Chapter 171: Saibei Ice Field

Seeing so many Tang officers greeting Tang Zhangwei, Lin Xiaoxuan knew that Tang Zhangwei's pseudonym was Zhang Guangman, walking with him, and in Lingbei New Town, everyone was working together. *Miscellaneous ■ Zhi ■ Worm*

Because, in Lingbei Province, there are countless lands, so of these 5,000 households, Tang Zhangwei left 4,000 households in Lingbei Province, and then he planned to continue to go north.

In Lingbei Province and among the immigrants, Tang Zhangwei selected a thousand households with strong physique and no fear of cold, and they continued to march under the leadership of Tang Zhangwei.

Tang Zhangwei ordered these people to change into equipment to protect against the cold.

According to Tang Zhangwei's order, these people gave up horses, donkeys and cattle and replaced them with cold-resistant reincariner and musk oxen.

Harvested from the Arctic Circle in North America, the musk oxen were domesticated to help pull carts for expeditions in the northern province of the Tang Dynasty.

These musk oxen were bred deep in the ice fields by Tang Zhangwei's Arctic expedition.

These Datang explorers broke their hearts in order to breed these musk oxen, and finally they completely domesticated this animal.

This domestication also surprised the Akismos, because in their eyes, the musk ox was an animal that could never be domesticated.

As for the reindeer, it was originally a common cold-tolerant livestock in the Siberian forests and the residents of Liaodong Province in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty.

These reindeer from the north of the Tang Dynasty, panting, waiting for the ride of the Datang immigrants.

Reindeer can pull sleds and can also ride, but riding reindeer can be different from horses, which must be ridden around their necks, and these animals do not have enough waist strength.

Of course, in the forests of northern Siberia, dogs are indispensable for sledding and pathfinding.

At the suggestion of the local expedition, Tang Zhangwei replaced himself with a lot of dogs and Siberian ponies.

In Chang'an City, in the palace of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xizong looked at the twists and turns, Yang Fuguang, mysteriously walked over, and said to Tang Xizong: "Your Majesty." I have a top-secret message for you. ”

Tang Xizong folded the music and asked Yang Fuguang, "What's the matter!" ”

Yang Fuguang said: "I heard that in the Eastern Roman Empire, there was an assassination team that set off, these people had the forces dissatisfied with Tang Zhangwei in the Tang Expeditionary Army, and there were also some forces secretly supported by the monarchs of European countries, they set out from the Eastern Roman Empire, passed through the steppes of Eastern Europe, and came to the Siberian wilderness, their purpose was to assassinate General Tang Zhangwei. ”

Tang Xizong said: "Ridiculous, General Tang Zhangwei quelled the war in the Tang Dynasty and occupied so many territories, but every place he went to, he benefited the local people, I don't believe that there will be so many people who want to attack Tang Zhangwei, you must be too worried." ”

The glint in Yang Fuguang's eyes flashed, and he said, "Yes, I was too worried, I thought wrong." ”

Tang Zhangwei, leading a thousand residents, continued to set off north, leaving a hundred residents every 100 kilometers. These inhabitants organized themselves and built a settlement.

Then, every 10 kilometers, they left behind 10 families, and they built their houses out of wood, which is common in Siberia.

From Lingbei Province, there have been new immigrants migrating northward, and they have followed the footsteps left by Tang Zhangwei to supplement the population of these settlements, and the entire Lingbei Province has migrated with Tang Zhangwei's 5,000 families.

In addition to 500 of them, who settled in Lingbei Province, the remaining 4,500 households continued to move north, and they made up for the shortage of population in these settlements.

In these places, people hold swords in one hand and plowshares in the other.

The immigrants led by Tang Zhangwei first cut down all the trees in a radius of one mile, and then cut a road with a width of 100 meters.

The trees in these places became timber and timber for the construction of houses.

Those precious tree species were transported in the direction of Datang by cart, and there has been no shortage of demand for big trees in the Khitan steppe and in Datang itself.

Good wood has always been a local luxury in Datang.

After a settlement was built, the inhabitants cut another 200 meters of firebreak belts.

After that, the people of Datang began to measure and divide the land. Tax exemption for three years, tax reduction for 20 years, 500 acres of land in this way.

A family of three can get 1,500 acres of land, and even if they only cut down the trees and sell them to merchants, it is enough for these immigrants to make a fortune.

After that, those who did not receive enough land continued north, because there was always a piece of land in the north that belonged to these Central Plains immigrants.

According to Tang Zhangwei's order, timber trading and circulation were encouraged throughout the Tang Dynasty.

In the moors of Western Leah, there are a large number of tigers, black bears, brown bears, leopards, wolves and foxes, whose fur and meat are also a large income.

On the ice fields of Siberia, Tang Zhangwei walked firmly, and only more than 30 followers followed him.

Tang Zhangwei and the others have begun to enter the Arctic Circle, and the last hundred families have also stayed behind, and they are all soldiers from the Tang Dynasty who have gone through a hundred battles.

Tang Zhangwei and the others caught up with a white fox, and Tang Zhangwei shot it to death with a crossbow arrow.

The flesh of the white fox attracted a polar bear, and the big bear roared and rushed towards Tang Zhangwei.

Tang Zhangwei took out his longbow and aimed it at the polar bear is an arrow.

The arrows of this arrow are fed with anesthetic, the kind of highly effective nerve anesthetic that can bring down an elephant with just a little bit.

The huge polar bear, shaking for a while, fell to the ground.

Tang Zhangwei and the others stepped forward and cut the throat of the polar bear with a knife, and blood flowed on the Saibei Ice Field.

People started dancing, and they skinned the polar bear.

The delicious polar bears were divided into small pieces, the best meat was eaten with spices, and the rest was fed to the sled dogs.

The further north you go, the fewer animals you can use, and the reindeer either stay in the settlements of the Tang settlers or are slaughtered.

As for the Siberian pony, it was also left in the settlement.

Today, musk oxen have also been killed or put in camps, and now only sled dogs accompany people.

Tang Zhangwei and the others killed the bear, and after a feast of bear meat, they began to build igloos.

At this time, the team that assassinated Tang Zhangwei had already received food in the nearest settlement, and they were well fed. They were so sleepy that they had to sleep in the small village.

Then, they continued to follow Tang Zhangwei, who was building an igloo.

The igloo was finally built, and the passage was on the ground of the igloo, and from the bottom, there was a snow trail, which was maliciously for people to enter and exit.

On the roof of the igloo, there is a blowhole, which allows people to breathe and breathe.

After Tang Zhangwei and his men finished repairing the igloo, they felt very sleepy, so they got into it and began to sleep.

(End of chapter)