Time passed quietly, the cold winter came, and the goose-feather-like snow fell down like endless snow.

The people of Xuansu and Liaodong counties did not feel sad this winter, and even felt that they were better than ever.

As in previous years, when the cold winter comes, I won't go out until I have to, but although this year is the same, it is very refreshing to burn the kang fire at home and warm the turbid wine.

"Snow clearing!"

"Every household must sweep three feet of snow in front of their door!"

"Snow clearing!"

"Every household must sweep three feet of snow in front of their door!"

……

When the snow stopped, people chatting on the kang heard shouts from the street.

"Let's go see what's going on."

"What's going on? Snow? Why do you want to clear the snow? ”

“……”

When the people heard the noise, they dressed themselves and opened the gate, and saw a soldier standing before the door, and before he could speak, they heard—

"The Lord of the Counties has an order that it is snowing heavily, and the government should clean the road, but the sage has a saying - 'everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door', so every household must clean the three feet of snow in front of the door."

After speaking, without waiting for an answer, he turned away and ran away. He stopped in front of another door and repeated Fang Cai's words......

After a short time, I saw all the people sweeping the remaining three feet of snow in front of the door to one side and piling them up into a small snowy mountain. There is a snow-capped mountain in every household, and there are more than 50,000 snow-capped mountains in the city with more than 50,000 households, which looks very beautiful and dazzling.

……

The county watchman's house.

It was rare for Wei You not to deal with the affairs of the county, but Wen Jiu sat opposite each other.

"The lord went to the Shoushan camp a few days ago, and he hasn't returned yet, because he hasn't met Brother Mi, don't blame him!" Wei You said with a smile.

Qingping laughed. Mi Du hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Not to mention that my son Zhong is also an official under the adult, just say that he is also a Han Chinese, and it is a pity that he is old and decrepit and cannot go to the battlefield in person, and now he can only use a little pickled thing to feel deeply guilty!" ”

"Where is Brother Mi, if it weren't for the help of your Mi family, how could we be today." Wei You said with a smile.

Mi Du seemed to be even more anxious on his face, and said: "It's serious, it's serious, it's serious, it's not deserved, it's not deserved!" The work of size, Ande Qingping? ”

"Qingping can know the nine counties of the border county, which county did not have the help of our Mi family, Zhen family and other families, but how to ...... in the end Hey, if it weren't for Zhang Zhonglang to send troops early under the orders of the imperial court, it is not known whether these counties still belong to the Han Dynasty! ”

"The imperial court has sent troops?" Wei You raised his eyebrows, then seemed to think of something, got up and said, "Brother Mi, I don't know if you have the idea of going to see the lord?" ”

Mi Du couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, originally he thought that he wouldn't be able to see the lord this time, that's right, it's the lord, he also defeated Gongsun Du at some point, but because of some of Gongsun Du's plans, he temporarily took the identity of the head of the Mi family, except for when there was no one else, he was still called an adult, not the lord.

Therefore, Mi Du was not too disappointed when he heard that Gongsun Du was not in the city, but now Wei You's words clearly seemed to have guessed something, and it seemed that there was something important. immediately agreed: "There is Brother Lao Mi." ”

"Where!" Wei Yu waved his hand and said, "Wei still has other important tasks, and he can't leave the city, so he can only let the lord's relatives take Brother Mi to go, don't blame it!" ”

"No blame, no blame! It is Mi's honor to be attracted by people close to adults. Mi Du said with a lucky face.

Kissing, that is, pro-soldiers, it is not okay to say that it is a close person.

Wei You nodded noncommittally, and immediately summoned a personal soldier who stayed in the county guard's mansion, and after explaining to him, he ordered him to take Mi Du to the Shoushan camp.

Out of the county guard's mansion, Mi Du saw the small snow mountains lined up on both sides of the street, and couldn't help but be stunned, but before he could think about it, the personal soldiers who guided him reminded him: "Mr. Mi, it's time to go, otherwise you won't be able to get to the Shoushan camp before dark." ”

Shoushan Camp, since there is the word Shoushan, I think it is on the Shoushan, or close to the left, but the distance is not far. However, looking at Xiaoxueshan, Mi Du felt that this was very reasonable: "Well, let's hurry up, if we spend the night outside this day, I'm afraid it won't be possible." ”

As he spoke, Mi Du tightened the hat on his head, pinched the clothes on his body, and then turned over and rode slowly towards the south gate with his own soldiers.

When you leave the city, you are no longer like a swept away street, but only covered with snow, and you will be in a trance.

The soldier who led the way stopped Midu, and then took something from his horse. Under Mi Du's astonished gaze, two chairs were put together, but the two chairs were not only separated from each other, but also connected by several wooden planks.

Then he saw that the two horses were put on a different set of ropes by their own soldiers, and they were connected by ropes.

"Mr. Mi, please be seated!"

Midu sat down on the chair in the back, and then the soldiers sat on the chair in front of him, and with a shout, he moved quickly, even faster than riding on horseback.

Although it was just Midu's feeling, he didn't think he was wrong.

"This method is very good, not to mention anything else, even if you want to go out to do business on a snowy day in the future, it is not impossible. So...... That's it! There is a way that people have me, and people have nothing, and making money is just ...... But this thing is too simple, as long as it is seen, it can be easily imitated, and it seems that you have to think of another way to cover it up. Even if you can't hide it for a lifetime, it's good to hide it for a while. ”

……

"Kill!"

A cry of rage was accompanied by a tyrannical murderous machine.

Whew, whew, whew......

Not a howling wind, but the only trace left by a blade through the air.

"Kill!"

