By the time Khosroi realized what kind of gameplay this was, it was already a little too late. The section of city wall that was emitting billowing heat made it difficult for soldiers on both sides to approach. Without the ability to isolate this high heat, just approaching it would get burned.
If it were just like this, the Kushan army would not be able to get through, and neither would the Han army. However, this high fever only lasted for less than half a minute. The visual distortion caused by the rolling heat wave disappeared completely, and the temperature quickly cooled down from the high fever to below zero. This extreme The change only lasted for a few seconds before the Kushan soldiers heard a spontaneous explosion on the city wall.
It has to be said that the quality of the Kushan city wall is good. If it is a rammed earth city wall, this extreme hot and cold change will not explode quickly. But as the new royal capital, Qunu City naturally uses high-end stone materials. , this amazing hot and cold transformation took effect instantly.
Just like ancient people burned rocks and then poured water on them to crack them, what is happening now is basically the same as that, and it is easier to break rocks than expansion with heat and contraction with cold.
"Look, I said it would definitely work for the first time at least. Who would design the etching pattern to withstand temperature changes?" Zhou Yu watched as a huge hole exploded with the violent changes in hot and cold and began to shatter. city wall, he said calmly.
At the same time, Yong Mao, who was fishing in his garden with direct access to the Arctic Ocean, sneezed, rubbed his nose, looked at the three kilograms of sea fish he had caught with his fishing rod, and threw it away directly. Throw away such a small fish, throw it away!
"Elder of the tribe, our research here has almost completed the anti-extreme cold etching, and it also has a temperature-changing effect." The Inuit who joined the Yong family, shared the etching technology, and introduced new technologies to develop new technologies actively said Share your own technology with Mr. Yong Mao of the Yong family.
"It's a success. It's going to be winter again in two months. How's the stockpile of supplies?" Yong Mao caught another two-pound sea fish. After looking at it, he threw it in again. The feng shui is not good today, so he won't go fishing anymore. , turned around and joined his family, but thinking about it carefully, he had no idea where he came from to communicate with the locals.
"I'm very grateful to the elders for sharing the seeds with us and teaching us how to farm. We have stored enough food to survive until the summer of the following year." The young Inuit said very excitedly, living in the Arctic Circle these days. , it is really difficult to eat.
"Remember to stock up on more water spinach, fish and pomegranates." Yong Mao waved his hand and said.
Because it is located in Murmansk Oblast, there is an ice-free port, and it also shares the shipbuilding technology of the Central Plains. Although it can only build fifth-generation ships or less due to its technical strength, it is still very easy to use it for fishing. After all, this place itself is a fishing ground due to ocean currents. .
Therefore, in addition to farming in the summer, the rest is for the Yong family to organize manpower for offshore fishing. Although it is not as good as the nearby Beihai fishery, one of the four largest natural fisheries in the world, it is also in the extended area of ocean currents, with many fish and easy to catch.
This is why Yongmao threw away a three-pound fish he caught, because the natural fishing ground here has not been destructively fished, and all kinds of fish are of quite good size.
In the summer, he took his people to farm, and after determining the date of the storm, he went fishing.
What is very difficult for ordinary fishermen is not a problem at all for guys like this who can build large warships. These guys even dare to catch whales.
Relying on this method, because the Yong family has a small overall population of only more than 50,000 people, it has basically completed the same high degree of welfare as the small Nordic countries in later generations.
From a certain perspective, this can be regarded as a survival model for a resource-based country. However, the resources of the Yong family can be regarded as renewable resources. Under this premise, there is a basis for providing some personnel with a completely off-duty technical research life. .
It is precisely because of this that the Yong family clearly does not have any high-end researchers. Their research on thermal insulation etching is even faster than that of the Central Plains. Even if there is indeed such a demand here, there are still many reasons why it can be promoted so effectively. The big reason is that the people here really have nothing to do.
When Yong Mao came back with his fishing rod, he saw the people in Shifang City busy harvesting watercress. Most of these watercress will be sent to various cellars. These cellars are divided into room-temperature cellars and some semi-permanent ones with good luck. Cold storage cellar.
The remaining portion will be sent to the underground cold storage opened by the Yong family outside Shifang City.
Although there is a non-freezing port here, there is also permafrost here. Digging deeper can solve the problem. Therefore, the Yong family usually has people put part of the water spinach in a natural cold storage. This kind of cold storage is used Adding meat and cabbage ensures it will last for several years.
