Chapter 12 The Mule and the Light Armor
Repeatedly causing trouble and provocation, the result is naturally self-evident. Dong Hu almost crippled Dong Huang. Dong Zhuo also saw the courage of a baby for the first time. None of the dozen brave generals could resist the attack.
Dong Hu beat Dong Huang, and the two of them have never dealt with each other since then. Last year, Dong Zhuo, the captain of Wuji, the Western Regions, was dismissed because of the Grand Marshal Duan Bing. Dong Zhuo brought back dozens of powerful generals from the Western Regions, and Niu Fu also successfully married Dong Yuan.
Logically speaking, after Dong Zhuo conquered Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si and others in Xiliang, these people should have been close to the eldest son Dong Mao when they returned to Lintao for the first time. However, humans are real animals. When a group of generals saw that Dong Zhuo favored Dong Huang more, they would drink and have fun with the playboys.
With a group of Western Liang heroes supporting him, Dong Huang naturally took revenge, so he took his people to smash Dong Hu's butcher shop and restaurant.
Good guy! Everyone was crazy when they went there, and everyone was bruised when they came back. If it weren't for the shocked Dong Zhuo and others to stop him, Dong Hu, who knew about some of the events in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", could turn Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si and others into another Dong Mao. For him, without these bastards, maybe there would be a bunch of rags behind, and maybe it would be a good thing for the world.
Dong Hu's generals Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si and others beat him up. This is why Dong Zhuo and Hua Xiong said that Dong Hu's words were "best in the field and the bravery of thousands of men". But no matter what, Dong Hu not only did not deal with Dong Huang, but also Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si and others also ignored him, and Dong Zhuo had no choice but to do anything about this.
When Dong recommended Hua Xiong, Dong Zhuo understood what was going on. Moreover, Hua Xiong was the newly conquered general and had no grudges with Dong Hu. Whether it was to show kindness to others or to avoid dissatisfaction and resistance from the boy, Hua Xiong was the best candidate.
After thinking it through, the candidate was determined. Just as Dong Zhuo was about to ignore the muddy boy and was about to hold a banquet and have fun, the chief manager Dong Zhong hurriedly led a horse and mule over.
"Master, Huwa just sent someone a horse... a mule and a set of armor, saying that it was prepared for the eldest son."
When Dong Zhuo heard the word "male and mule", he felt a thick nose. His son had poor legs and feet, so he couldn't give him a mule, right? The little bastard was so angry that Dong Zhuo stood up and walked out the door. He wanted to see what kind of mule the little bastard gave him!
Mules are divided into horses and mules and donkeys. The descendants of mares and male donkeys are horses and mules. Because they are horses and mules born from mares, horses and mules are more like mares and have good obedience, not as stubborn as donkeys and mules.
In the past, there were no mules. They were animals created by the Huns by accident. Horses and mules were more powerful than donkeys, carried more weight, and ate less essence than war horses. They were good at climbing mountains and crossing ridges and were easy to raise. The only disadvantage was that they could not run fast and were not majestic enough.
Among the people, mules are more expensive than horses. The main reason is that mules cannot give birth and are easy to feed, and do not need much food to feed. They save a lot of money compared to horses. But even so, mules raised by the people are donkeys and mules, and few people are willing to waste a mare to raise a mule.
Horses and mules carry weights even more than war horses. It is just because they need to waste a mare and give birth to a pony. Therefore, the people or herders are not willing to raise horses and mules, but Dong Hu has hundreds of horses and mules under his name.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, in order to achieve the top-notch sweat-blooded horse stallions, a large army was even sent to expedition to the Western Regions. Later, a horse farm was built in Wuwei County and Zhangye County. At its peak, there were hundreds of thousands of horses. Later, due to various reasons, the horse farm gradually became depressed, and eventually became deserted.
There were many herders in the Han Dynasty who knew how to cultivate good horses. There was an old saying that "a good mother and a good baby are not bad." This is the same with war horses. The quality of mares is good enough. Even if the stallions are a little less, the offspring will not be too bad. Therefore, herders often attach great importance to the quality of mares.
Eliminated mares are not very useful, they are not as strong as stallions, and they cannot cultivate good horses. They also have to spend a lot of money and food to feed them. The price is often very cheap, even cheaper than donkeys.
No one is willing to raise an elimination mare, but Dong Hu is very interested. For him, no matter how bad it is to eliminate a mare, it is much bigger than a female donkey. The horses and mules that are raised are much better than the stubborn and low-short donkeys.
A person keeps a few hundred mouths, so he can save as much as he can. The salt roads from Longxi County to Qinghai are all mountainous and ridges, and horses and mules are strong in climbing mountains and crossing mountains. If you don’t feed a grain of food along the way, you can still run happily, which saves a lot of money than horses. For this reason, Dong Hu has many horses and mules in his hands.
People in Lintao know that Dong Hu likes horses and mules, and that hundreds of beggars have one horse and mules, but it does not mean that Dong Zhuo likes his son riding a mule to fight.
Some people may question whether mules can fight, but Dong Zhuo is disdainful to answer this question. If it weren't for the horse and mule that could not run fast, Emperor Guang of Han, Liu Xiu, would have died at the hands of Wang Mang's mule cavalry.
Horses and mules have a long endurance and bear heavy loads. They are not easy to lose weight by eating grass. If they are not childbirth, cannot run fast, lack of explosive power, and lack of blood in the battlefield, it is estimated that the cavalry will not be a war horse, but a horse and mule.
