Chapter 37: The Exaggeration and Introvertedness of the Ancients

The bigger the official does, the more interested Yun Lang is in the lives of the small people.

The army was ready to freshen up the entire Shanglin Garden, which gave Yun Lang a chance to observe the living conditions of the people in Shanglin Yuan from a close distance.

At this time, there were basically no natural villages in Shanglin Yuan, and all the villages were managed in a family-style manner that existed in Wubao.

After all, the way land is allocated in Shanglin Yuan is very different from the place.

Part of the land here was used to house the wild people who came down from the Qinling Mountains, and the other part was sold to the wealthy people in Guanzhong.

Both of these kinds of people have the habit of living in groups, and habitually make their dwellings into fortresses.

Looking at the fortresses standing in the field, Yun Lang felt that such a pass was very similar to Europe a thousand years later.

However, there is also a big difference, thousands of years later, the European lords are kings one by one, and each king leads their own subjects, living a life of old age and death.

This way of living is very conducive to the formation of cities, but because of the population, the dock forts are dotted on the plains, and there are more of them.

Such a model is actually the model of the Yun Manor, which is now widely used by the emperor in Shanglin Yuan.

It is difficult to say whether the appearance of the dock fort is good or bad, and the advantage is that such a dense way of living is convenient for the government to manage.

The downside is that the people who have the protection of the dock are less submissive.

It is clear that the emperor had absolute confidence in his rule, and did not even require the sturdiness or height of the dock fort building.

As a result, all of the newly wealthy owners of the Dock Castle were working hard to manage their own castles, so the outer walls of these castles were exceptionally tall.

Xinfeng City is one such place.

In the past, a single settlement has now become a long string of dock forts, which can be seen that this is the emperor's intention, this string of dock forts stands like a chain in the southeast of Xianyang, which is regarded as several acropolis of Chang'an.

Yunlang's army was not allowed to pass through Chang'an, so he could only make a detour through Xinfeng City and go straight to Sanyuan, and finally arrive at Fengshui.

The summer fields are always beautiful, the summer grain has been harvested, the autumn grain has just sprouted, the tall elm, willow, and pine trees hold up the beautiful skyline of Guanzhong, the rivers and streams are all over the time, the farmers are either plowing the fields or making bamboo tools in the shade of the trees, the women are weaving yarns by the stream, the children are playing in the stream, if it is not for the hurry, Yun Lang wants to jump into the clear stream to wash himself.

The Guanzhong Plain during the Han Dynasty was still in the early stage of development, and the water conservancy projects left by the former Qin Dynasty still played an irreplaceable role.

After Yun Lang led the army from Xinfeng City to Weishui, he saw Gaoling, Gaoling is not buried with a certain emperor, but because of the towering Fengzheng Plateau, it is called Gaoling.

Below the Gaoling Tomb is the famous Zheng Guoqu.

The gushing clear water from Jingshui passes through this canal, generously irrigating 300 miles of farmland along the river.

Liu Che was not satisfied with this canal, which made the former Qin five grains abundant, if it were not for the big expedition next year, he would have prepared to dig another canal in Jingshui, which would start from the mouth of the valley and end into Liyang, and finally inject into Weishui.

This is the real anointing place in Guanzhong!

It is also the real source of Liu Che's confidence in governing the world.

"Don't look at it, every inch of land here belongs to His Majesty."

Cao Xiang leaned over and pinched a handful of dirt and showed it to Yun Lang.

"Pinching a handful can produce oil, you know no, the wheat planted here can produce five stones per acre!"

Yun Lang glanced at the dirt and said, "Black soil, it's really rare. ”

Cao Xiang shook his head with emotion and said: "It's really a vicissitudes of life, under the Gaoling in the past, it was originally a swamp, and the former Qin built a canal to divert the water of the swamp, creating this fertile and fertile land."

Many people say that this is a blessed land, but they don't know that there was a great war on this land, and more than 100,000 souls returned to the earth.

These lands that can be used to produce oil do not know how many souls they contain. ”

Yun Lang was very emotional when he saw Cao Xiang, knowing that he was showing off, and his ancestor Cao Shen was here to accompany Emperor Taizu Gao to break through the last trace of resistance of the former Qin and enter Xianyang.

"Why, when you describe your ancestors' battlefield killings, you kill more than 100,000 or 200,000 at every turn?

