I thought that I would be able to meet the emperor of Western Xia Li Qianshun the next day, but I didn't expect that this high favor would wait for three days.

This has to start with the third princess.

Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, had three daughters and three sons, the eldest son, the former crown prince Li Renai, and the eldest daughter Li Mingxin were born to the princess and queen of Liao. In 1125, after Liao was flattened, the prince refused to reduce the gold, and died of anger, and the queen Yelu Nanxian died due to the destruction of the mother country, and the beloved son died, blaming Chongzong Li Qianshun for being ruthless and unjust, and died of hunger strike. And the eldest princess Mingxin married the general Yelu Dashi of the Great Liao two years before the Liao annihilation. Yelu Dashi was a decisive man, and after the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao, he quickly retreated to the northwest and gathered the remnants in the northwest to establish Western Liao. The eldest princess Mingxin was also brought to Western Liao by Yelu Dashi, but the queen of Western Liao is Xiao Ta Buyan, Mingxin is just a concubine, because Xixia betrayed Liao, although Mingxin is a concubine, but her status is not as good as a palace maid.

The second princess Mingyue is the sister of the third princess, and the current prince Renxiao was born to the Han concubine Cao, but the generalissimo of Dajin, Wanyan Zonghan, heard that the second princess was beautiful and had grown up, and sent a messenger to Xixia to ask for marriage, Li Qianshun had no choice but to send the princess Mingyue to Xijing to Zonghan as a concubine. Thinking about this incident made Li Qianshun's heart ache. This colt is two years older than his father, not to mention, marrying the princess of Xixia as a concubine, he didn't come to see this father-in-law, and he had to let people send his beloved daughter over, which shows the power of this Zonghan for a while. Therefore, Li Qianshun swore in his heart that he wanted to make these three princesses happy, and he was also indignant in his heart when he surrendered to this big gold. In the past two years, I have paid great attention to the young children of Western Xia, so that they can be recruited as horses.

Li Liangfu is a general of Western Xia, for the Western Xia Li family to fight in the south and north, he has a son, named Li Xiao'er, with his father to fight for many years, also made a lot of contributions, promoted to general. Western Xia established the country with martial arts, and Li Shunqian was very optimistic about this Li Xiao'er. This brother also has a desire to be a royal colt. Everyone knows in their hearts that it is a sure thing for the emperor to marry the third princess to Brother Xiao'er, only the three princesses themselves are not clear. Li Qianshun wanted the princess to come back from a trip with the prince this time to talk about it.

But the third princess Mingzhu went out this time and had an accident. The third princess fell in love with Gao Pet, and she had to marry, which made Li Qianshun have a headache. Li Qianshun has three daughters, one is married to Liao, although he is now a concubine, he is not even as good as a palace maid, and the other is a concubine of Zonghan, which is worse than death, but although Li Qianshun is the king of a country, he sacrifices a lot for the interests of the country and the nation, and feels guilty, but he has no way to do anything about them, and he can't help them at all. That's why I thought that the third princess must let her be in her own power, and I don't want her to be like the two sisters, and she can be summoned nearby when she wants her daughter. But this high favor is a person of the Great Song Dynasty, Tongling is more than 3,000 miles away from the Xingqing Imperial City, although it is the son of everyone, but at least the Song and Xia countries are enemy countries. When Li Qianshun had a headache, Zhongshu Wang Renzong played an idea.

"My Great Xia Kingdom is a country established by martial arts, and the only way to convince the three princesses is to let Brother Xiao compete with the high pet of the Song Kingdom for three times. This can grow my Xia people's ambition, and it can make the third princess sincerely satisfied. Li Qianshun also thought that this idea was good, and personally negotiated with the three princesses, talking about this competition, and said:

"My beloved daughter's vision must be good, but I am a royal family, different from ordinary people, if it were an ordinary family, I would have decided this family matter by yourself a long time ago, I am your father, and there are parents who don't want their children to be happy and happy! But we're also royal. There is really no way for me to make such a decision, those ministers, it is their duty to take care of state affairs, but I also take care of family affairs, which is really hateful. But although the high pet you said is a disciple of the family, he is only a native of the Song Kingdom, and he has no fame, and my princess is the most beautiful in my Great Xia Kingdom. So I didn't have a choice, so I came up with a child's method. Pick out the best one for me to be a colt. ”

"If Gao Gongzi wins, I can gag the mouths of the ministers, so that Brother Li Xiao's father and son will be sincerely convinced, so that they will not have different hearts because of your affairs, and if Gao Zhong loses unexpectedly, then I can only blame Gao Zhong for not having the ability to do this Xia country." The three princesses listened to what their father said for a long time, although they were worried in their hearts, but they had no choice but to listen to their father's arrangement and nodded.

