Chapter 1046 Entrustment
Chapter 1046 Entrustment
Fu Ruoxi and Wang Xiping followed suit.
"Elephants are bulky, but their noses are very flexible. The long nose is wrapped around people... or thrown out, and the consequences can be imagined." After thinking for a long time, Shen Jingzhong put down the tea bowl, looked at Bai Qingyan and said, "And according to what General Bai said in the letter sent back, the elephant's trunk is wearing chain mail, and it's hard to become a weakness."
"Nose..." Bai Qingyan tapped Yinji's hand for a while, supported Yinji to stand up, and took two steps, "How does an elephant smell?"
Lu Taiwei and the others immediately understood what Bai Qingyan meant.
"Your Majesty intends to use the elephant's sense of smell to attack the elephant army's weakness?" Zhang Duanning thinks that this can be tried.
"Go quickly, call two elephant trainers!" Dong Qingping turned his head and shouted loudly to the outside.
Soon several elephant trainers went back and forth. When Zhang Duanning asked them if the elephant's sense of smell was very sensitive, those elephant trainers were stunned for a moment.
One of them thought for a while and said: "Yes, maybe... because of the long nose, the elephant's sense of smell is very sensitive. I heard from the old mahouts who told us that there was an elephant who was sick and was about to die. Herbs are mixed with it, and the elephant will pick it out with its trunk..."
Another mahout trainer hastily added: "So we need our mahout trainers to establish a deep relationship with the elephants and tell them that these things can treat pain, so as to prevent the elephants we tame from dying of illness."
"We are all elephant trainers. These elephants have been with us since we were young, but... my ancestors caught elephants for my master, who was in the business of selling ivory. When I was young, I heard from my grandfather that elephants are rare in the wild. They rely on their trunks to find food, so when they hunt elephants, they often use the food that elephants like as traps.” The elephant trainer boldly raised his head and looked at Bai Qingyan, then lowered his head, “Besides, people should stay far away. It is said that otherwise the elephant will know where the person is, so the grass people are thinking that maybe the trunk of an elephant is more sensitive than a hunting dog."
Bai Qingyan nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, General Lin sent someone to send the two elephant trainers to rest."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The two mahouts kowtowed in unison.
"Sort up the news, and send the first wave of people to deliver the news to the generals of the Bai family army. Maybe... before the battle begins, let a few generals find a chance to have a try." Bai Qingyan said.
"This matter will be handled by my minister!" Zhang Duanning took over the matter, "The news will definitely be sent out within today."
Bai Qingyan nodded: "It's hard work!"
The matter was finalized, and Bai Qingyan was going back to the palace. She told Lin Kangle to send someone to take care of these elephants. If there was a real war in the future, Da Zhou's chance of defeating the elephant army would be on these elephants.
Bai Qingyan planned to have people sew animal skins according to the body size of these elephants immediately, and put them on the elephants. When the elephants were almost relieved, they set off to send the elephants to the south with the elephant trainers. Xinjiang sent these elephants to the nearest north of the Jinghe River, so... the weaknesses of the elephants could be transmitted to the front line as quickly as possible.
The appearance of the Tianfeng Kingdom's elephant army made the hearts of several important officials of the Great Zhou Kingdom tense, and they cheered up and began to prepare for the upcoming battle, mobilizing food and grass... mobilizing troops, the tension went from Lu Taiwei to Liubu The Shangshu spread to all places, and the officials and soldiers of Dazhou tensed up.
Originally, the busy farming period of the year after the autumn harvest was over, and it was when the people were preparing for the nesting winter that several cities and camps that were stationed with troops began to mobilize their troops.
In order to prevent the Great Liang who had just become the territory of the Great Zhou in the event of a war in Southern Xinjiang... people who have military power in their hands have unreasonable thoughts. Except for Daliang's navy, Bai Qingyan transferred all the main forces of the old Liang soldiers to Southern Xinjiang. , Let Wang Xiping lead his troops to change defenses.
Originally, Liang Bing was dissatisfied, but he heard that all the Bai family troops were in southern Xinjiang, so he didn't say anything more, and followed the order to go to southern Xinjiang.
Seeing the change of troops, the common people sensed that a war was about to start, and some relatives who were government officials heard rumors that there was going to be chaos in Xiliang, so His Majesty called The soldiers went to Xiliang.
Some local prefects have heard about the Xiangjun incident, but the above strictly prohibits the public from being informed of the matter for the time being, so as not to cause unnecessary panic among the common people.
But the city of Dadu is close to the imperial city, and most of the family members of the court officials have already known about the Xiang army, so they can't help sweating for Nanjiang.
Because of the elephant army, Bai Jinzhi and Xiao Ruojiang have been in the outskirts of the camp these days, and these mahout trainers have been with the elephants all day long...
Bai Jinzhi thought that even if Xiliang and Tianfeng Kingdom did not dare to confront Da Zhou for the time being, Da Zhou must have countermeasures to restrain the Xiang army, so as to be sure of winning.
On October 29th of the first year of Yuanhe, Xiao Ruohai, Chen Qingsheng, who was ordered to go to Tianfeng Kingdom, and Shen Qingzhu, who was secretly sent to southern Xinjiang by Bai Qingyan, returned to the capital city. When Bai Jinzhi came back, the four of them entered the palace together.
Xiao Ruohai and Chen Qingsheng came back suddenly, without sending anyone to report in advance, Chuntao was accompanying Bai Qingyan to review the memorial, when Wei Zhong said that Chen Qingsheng was back, Chuntao, who was rubbing ink for Bai Qingyan, shook her hands, He hurriedly raised his eyes and looked outside the hall.
Bai Qingyan put down the pen in his hand, smiled and said to Wei Zhong: "Please come in quickly!"
As she said that, Bai Qingyan looked at Chuntao outside the hall anxiously for a moment, and said, "This time when your cousin comes back, I'll do things for you, so... my mother can rest assured!"
Chuntao's cheeks flushed, and she shyly said, "Girl..."
Chun Tao is the daughter of Bai Qingyan's mother Dong's wet nurse. Although she is not her own, Dong's wet nurse treats Chun Tao as her own daughter.
Before she died, Dong's wet nurse held Dong's hand and entrusted her daughter to Dong before she told Dong the truth...
Chuntao is the biological daughter of Dong's wet nurse's youngest sister. At that time, Chuntao's own mother died when she gave birth to Chuntao. Dong's wet nurse noticed that the baby was still moving in her sister's womb, so she took the child by caesarean section and took Chuntao from her young sister's. rescued from the belly.
But her young sister-in-law's family felt that it was unlucky not to want Chuntao, so Dong's wet nurse put Chuntao by her side and raised her little by little as her own daughter, and Chuntao was also her only relative in this world.
Mrs. Dong has always been a wet nurse because she was lonely, so she raised Chuntao. She never thought about this story, so after the nurse passed away, Mrs. Dong took Chuntao to Bai Qingyan's side, and told everyone in the family that Chuntao was Dong's wet nurse's daughter, no one should treat her poorly.
Chuntao's marriage, Mrs. Dong, was also very worried, and she always felt that a good marriage for Chuntao would be worthy of the nanny's entrustment...
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