Chapter 532: Progress (Part I)
Xuanzang left the town the next day, but he didn't continue to the direction of the Jieri Dynasty, but went directly to the direction of Yaochi City, because he was going there...... There is no point anymore, the Ring Sun Dynasty is gone, what did he go for? What's the point? Nothing at all.
So he finally made a choice, if those Buddhist scriptures would eventually return to Yumen Pass, then he didn't mind asking to see Huo Gang and ask him to read those Buddhist scriptures.
Speaking of which, Xuanzang hasn't seen Huo Gang yet, although he needs to get the customs clearance document when he enters the Han Dynasty, but this customs clearance document does not need Huo Gang, the leader of a country, to be responsible.
Only the following patrol division can be handled, because of the relationship between Dahan and Datang, so his customs clearance documents are also handled very smoothly, there are no waves, and naturally there is no chance to meet Huo Gang.
But this time, I believe that these things should not be for ordinary people to decide, and in the end, he still needs to ask to see Huo Gang.
Therefore, this time Xuanzang's attitude was very resolute, and the chat with these herdsmen made Xuanzang more curious about seeing Huo Gang, or even more curious about Huo Gang, it is said that he is only in the grade of two decades, and this grade is considered a young person even in Datang.
And what about Huo Gang? Not only has he built such a large empire, but more importantly, he has made great changes in the entire country, which is even greater than the changes in the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years.
He even had a hunch that maybe it wouldn't be long before this banner of the Han Dynasty would be planted in the land of all these Hu people, including those countries such as Dashi, where the newspaper said that all workers and ordinary people were encouraged to emigrate, and the place of immigration was more like the border.
This kind of thing, maybe ordinary people don't think anything, but Xuanzang is somewhat aware of it, maybe the next big food, what the Han calls Persia is the next goal of the Han Dynasty.
I don't know when the footsteps of the Han will stop, according to Xuanzang's thoughts, there is no good end to the reckless army, but I don't know why, this regulation does not seem to apply to the Han, at least for now, the Han seems to be becoming more and more prosperous.
Maybe think about the Western Regions is a territory that all Han people have never set foot in, the Silk Road used to be called, and now, the Silk Road is about to become the domestic road of the Han Dynasty, which is estimated to come soon.
Xuanzang's footsteps are very fast, when he meets a caravan on the road, Xuanzang takes the initiative to salute and ask if the other party can give him a ride, Xuanzang at this moment has a dusty temperament, just like the herdsman said, although the Han people do not have their Buddhist living space, or the Han people do not trust anyone else except Huo Gang at all.
But Dahan did not stop them from walking in Dahan.
Huo Gang didn't know this, the things he was paying attention to now were not here, the things that Huo Gang paid attention to every day were on the Spirit of the Jade Gate in his mind, and it could be seen that it was on the Spirit of the Jade Gate, which was located on the Buzhou Peninsula, and the area belonging to the territory of the Han Dynasty was constantly expanding, increasing at any time.
According to the current progress, by the time of the Spring Festival this year, He Molu and the others may not be able to achieve their strategic goals.
In fact, they have now compressed all the original people of the Indian peninsula to a distance of about 500 kilometers south of the Ganges River basin, which is not far from the Tiele River, which is ...... He Modu, they are driving the enemy to the death.
At the current pace, the distance traveled by these abstinents is at least 30 kilometers a day. This is a very long distance, and you must know that the people of the lower castes simply do not have enough food, which is probably enough for them to eat locally.
However, soon Huo Gang got the second part of the information sent by Liu An and them, or the information that He Molu and they took the initiative to send, that is, He Modu's previous operations...... Unexpectedly, Huo Gang has achieved a role beyond their expectations, that is, a considerable number of these low-level low-caste people seem to have given up their original beliefs.
Many of the cattle and other domestic animals that they valued were slaughtered and eaten by them, as if to resist their original beliefs.
The ox is still regarded as a holy object in the belief of the Jieri Dynasty, or in the belief of Shivaism, of course, this holy relic has not yet reached the point of being so morbid in later generations, and a lot of cultivated land in the current Jieri Dynasty is still cultivated by oxen.
The origin of the sacred status of cattle is actually because it is one of the domestic animals necessary for agriculture, just like the Tang Dynasty also strictly prohibits the slaughter of cultivated cattle, it is the same reason, but the cow is mythical here.
