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Zhang Jiashi did not think about the corresponding personnel transfer in Longxi County, mainly because the situation in Longxi County can be said to be quite special. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Zhang Jiashi's conception, he didn't mind forming an alliance with the Xiqiang people, nor did he care about the two previous conflicts with the Xiqiang people in Yongdu and the border of the Great Wall. After all, Zhang Jiashi thinks that one sentence is very reasonable, that is, there will be no eternal hatred between the two forces, and there will only be any entanglement of interests that will unite or fight for life and death because of this.

In the last year, the Xiqiang people have entered into a series of trade agreements with the Great Qin Empire, a situation that has made the bilateral relations between the Xiqiang and the Great Qin Empire seem to be showing signs of improvement. But Zhang Jiashi himself is also very aware of a situation, that is, the Xiqiang people cannot be fully trusted, and he still has to secretly watch out for the Xiqiang people.

For Zhang Jiashi, the area controlled by the Xiqiang people does not need to compete for a life-and-death conflict of interest between the two sides for the time being, although the Hexi Corridor, as the Silk Road that has now shown some clues, can be regarded as a lucrative trade route. However, the Hexi Corridor has been out of Xiqiang for a long time, and the Xiongnu are even in the hands of the Dayue clan who have now been expelled from the west, and the safety of this trade route is really difficult for Zhang Jiashi to imagine where he will go.

Even from his conversation with Zheng Xiao, Zhang Jiashi knew that after many smugglers entered the Hexi Corridor, it was more like embarking on a road of no return, and the most dangerous thing for these smugglers was not the horse thieves who crossed the river, but the regular troops of the Huns, Xiqiang people and even the Dayue clan.

If you encounter those horse thieves, maybe there will be a way to live, or you can get a good time, but if you fall into the hands of these tribesmen, many times even their own will be used as slaves, and there is no future to live.

It can be said that this is really a fateful journey of gambling with his own life, Zhang Jiashi said to Zheng Xiao about the smuggling businessmen. There are not too many ideas, as long as these people are not transporting some prohibited materials, such as standard equipment, armor, bows, crossbows, etc., Zhang Jiashi is more laissez-faire to this kind of person in a sense. Of course, whether their own luck is good or bad is not something he can control.

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The Hexi Corridor is famous in Chinese history. It used to be the main road for Buddhism to spread to the east and the throat of the Silk Road to the west, and there were four counties here in the Han Dynasty. Garrison Tuntian, is the Han Dynasty through the northwest of the military town. Later, due to the natural barrier of many mountain ranges, it became the habitat of the Central Plains celebrities to escape the war in the north, and the history and culture here have a long history, and the scenic spots and historic sites are like a galaxy. The four major archaeological wonders of China in the 20th century: the Ming and Qing Dynasty archives of the Forbidden City, the oracle bones of Anyang, the Dunhuang testament, and the Juyan Han Jian, both of which are related to the Hexi Corridor, were also excavated here.

The ancient Silk Road started from Xi'an, passed through the Hexi Corridor, and entered Xinjiang from Yangguan and Yumen Pass respectively. As a result, the Hexi Corridor has become the hub of the ancient Silk Road, connecting the material trade and cultural exchanges of Asia, Africa and Europe. Eastern and Western cultures stir each other here, and the accumulation of a magnificent historical civilization has been accumulated.

But this description of the Hexi Corridor in later generations. In the pre-Qin period, it was not important for the Central Plains, because even the Great Qin Empire had a very low demand for the Hexi Corridor, let alone the Qin State in the pre-Qin period.

The Qin State has never focused on the west, but has gradually developed eastward for hundreds of years, and even swept through the Six Kingdoms after many wars, which shows that the Qin State did not have a corresponding demand for the Hexi Corridor at that time.

Or rather. The rulers of the Qin State and the Great Qin Empire felt that the Hexi Corridor did not have enough places to attract their attention.

This is not surprising, because even if the Great Qin Empire wanted to develop westward, the price they would have to pay and the gains they thought they would get were not proportional.

Not many people are willing to do such thankless work.

Zhang Jiashi is no exception, because the Hexi Corridor is also lacking sufficient favorable factors for the current Great Qin Empire.

In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located. There are corresponding unearthed cultural relics that prove that the Hexi Corridor indirectly assumed the corresponding status of the East-West exchange at a very early stage.

