Chapter 688 Cowboy
The king hunts in the fields in all seasons, searches in spring, seedlings in summer, hunts in autumn, and hunts in winter.
The hunting in the imperial field is not only a hunting, but also a ritual activity, but also a military ceremony and a comprehensive exercise for military training. In the Tang Dynasty, hunting was the first item.
The hunting of Emperors of the Tang Dynasty included both formal and large-scale hunting rituals and random and flexible, irregular and small-scale hunting. Hunting in mid-winter is an important activity of the Tang Dynasty and was included in the military rituals of one of the Five Etiquettes of the Tang Dynasty.
Early winter.
Li Chao put on a hunting suit, took his servants and his own students away from Li's mansion, and followed the emperor's hunting team to hunt in Wudang Mountain.
This hunting was not a large-scale ritual activity, it was just a hunting for the emperor with an average scale.
Li Shimin said he wanted to hunt for meat, but the ministers believed that the emperor needed a relaxation. After less than a year since Xuanwu Gate, the emperor worked day and night and worked very hard. Prime Ministers such as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Chao, etc. all believed that the emperor needed such a hunt to relax.
As for hunting and meat, that's just a joke. The poorest in the world is not so poor that the emperor has no food to eat.
Most civil and military officials were summoned to hunt, and the court was left and right, and Du, the servants and the left and right, and the ministers, including Li Chao, traveled with the emperor.
The noble children who were traveling in Xiangyang were also invited to participate in the hunting.
All families attach great importance to this hunting. It is rare for young children in the family to get a chance to perform in front of the emperor.
All families are busy preparing bows and arrows, horses and hunting clothes for their children. Some are also preparing hunting dogs and eagles, and preparing experienced servants and hunters.
Li Chao didn't need much preparation, just a hunting battle.
But there are many families who have good friends who send their children here, wanting Li Chao to take care of him. At that time, I hope Li Chao can recommend him to the emperor. For example, a group of Shandong generals, such as those Shandong gentry who have in-laws with the Li family.
Li Chao was not easy to refuse this, but he also said that it depends on their own abilities at that time. Everyone has equal opportunities. Whether they can grasp them depends on their abilities.
Coupled with Li Chao's group of students, Li Chao's team is quite large.
The emperor was accompanied by the Northern and Southern Yaya to recruit troops, including the Twelve Southern Yaya, the Four Northern Yaya, and the Three and Five Mansions of the Inner Yaya. It can be said that the emperor had a lot of people around him, and they came from each other and did not belong to each other. This is also considered Li Shimin's deep consideration of the imperial guards after passing through Xuanwu Gate.
The soldiers and horses around them are divided into three major systems, and the guards in each system do not belong to each other. These guards take turns to guard and supervise each other to avoid the danger of being directly forced to the palace, just like the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
Under the current defense layout, there is almost no possibility of re-enacting the Xuanwu Gate Incident. Who has the ability to buy everyone with the cross-overlapping defense layout?
This time, Li Shimin even brought some outstanding students from the Imperial College and the martial arts lecture hall.
The students in the Imperial College and the martial arts lecture hall were all considered as the pride of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty. When the civil and military imperial examination system was still incomplete, these two top universities were considered important supplements for the Tang Dynasty to recruit scholars and employ people. Those who could enter the school were somewhat of the children of nobles and bureaucrats. After several years of further study or gilding, most of them were able to enter the official career and take office.
If it weren't for this, Li Shimin wanted to temporarily suspend classes and give the students a holiday several times. Because these thousands of students had to be kept by the court for food and accommodation. Now, the monthly food is not a decimal. Their food standards are not ordinary, but are only given to officials slightly lower and the treatment is very good.
Li Shimin brought these people this time in the hope of taking this opportunity to observe these young talents at a close distance and see which ones are truly useful.
Li Shimin, who rode the war horse again, was much better in spirit. The sky was high and the clouds were light, and the autumn was clear and the air was cool.
This hunting team with nearly 10,000 people is very majestic on the road.
Li Shimin was wearing leather armor, with double inserts on his waist, a golden lacquer bow and a golden arrow. Li Chao also had a leather jacket.
However, Li Chao's leather jacket is different from theirs. Li Chao's one is not leather armor but just a leather jacket. The slim design is still a small lapel with a pair of lapels. The brown leather is waxed, which is soft, smooth and shiny.
There is a pony clip inside, which makes the body more neat and straight.
Paired with hand-cut blue canvas jeans made by Du Shiniang, plus long horse boots, the boots also feature a pair of Spurs.
This particularly unique hunting suit made Li Chao stand out, especially the silver jewelry on his leather jacket, which made him very special and sexy.
Even Li Shimin looked at him from time to time along the way.
The prince was like Li Chao, who was in the same outfit as a small trumpet, with a leather jacket with a vest, a jeans, a leather boot and a spur. He was wearing a soft-footed head on his head. As soon as the horse ran, the two soft-footed feet would float up, which was very chic.
