A horn suddenly sounded in the valley. Thirty blonde, blue-eyed horse trainers emerged from the dust storm, the Uppsala University emblem on their whips identical to the Western tributes confiscated by the Ministry of Rites during the Tianqi reign. Shen Xitang’s Silver Silk shredded one of the whips, revealing a remnant page from the *Record of Yunnan Horse Improvement*—beside the official document noting "annual selection of five hundred Yunnan horses," it was marked in Swedish: "resale to supply combat losses at the Battle of Lützen!"
"Report, Assistant Commissioner!" A personal soldier cleaved through a stack of fodder. "There is something hidden in this hay..."
As the alfalfa burst apart, twenty Polish winged hussar armors, disguised as "pack horse armor," spilled out. The Vilnius city defense map lining the armor plates was marked with: "Exchange Yuanmou horse farm for Lithuanian light cavalry training camp!"
Chapter 160