During the Han Dynasty, the population was extremely unevenly distributed.

The North accounts for 80% of the world's population, while the South accounts for only 20%.

But even so, the land in the north is still incredibly fertile.

Li Yunze went north to enter the new place, Wangdu County, and checked the number of acres of farmland records, yield, plantings, reclamation degree, harvest and many other data along the way.

Moreover, it is not allowed to notify the local government office, and would rather sleep in the open than go to the county to rest.

This can be confusing for the entourage.

The king is not born in the palace to enjoy singing and dancing, drinking fine wine, and playing with beautiful women, what is this doing?

However, the king's riding skills are really good, not at all like the pampered princes in the palace, and even better than the knights who guarded them.

Li Yunze ignored them, and traveled all the way north to the northern edge of Zhongshan Kingdom.

The mountains in front of you are stacked and towering.

The pale green ancient trees are like a sea of green when bathed in sunlight.

Li Yunze, who was on horseback, said with emotion, "Five clouds often cover the five ends, and the sky is close to Qingduan, and it is especially cold. ”

Here, it is the famous Wutai Mountain.

Of course, the Buddha Gate has not yet been transmitted, and such a beautiful scenery has not yet been occupied by the painting ground, and the mountains and wilderness are still almost primeval jungle-like scenes.

Only river valleys and mountain roads wind through the mountains.

On the other side of the mountain is a river valley from which the Hutuo River meanders down.

On the other side of the river valley, there is the ridge of the world in the clouds, especially this mountain. 'The Heng Mountain.

Similarly, because the Buddhism Gate has not yet come, and there is no Hengshan sect on Heng Mountain, it is still a place where anyone can go up and does not need to be charged.

At the end of Wutai Mountain parallel to the east of Heng Mountain, there is a series of valley walls, which are called Pingxing Villages.

That's right, it's the Pingxingguan village.

Beyond the Heng Mountain and further north, there are Yunzhou Shuozhou and other places, that is, the first line of resistance to the Xiongnu, Yunzhong County, Dai County and Yanmen County.

However, that side is not under Li Yunze's control now, and he can't even leave the feudal past.

This doesn't matter, Li Yunze took a few breaths of fresh air from the mountain, and then turned his horse's head and galloped down the mountain.

If you go further north, it is Zhuo County, the hometown of Yanren Zhang Yide.

The northern land had already turned, and he was going to look at the southern counties.

Li Yunze's physical fitness is there, it doesn't matter if he gallops for a few days and nights, but the entourage can't stand it.

Fortunately, when he returned to Lunu City halfway, Li Yunze gave them silk goods as a reward, and then changed another group of people to take them south.

Crossing the Hutuo River and heading south, he also went around several counties in the south and carefully examined the local materials.

All the way south to Changshan County, outside the county of Zhending County.

Changshan County was originally Hengshan County set up by the First Emperor, but it was renamed Changshan County because it avoided the name of Emperor Wen Liu Heng.

It can be seen that the emperor's choice of a popular name will bring too many troubles to the lives of the people.

Both the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty once set up Changshan Kingdom here, which is why Zhao Yun called himself a native of Changshan Country.

Its county governs Zhending County, which is later Shijiazhuang.

From Zhending to the south, that is Handan, Yecheng.

After going around the feudal capital, in-depth understanding of the relevant information, and knowing what to do, Li Yunze led the team back to Lunu and prepared to start strengthening the national strength, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment.

The first thing he did when he returned to Lu Nu was to find Chang Shilang, who later became the Zhong Chang Shilang.

It should be noted that the middle servants in the early Western Han Dynasty were not eunuchs in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but able-bodied literati, whose main job was to give things to the right and the right to deal with them, that is, secretaries.

The famous Dongfang Shuo has been a regular waiter.

Li Yunze's Chang Shilang, named Zhao Yan, is estimated to have something to do with the Zhao royal family during the Warring States Period.

His person is Changpiao, and he doesn't know which nobleman's way he has passed, and Chang Shilang, who was able to become the king of Zhongshan, followed him all the way here.

Originally, it was an idle job, but Zhao Yan didn't get any job before, I thought that this life would be like this, but I never thought that I was suddenly given a heavy responsibility.

"You go north, go to the grasslands."

Li Yunze's words almost scared Zhao Yan out of heart disease.

Head north to the steppe. In this era of confrontation between the Han and the Xiongnu, it usually meant only one thing, and that was to contact the Xiongnu to prepare a rebellion!

Zhao Yan's tears fell, he had lost his ambition for many years, he just wanted to mix up a position that could take a good job, and he really didn't dare to participate in such a big event.

Before he could beg for mercy, he heard Li Yunze continue, "Bring the gold and silk goods, go to the market to buy cattle and come back." ”

Zhao Yanna's crying in his throat stopped abruptly.

"The king wants to buy a cow?"

"Hmm."

Zhao Yan smiled, "King, this Lunu City is connected to Zhuo County in the north, Handan in the south, Hejian Country in the east, and Taiyuan County in the west."

"I don't need you to popularize science geography, these kings know it."

