Chang'an City, Tai Chi Palace Royal Inner Garden. The huge Royal Inner Garden is covered with snow at this time.

Li Jiancheng was wearing heavy armor, holding a cold horse spear, carrying a thick marching sleeping bag, and hanging a kettle, a wrapper, and a dry food bag around his waist.

Li Jiancheng stepped on the thick snow step by step and walked up to the "Yinshan" and climbed to the top of Yinshan from the foot of the mountain. In fact, it was only more than 300 steps, and Li Jiancheng felt a little struggling.

Li Jiancheng turned around and looked at Li Anyan and smiled, "I have only walked less than a thousand steps, and I can't stand it anymore. I have been fighting the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, and everyone is as hard as I do!"

Li Anyan smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the soldiers will work harder!"

Although Li Jiancheng was also fully armed, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army had to carry two pairs of boots and two sets of cotton coats. The actual weight was far greater than Li Jiancheng, and in fact it exceeded two-thirds of the weight Li Jiancheng was carrying, and nearly eighty kilograms of weight.

Li Jiancheng stood on the top of a narrow slope and looked at the snowy rolling hills below.

Li Anyan looked around and then pointed to a place and said, "Your Majesty, that should be Bai Dao."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Anyan turned around and pointed to another point and said, "Li Jing is now stationing in Dingxiang. According to the news from the Ministry of War, Dingxiang leads to Baidao, and there is a big road, so Jie Li will definitely send heavy troops to guard it."

Li Jiancheng said in confusion: "Tang Jian is in Jieli Camp."

Li Anyan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Li Jiancheng said: "When you have the opportunity to gather the broken tribes around you, Jie Li will not retreat north immediately."

Li Anyan smiled bitterly and said, "It depends on whether Li Jing can seize the fighter plane. It is easy to defeat the Turks again, but it is too difficult to capture Jie Li."

Li Jiancheng said: "Do you still remember how Li Jing took down Xiao Xian, Nanliang during the Battle of Luoyang?"

Li Anyan thought for a while and said, "Why don't you remember that the court planned four armies to go south to attack Xiao Xian, and planned to destroy him in three months. As a result, Li Jing persuaded Li Xiaogong to take advantage of the rising water of the Yangtze River and lead the army out of the Three Gorges. In less than a month, he conquered Jiangling and captured Xiao Xian alive."

Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "Xiao Xian prepared a fleet for escape, but he never expected that Li Jing would rush under his nose so quickly. At that time, Li Jing was just Li Xiaogong's deputy."

Li Anyan smiled bitterly and said, "Jie Li is not Xiao Xian, he is the overlord on the grassland. He is cunning and has an old wolf who still has one eye when he falls asleep. It is too difficult to capture him..."

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "Yes, even if I personally conquer Mobei, I would not dare to say that I would definitely capture Jie Li and annihilate most of the Turkic forces. It would be enough to deserve the forbearance of the Tang Dynasty over the years."

Ang Lee said unconsciously: "Your Majesty..."

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "An Yan, am I too greedy? I always think that if I can solve the enemy in Mobei once and for all in one battle, it will be an enemy that threatens the Central Plains for hundreds of years."

Li Anyan sighed without answering.

The king and his minister stood on the top of the slope for a long time without moving.

Suddenly, Li Jiancheng looked at Li Anyan and said, "How many days ago was the last news from General Chen?"

Li Anyan thought carefully and said, "Your Majesty, it should be three days after Li Jing's army set out a month ago!"

Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly moved and his eyes were patrolling the inner garden.

Li Jiancheng looked at Li Anyan and said, "Where do you think General Chen will be?"

"This... General Chen led the Dingyuan Army and the Lingwu Army in Lingzhou a month ago, and suddenly headed north and disappeared from now on..."

A long-lost smile appeared on Li Jiancheng's originally obscure face: "I am really worried!"

Ang Lee was stunned.

Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "With General Chen in Mobei, even if Jie Li is a mouse, he can't escape!"

Li Anyan said suspiciously: "How did Your Majesty learn that General Chen is going to pursue Jie Li Khan?"

"If Chen Ying was careful until I issued an edict to use troops, he would not be General Chen who was intimidating the Western Frontier! If he used troops, he would not go far and detour to Dingxiang. He would only lead himself to the northeast, cross the Yellow River, and copy Jie Li's retreat."

...

At night, Li Jiancheng slept extremely peacefully.

However, Li Zhi cried in the middle of the night, and Zheng Guanyin got up to check it out.

Li Jiancheng also sat up.

After Zheng Guanyin comforted Li Zhi, she came back and found Li Jiancheng sitting on the bed in a daze.

Zheng Guanyin asked carefully: "Is Zhi'er quarreling you?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "I just had a dream, dreaming that Jie Li ran away."

Zheng Guanyin patted Li Jiancheng's arm comfortably and said with a smile: "Don't worry, dreams are all against each other, Li Jing will definitely be able to catch Jie Li."

Li Jiancheng was sleepless at this time and got up and got out of bed.

Zheng Guanyin looked at Li Jiancheng's thin clothes and quickly took a leather robe and draped it on Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng's eyes were deep, as if he was about to penetrate the sky and look at the northern border from afar.

...

On the Yinshan Goat Trail, thousands of Tang soldiers led their horses and climbed the steep hillside in the wind and snow with difficulty.

