Chapter 62: Li Jing's Visit
Like Qinghe, these younger sisters who are less than ten years old naturally don't need it, but like some twelve or thirteen-year-old princesses, their bodies have begun to develop, so Li Ke has prepared them all.
When I got up the next day, Li Ke, who had twenty or thirty years of experience in modern times, could see at a glance that Changle and the others were all wearing them, and their figures were obviously a lot taller.
Seeing Li Ke, several older sisters greeted Li Ke with shy faces.
"How? Did you sleep comfortably yesterday? Li Ke said with a smile, of course he wouldn't mention it, the little girl has a thin face, although according to history, Changle even has a son at this time, but in modern times, he is still in high school.
"Comfortable! Third brother, your bed here is too comfortable! Chengyang jumped up directly, "That quilt, it's light, soft, and warm, woo woo, can I take it back, third brother." ”
"Of course you can, since the third brother took it out, he brought it back for you." Li Ke smiled, these are goose down quilt cores, of course they are comfortable. After all, their company is also a state-owned enterprise, not to mention anything else, the welfare package is absolutely very high.
"Wow! Third brother, you're amazing, but I don't want to go back, can I just be here. Chengyang said quickly.
"Okay, you can stay as long as you want." Li Ke smiled and waved his hand, "Today, the third brother will take you to Zhuangzi for a walk." ”
Although there is everything in the palace, such as various gardens and the like, it is only a park-like place after all, and here, there are different scenery, and the mood will undoubtedly be much better.
"Now you go to breakfast." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Well, we had dinner, and breakfast?" Gao Yang was a little curious, Datang also has a two-meal system, only breakfast and lunch.
Breakfast is about seven or eight o'clock, lunch is between two and four o'clock in the afternoon, and there is no dinner in the evening. When Li Shimin first ascended the throne, natural disasters in the Tang Dynasty were frequent, and in order to save food, Li Shimin took the lead in changing to two meals, and when he was hungry at other times, he would eat some snacks.
This is the emperor's helplessness, in fact, does it have anything to do with how many meals the emperor eats? The meals Li Shimin saved could not even feed a single family of victims.
And although he is an example, will the world's gate valve families follow suit? Emulate a P!
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and it is impossible to disappear if there are frozen bones on the road.
So that topic comes again, when that emperor has a fart, is stared at every day, and is a little willful, the historian doesn't know how to respond to you.
"Of course, the third brother has three meals a day here." Li Ke is used to three meals, and in his own home, of course he will not change it, and no one has the right to say anything.
After breakfast, Li Ke originally wanted to take Changle and them to Zhuangzi for a walk, but Tian Meng came.
"Your Highness, I ask to see you on behalf of the Duke of the Kingdom."
"Huh? Li Jing is here? Please. Li Ke was stunned for a moment, but he instantly understood that this was Li Shimin's explanation, and he came to give it away.
Li Ke immediately became eager, although he didn't want to be the emperor, but the necessary backhand still had to be prepared, the prince of leisure, that is enough strength to be the prince of leisure, otherwise it is the prince of leeks!
In the main hall, Li Ke soon saw Li Jing with gray hair and beard, it is hard for you to imagine that Li Jing is 64 years old this year, but even so, Li Jing still led troops to fight behind him and helped Datang calm down a lot of external troubles.
"I've seen Dai Guogong." Li Ke took the initiative to welcome him out, and then saluted Li Jing very seriously.
"The minister Li Jing has seen His Royal Highness the King of Shu, but the minister doesn't dare to take this ceremony." Li Jing hurriedly said, the twenty-four ministers of Lingyan Pavilion are actually very B-number, for example, Li Jing is going to resign at the beginning of this year, the excuse is that he has a problem with his foot, Li Jing has been injured in the leg, it is indeed a little problem with his foot, but in fact, it does not affect the battle with the army.
As for why he resigned, everyone understands it, but Li Shimin does not agree at present, but it is estimated that Li Jing will have to resign again after a while.
"Dai Guogong, you are too polite, as the pillar of Datang, you and all the soldiers of Datang are the backbone of Datang, without you, the people of Datang, including me, can't stand up." Li Ke said seriously.
"Your Highness, you are ashamed of the old minister." Li Jing said modestly, but the red light on his face showed that he was obviously very happy, who said that His Royal Highness the King of Shu would not speak, you see that this is not very good.
"Dai Guogong came today, but because my father explained what happened to you?" Li Ke asked.
"Exactly, here, I have to thank His Royal Highness the King of Shu for these soldiers first." Li Jing stood up and saluted Li Ke again.
This time, Li Ke did not hide, but accepted this salute calmly, and then said: "Then I don't know how many soldiers are retired near Chang'an now?" ”
"This amount is a bit much...... Li Jing was a little embarrassed.
"How much?" Li Ke asked again.
"Less than five thousand." Li Jing was embarrassed to say the number, this number does not seem to be high, but in fact...... It's already a lot, because quite a few soldiers have been released home, and they can still farm their own fields.
And the rest of this part is actually a meritorious service, but the meritorious service is not very big, but they can't be directly allowed to go home to farm, the court is to arrange for them to sit with a servant, but they all have disabilities.
"That's it?" Li Ke was a little stunned, he thought there were hundreds of thousands, but it turned out to be less than five thousand? But think about it, it seems that hundreds of thousands are not very suitable.
In fact, the disability rate of cold weapon warfare in ancient times is not too high, there are two main points, one of which is that minor injuries are healed quickly, and they do not affect the battle, some injuries are even very scary, but as long as they do not hurt the muscles and bones, as long as they can be cured, they have little impact.
Second, the medical conditions are so poor that the probability of death in ancient times was at least 70 percent for disabled people with amputated limbs who could survive in modern times.
Think about the total number of Datang's army maintained at about 60 to 800,000 people, and 5,000 people with disabilities are quite a lot.
Li Jing: "? ”
That's it? What do you mean by that?
"Your Highness thinks it's too little?" Li Jing's people are stupid, five thousand people! How much is it to feed these people and eat and drink? It's a bottomless pit!
"Yes, indeed." Li Ke nodded.
"This ...... Your Royal Highness, with all due respect, the old minister understands His Highness's intentions, but these people are all big-headed soldiers and have no special skills, they can help His Highness do some coolies and do some work to maintain law and order, and doing coolies is still limited by physical conditions. ”
"So these people's salaries, eating and drinking cost a lot of money, although I don't want to say it, but this is a bottomless pit, Your Highness must not be careless because of this, if you have just taken over for only a year and a half, you can't afford it, it's better not to take over." Li Jing said bitterly.
Li Jing's words are for Li Ke's good, and it is a good thing to take over, but if he has to be thrown back to the imperial court in a year and a half, not to mention what Li Shimin thinks, there must be many people in the court who impeached him, at least the eldest grandson Wuji has to give him a name that regards the major affairs of the imperial court as child's play.