"Didn't I tell you about Xue Ju? When I saw him, his face was darkened and his face was the same as a serious illness in my memory! As for peace in the world, you can regard this as one of my hopes."
After saying that, Xiao Han stretched himself, looked at Li Shimin who was full of doubts, and then said: "Besides, my fief does not need any military use. It only needs convenient transportation and simple folk customs."
Seeing that Xiao Han didn't want to elaborate, Li Shimin didn't force him. He was a lot calmer when he was angry because Xiao Han chose a piece of plain. He glanced at the sand table and followed Xiao Han's words and said: "Okay, my son from Sanyuan County,
I have been to Sanyuan, and the journey is indeed relatively convenient. There are roads everywhere, as long as you are willing to walk... As for the folk customs, the hometown of my general Li Jing is there, what do you think of the folk customs?"
"Li Jing?" Xiao Han was surprised: "The one at Chentangguan? Nezha's father?"
"Chentangguan? Where is that? Who is Nezha?" Li Shimin felt a little strange now.
"Ah, I misremembered, Sao Rui, you were talking about this Li Jing!"
"Um...there are several Li Jings here?"
"No, no, by the way, why haven't I seen him?"
"Well, he went to the south with Li Xiaogong to quell the chaos. Wait, we're not talking about your fiefdom, why do you keep talking about it?"
"Whatever, with me, Xiao Han, it's easy to get rich in a fiefdom! Also, I'm hungry, I'm almost late in the morning, I haven't eaten anything, hurry up and get me something, I'll let you know when I'm full
Say I have a big plan!"
"..."
Li Shimin looked at Xiao Han with a speechless face, so he had to order his servants to cook first and ordered them to cook well. After all, Xiao Han was notoriously picky about food!
While Li Shimin's mansion was busy cooking for Xiao Han, inside the palace, in the Prince's East Palace, Li Jiancheng stood on the stone steps with a gloomy face and looked out of the palace.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, Lord Pei Jipei is here!"
Li Jiancheng's personal chamberlain Xizi ran over carefully and stood behind him with his head shrunk to report.
"Oh, please invite him to my study!" Li Jiancheng said lightly without looking back, looking into the distance in trance.
"Yes!" Xizi responded, carefully glanced at Li Jiancheng's back, and then ran all the way to receive Pei Ji.
When he was young, Li Jiancheng came to the study room of the East Palace. Pei Ji was looking at a calligraphy and painting inside. When he saw Li Jiancheng coming in, he put down the calligraphy and painting. He laughed and stepped forward and said:
"Jian Jiancheng, you see what I said, right? Today, your brother Li Shimin didn't get any favors. There are still many people in this court who recognize you as the crown prince! Li Shimin will only fight again."
You are just a general, you are the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty, so don’t worry too much!”
Li Jiancheng twitched the corner of his mouth, forced a smile, and said: "What Uncle Pei said is absolutely true, but judging from today, my second brother does have a lot of appeal in the military. I won't hide it from you, Uncle Pei.
A hundred years from now, if my father has no military power, how can I secure this inheritance?"
When Pei Ji heard this, he also frowned and said nothing for a while.
It is human nature to prepare for oneself in the future. Now he is a very popular minister and is prominent for a while, but what if Li Yuan is not here, or even himself is not here, how will his descendants deal with themselves?
Therefore, for himself and for the sake of his family, he must be tightly tied to the prince. Even if Li Shimin has not shown any covet for the throne, it does not prevent him from becoming his biggest imaginary enemy.
"Uncle Pei!"
Li Jiancheng suddenly remembered something and suddenly said: "You said that Li Shimin wanted Lantian as a fief for that man named Xiao Han today. Are you planning to build Tiance Mansion there?"
When Pei Ji heard this, he was surprised at first, and then thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that it was not impossible!
Lantian faces Chang'an, with the Qinling Mountains at its back. You can go directly to Chang'an when entering, and you can escape into the vast mountains when retreating. No matter how you look at it, it is an excellent geographical location!
"Could it be that he is already fighting for position in his heart?"
