I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

After all, a lieutenant general like Lao Cheng can be expected to be a general. He was still a soldier under Zhang Nuo before, and Zhang Nuo is in charge of the navy and air force so far, but Zhang Nuo only gave himself the rank of major general That's all.

So it's time to see His Royal Highness King Qin. Could it be that His Highness saluted them?

Thinking about this scene, everyone present felt trembling all over. It is estimated that His Royal Highness King Qin would beat them up in anger at that time. You must know that many people present have been beaten by His Royal Highness Qin Wang. No mercy.

In fact, Li Shimin also has a headache about this problem. If it is really based on military merits, Zhang Nuoping Goryeo, destroying Turks, conquering Tubo, and surrendering Fusang, these credits add up to be scary enough.

But Zhang Nuo has always been dealing with him not as a monarch and minister but only as a brotherhood, so he has always ignored these things. Looking at it now, it doesn't work.

You know, judging from what he discussed with Zhang Nuo, there are still a lot of places that need to be occupied by Datang, and if he wants to open up overseas, the first choice for commanding the army must be Zhang Nuo, His Highness the King of Qin. The civil and military officials in his court will be at ease.

After all, don't look at Datang's current state of blooming flowers, but everyone knows in their hearts that if there is a problem with such a major military project in Datang, the great situation in front of them will immediately become a castle in the air, a dream in the water. Reflection, not to mention returning to the prototype at once, but it will never recover from a setback.

Therefore, in this regard, His Royal Highness Zhang Nuo, who has repeatedly made great achievements, has become extremely important.

Of course, Zhang Nuo didn't say anything against it. If he had something to do, Li Shimin would basically agree to it, but if the issue of military rank was not resolved for a day, how embarrassing would it be for the generals leading the army?

Besides, there is a very personal and cautious question here, that is, which military branch will Zhang Nuo be a general by then?

That's right, no one said anything about it, but everyone was thinking about it in their hearts.

Everyone knows Zhang Nuo's ability. He is a fierce man who established the navy with his own strength and flourished. Nuo has the final say.

As for the army, despite the fact that the army has just been established and Zhang Nuo didn't participate so deeply during the formation process, the army is the big brother of the three armies after all, those people who hang out in the navy and air force now, or their families are the big brothers in the army , or the officer is from the Army.

It can be said that the army is the real big brother and son. Moreover, Zhang Nuo has gone out to fight everywhere over the years. What have you done?

Then the question arises, can Zhang Nuo, His Highness the King of Qin, not be able to shoulder the rank of the army?

Everyone here is an old fox, and they all know that they can't see it now, but in the future, the generals of which military branch will naturally work for the benefit of which military, so who would dare to let go of Zhang Nuo, a great god?

So everyone looked at Li Shimin with bright eyes, wanting to know how His Majesty the Emperor planned to arrange for His Highness King Qin in the end, and which military branch he would put in!

Chapter 805 Armament Upgrade

For Li Shimin, how to "torment" Zhang Nuo, or how to make Zhang Nuo work harder, has always been something he has tirelessly wanted to do.

He knew what Zhang Nuo was capable of, and he also knew that Zhang Nuo was not only what he showed, but what he didn't show was probably bottomless.

He has been envious of Zhang Nuo for a day or two.However, Zhang Nuo's naughty personality made him really have nothing to do.

But this time is different, everyone has their own standpoint, just like Zhang Nuo is the King of Qin in Datang, and Li Shimin's brother and friend, so he will lean towards Datang, even if he is not happy, he will fight for Datang force.

So, if Zhang Nuo is only a general of a certain military branch, will he ignore other military branches?

Perhaps Zhang Nuo would help out if he spoke up, but most of the time Li Shimin believed that Zhang Nuo would stay at home lazily and turn a blind eye to all problems.

This was caused by Zhang Nuo's character. Even if that happened, Li Shimin would be too embarrassed to say anything about Zhang Nuo.

