His Highness Can Gui entered the carriage, looking silly and happy.
Along the way, he has become familiar with everyone.
He lights a bonfire under the official road and brags, rides a horse shouting and galloping, no one regards him as a prince, and he does not regard himself as a prince. Without the baggage, he stays away from the capital, like a free bird. Son.
"Your Highness." Han You rarely addressed him as "Your Highness."
As soon as His Highness spoke the word, Can Gui looked wary: "What are you doing!"
"Let me ask you something."
"Good or bad?"
Han You smiled bitterly: "After passing Shun County, we will enter Yizhou."
"Lianzhou?!"
Hearing the word "Yizhou", Zhou Tong showed an unnatural look on his face: "Yizhou is the fiefdom of the emperor's brother, why should we go to Yizhou?"
"His Majesty asked me to go."
Zhou Tong lowered his eyes and let out a slight sigh, not knowing what he was thinking.
Han You also felt that something was wrong. When he mentioned Yizhou to Lu Baichuan, this guy ran away. When he mentioned Yizhou to Zhou Tong, the smile on his face disappeared without a trace.
"Tell me about His Highness King Qin."
"Brother Emperor..." Zhou Tong seemed a little irritated. He put his hand into his crotch and scratched the itchy thighs rubbed by the saddle: "Brother Emperor and I haven't seen each other for almost three years. We don't understand."
After finishing speaking, Zhou Tong glanced at Han You's face and asked tentatively: "Am I... leaving?"
"sit down!"
Han You said with a tigerish face: "Do you remember what His Majesty said to you before leaving Beijing?"
Zhou Tong was dejected: "You want me to obey your orders in everything."
"anything else?"
"If you act recklessly, you'll break my legs."
"Just remember. Now tell me why you and Lu Baichuan kept silent about His Highness King Qin."
Zhou Tong remained silent again and hesitated.
Han You kicked this guy's calf: "Your father asked me to go to Yizhou, but he didn't tell me what he wanted me to do. Zhou Tong, I just want to ask you one thing, what will happen to His Highness King Qin? If I go Yizhou, will you die?"
"die?"
Zhou Tong shook his head and sighed: "Brother Imperial is like a tiger without claws, an eagle without wings, and a dull, rusty knife. Who can be killed?"
"What do you mean by this?" Han You didn't know, "Is His Royal Highness the King of Qin disabled?"
"You don't know?"
"I know why I'm asking you."
Zhou Tong was delighted: "Then my father doesn't trust you either, so he won't tell you such things."
"Believe it or not, I will throw you out now and let Feng Bai lead a circle of soldiers to kick you?"
"Okay, okay, there's nothing to say. My brother was tricked by my father back then."
"Are you kidding?"
Zhou Tong scratched his forehead: "It's just that my father and brother were unfilial first, so my father played tricks on him."
Han You's fire of gossip ignited: "Say it in one breath!"
"There's nothing to say. It's just about the cavalry."
Zhou Tong sighed: "At first, the Zhou family didn't like my father because of his deadly virtue... You also know my father's strong temper, so he cut off all contact with our family. However, our family admires the emperor's brother very much. Not only did he let the emperor's brother live in Nan Guan served as the captain of Zhechong Mansion, and opened an open space in the mountains and forests next to the camp specifically for cavalry training, and the Zhou family provided good horses and money."
"Oh, the Zhou family raises a private army and asks His Highness the King of Qin to help train it. Is this what it means?"
"Yes, there were only two thousand people at first. The emperor's brother was very good at training troops, especially the cavalry. He specialized in escorting the Zhou family's caravans to and from the customs. Until the emperor of the previous dynasty became more and more violent, and everyone in the southern land knew that the previous dynasty was about to fall. They all plotted secretly, and the Zhou family also did the same. In the end, they openly and openly recruited people to be trained by the emperor's brother. I heard that there were enough cavalry of 30,000..."
"How many?!"
Han You stood up suddenly and hit his head directly on the roof of the carriage. He was shocked and asked: "How many cavalry?"
"The rumor is that it is 30,000. It shouldn't be that much, but it should be at least 20,000."
Han You took a breath of cold air: "Then His Majesty the King of Qin... No, His Highness the King of Qin... His Highness the King of Qin..."
Suddenly, Han You felt huge waves in his heart.
Thirty thousand cavalry!
Thirty thousand, not much.
But if you add the word cavalry, it's scary.
Let’s put it this way. Later, the Yuan Dynasty swept across the Eurasian continent and almost penetrated the whole world. At that time, there were only 150,000 cavalry, and more than half of them were light cavalry. In the cold weapon age, there were about 100,000 cavalry, walking across the earth. , not a big problem.
