Chapter 33: As if facing a great enemy, walking on the abyss (Part 1)

At first, Zhao Zhuangji was only concerned about feeling emotion. Although she found that Zhao Chengcheng was abnormal, her mouth was not free. When the carriage passed through the city gate and walked to the light, she realized that not only the city guards, but none of the city guards saluted her.

Zhao Zhuangji was stunned for a moment, and she felt a strong hostility.

After a moment of pause, she decided to ignore this issue first and decide whether to get angry when she sees her son.

Zhao Wu stood not far from the city gate, and behind him was Shi Yan, Shi Xiu and Dongguo Li were also not far away, calling on pedestrians to disperse and make way for the carriages to move forward.

Zhao Wu stepped forward, saluted and greeted his mother...

After the convoy was delayed a little, Zhao Zhuangji ordered the convoy to continue moving forward and waved her son to sit in the car. This was indeed a cold city. Although the people in the city kept flowing, they all seemed very cold. No one spoke, and no one paid attention to the convoy. Occasionally, people who came out of the alley happened to run into the convoy head-on, but they just bowed slightly to Zhao Wu, and then turned their backs to Zhao Zhuangji's carriage and horse.

During this period, they seemed to regard Zhao Zhuangji as air and completely ignored it.

This indifference of the people is understandable, because a few years ago, Zhao Zhuangji instigated the king to use his army to attack Zhaocheng. Everyone in Zhaocheng's existing people had relatives who died in that heroic resistance.

In this situation, who can welcome her?

Zhao Zhuangji seemed to have figured it out too. She stopped pursuing the indifference of the people. She continued to look around, looking at the city guards on both sides, and sighed: "My son is so miserable. There are only two thousand soldiers on both sides, pitiful!"

Zhao Wu smiled without explanation.

What Zhao Zhuangji saw was the city guards, that is, the Zhaocheng guards.

After all, Zhao Zhuangji is a woman, so she cannot count the number of Qingcheng Guards in an instant, and the so-called "two thousand armored soldiers" is the number Qi Ce told her. However, Qi Ce only told her the number of Zhao's private soldiers, but did not explain the inside story of the private soldiers in detail. When it comes to inside story, Zhao Wu thought that the two thousand armored soldiers under his command might be the most powerful soldiers of this era.

Because most of the military system of "integration of soldiers and farmers" in this era, only a few professional soldiers exist. As far as Zhao Wu knows, most of the soldiers of the Wei family, Han family and Zhi family did not conduct all-weather professional training like him. The monarch had 800 armored soldiers, which seemed to be a bit like professional soldiers, but they did not undergo full-day training like Zhao Wu. Besides, the monarch had too few armored soldiers, and the nobles looked down on this little manpower.

The two thousand armored soldiers Zhao Wu now has been selected from the samurai given by the Wei family, Han family and Fan family. With the original samurai, the Zhao family barely selected 2,000 samurai.

Yes, these people are warriors. They have to run around the city with full arms every day, which is equivalent to a "five-kilometer armed cross-country" every day. When they run back to the barracks, they also have to conduct simulated charge training, fighting training, and escape training with the tanks.

In this era, most people ate two meals a day, and even the king rarely ate three meals. Zhao Wu's "Lord Armed Forces" had already started to eat three meals a day, with meat every meal. In this case, the physical fitness of the warriors can be imagined. For example, their mental outlook is different from ordinary people and they are more energetic - after training in the morning, they can also play games according to their personal hobbies in the afternoon, playing football and baseball, which has attracted many idle people in the city to watch and won a lot of applause! This applause also deepened the warriors' pursuit of honor.

Although the number of such a group of private soldiers with physical fitness, confidence and a sense of honor is a little small, perhaps compared to the number of private soldiers of tens of thousands of families, the number seems to be pitifully small, but both sides really want to fight together... Zhao Wu firmly believes that it may be a bit difficult to defeat the other party, but it is absolutely no problem to protect him and escape.

After a while, Zhao Zhuangji sighed again. Seeing the ruins on the roadside, she sighed: "My son is so miserable. Wei Niang really didn't expect that Zhaocheng was so poor - look, you are so poor that you can live in such a house, so you can pile up a pile of rocks. My son is so miserable!"

The houses on the roadside are the result of urban transformation. After the birth of cement, Zhao Wu ordered some important buildings in the city to be converted into cement and stone structures. Unfortunately, the cement production is too small, with a monthly output of only two or three tons, which only lasted five months in total. Therefore, except for Zhao Wu's residence, the rest of the city still uses mud and stone paste. However, at present, the progress of the project has always been dragged down by the cement supply. Some houses have been pushed, and the construction has been lost halfway through the construction, so the work can only be stopped - this is what Zhao Zhuangji saw everywhere.

The carriage walked through Zhaocheng's market, and the people in the market seemed to have frozen. They stood with their backs to the road without saying a word, neither bargaining with the boss nor greeting the convoy coming.

These customers could turn their backs and ignore them. The owner of the store faced the road. They had no choice but to smile and nodded at Zhao Wu, and then their eyes drifted away. They would rather look at other places than look at the moving convoy.

Not long after leaving, Zhao Zhuangji sighed again: "My son is so miserable. Why are the people of Zhaocheng so poor that they are so embarrassed even when they are clothed? Look at the narrow sleeves and the high skirt corners... it's pitiful."

Zhao Wu had nothing to say, he rolled his eyes and pretended not to hear it.

At this time, the people of Zhao seemed to have already realized the "Hu clothing, riding and shooting" in advance. This is mainly because Zhao is close to Huocheng, which is the northernmost border defense center of Jin State. Huocheng is the border of the Hu people. There was no strict concept of boundaries in the Spring and Autumn Period. Huo people often rushed into Zhao from mountain roads to rob the working people in the countryside - this is also the most troublesome thing in Jin State: it is difficult to move on the mountain roads, and it is impossible to deal with these Hu people with fewer soldiers; if there are too many soldiers, the chariots cannot be arranged.

Most of the Zhao lands are continuous mountains. People often cross mountains and ridges. They feel that the popular wide-robed and long-sleeved clothes are not only vague to make, but they usually wear them. It is not convenient to work. When attacked by Hu people, it is even more hindering and it is difficult to fight back quickly...

After Zhao Wu came, the people felt that it was inconvenient to wear clothes, and there happened to be a new reference - the new armor made by Zhao Wu adopted the structure of gold engravings: tight and tight sleeves; the training clothes worn by soldiers in the game field were made of thick linen cloth: the sleeves and trousers were tightened, making it easy to move. In addition, the gold engravings were bright and white, and the soldiers wore brilliant every day to run around the city; the strong men on the game field also showed superb confrontation skills.

In this era of frequent wars, the hobbies of strong people are most of the hobbies - because strong people can give better protection to the weak, the people of Zhaocheng slowly changed to Hu clothing according to their habits. Among them, the clothes of ordinary people change the most, and those with fewer clothing changes are officials.
Chapter completed!