Li Shimin

Chapter 848
"Xuanba, who do you think should be the general?" Li Shimin asked again.

"Your Majesty, I'm not that familiar with the generals of the Tang Dynasty, so I'd like to ask Your Majesty to make his own choice on the matter of general selection! However, in two or three months, Xiangcheng will give birth, and Xue Rengui can't go out!"

Li Xuan said.

Li Shimin looked helpless, he didn't choose a good general for the expedition, instead he lost a general first!

"Your Majesty, I am the most suitable general!"

Li Xiaogong on the side said hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, since my Great Tang only sends [-] troops, then I am the most suitable general. Hejian County King is my Datang County King, so there is no need to bother Hejian County King!"

Cheng Zhijie also said hastily.

"Can you command the artillery battalion?"

Li Shimin glanced at the two of them, with disgust on his face, "You know, how to aim the artillery? How to send troops to form the most powerful formation, and how to transport them?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as I, Old Cheng, eat and live with the cannon for a month, I will guarantee that the cannon will know what it is talking about once it sounds!" Cheng Zhijie said with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, the cannon is a magical weapon that I have just invented in the Tang Dynasty. I am afraid that no general in the entire Tang Dynasty is familiar with it except Xuanba! Could it be that Your Majesty is planning to use Xuanba as a general?"

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Li Xiaogong asked in surprise.

Cheng Zhijie was also surprised, and looked at Li Xuan nervously.

"Can Xuan Ba ​​be a general?"

Li Shimin just stared at Li Xuan with anticipation.

"Don't go!"

Li Xuan shook his head resolutely, "I am like a cloud of mighty generals in the Tang Dynasty. I want to make great achievements. There are countless people who are enshrined as marquises. Disgusting!"

"Xuanba, the Dashi thief robbed my Datang caravan's goods and killed my Datang veterans. The heavens are angry and the people complain. My Datang must slaughter them all with the fury of thunder in order to revive my Great Tang Tianwei!"

Li Shimin said angrily.

"Your Majesty is right!"

Li Xuan nodded in agreement, "Since this is the case, then my Tang Dynasty should send [-] troops to slaughter those [-] thieves with the momentum of thunder, and follow the path they came from, fight back the same way, and wipe out the thieves." Its city, loot its property, let it pay back a hundred times!"

"Xuan Ba ​​is willing to lead the army?"

Li Shimin said in surprise.

"I don't want to!"

Li Xuan continued to shake his head, "I have so many generals in the Tang Dynasty, and if I send out two casually, I can wipe out the big food thief country, so there is no need for me to meddle in it!"

"Xuan Ba, the Great Tang Artillery Battalion is newly built! In the entire Great Tang, only you are the most familiar with artillery, and you are the general who can maximize the power of the artillery and the Thunder Army!" Li Shimin quickly persuaded.

"Don't go then!"

Li Xuan shook his head directly, "The Western Regions are desolate, if you go there, you will suffer, I won't go!"

"And Your Majesty, now that our Great Tang wars are becoming less and less, is it necessary to give my young generals of the Great Tang more opportunities to exercise? Otherwise, when the generals like Su Guogong and Li Ji are getting old, my Great Tang generals Withered and no successors, wouldn't the majestic Tang be bullied by others?"

"Ok?"

Li Shimin narrowed his eyes, and his eyes were full of coldness, "I see who would dare!"

"That's right, I have a million lions in the Tang Dynasty, and I am a kingdom of heaven, who dares to insult me?"

Both Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong also had eyes full of anger.

Li Xuan just smiled lightly and did not refute.

After a while, Li Shimin sighed slightly.

"So, I will choose someone else!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Li Xuan cupped his hands in salute.

"Ugh……"

Li Shimin, who went back, was not interested.

Originally, he had thought of having Li Xuan as the general, Li Ji as the deputy general, and Cheng Chusi, Li Chongyi, and Xue Rengui as the vanguard.

Unexpectedly, not only the chief general was not invited, but even a major vanguard was unable to go. There was a feeling of losing the army after losing his wife!
"Your Majesty, since His Royal Highness King Jin is not going, let Lao Cheng be the general!"

On the carriage, Cheng Zhijie didn't understand the depression in Li Shimin's heart, and kept talking non-stop.

Li Xiaogong on the side was a little annoyed by what he heard!

"Cheng Heizi, shut up quickly, even if His Majesty sends this king there, you won't be made a general!"

"Hejian County King, in terms of force, command of troops, or luck, how can my old Cheng be inferior to you?" Cheng Zhijie said directly angrily.

