Seeing that Zhang Yun couldn't help but move the knife, Li Chengqian hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, it's not like nothing happened, as for such a big battle." ”

Zhang Yun said with red eyes: "Your Highness, no matter what happens this time, you must listen to the arrangement of the slave and maid, you are a daughter, and you are obviously accompanied by a large army when you travel, why do you have to be so casual?" ”

There was no way to argue with Zhang Yun, when he just left the city, he felt that the army occupied too much area of the road and would obstruct pedestrians, so he ordered the team to walk a long snake, which is why the number of people on his left and right directions was so scarce.

It's just that if nothing happens, now that something has happened, I can only let Zhang Yun arrange it.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, but don't just blame people for the crime of assassination. Dodge away, and come in for a lonely one. ”

Walking past Zhang Yun, Li Chengqian said helplessly: "I didn't expect such a thing to happen, Ying Guogong, why did a teapot fly out of your carriage?" Stand up and speak clearly, otherwise, today's events would not be like this. ”

Under Zhang Yun's fierce gaze, the warrior got up in embarrassment, and gave up his hand again and again: "Your Highness, in fact, it was the little girl in the family who quarreled with Weichen, and she threw the teapot out in anger, who would have thought that it would disturb Your Highness." ”

After speaking, the samurai Yan turned behind him and said sharply, "Evil barrier! Why don't you hurry up and ask Your Highness for guilt? ”

Following the line of sight of the samurai, I saw that there was a beautiful woman and two children, one older and one young, kneeling on the ground at this time, the eldest was eight or nine years old, and the younger was only three or four years old.

They are all children, but the difference is that they are trembling, tears have already flowed out, and one hand timidly pinched the corner of the mother's clothes next to him. The small one is stubborn.

This is probably the female emperor Wu Zetian who will dominate in the future!

couldn't help squatting down, Li Chengqian was ready to take a look at the little girl with mixed reviews in the history books.

"You're the crown prince?"

Unlike her sister, the little girl didn't mean to be scared at all. It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and today I have seen it.

However, now she can't see anything special, if she has to describe it, she is more like a bear child.

"Yes, I'm the prince, do you know that the teapot you just threw out burned my horse?"

"Didn't it just burn your horse, and it didn't burn you, I'll ask my father to buy you a good horse again!"

The warrior was about to reprimand, but Li Chengqian stretched out his hand and signaled him to shut up.

"That's not what I said, little girl, there is a chain reaction when things happen. You see these guys with knives, they are angry not that the horse is burned, but that what could happen. Think about it, if my horse startles and throws me, what will happen to you? ”

Hearing this, the little girl couldn't help but lower her head. At her current age, she still doesn't understand the ripple effect of things. She simply thought that she had just burned a horse.

Childhood is an important period for the formation of values of right and wrong. The current little girl has not experienced those dark things, so she has not planted dark seeds in her heart.

When she was in power, after killing the clansmen and killing the Li family, and even setting up an organization like the Magistrate's House, it was not unrelated to her experience before entering the palace.

Although he really wanted to intervene in her life, he had no reason to intervene at this moment.

Pinching the face of the future female emperor, Li Chengqian got up and asked Wu Shiyan: "What is the name of this girl?" ”

Wu Shiyan immediately replied: "Back to Your Highness, this child was born in his hometown in Bingzhou, and in the past two years, Xia Guan has not returned home in office, so he has not named this child, until today, the domestic servants sent their mother and daughter to Chang'an, and Xia Guan went out of the city this time to pick them up." ”

Nodding and instructing the guards to put away the knives, Li Chengqian said: "Since it was an unintentional mistake, Lone will not care about you, but you must apologize for your mistake this time." Lone is going to leave Chang'an City for a few days, how to apologize, you can weigh it yourself. ”

Weigh it yourself?

The samurai immediately frowned, as if he asked what to eat and replied casually, how to weigh it himself? How much is appropriate?

Ignoring the samurai and changing to a horse, Li Chengqian ordered the team to move on.

"Your Highness, just let him go?"

