As soon as Li Siye heard the surname Li, he began to guess about this person's origin. He looked so handsome and elegant, and the nobility accumulated in his eyebrows was not like someone who was raised by an ordinary small family.
"royal"
"Wrong, I am Li of the Sui Dynasty, not Li of the Tang Dynasty. General Li, please follow me."
They entered a palace behind them and climbed up the wooden stairs. There was a big bell hanging on the second floor, with an inscription he didn't recognize engraved on the bell.
After bypassing the big clock and arriving at a separate door, Li Bi took off his cloth shoes and walked in with his footbags on.
Li Siye followed suit and took off his boots. When the other party didn't turn around, he raised his feet and smelled his foot bags. He suddenly felt refreshed and after thinking hard for a long time without any solution, he bravely walked in.
After he came in, he realized that there was another person sitting inside. This person was wearing a purple crotchless robe and a scarf like the kings of the Wu family. His face was slightly longer. He had a vague feeling that he had seen this person before, and suddenly he realized: "You
yes……"
Li Mi said from the side: "General Li, if you see through it but don't tell it, please sit down.
Li Siye sat cross-legged and knelt beside him, keeping his feet together behind his back. The three of them occupied three positions respectively, facing the next door.
The door was pushed open again, and a beautiful maid in Hu costume came in with a basket in her hand. She knelt down beside them, threw the charcoal in the basket into the stove and started to make tea.
He came today to find the prince, but the prince was not there. Li Mi and Huangfu Weiming, who were gathered in the Taoist temple, were members of the princelings. He was not very familiar with them, and could hardly find any topics to cover.
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Huangfu Weiming smiled and introduced Li Siye to Li Mi: "I only met General Li once, but I was heartbroken by him. He carries out horse administration in Shule Town, Anxi, which is almost as good as the Longyou Stang Animal Husbandry Department."
Li Mi nodded and said: "The rise and fall of the horse administration is related to the offensive and defensive posture of the Tang Dynasty against the powerful enemies around it. I think back in the reign of Emperor Taizong and Gaozong, the horse administration of the Tang Dynasty flourished, and the number of horses in the stable and animal husbandry departments across the country reached 700,000.
Although it is said to be a prosperous age, there are only more than 400,000 horses left in the stable and animal husbandry department. If the number continues to decrease like this, what can we do to threaten the Tibetans and Turks?"
Watching Li Bikan talk, Li Siye was surprised that he, a Taoist priest, could understand Ma Zheng so clearly while reciting sutras. You must know that this is not the future, as long as you search on the Internet, you can find a lot of
data to verify the argument. In that era, if you wanted to understand these, you had to travel thousands of miles and check the data in detail, which required great perseverance.
It’s not surprising that Li Siye knows a little bit of everything. If Li Biye knows a little bit of everything, that would be quite remarkable.
Li Siye asked: "I dare to ask Li Mi, how to adjust and improve Ma Zheng so that Tianbao can catch up with the Longshuo period of Zhenguan?"
"Of course there is a way," Li Bi replied quickly and calmly: "First of all, the imperial court expanded the investment in the Stable and Animal Husbandry Department, and sent people to purchase a certain number of Turkic horses every year for crossbreeding to improve the quality of the horses. Secondly, it encouraged private horse breeding and relaxed the restrictions on people riding horses.
Privileges, cancellation of craftsmen, and regulations prohibiting horseback riding during business trips. These unreasonable regulations themselves are unenforceable and suppress the enthusiasm of people to raise horses. Nowadays, business is so prosperous and merchants are rich. Why can't they ride horses and love horses?
"People who have money to keep horses are not qualified to ride horses, and people who are qualified to ride horses cannot keep horses. How can this be done? As long as the number of horses among the people is large, why worry about not having horses in the army?"
"Well said." Huangfu Weiming clapped his hands and praised: "What Changyuan said is exactly what I think in my heart. How can the Tang Dynasty control the barbarians? Isn't it because of the large number of people? Countless good family members came when the people recruited soldiers.
When applying, often only ten out of a hundred can be selected. Those who are strong, able to ride a strong horse, and can draw a strong bow can be shortlisted. If there are 1.5 million households in the world, and each household can have a horse, who else at home and abroad can have one?