However, how could Li Shimin let this kind of thing happen to Zhang Nuo? It would be a big waste for Datang.

Therefore, when Zhang Nuo's military positions and ranks were finally formulated, Li Shimin was enlightened. Obviously, in the entire Tang Dynasty, only the ranks of the third rank and the tenth rank belonged to officers, but Li Shimin just came up with the rank of marshal.

God knows how he came up with this rank, or maybe Zhang Nuo said it when he chatted with him, anyway, Li Shimin not only gave Zhang Nuo a serious rank of marshal, but also gave Zhang Nuo the rank of the original rank. A military marshal rank came out.

That is to say, no matter which army it was in, it was the pinnacle to be promoted to general, but it is no longer the case now. There is also a military marshal in the general, which is the rank that truly stands at the pinnacle of the entire military. A marshal is a serious marshal without a service prefix, or it can be more appropriate to be called a marshal of the three services.

This is the apex of a real soldier, and Li Shimin made it clear when this rank was obtained. You basically don’t need to think about this rank. Most people have no chance to reach the rank of marshal in their lifetime. It's already very good.

Therefore, under the premise that Zhang Nuo didn't participate at all and didn't put forward any opinions, he became the only marshal of the three armies in the Tang Dynasty. Down, it doesn't seem like a dimensional existence.

Zhang Nuo didn't care much about the final result. After all, people are about to confess you, so it would be a bit hypocritical for you to say something about your displeasure.

Besides, if he didn't get the rank of marshal, it would be difficult for other people's ranks to be determined, so Zhang Nuo accepted the rank of marshal and the scepter of marshal very smoothly at the first conferring ceremony held by Li Shimin.

This thing was actually made by Zhang Nuo. The Tang Dynasty had no tradition of using this kind of scepter. After all, in the traditional concept of the Tang Dynasty, only the elderly would use crutches, right?

But Zhang Nuo just felt that those marshals in the documentary about the Third Reich that he had watched were really handsome when they played with marshal sticks, so why not get one?

So Zhang Nuo doesn't care whether the Tang Dynasty has this tradition, anyway, I want it, you can figure it out, what can Li Shimin do?Of course it is from this uncle.

Otherwise, if this matter caused this master to quit the job, wouldn't he cry to death?

In fact, there is another very interesting thing here, and that is the military uniform, because the military uniforms arranged by Zhang Nuo for the navy and air force from the beginning, Yishui's classic models for later generations, not to mention the training uniforms, let alone the military uniforms Belts, leather shoes, and tall hats with buns, the young men from the Navy and Air Force are very energetic when they go out.

So after the reorganization of the army, those bigwigs who had been envious for a long time clamored to wear new military uniforms. Li Shimin also liked this new military uniform. Pack.

Even the military uniforms of the people below have been changed. Zhang Nuo, who is at the top of the military rank, can’t be sloppy. I didn’t know these styles before, but now that there are samples, I really don’t have to worry about the craftsmanship of those tailors. They are all hand-sewn Manufacture and tailor-made are the most basic. Even if it is a pair of leather shoes that you have never seen before, after you get a few pairs and take them apart, they will turn around and make you a few pairs that are better than before.

Don't doubt these craftsmen who rely on their skills to make a living. You must know that those famous tailors and shoemakers in later generations are actually just a little more skilled in handwork. Although the top craftsmen in Datang have never made such later generations of leather shoes and dresses, they still do. Too many other things.

To put it bluntly, whether it is clothes or shoes and hats, it is ultimately the splicing of materials. In terms of materials, although there are not so many high-quality advanced materials in later generations at this time, various top-level original ecological textiles and leather goods cannot satisfy everyone, but satisfy everyone. Zhang Nuo, a top nobleman, is fine, especially if he is not short of money.

As a result, Zhang Nuo had a whole wardrobe of all kinds of dresses, including spring, summer, autumn and winter, and even a special cape for winter.

Among other things, at least the scene of the Marshal of the Three Armies of the Tang Dynasty is absolutely supported.

