The Great Qin Empire

Qin Yang and Zhao Yun came out of the horse market, it was already the beginning of time.On a hot day, there are fewer people on the road, people are eating and enjoying the cool air.Qin Yang felt hungry for a while, and worried that Qingyao would wait at home for a long time, and didn't want to think about the follower, so he wanted to ride home. He estimated that it would be a dozen miles or a stick of incense.

Just when he wanted to greet Zhao Yun to get on the horse together, he froze.Because he saw that there were no saddles or stirrups on the horse's back, Qin Yang couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly, thinking: "It seems that I have to stay in this city for a while, and I have to get a good saddle and stirrup before I can go."

Qin Yang asked Zhao Yun if there was a harness shop in the city, and finally Zhao Yun was a "know-it-all", and he told Qin Yang that there was one at the west gate.The two rushed to the saddle shop with empty stomachs and asked, but there were saddles ready-made, and they just picked them at will.But when Qin Yang asked about the stirrups, the clerk of the harness shop stared in surprise with big eyes, and asked in a daze, "What? What? You mean stirrups? What kind of thing is that?".Zhao Yun next to him was also puzzled, and asked: "Yang, what is that stirrup and what is it for?".

Qin Yang was also stunned, "There is no stirrup? I don't know what a stirrup is?" He tried his best to search for historical information about the stirrup in his memory.After thinking for a while, he finally remembered that the stirrups only appeared around AD 0 from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Three Kingdoms, and it is still in 210 BC, so there must be no more stirrups.

In fact, the stirrup is very simple. It is a flat-bottomed ring, fixed with a belt, and suspended on both sides of the saddle of a riding animal (mainly horses, including equines such as mules), for the rider to place his feet. Assist the rider up and down.With stirrups, it is easier for the rider to sit on the saddle and control the horse, so that he can free his hands and make various actions on the horse, which makes riding animals begin to play a more important role in transportation, communication and military affairs. effect.

In the absence of stirrups, riding a horse in ancient times was a chore, because when the horse galloped or leaped, the rider sat in the saddle with his feet dangling in the air, so he had to clamp his legs around the horse's body while holding the horse's mane tightly with his hands To prevent falling from the horse.With the stirrups firmly connected to the saddle, the knight on the horseback can sit more stably. Not only can he raise his sword and slash downwards, he can resist the stabbing spear, he can also move and dodge on the saddle, and he can also sit on the saddle. The impulsive force generated by the high-speed advance of the horse (impact force can be multiplied due to the weight of the horse and the rider) can be used to increase the lethality.Therefore, stirrups undoubtedly played an important role in the evolution of the main arms from infantry to cavalry in the Middle Ages.Qin Yang fully advanced the invention of the stirrup by 400 years. Later, the stirrup played an important role in Qin Yang's mission, which will not be mentioned later.

Qin Yang was stunned for a while, and kept complaining in his heart that he had neglected such a major matter.Wouldn't it be much easier to bring a pair from the original time and space if I knew it earlier.Now I have no choice but to order two pairs.In the original time and space, although Qin Yang could ride a horse, his riding skills were not superb, and he never thought about riding a horse without stirrups.

Fortunately, that guy was very smart. Although he didn't know what a stirrup was, he figured out the use of this stirrup in less than half an hour under Qin Yang's words and strokes. He didn't know where he found one. On the cloth, draw a figure of a stirrup with charcoal, and mark the dimensions of each position.Qin Yang saw that he still looked like that, so he gave up.He casually gave the guy ten and a half taels of money, and the guy told another guy in the shop, and happily went to find a blacksmith elsewhere with his things.

While waiting for the stirrups, Qin Yang and Zhao Yun found a restaurant near the harness shop, ordered a few dishes, and asked a restaurant guy to feed the horse, and then they began to drink.During the banquet, Qin Yang found several suspicious people wandering outside the wine shop.Qin Yang knew that these people were still thinking about his three catties of gold, but he was just concerned about the inconvenience of the crowd in the city.Qin Yang was so annoyed that he thought about how to teach them a lesson.

