Destiny Only Han

Chapter 548 Liu Ying: Traveling through time, and then planting Haloxylon trees in the desert...

Taiyuan County.

Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed.

Liu Bang originally wanted to take the first [-] soldiers from Hanoi County and Sanchuan County to rescue Mayi City, which was once again besieged by the Huns, but the sudden heavy snow made him temporarily cancel this plan.

The reason is simple, not enough winter clothes.

The cold clothes such as shit hats and cotton jackets that were hoarded in the Chang'an treasury before were given priority to the West Route Army led by Liu Ying. After all, the West Route Army most of the time needs to eat and sleep in the open, and fight the enemy in the wilderness. The priority is natural higher.

Well, there is another reason, that is, father's love is speechless.

Although Liu Bang is a scumbag father, he still has some conscience. Many privileges of the West Route Army were specially approved under his silent instruction.

As for the Central Route Army, they are fighting a defensive war. There are densely populated towns and towns everywhere on the march. As long as you have money, it will be a matter of time to raise enough winter clothes.

The reason why Liu Bang was not in a hurry to help Mayi City was that this was the second time Han Wangxin had been besieged by the Huns.

The so-called first-time life and second-time cooking, the Xiongnu’s siege skills have not improved qualitatively, but under the management of Han Wangxin in the past few years, Mayi City has not only widened the moat again, but also built a grain depot in the city that is enough for all the soldiers and civilians to feed for a year. , and facilities such as culverts and wells are also readily available.

The most important thing is that the two sides frequently use carrier pigeons to transmit news. Liu Bang knows the dynamics of Mayicheng, and Han Wangxin also knows the dynamics of the Han army, so everyone is very confident, and no one will make a foolish move. Behavior.

Liu Bang stood at the top of the city and looked at it for a while, seeing heavy snow flakes falling in front of him, and the dark clouds in the sky were as dark as lead. It was obvious that the snow would not stop for a while.

So he tightened the bearskin cloak on his body, and walked down the city silently, preparing to inspect the military camp outside the city accompanied by Fan Kuai Xia Houying, and he will live in the military camp tonight.

Well, the reason why he doesn't want to live in Taiyuan County is actually very simple, it's too crowded here.

It's not that there are many people, but that there are many cows!

Although the river valleys around Mayi City are fertile, due to the difficulty in opening up wasteland in the early stage, there are too many rocks in places slightly away from the river, and weeds and shrubs grow again in the spring breeze, which cannot grow the uncompetitive wheat and corn, so the crops planted , mainly the kind of rye that can kill weeds...

After all, the root system of rye is extremely developed. Even in arid areas with less water, it can still absorb water. Even most weeds can hardly compete with rye for nutrients. It is one of the few crops that can thrive without large-scale herbicides!

It is said that in the past, when European farmers were overwhelmed by weeds, as long as they planted rye before winter, there would be nothing but rye in the field in the next spring...

So not only the river valleys around Mayi City, but also many newly opened farmlands in Taiyuan County are planted with rye.

Not for people to eat, but for cattle.

Agricultural production is inseparable from such large animals, and raising cattle is more profitable than simply farming. The cattle that are crowded in Taiyuan County are not farming cattle and beef cattle, but dairy cows that need to be milked every day.

Liu Ying signed a business contract with Han Wangxin before, agreeing to purchase the other party's dairy products without restriction. After all, there are millions of the richest people in the entire Han Empire gathered around Chang'an City, and the consumption of meat, eggs and milk is a bottomless pit.

Therefore, under the stimulation of altruism and the pursuit of higher returns, many graduates of the Dahan Public School of Agriculture were "decoyed" by Han Wang's credit officials and high salaries to Korea, and were responsible for breeding cows with higher milk production...

Well, this is actually an instinct engraved in the genes of farming peoples. When they plant crops, they will deliberately tie ribbons on those plants with larger ears and more grains, so as to distinguish these days when harvesting. Chosen Son.

But at the beginning, this kind of chosen son was used as auspicious, to show the feudal dynasty's abundant virtues and blessings from heaven, so many places have names such as "Jiahe" and "Jiaxing".

But more often, this is a method used to select seed grains.

Although the ancients didn't know any theories of genetics and genes, everyone knew the simple theory that "dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and rats beget holes".

And this theory is also applied to livestock, such as the Taihu pig known as the "National Treasure". On the one hand, the meat is delicious, but the key is to be able to give birth. It can give birth to several piglets at a time compared with other breeds of pigs...

Therefore, the standard for breeding cows is the size of the production organs. For this reason, Liu Ying specially asked the merchants who went to the Western Regions to issue a reward order to reward those merchants who came from countries further west in the Western Regions to sell cattle.

After all, the image of gray and white cows in later generations is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the cows bred by the Dutch are also descendants of European aurochs.

Well, aurochs are the ancestors of all domestic cattle except for Javanese cattle, large-faced oxen, yaks and buffaloes. They were once distributed in the north of the entire Eurasian continent, from France in the west and North Korea in the east. In 1627, the last aurochs Cattle died of natural causes in Poland before the species was declared extinct.