However, the improvement of an army depends not only on an excellent commander, but also on the combat effectiveness of the army. If the combat effectiveness has improved, the leash of a dog will basically not be too bad.

When it comes to the improvement of combat effectiveness, the biggest change in the Datang army in recent years is probably the large-scale deployment of guns and artillery.

Zhang Nuo didn't directly launch those classic models just because he had information about the firearms of later generations. In fact, Zhang Nuo sometimes found it funny. All the production line and so on are brought out.

Brother, you are afraid that there is no place to put the money.

Even though it was quite cheap for the army to purchase bullets in later generations, it was only under the premise of highly developed productivity and extremely abundant resources in later generations, and the use of industrialized mass production, that the unit price could be kept down.

But now, at this time in ancient times, copper-cased bullets were used?

After the hundreds of thousands of troops have changed their outfits, not to mention wartime, how much has to be destroyed in normal training. Although the bullet casings can be picked up, cleaned, processed and reused, the cost of manufacturing tens of millions of bullets at one time is nothing Enough to empty out the Tang treasury.

Chapter 806 Changes in the Navy

Zhang Nuo has always been sober, because he knows that copper can still be used as currency these days.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo honestly used paper shells. After all, in terms of power, this thing has already opened up a dimension from the era of cold weapons. There is absolutely no need to pursue those now.

After all, now that there are rifled guns and paper shells, Datang's army is already overpowered against any country, so why is it necessary to get modern rifles?

Naturally, research and development has not been let go. Today, Zhang Nuo is very accustomed to the rule of equipping one generation, pre-installing one generation, and developing one generation.

Regardless of the fact that the main weapon of Datang is still the front-charged paper-shell rifle, but in fact, officers and some elites have begun to distribute and adapt to the revolver.

And when things like revolvers are slowly getting used to by everyone, the new rifles will come out of the research institute, and then some of them will start to be installed.

As for the research institute, semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles are already being researched.

It's just that there is no need to spend so much manpower and material resources to raise Datang's equipment level so high for the time being.

In addition to the development of these weapons at hand, neither Zhang Nuo nor Li Shimin let go of the artillery that shined during the Battle of Koryo.

Compared with guns, artillery is the current strategic weapon, so there is no need to hide it too much. After all, front-loading guns and rear-loading artillery are not a concept at all, especially with various After the new type of ammunition is matched, it is simply not a concept.

This kind of big killer at the bottom of the box is obviously faster than guns in terms of equipment and research and development. After all, guns cost tens of thousands of people to replace, and it also involves a series of problems such as logistics and maintenance.

In terms of artillery, there are only so many of them, and most of them are still on the navy's ships. It just so happens that the navy is also replacing the new generation of steel warships, so the two sides simply changed their equipment at the same time.

Speaking of the navy's new generation of ships, this is simply a gold-swallowing beast. To be honest, even Li Shimin, a war madman, was frowning when he was about to launch this thing. Looking at the bill, he had a headache to death.

Not for anything else, but because the manpower and material resources consumed by this thing are really terrible. Although Datang's steel production is already not the same as before, the more the Datang develops, the more places that need steel , Machinery, railways, merchant ships, bridge building and even buildings, where a lot of steel is not needed.

For a while, Changsun Wuji even asked Li Shimin to resign jokingly, because Changsun’s family started a steel workshop, followed Zhang Nuo to eat meat and drink soup and opened several mines in Korea, and encountered the great development in Datang. Changsun Wuji laughed out loud at the beginning when he earned a wave of money, but later he became terrified.

Without him, it's too profitable. He, the Shangshu Zuopushe, who has a big profit, is really the head of the hundred officials and the uncle of the country. His family has raised prices several times in a row, and the workshop has expanded by more than ten times. , but all output is still the same as before, as much as you can sell.

Flowers are cooking oil over brocade fire, Changsun Wuji is a smart man, he clearly knows that it is no problem to develop the family, and it is no problem to make money from the family property, but he has a prosperous official career on the one hand and a wealth of money on the other, it is a bit too conspicuous up.

