The first infighting in the Ministry of Light took place in the Ministry of Justice.

Gong Goro, who had taken office as a new official, actively prepared his armed courtyard, and inevitably clashed with Umeng, who was in charge of the arrow-making.

"What's going on? Before the Turgish arrived, you were fighting? ”

Li Huaitang looked coldly at the group of craftsmen who were about to fight in the armed courtyard, and his stomach was full of anger.

The armed courtyard was set up in the home of the nobleman Mi Lulu, who was exterminated by Li Huaitang's family. Mi Lulu is almost the richest man in Qishi City, and his family courtyard is also the largest in Qishi City. Li Huaitang's decision to set up the Armed Armed Courtyard here is also an expression of his importance to the Armed Forces.

In the armed courtyard, all the people bowed their heads in shame, and no one dared to reply to Li Huaitang's words. A few days ago, Gong Wulang personally went into the mountains to transport cedars, and before leaving, he arranged for several deputies to raise manpower and corresponding tools for him.

Li Huaitang pointed to one of the people in the crowd and said, "You, tell me, what's going on?" ”

The person who was targeted had no choice but to tell Li Huaitang what happened.

The production of bows and crossbows requires a large number of skilled carpenters. And all the carpenters in the city of Qishi were gathered by Umeng and were responsible for processing arrows. Moreover, the wood they used, some of which was cedar, was removed directly from the house of the Milulu family, and it was a good wood that had been dried in the shade for many years, and it was undoubtedly the most suitable for making bows and crossbows. However, the person in charge of making the arrows said that he had to make 10,000 arrows in ten days, otherwise the heads would fall to the ground, so he refused to give in the slightest. So there was a dispute between the two sides over man and timber.

"Haha,"

Li Huaitang laughed inexplicably, and everyone stood there looking at each other, "It's all my fault." In this way, the production of arrows and weapons was placed under the responsibility of the Armed Forces. Umeng is only responsible for the purchase of equipment from abroad. ”

Wumeng also rushed to the scene when he heard the news, all this time, he was busy dealing with merchants, and he didn't care much about the affairs here, but suddenly something happened.

With an apologetic look on his face, Umon answered in shame: "Yes, General." Umeng's negligence in his work, and the general was asked to punish him. ”

Li Huaitang waved his hand and said, "It's me who has assigned you the overlapping responsibilities, and it's none of your business." Feel free to continue your work, and so will you, both of you, and work hard. I will give you the rewards and rewards on time and fairly. ”

"Yes!" The matter was resolved satisfactorily, and everyone in the armed courtyard was relieved.

"General, in my opinion, those dried cedars are used to make bows and crossbows. The rest of the wood continued to be used as material for arrows. Also, I think, like Mi Lulu, the houses of those rich and noble families should have been built and decorated with cedar. We can buy it from the aristocratic merchants at a high price to meet the immediate needs. ”

Li Huaitang looked at Wumeng with satisfaction, this guy, his head turned fast. "Okay, you're in charge of the acquisition, don't be afraid to spend money."

Preparations for the Armed Courtyard were well organized, and thousands of carpenters and apprentices were able to safely carry out the making of arrows and the tools needed to craft bows and crossbows.

Facing the war machine that was already running at a high speed, Li Huaitang felt a little like he couldn't wait, time was too precious for him, I don't know if Mohe Dagan has returned, and I don't know if Gu Si has bought himself more time as planned.

As soon as the infighting had been quelled, the Flying Eagle came with a letter of paper, which was still of the finest white linen paper. The paper letter was full of big food words, and Li Huaitang was confused when he read it. However, he knew that the letter must have something to do with Sukhail, and perhaps he had already arrived.

Li Huaitang was right, Suhail came, but he didn't come directly to Qishi City, but stopped after crossing the Wuhu River for thirty miles. Let the envoy bring a letter to Li Huaitang and ask him to meet and negotiate.

"Hehe, there are VIPs! Hey? No, why is Lao Su so twisted? Didn't you bring me what I wanted? ”

After seeing that it was the Great Food Text, Wumeng asked people to invite Shamur over, Shamul's language ability is very good, following Abdullah, the Great Food Language does not know how fluent he learned, after being transferred to Li Huaitang's command, Tang Yan is also a thousand miles a day, and now Tang Yan is even more standard than Li Huaitang. Soon, the texts were translated by Shamuel.

Shamul's translation reminded Li Huaitang of the Damascus scimitar.

Putting down the letter in his hand, Li Huaitang said: "Whatever, go, Flying Eagle, order the cavalry to go with me." Umun, Shamur, go with you. ”

More than 1,000 cavalry galloped along the direction of the lower reaches of Dumo Water, and the huge momentum frightened the animals along the way into fleeing in all directions. If it weren't for the military order, the itchy cavalrymen couldn't help but want to show off their maturing cavalry and archery skills.

Sukhail and they are just outside the capital of Xiaoshi Kingdom, on the south bank of the Dumo River.

Their arrival frightened the people of Xiaoshi Country a lot, and the military disaster of the Tucai people is still fresh in their memories. Fortunately, the troops of unknown origin did not cross the river, but only stayed to the south, seemingly intending to plunder, but waiting for something.

It took half a day for Li Huaitang to finally meet Suhair, and there was a middle-aged man with Suhair. Seeing Suhail's respectful look, Li Huaitang realized that this person was the right master.

"Lao Su, I'm so glad to see you. Without further ado, what do I want? ”

As soon as they met, Li Huaitang yelled at him, ignoring the person standing next to Sukhail as if that person didn't exist at all.

