"Your Majesty, the horseshoes have been nailed and the horses are ready for use," Li Daozong said.
Li Shimin nodded and said: "With Yaoshi as the main general, Zhijie and Jingde as deputy generals, we will select elite soldiers and generals from the Sixteen Guards to form 40,000 cavalry."
If there are no horseshoes, 80,000 horses can form a cavalry of more than 20,000 at most.
Cavalry is not called cavalry just because it has a horse, it also requires a lot of training.
During the training process, horses will inevitably suffer damage.
From this we can see how helpful horseshoes are to Tang Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, my veteran minister is old and has not led an army for many years. I would like to ask your Majesty to order the selection of talented people." Li Jing quickly refused.
He didn't know whether Li Shimin was testing him, but in any case, he had no intention of leading troops again.
Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "In that case, let's just name the pharmacist and leave the training to Zhijie and Jingde."
In fact, Li Shimin's favorite is Hou Junji.
Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong can only be regarded as fierce generals. It is certainly no problem to let them lead the charge into battle, but as the coach, there are some shortcomings.
However, when dealing with Hou Junji, there was already some bias. If Hou Junji was activated in such a short period of time, it would definitely arouse criticism.
Li Jing's refusal made Li Shimin very satisfied. After all, Li Jing's reputation in the army was too high.
His original intention was to let Li Jing have a name, and he had no real intention of letting him be the leader.
But this cannot be said by him.
This has nothing to do with whether Li Shimin trusts Li Jing or not. This is a matter of balance.
"I'll take your orders!" Li Jing and the others responded.
…
After the dynasty ended, Lin Xuan came to the furniture shop.
Under the leadership of a waiter, Lin Xuan came to a yard.
There are more than a dozen people working in the yard, and there are some finished calligraphy models placed in a frame on one side.
When Chen Guangli and the craftsmen saw Lin Xuan, they quickly stopped what they were doing and saluted Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan waved his hand, letting others continue working, and asked Chen Guangli: "Old man Chen, how much have you done?"
Chen Guangli said with some shame: "Due to time constraints, I only wrote more than a hundred words."
Lin Xuan doesn't think it's too little. It's just an experiment now. More than one hundred kilograms of lead is not enough to make all the characters.
Chen Guangli asked someone to bring over the finished calligraphy model and show it to Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan looked at them and saw that they were all common characters. He nodded and said, "Let someone put these characters together and try printing them."
"yes!"
He Xinmin quickly asked people to assemble it, and also ordered people to find ink and paper for printing.
After playing with it for a while, the craftsman assembled the more than one hundred characters, brushed ink on the bottom, printed it on the paper, pressed it and lifted it up.
Lin Xuan and Chen Guangli quickly looked at the paper, and more than a hundred neat words appeared densely on the paper.
The strokes of the characters are neat and the handwriting is clear.
A smile appeared on Lin Xuan's face, and movable type printing was completed.
Now we only need to obtain a large amount of lead and make a few more sets of typefaces, and then we can print a large number of books.
…
Manna Hall
Li Mu hurriedly walked in, holding a letter in both hands, and said: "Your Majesty, there is a secret message from Tibet."
Li Shimin took the letter and looked at the paint. He found that there was nothing wrong with it, so he opened the letter.
Ever since Lin Xuan told him about Tubo, he sent someone to investigate.
Because Tubo is far away from the Tang Dynasty and due to altitude sickness, more than four months passed before any news came.
Li Shimin frowned, there was a big gap between what the letter said and what Lin Xuan said.
After Songtsen Gampo learned that his marriage proposal failed, he felt insulted.
Tubo had just put down the civil strife, and there were still some countries and tribes on the plateau that were eyeing them. Even if he wanted to take revenge on the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't do anything about it.
But Songtsen Gampo was so arrogant and arrogant that he could not swallow his anger.
Ignoring the obstruction of the Tibetan ministers, they boldly sent troops and began the road to unify the plateau.
