First of all, the harness is the bridle, the horse chew, the saddle, the stirrup, I have read a lot of Three Kingdoms novels, at least eight of the ten novels are saddle and stirrups as a new invention through the protagonist and used in the Three Kingdoms era, to strengthen the advantage of cavalry combat. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

According to archaeological data, it is true that no saddle of the Han Dynasty has been unearthed, but judging from historical data, saddles and stirrups already existed in the Western Han Dynasty.

Why? Because the saddle and stirrup were the most important inventions of the complete harness after the horse's chew and bridle. In the days without stirrups, people had to ride on the back of a bare horse, and only by grasping the reins or mane and clamping the horse's belly with their legs to keep themselves from falling off while the horse was galloping. However, this method is very unreliable, first of all, it is easy to get tired after a long time of riding, and at the same time, it is difficult to use a bow and arrow effectively on the back of a running horse, and in close combat, the rider cannot use the sword and spear as he pleases, and the slash or assassination misses, and the collision of the blades of both sides can cause the rider to slide off the horse at any time. Therefore, in addition to the advantage of speed, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in this period was far inferior to that of the down-to-earth infantry, so after the cavalry arrived at the destination, it often dismounted and put into the battlefield as infantry.

The description of cavalry in Sun Tzu's Art of War is as follows: "There are ten advantages to using cavalry: one is to meet the enemy from the beginning; Second, it is said to take advantage of the void and betray the enemy; The third is to chase and scatter the chaos; Fourth, after facing the enemy's attack; Fifth, it is said to cover its food and cut off its military path; Sixth, it is said that it will defeat its Guanjin and send its bridge; Seven said to cover up its unpreparedness, and attack its uninspiring brigade; Eight said to attack its slackness and surprise; Nine said to burn their savings, empty their city; Ten said that they plundered their fields and burdened their children. These ten are also the benefits of cavalry. "To put it bluntly, cavalry still served as auxiliary missions in the Warring States Period, so in the Warring States Period, saddles and stirrups definitely did not appear.

But look at the Han Dynasty, the record in "Historical Records ~ Biography of the Huns": "Next year, in the spring of the fifth year of Yuan Shuo, the Han ordered the general Wei Qing to ride 30,000 horses and go out of Gaoque." (8) "King Youxian thought that the Han soldiers could not arrive, so he was drunk. The Han soldiers went out of the fortress for six or seven hundred miles, and surrounded the right virtuous king at night. "Thirty thousand rides, what is the concept? If it's just to ride a horse and rush in front of others, and then dismount to do infantry slashing, is it so much to find 30,000 horsemen? At this time, the cavalry has become the main force against the Xiongnu, it can be seen that the warriors at this time can already use weapons to charge and kill on horses, shoot with bows and arrows, and it is impossible to have so many cavalry without saddles and stirrups. So I judged that by this time, the saddle had already appeared.

Look at "Historical Records ~ General Li's Biography" again, it says that Li Guang's, "The Hun chasers rode hundreds of times to chase him, Guangxing took Hu'er's bow, shot the chasing horseman, and got rid of it." "I can't imagine him doing this kind of difficult maneuver without a saddle and stirrups.

Let's take a look at this paragraph of the Later Han Book, "Han Chang took the 5,000 cavalry as the front of the army, and the number of people who landed first and captured Chen." At this time, the Hou cavalry has become the vanguard, it is hard to imagine that if there is no saddle and stirrups, how can the cavalry be the main force of the army, riding on a smooth horseback, and without stirrups as a backing, and with the help of the horse's momentum to poke people, and to maintain balance and archery, it is too difficult, almost impossible, ancient people are also people.

To sum up, stirrups and saddles appeared before the Three Kingdoms, so I set the saddle and stirrups to appear when the protagonist crosses, so don't be surprised.

Secondly, I want to talk about the crown ceremony, "Twenty crowns for men." -- This is from the Book of Rites and Quli, so the title is generally believed to be after the age of 20.

However, it is also mentioned in the "Book of Rites" that the crown ceremony is the beginning of learning and practicing Chinese etiquette, and it is a person who has gone through the education and enlightenment of the crown ceremony to obtain new ideological guidance and behavioral rules.

So I deduce that the crown ceremony does not have to be a fixed age, especially in some powerful families, in order to take power as soon as possible, there must be a lot of 'stealing' behavior, and the early crown is implemented. Especially in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, in order for the child to be the master of the house as soon as possible, it is not impossible to crown the house in advance, because it was not illegal at that time, and although Cao Cao is a family, he was not born after the eunuch, so he will not take those rules and regulations too seriously.

So I set the Cao family brothers' 15-year-old crown ceremony in the book, and everyone should not be too surprised.