A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 67
Huaiyu hurriedly packed her luggage, bid farewell to her family and followed Chumo back to Chang'an.The two dogs were inseparable this time, and Run Niang asked him to take the white horse with him.

Ma Zhou hadn't had a drop of wine in the past two days, and his spirits improved a lot. He proposed to go back to Chang'an as well. Now he has actively accepted the role of Huaiyu's guest, and even took on the role of housekeeper.

Lao Wu patted his son on the shoulder to reassure him to venture out. He was very happy that his son was awarded the post of Prince Youwei, who was under the ninth rank, to lead the army to join the army. The ancestral grave is smoking.

"When a man is a man, he should aim for the four directions, and when he is young, he must go out and make a fortune."

Huaiyu left Sanyuan with the luggage he brought from Zhongnan Mountain. Before leaving, he packed his luggage and took some seeds out of the bag. He also found some small potatoes in the bag, which were small potatoes that he had grown himself. , When I went down the mountain, I thought it would be delicious to bake and fry, so I packed some, but now it can be used as a seed block for planting.

Potatoes, corn seeds, peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, and many vegetable seeds were not available in Tang Dynasty, and I told Lao Wu and Run Niang how to plant them.

"These are all Panhu varieties, which are not found in the Central Plains today. Some of the fruit and vegetable seeds of Panhu barbarians collected by my master in the early years were later planted and cultivated on Zhongnan Mountain. These seeds can adapt to the climate of our Central Plains."

In a hurry, she didn't take Runniang with her.

It was too late to wait for Hou's second and third sisters to come back to her natal home to meet each other, so Huaiyu hurried back to Beijing silently.

The two horses, Wuyun Taxue and Zhao Yebai, and the horse Zhou Yi, rushed back to Chang'an in less than two hours. After entering Chang'an City, they went directly to Donggong Youwei to lead the report.

The right guard leads the yamen.

Huaiyu went to meet the chief officer Cheng Yaojin first, and the old Cheng was busy, so he was very happy to greet him when he came, "Come, come, let's see what Uncle Cheng has prepared for you." Old Cheng pulled him aside , where a wooden figure is covered with a suit of armor.

"I prepared it for you, a Mingguang armor set, how about it, do you like it?"

Huaiyu is no stranger to Mingguang armor, when he first met Huaiyi he was wearing a set of Mingguang armor, thanks to that armor he didn't die.

Later, I saw a lot of Mingguang armor. In the early Tang Dynasty, Mingguang armor actually referred to the armor with a large circle guard. There are even several heavy shoulder pads.

And some simple ones are just adding two round guards on the front and back on the basis of the two crotches.

Most of the Mingguang armor in the Tang army basically followed the Northern and Southern Dynasties system, with round guards added on the basis of the two crotch armors, and even the leg skirts were very short, only reaching the knees.There are only shoulders, no armguards, and even the helmet is just a relatively simple iron helmet, with a collar but no shoulder guards, and no greaves.

The set Lao Cheng prepared for Huaiyu was very unusual.

Just for that helmet, there is a strange beast shape on it, which is very eye-catching at first glance.

"This is Suanni Douhou."

There are not only Suanni beasts on the helmet, but also a high raised neck connected to the helmet, which can protect the neck and shoulders very well. This set can not only protect the whole head and neck, but also protect the throat, and also protect the neck Parts face and shoulders.

The whole set of armor is also richer and fuller visually, with shoulder pads and a tiger's head swallowing shoulders, and a lion's head robe belly.

The armguards and greaves are also as shiny as the round guards. They are paired with crotchless robes, wide-cut trousers, armor studs, and double-buckle belts.

The armor skirt is not only lined with cowhide, but also has red silk brocade edging, and it is matched with a pair of cloud-toed black leather boots, which is really domineering.

Cheng Yaojin even gave him a black lacquered horse spear and a rhino horn bow.

Suanni helmet, tiger's head swallowing shoulders, lion's robe belly, helmet and spear with red tassels.

"Try." Old Cheng said with a smile.

"Is this armor heavy?"

"not heavy."

