The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

As long as there is sufficient silver, steel, cement, rails, locomotives, and labor are all not a problem!

Yan Song’s large-scale construction of railways has also stimulated the employment of Daming. The construction of a railway requires the efforts of at least five local workers and the use of a large amount of machinery and equipment, which greatly stimulated the employment of Daming.

Tuwan construction workers, came to the construction site together, busy

In the past, it would have been very difficult to build railways, and manpower was needed.

But since Daming invented the steam engine

Ha ha

This problem is not difficult

The clever engineer of Ming Dynasty has already thought of a way to improve the transportation efficiency

Use the train!

When building the railway, the workers of the Ming Dynasty went all the way, building the railway in front first, and then the train pulled the goods all the way to the front line, saving a lot of transportation manpower and material resources.No matter what materials are needed, they can be transported from Beijing to the front-line construction site in the first time. 10 workers only need to concentrate on the front line, continuously laying roadbeds, railway tracks, building bridges, and bypassing mountains

The hills stretching for thousands of miles were waded across by the infrastructure madman Daming workers every time they met the water and built bridges

A bridge flies from north to south, and the natural moat becomes a thoroughfare

The railway from Beijing to Datong has been rapidly extending to Shanxi

And Yan Song also adopted the split method of construction

The so-called split means that the railway is being constructed simultaneously from both sides to speed up the construction progress

In Datong, tens of thousands of workers were also organized to speed up the construction and strive to close in the middle.

In this case, the railway construction is very convenient, and the construction period has been shortened repeatedly.

The attributes of Daming infrastructure, showing off again

8 months

After just 8 months, this 700-mile-long railway was initially repaired.

Of course, some finishing work is still needed in the follow-up, but the whole project will be open to traffic in just 9 months

During this time, Yan Song has not been idle

He secretly made a series of investments in Shanxi through the Shida consortium

Of course, these investments are made in secret and are not known to outsiders

At the same time as launching the madman attribute of infrastructure construction, Daxing Shimu, and building the westward railway, Yan Song did not wait for Agubo to invade the Western Regions in the military. He dispatched troops and asked the southeast governor Hu Zongxian, a famous general, to lead 5 troops to help the West. Governor Ma Fang

The troops assembled from the southeast, but it was three months before they arrived in Xi'an

It would take a full three months for an elite soldier from all over the world to march from the southeast to Xi'an just by marching in the upper reaches of his own country!

One can imagine how inconvenient the traffic was in the past

This is also the reason why the ancient feudal dynasties were able to hunt down herdsmen every time, but could not effectively maintain border rule.The transportation is too inconvenient, and the cost of maintenance is too high. During the prosperous period of the empire, it can barely maintain it for the sake of the ambition of the empire. As long as the empire declines and the domestic resources are insufficient, someone will immediately propose to give up the barren land, right?Let’s take care of domestic issues first. But now, the completion of the railway has greatly changed all of this.

The southeast elite soldiers under the command of Hu Zongxian were all elite troops who participated in the suppression of the Japanese pirates and the northern Mongolia. If there is a chance, they will attack the aliens in the west and retake the Western Regions belonging to China. Their morale is very high.

This is a good opportunity to make contributions!

Hu Zongxian also made a battle song

Collect the four prefectures of Gansu and Shanxi first, and then attack Tianshan Western Region City!The yellow sand wears the golden armor in a hundred battles, and if you don't break Loulan, you will never return it!

But when they arrived in the northwest, they realized that things were not that simple

This northwest land is absolutely barren, full of yellow sand, Gobi, and desert oases.

The city of Xi'an is alright, it's still considered a place of great fortune, but once you leave Xi'an, it's extremely cold and the living environment is extremely harsh when you come to the land outside the Great Wall

This makes the southern soldiers who are used to the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River feel very forced.

But the most bitter thing is not the environment, but the

supply

It takes three months for the army to march alone. It is conceivable how inconvenient it is to transfer food and grass from the rear

Chapter 2498 The Battle of Raksha Country vs. Ming Dynasty [2]

Although there are various difficulties in the Northwest campaign, fortunately, great progress has been made in transportation

First, Mu Niu Liuma invented this Musheng Liuma. During the PK process of the Wang Railway, it was turned into a dog, which was a miserable comparison. However, it was used in places like Northwest where there are no railways, the roads are very rough, and there are many mountain roads. into effect

It seems that when Zhuge Ting went out of the Qishan Mountains ten times, invented the Musheng Liuma, which greatly improved the army's ability to retreat, it was not a complete fiction. He played a huge role in the Western Expedition and was proud of it. He urged the Ministry of Industry to hurry up and build a large number of wooden horses and send them to the frontline troops.

These primitive cattle, horses and livestock nine, with the addition of "[-] horses" in Muniuliu, can exert several times the efficiency, which can be regarded as greatly relieving the logistical pressure

The second is that Yan Song adopted a flexible supply method, which was not limited to military transportation, but also opened the door to merchants, allowing and encouraging merchants to transport military rations and supply them to the front line. According to the degree of difficulty of supply, merchants were given huge subsidies.

For example, if you have the ability to transport military rations for 1000 miles to Ningxia, the army will give you a note if you hand it over to the army.With this piece of paper, you can go to the area where salt and iron are specialized, sell the corresponding amount of salt and iron, and make huge profits. The country does not levy taxes

Such a method greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the merchants, and they would find ways to use all resources and connections to deliver supplies to the troops along the way.The sources of supplies for the troops will be diversified and more powerfully guaranteed

If the army and the people work together to find a way, the military supplies will be enriched at once.

Under Yan Song's two-pronged approach, the logistics and transportation problems of the army have been greatly alleviated. Hu Zongxian led the Western Trilateral Governor Ma Fang and his own troops, a total of 8 people, left Xi'an and started an expedition to the Western Regions

The road they took was to leave Ganshan along the Hexi Corridor, obtain water and supplies in the oasis all the way, and continue to drive deep into Yili.