Chapter 60 Li Jiancheng, you are really the favorite of God

After Li Jiancheng left, Wei Zheng walked out from behind the screen.

Wei Zheng looked at it getting late and offered to say goodbye.

Li Xiuning said: "You don't have to hurry to leave. It's cold and freezing. Drink some mutton soup to warm up your body before leaving!"

With Li Xiuning's order, the maids of Chenjiabao walked into the lobby with food boxes, and the maids placed the food on the table.

Wei Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "The rich people's wine and meat..."

Before Wei Zheng finished speaking, Li Xiuning glanced at Wei Zheng and said, "Don't worry, there is no one penny of money in this place. Since the fifth year of Wude, Chen Lang and I have not received a penny of salary. All the expenses of the Chen family come from what you call the dedication of the rich!"

Wei Zheng said in surprise: "How is this possible?"

"Why is this impossible?" Li Xiuning pointed to Chang'an and said, "The Chen Mansion has two major investment items, one is the Tongli Money House of Datang, the other is the four-wheeled carriage, and the other is the farm tools and Jiang workshops, including Boren Hospital and Datang Institute of Technology, all of which are compensated!"

In theory, the core technology of four-wheeled carriages is nothing more than four-wheel steering devices and shock absorption devices. Now, in order to facilitate land transportation in the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying has opened up the technical barriers of four-wheeled carriages.

It can be said that now, there are not a thousand workshops that can produce and manufacture four-wheeled carriages, and there are at least eight hundred. However, most of these four-wheeled carriages are used to carry goods. The luxurious four-wheeled carriages are still worth a lot of money and require queues to order.

At the beginning, Li Xiuning was very strange. After all, there were some great things in the Tang Dynasty. They ordered a four-wheeled carriage and could not be ordered for at least three to five years.

However, Li Xiuning does not understand the world and people's hearts.

Although the main function of the four-wheeled carriage is to facilitate travel, luxurious horse carriages worth tens of thousands of yuan or thousands of yuan have become symbols of identity. Even if the four-wheeled carriage produced in Yangji Chefang, Lantian County is almost carved from the same mold as the carriage produced by Chen Mansion, the nobles in Chang'an and even the whole world recognize the horse carriage produced by Chen Ji.

Chen Ying pays attention to the brand effect than anyone else. The four-wheeled carriage produced by Chen Ji, even a rivet on it, is engraved with Chen Ji's inscriptions, including the teapot, red mud stove, and especially the flush toilet. They all carry the inscription of "Chen Ji".

Since the four-wheeled carriage was put on the market, Chen Ying's four-wheeled carriage workshop has upgraded and transformed the four-wheeled carriage five times, from cowhide sofa seats to lambskin, even tiger skin and crocodile skin, and then made a wake-up version, which was soaked in mint. Of course, the most outrageous thing is that Chen's mansion used gold and silver to make a golden carriage last year. This carriage of 88,888 stag was bought by an anonymous wealthy family in Jiangnan.

In fact, Chen Yingfu spent a lot of money last year, tens of thousands of trump cards. However, the surplus of carriage alone was as high as 250,000 trump cards.

As for larger investments, it belongs to the Tongli Money House of the Tang Dynasty. Unlike other money houses, Tongli Money House not only has good credit, but also has interest. Although the interest rate of 5 cents per year is not high, it cannot withstand the money of other families. More than 90% of the deposits are contributed by the aristocratic families, and the surplus of 560,000 yuan of money is mostly contributed by these aristocratic families.

Wei Zheng thought about it and it was true that what Li Xiuning said was not false.

In this way, he had a meal with great confidence.

At this time, Li Xiuning noticed that Wei Zheng had a big hole in his cuff, and the broken strips of silk cloth were placed in the vegetable soup, but Wei Zheng was unaware of it.

Li Xiuning said curiously: "Xuancheng, why are you unwilling to bring your family to Chang'an so far?

Wei Zheng was stunned and then lowered his head and continued to eat.

Li Xiuning continued to stare at Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng finally found that the broken sleeves were placed in the vegetable soup. His old face turned red and he put down his chopsticks. He smiled awkwardly and said, "This matter is a long story..."

Wei Zheng wanted to speak but stopped.

Li Xiuning said: "Tell me! Could there be something shameful about it?

Wei Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "I can't stand it..."

Wei Zheng found that Li Xiuning looked at him.

He barely coughed and said to himself: "Yang Guang's third conquest for Liaodong, and my eldest son Shuyu was lost in the chaos...

Li Xiuning sighed and said with concern: "Later, have you found it?"

Wei Zheng shook his head silently.

Li Xiuning said: "Xuancheng felt that he had no face to face his parents, wife and children at home?"

Wei Zheng nodded.

Li Xiuning comforted Wei Zheng and sighed: "I would rather be a peaceful dog than a person in troubled times. After more than ten years of war, my wife and children were separated, and my family was destroyed, I am not just you, the Fang family in Donghai and the Du family in Luoyang, and hundreds of people died in troubled times. The dead are gone, and Xuancheng does not need to blame himself."

Wei Zheng remained silent.

The hall is briefly silent.

Li Xiuning broke the silence again and said, "Xuancheng, why haven't you brought your family and your wife to Chang'an now?"

