Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 31 Horseshoes

It is said that most of Xu Qing's soldiers were killed or injured, and there was no food and grass to be transported, so Li Yuanji and Xu Qing went to Anyang Daying with the grain and grass.And since the commander-in-chief of the rear is here, naturally the leader of the food escort team is Li Yuanji, but Xu Qing is left alone.

In fact, this leisure has to be discounted, because Li Yuanji rides horses with Xu Qing every day, chats with Xu Qing, Xu Qing can only flatter, and occasionally throws out a phenomenon discovered when he was wandering in his early years, such as who will drop two stones first On the ground, Li Yuanji was also very interested in discussing the experiment.

Later, when Li Yuanji saw that Xu Qing's horse was old, he wanted to exchange it for Xu Qing, but Xu Qing was unwilling.Why don't you want to? The latest wear-resistant tires are on the old horse's hooves, but Li Yuanji doesn't think so. He thinks that Xu Qing is biased towards Li Shimin, and he feels a little disgusted.However, when Xu Qing came to accompany him this time, he discovered the secret.

"Da da da..." Xu Qing rode over on the old horse. "King Qi..."

"Huh?" Li Yuanji didn't look at Xu Qing, but at Xu Qing's horse.Xu Qing couldn't be happier, finally found out?Hehe, another hundred acres, no, two hundred, or no, three hundred acres of fertile land, ten concubines will tell you the secret.

"King Qi?"

"Xu Qing, your horse is a bit strange..." King Qi said.

"Why? It's nothing strange, it's just that I'm getting older..." Xu Qing pretended to be stupid.

"What's on your horse's hoof?" Li Yuanji finally found the key to the problem.

"Oh, aren't those shoes for horses? Don't you guys know?" Xu Qing continued to play dumb.

"Shoes, how do you wear them? Why do horses wear shoes?"

"People will wear their feet when they walk barefoot, and horses are the same, so I made iron hooves for it so that it can walk more."

"Hiss, yes, do you know what this means?" Li Yuanji jumped off his horse, grabbed Xu Qing's horse and said, "Come down, let me see the horse's hoof." Then he dragged Xu Qing off the horse It's coming, regardless of Xu Qing's resentful face, he held up a horse's foot, looked carefully for a while, his eyes opened wider and wider, and the brilliance inside became more and more bright, just like a hungry wolf saw it in vain. The beautiful girl is average.

The old horse was finally impatient to be watched, why was he staring at other people's shoes, disgusted, so he put down the horse's hoof in a daze, or Li Yuanji would look at it.Li Yuanji stood up, grabbed Xu Qing's shoulder full of excitement, looked at Xu Qing and said, "Why, why, why do you know this?"

"King Qi, it hurts..." Li Yuanji was a tiger general with great strength, Xu Qing couldn't help feeling a huge pain in his shoulders when he grabbed it so excitedly.

"Okay, okay, I was the one who got excited, tell me how did you come up with this?" Li Yuanji put down his hands and said.

"Didn't I say it, it's like wearing shoes..." Xu rubbed his shoulders and said.

"Yeah, yeah, it's just like people wear shoes, but why have you thought of putting iron shoes on horses for thousands of years?" Li Yuanji became excited as he spoke, turned around, and laughed loudly at the mountains, He seemed to have forgotten the identity of the prince: "Hahahahahaha... My Tang army no longer has to worry about the lack of horses, and my Tang Dynasty no longer has to make peace with the Turkic people!"

Xu Qing thought, even though this Li Yuanji took the wrong position when he was fighting for the reserve, he is not lacking in patriotism.

In Li Shimin's account in Daying Anyang:
"King Qin, according to the report from the spies. Before King Qi's reinforcements arrived, the grain team defeated the bandits by themselves..."

"Oh? This is beyond my expectation..." Li Shimin never expected that a 16-year-old kid could lead an army to defeat the team that robbed food: "You said that the person who led the army was just a middle-aged man? Yes, yes , but I have a bit of ability..."

"Report! His Royal Highness King Qin, King Qi is here..."

"Where did he go? He's coming to claim credit..." Qin Wang frowned and said.

"Here... in the barracks... After King Qi arrived, he went directly to the blacksmith, and brought a young general with him." It turned out that after Li Yuanji figured out the function of the horseshoe, he immediately handed over the grain team to his subordinates, and carried Xu Qing all the way Fly to Anyang.

"Blacksmith? Young general?" King Qin thought about it: "Auxiliary machine, come with me to meet the third younger brother, and that young general Xu Qing, right?"

Anyang Daying Blacksmith:

Xu Qing was coerced, took time to stop vomiting, and was forced to push Li Yuanji to tell the blacksmith to make horseshoes.Xu Qing drew a simple diagram, and the blacksmith is also a smart man, so he organized his hands to beat it.

"Third brother, third brother, is the food and grass all right?" Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji asked as they walked all the way into the blacksmith camp, pretending they didn't know anything.

"The last general will join His Highness King Qin!" Xu Qing saluted.

"Second brother? Hehe, don't tell me about food and grass first, let me show you something first." Li Yuanji smiled.

"Oh? What's more important than food and grass..." Li Shimin wondered, then turned to look at Xu Qing: "This is General Xu Qing, right? Your ice-making method with saltpeter is really good."

"The last general dare not..."

"Second brother, the ice-making method with saltpeter is more of a playful nature, this Xu Qing has created another thing, this is a good thing that has made great achievements in the Tang Dynasty, and it has greatly improved the combat power of my Tang Dynasty's troops. "

"Well..." Li Shimin began to look forward to improving the combat effectiveness of the army. This is what all the commanders want to see most: "So I will take a good look." After all, the two brothers are in the army, so there is no need Knowing that he is lonely and widowed, even Xu Qing has suffered face, commensurate with the two princes, you and me, and go straight.

The blacksmith's speed was good, and his comprehension ability was excellent. After a while, the first horseshoe was made.After cooling down a bit, he held it in front of Xu Qing with an excited face. Obviously, he also knew the function of this thing.Xu Qing nodded and said yes, and the blacksmith gave the horseshoe to Li Shimin again.

Li Shimin looked at it with a puzzled face, but Changsun Wuji showed surprise: "This... this is really... hoo... the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is about to rise!" Changsun Wuji couldn't find a suitable adjective, and replaced the exclamation with a prophecy .

Li Shimin took a step slower and understood the importance of the thing in his hand, so he asked excitedly:
"Xu Qing, you are truly a wise general!"

"The last general didn't dare. Speaking of it, it was because of his early experience. He didn't have shoes to wear when he was wandering, so he felt..." Xu Qing lied. He originally wanted to say something taught by an old Taoist monk, but after thinking about It's better not to make such troubles in front of these people, and lie according to Xu Chuliu's shadow, who else can see through except him?
"The so-called cleverness is so clumsy..." Changsun Wuji said with emotion.

Everyone nodded, the last four horseshoes were finished, and a warm horse was brought in to nail them on.The horse clapped its paws for the first time, and "tat-tat-tat" stepped on small steps, as if curious about the "shoes" on its feet, and ran a few steps happily.Only then did everyone heave a sigh of relief, the last worry disappeared, and the nail palm did no harm to the horse.Datang's war horse can finally greatly reduce the loss!

"Xu Qing listens to the order! You offered the horseshoe to be used in the army. I should take credit for your father. Now you are the general of Yamen. The secret method of this thing cannot be passed on to others. It is strictly confidential and must not be mistaken!"

(End of this chapter)