The big man has a living father

Chapter 173 (Long Chapter) Steamship Trial
Huaishuo, by the river.

An ordinary wooden sailing ship, or to be more precise, a very huge wooden sailing ship, had a steam engine placed on the deck surface.

This wooden sailboat had no sails, but was sailing upstream on the Yellow River!

There was cheering at the scene!
Huang Jiao was a cook a year ago. Last year, he was one of the researchers of steam engines for trains, and could be considered a researcher who changed his career midway.

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Today, he is a leading researcher on steam-powered ships.

In addition to Huang Jiao, there was also a ship expert, an official from the coast, named Er Kuan.

Erkuan, whose surname is Er, can also be written as Ni. In this era, Ni is still pronounced as Er, which is the same character as Er. To be precise, Er and Ni were later merged, and most people with the surname Ni are his descendants.

Speaking of which, Er Kuan's fate is currently the most unfortunate in the entire Han Empire.

In history, he taught himself the Five Classics and performed the famous performance art of "hoeing the fields with scriptures in hand". This was a classic story that was often talked about even in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After becoming famous, he studied Shangshu under Ouyang Sheng, and was then recommended by the county as a doctor of the Imperial College. At that time, Kong Anguo was still a doctor of the Imperial College, so he also taught under Kong Anguo, and was proficient in classics and calendar, and good at writing.

Then he passed the examination and was promoted by Emperor Wu of Han. He was also appreciated by Zhang Tang and became a literary official of the Imperial Court, a judge, Jingzhao Yin, a Shiyushi, a Zhongdafu, and a Zuo Neishi. In the first year of Yuanfeng, he was promoted to Yushi Dafu and participated in the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai. In the first year of Taichu, he worked with Sima Qian, Gongsun Qing, and Hu Sui to calculate and formulate the Taichu Calendar.

In history, this man was an all-round talent. From water conservancy to academic research, from people's livelihood to law, there was nothing he didn't know.

This should be a very famous talent in history.

However, under the influence of Huo Hai, Erkuan's entire story of success was cut off at the first stage.

It is true that he was a student of Kong Anguo in the Imperial College, but Kong Anguo himself was not valued, so how could he be favored by Emperor Liu Che? Moreover, Huo Hai accidentally experimented with the Imperial College examination and even ruined the selection of filial and honest officials.

Of course, there is no inspirational story about Er Kuan, the first person to pass the imperial examination and become an official before the establishment of the imperial examination.

And now Huo Hai is the lieutenant of Chang'an County. What does Huo Hai have to do with him? Naturally, he will not be the prefect of Jingzhao in the future.

Without managing the people's livelihood, he naturally could not have shown any talent in governing officials before Emperor Liu Che, naturally could not have been ranked among the Three Dukes, and naturally could not have been promoted all the way.

However, Erkuan took another path.

He was from Lu, or to be more precise, from Qiancheng.

Qiancheng is the hometown of the military saint Sun Wu, which is also the Laizhou Bay in later generations.

After realizing that it was difficult for students of the Imperial College to become officials directly, Erkuan was the first to go to university.

The so-called universities today are places where Confucianists, Legalists, Huang-Lao Taoists, etc., who have already learned to read and write, go to learn simplified Chinese characters and Mandarin.

Erkuan was highly favored by his teacher.

The main thing is that this person’s hometown is full of evil.

If a place can produce a martial saint named Sun, how do you know if it will produce another great man named Er?

Besides, the person with the surname Er is a generation older than the person with the surname Sun. He might be a super-doubled version of the Martial Saint Sun Wu.

As a result, Erkuan, who was already famous for his performance art, also became a role model in college.

You said this person's luck is unstoppable.

Or maybe it can be said that he is the kind of person that should exist in history.

In history, he was the first person in the Imperial Academy to be selected as an official through examination, that is, the first person to become an official by passing the imperial examination before the imperial examination.

And now that the Imperial College examination is no longer in existence, he has become... the first person to be admitted through college to become an official at the imperial court!
After the system of selecting filial and honest officials was stopped, Emperor Liu Che did not rush to finalize all the policies, but instead made many attempts, all kinds of attempts.

