The big man has a living father

Chapter 170 (Big Chapter) Retirement
In the north wind, there were tents all over the ground.

There is good news for King Zuoxian.

The good news is that the snow has melted.

There is also bad news.

The bad news is that all the winter pastures from the Great Wall to the edge of the Gobi Desert have been destroyed by Huo Hai.

With a total population of 47,000, they already belong to the Han Dynasty.

The entire Mo Nan was cut in half!

There was no other way for Zuo Xianwang's troops except to enter the Gobi Desert and head north.

In the past, King Zuo Xian could either go west to the south of the desert or go north, but now there is only one way left, and it is not so easy to escape.

He had another piece of good news and another piece of bad news.

The bad news is that he only got the news that Huo Hai had entered Mo Nan when Huo Hai cut off Mo Nan. At the same time, the news that Huo Hai had penetrated Mo Nan came at the same time.

The good news is that the news that Huo Hai was going to withdraw his troops also came at the same time.

Now there are four large strongholds to the north of Huhhot in the Daqing Mountains. Each of the four strongholds has a population of 10,000, and there are at least 1,000 Han court Xiongnu soldiers and at least 3,000 Han soldiers.

According to previous combat experience, if 10,000 Huns were willing to fight for Huo Hai, 4,000 warriors could be selected, which means that there would be 8,000 warriors in one stronghold.

If he wanted to fight a field battle to attack five thousand Huns, King Zuo Xian would need to dispatch eight thousand Huns.

If you want to attack 3,000 Han soldiers, you will need at least 8,000 Xiongnu soldiers.

That means sixteen thousand.

But the problem is, along with the news, there is also a magical news that the Han Dynasty has developed a technology that can turn soil into stone. Now the four small castles in the four strongholds have been made into urban strongholds similar to the passes south of the Great Wall!

This means that to attack a stronghold, at least 30,000 people are needed!

This means... this road is blocked.

It's a very simple logic. King Zuoxian has a total population of only more than 200,000, and only 35% of them can be used to fight, which is about 80,000.

If they wanted to escape from the south of the desert, it would be impossible for the Han army to have a stronghold in the narrow strip of land in the south of the desert, because the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled would be ambushed when they passed by, and if the cattle and sheep were ambushed when they passed by, the entire army would starve to death.

Therefore, if Zuo Xian Wang wanted to get through, he had to capture all four strongholds at the same time.

It takes 30,000 men to eliminate one stronghold. Even if we count tighter, 25,000 men, four strongholds will require 100,000 men.

The Zuo Xian Wang only had 80,000 soldiers in total. And he could only use 80,000 soldiers under extreme circumstances. If a few thousand died, the army would collapse immediately.

Under this situation, it is impossible to pass through Mo Nan.

The biggest problem here is that Huo Hai had just defeated the Huns, so why did the Huns obey Huo Hai's orders?

But now, for Zuo Xian Wang, he had no doubt about this issue at all.

Because two pieces of news were also delivered to his tent at the same time.

The news came that all the sons and relatives whom Zuo Xian Wang had sent to guard these tribes were captured and killed. It was not the Han army that did it, but the surrendered Hun generals and soldiers.

Message 2: Huo Hai promised every Xiongnu tribe that healthy adult Xiongnu males would get a job with a monthly salary of 500 coins, and healthy women without adult males at home would get a job with a monthly salary of at least 300 coins. Families without adult men and women would receive a subsidy of 100 coins per month from the Han court.

King Zuo Xian even suspected that his ears were broken.

Isn't this just giving money away?!

The grassland is not Chang'an! Sheep on the grassland are only more than 200 yuan a head!
Five hundred coins? Does that mean an ordinary riding slave can have a monthly salary that is enough to buy two sheep?
Even if the grassland does not produce grain, there is grain in the grassland, and the price is no more expensive than in Chang'an. With this salary, an adult riding slave can support a family of eight.

You must know that the cavalry slaves are currently under the command of the Xiongnu nobles. They are not qualified to eat meat or grains, but live on dairy products and other low-grade grains.

What Huo Hai announced caused such a great shock in the entire tribe that even King Zuo Xian, who was thousands of miles away, could imagine it.

