art of war is something a warrior must learn!"

"Why?"

"Personal boxing skills can be applied to the military formation." Liu Rengui explained with a smile, "When one's own combat power has been trained to a certain level, he can gain epiphany from the method of military formation, and only then can he break his own limit and become more powerful." further!"

Li Yuechen thought for a while, then raised his head and asked, "Master's intention, is it that his own combat power and the way of the army formation belong to the same family?"

Liu Rengui stroked his beard and nodded with a smile: "The princess is really smart! That's right!"

In that case, there is nothing to say.

"Since that's the case, this disciple respectfully obeys the master's order!" Li Yuechen pretended to be serious and saluted.

"Hahahaha..." Liu Rengui felt particularly interesting every time he saw her strange appearance, "Okay, okay, come and have some tea."

……

It was almost time for lunch when Li Yuechen returned to Chengxiang Hall.

From afar, she saw Shangguan Wan'er standing on the steps of the door waving to her.

Li Yuechen also raised his hand and waved in response, then ran two quick steps towards Chengxiang Hall.

Fulai, who was following behind, also trotted to follow.

When he came to the door, Li Yuechen asked as he walked in, "Why are you staying here alone?"

"Waiting for His Highness to come back, I'm a little hungry..." Shangguan Wan'er replied a little embarrassed.

"Okay, then let's have dinner." Li Yuechen took two steps with a smile, each step took two steps, and returned to the hall.

As soon as she entered the hall with her slippers on, she saw Mrs. Zheng packing up the things on the table.

"Don't clean up, eat first," Li Yuechen raised his hand to stop him, "copy some books for me after dinner."

"Here!" Mrs. Zheng agreed with a salute.

Now that Shangguan Wan'er followed Li Yuechen, her nutrition could keep up, and her overall complexion became much better.

It's just that after all, in this deep palace, what I study every day are some ancient books, which inevitably brings some mature atmosphere.

Generally speaking, the temperament on the body is still calm, but it lacks the agility of some children.

Perhaps it was only when she was with Li Yuechen that she would show the smiles that children should have on their faces.

After eating, Li Yuechen put the book of war that he got from his master Liu Rengui on the table.

"Copy these classics and use punctuation marks!" Li Yuechen gave an order.

The main reason is that these ancient scriptures are so ugly, it made her feel dizzy.

So in order to make it easier to understand, Li Yuechen asked Zheng to transcribe it with punctuation first, and then read it again.

In fact, these military books don't have many words in total, but classical Chinese, you can understand everything, and there is definitely a lot of information contained in it.

In this era, copying books is the basic skill of literati.

Although engraving and printing already existed in the Zhenguan period, it was too troublesome.

As for Liu Rengui's books, it's not easy for Li Yuechen to spread them casually without his consent, so he had to let Mrs. Zheng copy a copy by hand.

Zheng's speed is not slow either. Five or six military books have been transcribed in less than seven days, and all punctuation marks have been added.

In addition to reading national history every afternoon, Li Yuechen also began to spend part of his time studying the art of war.

Write down anything you don't understand, and ask Liu Rengui face to face when the time comes.

Among these military books, except for "Sun Tzu's Art of War", which is still famous after more than a thousand years, I have never heard of the remaining "Six Secret Teachings", "Wu Zi" and the like.

Even the name of one of them seems to be a bit of a play, it's called "Sima Fa".

Li Yuechen, who originally wanted to read Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is famous in later generations, first opened the Sima Art out of curiosity.

After reading the whole article, I found that this book contains a lot of content, mainly in terms of military use and military management.

Including various aspects such as etiquette, weapons, rewards and punishments, and vigilance, it can be regarded as a very comprehensive military encyclopedia in this era.

Li Yuechen kept firmly in mind Liu Rengui's statement that military tactics and martial arts were not separate, and most of his attention was still on the convenience of using troops.

But if you only imagine it from words, it is too troublesome.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen put down the book in his hand, raised his head and shouted, "Come here!"

The maid standing guard at the entrance of the hall immediately walked in: "What is your Highness's order?"

"Call Mr. Fu over here!"

"Here!"

After a while, Fulai trotted all the way to the palace: "Your Highness, do you have any orders?"

"En." Li Yuechen nodded, "Go to the craftsman's supervisor, find a mason, and make me a sand table."

Eunuch Fu was a little puzzled, and asked cautiously: "May I ask Your Highness, what is this 'sand table'?"

"that is……"

Li Yuechen wanted to explain, but didn't know what to say.

In this era, the concept of sand table already exists, but it is only a concept.

Most of the time, sand and rocks are used to make a rough model temporarily, and there is no such accurate model sand table yet.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen danced and explained: "Find a map at random, and ask the mason to use clay to make a miniature model of the mountains, rivers and rivers shown on the map..."

Fulai was quite smart, and immediately raised his head and asked, "Your Highness, do you want to use this thing to conduct an art of war experiment?"

Seeing Li Yuechen nodding his head, Fulai had a perplexed expression on his face: "But Your Highness, the map is a confidential thing, so we are the ones waiting..."

"It's enough to be a place outside of Huai!" Li Yuechen said.

Hearing what she said, Fulai nodded to show that it was okay, then turned around and left.

Although the maps in the Tang Dynasty cannot be leaked, foreign maps don't matter.

Although Li Yuechen is skeptical about the accuracy of the map in this era, it doesn't matter, it is used for simulation anyway.