This naturally includes university exams.

People like Erkuan are proficient in both the Five Classics and new studies. They must be high-quality talents.

So last year, Liu Che tried to organize a university examination and selected a group of talents.

Even the university entrance examination was presided over by this old martial arts master himself, as Wen Weng happened to arrive in Chang'an, and he became the chief examiner.

You can say this is the Han Dynasty version of the imperial examination, or you can say it is the Han Dynasty version of the national examination.

Anyway, Erkuan ranks first.

After ranking first, Liu Che arranged for Er Kuan to be an official.

This official was not some other official, but a new position, Si Ke, which could be understood as the court’s special commissioner stationed in the academy, or as a member of the court branch of the Academy of Sciences.

Erkuan worked at the research institute, and actually helped Liu Che to keep an eye on the institute and helped the people at the institute to coordinate and resolve official document approval issues and other resource allocation issues.

But in fact, at present, these things are arranged by Huo Hai's people, and Xiang Xu is responsible for them all.

Naturally, there won't be many conflicts. This official position is here to train researchers to follow procedures. If Xiang Xu is transferred in the future, this work will have to be intensified.

But for now, Erkuan at least has nothing to do.

So Erkuan also conducted research.

After all, a large number of his classmates joined the research institute.

The reason is that if you fail to get into university and become an official, then you can go to a research institute. Doing research in the institute has a great chance of being noticed by Emperor Wu Che and becoming an official.

They all do research in order to get official positions.

Erkuan was already an official, but he was inspired by them to do research.

Fortunately, he came to do research.

Everyone in the research institute was completely confused about ships at sea.

Erkuan understands! Erkuan is from Qiancheng. This place was later called Dongying Guangrao County, a coastal city!

Moreover, the river originally led to the sea, and my son happened to be smart and could learn anything quickly, so he learned the shipbuilding technology in his hometown.

So Erkuan worked with the people in the institute who were originally researching ships to study the structures of larger ships.

In addition, Huo Hai would give them some "inspiration" from time to time, so the ship developed very quickly.

Erkuan's research on ships overshadowed his main job.

Liu Che did not reject this situation. After all, there were many such people who were good at many things in the Han Dynasty.

Besides, isn’t this just technocracy?

So Erkuan took over the research work on the steam ship hull completely.

Today, when Erkuan saw the steamboat moving forward on the shore, he couldn't help but feel a twitch in his heart.

The sailboat used at this time was a fusion ship.

It looks like a tower ship, a warship, and has sails.

The main thing is that Liu Che had already been planning to take back the Kingdom of Nanyue.

Therefore, Liu Che had already ordered people to collect ship technologies from coastal and water areas across the country and combine them together.

This type of ship is three stories high! It is nearly 20 meters high from bottom to top.

Because the length is also twenty meters, the width is also made very wide.

However, the flaw of this ship is that the bottom technology is not good. Although it is similar to the airtight cabin structure, it has no backbone. It can only sacrifice the water holding capacity of the cabin and make the ship flatter to gain stability.

As a result, the entire ship's load capacity was only about ten tons.

With the invention of sails, technology advanced further, and the attic of the ship was directly eliminated and the cabin was modified instead.

There is no airtight compartment structure, but the hull is deepened.

This is not a step backward or a technological regression.

It is because nowadays, the material limitations of ships are here, and the airtight compartment structure is a hindrance. When the draft of the ship becomes deeper, it quickly becomes 80 tons, and even the maximum can reach 100 tons!
This is a six or seven-fold increase in draft!
At this time, this ship with a load capacity of 80 tons, without any sails, no trackers towing it, and no oars rowing it, was sailing upstream on the surging Yellow River.

Erkuan, as a person from the coastal area, immediately realized one thing.

The shipping model has changed again!
Er Kuan knew that most sections of the Yellow River were not suitable for navigation, so this terrifying boat that did not require manpower would eventually be used on the ocean.

Then...my hometown?!
Erkuan’s hometown is at the junction of Jishui River and Zishui River!
Huo Hai pushed and Er Kuan came back to his senses.

Huo Hai: "How's the new hull?"

Huo Hai was talking about the steel hull.

When Huo Hai saw that the wooden sailboat converted into a steam engine ship could sail, he knew that the power system was at least mostly OK.

As long as we can make a steel hull, the time to head to the ocean will be near, within two years at the latest.

Er Kuan then remembered that although the sailboat at that moment was huge, it was still small compared to the boat he was experimenting with.

The ship that I researched can carry more than 400 tons of pure cargo excluding coal and steam engines!
That's the real Big Mac!
Once it sets sail, a ship can carry as much cargo as today's horse-drawn carriages can carry!
And the speed is much faster than horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, and rickshaws!
Er Kuan couldn't help but tremble when he thought of this: "Grandmaster...has already overcome the key difficulty."

In fact, the difficulty of steam turbines is far from that complicated.

At the beginning, Huo Hai wanted to evolve the ship from wooden material to one made entirely of iron.

But after he mentioned the idea of ​​the steamship to Tang Si'er and the others, the blacksmith Tang Si'er was confused instead.

Tang Sier: "Why do we want to build an iron ship?"

Huo Hai said as a matter of course: "Because the technology required to make a wooden boat bigger is very difficult, it is difficult for us to make great progress in technology in a short period of time, so we can only make progress in materials."

Of course Huo Hai would think so. Just imagine, the huge warships of the Song Dynasty and Zheng He's treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, could ordinary people build them?
The woodworking technology here would probably take more than two hundred years to be fully studied and accumulated.

If we take the all-iron ship route, we will have aircraft carriers in two hundred years.

but!

However, Huo Hai was wrong.

Take the giant warship for example. The warship is also called Mengchong, which actually means to charge fiercely. It is the meaning of a small boat in the Han Dynasty at that time, or a fighting ship.

The name can explain its characteristics, that is, the boat is small, turns around quickly, and is convenient for fighting. Once a fight breaks out, they will rush forward in large numbers.

Later, huge battleships were given this name, which was purely the result of the random guessing by laymen.

The same goes for ironclad ships.

Huo Hai really thought that the three words "steamship" and "ironclad ship" were tied together.

In fact, it is not at all.

The so-called strong ships and powerful guns, the so-called iron ships, should actually be called iron-boned ships!
The ship's frame is made of steel, and the cabin is made using the same techniques as wooden planks.

The reason why there are ironclad ships is because it is too painful to attack wooden ships with cannons, so iron sheets are used for defense!

Purely ironclad steam ships were a very late development.

Tang Si'er, the blacksmith, also asked his question: "If wood is not hard enough to make a boat, and we need a harder material, then can't we just make the boat's frame out of steel?"

This question was also asked to Huo Hai.

Then Huo Hai began to think hard, and finally remembered something he had seen in another short video.

When Europe was at war in the past, oak was used to build ships and even aircraft carriers. Due to the unstable situation, a large number of oak trees were planted. Later, oak was not used and iron was used instead, which led to that huge oak tree becoming a landscape in later generations.

If we think about it the other way around, doesn't it mean that ships of that era still used a lot of wooden planks?

Yes, the combustion chamber of the steam engine must be very easy to burn, so that part can be covered with iron sheets, or even made of pure iron structure.

The rest of the parts can be made of wood.

In this way, the weight of the hull is greatly reduced and the manufacturing cost is greatly reduced.

There were no other things in the Han Dynasty, but wood, which was plentiful in the South!

Then Huo Hai began to ponder things related to ships, and finally he remembered a lot.

For example, why is a ship called a ship? At the beginning, a ship did not have a propeller, but a paddle wheel. Because there was a wheel on one side of the ship, just like the wheel of a train, but it was made in a shape that can push water, so it is called a ship.

After figuring this out, researchers now have one less project to study.

This is almost not difficult at all.

The only two difficulties are, firstly, how to connect the huge steel frame materials to improve the strength of the joints.

Second, how to evolve from paddle wheel to propeller propulsion.