Zhang Yun was very dissatisfied, the prince was in danger again, but he did not protect it well, and it hit him hard. The road is more than five meters wide, and he is stunned that he needs to have more than three riders on the left and right to protect it.

"Don't let it go, Zhang Yun, don't be too nervous, act like everyone is an assassin. Thinking about it carefully, except for the Wang family, it seems that he has never dealt with anyone, and he has not formed too much grudges. ”

Feng Ang laughed and said: "A monarch should have some courage, and the old man thinks that His Highness's move is good." At least, this martial artist has returned to His Highness. ”

Li Chengqian could only smile awkwardly, whether it was a scene at the banquet or now, but he naturally felt that he should do this. As for Feng An's willingness to understand that it is to buy people's hearts, then understand it like this!

It belongs to the horse farm of Qin, not far from Weishui, and when it passed through the fork in the road, a team of guards of the forbidden army had already sent Ashina Helu over.

This forbidden army was arranged by the emperor by Helu's side, and was not only responsible for guarding him, but also responsible for protecting him. As for whether or not to send Helu back, he didn't show his words.

Seeing her younger brother, Ashina Xue, who was originally following Li Chengqian, couldn't be rude, so she drove her horse and ran quickly, and the sister and brother jumped off the horse and hugged each other excitedly, and quickly said something in Turkic.

"Your Highness, the side concubine asked him how he was doing, and he replied that he was very happy."

The tongue man who knew the Turkic language was immediately on the side to translate.

Picking up Helu, this time the army of the beasts is considered to have been assembled.

The villages infested by wild beasts are very close to the Qinling Mountains, and many of them are homeless people who have left the mountains to settle down. They had been fighting wild beasts in the mountains, so they were able to resist and there were not many casualties.

When you go out of the mountains and settle down, you must abide by the rules and regulations of the imperial court, and you can't fence the village with timber and make it look like a bandit cottage.

Qinling is really the world of wild beasts at this time, and the wildlife protection law of later generations has no market in Datang, not to mention wild boars, even tigers, which should be killed and killed. If you kill them, you will eliminate harm for the people, and if you don't kill them, it will be a dereliction of duty on the part of the government.

Zhou Jizhi, the county commander of Wannian County, has been waiting in the village for a long time, although there is no remuneration in the order of the military department, but he still brought some food as a thank you gift, thanking the prince for his personal dispatch.

"Lao Zhou, compared with He Shou, what you do is less than that taste of righteousness and brightness. Since Lone has come with his own soldiers, why do you still accept your gifts? Sending food back is not a shame for people. ”

Zhou Jizhi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "The lower officials know that this is wrong, but this is not called by the lower officials, but sent by the villagers themselves." The original double tax was thought by His Majesty to be the reason for the emperor to pray for blessings, but it was changed to no tax for three years, although they only came out of the mountain, but these homeless people soon lived a good life. This is a piece of the hearts of the villagers, and Weichen thinks it is better for you to accept it. ”

Looking at the people who poked their heads out of the doors, but with a smile on their faces, Li Chengqian smiled, and then ordered the military Sima to count and accept it.

The village chief of this village is called Fang Dashan, who is also from a homeless background, although his arms are hanging, but judging from the fact that he is wearing a tiger skin, he knows that he is a great guy.

"Your Highness, if it were only one or two wild boars, the grass people would not dare to bother the imperial court, but the recent attacks on the village are tigers and other fierce beasts, and the grass people organized the villagers to go into the mountains to see together, and killed a tiger, but they also injured seven or eight men. There was really no choice but to count on the army to be dispatched. ”

"Lots of tigers?"

"It is estimated that there are more than three or five in the nearby mountains and forests, and every year the lower officials have to organize the people to beat gongs and drums and set fire to drive them back to the mountains, but this year I don't know what happened, I rushed them, but it had no effect, and they will come back in a day or two."

Feng Ang interjected on the side and said: "These fierce beasts have their own mountains, the weak can't beat the strong, the old can't beat the strong, so they can only give up their territory." The beasts that were forced out of the mountains had no way to survive except to attack people. ”

Li Chengqian nodded, looked at the mountains and forests in front of the village, and felt the insignificance of man in front of nature for the first time.