"Don't pretend to be stupid, you old man. If you are asked to lead an army of [-], you must be the first to lead the way. How can you train our generals of the younger generation in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Xiaogong looked disdainful.

Cheng Zhijie: "..."

In front of His Majesty, he really has no way to refute this matter!

"This time, Li Ji is the general, Chu Si and Chongyi are the deputy generals, with 4000 troops from the Thunder Army, [-] soldiers from the Artillery Battalion, [-] Chongfu soldiers from Guannei Road, and [-] Turkic surrender troops to the Western Regions to conquer the Great War. Eat Thief Soldiers!"

Suddenly, Li Shimin spoke.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Although Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong were still a little unwilling, but Li Shimin had already made a decision, and they could only obey obediently.

Morning the next day.

The story that the Great Eater Army plundered the Datang caravan in the Western Regions and killed hundreds of guards and stewards of the caravan spread to the imperial court.

All civil and military officials were angry, and all generals wanted to fight.

Li Shimin issued an edict angrily, ordering Li Ji, the British Duke, to be the general manager of Longyou Dao, and Xue Wanche, the governor of Lingzhou, to be the deputy general.

In the afternoon of the same day, more than 2000 four-wheeled carts gathered in Chang'an City, and began to load various ordnance, food and grass.

A day later, the army began to set off.

Outside the Golden Light Gate, tens of thousands of civil and military generals of the Tang Dynasty saw off with the common people.

This time, the army left the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and went through the former Tuyuhun and Turkic lands to the Western Regions to conquer the Great Food Thieves. It is an expedition thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty!
It will take several months to go here just on the road.

This is going out!

However, after sending the army away, in less than a few days, except for Li Shimin and some generals of the Ministry of War, most of the people in Chang'an City forgot about it.

The foundations of the concrete houses in Chang'an City have been built, and even some courtyard walls have begun to be erected.

Every day, there are countless good-for-nothings, or servants in charge of some aristocratic families, wandering around the house.

It's a pity that no outsiders are allowed to enter the construction site.

This continued for more than three months.

Some houses were built.

The houses in the courtyard have also started to be built almost.

Li Xuancai allowed the long-awaited members of the aristocratic families and nobles to enter the interior of the concrete house for a visit.

"Meet Guanshi Li!"

"Haha, Manager Li has worked hard for half a year, and finally built this house!"

"I waited and waited for my eyes, but I didn't expect that these concrete houses were finally completed in the heat of summer!"

A group of people stood in the front hall of the cement house, looking at the neat house in front of them, which looked like a house carved from stone blocks, all of them were curious and excited.

Li Guanshi of the Datang Chamber of Commerce just smiled lightly, and then explained directly.

"You nobles must have heard that due to the limited land in Chang'an City, the Tang Chamber of Commerce can only build fifty houses this time, including ten ten-acre houses, fifteen six-mu houses, and twenty-five five-mu houses!
And what you are looking at this time is a ten-acre house, with four entrances, a total of one hundred houses of various sizes, and there are also gardens, waterside pavilions, basements, stables, firewood houses..."

"There are warm walls in all the houses, and in the cold winter, all the houses can be heated by centrally heating water!
In addition, there is a water room on the top of the tallest house, which is a water tank. As long as the water in the water tank is more than half, the water in the water tank will automatically flow to all the houses. "

"Also, the windows of all houses are glass windows, and the doors of all houses are special locks made by Datang Chamber of Commerce..."

Li Guanshi has been leading a group of nobles and family members to go around the courtyard thoroughly, and at the same time explain them all.

It never occurred to me that there are so many dignified nobles and family members in a house. After Li Guanshi gave a lecture, his mouth never closed again.

"Gentlemen, the fresh items that His Royal Highness King Jin has in the other courtyards of Lijiazhuang are found in these newly built courtyards of the Datang Chamber of Commerce!"

"Guard Li, can you let me see the faucet that can automatically discharge water, and the Gong room built in the house? And..."

All the people from noble families couldn't wait to speak.

"It's the villain's negligence, all nobles, please come here!"

After speaking, Guanshi Li looked up and saw that the main house of this mansion happened to be in front of him, and he walked in with a group of honorable and noble families.

"Gentlemen, generally the first floor of the main house is a meeting and leisure area, and there is no court room or bathroom. Please follow the villain upstairs!"

Afterwards, Guanshi Li took all the nobles to the second floor.

Going around the living room on the second floor and pushing open an exquisite wooden door, several small houses with weird shapes appeared inside.

However, to the satisfaction of these noble families, these small houses basically have a small window, which is extremely bright in broad daylight.