Zhao Yan choked and hurriedly said, "Lunu has a developed business here, and there are many caravans, if the king wants to buy cattle, he can do it in this city." ”

"Oh?" Li Yunze raised his eyebrows: "Can you buy tens of thousands of cattle in this city?" ”

"Tens of thousands?!"

Zhao Yan hiccuped, "Why did the king buy so many cattle?" I can't eat it. ”

"Who told you that this king wants to eat cows?" Li Yunze waved his hand impatiently, "This king is going to buy cattle from the grassland and come back to domesticate them for the purpose of cultivating land." ”

"This and this." Zhao Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, not knowing what to say.

Then he heard Li Yunze say, "If you can't even do such things, then you might as well find another job." ”

Having said that, Zhao Yan had no other choice but to come down.

After all, it's not easy to get a thousand-stone official position.

However, something that made Zhao Yan even more frightened appeared after the caravan set off.

The king actually appeared in the caravan!

"Great, King." Zhao Yan couldn't speak, "I'll wait to go, don't work for the king to send it off." ”

"Not for you." Li Yunze, who had changed into his regular clothes, waved his hand: "This king will go with you." ”

Zhao Yan was about to cry, but unfortunately no matter how much persuasion was useless.

The kings of the Han Dynasty were not allowed to leave their fiefdoms without an edict, and if they were found, the court lieutenant would inevitably be charged with a plot against him.

The king may have just been reprimanded, grounded, fined or something. But his close ministers like him are bound to be unlucky.

If the king had an accident on the way, then don't say anything, and quickly wipe his neck and pull it down.

It's a pity that no matter how Zhao Yan persuades, it's useless, so he can only follow in fear.

As for the royal palace in Lunu City, it is natural to block the news, pretending that the king eats, drinks and has fun in the palace all day long.

No one will be careless, because if something happens, the king may not be in trouble, but they will be unlucky.

The caravan entered Kucheng along the Hutuo River and crossed the Taihang Mountains into Taiyuan County.

When you arrive at Taiyuan County, you turn to the north, cross Yanmen County into the clouds, and then go out of the Great Wall into the grassland from the clouds.

At this time, although the Han and the Xiongnu did not break out into a large-scale war, and even made peace on the surface, as the only two superpowers in the world, open and secret fighting was unavoidable.

Of course, while fighting openly and secretly, business exchanges have never stopped, and even received mutual encouragement from both sides.

The Han people needed horses, cattle, sheepskins, medicinal herbs and other materials of the Huns, especially horses.

And the Xiongnu side wanted everything, from grain to cloth, from iron to silk and satin, and so on.

The strong complementarity of the economy is also the root cause of the fact that the two countries did not break out into a national war after the Battle of Confession Mountaineering.

The Han Dynasty is not ready, the internal problems have not been solved, and last year's Seven Kings Rebellion was quelled, which can be regarded as a fundamental turning point.

And on the side of the Huns, it was purely because they couldn't fight.

It's not that he doesn't want to go south to plunder the Han Dynasty, but he can't fight.

The temper of the Han people was stinky and hard, and they would rather burn everything down with a fire than leave it to the Huns.

Then it was a firm defense of the city, fighting the Huns to the death.

The next trip south to gnaw hard bones, the loot grabbed is completely disproportionate to the heavy price paid.

With kung fu, it is better to rob the countries of the Western Regions in the west, they are all soft eggs, and you can handle them as much as you want.

Trade between the two sides was very frequent, and Li Yunze's caravan came to the grassland, and soon there were nearby tribes to trade.

Naturally, he didn't bring iron tools, and Li Yunze didn't want to be an enemy.

When Liu Sheng left Chang'an City, he brought silk and satin rewarded by the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, as well as various gold crafts and so on, which were the favorites of the Xiongnu nobles.

There is also a large amount of corn, and the grassland herdsmen do not eat meat every day, which is a treatment that only the nobles can enjoy.

Ordinary herders are mainly based on milk and cheese, and it is even better if there is food.

In addition, there are dozens of truckloads of wine that Li Yunze looted in Zhongshan Kingdom!

If there is any commodity that is the most popular in the grassland, it must be wine in addition to ironware.

At the end of the busy day, I returned to the felt tent and had a few bowls of wine, and the dizzy feeling came up, as if the fatigue of the whole day had gone with it.

The caravan was busy doing business, but Li Yunze was carefully observing one tribe after another, assessing its strength.

The herdsmen's riding skills are very good, at least much stronger than the Han cavalry, after all, they grew up on horseback.

However, their equipment is very poor, and most of them don't even have leather armor, let alone iron armor.

There are all kinds of weapons, and there are all kinds of things.

Most of the most important arrows are wolf tooth arrows or bone arrows.

These things are real as the name suggests, the wolf's tooth arrow is to sharpen the wolf's teeth to make an arrow, and the bone arrow is naturally a grinding bone.

Not to mention shooting through the iron armor, it is estimated that it is difficult to penetrate the leather armor.

In addition to armaments, Li Yunze also focused on the strength of various tribes.

For example, how much is the population, what is the composition of the population, how many cattle, sheep and horses are raised, and so on.

Naturally, the geographical environment of nearby mountains, rivers and grasslands are indispensable.

He was like an agent, taking all the information along the way by heart.

If you come back later, you will come with a large army.

(End of chapter)