When Yunmeng Mountain Ancient Ape was practicing "Tai Xuantong Back Fist" according to the technique created by Qin Tian, a group of knights were galloping on the Qin Zhi Road connecting Nan County and Nanyang County.
There were less than a hundred knights, and they were all wearing iron armor. They looked like the elite of the Qin army.
There are also two carriages in the team, which look like rickshaws from later generations, except that they are pulled by horses instead of drivers.
Qin has two kinds of cars. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the development of cavalry had just begun, and horses were mostly used as war horses for pulling chariots. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when measuring military strength, the number of vehicles would be measured. Such vehicles were called chariots or wide vehicles, and their usage was similar to the tanks of later generations.
The other kind of car is a light car, also called a gallop. This kind of car can only seat two or three people on it and cannot be used for combat, but it is very suitable for traveling as a noble or on the road.
In ancient times, when two armies were fighting, the commanders of both sides used this kind of light vehicle to communicate with each other.
Guangzhou vehicles drive slowly, and the driving is not flexible enough to keep up with light vehicles. Therefore, these knights in front of them are actually charioteers. They just remove the horses from the chariots and use them to ride alone. If they encounter the enemy, they will still dismount and serve as infantry.
There were two light carriages, one of which had no people sitting on it. Instead, there were many bamboo slips piled on it. This was a memorial sent to the First Emperor.
As for the other car, there were two people sitting side by side. Among them, the man who is also wearing iron armor is Meng Tian, and the one next to him in a wide robe and long sleeves is naturally Fusu.
Although Qin Zhidao is straight, due to technical limitations, it is naturally impossible to be like the main roads of later generations. However, although the light car was bumpy, the two of them still sat upright.
How to stand or sit up straight in the car these days is also one of the etiquettes that nobles need to master. As great nobles, Fusu and Meng Tian naturally mastered it very well.
Not only that, the two of them were still interested in talking on the light car. Meng Tian was the first to speak: "May I ask, Sir, do you know why the First Emperor suddenly went on tour?"
Young Master Fusu was as motionless as a mountain, and his eyes did not squint: "How do I know this?"
"However," he sighed, "this time it is probably to mark the merits."
The First Emperor loves to go on tours. Since he unified the six kingdoms, he has gone on tours three times, and this is the fourth time.
With so many patrols in eight years, it can basically be said that the First Emperor was either preparing to go on patrol or on his way out.
"Is it because of the alchemist?" Meng Tianruo had something on his mind.
Fusu glanced at Meng Tian subconsciously and shook his head slightly.
"I'm just an alchemist, what qualifications do I have to work for the First Emperor on his patrol?"
He said with a sneer, suddenly turned to look at Meng Tian, and said seriously: "General, when the First Emperor summons us this time, please do not talk about Yunmeng Mountain! Otherwise, we will be in danger!"
Meng Tian glanced at Fusu in surprise, and was about to retort, but Fusu didn't give him a chance to speak, and spoke again meaningfully: "I know the general's intentions! However, does the First Emperor know?"
Meng Tian was stunned, pondered for a while, and nodded noncommittally.
He understood what Fusu meant.
The First Emperor went on a tour the year before last and went to the East China Sea to look for the so-called fairy mountains. Unexpectedly, he encountered an assassin on the way. Zhang Liang, a native of Korea, sent a man with amazing power to assassinate Qin with a giant spine, but he accidentally hit the passenger car.
The First Emperor returned halfway and planned to tour east again the following year. Unexpectedly, it was revealed that the alchemist had deceived the First Emperor. Once the so-called dream of the fairy mountain was shattered, the trip was never made last year.
However, this year he patrolled the world again, and instead of going east to Hedong, he went south to Nanyang, which was consistent with Meng Tian's march route, indicating that this time he was on a southern tour.
The southern inspection tour had already been conducted four years ago. At that time, the First Emperor had arrived in Changsha County, which was the southern border of Qin. In the past four years, the Qin Dynasty has not mobilized troops against Yelang and the Yue Kingdoms in the south, and there has been no rebellion by rebels in the south of the Yangtze River. Why patrol it?
"Although the First Emperor wanted to kill all the nobles in the world, his ambition to seek immortality may not have changed..."
Meng Tian sighed secretly.
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"Yesterday at around noon, the First Emperor summoned General Meng Tian and Young Master Fusu to come to see His Majesty in Huyang. The two of them had already set out on their way north and entered Nanyang County this morning. They are now a hundred and fifty miles away from Huyang County!"
When Meng Tian and Fu Su were galloping along Qin Zhidao with a hundred guards, in a simple hall, a man in armor was kneeling on one knee and reporting to a young man kneeling next to the case.
The young man was wearing a black robe, with gold threads outlining the shape of an insect with long scales and claws. He had a square face, and between his eyes opening and closing, his eyes shone like a tiger or a wolf.
The scaly insects are dragons. The dragons of the Qin Dynasty are very different from the dragons of later generations. They are very fat.
But the people of Qin are black, and all men, women, old and young in the country like to wear black clothes. However, the only people who can wear dragon patterns on their clothes are the Royal Family of Qin Dynasty.
This young man is none other than Hu Hai, the eighteenth son of Qin Shihuang and the younger brother of Fu Su!
The First Emperor had twenty-two sons and ten daughters, so he was full of children and grandchildren. However, the only people that the First Emperor valued were his eldest son Su Xing and his eighteenth son Hu Hai. Every time he went out on patrol, he ordered two people to accompany him.
Ever since Fusu performed the crowning ceremony and began to serve as Meng Tian's supervisor, the matter of accompanying him fell on Hu Hai.
During this southern tour, Hu Hai also arrived at Nanyang County with the First Emperor, which is the county government of Huyang County.
Said to be a county government office, it is actually a dilapidated wooden house. However, Hu Hai is obviously not a person who pursues fancy clothes. He looked at the armored Qin soldier kneeling in front of him with bright eyes: "My eldest brother Fusu, and General Meng Tian, is there any difference?"
The armored Qin soldier was the former chief of scouts in Meng Tian's army. He hesitated slightly.
"Huh?" A cold snort sounded. Although he was still a fourteen-year-old boy, the hostility on Hu Hai's face was already real.
Scout Shichang suddenly broke out in cold sweat, and he hurriedly spoke: "Please tell me, sir, the day before yesterday, General Meng Tian met Bailu in Yunmeng County. The people in Chu said that this is the spiritual beast of the immortal family."
"The general then entered Yunmeng Mountain, hoping to find a man whom the Chu people call a god and kill him."
"He came back from the mountains. He didn't say anything about killing the alchemist, but he released the white deer in front of everyone, saluted and apologized, saying, "I didn't mean to offend him, so don't sin!"
Hu Hai's eyes suddenly revealed a glimmer of light. He stared at the scout commander and said in a cold voice: "Does my elder brother know about this?"
The chief scout hesitated a little. He glanced at Hu Hai carefully, but was startled by the other person's eyes that did not look like human beings.
He gritted his teeth and continued: "Then the general led his bodyguards to return to Jiangling lightly to meet Fusu. Young master Fusu knows it!"
"What happened next?" A strange look flashed across Hu Hai's eyes, "Has my eldest brother ever sent troops to Yunmeng County to kill all those Chu people who claim to be immortals?"
"No!" The chief scout shook his head.
"Ha!" There was a roar, but it was Hu Hai who shot the case and stood up.
With a malicious smile on his face, he said coldly: "It seems that although my eldest brother is the crown prince of Great Qin..."
"But I still miss the kindness of Chu people in my heart! I was also bewitched by the alchemist!"