Although you can go fishing in the middle of winter, relatively speaking, the winter here is still a bit too cold and is only suitable for sleeping in and doing research.
"Sure enough, after leaving the Central Plains, life has indeed become much better. At least it is not as complicated as it used to be. All day long, we are scheming over some unknown things." After Yong Mao returned home, he saw his head of the family lying on his back. On the Kang room, there was a small clay stove making tea, and he didn't even want to get up when he saw himself.
"Indeed, that place in the Central Plains is so evil. Our family has such a temperament that they are forced to hook up with barbarians. What was the reason for our hookup back then?" When Yong Kai heard this, he had a rare reaction. He looked up at Yong Mao and said.
"To live a better life." Yong Mao thought for a while and said.
"Yes, this is a legitimate reason. How is your life? Not good at all. If you want to develop, you can't do it. If you want to bring the people together to do something good, you can't do it. They have worked very hard over there, and it's just... Every effort will be rewarded. This way, at least every effort will be rewarded." Yong Kai sat up and looked at Yong Mao and said.
"There is no way, the limit of the local capacity is so high. There are few people here, the output is strong, and we don't have much demand, so naturally everyone can relax." Yong Mao picked up the small teapot and poured some tea for both of them. , "I heard that the Yuan family sent a notice, is there something wrong?"
"It is said that they may need to pass through our side in winter, and we may need to prepare some food and grass. They will also need to pass through our side when they come back, and we also need to prepare some food and grass." Yong Kai replied calmly.
"How did you answer?" Yong Mao asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I sent the map and the key to the cold storage directly and let them pick it up by themselves." Yong Kai replied casually.
"This will save you the time to pick him up. Didn't you ask what happened?" Yong Mao nodded. This would save a lot of things.
For other families, this may expose a lot of things, but for the Yong family, it doesn't matter. With their little strength, they can handle some savages. To survive here, they all rely on the heritage of the Han Dynasty and the Yuan family.
Did the Romans know that there was a Han family here? The Romans also knew about it, and they even sent people to look over and confirm that the Yong family was not qualified to participate in the imperial war. They also had a clear Han background and were willing to trade with the Romans. For the sake of the Han Dynasty, the Romans In addition, the Yong family was indeed too far away and it was too cold here, so I marked it on my map.
From a certain point of view, the Yong family can be regarded as being canonized by Rome. Although it was only given a mark on the map of Rome, in later generations, it would be regarded as legal authority. Did you know that after the fall of Rome, the Germans The banners carried by the human chiefs were all tribunes conferred by Rome. It has been two or three hundred years since Rome fell.
People like the Yong family, who can directly calculate dots for you on the map, according to the official legal system after the fall of the Roman Empire, are considered fief-level legal systems, so the Yong family is doing pretty well.
But if you think about it carefully, hundreds of years after the death of the Han Dynasty, the impression of the surrounding countries on the Central Plains is that of the extremely powerful Han Dynasty.
"The emperor of a great country, born of heaven, may the sun rise always for the emperor of Hanzhong, and may the king of Persia live and be worshiped by thousands of people." This was the credential of the Northern Wei Dynasty, three hundred years after the death of the Han Dynasty.
"After the peace between Mongolia and Han Dynasty, there is no objection, that is, I hope that the Han Dynasty will be long-lasting, its descendants will be prosperous, the world will be peaceful, and the borderless Zuo will be preserved forever." This is because the Han Dynasty was dead for almost five hundred years, and Nanzhao gave it to the Tang Dynasty The emperor issued the credentials. I don’t know what Tang Dezong thought.
But it’s right to think about it carefully. Even during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, when the Tang Dynasty was at its most prosperous, the court was on strict guard against the “Prophecy of the Golden Sword.” Of course, having said that, when the Tang Dynasty was on the streets, there were actually two people with the surname Liu. Although the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty were short-lived, they could be regarded as fulfilling the prophecy that "after the fall of the Han Dynasty, there will always be a Han Dynasty in troubled times" and also fulfilled the "Prophecy of the Golden Sword".
