Spring and Autumn I Am King

The stables and the garage of Zhao's Palace were not far away. When Zhao Wuxi returned here and pushed open the gate of the fence, the children and herdsmen who were washing and feeding the horses stopped their work and asked him for help. Greetings and greetings.

"Little gentleman is back."

Probably also had the role of telling stories and telling stories in the past few days. When they saw Zhao Wuxi, they stared in their eyes as if they had seen an idol. After more than ten days, Zhao Wuxi has been here, and he has already responded to every call. He also feels that only staying here is the most comfortable and relaxing.

Zhao Wuxi beckoned: "Hey, Xia, come here."

Most of the common people and officials only have first names, but no surnames. According to their occupations, they are called Yuxi and Muxia respectively.

"Little gentleman, what's the matter with the servants?"

Zhao Wuxi's gaze stayed on the two of them for a while. These are the two "talents" he could cultivate after observing secretly in the past few days.

Huanxi was the young man who curiously asked Zhao Wuxi where Qi was. He was a man of horses, like a thin monkey, smart and agile. Mu Xia, on the other hand, was a cattle herder, with a strong back and a loyal face, and his strength was strong enough to knock a calf to the ground.

"I want you to be my second-in-command and go to Mianshang to participate in field hunting!"

Yuxi and Mu Xia looked at each other, but their eyes were full of sadness.

"Little gentleman, stop joking, the servants are just lowly servants, not samurai, so they can't get on the train!"

Zhao Wu Xie put his hands on their shoulders and said, "This is not a joke. Although I am alone now, I will never forget about his wealth and honor! A gentleman makes a promise, a horse cannot be chased!"

Although he is just a concubine who has nothing now, but in the past few years, with the name of the Zhao family, he can at least mix with a city doctor, which is equivalent to a knight with a fief in the Western Middle Ages.

He can spend his whole life hunting, feasting and sleeping in the manor. Occasionally, when he is ploughing the fields in the spring, he will go down to the fields in a pretentious manner, and help the plough in front of the savages of the country. A wise and good lord.

Of course, he also needs to undertake certain obligations, providing military resources to his lord, that is, the head of the Zhao family, and when he is called up, he will bring the garrison in the city for the lord to send.

Spring and Autumn is a class society, and Quxi and Muxia are at the bottom of the class. If he became Zhao Wuxi's first batch of "Secretaries", he would naturally follow him to the fief as a retainer, and his status would rise.

Seeing Zhao Wuxi's promise, the two of them knelt on the ground without hesitation, bit their fingers and smeared blood on the corners of their mouths, swearing to Tai Yishen to pledge their allegiance to Wuxi. While the other stable boys were on the side, all kinds of jealousy and envy.

Zhao Wuxi quietly waited for the ceremony to end, then took over the "quality" that the two had pressed the **** handprint on the stone tablet, and put it away carefully. Although he was a little uncomfortable, he understood that, as feudal lords, the scholar-officials all had their vassal disciples attached to them, and this was the rule of survival in the Spring and Autumn Period.

His cheap father, Zhao Yang, later made a one-off record of pledge allegiance to thousands of scholars and swore an oath, which later generations called "Homa Mengshu"...

After the master-slave relationship was established, Wu Xie unceremoniously ordered: "Go pick up three good horses, and then go and take out the saddle I made these days. We won't ride, we'll go on horseback!"

The people of Spring and Autumn are far less concerned about a single horse than a chariot with heavy equipment. Therefore, as a shirtless person, they can also use a few horses. As for the officials and shepherds, their status was far inferior to that of Sun Qi, the king of chariots, and they were not even considered official retainers, so how could they really care about Zhao Wuxi.

One of the reasons why single riding is not taken seriously is that in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was no saddle, let alone stirrups.

The horses Zhao Wuxi saw in the stables already had reins and horse chews, but they were only covered with ge cloth mattresses, and there were ear-shaped things hanging down from the sides. Although it was simple, it could prevent the rider from fraying his thighs. . This thing is called a fang. Isn't there a Mulan poem in later generations: "Buy a horse in the east market, and a saddle in the west market."

In the era of no saddle, the rider needed to straddle the back of a naked horse, just grab the reins or the mane, and clamp the belly of the horse with his legs, so that he would not fall when the horse was galloping. But this method is very unreliable, and it is easy to get tired of riding for a long time. At the same time, it is difficult to use the bow and arrow effectively on the back of a running horse.

