In fact, Chen Zhengtai really doesn't like to talk about birthdays with people.

But what could he do?

He was also very embarrassed, he couldn't tell Li Shimin that he had discovered a talent named Xue Rengui.

This is difficult to explain, after all, he is from Hedong, and he has always been in Guanzhong, and Xue Rengui is only fifteen years old at this time, at a young age, he has not even been on the battlefield, you say he is very brave, what is the bravery?

Since this is the case, the only thing Chen Zhengtai can answer is that he pinched his fingers.

In history, Xue Rengui began to accumulate ten years later, from a pawn, step by step to become a world-famous general, and Chen Zhengtai is convinced that anyone who becomes a general has a quality that others do not have!

Not to mention anything else, Xue Rengui's force value is quite high, which is definitely something that has been constantly boiled since childhood!

Now Xue Rengui is only fifteen years old, it is the time when his blood and qi are strong, and he is at the peak of a man's physical strength, although he has not yet been excavated, but Chen Zhengtai believes that the current Xue Rengui has no problem at all if he fights dozens of people alone.

Li Shimin couldn't help but be stunned.

Chen Zhengtai chose his deputy, is it so capricious?

Do you want to test the eight characters?

Do I also want to test his eight characters to see if his eight characters match mine?

Of course, these are all inconspicuous trivialities, for Li Shimin, a lonely and unknown young man in Hebei, hand-picking him as Chen Zhengtai's deputy is just a gesture!

He even felt that it was a bit of a knife to kill chickens by deliberately issuing a will or oracle through himself, so he bowed his head and said: "For these little things, I ordered the local hussar mansion in Hedong to call it Xue ...... Xue what? ”

Chen Zhengtai said: "Xue Li, the word is benevolent." ”

"Well, just bring this Xue Li edict to Chang'an. You hussar mansion, all you need is this? ”

Isn't that awesome? Chen Zhengtai thought to himself, my special start is a Lu Bu.

Obviously, Li Shimin felt that such a trivial matter like sesame mung beans was really not worth mentioning to bother him, so he said: "Is there anyone else, if there is, I will say it together, and I will allocate it to you, so as not to worry about such a trivial matter when the time comes." ”

Chen Zhengtai: "......"

Is this a trifle?

Chen Zhengtai coughed, since His Majesty has said it, then ...... You're welcome!

Obviously, Chen Zhengtai already had a candidate in his mind, so Chen Zhengtai said: "These days, many Taoists and monks come to Erpigou to do things, and the students have asked for advice, in addition to this one named Xue Rengui, there is another person whose eight characters are very compatible with the students, this person is called Su, Minglie, and the word is fixed." I heard that he defected to Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin before, and he had some credits. After that, he voted for my Datang, and now he is in the Kuangdao Mansion, or he will reward this person to the students. ”

Su Dingfang is not famous now, just a hussar mansion is just a mere fold.

What he really shined was that he followed Li Jing to the Turks in history, and then led two hundred cavalry to attack the Turks' sweat tents, beheading countless people, and then became famous in a battle, and finally shined.

Of course, Su Dingfang's luck was not good, the prince and Chen Zhengtai did not give him the opportunity to follow Li Jing on the expedition, so now this benevolent brother is still a subordinate officer of a hussar general in a small hussar mansion, and he doesn't know when he will be the head.

Whether it is Su Dingfang or Xue Rengui, they are almost the two most famous generals in the late Tang Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty.

Especially after ten years, as these founding generals withered away, Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, as a new generation, opened up the frontier of the Tang Dynasty with countless military exploits.

