In fact, Chen Zhengtai really doesn’t like talking about the birth date and horoscope with people.

But what can he do?

He was also in a dilemma. He could not tell Li Shimin that he had discovered a talent named Xue Rengui.

This is hard to explain. After all, he is from Hedong, and he has always been in Guanzhong. Xue Rengui is only fifteen years old at this time, and he has never even been on the battlefield. You say he is very brave, so how can he be brave?

Since that's the case, the only thing Chen Zhengtai can answer is his fingers to count.

In history, after ten years, Xue Rengui began to accumulate strength and gradually become a famous general in the world from a small pawn. Chen Zhengtai firmly believes that anyone who becomes a general has a quality that others do not have!

Not to mention anything else, Xue Rengui's martial arts value is quite high, and this is definitely something I have been working hard since I was a child!

Xue Rengui is only fifteen years old now, and he is in the peak of a man's physical strength. Although he has not been discovered yet, Chen Zhengtai believes that Xue Rengui will beat dozens of people alone, and there is no problem at all.

Li Shimin couldn't help but be stunned.

Is Chen Zhengtai so willful when he chooses his own deputy?

Do you still need to test the eight characters?

Do I also want to test his horoscopes to see if his horoscopes match my horoscopes?

Of course, these are all inconspicuous trivial matters. For Li Shimin, an unknown young man from Hebei, who chose him as Chen Zhengtai's deputy, was just a simple task!

He even felt that by sending a decree or oral order by himself, it was considered a bit like killing a chicken, so he nodded and said, "For these little things, I ordered the local cavalry mansion in Hedong to call him Xue... what is Xue?"

Chen Zhengtai said: "Xue Li, whose courtesy name is Rengui."

"Well, just bring Xue Lizhao to Chang'an. You only need this one in your cavalry mansion?"

Isn’t this awesome? Chen Zhengtai thought to himself, I’m just a Lu Bu at the beginning.

Obviously, Li Shimin felt that it was really not worth mentioning that such trivial matters like sesame and mung beans would have to bother him, so he said, "Is there anyone else? If there is one, I will allocate them to you together, so as not to bother me about such trivial matters again."

Chen Zhengtai: "…"

Is this a trivial matter?

Chen Zhengtai coughed. Since His Majesty said everything, then...you're welcome!

Obviously, Chen Zhengtai had a long time ago in his mind, so Chen Zhengtai said: "As these days, many Taoists and monks came to Erpigou to do rituals. The students asked for advice. In addition to the one named Xue Rengui, there was another person's horoscope that matched the students. This person's surname was Su, his name was Lie, and his name was Dingfang. I heard that he had made some contributions to Dou Jiande and Liu Heita before. He then joined my Tang Dynasty. Now, he is now Zechong of Renkuang Taoist Mansion. Otherwise, he would also reward this person to the students."

Su Dingfang is not famous now, he is just a mere fighter under the Cavalry Mansion.

What he really shined was that he followed Li Jing to fight against the Turks in history, and then led two hundred cavalry to attack the Turks' khan tent, beheaded countless times, and then became famous in one battle and finally shined.

Of course, Su Dingfang was not very lucky, and the prince and Chen Zhengtai did not give him the chance to follow Li Jing to fight. Therefore, the gentleman is still a subordinate of a cavalry general in a small cavalry mansion, and he doesn't know when he will be the first.

Whether it was Su Dingfang or Xue Rengui, they were almost the two most famous generals in the late early Tang Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty.

Especially ten years later, with the decline of these founding generals, Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, as the new generation, developed countless military achievements to open up the frontiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin smiled and said, "You have made great progress. At first, you asked me for a young man, but then you have to have a mere crusade. Finally, this is still a military officer, but the official position is too low. Since you spoke, how can I not give you the truth?"

"It's just... it's too ridiculous to choose your own deputy. After all, you are my disciple. I have great military achievements and everyone knows it all over the world, but you, your disciple, regards this military as a joke. Others are going to laugh at me. I'll tell you that the important thing about being a general is to choose generals, and how to choose generals? First, it depends on his temperament. Everyone has different temperaments, and you must know it in your heart. In addition, their specialties, methods, experience, and courage are indispensable. After all, they need to know people and responsibilities. As soon as the war comes, you will be responsible for the safety of thousands of people, which determines the success or failure of a country. All your strategies need to be accomplished by the generals and assistants around you. Any mistake can determine the outcome. Therefore... this kind of thing should not be taken lightly, let alone the joke."

