Li Tai smiled when he saw the letter sent by the court asking him to return to Chang'an for the New Year.
Li Tai said to Lu Cai, "I'm going back to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year, but you have to pay more attention to the affairs in Luoyang."
"Chang'an is the center of the empire, and it may not be as wanton as Luoyang. Please also ask the King of Wei to bring some people who can negotiate!"
Lu Cai looked at this edict, but he also knew that the tax of more than three million yuan sent to Luoyang must have shocked the Tang court.
However, what Lu Cai did not expect was that the imperial court did not send anyone to investigate, and directly asked King Wei to return to Chang'an.
Obviously, even the imperial court had no way of knowing how much money and food there was, so it had no choice but to ask King Wei to go back and make a report on his own.
Normally, once a vassal king like King Wei is sealed outside, it would be difficult to return to the court.
Especially since King Wei is still one of the legitimate sons of the Sage, and the Sage is still around, no one can guarantee whether the Sage will let King Wei inherit the throne.
But now that the share of taxes has been paid, King Wei really wants to go back. After all, Luoyang collected one-tenth of the taxes of the entire Tang Dynasty, which is simply unbelievable!
"Lu Anshou, Bai He, Ren Yaxiang, Zu Changming, plus my soldiers are enough. After all, Chang'an is not a dragon's den, just go back and take a look!" Li Tai said calmly,
"However, Zhenru must work harder to repair the entire Henan road system.
Without the sage’s nod, it would still be a lot of trouble to operate this matter!”
"King Wei, when are you going to set off?" Wang Zhenru couldn't help but look serious when he heard Li Tai's words.
"I told the chamberlain who came to announce the decree that he will be responsible for handing over all government affairs tomorrow, and he should be leaving the day after tomorrow!"
Wang Zhenru gritted his teeth and nodded, "I will definitely get this plan out tomorrow!"
"It's good to have a rough idea!" Li Tai looked at Wang Zhenru and understood that he was probably going to stay up late to catch up on the PPT.
"No!" Wang Zhenru nodded.
Wang Zhenru has worked on so many projects, and he understands that the meaning of a project is different whether it is endorsed by the court or not.
With the imperial court's endorsement, local snake families will argue but they will do so based on their own interests. However, without the imperial court's endorsement, these aristocratic families may just be arguing because they simply don't want to cause trouble.
For example, if your road is being built and it affects your family's feng shui, so you refuse to cooperate. This kind of thing has happened before.
Because of this, if you can get the approval of the imperial court to build the entire system, from a political standpoint, the imperial court has clearly issued a document to confirm the matter. As a result, you are opposed now, do you have a problem with the imperial court?
Just like this, although this matter is urgent, Wang Zhenru needs to get rid of it.
After confirming these two things, Li Tai discussed the details with everyone, and everyone dispersed to deal with various matters.
Li Tai went to Yan Wan and told her the news that he was about to leave for Chang'an.
"Are you going back to Chang'an?" Yan Wan was a little surprised and a little happy.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "If you have any best friends in Luoyang, go and say goodbye to them tomorrow. At least we won't be able to go back to Luoyang before the Lantern Festival."
In addition, after you return, you have to arrange time to deal with various relatives who need to move around. I am afraid that these troublesome things will have to be left to you to take care of!"
Li Tai knew that before he had a family, no one would say anything to him if he lived alone.
But I already have a family, so I have to deal with various relatives every New Year.
However, this kind of thing is not something that I have to do myself. Instead, I have to leave it to the princess to take care of it. Basically, I can just take care of it myself.
"I understand!" Yan Wan was very excited when she heard this.
After all, she really had nothing to do in Prince Wei's palace. For Yan Wan, who was at an active age, being able to handle these family affairs was just as she wished.
After Laba, Li Tai took the Wei Palace and set off, almost during the Xiaohan period.
, then greeted the snowflakes and came to the Palace of Wei Prince in Chang'an.
At about this time, Master Yuan returned to the Hehuang Valley with a variety of equipment and staff.
While Du Chuke helped receive the supplies, he also helped send a message to Wang Xuance, asking them to receive the armor.
