As long as there is food in this era, any difficulty will no longer be a difficulty.

The land is back and the food is available. The next thing to do is to stop the drums and silently develop the people's livelihood for a while. This is not a retreat, nor does it mean that we don't want to take advantage of the victory...

Whenever your fist is clenched, you don't necessarily have to punch it out immediately. If you save more strength, the hit will hurt more. If you can see the right time, you can beat the person to death in one go.

Gu Tianya understood this, and presumably the Miyun Sun family also understood it, so the Miyun Sun family sent Sun Qi to express their goodwill, and Gu Tianya just happened to choose to take advantage of the situation.

Gujiacun started to get busy.

Although it was once just a small mountain village, it is no longer ordinary. Because it has the participation of Princess Pingyang, it always attracts the attention of interested people...

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Guanzhong, Luoyang, Tiance Mansion.

In the evening of that day, a horseman came from Juechen. The horse was running very fast, splashing countless snow. The man on horseback quickly arrived at Tiance Mansion. After passing the notice, he entered the mansion.

This person came from the north and brought back the latest news. Although there were birds delivering letters in this era, letters could not cover everything, so some important things still required messengers, who were responsible for delivering the most detailed information.

.

Since these days, such messengers have often returned from the north.

At this time, Li Shimin and a group of officials were waiting in Tiance Mansion. The knight was wearing a red feather and could enter the palace directly. He brought back two stacks of military reports and a thick secret letter hidden in his arms...

The two stacks of military reports belong to the border, and the thick secret letter comes from Gujiacun.

In the world's major events, national affairs come first, so everyone in Tiance Mansion did not hesitate. First, they circulated two stacks of border military reports. After reading them, everyone looked puzzled.

But seeing Li Shimin frowning slightly, he said slightly puzzled: "What does Xiuning mean by this? Why do you want to deliberately attract Turks?"

Before he finished speaking, Du Ruhui's voice sounded next to him, and he seemed to be equally puzzled: "Since ancient times, swords and weapons are actually dangerous things. Even if you have full confidence, you can still avoid wars whenever you can. Princess, she has found out

After knowing that the Sun family in Miyun was liaising with the grassland, both teams of messengers should be intercepted and sniped, so why do we have to capture one team and let the other team go? Isn't this a deliberate attempt to let that team enter the grassland?"

The implication is self-explanatory, it means that Li Xiuning deliberately wanted to make the Turks rise up.

This situation is obviously inconsistent with common sense.

Now that the Turks are strong, the Tang Dynasty has not yet stabilized its construction, and it is too late to defend the border areas, why are they rushing to get the Turks to attack?

Everyone found it incredible and couldn't figure out what Li Xiuning's purpose was.

Li Shimin suddenly looked at the messenger and asked in a deep voice: "You come from the north, so you must know the inside story in detail. Please tell me carefully, what kind of secret is there?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, there is a secret!"

The messenger nodded respectfully, then slowly uttered a word with admiration: "Cow!"

"ox?"

Everyone was startled.

But Li Shimin seemed to have figured something out, and suddenly a light flashed in his eyes. He suddenly stood up and blurted out: "I understand, Xiuning has set her sights on the Turks' cattle."

Du Ruhui followed up and suddenly realized: "I have also figured it out. This plan is really sharp. In the past, when the Turks invaded in winter, auxiliary soldiers would drive oxen to transport looted grain. At that time, the Central Plains was weak.

, can only be allowed to be slaughtered by them. Even if there are 200,000 women's soldiers stationed in the north, they can only barely guarantee that the territory will not be invaded. Apart from barely holding on to the territory, they are powerless. They can only watch the Turkic cavalry's rampage and plunder.

Let them run rampant, but this time it is different, because there are tens of thousands of troops from our Tiance Mansion on the border..."

After adding tens of thousands of troops, the battle situation has become a matter of calculation and unintentional. If the Turks really go south, I am afraid there will be no good results this time.

The grassland is full of cavalry, and they must come and go like the wind. Once the battle fails, they can only return in a hurry. However, their auxiliary troops cannot come and go like the wind, and those grassland bullocks will inevitably be left behind by the Detachment of Women.

This is to make war fortune!

Du Ruhui couldn't help but praise, gave a thumbs up and said: "Princess's plan is really sharp. It seems that the soldiers are moving dangerously, but in fact it is just pulling chestnuts from the fire. If I go by my calculations, there is a 90% chance of winning. Once the plan is

If it succeeds, it will be hundreds or even thousands of cows..."

Hundreds or thousands of cattle?

The sound of swallowing saliva suddenly sounded throughout the entire meeting hall.

Li Shimin was obviously a little excited and couldn't help but said: "The reason why this matter can be accomplished is because my king's Tiance army rushed to the north. If it is accomplished, wouldn't Tiance Mansion also be able to get half of the cattle? Xiuning is really good.

, this plan is exquisite and extraordinary..."

Unexpectedly, the messenger suddenly spoke and reminded carefully: "Reporting to Your Highness, this is not the princess's plan. This plan comes from Gu Tianya, who wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. Her Highness the Princess listened to him.

