Daming Military Empire

Chapter 539 Material Transfer
Daming has conquered many places in the past few years. The thirteen provinces have become more than 30 provinces, and the territory has more than doubled.

These places don’t mean that you’re done after you’ve laid them down, you still have to arrange people to manage them, and the governance can’t be completed in a year or two, there will always be problems of one kind or another in the middle.

If the world is peaceful and there is no more war in Ming Dynasty, then it doesn't matter, just take your time.

However, the world is still far from peaceful, and Ming is still facing many challenges. The struggle for hegemony at sea has just begun, and the struggle for colonies is still in the ascendant.

It seems that the governance of this world also needs to spend a lot of time thinking about it, Zhu Cijiong silently reminded himself in his heart.

Of course, now is not the time to think about this. There is a meeting to discuss the supply of frontline supplies.

The problem of food mobilization must be resolved immediately, otherwise, if the allocation fails, then there will really be a big problem.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, and asked, "Zhong Ruo, who is more familiar with the place under your left servant, Ma Mingshi, or your right servant, Wu Chen?"

Cheng Guoxiang heard the words and roughly introduced: "Both Ma Mingshi and Wu Tong once served as local magistrates, and then they also entered the pilgrimage as the supervisory censor. Ma Mingshi first went out to patrol Shandong, and then was transferred to the post of Tongzheng Secretary, and then served as Ducha. The left deputy of the courtyard was the censor, and was finally transferred to the left servant of the household department; Wu Sheng once toured Henan and Shaanxi, and served as the governor of Shanxi, and was later transferred to the doctor of the household department, and finally served as the right servant of the household department. From the experience and performance of the two Come to see Wei Chen thinks that Wu Wei is more familiar with the local area, and Ma Mingshi is more familiar with the affairs of the court's various yamen."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, nodded and said: "Very well, then let Wu Sheng take the position of the right servant of the household department to supervise the grain collection of the fifteen provinces in South Asia. Officials in all provinces in South Asia are subject to his restraint and fully cooperate with him."

The governors of the fifteen provinces seem a bit scary, but they are not as powerful as the original governors of the three or five provinces, because this time Wu Sheng is only responsible for collecting grain and grass, while most of the governors used to be the governors of the military and political affairs of the provinces.

However, the sentence that officials in all provinces in South Asia are subject to its restraint power is scary enough, Cheng Guoxiang quickly cupped his hands and said: "Thank you for your kindness, with Wu Sheng in South Asia to supervise, there should be no problem with the collection and transfer of military rations."

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while and continued: "Well, I will let Zheng Zhilong supervise the collection of grain and grass in the three provinces of Nanyang, and let him fully cooperate with the transshipment of grain and grass in Nanyang and South Asia. If the railway transportation capacity is not enough, let him send the South China Sea Fleet to transship by sea. "

Cheng Guoxiang was overjoyed when he heard the words, it would be more foolproof, he cupped his hands again and said: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and said loudly: "Cao Huachun, draw up the decree."

Cao Huachun who was outside the door heard the words, walked in quickly, took out the blank imperial decree skillfully, prepared the pen and ink three times, and then stood at the desk with the pen and waited.

Zhu Cijiong then said in a loud voice: "The right servant of the Household Sealing Department is the governor of the [-] provinces in South Asia. He is responsible for the collection of grain and grass taxes in the [-] provinces of South Asia. Officials in all provinces are under his control and fully cooperate with him."

After Cao Huachun finished writing the imperial decree, Zhu Cijiong issued another decree: "Order Nanyang Governor Zheng Zhilong to supervise the collection of grain and grass taxes in the three provinces of Nanyang, and transfer the collected grain and grass to the capital as soon as possible. In addition, let the Nanyang Fleet be on standby at all times, ready Assist Nanyang and South Asia in transshipment of grain and grass, go."

Cao Huachun obeyed the order, and retreated respectfully.

Zhu Cijiong said to Bi Maokang again: "Mr. Meng, do you still have enough reserves of gunpowder, shells, bullets, grenades, and mines?"

Bi Maokang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Back to the emperor, if it is only used by the army, the reserves are still sufficient. After all, the navy is the big consumer of these. Now the sea is relatively calm, so the Ministry of Industry has reserves of gunpowder, shells, bullets, grenades, and mines. It's all ample."

Zhu Cijiong nodded gratifiedly and said, "Well, very good, prepare more gunpowder and shells. According to the report from Jin Yiwei's spies, there are many fortresses on the Siberian Plain, and the consumption of gunpowder and shells must be huge when attacking the city."

Bi Maokang hastily cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Zhu Cijiong said to Sun Yuanhua again: "Chuyang, how is the preparation of other supplies? Is there any difficulty in transporting food and supplies to the front line?"

Sun Yuanhua thought for a while, then cupped his hands and said, "Back to the emperor, there are sufficient reserves of other supplies, but it may be a little problem to transfer the food and supplies to the front line in the past few months, because the Ministry of Industry can only dispatch more than a hundred trains, and one The train can carry up to [-] shi of grain at most, and it takes at least a month to go back and forth from the capital to Siberia. In this way, other materials cannot be transferred in time. But as long as the Western Region Railway is repaired, it will be fine. If you transfer from the Western Region , the time has been reduced by almost half, and two trips can be made in a month, and almost all the food, grass and supplies can be transferred. "

This is also a problem. It may be difficult for the Western Region Railway to connect with the Siberian Railway in a short period of time, because the terrain between the Western Region Wasteland and the Siberian Plateau is too complicated, and it is only feasible to connect it in the Siberian Plain. The problem is that the Siberian Plain is still in Tsarist Russia. In my hand, I don't know when I can take it off.

Zhu Cijiong frowned, and asked Bi Maokang again: "Mr. Meng, can't we dispatch more trains?"

Bi Maokang said in embarrassment: "Back to the emperor, this is almost the limit. The freight of private merchants has been seriously affected. Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce has approached Weichen many times. If this continues, it may affect the development of Ming Dynasty's business. up."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong sighed and said, "There is no other way. National affairs are the most important thing. The war with Tsarist Russia is directly related to the future world structure. We have to go all out. If it doesn't work, we should first compress the private freight. Come on, Shouxian, I will explain to him."

Hearing this, Bi Maokang nodded and said: "In this case, maybe we can make up another fifty trains, which should be enough."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijiong looked directly at Sun Yuanhua.

Sun Yuanhua nodded quickly and said, "Barely, it should be enough."

At this time, Xu Erjue, who seemed to be fine, coughed, and said cautiously: "The emperor forgives the sin. In fact, the villain can also think of a way here. It shouldn't be a problem to gather dozens of trains."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help saying in amazement: "Oh, what can you do?"

Xu Erjue said embarrassingly: "Your Majesty, it is like this. In fact, there are no less than a hundred special trains in charge of Royal Xinglong Trading, which are mainly used for transshipment of supplies in various places. If Sun Shangshu can cooperate, let Tunwei take action as soon as possible, in Siberia Collect enough goods to fill up all the [-] trains that came back, then collecting [-] trains to help the Ministry of War transfer supplies should not have too much impact on the business of the Royal Xinglong Company."

Zhu Cijiong knew about the fact that the major royal firms controlled a certain number of special trains, because the business of the royal firms basically spread throughout Daming. Without special trains, the goods could not be turned over at all. It was just that they did not expect that they controlled so many special trains. , just one Royal Xinglong firm controlled more than 100 vehicles!
(End of this chapter)