An artificial wooden bird flutters in the wind, and the feathers decorated on the wooden bird's body tremble slightly in the cold wind.
The two officials stared at the wooden bird's feathers with wide eyes.
He kept picking up the pen to record the vibration speed and direction changes of the feathers.
When the two officials stopped writing, two officials immediately came forward and took over their reports.
Then, the written text of these records was sent to a military tent in Xinglesai.
A heavenly official received these reports, and then he combined these reports with other texts, wrote a briefing, handed it to a follower beside him, and ordered: "Send it to Captain Cheng immediately!"
Half a quarter of an hour later, the briefing arrived at Cheng Bushi's desk.
"Captain, this is the celestial phenomenon reported by the Heavenly Official"
Cheng Bushi took the briefing and took a look at it.
I saw it read: The lower official Yang Shou paid homage to Huben Commander Cheng Gong: Today the wind is southeast, wind force B, the temperature is minus one quarter and one third, the sun is clear, the humidity is above A, and it is expected that there will be no rain or snow in the next ten days.
There is no doubt that this is a simple and original weather report and forecast.
This is not surprising.
China is an empire dominated by farming people.
In China, there is nothing more important than farming.
Every spring, the emperor plows his own fields, and the three princes and nine ministers all assist the emperor, setting an example for the world.
As early as in ancient times, when the Xia Hou clan was in power, the ancient Xia ancestors had already begun to explore and explore the universe, astronomy and climate change.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, among the Shangshu, texts about climate change, star changes and celestial phenomena occupied the most space.
When the Yin and Shang Dynasties flourished, the rulers of Chengtang, on the one hand, feared the gods and heaven and earth.
On the one hand, they began to prepare to record and record all the climate changes they encountered.
The term phenology appeared for the first time in Chinese history books.
The so-called divination even appears in the oracle bone inscriptions buried deep underground.
Businessmen listed the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches as a way to mark dates.
A cycle of sixty years.
Different from later generations, businessmen are accustomed to treating ten as a reincarnation.
A cycle of heavenly stems and earthly branches shows six different alternations on the calendar.
Businessmen call every ten days ten days.
Fortune tellers predict the weather changes in the next ten days based on existing meteorological data and signs displayed by tortoise shells.
Of course, the rulers of the Yin and Shang Dynasties could not conquer the weather and master the changes in the world with such a simple method.
However, they engraved their efforts and research on bronze and wrote them in tortoise shells.
Spanning the long Yin, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties.
Time has come to the age of great strife in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The recording of weather and the study of phenology finally reached its peak in the classical era.
A Lu's Spring and Autumn Period integrates the astronomy, geography and humanities of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Among them, the primitive meteorology that guides agricultural production has begun to emerge.
There is even a classification of twenty-four solar terms.
And when history reaches this day, we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors, relying on thermometers, thermometers and the exploration of air humidity.
Although the people of Zhuxia today still cannot accurately predict tomorrow's climate.
However, we have roughly estimated tomorrow's weather under existing conditions.
In particular, the emergence of the guan and the thermometer greatly enhanced the Han family's ability to observe and predict climate change.
The so-called 伶 is an emerging knowledge that has emerged in the past ten or twenty years.
伶, Congren, means a person who observes the world with wide eyes.
The original Jin people originated from the ancient Yin and Shang era.
There is a record in the Book of Songs: A great country has a son, the sister of Tiantian.
This is used to describe King Wen’s joy in winning the Yin Shang princess.
Today, Jin has become an official of the Han family who observes wind direction and measures wind speed.
They are widely active on the ships of Lou Chuan Yamen, helping ships avoid storms and guide their routes.
At the same time, he was also active in the major granaries of the Han family, providing guidance for the people's production and life.
The prosperity and rise of Yixue in the Han Dynasty originated from Sima Jizhu, a doctor of Yixue in today's world.
Lord Sima Ji likes to observe the heaven and earth very much, and naturally also likes to observe changes in wind direction, humidity and rainfall.
It was under his advocacy that Han Dynasty studies flourished.
And specialized tools appeared.
Bronze phoenix, bronze peacock and other bronze vessels appeared one after another.
Finally, the Mohists also got involved and launched the wind measuring instrument used by the Han family today, the Wooden Bird.
This is a very simple and practical tool.
This allows observers to observe the wind direction and force through the changes and direction of the feathers on the wooden bird's body.
Therefore, now, it is difficult for the Han family today to know what the climate will be like tomorrow.
But at least everyone can know what the weather is like today.
The combination of wind, humidity, and temperature, combined with the climate change data and phenological change records recorded by the ancestors with their own wisdom and wisdom, can roughly predict the general weather in the next few days.
