Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

Huang Chao still wanted to question, but Ning Fan didn't want to say anything anymore. It was going to be dawn soon and the army was about to set off.

The snow-capped mountains could not stop Ning Fan from conquering the Huns. In the future, the Dakang people could also thrive in this vast grassland.

Looking at the cattle and sheep grazing on the grass in the distance, many pictures suddenly appeared in Ning Fan's mind. It was not that the Dakang people and the Huns could not coexist, but the collision of two civilizations and two cultural habits. If he insisted on The Huns have lived beside Dakang for a long time, so for Ning Fan, it is actually not a big problem.

It is inevitable for two ants to bite each other, but if it is an ant and an elephant, then the problem between them does not exist. Therefore, Ning Fan did not intend to kill all the Huns. Although Huang Chao had many suggestions along the way that Ning Fan should be ruthless and eliminate all the Huns, Ning Fan actually did not intend to do so.

"Destroy the Xiongnu Great Chanyu and his elite cavalry, and the Huns will not be able to recover for at least twenty years."

Ning Fan said calmly while riding on the horse.

When he first started riding a horse and ran for a long distance, the skin on both sides of Ning Fan's thighs was worn away. It was painful every night when he slept. However, as time went by, he got used to life on horseback, and Ning Fan also has skills in riding horses. He often squats half on the horse and does not really sit on the saddle.

"Your Majesty, this opportunity must not be missed. The time will never come again. If you are merciful at this time, then the Huns will definitely teach us Dakang a harsh lesson in the future."

"Didn't the incident in Huoding City teach His Majesty a heavy enough lesson? Does Your Majesty really hope to see even more brutal massacres in our Dakang community in the future?"

Huang Chao was completely angry and even forgot about the identity gap between the two.

However, Ning Fan was not angry. Instead, he looked at Huang Chao calmly, shook his head and said, "General Huang, you are thinking too much. In just twenty years, after twenty years I will make the Huns never dare to fight with us." Kang is the enemy."

"Your enemies often come from your own shortcomings. If you are too weak, your enemies will bully you. If you are strong enough, then you will have no enemies and you will be surrounded by friends."

Ning Fan said calmly.

The winter on the grassland is longer because there is no barrier of mountains. The cold north wind is still blowing and it snows almost every day, but everyone is used to this cold climate.

The main source of fire on the grassland relies on burning dry cow dung, but the warmth brought by the cow dung is enough for the team to obtain a sufficient source of heat when they rest every day.

Another evening, fragrant mutton was cooking on the stove, while Ning Fan was sitting at the table, carefully looking at the memorial in his hand.

This is the memorial sent from the northwest, and it is also the latest. The ink is not yet dry.

In this memorial, Song Chengzhou briefly introduced the progress of the construction of the Northwest Grand Canal and the progress of building a large defense line at intervals.

According to what Song Chengzhou wrote in this memorial, the canal has been opened to two-thirds of the Ming Dynasty, and the river embankment is in the intensive construction stage. With the counterfeit medicine, a large amount of stones can be continuously supplied. A grand canal will be entirely lined with stones.

This was also Ning Fan's early suggestion. As long as the embankments along both sides of the river are built with stones, the embankments can protect the silt along the river and prevent it from entering the river bed. Then there will be no siltation of the canal.

It's just that the construction process will take longer and cost more labor, but for Ning Fan, it is well worth it. The canal can be dug for at least hundreds of years.

As for the issue of separating rooms, Ning Fan only took a cursory glance. He had designed this line of defense himself. In this era, this line of defense is almost impossible to break through, so Ning Fan is not worried about this line of defense at all. The manufacturing progress is more than enough to stop the Rakshasa people even at the current progress.

Ning Fan carefully read the words on the memorial, and his thoughts seemed to drift to the northwest. At this time, in the mountains of Greater West Africa, Song Chengzhou was standing on an empty river embankment, watching tens of thousands of workers digging earth in full swing.

"Master Song is about to explode the river mouth in front of us. Let's avoid it first. It's dangerous."

Several guards around him hurried over and gave a kind reminder, because explosives would soon be used to blow up a mountain of earth. This mountain of earth was extremely hard and it would take a long time to dig it manually. However, since the advent of black powder, After that, these problems were solved.

Under the protection of several guards, Song Chengzhou came to hide behind a low mountain. Then there was a rumbling sound in the distance. Everyone only felt the ground shaking, then smoke and dust flew, and fist-sized stones fell all over the sky. , like a rain of stones.

Song Chengzhou stood up and saw a puff of smoke in the distance. When everyone arrived, they discovered that the hill had been lifted almost halfway. The workers cheered and rushed up to start transferring the broken soil and gravel.

"Your Excellency, there has never been any precedent in the past dynasties of paying these workers. Are we going too far?"

Several staff members looked at these enthusiastic workers and felt uncomfortable. That was just money in vain, all given to these ordinary poor people. They didn't know what His Majesty was thinking, so they could only Song Chengzhou is complaining here.

"Ordinary people are also human beings. They are not born to work for the imperial court. Don't their families need to eat? These are the main labor force of every family. They come here to help us build the canal. Their family You deserve to starve to death, and you deserve to be given money. I support your majesty.”

At any time, Song Chengzhou was closely united by Ning Fan's side and never questioned Ning Fan's request. Even if he did not understand it for a short period of time, Song Zhongzhou would always follow Ning Fan's ideas.

This is one of the reasons why Ning Fan has always trusted and relied on Song Chengzhou, that is, Song Chengzhou's support for him is almost unconditional.

"The money they were given was too much. They were given two taels of silver per month. This was almost double their income in the previous year and more than they had earned in the past ten years."

Several aides said sourly, because they consider themselves officials, but their annual salary is not even as high as these workers, so these aides feel unbalanced.