From time to time, horses and soldiers fell off the cliff.

However, except for the rumbling sound, the soldiers and war horses made no sound.

Li Jing followed the team, staggering and climbing, his face covered with frost.

If you observe carefully, you will definitely find that whether it is the Tang army soldiers or war horses, they are all tied with horses.

The so-called horse-teamed leash was in ancient times. When troops rode horses and attacked the enemy at night. In order not to let the enemy discover it, they wrapped the horse's hooves with cloth and stuffed things into the horse's mouth. In this way, the horse would not run loudly and would not yell at anything in its mouth. Then pay attention to restraining the horses and can quietly approach the enemy's camp. This is called horse-teamed leash.

Finally, I passed the Yinshan Goat Trail with difficulty.

The soldiers and soldiers of the Tang army all jumped over Yinshan, and were still several miles away from the Baidaojie Liya tent at the foot of the mountain.

Xiao Nuo's face was so cold that he drooled. He walked to Li Jing and bowed and said, "Report to the general, one hundred and seventy brothers have been lost, and there are also... twenty-five brothers who were frostbite."

Li Jing nodded and took out a small wooden stick from his mouth. The small wooden stick was instantly frozen into a popsicle. Li Jing threw the popsicle on the ground and said warmly: "Thank you all, send orders, rest for an hour, and then prepare for battle."

Xiao Nuo bowed with his fists and then ran out to pass the order.

...

In the Baidao, Mobei, in the Turkic camp, outside an inconspicuous small tent, several Turkic soldiers searched for movement inside through the gaps in the tent.

In the small tent, Tang Jian and several Turkic nobles were sitting around the stove, talking and laughing.

Asuna Shell came over and kicked the soldiers' butts.

The soldiers hurriedly turned around and saluted Ashinasheer.

Asuna Sher pointed to the big tent with his chin.

The soldiers hurriedly replied: "Tang envoy is drinking and chatting with the elders."

Asansheer sneered and said, "Let them chat slowly. When our people arrive, the Khan will naturally settle the accounts one by one."

After Ashinasheer said that, he left the tent proudly.

Inside the small tent, Tang Jian listened to the footsteps outside the tent, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

A Turkic elder held a horse milk wine and asked carefully with the broken Tang Yan: "Great Tang envoy, if we Turks surrender to the Tang Dynasty, can I go to Chang'an to stock it!"

Tang Jian seemed to hear a joke and laughed out loud.

After a long time, Tang Jian stopped laughing and said, "Ottoman Elder, there is no grass in Chang'an City. Even if someone planted some flowers and plants in the garden, those flowers and plants were extremely precious, and a pot of flowers was much more expensive than a sheep."

The Ottoman Elder asked, "If you don't let sheep go, what are you Tang people eating and drinking?"

"We eat snow-white soft steamed buns, white and glutinous rice, and golden millet!" Tang Jian smiled and said, "In the middle of winter, drinking millet porridge with a plate of salted soybeans, the taste is so beautiful."

Ottoman asked again: "Even if it is a mountain of gold, you will have a day of eating. What should I do if I have no money?"

Tang Jian did not directly answer the Ottoman Elder's question, but instead asked: "Ottoman Elder, how many sheep, how many horses do you have now, and how much money do you have?"

When Ottoman heard this, a smug look appeared on his face. He thought for a while and said, "I have..."

As he said that, Ottoman reached out to his hand and then extended his other hand.

Tang Jian said: "Ten thousand sheep?"

The Ottoman elder shook his head and said, "Fifty thousand sheep, eight thousand cows, and fifteen thousand war horses!"

Tang Jian didn't know how the brain circuit of the Turks grew, why a pair of hands and ten fingers would represent 150,000 sheep, 8,000 cows, and more than 15,000 war horses! However, he still said seriously: "In Chang'an, a sheep can be sold for about 200 yuan, 150,000 yuan is 30,000 yuan, a cow can be sold for six guan, and 8,000 yuan is 48,000 yuan. In addition, war horses cost at least 100,000 yuan. You can store the money in the Tongli Money House of the Tang Dynasty, deposit it for three years, and you can get interest of 500 yuan per year. Do you know how much food you can buy for 500 yuan?"

Ottoman asked in confusion: "How many?"

Tang Jian said: "All five thousand stones!"

Ottoman screamed: "So much?"

Tang Jian continued: "Actually, you don't have to go to Chang'an, to Taiyuan or Lingzhou, there are branches of the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House. Go there and take the cattle and sheep directly, and take the money to Chang'an to enjoy your happiness!"

After Tang Jian's tricks.

The elders finally learned that there was a money shop in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Even if they didn't know how to do business or herd sheep, as long as they deposited their money into the money shop, they would have no worries about eating and drinking.

Of course, Tang Jian did not tell them these elders.

An inconspicuous house in Chang'an City also needs to start with thousands of people. The most common three-entry courtyard has more than a dozen houses, and all of them need to move tens of thousands of people.

For example, the Ottoman Elder's 100,000 yuan could only barely buy a large house covering an area of ​​more than ten acres in Chang'an City in a remote courtyard like Anhuafang or Qujiangfang.

Of course, you also have to spend thousands of cents to buy a smaller house.
To be continued...