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Spring planting, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage. This is a kind of thinking about the relationship between man and nature that every Chinese is very familiar with in ancient times.

Taishi Gong believes in the preface of the "Historical Records" that "the husband is born in spring and grows in summer, and the autumn harvest is hidden in winter. ”

In an agrarian society, people have to follow the laws of nature according to the time of day in order to survive. This thought, in turn, influenced the political, military, medical, cultural, philosophical, and so on of the entire country.

Specifically, in ancient times, countries would not start wars during the busy agricultural season, and sometimes even halfway through the war, because when the agricultural season came, everyone would scatter as birds and beasts and go home to farm.

Even nomads often wait until the autumn is high before they start war.

It is not difficult to see the influence of the natural festival order on the country's political, military, socio-economic, and cultural aspects. Tai Shi Gong said at the beginning that if he did not follow this natural law, it would be difficult to straighten out the discipline of the world, which was really far-sighted and hit the nail on the head.

The current Great Qin seems to be breaking this natural law, and the reason is that Qin Mu, as the emperor, has ideologically transcended the shackles of the primitive agricultural society.

In the Northwest, that's also quietly changing, and that's something extraordinary.

In this season, which should belong to the winter storage, the northwest is full of vitality.

The government allocated funds to hire people to build water conservancy, so that many people found seasonal jobs, and the vigorous mining and transportation of coal mines further stimulated the vitality of the people. Ordinary people, as long as you are not lazy, can still get a good income in such a winter.

After the people have money in hand, the consumption capacity increases, which stimulates the prosperity of the commodity economy. When purchasing New Year's goods, it is also more worth the money.

In Chang'an, there is a wide variety of goods from all over the world, and the circulation of the economy reaches a climax of the year in winter, and the frequent prosperity will provide more and better employment opportunities.

In Shanxi, coal mining is in full swing. In the Datong area, following the Horqin model, a number of large woolen mills were built, attracting a large number of Mongolian women to work in the factories.

In Longyou, the newly appointed Gansu envoy proposed. While further developing the trade of tea horses, medicinal materials, and furs in Longyou, we should vigorously develop cotton planting in Longyou and attract private capital to set up textile factories in Longyou.

In Jiangnan, it goes without saying that in addition to a large number of workshops springing up, ordinary people who do not want to go out to work can go to the city in the morning, collect silk yarn and go home, and then start work with their families. After weaving the cloth, it is taken to the market and handed over to the merchant the next day.

Due to the shortage of manpower and fierce competition, the wages offered by businessmen continued to increase, and ordinary families of three. In a few days, you can earn a dragon coin, and a family can earn as many as five or six dragon coins a month, which is equivalent to four taels of silver in the past.

In the past, the body was strong and strong. Working as a coolie at the dock, you can earn dozens of wen a day, at most a hundred. But in fact, it is impossible to have work for you every day, so it is fortunate to be able to earn one or two taels of silver in a month.

At the same time as the increase of people's income, the price of commodities is declining due to the large output, and the quality of life has been greatly improved, which has further stimulated the people's enthusiasm for labor.

Qin Mu looked at the official reports from all over the country, and compared them with the information that was not collected at night, and the situation reported by Xu Yongshun and other merchants, it could be confirmed that Daqin was entering a stage of vigorous development and thriving rapid rise.

The people's livelihood situation in various places can be said to change every year. This made him more confident to go to the temple to worship during the New Year. He has always been "stingy", and he also took out a sum of silver and invited folk artists to perform on the street and enjoy with the people to help celebrate the New Year.

During the Spring Festival, the people in the city can not help but be free to watch a hundred operas in front of the noon gate, and the daily programs are wonderful, causing people to burst into bursts of cheers and cheers.

Among them, only the army must not relax, except for a few days of relaxation during the New Year, it soon plunged into intense training.

A large number of Type 69 rifles were continuously transported from Nanjing and loaded into the army. The biggest difference between the Type 69 rifle and the Type 68 rifle is that it uses flint fire instead of arquebus ignition.

Many people don't know what the concept of arquebus is, arquebus is a rope clamped on the board machine, this kind of rope is more flame-resistant, when firing the trigger, the fire rope clamped on the top of the trigger is pressed into the medicine nest, igniting the propellant.

