13. There will always be some troubles on the way (6)
"Ah~ It's another beautiful morning, the wind is warm, and I feel very lazy!"
Ever since the girl named Luo He joined, what's amazing is that not only have all the wolves left, but Li Shushi and his party have not even been attacked by any wild beasts since then, so the quality of their sleep during this period has also improved.
Significant improvement. Of course, the bad news is not without it. If the decrease in experience gained by the soldiers is not included, then what troubles Li Shushi the most is the seemingly natural hostility between cute lolita and beautiful girls, referred to as natural enemies.
However, two strange creatures who call themselves ladies will certainly not attack their opponents with moral integrity like shrews. Moreover, from a distance, the two of them look like noble princesses or queens with a nurturing elegance, making it impossible to single them out.
There is nothing wrong with it at all. Of course, this graceful posture can only be viewed from a distance, not up close, unless your nerves are strong enough.
At least both the honest-looking Dian Wei and Xu Chu, and the innocent and ignorant Tuoba Liwei have been defeated by the strong aura of these two people, so in addition to Li Shushi, Su Xiaololi can also follow her.
Apart from being protected from Luo He's eye attack, the others had already taken the initiative to stay away from the two beauties. There was no one else within a radius of three meters with the two beauties as the center.
Of course, the fight between the two people was not completely useless to Li Shushi. At least after he found that his behavior could not determine the winner, the fight between the two began to spread to other areas. One of them was the competition of cooking skills.
Su Xiaoluoli's cooking skills are still trustworthy after being tested for such a long time. However, although Luo He also behaves confidently, compared to someone who can use very simple ingredients to make complex dishes, he has chef-level skills.
For Su Xiaololi, Luo He's barbecue and broth... Although it cannot be said that some "geniuses" can make such weird things as murderous hell dishes that normal people can't imagine, the victory or defeat is already very obvious.
After all, it’s not like Luo He makes meat in a sad way.
Although a certain beautiful girl thought that Li Shushi, the original judge, had a too close relationship with the cute Lolita, she was completely illegal. However, after more than ten people tasted it, even a certain beautiful girl made a look that was about to make her cry.
It's a pity that there is an extremely confident cute loli next to her, which offsets the aura of a beautiful girl. Sure enough, this is an era where lolita control is the highest.
Therefore, Li Shushi's food standard has made great progress and improvement during this period, and the food for all soldiers has also been greatly improved. On the one hand, it is because Li Shushi did not eat alone and rewarded some delicious food as prizes during the journey.
The winner of various fun competitions; another
On the one hand, it was because a certain girl who was gritting her teeth and unwilling to fail seemed to have gotten a lot of ingredients from somewhere to practice as if it were a matter of course. Although it was not as good as Su Xiaololi's level, Luo He's level was actually pretty good.
However, Su Xiaololi, as her opponent, is too powerful.
At this time, the group had left Kucha County and was on their way south to Fushi County, the seat of Shangjun. Speaking of which, Li Shushi was quite surprised. After all, the location here was famous for soil erosion in China in later history.
most serious
In Li Shushi's impression, the Shaanxi Loess Plateau has been severely eroded. Except for a few remaining loess plateaus, most of the area has become broken Yaomao hills. There are only a few bedrock low mountains protruding from the plateau, like
Isolated island.
But in fact, the extent of Li Piao's astronomy and the number of rivers far exceeded Li Shushi's imagination. Therefore, the mountain ravines here were not as bare and yellow as imagined.
Sparse green can be seen on many hills here. Although the number is not dense, it is still prosperous and not much decadent gray and white. If you can encounter a relatively large loess plateau, you can also see it on it.
The grassland is enough for horses to gallop. Even as you go south, this phenomenon becomes more and more frequent.
Looking at the magnificent but lonely scenery along the way, Li Shushi had to lament that the area that was originally relatively densely populated is now so desolate. But who can blame this? Who said that the land that can be used for farming is so far away?
Less than the Central Plains region?
You must know that although there is not necessarily a shortage of water resources here, first of all, this is a loess accumulation area. The large-scale glacial movement that broke out during the Ice Age brought the sand and soil from the Hexi Corridor here, but when the glaciers melted, the sand and gravel remained.
, and the erosion by meltwater has caused the terrain here to look like a fault. Even terraces cannot be cultivated on this terrain.
Although there are dots of green here because of the birds, they still cannot be cultivated with confidence. Because for half of the year, the food crops grown by humans either do not have developed root systems to fix the top soil, or they have simply been harvested.
There are no plants at all. Faced with the erosion of strong winds and flowing water that often occur here, more and more of the already pitiful arable soil will be taken away from this already barren soil.
Not to mention that the climate changes here are very drastic. Li Shushi once remembered that some historical meteorologists once analyzed that at the end of the Qin Dynasty, due to various reasons (only God knows the specific reasons), the area in this dimension began to become colder.
It directly led to the reduction of vegetation here and the increase in water and soil erosion. However, it rebounded in the Han Dynasty, so it is estimated that the population of more than 10,000 households in Fushi came from this (forced migration is also included). However, by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the weather seemed to have changed.
