Li Quanzhong led Sun Wanrong, Li Kaigu and Li to lose life and sent Lu Xiaoxian out of the tent.

Lu Xiaoxian felt extremely relaxed and happy, and his steps seemed to be extremely light. Needless to ask, he had a smooth conversation with Li Qianzhong.

Before coming to Songmo, Lu Xiaoxian's biggest concern was that Li Quanzhong had reached an agreement with the Turks, and now it seems that his worries are a little redundant.

At this moment, Li Qianzhong and the previous judgment were like two people, and the wrinkles on their faces were stretched, like blooming petals, and each wrinkle was full of smiles.

"Master Lu, it's not easy for you to come here, you must stay for a few more days, I'll let you walk around with you!" Speaking of this, Li Qianzhong turned his head and instructed Li Shihuo, "The Khitan people pay attention to the distinction between grievances and grievances, Lu Gongzi has helped us a lot, and he is our Khitan honored guest, you must accompany Lu Gongzi well, if you neglect the distinguished guest, be careful that I whip you with a horsewhip!" Do you understand? ”

Seeing Li Qianzhong's serious face, Li Yanhuo hurriedly responded: "Father, please rest assured, I will definitely satisfy Gongzi Lu!" ”

"Governor Li, please stay!" Lu Xiaoxian waved at Li Quanzhong, "It's just that I want to know ...... this falconer master."

Li Qianzhong smiled and said: "Although Gongzi Lu can rest assured, if there is a loss of life, he will arrange it!" ”

"Then thank you Li Dudu!"

Seeing that Li lost life and left with Lu Xiaoxian, Li Quanzhong, Sun Wanrong and Li Kaigu returned to the big tent again.

The three of them sat down again, and Sun Wanrong couldn't wait to ask, "Chief, is what he said reliable?" ”

Li Quanzhong pondered for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, but you can give it a try!" In any case, if this becomes a big problem that can solve us, even if it can't be done, we have nothing to lose! ”

"Chief, we have to be careful of falling for him!" Sun Wanrong muttered, "Don't say anything else, for such a big thing as training in the city in advance, how can he talk about Zhao Wenhui because he is not familiar with his life?" Also, how could he conclude that the Great Zhou Imperial Court's disaster relief decree would arrive in Yingzhou within half a month? ”

Li Qianzhong glanced at Sun Wanrong: "You also heard it just now, his senior brother Xie Yunxuan is now in the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion, Xie Yunxuan will persuade Zhao Wenhui to agree to train in the city in advance!" ”

When Zhao Wenhui greeted Du Yu, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, Li Qianzhong was also listed at that time, and he had seen Xie Yunxuan. When Lu Xiaoxian mentioned Xie Yunxuan just now, Li Qianzhong was still somewhat impressed.

Li Kaigu nodded on the side and agreed: "I heard that this Xie Yunxuan is a celebrity in front of King Wu Sansi of Liang, and Zhao Wenhui was promoted by Wu Sansi to be the governor of Yingzhou, if Xie Yunxuan is willing to come forward, this matter should not be wrong!" As for the holy decree of the imperial court, I think it shouldn't be difficult for Wu Sansi to come forward! ”

What else did Sun Wanrong say, Li Qianzhong waved his hand and said, "Brother Wanrong, I know you are not at ease, so I will invite him to stay in the Song Desert for some time, let's wait and see, if everything is really as he said, then he is our Khitan guest, if he is talking nonsense, I also know what to do!" ”

"Chief!" Li Kaigu pondered, "Whether it is training by the city or disaster relief by the imperial court, it can only solve the immediate difficulties. I think what Lu Gongzi said makes sense, if we want to really solve the problem, we have to open the trade routes of the desert to the outside world, as long as we can continuously transport food in, even if there are any natural disasters in the future, we have a way to deal with it! Since Fan Chong is willing to come forward, we also have to find a suitable candidate in advance, prepare the livestock for trading, and cooperate with the transportation of grain! ”

"General Li, don't think things too simply!" Sun Wanrong snorted coldly and said, "It's true that Fan Chong is the richest man in Yingzhou, but why should he help us, what is needed to transport grain is not a few thousand taels or tens of thousands of taels of silver, maybe hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver." If it were you, would you do it for nothing? ”

Li Kaigu retorted: "I don't know why Fan Chong wants to help us, but he can send his only son to the deed."

