The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting.

In the north in December, there is a daunting north wind and an awe-inspiring beauty under the snow and ice.

People are always eager to see beautiful things, this kind of seasonal change, let Li Yuan see the charm of nature, the endless river turned into a thoroughfare in a blink of an eye, the once green grassland became a white ocean, and occasionally, you can see one or two hungry wild wolves coming out to feed.

After inspecting Hedong County, Li Yuan's car drove north from the mouth of the Fen River in the south, past Changzhai, Quwo, and Jinyang, and then continued north to the sparsely populated Yunzhong County.

This time to the north, the soldiers made Sima Yin did not follow, the Sima family in Hedong is not calm, Sima Mao has been in charge of the affairs of the clan for five years, in some important positions, the arrangements are his cronies, Sima Yin wants to fully control the family, but also needs to carefully select and cultivate the children in the clan.

At the same time, Sima Yin stayed in Hedong, and there were more important tasks, such as the mining and transportation of coal, and the preparation of Jihua for the construction of an iron-smelting workshop, which must be realized in the new year, and Sima Yin, who felt the oppression of his opponents from Handan and Xiping, did not dare to relax in the slightest.

There are rules for one line and one line.

In the field of military manufacturing, Handan has the master craftsman Guo Zong in charge, and Xiping has the support of the descendants of the famous Wu Yue and the famous teacher Mrs. Xu, who created the famous fish intestine sword.

Comparatively speaking, under Sima Yin's hands, although there are also superb master-level craftsmen like Mo Shi, as far as the iron smelting line is concerned, it is a world of difference when it is late.

Ironstone Mine.

Coal and stone mines.

Raw materials and fuel, the two most critical factors to improve iron smelting Jishu have finally been solved, and Sima Yin was excited, immersed in the joy of catching up with his opponents in the smelting field, he no longer had the heart to follow Li Yuan north to "play in the mountains and rivers".

Jinyang.

It is located in the center of the Jinzhong plate, where the Fen River passes through. It is surrounded by a newly discovered fault zone of Shanghaode open-pit coal mining, which was the capital of the former Jin Kingdom. After a preliminary survey of the terrain, landform, transportation and other conditions, Sima Yin decided to build the third division of the Qin State here.

Different from the iron and stone mining areas in the west of Hanzhong with inconvenient transportation and inaccessible people, Jinyang is blessed with unique natural and human conditions, and the fertile fields here are thousands of miles, and the grain and straw that feed thousands of people do not need to be transferred from Guanzhong, and the only difficulty that needs to be overcome is how to quickly transport the iron and stone mined in the upper reaches of the frustrated water to Jinyang.

The difficulty in this section of the road is not in the two counties of Guanzhong and Hedong, where there are two major arteries of Weishui and Fenshui, but whether the widening project of Chencang Road can be completed on schedule.

Long after the discovery of iron ore in Fushui. Guan Yue, the iron official in charge of iron and salt affairs in the Qin State, drew up a huge project to build a second high-speed "gallop road" over the Qinling Mountains.

In the past four months, nearly 6,000 battlefield prisoners have been working day and night in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains to excavate, in the era when gunpowder was not invented, they burned the boulders with fire, and then cooled the stones again and again with cold snow water, which is the use of the original principle of thermal expansion and contraction, so that the boulders gradually separated and disintegrated.

After a long period of intermittent opening, currently. The condition of the road has improved greatly from north to south to the section of Chencang Road to Fushui, and although the carriage is not yet passable on a section of the road, it is on most of the mountain road. Accumulation has been able to replace manpower as the main means of transportation.

Sima Yin was confident that under the operation of Qin's powerful central machinery, the traffic problem of Chencang Road would not be a bottleneck.

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Leaving Sima Yin to continue his smelting jishu study. Li Yuan's car continued north.

Along the way, the new Hedong County Shousu Jiao escorted the whole process, and his carefulness made Li Yuan couldn't help but look at this "fierce Zhang Fei" in the Qin army. Escorted by the border horsemen, Li Yuan arrived at the northernmost border of the Qin State.

Nine Plains.

This famous city on the plug is located at the foot of the majestic Daqing Mountain, the east flow of the Hetao Plain, after the Mengtian army expelled the Huns, tens of thousands of border people cultivated and grazing here, built cities and fortresses, and made the fertile Hetao area become another pasture of the Qin State after Longxi.

The arrival of Li Yuan, the Marquis of Shenwu, made the border soldiers of Jiuyuan excited, although it had been a while since he gave up his independence and joined Li Yuan's command, but there was always a trace of uneasiness and regret in the hearts of the border army.

This kind of uneasiness exists not only at the level of generals, but also at the level of ordinary soldiers.

