Spring is here, everything revives, the ice and snow begin to melt, and the mountains and plains are slowly covered with green.↗,
From Xinhua City, a whole group of cavalry drove out.
These cavalrymen were accompanied by hounds and falcons domesticated by Yi people. Obviously, this was a group of cavalry that went out of the city to find prey.
Zhang Qi, who has now been promoted to the rank of guarding the army, is the leading officer on this inspection tour out of the city.
"This nobleman from Chang'an City is really picky. Spring hasn't even started yet, but he's still clamoring to eat bear paws..." He opened his mouth and muttered dissatisfiedly.
There are a lot of bears here in Xinhua.
Last summer, the entire guard army hunted and killed hundreds of male bears.
The meat was dried and turned into winter food. The fur was cut off, tanned and sold to businessmen from China. As for bear paws?
Of course, he became a meal for the officers of the Guarding Army, the officials of Xinhua City, and the nobles of Hao.
But where to find bears in spring?
The ice and snow have just melted, and I'm afraid the bears are hibernating in their caves and won't come out at all.
Even if there is a bear that has come out of its burrow, how can a bear that is skinny and boneless, with no flesh on its body, and even its fur be shriveled, be of any use to a bird?
Generally speaking, if you want to kill bears, you should do so during the summer and autumn seasons.
The bears at that time were so fat and big with shiny fur that one kill could feed one or two hundred people for several days.
But there is no way.
There are some new uncles here in Chang'an City.
Ancestors are often either marquises of ten thousand households or relatives.
The two leaders are the current uncles of the country.
Apart from Captain Bo Shi, who in the Huyi Army can afford to offend him?
The old man wants to eat the bear's paw. Why don't the protective army sneak away and kill the bear?
"Leader, don't complain. In the future, our immediate boss may be indispensable. He has to serve others..." One of Zhang Qi's senior officers comforted him: "Besides, your Majesty will issue an edict next year to protect us."
The territory of the Yi army has expanded several times, and Captain Bo wants us to take this opportunity to go to the north, explore the road, and see what is there!"
Hearing this, Zhang Qi nodded and turned his gaze to the north.
In the past, the Huyi army mainly explored to the west.
After all, to the west is the range of activities of the Yi and Di, and to the east are Korea and Zhenfan. As for the north?
People rarely go there. It is said that it is colder there, with ice and snow all year round, and it is only suitable for people to live in summer.
Since the Huyi Army took root in Xinhua, except for last year when they sent a small expedition team to trace the black water for hundreds of miles to explore the source, they have basically not explored in that direction.
However, the emperor of Chang'an issued an edict and with his eyes closed, all the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers centered on the reform were transferred to the newly established Huaihua County.
We also sent a few senior officials to strengthen the border.
The arrival of the elders made the entire Huyi Army both happy and worried.
Fortunately, these gentlemen did not come empty-handed.
In addition to bringing a bunch of friends and fair-winners, the two uncles also brought policies, resources and manpower.
Apart from other things, this year alone, the Huyi Army has been supplemented by 5,000 people.
And it is a supplement with the same priority level as the field legion.
This means that the Huyi Army will usher in a group of high-quality soldiers from good families and knights from the North.
With such high-quality supplementary troops, the Huyi Army has the potential to grow into an elite standing army like Xiliu and Thornmen in the future.
This is a great benefit to the entire Huyi Army.
The biggest benefit, of course, is that I finally obtained the qualifications of a regular field garrison officially recognized by the imperial court.
You must know that in the past, the Huyi Army and the Huyi Army, as the name suggests, were temporary combat troops set up to protect the Yi people. After the mission was completed, they would be disbanded.
Therefore, in the past, everyone in the Huyi Army felt very insecure.
Who knows when one day, the people above will feel that Xinhua no longer needs the Huyi Army. If they dissolve the Huyi Army yamen and dismiss the soldiers and generals on the spot, wouldn't everyone's hard work for so long be in vain?
But now, there is no need to worry about the superiors going crazy, and the entire escort army will be dispatched with just one piece of paper. This job is considered ironclad.
What is worrying is that these uncles are too difficult to serve!
They had only been in Xinhua for more than a month, and they caused chaos in Xinhua City.
At first, they found the hounds domesticated by the Yaoren people to be particularly interesting. Each of them became canine experts, running to the Yaoren nobles all day long and staring at the hounds domesticated by the Yaoren people.
Then, these dandies actually sold the hunting dogs raised by Hao people to Chang'an.
It is said that the one with the highest price was sold directly in Chang'an for a high price of 500 gold.
As a matter of fact, now Yi Ren also knows that the dog he raises is extremely valuable, and he can no longer happily eat dog meat...
