When Tang Jian heard this, he immediately realized: "Vilu Sha, you are a rat trap, right?"

"Exactly!"

Li Shimin sighed: "I am worried about the suspicion of the Son of Heaven, the second is worried about the war situation in Liaodong, and the third is about the chaos in Guanxi. ”

In the final analysis, it is still the pastoral supervisor of Longxi, which is too important.

And Bai Yusa's power spans the two counties of Lingwu and Pingliang (Lingyuan two states). Now this person only needs to stomp his feet, and he will directly affect the Longxi pastoral supervisor. And if Bai Yusao rebelled according to the two states of Lingyuan, it would only be better for Xue Ju to cause trouble. Not only will it affect the war situation in Liaodong, but it is more likely to make the land of Kansai fall into war.

In comparison, the suspicion of the Son of Heaven is secondary.

Tang Jian's opinion was just the opposite, and he also frowned slightly: "It is indeed necessary to worry, you fought with Xue Ju before, but I am afraid that you will not be able to hide it from the Son of Heaven." Now that he has a conflict with Bai Yusa again, it is hard to say how the Son of Heaven will view this matter? But he can't always hide it and not report it? Bai Yusa is indeed colluding with the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon. ”

"I don't think it's something to hide. The infiltration of the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon by the Longyou Pastoral Supervisor has also reached the point where it is necessary to play the Son of Heaven. ”

When Li Shimin and Tang Jian heard this, they both looked sideways at Li Jing. The latter pointed to a war horse beside him: "Brother Tang can see that these carriages are different, and I think these dragon blood horses are also unusual." ”

Li Shimin is also a person who knows horses, and after looking at it fixedly, his eyes are slightly cold. He first examined the dragon's blood horse's teeth, then descended and touched its skeletal muscles.

When he withdrew his hand from the belly of the dragon-blooded horse, this person's face was already bruised: "There is indeed a problem, this is the actual age, less than one and a half years old, and the foal that has been matured by the drug." The others should be about the same—"

When Zhang Yurou heard this, she suddenly looked at the surrounding horses in disbelief: "How is this possible? They don't look abnormal. ”

Generally speaking, war horses must be over three years old, and only after they are really adults can they have a mature and strong physique, and bear the burden of riders and armor.

However, she saw that these war horses were very strong, and they did not look like minors.

"That's because you don't know the art of Soma. ”

Li Shimin shook his head: "We, the disciples of the generals, have dealt with war horses for generations, so we can get a glimpse of one or two." Most of these horses were raised by pulling seedlings. On the surface, it is very strong, but it is actually the result of being matured by drugs. There is only a good-looking empty shelf, but the strength, speed, and crucial endurance are all in shambles. ”

Zhang Yurou was still puzzled: "But these horses are going to be sent to Liaodong." Since you can all see it, those soldiers in Liaodong can naturally also detect the clues, Longxi pastoral supervisor, they don't want to live anymore?"

"There is a way, they carry a large number of blood drinking flowers, as well as mulberry grass, these are all plants that are only available in the Yinshan area, and they are regarded as a kind of **** by the grassland. ”

Li Jing explained: "However, when taking these things at the beginning, there will be no abnormalities, but it will make the body of humans or beasts strong and increase their strength. However, after three to five months of long-term use, the vitality in their bodies will gradually be depleted, until the seven orifices bleed to death. Therefore, this medicine was also made into medicine by steppe wizards in large quantities to temporarily stimulate the combat power of soldiers. The famous blood cloud ride of the Turks came from this. ”

Zhang Yurou couldn't help but gasp and looked at the war horses in front of her: "That means that all the dragon blood horses here have been abolished, right?"

"Fortunately, I guess they have to wait until they arrive in Liaodong to use these things, although these dragon-blooded horses are all matured, they still have a little vitality. Next, if you can recuperate, you can still use it to make a pack horse, but the life span will be slightly affected. ”

Li Shimin shook his head, with a little regret on his face: "It's a pity for these good foals." ”

After all, the value of war horses and pack horses is completely different.

"I don't understand, why is this? Unless—"

Zhang Yurou realized: "Is there something wrong with the pastoral supervisor in Longxi? They can't come out with enough war horses, so they can only use this method to deal with the imperial court and deceive the Son of Heaven? Isn't this just drinking water to quench their thirst?"

Even the foals of dragon-blooded horses are not easy to obtain, especially those that can be used as war horses.

After all, there are only so many stallions that can be used as stallions, and the requirements for mares are also extremely strict, and enough people need to take care of them.

All the shepherds breed a fixed number of foals each year.

It's not a crop in the field, and if you want to plant more, you just need to plant more seedlings.

In the market, a dragon-blooded foal with a slightly stronger physique is not inferior to a war horse in its prime.

