Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 159 Meng Ying: Establish a Document!

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Qin II, the emperor's motorcade stopped at Duting in the west of Xianyang.

Along the way, except for 1 soldiers who were good at riding and shooting, the rest of the [-] troops who were reviewed had already returned home with rewards.

Under the leadership of Li Shang, more than ten thousand Yue people bravely left the brigade and arrived at the south of the Wei River, where they worked as laborers to build houses for their female relatives who were still on the way.

According to the law of the Qin Dynasty, if the household has more than two dings, regardless of division, the tax will be doubled.

Therefore, the newly built settlement of Yue people will be a large settlement with tens of thousands of households.

Fusu named it Xialing County because Fusu's grandparent, Empress Dowager Xia, was buried in the mausoleum there.

In addition, he was also worried that the county magistrate appointed by the imperial court might have difficulties in communicating with the Yue people, so the candidate for the county magistrate was a Sima from another department who followed Li Shang to the south.

The other officials in the county were dispatched from the government office by Wang He, the internal historian.

Well, when the two-person big saw is ready, it happens to use the miscellaneous trees growing near Xialing to do experiments... Fusu looked at the muddy Weishui, and felt that the time was just right. In spring, the mulberry trees sprouted, and people taught Yue Nv how to raise silkworms.

It's just that when he turned around and looked at Meng Ying, who stood guarding him with a helmet on his head and a knife in his hand, his good mood suddenly disappeared.

According to Tian Ji, the first emperor intended to marry Ying Yinman to this little black face, but they were still young at that time, and Fusu and Meng Tian were all in the Jiuyuan Army at the time, so this idea was shelved .

In the past two days, the little black face has also implicitly stated that between him and Ying Yinman, it seems that there is really love between men and women.

It's just that the little black face is a few years older than Ying Yinman, his mother (a kind of kinship relationship), this is also a lolita who grew up!
So Fusu felt uncomfortable, he cast a sideways glance at the little black face and said: "Meng Ying, people say that a good man has ambitions everywhere."

"So do you think, should you go to Nanhai County to make contributions, or go to Liaodong County to make contributions? Or do you want to go to Minzhong County?"

With a helpless expression on her face, Meng Ying clasped her fists in salute and said: "Your Majesty, I swear once again that I will only marry Yunyang in this life and never take concubines!"

O man's mouth, deceitful ghost!There may not be a god if you look up three feet, but I am the son of heaven... Fusu looked at Mengying for a while, and said threateningly: "You said this, I will remember it."

"When Ying Yinman turns 16, I will give you marriages again!"

In fact, he originally wanted to wait until after his own sister, but considering the current environment, he changed it to 16 years old.

Meng Ying was overjoyed, knelt down and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fusu smiled coldly: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me, I have conditions. If you can't do it, the gift of marriage will not count!"

As soon as his words fell, not only Meng Ying's face collapsed, but Ying Yinman's roar came from the carriage behind him, but Tian Ji suppressed it immediately.

Seeing that Meng Ying happened to be kneeling on the ground, Fu Su said directly: "Appoint Meng Ying as the school captain, with a rank higher than a thousand stones, lead the Qimen army, and station in Zhangtai Palace!"

"My condition is that after two years, any soldier in the Qimen Army will become a qualified cavalry general!"

Meng Ying clasped her fists and said loudly: "The last general will not disgrace his life!"

This is why Fusu chose Liang Jiazi, who is good at riding and shooting, to join the Qimen Army.

It takes two years to train three to five thousand qualified junior officers, and then a cavalry regiment of 10 people can be easily formed.

What Fusu had to do was to prepare enough weapons, armor and war horses for them.

The former is easy to handle. Next month, the Shaofu will be able to gather the engineers Fusu needs. By then, a sub-mine will be opened in Yiyang County, which already has a certain iron smelting foundation, and the steel output should be easily doubled.

And the war horse?

Fusu glanced at Hu Shang, who was riding on a camel at the end of the convoy, and felt that the problem of the horses needed to be solved by them!

There is no rush for sweat horses and Arabian horses. After all, the breeding work of stallions is calculated on a ten-year basis.

What Fusu wanted was the alfalfa that spread to Dawan with Alexander's Eastern Expedition!

This is a rare good thing!
Not to mention that this is a high-quality pasture, rich in protein, which can be used to feed horses, mules, cattle and sheep.

Well, people can eat it too!
Most importantly, this is a saline-alkali tolerant plant, and it can effectively improve saline-alkali land!
For example, in many places north of Taiyuan County, due to the problem of annual precipitation and soil salinization, grain production has not been high.

With alfalfa, it is completely possible to rotate naked oats and alfalfa, which not only improves the soil, but also develops animal husbandry with relatively high profits.

And if there are more livestock, there will be more manure, the soil will be fertile, the yield per mu will increase, and then more livestock can be raised!
In this way, a virtuous circle is formed.

And other counties can also do the same, using the land in the field to grow alfalfa, which can not only be eaten as a vegetable, but also used to feed cattle.

As for the camels brought by the Hu merchants, Fusu actually intended to buy them forcibly, but considering the face of the empire, he gave up.

Anyway, merchants are chasing profits, and Hu merchants have made profits in Qin this time, and they will inevitably form a larger camel caravan next time.

Why worry about not being able to get a camel by then!

After all, the strategic defense he is now adopting is only for powerful threats and sufficient profits.

The camel's ability is strong because it can pass through desert areas without roads. When it comes to along the built roads, the carrying capacity of camels is at best similar to that of donkey carts.

There is a waterway between Jincheng County and Guanzhong, so there is no shortage of transport capacity. The camel caravan that Fusu wants to form is for future exploration of the Western Regions.

The map in his mind is a road map for self-driving tours. Although it roughly coincides with the roads of more than 2000 years, what kind of country and customs are there along the way? What matters is what kind of raw materials can be provided for Daqin, and become These Fusu don't know what kind of goods are dumped.

For a moment, Fusu had the pleasure of playing games about exploring the afterlife.

But this is also normal. In his opinion, Zhang Qian's feat of hollowing out the Western Regions during the Han Wu period can be regarded as the first great geographical discovery in human history!

But this time, the leaders are Chinese.

The only pity is that the great geographic discoveries that started from the ocean were not led by the Chinese.

Since then, Huaxia has slowly fallen behind the Western world, and finally has a hundred years of shame!

It's just that for Fusu now, the marine affairs can be put aside first.

The first thing he needs to solve is the muddy Weishui in front of him.

Legend has it that Lord Shang once said that the soup of the Weishui River was safe in Qin Dynasty, and it could be described as a god-sent water.

But in Fusu's view, the Wei River at this time can only be used for irrigation, but it is no longer suitable for navigation.

Without him, the silt content is too high, so there is a saying in the Book of Songs that "the Jing is turbid, but it is the same".

(End of this chapter)