In addition, this group of dandies, after coming to Xinhua, ruined the original simple folk customs of Xinhua.
In the past, Xinhua City was a quiet and peaceful place. The nobles and citizens lived side by side, and there were never noisy fights. The environment was extremely rough.
What now?
The whole day is spent either fighting cocks or fighting dogs, or playing Cuju games.
From top to bottom, the Yiren nobles all fell under the brand-new entertainment from Chang'an.
Canghaijun Jinxin even wanted to spend a thousand gold to buy Bo slaves from the commander of Huaihua County.
The Yiren nobles in the city are going further and further down the road of gambling.
Zhang Qi even heard that even the business of money, which was previously extinct in Xinhua City, has now appeared...
It’s really a declining world and people’s hearts are not as old as they used to be!
If that's all, then forget it.
After all, noble people are better at playing, and that's as it should be. As long as it doesn't affect the people below, it doesn't matter.
But the problem is that the arrival of these uncles has also brought problems to Huaihua City.
If the city of Huaihua is built, part of the protective army will be stationed in Huaihua.
As soon as they think about the possibility that they may have to take orders from a few guys from Chang'an who are not even hairy, but have ancestors and ancestors, few people in the Yi army have a clear idea.
The martial arts in the Han army was extremely strong.
Soldiers and generals basically only recognize their fists, not their family background.
After all, no matter how great your family background is, if you are a loser, then you may jump into the pit with everyone else when you go to the battlefield.
Only those with real abilities can lead the big guys to survive. Gain military exploits, get promoted and make a fortune, and reach the pinnacle of life.
For example, when Bo Shi first arrived in Xinhua, he spent a lot of effort, bit by bit, to slowly convince the military with facts, and he was truly authoritative.
Therefore, no one in the army wants to be assigned to those two uncles in the future.
Thinking about these things, I felt like my head was getting big.
This time, he was ordered to go out to hunt bears and explore the geography. Behind this order, there was no doubt that there was a fierce game among the guards.
You know, as soon as those noble men arrived in Xinhua, they began to rush to seize power and wanted to have a hand in everything. The person who was in charge of Xinhua was the Bo family son who was also a relative. I'm afraid they couldn't suppress these guys at all.
"How about we go a little further?" Zhang Qi said to his subordinates: "Let's follow the black water and go up to the source. How far can we go? How far can we go? When the dry food is exhausted, can we return?"
When Zhang Qi's senior officials heard this, they thought it was a good idea.
The atmosphere in Xinhua City is so weird right now.
Around here, the inspection team sent by His Majesty is already on the way. Everyone, stay away from Xinhua, a place of disputes, and come back when the inspection team arrives.
"Everything follows the order of the team leader!" the chiefs said one after another.
"Good!" Zhang Qi waved his riding crop: "That's it!"
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Half a month later.
Zhang Qi and his group appeared in a valley with their horses in hand.
Counting the time, it's almost spring and March now.
In Handan, at this time of year, the sun is shining brightly and the mountains and fields are covered with azaleas.
Even if it is Xinhua, it is already a time of bright spring and the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
But, here, in this strange northern valley, it is still a harsh winter.
The cold wind howled and blew on people's faces, making them tremble with the cold. As for the horses, their noses were even frozen, and some horses' noses were even frozen into ice crystals.
The mountains are even covered with snow from last night's heavy snowfall, but in the valley, there are some very unruly little flowers, standing stubbornly in the cold wind.
"This ghost place..." Zhang Qi raised his riding whip and cursed.
In the past half month, he had led his men, including a whole team of cavalry, along the Blackwater River, back to its source, over mountains and ridges, and through thorns and thorns, to arrive here.
Zhang Qi himself didn't understand why he would do such a crazy thing.
But it is obvious that even after reaching this point, Zhang Qi knows that this place is far from the source of the Blackwater River.
At most, they belong to the upstream zone.
Zhang Qi tried to insert the sword in his hand into the ground, but he found that the place where the sharp sword was inserted was full of frozen soil.
"Even the ground in this place is covered with ice..." Zhang Qi touched the tip of his nose, expressing that he didn't know how to describe it.
The soil is full of ice, which means that the land is not suitable for farming at all.
Since it is not suitable for farming, it has no value.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qi felt a little bored.
"I thought I could still make some achievements..." After spitting, Zhang Qi ordered his subordinates to "set up camp on the spot and send people to fetch some water from the river in the valley. Prepare to bury the stove for cooking and have a hot meal."
, let’s go back, presumably...the inspection team should have arrived in Xinhua..."
When the soldiers heard this, they immediately cheered.
