Li Shimin's will: Li Zhi, the throne belongs to your brother

"Who are you, why are you stuck here?"

The people who were questioned turned their eyes to the leader of the food team.

The leader stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty, the villain is a servant of the Wang family, and will donate food and grass to the barracks according to the owner's order."

"So that's the case." Li Shimin nodded to express his understanding, and then asked, "The Wang family? But what about Wang Tong?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the head of the family is Wang Tong, Lord Wang."

"Li Shimin smiled and praised: I didn't expect this Wang Tong to be so clever."

It turned out that the Wang family had donated food to him.

"Then why don't you wait to send the food in?"

"It's not that the villain is unwilling to give it away, but... it's..." the leader hesitated and said.

"But what."

"It's not just why, there are a lot of people donating food on this trip. There is news from the front that 20 food has been raised. I don't know if it is true or not, so I sent someone to the front to inquire, so I stopped here."

Li Tai and Li Shimin looked at each other, and both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

According to the past, if you want to raise 20 shi in a month, don't even think about it. If you recruit from all over the country, it may take longer.

And now it's only three days!

20 shi of grain was raised in just three days!

This news made Li Tai and Li Shimin a little unbelievable.

It seems that they all underestimated the desire of many families for spoils.

Li Shimin turned to the commander of the Imperial Forest Army and said, "Hurry up, send someone to ask if it is true that the food has been raised as he said."

"Yes!"

Not long after, the Yulin Army who went to inquire about the news ran all the way on the grain cart and reported to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, according to General Liu Rengui, the food supply of 20 shi has really been raised, and the news has been informed to the chamber of commerce."

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai as soon as he heard it, with a little questioning.

The food has been fully raised, and there are still people sending it back. This problem must be on the head of the chamber of commerce.

But Li Taiman was speechless, the chamber of commerce has grown to such a large size, it is very normal that the news is not delivered quickly enough.

"Ah, is it really full?"

"Then shall we ship it back again?"

"This patriarch's kindness was originally donated in vain... No one should refuse it!"

The unexplained food transport team discussed in a low voice.

"Hey, don't blame those who don't know." Li Tai stood up and said to the food team.

"This batch of food was also sent to the barracks. Even if the imperial court paid for your food, it would not be in vain for your Patriarch's kindness."

The major families donate food to get more loot, but they don't know the problem!

It would be bad for their reputation to let them ship it back and spread the word, but it would be less if they all took the spoils and distributed them to everyone.

So I can only buy it at a compromise, anyway, food is not too much.

"This···"

For a while, the leader was at a loss, because the order he received was to deliver the food to the vicinity of the barracks.

"Go back and say it's my order, and you won't be punished for keeping you."

"The villain obeys." Hearing Li Tai's words, the leader suddenly smiled.

"Father, is it appropriate to handle this?"

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded and said to the Yulin army, "Pass the prince's order to Liu Rengui, and then go to Qianjian to transport a batch of money."

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for the team blocking the road to clear up.

An unexpected person appeared in front of Li Tai and his party.

Lu Chengqing was very embarrassed, with bruises on his face and a lot of dirt on his body, as if he had just been beaten up.

He ran in front of Li Shimin with a full face of grievance, and respectfully saluted: "The old minister sees Your Majesty!"

Li Shimin looked at Lu Chengqing's appearance, frowned slightly, and said lightly.

"Aiqing, please, is it possible that Aiqing's face is a fight with someone else?"

Lu Chengqing hurriedly waved his hands and replied, "No, no, I accidentally fell."

He said no, but secretly complained in his heart.

This... what is this all about!

I originally thought of donating food to Li Shimin to express his loyalty.

But it made him want to break his head. He didn't expect that a large number of people from the Chamber of Commerce would rush to donate food, and even fought for the 20 shi share of food.

This made Lu Chengqing puzzled no matter what, the so-called spoils, they are not afraid that what Li Shimin drew is a big cake!

After despising them in his heart, Lu Chengqing gathered the food for a long time and prepared to transport it to the barracks.

But unexpectedly, he was held down and beaten on the spot. The reason turned out to be that he took away other people's shares.

This made Lu Chengqing extremely depressed, and in the end no one would give in, and everyone tried their best to transport their own food to the barracks.

The end result is that the food teams of many families are blocked here together.

"Did you fall?" Li Shimin was speechless, and casually comforted him: "Aiqing's injury, do you want to let the imperial doctor take a look?"

Lu Chengqing bared his teeth in pain and said, "Please trouble Your Majesty, this little injury is nothing."

"Aiqing should hurry home and recover!" Li Shimin casually said, "I still have to practice the navy."

"Your Majesty is respectfully sent off!" Hearing that Lu Chengqing hastily saluted, he let out a long sigh in his heart.

It seems that I have failed again. Li Shimin already has no shortage of families who can be loyal to him. I regret it! !

Chapter 159

Not long after, Zhang Liang and Liu Rengui came out of the barracks to meet Li Shimin and his party.

