Chapter 70: The Wolf's Den and the Tiger's Den

Takahashi saddle and double horse pedals are not delicate things, and even if it weren't for Xu Huang's shyness, this kind of thing with the vulgar aesthetics of the Xianbei people might have been thrown away by the Yanzhao warriors and wiped out in the Central Plains. But just because of this coincidence, Yanbei felt the wonder of using this object to gallop a horse.

It's just wonderful.

Riding a horse forward no longer needs to clamp the legs, but just leaning forward to find a down-to-earth feeling, extremely stable; And in addition to stability, it is better to free up the hands that were previously balanced...... However, after riding for a while, Yan Bei realized what Xu Huang said before, and he wanted him to take back all the war horses captured in the battle of Dushan.

Yanbei asked, "Gongming is saying that the Xianbei people didn't use these on all their war horses?" ”

"Returning to the lord, reward his subordinates with ten war horses, four with high saddles, and two with double pedals, and the rituals are different."

Yan Bei looked at Xu Huang with some surprise when he heard this, although this person had made great achievements, he did not have the slightest pride in his achievements, and even the words of advice to himself were only to the point...... I really don't understand, why did such a heroic hero appear in Yang Feng's Baibo Army?

"What Gongming means is that the Xianbei people did not use these two things as military use, but were just the playthings of the nobles?" Yan Bei nodded, jumped off from his mount, lifted the saddle and said, "Send someone to send this thing to Yuyang, and let Lei Gongxun a craftsman to remake it, which looks better and is stronger." In the future, as the standard equipment of our cavalry, it will be made of leather, copper, and iron in the same way as the chest, covering, side curtains, and horse shoes. ”

With this, the Yan clan's cavalry can form a huge combat force.

The development of things has its own laws, just as such equipment conducive to cavalry appeared in Xianbei, Yanbei believes that this is not because the Han people are less wise than the Xianbei people, but because the stakes are not great. The Xianbei were often nomadic and their children were to be familiar with riding at an early age, which was not the case with the Han'er.

In the Han region, there are only two kinds of people who are proficient in horsemanship. One is Yanbei, who makes a living by riding, taming, and raising horses, such as horse slaves, grooms, and messengers at post stations; The other type is the aristocracy, such as scholars, officials, and dignitaries. The former has no choice in life, but most of those who cannot ride horses in the living conditions will starve to death or their status will become more humble; The latter, on the other hand, received a good education at an early age, including riding and archery, and was able to climb on horseback with ease, even if it was difficult, in adulthood.

It was not until the great turmoil in the world in recent years, when the original class was broken by the war, and more soldiers from humble backgrounds were forced to make a living and get the opportunity to ride horses in the process of serving the princes, which made the third type of people who could ride horses appear in the Han land.

There is no soil in Han that invented the high bridge saddle and the double horse pedal.

Although there were many horses in the Han Dynasty, there were not many horses that were really scattered all over the world, and even fewer could use combat horses. For this reason, the Han Chinese mostly equipped their horses to make them more comfortable to ride and less likely to die in battle.

Moreover, in this era, few people realized the importance of the standard, most of the things did not form a unified standard, and the craftsmen were not accustomed to making armor and equipment together with the officials and craftsmen in the pre-Qin period...... Knives, spears, armor, and girdles, all of them are different; The chest, covering, side curtains, and riding shoes of the harness are also of different systems. Some people wrap their hooves in cloth or leather leather to prevent them from being worn out.

But Yanbei doesn't like this, he wants to make regulations.

"Komeito, you do it. Recruit 3,000 skilled riders in Youzhou, and form your school captain department, with 6,000 Youdi and Xianbei war horses. Yan Bei said, and made the decision to promote Xu Huang to lieutenant, "Go to Liaodong, I will send a message to Liaodong Taishou to give Su Li a sufficient reward." Zhao Suli entered Ye and told him that Yan would go to the imperial court for him to seal the Xianbei Eastern Shan Yu, hand over the troops to his younger brother Chenglu to be the commander, let the Xianbei people intermarry with the Han people in the border areas, and the children would be Han surnames and live in the city. ”

Xianbei, it's time to change the law, but it's not like the Wuhuan or Huns who belong to the Han family...... Yanbei thought that such annexation was not complete, and would leave a great hidden danger to the border counties, so it was better to completely remove their surnames and communities, and spend a longer time to dissolve into the Han people.