At this time in the Tang Dynasty, people had not completely conquered Lin Mang, and later generations had to go to the heavens and the earth to seek living space, but here, they still had to fight against wild beasts.

Reaching out and touching the tiger skin on Fang Dashan's body, especially the huge claws, Li Chengqian wondered if Wu Song had killed a little tiger. Is this really something that people can deal with with their bare hands?

"Your Highness, if you like it, I will give it to you, this is what I am going to give to the royal family, thank you to the royal family for giving me a way to live."

Fang Dashan's words were sincere, when he first came out of the mountain, he was still worried about carrying double taxes, when would he be able to get through, who thought of His Majesty the Emperor's words, they removed their taxes, and they were exempt from taxes for three years, which allowed them to accumulate a lot of belongings. Recalling the hard days of earning his life in Qin Ling, he realized that he was living a life now.

"Since it is the will of the people, then Gu accepted it on behalf of his father."

Stretched out his hand to take the tiger skin, turned around and handed it to Zhang Yun for safekeeping.

The emperor will definitely accept the tiger skin, after all, this is a proof that he is deeply loved by the people. Although Fang Dashan and they were just repaying their kindness, they didn't know that the emperor was happy, and what followed was a rich reward.

After stationing around a courtyard that Fang Dashan had specially cleared, Li Chengqian decided to take a team of men and horses to spy on the situation first.

Obviously, it was only a dozen people who could do the work, but because he had to go by himself, it became a large team of 200 people.

Feng Ang took the lead, controlling the horse with one hand, holding a bow in his left hand, and when he passed by a wood, he shot down a pheasant that had just taken off with an arrow.

The skill of archery has reached his level, and he can really be called an archer. Because it is obviously a person's technical performance, but its effect has gone beyond the scope of understanding in the eyes of others.

"Feng Gong's archery skills are really superb, but you promised to teach Lone archery, and then you regretted it, what's going on."

One sentence made Feng Ang ashamed: "Your Highness, don't be surprised, the Feng family lived in Lingnan at the time, although there are some ancient books, but they are not as detailed as those in the Central Plains." The old man coveted the Han classics, and although he became the head of the family, he was only literate. The college is a good place to teach and educate people, and since you can't stay in Chang'an for too long, you naturally have to hurry up. His Royal Highness's talent is very good, and the rest is just to accumulate experience, how much can the old man teach? ”

During the conversation, another pheasant took off in the grass, and Li Chengqian opened his bow and shot arrows without thinking about it. I don't know where the arrow has gone, but the pheasant is still taking off. Unwilling to embarrass the prince, more than a hundred arrows flew out. There is no shortage of skilled archery in the team, and the pheasants that take off halfway immediately become hedgehogs.

Le Ma stopped, Li Chengqian pointed at the pheasant speechlessly and said, "Bastard, more than a hundred arrows are wasted like this?" Pick it up for Lonely! ”

Two people were left to pick up arrows, and the rest of the people, including Li Chengqian, dismounted and changed to walking. Further on is the foot of the mountain, riding a horse up the mountain is easy to hurt the horse's hooves, and people who love horses will not do this, and he is no exception to the crown prince. You must know that in the army, the general's war horse is better than the treatment of the concubine in the family.

After only a few steps inside, I saw the remains of a goat.

Looking at the remains of the goat, Zhang Yun said with certainty: "This must have been done by the tiger, the blood is still warm, and it is estimated that it has not gone far." Your Highness, don't leave the group. ”

Li Chengqian naturally nodded again and again, a fool only did it against the tiger, although he was wearing armor, and he also felt that his martial arts were already good, but he still felt that it was impossible to deal with the tiger.

The tiger's footprints can still be seen on the ground, but unfortunately I didn't bring black charcoal this time, otherwise I don't need to look at the footprints, and I can find out the tiger's location by following the taste.

More than 200 people immediately unsheathed their knives and looked around vigilantly.

Not long after I went deeper, I saw a cave.

