Yun Xiao teased the little girl while listening to Wei Dongbao's report.

Zhou Yafu said that he was sick and did not see outsiders at home, and Dou Ying was comforted by Liu Qi's kind words and returned home to recuperate. The most unlucky is Liu Hui, although because he is the Liu clan's relative Liu Qi can't do anything to him, but Da Honglu's hat is solid and confused.

This thing is really cruel, and he needs you to pay for it. If you lose it, you will lose all your money, and if you make it, you will have a lot of money. The prince incident didn't see that anyone would make a lot of money in a short period of time, only Yun Xiao knew that the biggest profit was actually Liu Xiaozhu, who was running crazy in the yard below. followed by a small reminder Wei Qing, this kid doesn't know, sometimes you have to follow the boss for a lifetime. Facts have proved that Wei Qing has done it, and he has been Liu Xiaozhu's most loyal little brother in his lifetime.

Yun Xiao began to rejoice that he was hiding in Yunjia Zhuangzi, the people in Chang'an are all puppets, and it is good to be a person who carries the string. Unlike participating in the Olympics, the spirit of participation is sometimes not so important.

"That's it, that's all?"

Yun Xiao asked Wei Dongbao while wiping his saliva for his daughter.

"His Majesty replaced a large number of generals of the Northern Army, and all the generals who were replaced were flooded to the Biansai. At the same time, the counties were strictly ordered to speed up the construction of the gallop road, and if there was a delay in the construction period, there would be no forgiveness. The craftsman was also working on the four-wheeled carriage designed by our family day and night, and it seemed that His Majesty was preparing for war. ”

Liu Qi was preparing for the war, and it was obvious that his own mention had already been adopted. The construction of the Chi Road and the construction of the city in the Hetao were all for the invasion of the Huns this winter. The eyes of the imperial court have been set on the Xiongnu, and it seems that there will be a fierce battle this winter.

"Go to the Chang'an market to collect grain. Whether it's rice or noodles, we want it. Don't be ostentatious, do it quietly. Every granary in Lintong has to be filled with new grain for me, you know? ”

Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.

Yun Xiao still disagreed with these two sentences in his heart, especially the latter sentence. He believed that in troubled times, grain was more reliable than gold. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still a shadowless thing, and Jiangnan has not been developed on a large scale. Without Cao Yun to help the north, it was difficult to resist the Xiongnu only by relying on the strength of Guanzhong.

The news of the bumper harvest from Yueyang has been used to rotate Yunxiao crops, and the yield per mu has reached four or five hundred catties. This was an absolute high yield in the Han Dynasty, where the average output was only two or three hundred catties.

Yun Xiao has ordered people to find phosphate mines. With the current soil fertility, it is simply not possible to support higher yields. Especially Guanzhong. The wheat is ripe only once a year. If you want to increase yields, it seems that chemical fertilizers are an essential ingredient.

Now his most important thing is to train the army, and Yun Xiao has no doubt that Liu Qi will send him to the most brutal battlefield of Hetao. Having such an army is definitely your own life-saving capital.

The villagers have become accustomed to brutal drills. But this time, Hou Ye played a new trick. A cloth bag the size of a man was thrown down the slope by Yun Xiao. The round body rolls unusually fast. The villagers must shoot the cloth bag before it rolls to the ground. With the rate of fire of the iron-tired crossbow, they only had one chance.

The reward and punishment are the same as before, the shot eats the meat. If you can't shoot, eat pickles and a bowl of egg drop soup made from two eggs.

This is like a bolt from the blue for the villagers who are used to heavy rain and meat. Obviously, Hou Ye is tired of playing the routine of fixed targets, and now he has begun to play with moving targets.

Facts have proved that the villagers who are used to playing fixed targets are like high-achieving students in exam-oriented education, and they have encountered the helplessness of Yunxiao, a street splasher who does not play according to the routine. Cloth bags filled with straw rush down the hillside, occasionally being hit by rocks to change direction.

The villagers who shot the air again and again were almost crazy, and they had no choice but to shoot meat, eat meat, and drink soup is the traditional hard indicator of the Yun family. So at dinner, the villagers gnawed on steamed buns with pickles and drank egg soup in a sucking room.

"The Huns are all cavalry, and the speed of action is much faster than the foot soldiers we have encountered before. If they did not train in this way, they would be in danger once they encountered the Hun cavalry galloping on horseback. It's not a bad thing to eat steamed buns and drink soup today, and practicing this kung fu can save lives. ”

In order for people to understand, they have to be explained what it means to do so. Don't let them think that this is Hou Ye's three-minute blood, let them know that this is the ability to save lives on the battlefield. In this way, these guys will practice and ponder with their hearts.

Yun Xiao has always believed that external causes and internal causes complement each other, and no matter how hard he tries, the external cause cannot stand up to the internal cause.

