Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 305
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the second day of the Lantern Festival, the feasting by the Macheng River is still not over.

Because the village drinking ceremony is Zhang Zhao's use to get rid of the old customs of Tubo, practice the ancient customs of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and win over the elders and elders of the villages.

These people represent the political power and people's hearts, and it is the aspect of literature. The aspect of martial arts cannot use the rural drinking ceremony, but the archery ceremony must be used to recruit warriors.

Shooting rituals are divided into four types: Da She, Bin She, Yan She and Xiang She.

Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, the shooting ceremony was used by the emperor and princes.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, to be precise, from the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms in the Western Han Dynasty, the princes gradually lost the rule of law in the land of China, and they could only be ordered by the emperor.

This is also a very important sacrificial activity. The emperors of the Tang Dynasty liked to hold big shooting ceremonies.

Binshe is a shooting ceremony that is only held when the princes meet the emperor, or when the princes meet. It is also rare after the end of the enfeoffment system.

The etiquette of Yanshe is lower than that of Dashe and Binshe, and even lower than that of Xiangshe. It is usually held when large-scale banquets are held among honored officials.

Zhang Zhao is neither the son of heaven nor a feudal lord, and the current situation is not suitable for holding the swallow shooting ceremony, so the rural shooting became Zhang Zhao's only choice.

Originally, this village shooting ceremony was usually held together with the village drinking ceremony, and like the original village drinking ceremony, it was an activity for local officials to invite local talents to promote talents for the country.

But when it came to Zhang Zhao, the village drinking ceremony became his tool to control the place, and the village shooting ceremony became his tool to win over the brave warriors from the Liubu tribes, the Han people in Liangzhou, and the Sogdians.

Similarly, the original rural shooting ceremony is a very cultural atmosphere, and the etiquette requirements are relatively strict.

How many people make a team, how to conduct the first shot, the second shot, and the third shot, there are rules.

But Zhang Zhao chose to basically ignore it. He knew the fart shooting ceremony from the next generation. At the same time, the people in Longyou and Hexi had been trapped in Tubo for more than a hundred years. Understand.

The only ones who knew a little, apart from Pei Yuan who was too busy, were the Shazhou civil servants headed by his uncle Song Shantong who knew some rules.

However, after Song Shantong explained it to Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao immediately realized that the traditional rural archery ceremony was not suitable for him to use now.

Because this set of etiquette is used to regulate the behavior of scholars and promote understanding when the country is stable.

But now, he wants to urgently bring back a large number of descendants of Tang'er who have been turned into pieces in Longyou, Hexi, and also wants to show his strength and use his fists to attract more people to join him.

So Zhang Zhao immediately started to make changes, changing the rural archery ceremony into four aspects: archery, imperialism, fighting, and art.

Compared with archery, archery is divided into riding and foot shooting.

Royals competed in riding skills, while infantrymen competed in endurance and load-bearing after wearing armor.

Dou was wearing leather armor and singled out with wooden spears and swords. Zhang Zhao also adopted the point counting method commonly used in later generations, wrapping the head of the wooden spear and the blade with lime, and arranged for referees to judge the winner according to the points.

Of course, art is not art, but the skills of raising horses, training horses and treating livestock diseases.

In an army dominated by cavalry and mounted infantry, veterinarians who can raise and train horses, especially those who can treat horses, are definitely high-end talents.

Excellent cavalrymen are generally excellent veterinarians, and the warhorse under your crotch is your life-saving partner. If you can't even treat a warhorse, it is generally difficult to become a rider with superb riding skills.

In order to enhance the competition, Zhang Zhao prepared generous rewards, not to mention two titles, for this so-called rural shooting ceremony, which was more like an army tournament.

Anyone who can get the above-average evaluation in archery, riding, fighting and horse-raising skills can get the title of Zhongjie Captain.

Those who get the title of Zhongjie Xiaowei can get a double portion of the field in the next seed-granting official field, and at the same time, they can also get a treasured sword and a Tianzhu fold-eared horse.

And it can be used on seven festivals including Zhengri, Shangyuan, Hanshi, Shangsi, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang and my birthday.

He was rewarded with ten catties of Zhang Zhaojing white flour, ten catties of meat, one catty each of Hexi white sugar and rock sugar, two tea bricks, and a bolt of high-quality white cotton cloth.

Correspondingly, during large-scale battles, all Zhongjie school lieutenants who joined the army will immediately become officers and have the responsibility to lead the neighbors to be brave. .

The second title is Gui Yilang. Just by hearing this name, one can know its rarity.

This title can only be awarded to those who rank among the top [-] in one of the four items of archery, imperial, fighting, and art, and two of the other three items are not lower than the top [-] in each shooting.

Those who get the title of Gui Yilang will first be given the land according to the share of four people, and the rewards for the seven festivals will be doubled according to the Zhongjie Xiaowei. In addition to the sword and BMW, they will also be given treasure armor.

When you are not on duty or serving in the army, you will be given an extra month of silver money.

At the same time, Gui Yilang also had the opportunity to join Zhang Zhao's side, and Zhang Zhao's personal guard, Regret Shan, has been selected from Gui Yilang since then.

Moreover, Gui Yilang can also compete for the top three, the top three, the second place, and the top three.

In addition to the usual rewards, the top three will also give houses in Liangzhou and beauties selected from Saman Persia, Tianzhu, Zhenyuan and Anyuan.

Most importantly, Zhang Zhao personally promised that Gui Yilang would not kill Gui Yilang, just like the iron kite in Xixia did not kill the iron kite in history.