Mr. and Mrs. Cheng personally helped Huaiyu try the armor, one part on the left and the other on the right, and finally they had to tie the buckle with the armor and the cowhide belt. It took a long time to put on the full set of armor.

Not to mention it fits pretty well.

It's heavy, but not as heavy as I thought it would be.

"Your armor is at the commanding army level. It was specially given to you by the crown prince. It weighs 58 catties."

"Is it that heavy? It feels good."

"That's because the armor is scattered on your body. Of course, it's different from carrying 58 catties. But fighting in this armor is different. You run and fight on the battlefield. If you can last for two hours, it's pretty impressive."

Huaiyu wielded the six catty mace that Qin Qiong had given him.

"Let me compete with you." Lao Cheng smiled, and picked up two short-handled double-axes from the weapon rack next to him. The blades of the axes were five inches wide, with double-sided blades, the neck was eight inches long, and the handle was three feet long.

Old Cheng was holding a double hatchet, and he swung it with a loud cry, and the two hatchets swung in his hands like a windmill.

Huaiyu hastened to block and block with his mace in both hands.

He has also practiced this mace for a while, and he can barely do a combo at ordinary times, but now he is wearing nearly sixty catties of bright light armor, and he can't do it after a short battle with Lao Cheng.

A six-pound mace might not seem heavy, but a full-armor battle would be too much for Huaiyu after a while.

Lao Cheng saw the opportunity, teased, hanged, sliced, swung, and directly let go of Huaiyu's long mace.

"It's not bad to be able to pass dozens of tricks under my hands."

Huaiyu was out of breath, feeling that his body was already soaked, and he wanted to take off his armor. Old Cheng stopped him, "Don't take off your armor immediately when you are sweating, otherwise it will be easy to take off your armor. If you are not careful, you will die. You don't know if you are good at medicine." Is it?"

"I forgot for a while."

"You have strength, but you still lack practice."

Huaiyu said: "I join the army as a civilian, right? Don't I need to wear armor?"

"When you're in the army, how can there be any distinction between civilian and military positions? Could it be that if the enemy comes over and asks you whether you are a civilian or military officer, the civilian officer won't cut you off?"

Old Cheng asked with a smile: "Two paintings and a pair of medicine are exchanged for this ninth-rank military position. You are still capable."

Don't look at the small sesame officials from the ninth rank, but they are still officials. The threshold of Liuwai and Liuin is like a gap, not to mention the difference between officials and civilians.

You should know that the magistrates of Zhongxian County and Xiaxian County are only from the ninth rank, and they are the magistrates who are in charge of the affairs of all the Caos in a county.

After chatting for a while, when the sweat subsided, Lao Cheng helped him remove the armor, "It's really inconvenient if you're not used to wearing this armor, and His Highness specially prepared a ring lock armor for you. The phase-locking buckle is shaped like a net lock, which has been improved by court craftsmen to make it invulnerable.

It was a pair of iron chain mail, weighing no more than 26 catties. It looked like a wire jacket, even with a hood. It could be pulled up to the knees and directly covered on the clothes. The weight of the armor was on the shoulders, which could effectively It can defend against knives and arrows, but not against crossbows, and it can't defend against sharp stabs like horizontal knives, let alone spears, horses, and blunt soldiers like whips and maces.

The thinner the iron ring, the better the defense and the more expensive it is.

As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, this kind of armor was introduced from the Western Regions, and the Central Plains Dynasty improved it, but the production was not much. Now the Tang Dynasty often imports this type of armor from the Western Regions through the Sogdians. It is not a standard, and it is generally rewarded to generals. A fierce general like Cheng Yaojin often wears a chain mail under the Mingguang armor when he goes into battle.

Li Shimin gave Huaiyu a set of bright light and chain mail, not to let him wear double armor, but knowing that he had never been a soldier before, he was afraid that wearing bright light would be too tiring, so he gave him another set of chain mail, which was light and easy to wear .

Looking at the two sets of armor, Huaiyu felt that something was wrong. Even if he was specially granted the right to enter the East Palace to join the army, there is no need to grant two sets of armor.