"As long as you can hide it for a while, what if you drink to quench your thirst? ”

Tang Jian sneered: "The same thing has already happened once in the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign. I look at those guys, it's healed and the scars forget the pain. ”

"It can't be considered unscrupulous. ”

Li Jing said with a wry smile: "The key is that in the eighth year of the Great Cause, we lost 140,000 war horses in Liaodong. The adult horses on the account of the Longyou pastoral supervisor are only seventy percent of the real numbers at most. This is better than the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign, but it is difficult to supply the second expedition of the Son of Heaven. ”

Li Shimin felt that there was a trace of coolness spreading in his body.

The Great Sui has only been around for a few decades, how did it get rotten to this point?

In the past, although the first emperor did not behead all the 1,500 people under the imperial servant Murong Siddha. But he was also furious, and the main culprits led by Murong Siddha and others were all cut in half and abandoned the city.

But then Li Shimin laughed at himself, saying that he was also selling illicit salt, strictly speaking, he was also a silverfish of the country, and he seemed to be unqualified to talk about others.

It's just—

Li Shimin's eyes flashed with worry for the first time.

Their national power has fallen to this point, and the Son of Heaven still wants to mobilize the power of the country to conquer Goguryeo.

Can they really succeed in this battle? Will the great defeat of the great cause in the past eight years be repeated?

"It seems that I have to trouble Brother Yuan Yi (Li Xuandaozi) to help me prepare a concerto. ”

Li Shimin put away his distracting thoughts, and his eyes became decisive,

Today's situation is beyond his control.

Indeed, as Li Jing said, this matter is so serious that it is necessary to play the Son of Heaven.

Before, his rat thrower was a joke. The situation of the pastoral superintendent in Longxi is obviously so serious that it is necessary to cut the flesh and cut the sores.

No matter how much he endures the country and takes into account the overall situation, can he let the Longxi pastoral supervisor supply a sufficient number of war horses for the Liaodong front?

On the contrary, he has to bear the political risk caused by concealing this matter, once the other day the Son of Heaven learns the details, how will he think of Li Shimin?

So next, he turned his gaze to the inner court of the entourage, and projected the past,

"Please also ask the five seniors to sign the concerto!"

Those people hesitated for a moment, but still smiled bitterly and hugged their fists at Li Shimin.

They know that they have been involved in a political storm that could sweep the entire land of Kansai. But today, Li Shimin has indeed obtained both stolen goods, and they have no room to shirk.

"Please tell Xue Ju again that he will agree to his conditions, but there is a premise, let him gather 7,000 soldiers on the border of Jincheng within three days. ”

In Li Jing's eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little appreciation.

Sure enough, it is the claw of the carved goose, the killing is decisive, and when the heart is ruthless, it is more ruthless than anyone else.

It's a pity -

He felt that the thoughts in his heart were too rebellious. Busy shook his head slightly, waving that vague thought out of his mind.

At this time, Li Shimin's face found a bit of self-deprecation: "What is this called? Do you have to have it sometimes? When something is about to come, you can't hide if you want to." ”

He didn't plan to use this method to deal with the Jianghu tycoon who dominated Lingwu and Pingliang County, but this person just bumped into him by himself, so what could he do?

But for him personally, it was barely a happy event.

Therefore, Li Shimin's mood at this time is actually mixed. Worry is due to the general trend of the world, or will be turbulent due to the change of the pastoral supervisor in Longxi, and joy is because of the problems he faces, or will benefit from it, or even be solved.

It's just that his good mood was destroyed halfway back to Chang'an when he escorted the horse team and all the prisoners.

Without warning, there was a dense rain of fire, suddenly rolling down from the sky,

Although Li Jing and Li Xuandao, Tang Jian, Yuan Tianhao and others were all shocked in time and used their own spells to dissolve and eliminate them, they still fell into the queue from many red fire points. Many of the soldiers who had been stripped of their armor and had no defense or cover were set on fire in an instant, and they actually burned, emitting a series of horrific and miserable howls.

Many of the horses of my friends also turned into huge torches, which made the surrounding horses also frightened and trampled in all directions.

Li Shimin was terrified, he knew that the camp roaring in the army was the most terrifying thing.

Camp howling occurs not only at night, but also during marching. Scattering and fleeing due to the spread of panic can cause an elite army to collapse and disperse in an instant.

He made a decision immediately, and without hesitation, he slashed the two soldiers who fled in fear on his side, and at the same time gathered Zhenyuan, and his tongue burst into spring thunder: "The whole army listens to the order, all those who dare not obey the order, those who move will be killed! Those who make noise will be killed! Those who cry will be killed! The generals will only ask, but if there are those who do not cause the collapse of the headquarters, the generals will definitely ask Shang Fangjian to cut off the heads of the dogs waiting for you!"

Fan Shixing also knew that the situation in front of him was already in a state of imminent danger, so he immediately instigated to sit down on his war horse and ran to the rear, and at the same time roared hoarsely: "Your Excellency has an order, all those who dare to disobey the order, those who move will be killed! Those who make noise will be killed! Those who cry will be killed!"