Yansui Town, Yulin City. 【Reading.com】

Xu Xingxia welcomed Zhu Yilan and them here.

Yansui Town, which is said in winter, looks very calm on the outside. There is no snow. The snow that fell a few days ago has melted. The winter sun lazily reflected on the city wall, reflecting a faint and somewhat dim circle of light. The walls of Yulin City are actually a little dilapidated, and the bricks in many places have been broken, and the loess flows out of the middle.

However, there is no need to repair these broken places. Because, for the white-clothed army, Yulin City is no longer a military fortress, but a pure inland town. Its commercial role, the core role of the town, is the most important. Its military role can already be completely ignored. With the combat effectiveness of the white-clothed army, it is impossible for the enemy to hit the city of Yulin. No matter from which direction the enemy attacks, it is impossible.

On the road passing next to Yulin City, there are all kinds of horse-drawn carriages hurrying by. The carriage was moving at a fast speed, and it felt like it was galloping. The two-way four-lane also ensures that there will be no crash accidents in high-speed driving. Of course, there are also some carriages that go very slowly. These are all heavily overloaded wagons. Obviously, it could only pull a carriage of four or five hundred catties, but it was loaded with nearly a thousand catties of goods, and the horses pulling the cart were naturally half tired to death. It's good to be able to pull, but where can I run fast?

Unlike previous road plans, Xu Xingxia suggested that the road pass by the side of the town, rather than crossing the middle of the town. As for the road and the town, there will naturally be feeder connections. The purpose of this is, of course, to reduce road congestion and speed up the flow of goods. Time is money!

It can be said that this road is the most primitive highway. Through such a highway, a horse-drawn carriage full of goods, traveling at a normal speed, only took three and a half days to rush from Yulin City to Ningxia City. Such a speed, in the past, was absolutely unthinkable. In the past, even if you were riding a horse, it would take about that time.

It is precisely because of the existence of this highway that the internal movement of the white army will be so fast. When the Logistics Division deploys supplies, it can be swift and effective. The materials from outside, or the materials produced by Ningxia Town itself, can be quickly transported to the assembly site. For example, goods smuggled from Shanxi can be transported to any corner of Ningxia Town in just five days after arriving in Yulin City.

Time is money. Xu Xingxia, who came from later generations, knows this point best. If it were someone else in power, it would not have been possible to have such a strong courage and invest a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build such a highway. It's no wonder that as soon as Sawana stepped onto this highway, it was obvious that it was extraordinary.

…… Obviously, before Zhu Yilan and the others arrived, Yulin City was completely cleaned, and all sides looked very clean. There is no garbage in sight, and there is no unpleasant smell in the air. Part of the city wall has also been washed by clear water, which is estimated to wash away the blood stains on it. At the beginning, when the white-clothed army attacked Yulin City, there were some blood stains left on the city wall. The sewers have also been cleaned, there is no thick silt, no silt. In the eyes of Sawana, Yulin City looks very clean, crisp, and pleasant.

However, Yulin City's welcome action is just that. There was no other welcoming ceremony other than cleaning. There was no crowd of people in the middle of the road, no flowers, and no kneeling greetings from the squire's fathers. Except for the vicinity of the city gate cave, which was crowded with some children watching the excitement, no one else paid attention to them. In fact, the people of Yulin City didn't know about their arrival at all. As the carriage temporarily blocked the city gate, some of the people complained impatiently.

Only Fengsha is still so enthusiastic, always uninvited. It seemed that the welcome ceremony of Yulin City was too deserted, and a sudden sandstorm suddenly enveloped Yulin City. Zhu Yilan and the others were about to get off the carriage when they found that the sandstorm was coming, so they had to return to the carriage and at the same time pull the curtain tightly.

[***] Xing's movements were relatively fast, and he had already gotten out of the carriage and hurriedly retracted. As a result, in a hurry, his hat was blown away by the wind and sand. His entourage tried to retrieve the hat, but it was too late. As soon as the wind blew, the brain of the [***] star flew into the sky, swaying, and disappeared.

Although after the white-clothed army took control of Yansui Town, it took certain efforts to control the wind and sand, and invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. However, this work is long-term and arduous, and in a short period of time, it is impossible to achieve results at all. What's more, the original government has never worked hard to control the sandstorm. The White Coats were completely self-made. This has made it more difficult to control sandstorms. Therefore, Yulin City is still often hit by wind and sand.

