Chang'an City, surrounded by winter snow, is ushering in the coldest winter in 60 years, and the cold wind howling from the north wind seems to be blowing endlessly. ≤

"Qian'er, what do you think our world is like?"

Sima Qian shook his head suspiciously, the cold wind outside the window blew through the curtains and made him shudder, fortunately his clothes were two-layer flannel to keep warm, his little face was blown red by the cold wind, and he could only clumsily cover it with thick gloves and talk better than nothing.

What the world is like is too profound for the eight-year-old naughty boy, and he still has deep memories of reading "Guanzi" in his mind, and the impression left on him by the intensive training is not good, so that every time he sees Cao, he is like a mouse seeing a cat, and he is more concerned about whether to eat mutton hot pot or steamed crucian carp tonight.

Cao Shi raised his head and looked up at the dark sky covered with dark clouds, and the boundless snow covered the whole world, the original magnificent and domineering layout of Chang'an added a few different styles, he liked to enjoy the scenery on a snowy night, especially when talking around the fireplace, it felt very wonderful.

"Our world is an all-encompassing and good place to accommodate all rivers, the north is an endless desert steppe, the south is an endless dense jungle, the west is sheltered by lofty mountains, the east is an archipelago dotted between the sea, we live in this beautiful mountains and rivers, this is the territory of our Han Empire, our ancestors lived."

Cao Shi's gaze was long: "Do you know? Our ancestors were great, coming from the far west through many hardships, from the traditional nomadic herding and fishing and hunting to the development of the skills of cultivating food. For thousands of years, from the original small tribe to the leader of the tribal alliance, the king elected by the joint is admired by the world. There is the story of the ancient sage king's time, as a Han Chinese. You should be proud of yourself. ”

"What is pride?"

"Pride is everyone's inner satisfaction, you live in this land to eat and dress a peaceful life is provided for you by the Han Empire, if you were born in the war-torn Parthia and Seleucus, or the war between the Great Moon and Bactria, you will experience how hard the war-torn life there is, the governor and the little prince will constantly urge you to pay taxes and serve in the army, in order to survive you must learn the means of livelihood from the age of seven or eight, and become a qualified citizen of the troubled times at the age of twenty, at least two or three means of livelihood. From playing the piano and singing to farming, you have to learn riding and archery, see that little bow, it was a small bow used by Wei Qing before, and it will belong to you in the future. ”

Sima Qian had a bitter face: "Master, I don't need it, right?" ”

"No, you have to experience the hardships of the troubled nation, and what you have done has been born in the bodies of your parents and grandparents, and maybe even in the bodies of your children and grandchildren."

No matter how big Sima Qian's complaint is. Cao Shi has never relaxed his education of Sima Qian, in his eyes, this kid is a rare piece of jade, clean and flawless, without any traces of artificial carving axes and chisels, and it is even more rare that he has a son and a daughter who are still in infancy. How to educate a child well is a difficult problem for a young father, and it is not in his interest to solve it not so well that his son will become a cowardly and mediocre child.

He needed a perfect test subject. To test whether his educational strategy is working, Sima Qian is the best candidate for experience. The two sides once had a lesser-known relationship, and the Sima family was a bureaucrat of the Qin Dynasty and did not have too many far-reaching origins. However, Sima Qian's father Sima Tan is an important assistant that Cao Shi is optimistic about, and it is natural to accept Sima Qian as a great apprentice, and the world will only praise Cao Shi for being affectionate and righteous, and not forgetting to take care of Zhang Qian and Sima Tan's family.

Sima Qian did not know his fate, he was still immersed in the biting cold wind and pain of winter.

The small bow left by Wei Qing is his first weapon at the age of nine, and he will gradually abandon it as he gets older, the five-bucket small bow is indeed the best choice for Xinding, Sima Qian's natural physique is not as good as Wei Qing, and his age is younger than Wei Qing back then, the only thing that can be praised is that he is well nourished, tall and slightly stronger, even so, he can't pull the small bow of Wudou, and it is already a very reluctant attempt to open it half-open.

"The body is the capital to survive, if you want to face a war that is unpredictable, you must use your own hands to protect yourself, if you want to be a historian in the future, you can't just rely on the pen to defend your dignity, the bow and arrow is a powerful guarantee to protect the safety of your life and property."

Sima Qian put down the book and drew the bow seriously, constantly correcting the mistakes of the last shooting angle and gesture, the more time passed, the more things were forgotten, the only thing that could be retained was the genetic habits left by thousands of tempering, just like the Han people of the assassins were not used to centralizing power, the Han people were not used to sitting on high beds to rest, and the Han people were not used to sitting on the soft cushions of four-wheeled carriages, Sima Qian needed to practice the instinct of drawing the bow, as simple as eating and drinking water every day.

Cao Shi's expectation is very simple, if he practices more, he may be able to show more strengths, even if he does not have the talent of balance of power, at least he has the ability to protect himself, and he does not have to worry about archery, but he can't even protect his own life.

