It's easy to go up the mountain but hard to go down the mountain. When going down the mountain, Xue Yuan was especially respectful and active in escorting Gu Yuanbai down the mountain, and occasionally when the ground was uneven, he even directly held Gu Yuanbai's hand and brought him down steadily.
Although Xue Yuan was injured, he was still very strong and familiar in the mountains and jungles. Although the chief of the guards looked at him unfavorably, but seeing that he was so proper, he also fell behind the saint in case he was unprepared.
In fact, Xue Yuan's mood was in the midst of rapidly changing for the better.
He didn't like men, but it wasn't that he didn't know how to enjoy himself. The little emperor's hand was soft and white, in this kind of April weather, Xue Yuan's head and body were bubbling with heat, and the shady ground between the jungle didn't make him feel comfortable, but the little emperor's hand was like cold jade, and holding it eliminated the heat.
When he held the little emperor's hand, the skin was soft enough to sink between his fingers, and he would really get a handful.
The fury and hostility that was previously pressed at the bottom of his heart dissipated a large portion of it, and sure enough, the little emperor made him uncomfortable, and in the end, he had to be comfortable back on the little emperor.
Gu Yuanbai iron straight iron straight a male, completely did not notice this problem. After descending the mountain, he got on the carriage, and it was only then that he realized his hand was already red from holding it.
Gu Yuanbai sighed, so much for being held up a bit, what a little bit of manliness.
The palace attendant purified his hands for him, the carriage had already changed to a different one, layers of soft cushions were spread underneath his body, Gu Yuanbai felt a little drowsy with the swaying.
When he woke up, the carriage had already entered the palace.
Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and slowed down, when Tian Fusheng's question came from outside the carriage, "Is His Holiness asleep?"
The person who answered back also lowered his voice and said, "Sleeping, His Holiness is tired today."
Outside the sparse shivering for a few moments on the sound, Gu Yuanbai propped up his head, still feel sleepy, the nose of the incense is rich and heavy, this scent hooked people lazy tired. His breathing was long, and he was about to squint for a while, when the curtain in front of the car was suddenly lifted up.
Gu Yuanbai lazily said, "Who?"
Tian Fusheng carefully said, "Your Holiness, the people from the Ministry of Engineering have sent the newly developed and improved crossbows and farming tools."
Gu Yuanbai abruptly opened his eyes, his smile spreading as he said aloud, "Take me to see!"
The saint's steps toward the palace, followed by groups of people. When he walked outside the palace, Gu Yuanbai's first glance was to see the Chu Wei and Historian who were waiting on the sidelines, and it was only then that Gu Yuanbai came to a sudden realization, remembering that the vacation of the new scribes had already ended, and that it was time to go on duty.
Chu Wei was the first scholar of the new imperial examination, and was given the official position of Hanlin Academy Cultivator. Hanlin Academy Cultivator, from the sixth grade official position, the main responsibilities for the repair of state history, the repair of the actual records, records of the emperor's words and deeds, into the lecture of the history of the scriptures, as well as the drafting of the ceremony of the manuscripts ①.
It wasn't strange for Chu Wei to be here, it was just that it was rare for him to come to Gu Yuanbai's presence as soon as he took office.
Gu Yuanbai hurriedly glanced at it and stopped thinking about it, but instead looked towards the two courtiers from the Ministry of Engineering, Xu Ning was among them, and when they saw His Holiness walk in, they hurriedly greeted him and bowed.
Gu Yuanbai helped the two men up and smiled, "I've heard that the Engineering Department has come up with something new."
Xu Ning laughed, "Your Holiness, it's military weapons and agricultural tools."
It was only a matter of a dozen days, but Xu Ning looked like he had changed a lot. He looked up and put on some weight, and the meals in the engineering department were very nourishing. In addition to the face with meat, Xu Ning change is the biggest change in the face of the colorful look, he looks very spiritual, very motivated, a kind of contentment and energetic spirit of the head, this change makes Gu Yuanbai the emperor looked extremely satisfied and pleased.