Wei Zheng sighed and said, "The world is in turmoil, and its master has changed several times. It is said that in the prosperous era, in the turbulent times, hidden in the wilderness, and the world is not yet determined. It is better for the family to live in seclusion in their hometown.

Li Xiuning said in surprise: "If today, if the Nine Provinces are unified, how can the world be determined?"

Wei Zheng said: "When I can help my Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty to slaughter the Turks and Chang'an in the world, I will naturally take them here and share the peaceful and prosperous era."

Li Xiuning immediately looked at Wei Zheng in awe.

Li Xiuning stood up and said, "You have also heard from His Majesty that since I will be the ambassador of Anxi to travel to Anxi, Chen Lang should also lead 100,000 troops from Anxi to the north. At the time of the border, the Eastern Turks are not worth worrying!"

At this moment, Wei Zheng suddenly looked out the window, and snowflakes were rising outside the window under the lights.

Wei Zheng murmured: "It's snowing..."

Li Xiuning said: "Which winter will not snow!"

"This is different!" Wei Zheng sighed and said, "This heavy snow can surpass 100,000 soldiers!"

...

In the Tangying camp in Bashang, the cold wind whistled and heavy snow was blowing.

At the gate of the military camp, a large cart filled with supplies was trapped in a mud pit. The wheels on one side had broken. More than a dozen soldiers, under the command of the team leader, were busy transporting new wheels to install.

A team of Tang soldiers walked behind. Seeing that the road to the camp was blocked, the leader's school immediately stepped forward.

The horse riding school roared, "Why block the camp gate?"

The school of the baggage team glanced at the horse riding school and said angrily: "Didn't you see it? The wheels were broken. The cart was stuck in the mud pit."

The horse riding school said disapprovingly: "Why don't you pull the big car aside? It blocks the camp gate and prevents us from entering and leaving, delaying our slaughter. Can you afford it?"

The School of Vessel retorted: "You just want to sing Mao?"

The horse riding school said proudly: "We Jianghuai Light Cavalry are not soldiers of the Twelve Guards. If we are less than the Mao, our general will really kill people."

The small school of supplies shouted: "The soldiers of the Twelve Guards? See clearly that we are the Hedong Army and the commander of the Hedong General. When we fight against the Turks, we are the main force, just the light cavalry of the Jianghuai Dynasty and the partial army. What kind of arrogance are we using?"

The horse riding school cursed angrily: "Participant? Tell you that in this expedition to attack the Turks, my general will definitely take charge. At that time, you Hedong Army should not drag you down."

The baggage school was so angry that their eyes widened, and more than a dozen soldiers who were repairing the car also rushed up.

The small school in the luggage storage shouted: "When our Hedong Army and the Turks fought to death, you Jianghuai Light Cavalry were still playing with mud. The one who fought against the Turks as the altar and became the commander of the commander must be my Hedong Governor."

More than a dozen soldiers of the Jianghuai Light Cavalry saw that their school was at a loss and dismounted one after another. The two teams pushed each other and provoked each other.

A side general immediately stopped shouting: "Why are the noise and noise blocking the gate?"

The soldiers turned around and were shocked to find that Kan Ling and Li Jing were standing side by side at the back.

The baggage school gave the horse riding school a wink.

The horse riding school shouted: "Brothers, help the brothers of the Hedong Army carry the car in."

The soldiers hurried forward, shouted trumpets and dragged the cart out of the mud pit into the camp.

...

Li Jing and Kan Ling walked into the central army's tent.

Kan Ling suddenly stopped and bowed to Li Jing and said, "Mr. Li, in this campaign against the Turks, the father and general had repeatedly instructed Kan Ling to obey Marshal Li's instructions!"

Li Jing laughed in silence and said, "This heavy snow is coming in time. We must change the combat plan. The King of Wu will accompany the Northern Expedition this time and serve as a side work by our general. At that time, you will be under the King of Wu!"

Kan Ling scratched her head and said, "What the Grand Marshal said seriously?"

Li Jing smiled and said, "This is Your Majesty's holy will!"

...

In the eastern Turkic tent of the north-north desert,

Jie Li was gnawing on the flesh and bones with great enthusiasm.

A terrible howling sound came outside.

Jie Li immediately threw down his bones with a gloomy expression.

A slave stumbled and cried and broke into the den, "Khan! Khan! God is angry! It's snowing!"

Jie Li threw down the bones of lamb legs disapproved, wiped the oil on his hands with a leather robe, and said, "What's the point of snow?"

The slave cried and said, "Khan, you'd better go out and have a look!"

Jie Li lifted up the tent and crawled out of the tent. The biting cold made him shudder unconsciously.

Not far from the big tent, a war horse had frozen into an ice sculpture, and the war horse still had its legs moving forward.

The knight on the horse's back was covered with heavy snow, just like the war horse.

Jie Li Khan advanced hard, and the snow under his feet was no longer at his knees.

His eyes looked out.

Unfortunately, this sudden cold wave exceeded his imagination.

The war horses and livestock of the Turks were frozen to death, the vast grasslands were covered with heavy snow, and even the desert was covered with heavy snow (the desert will also snow. Lao Cheng saw it with his own eyes. The third largest desert in China, the Gurbantonggut Desert, will have more than 30 cm of snow in winter)

At this moment, countless Turkic special forces set up khans to walk towards Jie Li Khan's den.
To be continued...