The Imperial Study.

Wang Xu asked Zhang Rong to light the candles, and asked Yu Linjun to invite Han calligraphy and painting.

Han Shushu lives in the inner city, more than 20 miles away from the palace here, if you take a carriage, it will take an hour to arrive.

An hour later, Han Shushu rushed over, and when he saw Wang Xu, he bowed his hand: "Your Majesty, summoned late at night, is there anything urgent?" ”

There are really not many like this, and Han Shushu's face naturally appears dignified.

Wang Xu waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and said, "Of course there is something urgent, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you." ”

"I'd imagine you asking for something."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

Wang Xu said: "Do you know that there is an animal called an elephant? ”

Han Shushu frowned, he didn't know why Wang Xu asked like this, but he still answered honestly: "I know, the elephant is a huge animal, with rough skin and thick meat, and lives in the grassland of Beijun, Your Majesty asked what is this for?" ”

Sure enough, the elephant was really in the prairie, and Wang Xu took a deep breath.

"Then think about it, what's the use of this animal?"

What's the use? Han Shushu thought for a while: "It's useless, the meat of this animal is not delicious, and the grassland herdsmen mostly pluck out the ivory and use it as a weapon and ornament, because of this, there are a lot of elephants on the prairie." ”

I see, if elephant meat is not delicious, as Han calligraphy and painting said, then the number of elephants is very terrible!

"Calligraphy and painting, think about it again, what would happen if elephants were used for military purposes?"

Military use? Han calligraphy and painting didn't react for a while, can elephants still be used for military purposes, it's not bulky.

"Your Majesty means to replace horses and elephant soldiers instead of cavalry?"

Wang Xu nodded: "Exactly!" Do you think 5,000 elephants will win against 5,000 cavalry? ”

"It's hard to say, the elephant soldiers are too clumsy, and they are not easy to train, and no one has ever formed an army with elephants."

Wang Xu rolled his eyes, he really didn't expect that Han Shushu would say this. This knowledge is too little, superficial.

"You're so confused! I told you that 5,000 elite elephant soldiers can break your 50,000 light horsemen, do you believe it? ”

Han Shushu opened his mouth wide in surprise. But in an instant, he laughed: "Hehe, I don't believe it, how is this possible." ”

"How could it be?"

Wang Xu said: "The elephant soldier has rough skin and thick meat, even if he is slashed, it will be fine, his body is extremely huge." The bearing capacity is very strong, and we can equip him with good armor to cover his whole body. ”

"And our soldiers, who ride several feet higher than the others on the backs of elephants, and who can attack the enemy with spears two feet long, if this is completely unfolded on the battlefield, I am afraid that even the chariots will not be able to compete with them!"

"Don't we have a chariot that cuts the legs of the enemy's horses? If we encounter a large number of elephant soldiers, and the elephants are all equipped with thick steel armor on their legs, our chariots will also suffer. ”

Wang Xu said this, and Han Shushu's forehead began to sweat. If you think about it carefully, it is indeed as Wang Xu said, and the elephant soldiers cannot be ignored.

"Not good! Your Majesty, this... This elephant is in the sphere of influence of the Ming Kingdom, if it is used by Cai Wenzhuo to form a large army, their military strength will be much stronger, and it is extremely unfavorable for us to fight with them in the future. ”

Han Shushu suddenly exclaimed.

Finally to the point, Wang Xu sat down and said, "That's why I came to you tonight, you have to think carefully about how to get those elephants from the grassland to our territory." It's better to let the elephants go extinct in the grasslands! ”

"Extinct? It's unlikely, right? ”

Han Shushu said: "As far as I know, there are many elephants on the grassland, and the grassland is infinitely huge, thousands of miles. The number of elephants can be imagined. ”

"If Your Majesty wants to form an elephant army, Weichen has a way."

Wang Xu said: "I don't mean to form elephant soldiers, but to make Cai Wenzhuo unable to form them, and the best way is to make him have no such animals in his sphere of influence." ”

"Wait, you have a point. We can't let the elephants disappear in the grassland, but we can reduce them! ”

Han Shushu said with a smile: "Your Majesty is wise, Wei Chen is exactly what he means, we can buy this animal in large quantities, I believe Cai Wenzhuo will sell it, because this animal will not work for him at all." ”

Wang Xu also smiled, but only for a moment, he hesitated again: "No, no, once we ask him to buy elephants, isn't this a wake-up call for him, if he reflects, then he won't sell it if he dies." ”

This is indeed a very troublesome question, originally Cai Wenzhuo didn't know that if the Holy Dynasty was purchased at a high price, and the amount was huge, it would be tantamount to not recruiting himself.

Han Shushu muttered: "If you want to find a way, you want the best excuse, and it is best to let him have to sell, only in this way will this matter be successful." ”

Wang Xu nodded: "What you said is right, you go back and think about this matter, think about it and tell me, remember, don't tell anyone about this matter, this is the top secret!" ”

"Yes."

Wang Xu waved his hand and said, "You should step back first." ”

"No."

.........

Cheng'en Temple.

Two hours had passed, and Achayue had eaten enough and put everything away, she didn't dare to sleep, and sat on the edge of the bed and waited.

She kept saying in her heart: I can't sleep, I can't be like Sisi, that's what a fool does...

However, this person, when she is full, she is sleepy, and it is late at night and early in the morning, she thinks in her heart, and as she speaks, her eyes are closed, and she first gently leans on the bed frame on the side, and then slowly collapses on the bed cover...

Wang Xu arrived after tea, and as soon as she entered here, she saw that the one where Achayue slept was called an incense, and her saliva flowed out.

"Dizzy, why do you like to sleep one by one."

Wang Xu rolled his eyes and stepped forward to push her, but unfortunately, he couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed, so he could only move Achayue to the bed to sleep steadily, and then he went to bed himself.

"Forget it, I'll bear with it and continue tomorrow night, I won't believe it."

Wang Xu muttered and fell asleep, but he pretended to be a fake sleep in his heart, and he was thinking about the elephant.

Speaking of which, Achayue is indeed a meritorious service, if it weren't for the matter of elephants, he wouldn't have thought of it at all, and if Cai Wenzhuo had noticed that elephants could be used to form an army, it would have been a bit troublesome.

........

Early the next morning, Achayue slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw that Wang Xu was gone, thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, didn't the emperor come back last night?

Oops, I seem to be asleep.

Achayue's heart suddenly struck.

Seeing two palace maids on the side, she hurriedly asked, "Did Your Majesty come back last night?" ”

"Back to the little master, His Majesty came back last night, and he has already gone to the court at this hour." (To be continued.) )