No shortage of walls

Li Qingshan said:"We slightly suspect that we arrived here on horseback. The Hu people are vast and sparsely populated, so they have to ride horses when going out. I have seen a fifteen or sixteen-year-old woman who can stick under the horse's belly and let the horse gallop. I, the Great Song Dynasty" National soldiers have to study for several years, but they may not be able to do it. Some women are pregnant and ride horses when they go out. If the horse accidentally disobeys, it is easy to cause miscarriage in women. Among those women who have miscarriages, they are too far away from the crowd and need medical help. If it is not done in time, it will be difficult to get pregnant in the future, and some will bleed too much and die. And there are many wolves in the Hu people. They look like dogs, but we don’t have them in Song Dynasty. The ferocious wolves are hungry. It is easy to steal sheep, but it is easy to steal sheep. Maybe it's a human being, the woman and child were stolen and must have been eaten."

Song Xing nodded. It is estimated that eating too much meat has become a habit of the Hu people. The body lacks vitamins. Although the function is strong, the vitality is low. In addition, women are also like this, so it is normal to have difficulty conceiving. So he asked:"Then the Hu people's army is not that many people?"

Zhang Yang said:"Inquiry here and there should be between 200,000 and 300,000 troops. Recently, there seems to be an army recruitment; I heard that it is said that the troops from the northern part of our country in the Song Dynasty are General Ming and the old troops of King Jing frightened the Hu people. The old Shanyu in the East Hu Palace rushed to expand the army, fearing that our Song Dynasty would retaliate against the Hu people. However, the two ministers only inquired about part of it. They came back so early because they were afraid of disturbing His Majesty. Big plan, Your Majesty, please wait a moment. There are a total of thirteen of us in Donghu. We will come back in batches. We are afraid that the Hu people will find out and catch them all. So be careful and come back slowly in batches."

"Do the Hu people have big rivers?"

Zhang Yang said:"I haven't noticed it yet. I only found that there is a big lake near Xihu in the west. It can't be seen to the end. There are big fish in the lake, but the Hu people don't know how to catch fish. There are many small rivers, less than three feet wide, and the water is very shallow, with occasional fish; there is a small river in the east that leads to the sea from Qi State, but I have only heard about it, and Weichen did not see it.

Song Xing said:"The Hu people have mud and rocks that can make fire?""

Li Qingshan took out a small cloth bag from his arms, opened it and put it on the table. He said:"The Hu people investigate very strictly. In the past, it was not so strict when doing business with me, Da Song. Now that the business has stopped, the Song people and the Hu people have different faces and it is difficult to hide them. The ministers only brought this little, less than two taels, which they called firewood. It was extremely difficult to make a fire, much more difficult than firewood. But after it is alive, it is more resistant to burning than firewood. The only bad thing is that the smoke from the firewood is poisonous, and sometimes there is a fire in the tent. At dawn, the whole family was dead, and there were not many people using it. They just took some of it back and used it to make fires and warm water for the animals to drink in winter. If there are a lot of them, the snow will never cover them. They fired long mud troughs. Build it with stones and clay, pile mud firewood on this end, shovel some snow, and light the mud firewood. It can burn for several days. It is much better than firewood. There are people who sell it far away, but it is very cheap. It can only poison people, and not many people use it.

Song Xing just looked at it and said:"This is coal, half mud and half coal can catch it." It's a very useful thing. Isn’t it poisonous to death? Someone’s whole family died when burning charcoal in winter. It’s the same, isn’t it? Besides, coal, depending on whose hands it falls into, is not necessarily in my hands."

The three of them thought for a moment, their emperor was wise and powerful, but if it fell into the hands of my emperor, he would be as stupid as a barbarian. Comparable to other people? The emperor did so many new and wonderful things, and the emperor said it was useless because they were useless. Who are the barbarians? Suddenly there was pride in my heart. Although the emperor said it lightly, he was extremely confident that he had great power in the Song Dynasty. The emperor is really a god descending to earth. Is there anything that the barbarians can’t do that our emperor, Long Live the Emperor, can’t do?

Li Qingshan said:"Many! very many! I have never been to the east of Donghu, but I have heard from Hu people that a mountain of mud...a mountain of coal, two hundred miles from the west end of Shanxi to the east, has never been heard of. High for half a day. Someone has already dug a hole. The mud and stone are about a foot thick, and it is full of mud and coal. Some places were still exposed, and Wei Chen often thought that it would be terrible if the mountain was set on fire.

Song Xing smiled:"Who is going to light the coal mountain?" Li

Qingshan said:"That's also a very strange thing. It rains a lot there and is cloudy and foggy all day long. It's probably impossible to light it. We just have to wait for the people behind to come back to find out."

Song Xing said:"Can you draw the terrain of the Hu people?" Zhang

Yang took out a piece of cloth from his arms and opened it. He said:"This is what Xiao Sun painted on his underwear. Wei Chen and Wei Chen came back from climbing the Black Mountain. Before returning, Xiao Sun cut it off and gave it to Wei Chen." Yes, he went east."

The picture is very simple. It is a small piece of cloth no wider than a palm. It is not drawn with strokes, but sewn with needle and thread like mending clothes. Donghu looks like an irregular rectangle with long east-west length and narrow north-south width.

Zhang Yang said:"Xiao Sun said it was because of what he said. As others have said, accurate pictures will be available in the future. He was afraid that something might happen, so he handed it over to his subordinates early. He pointed his finger at a vertical line on the left and said:"This is the city wall with the west." This is the center, and the two ends are made of wood beaten on the ground, or trees are planted as boundaries. It's just that the erhu has been separated for hundreds of years. Everyone is poor and now they have been defeated. I went to see it and found that even the city walls were rotten. The defenders all live in tents, and there are about ten thousand people on the Donghu side. Xihu doesn’t know. Pointing his finger to the right, he said:"This is to the east. This point is a mountain. It is more than two hundred miles from northwest to southeast, and about ten miles from northeast to southwest. But it is very short. You can climb it by riding a horse. To the northeast is The big lake, the big lake with big fish mentioned earlier, and further east are mountains, five or six times bigger than the one just now, and shorter than him. Further east is the Royal Palace. To the southeast of the palace is a mountain, the same low mountain, similar to the one in the west. But in this life there are iron stones, Hu people's weapons, and the weapons manufacturing department is here, which is said to be heavily defended. There is no way to check it closely. To the east is Mu... Coal Mountain. Further east, it is said that there is a mountain, and behind the mountain is the sea, but the mountain is too high to climb, so I don't know whether it is true or not. Going southeast to Qi, the river passes through Pingchuan Pass. I don’t know how big it is, but it rains a lot in Hu, so it should be very big. But I have never heard the Hu people say that there are big rivers, and the ministers are not able to do their jobs well. , please punish me."