Pei Ji said one sentence and felt like he was sweating all over his back. No, he had completely sided with the prince. No matter what, he could not be allowed to become the emperor!
In fact, it was not only his heart that was frightened, but also Li Jiancheng's whole body. Although he had thought about it countless times, and he had been trying to suppress Li Shimin recently, when it really showed signs, he still had countless fears.
When he came up, he even had murderous intention in his heart!
"No, we must find a way! We can't just sit back and let him grow bigger!"
As brothers who grew up together, Li Jiancheng knows this younger brother very well. This younger brother has been so outstanding since he was a child! He does everything better than anyone of his age! And he is rare and determined!
When everyone was carefully hiding themselves under Yang Guang's reputation, they wished they could turn into a tortoise and stuff their heads into their shells, but this second brother was able to join forces with Liu Wenjing and Pei Ji to directly force the palace, forcing Li Yuan to shoulder the responsibility of resisting the Sui Dynasty.
Flag, and the time was so accurate, just in front of the world's struggle for supremacy, and occupied Chang'an one step ahead!
Li Jiancheng believed that he was not as decisive as him in doing things and accurately recognizing situations. He only had great righteousness. Because of his uneasy heart, he was so afraid of Li Shimin!
Two shady guys, one old and one young, were extremely afraid of Li Shimin in the East Palace, but they could not imagine that at this time, the guy they feared from the bottom of their hearts was looking helpless at home...
Things in the world are unpredictable, and perhaps this is how dramatic they are.
"Hurry up! It's so slow to fill the rice! Hurry up!" Xiao Han placed the big bowl heavily on the dining table, making the round table made of huanghuali wood jump. He wiped his mouth, turned around and faced the back.
call out!
"coming……"
The servant trotted in from the door carrying a bowl of hot noodles, complaining as he ran...
Normally, he doesn't need to serve the food at all. The maids do it. But today, the master didn't know what happened. He kicked out all the maids. They were all men. As a result, he was swept away while he was enjoying sweeping the floor.
Caught it and passed it on!
When Xiao Han saw that he was coming, he quickly knocked on the table: "Put it here, put it here, slow down. If you dare to put your finger into the soup, I will chop it off for you today!"
"...Don't worry, distinguished guest, I'm here to support you all the way!"
Li Shimin couldn't bear to look at Xiao Han yelling and yelling. He took advantage of Xiao Han's lowered head and said to him: "Look at you, you are now a marquis, and you are also a real marquis with a fiefdom.
Can't you be more of a gentleman? If outsiders saw this, they would think that all the nobles of the Tang Dynasty are like monkeys!"
"You are just like a monkey!" Xiao Han tried hard to swallow a big mouthful of noodles and rolled his eyes at Li Shimin: "When you are drunk, none of you can compare to a monkey! Three sets of furniture in my house have been broken, which has caused great harm to me.
The carpenter is now looking for iron wood all over the world, and is preparing to build a set of extremely strong furniture to specially scout for you to eat!"
"Ahem... aren't you drunk? Ahem, I'm talking about normal... normal..."
Li Shimin was choked by Xiao Han and was speechless. He also knew how miserable they looked when they were drunk...
"Normally? Normally I don't see any good things about you. When I came to my house, I thought I didn't have any maids, just like yours, so I saw a few when I came in. But now, there are none!"
"Ahem, um, they are all busy, busy..." Li Shimin was very embarrassed. He couldn't say that he was just afraid of you, a pervert, so he sent them all to the backyard...
After saying that, when Xiao Han had to speak again, Li Shimin quickly said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. You just said that there is a big plan, what big plan?"
"Big plan..." Xiao Han put down the third empty bowl, touched his belly, and glanced regretfully at the almost untouched noodles in front of Li Shimin, thinking that the food from the prince's house is indeed good enough, and this stew is not good at all.
Made, this is how you cook it!
"Stop being so pretentious and tell me quickly, I still have something to do!" Li Shimin urged impatiently.
"I plan not to join the army for a while..."
"Huh? Why?"
"Because I want to go to my fiefdom and have some ideas that I want to realize?"