"The minister sees His Majesty, sees His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"You don't need to be too polite." Li Shimin waved his hand, and introduced Xue Rengui to the two with a happy face: "This is Xue Rengui from Longmen County that I just recruited."

The two looked at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes. They had already noticed Xue Rengui who was leading the horse for Li Shimin just now.

I thought he was a disciple of that family, but I didn't expect him to be a newly recruited recruit.

"He is born with supernatural power, proficient in riding and archery, and has extraordinary martial arts." Hearing Li Shimin's casual arrangement: "Arrange a coach for him, and he will become a great weapon in the future."

When Xue Rengui heard this, he immediately thanked: "Caomin thank you Your Majesty!!"

Zhang Liang led Xue Rengui away, leaving only Liu Rengui.

"What about my navy?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the National Council has already delivered two ships, and the crew have already been able to drive and repair the warships when they go to sea.

The food has already raised 20 shi, and there are 30 shi of grain purchased by His Majesty, a total of 50 shi.

The number of soldiers recruited reached [-], and most of them were recruits, some of whom would even get seasick. "

"Not bad!" Li Shimin didn't say much.

After all, due to power reasons at this time, most of the time it is still a land station, and the number of naval forces is not large.

The current navy is adapted from the navy, and the emergence of warships has also brought about quite a lot of problems.

For example, the driving of the battleship, the coordination of the artillery, the new method of arranging troops after the battleship, and the attack method of the battleship are all problems.

It takes a long time to run in.

"Go, lead me to see the construction of the barracks!"

"Yes!"

Liu Rengui led Li Shimin and Li Tai to the barracks.

What caught the eye was the concrete road under construction, as well as countless busy craftsmen, and the most eye-catching ones were the three warships.

A loud shout came to the ears of the group of people, and when they looked up, it turned out that the neat phalanx on the deck was training with weapons.

"As long as there are enough supplies on this battleship, you can live for up to half a year. The new army can get used to life on a battleship after staying for a while."

While introducing, Liu Rengui led the crowd onto the battleship.

The training soldiers suddenly shouted in unison: "See Your Majesty!"

Li Tai glanced at them, and saw that all of them were tall, mighty, muscular men, and they were training with iron bars on their backs.

Li Shimin was very satisfied to see this situation and shouted: "You wait for the army to serve the court, and you have to practice in winter, it is really hard work!!"

"Willing to die for Datang!!" The soldiers replied in unison.

"Okay, okay!" Li Shimin's eyes almost overflowed with joy: "Everyone is as brave as a tiger, and they are all good soldiers. Who trained these soldiers?"

"It's a soldier trained by General Zhang Liang." Liu Rengui replied truthfully.

"good!!"

"Your Majesty, would you like to go and see the captain's room to steer the warship?" Liu Rengui took the opportunity to reply to Li Shimin.

"Helm ~ Battleship?"

Hearing that he could control such a huge warship, a kind of impulse emerged from his bones. Li Shimin said excitedly: "I want to try."

"Please, Your Majesty!"

While speaking, Liu Rengui led a group of people to the captain's room on the top floor.

The footsteps of "thump thump" came, and Zhang Liang appeared in front of everyone, saluting: "I see Your Majesty!!"

"No need to be too polite." Li Shimin said casually and passed Zhang Liang.

【Catch up! 】Liu Rengui winked.

A group of people came to the captain's room, but the Imperial Forest Army couldn't squeeze in completely.

"Your Majesty, although the captain's room is small, it has all internal organs."

Liu Rengui on the side introduced: "The colorless transparent glass is used for observation protection, and the monocular telescope for observing distant scenes. And this is a copper microphone."

"The megaphone?"

"The microphone, as long as you speak into it, you can convey orders and order the battleship to start."

"Then this is also a megaphone?"

"This is a big bell. As long as you pull the rope, the mainspring will turn and ring the bell. This is an order for assembly."

Li Shimin eagerly sat on the captain's seat, and said impatiently, "Then what should I do if I want to start the warship and walk around Chang'an City?"

"The order to lift the anchor should be communicated to the microphone, and then hold the rudder to control the direction of the ship, and the command to start the battleship will be enough."

"Heave the anchor, start, and control the direction? It's that simple?"

Li Shimin held the rudder excitedly, a little unbelievable that such a giant can be controlled so easily.

After all, he hasn't studied mathematics thoroughly until now, let alone the matter of firing a cannon, which is simply not allowed.

Li Tai on the side saw it in his eyes and kept it in his heart. For now, he still uses his mouth, pipes and bells to deliver orders.

"Ai Qing is watching from the sidelines. If I make a mistake, I should report it in time, otherwise the battleship will be damaged and the loss will be great."

Zhang Liang and Liu Rengui on the side smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the battleship is all made of steel, so it's not so easy to break."

"Then I have given the order to lift the anchor!!"

"Your Majesty, please order!!" Zhang Liang and Liu Rengui looked at each other and saluted.

"Anchor!!" Li Shimin shouted at the pipeline.