Nanshan is home to the palace of Emperor Daqian, the horse breeding grounds of the Northern and Southern Yamen, and the royal hunting grounds.
The tenth day of the twilight years!
This is the date calculated by the Secretary Provincial Taishi Bureau.
Celebration is spring, reward is summer, punishment is autumn, and punishment is winter.
Winter hunt!
It's never an easy hunt.
At nine o'clock in the twelfth year of the Longsheng year, Prince Zaicheng led the six troops outside the East Palace out of Chang'an along Zhuque Street and arrived at the Nanshan hunting ground at noon.
There are ten troops in the East Palace, six troops outside, and four guards inside.
The six guards and twelve deputy commanders of the Six Commands outside the East Palace all took leave and returned home. Prince Zhao Zaicheng became the chief general of the Six Commands of the East Palace.
The entire hunting ground is located at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, and is woodland for hundreds of miles. This is the last piece of uncultivated land around Chang'an, and it is also the source of all water sources in Chang'an City.
Half of the armies in Chang'an City are on duty. Only the left and right Yulin Guards are fully equipped. The two guards are camped in Beiyuan Camp, but the number is similar to that of other armies, because no matter when, there are always half of the troops. It's all here.
The importance of Nanshan has been deliberately ignored by everyone. The reason is very simple. The lifeblood of Chang'an lies in Nanshan.
"Prince, the left guard troops have swept the hunting ground, and there is no one there!" The Yulin Guards in black armor and red clothes are not the most powerful army in Da Gan, but they are the most powerful army in Da Gan.
If we rank the various armies of Daqian according to their strength.
Yulin is first, Lingwei is second, Beiya is third, Nanya is fourth, Frontier Army is fifth, and Xiang Army is sixth.
Habayashiro, all of whom were orphans in the military, was also the most loyal private soldier of the emperor.
As soon as Zhao Zaicheng arrived at the hunting ground, he occupied the center of the strip of grassland that was specially set aside in the north of the hunting ground and ran southeast.
Six thousand people came from the East Palace, and four thousand people surrounded and set up camp outside the prince's tent.
The remaining 2,000 brigades and soldiers were spread out, and two areas were circled by tents every fifty meters.
News of the prince's arrival at the hunting ground soon spread to Chang'an City.
There are five princes, sixteen county princes, thirty county princes, seventy-two county princes, and one hundred and eighty-six county uncles.
Compared with the previous two years, although the nobles in Daqian had one more county prince, they were missing one country prince, one county prince, two county marquises, and one county uncle.
After hundreds of years of fighting, some people were knighted every year, but there were still one-third fewer nobles than when the country was founded.
The five princes left the city with the Duke of Qi as their prime minister.
The people of Chang'an City gathered beside Zhuque Street in Chang'an City. There were so many people watching the ceremony that they stretched to the roadside outside the south of the city to watch the guards of the nobles of Daqian.
Two thousand Blood Slaughter Guards from the Duke of Qi's Palace and Qinglong Guards from the Duke's Palace of Wei were at the front. Gong Xiangcheng of Anding County followed closely behind with a thousand Black Wolf Cavalry.
The Eight Hundred Chifeng Riders of Duke Yi's Mansion
The 700 Suzaku Guards of the Duke of Yue's Mansion.
The six hundred Mo cavalry of the Duke of Wei.
Duke Anfeng's five hundred camel riders.
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It was already noon when Bosu Ce's one hundred personal guards from Jingyang County set off, and there were nearly a hundred nobles behind Su Ce's team.
The starting order of everyone is temporarily determined, based on the number of guards they lead, and those with the same number are ranked first by their title.
Many people turned pale when they saw that there were still people serving as prisoners in the Ministry of War.
Because the officials in each department were counting the number of people and registering them.
The emperor sealed the towns so that the nobles would have soldiers to use when going to the battlefield, rather than allowing these household registrations that did not pay taxes to become a tool for the nobles to make profits.
The people are the foundation of the country!
Someone wanted to go back, but was stopped by the men of Youyu Linwei.
Either go in order, or wait for the Peony guard to come.
The winter hunt has not yet begun, but the saint's prey has already been shot down.
As for the prey of the prince and noble nobles, it is not time to hunt them today.