Really, let a nation disappear, just like the Qin Emperor eliminated the Six Kingdoms - the same language, the same track, the same customs, and the same country.

Only by breaking down the inherent cultural barriers can the retained population truly become Han Chinese.

Yanhuang Huaxia, Dayu Qiangren, Lao Qin Xidi, Youyan Beiyu...... Correcting its origin, there are no Han people in the world. But they used the same script, the same etiquette, and the same country with a similar local accent, and the Central Plains Dynasty was able to become strong.

Yanbei didn't like Dongyi to send envoys to pay tribute year after year, and he didn't want any countries to come to the court, and the tributes of Dongyi Hundred Kingdoms were piled up in Xiangping Yan's treasury every year, but he never looked at it.

Because he is more greedy.

As Chen Qun wrote in the book in the past, there were thieves in Xiangping, and there were nineteen disciples. Thorn Tao Qian from Zhang Chun, hit Meng Yi and go to Gongsun, attacked Montenegro to fight Dong Zhuo, took the land of Juli Baili in the east and set up a new king, and collected the people of Suli in the north to open up the territory, waved the sword to go out of Taihang in the west of Liao, and reached the big river in the south of Ye.

What the horse bandit is good at is not to make others give him tribute convincingly, he wants to take away other people's wealth, land, population, and even culture and nationality, he wants everything.

Xu Huang didn't understand why Yan Bei was so keen to change the bloodline for the Xianbei people who belonged to him, but this did not prevent him from receiving Yan Bei's orders, just like the reason why Dian Wei favored him, the calm subordinates knew when to ask questions, and they also knew when to obey orders.

"Recruit enough soldiers and horses to meet me in Yecheng." Yan Bei frowned as he spoke, turned his head to Chen Qun and said: "These things are really troublesome, Changwen, I have to add some things for you to do when I get to Yecheng, record the official positions of the generals of each ministry, and at the right time, I will give them a table to the imperial court...... Move the capital, move the capital. ”

Since the capital is to be moved, it is not okay for a group of generals and captains under his command to lead their own pseudo-positions, and these things must be done after the imperial court moves the capital to Luoyang. Otherwise, when the imperial court really moved to Yecheng according to its own wishes, the faces of the generals would not look good.

Yanbei's voice fell, and his eyes looked through the pavilion of the state capital to the gate, where a dusty rider walked briskly, bypassing the rockery to deliver letters.

"General, Yecheng is urgent!"

The letter was written by frustration, Zhang Miao's Chen stayed in May for Cao Cao to break through, and defected to LΓΌ Bu in eastern Yanzhou through Jizhou, and within two months of his absence, Cao Cao had already led his army to sweep away from the northern part of Yanzhou, chasing Zhang Miao's tail behind LΓΌ Bu, the eastern city of Juye Ze. Lu Bu's victory came to an abrupt end with a smile on his face, and Ren Chengguo was defeated and took Dongping, Dongping was defeated and Jibei, and Jibei was defeated into the plain...... When he went to the plain country, he was attacked by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and entered the Qinghe country with some remnants.

Before he was happy because the waves of the river and the Jizhou army blocked the chasing soldiers behind him, in the blink of an eye, the only remaining 400 traps were surrounded by tens of thousands of elites from the East Liyang and the West Bohai who rushed from the East Liyang and the West Bohai Sea to hear the news, and forcibly surrendered the armor. I wanted to take advantage of the courage of my husband, but I was stopped by Zhao Yuntai and Shi Ci, and I took a cadre of old troops to live in Yecheng honestly.

I got out of the big wolf's den of Cao Mengde in Yanzhou, but I didn't want to cross the Yellow River and enter Yan Zhongqing's tiger's den!