Chapter Ninety-Five: Forming Ten Thousand Horsemen

The art troupe is now familiar with dealing with a small performance, and it doesn't need to be arranged by Yang Lin personally, Li Tai or Xiliang can arrange it, including the conductor of the band, Yang Lin plans to train some people to learn systematically, and gradually hand it over, at most he is a director or producer, although he is not very competent.

When Yang Lin and Gu Yue came to the Taiji Palace, the arrangements of the art troupe had been in place, Li Er was warming up from the cold and asking the captain Xiliang to learn some things about the art troupe, as for the deputy head Li Tai, he had already understood the meaning of his father, and disappeared without a trace, today's main foot is Li Jing, Cheng Biting Jin and Hou Junji, the three old generals who are comfortable in the victory building will come here before dinner, the so-called victory building, Yang Lin thinks it is a very interesting place, the generals of the Tang Expedition have come back victoriously, and they have to live in the victory building for two days, Good wine, good meat, and beauties are waiting, so that you can release all your appetite and lust before you come to see the emperor, Yang Lin doesn't know why Li Er didn't arrange arrangements for himself when he came back after winning the battle, although some places can't be used now, but touch it, see and see it!

After seeing the ceremony, Yang Lin was ignored by Li Er, what he was most interested in was chatting with Xiliang, Yang Lin didn't bother to interrupt on the side, and Gu Yue Daowen sat on the seat of the main escort position, this is generally the position of the crown prince Li Chengqian, and it must be right to sit in his position, anyway, he came at most three people to squeeze it.

After a while, there was a report from the eunuchs, the three old princes had come from the victory building, Li Er led a group of officials to accompany the main escort out of the palace, but Gu Yue Daowen was lazy and didn't want to go, because there was actually a dish of iron plate field chicken on the table today, and Li Er, the frog who had just come out of the nest and was still giving birth to tadpoles, sent someone to catch it, and the hated Yang Lin had to accompany Gu Yue Daowen to eat a few more to relieve his hatred. Watching the three generals with weak legs and feet walking into the Taiji Palace, Yang Lin knew that these three guys had thoroughly enjoyed the emperor's good intentions, and if they didn't enjoy it wholeheartedly, it would be equivalent to dissatisfaction with the emperor's reception.

"Feast."

As soon as Ma Yongquan's roared, the palace maids rushed up the hot dishes and poured wine for the ministers. All the new white porcelain wine cups and wine utensils fired by the ceramic factory, all of which are more than 50 degrees of Yangjiang Daqu, accompanied by Wei Chigong, who must arrive at the banquet, took the lead in telling several old generals about the wine scriptures and his own drunken history, Li Er knew that he liked to rub wine and drink, and the wine glass on the table cloth for him was also one size bigger, but he didn't dare to hold it up, and took small sips.

"The three brothers can be regarded as tasting the best wine in the world! Brother, I fortunately didn't die on the Weishui battlefield, otherwise I would have missed out on this best in the world. Wei Chigong took the lead in inviting wine, and the three generals took a sip of a small cup. A hint of surprise flashed in their eyes, the kind of wine that was clearer than water on the victory tower was already the best wine they had ever drunk in their lives, but they didn't expect that the wine in the palace was actually a little stronger than the wine in the victory building.

This was deliberately arranged by Li Er, and now Yangjiang Daqu has launched three levels of liquor at 38 degrees, 48 degrees and 58 degrees, Li Er uses 38 degrees in Deshenglou, and now the banquet guests use 58 degrees.

"You have to thank Xiao Linzi for this, these white porcelain wine utensils and high-grade liquor are all made by him, I just asked for a few more jars. He shouted for me to pay! Hahahaha! "Li Er is very relaxed when he is with a group of diehards, and he never blames him for fighting on the spot when he drinks too much, as for the Yanglin master and apprentice who are immersed in eating and drinking, he naturally doesn't care about this. It's just that Yang Lin, who was mentioned by name, raised his head and glanced at the guest seat, it turned out that the three princes on the guest seat were all looking at him!

"Well, since the distillery is a joint-stock company, you have to pay for their wine. Otherwise, if you take a few jars for nothing today, and tomorrow he will take a few jars for nothing, and the winery will not make any money. The workers didn't even have food to eat, so what could they do to buy grain for brewing? What kind of wine to give everyone to enjoy? Yang Lin half explained and half questioned, the joint-stock company is this good, everything has to be used in the public account, no one is allowed to use the rights at hand to enjoy the fruits of other people's labor in vain, especially in the feudal society of the Tang Dynasty, where the powerful are the sky, fortunately, Yanglin's backer is the emperor, otherwise a random grandfather and the marquis walked to his house and pointed to his things and said that it was his own, you don't want to fight with others, when you can't beat others, you have to serve it obediently.

"Look at it, look at it, he just likes to prevaricate with these truths, and I still have to do it, but today you Aiqing can drink openly, there are two big carts of wine outside, all of which are bought from the distillery at a high price from the inner government, and others don't sell it!" Li Er made a gesture to invite wine, and all the adults drank together, of course, he also said this to the ministers, even the emperor himself wants to spend money to buy the goods of the tenth factory, and you only have to spend money to buy this road.