Huo Hai has seen the video on how the propeller does not leak water!
But...forgot.

This matter requires Tang Sier, Huang Jiao, Erkuan and others to use their brains.

Anyway, Huo Hai has mastered the two difficult techniques. If they can't master the next technique, what's the use of them?

That means there are not enough talented people, so we should continue to promote science and select more talents.

After hearing Er Kuan say that they had mastered the key technology, Huo Hai couldn't help but ask, "What method did you use?"

Er Kuan: "In the beginning, we used the long nut method..."

"To put it simply, it is to use the shape of screws and nuts that you proposed. The steel frame is made very long, round and threaded, and one end is made into a nut-shaped concave. When connecting, screw the other steel frame into it."

Huo Hai poked his head out.

Huo Hai doesn't understand materials, but he knows two things.

First, rebar is very tough and resistant to wear, bending, corrosion and everything else.

Second, the only thing about rebar is that it is not resistant to twisting.

The reason is that I saw a few fitness bloggers playing with arm bars, and some fans made a spoof by mailing rebar to them and asking them to bend it.

So when they shoot videos, they do joint challenges. Since they know it is impossible to bend rebar, they set a high reward and offer money to anyone who can bend the rebar.

As a result... one of the guys working on the construction site came up and snapped it, and the rebar didn't bend, but broke into two pieces.

There was even one time when it was tried, it broke into three pieces.

In short, when it comes to steel, you should never make it into long strips and twist it.

Otherwise, even the front axle of an off-road vehicle, made of steel as thick as an arm, would be broken by the huge twisting force caused by the wheel suddenly being suspended in the air and then falling to the ground.

So, Erkuan and the others just found the most wrong answer to try?
This is extremely bad luck.

As expected, good things come to those who wait.

Seeing Huo Hai's expression, Er Kuan knew that the master must understand this, and laughed awkwardly: "We embarrassed you..." "But after discovering that long steel strips are easy to twist off, we decisively changed our thinking and used bolts to connect them."

"At the same time, we bend the two sections of steel at the top, connect them with bolts, and weld them with hot molten steel."

The welding technology has existed since the Shang Dynasty, and welding was used in Sanxingdui.

However, welding is not quite the same as electric welding. Welding with hot molten steel is a technology brought by General Motors.

Huo Hai’s heating pipe team originally used this method to weld steel pipes, and they are very familiar with the technology.

Erkuan transferred two technicians from Chang'an.

The welding technology there is already very advanced. Copper materials are too expensive, and they are also researching new materials such as steel materials. So they already have this technology, and they completed the welding directly after arriving in Huaishuo.

To put it bluntly, Erkuan and his colleagues are trying to figure out what technology can solve the problem. As for the specific technology, they will first look for it at the Institute of Technology. If they can't find it, they will do further research.

But so far, most of the technology can be found.

Er Kuan was excited: "We have also developed a riveting method!"

Huo Hai: "Do you heat up the rivet, put it through the hole, and then hammer the other end into a cap, and then you can rivet the two pieces of iron together?"

Er Kuan: “…”

"Master, you knew this but you didn't tell us? We've been researching this for a long time!"

Nonsense, this is not a difficult technology. In fact, the riveting technology was used in bronze ware from the Shang Dynasty, but it was replaced by new technology over time.

Huo Hai: "So, Cyborg is fine now?"

Er Kuan: "Within 80 meters, there will be no problem. Above 80 meters, we are thinking of a new plan."

Now there is no problem in making a 20-meter-long wooden sailboat, and there is no problem in making a steel-framed ship over 60 meters long. Putting the two together, there is no problem in building a platform for a steel-framed ship over 60 meters long.

It is easier to make a steam engine larger than to make it smaller, which means...

As long as you combine these things and resolve the little frictions of these things coming together, you'll be successful?

Huo Hai took a deep breath.

No matter what, I have to wait until I see success on the spot before I can leave.

Otherwise, if a small problem arises right after he leaves, the researchers will not be able to solve it, and it will take three years to solve it. But Huo Hai knew how to solve it.

Isn't that stupid?

