The winter of one hundred and forty-three years in Chongzhen seems to be particularly cold, three or five days ago, the sky was overcast, the black clouds were so thick that there was no trace of light, and the weather was cold and cold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Yesterday, a heavy snow that had been accumulating for several days was falling like a tear, and it didn't stop until tonight.

At night, the original Lu Gong's Mansion, now the Prince's Mansion, and the sound of coughing faintly came from the upper room in the backyard. Mama Wang came in along the verandah with a little girl carrying a food box, and when she heard a suppressed cough, she couldn't help but speed up her pace.

When I lifted the thick felt curtain, a warm heat came to my face. Several little girls and grandmothers were waiting respectfully outside, and there was no extra sound in the room except for Li Xiaomei's cough. Mama Wang didn't speak, only took the food box in the little girl's hand and entered the warm pavilion inside.

Li Xiaomei was leaning on the kang on the ground, covered with a thick silk quilt, and the big girl next to her helped her tuck the quilt, and the room was burning hot. Seeing Mama Wang come in, the maid next to her hurriedly took the food box in her hand, put it on the table, took out a small cup of medicine from it, and took a small plate of candied fruit and preserved fruit, and brought it to Li Xiaomei. Mama Wang went over and helped Li Xiaomei sit up with her own hands, and the maid stepped forward to put a pillow with a gold thread embroidered peacock and peony pattern behind Li Xiaomei, and lined a white scarf on the back.

Li Xiaomei smiled bitterly: "I have to drink that medicinal soup again, and the bitterness in my mouth has been gone for the past two days." When will this 'occasional wind chill' be good? "The voice was full of deep dissatisfaction with the words 'occasional wind and cold'. This imperial doctor is too foolish. Occasionally, she felt cold, she drank medicine for four days, and during the New Year, she couldn't even eat what she wanted to eat, she really didn't want to suffer this sin anymore.

At the end of the year, the Chen family went back to Xiaonangou to worship their ancestors, and after two days of returning, they fell ill for a couple. Except for Li Xiaomei, Chen Hui couldn't hold on to the bed after surviving the big banquet on the first day of the first lunar month.

It cast a faint shadow on Chen Han's happy New Year.

"Niangniang is just catching a cold, just drink a few more pills! When the mother recovers, what do you want to eat, tell Your Highness. Dragon tendon and phoenix marrow, Your Highness will definitely get it for you. "Chen Ming's kindness to Li Xiaomei can be seen by everyone in the house. Since Li Xiaomei was in bed, he either slept in the study every night, or stayed here with him.

The corners of Li Xiaomei's mouth raised slightly, but she didn't argue, she only took the medicine cup, and didn't look at the dark medicinal juice, and drank it all. The girl next to her hurriedly handed over the candied fruit in her hand, Li Xiaomei waved her hand and said, "It's been bitter, what are you doing eating this?" Pour me a glass of water and rinse my mouth. ”

The two big girls hurriedly put down the candied fruit, one turned around to pour water, and the other went to get the spittoon. Li Xiaomei asked, "What time is it?" Has the snow stopped? ”

"It's half past eight. The snow is heavy, and I can't stop tomorrow when I see it. ”

"Has Your Highness sent a message? Where are you going to rest today? ”

Mama Wang thought about it and laughed in a low voice: "It is estimated that His Royal Highness will still rest in the study." I haven't come back at this hour, and I don't know if it's more than nine o'clock today. I heard from the people who followed His Highness outside that there were some trivial matters in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and they were very busy. ”

Li Xiaomei sighed, even if she was happy in her heart, she was a little unhappy. What woman doesn't want a man to be by her side when she's sick? It's just that there are no such 'rules' in this era.

It happened that the girl came over with warm water and waited for Li Xiaomei to rinse her mouth. Li Xiaomei let out a long breath and closed her eyes tiredly.

Xiaonangou worships his ancestors, running back and forth for two days, no matter how good Chen Hui's body and bones are, he is also old, and a little illness is nothing. Li Xiaomei is more of a heart disease here, every festival is full of relatives, this Chen Han has captured the entire south, why hasn't her family come out? Looking at the Chen family, worshipping their ancestors lively, touching the scene and hurting, coupled with fatigue and a little wind, people are not up.

In previous years, Chen Ming was no longer at home, and the entire Lu Mansion was supported by her, and her son was still so young, of course Li Xiaomei couldn't fall. But this year, Chen Ming rarely celebrates the New Year at home, she has something to rely on in her heart, and when she should be 'uncomfortable', she will be decisively 'uncomfortable'.

Suddenly, a voice from outside sounded, and Mama Wang said happily: "Your Highness is back." As soon as the curtain was raised, Chen Ming had already strode in. There were already a lot of snowflakes on the big coat on his body.

