After the public lost and naturally left, Zhou Tong asked me with some doubts: "Why is Your Majesty suddenly so interested in this dragon stick?" ”

I didn't answer Zhou Dong's question directly, but turned around to him and asked: "Emperor Taizu invented and forged this large and small dragon stick back then, and the large dragon stick was used on the battlefield of Song and Liao and was invincible, I don't know why I don't see this big dragon stick used by the soldiers in our army now?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty's words, this large dragon stick formation was indeed invincible in the battle with the Khitan cavalry, but what Your Majesty didn't know was that the training time of the dragon stick formation was really too long, and the requirements for the soldiers in the same army formation were also very high, but since Taizu Taizong, due to the frequent outbreak of wars, in the case of similar combat functions, the training of spearmen and heavy axemen is simpler and shorter than the training of the large dragon stick formation. As a result, this large dragon stick gradually disappeared from the forbidden army. Could it be that His Majesty wants to train the Dapan Dragon Stick Formation again? ”

"No, the Dapan Dragon Stick was used to deal with the cavalry of the Liao State in the past, but now that the Jin and Liao countries have been wiped out, the enemies in the north of our country have been basically eliminated, and I do not want to have a large-scale conflict with the Uighur Khanate, the Kham Kingdom, the Seljuk Turkic State, and the Tibetan region in the west of our country. And after the war against the Western Xia, Khitan and Jurchen, there have been nearly 700,000 light and heavy cavalry among the millions of forbidden troops in our country, and our artillery troops have also tended to be perfect after the war. ”

After a period of silence, Zhou Tong slowly put down the hand that was constantly brushing his beard, and said with a little frustration: "What Your Majesty said makes sense, but if you abandon it like this, the old minister is really a little willing in his heart." ”

"The times are advancing, I want the seven-meter spear forest of the Great Qin Empire to fight all over the world and be invincible, but now? They're not still gone. Okay, let's stop here for the topic of this big dragon stick, I summoned you this time because there is something else I need you to do. ”

"But please ask Your Majesty to command." Zhou Tong put away his originally slightly depressed expression, and replied with a fist in his fist to me again

"With the continuous expansion of the land area, the strength of the forbidden army stationed in various parts of our country has gradually begun to appear a little insufficient, one million forbidden troops, it seems like a lot, but it is scattered to various road governance, various state capitals, and various county seats, but it seems so insignificant, now, those extremely important military towns, the defenders of the forbidden army are only twenty or thirty thousand people, and some ordinary big cities and big ports, the defenders are not more than ten thousand, and even two or three thousand people, and now those ordinary small counties in the north, It seems that there is no longer a garrison of the forbidden army, all of them are garrisoned, and now our country has obtained a large area of territory in the north that originally belonged to the two countries of Jin and Liao, and the garrisons drawn from all over the country are about 150,000 people, and they are constantly deploying troops from all over the country to that side. They don't know anything except doing some physical work, growing vegetables, feeding pigs, and having almost nothing to do about the war, so I want them to have a fart, so I want your military department to immediately go and screen them, leaving 500,000 young and middle-aged people to be incorporated into the forbidden army for training, and then recruit 500,000 Han Chinese young and middle-aged people from the people to join the army, and make up the forbidden army to 2 million people, and the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled will all be eliminated by me, and before the next war, these people will all become sharp knives. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the old minister obeys."

After Zhou Tong left, I was still the same as before, except for watching the urgent music in the imperial study, that is, accompanying my wife and children, a very warm and simple little day, if it were not for living in this large courtyard called the palace, our family's lifestyle and those ordinary people living in the market are almost no different

The next day, in the morning, at the beginning of the hour

I was lying on the desk in the middle palace, designing the stroller and some children's toys that I had been thinking about for a long time, when Xiaodouzi hurriedly walked in with a square box and said to me: "Your Majesty, the Ordnance Division has just sent a box, saying that it is the weapon you want. ”

"Didn't the others come?"

"He didn't come into the palace himself, but just sent this box to the gate of the palace, and Lord Fang Kong sent it in on his behalf, and Lord Fang Kong also brought a message for Lord Gongyi, saying that Lord Gongyu said that the Ordnance Division had piled up too many weapons to be repaired, and Lord Gongyu has been studying the application of the hair device entrusted by His Majesty with Lord Ling Zhen recently, so Lord Fang Kong said that Lord Gongyu sent this box to Xuanwu Gate and explained a few words, and then hurriedly rode on a donkey and ran away."

Yes, you read that right, Gong Yi naturally did ride a donkey, for his hobby of riding a donkey, I also asked him back then, why do you put a good sedan chair, carriage, and those high-headed horses do not sit, but love to ride a donkey, and Gong Yi's natural answer is that riding a donkey is ......

"Hahaha, this guy Lao Lu is still in such a hurry, bring that thing to me."

The box opened, and the double sticks that came into view turned out to be two, and the public lost nature to make them, just like two beautiful works of art, the black and bright stick body carved with golden light with the Yin carving of the double dragon playing beads, and the single weight of these two nunchucks, not light or heavy, exactly three catties, the ends of both sides of the stick, all carved into a tiger's head-shaped wind whistle, so that every time I wave vigorously with bursts of tiger roar, take a closer look, this tiger's head-shaped wind whistle is not just a wind whistle, It can be used as a small hammer-like object, and when striking at the enemy, it can also increase the damage to the enemy, which is very good and powerful

I took these two nunchucks in my hand and played with them carefully for a while, and then I couldn't wait to hurry to the small square outside the middle palace to try the feel of these nunchucks

The pitch-black and shiny nunchucks went from slow to fast between the constant exchange of my hands, and the slight sound of the wind post became the sound of a tiger roaring that kept whispering, and this tiger roar attracted a constant crowd of onlookers, and even some people began to applaud

Clapping is a must, after all, my nunchuck's sixth-dan rank is not mixed. In fact, this double stick also has a certain similarity with a single knife, for example, a single knife looks at the hand, and a double knife looks away. And the same is true of the nunchuck, a single stick looks at the hand, and a double stick looks away. The use of single and double sticks of nunchucks is different from that of knives, that is, as a kind of soft weapon, the combination of force and dissipation of nunchucks is particularly important, otherwise this weapon will inevitably become a weapon that hurts both others and oneself

I don't know how Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin used nunchucks when he used them, but in later generations, the nunchucks footwork I learned was called the "Yin Triangle" by the master at that time. The reason is because every three steps must form a triangle, and the triangle formed between this footwork has no fixed rules, no fixed position, and no fixed side length, however, each step appears in an unexpected position of the enemy, so this footwork is called "Yin triangle footwork". (To be continued.) )