"Seven hundred people were dispatched before and after the Thirteen Mountains, all of them experienced hunters and mountain people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Shenming stood beside Zhang Han and reported in a deep voice: "With the mobilization of the 12th Regiment, as well as the Taiwan sent over, at least 3,000 people are searching around in a radius of more than 1,000 miles in the Kuandian area. ”

Sun Jingting frowned and said: "It is still necessary to ensure the safety of personnel, and we must not go too deep into the territory of Dongyu." ”

Li Shenming said: "In addition to experienced personnel of the Military Intelligence Department, the team composed of ordinary mountain people and hunters is not allowed to go deep into the enemy territory, and even if they go, they must be led by senior military intelligence personnel." In terms of safety, the loss of manpower in recent months has not exceeded 20 people, which is much less than the casualties we suffered last year when we took the initiative to fight against the Eastern Prisoners. ”

Sun Jingting didn't say anything, just looked at Zhang Han.

Zhang Han also glanced at Sun Jingting, turned his head to Li Shenming and said: "Send the reply back to Phidao and Kuandian as soon as possible, and inform Xu Ming, Cheng Fang, Yang Yi, Wen Zhongfa, Wang Biao, Han Tong and others that all kinds of measures have been good recently, and they can continue to be implemented." ”

Li Shenming agreed, and the people of the attendant division immediately wrote Zhang Han's password with a hard pen, and the attendant division directly used Zhang Hanyin, and the two horses came over, and immediately received the order and galloped away.

At this time, Zhang Hancai said to Sun Jingting: "The necessary sacrifice is inevitable, and the filial piety is ......."

Sun Jingting said: "I also know this, but I feel that more efforts should be made in the propaganda, otherwise, the soldiers who died in the war are afraid that they will inevitably be discussed, and they will die of killing and dying because of looking for wood, and I am worried that the dead soldiers will have a bad reputation." ”

"That's a big concern." Zhang Han immediately said: "This matter is for Zhang Yongan and Wu Bo to do with them, and the importance of Taiwan should first be communicated to these propaganda personnel, and then they should be asked to do some propaganda copywriting, and it is necessary to publicize this matter well." It can't be said that the soldiers in front of us are not understood after their hard work. ”

Li Shenming also glanced at Sun Jingting with appreciative eyes, he thought that Sun Jingting was pedantic and couldn't understand, but now it seems that he wants to lower this companion who has always been a partner.

"I won't send it here." Li Shenming said: "There will be a farewell for sending you thousands of miles, this trip to Wenlan and filial piety will be hard." ”

"It's also very hard for me to go out to look after your house." Zhang Han said with a smile: "It's not like staying to be the shopkeeper, you also have to be careful and thrifty, don't wait for me to come back when Brother Zunlu falls ill." ”

"I'm not that delicate." Li Shenming said angrily, and then said goodbye to everyone.

Everyone returned the salute, Zhang Han clamped his horses, and people began to gallop forward with him.

Before this trip, Zhang Han went to Jiuyunnei and the copper mine, toured several large storage areas where cotton was hoarded, and saw a few farmland tunzhuang, and then spent most of his time in Qingcheng.

Yang Liu finally looked forward to another son, Zhang Han already had three sons in his twenties, if he was afraid of death in the future, but at this time it caused a wave of joy and frenzy in the whole Hutchison, Chang was also very happy, his uncle Chang Jin bought more than a hundred taels of silver firecrackers, and it took a whole day and a night to finish, and the whole Qingcheng was shrouded in a choking smell of gunpowder smoke and sulfur.

With these three sons, any inheritance problems have been solved, and no one is worried about Zhang Han's successor anymore, which really makes Zhang Han cry and laugh.

After giving his son a full moon wine, Zhang Han decided to set off north with a large number of attachés, and the target was Cullen.

At this time, the weather on the grassland has really turned warm, everywhere is green, the grass has grown out half a palm high, everywhere are the herdsmen who are rushing to the herd to transfer the field, Zhang Han decided to travel at this time, because the road from Qingcheng to Angu Li Nao was completely repaired after the year, and then from Angu Li Nao through the Gobi and the grassland area, the road to Kulun is almost to be completed, the rammed earth official road is not technically difficult to build, the difficulty is that the road is too far away, just from Angu Li Nao to Kulun is more than 1,500 miles, It is also more than 500 miles to Saiyin Shanda, which is mixed with the Gobi and grassland landforms, and along the way, the military division uses large convoys to carry tools and personnel, and a large number of cattle and horses are used as animal power, and they rush north along the way, setting up supply points and military stations at places every 30 to 60 miles, and the garrisons along the way drive away and eliminate horse thieves and wolves to ensure safety, and then tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians began to build roads in sections along hundreds of miles, and the project has not stopped since last spring, even during the war with the Chahars. The construction of roads and forts is also carried out in an orderly manner, the military and political departments and the quartermaster departments have been working together, Li Dongxue, Mo Zongtong and others have been in charge of this project, the war and the harsh winter have not completely stopped the project, in the coldest snowy days, in addition to resting during the Chinese New Year, the rest of the time still do some chores within their ability, including building wintering houses, firing kiln bricks, building supply points for military forts and military stations, repairing damaged vehicles, and so on.