"Gentlemen, please take a look, this thing is a faucet!"

Just as the members of the honorable family looked around, Li Guanshi had already walked onto a small wooden table, and twisted a delicate iron object with his hands.

"Crash~"

A stream of clean water flowed directly from the small iron bump, which surprised the unsuspecting nobles of the aristocratic family.

Immediately, all of them lay on the iron bump with curious faces, fiddling with their hands carefully.

Some people even couldn't bear it, and used their hands to pull the water, and then laughed in surprise.

"Hey, it's really clear water, so clear!"

"Guan Li, this thing is a water faucet. Why is it so magical? It can produce water automatically?"

"Besides, the water can still flow directly from here, without any water flow on the ground?"

"It's so clever..."

"As expected of His Royal Highness King Jin, even the house where he lives is so delicate..."

Li Guanshi chuckled again and put his hand on the faucet.

"Guys, as long as the handle is screwed back again, the water flow will stop!"

Sure enough, with the rotation of the handle, the water flow stopped.

"Sigh~"

Seeing this, all the nobles of the aristocratic families were full of astonishment.

Afterwards, Guanshi Li turned the faucet several times again, and the water flowed out and stopped with the sound.

The members of the honorable family were amazed again and again.

"Gentlemen, His Royal Highness Jin Wang said before that this faucet is made by hand after all, so it will be damaged after a long time of use. Therefore, [-] faucets will be reserved in each house to ensure Prepare for a rainy day!

If the faucet is broken, you can go to the Datang Chamber of Commerce to buy a new faucet! "

"Thank you, Your Highness King Jin!"

All the people from noble families hurriedly bowed their hands and thanked Li Xuan who was lying at home.

Seeing this, Guanshi Li went straight inside.

"Everyone, the outer room is a bathroom, and you can wash here on weekdays. Of the two inner rooms, one is a bathroom, and you nobles can take a bath in it. Four or five people can sit in the bath at the same time to wash together!

And the other room is Gong's room! "

"Gong Fang?"

Immediately, a group of people from noble families couldn't bear it any longer, and stepped forward to check.

There was only one small pothole that looked like a cave in a large house, and there was nothing special about it. A trace of disappointment flashed in the eyes of all the noble families.

Seeing this, Li Guanshi directly introduced: "Everyone, the biggest advantage of this Gong room is that when you nobles want to enter the room in the cold winter, the room is as warm as spring.

At the same time, after you finish going to the room, you can just take off the cover and press this switch! "

"Whoa..."

A burst of water sound louder than just now came from Gongdong Cave.

"Guard Li, what is this?"

All the people from noble families couldn't help but be curious.

Li Guanshi said: "Everyone, this current can wash away everything in Gongdong!"

As he spoke, he pulled the iron cover with his hand.

Sure enough, the Gong cave below was clean, and the pile of small objects before had disappeared without a trace, leaving only faint water stains!

"Where did the water in Gong's room and the water in the bathroom go?"

A person from a family asked curiously.

"Back to Manager Pei, there is a septic tank in the backyard. All the sewage and dirt will eventually be collected in the tank and turned into manure, which can be used to fertilize the fields!" Manager Li explained.

"I see!"

The members of the honorable family were amazed again and again.

Afterwards, Guanshi Li led a group of people from noble families to introduce the cement house in detail.

After a circle, all the people of the honorable family were full of golden eyes, and they were very tempted, and they really didn't want to live in now.

"May I ask Guanshi Li, how much does it cost to buy this cement house?"

"A cement house with a size of [-] mu, [-] guan; a house with a size of [-] mu, [-] guan; a house with a size of [-] mu, [-] guan!"

Manager Li smiled lightly.

Hearing this, all the people from noble families frowned slightly.This price is much more expensive than other houses in Chang'an City, but no one calls it expensive.

The dignitaries and noble families who are allowed to come in and visit these houses are those who can afford them.

Moreover, the most important thing is that many familiar honorables and family members among them have heard that they have also received invitations, but they have not seen them.

Can't help them not thinking too much!

Li Guanshi continued: "However, this house can be purchased with coins, gold, or land."

"Especially the old houses in Chang'an City, one mu of houses in Chang'an City can be worth [-] coins!"

"Dare to ask Guanshi Li, what does the Tang Chamber of Commerce want the houses in Chang'an City for?"

"It's a new cement house!"

Li Guanshi replied indifferently: "It's just that the houses with good locations will be demolished to build this kind of big houses, and the places with bad locations will be built with tube houses for the common people to live in!"

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(End of this chapter)