The Yun family's war preparations can be said to be sufficient, and large pieces of dried beef jerky are wrapped in oiled paper. It was sent to the underground storage room, where there were bags of biscuits. The glass jar contained canned cooked yellow peaches, some beef and canned fish.

There should be no problem with these things being stored here for half a year, and Yun Xiao estimates that in two or three months, these things will go out with him to the Hetao. The December wind on the steppe is very cold, and it is estimated that these things will not break at all.

The only thing that satisfied Yun Xiao was that the fuel problem was solved, because he remembered that Shenmu was a place where coal was produced. In later generations, there was a celebrity in that place, and we all affectionately called her Sister Fang.

Li Guang listened to Yun Xiao's words and sent people to dig around the sacred tree. Not to mention that the coal was really dug up, the sample Yunxiao has seen it, and it is a large lump of black and shiny black. At first glance, it is the kind with a high number of cards, and with this thing, you must not be afraid of the cold on the grassland.

The Huns rode and shot well because they were all masters of raising horses, and Yunxiao specially opened up a large area at the foot of Lishan Mountain for the Huns to graze. Yun Xiao now has more than 2,000 Xiongnu horses, including more than 300 mares. There are also more than 100 foals born this year, and now Yun Xiao is worried not about the lack of horses, but because with the expansion of the horse herd, there are not enough wranglers.

After repeated battles, the casualties of the Xiongnu men were already very heavy. Although there are also children who have grown up in recent years, the number is still pitiful on the whole. Counting the disabled, the immobile and the arms, there are only a few hundred people in total.

Old Batu is working overtime to train these Hun babies, and the sufficient nutrition makes these little ones as strong as calves. Every day, in addition to herding horses, he had to be taught riding and archery by those Hun men.

"How? How are the babies training? Yun Xiao asked, standing behind Batu.

Only then did Batu find that Hou Ye was standing behind him, and hurriedly bowed and saluted. It's still the Hun rites, and Yun Xiao has no intention of sinicizing them. They were not even forced to speak Chinese, and sometimes Yun Xiao deliberately spoke Xiongnu when communicating with them.

"Master Hou, the babies still have to train. They are different from us, they have lived a better life, and their bodies and bones are delicate. When we were children, we had to herd horses and work every day. Eat everything, and when the year is bad, the moles in the burrow can dig it out and eat it.

Now the baby drinks milk and eats meat every day. The body seems to be stronger, but it can't withstand the wind and cold. It rained a few days ago, and it's still hot. When we were children, which month did not rain. I don't know what's going on, but the days are better, but the babies are much worse. ”

Batu chattered and complained to Yun Xiao, and was very dissatisfied with the children who grew up in Yun's family.

The edge of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

Yun Xiao admired the ancient Chinese poetry very much, and the two sentences and a dozen words expressed the difficult philosophical truth. These Hun babies grew up in the Yun family, and naturally there was some degeneration. The Huns on the grassland, they have to fight against the harsh natural environment, the fierce and cunning jackals on the grassland, and even more with other tribes.

It can be said that since they can ride horses, they have to learn to fight. Unlike the Yun family, the sturdy house is not a tent that shows the wind everywhere, and it is extremely warm in winter. They don't even have to go up to the mountains to cut firewood, because the head of the house distributes the coal for the winter according to the work. They don't have to worry about jackals coming to poach their livestock, because there are whites in the village who are more vicious than wolves.

The Yun family had no other Xiongnu tribes who wanted to annex them, and the fiercest dispute was just a fight with the Han family for a few fruits.

Harmony corrupts the wolf's offspring, the fangs slowly dull, and the claws fade. Although they have wolf blood in their veins, in such a life. They were unstoppably dogs, though they still had fangs and claws. But it's not the same as a wolf.

Their metamorphosis was so fast that Yun Xiao couldn't have imagined it. In just a few years, a group of grassland wolf cubs turned into wolf dogs in the Yun family.

"Train them as hard as you can, and if you can't do that, let them herd their horses at home. We need a lot of horses anyway, and you are the best wranglers. ”

Yun Xiao's expression was a little lonely, because in a few years he would lose these excellent cavalry.

"Master Hou, the horses now are not as good as the horses on the grassland. Although the species are all species of the grassland, neither the endurance nor the speed of the horses we raise on the grassland.

If you want to raise horses well so that they have stamina, you have to let them run from an early age, but we have a large area of land here to grow crops. There are very few places where we can put our horses, and the weather here is not as cold as on the prairie. I'm a little worried about whether these horses will be able to adapt to the grassland in the winter. ”

Batu's words surprised Yun Xiao, God won't. People will degenerate if they live a good life, and horses will degenerate if they live a good life.

Ever since Batu told him that he had to feed the concentrate after raising the horse. The leftover tofu residue from making tofu became the staple food of these Hun horses, and sometimes some millet was added to it at night. As for forage, it is a snack for the Yun family's Xiongnu horses. (To be continued......)