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The reason why Zuo Ying practiced archery hard was not simply because of the strength in her bones and blindly pursued results. Even if there was no shortage of people around her to protect her at all times, and the silver bullets were not as difficult to produce as they were now, she still needed to practice archery, and the level should not be too low, because she knew that this skill was one of the important criteria for judging whether the nobles who had just established their own country from horseback and bowstring recognized or not. When there is no war in idleness, it is equivalent to modern golf and airsoft shooting, as a nobleman, if you don't know anything about this skill, you can't integrate into other people's circles at all, even if you are the emperor, it is difficult to reduce the slander and contempt of others.

Zuo Ying rolled up her sleeves, looked at the bandage wrapped from her elbow to her wrist, moved her wrist and fingers, and could still feel the severe pain caused by the torn ligament, it seemed that she would have to wait for a while longer for the ointment covered inside.

She thought about it, but if she wanted to hurry, she couldn't reach it, so she said with a little pity: "Yu'er, I listen to you." Drive back to the palace to bathe and change clothes. ”

Scarlet Feather gratefully agreed, and hurriedly went over to Zhang Luo's car to drive.

Zuo Ying walked in the direction of the parked car, and asked Yu Chi Nandao beside him, "Do you like the gift I gave?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I heard that the Taishi pampered one of the beauties sent by His Majesty that night." Wei Chi Nan said, "It is said that the first emperor once sent a beautiful woman to the Taishi, and the Taishi gave it to his subordinates without looking at it, and the next day he also sarcastically admonished the emperor in front of him for not doing his job. The contributions of others can be imagined. ”

"Oh?" Zuo Ying raised her eyebrows, "It seems that this gift is really the right one." ”

"Your Majesty, forgive the ministers for talking a lot," Wei Chi Nan hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "After Your Majesty bought those beauties, he did not give them directly to the Taishi, but stayed in the palace for many days of training. Is it appropriate to teach them face-to-face and let them spy on information for His Majesty? ”

Zuo Ying smiled lightly, "If the Taishi also thinks so, the fine work you have installed in the Taishi Mansion will be a little safer." ”

Wei Chinan's eyes flickered, and he clenched his fists and said, "Your Majesty is wise." ”

"I have enough dogs for Taishi, and I will send a few to their house for dinner, he won't mind." Zuo Ying smiled and said, "That's right." What national affairs has the Taishi been working on recently? ”

Wei Chi Nan bowed and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, and the minister only knows that the Taishi has been in and out of the school frequently in the past two days. It is said that he personally inspected the army that escorted His Majesty to the Chengze Palace. ”

Zuo Ying knew what Wei Chi Nan meant when he said that he was incompetent, that is, because of the limited network, the collection of this information was very superficial, and he only knew the phenomenon, and he didn't know if what the target person did in the school field was as claimed to the outside world.

Zuo Ying frowned slightly, this hearing made her can't help but associate with what Li Yunshen said that night. Li Yunshen said like a god stick that her trip to Chengze leaving the palace might have the disaster of "dragon swimming in Asawa and swords and soldiers seeing blood", but the Taishi, who had not appeared in her sight for many days, personally took care of the army that escorted her on the trip. This made her wary. Although she has never believed in such strange things as divination and divination, she is also convinced that Li Yunshen, who is still sitting in the same boat as her so far, has no need to say some groundless nonsense to disturb her audio-visual.

At this time, the car driver was already in front of Zuo Ying. She lifted her feet to the carriage with the help of Scarlet Feather.

When the carriage was slowly moving, Zuo Ying looked at the lake reflecting the morning sun outdoors, and suddenly had an idea in her heart.

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At noon, the sun is shining. The soldiers who were arranging a formation to practice martial arts in the vast school field felt the arrival of midsummer earlier than most people in Luoyang City.

Yuanwei Campus is located on a vast plain in the west of Luoyang City. It was built on the city, next to the city wall on one side, and the sound of neat commands and shouts during the military exercise. Sometimes it can even reach the dwellings in the city walls. The school grounds are very large, except for the parade platform and a few houses on the side for the soldiers to rest, there is an endless training ground.

Today's school field is very lively, and from time to time there are bursts of war drums beating and the sound of soldiers cheering. Thousands of soldiers lined up in front of the parade platform, enclosing a large open space, and a row of arrow stacks stood on the side of the open space far from the parade platform, and each arrow stack was separated by eight or nine meters. One by one, the soldiers who came forward rode their horses, and walked sixty or seventy paces away from the stacks of arrows, and drew their bows and arrows on their horses. Aim to shoot the arrow into the bull's-eye. Once more than half of the hearts in front of you are shot, thunder and thunder war drums will ring in the school field to cheer for the people on the battlefield, and cheers will come and go.

