"We do have the manpower, but we can't get it all in one day."
Ru Bohu said: "Wang Jiang is a master of yin and yang, and Su Ji is a master of mechanisms. If you want to enter the imperial mausoleum, these two are the most suitable. But only Wang Jiang is here, and Su Ji is on a mission and will not be able to come back within three to five days." .”
Xiuyi has a team specifically responsible for underground operations.
In this world, burial customs have existed since ancient times, and there are many things that are beyond ordinary people's understanding.
One of Xiuyi's main tasks is to explore these unsolved mysteries.
Wang Jiang and Su Ji are both good players.
While Huo Qubing and Ru Bohu were talking, a cat suddenly jumped out of the window and glanced at the two of them with its diamond-like eyes.
It's a big cat.
During this time, Liu Qing came to embroider clothes to deal with things, and sometimes brought Da Mao with him.
And big cats are very popular in embroidery.
The cat raised by the champion and the princess was given by His Majesty back then. It had a great reputation and everyone was curious about feeding it. The big cat had gained two ounces of hair on its body.
It came in from the window and saw Huo Qubing. It rolled its eyes at him and showed an expression of not wanting to pay attention to him, and then moved closer to Ru Bohu.
Ru Bohu took out a small bottle, poured out some small pills and handed them to the big cat.
"I have someone make cat food in the form of pills, which is convenient for feeding."
Ru Bohu said while feeding the cat: "The souls of millions of Qin terracotta warriors were filled in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor. There has been a rumor among the old Qin people that there is a shocking secret in the Mausoleum, and it is ominous to trespass there.
If you go in, be careful. "
Huo Qubing nodded and said, "Tao, I have people from the Mo family and the ghost path to the yin lineage.
With the addition of Wang Jiang, who practices Yin and Yang, there are almost as many masters as there are.
I am confident of entering. First, I have recently obtained the military power of Jiuli.
Chi You practiced with the Yin body of the military master, absorbing Yin soul, hostility, murderous and other qi, which actually strengthened his strength. I have already tried it when fighting against the Huns. Entering the Imperial Tomb may have some unexpected benefits for me. "
He added: "Furthermore, I have been studying the arrangement of the figurines in the imperial tomb for some time.
As long as it doesn't last long and doesn't induce the resurgence of the deep layers of the formation, there will be no danger. "
Ru Bohu raised his voice slightly and said to the door: "Go and call Cao Qiao and Wang Jiang."
Someone outside the door promised to be responsible for calling someone.
When Huo Qubing came in, Ru Bohu was reading.
There is an ancient scroll on the low mat, with the title of Zhou Shuo written on it.
"This book was written by Yu Chu, the master of Zonghengdao, which one was it?" Huo Qubing asked.
"Well, one of the ways for this family to gain strength is to sell the book to the world. The more people read it, the more luck they can draw from it."
Ru Bohu: "Not long ago, Yu Chu was arrested and captured, but when he was interrogated, it was found that the key information in his consciousness had been blocked. After a little in-depth exploration, his consciousness collapsed and he became an amnesiac."
Yu Chu used Bai Nanyu as bait to capture the Great Master, and captured him in a foreign clan's building. He was a disciple of one of the three disciples behind Zonghengdao.
"I'm worried that 'Zi' can also get part of his family's luck from Zhou Shuo, a book on marketing in the world.
Therefore, a strict order was issued to destroy all marketing reports and not allow them to be read. "
"Now there are only these few weeks left in the world. I want to see if I can find some traces of that person's practice in them."
At this time, the big cat finished eating what Ru Bohu fed him, turned to Huo Qubing, stretched its neck forward, and made a sniffing motion.
His body was full of the smell of the plagued horse, and the smell of the princess... They had mated last night... The big cat rolled his eyes while smelling it, feeling that he had been completely relegated to the cold palace, with a look of injustice on his face, and he was unhappy.
Huo Qubing took out a fish from the magical weapon bag.
Brought back from Dunhuang, very fresh. The space in the soldier's bag can store things without decay.
The big cat glanced at the fresh fish, unmoved, raised its butt and prepared to leave.
Huo Qubing took out the second fish. The big cat was walking out, with one paw in the air, and stopped still.
When the fish reached the third one, the big cat decisively gave up its reserve, leaned in front of Huo Qubing, and raised its paws to gesture above its head with some aggrievedness.
Huo Qubing burst into laughter.
Ru Bohu asked curiously: "What does it mean?"
"A while ago, His Majesty gave Jin An a title and a horse crown because he repeatedly went to the battlefield. The big cat also wanted your Majesty's reward, and asked for it to be bigger than Jin An's reward." Huo Qubing explained.
Ru Bohu said in astonishment: "Can you understand this?"
"Having raised it for a long time, you know its virtues."
Huo Qubing smiled and changed the topic: "Xiu Yi, has your Majesty Xiu Yi considered the future development of Xiu Yi?"
Xiuyi is the earliest espionage organization, recruiting all kinds of capable people and strangers and training them.