I've been on the battlefield, so why haven't I seen such a large-scale massacre? ”

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "My great-grandfather told my ancestor that more than 10,000 people were killed in this battle, and my grandfather told my father that 50,000 Qin troops were killed in this battle, and my father told me that my great-grandfather killed 100,000 enemies here."

When I told my son, I said that my great-ancestor had won more than 100,000 Qin army heads here, what do you think is the problem? ”

Yun Lang shook his head and said, "No problem." ”

"That's right, when you tell your son about your brilliant achievements in the future, you must remember to learn from me.

If you don't talk about the merits of your ancestors, you will soon be forgotten by your children and grandchildren. ”

Yun Lang hurriedly reviewed his battlefield career, and felt that it was really lackluster, whether it was Bai Mountain, or the surrendered city, or the white wolf's mouth, he seemed to be a soy sauce existence.

Can't you tell your son that when he was in Bai Mountain, he kept cowering in the castle and didn't dare to lift his head?

Or did he tell his son that he was like a quail when he rode in a chariot to charge the army of the Evil King?

As for the battle of the White Wolf's mouth, it is even more shameful to talk about it, it is obvious that he was used as bait by the emperor, and it would be shameless to say anything about the brilliant results.

If you want to be Yun Yin, Yun Zhe's ancestor may have a problem, Yun Lang finally decided to tell the truth to his son and daughter, lest his stupid son think that as long as he goes to the battlefield, he can kill the enemy's head.

Wei Qing lost 80,000 people outside Longcheng, this is the real war, Huo Qubing killed more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians in the Grand Canyon, this is the real war.

Wars like Cao Shen, which killed more than 100,000 people in World War I, were nothing more than verbal wars.

At this point, Yun Lang was very suspicious of the specific number of Zhao soldiers buried alive by the murderous king Bai Qi, and it was really 400,000?

Yun Lang himself had been a marching commander for a long time, and he didn't dare to imagine what a terrifying number of 400,000 people plus livestock and war horses for a day to eat.

Don't say that during the Warring States Period, even now, if Liu Che's head had a convulsion that day and asked Yun Lang to supply logistics for the 400,000 army, Yun Lang felt that he had only one way left to commit suicide.

The approved number of people under the command of General Yun Lang of the Great Han Dynasty was 12,000 people, and 2,000 personal guards were added during the war, but 14,000 people, and this time, Liu Che issued an edict to the world and said that General Wei Yun Lang took 60,000 tigers to clean up Shanglin Yuan, if anyone dared to call a soldier - behead!

Fortunately, no one in this era is more serious, there is no hateful creature such as a reporter who specializes in exposing other people's lies and counting people's heads.

Thinking of this, Yun Lang couldn't help but glance at Sima Qian.

Sima Qian's face flushed, from the time Cao Xiang talked to Yun Lang, he felt that his stomach was not suitable, and now he was even more ashamed.

The passage that Cao Xiang said earlier has long been recorded by him.

General Wei commanded 10,000 people to go on the expedition, and the radius of the army's movement was within the pass, or in the narrow area of Shanglinyuan.

According to the military system, Yunlang still carried 500,000 catties of grain, as well as 10,000 catties of dried meat, salted fish, plus various weapons, a full 1 million catties, and the carriages and horses transporting these materials stretched for two miles......

If he didn't carry military rations, more than 10,000 people would be able to eat up a county.

Only big cities like Chang'an and Yanglingyi are qualified to supply this level of army grain.

With an army of 10,000 plus baggage, it took a whole day just to cross Weishui, and this whole day, General Wei's subordinates only ran from Henan to Hebei.

Deeply feeling the poverty of the rich land of the Great Han, Yun Lang felt that there were still too many things in the Great Han Kingdom that needed to be improved.

Poverty is still the main theme of this era.

Yun Lang, who woke up from a sleep under the willow tree, was very sure of the truth he had just understood.

"Going to be sick in Lishan to no avail, those gladiators are taking the sick to hide and seek in the deep mountains and old forests, and it seems that they can't help those gladiators for a while."

Cao Xiang, who was reading the military newspaper, saw that Yun Lang had woken up, so he said lazily.

Yun Lang thought for a moment and said, "This shows that I have the absolute confidence to defeat these gladiators.

Otherwise, with his temperament, how could he have the kung fu to accompany others to hide and seek, and he would have used gunpowder a long time ago. ”