Ma Chao's dream of leading the Chongmo Knife Team ultimately failed to come true.

Seeing that Ma Mengqi, who looked reluctant and quite familiar, was persuaded by Jian Yong to leave, Zhang Fei felt the enthusiasm of Yongliang for the first time.

Ma Teng's son's heart and eyes are all long, and Han Sui has gone up?

And this Ma Chao actually listened to Mr. Xianhe's words so much?

Immediately, Zhang Fei was taken aback by the idea that came up with him:

Ma Chao may not be so obedient to Ma Teng.

Shaking his head to shake this rather strange idea out of his mind, Zhang Fei regretfully and carefully put away the Mo knife.

In a sense, Pang Tong is right, at present, this Mo knife is a few points more expensive than the soldier.

And although Han Sui and Ma Chao had the intention of retreating, they did not retreat at all when they negotiated the conditions.

Once he accepted the fact that he was going to be expelled from Yongzhou, Han Sui was quite relaxed.

Since you want me to fulfill my responsibilities as the general of Zhengxi, should I support the general of Zhengxi as the court did before?

Before Ma Chao drew the knife, the first to block Han Sui's words was Pang Tong:

"General Han, please look at this map of Hexi."

A pair of rice paper as white as snow was spread out, and Han Sui first squinted his old eyes and looked at the paper carefully, rubbed and sniffed:

"Good paper, a thousand rolls."

Being on the frontier, Han Sui best understood the essence of Han-Hu trade: mutual exchange.

As long as it is something that the Hu people can't make by themselves, the Hu people's magnates like it.

If it was like that Mo knife, Han Sui would also worry about whether it would be used to cut himself after selling it to Hu Ren.

However, this kind of paper, which is very expensive at first glance, does not need such worries at all.

Pang Tong impatiently knocked on the table with a small leather shield and said:

"Liangzhou Han Boyo is also a person who buys and returns pearls?"

Han Sui smiled, quietly moved his gaze to the content of the paper, and after studying it for a while, he frowned and said:

"This is a map of the vicinity of the West Sea?"

Yongliang has been longitudinal and horizontal for 30 years, and he has seen a lot of things.

To the west of Jincheng is Xiping, and to the west of Xiping is the West Sea, which he knows.

Further west, however, the situation is completely unclear, but it is marked on the map, especially in the southwest of the Nasi Sea, where a mountain range is marked.

And there is a small lake in the back: Qingyan Tianchi.

Pang Tong became surprisingly patient at this time, explained the terrain of this place to Han Sui in detail, and promised that if he could collect green salt, he would buy it at a high price.

And with this West Sea as the center, Pang Tong's fingertips first pulled out a route to the north:

"To the north is Liangzhou, which General Han is most familiar with, and now there is Hexi Xianbei here, and he can make meritorious deeds."

Looking at Han Sui's noncommittal eyes, Pang Tong compared another route to the northwest:

"This road is difficult to walk, but it can go straight to Dunhuang, if it can be opened, it will open up the territory, and it can be passed down through the ages."

Seeing that Han Sui was already thinking about it slowly, Pang Tong added a code:

"This place to the south, after passing a mountain pass all the way to the west, thousands of miles of fertile soil is enough to establish a country, if all belong to the Han soil, then you can merit than Wei Huo, open the temple and set up a temple."

This negotiation did not last long, and Han Sui left with this roll of rice paper with a heavy heart.

Zhang Fei pestered Pang Tong with curiosity and asked:

"Master Pang, will this Han really believe this map?"

"The West Sea is not far away, and when he goes to the West Sea and discovers the Chaka Salt Lake that later generations said, he will believe it."

"Master Pang, which way will this Korean covenant choose in the end?"

"There is no way to get in the way, as long as you can provide war horses. However, Liangzhou is rich but has Qianghu and Xianbei, Dunhuang has Qiuziyan Qiqi Che Division, only the birthplace of Tubo has no strong enemies and water plants, Han Wenyue has always been ambitious, and is determined to find an opportunity to stand on his own. ”

"Master Pang, aren't you worried that this Han Wen has become the ancestor of Tubo?"

"Yide, are you so good at being the high anti that later generations said? Besides, the map is general, I'm just trying to find someone to explore for us. ”

Saying that, Pang Tong stopped, looked back at the back of Han Sui and his party, and said:

"This Han Sui doesn't care about his son in Yecheng, then Yan Xing cares a lot about Yecheng's parents."

"Within two years, his ministry collapsed."

Zhang Fei shook his head:

"Master Pang, your heart is really dark."

"But it's dark."

……

Chang'an, Taiji Palace.

Li Chengqian looked at the Tang Emperor and stood in front of the map again and pondered.

If it had been before, he would have bowed his head and waited for the emperor to ask questions, even if it might have been an hour or two.

But recently, my father's attitude seems to have changed a lot, and he is not so demanding about his schoolwork, and he will personally lead their brothers to ride horses every two days.

Therefore, almost for the first time, Li Chengqian had the courage to take the initiative to ask:

"What is Father looking at?"

Li Shimin sighed lightly and said:

"I'm watching Datang."

As he spoke, he added:

"There are no outsiders here, so there is no need to be so formal."

Eleven-year-old Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief, quietly glanced at Li Shimin again, remembered his mother's previous advice, so he said boldly:

"Daddy, I see you've been looking at the place where Tubo is written."

Li Shimin was stunned, his attitude was much gentler, and he nodded:

"This is the great enemy of Datang."

Li Chengqian's body trembled slightly, because he still remembered that the last time his father was called this by his father was Turkic.

"Cheng Qian, the Turks are the great enemies of the Tang Dynasty, how do you say you want to deal with them?"