"What idea? What idea is more important than saving lives and healing the wounded on the battlefield!" Li Shimin was a little unhappy. Fortunately, it was Xiao Han. If it were anyone else, he would have had the word coward on his head.
Xiao Han sat up straight, looked into Li Shimin's eyes, and said slowly: "Actually, I don't know if you believe it or not, but I am really a layman in medicine. I taught the suturing method to the military doctor, and handed over the anti-inflammation and anti-virus to Master Hua.
Go ahead and hand over the military medical process and framework to Brother Chai. I really have nothing left here. Even if there are, they are just some unformed ideas! It can be said that apart from these fresh ideas, I am not even as good as a
An apprentice who has just studied for one year."
"How can it be!"
Li Shimin was stunned for a long time before he finally said this with a look of disbelief on his face. It should be noted that Xiao Han was most famous for his medical skills in the army. Wherever he went, he was dubbed a miracle doctor. Such a person
, saying that he has no medical skills at all, isn’t this as ridiculous as a tiger saying it is a vegetarian or a rooster saying it can lay eggs?
"Haha... Look at you, no one believes me when I tell the truth."
Xiao Han expected this, shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "They all call me a miracle doctor, but apart from treating a few patients with suturing and disinfection and anti-inflammation, when will you see me treating others again?"
Come?"
"..."
Li Shimin was silent. When he thought about it carefully, he found that it seemed to be exactly what Xiao Han said. Xiao Han rarely treated others!
Seeing that Li Shimin didn't speak, Xiao Han continued: "So, I am in the army, except that my name is easy to use, and there is really nothing else..."
"You can't say that!"
Li Shimin suddenly interrupted Xiao Han's words, looked at Xiao Han and said firmly: "No one needs to know too much, you only need to do these two things well. In this army, you are an out-and-out miracle doctor.
!”
"But, I don't want to just be a miracle doctor..." Xiao Han was speechless. Why is this person so short-sighted? How many people can studying medicine benefit?
"Ah? What else do you want to do!"
"I want you to help me get some capable people from the Ministry of Industry. I want to build a research institute on my fiefdom!"
"Research institute, what?"
"It's just like the knife I made, making some novelties."
"Oh?" Li Shimin became interested and sat upright, his eyes burning: "Do you have a better formula?"
"No……"
"..."
"Just tell me, do you believe me?!"
"Believe it? Or don't believe it?" Li Shimin touched his chin and glanced at Xiao Han sideways. Xiao Han was almost embarrassed. He was about to leave, and then he hurriedly smiled and said:
"Believe me, can I still believe you? If you want to return to the fiefdom, that's no problem. Let's make a gentleman's agreement. I won't rush you. I'll give you my manpower. You can come up with something good within a year. Finally,
It's something useful for the military! If not, then you can't just stay in the fief, just follow me and follow the army, okay!"
"Okay! One year is enough! I have a good idea, you just need to find a few capable people for me. Anyway, I now have the name of Military Superintendent, so this is not considered dereliction of duty!"
Seeing that Xiao Han spoke simply and without being verbose, Li Shimin stood up and raised his hand: "Okay, what a gentleman says!"
"Hurry up and whip your horse!"
Xiao Han also stood up and gave Li Shimin a high-five. This was considered the oath fulfilled!
However, Xiao Han vaguely felt that this was too pleasant. He thought he would need to waste a lot of words, but in the end, Li Shimin let him go so easily?
He didn't know that Li Shimin and Li Yuan were optimistic about him not because of his bastard spirit, but because of his fantastic ideas. A simple idea is often better than a thousand armies. Since Xiao Han wanted to
If Li Shimin wants to do what he is good at, why not do it?
After talking about the business, the two sat down again, each feeling that something was on their mind.
Li Shimin gently picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and suddenly asked: "Why don't you go directly to the Ministry of Industry regarding the manpower issue? This is a business matter after all, and it can be handled by the government. You are also a marquis now, so you want to be like this individually?"
You come to me even for trivial matters, are you not afraid of being gossiped about behind your back?"
