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After entering August, the temperature on the grassland obviously dropped a lot, and when the Mid-Autumn Festival approached September, the first snow fell as scheduled.

Zhang Han did not embark on his return journey until this time.

By the end of July, he had traveled from the old central capital along Xinghebao to Angulinao, and then to the Mobei official road, all the way north for nearly a thousand miles, to the depths of the Gobi Desert.

The entire official road is more than 1,500 miles, reaching the trading city, and the standard is not high, but it is not low either. According to the standard road width of Qinguan Road, it is only allowed to allow one car to go straight, and when the two cars meet, they have to go on the wrong road, and the technology used is the rammed earth type, which is also the general specification of Chinese-style official roads, and it has been the case since the beginning of Qinzhidao.

The good thing is that there is enough labor, and the rammed earth will never be compromised, and the metal building board is constantly beaten until it is as hard as iron. Compared with the sparse Daming official road, the official road built by at least and Yusheng can not worry about the unique problems of the official road such as depression and bulge for decades, of course, the maintenance must be carried out every few months, otherwise it will not be maintained for too long.

Drainage facilities are definitely needed, and there will be drainage ditches every other way, but fortunately, the grassland has been dominated by dry weather in recent decades, and there is no need to ditch all the way to the end.

In addition, the two sides of the straight road were originally intended to be fixed with stones or bricks, but the military department calculated the amount of work and the personnel and materials consumed...... No matter how bold a person is, he doesn't dare to say that number, and even Zhang Han has completely given up this unrealistic idea and plan.

Zhang Han has read a lot of miscellaneous books, knows how the ancient Romans built the road, dig up the soil in the middle, fix the sand and gravel stones, fix the road with stone chips on both sides, and have drainage ditches, many Romans have built the road in two thousand years are still quite intact, and the mileage built by the Romans is thousands of kilometers, thousands of miles away, sure enough, the classical militarist power is not built, with Zhang Han's current strength, he wants to build a road from Qingcheng to Kulen according to Roman standards, not to mention that he will be bankrupt, and there will be no chance of bankruptcy directly!

Seventy percent of the road has been repaired, and a large number of people have begun to move south before winter, and only a small number of technicians and soldiers continue to survey and maintain the repaired parts along the straight road to the north.

When Zhang Han returned from the Gobi region and arrived in the old central capital, the war was nearing its end.

The Chahars retreated on all fronts.

It was not the Shang Tuan Army that repelled Lin Dan Khan, because according to Zhang Han's instructions, the Shang Tuan Army was mainly on a stable defense, and even if the fighter plane was in front of him, it would never take the initiative to attack, Zhang Han was worried that once the Chahar people were exterminated on a large scale, causing a major collapse of the entire left-wing Mongolia, it would lead to earth-shaking changes from Liaodong to the left-wing Mongolia in the short term, and this change may be beneficial to the deployment of the Shangtuan Army, such as the surrender of the Chahar people and the submission of a large number of small tribes, just like the three tribes of Tumut and Mobei.

But the bigger variable may be that the Houjin side got the news and entered the steppe in a big way, originally they had already subdued a large number of tribes, and the Chahar people crossed, and a large number of herdsmen and territories in their Ba Etuok and headquarters were likely to belong to the Jurchens, and at that time there could be a lot of trouble...... It's very simple, because the military secretary is not ready to start a war with the Jurchens in the short term, and he doesn't like to see a Later Jin Empire that officially entered the territory of the left-wing Mongols a few years in advance and controlled more than 100,000 or 200,000 Mongol Dingkou and the vast steppe.

Zhang Han has always believed that the Jurchens really threatened the Ming Dynasty mainly because Sun Chengzong repaired the castle in western Liaoxi in the past few years, Houjin took Shenyang as a base, and has been focusing on repairing the Mongols, as soon as he heard that Lin Dan Khan moved westward in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji chased and killed thousands of miles with elite soldiers and horses, and the Chahar Department must be destroyed thousands of miles back and forth. However, it was crucial, and Zhang Han felt that there was no need to test Nurhachi's determination...... As long as the Chahar people really crossed, the Jurchens must have arrived at the grassland in the shortest possible time, at that time, the merchant army not only could not get the territory left by the Chahar people, but also faced a vicious battle with the Jurchens in advance, this situation was by no means what Zhang Han was happy to see, so he restrained his subordinates, only defended and did not attack, and finally before the arrival of winter, the Chahar people felt that there was no hope for the west, and suffered a great loss, in the confrontation and fighting for two months, the Chahar people lost thousands of people, for a Mongolian tribe with less than 100,000 Dingkou, The losses are already devastating.

Starting from the waste of the capital again, he toured Zhangbei, Xinghe, Shangyi and other places in later generations, and met with Wang Datong and Ma Chaowen and other big businessmen in Zhangjiakou outside Zhangjiakou, and thanked them for their donations in person, and Zhang Han personally awarded the position of honorary director.

Quite a few Zhangjiakou merchants saw this scene with their own eyes, and it also strengthened their determination to follow Hutchison and continue to go north.

Most of these merchants were Jin merchants, but there were also Shaanxi merchants and Beizhi merchants, and a small number of Shandong and Henan merchants.

After this day, Hutchison's image as the number one in the business community was established, and Zhang Han became the leader of the entire northern business community.

