A Timely Wife

Of course, the morale can't be reversed all at once, but Chengdong is very pleased to see the hope of turning around. In addition to the army, the picket team also began to rectify the movement, followed by the Qingfeng operation in the court, and the whole Nanchu was immediately suppressed. The Qingfeng was blown again. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War in Southern Chu, more than 770 people were expelled from the military during Operation Qingfeng, more than 420 people were cleared out of the picket team, and the largest number of people were dismissed from public office reached eight. Interestingly, among the hundreds of people who were expelled from public office, all of them were small officials like village chiefs and mayors. The more small officials were corrupt, the more serious the corruption. If Ruoshan attached great importance to it, he ordered the cabinet to form an inspection team to go deep into each village to find out what went wrong. The inspection team spent two years visiting the seven provinces of Southern Chu, and formulated a series of measures for this situation. policy.

Xiong Ruoshan was worried about government affairs, while Cheng Dong and Li Ruosong were in charge of military affairs. The division of labor between the three was very clear. The three little guys were like wild horses that had run loose. They stayed at the northern front for a while, and then ran to the east when they were almost done. When it was almost time, I ran back to Nanjiang Mansion to study government affairs with Xiong Ruoshan, or followed the inspection team to the towns below. Although I often ran without seeing people, the three little guys grew up very fast, which made Zhou Jinyan They all ran around with them, Xiong Ruoshan was so envious, but he could only grit his teeth with hatred in his heart, and decided to wait until Xiong Ruofeng ascended the throne, and run around to play by himself, so that they could not see them all year round.

As time progressed, the war in the north gradually became smoother, and the navy on the eastern front began to play a game of chasing and hiding with Ma Ang's caravan. Li Ruosong found that Ma Ang's caravan was very good at fighting guerrilla warfare. When the Southern Chu navy went out to encircle and suppress them, they didn't know where they were hiding. When the Southern Chu navy returned to the harbor for repairs, they would appear to harass them from time to time. When the Southern Chu navy chased them, they would Fleeing quickly, Nan Chu's navy didn't chase after them, they just stopped there to provoke, not to mention the young officers in the navy, even Li Ruosong himself, sometimes got very impatient, this style of play is similar to Like fleas, when you want to squeeze it to death, you can't find it, and when you don't want to deal with it, it jumps up and down in various ways, and even bites you, making people hard to guard against and annoying at the same time.

The reason why Li Ruosong never asked Nanchu's navy to find caravans on a large scale is to let Nanchu's navy learn this style of play hard, and let them think about how to deal with it. Ruosong always firmly believes that actual combat is the only test standard for the army. Ten exercises may not be as good as the effect brought by one actual combat. The Maang people are much more cruel and cunning than the Dahe people. The Dahe people have very high force value, but They do things very straightforwardly. To put it bluntly, they have no brains and only have force value, but the Maang people are very good at using intrigues and tricks. The fleet changed defenses, and when the South China Sea Fleet was almost running in, and the people inside were replaced, the Chujiang Fleet was transferred over. The war in the East China Sea has never stopped, and the combat effectiveness of the South Chu Navy has grown extremely fast during such training. .

What's interesting is that Ma Ang's caravan was like a group of flies smelling blood, rushing toward Ma Ang one after another. At first it was indeed a caravan, but later Li Ruosong felt that these people had already They are not just the crew of the caravan, but their behavior is similar to that of the army. Li Ruosong thinks that these ships should be the official army of Ma Ang. The Ma'ang people, who are as wide as the two of them, have already mastered the knack of fighting the Ma'ang people. No matter how tall they are and how strong their bodies are, to the Southern Chu soldiers who adopt three-on-one, these people are just paper tigers. As long as these Maang people were caught by the soldiers of Nanchu when they arrived at the border of Nanchu, they would end up in two ways: they died or they were sent to hard labor.

Of course, sometimes Southern Chu soldiers would make an agreement with their comrades in advance to help them out in order to train themselves, as long as they saved their own lives. On the front line, when they felt that the officers could almost control the situation, the two returned to Nanjiang Mansion one after another to assist Xiong Ruoshan in handling government affairs. If they really had to choose, they would rather stay on the front line all the time. Last notice was given to them both, and if they did not come back by the end of July, he was ready to pack up and run to them.

