Chapter 37: Exaggeration and restraint of the ancients

The bigger the official is, the more interested Yun Lang becomes in the life of the people.

The army was preparing to wash the entire Shanglinyuan, which gave Yun Lang an opportunity to observe the living conditions of the people in Shanglinyuan from a close distance.

At this time, there were basically no natural villages in Shanglinyuan. All villages were based on a family management model with a fort.

After all, the land allocation method of Shanglinyuan is very different from that of the local area.

Part of the land here is used to resettle the savages from the Qinling Mountains, and the other part is sold to the rich people in Guanzhong by selling them.

No matter which one of these two types of people has the habit of living in groups, and habitually turns their residences into fortresses.

Looking at the fortresses standing on the field, Yun Lang felt that such Guanzhong was very similar to Europe a thousand years later.

However, there are also great differences. Thousands of years later, the European lords were kings one by one, and the kings led their respective peoples and lived a life of never interacting with each other.

This way of living is very conducive to the formation of cities, but due to population, the forts are scattered on the plains, which seems a little more.

This model is actually the model of Yun Family Manor, which is now widely used by the emperor in Shanglin Garden.

It is hard to say whether the appearance of the fort is good or bad. The advantage is that such a intensive living method is very convenient for the government to manage.

The disadvantage is that the people with the protection of the forts appear less obedient.

It is obvious that the emperor had absolute confidence in his rule, and even the strength and height of the dock building were not required.

This made all the newly rich batten owners work hard to manage their own castles, so the exterior walls of these castles are particularly tall.

Xinfeng City is such a place.

A separate settlement in the past has now become a long list of forts. It can be seen that this was intentional by the emperor. This string of forts stands like chains in the southeast of Xianyang, and is regarded as several acropolises in Chang'an.

Yunlang's army was not allowed to pass through Chang'an, so it could only detour Xinfeng City and go straight to Sanyuan, and finally arrived at Fengshui.

The fields of summer are always beautiful. The summer grain has been harvested. The autumn grain has just sprouted. The tall elm, willow and pine trees support the beautiful skyline of Guanzhong. During the period, farmers either farm in the fields or make bamboo utensils under the shade of trees. Women wash yarn by the stream, and children play in the stream. If it weren't for rushing, Yun Lang would want to jump into the clear stream to wash it.

The Guanzhong Plain during the Han Dynasty was still in the early stage of development, and the water conservancy projects left behind by the Former Qin Dynasty still played an irreplaceable role.

After Yun Lang led his army to pass the Wei River from Xinfeng City, he saw Gaoling. Gaoling did not bury a certain emperor, but was called Gaoling because of the towering Fengzheng Park.

Below Gaoling is the famous Zheng Guo Canal.

The surging clear water from the Jing River flows through this river canal and generously irrigates the 300-mile farmland along the coast.

Liu Che was not satisfied with this canal that allowed the Former Qin Dynasty to have a bumper harvest. If it weren't for the great expedition next year, he would have planned to dig another canal on the Jing River. This canal starts from the mouth of the valley and enters Liyang, and finally injects into the Wei River.

This is the real fertile land in Guanzhong!

It is also the true source of Liu Che's confidence in governing the world.

"Stop looking, every inch of land here belongs to His Majesty."

Cao Xiang leaned over and squeezed a handful of soil and showed it to Yun Lang.

"You can pick up oil if you pinch it. Do you know, the wheat grown here can produce five stones per acre of land!"

Yun Lang glanced at the dirt and said, "Black soil, it's really rare."

Cao Xiang shook his head with emotion and said, "It's really a change of world. Under the former Gaoling, there was originally a swamp. The Former Qin Dynasty built a canal to divert the swamp water, creating this extremely fertile fertile land.

Many people say that this is a blessing from heaven, but they don’t know that there was a great war on this land, and more than 100,000 people’s souls returned to the earth.

I don’t know how many unjust souls these lands that can produce oil contain.”

Yun Lang was very moved when he saw Cao Xiang and knew that he was showing off. It was here that his ancestor Cao Shen accompanied Emperor Taizu Gao to defeat the last trace of resistance from the Former Qin Dynasty and entered Xianyang.

"Why, when you describe your ancestors killing enemies on the battlefield, you often kill more than 100,000 or 200,000?

I have been on the battlefield, why have I never seen such a large-scale massacre?"