"Good," Gu Yuanbai laughed, "quickly let me see what it is."
The courtier handed up the crossbow, Gu Yuanbai put in the hand carefully look at some. Bow and arrow is manpower launch, crossbow is mechanical force, people as long as responsible for aiming, how far the end of the range depends on how to make. The advantage of the crossbow is that it has a long range, great strength, and does not burden the physical strength of the people, but the small pieces of the string is troublesome and time-consuming, so it is not very practical on the battlefield.
The more powerful crossbow is the king of crossbows, the bed crossbow, which appeared during the North and South Dynasties. The bed crossbow is a big thing, also called the "continuous crossbow", which is powerful and has a long range, and it can fire a large number of arrows at the same time, and Gu Yuanbai remembers that the bed crossbow is a good thing for attacking a city. Gu Yuanbai remembers that the bed crossbow was a good tool for attacking cities, and the technology reached its peak during the Song Dynasty, when the range seemed to have exceeded 1.5 kilometers.
But although the bed crossbow is good, in some cases it is not as good as this small crossbow in the hand.
The crossbow improved by the engineering department was different from the one that had been trampled on in Xu Ning's hands before. The material was changed and improved, with three short and thick arrows on the top. Gu Yuanbai roughly compared the arrows and found that they were only 6-8 centimeters long.
Although the arrow was small, it didn't mean that this thing had low lethality, within close range, this thing was instead more powerful than a long arrow.
The bottom of the crossbow was also loaded with a thing that could not be seen, Xu Ning went forward and broke the thing, it turned out that inside were neatly placed short arrows.
Xu Ning smiled shamefully, "I have speculated on many styles, and this is the only one that is most convenient, but it can only fit fifty crossbow arrows."
"Fifty?" Some of the civil officials on the side sucked in a mouthful of cold air, "If fifty arrows hit, wouldn't that be fifty lives?"
"Where it can be so accurate," returned another minister of works, "if only five out of fifty hit the enemy, it is a good little crossbow."
Gu Yuanbai looked at it for a while, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, he inclined his head towards the palace attendant and ordered, "Go to the Yamen and invite the Minister of War and the Minister of War to come over."
Palace people answered the voice and went, but a few moments, the footsteps of the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works rushed over on their feet.
Gu Yuanbai smiled when he looked at the Minister of Public Works, "Why did you follow me here as well?"
The Minister of Public Works shyly came forward with an old face and saluted, "I heard that it was the Ministry of Engineering that had come up with something good again, and specially came to take a look."
In this Ministry of Engineering was first built, the Ministry of Public Works in fact the most difficult, the Ministry of Public Works is not the Ministry of Public Works? The emperor this meaning is not intended to get out of the two Ministry of Industry?
During that time, the Minister of Industry could not eat or sleep well, and after that, His Holiness took the Minister of Industry around the Ministry of Engineering, and the Minister of Industry got it.
The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Engineering are very different, a wide range and miscellaneous, towards a specific thing to study, a brainstorming, want to do what you want to do, also do not need to deal with official business and interpersonal relations, is a pure research department. The Ministry of Engineering did not share away the authority of the Ministry of Public Works, after this the Minister of Public Works is not entangled, every time to see the play is still excited.
Seeing that people have come, Gu Yuanbai handed the crossbow to a guard. The guard stepped forward and pulled the crossbow towards the open space in the distance, only to hear the sound of "whoosh" breaking through the air, three arrows shot out towards the distance.
The three holes can be fired both in unison and one by one, when the arrows landed, Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but take a step forward, next to the Secretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs had been shocked, "This has been more than two hundred paces!"
Just measuring it with Gu Yuanbai's eyes, it felt like it was a full hundred meters or so.
The Secretary of the Ministry of War looked at the person who went forward to measure the distance and muttered, "In the past, Zhuge crossbows could fire ten arrows in a row and had strong firepower. It is a pity that it is heavy and can only be used for defense. Our dynasty has bed crossbows, and the only thing missing is a crossbow that can be picked up by a person like this."
The Minister of War said, "The range of this crossbow is still so far, three shots in a row, and the power looks like it's huge!"
