The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 792
The day was getting brighter, and the gloomy sky had snowflakes again, making the weather at dawn even colder.

The mountains to the northeast of the Sui Army camp had been cut in half, with gullies flowing with muddy water, and pieces of soft mountains slipping down from time to time.

The area where the military camp is located has become flat land, and the entire camp is covered with gravel the size of a fist, with strips of muddy yellow mud flowing across it. If it weren't for the crumbling sentry towers, it would be hard to imagine that there used to be a large-scale Huge barracks.

This mudslide torrent, and only in the daytime, people can intuitively see its true power, but it is even more frightening.

Yang Tong stood in front of the bonfire on the river beach, looking at the mudstone area stretching for tens of miles, feeling very anxious, wishing that the loss of data would come immediately.

"Husband, don't worry too much, our soldiers will definitely not lose much." Yin Mingyue walked to Yang Tong's side, comforting her softly.

“How come you see?”

"It took about an hour from our retreat to the collapse of the mountain. Our army is well-trained. After such a long time, we have already retreated here as ordered. Even if there are soldiers who are too late, there are not many."

Seeing that Yang Tong was silent, Yin Mingyue said, "The loss of military equipment and materials is not too big, because we first fought in Duoma Town yesterday, and then went into battle lightly, and took advantage of the victory to directly attack the Tubo camp; when the camp is set up, It was already dark, and equipment such as catapults and bed crossbows were either in Doma North Camp or in Doma Town. The materials buried under the mud and rocks were all seized from the Tubo camp, and even the living animals were seized. Drive into the valley and raise them in captivity..."

"You're right." After Yin Mingyue enlightened her one by one, the haze in Yang Tong's heart disappeared.It was also at this time that he realized that the impetuousness last night was actually an instinctive reaction of human beings to danger.It is the same reason as the abnormal behavior of various animals before the earthquake.

Fortunately, he vomited Zheng Liwan all over, and fortunately, she was afraid of the male soldiers peeping, so she ran to a distant pool to take a bath, and finally discovered Tubo's poisonous plan.

Thinking of this, Yang Tong couldn't help looking at Zheng Liwan, and found that the girl was wet again, and she didn't know when she had washed off the muddy water on her body. She was warming by the fire, and puffs of white air suddenly rose from her side. It seems to be practicing a kind of peerless inner strength.Shouted: "Zheng Liwan!"

"The last general is here." Zheng Liwan ran over with a puff of white air, saluted and said, "Please give me your orders."

"You saved the lives of me and tens of thousands of troops by chance last night; you have made such a great contribution, and I have the grace to save you, and I have to reward you." Yang Tong looked at Zheng Liwan who was full of anger, and couldn't help it. Thinking of the mud monkey who came to report the news last night, he suppressed a gush of laughter and said honestly: "I will give you the post of Shura Wei Ying Yang Lang, and you will be named Kunlun Monkey... Kunlun County Marquis, reward gold coins [-] pieces and [-] bolts of silk."

Zheng Liwan's original military position was the officer of the Luocha Guards, but now she has been promoted to five ranks in a row, directly skipping the three ranks of brigade commander, lieutenant, and general. Let a person envy.

It was Zheng Liwan who was blinded, her black and white eyeballs were wide open, and under the envious eyes of her colleagues, she stammered in surprise and said: "The Holy Majesty named me General Yingyanglang, return it, and give it back? ?”

It's no wonder she was so surprised, because her father, Zheng Renji, even though he was the Minister of Dali Temple, has not even had the lowest county baron title so far.But what about her?For no reason, he was promoted to five levels in a row, and he even got one.

Incredible.

But the people next to him all heard the keyword "the grace of saving their lives". If this is the case, then it is reasonable.

Li Youwei and Yaoyao were almost dizzy with envy, because they also followed Yinmingyue's order, but compared with Zheng Liwan, they lacked the two most critical links of being spit out by the emperor and jumping into the mud pit, so the results were quite different .

This is fate, you have to admit it.

Of course, thanks to Zheng Liwan's blessing, the two of them were promoted two ranks each, and became a school lieutenant of Shurawei.

"Husband, is the Marquis of Kunlun County the Lord of Glory or..." Yin Mingyue finished recording and asked.

"The two counties of Heyuan are both in the east, and they can't manage this side. However, Doma's strategic position cannot be ignored, so I decided to set up Kunlun County as the center of Doma Beitanikou to manage the western part of Heyuan. Doma Beigu built the county to govern Luntai City. , Nangu to build the Kunlun Pass. This is considered from a strategic point of view." Yang Tong said: "In addition, it is about the flooding of the Yellow River."

"Flood in the Yellow River?" Not only Yin Mingyue, but everyone was puzzled.What does this have to do with the flood of the Yellow River?
Yang Tong said: "The Jing River is one of the main tributaries of the Wei River. However, the Jing River is crystal clear, while the Wei River is turbid. Therefore, at the intersection of the Wei River and the Wei River, there is a phenomenon of half turbidity and half clearness. "

"So, the turbidity of the Yellow River is also caused by the Wei River?" Liu Rengui was thoughtful.

