Horses are the most important animal power in this era.

It not only needs to be used for military purposes, but also for transportation. In some places, due to insufficient oxen, slow horses are used to cultivate the land.

Once a horse loses its hooves, it will be considered a waste of the whole horse.

But the reason why horses are expensive is to some extent that they consume too much.

Even in Tang Army, the already rare cavalrymen dare not practice easily.

Because training means that people need to run fast on the horse. Once they run more, the horse's hooves will wear out. Once they are scrapped, the losses will be huge.

Any war horse is precious, because war horses are often carefully selected and need to be fed with fine horse materials and need manpower to take care of. All of these are money. On the market, especially during the Zhenguan period, the price of war horses was very high.

Although Chen Zhengtai was rich, he knew that money was not used to waste it. Chen Zhengtai was not vague and went directly to the blacksmith's workshop and first asked someone to hit a horseshoe according to his own wishes.

Immediately, someone found a horse.

Su Lie and Xue Rengui were so straight that their eyes were straightened. Su Lie couldn't help it at first and said, "Brother, what are you going to do?"

Chen Zhengtai said for granted: "Of course, he nailed the horseshoe into the horseshoe."

Su Lie was stunned and hurriedly said, "This...isn't this right? Isn't this..."

Chen Zhengtai is too lazy to explain so much to him. He has time to do everything well!

Although the principle of this thing is simple, is it useful to explain anything new? If it is useful, how did the stolen punishment come about?

Of course, the East is not as barbaric as the West at this time, but Chen Zhengtai was still too lazy to explain and said, "You still know you need to wear shoes when you run. I will wear shoes for this horse, what's wrong?"

“…”

Su Lie didn't say anything anymore. Anyway, my elder brother has money.

So, as Chen Zhengtai ordered, he began to nail the horse's socks.

The horse neighed, but its hooves had no pain nerves. Although they were nailed in, they were not weak, but they were just frightened.

Then, Chen Zhengtai asked someone to ride the horse and run a few laps in the martial arts field. The horse was a little uncomfortable at first, but slowly... it seemed to have begun to adapt.

Then he said to Su Lie: "Let me use this horse to practice well. You don't have to be polite. I will look at the results after three or five days. If the effect is good, I will replace all the war horses with me, as well as the saddle and stirrup. I think I need to improve it."

"You're welcome?" Su Lie said in a silence: "Then I'll try it."

On weekdays, everyone loves to cherish the war horses, and can only ride them for half an hour on and off a day. This is because Erpigou has plenty of money and food.

If it were other cavalrymen, how could they be treated like this?

Su Ding naturally knew that training riders was nothing more than just training day and night, and there was no other way to take shortcuts.

Since the eldest brother said so generously, he would be not polite.

Chen Zhengtai said impatiently: "Don't ask for any money-related matters. As long as it is a problem that money cannot solve, come and tell me."

"Here!" Su Ding said with a genuine look.

It’s really a pleasure to recognize such a brother. Isn’t this money used to spend it?

Su Ding had almost no need to worry about this Erpigou. The only thing he had to do was do what he liked and put in practice all the methods he had thought of in the army over the years.

There are no more brothers and bosses like Chen Zhengtai in this world. They never pick on your difficulties, nor do they want to take advantage of them, and they will never interfere with you. They just ask you if the money is enough, and then say, there is still something not enough.

At noon, a eunuch came and said that His Majesty had invited him.

Chen Zhengtai muttered in his heart and hurried into the palace.

Who knew that he had gotten the palace gate, but saw a car driving out. The eunuch in front suddenly called Chen Zhengtai: "But is Duke Chen? It's really rare. I actually ran into it here. This is Princess Changle's car driving. Why don't Duke Chen go to see him?"

Chen Zhengtai thought to himself, it was clearly your Princess Changle who greeted me, why did it become my greeting?

He felt aggrieved, but he immediately changed into a smile, got off the horse, and said to the front of the car, "I have seen the junior sister, where are you going?"

The curtain was lifted from the car, revealing Princess Changle's pretty face.

Princess Changle looked at Chen Zhengtai deeply, and saw Chen Zhengtai's dusty look, she couldn't help but say, "I saw that my senior brother was sweating heavily, but my father urged you to come and see you. You have worked hard, um... I want to go to my uncle's house, Changsun Chong, I don't know if you recognize it, he said that the Changsun family trained a few short slaves, which was very interesting, so I will teach me to take a look."

A short slave in Daozhou?

This Daozhou short slave was well known to everyone in the world in this era. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, there was a dwarf from Daozhou who spoke interestingly and was good at singing and dancing. He was very popular with Emperor Yang of Sui. Therefore, this Daozhou short slave became famous all over the world.

Since then, Emperor Yang of Sui issued an order to make Daozhou pay tribute to short slaves. You should know that this first generation of short slaves may be just born. Emperor Yang of Sui actually believed that short slaves were specialties of Daozhou. So later, there were no short and capable people in Daozhou who were good at speaking. What should we do?