Everyone was overjoyed, especially those in the Ministry of War, who had already begun to interrogate those in the Ministry of Engineering about whether this crossbow could be produced in large quantities.
Gu Yuanbai face smile can not hide, he usually do not smile has been bright, now the smile did not stop. Chu Wei recorded the words and deeds of the saint, need to stare at the saint at times in the look, look at, his hand pen can not help but stop.
The historian beside him was also memorizing the appearance of the crossbow and chimed in, "To be able to research such a sharp weapon, the person who researched this must be famous in history."
Chu Wei back to God, low "hmm" a sound, he disliked his own reaction, obviously dislike others to look at him, he is now looking at the saint but out of his mind.
He doesn't like men, there is no good of Dragon Yang, even if His Holiness is good-looking, it is only a skin bag. If it is because of the face of the saint will not be able to move away from the eyes, that Chu Wei himself is a good skin, but also has not been to the bronze mirror to see God ah.
Chu Wei was puzzled, but could not keep from looking at the saint. But when he looked up again, he saw the person who sat beside Chang Yuyan on the day of the release of the examination, who had an unkind look on his face.
Chu Wei frowned lightly.
Xue Yuan was originally looking at the crossbow, at first his careless mind gradually became serious, and when he caught a glimpse of his afterglow, he saw that the little emperor in that side room had already shaken the hands of the two ministers of engineering, and was praising them continuously.
Xue Yuan's smile lurched and his eyes went cold.
He can fight and lead troops, not afraid of killing and bloodshed, and if you really want to look at the military achievements, the military achievements are so high that they can make people's jaws drop. It is because he is too popular and his military achievements are too high that General Xue wants to suppress him, fearing that his military achievements at such a young age will cause the saint to be concerned.
It is not too much to say that a natural talent, but this kind of him, the little emperor has never treated him kindly, but on the contrary, to these two unarmed scholar so kindly.
He was punished so badly that he had to find a way to touch the little emperor's hand for comfort. But these two people, they even let the little emperor himself take the initiative to send his hand.
Oh.
After having seen the farming tools, Gu Yuanbai was even more pleasant to bestow a reward. The Ministry of Engineering has actually figured out the rice planting horse, today's spring sowing is afraid of not being able to produce on a large scale, but when the rice matures, it should be able to be used.
Gu Yuanbai gave the agricultural tools to the Minister of Works and asked him to bring someone to contact the Ministry of Works. The two lords of the Ministry of War retreated directly with Xu Ning and the others, who wanted to ask some more questions.
A return to the palace to encounter such a great gift, Gu Yuanbai felt that this is more than climbing the mountain blowing wind and also enjoyable, he smiled back to the Xuanzheng Hall, dealing with political affairs is also under the pen, Chu Wei stood aside, inadvertently to the folders on the look, and saw the saint of the pen, spilling "full of nonsense," the four words appeared in the folders on top of the.
Chu Wei was slightly stunned, and then felt a bit amused.
It is estimated that the courtier who was criticized by the emperor with the words "full of nonsense" took a look at the zhengzuo, and was scared to the ground.
Chu Wei dutifully record the words and deeds of the emperor, this chore also has rules, the courtier should be clear about what can be recorded and what can not be recorded. The good aspects of the saint should be praised, the rest of the free heart evidence.
Under the mood of comfort Gu Yuanbai reading the speed of the folders is also very fast, such as a breath of review of the political affairs of the time, but not yet to the time of the evening meal.
Gu Yuanbai then asked Chu Wei, "Chu Qing, did your father send a letter home?"
Chu Wei froze, closed the pen and paper in his hand, and respectfully saluted towards Gu Yuanbai, "My father has not sent a single word."
Gu Yuanbai sighed and said, "It looks like affairs along the Yellow River should be very busy."
Chu Wei opened his mouth and finally only said stiffly, "It is my father's good fortune to be able to share his worries for His Majesty."
Gu Yuanbai smiled faintly and joked, "Chu Qing doesn't mind that I've kept your family from seeing each other for two months is a good thing."