In the 14th century BC, the Egyptians had already built ships. In Egypt, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan was found more than 5,000 years ago, indicating that the Egyptians had begun to carry out a certain scale of trade along the road known as the Silk Road. Fragments of silk wreckage believed by some to date around 1070 BC have been discovered. This means that Egypt may have had indirect trade with China at least 1070 BCE.

As the keynote of the development of the Silk Road as a national interest, it comes from the fact that after a long period of time, out of consideration of the continuous harassment of the Xiongnu and the rampant bandits on the Silk Road, to strengthen the control of the Western Regions, in the second year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty (60 BC), the Han Dynasty's direct jurisdiction over the Western Regions was established. Marked by the establishment of officials in the Western Regions by the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road, a road of exchange between the East and the West, began to enter an era of prosperity.

During this period, the importance of the Hexi Corridor really affected the development of the Central Plains Dynasty.

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But for Zhang Jiashi, Zhang Jiashi did not believe that the Great Qin Empire under his command had an urgent need for the Hexi Corridor or even the Silk Road.

Perhaps there are quite a few products worthy of attention in the Hexi Corridor, and even the west side of the Hexi Corridor has quite an important connection base and even military supplies. For example, sweat and blood BMW or something.

Of course, this does not mean that this horse really sweats like blood, but the corresponding biological characteristics of this horse itself cause this situation:

In addition, the horse's shoulders and neck sweat glands are developed, and the horse is often wet after sweating.

The body is tubular in shape, with a narrow chest, a long back, shallow ribs, a long phalangeal area, a slightly narrow but strong posterior area, and a slightly longer buttocks with a muscular body. at a normal angle of inclination. The carapace is tall, long, and muscular, with long, well-curved shoulders and a clean inner shoulder, and a shiny and thin fur.

As a horse that is respected by many experts, the speed and endurance of the sweaty horse are very good.

In ancient literary works, sweat and blood BMWs can "travel thousands of miles in a day and eight hundred in a night". In general, the top speed of a horse is about 150 kilometers per day. At most, it is just over 200 kilometers. The fastest speed record for a BMW is 4,300 kilometers in 84 days. Measured. It takes only 1 minute 07 seconds for a sweaty BMW to run 1,000 meters on flat ground.

The sweaty BMW is very thirst-tolerant and only needs to drink water once a day, even in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, making it particularly suitable for long walks. In 1998, in a 3,200-kilometre, 60-day race, all 54 horses made it to the finish line.

It can be seen that the sweat horse, as a war horse, is undoubtedly enough to make a knight army exert an incomparably amazing combat ability.

The legend about the sweat and blood horse was understood by Zhang Jiashi from the relevant records of the Qingyu Spirit Book.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (113 B.C.), there was a Dunhuang prisoner named "Profiteering". Caught a bloody horse in the local area and presented it to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty got this horse, he was ecstatic and called it "Tianma". And composed a song, the song said: "Taiyi tribute is under the heavenly horse, stained with red sweat and dregs." Cheng Rong and stumbling thousands of miles, now Anpi Xilong is a friend. "Only one thousand miles horse can not change the quality of domestic horses, in order to capture a large number of "sweat horses". The Western Han Dynasty in China had two bloody wars with the Great Wan Kingdom in the Western Regions at that time.

Initially, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy of more than 100 people to Dawan with a horse made of pure gold, hoping to exchange the stallion of Dawan horse for a heavy gift. After coming to Ershi City (now Asghabat City, Turkmenistan), the capital of the Dawan Kingdom, the king of Dawan may have loved horses, or perhaps considered it from a military perspective (because the use of troops in the Western Regions was mainly cavalry). And good horses are an important part of the combat effectiveness of cavalry) refused to exchange Dawan horses for golden horses of the Han Dynasty. On the way back to China, the Han envoy was robbed in the territory of Dawan and the Han envoy was killed. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and made the decision to seize the bloody BMW by force. In 104 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Li Guangli to lead tens of thousands of cavalry, marching more than 4,000 kilometers, and arrived at the border city of Yucheng in Dawan, but the initial battle was unfavorable and failed to capture Dawan. I had to retreat to Dunhuang, and when I came back, only one-tenth of the people remained.