As for why no one tipped off the news, who can say whether there are any Peony Guards among the people along the roadside outside the city gate, or who can say that there is not a carriage parked around their house.
As for whether there are people who are miserable when they die, Su Ce probably doesn't have them, because Su Ce doesn't want to go to the battlefield and meet people who have no fighting spirit and just want to live and enjoy themselves.
Winter hunting, honorable soldiers, this is a rare lively scene in Chang'an City.
The people of Chang'an City have been hearing stories about the guards of the nobles of Daqian since they were young. The guards with names straightened their backs, and the guards without names were not laughed at by the people.
In a war, there are always lucky people who will be crowned knights in one battle, but the maintenance of a military knight requires generations of knights to drink blood on the battlefield. Not every knight knight has such courage.
There are three hundred and nine nobles, and there are less than 200 named and unnamed personal guards in full force. The rest are mostly accompanied by more than a dozen guards.
Yes, guards, these dissatisfied personal guards no longer deserve the name of personal guards.
Because the people they support are no longer willing to perform meritorious service on the battlefield.
Therefore, even if Su Ce is just a county magistrate, he can still walk in front of the county marquis, even if the youngest bodyguard among Su Ce's bodyguards is only five years old, and the oldest bodyguard is only fifteen years old.
Led by Su Ce, except for Su Ce who was wearing the armor given by the prince, the rest of the bodyguards were all wearing black leather armor, and even the clothes under the leather armor were black.
Su Da led the fifty oldest guards to escort the carriage. Su Ce led a group of children in front.
Everyone is equipped with two horses. Of course, the young men who set up the carriage did not ride on their beloved ponies. Their ponies followed beside the carriage.
Noble, those with great merit are respected, followed by strength.
Strength is not fighting power, but a heart that will never sink into wealth and glory.
So even if Su Ce brought this personal guard with an average age of less than twelve years old, no one would laugh at him. Instead, he would be greeted by cheers from the people of Chang'an City. After all, the fifty young men following Su Ce, no, It should be that young men are too "cute".
How can a teenager riding a horse be as interesting as a five or six-year-old child wearing a small leather armor, carrying a small sword, bow and arrow?
When Su Ce left the city, the cheers of the people became even louder. On the ten-mile-long Zhuque Street, the five or six-year-old children in the eyes of the people held out.
There was no crying, and there was no confusion in their eyes. Everyone, like Su Ce at the front, moved forward in silence.
"Given time, this person will become the mainstay of the army!"
This should be what the people said the most after Su Ce passed by.
A glimpse of one spot can reveal the whole leopard. A single nobleman's honor can reveal the merits and demerits of aristocrats.
As for whether there are people who keep a low profile and bide their time, there may be, but the personal guards are private armies, private armies rewarded by the emperor. They do not raise troops openly but secretly?
Do you really think that the offerings in the palace and the peony guards are just decorations?
Raising a private army or raising a private army is a sign of overwhelming favor, while the other is confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. No matter how low-key one is, he or she would not dare to make a fuss in this regard.
By the time Su Ce arrived at the Nanshan hunting ground, the specially set aside camping grassland in the north of the entire hunting ground was already bustling with people.
With Prince Zhao Zaicheng's 4,000 Brigade Ben Army as the center, the five princes and the personal guards of Anding County Duke set up camp around the Brigade Camp, occupying the middle of the entire strip of grassland, followed by other counties and counties to the east. Gong County Hou County Bo, but they were divided into four parts according to their military background.
As for the nobles with more than a dozen guards, they could only pitch their tents on a small edge left on the easternmost edge.
In the afternoon, the prince Zhao Zaicheng and the Duke of Wei Zhao Yao went to the camp of Duke Jiang Bu of Qi. The other three Dukes also went to the camp of Duke of Qi after receiving the news. The remaining people except Duke Anding went to the camp of Duke of Qi. Everyone is busy with things in their own camp.
When the prince Zhao Zaicheng returned to his camp in the evening, the prince's tent was set up. The main reason was that an earth platform that was only one foot to ten feet high was rammed under the prince's tent during the day.
In addition to the different sizes of the main tents in each camp, the guard tents all follow the military's one-group-one-tent rule.
There are two classes of tents in the Daqian army, with six people in each tent and eleven people in each tent.
There are only ten tents in Su Ce's camp. Except for Su Ce's tent, which is slightly larger, the other tents are also regulated.