So... in order to please the emperor, they had to tame short slaves. They put the children caught in the local area in a pottery jar, and pressed them with heavy objects on weekdays, so that the children could only expose their heads, and taught them the children's skills of acting every day. Over time, these children with bodies in the pottery jar could not grow, and eventually became dwarfs, and then sent to Chang'an for the royal family and the nobles to have fun.

When Chen Zhengtai heard this short slave in Daozhou, he couldn't help but frown: "What's the short slave in Daozhou that has nothing to see?"

Princess Changle's pretty face appeared suspicious and couldn't help but say, "What's so good about it?"

Chen Zhengtai smiled dryly and said, "Daozhou short slaves are ugly, but they are not as good as me. I'm not so kind to say anything. I'm not so kind to say ten Daozhou short slaves."

Princess Changle laughed: "Is the senior brother actually compared to the short slaves in Daozhou?"

Chen Zhengtai said: "They are human beings, and I am also human beings. What's incomparable? I will ask my mentor to depose the harsh rule of tribute to short slaves. You can wait. There will be no short slaves to see soon."

Princess Changle thought to herself that she had contacted this senior brother and rarely said stingy, but today... she seemed to have complaints. Is he complaining about the short slaves in Daozhou? What does this short slave in Daozhou have to do with him? Could it be... he doesn't like... Changsun Chong?

Princess Changle thought for a while and said, "Senior Brother, I listen to your tone. I seem to dislike my cousin, Changsun Chong."

"I have never seen him before, and I have no grudges with him. Is there anything I like or not?" Chen Zhengtai said calmly.

He was telling the truth. Changsun was a little unethical about his father, but we can't implicate it, right?

Princess Changle frowned and said unbelievably: "But you say this, it seems that there is something. I have already... engaged in a marriage contract with my cousin Changsun..."

She said, while raising her beautiful eyes and quietly looked at Chen Zhengtai's reaction.

Chen Zhengtai also felt that he was feeling a little confused just now. Although this short slave in Daozhou was pitiful, he just wanted to abolish it. Why do you look too indignant in front of Princess Changle?

But...When hearing the engagement between Changsun Chong and Princess Changle, Chen Zhengtai became serious: "Actually, there are some words that I don't know whether to say or not."

Princess Changle was waiting for Chen Zhengtai to speak, her pretty face turned red and she said shyly: "After you say it, don't be afraid."

Chen Zhengtai said: "Junior sister, you and Changsun Chong are cousins. As your senior brother, I will tell you responsibly that you are a three-generation blood relative. If you are married, I am afraid that it will have a great impact on having children in the future. Cough cough... I shouldn't have said this, it seems like I, Chen Zhengtai, deliberately wanted to break the engagement of my junior sister, but... it's not good, not good."

He shook his head.

After Chen Zhengtai said these words, he felt a little regretful. He was still too arrogant. It was their business to have an engagement, so why did he join in the fun? It seemed as if he was deliberately trying to harm Changsun Chong.

But as a scientific person, Chen Zhengtai knew very well... Inbreeding is indeed not beneficial from a scientific point of view. Princess Changle is her junior sister. I would like to remind her myself, which is also very reasonable.

After hearing this, Princess Changle couldn't help but hang her head and hid in the carriage. Chen Zhengtai could no longer see her face.

"Oh, that's it, then, since that's it... I know, senior brother... I'll listen to you, I won't go to Changsun's house, come... let's go back to the palace."

After hearing this, the coachman turned his horse's head and headed to the palace again.

Chen Zhengtai was confused when he heard this. Hey, I saw the ghost. I only said that it should not be inbreeding. Such a clear and clear scientific issue, but I haven't explained to her what a recessive allele is...

She knew everything?

And... what I said earlier, didn’t you look at the short slaves in Daozhou?

Chen Zhengtai was still stunned. The carriage had gone far away. Chen Zhengtai thought for a while, but he didn't understand it. He couldn't help but say, "Hey, what do you understand?"

The carriage was very decisive and had no politeness at all.

Chen Zhengtai sighed and shook his head, it was still important to see him.

However... he still didn't understand what the situation of Changle's junior sister today was. She muttered in her heart. Not long after, she arrived at the Tai Chi Hall, but saw that Li Chengqian had been waiting here.

Li Chengqian looked at Chen Zhengtai and frowned and said, "Why did senior brother come so late?"

Chen Zhengtai saluted to Li Shimin, who was later in the imperial case: "I have met my mentor."

Li Shimin nodded: "Sit down, I have something to say."

"After the order." Chen Zhengtai knelt down and faced Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin comforted the case: "I have slept well in the past few days, and I only think of the Liu Laosan..."

Li Chengqian said without thinking: "No wonder the queen mother said that her father has always been fascinated by the past few days, and she doesn't know who is fascinated by him."

"Stop talking!" Li Shimin roared loudly.
Chapter completed!