At this time, Helan Chu was sitting majestically on the marshal's chair in the middle of the parade platform in military uniform, accompanied by seven or eight generals and generals at all levels. Among them is the chariot general Xiahou Yuan. His skin is slightly whiter than black charcoal, his face is full of sideburns and beard, and his burly body is broad and round. Matching the bright silver armor and the turquoise robe worn inside, I felt that I had found the right owner.

At this time, I saw a young general in his twenties hanging on the side of the review stand. He held a cedar longbow in his hand and a bag of goose feather arrows on his back, took the reins of the war horse from the horseman's hand, and leaped onto the horse's back with a sharp stride. The horseman whipped his whip behind him, and the horse galloped towards the other side of the review stand.

Immediately bumpy and agitated, people on it not only moved unsteadily, but also the field of vision was undulating, which was very unfavorable for aiming and shooting, but it was the closest to the actual situation on the battlefield.

The young man drew his bow with swift arrows, clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and lay half on the horse's back to reduce the error caused by the concussion. He looked at the target on the side of the battlement, and fired several arrows in succession, each of which hit the bull's-eye.

Seeing such a scene, the drummer beat the war drums again, and everyone in the audience opened their voices and shouted and cheered.

The horses were frightened by the thunderclap of the bowstring behind their ears, and the faster they ran, the more difficult it was for the man on horseback to time the arrows. Therefore, the people who generally miss the target are lost on the back few arrow stacks, and the arrows inserted in the back few arrow targets are also very rare.

I saw that the young general was extremely calm, and seemed to have already figured out this characteristic of the war horse. He set up arrows one after another, and several arrows shot out of his longbow with "whoosh" and before the horse arrived, the arrows had already taken the lead, accurately grasping the inertia and wind speed of the galloping mount, and the arrows went straight to the bull's-eye!

At the moment when the last arrow did not enter the bull's-eye, the war drums were thundered and "rumbled", the cheers were endless for a long time, and the audience was boiling!

After the young general stabilized the horse, he returned to the parade platform and dismounted and knelt on one knee to ask for a reward.

Helan Chu stood up and said loudly, "Give wine!" Then a small official touched a bronze jue full of fine wine with a tray. The young general clenched his fists towards the parade platform, took the bronze jue with both hands, and drank it all with his head up.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the crowd: "The emperor has arrived-"

This sudden shout made almost everyone stand still and look at each other. If it was "General So-and-so has arrived" just now, they may have known to kneel down on one knee to greet each other immediately, but the phrase "the emperor has arrived" is full of strangeness to these people who are soldiers at the lowest level, and they will not even dream that they may see the emperor with their own eyes in their lives, and they have never heard of an emperor who will appear on the school field when there is no war at the border.

It wasn't until the person who reported the report shouted again, and even the generals on the parade platform stood up and walked down the stage one after another, and everyone woke up and knelt down one after another.

It was indeed Zuo Ying who suddenly came to the school field at this time.

Since "the whole world is not the king's land", there is nowhere to go as an emperor. If you want to figure out something, you might as well take a trip and see for yourself. For a far-sighted opponent like Helan Chu, the more unexpected the move, the safer it is; The more he thinks that he has carefully planned the deployment, the easier it is for him to see through it at a glance.

So after Zuo Ying returned to the palace from Hualin Garden to bathe and change clothes, she took Scarlet Feather, Yu Chinan and others to the Yuanwei school on the outskirts of the city.

Because they didn't want to disturb the people in Luoyang City, they came by car, and when the ordinary people saw it, they would only think that it was a high-ranking official and nobleman traveling; When they came to the gate of the school field, they did not allow the soldiers guarding the door to pass on the message immediately, but let them lead them to come in quietly, and watched the martial arts performance behind the crowd for a while.

Regarding Zuo Ying's sudden arrival, Helan Chu was not surprised. As early as half an hour ago, there was an eyeliner in the palace who sent the news that Zuo Ying was going to visit the school in person.

Compared with the government that was still constrained by the Li clan and the imperial power to a certain extent, Helan Chu had a higher degree of control over the military power of this country. Among the twelve generals of the Pillar Kingdom, at least seven and a half are his people, and the remaining four and a half miles, and two are neutral on the surface, and they dare not disobey him in their bones. So here, he can look down on the little empress with a weak foundation as a giant, and he doesn't have to worry about what tricks she will come up with to deal with him.

It's just that in Helan Chu's eyes, Zuo Ying's reckless behavior regardless of physique made him feel quite unhappy; Thinking of the words "I haven't seen you for many days, I miss it in my heart" when he rewarded the Turkic beauty, he suddenly had the illusion that the nymphomaniac He Lanying was back, and he felt a little more disgusted in his heart.

This time was different from the situation when she broke into the Taishi's mansion alone, he had already prepared. He had even planned that unless she didn't show up, as soon as she appeared in the schoolyard, he would make her embarrassed, so that she would know the depths and retreats in front of him from now on, and she would not dare to do such things that challenged his authority easily.

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