West of the city, suburbs.
There is a horse farm on the west side of the official road. It is not large in scale and it breeds strong horses from Majia Zhuangzi.
They are said to be strong horses, but in fact they are all war horses, with only a few of them numbering close to a hundred.
On the north side of the racecourse is a row of archery targets. A knight on a horse, bare-chested, holds a bow and shoots arrows.
Under the high-speed movement of the war horses, the knights on the horses had quick eyes and quick hands, and sharp arrows hit the bull's-eye. One of the arrows actually broke the long arrow on the bull's-eye.
This kind of riding and shooting skills are extremely rare even in the military.
After emptying his quiver, the knight on horseback turned sideways and lowered his waist to grab the spear stuck on the ground.
The spear is not a wooden spear, but a big iron spear.
This iron spear was extremely heavy, and it was very powerful when being swung by the knight on horseback.
It is long, sharp and easy to use. The blade can be picked or stabbed, the shaft can be blocked, it can be beaten or thrown. It is suitable for both infantry and cavalry. It can be used with or without horses, so it is also called the King of Hundreds of Soldiers.
Few people in the army use guns. If they are fighting on foot to stop horses, they can use swords instead of spears. Only some generals on horseback prefer long spears.
This iron spear is famously called "Wandering Dragon". Those who dared to name the weapon dragon were the only ones in the entire Zhou Dynasty who were as iron-headed as horses.
The big spear was swung, picked, stabbed or chopped. It took half an hour before the horse turned over like a dragon and dismounted.
Half an hour is not his limit, but the limit of the horse under his crotch.
Plugging the spear into the ground, the sun shone on Ma Rulong's bronzed skin, and his muscles were like steel.
She has long, slightly curly hair, tall sword-shaped eyebrows, sharp black eyes, thin lips and pursed lips. The facial features are extremely three-dimensional and have sharp edges. Although she is tall, she does not look arrogant.
Ma Rulong stood alone in the center of the racecourse, exuding an aura of arrogance.
Whispering a few words softly to the panting war horse, Ma Rulong laughed loudly, patted the horse's eyes, and the horse returned to the stable in dressage.
An old man in rich clothes strolled over with a smile on his face. It was Ma Rulong's eldest brother, Ma Rufeng.
Ma Rufeng likes to watch his second brother practice martial arts. When he sees his second brother's heroic appearance, he can think of what it was like when he was a boy on the grassland, and how the good man of the grassland galloped around the world like an eagle.
"Brother."
Ma Rulong took the sweat towel sent by the servant, wiped his face randomly, and smiled: "Let's have a competition?"
Ma Rufeng laughed and scolded: "You bastard, not to mention the competition, even if you get on the war horse, I am afraid that I will lose half my life."
"Brother, you are talking more and more like a Han Chinese. You are not straightforward. You are old and your skills have not been lost."
Ma Rufeng laughed loudly and looked at the iron gun. His laughter slowly stopped and he got down to business.
"The emperor of the Zhou family appointed Shen Tugang as the prime minister. He valued his integrity and wanted to use him to suppress our Ma family. Now that Shen Tugang wants to suppress us, I'm afraid it's not the emperor of the Zhou family who is behind it."
Ma Rulong shook his head: "Zhou Ke took away the BMW and asked Wen and Wu to praise him a few times. It doesn't seem like he wants to make things difficult for us. Could it be that old dog Shen Tugang couldn't bear it anymore?"
"Without the instructions from the Emperor of the Zhou family, how could Shen Tugang prepare to launch an attack?"
"I think that old dog should be the one to plan the plan. Brother, think about it. That old dog is like a withered bone in a grave. If he doesn't do anything, he will die with his eyes open. Besides, I know Zhou Ke. He is an upright person, and he doesn't do anything. If you want to get rid of our Ma family, you won't accept the BMW."
Ma Rufeng shook his head and said with a wry smile: "General Zhou in the army was upright and never compromised, but don't forget that he is the emperor now."
"Then how do you think we should respond?"
"Why don't you go back to the north and leave your eldest brother alone in the capital? If something goes wrong..."