This half-month journey has been a hell of a march.
The further north you go, the colder it gets.
No wonder everyone now has a certain ability to withstand the cold, their military uniforms are all wrapped in animal skins, and they have brought enough wine for heating.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to get here at all.
In fact, a few days ago, everyone didn't want to continue leaving.
If Zhang Qi hadn't coaxed and promised to take everyone hunting and tanning furs on the way back, the soldiers would have given up long ago.
You know, since seven days ago, this Han army's exploration force has not seen anyone.
Not even savages.
You can imagine how desolate this wasteland is.
"It's not without credit..." Zhang Qi flipped through the simple geographical maps of mountains, rivers and rivers he drew along the way.
This was the biggest gain he and his expedition team had gained in half a month.
"With this, Captain Bo should be very happy..." Zhang Qi thought in his heart.
While he was deep in thought, Zhang Qi suddenly heard a scream from the distance.
Zhang Qi immediately put away the maps, looked up into the distance and asked, "What happened?"
"I don't know the team's rate yet. Maybe the soldiers sent to fetch water had an accident?" Youshang said.
"Wang Sanlang, what are you screaming about?" Another chief scolded even more unceremoniously. He used a Daidi accent and shouted toward the river beach in the valley: "Get it!"
It’s just water, could there be demons in the water?”
Apparently, the soldiers sent to fetch water were under the command of the chief.
The Han army has always had the tradition of organizing soldiers from the same place into a corps. In this way, the commander, corps commander and soldiers are all from the same hometown. They are very familiar with each other and have deep feelings. On the battlefield, the feeling of comradeship will be even stronger.
strong.
"What...what...what a long..." After a while, Zhang Qi saw two soldiers running from the river beach in the valley to where he and others were, holding in their hands
It seemed like he was holding some treasure.
"What's going on?" Zhang Qi asked the chief: "Go and ask what happened? If there is no suitable explanation, the army will make noise and disturb the morale of the army. According to the law, you will be punished with a cane!"
"No!" Na Shichang saluted with his fist on his chest, then he met the two soldiers who were running up the hillside and asked: "What's going on? Is your father dead or your mother dead? What are you howling for?"
When Zhang Qi saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little funny.
He looks very tall, but he is actually very thin.
For example, now, I am scolded, but my mentality of protecting the calf is clearly revealed.
I'm afraid, he is already thinking about how to exonerate his two colleagues.
In this regard, Zhang Qiye was happy to be a favor.
This is also the tradition of the Han army. Team leadership depends on getting along with the commanders and corps commanders and calling them brothers to achieve the effect of drawing together and uniting.
A good team leader can make all the commanders under his command regard him as a reliable and dependable brother.
As Zhang Qi, who climbed from a soldier to a team leader, how could he not know this?
However, the two soldiers didn't know what was going on. They stammered when speaking, as if they had encountered something terrible or too bizarre.
"What... what... long... long..." One of them spent a long time holding back on the word "what long".
As for the other one, who was even more nervous, his teeth were chattering, and his legs were a little unruly, perhaps due to fear or excitement.
But this soldier was a little quick-witted. After he found that he was too nervous to speak, he simply stretched out his hands. At this time, everyone discovered that this man's hands had been clasped together.
Then, he slowly let go.
What he is holding in his hand is sand.
To be precise, it's river sand.
but……
When the river sand fell in the wind, some golden and shiny small crystals shone in the sun, making everyone's eyes blurry.
"What... long... we are rich!" The soldier who had been stuttering finally stopped. He sat down on the ground, crying and laughing, and said crazily: "The river is full of this kind of sand... all of it.
Yes, there is gold in the sand of this river, the whole river!"
"There is no need to pan for gold..." The soldier also stretched out his clenched hands and presented the two lumps of river sand with silt in front of everyone: "Take a sieve and sift through it to get the gold sand..."
The river sand they carried spread out, and some obvious yellow and shiny little cuties emerged from the sand.
Although there are very few of them, maybe there is only one in a thousand grains of sand.
but……
Zhang Qi stood up and looked at the river meandering through the valley.
How much sand is there in this river?
Zhang Qi suddenly felt difficulty breathing, his heartbeat accelerated, and he couldn't help himself. (To be continued.)
ps: Damn it, my dizziness these past two days has really killed me~
I couldn't bear the dizziness this morning, so I went to the Nationalities Hospital, and the doctor told me that the dizziness was caused by cervical spondylosis.
Well, I stupidly believed it and took the medicine home.
Then, in the afternoon, I almost fainted...
There was no other way, so my wife had to take me to the district hospital, and then the examination revealed...
It’s a viral infection caused by a cold…
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