Chapter 42: Tang Gong Li Yuan
The Sui army camp was thirty miles north of Liaodong City in Goguryeo, and hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed here, plus the hundreds of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and people, this wild place in Liaodong had long become a lively place. The entire camp stretched for dozens of miles, except that there were no walls or houses, which was no different from a big city.
The outermost part is the camp of the army, the middle is the camp tent of the ministers of the Sui army, the innermost ring is the camp of the six armies of the Son of Heaven, and the middle is the emperor's palace, a wooden palace made by craftsmen. The whole camp was well organized, and there was even a special place on the outskirts that turned into a bazaar. All the soldiers, soldiers, people, etc. can trade here, as long as you have money and goods, there is basically everything you want here.
"Lord Yuwen, where are you taking me?" In this big camp, Chen Kefu rarely entered this big camp at all, except for training soldiers in the camp every day, that is, reading books.
"Take you to meet someone, aren't you short of weapons and armor, I'll take you directly to Li Yuan, the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple, this Weiwei Temple is already in charge of the world's arsenal, and this guy has no ability, but he is very polite to anyone. Although his ancestor was also an important minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he is also the cousin of His Majesty today, although this person is a member of Li Valve, he is very tactful, and he is always very good at talking to anyone. ”
"This Li Yuan is in his forties, but he has not been very good, he has been a thorn in Qizhou for twenty-five years, and he is very incompetent, if he doesn't have a niece as His Majesty's concubine, maybe he will have to die of old age in the place. Fortunately, this person also has a filial niece, who helped him say a lot of good things in His Majesty's ear, so he was able to return to the court, and now he is the official Weiwei Shaoqing. The matter of breaking the military brother, as long as you look for him, there is absolutely no problem. ”
When Yu Wenhua said this colleague, his tone was full of disdain, although they were both from the same noble family of Guanlong, but Yuwen Valve and this Li Valve had many discords. But this Li Yuan is an accident, although he is a person of Li Yuan, he seems to be able to get along with everyone. However, it is precisely because of this that it also makes the gate valve clans look down on it.
Chen Kefu rode on the horse and looked at Yu Wenhua with some surprise, "Brother Yuwen, the Li Yuan you said is Li Yuan, the Tang Duke of the Eight Pillars Country?" ”
Yu Wenhua said with a smile, "I didn't want to break the military brother but I also heard this person, it is this person, I think what a hero Li Hu was back then, but now there is such a useless descendant, presumably Li Hu Lao Zhu Guoquan knows, and he will sigh." ”
Chen Kefu's heart was already flying with thoughts at this time, he didn't expect that Tang Zhi's ancestor would be such an image in the eyes of the world at this time. Li Yuan is a very bullish founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty in history, and the history books praise him. I didn't expect him to hear Yu Wenhua and such a comment here now, this is really like chess, and he will never be able to see the real situation clearly in chess.
"Lord Yuwen laughed, I also heard it occasionally, I heard that Li Gong is very sociable, but he is a good person." Chen Kefu said casually. Now he is personally saying to Yu Wenhua that I know that Li Yuan will become the emperor in the future and create the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years. Even if he really said this, it is estimated that no one in the whole world will believe him, and the current Li Yuan really can't make people associate him with the word emperor.
Yu Wenhua suddenly looked Chen Kefu up and down, stroked his beard and laughed, "Could it be that Brother Pojun also heard that the third lady of the Li Yuan family was beautiful?" With Brother Li's young age, it would be appropriate if he wanted to marry Li Yuan. Although Li Yuan's family is nothing in the court now, his family is also a great nobleman of Guan Longzhi, and he is also a relative of the emperor. ”
"However, although I have not seen his daughter, I heard that the woman is a woman who does not let the eyebrows, she is relatively tough, many noble sons who want to marry the Li family are worried that they will not be able to submit to such a woman after marriage, although Brother Pojun is young and promising, but the family background is worse, if you really want to marry this woman, you have to think about these first, otherwise Brother Po Jun will be famous, and then he will make a back house restless, but it will be laughing and generous."
Chen Kefu just kept his mouth shut, and now he found that this light boy was still a very gossipy person, and his mouth was full of some things. However, he is really very interested in the Li family, regardless of whether history can really develop as he knew in the past, it is not bad to meet this Li Yuan now. In case the Li family really sits in the world in the future, he will be able to leave a way back for himself and climb friendships.
Li Yuan, as the commander of the guard, is in charge of the world's arsenal, which is equivalent to a logistics minister and a general armament minister in later generations. With Yu Wenhua and riding a horse for a while, he rushed to the tent where Li Yuan worked.
"I don't know what is the important matter for Yuwen Shaoqing and General Chen to come?" As soon as Li Yuan saw them coming in, he hurriedly got up to greet them.