In the army, Gui Yilang committed a capital crime, and he could not be beheaded immediately. He had to report it to Zhang Zhao for review.

Well, Zhang Zhao understood the truth about the imperial examination and the gold medal for avoiding death.

Gui Yilang is not an officer, but he is better than an officer. After the organizational chaos on the battlefield, ordinary soldiers obeyed the command of Zhongjie Xiaowei, and Zhongjie Xiaowei followed Gui Yilang's command.

Zhang Zhao planned to hold this kind of village shooting ceremony every two years, starting directly from below, and attracting all the outstanding young men and brave men from various ministries with some benefits.

At the shooting ceremony in the village, there was thunderous cheers, and it was all in the shooting. From a hundred steps away, ten rounds hit ten, and nine out of ten shots shot red hearts, which was the highest on the spot.

On the other side, the riding and shooting became a contest between Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui, and Zhebu Jiashi Congdi.

The three of them twirled like flying on their horses and competed in several competitions including fixed target, moving target, galloping horse sideways shooting, and turning around shooting.

In the end, Murong Nobunaga won the final victory by turning around and shooting three times.

As for foot combat, the competition of armor endurance and negative gravity, the wild bear won in the end.

In terms of spear fighting, Er Zhujing, who was born as a palace guard in Khotan, took the number one spot. Unexpectedly, the number one short weapon was Cui Huxin, who had just been punished for fighting.

In the competition of Yiyi, several sick horses were even brought directly to the field. Zhang Zhao went to inspect the field in person. Although it was not as fierce as that of She Yudou, but because of Zhang Sikong's attention, the competition was also very enthusiastic.

All of a sudden, there were people coming and going on the field, and the gongs and drums were loud, which was many times more lively than yesterday's rural drinking ceremony.

And behind the bustle, what was revealed was the extremely powerful force of Zhang Zhao's new Liangzhou Military Group.

On the left side of the venue, under the recommendation of Master Dinghui of the Weiyan Temple, the leaders of the Gamo tribe in Lanzhou, the Jincheng Wang family and the Tubo Sulun family, finally sent people.

In fact, the composition of Ganmo in Lanzhou is simpler than that in Liangzhou. This place is close to Guanzhong. Although it was also captured after Tubo captured Hexi, there are still many Han Chinese forces remaining.

Moreover, the Tibetanization of the local Qiang people in Lanzhou and the Baiyang Dangxiang and other ethnic groups left here is not serious.

When Tubo enslaved this place in the past, the Han people, the Qiang people and the Dangxiang people held together to keep warm.

After Tubo was defeated, Tang Ting also regained Lanzhou. It is not so much that they belong to Gamo, it is better to say that they belong to the local local tyrants extended after the Central Plains court was unable to govern.

However, in history, the reason why Lanzhou Gamo was not as famous as Liangzhou Gamo Six was not well-known and was eventually annexed.

The main reason is that there is still a big gap between Lanzhou Yanmo's combat effectiveness and Liangzhou.

In the period of Tubo, Liangzhou Yanmo can also be said to be the most important servant army of Tubo to a large extent.

At that time, the craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the Hexi Jiedu Yamen in Longyou were basically in Liangzhou. They could make swords and armor by themselves, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of Lanzhou Gamo, which could only produce some low-quality swords.

Facing Zhang Zhao's coercive orders this time, the Lanzhou Wang family and the Su Lun family certainly did not dare to resist openly.

So they sent Su Lunyan from the Su Lun family to Liangzhou to investigate. After a look, Su Lunyan was almost scared to death.

Unlike the previous impression that Liangzhou people wear more than a thousand armors and can send more than ten thousand troops, this time Su Lunyan saw at least thousands of bears and tigers who could wear heavy armor, draw bows left and right, and fight fiercely for half a day. They are skilled in riding and can be called marksmen, at least there are hundreds of them.

The people of Liangzhou also possessed a kind of strangely-looking tall horses. Their sprint speed, explosive power, endurance, and negative gravity were all Su Lunyan had seen in his life.

He sighed, these thousands of warriors just relying on the local archery ceremony are not something their clansmen in leather robes and inferior iron swords can fight against.

Just as he was sighing, Zhang Zhao walked over, and the one who was pulled by Zhang Zhao's arm was Su Lunyan's younger brother Su Lunluxin.

"Su Tui's official family is indeed a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, but Lingdi has defeated many warriors and won the title of Zhongjie Captain in one fell swoop."

Zhang Zhao was laughing, but the two brothers Su Lunyan and Su Lunxin were both mourning.

Su Lun Luxin is already one of the most valiant warriors in Su Lun's family, but he can only get one Zhongjie Captain, and he can't even make it into the top [-].

The toughness shown by Liangzhou people in the rural shooting ceremony made it even more difficult for them to relax.

"Although you are only the captain of Zhongjie, you are not from Liangzhou. It is very good to be able to do this. It is not appropriate to reward you. This BMW should be the reward!"

As he spoke, Zhang Zhao ordered someone to bring a tall folded-eared horse to Su Lun Luxin. It was a muscular BMW with a shoulder height of more than three feet.

Su Lun Luxin was originally a bit ashamed by Zhang Zhao. He was a warrior among Su Lun's family, but he could only get a loyal captain, but the horse Zhang Zhao bestowed made him overjoyed.

"Su Lun's heart, thank Sikong for his generous gift!"

Su Lunyan looked at Congdi who knelt down and kowtowed, and he didn't know what it was like. The strongest of all is Liugubu of Liangzhou.

And after Zhang Zhao subdued the Liugu Department of Liangzhou, the remaining Yanmo forces could no longer compete.

(End of this chapter)