Gao Yuan's eyes looked out the window, the snow like cotton wool was still falling, because it was the dead of night, making a rustling sound, although it was late at night, but through the palace lamps that emitted orange red light outside, it could still be seen that the entire palace had been covered by thick snow. Only the armor soldiers on duty vigil are still standing in the wind and snow, with different lines, like pottery clay statues.

Although Lingshou is hundreds of miles south of the county, it can be regarded as the northern region in that era, so in the winter of every year, there will be several heavy snowfalls, just when the new year comes, the Lingshou area has been snowing for three days in a row, sometimes big and sometimes small, until now has not stopped, the entire city's ground, roof, river, trees are covered with thick snow, turning into a world of pink makeup.

Although the heavy snow has brought a lot of inconvenience to the lives of residents, but in the traditional Chinese concept, a heavy snow during the New Year is indeed an auspicious sign, plus this is the first New Year of the plateau called Wang Jianguo, the capital of Lingshou, from October 25th, the plateau held the enthronement ceremony to the present, there have been happy events, so the whole Lingshou is immersed in a joy, and there is a heavy snow in the New Year, but also to this special New Year with a few festive atmosphere.

However, although the snowflakes outside are big, the weather is cold, but in the Qianqing Palace where the plateau lives, it is warm as spring, although from time to time there is a cold wind rolling snowflakes, drifting in from the window, but it is quickly melted by the temperature in the room, not only does not make people feel cold, on the contrary, it can also bring a fresh and moist breath to the interior.

Originally, when the palace was built, the problem of heating in winter was specially considered, and in most of the living rooms, there were pits for taking ambiguity, and according to the design of the stove built by the plateau with reference to the ancient Western buildings, the stove was installed in each room, so in the winter, the plateau and the concubines' living rooms, the pit was lit, and the stove was lit, and it would not feel cold at all, and even only need to wear single clothes indoors.

After taking a few breaths of cold air in front of the window, Gao Yuan turned back to the table, and under the light of four red oil and coarse wax lights, a map was spread on the table, and the places, rivers, valleys, and terrain marked were clearly visible.

On the whole, in this year, the overall development of the Han State is good, the occupied Yan land has been completely stabilized, and the rearrangement of household registration and land distribution have been completed, coupled with the blow to the Yan family some time ago, so the power of the Yan family has been greatly reduced, and the Yan family has not been able to cause any danger to the emerging Han State, and the remnants of the Yan State that fled to Liaodong have also been eliminated, it can be said that if there is no major change, the Yan State will become an eternal historical term.

The economy of the Han State also recovered very well, as it expanded its territory and its population increased by nearly one. Five times, and the social and economic development of these areas are relatively advanced, so once the rule is stable, the tax tax also increased sharply, although the construction of Lingshou City, the enthronement ceremony, did spend a lot of money, but also received a large number of congratulatory gifts, in fact, greatly exceeded the expenditure of goods, and finally there was a large surplus, and now the inventory of the Han State has basically recovered to the level before the war of Dai Qin.

Of course, the scale of the current Han State is far from being comparable to that of the original Daijun, but now the financial conditions of the Han State are fully capable of supporting another medium-sized war.

After the formal founding of the People's Republic of China, the cabinet also began to operate formally, and the administrative work of the plateau was greatly reduced, because the vast majority of the daily government affairs have been discussed and formulated by the cabinet. After all, at this time, there was no reconsideration in the Han Kingdom, so there was basically no rejection of the reconsideration or the repetition of the recital.

Today, Gao Yuan was still processing official documents until late at night, and did not rest, because during the day today, Gao Yuan received a report from Jinyiwei that Qin Wangzheng had ordered to collect grain and grass materials in Daliangtun, and sent additional troops to Daliang, obviously preparing for the resistance of the Hezhong army. Moreover, the plateau is basically certain that the strategy of the Qin State is to rely on the fortified city of the Great Liang to resist the army of Hezhong.

It can be said that as long as there are enough troops and materials to defend the city, Daliang City can withstand the attack of a million troops. As for the army and materials, the Qin State obviously did not lack them, and it can be said that the conditions were much better than when the plateau guarded the Liang against the Qin army. If the strategy of the Qin State cannot be broken, even if all countries work together to form a joint army, it will be useless. Therefore, how to deal with the tactics of the Qin State was placed in front of the plateau.

However, compared with the Qin army that attacked Daliang at the beginning, Gao Yuan had one more trump card in his hand that the Qin army did not have, that is, the giant trebuchet designed and manufactured by the disciples of the Mo family, the lightning strike car. The maximum range of such trebuchets could reach more than five hundred meters, far exceeding all trebuchets and bed crossbows of this era. Although this trebuchet does not play a large role in field warfare, it can play a great role in the offensive and defensive warfare of cities and positions. Because it is in a tough battle, it can rely on the strike distance farther than the opponent to gain a unilateral strike advantage and suppress the long-range weapons defending the city.