Li Shimin smiled and said: "You have grown, at first you asked me for a teenager, and after that, you asked for a mere fold, and finally this one is still a military attaché, but the official position is too low, since you have opened your mouth, how can I not give you a reason?" ”

"It's just...... It's too child's play for you to choose your own deputy like this, but you are also my disciple, and my military achievements are known to the whole world, but you, a disciple, treat this military as if it were child's play, and others want to laugh at me. Let me tell you, this is the way to be handsome, the important thing is to choose the general, and how to choose the general? First of all, we have to look at his temperament, everyone's temperament is different, you have to know in your heart, in addition, their specialties, the way to treat soldiers, experience, courage, these are all indispensable, in the final analysis, it is necessary to know people well. Together in the war, you are responsible for the safety of tens of thousands of people, determine the success or failure of a country, all your strategies, but also need the generals around you to complete for you, any little difference, can determine the victory or defeat. So...... This kind of thing should not be taken lightly, let alone played by child's play. ”

He said a lot, which was nothing more than criticism of Chen Zhengtai for being full of food and playing the trick of eight characters.

Chen Zhengtai was scolded for no reason, and finally said aggrievedly: "But the teacher, the student is just a hussar general, my Hussar General like me in the Tang Dynasty, there are 370 people, although he is a general, in fact, he is just a miscellaneous general, it is really not worth mentioning, what does this have to do with being a handsome?" If there is really a war, if Your Majesty is a personal expedition, he will be a handsome. If Your Majesty doesn't personally enlist, I will be handsome with uncles such as Li Jing, Hou Junji, and Cheng Yanjin, and I will be just a helper at most, and I don't need to understand these truths. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then laughed!

Yes, it's that I'm too deep into the play, and it seems a bit too much to talk to a hussar general about these truths.

Well, let this kid play.

So Li Shimin said: "In this case, this satisfies you, but you are still the right concubine now, so please assist the prince well." ”

Chen Zhengtai hurriedly said obediently: "Students should follow the teacher's teachings. ”

Then Chen Zhengtai left the palace, but he hurried to Erpigou!

For Chen Zhengtai, everything has to be put down first, what right concubine, what hussar general, what kind of thing is this? The only thing Chen Zhengtai had to do was to quickly recruit a group of craftsmen and start making coal stoves.

This is the most important thing at the moment, even if it is now a newlywed and is about to enter the cave house, you need to pass through the door without entering, and rush to build the coal stove first.

An ordinary coal stove will definitely not work.

If there can be no smoke and dust, then the only way is to use a more extravagant solution.

That is, a furnace is set up in the distance, and then the stove is connected with a pipe, the pipe is filled with water, and the water is boiled by the stove in the distance, and then, through the pipe, it is connected to the dormitory, and the pipes in the dormitory are paved one by one, and once the stove starts to burn, the hot water emits heat in the pipe.

This kind of heat will never have any smoke and dust, and it is extraordinarily comfortable, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is the principle of heating in later generations.

It's just that in this day and age, it's hard to achieve this, and most importantly...... It's very expensive.

However, given that this is a service in the palace, then the above problems do not exist, because ...... The people in the palace originally only used expensive ones.

So Chen Zhengtai began to get busy, non-stop design of several pipeline schemes, in fact, there are still many problems, such as the modeling of the pipeline, and the materials required, how to try to set up a thermal insulation layer, and how to achieve seamless fits when encountering corners.

These are all difficult problems.

Of course...... Chen Zhengtai has money, and if he has money, he can let the craftsmen try to make it again and again, and even ...... It is also possible to build a blast furnace specifically for the smelting of this kind of heating furnace, and then try again and again to prototype the necessary construction.

Of course, Chen Zhengtai couldn't get out all the heads and tails of this by himself, he could only draw a plan, and the next thing was that the craftsmen tried all means to solve it.

But...... With a blast furnace, these aspects can always be solved, and even if the precision of the components is insufficient, they can also be solved by bearing the scrap rate.

To put it bluntly, why didn't the ancients make ingenious treasures? These things, even if they are placed in the afterlife, are definitely breathtaking.

And there is only one reason why the ancients were able to forge such treasures, because people who can enjoy such luxuries don't care about money at all!

It can fire a hundred pieces, taking only one of the best crafts fired, and as for the other ninety-nine, it can be completely affordable even if it is scrapped.

