Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

After coming out of the dressing room, the two horses had been led to Li Ke and the others. Li Ke asked Li Chengqian to explain the stirrups, Takahashi saddle, etc. first.

There are also stirrups and saddles of nomads, but they are all made of wood, while Li Ke is naturally made of iron here, and Takahashi saddles are also made of wood but the skeleton is made of steel, and then wrapped with leather and so on.

After speaking to Li Chengqian, Li Ke simply led the horse and let Li Chengqian mount the horse by himself. Li Chengqian was only lame, but not weak. He stepped on the horse with one foot on the stirrup, and then stepped on the other foot in the stirrup. .

Feeling the seemingly identical Takahashi saddle and the iron stirrups on both sides, Li Chengqian basically didn't feel any difference in his control of the horse, but he could feel that with this hard stirrup, his legs could assist Push your feet hard.

"How?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"I really feel that there is no problem." Li Chengqian nodded.

Li Ke also got on the horse directly beside him, and the guard who was leading the horse let go of the horse. The two of them did not run directly, but drove the horse and began to stroll into the middle of the field.Changle and the others were slow to change clothes, so they walked a few laps first.

"I didn't quite understand the family letter you wrote at Tuyuhun. Is there anything wrong with Murong Shun?" Li Chengqian asked curiously while riding on the horse.

"What's the problem?" Li Ke told Li Chengqian about his general strategy against Tubo, and then said: "Murong Shun's cavalry is not a big threat, as long as he is not stupid enough to rush into the enemy's position." That's fine."

"Indeed, Tubo is not even as good as Datang in this aspect. There is absolutely no way to deal with cavalry." Li Chengqian nodded after thinking about it.

In fact, many people have some misunderstandings about Tubo. It is true that many tribes in Tubo are nomads. At the same time, Tubo also has some settled tribes, but these tribes are different from Tuyuhun and Western Turks.

That is, Tubo has almost no cavalry. To be precise, Tubo has no good horse breeds, so they have no combat cavalry. Their cavalry has no combat effectiveness at all, and horses are more used for traveling.

In fact, the rise of Tubo is not because of how powerful Songtsan Gampo is. To be precise, the rise of Tubo is also indispensable. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the earth entered a warm period, and many snows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau melted rapidly. Conditions began to support Large-scale reclamation.

During the Jin Dynasty, many areas that could be cultivated in Tubo were covered with ice and snow, and the annual melting time was extremely short. not much.

The main force of the Tubo army is infantry, which is limited by the breed of horses. The fighting method of the Tubo cavalry is also to dismount and fight on foot.

That's right, the horses in Tubo are basically used for traveling.According to the "New Book of Tang", the Tubo army "will dismount in battle and march in ranks, and when they die, they will be handed over to the emperor, and they will never retreat."

In other words, the Tubo army can be said to be infantry on horseback, so Li Ke is not worried that Murong Shun's cavalry will be surrounded by the Tubo army. As long as he is not stupid, this is one of the reasons why Li Ke sent the cavalry. one.

Ironware and the like can be solved, but it is impossible for Li Ke to sell horse breeds to Tubo, and Tubo has no chance to get excellent horse breeds from other places.

Now that Li Ke has taken control of Xizhou, a large number of excellent Qinghai Cong will be bred on horse farms in the plateau, such as the Shandan Army Horse Farm at an altitude of 2900 to 5000 meters.

Moreover, the currently domesticated war horses have also begun to feed them salt in an orderly manner, and Li Ke even asked people to compare and feed them separately.

For example, a group of war horses let them lick the original coarse salt, another part licks the refined salt block sold by Li Ke, and some of them are fed regularly and quantitatively according to the war horse breeding book Li Ke took out. salt.

Anyway, it is through different controlled experiments to see if we can breed better war horses.

"Well, as long as they don't have cavalry in their hands, even after their leather armor rate increases, there is basically no threat to my Tang Dynasty." Li Ke nodded. "Since we are talking about this matter, the strategy of Tubo, brother, you still need to make a memorial. If you want to ask anything, you can ask directly, and then I will tell you that when you write a memorial, you will submit it to the court. "

"Why me?" Li Chengqian was a little puzzled.

"Of course you need prestige. It's good that you have a higher prestige as a prince." Li Ke nodded.

Li Chengqian: "..." To be honest, he is also a little speechless. How can I say this? Although the prince and the emperor are father and son, sometimes the prince's prestige is too high, and the emperor is also worried.

"It's okay, brother, don't worry. I've already told my father. Anyway, my father doesn't care, and I guess you don't care. Besides, prestige, at present, no matter how high your prestige is, it's impossible for you to be better than your father." Huang Gao, so don't worry." Li Ke said with a smile.

Li Chengqian looked at Li Ke, his expression somewhat strange: "Why do I always feel that you are like raising a child."

"Illusion, big brother, you are all an illusion." Li Ke directly denied it.

"The problem is, you make me feel helpless." Li Chengqian was a little speechless. Although this is a good thing, why does it feel so awkward?If you want to say that Li Ke is one of his advisers, Li Chengqian will not hesitate to deal with this matter directly.

But you said that Li Ke had already taken care of this matter, and then you asked him to write this memorial to curb his reputation, Li Chengqian would think something wrong.

"It's all due to you. What is my big brother doing with this reputation? I'm already the crown prince, so I can still take the credit of your brother? I won't do it." Li Chengqian thought for a while, and then He simply refused.

"Brother, I'm doing this for your own good." Li Ke said.

Li Chengqian: "..." The words are good words, why do they sound so uncomfortable?

"Okay, okay, if you don't want to do this, then I can't go against your principles, brother, then I'll give you another idea, do you think it's okay?" Li Ke asked.

"Tell me." Li Chengqian was a little curious. He was not curious about other things, but how many ideas Li Ke had in his head. Everyone else said that Li Ke was a reckless man, but have you ever seen such a smart reckless man? ?

"Fu Bing." Li Ke said with a smile.

"Huh?" Li Chengqian was a little puzzled.

"The so-called political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. If you control the army, you will control the foundation of stability in the world, so you can build your reputation among the government soldiers." Li Ke snapped his fingers and said with a smile.