Chu Wei sniffed, the corner of his lips hooked, and a thin smile appeared on his handsome and peerless face.
His appearance can be a man's prosperity, not smile is the light of the sun and the moon, smile is like Pan An Wei Jie. Gu Yuanbai saw his appearance, he looked toward Xue Yuan, Xue Yuan appearance is also sharp and handsome, an evil word overflowing, these two people stand in a piece, if regardless of gender, is also considered a pair of match made in heaven.
Xue Yuan saw that the saint glanced at him and was about to raise his lips, but before the false smile could come out, the saint averted his gaze.
Xue Yuan: "......"
His eyes narrowed and he suddenly smiled coldly.
Is this about not wanting to see him?
Someone outside suddenly said, "Your Majesty, the Prince of Harmony sent someone to deliver a sweat-blooded horse."
"Oh?" Gu Yuanbai stood up with interest and headed out of the hall, "Where is it? I'll go and take a look."
In the ancient times, where there were few recreational activities, BMWs were as much sought after by the powerful and wealthy as modern luxury cars. The palace also kept many good horses, but because Gu Yuanbai had never shown his pursuit of a good horse, the legendary sweat-blooded BMW was not really available in the palace.
Outside the temple, there are a few people are struggling to hold a piece of handsome and martial high horse, this horse has a beautiful body type, long limbs, high head and thin neck, look at it is extraordinarily delightful to the heart.
Before Gu Yuanbai could walk in, he was stopped by the others, anxiously saying, "Your Holiness, this horse is wild and untamed, anyone who gets close to it struggles terribly, so don't get close yet!"
Gu Yuanbai stopped his feet and looked at the good horse from afar with a regretful expression.
I heard that the reason why there is the term sweat blood BMW, is because the sweat blood BMW's skin is very thin, when running can see the blood flowing under the skin. And because there are many sweat glands, so when running sweat will soak through the brownish red fur, forming the color like blood in general.
This kind of BMW was so gluttonous that Gu Yuanbai really wanted to get on the horse and ride it. He himself was adventurous in nature, and if his body was still healthy, he would try to conquer it even if he was thrown. However, the little emperor's body was too weak, so he could only remain at a safe distance and watch the horse with bated breath.
His Majesty, who had also only just established his crown, had some of the freshness of youth in his expression at this time.
A person beside him suddenly bypassed Gu Yuanbai and walked towards the surrounded sweat-blooded horse. Gu Yuanbai fixed his eyes on it, and it turned out to be Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan pulled away from the people who were blocking him from approaching, and took a few big steps to the side of the Sweatblood BMW, which seemed to have sensed the danger and hissed several times towards Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan slowly rolled up his sleeves, his arms still had cuts from the morning's dragging by the Emperor, yet the taut, powerful muscles made them look like no more than a piece of cake.
When he was ready, Xue Yuan threw the saber on his body aside, took a few steps back and whistled loudly towards the sweat-blooded BMW, whose gaze was fixed on his body, firmly caught by Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan grinned, and then ran violently, taking a few steps to the side of the sweat-blooded horse, and then abruptly rolled over and mounted the horse!
Gu Yuanbai firmly stared at Xue Yuan, who was crouching his body down on top of the constantly struggling Sweatblood BMW.
The tall man's arms were strong enough to encircle the stallion's neck, his taut legs juxtaposed dead tight. The wild and untamed horse and the wild and untamed man, neither one of them was convincing of the other, and one was tougher than the other.
Force versus force, the stallion struggled to the point where it was frightening, constantly rearing back to a terrifying angle, no one around dared to get close, but Xue Yuan just dared.
He put the reins on the steed, and the steed kept breaking free, running forward abruptly, Xue Yuan fell hard to the ground and was dragged hard for a while, he smiled sorrowfully, and tugged on the reins again and rolled back onto the back of the sweaty-blooded BMW.
"If I don't get you convinced today," Xue Yuan yanked on the reins with such force that the horse's head raised its front hooves as he yanked on it, "I won't have to go to fucking war!"