There is a famous saying that is right: building a country does not rely on dreams, it will eventually resort to blood and iron!
Now, the newly born Tang Dynasty is slowly standing up on this land, and correspondingly, his training is about to come!
Although this training seems a bit exaggerated in the eyes of many people, fortunately: the Tang Dynasty has a fearless and powerful emperor, a group of scheming ministers, and countless peerless generals!
After it was determined that today's Turks were not monolithic, the plan against them soon emerged smoothly.
The strategy is very old-fashioned, but it is also very practical: it’s just a combination of vertical and horizontal!
In Yu Chigong's words, since you dare to leave your house and run away to rob, then don't blame us for setting your backyard on fire!
So, Tang Jian, who had just returned to Chang'an, once again received a business trip. Unlike before, this time it was a secret mission!
In addition to strategies, upright conspiracy was also indispensable in the past.
So immediately afterwards the imperial edict was issued through the Zhongshu Province:
Yuchi Gong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the march on Jingzhou Road, and Li Jing was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the march on Lingzhou Road. Each commanded a large army and stayed on one side.
Soft or hard, Li Shimin plans to come together this time!
The sky gradually darkened.
In the huge East Palace, countless lights have been lit.
After Li Shimin waited for Xue Shou and others to leave, he looked at the dark night sky above his head and dragged his tired body along the long corridor to the harem.
"Your Majesty, we are going tonight..." The eunuch holding the lamp in front hunched over and asked the young emperor carefully.
"Go to the Queen!" Li Shimin replied calmly.
"Here!"
After hearing this unsurprising answer, the eunuch immediately responded and then led Li Shimin to the Cheng'en Palace in a familiar manner.
He also knew that his Majesty would spend at least half of the month with the queen, but in this case, he would disappoint those concubines waiting in front of the dressing table.
Cheng'en Hall is one of the main halls of the East Palace. Since the eldest grandson was named queen, this hall has also become the residence of the mother of a country.
Today, although it is getting late, the lights of this palace are still bright.
After stopping the eunuch from shouting "The Emperor has arrived," Li Shimin stepped forward and gently pushed the palace door, and the wooden door carved with countless patterns opened in response.
Behind the door, there was no figure of Queen Changsun in the bright hall, only a few maids on duty hurriedly bowed down and saluted.
Seeing this situation, Li Shimin didn't think it was strange. He waved his wide sleeves and walked quickly to the back room at the back of the palace.
"Your Majesty is here?"
Perhaps because he heard the noise outside, the eldest grandson opened the door and came out before Li Shimin could walk into the inner room.
"Why haven't you fallen asleep yet? What are you busy with?" When Li Shimin saw his eldest grandson, he suddenly felt that most of his troubles were gone and asked with a smile.
The eldest grandson lowered his head and smiled sweetly: "What can I do in this harem? It's just that someone from Qinling just sent a few things, and I am...well, studying it!"
"Research?"
Li Shimin was no stranger to this term, and he thought that the things came from the Qinling Mountains, so he guessed who sent them.
"Did someone give it to Xiao Han? What did he give?" Li Shimin asked curiously, and then regardless of the image, he stretched his neck and looked behind his eldest grandson.
Changsun looked at the usually calm Li Shimin with such an expression, and suddenly felt a little funny. She asked softly: "Guess what he gave?"
"Guess?" Li Shimin frowned slightly and said helplessly: "How could you guess this? However, this guy is a complete miser, so it must not be anything valuable! Could it be that he caught some game in Qinling Mountains? Did you send it over?"
After listening to what Li Shimin said, the eldest grandson couldn't help but chuckle: "You were half right. What he sent this time is a strange-looking weapon."
"arms?"
Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, then suddenly thought of his purpose of going to Qinling, and couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"Why did I forget this?! Well, what did he send? You didn't move around, right? Not many of the things he made were kind, but quite a few were vicious! I didn't know he had such a weak temperament How is it done?”
"Haha, don't you just like his temperament?" Changsun knew Li Shimin best, so he asked with a smile from behind.
"That's different!" Li Shimin shook his head, with a helpless smile on his lips, and whispered: "If you don't talk about this, let's take a look at things first."
Changsun nodded to this, opened the door, and waited for Li Shimin to come in. Then he pointed at a strange-looking iron lump on the table and said, "Here, that's it. He even gave this thing a name, like a big pineapple." "
"Big pineapple?" When Li Shimin heard the name, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. In fact, he wanted to say that Xiao Han's name-picking skills were really bad! It was so bad that he couldn't even bear to look at it!
Previously, he named a supreme weapon the Big Yellow Crossbow. Those who knew it said it was a weapon, but those who didn’t knew it thought it was the big yellow dog from the next village!
"Hey, let's take a look first. If it's useful, I'll definitely rename it!" With this in mind, Li Shimin approached the table and took a closer look at this strange weapon.
"Why is this thing so weird? And it was cast without care. There are burrs everywhere, and there is no beauty at all. Oh, he said that he hates flashy things the most, so how should you use something that looks so ugly?"
After looking around for a while, Li Shimin, who felt like he didn't understand anything, asked Changsun confused.
Changsun walked over from the door, stretched out a finger, pointed at a piece of rope on Tie Biao's head and said, "I told you, he said to light the rope with fire, and then throw it out with a trebuchet."
"Oh? How powerful is it?" Li Shimin stretched out his hand, gently moved the rope, and turned around to continue asking.
The eldest grandson took out a letter and handed it to Li Shimin and said: "He said that if you control it well, there should be no living thing within ten feet!"
"Ten feet..."
Hearing this number, Li Shimin was undoubtedly stunned! Then he finally came back to his senses and immediately looked around the house again, as if he was measuring how big it was in a radius of ten feet!
As a result, after he determined that the entire palace was only ten feet in diameter! A pair of eyes suddenly widened very, very big!
"Ahem, is it true or not?" Li Shimin grabbed the letter and asked eagerly while opening it quickly.
Changsun let go of his hand, rolled his eyes at Li Shimin and said, "This is written by Ren Qing himself! And he also wrote it clearly in it. With his skill, it is inevitable to deal with this!"
"Within a radius of ten feet, there are no humans or animals left?!" Li Shimin had already opened the letter and looked at every word on the letter greedily as if fascinated.