"No!" Ma Rulong said very firmly: "It's up to you to go back, brother. If I leave, it will arouse Zhou Ke's suspicion."
"That's the case. Let's wait and see for a while and make long-term plans."
After finishing speaking, Ma Rufeng took the cloak from the servant and threw it to his second son, his eyes full of doting.
Everyone knows that the head of the Ma family is Ma Rulong, the second eldest, and Ma Rufeng, the eldest, is more like a housekeeper.
In fact, outsiders don't know that the two brothers are more like father and son. There is a twenty-five-year age difference alone. Ma Rufeng is exactly sixty and Ma Rulong is thirty-five.
The Ma family has a big business, so naturally it is impossible for them to have only two direct children. Originally, the two had three brothers and five sisters, plus Ma Rufeng and Ma Rulong, there were ten brothers and sisters in total.
When Boss Zhou failed to assassinate the emperor of the previous dynasty, he did one more thing before taking his troops to Beijing to "support" the emperor of the previous dynasty, which was to kill the Ma family.
Boss Zhou knew that the Ma family was the die-hard supporter of the previous dynasty. Unless the Ma family was eliminated, even if the Ma family changed dynasties, it would still be a destabilizing factor.
This is also true. The emperor of the previous dynasty issued an imperial decree asking soldiers and horses from all over the country to work hard. Except for Han Bairen who suddenly jumped out and reversed the operation, only Ma Rulong of the Ma family was ready to rush to the capital with his elite cavalry.
But Boss Zhou was a step ahead and sent an elite force to the north to stop the Ma family's troops. The leader of this troop was Boss Zhou's deputy commander in the army at that time. This man was extremely brave and determined to die. Dao Huanglong came to the Ma family's ancestral home.
In this battle, Boss Zhou's men were all wiped out, and the Ma family was almost wiped out. Among the core children, except for Ma Rufeng and Ma Rulong, all other brothers and sisters of the Ma family died, such as the two Rufeng Rulong brothers. Survived.
Ma Rulong originally planned to bring someone to the capital to kill Zhou Ke in revenge, but unexpectedly, Boss Zhou entered the capital without any hindrance, creating a situation that made the former eldest prince happy and quickly ascended the throne with his fangs exposed two days later.
By the time Ma Rulong and his people arrived in the capital, Boss Zhou had been crowned emperor. Ma Rulong could only hold back his anger and say "congratulations", pretending not to know that his relatives were killed by Zhou Ke's people.
When Boss Zhou was not the emperor, he almost destroyed the Ma family. After he became the emperor, if he were to fight head-on regardless of the consequences, the Ma family would definitely be doomed.
In order to win the trust of Boss Zhou, the two Ma brothers settled in Beijing. They looked like I am standing in front of you. You can see that I am somewhat the same as before. Anyway, I am showing my loyalty in various ways.
But both the Ma brothers and Boss Zhou knew in their hearts that the other party would cause trouble sooner or later.
It is precisely because of this that Ma Rufeng changed the Ma family's "behavior style". He no longer recruited soldiers and horses, but concentrated on "raising horses" and making friends with tribes outside the customs. The more this happened, the less Boss Zhou dared to touch them easily.
The two brothers walked in Zhuangzi, wondering whether the emperor wanted to take action, or whether Shen Tu Gang did not do it without the emperor's permission.
After discussing for a while, Ma Rufeng said: "Let the people in Zhuangzi be more peaceful in the near future, and other relatives will return to the north one after another."
"Okay, just..."
Ma Rulong hesitated for a moment: "The nephew of the Marquis has a perverse temper. You have to teach him well when you have time. Forget about the past. Whoever you bump into in the capital will have to give us two brothers some face. Now Shen Tu Gang wants to take action. , Don’t let him find an opportunity to take advantage of the prince’s nephew.”
Ma Rufeng sighed silently. It wasn't that he doted on her, but that all the other children were dead, and there was only such a damn thing left. If she didn't dote on her, how could she deal with it? It was too late to practice the trumpet again, and he couldn't toughen up his hardware.
