Chapter 3 The Unfathomable Heart of the People
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Did the Qin Dynasty have horseshoes...... This is really hard to test. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There is a problem that cannot be ignored, that is, the horseshoe is the most important role in the combat life of a war horse as the three treasures of the cavalry (Takahashi saddle, stirrup and horseshoe).
But did there ever such a thing as a horseshoe in the Qin Dynasty......? This cannot be found in the historical records, but the Qin Dynasty, as the first Central Plains dynasty to compile a large number of cavalry, is guaranteed to have the number of war horses, especially after the battle of the Qin-Hun Hetao, the number of war horses of the Qin State can be said to have been guaranteed.
However, anyone who has ever owned a horse knows very well that if a horse is not nailed or branded with a horseshoe, then a horse can easily be scrapped due to damage to the hooves.
So, logically speaking, an empire with a large cavalry force is unlikely to ignore this issue. After all, although the horse source is guaranteed, if a cavalry unit loses too many horses in non-combat, the impact on a cavalry force is also very serious.
Hawkers, so the Qin in this book has horseshoes and unilateral stirrups (without stirrups it is unlikely to form a large cavalry force, and all cavalry must have an infantry or a man with a stool, after all, the war horses of the Qin Dynasty are taller than the Mongolian horses of later generations.) At the same time, compared with the epoch-making invention of the stool, the unilateral stirrup is a little more reliable. ), without bilateral stirrups and Takahashi saddles.
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Dinner on this day is millet and steamed rice mixed with rice. In later generations, such rice is more like a coarse grain than a refined grain. Fortunately, Zhang Jiashi has long been accustomed to this kind of food. After all, it has been four years since he came to the Qin Dynasty, and the kind of life in the valley alone makes Zhang Jiashi even more picky.
And Ying Yuelian didn't find fault with anything, after all, compared to such a month of wild life, being able to eat a bowl of hot rice can be said to be quite good.
As the main food of the Chinese, grain crops can be said to have been quite long, but Zhang Jiashi has one thing that he does not understand, that is, how to divide millet and millet rice.
Hawkers,That's not the point.,The point is that the girl's cooking tastes okay.。 In addition to the occasional scrambled eggs with different salty tastes......
Well, this is also an inevitable thing, you can't expect a village to find fine salt or even refined salt, for this village, it is very good that most people can eat salt.
The main sources of salt in the Qin Dynasty were well salt and sea salt, which appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China, but such sea salt was not dried around the sea, but was made of salt bricks made by boiling seawater in bronze vessels.
It can be said that the salt produced in this way is very problematic, and heavy metals, especially copper, are often exceeded.
But that's not the case at this time. As mentioned earlier, at this time, it is very good for a Qianshou to have salt to eat at home. And the girl's craftsmanship is always much better than that of Qin Jun's husband in Wanxian County. In a word, compared to modern people, many foods of the Qin Dynasty belong to the category of heavy metal poisoning.
The average life expectancy of the pre-Qin ancients was low, and this factor can be said to be not negligible.
But no matter what, Zhang Jiashi and Ying Yuelian still finished this meal, which made Zhang Jiashi feel the best dinner he had in recent years.
(The level of agriculture during the Qin Dynasty was much higher than it was before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty vigorously promoted Zhao Guo's farming methods.) It can be said that the fall of the Qin Dynasty was, in a sense, a regression for Chinese agriculture. At the very least, later generations did not have the same popularity of cattle as the Qin Dynasty. )
(The food of the Qin Dynasty was not monotonous, and the food, including sorghum, could not be too different from modern times in terms of the types of cereal crops, but the preparation method was either fried or boiled.) And eating sand or grain husks is a very normal thing. Making cakes is also an option. The pancakes of the Qin Dynasty were the first choice for dry food. )
(Of course, the Qin Dynasty had no potatoes, no corn, and no sweet potatoes.) Potatoes that appear in "The Legend of Chu and Han...... Well, just ignore it. )
Compared with the dinner of Zhang Jiashi and others, the white wolf on the side was biting a few old hens, revealing a kind of complaining eyes from time to time.
