Early the next morning, Zhang Han got up early and ran laps with the soldiers outside Jining Fort.

Recently, there are a lot of garrisons in Jining Fort, fortunately, the place is large enough, a small number of garrisons are stationed in the fort, most of them are stationed outside the military fort, divide the area to set up a military camp, the camp is of course based on tents, but the periphery is obliquely inserted with spears, erected fences, erect arrow towers, put antlers, these things are done meticulously, the roads in the camp are clear, the camp is spacious, in addition to doing a good job of defense, fire prevention, water diversion, digging pits and building toilets, these things are also done according to the rules, this is also Zhang Han's iron rule for the army, even if it is stationed for one night, The camp must also be built according to the rules.

If the camp lasted more than a few days, a simple school yard and shooting range would be built with mills and other materials for the training of infantry and cavalry.

When Zhang Han came out, it also caused a small sensation, and many soldiers and officers formed a small phalanx and ran together behind their own commander.

After more than a dozen laps, everyone was sweating from their heads, Zhang Han smiled and waved to the soldiers in the phalanx, and left from the ramp, with cheers behind him.

After Zhang Han came out after taking a bath and changing clothes, Li Shenming, Sun Jingting, Kong Minxing, Sun Yuanhua and others all rushed over, although the snow last night was small, the plots on the grassland were frozen in the morning, although the residual snow was a shallow layer, but frozen into the shape of ice flowers, the ground was very slippery, everyone had no way to ride a horse, they could only walk to Zhang Han here, several literati were frozen and their faces were blue, only Sun Jingting was better, everyone's face and Zhang Han's head sweat and ruddy face formed a sharp inverse ratio, everyone looked at each other, and they all laughed.

Sun Jingting said: "In the morning, Wenlan ran in circles, and he also danced the sword for half an hour. ”

Kong Minxing said with some shame: "When I was near Lizhuang, I also got up early to exercise, but the weather was too cold for the past two days, so I stopped getting up early, and it seems that I still have to persevere." ”

Zhang Han smiled and said: "In fact, getting up early to exercise not only boils your body and strengthens your physique, but also invigorates your spirit and strengthens your perseverance, which is beneficial and harmless." ”

Li Shenming refused to get up early to exercise, and shouted impatiently: "It's cold, let's not get in the car?" ”

Everyone laughed, the carriage had already been prepared, it was a large manned car, everyone entered from the door, and felt a burst of warmth when they arrived in the car, Sun Yuanhua was the first time to sit in this kind of car, everything in the car subverted his cognition, the chair was wrapped in leather, very wide and comfortable, each person sat opposite each other, there were armrests on the side of the seat, and there were soft leather, and the arms were very comfortable to put on it, and there were boxes in the car, things like the secret grid, and I didn't know what was in it, there was a copper incense burner, In the middle of the two rows of seats, there is sandalwood wafting, there is a fragrance in the carriage, which makes people feel very comfortable, under the seat, there is a furnace made of cloud copper, burning high-quality carmine charcoal, the appearance of the car is very ordinary, even a little weird, the front wheel is small and the rear wheel is large, the carriage is too large, who knows that after coming in, it is actually like this.

"No wonder people say that He Yusheng's car is not something that ordinary people can sit in," Sun Yuanhua said with emotion: "I think this car is specially made, and the kind of big car that helps carry people everywhere in your place does not have such furnishings." ”

"It's nature." Zhang Han smiled: "There is always a slight difference. For example, Brother Zunlu's carriage is much more luxurious than my furnishings, and the walls of the carriage are inlaid with a lot of precious East Pearls, and a bead is worth more than a thousand taels of silver. ”

High-grade Dongzhu, a sell for three or five thousand taels, no problem, the general Dongzhu is also worth hundreds of taels, take the Dongzhu as an ornament on the wall of the carriage, Li Shenming's wealth can be imagined.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Li Shenming in a brocade robe with very envious eyes, and the expression on his face was also very complicated.

The body moved, almost unnoticed, Zhang Han had already ordered the curtains on both sides of the car to be opened, and the sunshine of the rising sun suddenly filled the car.

On both sides of the carriage, the glass windows are not used, but serious glass, and the degree of transparency is certainly not comparable to the glass.

"I bought this thing from Macau." Zhang Han said: "In fact, the manufacturing is not complicated, but the process is controlled by the Taixi people, and no matter how much money is given, we can't sell this thing." ”

Sun Yuanhua snorted coldly and said: "I asked Tang Ruowang, he only vaguely said some principles, in the past few months, in addition to helping to make machines, I also tried to make this thing to see if I could try to make it." ”

"A thousand taels of gold."

"What?"

Zhang Han smiled and said: "It's made out, give Brother Chuyang a thousand taels of gold." ”

Sun Yuanhua snorted very weakly and said, "It's really full of copper smell, how can you withdraw money for everything......"

Everyone laughed sullenly, Zhang Han didn't smile, his face was very serious, now and Yusheng's manned car has opened up a lot of Datong Town and Taiyuan Town and Yansui Town, of course, including Xuanfu Town and to Jingshi, Baoding around the route, these routes are more stable places with Yusheng's power development, as for further west or south, there is no plan to open a route for the time being.

