"What, Twenty Wen? Why don't you grab it? "A young Tang sergeant on the street was holding a glass vase in his hand, and his face was flushed and he was haggling with a thin merchant. The vase is estimated to have been seized from which house, the shape is beautiful and chic, Li Su recognized it at a glance, this vase should be produced by Chang'an City's own boutique glass factory.

"Little brother, my twenty wen is already very high, you don't look at it when you take something, this thing is glass and not crystal, glass things could still be sold at a high price a few years ago, but now even canned bottles are glass, and only these Goguryeo buns will treat glass bottles as treasures!" The skinny merchant twitched his eyebrows, a shrewd bargain.

He is obviously bullying the young soldiers who don't know how to do it, although the glass is not worth much now, but it is just ordinary glass products, like the glass crafts produced by Li Su's fine glass factory, which are still very popular in the market, especially in the surrounding small countries, if this merchant buys it and then sells it to Silla or Baekje in the east, it can definitely be sold for dozens of sky-high prices.

"No, twenty is too low, you add more!" The young soldier intuitively guessed that the vase in his hand must be more than this price, but it was inconvenient and fragile. Second, I also felt that what the other party said made some sense, he still had a canned glass bottle on him, and he knew that this thing was not worth much, so he finally felt that he would sell it, but asked the other party to add more.

"Okay, although this thing is not valuable, but it is also a little brother, you fought hard, then add five more Wen, it must not be higher!" When the thin merchant heard the other party's tone loosen, a hint of joy immediately flashed in his eyes, but there was a look of pain on his face, as if the five cents he added were cutting his flesh.

The young soldier was from a poor background. Weighing the twenty-five texts is already a lot. I was able to buy several buckets of rice in my hometown, so I nodded in agreement, and just wanted to hand over the vase to the other party. At this time, Li Su next to him finally couldn't stand it. opened his mouth and said: "Since you know that this thing was bought by someone else, then give a fair price!" ”

Hearing Li Su's shout, the two people who were trading were stunned. Turning his head, he saw Li Su on a horse on the road, although they didn't know Li Su, but just looking at the clothes and the guards behind him, they knew that the other party must be a big man. At the same time, the young soldier was also very clever, and immediately understood the meaning of Li Su's words, and snatched back the vase that had been handed out.

"General, you ...... What do you mean by that? The thin merchant secretly complained in his heart, the identity of the other party is definitely not simple, and it is not strange to see the value of this vase. It looks like I'm going to be out of luck today.

"Shiguan, take the vase!" Li Su was also too lazy to worry about the other party, and he didn't plan to embarrass the thin businessman too much. After all, it's a buyer's market now. The soldiers had too much loot in their hands, while the merchants had a lot of purchasing power. But it is not something that can be eaten for a while, so it is natural for soldiers to suffer losses.

When the thin merchant heard that the other party only raised the price, he did not embarrass himself, so he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly agreed. When the young soldier heard that the vase in his hand was worth ten times, he trembled with excitement, and almost dropped the vase, and his eyes were even more round.

However, when the young soldier reacted, he found that he was almost deceived by the thin merchant just now, and immediately had a belly of fire, grabbing the opponent's neck with one hand, if it wasn't for the glass vase with the other hand, it is estimated that he would have given the other party an old fist.

"Brother, harmony makes money, although the other party also does something wrong, but your own eyesight is poor, you can't see how much the glass vase is worth, this is no wonder to others!" Li Su hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade, although the thin businessman is not authentic, but it is not right to beat people.

When the young soldier heard Li Su's lesson, although he felt a little aggrieved, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make some sense, coupled with the other party's noble status, he didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and let go of the thin merchant angrily, and thanked Li Su first, and then continued to trade with the other party. Li Su nodded, and then he and Li Yong continued to walk forward, preparing to return to their temporary residence.

"Rokuro, you just let that merchant go so easily?" As a soldier in the army, Li Yong naturally looked at the thin businessman unpleasantly, but it was Li Su who was dealing with it just now, and he was not good at interfering.

"So what, is it difficult for someone to beat up a thin businessman?" Li Su said with a smile.

"That's natural, not only to fight, but also to arrest and bring to justice, so as to deter those unscrupulous businessmen, see if they dare to deceive the soldiers in the future?" Li Yong said hatefully. Although he has not been in the army for a long time, he is already a typical soldier's thinking, no matter what happens, the first thing that comes to mind is to solve it by violent means.

"Ninth brother, although I don't know how to be a general, I know one thing, if today's incident happens to your father or Wei Gong, they will definitely not use the method you said to solve it!" Li Su said with an affirmative face.

The reason why he let Li Yongjin enter the army at the beginning was that he only planned to sharpen his temperament, but he didn't expect this kid to be too deep in the play, and he made up his mind to develop in the army, although this was not his original intention, but things have come to this point, and it is useless for Li Yong to oppose it, it is better to help him again, but before helping him, he must let Li Yong realize his own shortcomings.

