Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 800
In the end, the wind and snow did not obey people's wishes and endured for a while, and soon huge snowflakes flew all over the sky.However, at this moment, the wind and snow were not enough to block the way, because Shen Zhezi joined in, the whole team was filled with a warm atmosphere.

When Shen Zhezi said that he would continue to move forward and arrive at the fortress outside Shouchun City before nightfall, a series of high-pitched promises erupted in the ranks. The tone of the tone even made Shen Zhezi suspect that what the soldiers were thinking at this moment was not against the wind. Snow will have to travel another distance, but will have to cross the Huai River to fight a fierce battle.But from this, he can also feel the lofty prestige he now has in the minds of these soldiers in Jiangdong, even if the pain of the wind and snow hits his face, it is also regarded as a small encouragement.

Shen Zhezi rode along beside Princess Xingnan's car, and the princess sat on her knees in front of the car door, opened the curtain and looked at him like that, her pretty face was rosy and charming from the wind and snow, and her lips moved slightly.He frowned slightly, stepped forward and raised his hand to press the smooth forehead to push the girl into the carriage, but after moving forward for a while, the curtain of the carriage was lifted again, revealing that pretty face of happiness and anger again. Han Bochen stared at him.

Seeing this, Shen Zhezi simply got off the horse and got on the carriage to hold the reins himself. Behind his ears, he heard a slight noise in the carriage. A moment later, Princess Xingnan was already wearing a hood, wrapped her fur clothes tightly, and walked out of the carriage with her waist bent and sat beside Shen Zhezi. Beside him, he placed the warm copper stove in his arms in front of his knees.

"No matter how willful you are, if you catch the wind and cold, don't blame me for sending you across the river immediately."

Shen Zhezi raised his hand to block the wind and snow, and said to the princess sideways.

"I'm not coming here this time. I'm carrying the imperial edict of my mother on me. You can't yell at me to drive me away!"

After hearing this, Princess Xingnan raised her hood and lay down next to Shen Zhezi's ear, laughing and said, the cold wind blew her temples and brushed her red face, and she had a sassy beauty that seemed to blend into the environment.

"Go back to the carriage and stay honestly. I will accompany you on an outing to enjoy the scenery of Huai River until the snow clears."

Shen Zhezi picked up the girl sideways and threw her into the carriage, and ordered Cui Ling to wait for a few ladies to guard the princess and let her settle down. Then he sat back on the royal seat and walked forward against the wind.Although he didn't deliberately pursue sharing joys and sorrows with the soldiers in the army, he never treated himself too much. This is also a kind of tempering for himself. What kind of training.

The wind and snow came fiercely, and it took nearly half of the time to complete the last part of the journey. The thick blankets on the horses pulling the cart were even frozen, and they finally arrived at the fortress outside the city.It was hard work for Princess Yijia and his party to travel through the wind and snow, but it was not easy for the villages and clans who stayed in the fortress.Originally, they could stay in the fort to avoid the cold wind, but when the heavy snow fell, the amount of snow on their shoulders could tell whether their attitude was sincere.So one by one stood in the wind and snow, and it was really hard to endure, and finally hoped that Yijia would enter the fortress.

This fort is not small in scale and can accommodate thousands of people.At this time, a raging bonfire had already been lit inside the high walls of the garrison fort, and there were earth dragons and underground canals connecting the entire garrison fort, baking the room dry and warm.

Shen Zhezi personally drove the princess and accompanied the palace people to an independent blockhouse in the fortress. The family members of the village clan rushed out to welcome him. The princess within beckons.Then he turned into another room, took off his snow-covered cloak and military uniform, and changed into a dry and light robe before turning to the front of the fort.

The fort has already prepared hot soup, medicinal soup and other things to keep out the cold. When Shen Zhezi left, the entire ceremonial car team had already been admitted into the fort.The armor of the soldiers and generals is stuffed with dry velvet grass, this is to prevent the moisture from melting snow from invading the body during the sudden cold and sudden warm.

Because there are a large number of soldiers from Jiangdong in the Huainan Army, Shen Zhezi also attaches great importance to keeping out the cold in winter.Previously, the town had widely stockpiled dry firewood, charcoal and other heating materials, and because of the seizure of a large number of slave weapons, there was a lot of use in this aspect.Tents were set up in rows under the inner wall of the fortress. Inside the tents, big tripods of hot soup were bubbling with steam. There were also wall passages around the walls, where hot water flowed gushingly, and bamboo joints diverted water for bathing and washing.

The soldiers in the team were quickly placed in these tents in batches. After the cold air dissipated from their bodies and their limbs regained their flexibility, they discovered that the heating in the fort was somewhat different.Instead of setting up separate stoves to light fires in each camp, the heating mainly comes from the ground dragons under the feet and the wall passages passing through the camp.And the main source of these heat comes from several huge blast furnaces built in each of the four corners of the fortress.

This is also the main heating method used by the Huainan Army today. Such centralized heating, on the one hand, saves the process of distributing heating materials to each battalion, which can be more effective in fire prevention and salary saving. On the other hand, these blast furnaces also have cooking functions. The ability to smelt.Of course, due to the loss of heat circulation, these blast furnaces cannot meet the professional smelting and casting standards, but the intermittent heating can not only meet the heating purpose, but also can make some simple pottery or make some iron with low process requirements. making farm tools.

