The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1046: Entrust
Chapter 1046 Entrustment
Fu Ruoxi and Wang Xiping nodded.
“Although elephants are heavy, their trunks are very flexible. If the long trunk wraps around someone… or throws someone out, the consequences can be imagined.” After thinking for a long time, Shen Jingzhong put down the tea bowl and looked at Bai Qingyan and said, “And according to what General Bai said in the letter, the elephant’s trunk with chain mail is unlikely to be a weakness.”
“Nose…” Bai Qingyan paused while tapping Yin Ji’s hand, then helped Yin Ji stand up and took two steps. “How is the elephant’s sense of smell?”
General Lu and others immediately understood what Bai Qingyan meant.
“Your Majesty, are you planning to use the elephants’ sense of smell to attack the elephant army’s weakness?” Zhang Duanning thought this was worth a try.
“Go quickly and call two elephant trainers over!” Dong Qingping turned around and shouted loudly to the outside of the tent.
Soon, several elephant trainers came back. When Zhang Duanning asked them whether elephants had a very sensitive sense of smell, the trainers were stunned for a moment.
One of them thought for a moment and said, “Yes, maybe… because of their long trunks, elephants have a very sensitive sense of smell. I heard from old elephant trainers that when sick elephants were mixed with herbs, the elephants would use their trunks to accurately pick them out…”
Another elephant trainer quickly added: “So we elephant trainers need to build a deep relationship with elephants and tell them that these can treat pain, so as to prevent the elephants we train from dying of illness.”
“We are all elephant trainers. These elephants have been with us since they were young, but… my ancestors caught elephants for our boss, who was in the business of selling ivory. When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that elephants rely on their trunks to find food in the wild, so when they catch elephants, they often use food that elephants like to make traps.” The elephant trainer bravely looked up at Bai Qingyan, then lowered his head again, “And people have to stay far away and only go over when there is movement, otherwise the elephants will know where people are. So I think maybe the elephant’s trunk is more sensitive than a hunting dog.”
Bai Qingyan nodded and said, “Thank you for your hard work. General Lin will send someone to take these two elephant trainers to rest.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty!”
The two elephant trainers bowed their heads together.
“Organize the news and send the first wave of people to deliver the news to the generals of the Bai family army. Perhaps… we can let a few generals find an opportunity to give it a try before the war starts.” Bai Qingyan said.
“I will take care of this matter!” Zhang Duanning took the responsibility, “I will definitely send the message out today.”
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Thank you for your hard work!”
The matter was settled, and Bai Qingyan was about to return to the palace. She instructed Lin Kangle to send someone to take good care of these elephants. If a war really broke out in the future, the chance of Da Zhou defeating the elephant army would depend on these elephants.
Bai Qingyan planned to immediately have people sew animal skins according to the body sizes of these elephants and wear them on these elephants. When these elephants had recovered enough, he would send these elephants and their trainers to southern Xinjiang and place them nearby to the north of the Jing River. In this way… the elephants’ weaknesses could be transmitted to the front line as quickly as possible.
The appearance of the Tianfeng Kingdom’s elephant army made several important officials of the Great Zhou Kingdom tense. They cheered up and began to prepare for the upcoming war, mobilizing food and grass… mobilizing troops. The tension spread from General Lu to the six ministers to all places, and the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhou became tense.
Originally, the busy farming season of the year would end after the autumn harvest, and it was the time when people were preparing for the winter. Then, several cities and camps with garrisons began to mobilize their troops.
In order to avoid a war in Southern Xinjiang, Daliang, which had just become part of the Great Zhou territory…someone with military power had inappropriate thoughts. Except for Daliang’s navy, Bai Qingyan transferred all the main forces of the former Liang army to Southern Xinjiang and let Wang Xiping lead the troops to replace them.
Originally, many Liang soldiers were dissatisfied, but when they heard that the Bai family army was all in southern Xinjiang, they did not say anything more and obeyed the order to go to southern Xinjiang.
The common people looked at the troop rotation and vaguely sensed the coming of a war. Those with relatives serving as officials in the government office heard a rumor that chaos was about to break out in Xiliang again, so His Majesty dispatched troops to Xiliang.
Some local governors had heard about the elephant army, but they were strictly prohibited from informing the people about it for the time being, so as not to cause unnecessary panic among the people.
After all, Dadu City is close to the imperial city, and the families of many court officials have already known about the elephant army, and they can’t help but worry about Southern Xinjiang.
Because of the elephant army, Bai Jinzhi and Xiao Ruojiang have been in the camp outside the city these days, staying with the elephants all day with the elephant trainers…
Bai Jinzhi believed that even if Xiliang and Tianfeng Kingdom did not dare to confront Da Zhou for the time being, Da Zhou must have a strategy to restrain the elephant army in order to ensure victory.
On October 29th of the first year of Yuanhe, Xiao Ruohai and Chen Qingsheng, who were ordered to go to Tianfeng Kingdom, returned to the capital city together with Shen Qingzhu, who was secretly sent to southern Xinjiang by Bai Qingyan. Coincidentally, they met Bai Jinzhi who had returned from the military camp at the city gate, and 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 in reviewing memorials when she suddenly heard Wei Zhong say that Chen Qingsheng was back. Chuntao, who was grinding ink for Bai Qingyan, started to tremble and looked outside the hall.
Bai Qingyan put down the pen in his hand and said to Wei Zhong with a smile: “Please invite them in!”
As he spoke, Bai Qingyan looked at Chuntao who was looking eagerly outside the palace, and said, “When your cousin comes back this time, he will do things for you. This way… my mother can rest assured!”
Chuntao’s cheeks turned red, and she said shyly: “Girl…”
Chuntao is the daughter of Bai Qingyan’s mother, wet nurse Dong. Although not her biological daughter, wet nurse Dong treats Chuntao as her own daughter.
Before she died, Dong’s wet nurse held Dong’s hand and entrusted her daughter to Dong, and then told Dong the truth…
Chuntao was the biological daughter of Dong’s wet nurse’s younger sister. At that time, Chuntao’s biological mother died while giving birth to Chuntao. It was Dong’s wet nurse who noticed that the baby in her sister’s belly was still moving, so she performed a cesarean section and rescued Chuntao from her younger sister’s belly.
But her younger sister’s in-laws thought it was unlucky and did not want Chuntao. That’s why Dong’s wet nurse kept Chuntao by her side and raised her as her own daughter. Chuntao was also her only relative in this world.
Mrs. Dong had been working as a wet nurse because she felt lonely at home and that’s why she raised Chuntao. She never expected that there would be such a story. So after the wet nurse passed away, Mrs. Dong took Chuntao to live with Bai Qingyan and told everyone in the house that Chuntao was the daughter of Mrs. Dong’s wet nurse and no one should treat her badly.
Dong was also very worried about Chuntao’s marriage. She always felt that finding a good marriage for Chuntao would be worthy of the wet nurse’s advice…
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