In order to prevent it from getting too big, Xiu Yi's military strength was strictly controlled, so it required frequent cooperation with the military. Sometimes when Cao Jiao was on a mission, he would ask Huo Qubing to borrow troops.
Ru Bohu pondered: "You should know that I don't want Xiu Yi to have too much authority.
Otherwise, the power Xiu Yi controls, and all officials are under his supervision, may not be a good thing, and may cause trouble in the future. "
In later generations, similar organizations were out of control, and the disaster was as severe as a change of state, which indeed caused endless disasters.
"Xiu Yi Ling's consideration is correct, but when we are expanding our territory now, we need a force that can understand the enemy and ourselves. Failure to do so is a taboo for military strategists."
Huo Qubing said: "If the embroidered clothes are worried about hidden dangers, we can deal with them the next day."
Ru Bohu thought for a while: "Master Hou, do you want me to send Xiu Yi to collect some information?"
"There is a small country called Wuju at the southernmost tip of the Western Region (a hundred miles south of today's territory). You might as well explore the area where its border continues to the south."
Huo Qubing said: "In addition, in the future, we should check the trade in the Western Regions, which countries are further west in the Western Regions, and what the current situation is, so that we can make early arrangements."
Regarding the West in later generations, it is obviously beyond Ru Bohu's knowledge.
The slender and slender face of the embroiderer was unusually confused: "The countries in the Western Regions are further west...are there any countries?"
The Silk Road will obviously start earlier in this world.
The starting point is from Chang'an and the end point is directly to Rome.
Thousands of miles away.
On the way to the west, the Han Dynasty would pass through the Parthia, Kushan and other empires that would become famous in later generations.
What would happen if these countries encountered the Han army?
Some things really need to be arranged in advance. Huo Qubing planned to ask Ru Bohu to send people to Dayuezhi to the west of the Western Region and Shendu and Magadha to the south to investigate.
Other things will depend on the situation.
Those outsiders made Huo Qubing a little curious about the seal of this period.
According to history, the highly unified Mauryan Dynasty in Indy during the same period should have been over. So what does the body poison look like now?
When Huo Qubing was talking to Ru Bohu, he saw Cao Qiao and another person "floating in."
The person who floated in was as thin and tall as a dry bamboo pole, as if he had no weight. He pointed his toes on the ground when walking without making any movement.
His face is pale, his eyes are gloomy, and his pupils rarely move. When you look at people, you will feel like they are being stared at directly.
"Huo Hou."
Cao Qiao and the Han army met in the Jingjue territory of the Western Regions, and then returned to Chang'an half a month earlier than Huo Qubing.
That withered bamboo pole was Wang Jiang, who also greeted Huo Qubing and Ru Bohu.
Ru Bohu asked him and Cao Qiao to cooperate with Huo Qubing to enter the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
After hearing this, Wang Jiang's eyes showed a look of shock, and he suddenly knelt down and said: "Young man is not afraid of dying for Xiuyi Order and Huo Hou, but the imperial mausoleum is inaccessible, it is too dangerous, and we will lose our hands in vain. "
Huo Qubing said: "We are not going in to steal things. It is different from what you think. You don't need to all enter the imperial mausoleum."
Wang Jiang still wanted to speak, but Ru Bohu had already waved him off and acted as ordered.
In the afternoon, Liu Qing stayed in Xiuyi to handle official duties.
Huo Qubing went to the military mansion on the outskirts of the city on his own to inspect the training of the Forbidden Army and the preparation of ordnance by the Mohist family.
The preparation and promotion of ordnance is one of the most important pillars of the Han Dynasty.
The top priority is the application of iron tools and the improvement of the power of bows and crossbows.
The group of Mohists that Huo Qubing inherited from Zonghengdao, headed by Ji Qiu, were mainly responsible for the improvement of this part of the industry.
The Han Dynasty was in the stage of comprehensive transition from bronze to iron.
Huo Qubing hopes to push him to complete this process better, faster and more comprehensively.
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suburbs.
Forbidden Army Li Qing came back from the northwest with his brigade, and he had a few more wounds from the battle.
He was very proud of it and was bragging in the camp when a messenger came over and said: "Marquis Huo is here. He wants to see the wounded soldiers injured in the northwest battle, and he also wants to personally award you with merit awards.
Li Qing, we have your name here, why don’t you hurry up and go. "
"Damn it, you've made a lot of money this time."
Li Qing perked up and hurried away under the envious eyes of his teammates.
The implementation of the merit system in the Forbidden Army was one of the changes brought about by Huo Qubing who took charge of the Forbidden Army for more than half a year.
Merit is divided into five levels.
Li Qing fought bravely this time, killing twelve enemies. While covering his teammates, he was injured himself, and achieved third-class merit once.
Huo Qubing came over to visit the wounded soldiers, and at the same time awarded medals and awards to the Forbidden Army soldiers who fought bravely.
Li Qing is one of them.
For his meritorious service during the war, he was able to receive personal guidance from Huo Qubing, and he spent a long time in the military mansion to practice training, which was unavoidable that other forbidden troops would not envy him.