Mama Wang and a group of girls hurriedly saluted, Li Xiaomei also struggled to get up, Chen Ming saw it, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You are not in good health, don't move." ”

Naturally, a grandmother stepped forward to relieve Chen Ming of the big problem and took it to the outside world. This year, the snow is heavy in the whole of Huanghuai.

Chen Ming went to the bedside and asked, "Have you taken medicine?" See better? "The imperial doctors who came to their house for diagnosis and treatment are all famous doctors from all over the medical department, how can they not see that Li Xiaomei is depressed, she is now weak, bedridden, and her heart is even more depressed.

"When I drank it, I died bitterly. I drink medicine every day, and there is no taste in my mouth. It's not very hot. It's just that the cough hasn't stopped. Because of the cough, she didn't dare to let her son get close today, and after saying a few words through a barrier, she hurriedly sent Xiao Chen Ding out.

Seeing Li Xiaomei's weak appearance, Chen Ming was really helpless. Since returning to Lushan, he has slept with Li Xiaomei for most of the time, what is he thinking? Of course, it is necessary to have another child, even if it is a daughter. Outcome......

As the crown prince of Chen Han, it is obviously not enough to have only one lone seedling under his knees. But Liu Bangyun, Yao, Shi, Zhang, and Zheng, when they were in Jiangnan, they were for a long time, especially Liu Wanyun, for a long time, she was the only pet.

As a result, not to mention having children, there is not even a pregnant one.

In this case, Chen Ming unconsciously felt that it was still Li Xiaomei's belly, or the belly of the eldest wife in the main house was more reliable. What's more, his relationship with Li Xiaomei is completely different from Liu Wanyun.

From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he definitely had to sleep in Li Xiaomei's room. In the past few days, there has been something going on in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and news has come from the secret camp in the north -- the Qing army has taken Pyongyang, and the army has slaughtered Seoul. However, the fleet of Chen Dai and Shi Xinxiong, who set off again, did not have any news at all, and Chen Ming was of course busy.

The year has passed, and in another month, winter will go to spring, and the ice floe in Bohai Bay will melt, will the sailors of the Fu Han Army have to make some moves?

Although the combat effectiveness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Eight Banners New Army, military training in various places, etc., has increased a lot compared with a few years ago, on the Yellow Sea Plain, it is their tens of thousands of horse teams that really pose a threat to the Fu Han Army. Only by land, the scale of the Eight Banners New Army is expanding to 50,000 people in one step, and Emperor Qianlong is afraid that he will not have the confidence to fight with the Fu Han Army, right?

Only their horse team, the Green Camp Horse Team, the Eight Banners Horse Team, the Mongolian Horse Team......

To break this game, it is of course necessary to fight hard head-on, but it is also necessary to use the advantage of the sailor to constantly harass the line from Shandong to southern Liaoning.

In addition, a few fleets were dispatched to cooperate with the Marine Corps, which was being formed and expanded, to conduct landing training, and to pay attention to the war situation in Korea, as well as the war situation in Hunan and Guangxi.

The kitchen soon sent a bowl of stewed mutton soup, as well as four plates of side dishes, Chen Ming purred the mutton soup with the soup and meat to eat clean, the four dishes of side dishes also went down most of the time, and then rinsed and washed the feet, and when he returned to bed, it was nine o'clock. Li Xiaomei was still waiting for Chen Ming, holding Chen Ming's small pocket watch in her hand, so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes.

When he got closer, Chen Ming could still smell a trace of loquat ointment.

"Sleep. Hurry up and get sick, and on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I will take you to watch a polo game! ”

Chen Ming held his wife in his arms, and before he fell asleep for a while, he remembered polo in his mind. This person is a person who is superior and inferior wherever he goes, and there is a class difference.

There is also basketball and football in Lushan City, but the difference between it and Changsha, Wuchang, Hankou and other places is that there is also polo here. In the early days, polo was a training subject for the cavalry units of the Fu Han Army. This thing also has a long history in China, and like the earliest Keju, it was a training program for the army. It was prevalent in the Tang Dynasty and also existed in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

This sport was also transmitted from the cavalry troops, but there was a shortage of horses in the entire territory of the Fu Han Army, except for the children of Chen Han's noble ministers here in Lushan, where were there so many horses and horsemen to ride.

There are also many children of pro-noble ministers who like football and basketball, but football and basketball are too common, and polo broke into their vision at the right time and in the right place, and it soon spread among the pro-nobles.

Besides, Chen Han is still martial. Even those Confucian disciples who joined the Chen and Han dynasties began to pull out the 'six arts' of Confucius again. And it keeps pace with the times, changing 'royal' to 'riding', and turning archery into a gun.

