What is it like to lie in a sauna with no steam and just the right temperature, and wake up refreshed overnight?

This question can only be answered by Li Boya, who has appeared to speak.

"Does it hurt?"

"The concubine is already a husband's person, and she still says that she is doing this. Oh, it's dawning, I'm ashamed, change my clothes quickly, the concubine will cook and prepare for the morning meal, how can it be seen by the maids. ”

As soon as Cai Yan's slender jade legs hit the ground, a burst of ischemic soreness and pain involving the injury struck her, causing her to regain her legs and fall back into her husband's arms, and the sackcloth bath towel was almost scattered.

Li Su thoughtfully served her to change into a decent dress, and comforted: "What are you afraid of, maids, they are still on duty outside in the middle of the night to take turns to burn the fire, otherwise you and I would have frozen." Naturally, they also prepared for the morning meal. ”

"Mixing soup with your own hands for morning food, that's also a bride's gift......" Cai Yan blushed shyly, embarrassed for his dereliction of duty and rudeness.

"I don't have any courtesy here, I only act rashly." Li Su washed and cleaned up by himself, and directly carried Cai Yan back to the restaurant domineeringly.

A few days ago, although the Cai family lived in Li Su's house, their diet was still separated, the Cai family lived in Wu County for ten years, and they were also used to drinking some porridge and water, Li Su was not used to eating at all, and it did not conform to his own nutritional management of the growth period.

Therefore, this is actually the first time Cai Yan has had breakfast with Li Su, looking at the fried shrimp, shredded beef noodles, fried eggs, decorated with wead leaves, green onions and pickled kohlrabi (mustard), Cai Yan is also quite surprised.

Li Su wants to grow up, of course, he has to eat beef that has fallen to death, and he also has to eat shrimp to supplement calcium, don't look at it is just Bajun noodles, fried beef shredded cover is almost covered with the top layer of the noodle bowl, and two fried eggs are added.

If there is no wok, it will be fried in a thick-walled iron pan, and it will be fried a lot each time, and it will be picked up after a little oil like fritters, and it can be dehydrated and kept fresh for many days.

Today is just in time for the day when Li Mansion gets up once every five days in a big oil pot, and there is a lid pouring fresh out of the pot, instead of returning to the pot to heat the noodles when they are cooled, and the taste is exceptionally fresh.

When the couple was eating noodles, Cai Yan also saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other servants from the mansion coming to the Li Mansion to fight the autumn breeze, and each of them carried away dozens of catties of fried beef shredded beef and fried shrimp that had just passed the oil.

It turned out that since Li Su returned to Nanzheng and tossed out this habit of life, Liu Guanzhang also developed a piece of gold cake every month and went to Li's mansion to partner with big oil pot ingredients.

In the era when there was no thin iron pot, it was not easy to start an oil pot, and it was not good to cool down immediately after the oil was warm, even if the fire was withdrawn, it could fry a lot of things just by the residual temperature of the pot. Therefore, the most cost-effective way is to fry a big oil pot at a time, just like a big hotel, and get hundreds of catties to share with everyone. A pot of oil is fried three times, and it is replaced in half a month, and the old oil that is replaced is rewarded to the maidservants to cook.

Li Su also relied on the old noodles invented in Liaodong the year before last, and made sour thin noodles and fried fritters, but he himself felt that the fritters were unhealthy and rarely ate them. But other friends who were led astray by him liked it very much.

Cai Yan, who had just become a woman, was bubbling with happiness in her heart when she ate the sumptuous Gaibajun noodles that her husband gave her personally.

She leaned into Li Su's ear and whispered: "Marry a chicken and follow a chicken, and after the concubine, I won't drink porridge in the court, and I will eat noodles with my husband." I knew that when I was in the capital in the summer, I would be a woman who was a husband, and I must have been suffocated all these years. ”

Li Su scratched his wife's nose and said with a slight straight face: "I still have official business today, and I will go to Zijing to see the arrangements for Tuntian in a while." In the future, when we get in front of people, we still have to be polite and enter Shu County, so that we can marry the media, understand? ”

"That's nature, business is important, the concubine is waiting for you to come back."

She struggled to help Li Su put on the jewelry, and took out a piece of chicken tongue incense from the sachet with her own hands and fed it to her husband in her mouth, so as not to have a fresh breath when talking about official business.

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Leaving the mansion refreshed, sitting in a carriage, playing with the closed ivory-handled folding fan like a junior high school student turning a pen, Li Su whistled, and arrived at the yamen of the long history of Hanzhong.

In winter, the folding fan is not used by a bird, so it can only be played like a pen.

"Yo, isn't this Brother Boya, it's rare to be in a good mood to do something serious, what business is there today, since the lord accepted the concubine ceremony, it has been more than ten days, seeing that you are drunk every day, it won't be at home and chant poetry with my sister every day."

Lu Su was so busy that he seemed to be discussing with a group of civil officials the pilot of the effect of tuntian in various mountainous areas, and he saw that there were Guo Yuan and Sun Qian among Zheng Xuan's protégés. It seems that these two people are relatively studious and willing to manage ordinary civil affairs and finances, no better than Xi Xi and Cheng Bing's embroidered pillows, they can only educate the law.

Seeing Li Su coming, Lu Su also had to get up and greet him.

"What kind of poetry is right, my sister and I are repairing books at home, "Qi Min Yao Shu", you will know after writing, and it will be of great benefit to you to organize the people to Tuntian. I'm here today to see how well you organized the people to plan their tuntian, and whose pilot project was more successful. Li Su lied without blushing, and there was no need to type a draft at all.

