The sound of the Han family's sharpening of knives is naturally heard clearly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Throughout the summer, the Qiang people of Gaolan Mountain frantically fled to the west and south, and some even fled directly into the depths of the Qilian Mountains.

Legend has arisen from all the ministries that there were some insane, bloodthirsty and brutal servants on the side of the Han Dynasty.

Those terrible barbarians, who called themselves 'Yu' and 'Zuo', were even able to follow the smell and trails, trek hundreds of miles deep in the mountains, and find a Qiang tribe hidden in a valley or on the edge of a cliff.

At the same time, the Han Dynasty also built many large granaries on the plain in front of Gaolan Mountain.

Countless wagons brought truckloads of grain and grass from afar into these granaries.

On the other hand, the Han Dynasty people were still driving tens of thousands of captive Qiang people to harvest and dry a large amount of fresh grass in the grasslands and wetlands, making clear their plans to build a city and take root in the Gaolan Mountains.

Once the Han Dynasty people completed the plan to build the city.

Then, the people of the Han Dynasty will be able to drive a nail in the Gaolan Mountain.

Firmly fix the vast area east of the entire Gaolan Mountain.

This made the Western Xiongnu, and even the Northern Xiongnu, uncomfortable.

Because, Gaolan Mountain is actually part of the Hexi Corridor.

This narrow passage stretching from southeast to northwest is a masterpiece of the earth's crustal movement for hundreds of millions of years!

The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau pushes up the top of the Qilian Mountains, with an average altitude of nearly 4,000 meters.

The majestic Qilian Mountains stand in the south of this passage, and naturally form this east-west connection between the Loess Plateau and the Tarim Plateau, and the Mongolian Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the north and south.

The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau made it impossible for the humid air from the Indian Ocean to pass through, creating large areas of Gobi and desert in the northwest, but fortunately, there was also a monsoon from the Pacific Ocean.

Under the monsoon winds, the corridor receives abundant rainfall from the mountains.

Abundant rainfall has caused the mountains of this corridor to be eroded by rain and wind and sand for tens of millions of years.

Miraculous natural landscapes have been formed.

It also formed the peculiarity of the Hexi Corridor.

There are mountains, plains, lakes, rivers, and even the Gobi Desert.

When the Huns first came here, they were amazed by the beauty and mountains.

I thought it was the closest place to the gods.

Therefore, the arc-shaped mountain range at the southern end of this corridor was named 'Qilian'.

It means heaven and heavenly mountains.

Heli Mountain, on the other hand, is the eastern pass of this corridor.

It is also a necessary place to go out of Beidi County and go to the Hexi Corridor.

It is also the throat between the Mongolian Plateau, the Loess Plateau and the Tarim Basin.

Since ancient times, this place, together with Longshou Mountain in the west and Xingxing Gorge in the north, has formed the throat fortress of the Hexi Corridor.

Today, this place has fallen into the hands of the Han family.

In the first two years, the Han family did not have time to care about it.

But at the beginning of this year, with the arrival of heroes and heroes from Chang'an, Guanzhong, and Beidi counties.

People were surprised to find that in Guzang Mountain, in Heli Mountain, on the banks of oases and rivers, a piece of fertile land, a strange wilderness.

These are excellent places to farm!

The officers of the various ministries smiled with their eyebrows open.

Immediately call friends and pass all kinds of information and intelligence back to their hometowns.

The Chinese have a deep-rooted land plot in their bones, and they simply can't stop themselves from doing it.

At the same time, a large number of Qiang captives, driven by them, opened up channels on the fertile soil.

The babbling water is channelled into the fertile fields and irrigates the surrounding land.

Weeds and shrubs were uprooted, and patches of flat land were cultivated.

In the past four months, the Han army's tunnel camp troops and Qiang captives have opened up a full 100,000 acres of land!

And planted large fields of beans and alfalfa, just waiting for next year's spring planting, and then planting corn.

"Such fertile soil, enough to harvest millions of stones......" Ju Meng also looked at these opened up fertile soil with great pride, and was proud.

If everything goes well, when the Shaofu and domestic farming tools are delivered, the area of cultivated land opened up will increase several times.

It is enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people and support the needs of tens of thousands of troops.

This is still the result of only opening up cultivated land and cultivating land in the area of Heli Mountain and Guzang Mountain.

Hu Benwei and Yu Linwei are ready to transfer their cantonment regiment team from Andong in the future to rebuild the cantonment regiment here or in the Juyan area.

Other armies had similar intentions.

As far as today's Han army is concerned, they have already tasted the sweetness of the cantonment regiment system.

The cantonment regiment is not only the granary of the field armies and the source of finance and taxation.

In the past few years, the output of Anton's major cantonment regiments has almost made the armies worry about food and clothing.

And the reclamation regiment itself is the best source of troops for the major field armies.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it weren't for the fact that the regiments of the cantonment regiments in the past were all in Andong, far away from the front line.

Otherwise, the armies would be able to fight on their own with the resources of the cantonment regiment alone.

But now, for all field armies, attracting immigrants is the key!

As long as enough immigrants can be attracted, Anton's model of cantonment regiments can be replicated here, and the cantonment regiments composed of thousands or even tens of thousands of young and strong men will be enough to become a stable granary and base for all armies.

With the support of the cantonment regiment, the Han army can rely on the local food.

Whether it is to eliminate the small power of the Western Xiongnu, or to continue westward and conquer the states of the Western Regions farther away.

can be several times easier.

Now, it depends on whether the imperial court can approve the replication of Anton's cantonment regiment system here.

As long as the court agrees, and approves the demands of the armies.

Then, the mountainmen of the military will immediately use all means to emigrate here from China.

Maybe......

"I can still be the governor of the Protectorate!" Ju Meng thought in his heart.

At the beginning, the Han family marched into Andong and built Xinhua City from scratch in the wasteland of Andong, and then established the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate based on Xinhua.

Nowadays, the Han family has also entered this mountainous area of mountains and valleys, and it is not necessarily impossible to build a new capital here.

There are schools of fish in Andong, but there are grasslands and lakes here, and there are excellent pastures everywhere between the mountains.

If managed properly, it can form a large pasture rich in livestock.

And the fertile land on the banks of oases and rivers can also become granaries.

Andong has gold, and here it is also rich in mineral resources.

In just these few months of exploration, the Han army has discovered many open-pit peat mines (coal mines) and shallow bottom iron ores, and even found traces of a large copper mine!

And copper is precisely one of the resources that the Han family lacks the most.

It is believed that now Shaofu can't wait to send its entire prospecting craftsmen here to determine the location of the copper mine to facilitate future mining.

Thinking like this, the drama Meng was full of ambition.

By the end of this year, the Qiang problem should be resolved.

Next year, the Battle of Juyan will definitely begin.

When the time comes, you may be able to leap on the horse Qilian Mountain, and step on the court!