The reason is simple.

The border army used to be the most elite army of the Qin State, and in the eyes of these proud soldiers, there was always only themselves and no one else, but suddenly, they found that they had become an abandoned son who no one loved and no one loved.

Wang Li, the chief general of the border army, led his generals out of the city to greet him, and after the general, who was over forty years old, his temples had begun to turn white, but his hands were rough but very liliang.

"Shenhou, you are just sick and came to Jiuyuan, which really makes the last general unhappy." Wang Li saw Li Yuan get out of the carriage with a haggard expression, and hurriedly said.

"General Wang's words are serious, this time I went north, Ben Hou also ordered the appointment of the imperial court to comfort the soldiers of the whole army who fought and confronted the enemy on the front line, compared with the hardships of the soldiers of the border army, my carriage and horses are harder, what is it?" Li Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile.

"Shenhou is too famous, here are several generals of the border army, Captain Yang Wengzi, Captain Yang Qingyu, Captain Meng-!" Wang Li said as he introduced the other generals around him to Li Yuan.

Yang Wengzi and Meng Qingyu belong to the old qualification generals in the border army, although the position is not high, but they have served in the border army since their ancestors, and they are even supported by the soldiers, and Meng Qingyu's ancestors are also famous generals in the history of Qin: Meng Mingshi, the general of Qin in the Battle of Confused Mountain.

"The last generals, Yang Wengzi and Meng Qingyu, see the Shenhou!" Yang and Meng fell to the ground on one knee and said loudly.

"The two lieutenants hurry up, it's cold, Mo froze his knees. He will go on an expedition to the grassland, but I still need two people to go on horseback to fight! Li Yuan smiled and helped the two of them up, and said.

"Thank you." Yang and Meng replied loudly.

As the generals who experienced the most difficult period of the border army, they were inexplicably grateful for Li Yuan's help in the difficult situation of the border army, and from their demeanor, Li Yuan could see that the respect of these two people was not false, but a kind of respect from the heart.

Vertical day.

Accompanied by Li Yuan's Wang Li, he went to the border army garrison outside Jiuyuan City, where a large number of middle and lower-ranking generals and non-commissioned officers were already waiting early. Prepare for review.

Plugged on the winter.

The unusually cold, the hot breath exhaled by the generals of the border army, as soon as it left the mouth, it formed a solidified ice bead, and under the command of the generals and colonels leading the troops, the border army was rehearsing the most important military formation of the Qin army.

The role of the military formation lies not only in its might, but also in enhancing the sense of collective combat among soldiers, and mutual trust and mutual support among comrades-in-arms on the battlefield is the guarantee for an army to maintain its strong combat effectiveness.

Looking at the border army in front of him, Li Yuan was uneasy, and he was guarding the northernmost territory of the Qin State. They faced not only the brutal Huns, but also many difficulties and tests from the harsh climatic conditions.

Stay away from loved ones.

Away from the hustle and bustle.

Eating dry food that was difficult to swallow, drinking snow water on the ground, and wearing armor clothes that were about to turn into ice lumps, these soldiers of the Qin State guarding the border strictly guarded military discipline under such harsh conditions, and squandered their blood on this land that was taken from the hands of the Huns.

"Great Qin, Great Qin-!" The slogans shouted by the officers and men of the border army were loud and loud. This is the voice of a group of men who are not afraid of difficulties and hide their suffering and tiredness deep in their hearts.

Today, in the face of the envoys from the Xianyang court, they want to prove their existence with their most blazing shouts. Prove the glory of the border army.

"Great Qin!" Li Yuan stared at the high and fluttering Xuandi Daxu beside him, and his heart was also agitated.

Perhaps, one day, these border soldiers patrolled the steppe. Never came back.

Perhaps, one day, they encountered a heavy snowstorm. Hungry and hungry in the temporary military tent, waiting for the arrival of the rear supply team.

Or perhaps, in the boring and monotonous days of guarding the border, these vibrant, young and sturdy soldiers slowly grew old, and finally became a white skeleton in the wilderness.

For the revival and prosperity of Great Qin, those who are fighting desperately are not only themselves, but also the soldiers who have always followed them.

"The whole army, close the team."

"Now, please ask the gods to give instructions-!" Wang Li, the commander of the border army, stood on the military exercise stage with an excited expression and said loudly.

Under the gaze of thousands of border soldiers, Li Yuan straightened his body and walked to the front of the stage step by step, his eyes scanning every corner and every soldier in front of him.