That's why he joked that he was going to resign, and said that he wanted to go home and do the steel business, but Li Shimin refused him without hesitation, and even jokingly said that Changsun Wuji had to give his life to him. He works like this.

They are all smart people. Within a few days, several mines and iron and steel workshops of the Changsun family were quietly sold to the royal family. The stewards of the Changsun family and people from the Changsun Queen's Palace came forward, and everything seemed quiet. Yes, but you know everything you should know.

After hearing the news, many people lamented that the eldest grandson's family deserves to be prosperous.

This matter made many families who were waiting to see the jokes of the eldest grandson's family, or waiting to share the cake after the eldest grandson's family fell, secretly sighed. A patriarch who can make money and make money is nothing. Anyone who is not stupid and has some tricks these days They can make money, but those who can calm down in the face of huge profits and cut off their wrists are the real masters, and it is obvious that Changsun Wuji did it.

But looking back, even if the mine of the eldest grandson's family belongs to the royal family, it will still be for business after all, and the production capacity cannot suddenly increase just because it is handed over to the royal family.Therefore, steel is still in short supply, and there is not enough of it anywhere.

Because of this, when Li Shimin saw the new warship construction plan submitted by Zhang Nuo, he was really scratching his head. If he wanted to, he naturally wanted to, just look at the design drawing and the report on future combat capabilities and combat direction. It was enough to make Li Shimin's heart beat.

And he also knows that if he wants to conquer countries thousands of miles away on the map in the future, he must have a powerful fleet.

Undoubtedly, this giant steel ship is the most suitable.

But after drying his saliva and looking at the cost and the clear list of materials on it, Li Shimin suddenly felt that he was very poor.

In the end, Li Shimin agreed to build two ships first to test the waters!

Zhang Nuo didn't have too high aspirations, the first time he built this thing, he went straight to top battleships like Bismarck and Iowa. Those battleships were naturally good. It can be said that in the era of battleships, they were the most top-notch artifacts of war.

But today's Datang has just embarked on the road of steel warships, and if they throw such a task to them all at once, they may not see results for more than ten years.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo thought and thought, and after comprehensively considering the domestic steel production situation and steel quality, Zhang Nuo finally decided to produce battleships of the very famous "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" levels in the late Qing Dynasty.

In other words, this class should not be called a battleship, but an ironclad ship!

But only this level of ironclad ships is equipped with long-barreled heavy artillery, reciprocating steam engines, and some new machinery and telecommunications equipment that have appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that this ironclad ship is not afraid of any enemy except for natural disasters in the sea of ​​this era!

At the same time, the construction of this kind of warship is undoubtedly to cultivate the experience of shipbuilders, designers, and the navy. After five or ten years, after the further development of iron and steel metallurgy, artillery, electronics, and machinery, the second generation of steel warships , that is, a real battleship is about to be born.

The construction of the two ironclad ships was not smooth sailing, because they were regarded as specialized technology verification ships.

Therefore, whenever the navy's scientific research comes up with new ideas, they always want to do it here.

Fortunately, Zhang Nuo was there to check everything. Although he didn't know everything, he had been supplementing all kinds of knowledge. There were still some rough judgments. Coupled with his insight, he was enough to distinguish these things.

Chapter 807 The problem of the heir

Datang's national power, military strength, and even its governing ability were developing like a hurricane, but Zhang Nuo fell silent as if he had disappeared.

Some people say that Zhang Nuo is hiding clumsiness, others say that Zhang Nuo is used to idle clouds and wild cranes, and some even secretly say that Zhang Nuo is trying to be Sima Yi's intention to follow suit...

They said everything, and these news more or less reached the ears of Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo, but these two people pretended not to hear it.

Friendship, as long as it is not destroyed, will only become deeper and deeper.