Yu Wenhua said very casually, "Brother Shude, today the junior brother is here to introduce Brother Shude to our young and promising General Chen Pojun, and secondly, Brother Pojun also has something to ask Brother Shude to help." ”
Chen Kefu looked at Li Yuan in front of him very seriously, and he was completely as He Yu Wenhua said, only promised, and everyone he saw was a smiling face, and he couldn't see the domineering that an emperor should have. This made Chen Kefu a little disappointed, thinking that although Yang Guang was a king who lost his country, the kind of coercion on Yang Guang was sometimes really subdued. But the Emperor Gaozu in front of him made him not have the slightest idea of bowing his head.
It seems that the times really create heroes, and Li Yuan in front of him is just a nobleman who is a careful official. Maybe he wouldn't believe that he would become the founding king of the country in the future.
Chen Kefu took a step forward and arched his hand at Li Yuan, "Duke Tang, I came here this time because I want to ask Duke Tang for help." In the Xiapo barracks, His Majesty favored him, and expanded to 10,000 people, and now the soldiers have all arrived in the camp, but they have only come, and there are no weapons. Now that we are all in the midst of the enemy's country, the whole of the broken barracks is also looking forward to fighting the enemy as soon as possible and making new contributions. After being introduced by Brother Yuwen, I am now here to ask Tang Gong for help, hoping to solve this urgent need for 10,000 soldiers in my barracks. ”
After Li Yuan heard this, his brows furrowed, and he felt a little embarrassed, although he was in charge of the arsenal, but if there was no order from above, this matter would not be very easy.
Yu Wenhua said a little impatiently, "Brother Shude, General Chen is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and he is a third-grade man in the court, and this time he has made new achievements, and he will definitely be able to rise again tomorrow, besides, General Chen has a very good relationship with my Yuwen family, is it possible that Brother Shude doesn't even want to give my Yuwen family this face?" "Yu Wenhua and said that later I have been a little aggressive.
"Duke Tang, I broke the barracks, but His Majesty is in the army, Duke Tang won't let me wait to protect Your Majesty with my bare hands, right? Is this disregarding His Majesty's safety? Tang Gong, do you have to think about it carefully? If Tang Gong is willing to help me with this, the little brother will definitely keep this intention in his heart. This time, the younger brother also brought a lot of novelties back from Xincheng, and I will ask people to send some to Tang Gong in a while, please smile, don't refuse. Chen Kefu couldn't take care of too much at this time, and took Yang Guang's banner and began to use both soft and hard.
As soon as Li Yuan heard this, the sweat on his face fell, he knew very well that the current emperor was very jealous of them, and he was often suspicious, if he really let Chen Kefu sue him in front of the emperor, saying that he deliberately did not give weapons to the pro-army guarding the emperor, he could still have his life. With the character of the emperor today, maybe he will take it seriously when the time comes.
"Lord Yuwen, General Chen, this matter is wrapped up in the lower officials, and there is no problem. It's all for His Majesty, how can the lower officials be a little lazy. I don't know what kind of weapons General Chen needs and how many, but I ask General Chen to draw up a clause for the lower officials, and the lower officials will immediately transfer them to the generals. ”
When Chen Kefu heard this, he was also very happy, in order to break the military camp today, he was free, and even Li Yuan was blackmailed, in case Li Yuan really became the emperor in the future, I don't know if he will hold a grudge against this in the future.
"Thank you so much Tang Gong, I don't know if Tang Gong can take me to visit the arsenal, I want to take a look at the various weapons before making a list." Since Li Yuan is so polite, Chen Kefu doesn't want to waste this opportunity for blackmail, this is the General Armament Department of the Sui Dynasty, although he is now in Liaodong, he will definitely not be as rich as when he was in China, but no matter what, this is also a department that manages millions of military equipment. If he does meet some good guys, he won't be relentless.
"General Chen, Lord Yuwen, this matter is no problem, but although a lot of weapons and equipment have been transported from this expedition to Liao, it is still too simple compared to the various major arsenals of Weiwei Temple in my Great Sui. General Chen and Lord Yuwen come with me, the warehouse is not far away. ”
Although Li Yuan kept saying that this place was simple, Chen Kefu was still greatly shocked when he walked into the large tent that was told to be an equipment warehouse. Sure enough, it was the battle of the country, just the tents stacked with all kinds of weapons and equipment could stretch for miles, and the big cowhide tents were full of red stars in Chen Kefu's eyes.
"General Chen, all the horizontal knives stacked in the warehouse here are must-haves for the soldiers, so they are also the most. In addition, the warehouse on the other side contained crossbows, bows and arrows, spears, cavalry spears, armor, and some large siege equipment. Just make a list of what equipment General Chen wants, and I'll have someone send it to General Chen in a moment. ”
"Tang Gong, what kind of equipment is stored in that row of warehouses over there?" Chen Kefu pointed to a row of warehouses that Li Yuan had not introduced just now.
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