In the city of Beiping, three or two porters carried their luggage with their burdens and occasionally chatted about the goods. On the street, one or two horses and ox carts drove slowly by, and the feces and urine on the ground happened to be seen by the lady who pushed the car window, and it was closed with a "snap", and there was a disgusting sound inside, and the shopkeeper of the commercial building who came out to pour the washing water also saw it, and couldn't help but squeeze his eyebrows with the merchants from Tongzhou next to him, which is a scene of the street in Beiping City.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way—" The two of them rode at a gallop, and the horse's hooves kicked away the porter's luggage that had not yet had time to pack up at the foot of the steps, and the porter howled in anger. Before he could say a few words, he was grabbed by the shoulder and said, "You don't have eyes either!" Look at who they are, even if the horse tramples you to death, you have nowhere to reason!"

The porter looked at it fixedly, and saw that the people on the horse were all wearing leather belts around their waists, hanging bells, holding guns, carrying raincoats, and bamboo tubes hanging around their waists, and couldn't help but open their mouths wide: "This is a hurry, what's wrong?"

The so-called step delivery is said to be post, and the horse is delivered to the post. Here's the difference between the post and the post. And the old system of this dynasty inherited the yuan, on the 29th day of the first month of the first year of Hongwu, and at the same time "put all the water, horse stations and delivery stations, express shops", water, horse stations, Hongwu nine years changed to water horse station. Water boats, land cattle, horses, and carts.

The express shop and the water horse post and the delivery station are called the three major institutions of the post station, and the division of responsibilities is different. The water horse post and the delivery station mainly transport cash crops and agricultural and sideline products, transfer military supplies and other materials, and at the same time there are tolerance exchanges, daily affairs are busy, and the load is the heaviest. They rely on means of transportation, mainly horses, donkeys, oxen, carts, and boats.

The task of the express delivery shop is single, the vocational college "official document delivery", and the court documents reach all directions, and the requirements are particularly strict. It must be safe and fast at all times, and all official documents must be delivered according to the ancient law, one hundred minutes a day and a night, a shop every three minutes, and 300 miles in a day and night. However, in the case of official documents to the shop, regardless of the number of corners, it must be delivered immediately, no matter day or night, it must be "delivered immediately", and the bell must not be stranded.

It is very interesting that the shop guards were the first to enter the political envoy department, and then the commander of the envoy and the judge department both received the official letter from the urgent delivery shop, and after a while, the third division came from the howling cry.

At this time, in the palace of King Yan, there was also laughter. In the nave, Zhang Zhaohua walked in with a four-month-old child in his arms, put the child on the bed, lightly untied the swaddling clothes, and let the child babble and wave his hands and feet on the bed.

"Mother," Zhang Zhaohua said cheerfully, "You see that he has a lot of energy, he can kick his legs vigorously, and he can turn over in a while." ”

Princess Xu couldn't help but laugh when she saw her picking up the child and cleaning it like a toy, and when she saw the child's big black eyes looking straight at her, she reached out to stroke him. Brother Chun'er obviously looked like he was in a good mood after eating milk, and he smiled at the princess with only a slight coax, as if he wanted to speak, but his mouth was wide open but there was only a layer of pink and tender gums, and there was not a single tooth.

Brother Chun'er is the name given to the child by Gao Chi, from "Zhuangzi Getaway" - in ancient times, there was a big Chun, with 8,000 years old as spring and 8,000 years old as autumn. It was also agreed between him and Zhang Zhaohua that if he gave birth to a boy, he would be called Chun'er, hoping that he would know the young year, the big year, the morning fungus was obscure, and he would be happy in the spring and autumn. As for the daimyo, there is no one yet, and it will not be until the age of four that the Zongren Mansion will give alms a name.

"Mother, you touch his heel," Gao Chi watched from the side, and suddenly smiled: "Touch it." ”

The princess didn't know what he meant, she reached out and grabbed Brother Chun'er's ankle - but saw Brother Chun'er suddenly snort and whisper, and the two fleshy calves expanded and contracted vigorously, as if they were pedaling a bicycle in the air, swaying up and down, and their eyes actually narrowed into a slit with laughter.

As soon as he grabbed the heel, Brother Chun'er's reaction became particularly keen, and Princess Xu's heart melted, and he couldn't help but kiss him on the face a few times.

"It's funny, I found out a long time ago," Zhang Zhaohua also stretched out two fingers to tease: "He likes this." ”

Well, these two first-time parents have indeed gotten their children all over like treasure hunting.

