[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

"Well……"

The young man in his arms frowned suddenly, raised his hand, and slightly bent his five fingers, as if trying to grab something.

Zhao Yuan froze, slowly turned his face, and called out very softly:

"General?"

The long and thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and the thin lips that had faded from blood were tightly pursed.

Then, he opened his eyes little by little, and there was a faint sense of deep sorrow in his pitch-black pupils.

A big rock hanging in Zhao Yuan's heart finally fell down, as if all his strength had been sucked out of him, he slumped on the ground, his legs and feet were already numb.After galloping wildly for three consecutive days and kneeling all night, not only was his body exhausted, but his mind was also a little dizzy.

"Emperor Ji?..."

The slender knuckles brushed the hair in front of her eyes, with a little unbelievable panic.The thin calluses slid over the corners of her eyes, and slid all the way down her pretty face, as if she was confirming something, but also seemed to be somewhat surprised and angry.

He struggled to sit up on his knees, his eye sockets were sunken, and he seemed to have lost a little more.

"Diji, you..." Zhong Yi shook his head, closed his eyes, and spat out a few words with great force and difficulty, "Diji has a heavy responsibility, she should go to Huazhou to appease the people, how can she stay in Daizhou for a long time?" Diji or..."

"I've been to Huazhou."

Zhao Yuan took the warm water face towel that was left aside, twisted it carefully, raised his hand to wipe off the remaining blood stains for him, took the teacup, and comforted him, "Wash your mouth and have some food, okay?" ? I heard that you hardly eat much these days."

He blankly allowed her to clean his face, then rinsed his mouth numbly and wiped his teeth with green salt.From the beginning to the end, the two of them knelt face to face, they didn't get up, and they didn't mean to call someone in to serve them.

She put down the tea cup and face towel and took a small porcelain bowl, scooped out a spoonful of porridge and handed it to his lips: "Open your mouth."

He suddenly hugged her and held her in his arms, and the warm porridge splashed on him, but he didn't care at all.Zhao Yuan maintained the posture of grabbing the bowl and lifting the spoon, struggled in his arms for a moment, and suddenly heard a muffled "huh".

Her pupils shrank, and she struggled harder.

But Zhong Yi has a good body trained on horseback since childhood, and his slender and powerful hands pressed her shoulders tightly, not allowing her to move at all, let alone raising her eyes to look at him.I vaguely heard the old servants coming and going in a rustling manner, saying "Major General" and then gradually faded away.Even without looking, she could guess that Zhong Yi was warning the old servant not to talk too much.

"Let go of me!" She was a little annoyed.

Those slender hands still held her shoulders firmly, not letting her move.

"You're coughing up blood again, aren't you? ... or damn you..."

Those hands froze suddenly, and then, they loosened their grip on her little by little.

When he looked up, the young man lowered his head, his face had gradually regained some color, but his eyes were a little dull.

"Di Ji..."

He just said two words, and suddenly pressed his chest again, coughing heavily.

A trace of black blood spilled from his lips, which was even more shocking than last night.

"...Sometimes, I even hope that you don't have to be so smart."

After he finished speaking forcefully, he turned his head abruptly, and coughed out another mouthful of blood, which was frighteningly dark.

She was shocked out of her wits.

"Just cough up the blood." The old servant on the side said lightly, "The man who came out of the hail of guns and arrows, no one has been injured a few times. The major general held his breath for too long, and fell asleep in the middle of the night. Well, the three-day period has passed now, and after half a month of rest, I can be buried. I don't know what the major general wants?"

Seeing that Zhao Yuan's expression was too strange, the old servant added a few more words.

"Families born on horseback naturally don't have as many rules as Bianliang's. Many people died on the battlefield. If they all follow Bianliang's rules and keep their filial piety for three years, then they will never lose their filial piety for the rest of their lives. .”

He spoke calmly, but every word was full of piercing sadness.

Zhao Yuan was a little dazed, his mind was in a mess and he didn't know what to think.Zhong Yi called "Emperor Ji" in a low voice, and stretched out his hand to her.That hand was slender and powerful, and the thin calluses were mostly distributed on the side of the fingers, obviously because of the habit of using bows and arrows.She stretched out her hand silently, put it in his palm, and was immediately pulled up by him.

His feet were numb to the point of being unconscious, so he could only walk numbly behind him, not knowing where he was going.

Zhong Yi was silent all the way, dressed in snow-white sackcloth, showing a bit of loneliness in the breeze.The sky is very dark today, and there is even a little rain in the ground.She looked at the sky quietly for a while, and the only thought lingering in her mind was:

——It turns out that China is still on the prevailing westerly belt.

The so-called westerly belt means that at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, a stream of air flows continuously from west to east forever.

The biggest impact of the westerly belt is the thunderstorm in the midsummer afternoon.

but……

The Xixia Kingdom is to the west of the Song Dynasty.

As long as the West Wind Belt exists, she will never be able to do anything about it, repeating the old tricks in the Xixia Kingdom and raining acid rain.

Because of the prevailing westerly wind, this acid rain will definitely blow from west to east, and the people who will suffer in the end must be Shuo and Dai prefectures.

