Chapter 14 What is uncontrollable must be controlled

As long as Huo Quzhi enters the barracks, he will leave his family behind, and the boring life in the barracks, he will not be bored even if he lives a lifetime, if possible, he wants to live in the barracks for the rest of his life.

Yun Lang can't do this, and Li Kang can't do it.

Compared with Huo Quzhi's attitude of treating the military camp as his home, Yun Lang felt that the military camp was a place to do things, while Li Gang thought that the military camp was just a tool for him to make a living.

The palace walls of Fuli Palace are constantly being heightened, and even trebuchets, bed crossbows, rolling wood and stones, ash bottles, and lead water are constantly being improved at the head of the city.

Yun Lang even used the abundant manpower in his hands to start rebuilding the palace wall of Fuli Palace, and the boxy palace wall did not have too many defensive positions.

Therefore, Yun Lang wanted to turn the beautiful boxy straight line palace wall into a zigzag surface, so a lot of horse-faced walls protruded from the city wall.

The horse-faced wall protrudes to thirty zhang, and a gap of 100 zhang is reserved between the two horse-faced walls, which is exactly within the optimal range of the bow and crossbow.

Once the enemy approached the Fuli Palace, the first thing they faced was the defenders on the horse face, and if the enemy rashly attacked the wall from the middle of the two horse face walls, they would face blows from three directions.

When Wei Qing inspected the camp of Fuli Palace, he was silent for a long time after reading Yunlang's design drawings, and then took the drawings to the Inutai Palace to see the emperor.

There are not many dogs in the Inutai Palace today, after being ravaged by Yunlang once, the lame dogs have been disposed of, and now, there are not many dozens of dogs left, under the command of Liu Che, pounce on the hares and pheasants captured by the palace slaves, and even attack a wild boar caught together.

The fact that Yun Lang was not treated by the emperor was known to the world.

Wei Qing didn't bring Yun Lang to see the emperor.

There were too few dogs, and Liu Che saw that the dogs besieging the wild boar obviously couldn't surround the wild boar, so he snorted and returned to the Qingliang Palace.

Cao Xiang led two tall and mighty mastiffs and stood at the door with a smile to welcome his uncle's arrival.

Liu Che looked at the two lion-sized mastiffs, and smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, where did you get it?" ”

Cao Xiang first gave his uncle a salute, and then said with a smile: "It was the cubs brought back from the West Sea by the slave hunting group, and they were raised for half a year, so they were dedicated to my uncle to save the loss of the Inutai Palace." ”

Liu Che was not close to the two mastiffs, and after the two strong dog slaves caught the mastiffs, Liu Che approached the mastiffs and looked up and down and said to Cao Xiang: "The people of the slave hunting group have actually arrived in the West Sea?" ”

Cao Xiang hurriedly said: "There's no way, I heard that the Xiqiang people on the plain are constantly running to high places, and the people of the slave hunting group have no choice but to follow up, so they will chase and chase to the West Sea." ”

Liu Che looked down on the slave hunting group, just because the Han people's thirst for slaves was almost endless, so he turned a blind eye and let it develop, preparing to wait for the army to pacify the surrounding barbarians, and then consider how to deal with these people.

After all, once the dynasty sweeps away the demonic atmosphere and the four seas are peaceful, the prosperous era should have the appearance of a prosperous era, and the country's atmosphere cannot be damaged by these pickled people.

At least, the Han people can't do such a thing.

"In this big test, how many people did you Cao recommend?" After Liu Che finished reading the dog, he sat down, holding the tea bowl and waiting for Cao Xiang to reply.

"The Cao family didn't recommend anyone this time, and as for those who went to take the big exam with their own skills, their nephews couldn't control it."

Liu Che glanced at Cao Xiang, who was a little proud, and said, "Is your Cao family's protégé sure of passing the exam?" ”

Cao Xiang quickly shook his head and said, "I don't know, but there are a few clansmen in the Cao clan who are really good at learning." ”

Liu Che nodded and said: "Those who are admitted with real skills are better than you pushing me hard, and letting me give them official titles and knights, and it also makes my heart more comfortable." ”

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "The Cao family will no longer recommend any virtuous people casually in the future, unless it is really virtuous, which makes me feel sorry for your kind of virtuousness if I don't recommend it." ”

Liu Che smiled and motioned to Sui Yue to give Cao Xiang a cup of tea.

When Cao Xiang was holding the tea bowl and smiling, he waited for his uncle to praise him again, and then heard Liu Che say: "You divided the Cao family?" ”

Cao Xiang was taken aback, and the hot tea in the tea bowl he was holding was burning in his hands and he didn't feel it.

Liu Che said again: "What are you afraid of? ”

Cao Xiang hurriedly said: "There are many people in the Cao family, and newborns are born every day, if you don't cut it again, your nephew won't be able to control it."

Now, in addition to the fact that the Cao clan in Pingyang County is the land of the ancestors and cannot be discarded, the nephew has divided the Cao clan children in Julu County, Runan County, and Jiangdu County, and from now on, these three clans will no longer obey the orders of the Pingyang Hou Mansion and let them fend for themselves. ”

Liu Che said: "Really? ”

Cao Xiang put down the tea bowl and said, "That's true." ”

"Well, I know, I'll accompany me to lunch later."