"You still raise it well," the princess rubbed the child's fleshy calves and said to Zhang Zhaohua: "I'm getting fat, much fatter than when I was just born." ”

In fact, it is the credit of the nursing mother, mainly because Brother Chun can also eat, three nursing mothers take turns for him, and the result is that he can wake up hungry in the middle of the night, in the last two days, Zhang Zhaohua plans to add supplementary food to the child, first get some juice, vegetable juice like this, and then slowly add rice paste and egg custard, which several nursing mothers do not agree.

I don't agree because in the concept of parenting at this time, people and milk are drunk for as long as possible, and some are only weaned at the age of three or four, so the relationship between the nurse and the child is so close and inseparable at this time. So when the three nurses saw Zhang Zhaohua feeding the child juice, they thought that they didn't want their milk, and they were worried one by one.

They didn't think as deeply as Zhang Zhaohua, thinking about how to rely on their brother to develop in the future, that is, they coveted the benefits of the present, because when they became the nurse of their grandsons in the previous life, their husbands also received gifts, exempted from labor, and a lot of rewards.

Zhang Zhaohua saw that Gao Chi had also stayed in the middle hall for a while, so he couldn't help poking his waist and said, "Why don't you go to the front hall, isn't there a banquet there?"

King Yan and all the soldiers feasted and drank in the Cunxin Palace, "I'm sitting there," Gao Chi explained: "I'm afraid everyone is uncomfortable, I asked Gao Xue and Gao Sui to accompany me to drink, and I can drink for a day today." ”

Gao Chi is an Aiwen, which the soldiers under King Yan know that they are used to being coarse in the army, and when they drink to the fullest, all kinds of indecent attitudes will be exposed, and it is okay to face King Yan, but it is too embarrassing to face the prince, but the second prince and the third prince can have fun with a group of rough people, so it is okay to drink.

Gao Chi also knew this, so he simply said that he had drunk too much and avoided the table, so that they could have a good drink. However, Zhang Zhaohua didn't think so: "You asked Gao Xu to accompany you, and you came to the backyard by yourself, and spread it out to make people think, you would rather linger with the women than be with them?"

Gao Chi was silent, and after a while, he changed his clothes and went out, and after half a moment, the child was in trouble, Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly called the nurse to come in to feed, and when she turned around, she saw the person shrinking in the corner, and her heart couldn't help jumping.

This person is Gao Xu's concubine Li, the princess has a cough again in the past few days, and she also came to serve, but she was sent back after a short time, and this time it was the same, the princess sent her back. Zhang Zhaohua usually doesn't see her, I heard that she doesn't even go to the garden, this time I see that she doesn't seem to be thin, and her cheeks seem to have more meat, but she just describes Mu Mu as a dull look, and she doesn't dare to look directly at people.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't know how long she had been sitting in the middle hall, and she didn't know if Gao Chi had seen her, and she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, the princess looked at her and seemed to know her thoughts: "Is a thorn not, I can't spit it out and I can't swallow it." ”

She doesn't think it's a thorn, it can't be a thorn in Gao Chi's heart, the existence of this person reminds her of her indecision, reminds her of the inadequacy of human nature, and also reminds her that people are such inferior nature, and only a saint can do it to others as you would like to do it.

Over there, Gao Chi rushed to the Cunxin Palace, and heard the soldiers of Yanshanwei talking about the great use of troops this autumn, they are now preparing for war, Yanshanwei and King Gu, King Ning, and the soldiers and horses have been reorganized into five armies, and they are pulled to Kaiping for training every day.

For example, Meng Shan and Tan Yuan, who were training foot soldiers in Fangshan, giggled and talked about their training of Gu Wang's foot soldiers. According to the stipulation that "a cavalryman must be good at shooting guns and knives, and an infantry must be good at bows and crossbows", the so-called "crossbow with five out of twelve arrows, can be reached from a distance, can be stretched at 80 paces, rowed a chariot at 150 paces, can be close to the middle, stumbled at 40 paces, rowed at 60 paces", each foot soldier is given 12 arrows, at least five of them must reach a certain distance, the range standard for long-range shooting is 150 paces, and the standard for ordinary sergeants is 80 paces, and close shooting is 60 paces for generals and 40 paces for sergeants.

"Forget about drawing the bow," Tan Yuan drank a bowl of wine and said: "Shoot a crossbow, the foot soldiers under the King of the Valley can't even shoot twenty steps! It is said that it is a newly summoned foot soldier, but in fact, there are also old pawns among them, just as bad! This crossbow is a person's ability, His Royal Highness the King of the Valley does not know how to train soldiers, if you practice under my hands, you can shoot forty steps in less than a month!"