And after the myth, but here it is still ploughed with oxen, but when ploughing the land, they respect the ox enough, and even if the cow is old, sick, or dead, they can't eat beef, they can only drink milk, provide butter, burn cow dung and so on.
But I don't know if it was because their faith was shattered, a considerable number of low-caste people began a rebellion journey, and the first step of rebellion was naturally to destroy what they originally regarded as holy relics, and in this case, the cattle were naturally the first to suffer.
Those high-caste people still have enough deterrent power with them, and those people are heavily guarded, they don't dare to resist, they can only attack these things.
Of course, there are also reasons why these people have run out of food and have to find something to eat, and when people are hungry, especially when they are about to die, many people don't care about any faith or anything like that, although they may usually care a lot.
So these domestic animals will soon start to be the first to be unlucky, for such behavior, He Molu they naturally don't care, they just follow silently, they are not short of food, anyway, their enemies can't go fast at all, so He Molu They only need to send a small number of cavalry, most of the cavalry can wait for the supply of food.
With enough food, they don't care at all, and as for the old and weak Turks who migrate after them, they don't have any requirements for the speed of their migration, so they don't care as far as they go every day, and there is no shortage of food, so they are naturally not in any danger.
The only thing to watch out for is wild animals, but with so many people acting together, wild animals don't dare to harass.
He Molu and the others did not stop the seemingly venting practices of these low-caste people, but laughed at them, because in the eyes of their Turks, they had to migrate long distances as a last resort, and when the situation was urgent, even the old people and sick Turks could not eat sheep, cattle and horses.
Because of the old people, the sick starved to death, and the remaining young, children, could still survive as long as they reached their new grazing place.
But if the sheep are eaten in order to save this part of the people, then the final result is that everyone dies, and no one can survive, which is very cruel, but this is the experience of the steppe nomads who have summed up their lives for hundreds of years.
Cattle and sheep are their only chance to survive, without it, the whole tribe will fall into a whole desperate situation, and these people are obviously in a desperate situation, but they don't know it yet.
"These people live so comfortably, no wonder they are so docile." A tribal general looked at the crowd of black people thousands of meters away from them, and said with a cold face.
"Yes, they have a warm climate all year round, which allows them to grow food that can be ripened several times a year, so they are not short of food, and there are countless weeds in the wild, which makes it easy for them to raise a lot of animals."
"They don't have any sense of crisis at all." The general said coldly, "They have the best living conditions, if we had known about their existence a long time ago, we would have wiped them out a long time ago." ”
"It's okay now, under the leadership of the leader, our future is even more promising." Another general said lightly, "Although our power has become smaller, those ordinary people in our tribe have a better life. ”
These generals were originally the leaders of some tribes, but their tribe was not a big tribe, so they were actually very concerned about the ordinary herdsmen of their tribe, and they had a good relationship with them.
"yes. So, thank you that the Lord has finally come down to save those of us who have gone astray, and that we have finally returned to the guidance of Immortality. The previous general was also smiling.
While they were discussing this issue, Huo Gang was also looking at some of the records of the Jieri Dynasty on agriculture that Liu An urgently sent back. According to Huo Gang's impression, in fact, the agriculture of the Indian Peninsula is not like Southeast Asia, where it can be harvested three times a year, but is similar to that of the Tang Dynasty, and almost most areas are harvested once a year.
However, these data are from later generations, and the annual cropping area refers to the vast area of later South India, that is, the Deccan Plateau, because it is a tropical monsoon climate, June to September is the rainy season, and the rest are the dry season, the dry season is huge, so it is impossible to double cropping.
But this thing is not absolute, just like Huo Gang said, this kind of data of later generations is talking about the whole of India, and South India occupies a huge area of India, even if it is a year, it also occupies a considerable part of the grain production area, which is naturally the main data.
In fact, this is not the case in the Ganges River Basin, which is one of the rivers with the largest flow of water in the entire Indian peninsula, and the Henghe River Basin plus the plains have no problem at all with two crops a year, and even three crops a year can be achieved in some areas.
It is no exaggeration to say that if one more Ganges River basin is placed in southern China, which is also a plain, the amount of grain produced in the entire Ganges River basin alone can almost double the amount of grain produced in China.
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