Su Ce's camp was set up very slowly. There was nothing we could do about it. Su Ce's bodyguards were too young. If the surrounding Brigade Lieutenant hadn't recognized Su Ce and brought half of his subordinates to help, Su Ce would have been saved. We don’t know when Ce’s camp will be set up.
Su Ce didn't ask Lu Ben's troops to help him in vain. After all, there were many soldiers here who had been led by Su Ce, and he gave half a cart of preserved fruits half-heartedly.
The entire camp was set up at night.
The tent is not difficult to set up. The military-style tent is easy to set up, but the fence around the camp is the most labor-intensive.
According to the requirements of the military, camps with more than 500 people need to set up camp. The so-called setting up camp does not mean just setting up tents and then being done.
The tent also needs to be fenced with wood, and someone needs to stand guard at the door, and someone needs to patrol the camp.
Everything needs to be done in accordance with military rules. Otherwise, it will just make people laugh. These were all given to Su Ce by Chang Li, who was afraid that Su Ce would save trouble.
Just like this, the trees around the grassland suffered, and dozens of hectares of forest land were cut down by the tens of thousands of people on the grassland.
At night, the whole camp became quiet, no one came to the camp, everyone stayed in their own camp.
Looking down from the night sky, strips of grassland are separated by wooden fences. Except for a long string of tents on the far east side next to the tents of the Brigade Ben Army, the entire hunting ground camp appears to be in order.
In the center is the square prince's camp. Surrounding the prince is a circle of indistinguishable government camps. To the east are four equally divided camps. The boundaries are based on the background of the border troops. However, the density of the four camps is different. , among which the camps where the Anbei Protectorate came from are the densest, and all large camps are separated by wooden rafts to leave roads.
Within the large camp, each small camp is bounded by fences made of tree branches. All small camps are based on a unit of a hundred people, and are divided into equal numbers of places according to the number of guards.
We were in a camp with brothers from the same camp, but they were arranged in order of the time of the knighthood. Su Ce was right next to Li Sizhe, the Duke of Dingbei County who fought for the knighthood that year. However, Su Ce did not visit Li Sizhe because there was no one in the camp. People go to visit each other.
Hunting in winter is not the time to visit the old coach. Moreover, Li Sizhe almost threw Su Ce on the chessboard, but Su Ce has never forgotten this.
As for the other people who were knighted at the same time, the three county princes were transferred from the Nanya Forbidden Army to the Anbei Protectorate. Their origins were not from the Anbei Protectorate. They were in other camps.
As for Su Ce's peers, two county princes and three county princes were in similar situations. The others entered Chang'an, were dazzled, became pawns, and were ruined in the chess game.
Su Ce had no emotion about this, only fear. Fortunately, his messiness back then was not put on the chessboard.
I want to have a good chat with Li Chang when I go back this time. Li Chang seems to have learned something in the past two years. He always doesn't stay in Suzhuang or Nanshan Xinzhuang. Instead, he takes money to go to Chang'an City to drink with people. But Li Chang is also like Su Ce.
Su Ce couldn't come forward to inquire about many of the things he had ordered, so it didn't matter to Li Chang.
As for why Su Ce didn't ask about it himself, the reason is very simple. Su Ce is a county magistrate after all. Who can he ask about such a thing?
If you ask other nobles, you are not stupid enough to write the word "chess piece" on your forehead.
Su Ce glanced sideways at the tent to the east, wondering if the hundreds of nobles who had been placed on the chessboard could sleep peacefully!
The title of Daqian was never used to enjoy happiness. This was what Su Ce knew when he came to Chang'an and sold his mansion for money.
If you cannot hold up your own title, you are not worthy of it, and the outcome will always be tragic.
Tomorrow will be the tenth day of the lunar month, and there will be an open space on the west side of the camp. Apparently only Gui has come for the winter hunt, and Xun has not yet come.
Li Chang inquired about the news and found that during the winter hunting in May and June, Jiangmen received the holy edict from the saint.
Su Ce already had a suspicion in his mind that Prince Dongshou was going to do something big this time.
The power of the generals, nobles, and wealthy families is too great. The generals have generals, the noble families are famous, and the wealthy families have money. The predecessors of these three parties are the aristocratic families that brought trouble to Daqi.