Moreover, this is still a passenger soldier who set off along the official road to the south of the Huai River, and if there are guest soldiers who go by water, the number will continue to increase.

Launching from Huai'an Shuiguan, going north through Suqian, entering the Huaihe Waterway from the canal waterway, all the way to the east, not far after passing through the clouds is the Yunti Pass, although it is a lot of detours compared to the land march, but it is also the direction of the Cao boat that comes out of the salt on the side of the Yunti Pass, and can transport military supplies.

What Liang Shifa saw during the day was that in order to save food and salary, the distance traveled by the guest soldiers every day was extremely limited, and the garrisons were scattered in the market towns and villages.

It's no wonder that you can't go fast, when you get to the place to ask someone to raise food and cook, if you go far away and can't raise it, I'm afraid that you will be hungry and wait for food, and it's not good for the generals to treat the soldiers too harshly, you must know that in the Chongzhen period, although Liu Zeqing can not throw off the court, the hungry soldiers can not throw the generals at all, and the generals can't restrain the troops, and the final loss is Liu Zeqing's face.

Therefore, even if the military order is urgent, the generals are still marching unhurriedly, and Liu Zeqing will not be too pressing, because when he is a guerrilla and a general, the march and battle are the same, and there is nothing special about it.

Only in the early days of Chongzhen, when the military orders were still strict and the civil officials were still majestic, the governor was strictly ordered to hurry, and when the violators might lose their heads, these generals would use the internal bullets to suppress the dissatisfaction of the battalions and force everyone to hurry, and they would also prepare some dry food as food, and the daily marching speed would be improved.

Another situation is that the army is defeated and flees, which of course runs as fast as you can.

Under normal circumstances, walking about 20 miles a day is the normal speed of the Ming army, and even 10 miles a day cannot be said to be slow.

Compared with the marching speed of fifty or sixty miles a day in the pre-Qin period, this is the rigidity and regression of the boss civilization.

Roads, logistical supplies, military discipline, military law, and the quality of soldiers and generals have not improved, but have regressed significantly.

Before dark, Liang Shifa handed over the carriage to the military intelligence personnel who came to answer, and at the same time received a summary of the intelligence from Huai'an and Andong, he estimated it, wrote the information of this day in ciphertext, and then sealed it in Lamaru, and then handed it over to an Andong intelligence war courier, and sent it to Yuntiguan overnight, there are post points in Guannan County and several large towns along the way, you can change horses or people, but not far away, this military intelligence officer should be able to send the information to Yuntiguan in the second half of the night.

Because it is the highest level of urgency, it will be delivered as soon as it arrives, even in the second half of the night when Min Yuanqi is still asleep, he will be woken up by a knock on the door, and then read it immediately.

Liang Shifa thought that Min Yuanqi could quickly know the situation here, and he felt a little comforted in his heart.

It was impossible not to have an impact on him during the day, and even to make him a little anxious and afraid.

The foundation of Yuntiguan has been formed, a number of hundreds of households on the south bank of the Huai River have been formed as a whole, Min Yuanqi has invested a lot of capital in it, a large area of salt ponds is like fertile fields dotted on the seaside, and a large number of workshops and barracks are spent heavily on construction.

There are also all the garrison divisions and other institutions under the hundred households, and several generals have also added the duties of the cloud ladder to close the hundred households.

Under the leadership of Li Guoding and others, a large number of civilian and military households were washing the saline-alkali land, hoping to obtain a good harvest.

Liang Shifa's newly built big house and family are all in Yuntiguan, and everyone knows what kind of virtue the guest soldier is.

Even in peacetime, they are a gang of robbers, and if they start a battle, they don't know what kind of humanoid beasts they are.

It is estimated that in addition to the salt pond, it will be burned down by fire, and in addition to the garrison soldiers of Yunti Pass, there are hundreds of villages around, regardless of military households and civilian households, and there are not many people who can survive.

This is no exaggeration, because officers and soldiers have always been at war with the rogues, and the people in the areas where the war is fought may still survive when they encounter the rogues, but most of them will not be spared when they encounter the officers and soldiers.

The so-called thieves come like combs, and soldiers come like grates, which is the experience summed up by the people at that time.

With many hidden worries, Liang Shifa first lived in a safe house near Andong County, and after tomorrow morning, he would disguise himself as a traveling doctor from Hangling Youxiang and continue to walk along the avenue in the direction of Guannan County.

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The intelligence officer who delivered the message rode on horseback and changed horses twice in the middle of the road, so he was able to ride at top speed.

It was only after the fourth watch and the fifth watch, when people were sleeping deepest, and the military intelligence personnel also arrived at the periphery of the 300th household along the road.

Unlike Andong, Guannan and other places, there are still county-level official roads, and the further you go east, the greater the distance between villages, and the fewer market towns.

There is no official road to pass, just a small road between the villages.

Most of these roads are built on the north and south banks of the Huaihe River, and most of them are built by the communication between the market towns and villages, and most of the places can only accommodate two unicycles or a two-wheeled car.

There were even places where there was a fault in the middle of the road, and the cavalry had to weave through the villages, otherwise they would have to travel through the shrubs or fields by the river, which would be half the effort, and it would be better to walk through the villages.

Fortunately, the year is not good, the original farmer habit, the year to hold a puppy, with leftovers to raise, to the end of the year to develop a fat dog just in the New Year slaughter, but also to nourish the whole family.

In this era, the standards of later generations cannot be applied, let alone anything that cannot be tolerated. Under the premise that people are seriously lacking in oil and water in their stomachs and intestines, and even have no food and clothing, it is impossible for them to have any love overflowing.

In Henan and other places, when rogues and natural disasters are raging, it is normal for people to eat people, not to mention eating their own yellow dogs.

Moreover, the dog was originally one of the six animals, and it originally belonged to the domestic animals that were raised and eaten, and its status was the same as that of pigs, but it was just one more ability to take care of the home than the pig, which also allowed the middle-class family to keep the dog all the time, but not all of them may be killed once a year.

In the past few years, the year has not been good, there are not many people in the villages who have dogs, and when it is a few distances to the 300th outdoors, a large number of dog barks suddenly sounded.

When the military intelligence officer heard the barking of the dog, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ride forward.

The road outside the village has been rebuilt and widened, and there are not many other things here, and the manpower is quite sufficient.

The roads between the 100 households have been rebuilt, the avenues from the 100 outdoor to the 1,000 households have also been re-compacted, and the drainage ditches have been dredged.

When the military intelligence personnel passed through the Tucheng, in the sound of the dog barking, someone picked out the wind lantern from the fortress above the Tucheng, and more than ten wind lanterns were picked out in an instant after the first one, which illuminated the official road brightly.

Between the city walls, there were more than a dozen people holding bows and arrows and short crossbows, and some people shouted: "If someone comes to report his identity password, he will not report it for three minutes, and he will be regarded as a spy shooting!" ”

"Military Intelligence Division, Shen Lei, password thunder."

Most of the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department are outsiders, while most of the local personnel are outside to sit as agents or as the heads of military intelligence stations.

Outsiders also mostly use pseudonyms and code names, and have their own special identification passwords.

The arrow tower from Tucheng to Baifang is the first layer of defense, and there are patrol teams in the hundred households to do further investigations, and finally there will be people from the Central Military Division to do the final inspection outside the official residence of the hundred households, so that you can see Min Yuanqi himself.

The password is also divided into several levels according to the errand performed, and now this Shen Lei is the highest level of emergency password.

The personnel guarding Tucheng changed color after review, and even if there was a garrison flag captain who came out on a miscellaneous horse, he was responsible for bringing the military intelligence personnel into the hundred households.

After passing through the second line of defense, Min Yuanzhong, the secretary of the Chinese army, had already heard the news and got up, and after a brief inspection in front of the Baihu Mansion, he said with a calm face: "I have sent someone to wake up your lordship, you come with me." ”

Unlike Liang Shifa and others, the 100 official halls where Min Yuanqi originally lived were simply repaired.

The martial arts field in the courtyard was repaired, some damaged bricks and tiles were replaced, the bricks on the ground were re-laid, and the carpenter made some furniture, which looked very decent, and Min Yuanqi had no plans to further build and decorate on a large scale.

He lives alone, and an old servant and two servants are enough, and because he is in the military camp Yanchi Workshop and other places all day long, he doesn't have much time to live at home, and there are even many times when Min Yuanqi lives in the military camp, and the hundred official halls don't matter.

However, in the eyes of others, this is Min Yuanqi's frugality after becoming rich, and it is also an admirable thing.

Thinking about it, now Min Yuanqi has tens of thousands of taels a month, and an income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.

This kind of wealth is not comparable to the pro-feudal clan or the Qianguo Mansion, or the head of a sea merchant like Zheng Zhilong, and it is also far from the giant merchant family with Su Song's heritage, but it is not far behind the ordinary big businessmen.

If you wait for a few decades, the wealth accumulated by Min Yuanqi is not much different from these top families, and the Min family can also become the most wealthy salt merchant family.

But these wealth Min Yuanqi is not distressed to use on all kinds of things, he is even reluctant to spend more money on repairs to the hundreds of official halls, the old mansions of Li Kecheng and the Min family in the city are several courtyards, the furniture inside is made of high-quality mahogany or rosewood, the furnishings in the courtyard are also extremely exquisite and luxurious, and the collection of silk and satin cloth, gold, silver, pearls and jade is also very much, compared with the two, although Min Yuanqi's hundred official halls are also one of the old mansions, it is obviously ruined, even if it is slightly repaired, It is also far from being compared with the mansions in the city.

These things also made Min Yuanqi's prestige go further, and even made the military attache class in the entire hundred households maintain a relatively frugal and pragmatic atmosphere.

Even if Liang Shifa and others built the mansion, in fact, they improved the living conditions, and they did not plan to spend thought and money on elaborate carving and decoration.

Shen Lei, who came to report the news, was originally a thief hired from Anton, but when he assessed his character, he found that his sneaking was also because he had to support his sick parents, and his essence was not bad.

Those scoundrels, thieves, pedestrians, foot walkers, and coachmen, if they are contaminated with the habits of the rivers and lakes too heavy, although they can work as sentinels, they are all within a certain degree of constraint and jurisdiction, and they have no access to core secrets and tasks, and the channels for upward movement are quite limited.

After this Anton man entered the official hall, in addition to feeling that the gate was wide, and the three-entrance hall was not available to ordinary people after all, he felt that this official hall was quite simple and unpretentious, and even faintly dilapidated.

The blue brick houses are obviously old, and even if some new bricks are replaced, the decay is still inevitably revealed.

Although the floor has been replaced with new bricks, there are obvious signs of weeds growing in the corners of the walls, and there are deep moss growing in the corners of the walls.

The wings on both sides were brightly lit, but there were no furnishings, only tables and cabinets, and some officials dressed up had already gotten up and were sitting at the tables waiting.