Datang: Huchi served as a bodyguard, but refused to enter the court as an official

Seeing that he wished to drink a basin of footwashing water and taste the saltiness, Liu Bai said: "Hurry up and feel comfortable, you have been marching for several days, go to the cold!"

Chapter 376 The old man's first half of his life was wasted

Zhang Liang suddenly felt a little sad for himself.

Along the way, he really saw the grandeur of the Liu family.

Wearing gold and silver is something nouveau riche do.

Look at Liu Bai, who is covered in a moon-white robe and a pair of ordinary cloth boots.

It looks ordinary, but the embedded value is not comparable to those nouveau riche.

Just say his cloth boots.

There is nothing unusual on the surface. In the shops in Chang'an City, you can usually buy four or five pairs for money.

But in fact, except for the fine linen on the surface, the inner lining is all made of Shu brocade.

In other people's houses, the insoles are filled with either Ula grass or rags, while Liubai's are animal skins!

Ordinary animal skins are nothing more than a little more expensive than silk.

But what Liu Bai used was the skin of the pig dragon!

Moreover, it is the tenderest piece on the top of the brain!

Each Zhupolong is about the size of a child's palm and can be used!

The cost of this piece of leather alone is at least hundreds of guan!

You know, the piggy dragon was born in the south, how much would it cost just to transport it?

Zhang Liang sighed in his heart.

A pair of other people's shoes are worth more than the whole outfit.

Think about yourself, colluding with the Goguryeo people, just for such 10,000+ silver, it is estimated that it is not as expensive as Liu Bai came out to play

People and people are really incomparable

Zhang Liang hesitated for a long time before taking off his boots and putting his feet into the tub.

Looking at the thick layer of spices floating on the wooden basin, his heart was bleeding.

These are all good things!

He felt that after soaking his feet, if he didn't treat his feet like chicken feet, he would be sorry for the spices.

Cheng Yaojin was so hot that he grinned his teeth, but he couldn't bear to pull his foot back, and he kept sucking in his breath.

"The old man's first half of his life was wasted"

He couldn't help but sigh.

After decades of fighting, this is the first time I feel that marching is actually a kind of fun!

As soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, someone brought me food.

Today is mutton steamed buns, and tomorrow is a big bowl of glutinous rice noodles. Every day is different.

God!

When marching, who didn't eat hard dry food?

If you are used to this kind of treatment, how will you fight in the future?

The time for the noon break is relatively tight, and it is not possible to set up camp.

In the past, I just found a barley seed to make do with it, and that's all.

But this time, as soon as the army stopped, someone from the Liu family brought a hammock.

Bundle it on a tree, and then lie down on it, covered with a thick blanket from the Western Regions, so comfortable that it makes people want to sleep forever.

At night, the treatment is better than that in Chang'an City.

And a half-person-high heater is placed in the middle of the handsome tent, and Cheng Yaojin can wake up several times every night!

Marching in winter, the cold is the biggest problem.

Now, it's a joke!

Cheng Yaojin looked at his scorched red feet and murmured, "Did I go to Goguryeo to fight?"

He even had some doubts. This trip was purely to see Liu Bai off.

The two of them had never seen the world, which made Li Chengqian feel extremely contemptuous.

He leaned over, rubbed his feet, and said, "What shall we have for supper later?"

As soon as the words were finished, Li Yin and Li You ran in with a smile on their face, carrying a barbecue grill in front and a large bag of messy food in the back.

The two have lived in Liu's house for a long time, and they are very clear about the barbecue process.

Li You turned on the stove, grabbed a few pieces of burning charcoal with tongs, and stuffed them into the grill.

Li Yin put the meat skewers and vegetables on top, turned them skillfully back and forth, and brushed a layer of sauce from time to time.

boom--

As soon as the cork of the wine bag was opened, the rich aroma of wine immediately covered up the aroma of barbecue.

Several people drank soju, ate barbecue, and soaked their feet. It would be even more beautiful if there were a few singing songs.

"Hiccup~"

Cheng Yaojin felt that he had grown a lot of meat in the past few days, so he specially targeted vegetables.

In the end, after eating half a baked potato on the bottom, I realized that the meat skewers on the barbecue rack did not seem to be mutton.

He grabbed one, sniffed it, stuffed it into his mouth, and said in amazement, "This is beef?!"

Cattle!

For Datang's extremely important, it is not too much to say that it is a "strategic material".

There are very few farming cattle in the Tang Dynasty, whether it is the royal family or the common people, it is a serious crime to slaughter the farming cattle!

