As soon as these words came out, Li Shimin was also instantly alert.

"What do you mean?"

"Lao Li, let me ask you, now the northern Turks are acting recklessly and often harassing my border lands. The so-called side of the couch allows others to sleep soundly, after you inherit the unification, why don't you wipe out the enemy and return the people to peace? ”

Li Shimin's face was worried: "If I could, why didn't I want to send troops to fight and exterminate the Turks?" ”

The Turks are entrenched in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and as nomadic peoples, they continue to migrate with the growth of water and grass, so both the people and the national army have strong mobility and are difficult to exterminate.

And the grassland is vast, the 100,000 army is placed on the super far, all as small as dust, it is difficult to choose the route of the march alone, every time the grassland fights, the Tang Iron Cavalry is like a headless fly, led by the nose by the Turks.

Even many inexperienced generals will get lost when they enter the steppe. It is simply impossible to organize effective combat effectiveness.

Datang's military strength is not weak, but in the face of these highly mobile nomads, it is like hitting cotton with a fist, and it cannot be used.

Li Hao continued to say step by step.

"As the king of a country, you naturally know that we can't defeat the Turks, we can't beat them. They are a people on horseback, they know the steppe like a rule, and our fists can't hit them, but have you ever wondered why? ”

"Direction!" Li Shimin said: "As soon as our army enters the grassland, it becomes a headless fly, and the grassland is so vast that our people cannot find an enemy, and they cannot use their strength. ”

"Then why can't you find your way? Don't we have a guide car? ”

"The guide car is bulky, not suitable for contact warfare at all, and the pointing accuracy is also very poor, on the vast plains, the accuracy is a little worse, almost the opposite of the other. Our Tang army has many lost people, but the Turks can always find the right route, use mobility to attack when our army is scattered, and defeat the strong with the weak. ”

Finally got to the point!

Li Hao turned over and sat up: "Then if each of our generals can have an accurate direction and won't get lost on the grassland, will we still lose to the Turks?" ”

Li Shimin glanced at Li Hao and said with a wry smile: "Do you think everyone is a wolf?" ”

During the Han Dynasty, there was a general Huo Quai, who led the Han Iron Cavalry to expedition against the Huns several times, killed the Huns and abandoned their armor, and worshiped the gods on the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and enjoyed the praise of the future generations for thousands of years.

The Xiongnu were very similar to today's Turks, they lived on the grassland, they were mobile, the Han Dynasty army could not catch up, could not fight, many generals' armies would be lost in the grassland, and they could not do anything. But Huo Quzhi is the only one who seems to be born with his own navigation, and he has never been lost.

If everyone has the ability to seal the wolf, why worry about the Turks not being destroyed.

Li Hao clapped his hands: "I don't have the ability to grasp that all the generals of the Tang Dynasty have become wolf heroes, but what if every general can have a portable, small, and extremely high-precision pointing equipment?" ”

Li Shimin suddenly became excited: "Xiao Li, are you saying that you have done so many things in Chang'an City during this time, just for this magical equipment?" ”

Li Hao nodded: "This piece of equipment is called a compass, which is the size of a palm and can be carried around." However, to ensure accuracy, the hands must be sealed. That's why glass is so important. Glass manufacturing requires a large amount of quartz sand as raw materials. That's why I need to find an excuse to get the right to mine quartz ore in your hands! ”

"Ore mining!" Li Shimin frowned again.

Personally, Li Shimin believes in Li Hao out of ten. Nothing he does will harm the interests of Datang.

But others may not think so.

Li Hao solved the scourge of the snow disaster for Datang before, so Li Shimin turned a blind eye to the large-scale mining and purchase of iron ore in Lijiazhuang, which has caused many people to criticize. If he was killing quartzite, the criticism would not be suppressed.

After all, ore is the raw material of weapons, and it has always been in the hands of the state, and if it is mined privately, it is enough to threaten national security.

If this matter is mentioned by too many people, Li Shimin cannot blindly protect Li Hao, otherwise it will attract criticism and even turmoil the court.

"Don't worry, Lao Li, I just expected this, so I didn't ask you directly for mining rights. Let's think about it differently, if quartz minerals can bring huge profits, people will think that I just want to make money with this thing, and there will be no other opinions? ”

Li Shimin pondered for a moment: "Having said that, we just said that just a few cups and dishes are difficult to convince the public!" ”

"That's why I made such a big show at the pottery competition just to attract attention. Quartz, I still have a wonderful use! I'm talking to you about this today, just to give you a reassurance, I may do some unbelievable things in the future, just don't hold me back when the time comes. ”

Li Shimin's heart was beating wildly, Li Hao usually did things difficult to understand, he said this solemnly at the moment, who knows how much impact he will have on what he wants to do in the future.

"There's one more thing I need your help with!" Ignoring Li Shimin's entanglement, Li Hao continued.

"Say it, say it!"

Li Shimin's face is full of helplessness, this is the case with God-men, they can always do something that is incomprehensible to you.

"Give me and Princess Jinyang a marriage!"

Li Shimin pushed Li Hao to the ground with a tiger pounce, and the two scuffled together.

The silence of the night sky was shattered by the sound of tables and chairs toppling over.

After a long time, Li Hao smiled wryly.

"I have no ill intentions, why are you so excited?"

"Fuck off! I treat you as a friend, but you want to marry my daughter, Mingda is still a child, can't you wait another two years? Li Shiming's face was hideous, and he said viciously.

"You can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, I just asked you to marry, do you want to marry Mingda."

"You!" Li Shimin was even more angry, and he wanted to break Li Hao's neck immediately.

Li Hao also realized that his words were ambiguous, and hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood, can you listen to me?" ”

"Okay, I'd like to hear it, if you have anything else to say, open it up for me!"

Li Hao hurriedly let go of Li Shiming and helped him up from the ground.

Although Li Shimin was born as a general, how could Li Hao be able to fight with the power of an overlord?

"I asked you to give you a marriage, not to let you issue a holy decree and tell the ministers to marry Mingda to me, but to go out with some news. Draw attention to Mingda! ”

"Mingda is my favorite daughter, where do you go, isn't the stars holding the moon, and the attention is not enough?"

Li Hao nodded very seriously: "Not enough, far from enough, I need her to be everyone's eyes on her wherever she goes." It's better to get to the point where what she wears and what she eats is studied. ”

Li Shiming became more and more unclear about what Li Hao wanted to do, wasn't it mining quartz ore, how did it get involved with Mingda?

"With your ability to understand, it is difficult to explain to you in one or two sentences, in short, if you want to hand over the mining rights of quartz ore to me smoothly, just do what I say, when did I lie to you!"

Li Shimin's face was even more ugly, and he said this as if he was begging you to mine quartz ore.