Dan comes, we should believe in him. Sun Dashuai, if it were you, would you give your son away? ”

As soon as he heard this, Sun Wanrong was speechless.

Li Qianzhong nodded slightly and said, "This matter would rather be believed than not believed." In any case, cooperating with Lu Xiaoxian is much stronger than cooperating with the Turks! That valley of lust is simply disgusting......"

Speaking of this, Li Qianzhong glanced at Sun Wanrong, "You confiscated the jade deer that Lust Valley brought last time, right?" ”

Just now, listening to Lu Xiaoxian talk about the theft of the jade deer in Tunyu Valley, Li Quanzhong couldn't help but let out a cold sweat.

The jade deer is a birthday gift that Zhao Wenhui intends to give to Wu Sansi, and the valley of desire steals the jade deer and gives it to Li Quanzhong as a meeting gift, which is obviously to bring disaster to the Khitan, in order to instigate the relationship between Zhao Wenhui and Li Quanzhong, but fortunately Li Quanzhong did not accept the jade deer.

Listening to Li Qianzhong's question, Sun Wanrong was also shocked, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Leader, you didn't accept it, how dare I accept it!" ”

Li Kaigu glanced at Sun Wanrong and did not speak.

At that time, in Sun Wanrong's tent, Li Kaigu and Li Fuhuo had seen the jade deer, which showed that he was lying at the moment. It's just that Yulu was later deactivated by Li and asked to leave. Because this matter involved Li Yanhuo, Li Kaigu did not expose Sun Wanrong's lies.

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Li Shihuo originally looked down on these gentlemen in Yingzhou City, but Lu Xiaoxian came to Songmo in person regardless of his previous suspicions this time to solve the big trouble for the Khitan, which made Li Shihuo's impression of him change greatly. Coupled with Li Quanzhong's repeated admonitions, Li was both polite and enthusiastic to Lu Xiaoxian and Fan Ziming.

Under the guidance of Li Fuhuo, Lu Xiaoxian and Fan Ziming came to a dilapidated tent.

After entering the tent, Li Shihuo saluted an old man and said, "Master Daman, hello, long time no see!" ”

It can be seen that Li Yanhuo has a lot of respect for the old man.

He is over half a hundred years old, with a weather-beaten face and two deep-set eyes, deep and bright, and looks very divine.

"It's inactive! What are you doing here? Daman replied to Li Fuhuo.

"The leader asked me to bring a distinguished guest!"

Li Qianzhong introduced Lu Xiaoxian and Fan Ziming to Daman, and then pointed to Daman and said to the two of them: "Master Daman is the best falconer in Khitan, and all the eagles trained by him are superb!" Fan Gongzi can learn falconry from Master Daman in the future! ”

Da Man glanced at the lame eagle on Fan Ziming's shoulder, shook his head and said to himself: "This eagle has a good skeleton, if it weren't for the injury, if it was not domesticated, maybe it would be a good eagle!" ”

Seeing that Daman seemed to be very disdainful of the lame eagle, Fan Ziming hurriedly said: "Master Daman, take a good look at it, although it has been injured, it is really a good eagle!" Don't believe it! ”

After that, Fan Ziming muttered a few words to the lame eagle.

The lame eagle flew off Fan Ziming's shoulder and soared straight into the sky.

After a while, it grabbed a pheasant, threw it in front of Fan Ziming, and then landed on Fan Ziming's shoulder.

Da Man looked at Fan Ziming and asked, "Hou Sheng, have you ever studied falconry?" ”

"Nope!" Fan Ziming shook his head, "However, it can understand me!" ”

Daman nodded and praised Fan Ziming: "Yes, you have a great talent for falconry!" ”

Fan Ziming asked expectantly: "Master Daman, then do you say that the lame eagle is a good eagle!" ”

"It's not a good eagle!" Daman shook his head, "Although this eagle can understand your commands, its eyes are sharp and domineering, and I am afraid you will not be able to control it after a long time!" ”

Seeing that Fan Ziming was still a little confused, Da Man smiled: "I'll give you an example, you will understand!" Falconry hunting is the same as training an army to fight a war, only a well-trained soldier in peacetime will order and prohibit it when fighting, and it can be under the command of a general

Win the battle! In the same way, your relationship with the eagle is like that of a general and a soldier. It can listen to you now, but it still needs to be trained. Otherwise, one day in the future, it will suddenly not listen to your orders, what should you do? ”

The simple falcon was said to be so reasonable, this Daman is really not simple, so that Lu Xiaoxian can't help but admire.