"Border soldiers, you have worked hard! Before, I, Li Yuan, didn't know and didn't understand the bitter cold of Biansai, so I didn't care enough about it, and now, I announce three new orders-! ”

When Li Yuan said this, he paused vigorously, and saw the border soldiers listening attentively one by one, before he said: "First: From now on, if there are border guards in any family, the taxes of parents, wives and children will be reduced or reduced; Second, the soldiers guarding the border are entitled to a vacation every three years in order to return home to reunite with their relatives; Third: The supply of food and straw for the border army is excellent in the whole army, and I have asked the post station to return to the court quickly, and I believe that in the near future, everyone will not only be full, but also eat well! ”

"Shenhou, long live Shenhou!"

Hearing Li Yuan's promise in front of thousands of soldiers, the border army was already jubilant, and even more excited soldiers couldn't help shouting the words "long live."

Li Yuan hoped that with this measure, the soldiers of the border army would no longer worry more about their relatives at home, but instead focus more on training and combat.

Let the border soldiers enjoy the treatment of annual leave, which is equivalent to the system of family leave for the soldiers of the people's army in later generations, and now it will be implemented in the Qin Dynasty as early as possible, and its effect Li Yuan is not yet known, but at least, this is a humanized attempt, Li Yuan wants to gradually release the homesickness of the border soldiers by giving the border soldiers a hope.

In the third year of the new calendar of the Great Qin, the Guanzhong area was calm and there was no war, coupled with the further promotion of wheat and trial planting, the dredging of canals and the reclamation of barren land, the agricultural production in Guanzhong has made a qualitative leap, which makes the Qin State's treasury and treasury have enough accumulation.

After Li Yuan's speech, the inspection team returned to the barracks in a stream, and compared with the anxiety when they came, these border sergeants and soldiers obviously had the spirit and morale of the soldiers.

Inside Kuhara Castle.

Li Yuan temporarily stayed in Wang Li's county capital.

After the review, Li Yuan immediately convened Wang Li, Yang Wengzi, Meng Qingyu and other border army generals to discuss major military affairs, and at the same time, solicited opinions on the next development direction of the Jiuyuan border army.

"Shenhou, the last general has not made an inch, and he does not dare to give such preferential treatment, and he also asks Shenhou to take back his life." As soon as Wang Li entered the door, he glanced at Yang and Meng, and said in unison.

"Why, do you think that the border army is not worthy of enjoyment, or do you think that it will become the target of public criticism, and you dare not accept it." Li Yuan looked serious and asked.

Wang Li was stared at by Li Yuan like this, and immediately sweat broke out on his forehead, and hurriedly said: "The last general just thinks that when it comes to military exploits, our border army is inferior to other armies!" ”

"After General Wang took the gate, how could he be so stupid, this army is guarding the border and expanding the territory for my Great Qin, resisting the strong captives, in terms of merit, where is it small. Thou hast depreciated thyself in such a way that if thou didst let the soldiers outside hear it, would it not chill their hearts? Li Yuan reprimanded unceremoniously.

For Wang Li, Li Yuan felt sorry for him and angry at his rigid thinking.

After the defeat of Julu, although Wang Li's body has changed, the strength of this change is far from enough, or in other words, there is still a big gap with what Li Yuan asked.

Among the generals of the Qin army, the veterans have Zhang Han, Xin Sheng and others, and the younger generation has Han Xin, Luo Jia, Jiang Yu and others, only the Mesozoic generals are scarce, Wang Li and Su Jiao are the only two, Su Jiao is limited by personality reasons, there is no problem in commanding a medium-sized war, but or the overall command and coordination of the entire campaign, I am afraid that I can't reach it, which makes Wang Li more important, Li Yuan hopes that he can jump out of the shackles of the border army as soon as possible and consider the problem from a deeper level.

Wang Li was reprimanded by Li Yuan like this, his face turned red, and after being stunned and silent for a while, he gradually tasted Li Yuan's words.

"The trust of the gods and marquis will definitely live up to expectations." Wang Liqiang suppressed his excitement and said repeatedly.

Seeing that Wang Li finally understood, Li Yuan nodded and said: "General Wang, don't worry, if the three measures just now can be implemented in the border army, and the combat effectiveness of our border guards can be improved, then these measures will be promoted in the rest of the army, if not, then it can only be invalidated, so, the general has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, I think, Luo Jia, Han Xin, Jiang Yu are all staring at the border army?" ”

How to generate the motivation for competition among the various armies under his command was a difficult problem that plagued Li Yuan.

Today, after seeing such a majestic border army soldiers, Li Yuan decided on a whim to use the border army as the catfish that stirred a pool of still water, compared with many generals from his own personal army, Wang Li's border army system is undoubtedly more suitable for existence as a hidden competitor. (To be continued......)

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