Lu Zhe has a very good habit, that is, when he sees who is threatening, even if he does not target it at the first time, he will secretly calculate, and he has been like this for the various countries that are also of Chinese Miao descent, and he has been targeting the Xiongnu and other grassland ethnic groups who seem to be of Chinese Miao descent all the time.

Liaodong is a bitter cold place, which is almost recognized by the world, and it is indeed an abnormal bitter cold, the snow begins to fall at the end of autumn all year round, and the snow is falling until the middle of spring, can it not be bitter cold?

"I heard that there is a fertile plain of 3,000 li north of Liaodong, about 400 li, where the land is so black, just throw a grain of wheat into the black soil, and it will thrive in the season." Lu Zhecai didn't hear about it, he just knew that there was really a plain there, and as long as it could be developed, it would be casual for the grain produced to feed hundreds of millions of people.

There were a lot of people sitting in the emperor's chariot, most of them were the ones who had been following the patrol team, and there were also people who joined in later, including Shudao, the county guard of Jiujiang County.

Isn't Shu Dao the head of the Jiujiang clan who preemptively joined Lu Zhe before he sent troops! He used to have a lot of thoughts, but as Xiang Chu fell, he was very smart to put away his thoughts. Later, the Han army, which had been accumulating strength for several years, went north, almost destroying the Qi army that was a strong army in the Central Plains, and he was surprised and delighted.

What's the surprise? Naturally, even the strong army of the Central Plains faced the Han army, if Shu Dao still thought about secession or something before, ten lives would not be enough to die; The good thing is that he knows the current affairs enough, and he also knows how to judge the situation before things get worse, the momentum of the Han army sweeping the Central Plains is too strong, so strong that Shu Dao has seen the situation of Lu Zhe dominating the world.

Sure enough, although Lu Zhe did not use force after that, he used the army to complete the unification of the world, and he carried out the annexation or merger in a way that was gentle no matter how he looked at it. Shu Dao felt very happy, and he thought that since Lu Zhe could treat people of the king level well. You can't be brutal against your subordinates, right? Although some of the actions of this subordinate were very unreliable......

"Your Majesty, Donghu shouldn't be worried, right?" Shu Dao actually didn't know what Donghu was, he was slightly confused, and said: "I heard that the Donghu ethnic group is more complex than the Xiongnu? ”

If it is according to history, Donghu really did not cause any harm to Huaxia, but that is because Donghu quickly solved it after the rise of Maodun, what harm can a tribal alliance that entered the deep mountains and old forests early be caused?

The problem is that it is different now, because of the rise of Lu Zhe, and because he knows the harm of the Huns, life is not so comfortable. Gritting his teeth, he also had to send troops to fight with the Xiongnu for a while, and then gradually digested the Central Plains and other Xinna areas, so that he had enough resources and manpower to block Touman at the source of the Yellow River, and it took about two years to annihilate most of the main force of the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu, including those groups invited by Touman, had more than 280,000 troops in Huaxia, but the losses were apportioned among the Xiongnu, Quchu, Hujie and Rong people, Di people, dog people and other ethnic groups, in fact, the Xiongnu still had the strength to fight.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Mao Dun fled first. After he arrived in the Western Regions, no matter what means he used, he gathered about 150,000 troops on hand; Holding Ji Tuo in Junji Mountain, after he played the banner of rescuing Touman, there were more than 100,000 Huns who gathered to control the strings in Junji Mountain.

Together, Maudun and Gitu had more than 200,000 troops. Regardless of the combat effectiveness of these troops, under the characteristics of the nomads, the 200,000 troops who are not short of war horses make people frown when they look at it.

The 200,000 troops were only the Xiongnu, and Hujie and Ding Ling, thousands of miles away from the empire, were not small tribes. As for the refraction and Hun Yu, perhaps we also have to count the Kun and the salary plow, and there are also the chaotic nomadic tribes such as the Rong people, the Di people, and the dog people. If you count less, the total population will exceed two million.

With the urine nature of the nomads, there are two million people, and the number of people who can go to the battlefield to fight will not be less than 700,000, after all, as long as they can ride horses, whether they are children, old people, or women, they are all soldiers in the nomads.