Such a vast project spanning nearly 2,000 miles, with an investment of more than 2 million taels of silver, even so is due to the transportation capacity of Hutchison, which can be said to be a cross-era project, at least nearly 200 years ahead.

Even at the beginning of the construction of the road, many people were pessimistic, and many people believed that it would cost millions of huge sums of money plus more than 100,000 men and soldiers, plus at least three or four years for this trade route to the north to be unblocked.

The fact is that within a year, the road has been repaired and is passable back and forth.

The entourage is mainly the attendants and military orders plus the middle level of the military, political and military quartermasters, etc., the high-level personnel only Sun Jingting followed, and there was a full squadron of Tang Ma to follow the team to the north, and the military orders could be passed at any time, Sun Jingting mainly assisted Zhang Han to fix the scale of the trading city and the structure of the marching division, and there was already Mo Zongtong presiding over there, that was with Li Dongxue was once a strong figure in Hutchison, and I believe there would not be too much trouble and shortcomings for Zhang Han to run over to find faults.

The spring breeze is warm, the sun is not very dry, the distant mountains have changed from snow white back to green, everywhere is endless turquoise, the sky is pure blue, there is hardly a little cloud, a team of herdsmen passed by from afar, riding horses or sheep, there are also a small number of cattle are driven to the new lush pasture, when they saw Zhang Han and the cavalry and the convoy coming, these herdsmen did not flee quickly, just rode and stood in place, took off the hat on their heads, and bowed to Zhang Han from afar.

Zhang Han is behind him is the standard-bearer of the six high red flags, in fact, according to Zhang Han's current status, and the emperor is far away, he can use more flags and honor guards to show his status, but Zhang Han rejected the proposal of the next person, and the current Hutchison still needs to be simple and unpretentious, even if Zhang Han draws up etiquette in the future, it is mainly simple and unpretentious, and he will not use those flashy and useless things to highlight his status.

Even this red flag has just been added recently, and in the face of an alliance with foreign races, this aspect should be strengthened, and Zhang Han reluctantly agreed.

The special guards around him are all wearing military robes on the outside and chain mail on the inside, the robes are distinct, the weapons in their hands are shining, and the movements of the horses are uniform, full of a sense of coordination, and there is a sense of rhythm of majesty and domineering.

Then there were a large number of attachés dressed in official attire, accompanied by the soldiers who went north...... The team of more than 1,000 people is already a large flow of people on the grassland, and with more than 100 large four-wheeled carriages, it is difficult for this team not to attract attention.

Zhang Han occasionally keeps his eyes on his side or behind him.

Surrounded by high-level and middle-level officials such as Sun Jingting, as well as middle-level and high-level generals such as Jiang Yi, they were all full of vigor and confidence.

The secret service guards are the same, everyone has a high-spirited air on their faces, and there is no unique numbness that is unique to the Ming army, depression and perennial hunger, bullying, humiliation and torture.

Including soldiers, coachmen, and scribes, almost all of them have a special temperament.

This kind of temperament can easily make Hutchison people attract attention wherever they go, which is why bigwigs like Sun Chengzong and Mao Wenlong have begun to pay attention to Hutchison.

Who dares to predict the future development of such a high-spirited, internally abnormal group, and a group with abundant financial resources and strong force?

Yu Zhigao and other generals in the south, as well as local forces in Fujian, also easily chose to cooperate with Hutchison, after all, these people are not stupid, and many things will be seen in their eyes.

Zhang Han has a sense of pride, he has been in this world for eight years, he has gone from a teenager to a young man, he already has his own family, and he has created a huge force by himself, everything is changing, and it is changing according to his vision, this feeling is really wonderful.

What could be more exciting than the rejuvenating and re-strengthening of a nation that has moved from barbarism to civilization and from prosperity to decline and rigidity?

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"Zhang Han passed the Saiyin Shanda five days ago?"

Madoff hurried into the room, took a letter, and handed it to Petrin.

Because these two men made great contributions to the establishment of trade routes with the Ming State, they presided over all matters related to the purchase and sale of the city, and Moscow did not send a new governor, but directly appointed these two as governors and trade envoys.

This was the highest trust and supreme honor bestowed by the Tsar, and both men were bent on getting things done.

This is a city with a radius of about seven miles, all regulations and architectural styles are a mixture of Chinese and Western, there are both Russian spire onion head building, there are also Western-style fortress-style small-scale inner city, called the storage area by the Russians, in fact, the place is very large, not only for the storage of goods, but also for civilian personnel plus soldiers and businessmen to garrison and live, accounting for nearly half of the whole city.

The other half is pure Chinese style, the residential area is mainly built with small courtyard houses, the storage area is mainly stone buildings, and the other is a commercial area for residents' life, a shop and amusement facilities to go, in fact, for a long time, as long as there is a vibrant city will spontaneously produce these, Hutchison's work is just to advance the process a little.