Compared with the crossbow, the bow shoots faster and more flexibly, it is more suitable for throwing, and the arrow is more suitable for flying; good archers are often veterans, because qualified archers are not something that can be practiced overnight, so it is unlikely that they are people who have just touched the weapon, and it is very time-consuming and laborious to train a qualified archer, so among the troops, it can be trained on a large scale is the crossbow shooter, and the advantage of the crossbow is that it can maintain the standby mode, which is more suitable for ambushes, Sniping and guarding the walled city, which is easier to use and thus facilitates large-scale equipment for hastily trained troops.

However, the stability of the crossbow arrow is not as good as that of the bow and arrow, and the soldiers often miss if they can't grasp it, and although this thing has a fast muzzle velocity and strong penetration, the loss of energy is faster, and it is not even as long as the bow and arrow of the same level, so the standard for the same archer is between one hundred and twenty steps and one hundred and sixty steps, and it must be shot within fifty steps, which is very difficult in the eyes of the crossbow archer. So anything, you have to train, Yan Shanwei has practiced a lot, the level of archers and crossbow shooters is high, especially cavalry archery, this thing is not as good as foot archery, some sergeants can still shoot accurately, once they get on the horse and gallop, almost all the arrows have to run away, but now it is said that the training of horse archery goes, it is too late, and the army of the king of the valley who is in one place can only be caught quickly, and the best foot crossbow shooting is given priority.

"The army of the King of the Valley is not good," King Yan looked at him coldly: "How about King Ning's Duoyan Sanwei?"

Tan Yuan suddenly wilted, and said with a sneer in his mouth: "That's the Mongolian cavalry, it's barely considerable......"

King Ning is the domain of Daning. Daning is outside the mouth of Xifeng, the ancient Huizhou land, the east is connected to Liaozuo, the west is connected to Xuanfu, and it is a giant town. King Ning was stationed in ninety cities, just like he said in the song, "80,000 with armor and 6,000 leather carts", and the three cavalry of Duoyan belonged to him, all of whom were brave and good at fighting.

In the twenty-second year of Hongwu, after the Liangguo Gong Lan Yuping Naha came out, the local Mongolian tribes all surrendered, and in February of that year, the King of Yan was ordered to select elite cavalry to inspect Daning, Quanning, along the north and south of the Laoha River, met with the Wuliangha army, tracking and pursuit, at that time the Wuliangha also surrendered or rebelled, until May, the Wuliangha area placed Taining, Fushe, Duoyan Sanwei, with the Yuan Liao King Aza Lili as the commander of Tainingwei, Haisa Nandaxi as the Fu Shewei command Tongzhi, Tulu Kuchaer as Duoyanwei command Tongzhi, at that time the three guards were subordinate to the North Parallel Division, that is to say, in wartime, the King of Yan can directly command the three guards.

So since when was Sanwei, who was regarded as a bag by King Yan, taken away?

In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, when the sixteen-year-old King Ning became the domain of Daning, the emperor immediately assigned the three guards to the king of Ning, and from then on, the three guards of Wuliang Ha were no longer subordinate to Beiping, but belonged to the Ning King of Ning.

Why would my father rather give this excellent three guards to a hairy boy with no experience, rather than to an old and serious vassal king like himself, who has accumulated a lot of experience in marching and fighting?

Yan Wang Zhu Di didn't want to think about it.

When he helped King Ning train two years ago, he once again observed the Wuliang Ha Sanwei under King Ning, and found that these Mongolian cavalry were as brave as ever, and he, the younger brother of King Ning, also had some talent and strategy, which could drive these Mongols to fight. It's just that he is still unwilling, his father took something out of his pocket and subsidized King Ning!

And after the death of his brother of King Qin in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, the emperor actually divided the grassland for the three guards under King Ning again, which provided a place for the swaying Mongolian people to surrender, and the Mongolian cavalry under the brother of King Ning will only increase more and more, so after three or five years, King Ning's armor has been above several other kings such as King Valley, King Liao, and King Dai, among the vassal kings of the domain, except for Qin Jinyan and these three, King Ning's soldiers and horses are the most majestic.

So as soon as King Yan said this, Tan Yuan was speechless.