700,000 cavalry! Lu Zhe frowned no matter what he wanted, and he knew that the figures said by the intelligence agency were not exaggerated at all, it was simply that the tribes on the grassland were not under the command of one person at the same time, if they obeyed the command of one person and roared south, the empire would not say anything about conquering the grassland, and quickly withdraw to the Seine, and then build a fortress system to play defensive warfare, which could only be consumed with national strength, and it would take tens or hundreds of years, and finally the grassland tribes would be consumed to death.

The figure of 700,000 cavalry is exaggerated? Not an exaggeration at all! If history had not changed, it would have been through a series of conquests that Maotun integrated the forces of Qu Jie, Hu Jie, Ding Ling and so on, forming a huge territory of the Great Xiongnu.

Please note the word "conquest", the unification of the western and northern steppes by Maudun is accompanied by unimaginable bloodshed, and the great war will eventually kill people. It was until the establishment of the Great Xiongnu that nearly half of the nearly three million in the heyday of the grassland population, and it was in this situation that Maotun could still gather more than 300,000 cavalry to attack Donghu!

What happened to Mao Dun after he finished fighting Donghu, it was the cavalry under him that became 500,000! And these 500,000 cavalry have been fighting for many years, what kind of rich combat experience should they have?

At that time, Liu Bang had just unified China, and he was enthusiastic about it, and he meant that he took hundreds of thousands of soldiers, who were the elites who had fought a civil war for one or two decades, so he took these elites to the north, saying that he wanted the Huns to take a good look at their strength.

Maybe at that time, the entire Han Empire was full of confidence because of the world, and those strategists who were full of wisdom in the civil war, they seemed to have collectively forgotten to collect intelligence on the grassland, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of elites under Liu Bang who had gone through the civil war just walked to the edge of the grassland, and two or three hundred thousand cavalry rushed to Hulala, two or three hundred thousand Hu cavalry who also had rich combat experience, and hundreds of thousands of people, including Liu Bang, were completely stupid.

is also the elite, the elite of the Han Empire actually has a little bit of water, after all, the civil war is different from the national war, the civil war is not exactly a fight to the death, how can you take care of your feelings, or some other strange things, the main general hangs the soldiers to surrender, and after a period of persuasion, the collective, and so on, there is nothing to do without using a knife; The cavalry under Mao Dun was not like that, they were really soldiers who were killed in a burst in the confrontation between clans, and taught the Han army who had no experience in cavalry combat at all. What is called animal power blitzkrieg, what is whirlwind cutting, what is cavalry assault, anyway, it is some war situations that the Han army has not encountered before.

There is no doubt that the newly established Han Empire was stunned from top to bottom, so that the emperor was trapped in Baideng, and the empire also gathered a new army, but one by two ran over and was immediately trampled under the horse's hooves.

How many cavalry does the empire have now? At full completion, it is less than the size of eight cavalry regiments. And these 400,000 cavalry are different from the Hu people who grew up on horseback since childhood. Although some of them are on horseback, because they are not adapted, they can only be called infantry on horseback.

"We ...... The cavalry that can be used in cavalry battles can only count the 80,000 of the Western Legion, the 100,000 of the Grassland Dispatch Army, and the rest have not passed the test of war. "Luo Shao has just arrived, and he is now a lieutenant, so he must know what the situation is about the military.

is not only the Taiwei Luo Shao, but also the superintendent Lu Yi, the consul Xiao He. Several older princes, some important officials in the center and some civil and military officials who went through the motions actually came over when the emperor entered the boundary of Jiujiang County. In ancient times, this kind of behavior was called out to greet each other for thousands of miles, which was an extremely deferential attitude.

What is the reality? It's the spring flood that has arrived. Because there are so many workshops and factories built on both sides of the Yangtze River basin, and the embankments in some parts of the river have really collapsed, the situation is not too serious because the rainy season in the south only starts, but if we don't come up with an effective administrative measure and solution. The latter situation is bound to be more serious.

The industrial base in the Yangtze River basin was run by Lu Zhe, and it was basically an industry related to the military industry. They didn't dare to casually close the military industry when the country was at war, so they could only hurry to find the emperor.

Lu Zhe didn't know what was going on at this time, or he wouldn't be talking about Donghu with a group of people, and he would have been talking about it for so long.

Then again, Lu Zhe decided that there was an evil sect in that part of Liaodong, even if there was no Donghu taking advantage of the empire to attack the Xiongnu, and then the Donghu people ran to the side of Wolf Juxu Mountain to pick up cheap, the empire would definitely put forward a plan to conquer Donghu, after all, it was prepared, right?

