As a Khitan holy land, there is actually nothing magical about Konoye Mountain. In Shao Shude's view, it is just a sand dune.
Beyond the sand dunes, there is a typical northern Liaoze landform: the sand is fixed in the swamp, with elm and willow forests scattered and sparse. A piece of grassland in the east and a piece of grassland in the west are dotted in the sand, which is the life of cattle and sheep.
source of.
In fact, Shao Shude was curious, where could there be so much sandy land in Liaoze? Some sandy land is even completely surrounded by swamps, but has not been transformed into grassland by the environment.
Some farming fields have been opened next to Konoha Mountain. The people cultivating the fields are still there, and they are all Xiren slaves. There are probably more than a thousand households.
What was being planted in the field was millet, and it was already the harvest season. Shao Shudexin broke off a plant, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. This was millet, a famous crop in the north during the pre-Qin period.
Time has changed, and now there are very few places where millet is grown in the north. It is basically dominated by corn and wheat. Moreover, the proportion of wheat planting is constantly rising, and it will gradually become a mainstream crop. Millet will only exist in drought or drought.
Barren places, as a supplement.
"I heard that Xi people can harvest three to five bushels of millet per mu. With this yield, why do they still cultivate it? It is the same virtue as Hengshan Dangxiang more than 20 years ago. People have made progress now, and they can harvest more than eight bushels of millet per mu. You are still far behind.
Far away." Shao Shude put down Mi Zi, looked at Kui Guzhi and the others, and said, "If the Khitan people want to live a good life, they must follow me."
"Your Majesty is the supreme khan, and all the eight Khitan tribes follow you." Kuigu immediately joked.
Shao Shude ignored him, looked at a child next to him and said, "Zan Hua, what do you think of this place?" "It should be inferior to the Central Plains." Zan Hua said.
"Zanhua" was originally named Yelu Tuyu, and Abaoji's eldest son was just given the name "Shao Zanhua" by Shao Sheng.
He doesn't like the saint very much, because last night he secretly saw his mother being held in the arms of the saint, with a look of reluctance. But he is nine years old, and he is not a child who doesn't understand anything. He understands that if he wants to be comfortable in the future,
I really can only rely on the man in front of me.
"You finally have some knowledge." Shao Shude smiled and said: "It's far from it. Not to mention Hebei, Henan, even the land in Guanzhong is much better than here. Look at the thorns, weeds, and short bushes there.
They don’t grow taller.”
Shao Shude was actually a little strange. He remembered that Dongmeng in later generations was a black land, but here it was a Horqin sandy landform. He didn't know what went wrong.
But there is indeed land available for farming, on both sides of the river, which is also the farming area of the Xi people. "Yue Liduo, have you been to Fuyu Prefecture, what do you think of that place?" Shao Shude asked again.
This woman has changed into Han clothes.
Last night I had a thorough bathing, and Shao Shude supervised it personally. The reason was that prairie people bathed less and had a strong smell on their bodies, so he kept a close eye on it, washing every corner of the body to develop good hygiene habits.
After washing, he personally inspected and inspected it carefully.
After the inspection, I found that there were still a lot of sticky spots, so I washed it again before giving up. Yu Lu met her aunt, Xiao Chongsheng, and Bodhisattva slaves all experienced this process, and Yue Liduo was no exception.
"It's too cold." Yue Liduo didn't want to speak at first, but after meeting Shao Shude's eyes, she could only say helplessly: "It's getting colder every year."
Shao Shude was a little surprised. It was not easy for her to discover this secret.
There may be many people who can feel that the weather is getting colder, but not many can observe it over many years and draw conclusions. This actually tests the degree of delicacy and carefulness of the mind.
"But the Bohai Kingdom is still very good. I want to take over all of it. What do you think?" Shao Shude asked again. "I'm afraid it won't take a year." After Yue Liduo finished speaking, she walked over and took the eldest son's hand.
Don't let him run around. Shao Shude followed him with his eyes.
Yu Lu saw that Aunt felt very uncomfortable. "Your Majesty." She walked over gently.
"Stop running around with your body. Go back to the south building to rest." Shao Shude glanced at her and said. After that, he studied the nearby environment.
At the beginning of August, the leaves are already turning yellow. In a few days, colorful fallen leaves will rise, birds and magpies will fly south, and winter will really enter.