Wei Zheng felt that such an outfit was very eye-catching and was simply indifferent.
Those jeans are so tightly wrapped around the two butt eggs, so tight that they are too unreasonable.
Wide robe with big sleeves, top and bottom clothes, this is Chinese clothing.
Li Chao's criticism of Wei Zheng was all considered envious.
"Duke Wei, you are also a person who reads history books. Then you should also be the matter of King Wuling of Zhao Hufu riding and shooting? In order to resist the invasion of the Hu people in the north, Zhao Wuling of Zhao promoted Hufu, coached riding and shooting, and then Zhao Kuoqiu casinos the world. Zhao became a powerful country at that time. Is that true?"
Li Chao opposed old men like Wei Zheng, who always had Spring and Autumn etiquette. They wanted to return everything to the Spring and Autumn Period, wear clothes from the Spring and Autumn Period, implement the system of the Spring and Autumn Period, and even want to restore the well-field system.
What is the well-field system? Each piece of male 900 acres is divided into nine pieces. The eight households each plow the eight pieces outside, and the eight pieces of land are privately owned by them. Then they also have to concentrate on the plow of the 100 acres in the middle, which belongs to the public. They help farm and the harvest belongs to the public.
With this well-field system, the people need to bear the burden of eight households ploughing a piece of public land together, and then no longer have to pay other rents and taxes, and the court can also guarantee taxes.
Of course, this is just the fantasy of the old masters.
The times are developing. How many people were there in the Spring and Autumn Period? How many people are now?
The well-field system was established in the Spring and Autumn Period because at that time there were many lands and few people. It was completely enough to copy some good land to make it into well-field fields. But now, where did so many lands come from to build well-field fields? The equal-field system of the Tang Dynasty itself was much stronger than the well-field system, but there were not enough land to be equal, and it was already full of hidden dangers from the beginning.
It is considered clothing, but the clothing of the Han people has never been static. Not to mention King Wuling of Zhao's Hu clothing, riding and shooting, it has been changing from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present day.
Generally speaking, it is the form of a top and a bottom dress. It can be used to have no pants before, but after a long period of development, it has gone from developing shin clothes to appearing pants.
From adding two pairs of trouser legs to clothes, to increasing waist, and from opening the crotch to having a crotch. From having no underwear to later having underwear, this is all the development of the times.
The style of robes in the past was due to the lack of clothing technology.
The initial pullover, to the later robe, from the beginning of skirt-like clothes to pants with trousers with legs, all these developments. From the whole piece, it was divided into tops, bottoms, underwear, underwear, etc., the variety of forms are all technological advancements.
It is easier to ride a horse in jeans than in a robe.
Why do we have pants now? It started with Hu clothing and archery, for the military needs of riding horses. Later, the soldiers in the army wore pleated pants, and then passed to the people, and the people also wore this kind of thing, because it was more convenient.
Why do women usually not ride horses and still have to lean on their sides while riding a donkey?
Because many women have never had the habit of wearing underwear before, why did people say that sitting in a scattered manner in the past? Because if you don’t wear underwear, you may expose yourself if you sit in a scattered manner, which will be indecent and rude, so you have to kneel down, put your legs together, and sit on your legs.
"Father, these jeans and leather jackets are very capable and comfortable." Cheng Qian spoke to his teacher.
Li Shimin smiled, "Wenyuan's hunting outfit looks really good."
"If Your Majesty doesn't dislike you, I have a few sets here, so I will offer one to Your Majesty." Li Chao said.
Li Shimin nodded despite Wei Zheng's opposition.
When Li Shimin asked his servants to get a set, he was very happy to change his clothes directly on the roadside.
After a while, it seemed as if another Li Chao appeared.
Li Shimin took a few steps, then turned over and got off the horse.
"It's really good, it's a little bit more neat. Very good, I'm just wearing this outfit."
Li Shimin and Li Chao have similar figures, and Li Chao's clothes are also fit in size.
Wei Zheng looked at the emperor wearing this Hu costume and his face was not very good, but Li Shimin ignored him. Historically, the costumes of the Tang Dynasty were full of Hu Feng, and Hu Feng was prosperous. This is because the Tang Dynasty inherited the Northern Dynasty lineage of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties, and there were many legacies of the Hu people in this lineage.
On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty was very open and tolerant in its attitude towards the Hu people. Openness and tolerance led to more exchanges between Han and Hu, and Hu people's clothing also had a great impact on Han people's clothing.
Li Chao thinks this is not a problem. It is good to be open and inclusive and eclectic.
Wearing leather jackets, the people of the Tang Dynasty were still the Tang Dynasty.
Too much conservatism is not a good thing. Conservatism means conservatism and stubbornness.
If it is good, it should be absorbed. Han culture itself is not conservative, but it is just that many people have misunderstood it.
Chapter completed!