Because the current white wolf is no longer cooked food. However, it also seemed to know that the situation was wrong, so it didn't make a fuss.
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The thing that Zhang Jiashi was most dissatisfied with in the Qin Dynasty was that he could be said to be bored to death at night, with no computer, no TV, and no mobile phone...... It should be said that Zhang Jiashi's mobile phone has long been out of battery, not even a radio.
Well, if it weren't for Zhang Jiashi's habit of resting after cultivating, I'm afraid he would have the urge to pull Ruan Weng Shao and the others to have some fun.
Pavilion Chief Qi gave his room to Zhang Jiashi, originally he thought that Ying Yuelian also lived with Zhang Jiashi, but well, in the end, it became Pavilion Chief Qi's room, and Ying Yuelian and the Lori named Huan'er lived together, and Zhang Jiashi found a place in the hall, spread hay and slept for one night. Qi Tingchang went to Huan'er's room to take a rest.
Zhang Jiashi, who took a hot bath at Qi Tingchang's house, lay on the haystack and quickly fell asleep.
But Zhang Jiashi never imagined that some things would make a turning point in this village.
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Just as there are good people and bad people in the world, the villagers of Qijia Village also have some people like Liu Bang who do not do their jobs. Stealing chickens and dogs and not doing anything good is a very normal thing for them.
The two brothers, Qi Gan and Qi Han, are the scum of Qijia Village, if it weren't for Qi Jia's Village's You Zhu Qi Zhong and Qi Tingchang's constant letting the villagers guard against them, I'm afraid, these two people would have stopped doing anything good a long time ago.
When the two of them returned to the village today, they also saw a group of tall horses eating weeds outside the village, as well as a few strange beasts. Especially Hongyun, as a horse-like beast that has earned a lot of attention in many ways, the two of them certainly know very well that this horse can get them a lot of copper coins or even gold and half taels.
Therefore, in the dead of night, the two avoided a group of patrols to warn the villagers of Qijia Village, intending to steal a few horses.
But the two of them definitely didn't expect that Zhang Jiashi and the others were relieved that these horses were spending the night outside the village, and Hongyun, who had become the "leader", was of course very reassuring to them.
The horse sleeps standing up, but that doesn't mean that the horse's vigilance will be low, on the contrary, Hongyun has long sensed that someone is approaching it.
So, Hongyun opened her eyes, looked around, and noticed that two people she didn't know were approaching her.
A black cloud erupted from the nose of the "......", alerting the two people who approached them.
As a result, Qi Gan and Qi Han couldn't die, and they directly found Hongyun.
Looking at the wooden sticks and ropes in the hands of the two of them, Hongyun directly opened his mouth and spewed out a black flame.
This ability was one of the abilities she inherited from her father, and in fact, Red Cloud knew that she could breathe fire, but she didn't know what was so special about its flames.
If she had known that her father was a king of horses from the abyss, she would not have thought so.
Unlike the White Flames of the White Wolf, the Black Flames of the Red Cloud do not have the ability to purify, but are capable of incinerating the Black Flames of Purgatory, including souls.
Qi Han was directly swept into the flames of the red cloud, and he felt that his body and even his soul were burned.
He wanted to scream, but he didn't know that his brother Qi Gan's panicked eyes were gradually burned into a pile of black powder.
"Ahh!!h
Because, with a little moonlight, Qi Gan saw that Qi Han's body quickly burned into a charred skeleton under the black flames, and then slowly scattered on the ground.
Qi Gan glanced at Hongyun, who slowly turned his head over, and was so frightened that he crawled and ran away directly.
Of course, Hongyun didn't know how much trouble its self-defense methods had brought to Zhang Jiashi and Qijia Village. If it even burned Qi Gan to death, there would definitely be no such trouble. However, it watched Qi Gan leave like this, and slowly closed its eyes.
As for Qi Han, a hand that has not yet been completely burned to white bones holds a bundle of hemp rope, and next to this hand is a pile of black bones scattered on the grass, as well as some limbs that have not yet been burned......
Hongyun glanced at the herd of horses beside her and the stupid cow's eyes thrown at her, and suddenly felt that her image was directly chasing her mother's father, the leader of the wild horse herd, extremely tall.