What should we do?

"Di Ji."

Zhong Yi turned around, took another two steps sideways, and lowered his head slightly, "There are so many affairs in the mansion these days, I fear that I cannot serve Di Ji around, please ask Di Ji to rest for a few days before returning to Yanyun."

He spoke extremely indifferently, and there was not even the slightest wave of emotion in his eyes.At that moment, Zhao Yuan really wanted to grab him by the collar, slam him against the wall once or twice, and knock back his distorted thoughts.

But she couldn't bear it.

She stood quietly for a moment, said good-bye, and suddenly asked, "General, what do you plan to do next?"

Zhong Yi also quietly said eight words: "Strengthen the troops and mobilize the horses, and then seek Xixia."

Whether it was the deep hatred surging in his chest, or the passionate blood burning in his body, they were all melted into these simple eight characters.

Raise your troops and prepare your horses, and plan for Xixia again.

Zhao Yuan gave a soft "hmm", and unconsciously drew circles on the ground with his toes: "You know, the Hetao Plain, where the water and grass are the most abundant, is divided into two halves by the border between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty."

Zhong Yi was taken aback.Although he doesn't quite understand what is called "Hetao Plain", but the words "abundant water and grass" are real.

"To the east are Shuozhou and Daizhou; to the west..." She paused for a moment, raised her head, and looked at him quietly, "The most elite cavalry in the Western Han Dynasty came from the Hetao Plain. The water and grass are abundant, enough to grow Horses; soldiers are strong and horses are strong, only then..."

Zhong Yi was stunned for a moment, and a flash of understanding gradually flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Yuan continued: "The most powerful under Yue Fei is the heavy infantry, while the most powerful under Han Shizhong is the navy. The remaining two... well, the remaining two, one is a descendant of the Yang family and the other is... for fame. .I was thinking, if I could race horses in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun..."

One of the terrible reasons why the Song Dynasty was so weak was that there were no cavalry.

In other words, there is no particularly powerful cavalry.

As soon as the Iron Buddha of the Jin people went south, they killed the people of the Song Dynasty who lost their helmets, removed their armor, and even blew up the floating bridge of the Yellow River in order to protect themselves. So they were defeated.

If you want to keep the gate of the country, if you want to firmly control the vast prairie...

"Emperor Ji and grandfather thought of going to one place."

Zhong Yi's low voice reverberated around, and there was a faint look in his eyes, "My grandfather said in the past that if we want to fight against Xixia and Liao, we must use cavalry. But the Song Dynasty, for one thing, there were no horses, and secondly, there were no horses. place for horse racing."

He sighed softly, thinking of something for some reason, his eyes were a little dim again.

"The horses with the purest bloodlines can only be found in the farther west of Xixia. And the racecourse with rich water and grass... It didn't exist before. Now that the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun have been collected, Shuozhou is an excellent place. It is a place to raise horses and raise soldiers. As long as the officials allow to train soldiers in Shuozhou, within five years, they will surely be able to compete with Xixia Kingdom. I am afraid..."

He stopped talking abruptly.

Probably because he was concerned about Zhao Yuan's status as the emperor's concubine, Zhong Yi didn't say it clearly.

I am afraid that the officials, like Zhenzong and Renzong, are cowardly and timid, and dare not train troops on the border between the two countries.

"I will go to Yanjing." Zhao Yuan said quietly.

Zhong Yi was startled: "Emperor Ji?..."

"Although Father and Ninth Brother have had some unpleasant quarrels recently, but... Well, I am not good at training soldiers, but it is not too difficult to play tricks with Ninth Brother and ask for two orders." Zhao Yuan said, Suddenly he slapped his head, and finally remembered a terrible thing, "There is something that I have always wanted to give to you, but in a blink of an eye, it was forgotten."

She rummaged through her body for a long time, finally found a small sachet, and took out two pieces of pure colored glaze from it.

"Being an imperial concubine has this advantage. The emperor brother can give me the colored glaze beads that I pay tribute to play with." She chuckled lightly, lifted up the two small pieces of pure colored glaze, and adjusted them Focus, then called Zhong Yi: "Come and see."

Zhong Yi hesitated for a moment, and finally moved his steps slowly, bending slightly beside Zhao Yuan.

"Look at this lens... No, it's pure colored glaze... Take a closer look, what did you find?"

What did he see?

A peach tree outside the mansion is infinitely magnified in front of my eyes, and even the veins on the leaves are clearly discernible.

The originally blurred peaks and ridges became exceptionally clear, and even the towering giant trees on the peaks could be seen clearly.

Looking further away, it is...

"I can't make a frame, so I can only barely grind two convex lenses." Di Ji seemed to be a little distressed, "It's these two small things that have been grinding me for half a year. Hey, you say, if you are in the yellow sand of thousands of miles Among them, can this simple monocular telescope see the oasis?"

She tilted her head and looked at Zhong Yi without speaking.

Zhong Yi took a rough breath, and his heart beat violently.

Thousands of miles of yellow sand, vast desert...

In the boundless Gobi, on the rugged cliffs...

Once this thing comes out, it will cross the world without any hindrance!