Destiny Only Han

Chapter 133 Ming Xiu Plank Road
Hanzhong County, Nanzheng County.

In early summer and May, the breeze is blowing on the face and it is already a bit hot.

The water chestnut penetrates the duckweed and the green brocade pool, and the summer warbler twitters the roses.

Beside a pond in the north of the county seat, the breeze brought not only the heat, but also a slight smell.

Here is where the 'Dahan Farming and Animal Husbandry Company' is located.

Liu Ying has repeatedly heard from the marketing account that the area of ​​duckweed in the pond doubles every day. If the entire pond can be covered in 30 days, which day will it be exactly half full?
The answer is No.20 nine days.

It's an old saying, but it makes sense.

That is the duckweed in the water, and the output can double every day in summer.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Nanzheng, he asked people to find such a pond of suitable size and location, and then asked people to dump several carts of dung and duckweed.

Finally today, duckweed covered the entire pond.

The function of duckweed is very simple, that is, to scoop it up and use it as feed for ducks and pigs.

Well, in fact, there are ducks in the north, and the place where ducks were first domesticated was also the ancestors of the Yanzhao generation.

Wild ducks are a kind of migratory bird. After the beginning of spring, they fly to the north to mate, lay eggs, and raise their offspring. In winter, they fly to the south, and generally they don’t go too far south. They stop migrating south after the Yangtze River Basin.

By the pond, four or five farmers were busy fishing for duckweed. Liu Ying stood aside and repeatedly explained that only [-]% to [-]% of duckweed was allowed to be caught every day at most, and they had to be cooked before feeding to pigs.

After all, the duckweed here is raised with oligo, so it is inevitable that it will carry E. coli.

In the distance, more than a dozen small carts approached creakingly.

Liu Ying glanced at the direction the convoy was coming from, hurried up to greet her, and bowed to salute: "Father."

Grandpa Liu touched his head: "I haven't seen you for a few days, it seems that I have grown a lot taller..."

Liu Ying smiled and did not speak, only to see Taigong Liu put on a straight face and said:
"You're doing this here, uh... Farming and Animal Husbandry Trading Company, why don't you tell me in advance? If you tell me, I can help you! Whether it's farming or tending livestock, I'm a good hand!"

Liu Ying raised her head: "Father has worked hard for decades, and it's time to take a good rest. The foundation is being laid in Xinzhongyangli. If you have time, you might as well go and have a look."

Liu Taigong shook his head: "I have been idle for more than half a year, and I am almost sick!"

Liu Ying thought for a while, since it was a new start-up here, there were few livestock and less work, so she nodded and said, "All right, but let them do the heavy work, and if the eldest father is tired, the father will not have to pick it up." My skin!"

Taigong Liu raised his eyebrows: "With me here, you see how he dares!"

Liu Ying smiled and didn't answer, but watched the recruited farmers drive the piglets and ducks from the trolley into the pen.

Hanzhong County is too desolate, even in this place close to the county seat, it is not suitable for free-range livestock. After all, there are goshawks hovering in the sky from time to time.

Free-range feeding is to give these guys extra meals!

Fortunately, Hanzhong County has a large area and few people, so many farmers raise livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, and the prices are generally half lower than those in Guanzhong and Yingchuan.

So this is why Liu Ying is planning to engage in centralized breeding here. After fattening, they will be slaughtered in a centralized manner, and then pickled and smoked to make semi-finished products that are durable for preservation.

In this way, you can earn a lot of money just by taking orders from the military.

As a time traveler, he knew that he would have to fight for several years, and after the war, even Liu Bang couldn't find a horse of the same color to pull a cart. Got it.

So where did the livestock go?

Eaten by the army.

The army in the classical empire period was mostly good families, not slaves composed of military households or refugees in the Song and Ming dynasties. The good families not only had to eat enough, but also provided meat regularly, otherwise, just wait for the army to mutiny .

For example, when fighting the Battle of Mobei, the Han army prepared 10,000+ horses at the beginning of the war, but after the war, only [-] to [-] horses remained.

A considerable part of them died in battle, and more were eaten by soldiers as rations.

After all, in the case of successive marches and battles, there is no time for the horse to slowly fatten up. It will die anyway, so it is better to eat it before it is completely starved and thin.

The purpose of Liu Ying's centralized breeding is to obtain enough dried meat to be transported to the army as military rations, to replace the livestock that will be slaughtered, and to be transported to the rear for fattening and then used again.

And there is another purpose, that is, when he buys a large number of private livestock and sells them to the army, such dividends will inevitably be coveted by many people.

This is different from making weapons, and farming is much simpler.

Private capital or other nobles in the Han army must also want to get involved, so that they can mobilize their power to concentrate and raise a large number of poultry and livestock.

In this way, more people are engaged in breeding, which may be able to force the epidemic prevention of livestock and the treatment of infectious diseases to be improved.

Just like many incurable diseases in later generations were conquered, it was mainly because the rich were afraid of death, so they invested heavily in medical laboratories, and then benefited everyone.

Outside the enclosure, Liu Taigong suddenly looked at Liu Ying and asked, "Why haven't you seen your doorman, hasn't he been by your side recently?"