King Zuo Xian knew that with the second piece of news as a guarantee, it was conceivable that those lowly cavalry slaves, who had long been fed up with oppression, would kill their own sons.

And because they killed his son, these people will never be accepted by him again. No matter what promises he makes, they will not believe it, so they have become rebellious.

What? You said Huo Hai conquered all the way and killed the tribal warriors, their close comrades and neighbors?

He deserves to die for hindering the great Han general from saving us!
Indeed, because they had to move every winter, there was amazing unity within each Hun tribe.

However, because they would freeze to death and starve to death every winter, every Hun had an amazing loyalty to food.

Not to mention 500 coins, if someone on the grassland gave everyone 150 coins a month, he would be elected as the Chanyu.

Now someone is giving everyone 500 yuan! He is the messenger sent by Master Qilian to the mortal world!

What? You said the Emperor of the Han Dynasty sent him? Isn't the Emperor of the Han Dynasty the fucking Qi Lian?
King Zuo Xian had no time to care about Huo Hai.

Zuo Xian Wang only had two jobs to do.

First, he sent his confidants to all the tribes in the south. Anyone who spread the story of the five hundred coins in the tribe would be chopped off on the spot and hung up to be whipped.

Second, the snow had melted, and the small tribes immediately gathered together to form a large tribe.

The snow has just melted, and small tribes may not be willing to move so quickly. For those tribes that are unwilling to move, they can kill a few people and offer sacrifices to the gods by the whole tribe. In this way, the others will be willing to move.

Only after completing these two steps will the situation be stabilized and King Zuo Xian will have time to deal with Huo Qubing.

After dealing with Huo Qubing, it won’t be a problem to turn around and deal with Mo Nan.

Since there are no pursuers, the four strongholds are nothing to worry about.

Since there are no pursuers, there is no need to run.

There is no need to run, the army can go to the Qin Great Wall.

As long as we take over Daqing Mountain, the people in the four strongholds who cannot get food supplies will have to leave.

Leaving the stronghold means fighting in the field.

In a field battle, you don't need 100,000 people, only 50,000 people are needed to kill them all.

That's the plan.

At this time, Huo Hai had completed his plan.

Peng Yi excitedly recounted his recent discoveries.

He performed more than 80 bone-setting surgeries! He even performed intestinal surgery and saved one life!
During the blood transfusion operation, Peng Yi discovered that the blood of humans and other animals is different. He then discovered that there seem to be several different kinds of blood in humans, while the blood of the Han people and the Huns is the same, with the same different contents.

These are all the most advanced knowledge that can be taken back for further research.

In addition, Peng Yi also found that the institute is currently studying several different things with antiviral effects, two of which have the effect of surgical disinfection and can reduce the infection rate after surgery.

Both of these things can also curb infection after it has occurred.

One of them is high alcohol and the other is carbolic acid.

In fact, Peng Yi brought more than 30 different things from Chang'an, and many of them were developed in the research institute that have the ability to kill mold. However, very few of them can be used on living things, and no one knows which ones can be used on the human body surface.

So all these things were brought by Peng Yi for use.

One of them is extracted from coal tar.

When it was discovered that low-temperature distillation and high-temperature distillation could extract different things from coal tar, this technology was not only used to extract kerosene from petroleum.

Instead, they continued to extract petroleum, coal tar, wood tar and other things in various forms.

Including high temperature distillation, low temperature distillation, high temperature distillation followed by low temperature distillation, high temperature distillation followed by condensation and then low temperature distillation, high temperature distillation followed by condensation and then high temperature distillation, low temperature distillation followed by condensation, low temperature distillation followed by decompression and then condensation...

There are countless ways, it’s just permutations and combinations.

Anyway, with so many craftsmen joining the research institute, Yang Liancheng wanted to know how many different things could be produced from coal and oil, so he started doing experiments like crazy.

Finally, a substance was extracted that can effectively kill bacteria, but it is highly corrosive and irritating when used directly on living things.

Experiments have now concluded that it is many times more reliable than steaming or roasting when used to disinfect surgical equipment.

And this substance was named carbolic acid.

Huo Hai thought about it for a long time but still had no idea what this thing was. Finally, Huo Hai suddenly realized that this might not be phenol!

