When the first snow fell in the 29th year of Qin Shi Huang, Heifu returned to Yiqu City with 6,000 soldiers......

Last month, Li Xin of Longxi County launched a surprise attack on Helan with a thousand light horses, and when he heard that there was a fire in the backyard, the 4,000 Huns who were cruising near Huamachi could no longer stay, and immediately abandoned the Shenquan Barrier and the small salt pond and retreated.

Seeing that the Huns were far away, Heifu did not venture forward, and the weather was getting colder day by day, although he asked the Wushi caravan to bring a large amount of grain and hoard it in the city, and also blackmailed Yan Yanjun to kill two thousand sheep, and the Qin army ate half of it, and the other half was directly salted with the salt of Huamachi, which was enough to eat this winter.

But tens of thousands of people needed too many supplies, and the soldiers were homesick, and the black man couldn't let them stay outside the city for long. So in early November, he left 1,000 cavalry and 1,000 soldiers for the Yiqu White Wolf to garrison, and the rest of the people withdrew with him to the north.

went south together, as well as Yun Yanjun.

As soon as he reached the city gate, Heifu was warmly welcomed, and the county Cheng Yintong specially came to welcome him back in triumph.

After Heifu drank the hot wine handed by the father in the city, Yin Tong, who was short and fat, sighed:

"I have been in the north for several years, but when I heard that the Hukou outside the country were harassing the border and plundering the merchants, the soldiers could only expel them, but they never pursued them deeply. However, since the beginning of the county lieutenant's tenure last year, the inner royal cavalry, recruited good families, and sent businessmen and spies to go deep into the Xiongnu to observe their reality and reality. ”

"Today's county lieutenant is out of the fortress with 8,000 tigers, riding all over the road, the flag is like a cloud, and the soldiers are screaming, shaking the power and raising the spirit, like the wind and lightning. However, on the tenth day, he had to hear the good news, defeat the Huns, such as destroying the withering and rotting, beheading more than a thousand, capturing nothing, and opening up 500 miles of territory! It is actually an unprecedented achievement since the destruction of the righteous canal in the north! ”

Heifu arched his hand and said: "Heifu can go to the outside of the Saiwai, thanks to the dispatch of the county guard and the county Cheng, the supply of chariots, horses, grain and straw is endless. ”

"Otherwise, the county guard is like a minister, and the county lieutenant is like a general, and he will kill each other with one heart, and I, as a subordinate, am just acting on orders."

Yin Tong's words were full of beautiful words, almost ridiculous, Heifu was a little strange, he didn't have a deep friendship with this county man, why was he more enthusiastic about himself today than usual?

The two entered the city humbly with each other, the county guard Zhao Hai was old and couldn't stand the cold, but he was also waiting outside the gate of the county guard's mansion, Heifu came to make a gesture to him, and was supported by Zhao Hai, his white beard trembled, and said with a smile:

"As the county lieutenant points out, Hu Lu escaped, which is really strong for my Great Qin, if the old man can be twenty years younger, he should go out of the fortress with the county lieutenant to kill the prisoner!"

Heifu hurriedly said: "The old county has praised the fallacy, the old man should be strong, if he is out of the fortress, there will be no share of us killing the enemy." ”

Zhao Hai looked at Heifu very pleasing to the eye, before Heifu came, he thought that the emperor's new favorite, who had suddenly ascended to the throne at the age of twenty-six or seven, would come to the north, and he would be a little difficult to get along with a former king and old minister who was over half a hundred years old.

But what he didn't expect was that Heifu had a calmness far beyond his age, and he never relied on his own Jane in the emperor's heart and lacked in etiquette, and he only planned military affairs on weekdays, but he never intervened in the civil affairs under the jurisdiction of the county guard.

In addition, Heifu's wife is well-behaved and clever, often going in and out of the county guard's house, accompanied by the county guard's wife, bringing some southern specialties, giving her family's kitchen a unique snack, and last month, even asked the craftsman to build a house with a hot kang for the county guard's family. When Zhao Hai returned home, he was complained by his wife, saying that he had been in the north for many years, and it was the first time that it was so warm in winter......

After a year, Ye Zijin is almost commensurate with Mrs. County Shou as mother and son. Such a well-known couple naturally makes people disgusted, not to mention that the results of Heifu's exit will also bring a steady stream of benefits to Northland County.

After welcoming Heifu into the county government, Zhao Hai explained his plan to him.

"The newly surrendered Yan Yanrong, the land of Huamachi, I plan to set up Cheng Dao, let Yan Yan Jun be the magistrate of Yan County, and then set up a county lieutenant and a county Cheng."

Although Hokkaichi County is vast, it has a sparse population, and most of them are Rongdi, which is difficult to collect rents, and it is a notoriously poor county in Kansai. The most important financial revenue was the foreign trade of the Wu clan, but most of it went to the Shaofu, and the county could only collect a little commercial tax from the poor baba, and the cattle, sheep and horses sold to the interior every year were only enough to exchange for the military rations of the soldiers.

Now, thanks to the Black Husband, Northland County has two more major sources of revenue......

One of them is the burgeoning wool textile industry, since last year, Heifuxing County, after lobbying Wushi, Wushi also began to buy long-haired Qiang sheep from Qiang, raising more than 2,000 heads in Wushi County, and Yiqu City also raised 1,000 heads.