Liu Ying raised her head and asked, "Which one?"

Liu Taigong said without hesitation: "It's the one with you..."

He paused suddenly, and then said, "It's that young man surnamed Ji."

Liu Ying was silent for a while and said: "Father is talking about Ji Xin, he took people to the north to build roads..."

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In May of the first year of the Han Dynasty, north of the Han River.

The red flags are unfurled, and there are huge crowds of people. Nearly [-] elite troops are neatly lined up here.

Today is the auspicious day calculated by the fortune-teller, suitable for moving, getting married, and dispatching troops!

On the high platform in the distance, Liu Bang, followed by Han Xin, Xiao He and Lu Wan, listened to the request of a ceremony officer who did not know where to find him, and mechanically knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, offering sacrifices to the emperor, queen soil, and the god of war Chi You.

According to the ceremonial official, according to different needs, the ancient eight gods should be sacrificed at different times.

The first is the Lord of Heaven, whose shrine is Tianqi; the second is the Lord of the Land, whose shrine is Taishan and Liangfu; the third is the Lord of Soldiers, whose shrine is Chiyou; Donglai Mountain; on the seventh day, the Lord of the Sun, the Lord of the Shrine; on the eighth day, the Lord of the Four Seasons, the Lord of the Temple of Langye.

Chi You is the master of the army. Before the big battle, he will sacrifice to pray for auspiciousness.

Well, even though Chi You himself is a loser...

Under the altar, Liu Ying, who was holding a pot of fresh blood with a pungent smell, heard the cadence of the ritual officer's voice, and judged that this guy should be a Qi person.

The vessel he holds in his hand is called 'bean', and the fresh blood contained in it is 'blood food'.

After a while, the prostration above the altar ended, and Liu Ying brought the blood food to the altar step by step, and handed it to Liu Bang, and then he offered it to Chi You, the soldier lord.

Amidst the deafening drumbeat, Liu Ying stood aside, watching the people on the altar continue to kneel three times and nine times.

If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight... After Liu Ying and Liu Bang looked at each other, they looked away, a little thankful that he has not been canonized as a prince at this moment, otherwise he would not be able to escape today's torture.

After a while, the sacrifice was completed.

After Liu Bang changed into a military uniform, he began to appoint generals for this battle.

Han Xin is still the general, leading the army together with him, and Zhou Bo, Cao Shen and others are awarded the official title of general, but there is only one person who makes Liu Ying a little strange.

Chen Xu.

Liu Ying touched Fan Kui with her shoulder, and asked in a low voice, "Who is Chen Xu? Why haven't I seen him?"

Fan Kui replied in a low voice, "This man was lent by Xiang Liang to the King of Han. Xiang Liang stayed after his death in battle. He is withdrawn, but he still has some skills in fighting."

Liu Ying was stunned, no wonder he hadn't seen him much, his background determined that he would not get close to the group of Peixian people under Liu Bang.

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In Guanzhong and Duxian County, the military tents are several miles away.

In the handsome tent, Zhang Han, who was wearing a black robe and a crown on his head, sat cross-legged, with a large map spread out in front of him.

This is a map of the former Qin State before it unified the world, and it marked the roads from Guanzhong to Hanzhong in detail.

Outside the tent, a young man walked in, cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, Sima Xin still doesn't want to come."

Zhang Han raised his head, looked at the young man's face that was four or five points similar to him, and said with a smile: "How many times have I said that in this case, I should call you big brother."

The person who came was none other than his own brother, Zhang Ping.

Zhang Ping shook his head and said, "Courtesy cannot be discarded. Since the elder brother has already been crowned king, the title must be changed."

Zhang Han shook his head slightly, he didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore: "If you don't come, don't come, with our army's strength, it is enough to stop Liu Bang from going north!"

He looked at the road drawn on the map: "I received a secret report a month ago, saying that the Han army had mobilized tens of thousands of people to rush to repair the plank road... Why did you go there earlier? Now I can't stand the desolation of Hanzhong, so I want to rebuild the plank road. Ha ha!"

Zhang Ping on the side whispered: "Although that is the case, I still have to guard against it. What if he is trying to confuse our army and intends to enter the customs from other places? Liu Bang is very cunning, Your Majesty must not take it lightly!"

Zhang Han raised his head and smiled: "Then why do you think Gu stationed his troops here? This place is the exit of Ziwu Road. The terrain is dangerous. Although there is no grand pass, it is also a pass where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it."

"As for the plank road? Gu has already arranged manpower there, and when he is almost done repairing, I will set him on fire!"

Zhang Ping nodded in admiration. He thought that Zhang Han stayed here all the time to prevent Sima Xin from sending his troops westward, but he didn't expect to have such a serious intention.

In this way, as early as when Liu Bang burned the plank road, his elder brother began to prevent him from going north.

Looking at the open map, Zhang Ping frowned slightly:

"Your Majesty, what if the Han army enters Guanzhong via the old road instead of the Meridian Road and Plank Road?"

Zhang Han was stunned suddenly: "Probably not, it has been abandoned for decades..."

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(End of this chapter)