Lao Ba captured the capital, and Lao Han captured the palace. Both of them led a vanguard battalion of cavalry. The number was not large, only a few thousand, but that was how they got it done.
It is one thing that the guards of the capital did not resist the attack. It is also another aspect that the previous emperor was unpopular with the people. There are also many, many factors. For example, the honest old Han said that he went to the capital to capture the king and was heard to be the king of Qin. However, no matter what, the leader With thousands of cavalry, attacking a formation of thirty or forty thousand infantry is just like playing.
This is also the reason why the country is afraid of the Ma family. The Ma family has no cavalry, but there are horses in the north. Those Ma family members who are already skilled in bow and horse are elite cavalry when they get on the horse. Most of the people in the pass are infantry, and they can't stop them at all. Not unless the terrain limits the cavalry's ability to maneuver.
Zhou Tong opened his chatterbox and talked about the situation of that year in detail.
The eldest prince, King Qin Zhou Xiao, was a bit rebellious at first. Although he was Lao Ba's flesh and blood, his heart was towards his own family, that is, the Zhou family. After all, what Lao Ba couldn't give him, the Zhou family gave to him.
Four or less than five years ago, it was also the time when the Zhou family wanted to completely get rid of Lao Ba. At that time, Lao Ba was still in the East China Sea Marine Corps.
From Zhou Tong's perspective as a son, Lao Ba has long been "ambitious".
Lao Ba was able to fight against the Zhou family at that time, but his target was not just a Zhou family, so he didn't want to expose his trump card because of the Zhou family. In desperation, he had to let his eldest son Zhou Xiao go to the south to make peace. In fact, it was equivalent to giving away a gift. The "hostage" passed.
As a result, the Zhou family saw Zhou Xiao's ability, and not only entrusted him with important tasks, making him the captain of Zhechong Mansion, but also gave him the family's private soldiers to be trained as cavalry.
This training produced more than 20,000 cavalry. It can be said that the Zhou family was completely wiped out. They also used various methods to embezzle the court's horse tax money and so on.
But the Zhou family still couldn't be happier. After all, the previous dynasty knew that they were about to fall into troubled times, and having soldiers in hand was the way to go.
Zhou Xiao is also awesome here. The cavalry he trained only recognize him as the captain, and they are only loyal to him as the captain, not their real owner, the Zhou family.
On the eve of seizing the capital, Lao Ba deceived Zhou Xiao out of the Southland, and then used Zhou Xiao's "name" to use 20,000 cavalry to guard Fei City. Anyone who dared to cross Fei City and go to the capital to seize power would be killed.
Those cavalrymen didn't think much about it. They thought that Lao Ba was Zhou Xiao's father. Zhou Xiao helped his dad seize the capital, which was understandable.
In fact, Zhou Xiao had already been controlled by Lao Ba at this time. After Lao Ba ascended the throne, the 20,000 cavalry were dispersed and charged into various Zhechong mansions.
This is equivalent to whether it is the Zhou family or Zhou Xiao, both of them have made a wedding dress for Lao Ba.
But there is no telling who is right or wrong in this matter. Zhou Xiao is Lao Ba’s son, but he was sent to the Zhou family in Nandi as a hostage by his dad. This dad is not good.
Zhou Xiao, who was taken as a hostage, also helped the Zhou family train soldiers and treated the Zhou family as his biological father. This son was not considered filial.
The father who was not very filial was "acquired" by the elite cavalry of his son who was not very filial. This is the whole story.
A person like Zhou Xiao has an extremely arrogant temperament. He will not "smile away his grudges" and call his father a wise man just because his father has ascended the throne and he has become the eldest prince.
Therefore, there has always been a gap between father and son, and their relationship is extremely contradictory.
Han You suddenly realized.
No wonder Lao Ba transferred Zhou Xiao's fiefdom to Laizhou, which is close to Nanguan. With Zhou Xiao's ability and his status as the eldest prince, it is not impossible to just raise some investment and make some money to create some cavalry.
Yizhou has a special geographical location, surrounded by mountains and close to the border. It is conceivable that if this kid does something fishy, the Nanguan border army will immediately dare to put out any budding flames!
For a moment, Han You was filled with emotions.
"Such a talent is his own son...hey."
Zhou Tong looked dumbfounded: "Actually, training cavalry is nothing more than money and food. If I have millions of swords, I can train 20,000 cavalry."
Han You was shocked again. Twenty thousand cavalry actually cost so much?
Zhou Tong didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly said cheerfully: "General, you have always been like a boy who scattered money. Otherwise, you can give me some money and let me train some cavalry for you."
Han You didn't even bother to talk to him. If this guy really had this ability, Lao Ba would have asked him to return to Beijing.