The disadvantage of arquebuses is that they are extremely affected by the weather and need to be replaced from time to time. In the past, the soldiers of the Ming army, in addition to carrying bullets and gunpowder canisters, each had to carry several fire ropes.

And the advantages of the flintlock pistol are needless to say.

A few months ago, Qin Mu ordered the household department to allocate 700,000 dragon coins to manufacture 69-type flintlock rifles, because the lathe of the ordnance supervisor has been greatly improved, not only the production cost has decreased, but the production speed has also been greatly accelerated, in just a few months, 7,000 flintlock rifles have been produced, of which 5,000 have been transported to Chang'an.

Su Jin, Li Jiu, Hao Shaoqi, Hui Dengxiang, Zhao Jian, Qin Yiming and other generals were all divided, and they were all happy.

Time was in a hurry, the cold spring in February had not subsided, Ma Yongzhen of Datong was the first to launch, and tens of thousands of reorganized cavalry of the Monan Division, under his leadership, began to advance westward, preparing to cut off the road to the north of the Chitate of the Hetao.

And the leaders of the various tribes in Monan, after receiving the holy decree of the Great Qin Emperor, none of them dared to be perfunctory, and rushed to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven.

The Hetao area is still white, the ice on the Yellow River has not yet thawed, with the activities of the Qin army's scouts becoming more and more frequent, coupled with the great movement of Ma Yongzhen in Monan, so that Quitat feels the pressure of a mountain rain coming and the wind is full of buildings.

He rode to the Yellow River almost every day to check the ice surface of the Yellow River, eagerly waiting for the ice to thaw soon.

At the foot of Helan Mountain, it is known as the south of the Yangtze River, and Qi Tate wants to follow the example of Western Xia and use this as a foundation to fight against Great Qin.

After occupying the Ningxia region, not only did he not plunder and destroy as before, but he also worked hard to manage it, hoping to quickly lay a solid foundation.

It's a pity that Shiyi has shifted in time, Daqin is not the Northern Song Dynasty, and there is no powerful Liao State in the north to contain it, so the time left for Quitat to operate is destined not to be much.

After checking the ice surface of the Yellow River, Chitate braved the cold wind and returned to Ningxia City, which has now been renamed Yinchuan by the Emperor of Qin, so it can also be called Yinchuan City.

Seeing Chitat hurrying back, Yatu greeted him and asked with concern, "Great Khan, how is it?" ”

Chitate shook his head and said, "The ice still shows no signs of thawing, what can I do?" ”

Yinchuan takes the Yellow River as a natural risk, if the ice does not thaw, this natural danger will be gone, if the Qin army comes, they can easily leap across the river, which is extremely unfavorable to them.

And unlike the original Western Xia, the original Western Xia controlled the territory as far as the Hengshan line, and it was not easy for the Song army to break through the Hengshan defense line, and after breaking through the Hengshan defense line, the Western Xia still had a buffer zone of several hundred miles, so the Song army returned again and again.

And now they only control the Yinchuan area and Dongtao, and the cities of Lingwu and Yinzhou south of the Great Wall are all under the control of the Qin army, in other words, they do not have a buffer zone of hundreds of miles, thanks to the Yellow River to block the Qin army.

Yatu was also a little uneasy in her heart, the current shape was very different from when she decided to seize the Hetao, when Norbu was still there and Bailu Tuhu was still there, and there were soldiers and horses on both sides to contain the Qin army, which was very beneficial to them;

But now, once Ma Yongzhen blocks the northern line, they will be like turtles in an urn.

However, it is not an easy task to abandon the Hetao, because they have more than 30,000 troops, more than half of which are young and strong herdsmen in the Hetao area, and I am afraid that not many people are willing to drag their families and families and go away with them to embark on a road of uncertain life and death.

"What should I do, princess, you should have an idea, Ma Yongzhen has at least 50,000 troops, and they are pressing step by step, if we don't come up with countermeasures, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"Don't worry about it, Ma Yongzhen's advance speed is not fast, obviously affected by logistics, and the Qin army in the south has not moved at all, which also shows that their attack may not come until the ice and snow are thawed. We've got some time to set up, sweat profusely, and let me think about it. ”

"Princess, why don't we do it again."

"How is the Great Khan going to strike at the West?"

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(To be continued......)