Cao Xiang smiled and said, "My great-grandfather told my ancestor that he killed more than 10,000 people in this battle. My ancestor told my father that he killed 50,000 Qin troops in this battle. My father told me that my great-grandfather killed 100,000 enemies here.

When I told my son, I said that my great-grandfather had won more than 100,000 Qin army heads here. What do you think is the problem?"

Yun Lang shook his head and said, "No problem."

"That's right. When you tell your son about his brilliant achievements in the future, remember to learn from me.

If you don’t say the achievements of your ancestors a little more powerfully, you will soon be forgotten by your descendants.”

Yun Lang hurriedly reviewed his battlefield career and felt that it was really unreasonable. Whether it was Bai Dengshan, Sujiangcheng, or Bai Lang's mouth, he seemed to be a so-called existence.

I can't tell my son that when I was in Baideng Mountain, I kept huddling in the castle and didn't dare to lift my head?

Or tell your son that when he was riding a chariot to charge against the Hunxie King's army, he was as scared as a quail?

As for the battle between the White Wolf, it was even more shameful to talk about it. It was obviously the emperor used as bait, and it would be too shameless to say anything about the brilliant results.

If you want to be Yunyin, Yunzhe's ancestor who is more proud of himself may have problems. Yunlang finally decided to tell the truth to his son and daughter, so as not to let his stupid son think that as long as he goes to the battlefield, he can kill the enemy.

Wei Qing lost 80,000 people outside Longcheng. This was the real war. Huo Qubing killed more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians in the battle of the Grand Canyon. This was the real war.

A war like Cao Shen, which killed more than 100,000 people in one battle, was just a verbal war.

At this point, Yun Lang was very suspicious of the specific number of soldiers who killed Wang Bai Qi who buried Zhao State alive. Is it true that he was 400,000 soldiers?

Yun Lang had been the chief of the marching army for a long time. He could not imagine how terrifying the 400,000 people and the supplies for livestock and war horses to eat in one day.

Not to mention the Warring States Period, even now, if Liu Che was fucked that day, he had to provide logistics for the 400,000 army, Yun Lang felt that he had only the only way to commit suicide.

The number of people under the command of the Han Dynasty's General Yun Lang was 12,000, and two thousand personal guards were added during the war, but only 14,000. In this operation, Liu Che issued an edict to the world that General Yun Lang would use 60,000 tigers to sanction Shanglinyuan. If anyone dared to be called a war of war, he would be killed!

Fortunately, no one is serious in this era, and there is no hateful creature like a reporter who specializes in exposing other people's lies and counting people's heads. In the era of news blocked, Liu Che's will alone can make the unjust officials in the world frightened.

Thinking of this, Yun Lang couldn't help but look at Sima Qian.

Sima Qian's face turned red. Since Cao Xiang and Yun Lang were talking, he felt that his stomach was not suitable, and now he was even more ashamed.

The passage Cao Xiang said before had long been recorded by him.

General Wei commanded 10,000 people to fight, and the army's radius was within the pass, or in the narrow area of ​​Shanglinyuan.

According to the military system, Yun Lang still carried 500,000 kilograms of grain, 10,000 kilograms of dried meat, salted fish, and various military equipment. The chariots and horses that transported these materials lasted for two miles...

If you don’t bring military rations, the cost of eating more than 10,000 people will be able to eat a county.

Only big cities like Chang'an and Yanglingyi have the qualifications to supply such a large number of military food and fodder.

Ten thousand troops and supplies were used to cross the Wei River for a whole day. During this whole day, General Wei's subordinates came to Hebei from Henan.

After deeply feeling the poverty of the rich land of the Han Dynasty, Yun Lang felt that there were too many things in the Han Dynasty that needed improvement.

Poverty is still the main theme of this era.

Yun Lang, who woke up after sleeping under the willow tree, was very sure of the truth he had just understood.

"I worked hard in Mount Li without any effort. Those gladiators were taking them to play hide-and-seek in the deep mountains and forests. It seemed that they could not do anything to those gladiators for a while."

Cao Xiang, who was reading the military newspaper, said lazily when he saw Yun Lang woke up.

Yun Lang thought for a while and said, "This shows that Huibing has the absolute confidence to defeat these gladiators.

Otherwise, with his temperament, he would not have the time to play hide-and-seek with others, so he would have used gunpowder long ago."
Chapter completed!