The fading candlelight of the Yuanjiang Prefecture stable flickered against the crescent-moon motifs, and Shen Xitang's leather boots stepped over the rubbing of *Mu Ying Taming Horses*. Xiao Heng's scabbard shattered the base of the "Heavenly Sweat Horse" sculpture, revealing the Bronze Secret Casket within—where, prominently displayed upon the *New Moon Secret Treaty*, the Ottoman crescent, the Venetian winged lion, and the Mu Mansion seal brutally overlapped beside the clause reading: "Cede the Ailao Mountain Horse Pasture"!
"Look at the lunar phase of this treaty," her vambrace scraped across the Islamic calendar graduations on the margin. "This annotation for the 'Full Moon of the Forty-first Year of Yongli' is precisely the eve of Mu Tianbo poisoning the Mubang chieftain..."
Bells chimed suddenly on the mountain path. As fifty Ottoman Arab warhorses, flying banners bearing the character "Ming," trampled through the Red River valley, their gilded stirrups marked "Wanggong Factory Special Supply, 32nd Year of Chongzhen" gleamed crimson-bright amid the precipitous cliffs of Wuliang Mountain, reducing Mu Ying's three-hundred-year-old borderland foundation to the wreckage of Eurasian geopolitical hegemony!
Chapter 175