Pingyi County, Qike County (now Bijie, Guizhou), the official residence of the governor of the capital

Elegant Room

At this moment, Li Hui, the governor of the capital and the assassin of Jiaozhou, is holding a banquet to entertain his guests, Shang Shulang Du Zhen and ............ Van Polo, the prince of Funan.

Li Hui's face was full of red light, he held the wine bottle high, and invited in a loud voice: "Du Jun, His Royal Highness the Prince, come, please drink this bottle!" ”

After speaking, Li Hui covered his face with his sleeve with his left hand, handed the wine bottle to his mouth with his right hand, and leaned back gently...... A full bottle of wine slid into my throat in an instant.

Holding the wine bottle at the same time, Du Zhen's face was also filled with a cheerful smile...... Compared with before the southward journey, he is darker and thinner, but he is also more energetic and mature, acting kindly, generously and without flattery, and exuding the atmosphere of a mature man in his gestures.

Although Fan Polo, the prince of Funan, did not understand the Yayan spoken by Li Hui (Mandarin at that time), he could also know that it meant drinking alcohol by looking at his gestures, but barbaric and uncivilized people were much more vulgar and rude.

Open your mouth, tilt your neck again, pick up the wine bottle and pour the wine into your mouth, and then wipe the remaining wine residue from the stubble with your teeth and claws.

Li Hui looked at Fan Polo, the prince of Funan, who was not tall, black, thin and scorched, with rings on his ears and nose, and he was very disgusted by his vulgar and rude behavior, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.

This is the living Nanban Shengfan, the performance of the King of Mu is just like this, this time the King of Funan sent an envoy to the court to pay tribute, it is the Holy Son of Heaven in the court...... A good proof of Hu Yi's admiration and heart to the Han from afar.

At first, Li Hui was very dissatisfied when he heard that the emperor had sent a young Du Zhen to lead a group of people to the south...... Isn't this an idle egg hurting and having fun!

It is still reasonable for you to comfort the counties of Nanzhong, after all, it is a place under the rule of the Son of Heaven, but you ran to the south of Nanzhong to comfort people...... I rub ...... Where did you get the courage and self-confidence?!

The Far South has never been my homeland of China, and its people are not the people of Zhuxia, so are you sure that when the angel arrives, the first thought that comes to the mind of the barbarians of that place is to be comforted rather than to be eaten alive?

However, the facts surprised Li Hui, after Du Zhen led Taichang, Shang Shutai and Sergeant Youyulin and other people into the depths of the rainforest, he really succeeded in fooling the king of Funan, at least he sent his son to the court and contributed things.

The south is far away, and the entire Governor's Mansion is honored!

In the face of Li Hui's change of attitude, Du Zhen's heart is also full of complexity, Li Hui only sees the glory of success, but he can't see the sadness and pain behind it.

When I first entered the rainforest, the unfamiliar geography, climate and environment, the miasma and malaria land, and the people in the mission continued to die of dampness and fever, and the adjutants sent by the Shangshutai and Taichang government offices fell into the rainforest.

Fortunately, Du Zhen finally found his way to this country and arrived in his capital, Gu Tuoluo, where he successfully met the reigning King of Funan, Fan Zhan.

I don't want to have people in his country who speak the same language, seeing the clothes of Du Zhen and his party, and asking Du Zhen if he is from Wu. This surprised Du Zhen, and after some inquiry, he learned that ...... It turned out that Fan Zhan had sent an envoy to Eastern Wu to pay tribute, and Sun Quan, the king of Wu, also sent Zhonglang Kangtai and Xuanhua to engage in Zhu Ying's return visit to Funan, and the two sides exchanged exchanges and gifts.

When he learned that Du Zhen came from a country that was the successor of a dynasty called "Han", the king of Funan, Fan Zhan, immediately asked to send an envoy to pay a return visit, and chose his youngest son Polo as the envoy.

