The official road in front of you is really straight as a line, like a straight line drawn on the chessboard, although it is not very wide, that is, the level of Qin Chi Road's five-foot road, but it is better than the place where the project does not cut corners and perfunctory, which is completely different from the Ming Dynasty official road, the road is tamped and smooth, smooth as a mirror, and straight forward, the knife is cut and the axe is carved, and seeing such a road on the grassland is like a miracle for people like Zhang Ziming. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, in later generations, this is the base site of the highway from Zhangbei to Erenhot...... There are places in the grassland that are the Gobi, and there are places where the mountain roads stretch, the so-called grassland roads are built in suitable places, this road is the place where the famous grassland road is located in later generations, the present people and the ancients or descendants, the site to build the road should be from the topography is relatively easy, and it is the place where the traffic points are basically started.

What the Zhang family and his son don't understand is not only manpower and time, but also the difference between the tools and the Ming side, and the road construction on Yusheng's side, the tools are about 100 times more than that of the Ming side. The Ming Dynasty built roads, even if the imperial court took the lead, it may not be successful, the Ministry of Industry and the local government will be involved because of the problem of funds, and then there is the trouble of insufficient engineering tools, in the Jiajing period, Pan Ji was ordered by the court to repair the Yellow River, and the Ministry of Industry and the local government can fill a basket of newspapers...... Even if the money is sufficient, the dispatch of manpower is carried out in stages, and there are a lot of things to do with each other, until the troubles at the top are solved, and the time alone does not know how long it will take, and then the state capitals and counties will issue conscription and requisition manpower as required. The people who were mobilized were the lowest-level Qiantou people, who provided their own tools, and the government only provided the most shoddy food, and they were exposed to the wind and rain every day, starving, and had to endure heavy hard labor, as well as being oppressed and blackmailed by the officials and yacha gangs. Therefore, the Ming people take conscription as the most bitter thing, people with a little family background will choose to pay money to be exempted, only the poorest people will be recruited into service, the so-called privilege of scholars, that is, after winning the show, they can be exempted from service, and they can also shield the two people in the family from service, which is a great preferential treatment, as for the level of lifting people, jinshi, there are more people who can shelter, so once someone in the family is promoted or becomes an official, it is a leap forward for the whole family. After the scholars obtained these privileges, they actually damaged the national strength of the country, and when the gentry class did not want to the country, the decline of their national strength was inevitable.

This is a big article, the organization of the entire Ming Dynasty and the ability of the local government are completely unable to compare with the current and Yusheng, the difference is too far, but there are not many people who understand the gap, in the case of Zhang Ziming, on the one hand, there is a huge empire with hundreds of millions of people, on the other hand, although it occupies a small half of the grassland, and the manpower is more than 200,000, but it is only the business pattern and Yusheng, the gap between the two sides is really very big, in terms of the road construction in front of him, the gap is so big that it is difficult for him to understand, and it is difficult to believe.

"Father doesn't have to think too much about it." Zhang Yansheng didn't understand, just scratched his head and said: "Anyway, we must prepare the goods at the beginning of next summer, and the trading city is the main source of profit points for the military department in the past two years, not only with Yusheng's own business, but also from the original Qingcheng Han merchants, Shaanxi merchants, Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou, Jinggi merchants and many other big merchants in the north." ”

"I've heard about this." Zhang Ziming still looked at the daze covered with a thin layer of snow, and said again after a long time: "Our Qingcheng Chamber of Commerce has already discussed, our native products and the native products of the Russians and the northern captives of Mobei have considerable overlap, fortunately, we have a lot of land, so we will simply sell vegetables and fruits first, and look at the wind next year, if it goes well, my father will rush to the south and do more southern goods." The route is to consider taking the sea route, just using Hutchison's sea boat. ”

Zhang Yansheng listened, and admired his father's calculations, not only the old man who is serious and will not take risks with Meng Lang, but also has a long-term plan and the decisiveness to bet in time......

"In short, there are still ......hidden worries about this matter," Zhang Ziming said, "If I said that I could make the trip in a year and a half, my worries would be much smaller." Now I am worried about one thing, because of the lack of silver, Lord Zhang and the high-level leaders of the military department are a little confused, so it will be easy for things to happen. ”

"No, don't worry, father." Zhang Yansheng said: "Recently, the main energy of the military department is still used in the restructuring of the troops, and the top is neither rash nor complacent, but is improving the combat effectiveness of our merchant army bit by bit. To put it bluntly, nothing matters as much as the combat effectiveness of our army. ”

"That's just as well." Zhang Ziming said: "Your mother asked me to bring a few pieces of bacon over, she worked hard to smoke, tears flowed down when smoking, I said why should she bother with this, now the situation of the family is to buy a few truckloads of bacon is an idle matter." What do you say about her? She said, Ah Da's favorite is the taste I smoked with my own hands, and others smoked it, I'm afraid he won't be able to eat it. ”