Huo Hai actually didn't know much about chemical engineering. Ever since the Academy of Sciences started conducting research on petroleum and coal tar, Huo Hai was powerless to do anything.

This shows the shortcomings of Huo Hai's knowledge.

Watching short videos every day can help you gain a broad knowledge base and know a little bit about everything, but for something a little more in-depth and professional, it depends on how interesting it is.

I know some interesting things, but I don’t know anything boring.

Knowledge about phenol belongs to chemistry, which was the thing Huo Hai hated the most when he was studying in his previous life. The only thing he could remember about phenol, kerosene, etc. was because he remembered a little bit from watching short videos after he became an adult. If Huo Hai were to use the knowledge he learned in his student days to do it, then the chemical industry of the Han Dynasty would be doomed.

Now that he has to go back, Peng Yi is actually a little reluctant.

Because after returning, there will be no human bodies available for experiments.

Now in Xiongnu, we are in a state of war and many wounded will die if they are not treated, so Peng Yi can conduct experiments without any scruples.

If I return to Chang'an, even if they are Huns, they will turn against me if I kill one of them with my medicine.

The state of war is indeed very suitable for doctors to conduct experiments, so Peng Yi was a little reluctant to leave.

Even if he could be granted a title of nobility by returning to Chang'an, after all he had captured the King of Han, he didn't want to leave.

Huo Hai insisted that he go back. Yes, research is important, but passing on proven knowledge to other researchers is more important.

There will always be after the war.

Peng Yi: "It will be hard to see such heavy casualties in future wars. Future enemies will surely flee at the sight of them."

Huo Hai: "Don't worry, someone will do experiments for you in the future. You know, the Huns are the same people as us, and it's inhumane to do experiments on them. We can't just injure a hundred or so more of them just for your experiment, right?"

Peng Yi scratched his head: "Since this kind of experiment is not good, who will do experiments for me in the future?"

Huo Hai: "There is an island outside the East China Sea. The people there have the same body structure as us, but they have human bodies instead of human souls. I will arrange for you to go there in the future."

Peng Yi had no choice but to pack up and leave with Huo Hai.

Huo Hai has now completed the arrangements for the entire grassland stronghold.

First of all, Huo Hai’s original focus was on building strongholds, but in actual operation, Huo Hai’s focus became making Zhao Xin surrender and breaking up Zhao Xin’s power.

Because, it is either absolute loyalty or absolute disloyalty.

The political meaning of this sentence is not something that people of this era can understand, but for Huo Hai it is an instinct.

There are two ways to understand politics. It can be understood as a game or as a tug-of-war.

No matter which one it is, politics takes time to progress and accumulate experience.

For the current era, Qin Shihuang's methods were undoubtedly a failure.

Therefore, a situation where counties and prefectures coexisted came into being.

Emperor Wu of Han, by promoting the annexation and enfeoffment of counties, was actually helping more people to qualify to enter this house called politics.

This era was a continuation of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There was also a kind of thinking, that is, people all over the world reached a consensus, and the consensus was that there was a common leader.

But trends of thought are bound to change.

According to the fluctuations of history, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, an experiment unprecedented in the entire history occurred.

That is, although people in the world were still able to live, their thoughts suddenly changed, and they believed that the destiny could belong to other families besides the Liu family.

Then Wang Mang appeared.

Wang Mang's failure made people all over the world change their thinking.

Since people with other surnames cannot become emperors, then they will become members of aristocratic families.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the aristocratic families and ordinary people were directly separated.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the definition of politics changed. Logically, "war is the continuation of politics", but people in the Southern and Northern Dynasties were experimenting with another possibility: "Stop talking nonsense and just fight."

Ultimately, this line of thinking was proven wrong.

During the reign of Li Shimin, everyone thought that Li Shimin was the most capable fighter in the seventh century. In fact, it was not true. It was not that he could not fight, but that he was not fighting at all.

Li Shimin has returned to the kingly way, using politics instead of war to solve problems.

Li Shimin realized one thing: war is not the goal but the means, and his goal should be to destroy the enemy's forces.

Therefore, Li Shimin developed various combination skills to destroy enemies one by one, and war was the sharpest skill in his hands.

Because of his thinking mode that was ahead of his time, Li Shimin was invincible in the world.