Three years later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once again ordered Li Guangli to go on an expedition, leading 60,000 troops, 30,000 horses, 100,000 cattle, and two Soma experts to Dawan. At this time, there was a coup d'état in Dawan, and the Han army negotiated peace, allowing the Han army to choose its own horses, and agreed to send two good horses to the Han Dynasty every year in the future. The Han army selected dozens of good horses, and 3,000 male and female horses below the middle level. After a long journey, there were only more than 1,000 sweaty horses left when they arrived at Yumen Pass. The sweaty horse is in good shape, empathetic, fast, and has good stamina, making it suitable for long marches, making it ideal for use as a military horse.

The cavalry of the Han Dynasty, which introduced "sweat and blood horses", really increased its combat effectiveness. There was even such a story: in the battle between the Han army and the foreign army, a unit was all fought by sweat and blood, and the enemy was very numerous, which was impressive. The sweaty horses who have been trained for a long time think that this is the stage for performances and perform dance steps. The other party used a short Mongolian horse, and when he saw that the sweaty horse was tall, slender, and erect, he thought it was a peculiar animal, and retreated without a fight.

That is to say, it can be seen from the legend that the sweat horse only needs to maintain the corresponding bloodline purity, and the influence that this mount can exert on the military side will be very huge.

However, the Sweat Horse was not suitable as a basis for the development of heavy cavalry, because although the Sweat Horse had many advantages, it also had obvious disadvantages.

Because although the sweat horse is fast, but it is slender, relatively speaking, the weight capacity is not strong, in the ancient era of cold weapons, soldiers on horseback to fight, armor, hand-held weapons, the total weight is quite large, more willing to choose stout horses.

Such a situation, in other words, proves that the sweat and blood horses are not competent for heavy cavalry mounts at all, and Zhang Jiashi does not plan to develop heavy knight troops on a large scale, on the contrary, if enough sweat and blood horses can be introduced for breeding or hybridization, in a period of time, the sweat and blood horses will obviously outweigh the disadvantages in terms of the combat ability of the knight troops.

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If it is not enough to say that sweat and blood are not enough to attract Zhang Jiashi's attention, then Zhang Jiashi still has a strategy and even civilian resources that he hopes to get from the Western Regions, that is, cotton.

The development of cotton in the Central Plains can be said to be quite slow, and the origin of cotton is India and Arabia. Before cotton was introduced to China, there was only kapok for pillows, and there was no cotton for weaving. Before the Song Dynasty, China only had the word "cotton" next to the silk, and there was no word "cotton" next to the wood.

The word "cotton" began to appear from the "Book of Song", which means that cotton was introduced into the interior in large quantities, when in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, the record of cotton into China is as follows: "Between the Song and Yuan dynasties, it was first planted in China, and Guan, Shaanxi, Fujian and Guangxi were the first to get their benefits. From this, it can be understood that the introduction of cotton has two routes: sea and land. Quanzhou's cotton was introduced by sea and soon spread in the south, while the promotion of cotton across the country was as late as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who used a coercive method to push it out.

However, in some classics or archaeology, it shows that during the Han Dynasty, cotton fiber was used as textile raw materials in Guangxi, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other regions.

For Zhang Jiashi, he doesn't remember this situation very clearly, but he also sent some people from his family to Xiangjun to look for cotton.

According to his idea, cotton is a wind-borne or migratory bird-borne crop, and at this time there are some places in the south where cotton appears, and Zhang Jiashi thinks it is not too strange.

However, as a traverser, and with the help of Qingyu Lingshu, I realized that as a human biological resource, the yield and quality of these cotton are not high in many ways, which is also a headache for Zhang Jiashi.

It's just that Zhang Jiashi quickly relieved himself of such an idea, because he still has to solve the problem of whether he can find it or not, and then he is qualified to worry about whether this thing is good or not.

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Therefore, although Zhang Jiashi temporarily believes that the tasks that Longxi County needs to undertake are not very heavy, but for many considerations, Zhang Jiashi does not want his heavy military deployment in Longxi County to make the Xiqiang people too defensive, but he also does not want to weaken the combat readiness of Longxi County too much, so that the Xiqiang people and the Huns can find an opportunity.

Therefore, in terms of the county guard and the candidate for the county lieutenant, it is really difficult for Zhang Jiashi to make a choice in a short period of time.

However, at this time, Zhang Jiashi looked at the location of the map marked with the Xiongnu and showed a smile, because he thought of a very suitable candidate for the county guard, that is-Ma Sikuo (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )