Daqin Engineering Corps

Lambs take six to eight months to mature.

In the case of sufficient pasture, 1000 sheep are enough for [-] people to survive... even more people can be fed in the hands of the Huns, because they can make full use of goat milk, know how to deliver and protect the sheep to improve the survival rate of sheep, and even Knowing what sheep to eat keeps the cycle better.

For example, eating rams and keeping ewes as much as possible can ensure the production of sheep. This is why the Huns tend to have more ewes in their flocks, and they have endless goat milk every day.

The shortage of the Qin people's breeding level can be supplemented by planting vegetables in the fields. In addition, there is more food than just using sheep to satisfy their hunger...then they can raise more and more sheep.

Therefore, starting from Xitao and setting up four more points along the Hexi Corridor, more than 2 sheep are needed to ensure the sustainable development of the 1000-person Walled City.

This is Shen Bing's plan.

On the side close to Xitao, a large number of sheep were purchased from the North to drive to the Hexi Corridor.

It is unrealistic to drive the sheep to the side near the Western Regions because the distance is too far away, so they transport silk and cloth to the Western Regions or local people to exchange. Especially, the more you go to the Western Regions, you need not only sheep, but also livestock such as camels and horses. A more flexible approach is required depending on the situation.

Soon Shen Bing found that it didn't seem to be too much to worry about.

Because at this time, Jiang and his party had already rushed to the Western Regions and found his clansmen.

The clansmen of Ji also live a nomadic life. Their way of survival is to have a large number of cattle and sheep in their hands and graze them... Although they were robbed by the Huns during this period, cattle and sheep are fundamental to the nomads, and they will always find a way Collect again.

For example, saving food and money for a period of time or relying on hunting supplements to make the flock breed as much as possible.

Otherwise, if the sheep are eaten up and there is no extra wealth, they can only wait to starve to death.

Jiang and his people, as well as many herdsmen from the Western Regions who were going to seek refuge in the Northland, took a large number of cattle and sheep through the Hexi Corridor...

It just so happens that the Hexi Corridor needs cattle and sheep, so what are you doing back and forth?

So either write down the IOU, or give a bank note, or exchange it with silk... No matter what method you choose, just leave the cattle and sheep in the walled city set up in Beidi.

Among them, the IOU is how many sheep are owed to someone, and then they will be repaid to him in Beidi.

Bank notes are calculated by value and can be exchanged at banks.

These two methods are rarely used, because herdsmen are not used to using bank notes. They don't believe that a few pieces of paper can be exchanged for money, and they don't even know what money is.

At the same time, they are not at ease about IOUs.

So many people hope to choose to exchange with silk and cloth, and it is always better to get the real thing.

What they don't know is that the exchange of silk and cloth is actually the worst choice.

Because silk and cloth are only valuable in the Western Regions, if they exchange them at a high price in the Western Regions and then bring these things to the North...then their wealth will shrink dozens of times in an instant.

However, in this regard, Jiang finally succeeded in their ideological work.

Shen Bing also confessed that if it is necessary to exchange silk and cloth, it can be exchanged, but it should be exchanged for spices and seeds that are not available in the Central Plains.

As for what is there in the Central Plains... the one who has lived in the Central Plains knows best.

What's more, Ji also took more than a hundred cavalry to go. After those Central Plains cavalry arrived there, anyway, they boldly bought something they hadn't seen before.

For example, alfalfa, known as the king of pasture, also has grapes, sesame seeds, and mustard.

As mentioned before, transportation is about two-way, and one-way transportation will generate a lot of waste of capacity and time.

So there is no doubt that it is the best, most economical, and most scientific way of doing business to bring from the Central Plains what is not available in the Western Regions, and then bring back from the Western Regions what is not in the Central Plains.

The frequent exchanges of these things in Xitao will definitely drive the business, warehousing and service industries of Xitao, so Xitao will soon develop into a trading city between the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

While Shen Bing was making overall plans in the tent, he heard the sound of arrows whistling from the direction of the mountain.

Then Ren hurried into the account and said:

"General, the Shepherd Point is in danger, please reinforce!"

Shen Bing was puzzled for a while. Could it be that the "savage" finally couldn't bear to attack the shepherd point?

Without thinking too much, Shen Bing ordered Wang Ben to immediately bring hundreds of people to the reinforcements, and he himself followed with his personal guards.

When I arrived, it turned out that the village of the female leader was attacked.

Those who besieged the village were also "savages", but there were many more people than the village. There were about 500 people, all of them were cavalry, and they seemed to be from another tribe.

There are only more than 300 people in the village, and the infantry as the main weapon is extremely simple, so it quickly fell into a disadvantage.

Shen Bing originally didn't intend to meddle in this business.

In his eyes, this is a fight between the two villagers, and if it is considered from the perspective of Qin Jun's interests, then he should not intervene in the "savage" dispute.

But when Shen Bing saw that the attacker was attacking the child, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Shen Bing raised his head towards Wang Ben, and ordered:

"Knock back the enemy!"

Wang Ben responded, and as soon as he pulled his horse's head, he gave an order to the soldiers:

"Arrangement!"

The soldiers of the Qin Army responded, set up an offensive formation, and then walked towards the battlefield with their crossbows under Wang Ben's command.

Qin Jun did not directly join the battle group.

They just shot arrows from a distance.

The target is of course the cavalry attacking the village...