Later, smart people behind also understood this truth, and Wu Zetian quickly brought this thing to the peak.

History always moves forward by swaying back and forth. After Wu Zetian, everyone suddenly realized that this thing is good, but it cannot be used indiscriminately, otherwise the world will collapse.

So people in later generations have been correcting it.

But these people are still learning from Li Shimin and Wu Zetian.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, people suddenly discovered the essence of politics.

Li Shimin laid so much groundwork in order to leave his name in history and avoid being scolded too much, otherwise he would have forced the emperor to abdicate long ago. He was a top player in history and he wasted five more years just to make it look better in history books. What should I learn from him?
Li Shimin spent so much time laying the groundwork in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from repeating the events of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

I just want to be an emperor. Why the hell should I care about the future of the world? Or if there’s a flood after I die?

So they became more direct, and the mutinies continued.

When it came to Zhao Kuangyin, he realized that all this could not continue, just like Li Shimin realized that the Northern and Southern Dynasties could not continue.

Therefore, there are the sayings of Qin Shi Huang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong and Song Taizu in history.

It is not because of their civil and military achievements, but because of their political abilities. Each of them represents an era. Up to them, they have summarized the achievements of their predecessors and made progress to a higher level.

So when people in later generations discuss civil and military achievements, they always wonder how a name as incompetent as Zhao Kuangyin could be named after Emperor Tangzong? In fact, that is because those who evaluated them were not evaluating their civil and military achievements, but something else. Only those who really walked this path know how great they were.

When one is "slightly lacking in literary talent" and "slightly lacking in charm" and "only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle", the smart people behind him know what more powerful means are.

Throughout history, all the separations and reunions are actually changes in thoughts. Only political progress is real progress, otherwise everything will be in vain, because the world will eventually be torn apart by countless behind-the-scenes masters at the same level.

Throughout history, all the most powerful and intelligent people have been repeating the same sentence: "I want to make progress."

Some people want to progress to be the best in the contemporary world, some people want to progress to leave their names in history, and some people want to progress to... be the best in history, or at least the best in history so far.

Huo Hai is not a smart person like Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song who can understand everything, summarize the times, and then make progress. However, Huo Hai is a person who has seen these methods. He does not need to make progress himself. His starting point is much higher than the end point of this era, Liu Che.

Huo Hai rarely used political means before, but for Zhao Xin, Huo Hai had to increase his strength a bit.

Huo Hai did four things.

Ask Zhao Xin to lead the way for him, and then after conquering a place, leave some of Zhao Xin's troops to help guard it.

Of course Zhao Xin agreed, because every place he occupied was guarded by his people, so this place became his base and his political capital. After he became a surrendered general, he was helpless, but now he finally had his own territory, so why wouldn't he agree?

Huo Hai did the second thing and asked Gongsun Ao to build cities in these places.

In the future, animal husbandry will be developed around these four places, and people from the Xiongnu Company will also come here to develop animal husbandry.

After Huo Hai took Zhao Xin's men to the next battlefield, Huo Hai's men did the third thing here.

Zhao Xin's subordinates were given official titles as officials of the Xiongnu Company, and a large number of them became middle-level managers of the Xiongnu Company.

Then Huo Hai's people encouraged Zhao Xin's men to marry here.

There are two reasons. First, after Zhao Xin surrendered to the Han Dynasty, he always brought his own troops with him. His troops were all Xiongnu people, and it was difficult for him to find a wife in the Han Dynasty, especially in Chang'an. Second, Huo Hai conquered and killed many Xiongnu warriors along the way. There were many widows in each Xiongnu tribe, but no men.

Now, the two are together, a match made in heaven.

Give a man a woman and give a woman a man.

Give official positions to those who have prestige among them.

Zhao Xin can't take them away.

Zhao Xin wanted to lend out soldiers and increase interest, but he didn't know that Huo Hai was interested in his capital.

Why are these soldiers loyal to Zhao Xin?

Because they have not started a family, and because they are like rootless duckweed in the Han Dynasty, they cannot take root and can only float along with the flowers.

In this case, give them a home and let them take root, and the duckweed will naturally disperse.

At the fourth stronghold, Zhao Xin finally realized that he had been tricked.

Because Huo Hai assigned official positions to the middle and senior levels of Zhao Xin's last group of people in person at the fourth stronghold.

We have come this far, and the first three did it while carrying Zhao Xin on their backs.

This time, Huo Hai had already talked to them in advance.

These middle-level managers will not settle down and start a career here. The condition that Huo Hai agreed with them is that they can earn money on the grassland for three years. These three years are the three years when the Han Dynasty conquers the grassland. They can make meritorious deeds and make money here. After three years, they will be transferred back to Chang'an to do office work.

These people voted directly.

It is easy to choose between following Zhao Xin or following Huo Hai.

Of course, some people disagree.

Huo Hai disagreed and did not touch them, leaving them for Zhao Xin.

But Huo Hai also warned them that anyone who dared to say a word would be killed along with Zhao Xin and buried directly under a random slope on the grassland.

At this time, Zhao Xin watched as his people were assigned new positions by Huo Hai, and his soldiers were actually mixed up with widows and girls in the tribe.

Zhao Xin then realized something was wrong.

Zhao Xin didn't understand why.

Only then did Zhao Xin remember that Gongsun Ao had targeted him before.

This time, he had disturbed Zuo Xian Wang's people, making it impossible for them to rebel. Also, their troops were swallowed up, and he suddenly had no troops left.

Huo Hai picked up a letter and showed it to Zhao Xin: "Take a look."

Zhao Xin picked it up and read it. After reading it, he couldn't help but tremble: "Why?!"

The letter was written by Huo Hai to Liu Che.

All the people who have made contributions are listed.

This time, four strongholds were established, more than 40,000 people and more than 700,000 cattle and sheep were captured, and a total of more than 4,000 enemies were killed.

According to past experience, this achievement can be rewarded with four marquises, eight Guannei marquises, fifty 1,000-stone positions, and one hundred 500-stone positions or above.

The four marquises were Peng Yi, Luo Xiahong, Luo Lie and Zhao Xin; the eight Guannei marquises were eight sons of the Yulin Guards.

Huo Hai didn't even give any credit to his confidant Huangfu Hua.

The reason is that Huangfu Hua will not leave for the time being. He will stay here to cooperate with Bu Shi's Xiongnu company's operation plan. When he returns, he will definitely be granted a title of nobility.

Huo Hai did not mention himself because he was the commander of a team. Although there were only a thousand people, it was also a large army. The commander's military merit would be determined when a summary was made after the overall situation was opened.

Zhao Xin: "You want to exchange my marquisate for 4,000 soldiers? Why?! I'm willing to do this, but why didn't you talk to me first?"

You know, King Hunxie surrendered 40,000 people and 200,000 cattle and sheep in exchange for a marquisate.

Zhao Xin's previous title of Xihou sounds like a marquis, but it is actually an official title specially prepared for the Hu people. Now it can be considered a complete upgrade.

But the problem is that this method makes Zhao Xin unhappy.

Besides, what would His Majesty think if you did this to me?
Huo Hai: "Because you may have an impact on the entire cause. I don't know why, but I will give you a chance."

"You can't refuse this opportunity I give you."

To translate this sentence, it means, I know you want to rebel, I don't need to know why, you can't rebel in my hands, it doesn't matter if your soldiers are of use to me, I want to exchange with you, it's not your choice whether you agree or not.

Zhao Xin's pupils constricted. He didn't know how Huo Hai knew it, and he hadn't even started to move!

Huo Hai stared at Zhao Xin, and became more certain that Zhao Xin’s rebellion was not accidental, but was premeditated.

In history, Zhao Xin was probably the trump card of Zuo Xian Wang, as he thought Zhao Xin's rebellion would harm Huo Qubing.

Unexpectedly, Huo Qubing was not affected at all and killed the Huns so badly that they fled in disarray.

After the Huns were defeated, Zhao Xin, who had 4,000 elite soldiers, gathered the defeated remnants of the Huns on the grassland, and became a huge force that could not be eliminated on the grassland. He eventually established the Zhaoxin City, defected twice, and completed the sublimation from a small tribe to a top tribe.

But Huo Hai killed it all.

After getting up, Huo Hai said: "I am still too kind."

"I could have found you a piece of Feng Shui treasure land on the grassland, but in the end I left it in Chang'an."

