Chapter 288: This is a provocation
The reconstruction of Luoyang continued to progress every day, and under the supervision of Xu Shu and many officials, the palaces and buildings in the city that had been in ruins in the fire were erected one by one, and the city of Luoyang was restored to some of its former prosperity.
In the early days, most of the merchants who came to Luoyang to do business were to obtain the benefits of duty-free travel in Yin and other places in Henan, and the goods brought to Luoyang were very limited. With the increase in the population of the city, the demand for foreign goods is also growing, and many long-term businessmen see that the revitalized Luoyang contains unlimited business opportunities.
On the newly renovated streets, many shops already have owners, and some shops even put goods on the door to open for business, although these shops do not have many goods, but after all, they have added a bit of vitality to Luoyang City.
In particular, the liquor shops and pavilions in the city have also opened one after another due to the growth of the city's population and the gathering of merchants. Although the people in Luoyang City do not have much money at the moment, the foreign businessmen are all wealthy, and the business of wine shops and pavilions is extremely prosperous.
The first to be renovated was the military camp in Luoyang City. The military camp in Luoyang City is not like the Anyi military camp in the past, regardless of the type of troops, all of them are stationed in one large camp.
The newly built garrison of Yu Linwei is separated from the camp and stationed in an area not far from the palace, so that once there is something in the palace, Yu Linwei will rush to the palace as soon as possible.
On Liu Bian's orders, Deng Zhan selected 500 of the strongest soldiers from Yulinwei and formed an elite team named Dragoon Guard by Liu Bian. Their station, within the first courtyard wall of the palace, was completely enclosed, no one knew what they practiced all day, and no one had even seen the dragoons appear outside the palace.
In order to rebuild Luoyang City, almost every day, truckloads of copper coins and grain and grass will be transported from Hedong to Luoyang. The copper coins entered Luoyang City, but in a day or two, they would be exchanged for building materials transported from all over the world. Grain and grass will soon be allocated, most of which will be sent to the barracks, while a small number of troops will be distributed to the people who have returned to Luoyang to participate in the reconstruction.
Outside Luoyang, patches of wasteland have also been reclaimed, and new villages have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain.
The backyard of the palace has been built, and what is still resting is the palace room in the front yard and some nurseries and flowers.
Since the palace was completed, Liu Wei no longer lived in a tent, but moved into the palace. On the wall of the towering palace gate, there is also a golden plaque with several big characters written on the Luoyang Palace.
Throughout the ages, there have been many kings in various dynasties, but like Liu Wei, who regarded the palace as the palace in the past, I am afraid that there is no second person to think about except him.
The memories that remained in Liu Wei's mind reminded him that before Dong Zhuo's rebellion, there were many classics in the Luoyang Palace. Many of these classics are classic ancient books handed down by ancestors. But a fire burned these out-of-prints clean.
Standing in the newly completed back garden, Liu Wei looked around the palace, but there was a faint feeling in his heart that the current Luoyang Palace, but it was just a virtual appearance, but there was no feeling of the essence of the palace.
"Your Highness!" Looking up at the row of palace rooms in front of him, a personal soldier quickly ran behind Liu Wei, clenched his fists and bowed down, and said to him: "Your Royal Highness, General Hu Cai escorted fifteen carts of copper coins and twenty-five carts of grain and grass, and just crossed the Yellow River, he encountered thieves ......."
Today's Liu Wei's personal soldiers have all been incorporated into Yulinwei. Yu Linwei was taught martial arts by Zhao Yun on weekdays, but during the war, he only accepted the command and dispatch of Liu Wei alone, and on weekdays, he assumed Liu Wei's escort duties.
This personal soldier, dressed in a red army robe, stepped on dark brown leather boots, and the feathers dyed red on his helmet swayed gently in the breeze, even more powerful than the tiger ben beside the emperor.
Hearing that the copper coins and grain and grass had been robbed, Liu Wei turned around abruptly and asked the pro-soldier, "Where is General Hu Cai now?" Who robbed the grain, grass and copper coins? ”
"Your Highness, the one who robbed the grain, grass, and copper coins is Hu Chi'er under the Niu Fu Tent!" Feeling that Liu Wei was on the verge of rage, the pro-soldier bowed down and clasped his fists and said: "Hu Chi'er led two thousand soldiers and horses, quietly entered Henan Yin from Hongnong County, and stationed in the Mengjin area. ”
"The scouts all eat for nothing?" Liu Wei widened his eyes and shouted to the soldier: "The king of this book has ordered that the scouts who are responsible for the investigation of the Mengjin area will all be beheaded in Luoyang for questioning, and the scouts will be sent to the Mengjin area to investigate Hu Chi'er's movements!" ”
"No!" The pro-soldier clenched his fists and bowed, answered, first took two steps back, and then ran quickly.
When the soldiers left, Liu Biantie blushed and shouted behind him: "Someone!" ”
When another soldier heard the call, he hurriedly ran to Liu Wei and bowed down to answer.
"Immediately invite General Deng Zhan to come and meet this king!" Twisting his brows, he didn't even look at the pro-soldier, so Liu Wei ordered him: "Be quick!" ”
"No!" After getting Liu Wei's order, the soldiers hurriedly ran to give Deng Zhan the order.
Standing in the back garden, Liu Wei frowned tightly. The army under his command, the reserve battalion has now taken over the various cities of Yin and Hongnong counties in Henan, and the main force has rushed to Luoyang from Hedong one after another and stationed in the Luoyang camp.
