In the third year of Sui Daye (607), Taifu Temple was divided into Shaofu Supervisor, changed the Inner Serving Province to Changqiu Supervisor, Guozixue was Guozijian, and the Temple was the Supervisor, and the Dushui Supervisor was called the Five Supervisors, which was basically inherited by later generations.

Under the leadership of Tong Qing, Li De came to the general as a prisoner, ready to talk to the general as a prisoner about some small business, through the communication of the small officials, Yan Lide, who is currently the general of the general of the prison, and his younger brother Yan Liben went out with all the subordinate officials to greet him.

"The lower official will be the superintendent, and the general Yan Lide will meet His Royal Highness King Wei," Yan Liben hugged his fist at Li De.

Yan Lide, Tang Dynasty architect, arts and crafts artist, painter Tang Wude to Zhenguan period of Shangyi Fengyu, will be a young craftsman, will be a master craftsman, the Ministry of Works, etc. He was ordered to build the Tang Gaozu Mountain Mausoleum, supervised the construction of Cuiwei and Yuhua Palaces, built the Zhaoling Tomb, and presided over the construction of Guo and the city tower outside the Tang Chang'an City.

Yan Liben was a politician and painter in the Tang Dynasty. Good at craftsmanship, more ingenious thinking, Gong Seal Lishu, very good at painting and architecture, Sui Dynasty officials to Chaosan doctors, Tang will be a young eunuch. Ministry of Works.

This is the first artist Li De has seen when he came to the Tang Dynasty, although he is a master craftsman, it sounds like he is in charge of the construction of craftsmen, but the official position is not low, but he is a third-grade master, and he also has a younger brother named Yan Liben, next to him is the general supervisor Shaofu is also an architect, painter, their father was also engaged in this in the Sui Dynasty, and the family is an artist.

His younger brother is amazing, Yan Liben also has three major achievements, one of which is that his painting skills are highly and profoundly appreciated by Li Shimin, and he has been ordered to paint magnificent pictures many times, and the portraits of the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion are from his handwriting. The second Yan Liben in addition to being a general, painter or a politician, his brother Yan Lide died after the promotion of the general craftsman, the Ministry of Justice, to the Gaozong Dynasty is on the pinnacle of life, as the Ministry of Works, after worshiping the right minister, at that time Jiang Ke was promoted to the left minister with military exploits, so the people of the time have "the left phase Xuanwei desert, the right phase is known as Danqing".

The third is to know people and be good at selecting talents, and when Yan Liben was appointed as the envoy of Henan Province and was responsible for the assessment of officials, he met the talent he had been seeking for a long time in Bianzhou. Yan Liben said to him: "I am a painter, in my heart I have people who want to paint and people who don't want to paint, among the people who want to paint, there are very few people who have the impulse to paint at the first sight, and you are a very small number of people, people who have to paint." ”

And this Yan Liben thought that the person who had to paint was Di Renjie, the most outstanding prime minister in the era of Gaozong Wu Zetian, Di Renjie was still a petty official who served in the army at that time, and his status was low, but he could not find a trace of fear in his eyes, extremely calm and calm, Yan Liben was impressed by his courage, Yan Liben later said frankly to his close ministers: "The person who was stared at by me and was not moved, I have never seen it." Di Renjie was promoted to the governor of the prefecture, and since then, his ambitions have been displayed and he has become a generation of famous ministers.

Li De wants to meet these two brothers very beautiful, the eyes are hot, they all say that the troubled times gold, the prosperous antiques, and many treasure appreciation columns in later generations are also Li De's favorite to watch, because everyone has a dream of making a fortune, and that day when he went to Panjiayuan to find such a big leak, he doesn't have to worry about it in this life, just like Li De, who watched the N episodes of Taobao shows, Xiaobaikeng goods also know that what is the most expensive antique in the Celestial Empire, of course it has to be porcelain. Isn't our English name "CHINA"? Just when Li De crossed over, a Ru kiln azure glaze wash in the Northern Song Dynasty was auctioned at a price of 294 million Hong Kong dollars, and the diameter of this porcelain was only 13 cm, which really confirmed the sentence "Even if there is a lot of family wealth, it is not as good as a piece of Ru kiln", and in 05 Christie's in London, the Yuan blue and white large pot Guiguzi was auctioned down the mountain and sold for 230 million, which was exchanged for 2 tons of gold at that time.

Of course, Li De crossed the Tang Dynasty instead of the later Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, and there is no need to think about the peak era of porcelain, but this painting is also a big potential stock, and the value is not worse than porcelain.