Looking at the bloodstains at the entrance of the cave, Zhang Yun nodded definitely: "This is it, prepare to go in!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chengqian gave him a kick: "Idiot, the entrance to the cave is so narrow, you can barely let two people walk side by side, do you think one or two can deal with tigers?" ”

Feng Ang laughed and said: "Sure enough, His Highness is still careful, it is true, there is no big mistake in being careful." ”

waved his hand to call the monkey, and handed the fire fold in his hand into his hand.

As one of the fastest runners in the prince's ranks, the Sky Monkey is the most suitable person for this kind of dangerous work.

A pile of dried leaves, when lit and covered with wet leaves, smoke immediately appeared.

The direction of the wind in the mountains changed from left to right, but because the fire was at the entrance of the cave, the smoke still entered smoothly.

It didn't take long for a large, slender creature to emerge from the cave, looking around vigilantly, and it found itself surrounded by a group of two-legged and iron-clad monkeys.

Seeing the black spots on the yellow background, Li Chengqian was puzzled for a while, doesn't the leopard live on the African savannah? Why does Qinling also have it?

More than 200 people had already surrounded the entrance to the cave, and when they saw a leopard instead of a tiger, everyone sighed. Tigers are difficult to deal with, leopards, if you want a good skin, you can't kill them, after all, this thing can run fast and can go up trees.

"Kill it, be careful not to damage this skin!"

Seeing the desire of His Royal Highness the Prince, Zhang Yun ordered to go down.

Army hunting is actually very boring, relying on the sharpness of the armor, many people simply throw away the horizontal knife and put it on with their bare hands.

Only then did Li Chengqian remember that he didn't know which woman seemed to have killed a leopard, and there were leopards on Chinese soil, and the battle had already ended over there.

The guy who can kill a woman on top is naturally not a problem for these cattle-like soldiers.

"Your Highness, fortunately, the leopard skin was left behind."

Li Chengqian nodded, and prepared to lead the team back.

The appearance of the leopard shows that the natural counterattack has persecuted the villages here.

If human beings want to stand on this land and live a stable life, they must create and kill, whether it is a beast or a plant, it is an obstacle to human reproduction.

I just don't know if human beings will think like this in another one or two thousand years.

When I got back to the place where the horses were tied at the foot of the mountain, I heard the neighing of the horses.

Anxiously rushed over, only to find that it was the wolves who attacked the war horse. How can a horse that is tied to a tree resist? So in a short time, four or five horses were already lost.

"Evil beast!"

Feng Ang roared angrily, and then took a bow and shot arrows.

Li Chengqian naturally followed closely.

More than 200 people shoot arrows, but they can barely create the feeling of a rain of arrows, there is no need to aim, as long as they shoot arrows in that direction, there will always be unlucky wolves who will be shot.

Just two waves of arrows rained, and the wolves suffered heavy losses, and many of them were hit by arrows in the buttocks, screaming and running away with arrows.

After glancing at the unlucky horses, Li Chengqian found that the homeless people were already very tolerant.

If this was in the future generations, the poor households would not have settled in such a place anyway, but the people here did not ask the court for help until they could no longer resist on their own.

"Go back! Clean up the surroundings of the village from today and not a single beast will be left behind! Since beating gongs and drums can't drive them away, let's kill them! ”

Clearly feeling the prince's anger, the soldiers knelt down on one knee to receive the order. As for the few people whose BMW was plagued by wolves, they were even crying out in tears to kill all the wild wolves.

At this time, the price of a horse is the same as that of a car in later generations, that is, an old horse, and it has to start with five dollars. As for the handsome BMW, it costs at least three or five hundred yuan. Although the war horses at the rate of the pro were brought back directly from the grassland by the caravan, and there was no middleman to make the difference, the loss of the four horses was almost two or three hundred thousand yuan.

Stretching out his hand to pat a few crying soldiers, Li Chengqian said: "It's okay, we have a horse farm, just choose another one if we don't have it." You are Lone's own soldiers, and Lone can still make you pay out of your own pocket! ”