Originally, Liu Wei planned to let Tang Ji and others take Tang Ji and others to Luoyang in the next two days, but the robbery of Hu Cai made him dispel this idea.
Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others are still waiting for the court to pardon, but Niu Fu, as Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, is clear in his heart, he cannot be pardoned by the court.
This time, Hu Chi'er robbed Liu Wei of money and grain, which may be the harbinger of Niu Fu's action against the imperial court. From the fact that the scouts did not find out that Hu Chi'er led the army through Hongnong County to Yin, Henan, Liu Wei can also see that the current army is probably winning one after another, and has become careless to the enemy.
Rectify the army and let the soldiers know that the enemy is still strong, and it is imperative!
"Your Highness!" Standing in the back garden, twisting his eyebrows and thinking about how to deal with Hu Chi'er, Deng Zhan's voice came from behind Liu Wei.
"Provocation! This is a blatant provocation! Hearing Deng Zhan's voice, Liu Wei turned around abruptly and said to Deng Zhan: "Your dragoon guard has been training for several days, can you make progress?" ”
"Back to Your Highness!" Stunned by Liu Bian's sentence "This is a provocation", Deng Zhan hugged his fists and bowed down, and said to Liu Bian: "Swordsmanship cultivation is not something that can be achieved in a day......
"Don't talk about swordsmanship, just say it's unwarable!" Without waiting for Deng Zhan to finish speaking, Liu Wei waved his hand at him, intercepted his words, and asked him: "With 500 people, can you defeat the 2,000 Xiliang army?" ”
"Yes!" Deng Zhan hesitated for a moment, and finally bowed down and clenched his fists and said to Liu Wei: "The dragoon guards are all the best in the army, and the two thousand Xiliang troops are not the opponents of the dragoons!" ”
"Let's go! This king will go with you to see the soldiers! From Deng Zhan's answer, Liu Wei heard a little uncertainty, he waved at Deng Zhan, and took the lead in walking towards the dragoon guard's station.
The dragoon guard was built in the outermost garden of the palace. In the garden, a circle of walls was erected, and the area within the walls was not wide, and in the first courtyard of the huge palace, it only occupied a corner.
There were still more than 100 steps away from the dragoon guard barracks, and Liu Wei heard bursts of shouting from the barracks. He turned his head to look at Deng Zhan beside him, although he didn't speak, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Following behind Liu Bian, Deng Zhan lowered his head slightly, seeing a smile on Liu Bian's face, he hurriedly followed a step, and said to Liu Bian as he walked: "Since His Highness ordered his subordinates to train the dragoon guards, His Majesty did not dare to have a moment of slackness, and trained strictly every day. ”
"General Deng really didn't disappoint this king!" While walking towards the dragoon guard barracks, Liu Wei nodded and praised Deng Zhan.
Outside the tooth gate of the barracks, there were two Yulin guard soldiers standing straight, the two Yulin guards pressed the hilt of their swords, straightened their chests and buttocks, and said that the soldiers of the ordinary army were not as tall as they stood, and even the main force of Liu Wei's army did not necessarily have guards who could stand up in such a standard military posture.
Seeing Liu Wei and Deng Zhan coming, the two Yulin guards standing on the left and right sides of the Yamen hurriedly clasped their fists and bowed to the two.
Walking into the Yamen, Liu Wei saw that in the courtyard of the barracks, there were three rows of stone houses, and on the opposite side of the houses was a clean and clean open space where even the weeds had been cleared.
In one corner of the clearing, there are more than 20 wooden sticks wrapped in thick straw on the outside, and not far from the wooden sticks, there are several thick wooden walls.
These facilities were all built under the personal supervision of Liu Wei when the dragon cavalry guard was established that day. The reason why Deng Zhan was chosen to train this team was that Liu Wei did not consider building them into cavalry based on horse warfare like Yulinwei, but wanted to build them into a special combat team that was good at dormant and raiding in various environments.
Hundreds of dragoons, dressed in red armor but with golden feathers on their helmets, were lining up in the clearing to practice slashing.
Every time a sword is slashed, the officers and soldiers holding the sword will let out a shout, and the loud shouts that Liu Wei and Deng Zhan heard on the road were made by the officers and soldiers when they were training swordsmanship.
Since the establishment of this team, the daily task of the Dragoon Guard officers and soldiers is to practice swordsmanship with Deng Zhan. Deng Zhan is a swordsman, but he is not a swordsman who pays much attention to moves. All along, he has paid attention to defeating the enemy with one move, so when training officers and men, he also took the most basic points of training as chopping, chopping, picking, and stabbing.
"Your Highness is here!" Following Liu Wei into the dragoon guard camp, Deng Zhan shouted to the dragoon guards who were busy training.
Hundreds of dragoon guards heard Deng Zhan's shout, and they all stopped what they were doing, and turned their heads one by one to look at Liu Wei and Deng Zhan, who had already entered the barracks.
When the officers and soldiers saw Liu Wei coming to the barracks, they all let out a cheer, but they did not rush forward, but quickly lined up in a neat formation in the open space.
The formation of the line, a dragoon guard officer drew his long sword, drew a half circle in front of him, straightened his waist, looked ahead, and shouted: "Dragoon Guard officers and soldiers, salute Your Highness!" ”
This kind of ritual is not a traditional ritual of the Han army, but a ritual that Liu Wei requires Yu Linwei and Dragoon Guards to perform, which is equivalent to a kind of honor guard.
What Liu argues wants is to train these two teams into pure elites who can be used as honor guards and conquer the world.