Even the saying of the Han Dynasty was even mixed into the Song Dynasty in the national book, "The Khotan Kingdom Xiuluo was blessed with strength and knowledge of grammar and law. The book and the Eastern Sun came from the great official family of the uncle of the Han family, the landowner of the Great World." By this time, the Han Dynasty The capital has been dead for eight hundred years.
As for what Song Shenzong thought after receiving this letter of credence, of course he had no ideas. Could the Song Dynasty still go to the Western Regions to attack Khotan? So what if I just insult you! There is Xixia in the middle. If you can't even defeat Xixia, why should you fight Khotan?
In short, the legal system is a magical thing. For the empire, it is just something that can be completed with a formal notice. For existences below a certain level, it is indeed an existence that is always out of reach. The so-called orthodoxy, sometimes It is really not a question of righteousness or not, but a question of whether one is strong or not. If he is strong enough and is still alive, that is absolute orthodoxy.
The same is true for the Yong family. They had a big tree at their back to enjoy the shade, and there was no threat. Rome was willing to give the Han Dynasty some face. In this way, the Yong family was able to obtain a formal legal system that could continue forever, and it came from two people. Acknowledgment of direction.
The Yong family also knew this, so they clung to the thighs of the Han Dynasty and the Yuan family. They knew very well why Rome was willing to point dots on the map. It was not because they looked down on the Yong family, but because there were Han people behind the Yong family. Room and Yuan family.
These days, the Inuit can make up 50,000 to 60,000 people in the Arctic Circle. The Romans have never faced it seriously. This is the difference. Therefore, the Yong family is lazy and lazy. At least they know what they must take a stand on. , just like this time.
"I didn't ask, because I thought it would be troublesome." Yong Kai said angrily.
"I see the look on your face, maybe you already know the result." After all, Yong Mao is also a Yong family member. One look at Yong Kai's expression, and he knows that Yong Kai has been involved in trouble. He looks like he has something sad to say. Our cheerful expressions.
"I have no problem, but the Yuan family gave me an explanation." Yong Kai said with a twitching corner of his mouth, "Pelennis and General Huangfu of Rome went to conquer a certain world in Northern Europe. Some accidents occurred and they arrived, but they were unable to conquer it. At present, It’s definitely a winter strategy only.”
Yong Mao nodded and understood the situation. Yong Kai had to take action in this kind of matter. After all, he is the head of the family. Huangfu Song is here, can you not take it? Isn't that a slap in the face of the most famous general in the world?
Huangfusong might not care about how other people would view this issue. The Yong family is lazy and not mentally retarded. Being able to take Shifang Ma to Sizhao City in the first place shows that the Yong family understands etiquette and law, and they can just get through as much as possible. It’s just in the past.
Huangfu Song didn't care about things like this, and the Yong family also went to pick them up.
"Save it, you can't escape, and we may have to go there too." Yong Kai said angrily, "Just organize it and organize an elite team of 300 people."
"Three hundred people are a bit too much, just organize a hundred elite people." Yong Mao suggested. The Yong family really doesn't have many professional soldiers, that is, some ordinary patrol militiamen who expel Siberian hamsters. Leaving is also troublesome.
"Then let's have a hundred people. Since it's inevitable, let's go and see what's going on then." Yong Kai said angrily, "When the time comes, we will have all the technologies we have reserved, and we won't ask for anything. If there is any outstanding performance, it will be fine if it is not embarrassing."
"Oh, then will we still carry out reclamation?" Yong Mao thought for a while and said.
Since we have to gather a hundred elites, we have to consider issues such as training and mobilize 3,000 people to participate in the training. Then there will definitely be no one to reclaim the wasteland. In recent years, the people under the Yong family have basically become The crowd watching the melons was really going to be organized into a training camp of 3,000 people, and the remaining people would basically stop working. After all, they were all already ashore, and they could survive without working.
At least with the living environment here, if you work for four months, you can eat and drink for at least three years.
One acre of land is enough to sustain food for at least a year. One acre of land here continues the roughness of the Slavs. One acre is larger than one hectare. Therefore, with an average of 20 acres of land per capita, there is indeed no pressure to survive, and the local situation Completely two different things.
"It's just a training camp. Those who want to reclaim the land, and those who don't want to just watch and pretend to have the strength to defend the feudal country." Yong Kai said seriously, "Thank you for being strong enough."
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I’ll come back tomorrow. I’m not in the right state of mind when I’m writing. Alas, what’s going on these days?