Analysis, so I decided to target the Turks’ cattle.”

"Gu Tianya?"

Everyone in the room was startled again.

Li Shimin seemed to 'dislike' hearing Gu Tianya's name, and suddenly snorted: "He's just a poor boy, how can he be so smart? This plan must have been painstakingly planned by my sister, just for the sake of

I hid it from everyone, so I pretended to trust Gu Tianya. Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t like to hear it..."

This is somewhat unreasonable.

From ancient times to the present, it seems that the elder brother-in-law is always the same. He always looks at his brother-in-law with displeasure and always feels that he is taking advantage of his family's little cabbage.

The messenger looked helpless, nodded and said: "Yes, yes, His Highness is right."

Li Shimin snorted again, seeming a little angry for some reason, and scolded: "Look at you people, what have you become like? In this period of time, a total of twenty messengers have returned from Tiance Mansion, but almost

Everyone is talking nonsense, and they all praise that boy to the sky. I really want to ask you, have your brains been kicked by donkeys?"

The messenger shrank his head and accused him again and again: "Yes, yes, what your Highness is reprimanding is that your subordinates will never dare to do it again, and their subordinates will never dare to do it again."

Although he begged for mercy, he suddenly muttered in a low voice, with a troubled expression on his face: "But Gu Tianya is really powerful!" This guy is obviously a straight man, and he doesn't want to express what he has in mind.

"Um??"

How could Li Shimin's ears be so sharp that he could not hear the messenger's thoughts?

Li Shimin suddenly laughed and said to the messenger: "Looking at you like this, you are obviously dissatisfied. However, I will give you a chance. I want to hear what is so special about Gu Tianya and why you messengers

They all felt like they were in a coma, and their eyes suddenly gleamed when they mentioned him? Tell me, report it to the king, and report it to all the colleagues present..."

When the messenger heard that he was allowed to report, he immediately became excited. The guy's eyes actually started to light up, and he opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, Gu Tianya is really awesome."

Li Shimin groaned, turned his head and quietly rolled his eyes. He lowered his voice and muttered, as if he was unhappy: "Nonsense, how can you deceive this king's girl if you are not powerful?"

After he complained about his unhappiness, he turned back to look at the messenger again, pretending to be calm and calm, as if he didn't care about Gu Tianya's affairs at all, and just asked lightly: "Then tell me, what is so great about him?"

"First, let's collect scrap metal!" the messenger blurted out, with admiration on his face.

However, everyone present was stunned, looking at each other in confusion, and said in astonishment: "Collecting scrap metal?"

"Yes, yes, we just collect scrap metal!"

The messenger was extremely excited and spoke impatiently: "Now the entire Gujia Village is aware of the matter of collecting scrap metal. There are mainly eight villages that do this. No matter whether old, young, women and children go out early in the morning or come back late every day,

At home, they walked through villages and alleys, collecting scrap metal..."

He paused for a moment and then added: "If anyone has old iron pots that are too rotten to be repaired and reused, take them away; if there are abandoned farm tools that have become rotten and rusted (shi)

If it can't be used anymore, it will be collected. In addition, Hebei Road is a place where wars have been fought for a long time. There are old battlefields everywhere. As long as you carefully dig through the snow and soil, you will often find rusty arrowheads and broken swords.

, these are all treasures, they can also be picked up and sold."

The messenger became more and more excited as he spoke, and couldn't help but beam with excitement: "To be honest with you, Your Highness, even my subordinates have made a small fortune. In the past few days, my subordinates have dug up a lot of battlefield remnants. After getting it to Gujia Village, Princess

A lot of rewards have been discounted..."

While speaking, he suddenly reached into his arms and took out a carefully placed piece of paper. Then he looked at Li Shimin eagerly and said, "Your Highness, look, this is the white note that the princess gave me. The princess asked me to take this note and find it."

You receive the corresponding money."

Li Shimin was stunned immediately, his face twitching unconsciously.

After a long time passed, he looked strange and said with a smile, "You help them do things, but you come to receive the reward from me?"

The messenger showed a little coquettishness and said honestly: "The princess told us that she is different from before. She used to be lavish, but in the future she has to be diligent and thrifty. If she can cheat a fortune, she will cheat a fortune. Princess, she is still

Said, you are her second brother, you like face, so it’s best to cheat..."

Li Shimin was stunned and felt his chest becoming blocked.

After a long time passed, he took a deep breath and tried to persuade himself: "This is my biological sister, this is my biological sister."

He tried to persuade himself for a long time and managed to calm down the depression in his heart. Then he looked at the messenger again, gritted his teeth and asked, "Tell me, what's going on? Why are you collecting scrap metal? There must be something fishy about it."

The messenger didn't hesitate and blurted out: "Report to Your Highness, melting iron and making steel."

When he said this, his face was filled with admiration.

However, everyone present was confused, and Li Shimin was also confused.

Melting iron to make steel?
Chapter completed!