Qin Yang thought for a while, then asked Zhao Yun: "Father, is there a path to go home from the city?".

"Yes, there is, and it's much closer. But I haven't walked it for a long time. The road is rough and difficult to walk. I don't know why my grandson asked this?" Zhao Yun replied.

"Is it easy?" Qin Yang asked again.

"Passed."

"That's good. Father, don't say anything, you just quietly look at the few people outside." Qin Yang motioned Zhao Yun to look outside the restaurant.

"Oh, are you saying that something is wrong with those people, are they eyeing us?" Zhao Yun woke up like a dream.

"Yes, at first there was one, and now there are several more."

"That's a little troublesome. They have a lot of people, why don't we report to the officials." Zhao Yun felt that the power was weak.

"Report to the officials? Don't you know that Qin Faxiang's future will be based on restraining people, and innocent claims of crimes will be ignored. Now that we have no evidence of their crimes, how can we report to the officials?" Qin Yang said unhurriedly.

"Then what should we do, Yang, tell me." Seeing Qin Yang's confident look, Zhao Yun also calmed down.

"Father, we only need to do this..." Qin Yang whispered in Zhao Yun's ear.

"Okay, okay. That's right. But can you handle it alone?" Zhao Yun smiled and was worried about Qin Yang at the same time.

"Father, don't worry, Yang has his own way to escape." Qin Yang comforted.

After a while, the two of them were full of wine and food, but they didn't go out. They just dozed off at the table, waiting for the guy who was going to make stirrups to return to the shop.The few people outside the restaurant couldn't help becoming irritable after waiting for Qin and Yang to go out for a long time.

Qin Yang and the two waited until the first quarter of the unitary hour before seeing the guy return to the shop.Only then did the two of them come out of the wine shop unhurriedly and walked towards the harness shop.

After the waiter helped Qin Yang and Zhao Yun fix the saddle and stirrup, Qin Yang paid the bill and helped Zhao Yun onto the yellow horse, and asked Zhao Yun to put his feet on the stirrup.He smiled and said, "Father, try this thing and see if it works? You can stand up."

Zhao Yun stood on the stirrup according to his words, and rode the horse for a few more steps, feeling extremely stable, he was amazed: "Yang, where did you learn such ingenious things? If my father rode horses and fought back then, he would have such things, Maybe the father's hand won't be lost." After speaking, Zhao Yun sighed again.

At this moment, Qin Yang didn't care about comforting Zhao Yun, and said softly: "Father, act according to plan, let's go."

As soon as Zhao Yun heard Qin Yang's words, he immediately reacted and smiled apologetically.Lifting the rein with his right hand, he rode off alone.

Seeing that Zhao Yun had gone alone suddenly, the few followers in the distance looked at Qin Yang, not knowing what to do for a moment.Seeing that Qin Yang was still packing up his purse in a leisurely manner, he ignored Zhao Yun, and just assigned a person to go back to the trading company to report the letter.

Qin Yang still packed up the purse slowly, and got on the bony black horse slowly, then patted the black horse's neck and said: "Let's go slowly.".Strange to say, according to the white-haired old man who sells horses, this black horse has never been allowed to be approached, let alone ridden, but when it comes to Qin Yang, the black horse seems very docile, allowing Qin Yang to ride it.Although the black horse didn't want to walk slowly, but the new owner had orders, so he walked out of the city very reluctantly.

At this time, Lin Ye, who got the news, was furious and scolded Qin Yang: "What kind of tricks is this kid playing? He has been tossing around in this city for three hours. Now he is letting old Zhao Yun go first for no reason, and he is still tossing slowly , does he still have any other tricks?"

"Master, don't worry, the old thing will run away, as long as the thing is still on this kid. We have ambushed more than a dozen people in that mountain depression. They have waited long enough, but this kid just has something to do." You can't escape even if you have three heads and six arms. Just don't worry!" Lin Chen, the shopkeeper, looked like a thief.

"Okay, you can arrange it right away, and make sure nothing goes wrong." Lin Ye seemed to see the golden smile smiling at him.