Chapter 191: Rhythm

Wu Zetian's time of happiness soon came.

After the cotton is picked, not all the cotton peaches will open together, but the first batch has been picked more than three-quarters of the time, and the yield will come out, which is only the first step. It is also necessary to remove the seeds, spin and weave the cloth after removing the seeds, or use a cotton bow to bounce into thin cotton.

But others, such as silk and kudzu, have cumbersome procedures for everything from materials to fabrics. It's just that the reeling car is different, the procedures are not the same, and it was a bit of a rush at first. But the output finally alarmed the imperial court. Although cotton cloth is not as good as silk, it is cotton cloth, and it is definitely more comfortable to wear than kudzu cloth and linen cloth. The people of Chang'an are very unfamiliar with cotton, and they are no strangers to cotton cloth, otherwise its price will not be similar to silk.

It's not this, it's the yield.

This method of transplanting plants only appeared almost after the eighties of the twentieth century, and the previous history was a blank slate. made Li Weisheng advance the history of 1,300 years. If there is hybrid technology, maybe you can make a monster with a yield of two or five hundred catties of lint per mu in the Tang Dynasty. That's it, the yield is also amazing, after all, it is the product of the experiment between Huangzhuang and Guanzhuang, and another 10,000 yuan has been allocated as an investment in fertilizer and labor.

It is also equivalent to piling up money with money, which makes up for the inadaptability of some seeds to come to Luoyang.

Except for a few lands, most of the first batch collected more than 50 catties of lint, and even a few were close to 100 catties. That is, the highest yield, it is possible to reach 300 catties or more, after all, two-thirds of the above fruits and peaches have not bloomed. (Jin of the Tang Dynasty)

Not only cotton, but also cotton bows were bounced into thin cotton, stuffed into quilt covers, covered on the body, or stuffed into coats, and made cotton coats, which were not as flexible as animal skin clothes, but warm. The military role has not yet been seen, but the civilian role has been seen. If it is popularized, at least the north will not have to be in the cold weather, because of the lack of clothing and cover, so many people will freeze to death.

At this time, it is not how good life is, but whether you can eat and clothe warmly.

First sorghum, set off intensive agricultural cultivation, and then cotton, and the happy time of the people of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be coming. But it's very weird, one was initiated by the crown prince, and the other was initiated by the queen. When Li Zhi heard this, he sat in the palace and was extremely depressed.

The wife has no resentment, she resents her son, and she does it very skillfully, but Li Zhi knows everything. The wife's credit was given by her son, but she didn't give a penny to her own......

There are all kinds of tastes in my heart, but I am not a faint king, so I have to immediately issue an edict to carefully collect all the cotton seeds and promote them on a larger scale next year.

Li Zhi couldn't think about it, he was depressed and puzzled, naturally he wouldn't meet his son, and it was useless to persuade his wife, but he didn't say it.

Li Wei asked to see him a few times, but he didn't receive him, he was also very depressed, and he stayed in the East Palace, so he lost interest.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is gradually coming, but now he is very indifferent to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Li Wei gradually ignores the existence of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's just that the weather is cold and the sky is crisp, but Li Wei is unhappy when he stays in the East Palace. Shangguan Wan'er and Wei Yue ran in in very strange clothes, and Li Wei asked, "...... are you?" ”

"Your Highness, let's dance a song "Spring Oriole" for Your Highness."

There are many types of dances in the Tang Dynasty, including the character dance, the flower dance, the jian dance, the soft dance and the horse dance. The word dance and flower dance are the patterns of dancers spelling out flowers and words, which are often seen in later generations, such as the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Horse dancing is not very common, it is a combination of acrobatics and dance and equestrianism, which is quite difficult. But the common is still the Jian Dance and the Soft Dance, the Jian Dance should be strong and powerful, most of the dancers are not lacking in the male dance, the sword dance in the Tang Dynasty, the Hu Xuan Dance in the Hu people is the representative. Soft dance requires a soft waist, such as the King of Lanling, or this song of spring ying.

The difficulty is also not small.

The two little Loli jumped weirdly, and finally twisted around, and Wei Yue fell to the ground all of a sudden.

Seeing their appearance, Li Wei finally couldn't help but be happy.

The two little girls are not ugly, they mainly want to make Li Wei happy. Li Wei said: "Don't jump, I'll take you hunting another day." ”

Anyway, staying in the East Palace and doing nothing, Li Wei said he would do it, and called Xue Ne, who also returned to Chang'an, to go hunting in Lishan together.

It's still a bit too early to hunt, preferably a month or two, when the vegetation is officially withered, the animals lack food, or the hibernating animals are finally "replenished", which is the best time to hunt. However, Lishan is not far from Chang'an, there are more wild animals, and because of the diverse terrain and beautiful scenery, it is an important place for military exercises and martial arts in the Tang Dynasty.

If you go hunting now, you will have some gains.

It's just that Li Wei's archery skills are still not good. In fact, in the arrow hall of the East Palace, Li Wei's archery is still very accurate.

