After a cold front hit the kingdom of Wu, heavy snowfall fell across the country, forcing people to interrupt their outdoor activities. In a brand new barracks in the western military barracks outside the royal capital of Kang, soldiers interrupt their training to take shelter from the snow. Boss Nemo is roasting a fire while counseling a new recruit.
"Tang Mo, do you know what we Dragon Tiger Soldiers train for?"
"Sir, the Dragon Tiger Soldiers are meant to be more battle-hardened!"
Boss Mao opposite the new recruit from the Tang Di, is a hunter in the Tang Di, because the hands are quite good, was specially recruited into the newly established Dragon Tiger Army. Dragon Tiger Army is Chu Chao Hui September only plan to build a special forces, Dragon Tiger Special Forces on the soldier's requirements are quite high, the training is also extremely difficult.
Boss Mao is now no longer an ordinary soldier, he attacked in the battle of Tang Wang Gong heroic performance, the first to kill on the walls of the Wang Gong to stand on the foot of the wall for the follow-up on the wall of the comrades to establish a foothold stronghold, so that the attack on the comrades to reduce the sacrifices. After the war on merit, always because of learning not into the culture of the Mao boss, finally by merit jumped over the threshold of learning less than 500 words can not be a sergeant, promoted to platoon leader. Boss Mao proud thing, this platoon leader is not an ordinary army platoon leader, but the platoon leader of the Dragon Tiger Army has just been established.
In addition to his promotion, Boss Mao received a two hundred gold dollar reward. Boss Mao used the reward to buy a set of gold and silver jewelry for his wife and to help his two younger brothers start a family.
The highest establishment of the Dragon Tiger Army is currently a regiment. Soldiers who can enter the Dragon Tiger Army are strictly selected, not only do they need to be brave, but they also need to be from a reliable background. Boss Mao was personally named by Chu Chao Hui.
The main camp of the Dragon Tiger Soldiers is in the western suburb of Kangcheng, not far from the village where Boss Mao lives. Boss Mao originally belonged to Ma Ren's subordinates, and the soldiers led by Ma Ren had to stay in Tangland to take charge of the security in the past one or two years, and Boss Mao was able to return to his hometown from Tangland only because he joined the Dragon Tiger Army.
With Mao Boss went together with the compatriot Mao Zhu Zi still stay in the Tang Di, Mao Zhu Zi war is not as brave as Mao Boss, only because of the culture of good learning, Mao Zhu Zi was selected out of the Tang Di temporarily acting as a local official.
Boss Mao did not envy Mao Zhu Zi as an official this time because he had entered the Dragon Tiger Army himself.
"Wrong!" Boss Mao vetoed Tang Mo's answer.
"For the Great King?"
"No!"
Tang Mo was a bit dazed, weren't all armies loyal to the king?
"For the Great General?"
Boss Mao continued to shake his head, "No!"
Tang Mo was worried, he pondered for a long time, suddenly remembering something, his eyes shining. "It's for Duke Ming, the Dragon Tiger Army was established to protect Duke Ming, right?"
Tang Mo felt that he had answered correctly this time, because Duke Ming had suffered from an assassin's assassination, and because the assassin had almost taken Duke Ming's life, Duke Ming's counterpart, Great General Chu Chaohui, had angrily risen up to attack Tang. Now that Tang has been annexed, Great General Chu must have raised the Dragon Tiger Soldiers to better protect Duke Ming and prevent further accidents.
"The Dragon Tiger Soldiers were established for the sake of Lord Ming, and for the sake of the vast number of suffering Lebanese." Boss Mao stated his understanding of the Dragon Tiger Soldiers.
"Also for the sake of the dawn?" Tang Mo's eyes widened, this kind of statement was so new that Tang Mo had never heard of it. "For where the dawn?"
Boss Mao slapped Tang Mo's head hard. "You're not a suffering Lai Min?"
"I Tang Mo originally in the Tang land, into the mountains to hunt the proceeds have to be turned over to the feudal lord, hunting harvest, although rich, but always hungry, hungry and no clothes to wear of course is suffering." Boss Mao's hand is very strong, hit Tang Mo raw pain.
"Are you still suffering now?" Boss Mao gave Tang Mo another slap on the top of his head.
Tang Mo touched his head and shook his head repeatedly, "It's not bitter now, here we take care of food and clothing, and we also pay ten gold military salaries every month, where else is it bitter." Tang Mo entered the barracks, feeling that he had fallen into the gods' mansion, and only when he was tortured by the very intense devil training did he wake up to realize that he was still on earth. When Tang Mo received ten gold military pay for the first month, he again felt that he was in the place where the immortals lived, ten gold Wu gold coins, Tang Mo in the Tang country hunting for a lifetime can not accumulate.