After Zhao Xin understood, he stopped talking and went straight back.

And Huo Hai also wants to go back.

Huo Hai and Huo Qubing had talked about this long ago, and they agreed that at least the entire Zuo Xian Wang tribe had to be disintegrated before Huo Qubing would lead his troops north to find the Xiongnu Chanyu Ting. He had several thousand musketeers, and although their firearms were not as good as those of the Yulin Guards, they were enough.

Huo Hai knew that his elder brother was definitely not the kind of person who followed the routine. As long as he had the opportunity and a reason, he would do something big.

But it doesn't matter.

Huo Hai took Luo Xiahong to the grassland to look at the starry sky, recalculated the distance, and drew a new map.

The new map was given to Ge San.

Ge San had already led a team of people from inside the Great Wall to the direction of Youbeiping.

He had two tasks. The first was to deliver the map to Huo Qubing, and the second was to explore northward from Youbeiping until he reached a place where the ice and snow would never melt and then return.

As for the troops, they should be the people who collected intelligence everywhere when Lu Bode was making preparations in the early stage, plus the people who formed a team again in Youbeiping.

With a compass and telescope, as well as the new military uniforms as off-road equipment, Ge San should be able to reach the Bering Strait.

This may seem a trivial matter to others, but in Huo Hai's heart, this matter is more important than taking over the left wing of the Huns.

After arranging this matter, Huo Hai withdrew from the battlefield without hesitation.

Huo Hai, who had just arrived in Hohhot, immediately met Wei Qing.

After Gongsun Ao and Zhao Xin entered the desert, it should have been Cao Xiang who advanced to Hohhot, not the commander-in-chief Wei Qing.

But that's not actually the case.

It all started back when the Hun Company had not yet started to rise in the stock market.

After a year of aggressive trading in the stock market and economic market, Liu Che finally figured out the basic laws of economics.

Therefore, Liu Che was very clear about how the dealer played the game.

Liu Che had already purchased shares of the Xiongnu Company before the Huo family began planning to buy stocks.

Because Liu Che knew that he had plenty of money and could afford it, and he was the only one who could artificially raise the stock price without good news, so he would never lose money when purchasing stocks at any time.

So Liu Che unscrupulously bought stocks of the Xiongnu Company and waited for the war to come.

That night, when the battle report was delivered to the Prince's Palace, Liu Che went crazy with excitement.

You know, he not only purchased shares of Xiongnu Company later, he also held 50% of the original shares!
In this battle, the value of Liu Che's shares doubled! It became one of his most important assets.

And Liu Che also knew that this was not over yet!
So, Liu Che immediately made two decisions.

First, another 4,000 guns were approved to enter the military, to be held by Wei Qing's troops and commanded by Wei Qing himself.

Second, Wei Qing led his troops to move forward and vigorously develop Hohhot, turning it into an important commercial gathering point and Wuchuan into a representative pasture of the Xiongnu Company.

The news of the combined victory of these two actions undoubtedly became a super shot in the arm. After this shot, the stock of the entire Xiongnu Company has continued to rise and has now reached 450,000!

Of course, this is the news from Chang'an.

The most significant impact of this move was that Wei Qing was sent to the front line, instead of staying in the command post, he moved to Hohhot.

Once Zuo Xian Wang made a desperate attempt to pass through Wuchuan and other four strongholds, he would inevitably be hit head-on by Wei Qing.

Don't forget that 4,000 guns are on the way. Before long, the combat effectiveness of Wei Qing's elite troops will be super-evolved, directly blocking Zuo Xian Wang's only way to survive.

Wei Qing was also surprised to see Huo Hai coming back.

Huo Hai used to be a dark and thin guy, but he became plump and white after arriving in Chang'an. This time when he came here, he became darker again. It's not summer anymore, it's winter!

"You really can't stand the slightest bit of hardship." Wei Qing patted Huo Hai on the shoulder: "Go back and have a rest!"

"As the only intellectual in the Wei and Huo families, writing an article in Chang'an is more important than killing people on the battlefield."

When Wei Qing was in Chang'an, he did not dare to have any communication with the Huo family, or rather, it was to avoid groundless provocation and suspicion.

But when they got here, they met privately and naturally, as the elder, he still admired Huo Hai very much.

