Dachaigou in summer is very beautiful, not very hot, especially after a few heavy rains, the sky is blue, the breeze is gentle, almost all the peaks are half-waisted, are coiled by milky white fog, it is simply beautiful.

With the passage of time, the output of Dachaigou Iron Mine and Dachaigou Coal Mine gradually stabilized.

In one day and one night, there can be more than 1,000 catties of refined iron and 7,800 catties of swarthy fine coal, which makes Yang Chuan very satisfied.

At the same time, the Qiang warriors who had somehow become "miners" were also satisfied.

Under the command of the "Great Snow Mountain Messenger", the living standards of these people have skyrocketed, and there is no longer that precarious and panicked mood.

No way, this kind of day is simply too comfortable.

Every morning, all the miners received a sumptuous breakfast, which consisted of a large bowl of mutton in clear soup, two fragrant pot helmets, and a small plate of salted wild vegetables; The lunch meal is also very good, either a big bowl of haggis soup with a pot helmet, or a big bowl of stir-fried calf, just smelling the smell can make people cry.

As for dinner, it was even more sumptuous.

The Qiang people and the Xiongnu people like to eat beef and mutton, and like coriander, cumin powder, pepper powder, skin tooth and all kinds of chili peppers, which is the situation after one or two thousand years; Right now, these guys actually like to eat everything.

You see, as long as they can fill their stomachs, when they are grazing on the grassland, they can basically hunt whatever they can eat, and they will eat whatever they can eat, like robes, rabbits, roe deer, foxes, mice, yellow sheep, etc., are the best game of the grassland people......

I just can't see it.

As a cook, Yang Chuan naturally couldn't tolerate the way in which he walked and the way of eating of such barbarians still existed.

Therefore, at every dinner, he would take special care of the brothers in the "Fire Head Camp", make sure to cook something delicious, and teach the miners to eat delicious food themselves.

In this way, after repeated trials, observations, inductions and summaries, the soldiers of the Huotou Battalion finally discovered that the favorite of these so-called Qiang warriors was "masturbation".

The beef and mutton are peeled and cleaned, deboned, divided into several categories of fat and thin, and then, skewered with some bamboo skewers, smeared with the secret sesame oil dipping sauce prepared by Yang Chuan himself, and left on the fire for a while, until the fat in the beef and mutton begins to seep out, you can apply cumin powder, pepper, pepper powder, coriander powder, refined salt and other "spices" prepared on it.

According to the size of the meat skewers and the age and tenderness of the beef and mutton, a handful of meat skewers can be basically chewed after roasting on the fire for more than 20 breaths.

Of course, this is the way the Qiang people and the Huns eat it.

These guys have good teeth, even if it is raw meat, they can tear and swallow it in a big gulp, smear sesame oil dipping sauce, turn and roast half-raw beef skewers and lamb skewers on the fire, take one bite into it, and chew it three or five times indiscriminately before swallowing.

In this way, the miners and lumberjacks of the Dachaigou Iron Mine and the Dachaigou Coal Mine naturally became "singing, dancing and singing" every night.

By the way, there's still chaos...... Ahem, and their favorite "duet".

Men, women, and children gathered around several large bonfires, singing and dancing while stringing strings, and under the light of the fire, the flames began to flicker and flicker under their eyes.

In the tents, in the grass, in the groves, in the cattle pens, in the stables, there are the enthusiasm of the Qiang and Xiongnu miners everywhere, leaving some traces of style, just like some birds, insects, fish and beasts playing the piano in spring, which is the symphony of nature.

[False reason]: Because the reader doesn't like to read it, he won't describe it.

[Real Reason]: Crazy to be audited.

At the beginning, Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, and Dongfang Shuo were quite puzzled, why Yang Chuan didn't care about this kind of stinky and shameless thing, and he didn't stop it.

Moreover, it seems that he is happy to see it come to fruition, and he intends to knead.

For example, he would instruct the soldiers of the Huotou battalion to "strengthen the waist" of Suoyang, Yin sheep weed, and dodder seeds

Kidney", a precious Chinese medicinal material, is carefully concocted, ground into powder, and mixed into the "secret dipping sauce" when making strings.

This is clearly fanning the flames and deliberately matchmaking, right?

It's just too bad!

Later, until Yang Chuan broke through the mystery, these people understood it in their hearts, but there was a little more jealousy and fear in their eyes when they looked at Yang Chuan......