In the afternoon, there was a short award ceremony at the Forbidden Army Camp.
All members of the Forbidden Army participated, and there were thousands of people standing in large numbers, and the military was solemn and majestic.
The process of conferring honors under the banner of the Han army was solemn and silent, but extremely profound.
This is an experience that the Forbidden Army has never had before. It is the first time to participate, but a sense of honor arises spontaneously. Fighting for the Han Dynasty is like getting a kind of recognition and mark, and it will be left in the Han army's merit book forever.
The full sense of honor and responsibility made the Forbidden Army excited and their blood boiled.
At the moment when the honors were awarded under the military banner, Li Qing and others had tears in their eyes inexplicably.
Huo Qubing personally prepared for the Northwest Battle and counted one hundred and eighty-six Forbidden Army soldiers who fought bravely and wore bronze-forged merit medals.
On the medal is a flying flag with Chinese characters, and on the back is a picture of swords and guns juxtaposed.
This is a method of reward that has never been seen before in modern times. It is the first time for all Han soldiers to participate, but after this time, it has become the honor that everyone desires most to obtain and to be a member of!
With Zhang Cigong's informality, he couldn't help but feel sore eyes as he stood aside.
The process of carving one's own name in the long river of history together with all the Han soldiers makes people feel an emotion welling up from the deepest part of their hearts, which they will never forget!
In the evening, Huo Qubing, who returned from the Forbidden Army camp, picked up Liu Qing and headed back home.
At this time, people from various clans who were waiting in Chang'an to discuss matters about the racecourse were also called over and gathered at the house.
Including Dong Zhongshu also came to listen.
When it comes to raising war horses, it is a top priority.
"I am starting to open up the northwest. The reason why I came to you is very simple. I have some things to prepare ahead.
In the near future, we will need more excellent war horses. Down in the northwest, the area between Yanzhi Mountain and Qilian Mountain is very suitable for raising horses. "
Huo Qubing got straight to the point: "I want to know who among you is willing to go to the northwest to build a new horse farm to raise war horses for our army?
The word goes up front, there is no reward for raising horses for the army.
But in return, I will let people circle the northwest horse farm land for you to use for free. Each family can raise other horses by the way, sell them or use them for other purposes. But priority must be given to ensuring the supply of military horses.
In addition, the Han army will be responsible for the safety of the racecourse, which can also save you some expenses. "
The Wang family, Li family, Xie family and other families faced each other.
They are willing to raise horses, and the Han Dynasty wants to open up the northwest. In the next stage, all kinds of resources of the Han Dynasty will be tilted towards the northwest.
On the way to the Western Region, if you can have a horse farm in your hands as a transit, it will undoubtedly be a great benefit.
The profits contained therein are very flexible.
Moreover, by acquiring a horse farm in the northwest first and taking advantage of many clans, it is equivalent to holding the largest profit in the northwest.
But at the same time, he has to raise horses for the military.
With Champion Hou's shrewdness and means, he would definitely not make a loss-making deal.
Others are weighing the pros and cons.
Li Zhao, the leader of the Li clan in Longxi, spoke first: "I, the Li clan, are willing to listen to Huo Hou's orders.
We are the closest to the northwest and understand the climate at the northwest border, the relations between various ethnic groups, etc. Moreover, I, the Li family, have our own horse farm in the northwest, so we can prepare it quickly and will not delay Huo Hou's affairs. "
Huo Qubing thought that Li Zhao was not quick to react and had a clear attitude, and he would do anything to make a profit at a loss.
This guy can handle it.
Dong Zhongshu said: "Starting from this month, the DPRK will make further arrangements for the northwest. According to Huo Hou, if each family is willing to prepare a horse farm, they can go there with the DPRK's large team to conduct preliminary exploration."
After discussing everything with all the clans, it was already the time of Xu, and the sky was filled with stars.
Huo Qubing returned to the inner house.
Liu Qing was taking a bath. He came to the study and took out a few volumes of ancient books.
In the afternoon, I stopped by Shiqu Pavilion to read several secret volumes, which were handed down from the Yin Shang and Zhou dynasties a long time ago. They were some records about the ancient Zhuolu Battle.
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The next evening.
Huo Qubing led a thousand-man forbidden army out of Chang'an, came to Lishan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains again, and entered the underground secret palace.
Accompanying him were Tao Zun, two ink workers led by Ji Qiu, and Wang Jiang, who specialized in underground engineering. There are also Cao Qiao, Bai Nanyu, and Qian Kunzao who came from Zonghengdao, so they have enough manpower.
Liu Qing learned that he was coming to the imperial mausoleum to retrieve the Taoist slips, and he and his teacher Qin Qingyu also came with him.
Night is falling.
Everyone entered the underground room where they could see the interior of the imperial mausoleum through the skylight.
Tao Zun looked into the imperial mausoleum and was surprised: "Why has this imperial mausoleum changed so much from the last few times I saw it?"
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