Zhang Yansheng's eyes were sore, he almost burst into tears, and hurriedly said: "After my father went back, I told my mother that I would go back to see her as soon as I took my annual leave...... I have made a lot of yellow sheep and rabbits and pheasants, and I will smoke these meats, and when the time comes, I will bring them back and let her taste her son's handiwork. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Ziming nodded and said, "She was very happy to know that I was passing by this time...... Now you can rest assured, no matter whether you will encounter danger or not, whether you want to fight on the front line or not, your mother will not ask you to go home. Our Zhang family is now sharing honor and disgrace with Hutchison, if there is really any danger, even if it is for the father, he will go into battle...... Don't laugh, the family has bought a lot of firecrackers, and my father often learns and exercises, and now the guns are very accurate! ”

Zhang Yansheng is not good at hitting his father's self-confidence, and this battle is not just a firecracker. But when I think about it, the peasants and soldiers in each fort are basically this concept, and they can keep a queue on the battlefield, and then listen to the order to set fire to the guns, which is basically the same.

The more complicated thing is that it's a real army, and it's only for the soldiers to be trained......

"Where are you going next?" Zhang Ziming looked at his son and asked.

Zhang Ziming came to see his son this time, he came over to fight Shangyi Fort, and the transportation route to Liaodong in the past two months was completely broken, as the Chahar people retreated, Yang Sisun and other military high-level arrangers arranged cavalry to fight along the way, driving away the scattered Chahar people, and at the same time preparing to build two or three more military forts and dozens of military forts in the area from Dushi Fort to Yehuling, so as to completely grab the territory left by the Karaqin people. If it succeeds, it will be another flat road to the east, and the logistics base of the Yusheng convoy is also at least about 300 miles eastward, and more than 200 places are torn off to the north, and many territories are directly bordered by the Chahars, and the General Staff Department is estimated to have a series of friction cavalry battles with the Chahars next year, but it is unlikely that large-scale cavalry battles will break out...... The Chahars should have been bold.

If you look at it from the map, from the Jining Fort opposite Xinping Fort, to the west is the Big Black River Fort, the Little Black River Fort, all the way to the old Yunzhou Fort, and then to the middle is Yunnei Prefecture, to the east continues to go is Xinghe North, Xinghezhong, Xinghe South Three Forts, and then to the south is Shangyi Fort, and then to the east is Zhangbei Fort, Dushi Fort, the old middle capital, the east, west, and south of the Yulong Stack and the beginning of the Mobei Road Yulong Station, plus the Yehuling area will build forts and expand, so that it is almost from the later generations. And. Vast. Special to Erenhot and then to Zhangbei Shangyi, that is, Ximeng to Chifeng and other large areas are controlled by He Yusheng, and only half of Ximeng is added. Lun. Seashell. Half of Chifeng, Tongliao, Ordos and Alxatu are controlled by the Mongolian ministries.

As for the area where Mobei surrendered to Zhang Han and the alliance, it was even larger...... It is larger than that of Mongolia in later generations, but those places can still only be regarded as "fetters", which is completely different from the area where He Yusheng directly built forts and controlled Tuntian garrisons.

In terms of area, it is about 400,000 square kilometers, and it is mainly a large grassland plain area including the Tumo River, and there is only a small amount of mountains and sandy land, which is considered to be a moist land in the hands, and only the Hetao area is still in the hands of the Taobu and Hubei, so there is no need to worry about this for the time being.

The territory is too big, and the transfer is also very frequent, Zhang Yan's promotion is about to be transferred, and he is transferred from the old school, Zhang Ziming also rushed to see his son after receiving the letter, he also knew that his son may not be able to speak, and he also had a faint sense of pride in his heart...... And Yusheng's territory now also needs to be garrisoned by a young officer like his son, although his son has not even reached the age of crowning, but he is already a responsible soldier who can be in charge of one party.

"It should be a garrison barracks south of Yulong Station." Zhang Yansheng said: "We are ordered to join the new dragoon team, practice all kinds of new tactics together, and prepare a new training syllabus for the military training department to use...... It is expected that it will suffer a lot, and I have heard that the king of Zhou Hades will also come for a while. ”

"You must not contradict him." Zhang Ziming said: "I have seen the majesty of the lancers, and it is really unblinking to kill people." I heard that when Zhou Yao first led the troops, he personally killed more subordinates than he was killed by the Northern Captives......"

While speaking, Lu Si walked over, but Zhang Ziming recognized this young man, and knew that he was also a promising young officer, and his brothers also had their own development in the army, and it was estimated that he would be a big general in the future.

After Zhang Ziming left, Lu Sicai smiled at Zhang Yansheng and said: "It seems that our lancers are really notorious, even Lord Lingzun said the same, he is our director of Hutchison." ”

"The military, the government and the business are originally separated." Zhang Yansheng said: "He is a businessman, and he doesn't understand much about military and political affairs, let alone purely military matters." ”