Huo Hai looked at Er Kuan and patted him on the shoulder: "It's enough within 80 meters. Above 80 meters, the wood-steel hybrid structure is no longer the best choice."

"No matter how strong the wood is, it will still deform if it exceeds 80 meters, and the steel frame will also deform."

"If the steel frame is made into a frame that can be riveted to the iron sheet, the steel frame structure, combined with the stronger tensile strength of the iron sheet, can naturally make a large ship over 80 meters long."

Hearing this, Erkuan suddenly came to his senses.

Yes, since the materials are not good, then change them.

If you don't replace one of the two materials that make up the structure but replace the other one, at least the overall strength will increase significantly.

If the materials are no longer suitable at that time, just continue to change them.

What Erkuan has comprehended now is a major direction and school of thought in scientific and technological progress… the powerful flying bricks.

Precision technology, that's another genre.

At this time, all the ships on the Yellow River had disappeared from sight.

This speed.

Huo Hai felt that this speed should be similar to that of the first generation of ferry ships during the Industrial Revolution.

You have to know that before that, ships were moving very slowly, close to the edge of the continent.

With a strong hull and powerful power, you can cross the river directly!
If Huo Hai remembered correctly, crossing the Atlantic Ocean should have shortened the two-month journey to two weeks.

Under this technical condition, it should take one month to travel from North America to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.

Huo Hai gritted his teeth.

Sharpening knives does not miss woodcutters.

If we were to build a first-generation ship now to search for the American continent, it would probably take three to five years to make a round trip.

Because of the slow speed and unclear direction, if you deviate from the alley, it is easy to be wiped out.

But if we develop a second-generation ship directly, the three to five years time may be shortened to one year!
This is not just a small speed increase that can save a few months of searching time.

The advancement of technology has improved the ability to deal with various crises. The whole process is as if the probability of everything is 0.1. Five 0.1s multiplied together is one in one hundred thousand. If the probability of everything is 0.9, then the total success rate is 60%!
Huo Hai looked at Er Kuan and said, "You still have three skills to master!"

"First of all, the waves on the sea are much stronger than those on the Yellow River. You need to research a technology that can reduce the swaying amplitude of the ship when facing waves! To prevent all crew members from getting seasick."

"Secondly, you also need to develop a complete command system suitable for large ships. The ship's operational functions and the ship's usage and living functions must all be integrated."

"Third, you have to try to design a steam engine structure specifically for ships, but it must also be compatible with sails!"

What if the ship is just about to find its destination, but there is not enough coal for the return trip, and the team has no choice but to grit their teeth and return?
A little more compatibility may affect the ship's transport capacity and structure, but it will give it greater survivability.

In the future, these ships will not be used for professional shipping, but as explorers!

Ballast? All wood!

Er Kuan nodded seriously: "Understood!"

At this time, a boat came from the other side of the river.

A group of people who were waiting for the test ship to return were stunned.

How could there be a ship coming from the other side?
You know, officials from Wuyuan County are also present at the scene today.

When the boat was halfway there, it waved a red flag.

"Red flag! There is good news, and it's a battle report!" Huang Jiao has been here for so long, of course he knows that this was stipulated by Huo Hai himself. Red means battle reports and great victory reports.

But how come the news of a great victory came to the North from the South?
Huo Hai tilted his head. The Nanyue Kingdom sensed the terror of the Han Dynasty and surrendered?

You know, Huo Hai thought that the Kingdom of Nanyue was a big trouble.

This place is densely populated with naval forces even after more than 2,000 years, of course, mainly network naval forces. To fight against the Nanyue Kingdom, naval forces are needed. This is the consensus of all the Han generals.

Apart from other things, in the official cognition of the Han Dynasty, the Pearl River is not a river, but a sea! It is called the near sea!

At present, because the Han Dynasty does not know that it can bypass the Pearl River to reach the Kingdom of Nanyue from the southwest, many people in the Han Dynasty believe that the Kingdom of Nanyue is a large island isolated off the southern coast of our country!
This is also the reason why the Kingdom of Nanyue was able to survive for a hundred years beside the Han Dynasty.