Before winter comes, how much can each group of soldiers and horses obtain?
Less progress? He didn't care.
However, in the past few days, he received two unexpected pieces of good news: First, the five hundred Andong soldiers who stayed in Wugu City killed the city's lieutenant generals and seized the city; second, Dashuxian was jealous of the new king and intended to defect to Xia
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In response to the first good news, he ordered the local men from Andong Prefecture to ride horses to rush along the coastline to reinforce Wugu City. Wugu City was the Fenghuang Mountain City southeast of Fengcheng, Liaoning in the later Goguryeo era.
There is a dangerous city, which is the gateway to Pyongyang, which is particularly important. At its peak, the Xia army stationed 2,000 troops here, but it was later reduced to 500. The reason why the troops were kept for garrison was to receive the grain and grass provided by the Bohai Kingdom - the main rice-producing area of Mae.
The grain from Tuo Lake (Xingkai Lake) was transported by land and water, and finally passed southward through the Yalu River and arrived at Wugu City for distribution.
The Bohai State has actually been asking the Xia army to evacuate Wugu City, but they would rather reduce the number of troops stationed than give up their military presence completely. Now they have indeed achieved success.
The second news is actually expected. In the former Tang Dynasty, there were great martial arts and martial arts matters, and now there is a great Shuxian who wants to defect to Xia. It is simply carved out of the same mold.
However, Shao Shude didn't expect much from this. He heard that Dashuxian had been relieved of his military power. It was hard to know how much help he could provide. After all, the Bohai soldiers were loyal to the Bohai Kingdom, not him. How could Dashuxian be recruited?
How many people, it's hard to say.
Just let it happen.
This world was created by him with one sword and one shot. He never expected pie in the sky to fall.
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"Your Majesty, the envoy from Bohai has arrived." Chu Shenping reported softly outside the door.
"Let him in!" Shao Shude lowered his skirt, covering the bodhisattva slave's fat buttocks, and asked her to wait aside. He also said with a smile: "Next time, I have to let you sisters compete, whose is it?"
big."
The Bodhisattva slave left with a red face and tears in the corners of his eyes. When he ran to the inner room, he almost cried when he saw his sister Yue Liduo.
"Prairie woman, what's the use of crying?" Yue Liduo sighed and straightened her sister's skirt and said, "You look like a Central Plains woman."
The Bodhisattva slave stopped crying and asked in a low voice: "Yueliduo, did you have your period yesterday?"
Yue Liduo was silent for a moment and nodded.
The Bodhisattva slave lamented: "Shao Thief is going to humiliate you."
Yue Liduo didn't say anything after hearing this. Instead, he signaled her to be silent and listened attentively. "If Pei Shaoqing is willing to become an official in the court, why should I be stingy with the position of prefecture and county?"
"Your Majesty is the British lord of a big country, so why bother embarrassing a small Tibetan country? Bohai has been a country of Zuo for 200 years and has always been respectful. If the imperial court is willing to withdraw its troops, our country is willing to give you a generous gift of coins."
"I heard that Liu Rengong has secretly accepted the post of Bohai. I am really surprised that Bohai County Prince Jingran can take in such a person without a father and a king, so I want to ask."
"There is absolutely no such thing. Liu Rengong has repeatedly invaded our country's territory and is an unforgivable heinous person. How can our country accept him? There must be some female cadre who instigated it. Your Majesty, please do not believe it."
"Whether it is true or not, we will know after we capture Fuyu Prefecture. The powerful army of Xianzhou and the three counties of Xin'an and Yugu have been conquered by Wang's army. Fuzhou's Buduo and Xianyi counties have also surrendered, leaving only Fuyu.
, Quechuan is still engaged in a battle between trapped beasts. It is easy for my army of five hundred thousand to defeat them."
"And this is just one of them. When Wang's army attacked Zhengjie's Mansion, the Bohai soldiers repeatedly blocked it and even killed our rangers and scouts. There were also envoys going out from Beijing to lobby the state and county generals to prevent them from descending to Xia.
What’s the point? Could it be that the Prince of Bohai County feels that Zheng Jie’s Mansion should not be acquired by me? It’s really ridiculous. What does the land I obtained from the Khitan have to do with you?”
