After the morning court ended the next day, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, and Niu Jinda came to Li Shimin's study to ask for an audience.
"I will see you, Your Majesty!" Cheng Yaojin and the others bowed in salute.
Li Shimin smiled and said: "Without courtesy, come together to see me. What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, I have obtained a new method of training soldiers, and I would like to ask your Majesty to take a look at it." Cheng Yaojin took out the memorial and the method of training soldiers written by Lin Xuan and raised it above his head.
Li Mu quickly stepped forward to take it and sent it to Li Shimin.
"Oh?" Li Shimin looked at it with interest.
Li Shimin looked at the method of training soldiers first. He could tell at a glance that the word was written by Lin Xuan, but he didn't say anything.
It didn't take long for Li Shimin to finish reading "The Method of Training Soldiers". He pondered for a moment without saying anything, then picked up Cheng Yaojin's memorial and started reading it.
Cheng Yaojin's memorial listed the advantages and disadvantages of this military training method in great detail.
After Li Shimin read it, he asked: "Did Lin Xuan write this?"
"Your Majesty, that's right." Cheng Yaojin nodded and said.
Li Shimin looked at Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda and asked, "Do you also think this method is useful?"
Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda nodded. They had seen this method at Cheng Yaojin's house yesterday, and they agreed that this method was feasible.
"Then how many people do you think is appropriate to train according to this method?" Li Shimin asked.
"Ten thousand!"
"Thirty thousand!"
"fifty thousand!"
Cheng Yaojin and three others said at the same time, but the numbers they said were different.
After the three of them finished speaking, they glared at each other.
Li Shimin rubbed his head and said: "Since this method was proposed by Lin Xuan, let's call Lin Xuan over and see what he says."
After speaking, he ordered Li Mu to send someone to call Lin Xuan.
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Lin Xuan came back from the East Palace yesterday and was so excited that he didn't sleep all night.
However, as he thought about it, he felt something was wrong. Since Li Shimin was going to marry his daughter to him, why didn't he tell him when he met him before?
Could he have been deceived by Li Chengqian?
The more Lin Xuan thought about it, the angrier he became. After he had told Li Chengqian so much from the bottom of his heart, he actually lied to himself.
Lin Xuan slowly fell asleep with resentment towards Li Chengqian.
In fact, Lin Xuan misunderstood Li Chengqian. Empress Changsun told Li Lizhi that Li Shimin was going to test Lin Xuan. Li Lizhi found Li Chengqian and asked him to inform Lin Xuan so that he could be prepared.
However, what Lin Xuan said had a huge impact on Li Chengqian. How could Li Chengqian still think of this?
This caused Lin Xuan to get up much later than usual the next day. After getting up, after practicing martial arts, eating, completing the daily check-in, he went to find Lin Dongyang.
He wanted to discuss with Lin Dongyang about building a house.
Lin Dongyang did not refuse. He also felt that Zhouzhuang was a good place. It was close to Chang'an and there were still servants from his family in the village.
The father and son were discussing some details when a servant came to report the matter, and someone from the palace summoned Lin Xuan into the palace to meet the saint.
Lin Xuan's heart moved. Could it be that Li Shimin came to him to talk about marrying Li Lizhi to him?
After talking to Lin Dongyang, Lin Xuan called Liu Da and went straight to the palace.
Lin Xuan walked into the study and found Cheng Yaojin and others there. He knew it was not what he thought, and felt a little disappointed.
"Your Majesty, sir." Lin Xuan bowed and saluted.
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "You came up with this method of training soldiers. Can you tell me what this ideological education means?"
Lin Xuan did not expect Cheng Yaojin to move so quickly. What was given to him yesterday was in Li Shimin's hands today.
"Your Majesty, ideological education is to let soldiers understand what it means to protect their homeland and their country, to be loyal to the court, and to be loyal to Your Majesty," Lin Xuan said.
Most of the soldiers in ancient times were trying to support their families and earn a living.
Why did so many people serve as soldiers in the Tang Dynasty? It was not because there were many preferential conditions for serving as soldiers.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people have noble patriotic sentiments, but they are in the minority after all.
The Li family started out as a rebel. If those soldiers talked about being loyal and patriotic, why would they follow the Li family in rebellion?
To put it bluntly, they are ordinary people. Whoever becomes the emperor has nothing to do with them. They just want to fill their stomachs.
Lin Xuan's words "loyal to His Majesty" moved Li Shimin.
"How many people do you think are suitable for this army?" Li Shimin asked.
Lin Xuan said: "Chen's training method is still just a theory. It is best to test it on a small scale first."
He was afraid that Li Shimin would directly raise an army of tens of thousands, and if his training methods were not adapted to the local environment, he would be in trouble.
Li Shimin nodded, this is no small matter after all, "How about I leave this army to you for training?"
Lin Xuan was stunned and said: "Your Majesty, I have never led an army, is it inappropriate? I think a few princes are quite suitable. Your Majesty, why not choose one among them."
Cheng Yaojin and others are so keen on this training method, isn't it just to be able to command this army?
"I just let you train and experiment. After all, you came up with the method and you are the most familiar with it." Li Shimin said.
"If your Majesty can agree to my two requests, I will agree." Lin Xuan gritted his teeth and said.
"Oh? Tell me." Li Shimin said with great interest.
Since he became emperor, Lin Xuan is still the first person who dares to negotiate terms with him.
"How many people does your Majesty want to train? You need to give me double the number of people. Besides, I have no experience in leading troops. I heard that Cheng Chumo, Yuchi Baolin, and Qin Huaidao are skilled in military skills. I hope your Majesty can send them to help me." Lin Xuan said.
He was trying to sell favors to Cheng Yaojin and his family.
He originally wanted to mention the Li De Award, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. Li Jing wanted to hide his clumsiness and help himself, and maybe he wouldn't be happy.
Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong glanced at Lin Xuan gratefully.
It's just training soldiers. Whether there is any danger or not, credit will be given if you do a good job.
Li Shimin took a deep look at Lin Xuan and said, "Why do you need twice as many people?"
The fact that he didn't mention the number of people in Cheng Chumo meant that he had already agreed.
"There are too many people for elimination. Soldiers don't have a sense of crisis, so how can they train hard?" Lin Xuan explained.
His training method is very hard. If you don't push hard, how can they train honestly?
Li Shimin said decisively: "Draft a decree to confer Jingyang County Bolinxuan as a brave general, Cheng Chumo, Yuchi Baolin, and Qin Huaidao as school captains, who will be responsible for training the new army in the future."
Li Shimin inspected Cheng Yaojin and others and said: "Leading Zuo will allocate 6,000 men to Lin Xuan to lead them, and they will still be led by Leading Zuo."
Cheng Yaojin was overjoyed. He was the general who led the left army. This army was under his control. If it was expanded in the future, he would have a high chance of taking control of this army.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Xuan bowed to express his gratitude.
"I accept your order!" Cheng Yaojin responded.
After Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, he looked at Yuchi Gong and Niu Jinda proudly.
The two were so angry that they wanted to beat him up.
Li Shimin said: "Okay, you all go back, Lin Xuan stays!"
Lin Xuan was startled, why did Li Shimin leave him alone?