Huo Hai shook his head: "I can't go back. I want to go to Wuyuan. We are going to build a new city on the north bank of Wuyuan, called Huaishuo."

Wei Qing was a little confused: "Is it for the westward expansion plan?"

Huo Hai whispered: "It's to conquer the ocean."

Wei Qing was confused.

In the entire Han Dynasty, the farthest place from the sea is Wuyuan County, right? !
Go to Wuyuan County and develop a plan to conquer the sea?

Did something go wrong?
You are not wrong.

After the steam locomotive came out, the miniaturization and super-sizing of steam engines has been under research.

The past six months have achieved fruitful results. Miniaturization means industrialization, and large-scale means ships.

Huo Hai initially wanted to build a small steam turbine, but after Liu Che listened to Huo Hai's introduction to the ocean, he decided to study large steam turbines.

Changan does not have the space for large steam turbines to survive.

The straight-line distance from Chang'an to the mouth of the Wei River and the Yellow River is 120 kilometers, but the Wei River channel is 450 kilometers.

The Wei River is completely crooked and full of shallows, making it impossible for large ships to pass through.

Before this, Liu Che had two plans. One was to expand the Zhengguo Canal for shipping, and the other was to dig a canal for grain transport.

Why was the canal transport called Caoyun? It was because of the Cao Canal.

The so-called Caoqu is an artificial canal from Chang'an to the mouth of the Yellow River and Wei River, a distance of 150 kilometers.

In an era without sailing ships, it took nine months to transport six million dan of grain from the mouth of the Yellow River to Chang'an via the Wei River without stopping.

The construction of the canal is expected to take three months.

Even though the current transport volume of 6 million shi has increased by 20 times compared to the 300,000 shi during the reign of Emperor Jing, it is still not enough.

After the establishment of several major transportation companies last year, this number is rapidly breaking through 20 million.

Liu Che simply sped up the excavation of the canal, spent a lot of money this year, and also widened the canal so that medium-sized ships could pass through it.

But...it's still too small.

Because Liu Che also knew that everything on the sea was very large, and ships had to be ten times larger than the current large ships.

Therefore, Liu Che and Huo Hai decided to build the giant steamship in Wuyuan County!
From Wuyuan County to Sanmenxia, ​​you can pass through four cities where large ports can be built, which will definitely boost the economies of these four cities. In this way, north of Chang'an, including Tongchuan and Shenmu along the railway, a total of six cities will develop rapidly.

In addition to the Anluo Railway that is about to be planned, Chengdu in the south, Yangzhou where lacquer trees are being planted, the Nanyue Kingdom that is being developed and will be recovered in the future, and the three cities in the north, south and the Yangtze River estuary that are planned to serve as shipping bases in the future.

This will form the second-level economic center structure of the future Han Dynasty.

Logically speaking, the Yangtze River is more suitable for shipping than the Yellow River, and its carrying capacity can surpass that of the Yellow River. But the problem is that 60% of the country's population is concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. If we want to develop, it will be too difficult to move so many people. Therefore, we must develop these cities first.

Because of the Sanmenxia Gorge, the Yellow River will be divided into two navigation sections, the upper, middle and lower reaches. In the future, railways will be built repeatedly in this area and a canal will be used to connect the two sections.

And now, the first step of a new plan is.

A new county town, Huaishuo County, was established on the edge of the grassland opposite Wuyuan. It served as a base for the westward movement and as a port and dock.

The reason for choosing this place is that Huo Hai knows which cities along the Yellow River can build ports, and he also knows which places on the north bank of the Yellow River can feed such a large population.

It is also Huo Hai's defense against history.

Nowadays, Wuchuan and Huaishuo have become places where people who want to make a fortune flock to, rather than places where they are forced to go. So, will the rebellion of the six towns of Wuchuan, Huaishuo still exist in the future?
Although the current Wuchuan and Huaishuo are 20 to 30 kilometers apart from the historical Wuchuan and Huaishuo respectively.

But, at least it shouldn't exist anymore.

Although industrialization can certainly curb all this, but... Huo Hai tried his best to suppress all the major thunders and civil unrest in history, and laid an unbreakable core foundation for the Han Dynasty, the Central Kingdom.

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