Of course, relying only on the strike advantage of the giant trebuchet is not enough for the combined coalition army to easily capture Daliang City, after all, the trebuchet is only an auxiliary weapon, and the power of the blow is also very limited, and it cannot win a battle independently. This results in a large number of casualties. The role of trebuchets is only to reduce casualties.

Therefore, relying only on trebuchets can only allow the combined army to achieve a certain tactical advantage, but cannot guarantee the victory of the combined vertical army, and if you want to break the response plan of the Qin state, you must find another way.

But Daliang City is in the way of the westward march of the Hezong army, is the Hezong army must jump over a checkpoint, if the Hezong army attacks the Qin State from other places, bypassing the Liang, then it will fall into the Qin army's left and right attack, the Qin army guarding the Daliang City, according to the situation of the battlefield, or cooperate with the Qin army in the rear, flank the Hezong army, or take advantage of the weakness to attack the Qi State, force the Qi State to return to the army, and disintegrate the coalition army, so Daliang City is a pass that cannot be crossed. So Gao Yuan also had to think and deal with it overnight on Chinese New Year's Eve.

But after thinking about it for most of the night, Gao Yuan still hadn't come up with any good solutions, so he had to stop thinking about it and go back to his bed to rest. It's just decided that if there is really no way, then you can only fight hard, storm Daliang City, and build some giant trebuchets, and strive to reduce the losses in the siege war, and capture Daliang at the lowest cost. If this time he joined forces to attack Qin, he could only stop until he conquered Daliang City, although it was not a reversal of Qin's strategic advantage, but it could also be regarded as unsatisfactory and an acceptable ending.

Early the next morning, the Plateau Pilgrimage received the New Year's greetings from the ministers, and then dispersed. Because it is still the New Year's period, the civil and military officials have been on vacation, leaving only a small number of officials on duty to deal with daily affairs, so the early dynasty is just a routine business, and does not discuss government affairs. Therefore, after the dispersal of the dynasty, Gao Yuan also returned to the harem.

When Gao Yuan came to Kunqing Palace, he saw Li Yinghong, Yun Yao, Chunyu Zhongxiu and others playing in the snow outdoors with a few maids.

It turned out that early this morning, Lin Wenqing, Yun Yao, Chun Yu Zhongxiu, Geng Yanyu, Jian Wuji and others all gathered in Li Yinghong's Kunning Palace, waiting for the plateau to come back and celebrate the New Year together.

Kunning Palace is also the same as Qianqing Palace, built with perfect equipment, and at the same time added a few braziers, plus at this time there are a large number of people in Kunning Palace, everyone is talking and laughing, very lively so they don't feel cold at all, so Li Yinghong also ordered that all the windows be opened, on the one hand, let the fresh air blow into the room, bring a new breath, and at the same time, let the people in the room enjoy the snow outside through the window.

At this time, although the heavy snow stopped, the snow on the ground was as thick as a foot, and the eaves and branches were full of fluffy, shiny silver strips; And the evergreen pine and cypress trees in winter and summer are just piled up with fluffy, heavy snowballs. A gust of wind blows, the branches of the trees shake gently, silver streaks and snowballs fall in a stream, and jade-like snow dust flutters in the wind, reflecting the early morning sun, showing a rainbow of colorful colors.

So Li Yinghong, Yun Yao, Chunyu Zhongxiu and a few other young, childlike people also came to the courtyard and built snowmen to play, laughing and laughing for a while, and the joy was infinite.

Until the plateau came to the Kunqing Palace, everyone had been playing outdoors for nearly half an hour, but fortunately, they were not delicate and weak women, so not only did they not feel cold, but they were quite interested, and they all played with sweat.

However, when they saw that the plateau was coming, everyone stopped and returned to their rooms. And the plateau asked them to quickly change their sweaty clothes, and closed the doors and windows, so as not to blow in, although the health of several of them is not bad, but in this weather, wearing wet clothes, it is still very easy to get sick, but can not be careless.

After a few people changed into clean clothes, everyone sat around the round table, eating snacks and tasting tea; While laughing and laughing, he talked about recent interesting things.

After a while, Luo Huan and Jiang Mingxia also rushed to Kunning Palace, first saluted Gao Yuan, and congratulated him on the New Year, and then greeted Li Yinghong, and then greeted Lin Wenchun and the others.

After the salute was finished, Gao Yuan ordered a meal, and everyone gathered together to have a New Year's dinner.