The Emperor is Above

Chapter 76: Fame among the princes

Everyone has his or her own dream.

When Qing Yi lived in today's society, he envied Yang Guo for having a divine eagle.

When he saw the Eagle Guards riding on falcons and soaring above the blue sky and white clouds outside the capital city, the longing he had as a teenager became even stronger.

Who would have thought that as soon as we entered the central city, we were almost extinguished by the strong stench emanating from the Eagle Camp, which almost extinguished all our beautiful dreams.

However, during the past few days in the Zuo Division's camp, seeing the Flying Eagle Guards rising and falling on the corner tower every day, the idea that he had originally given up came to his mind again.

After observing for these days, Qing Yi also figured it out.

Hundreds of ferocious birds are crowded together, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating every day, and they don't clean up properly. Over time, the smell will of course be unbearable.

If you raise one or two ferocious birds in your mound and clean diligently, the smell won't have much of an impact. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have ferocious birds to take you by when you travel to other countries in the future?
Now that the Flying Eagle Guards have come to Zuo Shi’s camp, Qing Yi took the opportunity to ask how to tame a falcon.

Under the leadership of Ran You, the senior rugby coach of Zuoshi, and with Qing Yi as the inventor of rugby, the Eagle Guards, who have long been obsessed with the sport, are extremely enthusiastic about Qing Yi.

Next, Qing Yi and Ran You taught the Eagle Guards about various matters related to football, and by the way, they inquired about the methods and precautions of taming falcons and other ferocious birds in the Eagle Camp.

Taming falcons is not a strict secret, but it has not been promoted due to the high cost of raising them. The Eagle Guardians enthusiastically teach some more public methods:
"If you want to raise a good falcon, it's best to hatch it yourself, so that the first person the young eagle sees after it hatches will be the closest to it."

“Feeding a young eagle is rather troublesome. Initially, it needs to be fed with exotic animal milk, and after a few days, it needs to be fed with minced beef and mutton. It is best to mix some exotic animal bone soup with a little exotic animal meat to help the young eagle grow strength.

When the eagle is three months old, you can feed it larger pieces of meat. At this time, you have to control its weight and not let it get too fat, otherwise it will be difficult for it to learn to fly. "

"Until a year old, an eagle cannot carry a person. After all, its muscles and bones are not fully developed yet, and it has no strength. Just like an ox or a horse pulling a cart, it needs patient training bit by bit."

"In fact, when the young eagle is six months old, it is best to feed it live animals to train its ferocity. After it is one year old, take it out hunting, otherwise it will not have the fighting power when it grows up."

A Sima named Yan from the Flying Eagle Camp even suggested: "If you are not in a hurry, Brother Qingyi can come to the capital in April or May. By then, many falcons in the Flying Eagle Camp will have laid eggs.

We only have 200 people in the Flying Eagle Camp, and we can't afford to raise more falcons. In previous years, they were shipped to Yanjin City and sold to various countries. You can buy a few and take them home to hatch them."

The fifth-rank captain of the Flying Eagle Battalion simply gave a booklet on raising falcons and other falcons, which contained a lot of his personal experiences.

The short battalion commander also warned seriously: "Brother Qingyi, if you succeed in taming these falcons, you must remember them when you come to the capital.

Never ride a ferocious bird directly into the capital city to land, otherwise you will be regarded as a threat and shot down by the soldiers defending the city.

There are many large crossbow carts on the walls of the capital, all of which use large rune crossbows specially designed to deal with strange beasts and ferocious birds. They can kill with one strike within 500 feet.

You must land on the other side of the Xing River, and there is a place outside the city that is specially used to store ferocious birds and beasts, and our brothers from the Flying Eagle Camp are responsible for guarding it. "

Qing Yi was shocked by the captain's instructions. He really wanted to ride the ferocious bird directly to the capital and land there. He didn't expect that Xing State already had strict punishment regulations for this.

With a common interest, Qing Yi and the Eagle Guards practiced rugby while discussing the breeding of falcons and various interesting stories. In a few days, their relationship improved rapidly, and they became close friends regardless of their positions. In these few days, rugby spread to the Right Division, the Central Division, the City Guard, and the Night Guard at an astonishing speed. Every day, many nobles and ministers living in the Central City came to watch.

After consultation among the three divisions, the captains of the city guards and the captain of the night guards, the consent of the two senior officials who commanded the left and right divisions was sought.

The first rugby league between the Third Division, the City Guards, and the Night Guards was officially scheduled to be held on the first day of March, five days later.

In order to encourage and stimulate the soldiers' enthusiasm for rugby, the two senior doctors of the left and right divisions took the lead and offered generous rewards.

When the date of the first league was confirmed, the preliminaries within each army officially began. As the birthplace of rugby, every soldier in the Zuo Division Camp was full of expectations of winning the championship.

As a special existence in the Left Division Camp, Qing Yi is invited by the captains of the Left Division to seek advice every day. It can be seen that the soldiers of the Left Division are enthusiastic about training and have a strong desire to win.

However, Qing Yi soon discovered something strange. The expressions of the captains Zhu Cheng, the captain of the left division's personal guard camp, Luo Tao, the captain of the rear camp, and Bai Ze and Mu Cangwu, the captains of the middle division who often visited him, became increasingly ugly.

The city guard captain Qiu Yuan, who used to come to seek advice frequently, and the right division vanguard captain Luqiu Junming, no longer appeared in the left division camp.

If Zi Che Zhongxing wanted to know the inside story, as he was just a Sima, he was not qualified. He had to ask Ran You, the Left Military Commandant, who should know something about the situation.

When Ran You came over excitedly and heard Qing Yi's question, he said with a proud look on his dark face, "Brother, you asked the right person.

Although Brother was ordered by Master Zuo to be under house arrest for a month and not allowed to step out of Master Zuo's camp, Brother is well-informed about the news!"

Facing his elder brother's boasting, Yi was speechless and said, "Brother Ran You, of course I know that you have been in constant contact with the guards these days. They are stationed in the upper city, so of course they have the most up-to-date information."

"Hey, you know everything!"

Ran You laughed dryly twice, then said seriously, "Brother, you don't know yet, there has been a lot of quarreling in the court these days, and the king is furious with the ministers!"

Qing Yi frowned slightly and said, "Didn't it say a few days ago that Lord Huo Yunya annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, but instead, Lord Xianyu sent another 50,000 troops? Why are you arguing with the king? I see that the faces of the captains are not very good."

Speaking of this, Ran You immediately showed anger and said, "Speaking of this, it is particularly annoying. I thought that when the Xianyu army increased to 130,000, our Zuo Division would be sent to the northern border to fight the enemy.

I didn't expect that the ministers of the court were only concerned with mobilizing the private armies of the nobles in various cities in the northern border to reinforce Lord Huo Yunya, but devoted most of their energy to the fight we had with the city guards a few days ago.

This has been an old habit for hundreds of years. It was just that there were too many people and the noise was a little louder, so even the city guards didn't take it seriously.

However, several senior and junior ministers in the court have been clamoring to severely punish the troublemakers, and I think the king's ears must have worn out because of your name, brother."

"I am now famous among the princes!"

Qing Yi couldn't help but shake his head and laugh at himself. He originally wanted to gain a good reputation in front of the king so that he could get a better chance of being awarded the title of corporal, but he didn't expect that the king would find out in this way.

(End of this chapter)