The third princess knew that if she was better than Wencai, Gao Pet would never have much of a problem, but she didn't have any background in this martial arts, she only knew that Gao Pet had led people to fight in Blackwater City, and she was worried. So she went to the prince. The prince couldn't control the situation, but in the armory, he found a set of armor and a sword for people to give to Gao Chong, hoping to help a little. The princess and the prince also knew that this was the only thing they could help.

Gao Zhong waited for Li Qianshun's summons in the post house, and there was no other news from the palace, and in the afternoon of the next day, the prince sent someone to send a set of treasure armor and swords and a letter from the prince himself, so he knew the general situation. This incident surprised him, and he didn't know that this could give birth to this branch. Although he also liked this princess, he didn't want to be the concubine of this Western Xia. He called some men to discuss the matter.

Qian Jichen, the Deng brothers, Zhao Yi, and Dazhu heard what happened, and everyone talked about it, whether it was from the safety of Gao Pet or other aspects, they were one-sidedly opposed. Such as the Deng family, this Deng Yu has been deeply rooted in love all the way, except for Gao Chong, it is no longer possible to find other people as husbands, Lao Qian's own daughter is similar, and there is also a Guan Lin in the family. In the end, Zhao Yi objectively analyzed their current situation and the reasons why Gao Pet should participate in this competition:

"We don't have the ability to stop this competition, if we want to give up this competition, the face of the Xixia Kingdom will not be able to get by, and this is also an irresponsible performance for the third princess, then we will definitely achieve nothing in this Xixia Kingdom. And it is very likely that he will become the enemy of Western Xia in the future. The crown prince and the princess were born to the same mother, and they have a deep relationship, if it causes harm to the princess, it will not only affect Li Qianshun's dynasty, but also affect the relationship with the prince's dynasty. In this way, we will not have any dealings with this Western Xia in the future. Second, surrendering without a fight also lost the face of my Great Song Dynasty, lost the prestige of my Gao family, there is nothing impossible to lose, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, not to mention, my eldest young master is first-class in terms of civil and martial arts, and there is almost no one in the world who is invincible. As for safety in front of the emperor, some injuries are possible, but life and death are still rare, and of course there may be accidents. So whether it's better or not, we all have to be prepared. This time, the prince sent a treasure armor, this treasure armor is a treasure that the Great Song God Arm Crossbow can't shoot, plus our own internal armor problem is not too big. Third, if the eldest young master wins, we can get the help of a country to improve the relationship between Western Xia and our Great Song Dynasty, and reduce the threat of Dajin to our Great Song Dynasty. Besides, the eldest young master and the third princess are talented and beautiful, a natural pair, marrying the princess is more beneficial than harmful to my Gao family, and we have no reason to object. ”

Da Zhu also stood up and said: "The eldest young master, who can compare, that is sure to win and lose, from the beginning I have never worried about winning or losing this competition, it is them who have to worry." Let's think about what kind of tricks they will come up with, so as not to fall into the way of others. Gao Chong is also happy with this princess in his heart, he is not afraid of the competition, and the situation is compelling, it is indispensable, and it is proposed here just to let them not have a chance in the future, and prevent it before it burns. Although the others had a little Jiujiu in their hearts, they no longer had any opinions when they heard Zhao Yi Dazhu say this, thinking about the possible tricks of others, and began to make preparations before the war.

In this era, martial arts competitions were generally inseparable from mounted archery, and Gao Zhong did not want his crossbow to be exposed to the public, and although it was not necessary to lose with a traditional or Western Xia bow, it was not safe. If the high pet uses this traditional bow, the high pet is not a high pet.

So he's going to make a bow of his own. According to the method of making a bow at this time, it takes about three years for a good bow. Analyze the bow trunk in winter, treat the horns in the spring, treat the tendons in the summer, close the materials in the autumn, put the bow arm in the bow box in the cold winter, and repair the appearance in the severe winter. In winter, the dry wood of the bow is naturally smooth and fine; In spring, it is naturally moist and soft; In summer, you will not be entangled; In autumn, all the materials are closed, and they are naturally close; If the bow body is fixed in winter, the bow will not be deformed; In the severe winter and extreme cold, the glue and paint are completely dry and solid, so the appearance can be repaired. Attach the bowstring in the spring and store it for another year before it can be used. The above-mentioned complex process takes two to three years. High pets don't have that much time. Gao Zhong made a modern compound bow, and he also wanted to make a recurve bow, but the bow blade of the recurve bow is more difficult and takes longer to make than the compound bow, and the compound bow, because the bow blade is shorter, there are materials in the armory of the Western Xia Kingdom that can be restructured.