Liu Bai gave Cheng Yaojin a 'weird' look.

According to the legend, doesn't this guy often find excuses to slaughter cattle?

He didn't know that Cheng Yaojin really liked beef very much. In the late Zhenguan Dynasty, he often used reasons such as the death of his family's cattle to satisfy his appetite.

But now it is the first year of Zhenguan, not to mention Cheng Yaojin, even Li Er is reluctant to touch the farm.

"The cow at home died of illness, it's a pity if I don't eat it"

After Liu Bai finished speaking, Cheng Yaojin suddenly nodded, as if he had learned something.

"Old Zhang, you eat too!"

Seeing Zhang Liang not moving, Liu Bai wondered.

Zhang Liang swallowed, a little cautious.

He always felt that he was controlled by Liu Bai, so he couldn't be as unfettered as Cheng Yaojin.

Liu Bai chuckled, and said: "Although Liu has never been on the battlefield, he also knows that the army is the most taboo of two minds. Now we are grasshoppers tied to a rope, so don't be so restrained."

Zhang Liang bowed his head for a moment, took a deep breath, stood up suddenly, and clasped his fists at Liu Bai.

"Young Master Liu, it was Zhang's fault before, so I apologize here!"

He thought that even if he helped Goguryeo steal potatoes, he would not be sorry for Datang.

If you become the Duke of the state, you will be an official. You can't expect to be crowned king, can you?

For the rest of this life, what else can I do besides spending money at home?

Your Majesty has no choice but to find ways to make money by himself.

You have worked hard for the Tang Dynasty for half your life, but you still can't sell some potatoes?

Anyway, if I don't do it myself, sooner or later someone else will do it.

However, now he understood.

In the final analysis, potatoes are not from Datang, but from Liubai

I was equivalent to intending to steal Liu Bai's things!

In his point of view, selling potatoes is for making a living, and even rebellion is nothing.

If His Majesty hadn't rebelled today, he would have been bullied to death by that faint emperor of the former Sui Dynasty.

However, you must never lose your morals in life!

He always put himself in the position of a hero in the world.

He only knows himself, not his family and country, and has no psychological burden on things that harm Datang's interests.

But it would be too unkind to directly cut off people's way of making money!

Liu Bai looked at him with a smile on his face.

I don't know if this guy is sincerely repenting, or has other thoughts.

"Yunguo's words are serious. The past is the past. People always have to look forward."

Chapter 377 Goguryeo can be destroyed in eight months

Zhang Liang is very ashamed!

After these few days, he found that Liu Bai was not a difficult person to get along with.

He was still very worried before, Liu Bai was holding onto his handle, and he would use his life to order him around, making it hard for him.

But now it seems that people don't take it seriously at all.

In other words, Liu Bai didn't want to embarrass himself at all.

Thinking about his own performance back then, Zhang Liang regretted it even more.

If he could establish a good relationship with Liu Bai earlier, would he still worry about business?

I'm afraid, I don't even look down on the little money of the Goguryeo people.

But no matter how regretful he is, he can't go back to the past. Zhang Liang knows very well that he has no chance to become a family with Liu Bai like Cheng Yaojin.

No matter how magnanimous Liu Bai is, at most he can call him friends

"Zhang is ashamed"

Zhang Liang took a deep breath and smiled wryly.

Liu Bai changed the subject with a smile.

"In another six days, Duke Yu will part ways with us. I wonder what your opinion is on this battle?"

As the general in history who really commanded the army to go on an expedition to Goguryeo, Zhang Liang's opinion is quite important.

He is not good at land warfare, which is why he lost consecutive battles during the Wude years.

The reason why Li Er didn't blame him was that he was an expert in water warfare!

Among the old men of the Manchu Dynasty, there is probably no one who can defeat him on the water!

For this expedition to Goguryeo, he will lead an army of [-] troops, enter the sea from Hadong Daolaizhou, and attack the border of Goguryeo all the way!

The change in Liu Bai's attitude towards him was also because he was an expert in water warfare.

In Liu Bai's plan, developing maritime trade is the general trend. From this point of view, Zhang Liang's role will even surpass that of the Liu family's caravan.

Of course, if someone else did the act of stealing potatoes, Liu Bai would never forgive him easily.

Samurai Xun is the best example.

Now that fellow is in Chang'an City, he has completely become a dog.

The house was cleaned up, and there were only two or three big cats and kittens left in the guards, and they had to send people to hunt and kill Goguryeo all day long.

I heard that the security work of Ying Guogong's mansion is all handed over to a few local dogs