Although, it may not be accurate, and there are still many aspects of homework and knowledge to be completed.
But at least the Han people have the right to guess tomorrow.
This is important!
Especially now.
When the Han army wanted to leave the fortress, the first enemy it faced was the weather.
Anyway, Cheng Bushi didn't dare to imagine the terrifying scene of a blizzard as soon as the army he commanded came out of the fortress.
Therefore, the Han army not only had a department for observing and predicting weather in Xinglesai.
In fact, the entire Great Wall front is densely covered with countless such observation departments.
Although in some places, there are only one or two people, even part-time soldiers.
However, after the data from dozens of observation stations, large and small, are gathered together, a general judgment and prediction can be made about future climate conditions.
Cheng Bushi read the report and asked someone to leave a copy.
Then, he handed the original copy to an attendant and asked: "Send it to General Mo's Mansion in Yunzhong City!"
At this moment, in Yunzhong City.
A huge former enemy command post has been built.
Of course, the Han family called this command post Mofu.
Mofu is also the shogunate!
It is the largest and most sophisticated war machine in the world today!
This was a powerful organization born during the most intense period of the Qin-Zhao struggle for hegemony during the Warring States Period. It was founded by Lian Po and eventually developed by Bai Qi.
A Mo Mansion often gathers staff, literati, staff officers, and various military officers and civilian officials.
The collective wisdom and efforts of a group of talented people turned the war from one person's command to a group command.
With its development to the present, the Mofu of the Han family has become more scientific after experiencing the tempering of the Mayi War.
There was even specialization within Mo Mansion.
The Chinese Army Marquis Sima in charge of logistics, the Chinese Army Assistant Marquis in charge of roads, and the Chinese Army Counselor responsible for the provision of grain and grass distribution and the distribution of supplies appeared one after another.
There is even a special staff group for war deductions, called the Wuyuan Student Group that records events and joins the army.
In the entire Mo Mansion, there are nearly a thousand officials from top to bottom.
They formed the brains of the Han army's offense and command.
Yi Zong and his trusted generals are the central nervous system of this brain.
"Have the pre-war supplies sent by the Young Master been delivered?" Yi Zong walked into a hall in Mo Mansion and asked dozens of generals who were holding maps or gathering in front of the sand table.
Sima Li Zhen, the Marquis of the Chinese Army, immediately replied: "Reporting to the general, the materials lost by the Shaofu have been transported to Yunzhong!"
He took a report, handed it to Yi Zong, and said: "This is the list of supplies."
Yi Zong took it and glanced at it.
Everything above is densely packed with materials.
Oil, salt, wine and meat, these are necessities.
In addition, there are huge quantities of dried fish, whale oil and brown sugar.
Especially brown sugar!
The total amount was actually close to three thousand stones!
This was completely unimaginable a few years ago!
But today, with the surrender of South Vietnam, the Han family has gained a huge sugar production area.
Yulin, Cangwu, Jiaozhi, Rinan and Jiuzhen in the Kingdom of Nanyue are all excellent sugar cane producing areas.
The sugar trade flourished unprecedentedly.
In order to satisfy the Han Dynasty's demand for sucrose, Yi Zong heard that in Jiaozhi County in South Vietnam, the local South Vietnamese nobles and local gentry joined forces with Han aristocrats and merchants to almost capture the savages on the outskirts of the jungle in Jiaozhi County.
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King Cangwu and King Yulin of South Vietnam even dispatched troops to carry out a net-like clearing of the jungles under their jurisdiction.
Hundreds of thousands of primitive tribesmen were captured by them in plains and hilly areas to carry out sugar cane cultivation and sugar extraction.
And these sucrose are continuously transported to Jiangdu, Pengcheng, Suiyang, Luoyang, and Chang'an.
In return, the Han family's grain ships and merchant ships loaded with ironware continued to go south, bringing grain, ironware, salt and various luxuries to the local area.
Panyu, the capital of South Vietnam today, even has the city of Little Chang'an because of it.
The nobles of South Vietnam and the tribal leaders of Baiyue were in a state of intoxication because of the sugar trade.
So much so that some Han scholars once went to Rinan County, the southernmost tip of the Nanyue Kingdom, and met a local hereditary Baiyue noble.
The scholar saw the other party, Yu Guan Jin Lun, dressed as a Han scholar-official.
So, the scholar asked very curiously: "Do you know that China has become a king?"
The answer is: "I don't know. I only know that there is a Chinese emperor who is born divine."