After being thrown into the stable, Zhao Wuxi did not sit idle. On a whim, he recalled the appearance of Takahashi's saddle that he had seen in later generations, and drew a sketch. Then he took materials on the spot, found some cowhide tendons and corners, discarded copper and tin, and instructed the "craftsmen" in the stables to make a few simple saddles.

After the saddle is completed, as for the complete set of horseshoes, stirrups, and spurs, he doesn't plan to do it yet...

Because these things have little technical content, they can be imitated as soon as they are seen. He is a little afraid that the flapping wings of his little butterfly will let the nomads in the north pick up peaches on horseback, and it will become a major disaster in China in advance.

And now his power is limited to this small stable. It will not be too late until he takes charge of the Zhao clan in the future, and takes the horses from Jibei Yan and Dai, and then releases this big move to fully implement the cavalry.

Right now, it's just for emergency use.

Moreover, considering the snail speed of technology dissemination in this era, Zhao Wuxi felt a little more relieved. For example, in the Jin Kingdom and Lu Kingdom, which has a long farming tradition, cattle ploughing and ploughing have already appeared, but the time to spread to the southern Chuyue region will not wait until the Han Dynasty three hundred years later.

You must know that commercial exchanges are not so frequent these days, and the Rong and Di scattered in the Central Plains are not mainly cavalry, and even the ancient meaning of the word "Rong" means unarmed infantry.

After a while, Xu Xi and Mu Xia led three good horses and prepared the "saddle" invented by the new owner to wait outside the pen. The children and shepherds in the stable garden put together a set of clothes without patches for the two of them. Now that his little power is difficult, but Zhao Wuxi can't form a "Knights of Beggars" to go out and laugh.

Seeing Zhao Wuxi come out, the clever Xuxi hurried forward, knelt down on one knee and tied a dagger around his waist. Mu Xia, with a simple and honest face, lay on the ground, arched her broad back and said, "Lord, please get on the horse."

Zhao Wuxi shook his head slightly, no matter what, he still had the bottom line and integrity, and he couldn't step on people as animals or benches.

He pulled Mu Xia up, patted his thick shoulders and said, "Xia, a dignified seven-foot man, don't lie on the ground all the time, you are my deputy, not my bull and horse. In the future, this kind of thing will be avoided. Right."

Mu Xia's expression actually looked very disappointed... This is the inferiority of being a slave for a long time.

Zhao Wuxi didn't care what Hu Xi and Mu Xia thought, and jumped up on the back of the horse.

He is good at riding, and he didn't suddenly learn it in ten days. In the sporadic memories of this life, his taciturn and blurred Di Ren mother often carried Zhao Wu Xie on horseback when he was very young, and took him to gallop in the stable garden.

It seems that she was scolded and scolded by Mrs. Zhengshi for this.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxie can ride a horse at the age of eight, and can draw a short bow on a horse when he is more than ten years old. In this respect, this body is indeed very talented.

Connected by blood, he is very grateful to his biological mother in this life.

I saw his legs clamped and the reins flicked, and the steed trotted forward. Xu Xi and Mu Xia were not new to each other. They followed their new master closely. All excited.

Decades later, Xu Xi and Mu Xia, who had already been in the ranks of the high-ranking doctor, met again, and when they talked about the fateful decision on this day, they couldn't help but be filled with emotion.

In this damp and dirty stable, Mu Xia's dream is to be a shepherd in the future, so that his descendants can break away from the ranks of servants and concubines.

And he once felt sorry for the country of Qi, thousands of miles away, and felt that he would not be able to travel that far in his life. Naturally, he would not have thought that in the future, he would hold the Xuanbird battle flag and become a general of Zhao's sudden cavalry, following the expedition of the Lord. Thousands of miles away!

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At this time, Ji Ying was weaving silk in his boudoir, the fine mulberry silk bought from Taoyi, and the snow-white cashmere collected from the wild, the sound of the loom could be heard. She wants to make a winter coat for her brother Wu Xie, embroidered with Zhao's favorite black bird totem pattern, so that he can wear the new clothes to attend the feast on the winter solstice, as well as the subsequent wax sacrifice and big shooting ceremony.

At this moment, her maid hurried into the room with a panicked face, and said something like this next to Ji Ying's ear.

"What? You said that he rode on a horse without a shirt and went to the hunting ground with two servants?" Ji Ying's white teeth bit her rosy cherry lips, and the soft silk in her hand was twisted into a piece by her. group.

"My idiot brother, I'm going to cause a big disaster this time!"