"Your Majesty, this is really a misunderstanding. The Kingdom of Chang did not know that Wang Shi has arrived at Bohai... "Okay, okay! If you only have these words, you can go back." ""
"Your Majesty, before the Fan ministers came here, the Lord of the country specifically told him that he would like to donate Fu Jie, Fuyu Second Prefecture and Suzhou to the state, and that he would also remove his honorary title and reign title, send envoys as hostages, and give two hundred thousand yuan in cash.
Three hundred thousand bolts of cloth, a hundred bags of pearls, and a thousand pieces of gold and silverware are offered to apologize, and I only hope that the great country will withdraw its troops."
"Zheng Jie, the Fuyu Prefecture is already in the hands of the Khitan, how can the King of Bohai County offer it? It would be better to cut off the three prefectures of Changling, Yalu and Nanhai, which can still show sincerity."
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Yalu Prefecture is the Xijing of our country, and Nanhai Prefecture is Nanjing. It is an important part of the capital and it is difficult to cede it." "If you don't want to donate land, what are you talking about?"
"Master Wang really wants to attack Bohai?"
"How can I bear to kill my soldiers? The arrow is on the string and I have no choice but to fire it." "
There was silence outside for a long time, and then the sound of footsteps was heard and gradually faded away. Yue Liduo took back her listening attitude and continued to be busy with what she was doing.
The Bodhisattva slave suddenly had a very absurd feeling, as if her sister did not particularly care about her being kidnapped. She thought of the scene where her brother-in-law and her sister rode a horse together, went on an outing and fell in love with each other, and she felt very uncomfortable.
reality.
What happened to my sister these years, and why did she suddenly become like this? After Shao Shude sent away the Bohai envoy Pei Zhuo outside, he sat there and thought quietly.
He does not intend to give up the Northeast at will.
The imperial court had just issued a decree to appoint Sikong Ting as the governor of Shenzhou, and the development of the middle reaches of the Liao River was put on the agenda.
The land in the Northeast is fertile, and he has seen a lot of grass that grows almost as tall as a human being, which is rarely seen in the Central Plains and Helong areas.
In the history of Goguryeo, there was no western Liaoning, only eastern Liaoning, part of Jilin, and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. After many conquests in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Goguryeo still had a population of about 3.5 million before its demise. Before the Eastern Expedition of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the population was much higher than this data.
This can be seen from the fact that Yang Guang mobilized more than one million troops for the conquest. At least he took Goguryeo's strength seriously and believed that this was a large-scale war comparable to the defeat of Chen.
The existence of Goguryeo proves that the Northeast region is enough to sustain a population of millions. The only worry is the Little Ice Age.
But this matter is actually not that terrible.
Can it get colder than the extremely cold period from 1645 to 1715? This seventy-year period, which was even colder than the late Ming Dynasty, was actually the period when the Qing Dynasty’s national power reached its peak.
Moreover, he felt that the current temperature was just a prelude to cooling. In real history, something should have happened, or there might have been an opportunity, that led to a rapid cooling. It was either an external factor, such as solar activity, or an internal factor on the earth, such as A volcanic eruption or something, or the superposition of two factors.
He knew that the Icelandic volcanoes had erupted continuously within a few years, leading humans to enter the Little Ice Age. Was this factor also involved in the so-called Little Glacier of the fifth generation? It is very likely.
But even so, the Liao Kingdom did not perish in history. On the contrary, their farming scale in the Northeast expanded year by year and prospered year by year. How many people could the Northeast support during the Little Ice Age? Shao Shude believes that three million people are not a problem. You can actually raise more.
In the late Western Han Dynasty, there were more than 600,000 people registered in Xiaobinghe, Liaodong and Liaoxi counties, and the actual number may be one million. In the fifth generation of Xiaobinghe, the Liao Kingdom enjoyed great success in the villages north of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and even went to Beijing alone. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the land.
The population of the Northeast has never increased in history. The main reason is that it is cleared periodically, either through massacre or migration, and the regression of civilization. From now on, the threat to the Central Plains dynasty will mainly come from the Northeast. After all, the innate conditions here are better than those in the Northwest. Much better.
He is really concerned about the Northeast. Therefore, whether the Bohai envoy comes or not will not affect the final result. He has made up his mind about the five capitals and fifteen mansions in Bohai.