And she was thinking beautifully, if the master saw his performance, would he be more intimate with her?
Hongyun glanced at Qijia Village, then slowly closed his eyes again.
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Of course, Zhang Jiashi didn't know such an episode, after the rooster Si Chen, Zhang Jiashi got up directly as usual.
Although he had experienced more than a month of life in the wild, he rested early last night, and Zhang Jiashi felt that his spirit was quite good.
He went to the backyard, threw a bucket from the side of the well into it, and then turned the wheel installed on the well, and slowly raised the bucket with some water.
At this time, the door connecting the backyard opened, and Zhang Jiashi heard the voice and saw Qi Huan'er walking over with some baskets.
"Miss Qi, morning. ”
"Brother Zhang, morning, do you want to wash the clothes you are wearing?" Qi Huan'er glanced at Zhang Jiashi's dusty military uniform and said this.
"No, I'll leave later. Thank you Miss Qi for your kindness, is your sister up?"
"Not yet, she's still asleep. Qi Huan'er looked at Zhang Jiashi, and then said, "Is Brother Zhang a big official?"
"This ...... Miss Qi, Zhang's official said that it was not too big, and it was not too small to say that it was too small. Why do you have this question?" Zhang Shixin didn't understand why Qi Huan'er had this question.
"Oh, it's nothing, because Dad said that there are big officials in the village. Moreover, the military brothers in the county do not have the armor of Brother Zhang. Those leather armor looked so ugly. Qi Huan'er said what she thought.
Zhang Jiashi, who heard this reason, was embarrassed, so he had to shake his head and smile bitterly: "Zhang is just a hundred generals, maybe there are not a few officers in Dingtao County." ”
Dingtao County is a large county, and logically there should be 1,000 county soldiers stationed. But Qi Huan'er should not have seen an officer with a hundred generals or above, so there is such a problem.
However, at this time, Zhang Jiashi heard the neighing of horses outside the village, and he sensed that something was happening.
So he said to Qi Huan'er: "Miss Qi, maybe something happened, you stay at home and don't run around." ”
"Oh, Brother Zhang, you have to be careful. ”
"Hmm!" Zhang Jiashi walked to Qi Huan'er's side and gently touched the other party's head. What he didn't know was that the little Lori lowered her head with a red face, not knowing what she was thinking.
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"What's going on?" Zhang Jiashi, who grabbed Lu Lu Jian in a hurry and walked out, ran to the street and saw Hongyun leading the herd of horses back. And he grabbed a young swimmer and asked the other party.
"I don't know, there are hundreds of Dingtao County soldiers outside!"
"What?" Zhang Jiashi let go of his hand, he had an ominous premonition, those who came were not good, and those who were good did not come.
"My lord!" Su Teng and the others, who also did not wear armor, kept gathering around Zhang Jiashi.
"Su Teng, you take a few people to stay in the village, and everyone else goes out with me to see what the situation is. Zhang Jiashi quickly gave the order.
"Yes, sir. Su Teng hugged his fists, and then stayed in the village with a few people.
And Zhang Jiashi whistled, in exchange for the red cloud, quickly stepped on the stirrup on the side, turned over and rode on the red cloud.
The people gathered around Zhang Jiashi also summoned their mounts, followed closely behind Zhang Jiashi, and went out of the village together.
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Zhang Jiashi was more than 300 meters away from the entrance of the village, tightened the reins, and let Hongyun stop. Others stopped behind Zhang Jiashi.
Zhang Jiashi, on the other hand, looked at a chariot less than twenty meters away from him, and an officer stood on it, and next to this officer stood a civilian who was a little impressed by Zhang Jiashi.
"I don't know what the Dingtao County Lieutenant is doing here?" Zhang Jiashi looked at this officer's two or five hundred main military uniforms, and he knew the identity of this person.
"Hmph! Bold bandits, they actually dare to occupy the village as the king? As the lieutenant of Dingtao County, Captain Bendu naturally can't tolerate you. This official advises you, and you will be arrested obediently!" The county lieutenant of Dingtao glanced at Zhang Jiashi, and then kept looking at the red cloud under Zhang Jiashi's crotch, and his eyes showed incomparable greed.