A rival?"
Li Siye narrowed his eyes. Someone once boasted that he wanted every family to eat chicken and have a car. As a result, an economic crisis broke out. It was actually possible to have a car for every family, but it was basically impossible to have a horse for every family.
.The lifespan of a horse is thirty years. The food consumed in these thirty years is far more than the daily expenses of an ordinary family for thirty years. The cost of raising horses is so high that it is daunting for the poor, but it is those with big families and big businesses.
The merchants were wealthy and had as many as fifty or sixty horses at home.
His purpose today was to find the prince, but unexpectedly, he chatted about Ma Zheng with Li Mi and Huangfu Weiming in Jinglong Temple. The two seemed to have a lot of leisure.
The maid offered tea cups to the three of them respectively. Li Siye picked it up and drank it all in one gulp, praising: "This tea is good."
He put down the tea cup and stood up to say goodbye: "I met Huangfu Sinong and Li Daozhang today and got to know each other briefly. We will talk some other time."
Huangfu Weiming sat upright and held his hands in greeting.
Li Mi stood up, crossed his hands and said, "I'll see you off."
The two of them walked down the stairs. Li Mi took out a book from his arms and handed it to Li Siye with both hands: "The prince asked me to give this to you."
He just lowered his head and glanced at it. There was a clan chronicle written on the cover of the book. This book came from the Zhenguan period of the early Tang Dynasty. In order to suppress the five surnames and seven hopes, Li Shimin ordered the official minister Gao Shilian to start compiling the clan chronicle, and compiled the Li family royal family as the first
First-class surnames, relatives were classified as second-class surnames, and Shandong noble families were classified as third-class surnames. In this way, the old gentry were suppressed and the status of common people landowners was improved to strengthen the imperial power.
Gao Zong and Wu Zetian later re-edited the surname list, rearranging all the surnames in the world according to the rank of imperial officials and meritorious deeds, and all the five surnames and seven hopes were excluded. For this reason, Wu Zetian took back the original clan records and burned them all.
The copy in the hands of the prince is already the only copy in the country.
He didn't think about it too much. After crossing his hands and thanking her, he stuffed the book into his arms.
The two people came out of the building. This building happened to be on a high platform, so when they looked back, they saw that on the other side of the Jinglong Temple were palaces and pavilions arranged in layers, with soldiers patrolling from time to time. He suddenly felt curious and stretched out his hand to
Pointing over there: "Where is that place?"
"Jing'an Division, I will serve as the Chief Secretary for the time being."
Li Siye asked suspiciously: "Jing'an Department? Why have I never heard of such a department? What does it do?"
Just when Li Mi was about to speak, Li Siye suddenly came to his senses and waved his hands quickly: "No, no, don't tell me. I'm not a Beijing official. Telling me will do no good."
Li Sicheng narrowed his pupils, pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but did not open his mouth to say it.
Li Siye turned around and crossed his arms to say goodbye: "Li Sicheng, how about I come back in ten days?"
"good."
When Li Mi looked down, he saw that Li Siye had already stepped down the stone steps and disappeared among the dry branches of the temple.
Huangfu Weiming didn't know when he appeared behind him. He looked at Li Siye's back from a distance and asked Li Bi, "What do you think of this person?"
He put the fly whisk on his sleeve, shook his head and said, "He is not a martial artist."
"What I said is that he is not a martial artist but a martial artist. He is extremely powerful. He is good at wielding swords and riding fast horses to advance in the army. There is no enemy in his direction."
Li Mi raised the whisk and put it on his shoulders, shook his head and said, "What I mean is that he is not only a martial artist, he must also have made achievements in other aspects. It would be a waste if the prince only knows his bravery."
Huangfu Weiming nodded and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and I have told you to be careful when interacting with Li Siye. He is a general under Fu Meng Lingcha and is nominally the right minister."
"Since he is the right prime minister, why should we take the risk of getting close to him?"
"Qixi is the Yongye field of Right Prime Minister Li Linfu. All his generals are ordered by Li Linfu. Every year when they come to Beijing to express their merits, they must first enter the Prime Minister's Mansion. The prince wants to bury his own nail in the monolithic Qixi to deal with what may happen in the future.