Destiny Only Han

Chapter 234 Laver Egg Drop Soup

In March of Yangchun, the grass grows and the eagle flies.

On the vast plains to the north of the great river, everything was revived, and the melting ice and snow flowed from the streams that snaked from the mountains.

On the green grass, accompanied by the sound of the golden drum, thousands of horses are galloping, and the shouts are earth-shattering.

This is not a battle, but a hunt.

Although spring is the season for animal reproduction, it is reasonable to say that hunting should not be done.

But in this era when there are more beasts than humans, only by killing those beasts who dare to mix with humans, the grains sown by humans will not be ruined by them.

Especially wild boar.

No matter the speed of reproduction or the speed of smashing crops, this big guy is unmatched by other animals.

Moreover, the wild boar has a strong temper and impressive combat power. It is one of the few beasts that does not run away when it sees people, and even launches an attack on its own initiative.

Therefore, hunting at this time can not only train soldiers, but also reduce the losses caused by wild beasts invading farmland.

At this moment, Liu Ying was riding on a pony that was about the same height as her own, and followed Han Xin and the others to eat ashes...

If he had known this earlier, he would have stayed at home and slept.

The so-called spring is sleepy, autumn is exhausted, summer is dozing, and winter and March are sleepless.

Therefore, this winter is reluctant to part, and the season of spring is coming quietly, plus there is no need to get up to listen to the old master's class, it is a good time to sleep late.

But there is no way, this hunting is actually his suggestion.

And the main participants in the hunt, those groaning, fur-clad, dark-complexioned, small and thin guys, were the nomads of Lou Fan and Lin Hu recruited by Liu Ying from the northern generation.

In other words, these more than 6000 people are actually equivalent to his personal soldiers.

If the family members of these nomads are counted, the population directly controlled by Liu Ying is about 5 people.

This really made Han Xin, who had tugged with Xiang Yu's hair for a long time a while ago, but in the end no one took advantage of the other, was envious.

Without him, this is actually money ability.

When it comes to deposits, Liu Ying's money is not even as good as Han Xin, who has only been a general for two years.

After all, the opponent successively conquered the Western Wei Dynasty, Dai State, and Zhao State, and captured countless gold and silver treasures.

This period is different from the era when "everything captured must be returned to the public". After the city is broken, usually [-]% of the money in the treasury is used to reward the first soldiers and other meritorious soldiers.

As for the remaining half, it was divided among the leading generals, and the remaining very small part was handed over to the imperial court symbolically.

But for the country, these floating wealth are nothing, and the land and population are the chickens that lay the golden eggs.

This is also the reason why Xiao He is unwilling to abandon Zhao Di.

As for Liu Ying, since she came to Zhao land in person, she would naturally not let go of this god-given opportunity to wantonly embezzle state-owned assets...

Well, these things can be called unowned things in a certain sense. They should be taken or not, and when others take them, there is no place to cry!

After getting rich, Liu Ying and Xiao He, who cooperated with each other tacitly, began to build large-scale construction projects in Zhaodi.

Specifically, engineers from Liyang were sent to various places to survey the terrain and select sites to build ponds and irrigation canals.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, especially Xiao He once worked as a local official, and he has a deep understanding of the operation of the grassroots of the Qin State.

In the rules he formulated, the regulations of Qin State were followed.

When building a project, it is usually necessary for the engineer to calculate the quantity of the project, the number of corvees that need to be collected, and the number of days for construction. Only after these data are verified and correct can the construction start.

In this way, the waste of manpower is avoided, and the allocation of food and materials is facilitated.

But to levy corvee, it is necessary to understand the people in the jurisdiction.

For example, how many people are there in each household, how many fields are there, and when the project starts, who will go first and who will go later.

Therefore, since the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising, the Zhao land, which had been in turmoil, ushered in order for the first time.

Official positions such as county magistrate, township stinger, Youqian, pavilion chief, and Lizheng were appointed one by one.

People say that in ancient China, the imperial power has always been in the county. This sentence is not entirely true. At least during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the central government could directly govern the administrative units at the township level.

In fact, in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty, the imperial power also came down to the county.

However, during the Wanli period, after fighting with the ministers and losing the wind, in order to disgust the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, Wanli did not go to court, nor did he criticize memorials, especially did not appoint vacant officials.

Therefore, the imperial power will not go down to the county.

After all, if the county magistrate, who is a floating official, is not around, it must be the local gentry who dominates local affairs.

Therefore, Batulu, the first in the Qing Dynasty, hung up the southeast branch with tears in his eyes...

After all, when it comes to the number of powerful generals and famous officials who killed the Ming Dynasty, there is no match in the world like Huaizong of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhang Er knew what Liu Ying and Xiao He were doing, but he was indifferent.

The reason is very simple. Liu Bang has written a letter to him, promising to canonize him as the King of Zhao, and urging him to go south as soon as possible to hold the Xiangwang Grand Ceremony with him.

