?The Book of Songs, Guofeng Wei Feng, describes the harm of rats in food: Big rats and rats, no food for me! It can be seen that even if the grain is harvested, if it is not properly stored, it will become a good meal for pests such as rats, and the fruits of farmers' labor will eventually be wasted. "　　

Since Zhao Xing conspired to purchase excess grain after the bumper harvest in various places, he naturally could not neglect the issue of grain storage.

As early as Wohu Winery began to stockpile the grain used for brewing, Zhao Xing repeatedly compared the best way to store grain and reduce losses. After so many years of repeated experiments, he really discovered two important means.

Through the test, Zhao Xing found that various grains, whether they are corn, rice, wheat, soybeans, etc., have two common taboos in storage. One is to be afraid of tide and the other is to be afraid of stuffy heat. Especially wheat, in a humid environment, it will become moldy and completely inedible in a few days.

In order to overcome these two problems, Zhao Xing had a lot of thoughts about the internal structure, location selection, insect control and rat control of the warehouse. Finally, after entering the Western Regions and completely controlling the cold northern grassland, he finally got a perfect solution.

Jiaohe City, which Zhao Xing asked Ma Chao to take on by wisdom, was a veritable city of soil. How do you understand this? That is to say, the temperature in Jiaohe City is dry and drought, and the soil layer is very dry. Even if you dig the soil directly to build a city, there will be no collapse accidents. Therefore, building a large granary in such a place can overcome the problem of moisture well.

Zhao Xing still remembers that in the archaeological documentary I saw later, a female corpse was found in the Loulan area with a well-preserved body of 4,000 years ago, and was called the "Little River Princess", which indirectly proves how dry the climate here is. Therefore, the first large granary that Zhao Xing chose to build secretly was near Liwei City, which is close to Jiaohe City, the Western Regions.

The site to build a large war prepared granary group here not only has unique natural advantages, but Zhao Xing also has a deeper purpose. In the future, as long as he takes over the Wusun Kingdom, as well as Dayuan and Kangju, the west of Wusun Kingdom, there is a super granary, and the grain produced is enough to support half of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, it is very necessary to build a super granary within the fief of King Pingxi to reserve grain for the people of the world.

In order to prevent rats and pests, Zhao Xing not only spent a lot of effort to fry all the soil in the warehouse to build the warehouse in high temperature, but also added materials such as quicklime. On the innermost layer of the warehouse is a tightly slit piece of stone, which cannot be inserted even if the blade as thin as a cicada's wings cannot be inserted. That's not the end. Zhao Xing also spreads quicklime around the warehouse to absorb moisture, and buried geothermal pipes underground that can be used to heat and dehumidify.

With such cumbersome and exaggerated technical processing, the storage capacity of the Liwei official warehouse can only be described as horror. After the grain is stored, even if it is moved out for decades to eat, it will not be a big problem.

Although the Liwei Granary is good, it is too far from the Central Plains, and the transportation costs are too high. Therefore, while Zhao Xing was secretly building the Liwei Granary, he also built a slightly smaller granary in the desert area north of Shangjun and south of Wuyuan. The so-called smallness is just that compared with the Liwei Granary, the scale is not inferior to any granary in other prefectures and counties in the Han Dynasty.

This granary is hidden in the desert in the unmanned land, only hundreds of miles away from the capital of Shangjun. However, due to its dry and cold geographical conditions, it is also suitable for building a reserve granary.

After completely solving the problem of nomadic peoples on the northern grasslands, Zhao Xing no longer has to worry about building a granary here to make wedding clothes for others. Because he is confident that no force can penetrate into the unmanned desert and move all the food he has stored.

The Yansheng Division stationed in Fengxuecheng and the Huang Xuan Division stationed in Guzang City are not vegetarians. They are enough to stop any slightly large-scale unidentified small troops from entering the desert area adjacent to Shangjun.

Although building two granaries consumed a lot of Zhao Xing's wealth, he felt that this was a very meaningful thing. Once the granary was built, it could continue to serve the Han Empire, which could not only effectively reduce the storage loss of grain, but also retain sufficient response methods for unpredictable natural disasters.

While building a war preparation granary, Zhao Xing also chose to secretly build a cold storage near the cold Beihai (Lake Baikal) near the cold Beihai (Lake Baikal). The winter temperature in the areas around the Beihai can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius, which is so cold that it makes people feel biting cold. When it comes to the cold and long winter here, the most deficit is huge pure ice.

Zhao Xing sent people to walk north with tools when spring is warm. When the soil is thawed in summer, young and strong laborers dig three layers of caves on the cliffs by the lake. When autumn comes, people evacuate south. After several years of repeated repetition, a cave that can store huge amounts of meat was finally dug.

After the excavation of the cave was completed, Zhao Xing sent people to fill the caves on the upper and lower levels in the cold winter, and stored some raw beef and mutton meat and fish caught from the ice-breaking Lake Baikal in the middle layer, and then sealed the entrances on the three-layer holes.

In the summer of the second year, after the weather was warm, the upper and lower layers of ice-filled holes slowly melted, and the ice water flowed out of the water-guiding hole and poured into the North Sea again. However, before all the ice cubes melted, the weather entered below zero degrees. Then Zhao Xing made people brave the cold and add ice into the hole. After several years of repeated recurrence, the raw meat and fish stored in the middle-level cave warehouse were all well preserved and there was no sign of deterioration.

After the experiment of this natural cold storage was successful, Zhao Xing began to send people to fish and grazing near the North Sea. The caught fish and shrimp were directly sealed into the ice storage, and some cattle and sheep that had no time to migrate south were slaughtered and stored directly in the cave storage.

Zhao Xing believed that after several years of accumulation, the meat and fish stored in this cave, coupled with the large amount of grain stored in the Liwei Grain Store, would be enough to support the army under the King of Pingxi to go westward, launching a super-large-scale conquest battle sweeping across the Eurasian continent, and ultimately realize his grand wish to drink the Mediterranean.

Zhao Xing is only two conditions away from realizing his wish, one is population and the other is materials. The ripening of these two conditions requires time.

Zhao Xing, who is only 31 years old this year, is strong and strong. According to Hua Tuo, he is likely to live to be 100 years old, so he has enough patience to wait for the day when the opportunity and conditions are truly mature.

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