Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 80
"How do you get on here?"

"Your Highness put your foot on the stirrup first, and then use your strength."

In the square at the rear left gate, Zhu Youjian was learning how to ride a horse clumsily, while Lu Wenzhao taught him how to ride a horse.

Zhu Youxiao next to him was sitting on horseback, his eyes were full of smiles.

"His Royal Highness does not need to hold the rein to maintain balance. The rein is used to control the horse. If you pull the rein hard, the horse will not be able to bear it. If you pull the rein too hard, the horse may be startled."

"Then how do you pull it?" Zhu Youjian carefully got on the horse and accepted Lu Wenzhao's teaching honestly.

As for his question, Lu Wenzhao explained:
"When riding a horse normally, you just hold the rein lightly with your hands to ensure that the rein does not slip."

"If it's an open area, experienced hands will often find a place within reach and plug the rein, so that people can stretch it on the horse's back. This is called "trusting the horse with the rein."

"There are two ways to ride a horse, one is called sitting up and hitting the waves, and the other is called pressing the waves."

"The horse's back will show a wave shape when the horse is moving. Your Highness only needs to sit down at the trough and then use the upward thrust of the wave crest to lift the buttocks so that it is synchronized with the wave of the horse's back, and it will not" spanking", so it's called "spanking."

"The principle of pressing the waves is similar, but the movements are much smaller. The legs do not need to exert force to lift the buttocks off the saddle, but use the strength of the hips and waist to "rub" back and forth on the saddle to synchronize with the waves of the horse's back. "

"It seems that your Highness, you have been suppressing this wave, so it is also called suppressing waves."

"Different people have different habits. Some people have strong waist and abdomen strength and flexibility and like to press waves, and some people have good leg strength and like to play waves."

"Then how do ordinary soldiers ride?" Zhu Youjian was a little dizzy, but he still wrote down the tricks and asked Lu Wenzhao.

Upon hearing this, Lu Wenzhao explained:
"The cavalry in the army prefer to beat the waves, because there will be some friction when pressing the waves, and the thighs will be worn out after a long time."

"During the Three Kingdoms period, when Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, he lamented that "the flesh is coming back to life", because he was used to playing waves and did not ride a horse for a long time, which led to the growth of flesh."

"If you sit up with hips and thighs for a long time, it is really not easy for your thighs to grow flesh, and the amount of exercise is much smaller when you press the waves."

"If the cavalry is running for a long distance, they generally use wave suppression, and if they are running for a short distance, they use wave fighting."

Speaking of this, Lu Wenzhao used cotton pads under Zhu Youjian's buttocks, and tied two pieces of cotton on the inside of his thighs with something, and then explained:
"Novices riding horses, riding a little longer will cause thighs and buttocks to grind and bleed."

"If you don't put cotton on it, you might not even be able to get off the ground the next day. There are bruises and blood blisters on the inside of your thighs, and all the blood blisters from holding the saddle ring with your hands."

"So miserable?" Zhu Youjian took a breath, and then asked carefully:

"How long will it take for this novice to learn how to ride a horse?"

"Half an hour fast, or a few days slow, you can learn how to beat the waves. After you learn how to beat the waves, it's not difficult to learn how to beat the waves." Lu Wenzhao responded:
"It doesn't feel like riding dozens or hundreds of miles after being able to ride the waves."

"However, many horses like to bully people when they first ride on it, walking around and shaking their heads, but when you do a few sit-ups and cooperate with him, he will understand what's going on with you."

"His Majesty's horses are two horses specially selected by the humble official, and they have a docile temper."

"Your Highness, after trying to ride it, you will soon be able to clearly feel that it has begun to show affection to you, Your Highness, and it will naturally be easy to control afterward."

"Of course, if His Highness changes horses and rides in the future, if you don't know how to ride, the horse will bully you, and you can't control him life or death. He knows that people can't do it, so he won't obey others. This is exactly the same as people."

"However, if the human and the horse cooperate well during the ride, the horse will also be happy, and its steps will be much lighter when it is happy, and it will chew its bit until the mouth is full of foam. This is called "receiving the bit", just like It means shaking our legs when we are in a good mood."

"Well said!" Zhu Youxiao, who was next to him, heard what Lu Wenzhao taught, interspersed with stories from time to time, and couldn't help saying hello.

After hearing this, Zhu Youjian felt that it was not so scary anymore, so he stretched out his hand and touched the pony's head, and then followed Lu Wenzhao to learn all kinds of colloquial spoken language for riding, and then gently pinched the horse's belly with his legs:
"drive!"

With just a sound, the little pony began to walk in small steps, and Zhu Youjian followed Lu Wenzhao's teaching, and learned little by little.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to protect him, but he was afraid that the bone dragon would scare the pony, so he got off the horse and went to the other side to lead the horse for Zhu Youjian.

The emperor leads a horse. I am afraid that few people in the entire Ming Dynasty have enjoyed this kind of honor.

But right now, Zhu Youjian is focusing all his attention on how to ride a horse, so he doesn't have the time to pay attention to these things, but a group of eunuchs not far away are smacking their tongues.

It's just that this smacking of tongues lasted for a while and then stopped, and they gradually turned into surprise.

I saw that at their speed visible to the naked eye, Zhu Youjian had mastered the tricks of riding a horse and accelerated his speed.

Gradually, Zhu Youxiao and Lu Wenzhao also let go of the reins, and Zhu Youjian rode the pony and started galloping according to Lu Wenzhao's teaching.

"My control over my body seems to be better than my predecessor..."

While riding, facing the wind blowing head-on, Zhu Youjian was surprised.

In his memory, his predecessor's control over his body wasn't good, but it wasn't bad either, just mediocre.

But when he came to him, the improvement in memory and strength was ignored, and the control of the body had improved a lot.

Thinking of this, he became bolder, and actually tried to turn over and dismount while riding.

This move frightened Zhu Youxiao so much that his face turned pale instantly.

But before he could say his worried words, Zhu Youjian dismounted unharmed and ran for a few steps in a row, then got on the horse again, turning back and forth from the left and right sides of the pony.

Seeing this move, everyone around the audience clicked their tongues.

When Zhu Youjian felt that it was almost done, when he turned back, he got a suspicious expression from the good emperor brother:

"I'm afraid my brother is used to riding horses in Changping, so he deliberately provoked me when he came back?"

This provocation does not mean provoking anger, but deliberately teasing Zhu Youxiao.

Regarding this, Zhu Youjian could only smile wryly and said, "Where?"

"Brother, if you don't believe me, you can ask Lu Wenzhao. How could I have the opportunity to ride a horse when I was in Changping, where it was snowing for days?"

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Lu Wenzhao suspiciously, and Lu Wenzhao also said with shame:

"Long live back, it's true."

"Maybe it's because of my extraordinary talent..." Zhu Youjian was a little guilty, but the good emperor heard it:
"If you are talented, let's practice riding and shooting!"

Then, as soon as he sent the bow and arrow forward, he asked Zhu Youjian to try it.

(End of this chapter)