Du Chuke still understands materials such as cotton clothes and tea leaves. Even if it is a shield and armor, even if the King of Wei spends a lot of money, what are these professional Kongming lantern craftsmen here to do? Let's put Kongming lanterns here together.
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Du Chuke said that he was shocked and did not understand the meaning of it at all.
"This giant sky lantern is used for transportation uphill!" Master Yuan Ke said,
"The King of Wei said that it is meaningless to continue testing this thing in Luoyang, and it needs to be tested on the spot here in the Hehuang Valley.
So when it can be put into use as a means of transportation depends on whether Du Changshi can really improve it.
If this thing can really help with climbing, it will be much easier to transport supplies from Hehuang Valley to Xihai County."
"I know!" Du Chuke nodded after hearing what Yuan Keshi said, "It's just a test sample, right?"
After all, Du Chuke was the leader of Moke at the time, and he clearly knew how big the gap was between the testing machine and the equipment that was actually used normally.
Du Chuke was certain that this thing might not be put into normal use until he returned to Luoyang.
But there was no other way. Since the King of Wei named this thing of development, he could only do his best to develop it.
Not long after Yuan Keshi came back, Xue Rengui also came with soldiers from the academy to receive supplies.
After all, you need to harvest equipment, especially the most direct way to know whether you are a regular army is whether you are wearing armor.
Therefore, as soon as Xue Rengui heard the news, he came with the academy soldiers in order to receive the supplies as quickly as possible.
"I've seen Du Changshi, and Xue Rengui, the captain of the military school, came to receive the supplies." Xue Rengui said excitedly.
"Come here!" Du Changshi looked at Xue Rengui without any embarrassment, but he took Xue Rengui to the treasury.
Du Chuke asked someone to open the door. At this time, Xue Rengui saw that the armor inside was still glowing with silver metal. Xue Rengui was very excited.
"Four thousand shields, one thousand of which are spares. It consists of twelve parts in total. It is also equipped with a large shield, a steel hammer, and a built-in buckle. As long as your comrades help press the corresponding position, the armor can fall off.
Although it is very troublesome to unlock the armor by yourself, it is still easy to unlock it with comrades.
Another thing to note is that the weight of the armor starts at 160 kilograms, so be careful not to get hurt when carrying it."
"One hundred and sixty pounds is so heavy?!" Xue Rengui couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this.
"You think it's too heavy, too!" Seeing Xue Rengui's surprise, Du Chuke nodded and said, "Why don't you go back and refining it!"
"Very suitable, very suitable, there is nothing more suitable than this!" Xue Rengui said decisively,
"Our academy soldiers are adaptive, so we just have to adapt.
Not to mention the armor that does not exceed the weight of our soldiers, we can extend the bodyless adaptive.
Even armor that exceeds the soldier's weight can be forcibly worn through hypergravity adaptation!"
"Are the academy soldiers so strong?" Du Chuke couldn't help being stunned when he heard this. This is one hundred and sixty kilograms.
It's like a lump of iron when you wear it. How can you let others live when you wear such heavy armor?!
"The main reason is that Qinghai is suitable for the development of adaptive talents. At most, it is just based on the adaptive talents.
The soldiers have enough quality and organizational power, and it is quite simple to adjust according to their adaptive talents.
After all, the information about self-adaptation left to us by Duke Wei is quite clear!"
Xue Rengui scratched his head, but he really didn't think this thing was difficult. After all, Wang Xuance saw it and said that it would be fine if he had the skills.
I have seen it myself and just follow the adaptive system and expand it downwards. The soldiers will also be trained and able to do it. I really don’t think it is difficult.
"The Duke of Wei is truly a god!" Du Chuke couldn't help but sigh at this moment.
He is not like Xue Rengui. He came from the troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty, and he clearly knows that as long as a general with war department talent is not a good general, he can be considered a fierce general.
As for the generals who can modify the talents of the war department according to their own wishes to a certain extent, I can't guarantee whether there will be five of them since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Du Chuke did not expect that Wei Guogong could actually reduce the difficulty of adaptive warfare talents to such an extent. He never thought that Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance actually had such talents in commanding troops.