Of course, no one knows that Zhang Han's layout in Taiwan, in fact, in the southern maritime business, Hutchison is also an important business town, and the strength is getting stronger and stronger, with the strong support of the headquarters of Heyusheng, the starting point of Taiwan's foundation is more than 100 times stronger than ordinary maritime business, and even catches up with the Li family and Liu Xiang in Guangdong, and after the rush Yan Siqi, it has become one of the giants in the southern seas, Fujian and Zhejiang and Guangxi to the six major forces in the South Seas, Spain, the Netherlands, Liu Xiang, Li Guozhu, Daming Fujian Sailor, and one more, is Hutchison Sailor.

On the way back to Qingcheng, the north wind is howling, the sky is falling snowflakes, and when Zhang Han arrives at the gate of the city, Li Shenming, Sun Jingting, Li Dongxue, Zhou Fengji, Li Yuchun, Zhang Xuezeng, Liu Peng, Tian Jitang and other civil officials all go out of the city to greet them, and the military officials are Zhao Shiwen who leads his subordinates to greet them.

"Wenlan is really hard this time." Li Shenming personally tied Zhang Han's cloak, and after a while, the cloak was covered with snowflakes. Li Shenming said sincerely: "As soon as I went out, it was a few months, and I traveled thousands of miles, which was really hard, please drink a glass of warm wine." ”

Sun Jingting really came over with a warm pot, poured a glass of hot wine, handed it forward, and said with a smile: "This is what everyone means, Wenlan, please use it." ”

Zhang Han was moved for a while, and he didn't speak, but took the wine in his hand and drank it all.

Only then did everyone gather around Zhang Han to get into the car, Li Shenming and Sun Jingting, Li Dongxue, Tian Jitang and Zhang Han in a car, and the rest of them either rode horses or took cars to Qingcheng together.

There are more than 100 special service guards around the convoy, and the personnel of the secret service are soldiers with strong mobility, and they are the most elite and brave soldiers selected from the lancers and chasseurs, and the officers are rarely replaced, and they will generally consider changing the guard for more than three years in the secret service, and the top level has hardly been changed...... When it comes to the top, what matters is not ability, but loyalty.

In addition to the special guards, the Qingcheng marching division and the garrison also sent more than 100 cavalry to disperse the guard, this city stands alone on the grassland, not like the Han city, no matter how small the city is around, there must be villages and towns attached to Guo around, the smoke and the world of pedestrians and business travelers are endless, the smoke is curling in the twilight, the children ride the bull and return late, and then there is the aroma of food, the voices of people are endless, this is the normal Han city appearance.

Although the Qingcheng in front of him has changed greatly compared to before, it still seems desolate and lonely, the surrounding snow fields are lonely, the snow is endless, you can't see the edge at a glance, there is a snow white everywhere, only the place where people and horses pass through have some shallow black hoof prints, and they are quickly covered by heavy snow.

Only within a very close range of Qingcheng, the construction of garrison barracks outside the city began, Qingcheng was a large city for the Mongols, but for He Yusheng, he could only leave the administrative center in the city, and the families of most of the middle-level people could also stay in the city...... In the end, the conditions in the city were much better, and the ordinary military forts were generally garrisons and merchants, and there were also some family members of officials who moved out of the interior, but there were not many of them.

Those tunbao only lived ordinary lower-level officers and officials, and the other was mainly the common people.

Outside the barracks area is the military station, and only thirty miles away is the Bansheng Land, which is densely built.

Banshengdi gradually regained its prosperity, many Han people who moved away moved back, but the military department has a unified plan for the reclamation, under the rule of the Mongols in the past, these Han people's ability to farm land has not been brought into play at all, there are also many Mongolians themselves to open the plot, after shallow cultivation at will, almost rely on the sky to eat, some dry land is not worth keeping, directly abandoned, some deserted houses are also demolished to use materials, re-planning the tunpu.

A large number of aborigines have been relocated from the city, a small number of troops have been moved in, and a large number of houses have been used as storage areas, and there will only be trading houses and warehouses in the future, which will be the transit center of the east road.

Seeing that Zhang Han kept looking out the window, Li Shenming said: "Next year, all the surrounding areas of Qingcheng will be turned into cotton fields in Bansheng City, and there will only be a small amount of wheat fields and vegetable fields. ”

Zhang Han said: "How is this winter, how many acres of grassland do we have so far, and what is the proportion of cotton, grain and vegetables?" ”

Li Dongxue owed a debt and said: "My lord, this year's manpower is not abundant, and when added up with last year, the total number of acres of land has reached 2.7 million mu, and it is expected to reach about 3 million mu by the beginning of next year, and by the end of next year, it may exceed 5 million." ”

Zhang Han patted Li Dongxue and said with a smile: "Dongxue doesn't have to be so serious, let's talk in private, we can be calm." ”

Li Dongxue bowed slightly and replied, "Yes......"

Zhang Han smiled slightly, and no longer forced this subordinate who was first-class in ability and ethics, and turned to Sun Jingting and said, "It is estimated that three million, and it is really three million." ”

Sun Jingting said with a smile: "When we estimated the weather, we calculated the weather, if we were to use the weather in the mainland, at least 300,000 mu could be reclaimed for farming, of course, if we have people and sisters this year, we can get 100,000 people to reclaim land, and one person can always reclaim 100 acres of land...... In fact, the standard of hole to the point is too high, ridges, ditches, digging wells, and water trucks are all matching, if it is according to the method of the north, more than 100,000 people and a large number of cattle and horses, tens of millions of acres a year can also be reclaimed! ”

Li Shenming said: "What is the use of such acres of land!" ”

Sun Jingting said with a smile: "I just said it casually, who doesn't know that Kong Zhizhi's method is right!" ”