It's not because the big man didn't want to do anything to him, but because the big man thought that it was "outside the mainland" and there was no threat to him. It was not like someone was sleeping beside his bed, but just someone was sleeping soundly outside the door.

If there is someone sleeping soundly outside the door, just don't bother to pay attention to him.

But Huo Hai knew where that place was.

Moreover, as Princess Wei Chang went to collect cotton, many people who had been to Nanyue began to move around in Chang'an. People in Chang'an realized that Nanyue was not overseas at all, but on the other side of a river. It was just that the section of the river where it flowed into the sea was a bit wide, so it was mistaken for the sea.

Many officials in the current court have learned from the plan proposed by Zhao Tuo during the Qin Dynasty to use the Lingqu Canal.

The so-called Lingqu Canal is an artificial river where the water system on the Han side enters the Pearl River. By using the gates on the artificial river, the water level of the artificial river can be raised and lowered to achieve the freedom of navigation or prohibition of navigation.

Once the Lingqu Canal was completed, the Nanyue Kingdom could only be attacked, because they could only guard against a large group of ships suddenly appearing downstream to attack them.

But cannot counterattack.

Because when they counterattacked, the gates of the natural river channel outside the Lingqu Canal were open, the water flowed away from the old river channel, there was no water in the artificial river, and the ships from the Nanyue Kingdom could not go up.

Now the Han Dynasty is naturally doing the same thing, restoring the Lingqu Canal and striving to win against the Kingdom of Nanyue with ten times the number of troops that Zhao Tuo had.

But... we are still a long way from building the Fubo Navy.

Therefore, the only possibility for the news of the great victory from the south is that... the Kingdom of Nanyue surrendered itself?

Tang Si'er, who was standing next to him, pinched his chin and said, "Is there a possibility... is there a possibility that the Tianzhu company has succeeded and the team has already arrived in Tianzhu?"

Several people looked at each other and laughed: "Nonsense."

Huang Jiao: "Do you think it is possible that the General of the Cavalry has reached the Qilian Mountains, so the news came back from the Western Regions, and the battle report came from the South."

Several people looked at each other and laughed.

how is this possible.

The General of Cavalry was in the Northeast twenty days ago. Where did you take him?

Luo Xiahong: "It's a pity that this person doesn't know flag language. It seems that we need to train more flag language soldiers."

Huo Hai nodded: "The flag signal soldiers will be useful at sea in the future."

In the era without radio, flag signals were the most convenient way for fleets to inform each other of messages. It was impossible to send a small boat across every time.

The ship stopped at Huaishuo Port and the people on it immediately got off the ship, shouting.

"The general of the cavalry has fought his way to the Qilian Mountains, forcing the right wing of the Xiongnu to flee to the Western Regions. The entire right wing of the grassland has been emptied!"

"Ah?" Huo Hai didn't expect this.

Messenger: "The share price of Chang'an Xiyu Company has skyrocketed!"

"At present, the entire southern desert is empty. There is no need to garrison Huaishuo with heavy troops. Your Majesty has ordered that the westward movement be launched immediately. In addition, please ask Commander Huo to send a troop to the western part of the southern desert to establish a new stronghold. And ask the general and Manager Bu Shi to deploy the Xiongnu to occupy the southern desert."

Huo Hai thought about it in his mind.

The right part, the Chanyu part, and the left part.

The three parts are divided vertically in a north-south strip.

Natural conditions divide the desert into the northern desert, the great Gobi desert, and the southern desert.

The entire north was formed:
[The Right Mobei, the Chanyu Mobei, and the Left Mobei.]

The Great Gobi Desert on the Right, the Great Gobi Desert on the Chanyu, and the Great Gobi Desert on the Left.

The right part is south of the desert, the Shanyu part is south of the desert. The left part is south of the desert. 】

Such terrain.

If the eldest brother bypassed the Shanyu's tribe in Mobei and went straight to the right Mobei, and defeated the right wing of the Xiongnu and forced them to flee to the Western Regions, then the plan of driving the tiger to devour the wolf would have been successful.