Dong Zhuo was unhappy and took a group of generals out of the Tiger Hall. Isn’t it just a weird shouting horse and mule that caught his eye?
"snort!"
"The guy didn't have a horse in his hand, but he actually sent a mule..."
"Come on! Take out the armor for us. If it is a ragged thing, we will never let him go!"
Dong Zhuo was very annoyed, but Dong Mao was not displeased. He came to the mule with a cane and was very interested in the boots hanging on the saddle.
Seeing Dong Mao’s strangeness, Dong Zhuo and everyone paid attention to the things hanging on the saddle.
Mrs. Dong came to the mule, carefully turned the object similar to the boots, looked down at the mule's belly, and couldn't help but look at Dong Zhuo and smiled.
"Thuwa is quite careful. With such shoes, although it is difficult to get on and off the mule and is not flexible, it is still OK to ride Maoer."
Mrs. Dong stepped forward and held Dong Zhuo's arm, watched others take down four wooden boxes from the mule, and smiled and said, "Mao'er has bad legs and feet, and has never ridden a horse. Mules with gentle temperament are more suitable for Mao'er. My husband is not unaware of the beggars. They also rode mules at first."
"snort!"
Dong Zhuo agreed with Dong's words in his heart, but he was unwilling to give in.
"The Dong family rides a mule, how can we have the face!"
Dong Zhuo pointed to Dong Mao who didn't know how to speak and said coldly: "Put on the armor that the muddy boy sent, and wear it now! Let's see if he humiliated us!"
"Um?"
Before Dong Mao could agree, as soon as the wooden box was opened, Dong Zhuo's eyes suddenly opened, and the person couldn't help but walk forward, picked up the helmet that was different from what he saw and looked around...
"Come, put on armor for us!"
When Dong Zhuo saw the Bright Armor breast, he still remembered the matter of letting his son wear armor. He spread his arms and legs slightly to ask others to wear armor for him.
If it were normal, Dong would make fun of him, but at this time she was as good as the general of the Light Armor, and was surprised to see the armor taken out by the servant.
...
Wearing armor is a very tedious thing. It took half a quarter of an hour before the four servants put the light armor on Dong Zhuo. Perhaps because Dong Zhuo and Dong Mao had a much different figure, there were more clothes exposed on their waists and abdomen. Even so, seeing Dong Zhuo behind the armor, all the generals showed desire and jealousy in their eyes...
Unlike the black iron armor that everyone has seen, the light armor in front of me is fish scale armor.
Black iron armor is a zither, which is a piece of rectangular or iron or wooden zither piece sewn on the inner lining of the leather armor. The zither pieces of the fish scales and the scales must be covered from bottom to top. Because all the zither pieces are only fixed above with ropes, they are hung, with good buffering power and stronger defense than those of the more deadly zither.
In addition to the two bright round iron sheets on the chest, the helmet neck guards, breastplate, and skirts are all hung with iron scales, but the shoulder guards and arm guards are different. In order to allow both arms to flexibly raise their arms and slash, although they look like scales, they are ring-shaped rolls that flip upwards.
The helmet has an iron cover, a wide belt with a waist, abdomen, palm and palm, and a silver-shiny copper piece of a tiger. Dong Hu was also extravagant. Not only did he give him a set of heavy armor and a cavalry fish scale armor, but he also had a cool red cloak.
With armor on his body, Dong Zhuo raised his arm and made a few random waving moves...
"Dong Zhong!"
"Go and catch the tiger baby for us! Bastard, if you have good things, why don't you give me a set?"
"snort!"
"If we don't make a few tricks, it will not relieve our anger!"
The butler Dong Zhong smiled bitterly in his heart. Just as he was about to go to catch Dong Hu, Dong smiled and said, "Okay~ I was so angry that Huwa gave Maoer a mule. Now Huwa gave Maoer a set of iron armor. Why is your husband not happy again?"
Dong looked at Dong Zhuo's fish scale armor and nodded and praised: "It's really good. It's better than your husband's black iron armor. This iron armor is a little smaller than your husband's body."
Dong Zhuo was a military general, so he naturally knew that the light armor was good and bad. He nodded and said, "It's not just a little easier. Our black iron armor costs 100,000 yuan, and this one...at least one million yuan."
“So expensive?”
Dong was stunned, and Dong Zhuo shook his head and said, "Millions of money are small, and it is the kind that has no price!"
None of the powerful generals disliked the top armor. Niu Fu took a deep breath, stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The tiger baby can actually build such iron armor. If he lets him stay outside, isn't it too wasteful?"
Dong Zhuo couldn't help but nodded, but Dong looked at Niu Fu inadvertently, looked at the black iron sheet, and smiled and said, "If you like this iron armor, just let Huwa create one for your husband. Your husband is not ignorant of Huwa's temperament. If you use strong things, it will be inappropriate."
When he thought of Dong Hu's temperament, Dong Zhuo had a headache and sighed: "Tiger baby is good everywhere, it's just this kind of temperament... Forget it, let it go."
Dong Zhuo looked at Dong Zhong again and said, "Get a million yuan from Curry and ten thousand kilograms of iron ingots. No matter whether he loses or not, he will give us ten pairs of iron armor!"
"snort!"
"If you have good things but dare to hide them from us, you must not let him go!"
Dong Zhong smiled bitterly, knowing that only the money and pig iron were used, Dong Hu was losing money, but Dong smiled and nodded, "It's not wrong for Hu's kid to make iron armor privately, even if the husband punishes one or two."
"snort!"
"I don't need to clean up!"
Chapter completed!