Cao Xiang was overjoyed, his uncle generally didn't like to invite people to dinner, and it seemed that the division of the Cao family made his uncle very satisfied.

The Cao clan has really been divided, but a small Cao clan has been set up in Cao Xiang in Peiguo.

As far as blood relations are concerned, the Cao clan that stayed in Peiguo is the closest to the Cao clan in Pingyang County, and he deliberately placed some Cao clan people who have no intention of being in the court or business, and have an indifferent temperament, and let them cultivate and read heirlooms.

The reason why he had this arrangement was because Yun Lang once joked with him that that place was very beneficial to the Cao family.

If the person who said this was changed, Cao Xiang would definitely laugh at it, since it was Yun Lang who said it, Cao Xiang would value it very much.

He had already discovered that the more Yun Lang joked about it, the more important this matter would be.

When Wei Qing came, Cao Xiang was eating with the emperor, and when he came, the emperor stopped eating and hurriedly went to see Wei Qing.

It was an honor to accompany the emperor to dinner, and if the emperor was not there, Cao Xiang would despise the food in the palace that had never changed in a hundred years.

As soon as the emperor left, he dropped his chopsticks, and just now in order to pretend to be gobbling up, he ate a piece of big fat meat, and now it is extremely uncomfortable in his throat.

It took a heavy punch in the stomach to spit out the slimy piece of meat, and some more.

The stomach finally felt a little more comfortable, but the mouth was very greasy, and after drinking a large glass of water to rinse his mouth, he left the mess all over the ground for the eunuch to clean up.

He really wanted to stay with his uncle for a while to see if he had any other opinions on the Cao family's participation in the big exam.

Perhaps, the exam method learned from my uncle's mouth should be the safest news.

"Horse-faced wall? What is this? ”

After Liu Che heard what Wei Qing said, he asked strangely.

"It is a kind of city wall built by Yunlang in Fuli Palace to protect the city wall, in fact, it is very simple, that is, it protrudes from the city wall, not far, the front protrudes to thirty zhang, and the horse face on both sides is very short, only ten zhang."

Liu Che imagined it for a while and still didn't understand the meaning, so he shook his head and said, "What's the use?" ”

Wei Qing said: "Although it is only a small change, it is a big change for the offensive and defensive sides.

Your Majesty, look! ”

Wei Qing opened the drawing as he spoke, pointed to the protruding part outside the city wall and said to the emperor: "This is the horse face wall!"

In the past, when we faced the enemy attacking the city, we only had the city wall as a barrier, and if we could not send troops and horses from the city gate to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, we could only stand on the city wall and use bows, crossbows, catapults, and other things to fight the enemy.

If there is a horse-faced wall, your Majesty look, we can throw weapons at the besieging enemy from three sides, so that the enemy is attacked on three sides and hasten the enemy's collapse.

The most important thing is that with the horse face wall, the enemy's siege engines, and the ladder cannot easily approach the city wall, which is too advantageous for the defending side. ”

After listening to Wei Qing's explanation, Liu Che finally figured out the function of this horse-faced wall, and Liu Che was not surprised by the thing made by Yun Lang.

What he values is Yun Lang's ability to innovate, and if he trains soldiers in Fuli Palace in a decent manner, he will disappoint the emperor.

"Send a prison envoy, such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack fortress suddenly appeared in Shanglin Yuan, and there must be a prison envoy to supervise the construction of the city."

Liu Che's first reaction was to supervise, this fortress is on the edge of the imperial city, and whether it can become the imperial city's aid depends on whose hands this city is in.

Wei Qing frowned and said: "Fuli Palace has become a place for General Wei to build his teeth, and this prison army envoy is not easy to send." ”

Liu Che smiled: "Cao Xiang go!" ”

Wei Qing hurriedly said: "It's not proper! ”

Liu Che said with a smile: "Why is it inappropriate?" ”

"The Overseer and the Overseed need to be opposed!"

Liu Che shook his head and said: "It's more troublesome to change someone, if Yun Lang really wants to deceive this prison envoy, even if he is bad in front of the prison envoy, our prison envoy will not be able to find out."

Just send Cao Xiang to go, first, Yun Lang will accept it, second, hum, something went wrong, I don't punish Yun Lang, he is as cunning as a fox, slippery as an eel, he never gives me an excuse to make trouble, I punish Cao Xiang!

In this way, it is more effective than punishing Yunlang. ”

Wei Qing looked at the emperor puzzled, he couldn't understand, shouldn't the emperor be happy for the new city at this time?

The first thing that comes to mind is supervision.

Liu Che saw Wei Qing's blank expression, so he sighed and said, "You have explained to me the function of the horse face wall for a long time, and then I know the use of this thing.

Yun Lang is terrible at this point, you Wei Qing has been immersed in the army for many years, and you haven't come up with a way, and when you appear in Yun Lang's hands, it's as ordinary as turning your palm, walking, and eating.

As you said, you have discovered the usefulness of this thing, and you feel that it is infinitely useful, but Yun Lang is too lazy to ask me for credit for such a big thing.

Alas, such a monkey would be better restrained a little more. ”