Secondly, of the nine regions in the north that were naturally divided by politics and topography, eight are now in the hands of the Han Dynasty, leaving only the Mobei area of ​​the Shanyu tribe!

The Shanyu tribe had a real population of 600,000, and they were all wiped out!

What followed was no longer a large-scale war, but a gradual erosion of the Chanyu tribe.

Let them feel the suffering of the Han Dynasty in the first hundred years.

I want to fight, but the cost is too high.

If you don't fight, the other party will come and hit you every day, which is so despicable and makes you feel angry!
"Xiongnu Chanyu, you have finally met your end!"

The Shanyu army is surrounding Longcheng, and they definitely cannot support a population of 600,000.

As long as there are always people attracting attention here, the marginal tribes of the Xiongnu Chanyu will be swallowed up one by one and become the property of the Han Dynasty.

It is indeed time to start the westward expansion plan!

Huo Hai has watched a lot of western movies and knows how to implement the westward expansion plan.

Huo Hai has two options. The first is to develop ranches, small ranches are also acceptable.

In addition to the large ranch, the Hun Company will have many small areas left, all of which will be rented out to private individuals to train cowboys and small ranchers.

Then it was announced that the Huns could go gold mining at will in the Gold Mountain!
The big chunks of gold belong to the imperial court, and the gold sands belong to the gold diggers!
Once the gold rush takes place, the population will quickly move westward. Although this does not mean much for the total population, the grasslands will soon no longer be populated only by Huns. Instead, a large number of Han gold diggers will enter. It is possible that many of them will succeed and eventually return home in glory.

But many people will fail, and those who fail will definitely stay and develop. As long as there are many people settling down, development will be very fast, and then the entire area will be stable.

So, now the strategic focus has changed.

The first thing was that Wei Qing had to shift from a massive offensive to a defensive position, while absorbing the land and guarding against the desperate actions of Yizhixie Chanyu.

Second, we need to divide our troops to deal with the Western Regions!
Why did the stock price of Western Regions Company soar when the right wing of Xiongnu occupied the Western Regions?
The purpose of the Western Region Company was to occupy part of the franchised commercial rights in the Western Region. Now that the Xiongnu occupied the Western Region, this plan seemed to have failed, but why did it rise sharply? !

Because there is finally a way to use the knife!

The Han envoy might already be in Dunhuang ready to go!
[My death is beyond your imagination! ]

[What did the Han envoy come for? To die! ]

[What we Han people pursue is free love. I tell you clearly, King of Loulan, I just like your mother. If you have the guts, chop me up! ]

Although the quality of ordinary people is getting higher and higher, especially after learning the "Morality" course in the simplified Chinese version of "Children's Six Lessons Combined Edition", the excellent ideas of Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius, and Mozi, especially the ideas of suppressing violent thinking, have become a consensus in Chang'an.

Although most people accepted it and thought they were right.

After all, the Han Dynasty had experienced a century of duels. Everyone had different moral concepts and there was no unified standard of judgment, which easily led to duels.

Now that we have the official guidance of moral thought, the "Official Duel Trigger Conditions and Restrictions Manual", everyone is of course willing to learn and use it.

This has caused the average quality of the Han people, especially in the Chang'an area, to soar.

However, a large number of people active in the stock market are speculators. They know clearly that the Huns are the father of hundreds of countries in the Western Regions. When they arrive in the Western Regions, the Western Regions will definitely be strongly hostile to the Han Dynasty, and they can only choose to be hostile to the Han Dynasty.

That big man didn't do anything. Isn't it natural for him to send troops when he is treated as hostile?

Huo Hai immediately realized that everything was going more smoothly than he had imagined.

It had the opposite effect successfully.

Huo Hai hurriedly wrote a poem and asked the messenger to send it back to Chang'an as quickly as possible, promising that he would be promoted to an official position if the poem was delivered.

The messenger had just arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River and was still at the dock. He didn't even have time to drink a sip of water before he immediately got on the boat and turned back: "Go, go, go, move, move, go back to Chang'an!!!"

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