Chen Qi and Xu Xiang, who went to Kaiping to run horses, said: "This time the horse administration of Kaiping Taifu Temple is very bad, Dingju is said to be only about 100 heads, and the stallions die a lot, I don't know what the reason is, if you want to gather cavalry, you must always transfer horses to Shanxi and Liaodong Horse Ranch, and the King of Liao said that you can transfer 800 horses, and the King of Jin is there——"

At this time, the imperial court implemented the method of combining "official pasture" and "civil pasture", after all, "civil pastoral" is not the main thing, and the official pastor will focus on Jiangbei, Taifu Temple in Beiping, Liaodong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other frontier areas, all set up horse farms, the horse farm on this side of Beiping is in Kaiping, Kaiping is both to the military tun, but also to raise horses, and the horse politics of this Taifu Temple was only last year to become clear, before it was all free-range, now there is a line of Taifu Temple, the control is convenient, but the foundation is too bad, reported in May, that is, the production of horses within a year, the result is said that a batch of stallions died, the number of foals is pitiful, this situation, it is considered that the horse politics of Kaiping this year is finished, can only be from the close Liaodong, Shanxi Xingtaifu Temple to transfer horses, after all, the cavalry of the dynasty has been inferior to the Northern Yuan, so they are anxious, the emperor is also anxious, in the first few edicts, the emperor said: "There are few horses today, and all rely on the infantry." ”

It is said that the king of Liao can transfer horses, but the generals are not very confident about the breed of horses, because Liaodong is close to North Korea, saying that there are 800 horses, in case there are 800 Korean horses, this horse skeleton is short, it is okay to pull grain, and it is really backward on the battlefield, but it is better to have a horse than no horse, otherwise King Yan would not secretly accept the horses of the Korean envoys.

They talked and looked at it, and saw that the king of Yan on the throne did not react, so they said: "The king of Jin is newly mourned, the prince is on the throne, I heard that he is a Sven person, after all, he has not yet practiced the army, this patrol, the emperor did not ask the king of Jin to participate, I don't know if our Royal Highness's letter, can we transfer military horses from Shanxi Racecourse?"

"The emperor ordered our Royal Highness to control the officials and troops," Zhu Neng patted the table and said: "Shanxi soldiers and horses are also in preparation, on the public, the king of Jin dares not to obey the military order? On private affairs, our Royal Highness is his own uncle, not to mention that His Royal Highness is now the Duke of Zhou selected by the emperor for the heir, and in the future, the Duke of Zhou will assist the government, and the world will return to the heart, not to mention the vassal kings of all places, the ministers and ministers of all sizes will listen to our Royal Highness, isn't it?"

The statement "Duke of Zhou" was not blown out by Zhu Neng, but it was really written on the emperor's edict, and seven or eight days ago, King Yan received an edict from the emperor, which said, "When I become a Zhou, the world will be governed." Zhou Gongyu told the king that "Errong soldiers" and did not forget the way of danger. The sons of me, you are the only one who is wise, Qin and Jin have already died, you are really the longest, and you are safe inside and outside, who is not you...... Erqi always led the kings, measured the situation, used the border troubles, laid peace and Li people, answered the heart of heaven, and entrusted me with the meaning of the vice, and did not slack off with his respect. ”

This is a clear statement, King Yan is the eldest son in the actual sense, outside the peace and inside, the total rate of the kings, Kecheng Zhou Gong, assisted by the grandson, as the direct general of the King of Yan, how can we not be sincerely happy, everyone stood up and frequently toasted to the King of Yan, said happy words, and remembered the twenty-three years of Hongwu King Yan surrender is not a matter of flowers, at that time they followed the King of Yan Xue night to spend the capital, in one fell swoop, this great victory shook the government and the opposition, because it was the first time the vassal king went out to win a big victory, and the King of Jin who went with him returned with nothing, the King of Qin was located in the West Qin, in fact, it was useless in the military operation against Beidi, his greatest achievement was the first month of the twenty-eighth year, the rebellion in Taozhou, the fear and surrender, and to be honest, the king of Qin, the vassal king, is because the king of Qin is the oldest among the sons except the prince, so he became the king of Qin, which is clearly written in the emperor's book to the king of Qin: "Erer is older, and the first seal is in Qin."

King Qin was not the eldest son that the emperor expected, he had some illegal things in the vassal country, and the emperor even sent Prince Xianyiwen to investigate, and all the faults of King Qin were actually not worth the fact that the prince died soon after returning from Shaanxi. This is why the emperor gave him such a nickname as "Sorrow", saying that he was not good at morality and died of a seizure.

King Qin taught the emperor to be disappointed, but there is also the King of Jin, the King of Jin is indeed the emperor's favorite son, and the appearance is dignified, the eyes are beautiful, the look is powerful, and he is also a wise and strategic person, just went to the country for a few years, arrogant and lawless, but after following the prince back to Beijing, he changed his temperament and treated people with courtesy, although the results in the use of soldiers were not as good as the King of Yan, but he was also obedient, and he was willing to listen to what the emperor said. Therefore, after the king of Jin died, the emperor gave a much better book than the king of Qin, "the one died forever due to illness, and he obeyed the classics and gave him a tribute."