Although polo has been circulating among the children of the Lushan elite for less than a year, it already has a good foundation. During this year's Lantern Festival, someone proposed to his father to hold a polo game.

Anyway, it's also lively, just putting on a feast, watching a play and watching an acrobatic circus, it's too boring every year.

And Chen Hui himself also encouraged the children of the powerful to play polo. Chen Hui encouraged the sport of polo, just because he wanted Chen Han to be a noble child and a noble heir of the country in the future, and maintain the spirit of bravery. Hearing someone's proposal, he agreed on the spot, and took out a white jade ruyi as a lottery head.

Although the polo match on the fifteenth day will only be two teams.

On that day, after Chen Hui agreed, let people take a copper pitcher, and the ministers present were willing to come forward to form a team, so they went to the pitcher to draw lots, and two of the signatures were drawn with red dots, and the result was that Chen Ming's eldest cousin Gao Yanjing, the eldest son of Gao Pengqi, and the old uncle of the Huang family, each won one. The Gao and Huang families have been enthusiastically recruiting people in the past few days.

The participants in Marseille on the 15th day must not only be technically outstanding, but also qualified in status. Chen Ming just thought about it, and the person fell asleep unconsciously.

……

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the day of the high-profile polo match has finally arrived.

The venue is not located in Lushan County, the county area is too small, and Lushan Ling has opened his mouth several times to pull out the city wall, and this polo field is located in the south school field outside the city. The venue is extremely spacious, and three stands in the form of an oval semi-ring are properly arranged in advance, and the one in the middle of the north is higher than the other two, with bright yellow curtains, which are for the king of Han, the crown prince and queen, and the crown princess to sit on. Looking at the fluttering curtains, in fact, the bright yellow curtains are resting in the middle of the three-point thick iron plate and one inch of solid wood boards, and the safety and security work is very reliable. On the left and right are the seats of the pro-noble ministers.

The polo field is rectangular in shape, with a wooden goal with a stone lotus seat on the east and west sides, but the goal is small. There is an embroidered flag on both sides of the goal on both sides, the same color as the jersey of the team on both sides, one red and one black, there is an empty flag stand next to it, each goal is scored, it is called a chip, and the two guards holding small flags sing loudly, and a embroidered flag is inserted on the flag stand next to them, indicating that they have a chip.

The venue is surrounded by a wooden fence, the most popular polo in the Tang Dynasty in history, there is a professional polo field, the perimeter wall cloth, the perimeter of the three short wall arches, mainly mud walls and stone walls, the site is mud, grass, sand and so on.

The land in Lushan is too expensive, and the school field is used instead of the polo field, of course, it cannot be grass or sand, but only mud. It is made of finely sieved soil, repeatedly rammed and rolled. During the race, the horses galloped and clashed, and the slightest accidental fall off the horse, or the horse stumbled in front of the horse, which was a matter of breaking muscles and bones, and even killing people.

At this time, the stands in the middle were still vacant, but the stands on the left and right sides were sitting with a lot of people, and the two teams wearing leather armor and armor with red and black forehead bands on their heads were walking their horses to warm up in advance.

Robert, Perrier, Sweden's Lustig, the Netherlands' Dequelmar, and Portugal's Luis Paul Ribeiro were arranged on the right side, accompanied by Han Teng, acting director of the Foreign Trade Agency. It's an old friend.

There are seven players on one side, and five are back. The horses under the crotches of these people are already Chen Han's first-class horses, but compared with the tall horses in Europe, these horses, which are generally only more than 13 palms tall, are undoubtedly small horses. And compared to the war horses of this era in Europe, they sprint slowly.

"Yes, just like Keju in the earliest days, polo was also a training program for the army in China a thousand years ago. This keeps the soldiers brave and motivated. Every rider on the polo field is a good cavalryman. ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed and changed too many things in China. Han Teng initially developed a bitter hatred for the Manchus only because corrupt officials harmed their family. But as he learned a few things, he felt that this tartar was really not a thing. The Manchu Qing did much more damage to China than the Mongol Yuan.

At this time, Qianlong had not yet had time to compile the Siku Quanshu, otherwise, the Chinese civilization and culture after the catastrophe would have been emasculated more and greater by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Even Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", a masterpiece of ancient technology, has been banned in the Chinese market, and I don't know if the "Siku Quanshu" collection has destroyed more books.

Chen Ming knew that Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo had the first copy of this set of books, and it was not impossible to find this book on the Chinese market at the moment. After all, Qianlong had not yet had time to compile the "Siku Quanshu", and when Qianlong set up the Siku Museum to revise the "Siku Quanshu", he found that Song Yingxing's brother Song Yingsheng's "Fang Yutang Complete Works" and some of the works of Song Yingxing's friend Chen Hongxu and others had anti-Qing ideology and advocated "Huayi's discrimination", so the "Siku Quanshu" used the name of collecting books to destroy "Tiangong Kaiwu" as much as possible. So much so that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese literati did not know what "Heavenly Creation" was. When the Chinese people knew about this book and looked up this book, they found that even Europe and the United States that they needed to look up to at that time had a translation of this book.

"Since you want to compare, you have to have a good competition. The leader of the winning team will be given jade Ruyi, and the others and other lonely kings will each have a reward. ”

The two teams in the audience responded in unison: "Yes." ”

Then they each turned over and got on their horses, and the people with the same color on their foreheads rode their horses together, and waited for the start of the game with the opposing team facing one side. The drummers on both sides drummed at the same time, and the drums of "dong dong dong" resounded throughout the audience.

The momentum of this drum beat made the onlookers can't help but boil their blood.

With the sound of the "bell" after a gong, Chen Ming, who was standing on the field and was responsible for serving, threw the red and black polo in his hand to the middle of the two teams in the distance, and after a shout, the two teams rode their horses and held the sticks to rush to the ball, and the people behind them were in different directions, some went to the back to be responsible for answering, some went to the left front and right front to be responsible for interception, and some also followed the 'striker' to chase away.

Immediately there was a cloud of dust and smoke in the field, and the horses neighed.

"Left, left, pulled over ......"

"Oops, oops, right, right, ......"

"Rush, rush, ......"

The stands of the polo field, which were quiet and quiet, were in chaos after a while. The sound of cheers, cheers, exclamations, and stomping ......, such an atmosphere reminded Robert and others of a football game, and the atmosphere in that game was also so enthusiastic, but the identity of the audience here was far beyond the civilians on the side of the football field.

Where can you tell who is who at this time in the field, you can only see red and black, and the crowd of horses will go to the left and right for a while, rampage, and break through left and right. Suddenly went forward, suddenly turned around and turned back, what a humble gentleman, gentle and elegant has long been thrown out of the clouds, winning is the right way.

Polo is a favorite thing of Chen Han's high-level people, everyone knows that polo can't be taken into account when playing, if you are afraid of hurting people because of the opponent's high status, then what polo do you play?

"Black has a chip."

The first goal was scored by the black team formed by the Gao family, and with the sound of the bell and drums, an embroidered flag was inserted into the flag stand in the right hand.

The RED riders and their supporters sighed slightly. But the spirit is even more vigorous, it's just a ball, it's just begun, but it's far from the time when the dust has settled.

With the point difference, the bilateral 'battle situation is more intense'. The two teams chase after me, the more they fight, the more excited they become, the polo thing is a crowd of people scrambling, and occasionally intercepting will inevitably encounter a group of people crowded together, which is thrilling and prone to frequent contradictions.

Either your club touched me, or my horse squeezed you, and you were fighting, and whatever condescension was long gone. Even if the person in front of him is Gao Yanjing, who has the highest status on the field, there are people in this group who dare to hold their sleeves. encountered the opponent's mistakes, and provocative boos followed.

So it didn't take long for the first wounded soldier to appear. In one swing, the red rider not only hit the ball, but also swept the front hooves of the galloping Gao Yanjing's horse, and then ......

The mount roared, the horse lost its front hooves, and then fell to the ground with a bang, and Gao Yanjing was thrown as far away as a cannonball. The people in the stands all stood up, even Chen Ming couldn't hide his shock, Li Xiaomei next to him was so frightened that she covered her mouth, and his mother Gao was even more worried.

"Bang."

The man fell heavily to the ground and rolled seven or eight times before stopping. Chen Ming's eyesight was very good, and Gao Yanjing's distorted expression was clearly captured by him. The doctor waiting outside the field didn't wait for a shout, so he rushed into the field with his assistant, Gao Yanjing broke two ribs, and a left arm, and then suffered a contusion when he landed on the ground......

Robert and the others were excited and shocked on their faces, especially after they saw the noble captain of the black team being quickly carried off the field on a stretcher, his vacancy was quickly filled by the backup riders, and then not only did the game continue, but it didn't take long for the surrounding silent crowd to regain excitement.

Robert bared his teeth even more, what did he see? Is this still the Chinese in his understanding?

From this game he saw savagery, he saw ferocity, he saw fearlessness, he saw resilience. The old 'impression' of the Chinese was very shocked.

Perhaps this is the other side of the Chinese hidden beneath their gentle surface, as the captured Portuguese said - the Fu Han army on the battlefield is a group of devils. "Come to think of it, they won't always be gentle and gentle, without the qualities of courage and strength, how can their kingdom be so huge?" (To be continued.) )