Datang: My Peerless Talent Has Been Exposed

"If you can't be offended, one is willing to hit and the other is willing to suffer, so how can you offend?"

Zhang Nuo also heard Hongyu's answer, and said with a smile,

"Okay, let's go out for a walk after eating! The matter of war horses is not what you should think about now, you might as well think more about where to go for a stroll!"

Hearing this, Li Qingmei immediately became excited, and it was pitiful to say that, as the most distinguished eldest princess of the Tang Empire, she really hadn't spent much time in Chang'an City.

Even the noble girls from high-ranking families can go out for a stroll in the market from time to time, but she can only stay in the deep palace compound and look at the unchanging scenery and feel sad.

Now that I have a chance, I have to take a good look around, not to mention anything else, just the lively scene in the West Market that I saw when I came here today is enough for her to be excited, not to mention that she plans to go to the East Market to have a look, listen It is said that there are more good things there and they are mainly sold to nobles, so it should be good.

Seeing that the two were in high spirits, Zhang Nuo smiled and explained to Brother Da Zhuang, then turned around and took the two daughters out to start shopping.

Chapter 190

Du Ruhui went straight to the palace when he came out of Zhang's Restaurant. He knew that the emperor should be in the Liangyi Hall at this time, so he went straight to the Liangyi Hall without stopping.

When Li Shimin heard the servant's report, he was quite puzzled. Why did Du Ruhui come here at this time? Could it be something important?

Asking the servant to bring Du Ruhui in, without even bothering to make Du Ruhui salute, Li Shimin asked directly,

"Keming, is there an urgent military matter?"

Du Ruhui shook his head and said seriously,

"There is no urgent matter, but there is a major matter involving the promotion of military power, which needs to be reported to His Majesty and awaits His Majesty's holy order!"

Li Shimin heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that there was no urgent military situation, but when he heard that there was a major event that could enhance the military strength, his heart that had just been let go immediately lifted up again, and he waved his hand to let all the idlers go out, leaving only a personal eunuch to wait on him. Then he opened his mouth and asked,

"Keming, you can talk to me now!"

Du Ruhui thought about it seriously, beat his belly, and then slowly said from the beginning,

"Today, Weichen went to the shopkeeper Zhang's restaurant in the West Market for dinner, and then ran into the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang who brought Princess Jinyang and Miss Hongyu to dinner."

Du Ruhui specifically mentioned Princess Jinyang, but seeing that His Majesty's face didn't change at all, he knew that His Majesty had already known and acquiesced to this matter, so don't talk too much, let's get down to business.

"At the dinner table, the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang suddenly asked if I could get him a war horse through the relationship with the Ministry of War! Your Majesty, you also know that my dynasty is in short supply of war horses, so how could I sell them to him, so I directly Rejected on the spot!"

Speaking of this, Du Ruhui secretly looked at Li Shimin's face again, although he had a lot of reasons, but sometimes when dealing with the emperor, you don't just have to be reasonable.

In the end, Li Shimin did not disappoint Du Ruhui, and actively cooperated and said,

"Don't worry, Aiqing. You are right to refuse. At present, our cavalry is mainly deployed on the northwest border to defend against the Turks. It is impossible to deploy them to serve Xiaozhang's shopkeeper, Korea. Aiqing, as Minister of the Ministry of War, is reasonable to refuse."

Du Ruhui heaved a sigh of relief after hearing what Li Shimin said. After all, he did nothing wrong, then cheered up and continued,

"Weichen originally thought that the matter was over, but for the sake of Princess Jinyang and shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, Weichen took the initiative to talk about the matter of the retired horse farm. Weichen originally planned to sell a small batch of young horses in their prime. Retire the horses and give them to shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, let him build a horse farm by himself!"

Li Shimin knew that what Du Ruhui meant by mentioning Li Qingmei was nothing more than to show that Zhang Nuo's face was not enough, and he deliberately sold the royal family's face.

And Li Shimin could tell that, nine times out of ten, that girl Xiao Meizi put pressure on Du Ruhui, otherwise Du Ruhui, a black-hearted bastard, wouldn't have brought it up.

However, since Du Ruhui didn't say it clearly, he should act as if he didn't know, so why should he take the initiative to take the blame?

Moreover, Du Ruhui's handling was pretty good. On the one hand, he sold Xiaomeizi and Zhang Nuo's face, which was also regarded as giving him Li Shimin's face. On the other hand, he did not infringe on the interests of the court. After all, he was already a retired horse, so he was not in active service. Yes, just sell part of it, Du Ruhui, Minister of the Ministry of War, can make his own decisions.

Maybe with Zhang Nuo's strong financial resources, he could develop a new large racecourse for Guochao.

"But who would have thought that after hearing the news, shopkeeper Xiao Zhang excitedly told Weichen that he would buy retired war horses on a large scale. He said that he had a way to bring these war horses back to the battlefield, and he could also permanently solve the wear and tear on the hoof armor of the war horses. The problem!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin's reaction was exactly the same as Du Ruhui's at the beginning. He stood up abruptly and asked repeatedly,

"Keming, are you serious?"

Du Ruhui arched his hands and said with a wry smile,

"Weichen also asked the same question at the time, but the shopkeeper Xiaozhang made it clear that he did have a way, but he would only come up with this way if we sold his war horses! Moreover, what he meant probably didn't mean hundreds of horses. The war horse can be dispatched!"

Li Shimin sat down on the chair after hearing this, and then started scratching his head, what the hell is this disaster!

To be honest, he believed in what Zhang Nuo said could solve the wear and tear of the horseshoe armor, but it was because he could solve this problem that he had a headache!

He also knew why Du Ruhui wanted to find him, this matter is really not a matter of war horses!

This little shopkeeper obviously intends to make enough money at once, and plans to buy the original retired war horses in large quantities!

But there is a problem here. They all know that these retired warhorses can go to the battlefield again, so who is willing to sell them? What is the difference between this and selling the active warhorses?

Although those generals have not paid much attention to these retired horses for the time being, in fact, as long as the Ministry of War has a way to return the retired horses to active service, then these generals who want to be crazy about cavalry will definitely rush to the horse farm to grab them. horse.

At that time, let them know that someone has taken away [-] war horses in advance, let alone the Ministry of War, even his Liangyi Hall may have to be overturned, and there will definitely be a storm in the court.

This kind of matter is indeed beyond Du Ruhui's ability to solve.

Without Zhang Nuo's method, the retired war horses could not be re-serviced, and as long as they got this method, the retired war horses would be re-serviced, but Zhang Nuo had to take away a large number of retired war horses.

However, even if Du Ruhui had handed over this matter to him, Li Shimin had nothing to do, there was no solution to this shit.

After much deliberation, he couldn't think of any good solution, so Li Shimin became irritable, and simply said,

"Keming, let's put this matter on hold for the time being. Tomorrow, you and I will go together. Let's take some retired war horses to have a look first. If the solution is really good, we can discuss it later!"

Perhaps thinking that saying that would hurt his emperor's face too much, Li Shimin quickly added,

"This kid is already a sworn brother to me, and now he is about to become my brother-in-law. No matter what, I have to give me this face. When the time comes, even if I am shameless and play a rascal, I have to get this way back!"

"This is not a trivial matter. It's about the army of the country. It doesn't matter if I lose face. There must be a way. Keming, you will arrange it later and deploy some retired war horses in advance. Tomorrow, when the court is over, we, the monarch and his ministers, will come to the door to be evil guests." Go, desperately want to get this way!"