He asked again: "Do you know Zhou Gong, Confucius, and Guanzi?"
He replied: "I don't know, who is this?"
The scholar was surprised and asked: "You don't know how to be a king, and you don't know about Zhou Gong and Guanqiu's learning. Why do you behave like a Chinese scholar and use a Han surname and a Han name?"
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The other party replied: "Although I don't know the kingship of China, nor do I know Zhou Gong or Guan Qiu, but I know that China has the fragrance of rice, the strength of iron tools, the beauty of silk and silk, and the sharpness of swords and guns! My whole family depends on China.
If there were no Chinese rice and ironware, our people would still be cultivating slash-and-burn farming and being tattooed!"
Although anyone with a discerning eye will know that this story is propaganda produced by the emperor's favored people.
But this at least reflects the fact that the economic ties between Han and South Vietnam today are as close as one person!
South Vietnam’s silk, cloth, ironware, and even oil and salt are all supplied by China.
Even the copper coins used by the South Vietnamese and the medicinal materials they relied on for survival were all shipped from China.
It is no exaggeration to say that today, even if the Zhao family in South Vietnam wants to rebel.
The bureaucrats and nobles across South Vietnam and the Baiyue tribe would not agree either.
The Sinicization of the South Vietnam Kingdom is proceeding at the speed of light!
Areas such as Rinan County, Jiuzhen County, Cangwu, and Yulin that had always been divided were now inseparable from the Han family.
Especially Cangwu and Yulin.
These two places are rich in mountains and rivers, and the land is barren. If there was no sugar trade, the local nobles would be no different from savages.
It was the Han Dynasty's demand for sucrose that made them rich and fed them.
Once this trade chain is severed, King Cangwu and King Yulin will immediately go home to eat dirt.
For the Han people, especially the Han soldiers in the north.
Cane sugar, a red and sweet condiment, is simply a heavenly delicacy!
Drinking a bowl of sucrose with water can stabilize the morale of the soldiers and boost their morale.
If you sprinkle sucrose on top of the tofu, it will immediately dispel the cold and make the whole person feel warm from mind to body.
Therefore, Yi Zong immediately ordered: "Immediately distribute all the sucrose to each camp in the army, and instruct the cooks to prepare extra meals for the entire army!"
Dopamine is a stimulus that humans cannot refuse!
It's even sharper than alcohol!
And, it's much better than alcohol.
Legend has it that Li Guang, the light chariot general of Beidi County, even changed his old habit of drinking after having his head dipped in cane sugar.
All we can say is that this is a victory for the sweet party!
Now, Yi Zong has an army of 30,000 to 40,000 men, almost all of whom have been captured by Sucrose.
Especially in the cold northern winter.
The soldiers desperately needed sucrose to warm their bodies and relieve the tension before the war.
After Yi Zong gave the order, he clapped his hands, summoned the generals and asked: "How are the preparations of all the army's departments going?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei, the commander-in-chief of the Central Army, was the first to go out and report: "To inform the general, the smooth work of Qin Zhidao will be completed in three days!"
When Yi Zong heard this, he was overjoyed and said: "My father who worked hard in the cloud is old!"
Zhang Weidao said: "Don't dare. The army will go out to collect the blood debt from the Huns traitors. This is the long-cherished wish of Yunzhong's fathers and sons!"
Sima Li Ji, the Marquis of Yu who was in charge of ordnance, then went out and reported: "General, all the ordnance supplies of each army have been transported to the arsenal of the frontline military fortress and can be distributed to the army at any time!"
Yi Zong nodded and said: "Thank you for your hard work, thank you to my father in Taiyuan!"
In this battle, the total strength of the Han army reached more than 60,000.
Among the cavalry equipment, except for the breastplate which needs to be transported, there is not much else.
It can be taken away by the army itself.
But the equipment of the infantry, especially the equipment used in siege, is a bit troublesome.
Especially in the past few days, it started to rain, which put a burden on the transportation work.
Fortunately, this work was finally completed on schedule.
This made Yi Zong put down his worries.
At this point, the Han army has basically completed the pre-war assembly and preparations, and has the ability to fight outside the fortress.
Next, it depends on God.
"I hope God will bless me, the sun will shine, the weather will be fine and it won't snow," Yi Zong prayed in his heart.
Note: Solar eclipses usually occur on the first day of the lunar calendar.
But please note that the calendar at this time is the Zhuanxu calendar.
Not the lunar calendar
In addition, I don’t know how big the difference is between the Zhuanxu calendar and the lunar calendar.
But there is a solar eclipse on the sixth day of the ninth month of the ninth month. This is recorded in historical records^