It took about ten minutes to pull Donghu, and it was also about half an hour after many central officials got on the emperor's car, and Lu Zhe finally found something from Lu Yi.

Lu Zhe, who sensed that something was wrong, began to observe the faces of other people, and miraculously did not find anything from other people's faces.

Speaking of which, as long as the age and official position reach a certain level, who doesn't have a kung fu to cultivate qi? A group of people who rushed to the emperor from the center, with an abstract description, whoever casually stomped the empire would be shocked. The affairs of the Yangtze River basin are very urgent, but as a courtier, if you don't mess with the emperor, you will never provoke the emperor, and besides, isn't the supervisor there? It is the most suitable person for Lu Yi to mention that matter.

Lu Zhe chatted with everyone for about ten minutes, but he showed a little tired expression, and the ministers immediately said goodbye very familiarly.

According to reason, Lu Yi should also retreat, but anyone can retreat, he must stay.

Lu Zhe wasn't really tired, he just made an attitude just now, and when only Lu Yi was left, he immediately asked, "What happened?" ”

"Father, it's about the collapse of some sections of the Yangtze River embankment." Lu Yi was swallowing saliva when he spoke, and he was also observing his cheap father's expression, and when he saw that his father's eyes suddenly widened, he hurriedly added: "Some people have been affected, but only a small number of people, and they have been properly settled." ”

Since some people proposed that the flood prevention on both sides of the Yangtze River must be improved, the people who stayed in the center have not been idle, and the reason why the spring flood came was only to collapse the embankments in some sections, that is, they were really doing something.

In addition, there are not many people affected by the disaster, and there are no lives for the time being, that is the main reason why Xiao He and the others can press it down, if the matter is big, they dare to drag it, Lu Zhe will not kill them, but the emperor's anger is not so easy to bear.

The Yangtze River is a very long river, and it has always been an estuary that stretches from the north of Lingnan (Yunnan) to Huiji County, and no one can tell how long the span is.

It was precisely because the span of the Yangtze River was too long that Lu Zhe was a little stunned when he heard that the Yangtze River had burst its embankment.

The current Yangtze River basin is naturally not the same as it is today, but there is one thing in common, that is, the Yangtze River, as the longest river in the south, has always gathered most of the population, and the economic center is also changing around the Yangtze River.

At present, it is the era of the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty that has just ended more than ten years, and the most prosperous place is in the Central Plains, before the main production areas were in Han and Qin, and perhaps Shu land, which has already had the prototype of the country of abundance, but that was more than ten years ago, the empire continued to develop southern Xinjiang, and the new production towns were around the Yangtze River, such as Changsha County, Lujiang County, Qianzhong County and Lingnan.

Lu Zhe thought about it in his mind, the Yangtze River basin is well built because of continuous development, but the relatively developed places are on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the south bank of the Yangtze River is honestly "progressing", but there are really a lot of empty places.

"In order to lower the water level, the child suggested digging a little embankment on the side of Qianzhong County, and a sluice gate was built on the side of Dongting, but later found that it was not enough, so he gathered manpower to dig a lot of water diversion canals on the Yunmengze side...... and then the ruling government did that." Lu Yi's mood was apprehensive, and he looked at his father with a blank eye.

Qianzhong County's current production role has been reduced, but it is also a grain producing area. Not to mention Dongting Lake, it was originally a confluence of rivers, and Dongting Lake is definitely smaller than modern now, and the water will go in. Yun Mengze is a little special, Lu Zhe has always wanted to solve Yun Mengze, a big swamp in Zhili South County, and it has been dry for five or six years to divert water, and it seems that this year has only achieved some results, but Lu Yi actually brought water in.

Lu Zhe didn't have any expression on his face, but he was relieved in his heart.

The two sides of the Yangtze River are engaged in industrial bases, and it is not because only water power can be borrowed now! If there are other means, who doesn't know that it is very dangerous, it is purely a last resort! If the military industrial base is not large, the empire will either have enough people, and at the previous production level, it would be good to be able to have one weapon per person, and it would be purely a dream to want to have a large number of armored armor!

Now for Huaxia...... Not! It is a fleeting good time for the empire to expand, and it is also a golden period for the nomads to press the steppes, Lu Zhe will do so in the Yangtze River basin after weighing, and the expansion is really expanding, but there are problems in the Yangtze River...... (To be continued.) )