"Duke Ming is benevolent and does what he does for the people. The Dragon Tiger Soldiers train for Duke Ming, just as we train for ourselves."
Tang Mo nodded his head repeatedly, "Right, right! Officer Mao is so right! Without Duke Ming, Desert would still be hunting for the feudal lords and nobles in the deep mountains! I'll practice horseback riding in the future and protect Lord Ming at all times!"
Boss Mao couldn't help but smile with his eyebrows when he saw Tang Mo comprehending the spirit of the Dragon Tiger Soldiers. He pulled out two baked sweet potatoes from the charcoal basin and handed one of them to Tang Mo.
"The sweet potatoes are ready, eat them, they're sweet and flavorful."
Tang Mo took over the sweet potato, ignoring the hot hand peeled off the skin and bit hard: "Wu Guo everywhere long good things, hey, if my parents they are alive would be good, they can also live down this kind of good life with enough food."
Tang Mo's father and brother are also hunters, both were bitten to death by beasts while hunting, Tang Mo's mother and a sister died two years ago due to starvation and illness one after another, Tang Mo's family of five, leaving only one person, this year's Spring Festival, Tang Mo will be spent in the barracks ......
"Tang Mo, let's go to my house for New Year's Eve this year, your sister-in-law has organized many years' worth of goods." Boss Mao extended an invitation to Tang Mo.
"Platoon leader," Tang Mo moved.
"No pushing back!" Boss Mao's big hand slapped on the top of Tang Mo's head again, poor Tang Mo, the top of his head was slapped three times by Boss Mao, already slapping a golden light in front of his eyes.
While Boss Mao was talking to Tang Mo, Chu Chao Hui was having a secret talk with Huang Zhong at the military headquarters.
"How is the infiltration of intelligence agents sent to the Qilu countries progressing?"
"According to the news sent back, their actions have basically met the expected plan." Huang Zhong handed over several secret letters.
Chu Chao Hui finished turning over the secret letter, his face looked satisfied.
"Huang Zhong, you identify a few reliable merchants to smuggle those rags in the Tang land's arsenal to the Qilu and Lu regions to hide them." The rags Chu Chao Hui was talking about were weapons.
The weapons in Tang's arsenal can't be compared to the weapons built by Wu, most of them can't be equipped with Wu's soldiers, and only have the value of going back to the furnace again. Some of the weapons in the arsenal have been transported back to Nambu, the remaining part of the more rotten, Chu Chao Hui is ready to let them play the maximum value.
"Promise!" Huang Zhong understood, Chu Chao Hui's plan for the two regions of Qi Lu shocked Huang Zhong, shocked and at the same time, Huang Zhong's blood surged, what he did would change this continent.
"In addition to the Intelligence Department using Qi Lu as a key target of attention, do not relax on the State of Zhao, every move up and down the court of the State of Zhao must be closely watched." Chu Chaohui emphasized again.
At present, Wu and Zhao have better relations than any historical period, Chu Chao Hui has never relaxed his surveillance of Zhao Xuan, in his mind, Zhao is one of the countries he has to deal with the most, especially after seeing Zhao Xuan's handwritten letter to Zheng Yuming a few days ago.
"Reporting to Great General, additional manpower has already been dispatched to Zhao Wangdu." Huang Zhong sneakily glanced at Chu Chao Hui, who was grinding his teeth, catching sight of Chu Chao Hui's line of sight sweeping in, Huang Zhong hurriedly lowered his head, not wanting Chu Chao Hui to realize that he had peeked into his jealousy.
When Huang Zhong excused himself and left, Chu Chaohui muttered to himself in front of the Great Qin map, "Zhao Xuan vertical son! Why do you always have to do some unrealistic dreams? There will always be a day when you are told not to dream, and even if you do, it will be a nightmare!"
The Emperor of Great Qin would acquiesce to Wu's annexation of the Tang lands, and the heavy gifts offered by the envoys sent by Zheng Yuming played a role in this. The Rong people went south to rob, and it was the Qin hinterland that they broke through the Qin Dynasty's treacherous Western Pass into. The fiefs of the Prince of Qin and the princes and nobles of the Qin royal family were looted. The Prince of Qin was in a money panic in order to repair the estates and the city passes of the Western Pass that had been destroyed by the Rong people, and the heavy gifts offered by the envoys of the State of Wu during their audience just filled the pockets of the Prince of Qin. The Qin emperor's envoys came to Wu with an imperial decree demanding that Wu had to make a pilgrimage to Haojing in May next year.