Chen Zhengtai is now taking this road.

Of course...... Take this opportunity to cultivate a craftsman is also beneficial, any craftsman can eventually become a great tool, in fact, it is slowly cultivated in failure, as long as he is given a job, willing to spend money, naturally, this ingenious master will also be baked.

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A few days passed......

A few Turks came to Erpigou.

Naturi Khan returned to Xiazhou, and then gathered his men and horses into the grassland, but did not forget the Chen brothers who were far away in Chang'an, and he ordered hundreds of healthy horses to come.

The Turkic envoy expressed the Turki Khan's longing for Chen Zhengtai, and Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Tuli and I are really like brothers, we don't know when we will be able to see each other when we say goodbye. Even though there are thousands of styles, who can you talk to? To this day, I always have bits and pieces of the Tuli brothers dancing in my mind, hey, don't say it, don't say it, talk about it...... It only adds to the sadness. ”

Fortunately, the Turkic envoy did not have a thorough understanding of the Chinese language, so he only took a few polite words from Chen Zhengtai and took a letter and carefully handed it to Chen Zhengtai.

Chen Zhengtai looked down, in addition to greetings in the letter, he explained some horses sent, two of which were obtained from the Pamir (Ningyuan Kingdom), this Pamir (Ningyuan Kingdom) is a small country in the Western Regions, it has an ancient name, called Dawan.

These two horses, that is, the Dawan Horse, is a gift from the Pamirs to the Turks, especially precious, the Turki Khan is also reluctant to ride, the heart said that Chen Jungong is a hero, so special people sent it.

Chen Zhengtai read the letter and couldn't help but sigh: "I have a heart, I really have a heart, I really deserve to be a brother, he gave this love horse to him, it can be seen that he has a heart." Let's go, look at the horses to go. ”

These horses did not have a horse pen for a while, so they had to be stocked on a wide field in Erpigou, obviously these hundreds of horses are carefully selected, especially the two of them, the whole body is dark, extraordinarily wonderful, in the herd of horses, as if standing out from the crowd.

Chen Zhengtai didn't understand horses either, he just felt that this horse was unusually tall!

The Turkic envoy said: "There are actually three more horses on this horse, which are the tribute given to Your Majesty by the Khan of my family. ”

Chen Zhengtai nodded: "Yes, yes, what is different about this horse besides being handsome?" ”

The messenger obviously didn't understand what handsome meant, but ...... I probably understand that this is Chen Zhengtai praising this horse for growing well!

He thought for a while and said, "Many years ago, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was here, he once brought a thousand gold and a golden horse made of gold for a bloody horse, but was rejected by King Dawan. That's why this horse became famous. If you say the advantage, it is tall, the carrying capacity is also very large, more than double that of ordinary horses, and extremely endurance, this horse is tall, only a big hero like Chen Jungong is worthy of riding. ”

Chen Zhengtai laughed, the Turks also pat on the horse's feet, but it seems that his horse's fart slapped on the horse's feet, I, Chen Zhengtai, don't want to be a big hero, and I don't like to ride on a horse to fight and kill, this is obviously the other party's understanding of himself imposed on himself.

It's like a factory where a hard-working worker wants to pat a businessman's ass and say that your craftsmanship is so good.

Chen Zhengtai said: "I heard that when the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had these horses, breeded, and then raised, but in the end, this horse was scarce after all, so after the final introduction of horse breeds, they all took the old road of introduction-hybridization-improvement-backcrossing-disappearing." He will raise many such BMWs in the future. ”

On the one hand, this thing is particularly expensive to raise, and the war horse is mostly castrated, and the Dawan horse as a war horse eventually lost its ability to reproduce, when the country is strong, it can be raised on a small scale, and once it declines, even if the horse is good, the court can't afford to raise it, and eventually it will inevitably disappear.

