Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 9 Pastoral Life in the Western Han Dynasty

In the military camp at the foot of Lishan Mountain.

Li Huan was awakened by a loud noise. After getting dressed and walking out of the military tent, he saw many people coming from nowhere.

On Cuihua's side, after hearing the sound of Li Huan walking out of the military tent, she also hurriedly followed.

She didn't seem to be awake yet. After yawning, she covered her mouth in fear.

"Cuihua, these people outside the military camp..."

"Reporting to the master, judging from their clothes, these people seem to be official craftsmen."

"Official craftsman?"

"They are the official craftsmen who are responsible for building your courtyard here." Huo Qubing rode his horse, with the morning dew still on his body, and ran up to Li Huan.

"So, I have received the reward His Majesty gave me?"

Huo Qubing got off his horse, and a servant behind him immediately handed over a wooden box.

He held it around his waist and opened it: "You settled in Chang'an, this is your identity document, please keep it.

In addition, there is Cuihua’s identity deed. "

Li Huan unfolded the bamboo slips and glanced at it a few times, with a hint of joy in his eyes.

This also means that from now on, I can be regarded as a genuine common man.

"The people who surveyed the land of a thousand acres will come here later. After the measurement is completed, they will knock down the stone tablets..."

"The land deed documents have been drawn up and put away together."

Huo Qubing looked at the craftsmen in front of him who were quickly clearing away weeds and shrubs:

"I'm afraid it will take a month or two to repair the building."

"Don't worry, as long as you have a good house to live in, you don't have to worry about delays. But who is responsible for building this house?
What do you plan to cultivate into? "

Huo Qubing didn't answer, but just asked: "You really don't want to go to Jiaofangsi to buy people and farm the land?

Your Majesty has given you a lot of rewards this time, enough for you to buy a hundred or so people to come back to farm. "

"Otherwise, you alone will not be able to plant so much land."

Li Huan felt that Huo Qubing had a strong obsession with buying people:

“Is it illegal to have land that is deserted?”

"How can I, a big man, have such rules?"

Huo Qubing was happy and handed the wooden box to Cuihua on the side:
"But since so much land has been given to you, it's really barren. It can't be justified."

"Wait and see." Li Huan didn't want to go to Jiaofangsi. Yesterday's experience gave him a nightmare when he came back from his dream at midnight.

I dreamed that I was treated by Emperor Liu Che as a piece of Huns' work, tied to a pillar, and beaten to death with a red-hot iron and a whip dipped in cold water...

"That's okay. It's your land anyway. If you don't plow it, can I still do it?"

Huo Qubing asked, "What do you want your house to look like?"

"Wait, are you responsible?"

"You are right, I am responsible for this matter."

Huo Qubing grinned: "My uncle said that building houses is actually the same thing as marching and setting up formations. It is a test of one's overall concept."

Li Huan shook his head and said, "If you don't mind, I think I can draw the design myself..."

For Li Huan to build a complex forest garden building, he naturally does not have the ability.

But if you ask him to draw a design, where to design a pavilion and where to design a pavilion.

Where to design a garden or a pond or something like that.

That's much easier.Huo Qubing seemed to have thought of something and laughed: "I don't mind at all!"

Li Huan wanted to make paper immediately.

Although making paper is not difficult, it does take a certain amount of time.

He also needed to build a workshop before he could make paper.

Therefore, the paper mill next to the river became Li Huan's first design drawing.

Huo Qubing felt that such a house was not only not suitable for drinking and eating meat together with the soldiers, but it was also too small for discussing military affairs together.

Especially the digging of a pond and the construction of a fire chamber made him even more elusive as to what a place like this could be used for.
There were [-] craftsmen who were clearing away bushes and weeds, and [-] people were divided into them. In one afternoon, they had already built the papermaking workshop designed by Li Huan!
This astonishing speed almost made Li Huan, who was making buns, almost drop his jaw.

The venison buns instantly made Huo Qubing feel that everything he had eaten before was shit.

He also immediately understood why Li Huan always asked if he could cook for himself when he was trapped in the post house...

"Brother Huan, why does this stuff taste so delicious? After eating one, do you want ten more?"

"Food should be a mixture of various ingredients in certain proportions."

Li Huan leaned on a wooden chair by the stream. He found a carpenter and described it in a few words.

The carpenter immediately made three large wooden chairs that were extremely comfortable.

Cuihua added some dried tea leaves to the boiling water cauldron on one side.

This is also Li Huan's request.

In Li Huan's eyes, tea in this era was eaten as a heavy-flavored snack.

Li Huan naturally doesn't have this preference, he still likes to make tea and drink it.

Huo Qubing originally had no idea about this, but when he saw Li Huan taking a few sips of hot tea, he lay half-lying on a big wooden chair to bask in the sunset with a look of enjoyment on his face.

He couldn't help but imitate Li Huan and took a few sips of the hot tea juice.

Then the whole person's face first showed a strange expression, and then gradually became like Li Huan, half-lying with a look of enjoyment on his face.

It was also at this time that the men who surveyed and measured the land arrived.

These people walked into the dense old forest without saying a word, and were suddenly surprised to see many birds and animals living in the forest.

After Huo Qubing heard the news, he immediately issued an order for all the soldiers to go into the woods and shoot all the wild beasts that could hurt people!

Li Huan soaked his feet in the stream and watched the soldiers with their bodies covered with arrows. Like hedgehogs, they lifted out the wild boar that was still alive and dropped it on a thick wooden pole on the side.

Then there were various birds, pheasants, and hares that Li Huan had seen or never seen before.

Even...a tiger!

That tiger cannot die anymore.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Cuihua pulled out a total of 160 seven arrows from the tiger's terrifying body!
There are 53 arrows in the head alone!

Some of the arrowheads were stuck in the bones and could not be pulled out. The soldiers on the side used daggers to pry them out.

"What a pity! What a pity. If the fur had not been damaged, I could have peeled it off and presented it to His Majesty."

Huo Qubing held up the tiger skin that had been shot like a hornet's nest, his face full of heartache:
"Brother Huan, I should have led the team in. These bastards were already frightened when they saw the tiger.

My usual teachings to them were all in vain. How could a group of armored warriors be afraid of a lone tiger?

No matter how ferocious the tiger is, he is still a beast..."

Facing the chattering Huo Qubing, the soldiers' faces were full of worry and they were afraid of being punished.

Li Huan knelt down and patted the fishy tiger meat:
"Tell me, what do you want to eat? Brother will cook it for you!"

(End of this chapter)