I became the son of Renzong

Zhao Xi once again emphasized keeping warm and keeping warm.

"Official, how cold will it be in winter on that passage?"

Fu Bi probably understood that the officials have been emphasizing keeping warm.

Fu Bi was sent as an envoy to Beiliao, and he also chatted about how Beiliao survived the winter.It’s nothing more than a hot kang with robes. This passage is not particularly north-facing, and it is about the same as the Hebei area. How cold can it be?

"It's colder than you can imagine!"

In this era, even the Northern Liao Dynasty did not really occupy Liaodong.Although there are some records in the previous dynasty, it is also near the Yalu River, and it is not the kind that is extremely cold.

"Dripping into ice?"

This is already the coldest weather you can imagine.

"No, maybe a drop of hot water turns into ice!"

Zhao Xi is not sure either.But he remembered that later generations played the game of turning hot water into ice flowers.If you want to come to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of 3000 meters, there should be such a possibility.

He remembered that when he went to Qinghai, he wore half-sleeves in broad daylight, and at night he wore thermal clothes and a jacket...~

Believe it or not, it's not a big deal.There is no need for cabinet ministers to compete with officials, just let it go.

"Also, tell Wang Shao to order the soldiers in front to keep records..."

When Zhao Xi said this, he suddenly remembered that there was no concept of temperature at this time, and there was no way to record the temperature.

Forget it, let’s just say that, how to record it is up to them.

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Towards the end of summer, merchants who take this passage are preparing to cross this passage and arrive in Baghdad before the winter there.

In the past, there were not too many merchants on this passage.

At this time, Wang Shao had already moved his tent to the west and handed Hehuang over to Su Zhe directly.

Wang Shao has always been a man of rules.

Since the court accepted the emperor's order, he should be the commander in chief of this partial division.The reason why he stayed in Hehuang was to assist Su Zhe and Zhang Dun to take over smoothly.

After the Qingtang Dong felt was attached, there were no longer any possible accidents in the Hehuang area.The point is, he can see that Su Zhe is better than him in handling government affairs.

Zhang Dun accompanied Wang Shao to move his camp to the west.

The intention of the court is very clear, and Zhang Dun is also a self-aware person.Even if it is Wang Shao's deputy, there is no need to stay in Hehuang.

In Hehuang, Zhang Dun always had the idea of ​​killing a group of Tubo people whenever he encountered some cumbersome affairs... Let's fight, he is suitable.

Now that Qingtang has been controlled by Guochao, on the westbound caravan, he can easily cover it up, and it is easy to hide it from Xixia.

Several times, several times in a row, these Pathfinders have asked to continue to lead the team westward...~

It is the emperor's order to let them stay in Hehuang.

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After the winter, the report brought by Hehuang Governor's Mansion finally convinced the cabinet.

On the side of Hehuang Governor's Mansion, after winter, they also tried to send people to go west again...~

As a result, let alone going westward, there was only one heavy snowfall, and even Hezhou and Qingtang could not be contacted...

"Su Zhe reported that all the west of Qingtang was covered by heavy snow, and there was no route or direction at all. It was all snow, and it would cause snow blindness if you didn't go far."

"Even if you use the method of the Tubo people to cover your eyes with leather, you don't know where to go! It's white, it's all snow, and it's all the same in all directions...~"

"I heard from the herdsmen that this heavy snow may not melt until the beginning of spring..."

"In the Qingtang area, herdsmen gather around Qingtang City. With such white snow, those small nomadic families will not only freeze to death their animals, but also people who will freeze to death..."

"Hey, based on these reports from Su Zhe, the officials once again judged correctly. If there were no items equipped by the officials, it would be good to save seven out of ten soldiers marching west."

"How did the officials know?"

"Actually, this cannot be inferred. According to the official theory, it is to use the known conditions to infer the unknown. All the records extracted by the official can be used to judge the cold winter of that passage, so as to be prepared."

The cabinet ministers were discussing Su Zhe's memorial, and they remembered the preparations made by the officials.

To say that Zhao Xi is inferring...~ Highly read.In fact, Zhao Xi was purely preparing for it with the knowledge of the thousand years of commentary.

Chapter 690 What Zhao Xi Missed

Regardless of whether it was Hehuang or Qingtang, Zhao Xi had read all the memorials.I'm glad that I thought too much and didn't leave nearly a thousand soldiers on that passage.

The twelve strongholds are the twelve military depots in the future. Thousands of soldiers have survived this cold winter and can accumulate useful experience for the engineers to build military depots in the coming year.

Zhao Xi is looking forward to spring, the cabinet ministers are also looking forward to spring, Wang Shao and Zhang Dun are also looking forward to spring coming back quickly.

But none of the soldiers stationed on that passage had such a strong desire for spring.

Fortunately, the last batch of materials, the court sent cotton-padded quilts and charcoal, and officials specially reminded the Ministry of War to write the winter essentials.

What's even more fortunate is that each of their strongholds is accompanied by engineering soldiers, which roughly divides the camp area according to the design of the military station.

If it weren't for these two points, it is estimated that at this time, they would either be frozen to death or stink to death by themselves.

The snow is so big that there are no sides, and there is no direction to go out. The only thing that can be seen clearly are these few barracks...

Every few days, everyone needs to clear the snow in the camp to ensure that they have room to exercise...~ This is an iron rule in the new army. As long as it is not in wartime, the prescribed training is indispensable.

The end result was that their camp was completely surrounded by snowdrifts.

The corporal needs to record the weather.Originally, no one knew what the records requested by the officials were for, but the engineering soldiers in the workshop city thought of a way.

For all their strongholds, open a bucket of water every hour, and then see how long it takes to freeze, and use this method to judge the degree of coldness...

But the engineer said again that the camp area surrounded by snowdrifts is different from the outside.

Therefore, they planed a passage on the surrounding snowdrifts that could only pass one person.

Zhao Xi would never have imagined that one of his idle orders, which he thought was impossible to complete, was actually accomplished by the soldiers.

In fact, after recovering the four states of Yunying, the engineering soldiers had experience working in the four states of Yunying and experienced the cold winter.Although they can't compare with this channel, they still have some ways.

This time to send engineers here, Su Song and Shen Kuo thought of these according to some requirements of the officials, and selected the engineers who had worked in the four prefectures of Yunying.

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