If the development goes well, Zhang Han may develop to the south, but at most it will be to a few large prefectures in Henan and Shandong, as for the west, Zhang Han does not have too many plans to set up too many branches in Shaanxi, not to mention the poverty in northern Shaanxi, there will be a large-scale peasant uprising a few years later, and then there will be a jade and stone burning, there is no need to invest too much.

In the next few years, not only will a large number of passenger carriages be needed in the hinterland, but also a large number of manpower will be needed to operate in the grasslands, and several routes with a straight-line distance of more than 200 kilometers will be opened.

The body does not have much vibration, only sometimes people feel that the body is tilting, this grassland is endless, the naked eye can not see the end at all, Jining Fort is repaired in the southeast direction of Haizi, here in the Han and Tang dynasties belonged to Dingxiang County, in the Tang Dynasty belonged to Yunzhou, in the Song Dynasty belonged to Yunzhong Mansion, the Ming Dynasty once set up Xinghe Road, and then the strategy contracted, abandoned this place, and then became the Mongolian pasture.

With Jining Fort as the center, from southeast to northwest, southwest, northeast, a radius of nearly 500 miles has been in control, after the main Mongolian force withdrew, the original small number of nomadic herdsmen were all withdrawn, the terrain of Jining Fort is relatively gentle, mainly very flat grassland, to the west for dozens of miles, began to appear a large area of mountains, first a piece of hilly area, and then the mountains began to be steep, and the mountains that could not see the edge began to appear.

The big car is going west, it was very easy to walk at first, and then the bumps in the body began to get serious, Sun Yuanhua lay on the window and looked out, although the body bumped he didn't care, everyone didn't understand it at first, and then remembered that this person was just sitting in an old-fashioned two-wheeled car from Jingshi all the way to Datong, and this bump in front of him was really nothing to him!

Nearly noon, the cart finally stopped, and Jiang Yi and other hundred cavalry scattered to guard, Zhang Han knew that there must be a large number of sentry cavalry at least twenty miles ahead, once there was a large-scale northern cavalry, there would be a sentry horse immediately issued a warning, such a distance was enough for Zhang Han and the others to return to safety.

When everyone got out of the car, they felt a completely different scene from the Jining Fort.

This side is mostly mountainous, of course, because Mongolia is vast and sparsely populated, there are almost no traces of development on the mountain, and there can be no mountain villages and mountain people's residential activities, the mountains are endless, the height is different, only trees, shrubs, weeds, the long one is from the subordinate, very lush, after Zhang Han and others got off the carriage, it seems that there are traces of animal activities not far in front of them, there is a guard symbolically fired a gun to the shrubs over there, and immediately startled countless birds and beasts to flee.

"There's a fort here, too." Zhang Han took the lead in climbing a dirt slope, and the shrubs and weeds around him were one or two feet high, and the attendants needed to cut the weeds and shrubs with sabers, so that people could easily climb up the mountain.

From the top of the mountain, the west side is still dominated by mountains, but the end of the vision seems to be dominated by grassland, and the terrain gradually flattens.

Zhang Han said: "We came over there is the ranch of Karaqin, which is also more than a thousand miles away, and this is the ranch of the Tumut Department, and now we can't see a felt bag." This is mainly a mountainous area, which was originally a place for them to hunt, but now of course, no hunters can come. Previously, we did not build a fort here because of the lack of water sources, and it was too far away from the point of the straight line, but now that we have controlled the point, we can further down the control surface, build a fort here, build another fort in the north, supplemented by the military platform chimney, and the sea and grassland in the southeast, we can really occupy it. ”

Kong Minxing stood on the hillside, looking at the slope all the way down, full of green and yellow weeds and shrubs, the hill is quite gentle, in some places in northern Shaanxi that lack good land, this kind of hill with good soil must have been reclaimed and become fertile land.

In particular, the mountain stream flows slowly, which can barely be used as a source of water for water diversion, and this piece of mountainous land, if it is barely cultivated, can actually open up tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

However, Kong Minxing smiled to himself, there are more than one million acres of grassland in the east that can be cultivated, why should he fight the idea of these mountains?

"Brother Zhi," Zhang Han stood beside Kong Minxing at this time and asked him: "All the way from east to west, I have walked dozens of miles, and here is a mountainous area dominated by hills, but there are not many of them, or mixed with plains, continue to the west and then another one or two hundred miles is the Taobu, and to the southwest, it is the Hetao place." ”

"Hetao." Kong Min said: "The Yellow River has nine songs, only one set of riches, but unfortunately I haven't had the fate to take a trip to this set of 'several' characters." ”

"The Hetao is very long, and now more than half of it is in the hands of the Beiyu." Zhang Han said: "But sooner or later it will be ours, and there will definitely be a chance for you to come over and see it in the future." ”

"Alright, let's get down to business." Others were chatting on the side looking at the scenery, Kong Minxing said: "Wenlan asked me to take this trip, presumably to say, there is a fort behind here, there is Jining Fort in the southeast center, which is safe, and then these dozens of miles down, all plains, in addition to the mandarin duck mooring and other places, there are several small rivers, these plots can be cultivated, right?" ”