After two years of attempts, the east and west weaving rooms of Shaofu have developed a relatively mature wool spinning process. Although the woven clothes were still fat and big, the smell was much lighter.

Now that the emperor wants to break the Huns, he may have to mobilize 300,000 people next year! A large number of sweaters are needed, and even if the war is over, those soldiers who are ordered to defend the north must reach at least two people, so this item has become a military supply, and the supply exceeds the demand......

Juncheng Yintong also said on the side: "Qilu Zhongyuan has mulberry hemp, and it is profitable to produce silk silk." ”

"The north is bitterly cold, and silkworms are scarce, but relying on wool spinning, they can also be clothed in northern Xinjiang!"

Zhao Hai also hopes that the woolen textile industry can become a major economic pillar in the north in the future.

The second is the newly seized Huamachi, which has been the main source of salt in the north for decades, and now it has become a natural rule under the rule of the northland county. Zhao Hai decided to immediately set up a salt officer in Huamachi and let the local Rong people and garrison collect salt......

Heifu gave Zhao Hai another idea: "I left 2,000 people in Huamachi City, and after the spring of next year, there will be a large army going north, and cattle, horses, and vehicles will come and go." “

"In the past, there were things on the side, and the inland carts and horses carried food and the wounded back, but most of the wagons were empty, which was really wasteful. In the future, the vehicles transported to Huamachi will carry grain when they go and salt when they return, so that they can save freight! ”

"That's a great idea." Zhao Hai bowed his head, in his eyes, what was transported back was not salt, but a heavy half tael!

In fact, Heifu still has a plan in mind for Huamachi salt, and when the war stops, the salt industry official camp in Beidi County can relax a little, Huamachi is mined by the government as a subordinate, but it can be sold by merchants, and the retail rights are handed over to merchants, and the government only controls the wholesale link. If the salt merchants wanted to get salt, they needed to send grain to the border gates, and then exchange the "salt stamps" from the county guards for their "salt stamps", and then transport the salt back to the interior......

In this way, it may be able to solve the problem of lack of grain at the border and high freight, and also make the market a little more vigorous.

Of course, for the time being, it is just a matter of thinking, and this involves the issue of changing the law and making moves on the national policy, and the Legalists will definitely oppose it.

Regarding the establishment of counties and roads in Huamachi, the three feudal officials discussed for a while, and seeing that it was almost dark outside, Zhao Haicai said:

"The old man is also confused, as soon as he talks about state affairs, he forgets the time, the county lieutenant has returned from an expedition, and he has not yet returned home to see, and he will go quickly! Tomorrow, the old man will hold a banquet outside the Jingbian Ancestral Hall, for the county lieutenant, and the generals of Hu Chen outside the northern border of Jingme, to catch the wind and wash the dust! ”

The Jingbian Temple in Beidi County was built in the north of Yiqu City, next to the "Nursing Home" that Heifu had previously built with the children of the good family, and now it has been changed to "Invalids". Further north is the "Loyal Cemetery" on the outskirts, where the bones of the unknown soldiers on the battlefield are buried.

These three places were built by Zhang Luo after Heifu came to the Northland, and they have become local "patriotic education bases". On the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the local school officials would take their disciples to pay homage to the soldiers, and the county soldiers were also asked to carry water for the widows and disabled veterans of the Invalides......

Heifu also thought of his wife, who was eight months pregnant, and took his leave, when white snowflakes were already floating outside, and his war chariot, in order to show that he shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, did not have a canopy.

At this time, Jun Cheng Yintong must give Heifu a ride and invite him to his spacious and warm carriage.

Heifu couldn't refuse, so he got into the car, and the two talked without saying a word, Heifu felt that Yin Tong's behavior was unusual today, so he waited for him to speak.

After the car slowly drove out of the county mansion, Yin Tongcai suddenly sighed: "If the north is cold, the breath becomes frost, the county lieutenant has an expedition to Yuzhang in the south of the Yangtze River, I don't know what kind of situation it is in that winter?" ”

Heifu said: "Even though it is a cold winter, Yuzhang is still full of greenery, plumbing ducks swimming, in the upper reaches of the Ganshui River, the local Yue people, in their words, there is not even the word 'ice' and 'snow'. ”

"That's good, that's good."

Yin Tong said with a smile: "The insiders are most afraid of the bitter cold, and they have long wanted to leave the Northland, and if they go to Yuzhang, she will be willing to come." ”

Heifu heard his wife talk about it a year ago, and Yin Tong's wife has been boasting, saying that her husband will soon be transferred to the mainland as an official, but then there has been no movement, and it seems that now there is finally a result.

However, in the eyes of the world, Yu Zhang is only afraid that it is even more barbaric than the northland, and Yin Tong's wife is very picky, I am afraid that if I go there, it will be too hot again.

In this way, the reason why Yin Tong desperately showed favor to himself was also found.

But Heifu still deliberately showed surprise: "Oh? Mo Fei Juncheng wants to be promoted to ......"

Yin Tong said with a smile: "Yes, it is also the luck of the subordinates, last month, when the county lieutenant was still fighting outside the Saiwai, His Majesty had an order, Jiujiang County is far from north to south, and it is inconvenient to come and go, from the first month (October), with the river as the boundary, Yuzhang County was newly established in the south of the Yangtze River!" The prime minister and the imperial historian selected the chiefs and ordered me to transfer Yuzhang south to serve as the county lieutenant! ”