The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 191 News from Shanyin County
Chang'an, Tai Chi Palace.

His Majesty Li Shimin, the great leader of imperialism, is enjoying the sauna activities day after day. There are four ice basins in the imperial study, but it is still hot and sweaty.

Due to the terrain of the Taiji Palace, every summer will enter the most difficult season of the year. Humidity and heat are the norm. It is because of this that the Daming Palace will appear later.

Of course, it is said in history that the Daming Palace was built by Li Shimin for his father Li Yuan, but the facts have proved that when the Daming Palace broke ground, old Li Yuan was already dead. Know how many years.

So what the doorway is, now we can only judge by the conjectures of later generations, but the most critical factor, the author still thinks that the location of Tai Chi Palace is not good, so the idea of ​​building Daming Palace came into being .

The book returns to the main story, but it says that Li Shimin is enjoying the sweltering heat of the Daming Palace in pain and happiness. An urgent report from Hongling from [-] miles away suddenly caused an unknown fire in his heart.

Xue Yantuo's courage is really extreme. Not to mention entering the territory that originally belonged to the Turks without authorization, now they dare to send troops to invade Datang.

However, speaking of it, it was my own subordinates who were fighting for their spirits, and actually used a little trick to turn those Xue Yantuo people around, and captured the three thousand enemies alive without hurting a single soldier, which is not shameful.

"Your Majesty, don't you think this is a bit strange? Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Yinan has just been appointed, no matter how stupid he is, it is impossible to provoke a dispute at the border at this time, right?" It was he who delivered it himself. After Li Shimin put the urgent report aside, he asked with some uncertainty.

The Hongling urgent report usually conveys the most important news, but no matter how important the news is, it is impossible to send it directly to the emperor. After all, the emperor's safety is the most important thing in many cases, and it is impossible to just casually You can meet in person.

Therefore, when there is an urgent report from Hongling, it will be sent to Zhongshu or the sect as soon as possible, that is, the three provinces among the six ministries of the three provinces in the legend, and then the highest officials of the three provinces, that is, the prime minister or Pu She It is important to decide whether to send it to the emperor.

This time, the Hongling emergency report submitted by Shanyin County actually did not need to be submitted to Li Shimin, after all, the incident had already happened, and Xue Yantuo did not have follow-up troops to follow up, at most it was a border conflict.

But everyone, don't forget that Fang Xuanling's son, Fang Yizhi, is still in Shanyin County. This made Lao Fang have to consider the possibility that Xue Yantuo would make a big move, so he ran away in a hurry. Come to Li Shimin, and hand over this battle report, whether it is serious or not, to the imperialist leader.

Facing Fang Xuanling's question, Li Shimin just smiled contemptuously: "Xue Yantuo people will not provoke border conflicts without authorization. There must be other reasons for this, but no matter what the reason is, Zhenzhu Yinan never explained it to me. Second, not sending someone to communicate with the frontier army, this is his biggest mistake!"

"Then how does Your Majesty plan to deal with this matter?" Seeing that Li Shimin had already made his own guesses about the matter, Fang Xuanling didn't say much, just lowered his head slightly and asked about the next arrangement.

After all, with 3000 people gone all at once, no matter how cowardly Xue Yantuo was, he couldn't just let it go, and there must be some action next.

Li Shimin also had his own plans for this, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, "Send Tang Jian there, let him ask Zhenzhu Yinan what it means, and why he sent troops to attack the border."

"No!" Fang Xuanling replied.

"Also, the frontier army must be prepared for the battle. In case something goes wrong, even if the battle is the last one, Xue Yantuo must be stopped in Mobei."

"No!" Fang Xuanling replied again.

After arranging these two things, Li Shimin seemed to think of something again, clicked his tongue and said, "Xuan Ling, what is that Li Muyun busy with right now? Do you know?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, Xiaoyaohou seems to be tinkering with something called cement during this period of time. I heard that it is a sharp weapon for building city walls. There is also burning coke, which is said to be preparing for steelmaking. These are all when the dog sent a letter some time ago. I said it." Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said.

"Preparing to make steel? Does this kid really have the means to increase steel production?" Li Shimin frowned and said with some uncertainty.

At the beginning, Li Muyun promised him to provide 50 catties of steelmaking for five years. To be honest, Li Shimin was very happy after hearing it, but he told himself rationally that such a thing was impossible. It may be comparable to the power of the entire Datang.

Besides, Changsun Wuji's family was in the steel business, and when they chatted about this matter, the old fox completely scoffed at the five-year 50-jin steel-making business, thinking that Li Muyun was just bragging.

But when Li Shimin heard Fang Xuanling talk about Shanyin County preparing to make steel, his heart that had lost hope slammed again.

"Your Majesty, I don't know whether it can increase the output, but according to the letter left behind, Xiaoyao Hou personally instructed an ordinary blacksmith in the county to forge a horizontal knife in two days. Cut off the Bailian horizontal knife, but the horizontal knife just broke." Fang Xuanling basically told what he knew, and he believed that his honest son would not deceive him about this matter. Own.

You must know that the Bailian Hengdao of the Tang Dynasty is not comparable to ordinary knives. A knife often needs to go through many processes and it takes dozens of days to be successful. Although it cannot be compared with those famous swords in ancient times , but in general it was already the world's leading level at that time.

But even so, it was still cut off by the horizontal knife that took two days to forge. This is enough to show that Li Muyun does have some strength, at least not bad in terms of the ability to forge knives.

And just like Fang Xuanling believed in his own son, Li Shimin also believed in Fang Xuanling's judgment, so when he heard that the knife that took two days to forge could actually cut off the Bailian Hengdao, a frightening shot shot out in his eyes The words were cold, and he murmured: "Unexpectedly, that kid actually has such abilities, and now I suddenly have some confidence in him."

Yes, Li Shimin did have some confidence now, and he even decided that it doesn't matter if Li Muyun didn't produce 50 jin of steel for five years, as long as he can make knives.

(End of this chapter)