This was a question from two years ago, and as for how he answered, Li Chengqian can't remember clearly.

But after he finished answering, he remembered his father's disappointed eyes and sighs very well.

Now......

"Cheng Qian, it's okay in the afternoon, you go and call the green sparrow, and Daddy will take you to ride a horse."

Qingque is the nickname of Huang Zitai, and his age is one year younger than Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian's eyes widened, and then there was a cheer.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Chengqian cautiously made a request:

"Daddy, can you bring the second girl?"

"Who is Ernan?" As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, he remembered that Guanyin had told him that the little lady of the martial arts family was the second.

Thinking of the later Wu Zetian, Li Shimin couldn't help but want to shake his head and sigh.

Immediately, I saw Li Chengqian's panicked explanation, saying that the second girl came to the palace too early and was homesick.

So Li Shimin had to comfort his eldest son, saying that he had thought of something else just now, and as for the two people, he would come if he wanted to.

So a father and two sons took a drag oil bottle and walked all the way through the back garden to a fenced trotting racecourse in the back.

Also at the behest of Li Shimin, a few foals have recently been added to this horse farm as mounts for the princes and princesses to play.

When passing through the back garden, I also saw that the palace people were uprooting a row of trees and transplanting a new tree that I didn't recognize.

Looking at Li Shimin's expression, before he could ask a question, Li Tai jumped up:

"I know!"

"Mother said, this tree is called a hawthorn tree planted after listening to what Doctor Sun said, and it is for treating my father!"

I see...... Li Shimin was helpless.

The rock sugar gourd looked curious, but now Chang'an is only in early May, and it is still half a year before the hawthorn matures, so I can't count on it for the time being.

After watching the light curtain that day, Li Shimin instructed the imperial dining room to make some rock sugar for seasonal fruits.

It also made the imperial chef study the so-called sugar painting, and the princes and princesses have eaten very happily these days, and Li Shimin also sent some to the family of the relatives whose children are still young.

Then Li Shimin didn't eat any of them.

Sun Yaowang sternly warned, saying that this sucrose was no different from arsenic to Li Shimin, except for a small amount of food when eating, he could not touch it at any other time.

There are too many bans, so recently Li Shimin has begun to feel that it is not unacceptable to live only 50 years old.

At least, Li Shimin, who only lived to be fifty years old, should have eaten mutton well, unlike himself, who can only eat one meal a month now.

The resentment lasted until dinner.

The princes and princesses ate together, and Li Shimin ate with his own queen.

As soon as they met, Empress Eldest Sun was a little disgusted:

"The concubine heard that the second girl also rode a horse in the afternoon?"

As soon as he talked about this, Li Shimin was a little helpless:

"At that time, I was taking care of the green finch not to fall off the foal, but I didn't expect the martial arts lady to sneak into the stable and lead a foal to ride."

"By the time I saw it, I had already run half a lap."

Empress Eldest Sun has a little headache:

"Don't take her next time, if something happens to the falling horse, how can you make such trouble clear?"

Li Shimin looked indifferent:

"This second martial artist rides quite well."

"I can't say that I can't be the second female general of the Tang Dynasty."

The first one is naturally Li Shimin's sister, Princess Ping Zhaoyang.

But this is naturally just a joke, now it is not as good as when the country was founded, and the famous generals under his command are already enough, how can female generals intervene?

Li Shimin was even thinking in his heart, if this Wu Zetian still ascended the throne in the end, I am afraid that the historian would record today's unauthorized horseback riding as an anomaly.

And in the midst of laughter, a few dishes were served, and Empress Changsun looked at the fish on the plate and her eyes widened.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty smiled arrogantly.

Although there is a ban from King Sun Yao, how could His Majesty the drooling Emperor of the Tang Dynasty be knocked down by these difficulties?

So a few days ago, the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room received an edict:

Using cane sugar and fish as ingredients, new dishes were developed.

And now it's the result of the Imperial Dining Room: sweet and sour fish.

couldn't wait to clip a pair of chopsticks, Li Shimin almost wanted to applaud his ingenuity.

Empress Changsun also sandwiched a chopstick together, the entrance was sweet and sour, but the amount of sugar was obviously a bit excessive.

Otherwise, let's inform Sun Yaowang, right? She thought.

The sweet and sour fish made Li Shimin feel the happiness he had not seen for a long time, so the next day Yan Lide saw that His Majesty the Emperor often had a smile on his face.

This made Yan Lide a little easier.

After copying a lot of armor methods from the "Battle of Talas" of the light curtain, now he has the confidence to give the Tang Emperor a sigh and invite the royal driver to observe the results.

Naturally, there is no way to demonstrate the prison, so through the back garden, a vacant lot has been carved out by Qianniuwei here, and it is strictly forbidden for any unrelated people to approach.

Then Li Shimin watched Yan Lide command people to bring the armor, and then called five knights to start the busy work.

And as these armors were hung on the horses and soldiers piece by piece under Yan Lide's command, the smile on Li Shimin's face gradually faded, replaced by a touch of excitement.

Li Shimin knew too well what the power of heavy cavalry was, because when the Tang Dynasty was opened, the Xuanjia Army could be regarded as heavy cavalry, but it didn't have horse armor.

But now, the more reasonably constructed armor, and the horse armor learned from the Arab heavy cavalry, will arm a knight without dead ends.

This is a heavy cavalry that is stronger than the Xuanjia Army!

Li Shimin's eyes sparkled, he only needed a thousand horses, and it was enough to make a final decision in a war!

The Tang Emperor licked his lips, I don't know which one around him is not eye-opening, can he be the first to taste the power of this steel torrent?

(End of chapter)