"You people, you have a lot of books, and you can read well, you can be called a big Han brick."

"But have you ever thought about it, your Confucius and Master Meng have said that everything in this world has its own law and its way, and if we want to do great things, we must follow the way, and we must not go against the way."

Yang Chuan once again turned on the "teaching and educating mode", and taught Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, and Dongfang Shuo on the spot, and he inexplicably had the demeanor of a master: "It's like masturbating this thing, don't look at it very simple, as long as you have hands, it's not."

"There are roughly several steps in this skewer, which are nothing more than slaughtering, peeling, deboning, chopping meat, applying sesame oil dipping sauce, turning and roasting."

"Every step, if you are careless, will affect every subsequent link."

"For example, when you first choose a cow or sheep, you choose a sick lamb, or a lean old cow, so that your ingredients themselves have problems, and every link in the future, even if you use the world's best sesame oil dipping sauce, your roasting technique is also first-class, but after tossing for most of the day, eating the meat in your mouth, but after all, it is still sick, dry and thin, and it can still be delicious?"

"Secondly, there are some follow-up links, is the ratio of dipping sauce appropriate? Are you skilled or not? Is the heat in place?"

"Blah, blah, blah, and so on."

"The so-called layout of the plot is roughly the same, for example, if we want to pass through the Hexi Corridor, the Western Regions, and even the entire land of Monan and Mobei, what do we need to do in the first step?"

"It's not just about choosing the ingredients."

"The Hexi Corridor, fertile for thousands of miles, is not only a first-class fertile land in the world, but also an excellent military horse farm, separated by the Jufeng Mountains in the north and south, and has become a place of intersection between the Qiang people and the Xiongnu people, and at the same time, after the east and west are connected, it can also connect Chang'an City and the Western Regions, becoming a natural passage for internal and external transportation of the Han Dynasty."

"Therefore, for the Hexi Corridor, the emperor's idea is imperative."

"Ben Hou's idea is not only to gain the entire Hexi Corridor, but also to find a way to deepen and make it an unbreakable part of the Han Empire......

The reason is very simple, after letting Yang Chuan talk in detail, it became inexplicably unfathomable, and Zhang Tang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but secretly stretched out his thumb and gave Yang Chuan a handmade praise to the thief:

"Changning Hou, amazing!"

"Cow π!"

"To be able to explain a simple truth so cloudy, unfathomable, and incomprehensible, Changning Hou, you really live up to your reputation......

Let Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, and Dongfang Shuo make fun of them, and Yang Chuan laughed: "You guys, don't want to treat our big Han Liehou as a big official."

After a few people laughed for a while, Yang Chuan continued to talk about his plans: "You have seen the map of the Hexi Corridor, and you must know that this location seems to be inconspicuous, sandwiched between Wuwei and Longxi, and it is regarded as a place where there is no shop in front of the village and no store in the back.

However, after our killing and strategy, what kind of scene is it to make it a support point for our Han army Qiang and Huns......

Zhang Tang's faces changed slightly.

Expanding the territory, this is the opening of the territory!

As long as Yang Chuan's plan is followed, the support point of Dachaigou can be managed well, and the entire Wusheling Mountain Range can be controlled to the west, and the north can attack Monan and Mobei anytime and anywhere, echoing with Dingxiang, Wuyuan, Shuofang and other prefectures and counties, becoming a sharp blade; To the south, you can control the Qiang people area for three or four thousand miles, and you can drink horse Qinghai Lake at any time.

In this way, even if the two armies of Huo Quzhi and Li Guang did not achieve any results, the territory of the Han Empire was really forced to advance westward for thousands of miles......

According to the "military merit system" of the Qin and Han dynasties, beheading the enemy in battle is actually a conventional military feat, and it is even more difficult to be a marquis than to ascend to the sky.

The expansion of territory is completely different.

For example, the general Wei Qing, in a big battle, there are not many enemy leaders of the Huns, only 50,000 or 60,000 people, but the real merit of the people is to recapture the entire Shuofang County, and use it as a strategic support point, and then recover the entire Hetao Plain, and so on If the territory of the Han Empire is expanded by tens of thousands of miles!

"Yang Chuan, uh, Changning Hou, I once heard Bowanghou Zhang Qian say that the Hexi Corridor is active and wide, and it is larger than the so-called Hetao Plain, I don't know how it is true?"

As soon as Sima Qian was excited, there would be some obvious small pimples on his red face, one by one, shiny, and Yang Chuan joked that it was "pimples".