After all, they have never fought a real hard battle, and as far as the military is concerned, the thousand-year-old immortal military legend Zhao Kuo tells you with facts that as long as you fail to survive the battlefield, then even if you have potential, it is meaningless.
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"Then Du Changshi, I just moved these armors away!" Xue Rengui looked at these armors and was quite happy.
"Move it away?" Du Chuke couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He couldn't help but think of the shock he was in after delivering the supplies, and said, "We haven't even finished counting. Why are we moving it? These are training armors!"
"Training A? What training A?" Xue Rengui felt extremely confused by this word.
How do the two words training and armor come together? In other words, armor is so scarce these days. Who in the brain has a problem and would have special armor for training? Isn't he afraid of God's punishment for such a waste of natural resources?
At this time, Du Chuke said, "King Wei said that you are taking adaptive talent, so he has equipped you with heavy armor for weight-bearing training.
That's right, this is not the armor you wear when fighting, but just the load-bearing armor you use for training.
No one would think of letting their soldiers fight wearing armor weighing more than 160 kilograms. Can the horse support it?"
"Oh, it turns out to be King Wei! King Wei has always been so farsighted, he even thought about training armor for us!"
Xue Rengui said decisively when he heard this, reluctantly moved away from these armors, and asked, "What about our armors?"
"Next door!" Du Chuke looked at Xue Rengui and said, "The number of bright light armors is the same as the training shields, three thousand is the standard number, and there is a spare number of one thousand."
"Is there any other armor?" Xue Rengui asked with a little doubt after hearing Du Chuke's words.
"I don't know if that's armor, it's a new kind of armor made of white sheets and iron sheets, cotton armor!"
Du Chuke said, "King Wei heard that it is relatively cold here, so he made it with white tiles. It is very light and weighs less than twenty kilograms!"
"This is the inner lining! What kind of armor is such a light piece of clothing?" Xue Rengui couldn't help but complain.
"In addition, there are javelins, horizontal knives, spears, awls, and all kinds of weapons. If you think they are suitable, just take them back and slowly explore their uses!" Du Chuke said to Xue Rengui.
"Don't worry, with these equipment, I will definitely not let those foreign races enter Xihai County!" Xue Rengui said confidently.
After hearing Xue Rengui's words, Du Chuke's expression changed, and then he said seriously,
"My brother sent me a letter. The Tibetan envoy quietly left the Tang Dynasty for some unknown reason.
If I hadn't asked my brother to pay attention, I wouldn't have known they were gone. With such an unusual move, I think Tubo would be in trouble."
To be honest, Du Chuke originally did not think that Tubo would not think about attacking. He would wait out his time next year and then go to Luoyang to serve as the Luoyang Order.
But I didn't expect that I would find out such a thing after just asking Du Ruhui casually.
Although Du Chuke didn't know exactly what happened, it was definitely not a good thing for Tubo to leave in such a hurry.
"Has Tubo begun to move?" Upon hearing this, Xue Rengui not only did not feel any danger, but on the contrary felt very excited.
Because I have stayed here for several years, if there is no war again next year, I will apply for dispatch to go back to Luoyang.
After all, I have been out for so many years, and I am going back to Hedong to marry the Liu family.
"I don't know!" Du Chuke said, "But the King of Wei judged that there would definitely be a war between Tubo and our Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would not have left the Xuefu soldiers in Xihai County, and even asked me to come and transform the Hehuang Valley.
Now we have prepared such sufficient armaments for you, and asked Master Yuan to transport them here in the middle of winter. It doesn’t look like an unintentional move!"
"I understand! I will tell Xuance this matter when I go back!" Xue Rengui said solemnly after hearing Du Chuke's words,
"At least in the past few years, he has been getting along well with those foreign tribes. He asked the foreign tribes to act as spies for us and detect Tubo's intentions. I think Xuance can do it."
"As long as you have the will!" Du Chuke nodded after hearing Xue Rengui's words and said, "Tell Wang Xuance that if a war really breaks out, as long as the court's decree is not issued, he will have full authority to make the decision!
Once I know the news, I will transport the supplies from Hehuang Valley as soon as possible!"
"No!" Xue Rengui clasped his hands when he heard Du Chuke's words, expressing his understanding.