"Uncle Cheng, are you going to fight?"

Lao Cheng took out an order and gave him an order, "His Royal Highness appoints General Youwei, General Pingdao, and Huo Guogong Chai Shao as the chief commanders of the Longyou Road Marching, to form the Longyou Camp, and to dispatch 5 horses under his control to conquer Tuyuhun and Turks. People. You were specially sent by His Highness to go to the camp in Longyou, and you were given the medical service in the camp in Longyou. You are in charge of the first aid for the 5 people in the military medical battlefield in Longyou."

"Me?" Huaiyu was extremely surprised, "Shouldn't this be a matter of sending a doctor from the imperial medical office?"

"The doctor is also sent. Did you tell the officials of the East Palace Medicine and Tibetan Bureau about some problems in military medical treatment? Obviously they reported it to the prince, so this time the prince asked you to inspect the medical affairs of the Longyou Camp. The next imperial court will recruit ten civilian doctors and 20 assistants, as well as some acupuncturists and medicine workers from the Imperial Medical Office, the Shangyao Bureau, and the Yaozang Bureau, as well as the governor's mansions and prefectures from various places to Longyou."

"But I'm only from the ninth rank."

Lao Cheng patted him on the shoulder, "Is it very low from the ninth rank? Let me tell you, there are twenty doctors in the imperial medical office, all of them are first-class outsiders, and none of them are insiders. Only Ling, Cheng, medical supervisor, Only doctors who are upright and doctors are of high grade."

Ling Chengjian is the administrative officer of the Imperial Medical Bureau, and the doctors and teaching assistants are in charge of medical education. The physicians and acupuncturists of the four subordinate departments are all outsiders.

The ten doctors and twenty assistants recruited this time are all below Huaiyu's rank nine, and the medical officer is a trick officer, but Huaiyu joined the army, and the trick officer is naturally lower than other officials.

He, the Prince Youwei led the army to join the army and was responsible for the inspection and medical affairs, so he could completely lead those official doctors or civilian doctors.

"Didn't you have a good chat with the officials of the East Palace Medicine and Tibetan Bureau before? This time the prince will give you a chance to do what you want. The prince will fully support you. As long as you can reduce some casualties and save more wounded soldiers, it will be fine." .”

It's easy to say, but the task is still very difficult.

Huaiyu was a little dazed, he did say those things, and he talked about it with eloquence. At that time, he was thinking about how to get closer to the officials of the East Palace and win more business, but he didn't expect this result.

"Uncle Cheng, I've never been an official or joined the army, so I don't understand anything."

"Don't worry, it's always the first time. Your medical skills are so good that you can use them in the army." Lao Cheng pointed at Chu Mo, "Da Lang will also go to Longyou this time, you just have companions, and make good contributions. Well, it's a rare opportunity."

Lao Cheng gave Huaiyu half a day to prepare.

"Tomorrow Maoshi, come to the Yamen to report at Maoshi, and set off with the army."

"Then what else do I need to prepare?"

"If you have horses, prepare two horses, some dry food, and some clothes. If you have strong and brave servants, you can also bring a few to accompany the army. If you don't have one, I will lend you some." Old Cheng smiled. Hehe said, "Anyway, I like you boy very much. Sooner or later we will become husband and wife, and my family doesn't need to be so polite."

He didn't expect to be able to bring servants with him when he went to war, but seeing Lao Cheng's smiling face, he shuddered, and he definitely couldn't accept Lao Cheng's kindness, we don't want to marry Lao Cheng Who knows if her daughter is a sumo wrestler or a wrestler.

"Work hard, this job will be done well, not to mention how many ranks you will be promoted, but it is indispensable to be awarded a second or third rank, and a first or second rank to be promoted to a casual official, and you may even be awarded a baron viscount." The more Cheng Shi looked at Huaiyu, the more he liked him, "His Royal Highness also likes you very much now. When you win and return to court, you can choose the daughter of Uncle Cheng's family. Whoever you choose will get married, and Uncle Cheng will give you a million dollars as a dowry!"

Huaiyu fled in panic!
(End of this chapter)