In Huainan today, not only firewood, charcoal and other bio-energy sources are used for heating, but also large-scale coal has begun to appear.Huaibei Qiaojun, Qixian and other places were famous Xu coal producing areas in later generations, but in this era, coal mining for heating and cooking in the countryside has become a common practice.Even when Shen Mu's team rushed into Qiaocheng and seized a large amount of luggage abandoned by the slave army here, it included tens of thousands of catties of coal.Taking advantage of the last navigable period of Weishui, this part of the charcoal was transported back to Huainan.

But this is actually all caused by Shen Zhezi's strange ideas. In fact, in the current era of vegetation coverage, or ordinary poor people worry about having nowhere to harvest firewood because of the closure of mountains by the nobles, like the Huainan Army. Such a huge military group, as long as it has enough labor, can be cut down nearby to meet its needs. It is not a good deal to use such precious transport capacity on heavy coal.

It is even more convenient to survey ore deposits in Huainan to find minerals than to transport them from other places.It's just that Shen Zhezi still doesn't have much time to work on this matter.And not only this, in the future Huainan still has many rather grand ideas around military industry and people's livelihood, all of which are waiting for the opportunity to be promoted.

The limitation of transportation capacity is also one of the reasons why ancient coal cannot be widely used. In fact, in some high-quality coal mines, not only the use of coal has become common practice, but even as early as the Three Kingdoms period, there were quite professional mining technologies.

When Shen Zhezi walked to the front of the fortress, he saw Xie Shang and Yu Bin surrounding a blazing stove in the fortress in amazement.The principle of this type of heating facility is not complicated, as long as you look at its structure and think about it, you can understand it.

Since there are not many materials that can withstand high-temperature calcination, this blast furnace is actually relatively primitive compared with the large central heating boilers of the later generations. A blast furnace will be rebuilt in five days.However, compared with the meticulous construction of stoves for heating in every barracks, this is still a relatively efficient method.

Therefore, after observing for a while, Xie Shang and Yu Bin only slightly appreciated this magical effect, but they did not arouse much interest.When the near side reported that the son-in-law was coming, he quickly turned around and greeted him.

"It's a hard winter. This time the princess crossed the river and entered the town. It was really hard work for Dao'an and Brother Renzu to escort her all the way."

Shen Zhezi bowed his hands to thank the two from a distance, and approached with a smile.

"The son-in-law is really serious. Compared with the previous heroic achievements of Huainan Wangshi, how dare I praise this journey."

Xie Shang bowed his hand in return, the journey was hard work, but seeing that the road from Liang County in Jiangbei to Huainan along the way has been orderly, it also made him feel quite uplifted.When he came across the river this time, he had no lack of plans to keep Huainan. Seeing that Huainan was full of vitality even though it was harsh winter, he also felt that his choice was not wrong.

Compared with Xie Shang, Yu Bin's behavior is a little more reserved.After the Su Jun Rebellion was over, he had been in mourning in the village. A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the world is completely different.The dormancy in the countryside for the past few years has also let the vitality of the originally high-spirited young man flow away, even when facing Shen Zhezi, he is a bit rigid and can't let go.

Facing Yu Bin, Shen Zhezi still felt a bit of lingering guilt in his heart. He took a step forward and pulled Yu Bin's palm and patted Yu Bin's shoulder heavily. He said in a solemn voice, "It's inevitable that even the fate of the country There will be difficulties and depression, let alone me and other vulgar people. The old things are old, and although the wind is gone, the world will raise virtuous people in the future, and they will still come from my generation. If Daoan is not afraid of the bitter cold in Huainan, he may as well stay in the future Here, there are many old friends here, no matter personal or state affairs, you will not be lonely."

"I, I have been negligent in the world for a long time, and I am so indifferent to human affairs. I also want to learn a lot from Yu Weizhou, but now you have a high reputation, but I am afraid of my own clumsiness, so I dare not force you..."

When Yu Bin heard what Shen Zhezi said, a gleam of joy flashed in his eyes, and he also said joyfully, talking about himself, he always felt a little weak.In the past, he was the son of Zhongshu's ruling family. Although he was not very old, he was looked up to by others when he came in and out.But before returning to the capital, the human relationship has been different. Old friends like Shen Zhezi are fighting fiercely for the country on the Huai River, while other old acquaintances from the early years, even the wives and brothers from the wife's family, are not as close to him as they used to be. , For a while, it was indeed a bit of a gloomy situation.

"People are not born with knowledge, and who doesn't learn to be proficient from clumsy experience. For example, your parents, what a naughty son, and now you have become famous as a king's warrior in the Huaihe River! The way of success is under your feet, so you don't have to hesitate. You have your own peers Let's move forward together!"

As he said that, Shen Zhezi turned around and pulled Xie Shang up again. When he saw Xie Shang for the first time in the capital in previous years, he was still a childish boy, and now his figure is considerably taller than Xie Shang's.Holding the hands of these two people, he walked towards the inner hall of the garrison: "Let me introduce to you two colleagues in Huainan and local sages."

　Chapter 3 may be a little later, if you can't wait, you can watch it tomorrow. . .

　　
　
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