It took Gao Pet nearly a day to draw the parts of the compound bow and write down the production requirements in detail. This is the third day that Gao Pet has arrived in Xingqing City.

In order to save effort, Gao Pet uses a set of moving pulleys and a partial heart chakra, which can make it possible to maintain a full bow with less force after pulling the bow full. The bow has a double secondary string and a protective frame. There are independent peepholes (sights) and, more importantly, a scatterer for bows and arrows. It is a mechanical arrow release device that is wrapped around his wrist and used by hooking the bowstring with the hanging head of the hair scatterer, then pulling it apart, and then pulling the trigger with his finger to release the arrow. Generally, the speed of the bowstring is faster than the release speed of the finger, and the arrow released by hand will have a tendency to swing in the direction of the finger, which will affect the shooting accuracy, while the arrow released with the spreader does not have this problem. A pair of balanced stabilizer bars were also designed. For the protection of the bowstring, the D-ring is designed, which is a set of D-shaped rope loops around the string, which facilitates the use of the spreader and reduces the damage of the spreader to the bowstring.

Since there are no bolts at this time, the connection of each part adopts a glued bundle structure. For this reason, Gao Pet wants to boil some gelatin here.

After the drawings were drawn, he went to the prince and Ren Cong, wanting them to help, although this Qian Jichen can also be done, but the materials in the palace are better and more sophisticated, and this can also bring the relationship with the prince closer.

Worried that it would be too troublesome to go to the palace, he went to find the young master Ren Cong.

The young master was in the eastern district of the inner city, where the main officials of Western Xia were concentrated. The Young Master's Mansion is a larger Zhuang courtyard, and there are still many differences between the official mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, especially in style.

When Gao Chong arrived, Ren Cong had just returned home from the prince, and when he heard that Gao Chong had come out, he immediately greeted him in person.

"Lord Ren, excuse me."

"It's Mr. Gao, it's really rare, please come in the house."

The two entered the living room, sat down and politely spoke, and when it came to the topic, Gao Pet said:

"I came to your mansion because I had something to trouble, my lord."

"What do you say?"

"This time I came to Western Xia, I didn't bring weapons, I used to use guns, so the prince or the palace has no suitable guns, temporarily borrowed. As for the bow and arrow, I drew a set of drawings and asked for help in making them. "But there is no general assembly drawing in this set, and there is no spreader, which is definitely a very important invention that can greatly improve the accuracy of shooting. Gao Pet has arranged for Lao Qian to do it separately.

"Master Gao, this lance, you go to my armory room to see if it is useful, if not, the prince must have it. But as far as I know, the manufacturing time of this bow is as little as one year and three years, so can you have time for a few days to compete? I have some famous bows at this time, so let's pick one and use it first. ”

"It's not that I don't believe in our Xixia bow, it's just that the current bow takes a lot of arm strength, and it can't become an archer unless it's strong. When fighting, there are only three arrows, and once the three arrows pass, the bow cannot be full, and it is often out of strength. The bow I made can achieve the usual effect with three or four percent of the force. ”

"Is it really that effective?" Ren Cong was a little unconvinced.

"Try it. If this bow is made, it can be kept in Western Xia as a gift to the crown prince after my competition, but it must not be passed on, especially Dajin. ”

"Then I'll thank you on behalf of the prince."

"I've made the graphics separate for the sake of secrecy, and you'd better keep them separate when you ask someone to do it. However, it is necessary to use the best materials and meet the requirements mentioned in the diagram when making the production. ”

"I'll take care of this, when do you want it?"

"Of course, the sooner the better, and I need at least one to two days to debug and get used to it."

"Good. Then let's go pick up the gun first, I won't keep you, I have to go to see the prince. ”

The two of them arrived at Ren Congming's gun room and picked a long lance from fifty or sixty weapons, and they were quite satisfied. Carrying the lance, he took Dazhu and Ding Li back to the post house. And Ren Cong immediately rushed to the prince and went to do errands.