Chapter 168: Thirty percent of the horses in the world

"Huh?" Hearing Lu Zhe's request, although the two of them were strange, but in view of the surprise that Lu Zhe had brought to them before. The two of them let him go.

So, Li Shimin casually called two guards and asked them to tie up Lu Zhe's little green donkey.

Although according to Sun Simiao, Lu Zhe's little green donkey is no less than his four-hoofed snow racing unicorn after it grows up, and it is faster than ordinary horses, but even if it is a few fierce horses in the world, in front of the two royal guards with unique skills, it only has GG's share, not to mention a little green donkey that has not yet fully grown up?

Therefore, in less than a moment, the little green donkey was put down and tied up in Lu Zhe's heart-wrenching eyes. The bundle was so tight, in order not to disturb the nobles with the cry of the little green donkey, they also used brocade cloth to plug the little green donkey's mouth very intimately.

I'm rubbing, before you enter the palace, aren't you robbing the road, so professional? Seeing that his little green donkey's mouth was blocked, and it was tightly tied by a standard four-horse hooves binding method, Lu Zhe had to sigh, this kind of thing is still more professional than the official people.

The little green donkey that was arranged clearly was carried by two guards with a long plastic as a pole, and under the command of Lu Zhe, the two carefully put the little green donkey down, and then quickly retreated.

From taking the rope, tying the donkey to putting down the retreat, the whole process did not exceed half a pillar of incense, which made Lu Zhe have to sigh at the professionalism of the imperial guards.

Sighing for a while, Lu Zhe squatted down in front of the tightly tied little green donkey, gently stroked its long ears to comfort it, and then pointed to the little green donkey's hooves.

"Thirty percent of the war horses in the world are out of this."

"What?" Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling originally looked at Lu Zhe without blinking, but now when they heard him point to the hooves of the little green donkey and say this, they hurriedly leaned over to look, and at a glance, both of them saw something different.

"What is this?" Li Shimin stared at the hooves of the little green donkey for a long time, looked at the iron ring on the hooves of the donkey and asked.

"This is the thing that the philosopher wants to offer to the official, this thing is called the hoof, which is made of iron bars, which can protect its hooves, if the war horse is equipped with it, the shallow pit of gravel, and even the sword and armor, such as walking on the ground without hurting its feet."

With Lu Zhe's explanation, the two of them, who were originally a little plausible, suddenly sobered up.

"Shoes, shoes, that's it, hahaha. Lu Qing's thing is really worth 30% of the world. "Half a life

Li Shimin stared at the horseshoe carefully for a long time, and suddenly laughed, obviously understanding the effect of the horsehoe fall.

"Xuan Ling still doesn't know the magic of this thing, and I ask this little Langjun to solve Xuan Ling's doubts." Although Fang Xuanling has also fought and experienced battle formations, he belongs to the role of strategists joining the army, and occasionally has been in battle once or twice.

"Xuan Ling didn't know that the most damaged war horses in the army were because of their cracked hooves. No matter how miraculous the horse is, if its hooves are cracked, it cannot be rushed into battle, so it has to be used as a horse to transport military quartermasters. The horse's hooves are quite delicate, the weather is cold and easy to crack, the gravel is easy to crack, and the long-distance run is also easy to crack, so the war horse in the army can not be used because of the cracked hooves, three or four out of ten, today Lu Qing offered a shoe a thing, just like putting on iron boots for this war horse, it can ensure that it has no risk of cracking hooves, I don't know Lu Qing, what I said can be like this? ”

"The official family is worthy of the soldiers in the world, and at a glance, you can see the mystery of this thing." Lu Zhe also hurriedly patted the horse's ass, in fact, the horseshoe appeared late in China, the Song Dynasty should not have it, the large-scale appearance was still in the Yuan Dynasty, it should have been transmitted from Rome, the interesting thing is that the Mongols brought the bilateral stirrups that the Sui Dynasty had to the West, and brought the horseshoe that existed in the ancient Roman period back to the East.

The influence of the horseshoe on the ancient war is huge, in the era of cold weapons, the cavalry has always been a big killer, and the war horse is the basis of the cavalry, before the horseshoe, every time the cavalry goes out, the loss of the war horse, it will make every king heartache.