"Nonsense, if I had the skills of my father and Wei Gong, where would I still be a little guy?" Li Yong rolled his eyes and said. When Li Yu saw him before, he was still only a chief, but in this decisive battle with the Yuan clan, he made meritorious achievements again, and was promoted to the rank of team leader, with five chiefs under him, adding up to fifty people, and then he was promoted to the team, and at that time he was barely a middle-level officer in the army.

"Cut, you have no ambition, why can't you have the ability of your father and Wei Gong, who also carry a head on your shoulder, are you worse than them?" Li Su deliberately made a disdainful expression and asked rhetorically.

"This ......" Li Yong's face turned red when he was asked by Li Su, he was young and vigorous, and naturally he didn't want to admit that he was worse than others, even if the other party was his father, but when he thought of his father's ability, he didn't think it before, but now he had a feeling of looking up to the mountains, so he had to say stupidly, "How can this be compared, my father and Wei Gong have been familiar with military books since childhood, and then led soldiers to fight all year round, where is the accumulated experience that a hairy boy like me can compare?" ”

"That's right, I have always admired my uncle and Wei Gong's attainments in the art of war, but it's a pity that ......" Li Su said this, stopped and glanced at Li Yong, and refused to say anything more.

"What a pity?" Li Yong asked.

After hearing this, Li Su turned his head and smiled at Li Yong and said: "It's a pity that there is no successor, I'm afraid that after a hundred years, not many people will remember these two masters of the art of war in my Datang." ”

"Who says there's no successor?" Li Yong also heard the meaning of Li Su's words, and retorted with a flushed face at the moment.

"Isn't it, Duke Wei, you should know that several sons are civil officials, although Ye Xu likes to practice martial arts, but he is strictly forbidden by Duke Wei, and he doesn't even let him read the art of war he wrote, if there is no accident, after three generations, there will definitely be no more generals in Duke Wei's department, as for your family, you should know better than me, you nine brothers, together you have learned a lot of things from your uncle?" Li Su stimulated again.

"This ...... This ......" Li Yong was speechless by Li Su's rhetorical question, his eight elder brothers, except for the eldest brother, are similar to him, all of them are gentlemen who only know how to eat, drink and have fun, where do they have kung fu their father's art of war?

"Alas, I want to be a hero of my uncle and Wei Gong, but for various reasons, the essence of the art of war summarized in my life cannot be passed on, what a pity!" Li Su then sighed again, and Li Yong's face finally showed a look of shame.

Li Su saw that the time was almost up, so he pretended to have a flash of inspiration, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Haha, I have thought of a way, since you can't or don't want to learn, then why don't I report to my father, and the imperial court will fund the construction of a Tang Military Academy, and then recruit such old generals as my uncle and Wei Gong to teach, and the students will select outstanding ones from the army to fill the position, I believe that after the edification of those veterans, these students will definitely be able to learn a lot of the art of war, maybe a few art of war." ”

"No, why should I let others learn my family's art of war?" Li Yong immediately became anxious when he heard this, this era pays attention to the inheritance of the father's business, and the art of war is similar, it is generally a family heirloom, but now Li Yong actually wants Li Xiaogong to teach publicly, which makes Li Yong feel as if his things have been stolen, so he is naturally resolutely opposed.

"Ninth brother, don't be too selfish, anyway, your brothers don't want to learn, instead of letting your uncle bring it into the coffin, it's better to take it out and teach it to others who are willing to learn, maybe you can be famous for future generations, and like your grandson, you will become a master of the art of war that has been passed down through the ages, and if you are not convinced, you can also go inside to learn, compare with others, and see who is the real successor of your uncle's art of war?" Li Su said with a grin.

At this time, his fox tail finally revealed, since Li Yong wants to join the army, then he can't let him mess around in the army, it is better to take a more formal channel, and what Li Yu can think of is naturally the military academy, it doesn't matter if there is no now, just report to Li Shimin for one, anyway, there are people and money in Datang now, and it is a good thing for the country and the people, so naturally I am not afraid that no one will support it.

"Just go, am I still afraid that they won't succeed?" Li Yong didn't think about it, and immediately spoke, but as soon as the words came out, he was suddenly stunned, his brain turned a few times rapidly, and then he yelled at Li Yong with an angry face: "Bastard, I fell for your calculations again!" ”

As soon as Li Yong's words came out, he immediately reached out and wanted to grab Li Su and fight. But Li Su laughed and ran away, Li Yong was naturally in hot pursuit, and the two were fighting on the streets of Pyongyang, as if they had returned to Chang'an back then. However, Li Su, who was just in front, had just run through a street corner, and suddenly saw a Tang soldier in front of him running towards this side in embarrassment, and when he saw Li Su's team, he immediately shouted with a look of ecstasy: "Brother in front, come and help, otherwise we will suffer a big loss!" ”