It's starting to get cold.
It is said that the Han nation is a nation that lacks aggression and expansion - nonsense! Think about the ancestors of the Han people, the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Emperor who was born in Dongyi - the total is only the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. But this is already
What about the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when it was about to collapse? North Korea was the territory of the Han Dynasty, and northern Vietnam was also the territory of the Han Dynasty. This was a country that did not like invasion?
But why does a big man give people such an illusion? It's simple: interests.
Yes, interests are the fundamental reason why all the Central Plains dynasties were conservative rather than expansionist.
The Central Plains dynasty was basically an agricultural society, and its main means of creating wealth was planting, a small amount of handicrafts, and land and inland waterway commerce and trade that had been hit but could not be ignored. Well, the first, second, and tertiary industries
They're all out.
Because of the level of development of science and technology, the secondary industry was not the main economic force in the ancient world. But even so, Chinese porcelain, silk and tea could still easily drain every penny of gold and silver out of the pockets of European nobles.
The Opium War started between Europe and China, which had a trade deficit.
The most important economic lifeline of China is still the primary industry, which means that for the Central Plains dynasties, land and population are the lifeblood of their development, and they are also one of the conditions for destruction that every collapsed dynasty must face.
So since we need land, why not invade? Then let us take a look at China's terrain - well, it is a land of four fortresses - the north is an endless desert, although there are also Hetao, both water and soil.
An area suitable for farming, but separated by a loess plateau, it cannot be effectively connected to the core area of the Central Plains. Supply and troop delivery are still difficult; the northwest is the desert of Central Asia.
, although there is a Silk Road, but because there is not enough arable land, it feels very tasteless; Southwest, wow, so high, so high, so high! In the south, trees, trees, trees, they are all here
Trees. Of course, there seems to be a legendary thing called miasma (I think miasma should be biogas produced by the fermentation of humus in the virgin forest due to the humid and hot weather), which is extremely lethal.
Take a look, this is the actual situation in China. And even in the later grain-producing areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lakes, the level of planting during the Eastern Han Dynasty was actually quite limited. If the Han people were not always driven south by the grassland peoples, I am afraid that they could
Whether it can be effectively developed is still unknown. Another major granary, the Northeastern region, just look at Tuoba Xianbei. It is completely a virgin forest. Of course, without the large amount of humus provided by the virgin forest, the black land would not be so black.
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Consider that Sima Yi's expedition to Liaodong and Cao Cao's northern expedition to Wuwan both had to pass through the large swampy area in the Western Liaoning Corridor. Well, it can be seen that the situation in the Liaohe River Basin was not much better at that time because there was no one to manage it. Not to mention that although the Northeast is good,
, but if there are no measures to prevent the cold, it is estimated that people will become popsicles within a few years. How can it be developed?
Therefore, not being a big man is not like expanding. Opening up territory has always been the favorite thing of emperors and the most fulfilling thing. But the problem is that just as it is difficult to conquer a country, it is even harder to defend it. Winning it is a battle.
However, it costs money and resources to defend the land that has been laid down, and it cannot be replenished from the local land. You said that these are good places, and it will be too late to rob them after a thousand years. But the problem is that the Han Dynasty has been unable to do so after guarding it for a hundred years.
After two hundred years of keeping the treasury empty...
Whichever of the two powers harms each other is the lesser, one is the threat of embarrassment and eventual annihilation of the country, and the other is the ability to shrink appropriately and last longer, so we can only see on the map of the Three Kingdoms that the total is more than
The Han Dynasty has shrunk its territory a lot.
Therefore, the sage said: "No matter how big a country is, if it is warlike, it will perish; no matter how peaceful the world is, if it forgets to fight, it will be in danger." Therefore, Clausewitz also said: "War is the continuation of politics." It does not mean that we should not fight, nor does it mean that we should not fight.
Fight randomly, but fight after you have clearly calculated the gains and losses.
Of course, those who can do this are all called strategists. Li Shushi feels that for a fool like himself, he should leave this kind of work to someone who can calculate it clearly. Anyway, for him, he only needs to continue to give a general direction.
.Look, how relaxed this leader is.
What? Are you talking about those grassland peoples? Well, we are very helpless about this problem. The grassland is poor, but everywhere else is extremely rich, so the grassland peoples have endless power to conquer, especially
They are the grassland peoples surrounding the Han Dynasty. However, it should also be noted that these peoples
Once they enter the hinterland of the Central Plains, they usually immediately become corrupted. This is because the Central Plains is a vast and rich area with abundant resources and the amount of wealth far exceeds that of the grasslands. However, if they want to continue to create wealth, it is obvious that the grassland people are not good at it, so they can only learn
What is the result of the agricultural civilization?
As a result, the grassland people turned into the Central Plains dynasty, and the wheel of history began to move forward again...
In such wild thoughts, Li Shushi and his party finally arrived at Fushi County, the seat of Shangjun, an important supply location in the southern part of Qiuci County.
p.s. I don’t know if I have cervical spondylosis, but the left back side of my neck hurts badly, and my head also hurts...