"That's right." Yang Tong sighed, "Most of the sediment in the Yellow River comes from the Weishui River Basin, and the Weishui River Basin is covered with loess and loose soil. A large amount of loess is not covered by vegetation and is directly exposed. Once it rains in the sky, it will blow the soil to the outside." The local soil is washed away. This phenomenon is called soil erosion. Year after year of such loss, the upper reaches of the Weishui River are scattered and fragmented, and the fertility of the farmland is also washed away by the water and soil. The output is getting lower and lower, and the people are reclaiming a lot of land in order to survive, but the excessive land reclamation has caused irreparable damage to the vegetation, and then the fertility of the land has been washed away. Over time, the Guanzhong Plain, which was once fertile and wild for thousands of miles in the Qin and Han Dynasties, to our Sui Dynasty This is one of the hazards of soil erosion. The second hazard is that a large amount of sediment flowing down from the Wei River is deposited in the Yellow River, causing the riverbed in the middle reaches to rise. In order to prevent flooding, successive dynasties can only raise the river. However, every time the Yellow River surges, the river will overflow the embankment and overflow the banks, washing away the good fields and crops in the middle and lower reaches, or even break the embankment and flood the downstream counties!"

"So in order to control the flood of the Yellow River, the key is to reduce soil erosion in the upper reaches; and the key to prohibiting soil erosion is to prohibit the people in Guanlong from excessive reclamation and excessive destruction of forest plants. However, Guanlong is densely populated and the people want to live, so they don't open up wasteland. If there is no food to eat, the best way is to move the people of Guanlong who have a lot of people and little land to live elsewhere."

Finally, Yang Tong expressed his vision.

Liu Rengui's eyes lit up as he thought about Yang Tong's words.Generally speaking, the best distance for the imperial court to control a place is within seven days, but when there was no Xinying before, it took more than a month for Jiaozhou news to reach Luoyang, and it only took two or three days to travel from Daxing to Lintao.Moreover, although the four counties of Xihai have a vast terrain, they are full of plains. As long as some key mountain passes are widened and leveled, they will be open and open official roads. Once the source of the river changes, the imperial army can arrive in the shortest time.In this way, Xihai is not too far from Daxing.

He said excitedly: "The Holy Majesty said that the damage to the Yellow River has been going on for a long time. Although the embankments have been reinforced in all dynasties, everyone knows that this is a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The last general checked history and found Guanzhong is densely covered with forests, and the Wei River is also very clear. It can be seen that the root cause is indeed a large number of deforestation. To restore the vegetation, the only way to restore the vegetation is to return the farmland to the forest and relocate the people. Most of the people in Guanlong are farming and grazing. Xihai has taken root, and the distance between the two places is very close, so the contact emotions of the relocated people will be very small.”

"Another reason is the large influx of population, which allowed the Sui Dynasty to exercise de facto control over this place from all aspects of culture, politics, economy, and system. Unlike before, the government orders did not leave the city, and the counties were useless. No. After one generation, the people of the four counties will merge with each other, regardless of you and me."

Yang Tong nodded, and said to Yin Mingyue: "Mingyue, immediately send someone to issue an order to Heyuan prefect Du Chuke to come and prepare for the construction of Kunlun County and Kunlun Pass!"

"Here." Yin Mingyue heard the words and agreed.

"Your Majesty." As soon as everything was arranged, Wang Fubao, who was in charge of Liu Qizhuang after the war, galloped forward. His temperament changed drastically, as if he had unloaded a heavy burden, and became full of spirits.

"General Wang, our army's losses aren't that big, right?" Yang Tong laughed.

"Returning to the Holy One, last night our army defeated tens of thousands of enemies, and our army was killed or injured less than a thousand people, and more than [-]% of them were caused by fighting on the shore." Wang Fubao said with a bit of excitement.

As the leader of the battalion, Yang Tong took everything under his shoulders and did not take his anger out on him, but before the loss data came out, his heart was under such a heavy pressure, and now he has finally passed the psychological barrier, unloading the heavy burden imposed by himself.

"Our army started fighting yesterday morning, with less than two hours of rest in the middle, and the whole army was extremely tired. However, the [-] Tubo army headed by Lu Dongzan is coming soon. For the current plan, we can only choose a site as soon as possible to build a strong The barracks." At this point, Yang Tong said to Wang Fubao: "General Wang, you are in charge of building a new camp, don't let the enemy take advantage of it."

"Thank you, Majesty, for your trust. The end general will never make the same mistake again." Although Wang Fubao didn't make any promises such as "see you with your head up", everyone could hear the determination in his voice.

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"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ..." suddenly sounded the sound of the horn, it was Niu Jinda's horn sound.Instead of reducing his army, his army increased by thousands of people.Moreover, a bunch of prisoners were escorted, including several Han Chinese.

When Niu Jinda's army approached the front, several horsemen galloped forward.Yang Tong looked from a distance, but Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, Yang Qinfang and Du Ruhui had all come.

"Husband!" Wei Fengwu finally let go of her hanging heart. Although her husband is in a lot of trouble, it's good that he is fine.

"They're all here." Yang Tong said with a smile.

"Well. You, am I okay?" Yang Qinfang looked at Yang Tong, her eyes were red.

"fine."

(End of this chapter)