Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

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The Loess Plateau is really important to Guanzhong. The location is towering and the terrain is rugged. If you guard it, you can directly protect the grassland people from the plateau.

At the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also immigrated to the Loess Plateau and guarded the ancient Yulin Pass. However, during the Han Dynasty, the Guandong aristocratic family who occupied the dominance of the imperial court no longer cared about the life and death of Guanxi. When Wang Hou left the ancient Yulin Pass, the pass city here even collapsed to the same level as the museum of the later ruins. The majestic ancient pass has lost its charm.

Moreover, after leaving Yulin Pass and heading north to the Hetao, it is also desolate. Later generations are full of people. Talents in this era have become rare objects. The land is so vast and sparsely populated that there are no people for hundreds of miles. On the grassland Gobi Desert, everything is as small as a speck of dust in the sea.

In this kind of desolation, even soldiers can't raise their morale.

However, after six or seven days of rushing eastward in the snow, a different atmosphere finally came over us.

First the outpost!Safety is still very important these days!In addition to Xianbei, there are also Rouran, Turks and other nomadic peoples who have left a strong mark on Chinese history in the past. They have also begun to be driven south by the cold weather of the Little Ice Age, becoming a threat!

Moreover, the current Xianbei is different from the poor and vicious Xianbei who occupied a large grassland before. The base camp Guihua City is very rich, and we have to guard against others to rob!Therefore, in the generation of Heishuihe in Yinshan, Guihua City built a sentry tower every few miles for warning purposes.

Moreover, the soldiers guarding these sentry towers are mixed with Xianbei, Han, Goguryeo, and Fuyu people. It seems that in this land, Wang Hou's policy of ethnic integration is becoming more and more harmonious.

After passing the sentry towers, and after walking for about half a day, another different scene appeared in front of us.

Xianbei people are still unwilling to live in the city, sticking to their traditions, staying with the herds, guarding the cattle and sheep on which they live, but!Why did the persecuted Qiang people continue to attach themselves, and foreign races such as Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Jie people brazenly entered the Central Plains, causing a catastrophe in the chaos of China?It's the weather!

For more than 100 years, the temperature in the entire northern hemisphere has been getting lower and lower. The severe cold in winter can really freeze a person to death. After Ke Bineng’s coup failed, the factors that hindered the integration of Xianbei and Liaodong disappeared. The Xianbei people like a grandson are completely enlightened and naturalized. Outside the city, strips of long houses with red tiles and white walls are lined up neatly outside the city, and in front of the houses, there is a vast courtyard. A large rectangular circle was neatly surrounded by a fence, and the cattle and sheep raised by the Xianbei people stayed quietly in the yard, breathing out heat from the cold, while chewing hay from Liaodong.

Just like the herdsmen in the pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia in the later generations, they set off in spring, graze on the vast grasslands in summer and autumn, and then return to the city of Guihua in winter. Once they take off their big cotton jackets and burn the hot kang, they can spend a warm winter comfortably. .

However, in this case, the social relationship of the Xianbei people has also been drastically changed. In the past, the living conditions were too bad, and the entire tribe had to hold tightly together, close to the primitive commune, and work together to resist risks. , to survive.

But now, the nomadic economy in the old days has been replaced by a commodity economy. The sheep raised by the Xianbei people, as well as the sheepskin and bones left over from the slaughtered sheep, were directly taken away by Han merchants from Liaodong and sold to A series of commercial cities in Liaodong sell meat to make money. At the same time, the money they get can also buy flour, rice, and canned food, which are better stored by farming peoples. The cost of living has dropped, and the gap between rich and poor has begun to widen among tribe members. The once strong tribe The alliance has begun to disintegrate.

Just by looking at these houses, it can be seen that most of them are now one family with one large courtyard. The previous scene of the whole tribe living together in groups for warmth has disappeared. Of course, this is a big problem for the political control of Guihua City. It's a good thing, after all, the large independent armed tribes were still too much of a threat to the regime of Guihua City.

But for ordinary soldiers, this kind of population is kind!Especially the bumpkins from Kansai, they really have a sense of the sight of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around, and the old military officer Pang De, who also fought against Ke Bineng Budugen, couldn't help but stare round, stunned Looking around, he shouted in disbelief when he saw the old Xianbei herdsman wearing a big padded jacket who came out to feed the sheep and shovel dung and eggs.

"When did these poor hooligans get so rich and dress so well!"

In those words, there was a strong sour taste mixed with surprise. Hearing that the accompanying soldiers, Lieutenant Wang Tong and Su Shuang, were overwhelmed with superiority, they puffed out their chests with great pride. Wang Tong explained with a smile.

"The barbarians outside the city have only had a little more money in the past two years! It's also a country style, and it can't be brought to the table. The real prosperity is still in the city!"

"What is this! How many weapons and armor can be made with such two high-quality fine steels laid on the ground!"

While speaking, he just walked out of the pastoral area house that was neatly arranged like tofu blocks, pointed to the two railroad tracks parallel to Guihua City, and the yellow three-story building with a bell tower beside the railroad tracks, Hou Rong asked again in astonishment. up.

It can be regarded as coming from a big city, and he also put his stomach on his stomach, and Ma Tie grinned there pretending to understand.

"You haven't seen this in Kansai for a long time. It's called a clapstick. Once a bandit army attacks the city, you can lift this thing to the city wall and throw it down. Don't care about crashing or rushing the car amidst the loud noise. Smash it to pieces!"

Listening to the bastard Ma Tie bragging there, the belly of the old soldiers Wang and Su Shuang almost burst without laughing, but Pang De was actually fooled by hearing this, and he really squatted down and stroked his lips. Analyzing the cold railroad tracks that have been frozen in the winter.

"This thing is too long and too heavy! How much manpower is needed to pull up the city wall? With so much manpower, it should be able to destroy the siege equipment by burning and smashing it! Or is there something we don't know about the princes? ..., ouch..."

All of a sudden, the rails trembled violently. Su Shuang grabbed Pound's neck and pulled back hard, pulling Pound to squat. While he was howling, he was forced to He dragged it back, and at the same time, a group of bumpkin guards who were studying around the railroad track also ran away.

In the splash of snow foam, a huge building rushed over madly with black smoke spraying from its head. Pound's face turned ashen-colored with fright, and Ma Tie, who was bragging just now, slammed the knife all at once. They all pulled out, baring their teeth and growling.

"Don't that monster try to be fierce, and I'm here with my horse Huateng!"

Coincidentally, the brakes that were pulling the rails straight to sparks stopped completely, and the heavy steam locomotive just stopped in front of the horse iron amidst the ear-piercing friction sound. Looking at this several-ton guy, it seemed like an ancient giant. He was still puffing out steam like a beast, his face turned pale in an instant, the hand holding the knife trembled violently, and he sat down on the snow in cold sweat.

I totally forgot the shock when I saw this giant steel beast for the first time. Those Wang Hou's old guards behind were covering their bellies, laughing so much that they almost rolled on the floor!
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