Academic training is not achieved overnight, at least it is much more difficult than drawing a bow and archery, ordinary archers can become talents in five years, five years of study can only be regarded as a start, conservative estimates are to read for twenty years to be considered insightful, Sima Qian's talent for reading is very good, conservative estimates take ten years to achieve, twice as fast as ordinary people is a great talent.

Considering the impact of a wide range of heavy snowfall, Guanzhong issued an emergency order to actively shovel snow and keep the road usually, the houses of the people in Luli were complete, and 5.8 million people in Guanzhong were mobilized to actively clear the snow and remove the snow, but fortunately, although the weather was cold, there was not much snow, most of the time it was the whistling north wind blowing snowflakes, and the wind was much smaller as soon as the snow disappeared.

Yu Lin Cavalry was pulled out to do winter training, after a long period of South Vietnam War influence, many northerners suddenly came back can not stand the cold in Guanzhong, in the South Vietnam country is sweat pores are all open, to the north must close the sweat pores to resist the cold, after a long time will inevitably have physical discomfort and water and soil adaptation, in order to correct the painful process also spent a lot of thought.

The arrival of winter snow and severe cold not only did not suppress the economy of Chang'an City, but took advantage of the arrival of heavy snow and severe cold to make the huge production advantage in the city quickly maintain an absolute advantage.

There is also a fire for heating charcoal is also sold very well, but every year there will be a few cases of gas poisoning and death of people, often a family of several people died of gas poisoning inexplicably, every time the coal workshop of Pingyang Houfu has to pay for compensation and burial, because of the coal heating and the death of people have to bear a certain moral responsibility, although the sale of charcoal has repeatedly mentioned the danger of gas poisoning, but the people's memory is always very poor, they will quickly remind the past, so there are many tragic accidents.

Lu Buxian squatted in front of the stove and stared at the flames, his eyes stared at the golden red iron in the furnace fire for a moment, and mastered the means of heat treatment only by relying on the simplest method, and repeatedly carried out very boring real products through guò eye observation, and Lu Buxian's heat treatment was carried out before and after the third year, and the iron heat treatment technology including quenching became more and more mature.

Lian Ji grew a beard, and in the blink of an eye, he changed from a stunned young man in his early twenties to a strong man in his twenties, only to hear a "starting" tongs firmly clamping the iron and putting it into the water to forcibly cool down, on the other side, the young Luden, who was less than twenty years old, was holding a sledgehammer and knocking it methodically, Luden was a Lu Buzi Zhangzi, who had a five-year blacksmith career at a young age, and began to work as an apprentice at the age of twelve, and his forging skills were even more powerful than his father.

A piece of material needs to be forged and heat treated in different processes according to the situation, and the success and failure of each operation are carefully observed and considered.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the new knife that had just cooled down was easily smashed by the water hammer, and the power of the water conservancy facilities pushed by the water wheel was still strong, so that a new knife had stronger resistance was the expectation of weapon researchers, but many times it always backfired, and no weapon could hold up all the strength to smash under the water hammer, and it was a natural result to fall apart.

But the blacksmiths were not very satisfied.

Luden said depressedly: "It's still not good, our heat treatment can only do this, and the higher requirements are not clueless for the time being." ”

The broken fracture was taken by the blacksmiths for analysis, and Lu Buxi picked up one of them and said: "The process of iron knife quenching is troublesome, continue to simplify the steps of quenching, and its high efficiency is the next plan, work hard!" ”

The carriage slowly drove to the outside of the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion, Zhao Yingqi jumped out of the carriage and stomped his feet and slipped in quickly from the corner gate, there were a lot of young princes who came here to gather, and he didn't have to come to participate, but in recent years, it has changed a lot, and he has a special mission to tell sù some news.

"You have all seen the heavy snow in the north, how cold the Huns are in the winter of several years, how to solve the invasion of the Huns in the spring of the next year?"

The princes present looked at each other indifferently.

Zhao Yingqi's anxious voice was raised: "You guys are here to say something, it is a great misfortune for the Han family to let the Huns invade the border counties and cause losses, and the Son of Heaven is angry that the war at the border pass will burn again." ”

"I can't stop it."

"Relying on the Great Wall of Zhao and the Great Wall of Qin to barely resist, the level of the effect has been verified over the years, every time the Huns enter the Quartet to kill the Quartet, our army rushes over and there is no shadow."

"There's no other way?"

"Although the Great Wall is powerful, it needs soldiers to defend, considering the pressure of streamlining the administration of elite soldiers, there will not be many troops this year, and even fewer will be assigned to the border counties to defend the Great Wall, and the Huns will inevitably find an opening to break the Great Wall if they have the intention to invade, and the plan for today is to enhance the border counties to strengthen their vigilance, protect the people, and strengthen the defense of Luli."

Cao Shi sighed secretly: "The right to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, for the sake of today, it can only be like this." (To be continued!)

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