Xiong Ruoshan didn't talk about it this time, Li Qi and Li Liang sent letters to the husband and wife one after another, saying that Xiong Ruoshan's luggage had already been packed, and they were waiting for the day when no one was seen packing and leaving. Li Qi and Li Liang tried their best to persuade the couple to come back quickly. If they don't come back, they will have no children and grandchildren. By then, the old things will pack up and go to the eldest son's family, let them watch it by themselves manage.

In view of the fact that the emotions of the family members were about to explode, the couple who had wandered outside for more than two years and were still reluctant to leave finally returned to Nanjiang Mansion before the ultimatum time. Along the way, the couple's eyes and mouths never stopped , They have been on the front line for the past two years. When they received the letter, Li Ruosongyi was on Chengdong's side. The letter to him was sent to the east first. Halfway through, they received news that Li Ruosong was in the east. It was sent to the east, but Li Ruosong's letter was received three days later than Chengdong's.

The husband and wife have been busy with their own affairs for more than two years. The two of them wrote letters when they had nothing to do. Occasionally, Li Ruosong would go to the northern front to check the situation. I have cared about it, and Xiong Ruoshan often wrote letters to ask for their opinions in the first six months. As a result, the two of them either went to sea with the boat or crossed the river with the army. It's almost done.

So in the next two years, Xiong Ruoshan wrote letters to the couple just to talk about the things he couldn't solve, mainly about the old and small things at home. Today this person is not feeling well, and tomorrow that person called the doctor several times. , Today the child quarreled with someone, and tomorrow the brothers beat him up, or the emotional confusion between him and Jinyan needs help from his brother-in-law. I have gotten used to Xiong Ruoshan's writing style, and their replies are all about daily content, how is the training, how is the food, although the family is divided into several places, but the relationship is much deeper than when we were together before .

Li Ruosong and Chengdong sat on the rail car that went directly to Nanjiang Mansion, only to realize that the traffic conditions in Nanchu had improved so much. It used to be just a steam car on a cement road, but now railroad tracks have been laid across the seven prefectures of Nanchu. Buildings leading to the towns below, and many towns have already opened to traffic. This kind of car has two kinds of power, one is steam, and the other is oil. The oil fields that Li Ruosong and others discovered near the station in the early years seem to be unable to support it. For too long, the Royal Exploration Team is looking for new oil fields. Petroleum-powered vehicles are faster. It used to take about [-] days to return to Nanjiang Mansion from the northern front line by steam car. After the track is built, take the track from the northern front line back to Nanjiang Mansion. The car only takes six days, which saves half the time. It is definitely incomparable with Cheng Dong's previous life, but in this era, this kind of speed is absolutely unimaginable in the eyes of people.

Some lines are still being erected along the way. Due to the relatively long distance, Chengdong didn't see what the lines were. After returning to Nanjiang Mansion, he found out that they were telegraph lines. The telegraph experiment has been successful for more than half a year. The laying of the underground pipeline has been completed. Considering what Chengdong said before, this kind of pipeline is one person high and two people wide. All the lines are being laid inside. One is to facilitate the addition of other lines in the future. , and the other is also convenient for maintenance.

The line leading to the ground is also stuffed in a fist-wide pipe and protrudes upwards. When Chengdong listened to the report of the research institute, he felt a lot of relief. These people no longer only pay attention to research, but have a little more He started to think about practicability and sustainability when doing things. If this foundation is laid, he can let them go about Nanchu's scientific research work in the future.

What the telegraph needs to do now is to lay the lines, and the telegraph communication between Fucheng and Fucheng will be established soon. The telegram is actually not the most important thing. I have never been in contact with it, so I can only tell the general situation to a few researchers. The specific things can only be explored by these researchers. There has been progress in the past two years, but it is not so fast. Of course, Chengdong is not disappointed. , If no matter what he said, it would come out quickly, this kind of thing is too scary, it will make Chengdong feel like he is dreaming.

After Li Ruosong and Cheng Dong arrived home, several elders of the Li family scolded the couple in turn. After a long time, Li Qi and Li Huang have retired. The two elders just walk around and take a look, and occasionally accept the invitation of the school to walk around and chat with students and teachers. Relatively speaking, the changes are not big. so big.

Li Liang and Li Chen haven't retired yet. They go to work early in the morning and go home for dinner at night. They just have too many things to worry about. These two are obviously much older. They walk with Li Qi and Li Huang. Those who don't know each other will think they are brothers and sisters.