Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 74
In order to let the emperor and ministers understand the principle of "use it, lose it, lose it", Li Buqi didn't even steam the alcohol, and immediately asked the craftsman who served as the prison to build a mouse trap according to his drawing and put it in the granary in Tokyo City. In one night, more than a dozen large and small mice were caught.

Mice are easy to catch, but choosing which cats to participate in the experiment takes a lot of thought.Fortunately, there is a veterinarian in the Hanlin Academy, who treats pets in the imperial palace and the homes of high officials and dignitaries on weekdays.Li Buqi was also acquainted in the Hanlin Academy, and found out the cat's condition after finding a veterinarian and ordering a drink.

Four days is enough time for this news to spread throughout the capital. Song people like gambling most, and the handicap has been opened early, so people pay more attention to Li Buqi's experiment. The mouse knew everything about it.But there has been no news about using someone's cat for the experiment, which made some people jump up and down to inquire.

Four days later, the experiment started on time at the Ouchi Dog Fighting Arena, and the high-ranking officials and nobles had already crowded the place to the brim.Before the experiment, Cao Yu approached Li Buqi and asked, "Are you sure about what you said? I bet on you to win, and I even gave you my wife's snow lion cat. If that snow lion swallows a mouse today, I'm afraid that my wife will be awkward with me for half a year."

At this time, Zhao Zhen came, shouted long live, danced and danced, and then Chen Lin announced the start of the experiment.

The venue was remodeled according to Li Buqi's suggestion. The original fence of the dog fighting arena was driven into the soil with wooden boards to form a wooden wall to form a circle.Each plank is not only smooth but also sloped into the field to prevent mice from running out.

A little eunuch brought a mouse cage over, opened the trap door and dumped a fat mouse more than a foot long into the field.Then an eunuch brought a fat raccoon cat over, and sang loudly with a long voice: "Xijing Zuozangkushi Shi Xiaosun's residence, a raccoon cat."

He then held the cat over his head in a circle and stooped to place the cat in the field.Immediately, Zhao Zhen and others in the inner circle stood up and looked into the venue, and the people in the outer circle also stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks.

The civet cat came to a new environment and was a little scared to see so many strangers. It just looked around vigilantly, but it didn't even look at the mouse.

Immediately a eunuch reminded the emperor that the cat was timid, and the emperor asked everyone to sit back and let the cat relax.But the cat was not interested in the mouse at all, and there was no movement after waiting for a long time.Everyone was getting impatient, so they had to replace the snow lion from the Cao family.

The snow lion was more lively. Seeing the mouse, he thought it was a plaything, and immediately ran over, scaring the mouse to run around in circles.At first, the snow lion chased after it, but after several rounds of running, it failed to catch up, probably because it was tired, so it lay down on the spot and stopped chasing.This ending is really a bit dumbfounding.

So another cat was changed, and this one was even lazier.As soon as it was put on the ground, it lay there lazily basking in the sun, completely ignoring the rat that could no longer run and could only shrink shivering under the wooden wall. Li Buqi had no choice but to let the cat be carried out.

The eunuch was about to hug the cat, when suddenly someone shouted: "The mouse is dead!"

The mouse is indeed kicking its legs on its belly.Zhao Zhen hurriedly asked Li Buqi: "The cat didn't hurt the mouse, how did the mouse die?"

Li Buqi said: "I think it's because the mouse has been scared by the cat for too long, and it's scared out of its wits."

"That's it!" Zhang Dexiang shouted suddenly: "It turns out that the cat knows that as long as it lies down here, it can scare the mice to death, so it doesn't need to make any effort! It's really a smart animal."

Li Buqi almost fell down: "Grandpa, I admire your imagination so much. Your brain is really big!"

Li Buqi didn't bother to reason with this kind of person, so he directly invited the fourth cat.The cat, however, showed interest in the mouse, chasing it around the field.The problem was that the cat had apparently never caught a mouse before, and it took a lot of effort to catch the mouse.

The fifth cat was a rare Persian cat in Zhang Xianggong's mansion. No one expected that this Persian cat would surprise everyone as soon as it came out.

This time, a small mouse was placed in the field. Seeing the Persian cat, it was so frightened that it couldn't even move, but the reaction of the Persian cat was even more unexpected.The Persian cat glanced at the mouse and immediately shrank to the edge of the wooden wall and began to tremble.This made everyone's eyes widen. Zhang Xianggong felt that he was losing face, so he craned his neck to look over.The cat recognized its owner and meowed twice, which probably frightened the mouse into a daze, and it suddenly ran around in the field without thinking.Immediately the Persian cat was so frightened that it turned around and grabbed the wall with its paws, trying to climb out, but at this moment the mouse rushed straight at the Persian cat.All of a sudden, the Persian cat let out a scream, and then burst into a horrible howl. It jumped out of the field by jumping two feet high with all its strength.

Zhang Xianggong's big face was blocking the cat's escape route, and the Persian cat instinctively kicked Zhang Xianggong's face and jumped over people's heads.Poor Zhang Xianggong's face was immediately scratched with four bloody cuts.Zhang Xianggong was also frightened, so he dodged quickly and sat down on the ground.Moreover, he used too much force not only to shake off his head, but also to dodge his waist, so he had to be helped down by two eunuchs to rest in a state of embarrassment.For a moment, everyone present felt amused but did not dare to laugh out loud, each of them was suffocated with internal injuries.

Zhao Zhen turned his face to the side in surprise and asked the eunuch Zhang Weiji in a low voice: "Is that really a cat?"

Zhang Weiji held back a smile and nodded like a cat: "Officials, how dare you fool the officials. That's indeed Zhang Xianggong's cat, and the young one was brought from Zhang Xianggong's house."

"Oh, I think this time I really know what it's like to fear the enemy like a tiger. Maybe it's like this?" Zhao Zhen was thoughtful.

Next, five cats from rich and noble families appeared on the stage one by one. Only two cats attacked the mouse clumsily as a plaything, and the other three either turned a blind eye to the mouse or were frightened away from the mouse. Persian cats are so exaggerated.

After the "rich cat" was displayed, Li Buqi gave up the cats raised by ordinary people. Two of them were raised by eunuchs in the palace to catch mice. As a result, five cats in a row killed the mice cleanly.

Zhao Zhen looked at the sky and said: "I see the matter is very clear, what do you guys think?"

A normal person can tell that a pampered cat either doesn't know how to catch mice, or that its mouse-catching skills are obviously far worse than those of cats that need to catch mice frequently, so no one has any objections.Zhao Zhen said: "Li Buqi's words really make sense. The nature of some cats is indeed degenerated. They have a name but no reality. This is probably just use it or lose it. I have gained something today. You should also think carefully about it. .”

At this time, Lu Yijian came out from among the ministers and said, "Your Majesty, since what Li Buqi said is true, and he also has ideas about military training, I think it's better to give him some training for you to see if you can train a strong army." Army. If it succeeds, it can also be used as a reference.”

Zhang Xianggong, who was smearing ointment on his face, was also supported by the eunuch and said, "I also think that Li Buqi should try it."

(End of this chapter)