The three victorious generals did not mean to despise the top ten factories in the east and west, and his status in the emperor's heart can be seen from the fact that Yanglin can sit in Li Chengqian's position to eat, and what is Li Chengqian, the prince of the East Palace, doing? is serving others to eat, that person is also just eating and drinking and ignoring anyone, the three bigwigs who have already gotten some news naturally know that this is probably the maker of the divine arm bow, Gu Yue Daowen, his future status is definitely on par with the old ancestor of the Li family by the Taiye Pool, Li Chengqian can put down the shelf to serve these two people, get the support of these two people, in the future, his country will definitely sit steadily, and Hou Junji, who is more power-hungry, thinks of hurrying up with the prince, Li Jing, who is more aware of self-preservation, thought that I could live a quiet old age in the future, and Cheng Yanjin, who was less conscious, thought of that since we can't take these good things for nothing, then let's extort and rob!

After the wine is over thirty years, the dishes are over five flavors, and the ministers' words are opened, Li Er's most comfortable place is that he never brings the hegemonic idea to the private occasion of the banquet, especially this kind of banquet with the theme of celebration, after Wei Chigong and Xue Wanche and several other generals who stayed in Chang'an boasted about the labor army performance and the Spring Festival party, Li Er announced the start of the song and dance, and a dry musical instrument props of the art troupe came on the stage, and the ministers of civil and military affairs interspersed the Taiji Hall to surround the hall full of halls, and Li Er personally performed ' The toast song was the first to be sung and won full applause, and then Ling Yuhan, who was wearing the new military uniform of the art troupe, sang three men's songs, "Men should be self-reliant", "Loyal to the country" and "Farewell My Concubine", which made the generals who liked war drums at the banquet happy.

It wasn't until the white rose who came up with the pipa sang the three songs of "Water Tune Song Head, When Will the Bright Moon Have It", "The Moon is Full in the West Building" and "Farewell", that Wenchen's interest was mobilized, but tonight is destined to belong to the generals, because the Tang Dynasty Hall is the world of military generals, and even Fang Xuanling's eldest grandson Wuji is less in the limelight and less speaking at this time.

Xiliang's singing and dancing after the show made the audience begin to sway, although it was not wearing a thong see-through suit to dance the devil's dance, but a heroic female military uniform was stunned to wear the taste of female soldiers in later generations, "Earth Flying Song" and "Good Day" sang dignified and festive, "Brother Bing" sang coquettishly and movingly, and finally ended a song' The fifteenth moon 'is to pull these iron-blooded generals to a world of affection, so that these old adults have the urge to marry her home as a wife, until Li Er took out three pieces of gold that Wei Chi Gong they have been pinning on their chests, the three old generals did not know that this thing was originally called a military merit medal, and from this banquet, the military generals of the Tang Dynasty will hang their military merit medals on their chests on the occasion of dressing up, the more they are full, the more a great glory.

After the festive love was completely released, Li Er gave tea to the ministers, and only then began to talk about national affairs, and the Tang Dynasty was far from the time to squander and celebrate, and even Yanglin and Guyue Daowen, two people who had nothing to do with political affairs, were left behind by Li Er, and this topic was also related to the idea of reorganizing the army put forward by Yanglin on Chinese New Year's Eve.

"I plan to abolish the left and right Weiwei to form ten thousand cavalry, what do you think Aiqing thinks?" Li Er's eyes were mainly looking at several military leaders, the preparations in this regard have already begun to be done, but the reduction of the first army is a major event for a main general, Cheng Yanjin is in charge of Zuo Weiwei, Li Daozong is in charge of Right Weiwei, Qin Qiong who is sick is not present, his Qianniuwei is not among the reductions, and the main general is also served by Li Jing for the time being.

"Ten thousand riders? Can you elaborate on that? Cheng Yanjin was the first to ask, Zuo Weiwei still has more than 10,000 wounded soldiers, they all point to the military rations of the imperial court to live, once they are abolished, their own power in the army is all said, and the way out of these soldiers is also a big problem.

"After the battle of Weishui and Yumen Pass, my Tang Dynasty captured more than 30,000 Turkic high-grade war horses, and the conditions for forming a cavalry army with strong mobility are ripe, I plan to adjust the foreign strategy of the Tang Dynasty, in the past, we built passes and cities everywhere, and the Great Wall did not block the barbarian cavalry, so it can be seen that this set is useless to those barbarians, so I plan to form a pure cavalry army like them, keep the enemy out of the country, and put the battlefield on their territory."

Li Er's words were sonorous and powerful, but they did not win the support of the generals, this time Li Jing first raised a question: "Your Majesty, these barbarians of Turkic Tubo have grown up on horseback since childhood, even if I have obtained a large number of high-quality horses in the Tang Dynasty, but compared with them in riding skills is far inferior, not only that, but the cold weather outside the pass alone is not something that our Han people can resist, Weichen feels that even if we form a pure cavalry team, it may not be their opponent." Li Jing's words were to the point, and all the battle-hardened generals also nodded in agreement.

"Hahahaha, if you can't solve these problems, how can I raise yƬ to form an expeditionary cavalry army, Ma Yongquan, lead the horse, Xiaolinzi, your paper armor should also be revealed!" Li Er laughed and said, with Li Er's order, Ma Yongquan walked outside the Taiji Palace, and after a while, a war horse with a concave strange thing tied to its back was led into the Taiji Palace, and the metallic sound of 'clanging clang' under the four hooves attracted everyone's attention. (To be continued......)