Sukhail looked at the middle-aged man beside him awkwardly, and whispered Li Huaitang's rude words.

"This is my master, Abu 'Abbas. This is Shi Guo's general Li. ”

Sukhail stopped Li Huaitang's bear hug and respectfully introduced the middle-aged man.

Shamuel whispered something in Li Huaitang's ear in surprise. Li Huaitang restrained his smile, looked at Abbasid, clasped his fists, and said, "Fortunately." A certain Shi Guo's mighty general, Li Huaitang. ”

The Abbasids also politely replied, "Representative of the Abbasids, Abu." ”

"Well, I beg your pardon, time doesn't allow me to stay here too long. Mr. Aby, don't blame me for being too direct. I want to know, who do you represent, and do you have the right to decide? ”

Li Huaitang said very seriously.

Abu, who was not shocked, also whispered something after listening to Sukhail's interpretation.

Sukhail nodded and received Abu's instructions, "General Li, my master said that we were sent on behalf of the Abu family, the governor of Khorasan and the entire Shia. The master's word is their decision. However, it is the general, who does not know what to use to reassure us. ”

"Haha," Li Huaitang laughed, "if the heads of the thousands of Tuqi Shi people can't give you confidence, then I have no choice but to leave." ”

"Well, General, the master believes in you. But my master had to look at the sheepskin first. ”

Sukhail conveyed Abu's meaning.

Li Huaitang didn't twist it, he took out the sheepskin from his arms, raised it, and said, "Please forgive me, before that, I want to see what I want first." ”

Without waiting for an interpreter, Abu raised his hand and motioned for his attendant behind him to drive dozens of camels to him. The camels were each carrying two large heavy bags. When a camel was led in front of Li Huaitang, a big food soldier waved a knife and cut the bag.

With a "bang", more than twenty scimitars bumped and scattered all over the ground.

Feiying picked up two of them and handed them to Li Huaitang.

Sure enough, the blade has a distinct snowflake pattern, and the sharp blade makes people feel indestructible.

An ordinary scimitar was handed to Li Huaitang's hand.

"Boom!" The two scimitars staggered fiercely. Li Huaitang only had a semi-scimitar left in his hand, and the intact one was the Damascus scimitar.

"Good!" Li Huaitang was very satisfied, "Flying eagle, acceptance, send it down, each ride." ”

Eighty camels, one hundred and sixty bags, a thousand Damascus scimitars, and more than a hundred bags of iron.

"What's going on?"

Li Huaitang took one of the pieces of iron with the same snowflake pattern and asked Sukhail suspiciously.

Sukhail said: "The scimitars that the generals need are all made in Damascus, and we really don't have so many. However, we have quite a few materials to make this scimitar. These are Uzi steel, enough to make 2,000 scimitars. The general can test it. ”

The protector was already weighing every piece of steel, and when he saw Li Huaitang's gaze, he nodded affirmatively and signaled that it was no problem.

Li Huaitang had to admire the generosity of the Abu Abbasid in front of him.

"Mr. Abu's shot is really extraordinary, and he can't be too stingy. Here, here's the sheepskin you want! After saying that, Li Huaitang handed the sheepskin in his hand to Abu.

After receiving the map handed over by Li Huaitang, Abu couldn't wait to take out another sheepskin, and the two sheepskins merged together. An ecstatic expression instantly filled his weathered face.

The other sheepskin was drawn by Sukhail from memory, and the two sheepskins were placed together to form a complete map, and the treasure jumped on the sheepskin.

With this treasure, Abu was able to bribe the forces of Khorasan, Shia, and many other tribes, raise large quantities of food and grass, and secretly assemble a huge army. Arab merchants are famous all over the world, as long as they have money, what equipment can't be bought? Abu stared at the two sheepskins in front of him, as if he had seen the caliph's throne crumbling, and that he was about to ascend to the highest peak of that power with the supreme divine power.

In comparison, a thousand sharp scimitars counted nothing. Although in order to raise the thousand scimitars, Abu used all his strength, including forcefully pressuring Ashrath to submit, and finally managed to scrape it up. However, as long as you have money, you can go to Damascus and move around, and thousands of such scimitars are at your fingertips. Moreover, the Uzi steel used to make Damascus scimitars had to be transported to Damascus through Khorasan, and as long as the raw materials were controlled, and a few knifesmiths were brought in from Damascus, the scimitars could be made by themselves. The more than 100 bags of Uzi steel were intercepted from Tianzhu and shipped to Damascus, and Abu was just generous to the caliph and then laid all the blame on the Turgish.

As his thoughts diverged, Abu's heart flew to Persia, to the mountains, to the treasure that shone with golden light. So much so that Sukhail's reminders were ignored by him.

"Master? Master? ”

Finally, Sukhail had no choice but to touch Abu's arm lightly with his hand.

"Huh!?" Abu came to his senses, "Ahem, um, what's the matter?" ”

"Shi Guoren is waiting for us to continue!" Sukhail pointed at Li Huaitang awkwardly and said.

Abu immediately returned to his unfazed state and said, "Tell them that our sincerity has been demonstrated." Tell the general about their plan and how they helped us free the lone army in Samarkand. ”

To get the support of the Khorasans, rescuing the lone army in Samarkand is a good way to win hearts and minds. Besides, those thousands of elites falling into their own hands are undoubtedly like a tiger to the growth of their own strength. That stupid donkey-like Ashlas was destined to be a stepping stone for him to gain the loyalty of the Khorasan army.