Two days later, Li Yuechen, who felt a little uneasy, went to the craftsman himself, and started to communicate with those masons who were frowning.

"If there is a forest on the mountain, it will be painted green. The river will be painted blue..."

Under Li Yuechen's guidance, these masons finally knew what to do.

Although the sand table produced in this way is probably not very accurate, but at least it looks much more pleasing to the eye.

In the past few days, Li Yuechen basically spent every afternoon in the craftsman's workshop. While instructing them to make sand tables, he asked other carpenters to make some suggestions, and waited for the chess pieces to come out.

At the end of September, a sand table of five meters in length and width was finally produced.

The mountains, rivers and rivers in it have basically made a good appearance. Although they can't be called lifelike, they can at least be recognized at a glance.

The carpenters on the other side are responsible for making all the chess pieces. The cavalry is a horse head, and the various infantry are human figures with different shapes.

Li Yuechen has a little more admiration for the craftsmen of this era. It is really good to be able to do this.

If you don't limit the time and let them sculpt slowly, they should be able to do better.

Asking Fulai to find someone to move the sand table back to the Chengxiang Hall, Li Yuechen went to the Yanying Hall to find Li Zhi.

Now she doesn't need to report when she enters Yanying Hall, she greeted Zhang Chengxin who was guarding the door and went in directly.

Seeing Li Zhi lying on the rocking chair and turning the health ball, Li Yuechen thought in his heart that you occasionally stand up and walk around, and you won't be afraid of being useless if you lie down like this every day.

"Chen'er is here, looking at the smile on his face, could something good happen?" Li Zhi asked.

Li Yuechen threw himself on him, raised his head and smiled: "It's not a good thing, if grandpa is not busy, how about you come to accompany the child to do after-school exercises?"

"Practice after class?" Li Zhi looked puzzled, "Isn't there a court lady who can read to accompany you?"

"It's not a companion reading." Li Yuechen explained, "Master said that warriors should learn the art of war, and my son made a sand table. Grandpa will accompany you to do military deduction."

Li Zhi looked up and thought for a while: "What is the sand table?"

"Grandpa will come with me, you will know it at a glance!"

"Okay, it seems that Chen'er has made something new again, Mei Niang might as well go and have a look with me." Saying that, Li Zhi stood up from the reclining chair and stretched himself.

Wu Meiniang in front of the table put down her pen and nodded: "Alright!"

Li Yuechen happily stood between the two of them again, holding the hand that helped them up, and walked all the way back to Chengxiang Palace.

Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were surprised for a while when they saw the five-meter-long sand table.

"Hey, this is really a big thing!" Li Zhi came over to look at it with a smile, and nodded while stroking his beard, looking very satisfied.

Li Yuechen took out the chess pieces and placed them beside him, and introduced to him what the different chess pieces represent.

The base of this chess piece is round, the bottom is the widest, and it becomes smaller as it goes up. The size of the upper end of the chess piece indicates the quantity.

Then two long sticks were taken out, and the front was made into a U shape, which could be manipulated by clamping the base of the chess piece at will.

"Grandpa and my boy have an army of [-], how about doing a deduction here?" Li Yuechen handed a stick in his hand to Li Zhi.

"Okay, let's try!"

Li Zhi also found this kind of play very interesting, took Li Yuechen's stick and began to divide the chess pieces.

Wu Zetian also seemed to think this thing was very interesting, and he knew what it was used for at a glance, so he stood by the sand table and watched.

Li Yuechen set up the chess pieces: "Now that Grandpa is occupying this mountain peak, the boy will first separate out three thousand Qingqi in front, and divide the army behind, and advance slowly!"

While speaking, he used the long stick in his hand to scatter the chess pieces, and laid them out one by one according to his own words.

Li Zhi, as the emperor who once wanted to conquer in person, actually knew the art of war.

Immediately smiled slightly and said: "Chen'er's method is too conventional, since it is so, I ordered the pikemen to line up in front, and at the same time sent out [-] light cavalry to attack from the flanks around the two sides."

While speaking, he placed the cavalry pieces in his hand on both sides, indicating double-teaming.

Li Yuechen chuckled: "But this is a mountain road, and the cavalry on both sides of Grandpa will definitely not be able to arrive at the same time! My child can let the crossbowmen cooperate with the pikemen to encircle and wipe out the left side first! Light cavalry has no heavy armor, so all the cavalry on the right can be killed before the cavalry arrives." Annihilate."

Li Zhi on the opposite side smiled and nodded: "Chen'er is right, Qingqi has no heavy armor. Then the three thousand Qingqi you sent ahead will be eaten by me!"

At the same time as the voice fell, he pushed the army formation in his hand forward, and at the same time took down the three thousand Qingqi in front of Li Yuechen.

"Forehead……"

Li Yuechen froze for a moment, it was the first time he played with this thing, but he forgot about it.

But then he shook his head: "But Grandpa is fighting ahead, and the pikemen are exhausted. If the child continues to advance at this time, he can break through the front line of defense!"

"That's right!" Li Zhi nodded, but took the long stick in his hand and took the cavalry piece on the right, "But at this time, the cavalry on my right has also arrived, and can enter from the side. Break up, Chen'er will be wiped out by the whole army!"

Li Yuechen slapped his forehead: "Okay, I lost this round, let's play another round!"

Li Zhi seemed to be playing a little too high, and put down the health ball in his hand: "Come on!"

Wu Zetian next to him watched the two of them having fun, with a smile on his face, he stood by and watched seriously.

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