"In the far west, there was once such a story."

In the main hall of Chen Zhi's friend named Lu Ming, Li Yuanjia told a story to a group of people with a smile: "An iron nail is missing, and a horseshoe is missing." Lost a horseshoe, lost a warhorse. Lose a warhorse, lose a king. Lost a king, lost a battle. Lost a battle and ruined a dynasty...... The story is about the horseshoe, the thing you just saw. ”

“……”

After listening to Li Yuanjia's story, a group of people suddenly had different expressions.

There are Chen Zhi who is thoughtful, there is also Lu Ming who feels that this story is extremely surprising, and of course there are other people who look disappreciative and seem to have a faint disdain.

Of course, Li Yuanjia will definitely not be angry about this.

Because even he didn't really believe in this seemingly joke-like story. One thing he is sure of is that horseshoes are not an uncommon thing in Europe, and the Romans designed the "horse sandal" long ago, and it was already common in ruins from the first century BC.

However, in the far east, the large-scale application of horseshoes did not wait until the time of the Yuan Dynasty!

As a person who has checked the information because of curiosity, Li Yuanjia is deeply puzzled by this, because he really feels that this thing is not too complicated, and it doesn't seem so difficult to think of, why do Chinese never use it? Is it really as said on the Internet, because Europe is mostly stone roads, and ancient China has always been dirt roads, so this kind of equipment to protect horses' hooves is not very urgently needed? Or is it because steel production is too low and copper is too precious to be wasted on horseshoes?

But no matter what the reason is, Li Yuanjia doesn't care, just make it himself.

In addition to his beloved horse Huoyun, the war horses of the guards in King Xu's mansion ...... In fact, all the horses were loaded with horseshoes by the blacksmiths. Then time will tell those who have doubts how useful this horse will be when it is shoeed!

As for the current situation, Li Yuanjia is not in a hurry.

He found that since he came to this world, and then trapped in Chang'an City, or more precisely, in the Imperial City for three years, not only had his patience become extraordinarily good, but his mentality had also become extremely Buddhist—he was happy to be solid, and he was happy to be defeated.

Anyway, these things have been held in the stomach for three years before they are taken out, so what does it matter if others don't value them now?

So after just telling these people that he had read about the production method from a book, Li Yuanjia smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, what about the cockfighting you prepared?" Let's go! ”

"Yes, yes, let's go!"

"Quick, let them get my Red General out!"

"General Red is just a defeated general under the whirlwind, let's look at my bell!"

……

As soon as cockfighting was mentioned, the few people who didn't seem to care much about the horseshoe just now immediately became excited, and for a moment it seemed as if they had forgotten that there was a prince present today, and the atmosphere soon became lively.

However, everyone else wanted to start the cockfight quickly, but Chen Zhi was still thinking about the horseshoe he saw just now, and asked beside Li Yuanjia: "King, I wonder if you can let Xia Guan go and see those horseshoes again?" ”

"Huh? Is Chen Senjun interested in that thing? ”

“…… Yes, my lord, I think this thing will be of great use if it can protect the horse's hooves for a long time! Our Chen family has a lot of horses, and every year good horses are scrapped because of cracked or falling off hooves......"

"Hehe, I see."

Hearing Chen Zhi say this, Li Yuanjia suddenly waved his hand and said: "In that case, I will ask the blacksmith to go to your house and tell me the method of building the horseshoe, and you can build it yourself!" ”

"Huh? This...... Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Chen Zhi was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed deeply, and at the same time, a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes.

If he just learned how to make a horseshoe, of course Chen Zhi would not be so excited, but through this incident, he experienced the kindness expressed by Li Yuanjia and the kind of person who regarded Chen Zhi as a friend...... Maybe the word friend is too high for me, but at least it's closer, right?

This is quite important to Chen Zhi!

It's just that what he didn't expect was that as the only person in the house today who was so concerned about the horseshoe, instead of immediately shifting his attention to cockfighting, it was almost a matter of course for Chen Zhi to win Li Yuanjia's favor.

It's just a horseshoe manufacturing technology, how can Li Yuanjia care?

There is no patent fee these days, unless you can really cover the technology tightly, anyone can copy it at will. And the horseshoe thing has almost no technical content, and the blacksmith with a little skill can understand what is going on at a glance, not to mention that what Li Yuanjia wants is to let more horses wear shoes, let alone cover it and not show it to others......

Thanks to the efforts of the next people, today's cockfighting competition soon began.

A group of people gathered around the cockfighting ring, all eyes on the first pair of "players" who were about to appear. Just glanced at the red turbans on the heads of the two chickens, and saw their owners start to sprinkle things on the chicken wings, Li Yuanjia completely lost interest.

However, he didn't walk away, but began to chat with Chen Zhi.

Of course, Chen couldn't ask for this, and he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, anyway, in the next period of time, Chen Zhi felt that King Yu had become much more approachable.

However, he could also feel that Li Yuanjia didn't seem to be too interested in the cockfights in the arena.

Although it seemed that he had been watching the battle seriously, Chen Zhi, who was beside Li Yuanjia, could see it very clearly, except for an occasional glance, the increasingly fierce battle in the field could not even make his eyebrows rise, which was in stark contrast to a few other friends who were gradually excited by the game......

"It seems that I can't ask the king to play cockfighting anymore in the future."

Thinking about this, Chen Zhi also had a headache. Luzhou is not Chang'an City, there are few interesting things, not to mention the king of people or the nobles of Tianhuang, what new things have not been seen?

Just when Chen Zhi was pondering how to continue to get close to this king in the future, Li Yuanjia suddenly asked: "By the way, Chen joins the army, which friend are you talking about?" ”

"Huh? Oh, that's him! ”

Chen Zhi, who came back to his senses, hurriedly owed a debt, and pointed to the owner of today's Zhuangzi: "It's him Lu Ming, the family has lived in Luzhou for generations, and the door is very wide, and there is no problem in helping you find thousands of catties of iron in a year......"