He said a lot, just criticizing Chen Zhengtai for being full and playing the trick of being full.

Chen Zhengtai was scolded for no reason, and finally said aggrievedly: "But mentor, the student is just a cavalry general. There are 370 cavalry generals like me in my Tang Dynasty. Although they are generals, they are just miscellaneous generals. It is really not worth mentioning. What does this have to do with being the general? If a war really starts, if Your Majesty personally fights, he will be the general. If Your Majesty does not fight in person, he will be the general. If Your Majesty does not fight in person, he will be the generals of Li Jing, Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin and other uncles. At most, I am just a helper at the bottom and don't need to understand these principles."

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but realize it and then smiled!

Yes, I am too immersed in the play, and it seems a bit too much to talk about these principles to a general of the cavalry.

Well, let this kid go and play.

So Li Shimin said, "Since that's the case, this will satisfy you, but your current chief is still the right concubine's son, so please assist the prince."

Chen Zhengtai quickly said well-behavedly: "Students should follow their teachers' teachings."

Then Chen Zhengtai left the palace, but rushed to Erpigou!

For Chen Zhengtai, he had to put down everything now, such as the right son and the general of the cavalry, what is this? The only thing Chen Zhengtai had to do was to recruit a group of craftsmen and start making coal stoves.

This is the most important thing now. Even if you are newlyweds and are about to enter the bridal chamber, you still have to pass the door and not enter and rush to build the coal stove first.

An ordinary coal stove is definitely not good.

There can’t be smoke and dust, so the only way is to use a more luxurious solution.

That is, set up a furnace in the distance, and then connect the furnace with pipes, fill it with water, and boil the water with the furnace in the distance. Then, after paving the pipes through the pipes, connecting the bedrooms and the pipes in the bedrooms, once the furnace starts to burn, the hot water will emit hot air in the pipeline.

This kind of heat will never have any smoke and dust, and it is particularly comfortable. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the principle of heating in later generations.

But in this era, it is difficult to achieve this, and most importantly... the price is very expensive.

But given that this is serving the palace, the above problems no longer exist, because... the palace people only use expensive ones.

So Chen Zhengtai started to get busy and designed several pipeline solutions non-stop. In fact, there are still many problems, such as modeling of pipelines, or materials required, how to set up an insulation layer, and how to make it smooth when encountering corners.

These are all difficult problems.

Of course... Chen Zhengtai has money, and if he has money, he can let craftsmen try it again and again, and even... he can specially make a blast furnace for the smelting of this heating furnace, and then try the required construction again and again.

Of course, Chen Zhengtai couldn't have made all the beginning and end of it by himself. He could only draw a plan, but the next thing was that the craftsmen would do everything possible to solve it.

However... with blast furnaces, these aspects can always be solved, and even if the accuracy of the components is insufficient, they can be solved by bearing waste rate.

To put it bluntly, did the ancients not create treasures that were fascinating? These things, even if they were in later generations, are definitely amazing.

There is only one reason why the ancients were able to forge such treasures, because those who can enjoy such luxury goods don’t care about money at all!

It can burn a hundred pieces, and only one of the best crafts to burn. As for the other ninety-nine pieces, it can be fully afforded if scrapped.

This is what Chen Zhengtai is taking now.

Of course...it is also beneficial to take this opportunity to cultivate craftsmen. Any craftsman who can eventually become a great man is actually slowly cultivated in failure. As long as he is willing to work and be willing to spend money, naturally, this master of ingenious craftsman will be released.

...

A few days later...

Several Turkic people came to Erpigou.

Natuli Khan returned to Xiazhou, and then gathered his men and horses into the grassland, but did not forget the Chen brothers far away in Chang'an. He ordered people to select hundreds of strong horses.

The Turkic envoy expressed Tuli Khan's longing for Chen Zhengtai, and Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but sigh: "My brother and I are really brothers and sisters. When we parted that day, we don't know when we will meet each other. As the saying goes, this year, it should be a good time and a good scene. Even if there are thousands of styles, who will tell me? Until now, there are always every bit of Tuli brothers dancing in my mind. Oh, I won't talk, I won't talk, let's talk... it will only add to the sadness."

Fortunately, the Turkic envoy did not have a thorough understanding of Chinese language. He just thought that Chen Zhengtai was polite, so he took a letter and handed it to Chen Zhengtai cautiously.

Chen Zhengtai looked down and said that in the letter, he explained some horses he sent, two of which were obtained from the Pamir (Ningyuan Kingdom), which was a small country in the Western Regions. It had an ancient name called Dayuan.