Fortunately, the architecture of Yulin City is much richer than before. In the past, there were only a few high-rise buildings and large buildings in Yulin City. Even if there were, there were some pavilions, temples, halls, government yamen, etc., which were not accessible to ordinary people at all. After the white-clothed army took control of Yulin City, with the help of new technologies such as cement, pulley blocks, and prefabricated slabs, some non-governmental people built a considerable number of high-rise buildings.

By the middle of the year, the tallest building had reached more than five floors. This is a pure red brick and prefabricated brick and concrete structure house, which is used by ordinary people. Civil buildings of such height are difficult to see even in the capital. By the end of the year, the tallest civil building in Yulin City had reached eight floors. This is almost the upper limit of brick and concrete structures. If it weren't for Xu Xingxia's strict prohibition of continuing to increase the height to prevent the accident of building collapse and death, there might be more than 10 floors of houses.

The appearance of these large buildings effectively stopped the ravages of sandstorms. The once terrible sandstorms were no harm at all in front of these large, sturdy buildings. And the people on the streets, when the sandstorm comes, only need to hide in these large buildings, no matter how powerful the sandstorm, it is not a good thing.

"Let's go inside!"

Xu Xingxia waved his hand and said indifferently.

Zhang Nai gestured for the coachman to move on, leaving the crowded city gate.

The soldiers of the white-clothed army often march to fight, and there are more opportunities to encounter sandstorms. All of them have accumulated a lot of experience. A sandstorm like Yulin City, in their eyes, is like a pediatric, and they don't take it seriously at all. Under their guidance, all the carriages came out of the city gate and came to an open ground in the city before they slowly stopped. At this time, the sandstorm was not as fierce as it used to be.

Rao is so, [***] star they still look a little embarrassed. His face was a little pale and bloodless, probably frightened. He also kept rubbing his nose, probably because his nostrils inhaled a lot of dust, which was very uncomfortable. Later, he kept coughing and trying to vomit something, probably eating a lot of sand. For people who have no experience in dealing with sandstorms, the first encounter is definitely to eat a lot of sand.

After getting out of the car, [***] Xing wanted to wash his face desperately with clear water. Obviously, he was quite unfamiliar with sandstorms, and quite fearful. There is no way, he has been an official for decades, but he has never been to Yansui Town. He simply hated the wind and sand here. If he hadn't come here in person, he really didn't know that under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, there was still a place with such bad conditions. This is not a place for people to stay!

I really don't know, how do the people here survive? Do they eat sand every day? In such a place, even if the court doesn't want it, it doesn't matter! At the beginning, in the Tumochuan Plain, Bayannur Grassland, Hamiwei, Yarkand and other places, didn't the imperial court also feel that the conditions were too bad and didn't bother to send troops to garrison? It's that place in Liaodong, it's not a big deal, if you lose it, you lose it, and you're too lazy to waste money and food.

Compared with the embarrassed [***] star, Zhu Yilan, who has been to Yansui Town many times and knows that there are often sandstorms here, is much calmer. The sandstorm that came today was not very powerful, and it did not last very long, and it passed in a while. As a result of the effective and effective response taken, she disembarked from the carriage without any dust on her body. It's as if the sandstorm never came at all.

As for Savanna...... She was originally from Central Asia, where it has always been arid, and sandstorms and the like have long been commonplace. Zhu Yilan is fine, and she is naturally even more fine. She was strange, the people of Yulin City didn't seem to care about such a sandstorm at all. When the sandstorm came just now, the people outside seemed to be doing something and continuing to do something, and few people wanted to flee and hide. It is estimated that it has been exercised, and everyone's nerves have become very large.

When the sandstorm gradually dissipated, Zhu Yilan and the others felt that there was another world in Yulin City. Here, the streets are straight and spacious, and the floor is paved with concrete and is very smooth. On both sides of the street, there are dense shops, and the inside and outside of the shops are filled with all kinds of goods. Some shops even piled up their goods on the road outside. The roads are all cross-shaped, but there are many intersections, and it is estimated that there are no less than ten main roads. There are a lot of people coming and going, rubbing shoulders and endlessly.

(To be continued)