After the death of the two kings of Qin and Jin, King Yan became the longest among the kings, and the titles of the three kings were descended in turn, that is to say, the emperor and the ministers thought that the title and fief of King Qin was the most respectable, followed by King Jin, and then King Yan.

The reason is very simple: Chang'an, as the capital, is not good, why did the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty build their capitals here? This is a fief, and in terms of title, the King of Qin is actually slightly inferior to the King of Jin. Because the title of King of Jin is the largest principality in the Spring and Autumn Period, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the south called itself a barbarian, the Qin State was not yet strong, and the countries respected the Jin, and the title of King Qin was noble because in addition to unifying the world was the Qin foreign country, but also because the Tang Dynasty produced a famous Qin King Li Shimin, so it was respected.

But it is said that Jin is not as good as Qin, because the land of Shanxi has not been built, so it is inferior.

So according to this statement, the fourth Zhu Di should actually be the king of Qi or the king of Chu, because the four titles of Qin, Jin, Qi and Chu are the most noble, but the emperor gave the king of Qi and the king of Chu to the sixth and seventh, and Zhu Di was named the king of Yan.

What should you think of the title of "King Yan"?

First of all, let's look at this place in Beiping, Yandu is located in Xiongyao, the north leans on the mountain, and the south presses the area in summer. Juyong, Gubei, Songting Zhuguan, east and west thousands of miles, precipitously connected, especially easy to guard.

The land of Youyan is the capital of the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, since the Hu people took advantage of the fortune and prospered, the political and geographical situation of the country has undergone major changes in the past hundred years, if the northwest and northeast of the Guanwai are connected together, Beiping is very important. In the twenty years of war with the Northern Yuan, although the Northern Yuan forces withdrew from the Saiwai and successively took Shangdu and Yingchang as the center, these places were still close to Beiping, and the Mongolian people did not die, and still wanted to attack the Central Plains in the south. And the king of Yan did not bear the heavy responsibility, assumed the responsibility of defense and initiative, Hongwu twenty-three years fought a very beautiful war, and in the end they were recruited troops, also received a rich reward - that year the emperor ordered to reward more than 24,660 soldiers of Beiping and Yanshan Wei 720,675 ingots, in order to motivate them to fight more bravely, the emperor even ordered the household to transport 100,000 taels of platinum, Wenqi 5,000 to the palace of the king of Yan, dedicated to the reward in the future.

Therefore, all the generals have a clear understanding that there will be meat to eat if they follow King Yan, and they look forward to following King Yan to establish greater feats, and King Yan in addition to clear rewards and punishments, but also loves nurses, generals, officers and soldiers from top to bottom, are willing to die for King Yan.

Just as the generals were smiling and drinking, a captain suddenly rushed in from the Duanli Gate:

"Your Majesty, Yan is driving! Your Majesty, Yan is driving—"

Suddenly like a thunderclap on the ground, everyone in the hall was stunned, only the sound of a cup falling to the ground, and Yan Wang, who was sitting on the main seat, even turned over with a chair on the ground, frightened the horse and Li Xing behind him, hurriedly went over to help, and helped him up, only to see that Yan Wang had just knocked his left sideburns, and blood flowed out immediately.

Gao Chi's mind was also blank, he couldn't help but stumble a few steps when he stood up, he saw that the messenger was the pawn of the urgent delivery shop, and then the official announcement of the Quartet of the edict envoy will announce the edict, and the edict envoy arrived in Beiping after a day, and the people in the palace listened to and read the edict of the Daxing Emperor in front of the carrier hall:

I have been in the Mandate of Heaven for 30 years, and I have been anxious and diligent, and I have been diligent every day to benefit the people. Nai comes from a humble beginning, without the wisdom of the ancients, good and evil, not too much. There is one in seventy this year, the strength is weak, the day and night are in danger, and the fear will not end. Now we have the natural principle of all things, and there is a sense of ridicule and sorrow.

The emperor's grandson Yunwen is filial piety, the world is in the heart, and it is appropriate to ascend to the throne. Internal and external civil and military ministers work together to assist the government to benefit our people. Funeral rituals, no gold and jade. Announce to the world, it is appropriate to ascend to the throne, so that you know your intentions. The mountains and rivers of Xiaoling are not changed because of this. The subjects of the world, crying for three days, are all relieved, and there is no harm in marrying. The kings are in the kingdom, and they do not go to the capital. Where the kingdom is located, the civil and military officials listen to the control of the court, but the guards and soldiers listen to the king. Those who are not in the order will be pushed to do so.