The king of Funan, Fan Zhan, also told Du Zhen with emotion: "At the beginning of the founding of our country, I sent an envoy to Luoyang to face the Chinese Son of Heaven. ”

Thereupon...... With the remembrance of Fan Zhan, the king of Funan, for the friendship between Han and Fu in the past, his sons Polo and Du Zhen and others embarked on a journey back to Shu Han......

"After the feast, the two of you will set off for a journey, and you will be safe and well." Li Hui once again congratulated the bottle

"Thanks to the auspicious words of De'ang Gong, we and our party will arrive at the capital of Da I safely." Du Zhen and Van Polo raised the bottle in return.

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The Chamber

After Chuntuo went, after waiting for about three quarters of an hour, Liu Yong waited for Ma Chao's son, the captain of the Hubu Battalion and the Hou Ma Cheng of the township.

"The captain of the Chenhubu battalion respects to see His Majesty the Emperor! Your Majesty is well! Led into the hall by Chuntuo, Ma Cheng saluted Liu Yong loudly.

Facing Ma Cheng, Liu Yong concealed the strangeness in his eyes, and said in a straight voice: "Ma Cheng, Qing is here!" ”

Ma Cheng, Ma Yingying's brother...... Liu Yong's future uncle is also!

At this moment, in front of the eldest brother, Liu Yongzhen, who has not yet lost his face to the extreme, is still a little embarrassed, "Previously, the Shaofu Examination Office created a hundred pairs of stirrups and horseshoes, and handed them over to Qing's Hubu Battalion for trial. ”

"Your Majesty, before the cavalry fought, the crossbow was fired at a distance, and the sword was drawn and fought hand-to-hand when it was near; What's more, they march on horseback, and when they reach the place of engagement, the cavalry dismounts and charges on foot, which is called horse infantry. If Liu Yong is thin-skinned and a little embarrassed, Ma Cheng behaves quite naturally...... Or rather cheeky.

In this era, political marriages between the upper echelons of rulers have long been commonplace.

"With stirrups, the unbearable reaction force of the rider from the action of chopping, chopping, or slashing no longer exists, and the cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry Battalion has begun to experiment with the use of long weapons such as halberds and spears on a large scale on their horses."

At this point, Ma Cheng glanced at Liu Yong, and found that the emperor's brother-in-law was listening attentively, and immediately continued to speak: "And the benefits brought by the horseshoe are quite obvious, the use of a horse has increased greatly, and the raid of a thousand miles is no longer a dream. ”

"How?" Liu Yong asked

"Chen once did an experiment, from Chengdu to Brazil County, one person and two horses traveled eight hundred miles, and people did not take off their armor and horses did not leave the saddle, it only took a day and a half!"

"Oh?" Liu Yong was a little happy, it seems that this Ma Cheng is still a little clever, loves to use his brain, and goes to do some small experiments.

"Yes, since the practicability of stirrups and horseshoes is good, then Qing went to Li Yang to order the examination work, and ordered the examination room to increase production, so that the whole camp of the Tiger Riding Battalion is equipped with stirrups and horseshoes!"

"No." The stirrup responded, thought about it and asked again: "Then Your Majesty, are the two battalions of the Tuncai and Yue Cavalry in the five school battalions also equipped with stirrups and horseshoes?" ”

Liu Yong muttered to himself: "Yue Cai, Tun Cai Second Battalion? ”

Liu Yong once laughed at himself before...... As the emperor, he didn't even know which army was guarding the palace, but now, he knew it all!

Shu Han according to the Han system, set up five school battalions, including tun cavalry, infantry, archery, Yue cavalry, and Changshui, and the main capital city palace guards, each battalion has 700 people, a total of 3,500 people.

Among them, the second battalion of the Tun cavalry and the Yue cavalry are cavalry, the tun cavalry battalion is a cavalry unit formed by the Shu people, and the Yue cavalry battalion is the Qiang cavalry of Liangzhou Guishun.