Chen Zhengtai immediately said: "Go back and tell Brother Tuli that I have prepared more than a dozen carts of good wine, and I will send it to him, oh, and, in a few days, I will build a good knife for him, the so-called hero cherishes the hero, I am a hero, he is naturally a hero, and the sword is to be given to the hero." ”

The envoy was happy, in fact, when the Tuli Khan went back, he brought a cart of stuffy donkeys back, and some nobles tasted it, and they felt that this wine was rare in the world!

The Turki Khan may be more cowardly, but his brain is still flexible, he plans to get a batch of stuffed donkeys from Chen Zhengtai, and then sell them to various tribes in the grassland, on the one hand, he can use this to win the hearts of all tribes, and at the same time can exchange for a lot of horses, cattle and sheep.

The general agent of the donkey is stuffy, and the matter of making money is chilling.

At this time, I didn't expect Chen Zhengtai to agree so easily, which is great.

After bidding farewell to the messenger, Chen Zhengtai was in a good mood and continued to study his heating stove.

Dude can't cure you if you don't believe it, and you have to toss you out of it no matter how much it costs.

Although it is very distressing, because with the current technology, it is really not easy to pour a mold out of a hollow copper pipe, this is brass, and most of them are defective products, fortunately, they can be rebuilt.

Finally, the copper pipes needed for the heating stove were made, and at this time, a person arrived at Erpigou.

It was a young man, carrying a straight knife on his back, and a bow hanging from his waist, with sackcloth on the inside and a half-length of cowhide armor on the outside.

This kind of outfit is actually not an ordinary person, because this knife and bow represent that the other party is thin and has assets, ordinary people, but they can't afford this, and his eyes are very sharp, obviously not like he has been hungry, he walks with the wind, and he must have muscles.

Of course...... If it is judged by the standards of the world, this is actually a poor bastard, he went to Erpigou and asked around: "Dare to ask where is the Hussar Mansion of Erpigou?" ”

"I know Erpigou, Hussar Mansion...... Haven't heard of it. ”

The young man thought to hell with him.

He said angrily: "Why haven't you heard of it, Erpigou Hussar Mansion...... There is a ...... on the official document."

"If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it, you little man, it's really eventful."

The young man looked unconvinced, clutching the placket of this person's clothes.

The man got angry and immediately shouted.

So the neighbors in the vicinity all came out, dozens of them, and surrounded him: "Xiaolang is not a local, do you know Erpigou?" This is also the place where you go wild. ”

The young man said coldly: "I advise you to be polite, don't make me angry, if not, I will teach you that you will not be able to go to the ground." ”

These dozens of men all laughed: "Haha, Xiaolang, your tone is too big, Da Niu, you go and teach him a lesson." ”

"Oh." A fairly burly man quickly ran out, clasped his hands and said, "Xiaolang, don't come to make trouble, this is the Chen family's land, you can't eat and walk around when you make trouble here." ”

The young man raised his eyebrows and said a little impatiently: "You guys go together, I still have to hurry." ”

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"Childe, childe, it's terrible, it's terrible, I heard that someone came to make trouble and injured more than 30 people." Chen Fu's face was full of anxiety, and he hurriedly ran over.

Chen Zhengtai was busy before, and was about to take a break, but when he heard this, he was suddenly startled, and subconsciously wanted to ride his Dawan horse back to Chang'an first, and then let the prince send the forbidden army to conquer.

can injure more than 30 people, this is at least a gang of thieves, maybe hundreds or thousands of people!

After all, Erpigou is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, one step away from Chang'an, and he, the hussar general, is just a bare-bones commander.

Chen Zhengtai immediately panicked and went to put on his boots, and said to Chen Fu: "Prepare the horse quickly." ”

Chen Fu sighed.

But at this time, the doorman who was guarding the door outside had already come in and said: "It's amazing, a young man came, beat more than 30 men, and named him to find a son." ”

Chen Zhengtai: "......"

This is not scientific, although I, Chen Zhengtai, also bully people, I never provoke cruel people.

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The third chapter arrived, the power went out, and the update was a bit late.