To make a simple analogy, in the strong man who was the concubine of the Han Dynasty wherever the sun and the moon shined on the rivers and rivers, Huo Quai's fame in the First World War, a total of 140,000 horses were prepared before the war, and after the First World War, only 30,000 horses returned to Chang'an, and only 10,000 horses could be used in the end. A large part of them were killed because the horse's hooves were cracked and broken, and they could not go into battle.

And the appearance of the horse's hoof drop made the war horse due to non-combat attrition, to one-tenth of the previous one! And most of these are horses whose legs slip and break, or horses die of disease.

I have to say that the appearance of the horseshoe can simply change the current way of fighting and the pattern of the world.

"This thing seems simple, but it contains such a deep meaning behind it, if it weren't for the official explanation, Xuan Ling would have thought about it for a long time, and the wisdom of the official family, Xuan Ling is far inferior." Fang Xuanling said as he bowed deeply to Li Shimin.

Sure enough, people are old and treacherous, and the little white face is not kind. Seeing Fang Xuanling bowing down, Lu Zhe naturally didn't dare to slack off, and he also bowed down, looking at Fang Xuanling's look of worship, he not only complained about Fang Xuanling's licking dog in his heart.

The farrier is a thing, don't say that Fang Xuanling Li Shimin and other figures, the horseman and blacksmith who helped the little green donkey load the farrier saw the purpose of this thing at a glance, he didn't believe that as the chief thinker of Tiance Mansion, known for his resourcefulness, Fang Xuanling, who controls half of the country's economy and people's livelihood at this moment, will not see the importance of this thing? It's nothing more than deliberately pretending not to know, and then reflecting the wisdom and foresight of the leader.

There is really no one who has left a name in history who is easy to get along with. Looking at Fang Xuanling's expression of sudden realization, Lu Zhe remembered the detail that Fang Xuanling suddenly breathed more heavily when he saw the farrier just now, he was next to him at the time, and happened to notice that this Fang Xiang, I am afraid that he can see the importance of this thing at a glance.

Sure enough, he has a little white face and no kind eyes. Lu Zhe looked at Fang Xuanling, who had a fair face and was still elegant and graceful, and complained about the little white face in his heart.

However, Lu Zhe forgot that at this time, he was no longer the thin peasant boy with a slightly yellow face who had just crossed over, he had eaten a lot of meat and had been dressed and eaten recently, his figure was becoming more and more symmetrical, and his face was becoming fairer and fairer.

"Can you give it a try?" Li Shimin looked at the hooves of this little green donkey, like a big financier who asked for a test drive in later generations.

"Please also invite the official, but it doesn't hurt to try." Lu Zhe bowed and saluted.

"Hahahaha, in this case, I'll try this." Li Shimin immediately asked people to untie the rope on the little green donkey, take off the cloth that blocked the donkey's mouth, and personally rode the little green donkey out to swing around.

It's not just that the little green donkey is scared or born psychic, originally the little green donkey was not allowed to ride except for Lu Zhe, but Li Shimin's fat body pressed down, and the little green donkey obediently let Li Shimin ride, and compared to Lu Zhe, it seems to be more obedient. This made Lu Zhehao depressed for a while, could there really be such a setting as the son of the plane?

Although the little green donkey is a donkey, but the running is not slow, Li Shimin rode the little green donkey deliberately to the bumpy road, gravel road, and also let people spread branches, armor, and even swords and weapons on the ground, etc., perfectly simulating the situation that may be encountered on various battlefields.

As Lu Zhe expected, when Li Shimin rode back with a good smile and a good idea, Lu Zhe knew that Li Shimin had witnessed the effect of the horseshoe.

At this time, it was seen that Fang Xuanling, as the prime minister of a country, still had something, and he and Lu Zhe were not idle during this time, in order to verify whether it was really good, he directly found the master who would be the supervisor, and at the same time pulled a horse, and asked Lu Zhe to personally guide and put a horsehoe on the horse.

The skill of the master master of the prison is simply much higher than the blacksmith Lu Zhe found, and soon, a royal horse in the palace was installed with a shoe, and the imperial horse was a little uncomfortable at first, and after jumping twice, he quickly adapted to his new boots.

Although the horse that can be used by a donkey can definitely be used, but without seeing that the war horse has been tested, Fang Xuanling is still very cautious to let a guard ride a horse to test it again.