"Presumptuous!" Huan Suo, who was behind Zhang Jiashi, waved Chang Ge and said fiercely: "I'm from Xianyang, how can we be bandits?"
After hearing this, a trace of suspicion flashed in the eyes of the county lieutenant of Dingtao, but then he laughed: "Hahahaha, you people are still from Xianyang, what are your credentials?"
Huan Su wanted to say something, but was stopped by Zhang Jiashi, because Zhang Jiashi saw the greedy look in the county lieutenant's eyes.
Moreover, the crossbowmen among the hundreds of county soldiers have begun to mount crossbows and arrows.
Although he didn't know why this county lieutenant appeared here, he naturally couldn't sit still. A few dozen crossbowmen are a threat that should not be ignored.
Zhang Jiashi took a deep breath, slowly raised the Lulu Sword in his hand, and said loudly: "The Lulu Sword is here!
Ordinary soldiers may not know it, but for the officers of Great Qin, there are very few people who have not heard of the Lulu Sword.
And some officers saw the nearly 1.4-meter-long long sword raised in Zhang Jiashi's hand, and although they had some doubts in their hearts, it was impossible for an ordinary person to wear a long sword of this length. It can be said that they have already believed five or six points in their hearts.
The county lieutenant of Dingtao was naturally one of them, his eyes were staring at the long sword, and the fine sweat on his forehead couldn't help but slowly overflow.
The scene fell into silence for a while, and Zhang Jiashi stared at the county lieutenant Dingtao whose face was uncertain, waiting for the other party's choice.
Some of the officers asked the crossbowmen to put down the bows and crossbows pointed at Zhang Jiashi and his party, and they already believed that what Zhang Jiashi had in his hands was the real Lulu sword.
The county lieutenant of Dingtao knows very well that it is difficult for him to ride a tiger now, and that long sword is likely to be the Lulu sword, which is the most representative of the emperor's Qinwang sword in the entire Great Qin, second only to the Dingqin sword carried by His Majesty.
However, the greedy look in his eyes became more and more sharp. He took a deep breath and said loudly, "That sword of his is fake!
He wanted to get this Lulu sword, as long as he said it was fake, and killed Zhang Jiashi and the others, this sword would be his.
He also wanted Hongyun, but compared to Lulu Jian, Hongyun's value was not worth mentioning.
Zhang Jiashi forgot one thing, and the husband was not guilty. But he was not stupid, when he heard the words of the county lieutenant of Dingtao, Zhang Jiashi quickly drew out the Lulu sword.
There is also a way to draw a sword with a sword body that is too long, that is, to raise it, hold the hilt, and move the scabbard in the opposite direction with force, which is also the way to draw the sword from the flying sheath.
"I'll say it again, Lu Lu Jian is here!Who dares to be presumptuous!" Zhang Jiashi glanced at the Dingtao County soldiers dozens of meters away and said this.
Although it is said that it has changed hands, and raising the sword has also become holding the Lulu sword horizontally, there are still suspicious county soldiers and officers who have confirmed one point, that is, Zhang Jiashi's Lulu sword can be said to be genuine.
After all, forging a sword body that is nearly a meter long can be said to be very difficult and deadly. Great Qin's sword has a set of strict specifications, if a person privately forges a sword that is longer than the Dingqin sword, and it is known, this is the great sin of the Yi three clans.
It's just that Zhang Jiashi ignored one point, that is, it is impossible for the county lieutenant of Dingtao to be without his own cronies. So, the bed crossbows on several chariots fired several crossbow arrows and shot at Zhang Jiashi.
The rate of fire of the bed crossbow bolt was very fast, but Zhang Jiashi quickly took the Lulu sword and swung out a few sword qi.
After the sword qi collided with the crossbow arrow, the sword qi disappeared directly, and the crossbow arrow was hit in the wrong direction.
Zhang Jiashi looked at the county lieutenant of Dingtao coldly, and the killing intent in his eyes became more and more fierce.
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