……

Somewhere in the first mountain, even if it is already covered in silver, it has not broken the shouting and coldness that has been going on for nearly two months. Gongsun Du glanced at the soldiers who had been trained yesterday, and they already had a trace of fierce aura, and couldn't help but nod, and then walked to a certain place in the first mountain under the escort of his own soldiers.

"Hurry up, do you want to eat? It's all good! ”

Unlike the previous murderous scenes, this place is full of resentment and death......

I saw people in ragged clothes, unable to tell whether they were men or women, digging something under the shouts of heavily armed Han soldiers, waving their weapons, or carrying stones to a certain place, or ......

It's bondage!

That's right, yes, they are all aliens caught by Gongsun Du, and they are mining the mineral deposits of Shoushan at this time.

Shoushan, the first thing that comes to mind when I see this name is that the legend of Taiqing Laozi once refined the copper of Shoushan as a spiritual treasure. Although this is only a legend and difficult to study, it is true that it is rich in copper, iron ore, and other associated ores, but the number is much smaller.

Now there is less than a year left for Gongsun Du, and if you want to fight against Xianbei, in addition to training elite soldiers, you must also have sophisticated equipment.

If compared to the elite, how can the Han army, which can't eat much meat in a year, compare with the Xianbei army that often eats meat, only sophisticated blades and armor can make up for the gap.

Whether it's a blade or armor, you need metal after all.

Buy? Although Gongsun Du has made a lot of money by selling a lot of captured wounded horses, the sale of salt and iron is not so simple, even if you want to buy it, someone has to sell it. Judging from the amount of Gongsun Du needed at the moment, it can't be done in five or six years by buying it, and this is still allowed by the imperial court.

In this way, if you want to get enough iron for the armor of the blade, you have to dig it yourself.

And it just so happened that Shoushan happened to be such a place, according to Gongsun Du's calculations, with the current more than 10,000 captives mining for more than seven hours a day, it would take decades to complete the mining.

Shoushan is naturally rich in mineral deposits, and in less than a year of mining, as long as the speed of smelting can keep up, it is enough to create enough armor to equip all sergeants.

Although the smelting technology at this time has been greatly improved compared with the pre-Qin period, it is still not very good in the eyes of Gongsun Du, and it cannot keep up with the mining speed of more than 10,000 captives. Therefore, he came up with a new smelting technology, which greatly increased the smelting speed, more than ten times.

Gongsun Du walked for a few miles, turned the corner of the mountain, looked at the black pillar of smoke that rose to the sky and corresponded to the snow-white distance on the ground, and sighed: "Good! The blast furnace smelting technology that a certain came up with in vain is really good. I just don't know when the winged Dapeng knife will be cast! ”

Since the handle of Mo Gao's knife was broken, Gongsun Du had no horse war blade to take advantage of, and as for rebuilding the hilt, he didn't have the slightest idea, but strictly ordered his best blacksmiths to start forging a hundred smelted iron. I hope that before the advent of Xianbei next year, I can create a plausible winged Dapeng knife.

Even if it can't spread its wings like the drawings, at least it is made of hundreds of iron, and it is not too much to think about, at least it is enough.

Killing the enemy is enough!

Restraining his mind, Gongsun Du shook the snowflakes on his shoulders, ignored the light snowflakes that floated again, and walked towards the pillar of smoke.

After inspecting the blast furnace of smelting iron ore and seeing that there was no omission as before, Gongsun Du turned around and went to the place where the prisoners were mining.

After seeing hundreds of mines, more than 10,000 prisoners, and thousands of soldiers guarding the town, Gongsun Du embarked on the road back to the Shoushan camp.

It was just right to return to the camp when it was getting dark.

As soon as he entered the camp, he saw a soldier standing at the gate of the camp, as if waiting for him.

"Lord, the head of the Mi family is here."

Gongsun Du paused and said, "Hmm." Take him to a room and talk about it. ”

"Yes, my lord."

Gongsun Du returned to the room and was taking off his armor, and the soldiers reported that Midu had arrived. Gongsun Du's hand stopped, and Chongyangyi made a look.

Yang Yi understood, then retreated, drove away the other soldiers, and personally guarded the door.

"My lord."

Syllable~

Hanging up the armor, Gongsun Du turned around and said, "Sit." ”

"Thank you, Lord."

"Is it safe on the road?"

Mi Du said respectfully: "Xianbei has retreated, but he hasn't even met a bandit." ”

"The imperial court has sent troops?" Gongsun Du was a little surprised.

"Yes, the troops are led by Taichang Lord Zhang Huan, and he is still the general of the Huns." Midu nodded.

Gongsun Du pondered for a moment and said, "Is there any news of my father and Zhang Hong?" ”

Mi Du was stunned for a moment, and said secretly: Does this have anything to do with it?

But he replied: "I haven't heard the news of the boss and Zigang." ”

Gongsun Du frowned, this Luoyang is like a man-devouring beast, Gongsun Yan has been there, there is no news as soon as Qin Wu goes, and now Zhang Hong is the same, it is really incredible.

Seeing this, Mi Du said, "Do you need your subordinates to secretly investigate?" ”

Gongsun Du did not say yes or disagree, but said: "Xianbei has retreated, I don't know what the situation is in the counties?" ”

Mi Du shook his head with an ugly face and said, "There is no one out of ten." ”

"Hey!" Although he had expected it, Gongsun Du couldn't help but sigh in his heart, feeling very sad, and feeling sad for the people of the border county.

The border county is not as poor as the Central Plains, living in poverty, and then there is foreign incursion, if the court is strong, it is fine, but now that the troubled times are coming, in addition to sadness, it can only be sad!

But he couldn't help it!

Weakness is the original sin!