Fang Xuanling's carefulness made Li Shimin, who came back on a donkey, feel very good, and the three of them waited for the guards to return. It wasn't until half a day later that the guards returned on horseback. Carefully Fang Xuanling, completely imitated the scene during the battle, and let him run twenty miles and then come back.

When the hooves of the war horse sounded outside the Chengtian Gate, the sweaty royal horse was also led to Li Shimin and others for the first time, and a few horsemen came up and checked carefully.

The results of the examination were as expected, the horse's hooves that had just been shaved for nailing the horse's shoes were intact (in ancient times, cutting the nails of horses was the daily care of horses, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, the horsemen had to do this), according to the guards, riding this horse not only did not have the slightest discomfort, but was more stable than in the past, and some bumpy and hidden gravel roads could also be ridden all the way through effortlessly.

After listening to the guard's report, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were overjoyed, and rewarded the guard with the same money at that time, and asked the groom to lead the horse down so that he could feed some forage.

"Thirty percent of the world's grain and thirty percent of the horse." Li Shimin was a little complacent at the moment, "The two things offered by Lu Qing are both important weapons of the country, and with these two things, my Datang Dynasty foundation can be expected." ”

"All the saints of heaven will be born auspicious, this is a sign of the great prosperity of my Tang Dynasty." Fang Xuanling didn't say a word, turned over and knelt down.

"Wuzhuang Guan Lu Zhe, may I wish the Tang Dynasty an inexhaustible eternity!" There was no way, it was time to shout slogans again, Lu Zhe ignored the gravel on the road, and turned over and knelt down again.

"Hahahaha, Lu Qing is a disciple of the immortals, and offering this artifact shows that God wants to rejuvenate the Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin laughed, and he was a little complacent for a while.

Didn't you say that I was not in the right place? Doesn't it mean that I have Hu blood, not Han clothes? I have the help of immortal disciples, the left hand of the curved plow, the right hand of the horseshoe, the left hand of the people, the right hand of the army, within a few years, the Tang Dynasty soldiers are full of food, look at the family that watched my jokes, what else can I say at that time?

Thinking of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty after having these two things, Li Shimin's eyes on Lu Zhe also became happy.

"Lu Qing offered these two things, there is a great merit to the country, and if there is merit, it will be rewarded, and the country and dynasty are customary, I don't know what Lu Qing wants?" Seeing the young man kneeling in front of him, Li Shimin decided that even if he was really the spokesperson pushed out by the Jiangnan Shi clan, as long as he didn't ask too much, he would fulfill the wishes of those people.

"That's it, boy, daring, there are two reluctant requests." Lu Zhe raised his head and looked at Li Shimin.

"Oh? Lu Qing, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it. Looking at Lu Zhe's firm eyes, Li Shimin sighed in his heart, did he want to rely on these two things to put forward some conditions that were difficult for him to complete? Thinking of this, the murderous intent in Li Shimin's heart flashed.

If this person's conditions are too outrageous, and he offers two things, I will put him under house arrest in Chang'an for the rest of his life, and give him a reputation of glory and wealth.

Qu Yuan plough and horse hooves fall, for the Tang Dynasty is too important, in order to prevent this flow into other countries, the best way is to kill Lu Zhe, but as a generation of heroes, Li Shimin always has some bottom line, not a complete hero, looking at Lu Zhe's serious appearance, he said in his heart Later, if this kid puts forward some requirements that touch his bottom line, he will not kill him, leave him in Chang'an, and be a rich idler for a lifetime.

But after listening to Lu Zhe's two requests, Li Shimin was completely shocked.

"First, I also asked the official family to issue an order to abolish the order for the burial of the living." This is what Lu Zhe promised to the maids in Li Yuan's palace and the Yellow Gate yesterday, thinking of the vice of martyrdom, Lu Zhe felt that it was really unbearable. So taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Zhe hurriedly brought it up.

"That's the second one." Lu Zhe pondered for a moment, glanced at Fang Xuanling, and had a slightly mysterious smile on his face.

"Please also ask the official family to plan for the Tang Dynasty and implement these two things in the world as soon as possible!"

What the? After listening to Lu Zhe's two requests, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling glanced at each other, and a look of surprise appeared on their faces.