Because of this, Han Wangxin sent his precious lumps to a safer rear as soon as the flames of war ignited, registered them door to door, and forced the people of the country to 'adopt a cow'...

However, this is a good thing for the soldiers of the Han army who came from the five counties of the Central Plains one after another. As long as they spend a little money, they can realize the freedom of fresh milk.

So when Liu Bang's carriage arrived at the military camp outside the city, he found the fragrance of milk overflowing, which made him miss the extravagant life in Chang'an City.

Milk rub...

Well, I just pour milk on my body when I take a bath, and then find two tall and strong men to rub the loofah on my body violently.

So, he looked at Xia Houying: "Is there a hot spring nearby?"

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In the south of Linhe County (now Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia), it is called Ulanbu and the edge of the desert in later generations.

During this period, the eastward expansion of the desert was not serious, and there were oases and small puddles formed by clumps of plants everywhere as far as the eye could see, but it was winter now, so it looked extraordinarily desolate.

Liu Ying sat in the handsome tent, discussing the next military action with Han Xin, Zhou Bo and others while warming up by the fire.

The news of the [-] troops going out of the fortress cannot be concealed. Although scouts and horses are everywhere on this road, sweeping up the winter camps of the Huns, it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net. Presumably they are besieging the King of White Sheep and Lou in Shangjun. Fan Wang and others already knew the movements of the Han army.

Therefore, the focus of the discussion at this moment is who to fight next.

Going north to recover Linhe County and recapturing Gaoquesai, which was occupied and damaged by the Huns, is equivalent to having a fulcrum for sending troops to the Monan Grassland, which can attack the Youxian King's tribe who hates the Han people the most among the Huns.

This is Han Xin's suggestion.

His idea is to let Lin Zhi of Shangjun support for a while longer, and then the main force of the West Route Army will go out to defeat the right and wise king's tribe in the first battle, cut off one arm of the Huns, and alleviate the Huns' counterattack when they build the Great Wall in the north in the future .

However, Liu Ying believes that food needs to be eaten one bite at a time. The current top priority is to recover the entire Hetao area south of Yinshan Mountain, and then join forces with Liu Bang's Middle Route Army to push the border to Wuquan County in Yunzhong County, that is, The Hohhot area of ​​later generations.

Although Han Xin's plan was good, Liu Ying didn't know the movements of King Youxian's tribe. In this season when the mountains were covered by heavy snow, it was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find a winter camp for the Huns on the vast grassland.

The important thing is that Liu Bang is facing the main force of the Huns. Liu Ying is really worried that this old guy will do something wrong, such as the reappearance of the "Siege of Baideng" yesterday...

So, maybe he will regret it in the future, but now he still rudely rejected Han Xin's proposal and let Zhou Bo, Jin She and others prepare the plan to attack Linhe County.

After a while, after Jin She and the others left, Liu Ying changed her smiling face, and went to Han Xin, who was sulking with her arms folded, and handed over an ebony box in her hand: "I dug it yesterday, and I gave it to you... Anyway I can't use it now."

Han Xin snorted coldly, took the box with a proud face, opened it, looked at the bad shape inside, and frowned: "What is this?"

"Cistanche!" Liu Ying raised her eyebrows with a wretched expression, "You know..."

Han Xin was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that he wanted to throw it away, but he closed the box silently and handed it to the attendant standing behind him.

The elder dare not say goodbye!
Although he is older than Liu Ying, Liu Ying is the prince of the Han Empire and the future emperor after all, so this is a reward!

Well, it's not for nourishing kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood!
Seeing the obvious change in Han Xin's expression, Liu Ying poked Han Xin with her elbow, and said in a low voice, "I have an idea of ​​getting rich, do you want to listen?"

Han Xin was stunned for a moment, and a flattering smile appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously. When he was a bachelor, he used to be a moonlight clan. He spent a lot of money. Now that he has a family, he is more and more stretched. This is why although he is reluctant, he still follows The reason why Liu Ying conquered the Xiongnu in the north.

For a guy like him who is not good at managing the family business and is also a political idiot, leading the army to fight is the only choice to make a fortune.

So, he gently grabbed the corner of Liu Ying's clothes, for fear that he would run away, but he still had an indifferent expression on his face: "Anyway, there is nothing right now, so let's talk about it..."

Pretend to be a girl... Liu Ying complained in her heart, but pointed to the ebony box and said, "Do you think this kind of thing will sell well if it is shipped back to China?"

Han Xin waved his hand to dismiss the attendants in the tent, and nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, the meaning behind his words was self-evident.

"Since there is a market, instead of digging all over the mountains and plains, let's just find a piece of land to plant!"

Liu Ying said bewitchingly: "According to my observation, this kind of treasure grows on the roots of a plant called Haloxylon, so let's plant trees in the desert..."

Without waiting for Han Xin to question, Zhang Busu, who 'coincidentally' passed by, came in: "Count me in, count me in... If the Marquis of Huaiyin doesn't want to, let us do it!"

So, Han Xin began to panic...

(End of this chapter)