Since the status of the Qin Emperor began to decline a hundred years ago, the three-yearly pilgrimage of the feudal lords became a five-yearly one. The number of pilgrimage years had been lengthened, and the monarchs of various places always found excuses to delay going to the pilgrimage because they thought it was a long way to travel. In the last five-year pilgrimage, only some monarchs of small and medium-sized states went to Haojing to pay homage to the Son of Heaven, and none of the monarchs of the six strongest states went there.
When the fiefdom of Qin Tianzi suffered from the Rong disaster and was in financial straits, the state of Wu had a favor to ask, and Qin Tianzi took the opportunity to make a request, asking Wu to take the lead in calling on the vassals to go on a pilgrimage to attend the pilgrimage. The vassal state rulers were required to bring tribute to the Emperor when they went to Haojing. The vassal state rulers did not regard the Emperor as their favorite, but when they went to Haojing, the tribute they offered was very expensive for the sake of face. The son of Qin counted on the tribute from the vassal monarchs to help him through the economic crisis.
The Prince of Qin made this request with Wu in exchange for acquiescing to Wu's annexation of the Tang lands. After Zheng Yuming listened to the Qin emissary stammer out the intentions of the Qin Emperor, he felt nothing but pity for the Qin Emperor. The fact that the son of a country has fallen to such a state is simply sad.
Zheng Yuming did not agree to the Qin emissary's request on the spot, but first conferred with Chu Chao Hui.
"This is a good thing, as the Qin Emperor is in decline, if Wu takes the lead in calling on the lords to go to the Emperor, Wu will invariably take the lead." Chu Chao Hui agreed that Wu should be the caller to honor the king.
"That's what I think too." In the end, they were from the same era, and Zheng Chu and the two of them thought similarly.
"Tell you what, I'll go to Haojing with Sheng tomorrow in April." As the lead caller, of course the king of Wu had to be the first to lead the way to Haojing. The road was too far and the journey had its hardships, so Chu Chao Hui decided to personally escort King Sheng of Wu to the capital of Heaven.
"No, Sheng is not going this time." Zheng Yuming shook his head, Queen Tian's labor was due in May next year, if Wu Wangsheng went to pay his respects to the Son of Heaven, he would definitely not be able to see the child being born.
Chu Chao Hui's face immediately clouded over. "Is it true that you're going to go to the audience in place of Sheng?" Before the child in Queen Tian's womb was born, Zheng Yuming was considered the first heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Wu, and could replace Wu Wangsheng for the hajj.
Chu Chao Hui's face did not look good because Zheng Yuming went to Haojing instead of Wu Wangsheng, so he had to stay in the country to hold the foundation. Chu Chao Hui is particularly nervous about Zheng Yuming's personal safety since his assassination.
The capital of the King of Wu and Haojing are separated by thousands of miles, and the journey is long and arduous, so Chu Chao Hui cannot rest assured.
"Chao Hui, successive generations of King Wu's hajj have been fine, where is it particularly dangerous when it comes to me?" Zheng Yuming pacified Chu Chaohui. "I still have that super lethal pistol here for defense!"
Jung Yoo Ming's mini-pistol is dropped at the Ulsan waterfall and never found again, and Chu Chao Hui forces Jung Yoo Ming to carry his Type 92 pistol with him.
Chu Zhaohui sighed, knowing that he could not change Zheng Yuming's decision, Zheng Yuming looked mild, but the kind of stubbornness that refuses to change when he makes up his mind.
"Just have a pistol can not, from tomorrow onwards have to carry out exercise with me!" Chu Chao Hui still can't feel at ease, Kui Ji assassination, Zheng Yuming as well as a pistol, but because of the use of unskilled did not open the safety, was Kui Ji killed and wounded fell off the cliff almost killed.
"This is fine!" Zheng Yuming immediately assured.
In the first month of the fourth year of King Sheng of Wu's reign, the state of Wu launched a call to pay homage to the Son of Qin. The states of Chen and Xu, which were on good terms with Wu, immediately agreed to the call. The two states of Qi and Lu, which wanted to get close to Wu, responded, and Chu also agreed after watching. The state of Zhao also positively supported Wu's initiative, and Zhao Xuan at the same time put forward an invitation to Duke Ming of Wu to accompany him to the capital of Qin after he visited the capital of Zhao.
Because of Wu's initiative and the response of the five major powers, the sovereigns of the small and medium-sized vassal states had to agree. This year's pilgrimage will become more lively than ever.