It turned out that since he returned to Cai Yong and Wu Kuang in vain that day, although Liu Beijun knew that he would not be able to attack Liu Yan in the south this year, the preparations for civil affairs were not idle for a moment, and they were all preparing for "how to dispatch the strategic resources of the Sword Pavilion on the Western Front to Diaoyu City on the Eastern Front".

This preparation may take a winter, plus a spring, and may not be completed. In the future, it is necessary to farm for a long time to improve the transportation infrastructure in Shuzhong.

Let's talk about a very simple reason - if the troops have all reached the outside of Jianmen Pass, and there is no Diaoyu City in Bajun during the same period of history, then why did Zhong Hui and Deng Ai after conquering Hanzhong in later generations not expect to turn from Jiange to Jiangzhou to attack Chengdu? Why do you have to consume it, or smuggle it into Yinping?

If others can't do it, it means that there is naturally a difficulty, and the biggest and most conspicuous difficulty is the loss of troops, weapons, and military supplies.

When Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to fight Brazil, he did not mobilize many troops, so a small amount of military rations could be transported by land over the ridge of Yushan (the section of Daba Mountain south of Nanzheng) to the upper reaches of the ditch, and then transported down by water.

But to deal with Liu Yan's 20,000 troops in the direction of Jiangzhou and fortify the city, it is not a quick battle, but a long-term siege, and the food consumption required will be very huge.

Because the West Han River, a tributary of the Jialing River, passes through the Yang'an Pass, the grain collected in the Hanzhong Basin does not need to cross any treacherous high mountains such as Qinling and Daba Mountain, and can be transported by land on the plains, that is, Nanzheng-Yangpingguan-Yang'an Pass, a total of 160 miles of relatively flat land transportation, and the back is all waterways.

In Shudi, the cost of shipping is at least five or six times cheaper than that of flat land transportation, and dozens of times cheaper than mountain land transportation.

Therefore, as long as the Jialing River can be navigated, even if it goes from Jiameng County to Dianjiang, then to Jiangzhou, and then goes up against the Yangtze River to Chengdu, going around such a big circle, the final total transportation cost is still many times cheaper than the land route from Jiange Road, Jiangyou Road, Mianzhuguan and Chengdu.

Although the total distance of the former is more than 1,500 miles by water, the distance of the latter's mountain and land transportation is only 500 miles.

The cost advantage of waterways is so great, but Liu Beijun can't use it now, and Zhonghui Deng Ai can't use it later in history, so the only problem is the shipping conditions of the Jialing River-

The Jialing River flowing along the Dajian Mountain to the Nanshan District, the drop is too turbulent, before Guan Yu quickly decided down the river, many ships are advancing without retreating, and they can't go back to the upstream without empty loading, and they can only go in the case of "a wave of flow". If a wave cannot bring away the enemy, it will be extremely expensive to pull the ship back upstream for secondary loading if it is necessary to fight for a long time.

At first, Li Su also wanted to imitate Shangyong's side, solve the problem that the upper reaches of the Han River were too turbulent and the boat could not come back, and build a lock, but later found that the Jialing River had much more water than the Han River, and the engineering technology of this era could not make the lock at all.

Then, in combination with Li Su's proposal, Lu Su comprehensively investigated the experience of the local people in Shu and came up with a plan: in the most turbulent places in the valleys of each section of the Jialing River, set up a resettlement point for displaced people in Tuntian, to ensure that there are enough local laborers.

In this way, when the fleet reaches a dangerous gorge with too large a drop, it can organize the people to pull the fiber and let the empty ships cross the beach.

Not to mention, this hand is really the experience accumulated by the working people of Shu for thousands of years, until the time of the Republic of China, the Long March Road Jinsha River Laojun Beach above the navigable, Shu people still pull fiber over the beach (unload the goods in the ship, use manpower or vehicles and horses to transport through the dangerous beach, and then pull the shallow draft of the empty boat across the turbulent beach, and then reload the goods. "Pantan" is a unique waterway transportation mode in Shudi, just because the drop is too big).

It's just that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the population of Shu was countless times denser than that of the Han Dynasty, and many people formed commercial market towns along the Yangtze River and Jialing River. Even during the Anti-Japanese War, the factories in the coastal provinces were moved to Shudi, and they still relied on slender men to pull thousands of tons of merchant ships across the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Just look at the deeds of Lu Zuofu, a famous patriotic industrialist and Minsheng shipping (Lu Zuofu is a person from Jiangzhou Diaoyu City).

After Lu Su was reminded by Li Su, the ideas he thought of were of course correct, at least more advanced than Zhuge Liang's ideas decades later in history.

Because Zhuge Liang did not understand the method of "transporting grain from Chengdu to Hanzhong by waterway" until the last Northern Expedition, he had to carry the logistics of "transporting grain from Chengdu to Hanzhong with only one Hu".

If the waterway can be opened, although the distance is three times longer, but the cost has plummeted, at least two and a half of the four Hu grain can be transported to Hanzhong, and the national and civil mobilization effect of the Chengdu Plain will also be doubled or tripled.

But in order to have so many local people stationed all year round near the dangerous valleys along the coast, where it is not convenient for foreign boats to sail, it is first necessary to open up fields in these places to ensure that the displaced people who have moved there can feed themselves.

For this specific plan, Lu Su, Guoyuan, and Sun Qian also spent a lot of brainpower.

Li Su felt that he could just come up with the "terrace" method that he had sorted out with Cai Yan these days.