That's why Li De saw that Yan Lide's two brothers were so hot, especially Yan Liben, Li Shimin asked him to paint a lot of paintings that praised his merits and virtues, and he Li De would not let go of this artist, although he had not married a wife yet. But you can prepare gifts for your son and daughter in advance, and let their brother make a few good paintings, especially when he comes back from a big victory, he will find the two of them to draw them, and he will wrap them up first, and pass them on to the next generation, a proper heirloom.

Yan Lide glanced at his brother and shook his head slightly, I don't know what is wrong with His Royal Highness King Wei, didn't he just give him a salute, as for being in a daze there, he still smirked, isn't he sick? Do you want to ask the imperial doctor to take a look? They thought that Li De was beating the idea of the two brothers.

Tong Qing saw Li De's soul wandering out of the world, this occasion was not suitable, people were still waiting for him to speak, and then coughed twice and said, "Lord Wang, we should go in."

Li De came back to his senses at this time, and when he saw that everyone's eyes were full of the feeling that you were sick, he smiled awkwardly, waved his hand and said, "Haha, this weather is good, Lord Yan, and everyone is exempt, exempt." Let's go inside."

Yan Lide turned sideways and replied, "Your Highness, please." ”

Yan Lide walked in front, led Li De to visit the general supervisor, introduced the various craftsmen and functions of the supervisor, and finally sat down in the hall and asked, "I don't know, Your Highness has arrived, what are your orders?" ”

Li De said, "Lord Yan, you must also know that this king was appointed by His Majesty to assemble a new army, so he took the liberty to come here to ask the general to build a batch of new military equipment. ”

Hearing this, Tong Qing took out the pattern drawn by Li De and handed it to Yan Lide, on which were various weapons drawn by Li De according to the style of later generations, including daggers, flying knives, improved bows and crossbows, swords, horizontal knives, armor, arm guards, etc.

Yan Lide discussed with his younger brother and said to Li De, "Your Highness, most of the styles you have drawn can be made, but this requires horizontal knives, armor, and bows made of stainless steel, I don't know how much you need?" And when is it needed? ”

Li De said, "5,000 is needed in advance, and within a month, it will be used for recruit training."

Yan Liben smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, this is difficult for the lower officials, if it is only for the generals to be equipped with such equipment, then the general as a prison force can also complete your requirements, not to mention the armor and flying knives, even the steel horizontal knives can not be made in a month." The output of stainless steel for a month is only 1,000 catties, and it is indeed impossible to produce 5,000 steel horizontal knives in a month. ”

When Li De heard this explanation, he also realized that he was blindly optimistic, completely ignoring that the steelmaking technology of the Tang Dynasty was not yet a later generation, and it was a million tons casually, but he did not guess that it would be so low, it should be related to steelmaking technology.

Li De asked, "I don't know what method is used to make steel?" ”

Yan Lide said, "There are two kinds, one is the hundred steel smelting since the Han Dynasty, and the other is the steel filling method, but although this method improves efficiency, it cannot be used to create high-grade weapons and armor." ”

Li De thought to himself, it is true, the steel filling method and forging method only matured in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and this is only the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, so he has to find a way to climb the technology tree for the general, otherwise his plan will be delayed. When there is no improvement in technology, we can only wait slowly.

Li De said, "In this way, this prince is no longer asking for time, please Lord Yan to co-ordinate, these five thousand new equipment can be related to the battle against the Turks in the future, and this king will also think about what methods can increase the output and process of stainless steel." ”

Yan Lide replied, "Thank you Your Highness for your leniency, and the officials will give priority to ensuring the new military degree." ”

Li De nodded and said to Yan Lide, "This is Brother Ling, Yan Liben, Lord Yan?" ”

Yan Liben replied, "It's Xiaguan,"

Li De: "I heard that the two Yan masters are experts in painting, I wonder if this king has the honor to see the wonderful brushwork of the two?" ”

The two of them couldn't react to Li De's jumping question for a while, and just now they were talking about business, so they turned to painting, and it seemed that they wanted the two brothers to paint him a few pictures.

Li De looked at the faces of the two of them, of course he knew what they were thinking, and then said: "You don't have to think about it, this king is mainly here to discuss the equipment of the new army, I didn't expect to meet two talents, I have always heard people say that the two of them have wonderful brushstrokes, and their ability to draw is not bad, although this king is a rough person, but I still like to do this vassal and elegant thing." ”

When the two brothers Yan Lide heard him say this, they also knew that they would definitely not be able to hide, and the prince of the family had come to ask for paintings, and they would definitely not be able to shirk it. The two exchanged glances and said to Li De, "The two brothers of Xiaguan, thank Your Highness for your favor and serve yourself." ”

Li De received the reply and said happily, "Then the king will thank you two first, this matter is not in a hurry, and when I have the opportunity to ask the two of you to splash ink for a certain time, I can also make a collection, then we will make a decision." ”