As far as Han Xin is concerned, he wants Liu Bang to make Zhang Er the king of Zhao, not in collusion with the other party, but because he wants to get a safe rear to support his attack on Zhao and conquer Yan to destroy Qi. , and finally Xiangxi and Liu Bang attacked Xiang Yu's grand strategy together.

At this time, although Han Xin was eager for the title, he had no intention of becoming a king on his own.

So he is actually happy to see the restoration of order in Zhaodi.

If you want to attack Qi on a large scale and destroy this eastern power in one battle, you must have [-] soldiers!
But to mobilize one hundred thousand troops, the amount of food, grass and materials needed is a huge number.

It is unrealistic to rely on transshipment of all these things from Guanzhong.

Under the mountains and rivers, the loss on the road alone must be more than half!
Therefore, it is necessary to have a stable supply rear in the land of Yanzhao.

Well, Yan has completely surrendered.

Zang Tu, King of Yan, was unequivocal. After agreeing to submit to Liu Bang, he not only went to Xingyang to meet Liu Bang, but also recruited 2 people to go south to join Han Xin's command sequence after returning to Yandi.

And this is also the reason why Han Xin dared to confront Xiang Yu directly across a big river in the early days.

The pony that Liu Ying is riding now is the meeting gift Zang Tu gave him.

This is a plaything that Zang Tu got from the people of Liaodong.

This kind of horse is the kind of pony that was later called Guoxia horse during the Han Dynasty.

Although Guo Xia's horse is only three or four feet tall and weighs less than two hundred catties, his center of gravity is very stable and his strength is also great. His four short legs are upside down and he can run very fast.

Compared with Han Xin and others, Liu Ying can ride a horse, but that's all. In order not to let himself fall off the horse, he specially prepared stirrups and saddles for himself.

The former was a ring made of wood, just enough for him to step on with his foot.

As for the saddle, in fact, this period already existed, but it was just an ordinary saddle, not the high bridge saddle used by cavalry later.

In order not to expose such untechnical things, Liu Ying deliberately picked a dress with a long hem.

In this way, when he was riding, the clothes completely covered everything.

And riding side by side with those Han Xin Guanying and others who are more than seven feet tall and sitting on a tall horse with a shoulder height of six feet, Liu Ying's head only reaches their waist, and she is not worried about being spotted by them at all. .

Among the galloping horses, the pheasants, rabbits, foxes and other animals hidden in the grass were frightened and began to run around in a panic.

Liu Ying was twirling a soft bow in her hand, frequently making gestures to shoot.

Well, just pretending.

Not to mention that riding and shooting requires several years of training, but the soft bow in his hand and the arrows he shoots are nothing more than scratching those little animals...

So this hunting, in fact, still depends on those recruited nomadic Huqi.

Cao Shen, as a former Qin official, was not bad in infantry, and his accuracy in riding and shooting was almost the same as that of Liu Ying.

As for Han Xin, if he had the money and strength to train riding and shooting, he wouldn't have slipped under other people's crotch...

When the sun is high, both people and horses seem sleepy.

So everyone sat on the ground, packed wild things and prepared to eat.

After Liu Ying directed his attendants to set up a pot to boil water, he took some other greeting gifts from Zang Tu from the carriage.

Seaweed, kelp.

These things that filled the shelves of supermarkets in later generations are still out-and-out rarities in this era.

There is no other reason. These products are not actually made in China.

In particular, kelp, which mainly grew in the Hokkaido area at this time, was the product of local Ainu people fishing in the sea.

The cultivation of kelp in China began around [-]s, and it became a memory of a generation. It was only after the founding of the People's Republic of China that it began to vigorously promote it in order to obtain iodine for industrial use.

In this regard, Liu Ying decided to let this kind of thing appear in the streets and alleys of the Han Dynasty thousands of years in advance.

As a landlocked country, this not only provides a flavor, but also can add a little iodine to the human body to avoid goiter, that is, the appearance of big neck disease.

Well, people in later generations have a rich diet, even if they are not in coastal areas, they are not deficient in iodine.

As a result, many people have hyperthyroidism...

After a while, the water pot boiled, and Liu Ying melted the starch obtained from the chicken head rice, that is, the Gorgon seed, and prepared to make a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup for herself.

Lu Zhi once told him repeatedly when he was parting that he must take care of himself when he was away from home.

Liu Ying took this very seriously, so he loaded his convoy with ingredients that were difficult to obtain from other places.

The reason why Liu Ying used the pot, but only made a bowl for herself, was because an old hooligan who relied on her and Liu Ying's relatives had already sat there with a bowl and waited.

Yes, Cao Shen.

He was Liu Fei's cousin, and because of this, he later became the Prime Minister of Qi.

Liu Ying glanced at Han Xin, who was imitating the example, and felt emotional in her heart. Soon, because of beating Han Xin, he, the left prime minister of the Han Kingdom, will become the seemingly mediocre, but actually downgraded Zhao Xiangguo.

ps: I just learned that there will be a limited exemption on the 18th, so the update will be moved to that time.

Well, save some if you can...

(End of this chapter)