Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 109 Huge?

Near Fushui and Fushui, there is a large tomb. This is the mausoleum of the first emperor's grandmother, the great-grandmother of Fusu, Empress Dowager Xia.

Because the Empress Dowager Xia was not the royal family of King Xiaowen, she was not buried together in Shouling to the west of Duting, but a separate mausoleum was established.

It's just that later this area was included in the scope of Shanglin Garden, and Qianshou was not allowed to move in, so it didn't do what the old lady wished: look at my son in the east and my husband in the west.In the next hundred years, there will be Wanjiayi nearby.

Fusu decided to fulfill her wish for her, and placed the family members of Yueqiying in this wasteland.

It's just that it's impossible to grant a hundred acres of fertile land, and it's impossible in this life. Only by allocating part of the forest to them can they live like this...

In fact, the Yue people are not good at farming, so it is good to plant some fields in an appropriate amount that can be eaten by themselves and used to pay taxes. More good land for them is also a waste!
It is better to let their families plant mulberry trees all over the mountain, raise silkworms and reel silk to supplement their household expenses...

After all, picking mulberry leaves to raise silkworms can be done by a toddler, and Fusu buys the silkworm cocoons grown together!

Well, is this the Daqin version of changing rice to mulberry?

Fu Su smiled, wrote his opinions on the bamboo slips, and prepared to send them back to Shang Shu later, let Xiao He and others polish the pens, seal them and send them to the outer court.

The second memorial that needs to be resolved today is the victory document sent from Shangjun.

It was the Salt Lake victory not long ago, beheading [-] and [-] levels, which means that a lot of land will be rewarded again...

Well, we should follow the example of Huangzhong and assign the land of Xinjuehu to the northern frontier.

Fusu recalled the specific location. On the east side of Helan Mountain, it is called the place on the south of the Yangtze River, that is, the Yellow River East Irrigation Area in northern Ningxia, including Wuzhong City, Yinchuan City, Shizuishan City and Zhongwei City.

However, in order to make this place the same commercial grain base as later generations, large-scale water conservancy projects are essential.

It's a pity that the grasslands in the north are too barren to support many people. Unlike the counties in the South China Sea, there are almost endless cheap labor hidden in the mountains...

Fusu continued to look down.

Well, a salt lake was also discovered. This is good, and the cost of building a new city has been paid!
They captured more than 6 shepherds, [-] sheep, and [-] horses, of which more than [-] were juétí!

hiss!
He gasped, causing Xianyang to fail again in winter...

Although grassland horses are short in stature, they are resistant to rough feeding.

But 駃騠?

This seems to be a kind of horse breed unique to the Huns, and it has always been forbidden to sell it outside. In the past, Meng Tian once obtained a batch when he attacked the Huns in the north, but it seemed that they were not successful in breeding.

Fusu recalled the memory about this creature, and suddenly realized.

Isn't this a mule?
The product of the crossbreeding of a donkey and a male donkey is called a mule, and that produced by mating a male donkey with a female donkey is called a donkey mule.

Horses and mules are strong, donkeys and mules are good at running, and each has its own advantages. Even when Fusu came across, many remote areas were still using this kind of livestock.

This is the advantage of the traveler. Many things that are not passed on in this era are nothing in the age of information explosion in later generations!
It's just that later generations often say that the donkeys in the production team dare not rest like this, which doesn't apply to Daqin at this time!

Because donkeys in the Guanzhong area are treated better than horses, they are raised by many high-ranking families as ornamental...

Well, it's like alpacas raised in many places in later generations.

There are more than ten donkeys in the Lanchi Palace. One of them is a little white donkey without a single hair, which is very popular with the first emperor. He has fed it many times with his own hands, but he has never ridden it. crush the donkey...

After Fusu succeeded to the throne, he disliked them for being noisy, so he put shoes on them and let them grind.

If it is not considered that donkeys are still an important labor force during this period, let’s find out about the dragon meat in the sky and the donkey meat in the ground!
Fusu recalled that some of the male donkeys were quite big, which happened to be used to mate with the mares, and they gave birth to bigger and more docile mules!
And those captured shepherds?
Fusu thought about it. After all, the people of Qin raised horses and fought bloody battles with Rong Di for hundreds of years. There is no shortage of people in the country who are good at herding horses.

Therefore, those shepherd slaves were first resettled in the area south of Jiuyuan City and north of Fushi County.

This place is located in the hinterland of the Jiuyuan Army, ensuring that they can be obedient.

And don't worry about them eating free food, there are plenty of jobs for them to do!
The place name of Shangjun sounds strange, but in later generations, its name is Ordos.

Not only are the sheep good, but more importantly, there are many high-quality open pit coal mines here!
For example, the famous Dongsheng Coalfield.

The captured Huns happened to be locked up here for mining.

The reason why they didn't dig coal in places like Taiyuan County, which is famous for its coal in later generations, was mainly because the freight cost couldn't afford it.

After all, there were no trains in this era, and the transportation of things mainly relied on small carts or horse-drawn carriages.

Compared with places such as Taiyuan County, which cannot be transported by water power, whether it is the coal in Guiyi or the coal to be excavated in Shangjun, it only needs to build a short road to transport the excavated coal from the coal mine to the wharf, and then ship it downstream And down, you can go directly to Guanzhong.

Fusu took a look at the good news. Since a large number of poor horses were seized, the four-wheeled carriage can be arranged!

What he wants to reproduce is a caravan from the westward movement of a certain beautiful country.

Compared with the four-wheeled carriage, Qin's existing two-wheeled carriage is primitive and has fatal flaws.

1. The payload is small, and the heavy load will easily cause the wheels to sink into the road, making the vehicle unable to move forward.

2. It is not conducive to the health of the horse. The center of gravity of the two-wheeled carriage is located at the shaft, and the shaft mounted on the waist of the horse greatly increases the burden on the horse, making the horse tired and unable to pull the cart with all its strength.

3. The riding experience is not good. The back of the horse is always vibrating up and down when the horse is moving, and the carriage is undulating, resulting in an unstable environment in the carriage and greatly reducing the riding comfort.

Fusu has a deep understanding of the third point.

What moved Fusu was that the four-wheeled carriage was not like a car, which required a very high industrialization bonus.

You only need to adjust the structure of the wheel installation, plus metal bearings, the spring is not important...

With these, you can basically drive unimpeded on the road.

Although Daqin is also a dirt road now, the traffic conditions in America during the westward movement were not as good as Daqin!
The Yankees conquered the western continent of the Indians and crossed the Rocky Mountains in a caravan anyway.

Later, during World War II, a country that was rubbed on the ground by a loving father still retained a large number of four-wheeled carriages for logistics and transportation, so some people called it mule-horseization, or the holy mule-horse empire...

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