Fan Ziming couldn't help nodding, Daman was right, although the lame eagle listened to him now, but one day in the future he would be disobedient, he only had a dry stare, it seems that the eagle that has not been domesticated is still unreliable.

Lu Xiaoxian asked curiously: "Master Daman, is falconry very complicated?" ”

Daman said lightly: "Falconry is complicated and complicated, and it is simple to say, this is the experience passed down from generation to generation......"

Maybe because Lu Xiaoxian was the leader's guest, or maybe he was very satisfied with Fan Ziming's apprentice, Daman didn't hide his secrets, and introduced the process of falconry to them in detail.

The Khitan falconry is very distinctive, and it is roughly divided into several steps: "fighting eagles", "boiling eagles", "making eagles" and "hungry eagles".

"Fighting the eagle" is to fight the wild nature of the eagle. The freshly caught eagle fluttered up and down, refusing to give in, and had to be beaten violently with a special whip, so that it could not stop screaming, and its scales and feathers flew all over it. Until he heard his master's command, he obediently flew on the scaffolding, and did not dare to move.

"Boiling the eagle" is the second step, which is to make the eagle further obey the master's orders. To put it bluntly, it is to let the eagle not sleep. In the early hours of the morning, when the eagle's wildness is at its strongest, it is necessary to tie the eagle to the eagle pestle at that time, grind it, boil it, do not let it sleep for several days, and grind its wildness off little by little.

"Troubled eagle" is to let the eagle eliminate distracting thoughts, be as quiet as a virgin, and only have prey in mind. A dozen large drums should be used to spread out in the eagle room, beat the drums loudly, and give orders while beating the drums. Until the eagle drooped its head and turned a deaf ear to the sounds of the outside world, and did not even react to people walking in front of them.

The "hungry eagle" is to strangle the fat of the eagle and strengthen its muscles, so that it can be as light as a swallow and fly high for nine days. Use starvation to make the eagle slowly obey the master's command, but it must be noted that the eagle cannot go on a hunger strike for more than nine days.

After seven or eight days, the eagle is to be "opened" for food, and a live sparrow is used to tease it, and the eagle is summoned to catch it again and again from the eagle's pestle." Then the eagle is taken outdoors, still teasing the eagle with food, so that the eagle glides on the man's arm along a long rope from a distance. Finally, remove the rope, put the eagle on the tree, and call it from a distance.

After these steps, the eagle can listen to the call and fly back to its owner from the mountain. The raw eagle becomes a mature eagle, showing "deaf hair and claws, a head saisong tower, and eyes like sesame." ", indicating that the eagle has been tamed.

Lu Xiaoxian listened with relish, they didn't expect that there were so many ways to falconry.

Especially Fan Ziming, his eyes lit up when he listened, as if he had found a treasure, and he said with admiration: "Master Daman, you know so much, I will definitely learn the skills of falconry from you in the future!" ”

"Afterlife! You haven't learned how to be a falcon, but you can make the eagle listen to you! It's really not easy! You must know that falconry also needs talent, over the years, I have also taught a lot of apprentices, none of them satisfied me, I hope you will not let me down! Da Man's eyes were blazing, "Including humans, all animals in this world have feelings. This eagle listens to you, which means that it has a relationship with you! The method I just mentioned, while very useful for falcon hunting, ignores how to build a bond between the eagle and its owner! If you can learn the ability to falconry, and use love to falcon in the future, your achievements will be limitless! ”

Fan Ziming nodded solemnly and said, "Thank you Master Daman for your teachings!" I remember everything you said! I won't let you down! ”

Lu Xiaoxian asked on the side, "Master Daman, is there an eagle that has been tamed, let us see and understand?" ”

"Absolutely! Please follow me! ”