These two horses are Dayuan BMWs, which are gifts given to the Turks by the Pamir Kingdom. They are especially precious. The Khan of Tuli was reluctant to ride them. He thought that Duke Chen was a hero, so he was especially given to him.

After reading the letter, Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but sigh: "I'm really interested, and I'm really a brother. He gave this love horse to him, which shows that he is a person with his heart. Let's go and see the horse."

These horses had no horse rings for the time being, so they had to be stocked on a wide field in Erpigou. Obviously, these hundreds of horses were carefully selected, especially the two ends, which were dark and extremely majestic. In the horses, they were like cranes standing out in the flock of chickens.

Chen Zhengtai doesn’t understand horses either, he just thinks that horses are extremely tall!

The Turkic envoy said, "There are actually three more horses, which are tributes given to His Majesty by my Khan."

Chen Zhengtai nodded: "No, not bad, what's the difference between this horse besides being handsome?"

The messenger obviously didn't understand what the horse meant, but... probably understood that this was Chen Zhengtai who praised the horse for being good-looking!

He thought for a while and said, "Many years ago, when Emperor Wu of Han was here, he brought a golden horse made of gold and a gold for a sweat-blooded BMW, but was rejected by the King of Dayuan. Therefore, this horse became famous. If it were the advantage, it was tall and carried a huge capacity, more than twice that of an ordinary horse, and it was extremely endurance. This horse was tall and only a great hero like Duke Chen was worthy of riding."

Chen Zhengtai laughed and said that Turkic people would flatter, but it seemed that he flattered him. I, Chen Zhengtai, don’t want to be a big hero, and don’t like to ride on horseback and kill. This is obviously the other party imposed his understanding on himself.

It's like a factory where a hard-working worker wants to flatter a businessman and say your skills are so good.

Chen Zhengtai said: "I heard that during the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han got these horses, mateed them, and then raised them. However, in the end, this horse was rare after all, so after finally introducing the horse breeds, they all followed the old path of introduction, hybridization, improvement, and backcrossing. In the future, I, Chen Zhengtai, would also raise many such BMWs."

The reason why Dayuan horses disappeared in the Central Plains in the end was actually impossible. On the one hand, this thing was particularly expensive to raise, and war horses were mostly castrated. However, Dayuan horses, as war horses, eventually lost their ability to reproduce. When the country was strong, they could be kept on a small scale. Once they declined, even the best horses would not be able to be raised by the court, and they would eventually disappear.

Chen Zhengtai immediately said, "When I go back, tell Brother Tuli that I have prepared more than a dozen cars of good wine, so I will send it to him. Oh, and, in some days, I will build a good knife to give it to him. The so-called heroes cherish heroes. I am a hero, and he is naturally a hero. The treasure sword is to be given to heroes."

The messenger was so happy that he actually brought a cart of stuffed donkeys back when Tuli Khan returned. When some nobles tasted it, they all felt that there were few wines in the world!

Tuli Khan may be timid, but his mind is still flexible. He plans to get a group of donkeys from Chen Zhengtai and then sell them to various tribes in the grassland. On the one hand, he can win over the hearts of each tribe, and at the same time, he can also exchange them for many horses, cattle and sheep.

As the general agent of the donkey, the money making is not shy.

At this time, I didn't expect that Chen Zhengtai would agree so easily, which was great.

After saying goodbye to this messenger, Chen Zhengtai was in a good mood and continued to study his heating stove.

If you don’t believe it, you can’t cure you, and you will have to spend as much money as you spend.

Although I feel very distressed, because with my current skills, it is really not easy to turn the mold into a copper tube with empty inner layer. This is brass, and most of them are defective products. Fortunately, they can be rebuilt.

Finally, the copper pipe needed for the heating furnace was made, but at this time, a man arrived at Erpigou.

This is a young man with a straight knife on his back, a bow hanging around his waist, a shirt inside, and a half-body cowhide armor piece on his outside.

Such a dress is actually no longer an ordinary person, because this knife and bow mean that the other party is poor and has assets. Ordinary people cannot afford it. Moreover, his eyes are very sharp and sharp, obviously he doesn't look like he has been hungry. He walks with wind and must have muscles.

Of course... if we look at the standards of the aristocratic race, this is actually a pauper. He went to Erpigou and asked everywhere: "I dare to ask where is the Cavalry Mansion of Erpigou?"

"I know Erpigou, I haven't heard of the Cavalry Mansion."

This young man felt hell.
To be continued...