Between Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin, they met in the marketplace. From the very beginning, the two did not take identity too seriously. They talked more like brothers, and it was a kind of knowledge, insight, vision, etc. The combination of aspects has stabilized the friendship between the two.

At the same time, the two of them tacitly continued to maintain this way of communication, regardless of the monarch and his subjects, but only about friendship, so although Li Shimin often couldn't laugh or cry because of Zhang Nuo's lazy temper, he had to sigh in the dead of night, at least he didn't have to be too wary My sworn brother.

What the hell is Zhang Nuo doing?

He is making children!

That's right, it is to create children, because the skills of self-cultivation are getting more and more refined, if you want to have offspring, you must find a girl of the same level as him.

Otherwise, even if today's Hongyu is not as healthy as the average person, eating well and maintaining good health, there is still a difference in the level of life.

So this leads to the fact that if the two of them want to have a child, they can only believe in the primitive theories of "strengthening miracles" and "thousand arrows are bound to hit one shot".

In fact, Zhang Nuo didn't know whether he would have a child in this life, he didn't care much about it, at least at present, he was only 25 years old according to Datang's calculation, he was still young, and he would have plenty of opportunities in the future.

But Hongyu was very anxious in private. Originally, she was the envy of all the women in the honored family. Although she was the side concubine of Prince Qin, she was the head of the entire Prince Qin Palace. There was no concubine above and no other women below. Thousands of pets in one.

But after a long time without the birth of an heir, more and more gossips spread to Hongyu's ears. After all, these days, no matter whether it is a prince, general or a trafficker, he is very concerned about the inheritance of blood and the reproduction of the family. important.

What's more, who is Zhang Nuo? The majestic first prince of the Tang Dynasty, who has such a good relationship with the royal family that he almost wears a pair of pants. His family's property is spread all over the country.

Such a family now only has Zhang Nuo alone, and has no parents, brothers and children. If something happens to Zhang Nuo, it means that Zhang Nuo's family will have no children and grandchildren, and will completely die out.

In this case, the already important children's affairs became even more important to Hongyu.

Even, because of Zhang Nuo's importance, this is no longer his family's business. Li Shimin, Empress Changsun and even other families who are close to Zhang Nuo have all come to care about it.

Although Zhang Nuo explained to Hongyu many times, but gradually, as time went by, Hongyu couldn't hold on anymore.

Although no matter what age a woman is, she hopes to be alone in the eyes of her husband, but in fact, as the hostess of the Qin Palace, her greatest responsibility is not to manage the Qin Palace or serve Zhang Nuo well, but to serve Zhang Nuo well. The family has been passed down through the generations.

At the beginning, Hongyu also felt that what Zhang Nuo said was right. If the two of them were in good health, it would be enough to "exercise" more, but as time passed, Hongyu felt that something was wrong.

But I have seen the doctor secretly several times, and even Sun Simiao, the old man with white beard who is almost immortal in the medical research institute, has been visited by Hongyu several times. The other party told her repeatedly that she There is no problem at all, and His Royal Highness Qin Wang is even more fine, but as His Highness Qin Wang said, there is a difference between the two, so we can only take it slowly.

After Hongyu tried all kinds of methods, she finally came to a conclusion, that is, she had to wait and take her time and get pregnant one day by chance, or there was only the last way, which was to give Zhang more money. Nuo find some women.

Thinking of this, Hongyu is actually a little embarrassed, because Zhang Nuo is really the only woman at present, and it can even be said that her family does not even have ordinary concubines or anything.

In the past, she occasionally heard that so-and-so's concubines were competing for favor, and the wife of the head of the house relied on various means to settle the backyard of the family, and she would be thankful that she didn't have such a thing.

Even Empress Changsun vaguely told her a few times, saying that big women should not be jealous, and that it is orthodox to have a long line of children and grandchildren in the family.

This kind of thing was not only said by Empress Changsun alone, but also by many Mrs. Gaoming who were closer to the Qin Palace, they had said it to Hongyu either explicitly or secretly.