Hegemony of all Dynasties: Get the Zhao Yun template at the beginning

Chapter 202 Post Road
If a force wants to communicate from top to bottom, and to ensure its dominance, the most important thing is communication.

If a dynasty has a vast territory, but the information sent from the frontier to the capital often takes more than half a year to be transmitted, once something happens in the frontier, the capital will definitely have no time to respond.

For example, during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Xiangxi had already reached the river.

But Hezhong is too far away from Chang'an, and neither soldiers, horses, food nor grass can support them.

In the end, the fertile land in the river had only been occupied for more than ten years, so it had to be abandoned.

For most dynasties in history, the limit to the west is the Western Regions...

In the Yuan Dynasty, the post roads were extensively repaired in the territory, reaching Europe in the west and Annan in the south. Military reports were transmitted very quickly, and the speed of mobilizing troops, horses, food and grass was also very fast, so it was able to maintain a vast territory.

The post road is the vein and lifeline for a dynasty to deliver news and transport soldiers, horses, food and grass!

If the post road is abolished and the dynasty's veins are interrupted, there will definitely be chaos.

So Qin had Chi Roads, the Sui and Tang Dynasties had the Grand Canal, and the Yuan Dynasty had avenues that ran through the north, south, and middle.

In addition to the upper and lower routes, the post road also has the function of restraining the brave men in the countryside.

The postmen in the posthouse are often young and strong warriors in the nearby villages. If such a warrior has no business, it is easy to go astray by force.

Maybe at some point, he would go to the cottage with a knife in his hand and block the road to plunder.

Let this kind of person act as a postman, one is to give the other party a bowl of food, and the other postman consumes a lot of physical strength every day, which can slowly consume these young and strong spirits.

It's the best of both worlds.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty did not receive a complete imperial education and did not understand this. As a result, he approved the courtier's performance, abolished the post station and the post post, and finally caused the post post Li Zicheng to rebel.

Shen Yi also knew about the later situation of the Ming Dynasty, and paid more attention to post roads and post stations.

"It won't be long before our army will send out troops. Isn't it too much of a waste of people's strength to recruit civilian craftsmen to build post roads?"

Wang Jing asked.

Shen Yi said: "The reason why I suggested building a post road is also for the convenience of dispatching troops in the future, but rest assured, my lord, the construction of the post road is not a one-time construction, but a segmented construction!"

"First send [-] civilian craftsmen to build the road south of the East Lake, and then slowly build the avenues between Wanshou, Sihong and other cities!"

The water network near Sihong is dense. From Sihong, you can go to Baize, Guiren, and Suining along Hebei, and you can go against the current to the west to enter the East Lake. In all directions, you can communicate by water.

Therefore, the territory occupied by Wang Jing is thousands of miles away from east to west, north to south, but the dispatch of troops and food is extremely fast.

Just relying on water transportation is not enough.

If there is a flood in the river, doesn't it mean that Wang Jing's territory is directly divided by the river and cannot be connected?
Moreover, Wang Jing will expand to the four directions in the future, and build post roads and roads in places that cannot be reached by water transportation, which is conducive to sending troops to attack externally and beneficial to rule internally.

"Well, then we will conscript [-] civilians and establish a passage army, which will be responsible for the construction of post roads and official roads! By the way, we will set up Guanjin in dangerous places in the future and collect road taxes along the road!"

"It's nothing more than ordinary people, like those rich and wealthy businessmen, who have to pay for the post road, otherwise the road we built will be built for them!"

Wang Jing made it clear in advance to prevent the lapse of time.

Bu Zhi didn't say much, although he came from a famous family, he was the only one in the Bu family at this time, and most of the clan members were still stuck in the south of the Huaihe River and hadn't come here yet.

No road construction and tax collection will affect his interests.

Shen Yi frowned slightly, but thinking of the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty in the Yuan World, he didn't say much, but reminded: "The post road has not yet started to be built. Late!"

"Well, I'm just explaining what I said first, so that no one will make any trouble with me because of these in the future!"

After Wang Jing and the two finished talking, they asked Shen Yi and Bu Zhi to leave.

Right now, all kinds of miscellaneous matters in the Sihong Military Mansion need to be handled by two people. After reporting the important matter to Wang Jing and getting permission, they should start to do things according to Wang Jing's decision.

Sihong Military Mansion is in the start-up stage of its business, and its work efficiency is extremely high.

After getting Wang Jing's permission.

The next day, Bu Zhi issued a document to recruit a part of the guards, plus the captives of the large and small forces that had been wiped out in the east some time ago.

All kinds of thorns who are mixed with dragons and snakes and prone to troubles are all incorporated into the newly established channel army.

A total of 2 pass troops were quickly transported to East Lake by large ships, and began to build roads to the south starting from Nanzhai, where Wang Jing started.

Without the influence of extremely fast-growing vegetation.

By tamping the road, a passage can be quickly cleared, but this passage cannot support the rapid transportation of troops and food, and it needs to be piled and compacted with steamed rammed earth over and over again to build a suitable post road.

In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed.

Wang Jing was reading the information from the Military Intelligence Department every day.

Especially Fu Rong from the former Qin Dynasty in Wuhe finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to mobilize troops and horses, showing signs of sending partial divisions northward to grab food.

The power to build Wubao cottages on the vast land hundreds of miles north of the Wuhe River.

Most of them are wealthy families of various dynasties.

When they descended, relying on the strength of the family's children, they would soon emerge and become land householders of various sizes.

Small-scale soldiers and horses do not pose much threat to them.

The only thing that can suppress them is a large army!
at this time.

Among these Wubao cottages, the largest is the Han family. At this time, more than a dozen men in military uniforms are reporting the situation to the middle-aged man at the head in the hall.

The middle-aged man's eyes were bright, and he stroked his short beard gently. After listening to the words of the children in the family, he couldn't help sighing: "Wuhe Furong intends to go north, and I'm afraid that the army will come here soon..."

When everyone heard this, their faces changed immediately.

"Wuhe Furong, I heard that he has an army of 20, even if he sends tens of thousands of troops, he can easily sweep us away..."

"What should I do?"

There was a commotion among the Han family's children in the hall. Although the Han family is the strongest in the nearby Wubao, they are usually a little proud, but they are not fools.

Fu Rong's 20 Hu Han army is like a prehistoric beast in their hearts.

As soon as they heard that the other party sent troops to the north, they subconsciously felt timid.

"I don't know if the Patriarch has a countermeasure?"

One of them asked aloud, he knew that his Patriarch was very resourceful, and had even held six important positions in the history of Yuan World, including Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Secretary of the Ministry of War.

The ability and strategy are not comparable to ordinary people like them.

Now in crisis,

They can only rely on the head of the family to survive.

"The army going north is nothing more than surrendering and leaving... What tricks can I have?"

The middle-aged man stroked his beard and sighed.

(End of this chapter)