After listening to Yang Chuan's words this time, he just thought that these people might expand their territory for tens of thousands of miles, so he was so excited that he couldn't help but ask.

Yang Chuan guessed Sima Qian's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The area of the Hexi Corridor is about the same as that of the Hetao, strictly speaking, the Hetao area may be more vast, but there are still tens of thousands of miles of territory, and in the long run, the strategic position of the Hexi Corridor is two or three feet higher than that of the Hetao."

When Sima Qian heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and actually made the action of a young man, raised his fist, and waved it vigorously in the air several times.

Such a smug young man's posture made Yang Chuan and the others laugh again.

"Still."

Yang Chuan thought about it very seriously and said, "If you want to take care of the mutton skewers in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions, we still have a lot of work to do in the future, and we can't take it lightly."

"The most urgent thing at the moment is not to find a way to send supplies to the two generals Huo Qubing and Li Guang, but how to get a good chaigou."

He beckoned his hand and asked Huo Guang and Yang Yi to bring clean water, wash their hands and faces, and then began to give orders: "Zhang Tang, order you to take three hundred elite cavalry to the Qiang and Huns that we have swept, and sweep them again, so as not to leave any living mouths."

"Sima Qian, I order you to lead a hundred cavalry, set off immediately, and urge the infrastructure battalion to continue to build the Chi Road and the military villages along the way, and when the Chi Road is repaired to the area of Dachaigou, the refined iron we smelt can be immediately converted into weapons, tools, etc., so that the next construction progress can be doubled."

Zhang Tang and Sima Qian immediately got up, bowed down to receive the order, and went to work on their respective jobs.

There was only one Dongfang Shuo left by Yang Chuan's side, and seeing that everyone else had a lot of work to do, the bad old man was also anxious, and asked, "Changning Hou, what about me?"

Yang Chuan glanced at Dongfang Shuo and asked with a smile: "Mr. Dongfang, I heard that you have married more than 30 Qinglou women as wives and concubines in Chang'an City, and each wife and concubine, if they sleep with you for a few nights, they will be divorced by you, an old scumbag, but is there such a thing?"

Dongfang Shuo frankly admitted: "Not more than 30 wives and concubines, but 73 wives and concubines."

Yang Chuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You have a little body, maybe it's okay?"

Dongfang Shuo looked up and sighed, and said faintly: "I, Dongfang Shuo, have a taste for this, Changning Hou asked today, but I want to help?" Forget it, you can't bear it after marrying three little women, and you still have the energy to help others?"

Yang Chuan: "......"

Dongfang Shuo's mouth, but he has never spared anyone, even if Yang Chuan's status is noble today, he should be scared, and he doesn't leave any affection.

"Mr. Dongfang, Ben Hou knows why you frequently marry wives, it is nothing more than through the matter of marrying wives, so that those fallen Qinglou women can get a clean household registration, it is really heartfelt."

Yang Chuan pondered as he stretched out his finger to circle the map, looking very entangled: "However, if a person is too good, he will not be able to become a great tool, and you Mr. Dongfang also know this."

Dongfang Shuo nodded solemnly: "Marquis Changning's words are reasonable, but Dongfang Shuo has no regrets."

Yang Chuan raised his head, looked at Dongfang Shuo's clear and clear eyes, and slowly asked, "There is now."

Two major events, one of which is to take a team of men and horses out, go deep into the grassland desert, and poison all the Hun tribes they encounter along the way, regardless of men, women and children, cattle, sheep and livestock, leaving no one alive;

The second is to guard the firewood ditch, and the mining, ironmaking, logging, and tuntian are carried out step by step, making this place one of the best places in the Han Dynasty.

The first thing is that the credit is not great, because no one will take credit for your poisoning of the old and weak women and children, and even, when necessary, we have to deliberately conceal this matter, even in the recital to the emperor, it may not be mentioned; The second thing is a great achievement......

Dongfang Shuo's lips moved several times, and it seemed that after a fierce battle between heaven and man, he finally spoke: "Marquis Changning, poison the old and weak women and children all the way, I ...... I can't do it."

Yang Chuan nodded, and said with a gentle smile: "Then I have to take action in person."

He was afraid of death.

But he understands a truth better, on the battlefield, in order not to let himself die, the best way is to kill all the enemies......

Two chapters in a row, which were strictly reviewed, and the chef had no choice, and the 6,500-word chapter was deleted by a third.

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