Ask Xue Ne, His Royal Highness asks for advice, and Xue Ne naturally knows everything. His archery skills are still a little worse, but Xue Rengui's archery skills are unparalleled in the world, perhaps in terms of strategy, Qinling is slightly better than Xue Rengui. can talk about archery and the ability to go heads-up on horses, and Qin Ling is far from being Xue Rengui's opponent. It is estimated that in the entire world, there is almost no one who can be an enemy of Xue Rengui.

These archery skills, Xue Rengui passed on all of them to Xue Ne. However, experience is one, and personal comprehension is one. Xue Ne's archery skills can only be called acceptable, or much better than Li Wei. So he let Li Wei get off the horse and said, "Your Highness, give it a try." ”

Let Li Wei stand on the mountainside and shoot a big tree more than seventy steps away. This distance is only a medium distance, and the target is very large, so the difficulty is not high. Li Wei didn't think of anything else, he raised his arrow to shoot, but still didn't hit a single shot out of ten.

This is strange, archery in the East Palace Arrow Hall, it can't be said that a hundred steps are crossed, because Li Wei has a gentle temperament, he is careful about learning things, and the guards are also dedicated to teaching one by one, and the archery skills are acceptable. It's just that he has little strength, and he can only pull one and two stone bows, and at the same time, he can only pull more than twenty times. If you pull it again, you won't be able to pull it.

But a 100-step arrow target is six or seven out of ten.

"Your Highness, it's the wind, think about the rhythm of the wind. Although the strength is not great, His Royal Highness does not use a heavy bow, so the arrow is a little floating, in fact, this problem is not big, follow the wind. ”

This is not very mysterious, the master of archery can not only be keenly aware of the movement of the wind, but even have a very good sense of direction. When you walk, you can immediately feel the subtle curves of the road. This is to shoot arrows from the ground, riding on a horse, and you have to feel the rhythm of the horse, the rhythm of the enemy or prey on the opposite side. This is the only way to improve the hit rate. Therefore, the archery competition is all outdoors, unless there is a hurricane, the general wind direction, will not stop.

Xue Ne didn't think of anything else, and when he saw the prince's miserable results in hunting, he taught him carefully. Li Wei didn't think of anything else, and if the big court wouldn't let him lead his troops to fight, but if he learned more skills, maybe it would come in handy, especially when he was escaping.

In the final analysis, this is Li Wei's intention to come out to relax, and it is purely a whim. But I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

After staying in Lishan for more than ten days, the archery method is impossible to move a thousand miles in a day, Li Wei just practiced some Tai Chi, Baduan Jin, or five bird plays, and the hardness is only the Yijin Sutra of Shaolin Temple, which was also practiced since childhood, Li Wei inherited Li Hong's body bone development is basically mature, and he still has a very thin foundation, and it is impossible to become a martial arts master all of a sudden. The same is true for archery, Li Wei insisted on exercising for more than a year and a half, and his body gradually improved. But the bottom of the body is thin, just the size of ordinary manpower. Eyesight is okay, but arm strength is ordinary. It was Xue Ne who said the so-called rhythm, and after all, comprehension is another matter. Therefore, when riding a horse and hunting, the archery technique is often not accurate. But in the end, the hit rate can be seen.

Just when he was happy, the imperial court issued a holy decree to let him return to Chang'an.

Li Zhi asked people to call him into the Daming Palace, and there were all the zaifu, and the atmosphere was a little solemn. Li Wei didn't know what was going on, and Shi Li said, "See my father." ”

"Sit," Li Zhi said expressionlessly.

Li Wei sat down, and Li Zhi said again: "Bring the fold over." ”

It was the Nanzhao War.

This time, the imperial court sent Liang Jishou, in the name of sending soldiers from eighteen states such as Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Long, but in fact did not lead many troops over, and then hired 5,300 soldiers in Sichuan, Yao and other places, with a total number of less than 10,000. Of course, no one took Nanzhao as the same thing, and without the support of Tubo's troops, Liang Jishou began to act as soon as he arrived in Yaozhou.

Joining hands with Xinuluo, using locals as guides, they set off south. Meng Jian is also arrogant, his own 200,000 troops is an exaggeration, but there are also more than 100,000 troops, otherwise they would not be 30 miles away. Although the team members are very mixed, it is better than the large number of people. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty sent troops over, they also began to move north, preparing for battle.

The two armies met in the northeast of Erhai Lake, and Liang Jishou first sent Zhonglang General Ling Huzhi to lead his troops to camp and block Mengjian's forward infantry. He also sent Linyuan Guoyi Ma Renjing to lead a rapid march to the rear to cut off Mengjian's ambush soldiers, and then sent Yinzhou Assassin Li Dazhi to lead the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty to attack Mengjian's horse army, and then let the governor of the Wangzhou Prefecture, Shi and the marching Sima Liang Beipi, lead 3,000 foot soldiers to cut off the enemy's rear road. Liang Jishou didn't have so many troops to mobilize, and most of them were subordinates of Xinuluo and others. Then he and the marching commander Shi Han Qingyu and other main forces drove straight in.

It's not a clever strategy, that is, to block the enemy's front army first, let the rebels seize the air, and then block the rebels' reinforcements, so that the front army can not feel the hope of victory, and then use the excellent cavalry of the Tang Dynasty army to attack, and finally everyone go up together and hack to death this group of wingmen who don't know the height of the sky.

The strategy is not clever, but after all, Meng Jian and other edicts are not very civilized, and they have never fought major battles, and they don't even have the experience of leading so many troops to fight. Only by virtue of the large number of people, I want to swarm and win with more people. If that's the case, then there will be no such achievements as the Battle of the Rivers.

The result can be imagined, the army in front of Meng Jian attacked dozens of times, and the Tang Dynasty camp was as safe as Mount Tai, so the army behind was asked to speed up the support, but the army behind was blocked again in front of a mountain range. Originally, it was a union of various tribes, and the morale of the army has been shaken. Then Li Dazhi's cavalry came out. At this time, the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was better than the Turks, and the Tibetan ones were not counted, one was careless, the second was altitude sickness, and the third was that the enemy was outnumbered. After a fight, the rebels tried to escape. But Liang Jishou's main force was killed again. As a result, more than 100,000 people were immediately defeated.

Meng Jian and the others saw that something was wrong, and they also began to run away. Then he was sniped by Ma Renjing and Liang Beipi, and there was no way to escape, so he had to fight again, but the Tang Dynasty army killed him again. As a result, more than 5,000 people were beheaded in the first battle and more than 4,000 were taken prisoner. The second battle again beheaded more than 7,000 people, and the number of prisoners was even greater. More than 5,000 horses were captured by horses alone, and the leader and the shemian were captured alive. Meng Jian himself fled hundreds of miles all the way to the Yangbi River. The edict still exists, but it basically exists in name only.

The other ministries saw that they were wrong, and it turned out that although the Tang Dynasty lost Dafeichuan, it was still a fierce tiger that ate people, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they surrendered one by one. Even Meng Jian himself sent someone to surrender Liang Jishou, write a letter of surrender, and apologize.

The edict was written by King Luo Bin, the writing was good, and it was a big victory, and it was naturally written very wonderfully, as if the sky was messy.

Then Liang Jishou surrendered to all the ministries, and even released Heshemian. This is taken from Zhuge Liang's intention to appease Meng Shu, and the various tribes who want to rebel against the Tang Dynasty have rushed forward one after another, killing and sacrificing faces, as well as descendants, it is better to release them and make him grateful.

At this point in the war, all of Liang Jishou's strategies were correct. In particular, the release and sacrifice of noodles were very much in line with the Tang Dynasty's restraint policy.

Bondage is the bridlehead of the horse. Silk is the reins of the ox. On the one hand, it is necessary to "detain" and control it by military means and political pressure; On the other hand, the "縻" is used to give comfort to economic and material benefits. That is, carrots are enlarged, with a high degree of freedom, obedient, mixed with me, disobedient, you will be killed immediately. The largest is the Governor's Mansion, then the Governor's Mansion, the state and the county. Yaozhou was originally a state, to prevent Tubo from going east, and it was upgraded to the governor's office.

Beat and crippled, listen and obedient, like the big and small Bo Lang by the way, the army chased all the way west, and they were all wiped out directly, it stands to reason that the class teacher will return to the court.

However, at the end of the war, another incident happened, Liang Jishou wrote that the reason why Mengjian was able to recruit nearly 200,000 rebels was not because Erhai could have so many troops. Erhai is not small, but there will not be a big state in the Tang Dynasty, what is the concept of 200,000 rebels? Leaving aside the army of Xinuluo and other ministries to support the Tang Dynasty, it is nearly 300,000 troops, one out of ten, and 3 million people, this population density is impossible for the current Nanzhao.

Of course, it wasn't the Tubo soldiers who came over, otherwise they wouldn't have been defeated so smoothly. Besides, under the Southern Edict, Tubo lost its natural and geographical advantages, and the gains outweighed the losses, and Tuyuhun did not digest it, and it was not time to start the war again. It is mainly from the rear of the Ministry of Hope, which is also supported by the Ministry of Tho Man and other departments.

But this time, the army was defeated, and the vitality of the various tribes was greatly damaged, so on the autumn festival, the army pushed all the way south, and by the way, the tribes of Nanzhao were solved together.

This is different from what Liang Jishou discussed before leaving.

After reading the Di Bao, Li Wei was also very confused in his eyes, in fact, the southern departments were very poor, so the imperial court had not been very interested. Why did Liang Jishou march south?

I heard Li Zhi ask: "Hong'er, I ask you, before Liang Jishou left, he went to the East Palace and talked with you for a long time, what did you say?" ”

It turned out that Liang Jishou changed the hexagram, which was instructed by Li Wei.

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