Chapter 59: Shuangxiong Village

The Dayan River is a natural barrier in the north of the Han Kingdom, because the river is too wide, the water is turbulent, and the shipbuilding industry is not very developed, the Han Kingdom does not have much contact with the nomads in the north.

To the north of the river is a prairie with an area of more than 5 million square kilometers, and further north is a permafrost area of more than 10 million square kilometers, and the glaciers of Antarctica can be seen at the northernmost point, and there are dozens of nomads on the grassland, with a total population of no more than 10 million. In the eastern part of the grassland, there are three cities, representing three major forces, the largest is the Mongolian people, with a population of more than 3 million, occupying one of the largest open-pit coal mines; Another northeast-oriented Jinli clan, iron ore, gold and silver ore is their fist product; For the Hulun people in the southeast, grain is their strong point, and oil is the main commodity of foreign trade.

South of the Dayan River is a grain producing area, a national war horse base, and more than a dozen open-pit coal mines to supply the country's energy consumption. The western part of the Han Kingdom is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the transportation is very inconvenient, and only adventurous merchants will travel between the two places. And the route I call the dart bureau is a small town in the westernmost part of the Han Kingdom, and it is also the narrowest part of the Dayan River, three thousand meters away from the opposite bank, the Dayan River forms a U-word here, and then to the west is a waterfall of more than 5,000 meters, the drop is nearly a thousand meters, the waterfall is a lake with an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers to the west, the two sides of the zigzag river valley are full of cliffs, the altitude is more than 2,000 meters, and few people set foot here.

This is Hukou Town, the westernmost town of the Great Han Kingdom.

There is a small road outside Hukou Town that can lead to the riverside of the Dayan River, after the people of the dart bureau came here, they sent some dart masters to pretend to be soldiers to inquire about the news in the town, most of them took the small road to the river and waited for the boat to pick up, half of the fifty coachmen stayed, and the rest took the silver two and returned the same way.

I also arrived at the scene on the night they arrived in Hukou Town, and entered the town with the dart master who was posing as a cavalry of the Han Kingdom. At the entrance of the town, there is a stone archway, showing the history of its Cangsang, walking through a stone road, only to see that there are already a lot of people looking up not far away to greet them, the two old dart masters and their apprentices are all a mouthful of Beijing films, and there are uniformly dressed cavalry guards, so that the mayor of the town who greeted him did not dare to slack off.

It was time for the meal, and the men, women, and children in Hukou Town went out together to make a table of good dishes to entertain the soldiers. In the chat, I learned that there were more than 10,000 people in Hukou Town, and now most of the young people have gone out to work, leaving a group of young and old, although it is located in a remote area, but the land is fertile, and there is no natural disaster**, every year the grain harvest, the family can eat more than ten years of grain storage, because of the large amount of grain, the local people have a good ability to make wine, every autumn, the town will arrange a team to go to the county government thousands of miles away, with food and wine in exchange for the daily necessities needed by the town, such as salt, cloth, agricultural tools, etc., But in recent years, food prices have plummeted, and they are feeding pigs, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals with grain, so every household has an abundance of meat products.

After I was full of wine and food, I took out a lot of silver tickets to buy grain and meat products from the town, and sent them all to the Dayan River, at this time, the family members of the dart bureau had arrived at the temporary base on the other side, and after the second round came over, the three cargo ships were filled with grain and ran again, and when we got on the last batch of ships, it was already dawn when we arrived on the other side.

The base is on the banks of a tributary, and a simple plaque at the main entrance reads three words: Shuangxiong Village.

In the village, there are simple wooden houses lined up in several rows, and more than 1,000 families of refugees are moving in, and I am also checking the geographical information here: there is an iron ore with reserves of more than one billion tons in the mountains 100 kilometers southwest of Hukou Town, and there are copper mines with reserves of more than 2 billion tons 300 kilometers to the west, and from the beginning of the town to the primeval forest area of thousands of kilometers long in the middle of the boundary of the Asian-American continent, preliminary exploration has found 81 mineral resources, during which no traces of human activities have been found.

I closed my eyes and thought about my next steps······