Daqin: You have a son to help Su

Chapter 180 The prototype of Yanmen Pass, the second encounter between Fusu and Murongke
After leaving Yanmen County, Fusu headed directly to the northern border with fresh meat.

Although there was no Qin Great Wall at this time, there was the Zhao Great Wall. In fact, during the Warring States Period, countries bordering nomadic peoples would build Great Walls to resist foreign enemies.

There is naturally a section of the Great Wall to the north of Yanmen County, and the prototype of Yanmen Pass was here. Fusu naturally wanted to reward the border troops.

Yanmen County is closer to the Yellow River, and there are some water sources and tributaries to supplement it. The grassland in Yanmen County is relatively rich, but the further north, the desert coverage rate is getting higher and higher, until a long city wall appears on the skyline.

This is the Great Wall of Zhao. In later generations, it was also the main part of the Great Wall of Qin after Qin unified the Xia Dynasty. However, with Fusu in this era, there is no need for the Great Wall in the future.

When Fusu left Yanmen County, he had already sent someone to inform the captain guarding the Great Wall, so when Fusu's convoy just appeared in the field of vision and hadn't approached the border, the guard guard had already arrived. here.

"Sir!" the guard captain dismounted and bowed.

Help Suxu to help him, and then asked: "Captain, when I was in Daijun, Donghu people invaded Daijun. How is the situation here?"

The captain guarding the pass shook his head, saying that he did not find any signs of Donghu people in the northern section of the Great Wall. Even though this place is in the northern part of Daijun, the defense line here is too long. In some places, the Zhao Great Wall has been abandoned due to disrepair. , and has no defenders.

After expressing that he knew the situation, Fusu followed the guard captain into the pass city of Zhao Great Wall.

The Great Wall seems to have been the same since ancient times. There will be beacon towers and enemy towers a few kilometers away, and there will be closed cities at every important pass.

Along the way, Fusu also learned that this captain is called Zhang Qi, and as the captain guarding the pass, he has a higher status than the captain Fusu met in Beidi City before.

After entering Guancheng, Fusu saw that most of the soldiers did not delay their own work because of his arrival, but instead guarded their posts on the city wall. This made Fusu very happy.

Isn't the meat he brought with him just for these dedicated soldiers?
So they asked people to remove the sackcloth covering the meat in the cart, and exposed the meat. Fusu said to Captain Zhang Qi, "These meats are all for rewarding the guards."

A caravan of meat brightened the eyes of Zhang Qi, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time. In ancient times, unless the soldiers could enjoy meat a few days before the war, most of the time they still had to eat white corn and rice.

"Young master, this..." Zhang Qi was a little embarrassed, after all, he had never encountered an enemy army once in the past six months, and he still understood the truth of "he who does not work will not eat".

But Fusu shook his head and said: "This is also the kindness of the people in Yanmen County, the captain will accept it!"

Fusu recycles the livestock purchased by the people for worship, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

The first point is naturally that Fusu offered sacrifices to Yanmen County as the son of Qin Guochang, and won the hearts of the people of Yanmen County.

The second point is to recycle these livestock that cost the people a lot of money and exchange them for food that they can eat daily to ensure that they can live a good year.

The third point is that fresh meat can be transported to this city to reward the soldiers guarding the border.

From Fusu's point of view, it is never gods who protect the people, but the soldiers who guard the border with due diligence, even though the soldiers now are not as confident as those in later generations.

When he heard that it was given to him by Yanmen County, Zhang Qi quickly shook his head in disbelief. He had met Bai Ling, the governor of Yanmen County, several times.

With such a frugal personality as the governor of Bering County, he was absolutely reluctant to buy meat, let alone distribute it to border soldiers.

So Fusu told him about offering sacrifices to the gods. Since Fusu often played this trick in Jiuyuan County, he only acted in the name of the gods, and the atheist Fusu didn't have any burden in his heart.

In the words of later generations: 'How many teachers does the god have? '

Fusu naturally told that he had communicated with the gods, and then asked for the meat to be rewarded to the soldiers guarding the pass.

Hearing this, Captain Zhang Qi also believed the words of Young Master Fusu. After all, he had heard of the miracles of Young Master Fusu in Jiuyuan County. Of course, those miracles were nothing more than a few small magic tricks to Fusu .

Bring the meat to the chief soldier who is in charge of cooking, even if someone with ulterior motives is buying people's hearts, Fusu is going to stay to enjoy this dinner with the soldiers tonight.

There are too few condiments in this era, and the salt sprinkled on meat by the Fusu people to prevent spoilage is already one of the few luxury goods. After making this broth, even the soldiers on the city wall could smell the aroma of meat.

When they were eating, they found that their noses hadn't lied to them. There was actually broth and meat. The floating meat flakes and glistening animal fats on the soup made many soldiers swallow their saliva.

This kind of broth, coupled with the steaming corn rice, already satisfied the soldiers. Under the leadership of Captain Zhang Qi, they thanked Young Master Fusu and began to enjoy the sumptuous dinner.

The meat that Fusu brought this time should be enough for them to eat ten such dinners. After all, other meat was distributed to soldiers at other border gates.

When they took turns to take over positions, the guarding soldiers above saw the cavalry in the north and quickly lit the beacon, which made the soldiers who were eating very angry.

After not coming here for more than half a year, they finally started eating meat. Now these Donghu people came, and they couldn't smell the smell of meat like dogs.

Fusu also followed Zhang Qi to the city wall, but the Donghu people did not seem to have any intention of invading, and only a few hundred people rode here to check the situation.

But we can't blame the soldiers at Dian Fenghuo for making a fuss. We must know that military affairs are no small matter.

The sky at dusk did not darken so quickly. Fusu looked at the leader's attire as if he had seen it under the light of fire.

The leader seems to have seen it before, Murong Ke summoned by Fusu, and he happened to pass by the tribe here with his elite Murong men, so he went south to have a look at the Great Wall of Zhao that prevented Donghu from invading Yanmen County. .

Maybe it was fate, he and his son Fusu met again.Fusu looked at Murong Ke who was thinking about it, and said, "Dianwei, protect me out of the city!"

Dian Wei, who had been following Fu Su, said naturally, "Wei!"

Seeing that the young master was going to leave the customs alone, Guo Jia and Wang Zhi immediately persuaded him: "Young master!"

"Wang Zhi, you also come with me." Fu Su turned his head and said to Wang Zhi, then patted Guo Jia: "Feng Xiao, you are not in good health, just rest on the city wall."

Seeing that people around Fusu tried to persuade the young master to no avail, Zhang Qi also looked at Fusu, wanting to persuade him.

Young Master Fusu shook his head: "Captain Zhang Qi, I know this Donghu leader, you can rest assured that nothing will happen to you."

But if son Fusu really had an accident in his Guancheng, Qin would not be able to spare Zhang Qi from top to bottom, and Zhang Qi could only send his own soldiers to protect son Fusu.

(End of this chapter)