Those cavalry basically had no armor, so they couldn't stop the Qin army's crossbow attack. After a "swish" sound, they fell off their horses one by one.

The rest were in a bad situation, and immediately turned their horses and fled.

Under the protection of his personal guards, Shen Bing walked into the appalling village. The bloody female leader was holding the wound on her left arm and panting.

She looked at Shen Bing gratefully, and then said:

"You should leave here, they belong to the Tuoba clan, you can't afford to mess with them!"

3 Chapter Eighty Party Items

About this Tuoba clan, Shen Bing knew something.

The most powerful branch of the Eight Branches of the Dangxiang is the Tuoba family, who originally lived in Sichuan and the Yellow River area in the southeast of Qinghai. Later, because of the strength of Tubo, they had to move in large numbers to the Xitao area in the north, and later established Xixia.

Therefore, many people in modern times classify Xixia as a foreign race and even take it for granted that Xixia belongs to Western Europe. Then, because of Xixia’s advanced iron smelting and cold forging technology, they concluded that Western Europe’s iron smelting in ancient times was stronger than China...

This made Shen Bing speechless.

If Sichuan is part of the Central Plains, should the Qiang people living in the mountainous areas of Sichuan also be part of the Central Plains?

And Dangxiang is just a branch of Qiang.

Even strictly speaking, it belongs to the Yellow River Basin, but they live in the mountainous area at the source of the Yellow River.

Because they live in mountainous areas, most of them make a living by hunting and nomadic, so they are late in civilization, have no writing and no civilization, and are classified as barbarians in the Central Plains like savages.

Since the founding of Xixia, it has fully accepted the culture and technology of the Central Plains and developed rapidly.

If these are not enough, Meng Tian built the Great Wall in Xitao during the Qin Dynasty, and the area where Dangxiang lived when he moved to the Yellow River area was within the Great Wall.

Moreover, it was moved with the consent of the central government of the Tang Dynasty to give a piece of land and give the surname Li.

Is this inside or outside?

Only then did Shen Bing remember that Xitao is the base camp of Xixia, a treasure land that is easy to defend but difficult to attack and rich in resources.

The modern Ningxia is taken from the meaning of "Ping Ding Da Xia".

The ancient capital of Xixia is now Yinchuan in Ningxia... Of course, Xitao at this time was still a wasteland with no cities at all.

Thinking of Shen Bing, he couldn't help being stunned. Could it be that these "savages" in front of him were the ancestors of the later famous Xixia Dynasty?

Shen Bing couldn't help asking:

"What's your clan?"

The female leader replied:

"To Lee's!"

Asking is also a waste of time, Shen Bing will know about Tuoba family but not at all about Quli's family.

But it shouldn't be wrong to think about it.

Because Dangxiang usually lives in groups with the surname of a tribe, the female leader's village should be a branch of Dangxiang.

Shen Bing jumped off the horse, and took out a piece of healing tape from his luggage to bandage the female leader... At first, the female leader was a little scared, but she understood after Shen Bing signaled, so she let go of the wound.

Shen Bing asked while bandaging:

"What's your name?"

The female leader replied:

"To Liqing."

"The Tuoba clan has always wanted to annex our clan, and that's why they fought this battle!"

"It has tens of thousands of troops, but you saved me this time, but you got into trouble..."

Shen Bing asked again:

"But I want to know, why can you speak the Central Plains dialect?"

Xiang Liqing replied:

"My parents were originally from Qin, but they were taken into slavery by the Yue clan!"

Shen Bing let out an "oh".

The Yue clan has been neighbors with the Qin State for some time, and it is a slave system. If it captures or robs the soldiers and civilians of the Qin State during the war, it will turn them into slaves.

The parents in Xiangliqing probably fled to the mountains and became "savages".

Xiang Liqing continued:

"And the flock you're waiting for."

"The Tuoba clan has already discovered them, and they will definitely not let it go!"

Shen Bing bandaged up to Liqing and said:

"It's okay to rest for a few days and it will be fine."

Xiang Liqing looked at Shen Bing with incredible eyes:

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"Get out of here, or..."

Shen Bing smiled and asked back:

"Otherwise what?"

"As I said, this is our land, and we can stay here as long as we want!"

He glanced behind Shen Bing at Liqing, and asked with a bitter expression:

"But you only have a thousand!"

"Do you think you can defeat the Tuoba clan with 1000 people?"

Shen Bing was stunned, and then understood the reason why she would be despised. She wouldn't think that Qin Jun really only had these 1000 people!

Think about Shen Bing and you will understand.

The Dangxiang tribe in Liqing used to live in groups with surnames as tribes, so she took it for granted that people like Shen Bing were also.

She may even think that Qin is like Dangxiang, who uses surnames as tribes and keeps fighting among themselves.

So a small tribe like Shen Bing was driven here.

Shen Bing didn't know how to explain.

And even if she explained it, she might not be able to explain it. If she was told that Qin State had tens of millions of people, and the army had tens of thousands of people, and Shen Bing alone commanded more than 10 people, I don't know if Xiang Liqing would believe it.

It is estimated that Xiang Liqing will definitely regard Shen Bing as a liar, because this has long been beyond the scope of her comprehension.

Shen Bing gave a "hmm" and replied:

"How about I uproot this Tuoba clan?"

Xiang Liqing looked at Shen Bing like a fool, "You" for a long time but couldn't say anything, and finally could only shake his head and smile wryly.