At that time, the largest Qiang in the north of Tubo was Supi. After the rebellion was suppressed, although the Supi attack was contained, the threat still existed. Therefore, Songtsen Gampo decided to send Prime Minister Shang Nang with political and military talents to attack Su
After defeating the resistance of Supi, Shang Nang adopted the method of appeasement and promoted Songtsen Gampo's policy of accepting surrenders. He treated the common people of Supi the same as the residents of Tubo, so that they could live and work in peace and contentment. The nobles of Supi were allowed to retain themselves.
territory, paid tribute according to regulations, and soon surrendered the Supi tribes. From then on, Tubo's territory expanded to southern Qinghai.
There is Yangtong (also known as Xiangxiong) in the southwest of Tubo and south of Hotan. When Langri was talking about praise, he was married to Tubo. After pacifying Supi, Songtsen Gampo personally conquered Yangtong, so Yangtong surrendered to Tubo again. Songtsen
Zangampo married his sister Saimaga to King Yangtong as his concubine to win over him.
After winning over Yangtong, Songtsen Gampo began to recuperate and strengthen his troops.
This was the secret information. After reading it, Li Shimin began to think deeply.
After a long time, Li Shimin said: "Go and find Lin Xuan!"
…
Lin Xuan hurried to the palace with several pieces of paper full of words printed on them.
Just when I arrived at the palace gate, I happened to see Li Mu leaving the palace.
Li Mu was overjoyed when he saw Lin Xuan, and said quickly: "The Marquis of Jingyang County quickly follows the old slave into the palace, Your Majesty summons you!"
Lin Xuan originally came to ask to see Li Shimin, but after hearing Li Mu's words, he did not refuse.
Lin Xuan asked doubtfully on the way: "Manager Li, I wonder what important matter your Majesty summoned me for?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "I don't know."
He didn't lie to Lin Xuan. He didn't know what the secret letter said.
However, he knew that the secret report was sent by Tibet, but he did not intend to tell Lin Xuan.
If there was some unimportant news, he wouldn't mind telling Lin Xuan.
But when it comes to secret messages, he can't tell.
When Lin Xuan saw this, he didn't ask any more questions.
"I see your Majesty!" Lin Xuan bowed.
Li Shimin waved his hand and asked Li Mu to pass the letter to Lin Xuan, and said expressionlessly: "Take a look."
Lin Xuan's eyes widened when he saw the contents of the letter.
Songtsen Gampo was too fierce. These things did happen in history. Although he didn't know the specific circumstances, it didn't seem so fast, right?
Could it be that because the marriage proposal failed, the small universe exploded?
Seeing Lin Xuan finish reading, Li Shimin asked: "What do you think?"
Lin Xuan said in a deep voice: "There must be a battle between Tubo and Datang!"
Historically, Songtsen Gampo sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty after driving away Tuyuhun.
Now it seems that Tubo is still developing according to history, so Tubo will still attack Datang.
Li Shimin nodded and agreed with Lin Xuan's statement.
It's not that he knows history like Lin Xuan.
But he analyzed these messages and knew that Songtsen Gampo was a very aggressive person.
Now the troops are in full swing and must be preparing to attack neighboring countries.
Tubo is now so powerful that none of the surrounding countries, except the Tang Dynasty, can resist it.
A person's ambition is unlimited. When Tibet destroys the surrounding countries, it will definitely take action against the Tang Dynasty.
"How do you think Gaochang should be controlled?" Li Shimin asked.
It is not Li Shimin's character to wait for the enemy to be strong before attacking him.
However, Tubo is located on a plateau, and most people are not used to it. This time, more than a hundred spies were sent to infiltrate Tubo, but only a few actually infiltrated.
With such an innate obstacle, he couldn't even think of taking a preemptive strike.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, Tubo's fighting power is not strong." Lin Xuan said.