Under the strong and effective grassroots political organization, relying on a high-speed and effective mobilization system, and relying on the accumulation of popularization of military training over the years, the 20 mobilization brigades were quickly formed. In addition, it has been combined with the existing garrison brigade, and has appeared on the road system leading to Guangxi and Guangxi in various parts of the south and central China under the name of the garrison brigade.

All this was done in just a few dozen days! All these situations have amazed and shocked the mainland businessmen who are doing business in various parts of Nanzhong. "Although we have known for a long time that under the rule of Liang Guogong, all the Qin law is used, and there are officials to manage it from the Guogong Mansion to an ordinary person, and every move has a law. However, I never thought that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses would be completed overnight? ”

"That's not all! Nong look at Ira's soldiers, which one is not smiling when he walks on the road? When the family saw them off, they were also happy, as if they were not going to war, but to marry the bride! And when we were studying, Du Gongbu's poem said, 'The grandmother's wife went to see each other, and the dust did not see the Xianyang Bridge.' The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight to the sky. The passerby asked the pedestrian, but the pedestrian was frequent. It's two things always! Allah heard his parents, wife and children tell him that he must fight well, come back with meritorious service, and live a better life for our family! Isn't this what Taishi Gong said, no knighthood and no return? It's really like the Qin State, and it's happy when you hear the war! ”

"Everyone, you say, such a background, such a strength, this battle, do you still have any doubts?"

"Liang Guogong and his old man's soldiers are well-fed, the equipment is sharp, and there are millions of soldiers like family members and white-armored soldiers, so naturally there is no problem. However, I heard that his old man still wants to support a Ming clan as the Son of Heaven, this kind of thing is undoubtedly not good for the morale of the army! ”

"Although we are merchants, under the rule of the grandfather of this country, as long as you pay your taxes in full and on time, no one will discriminate against you! In the future, we may as well jointly write a letter together, asking the grandfather of the country to put the people of the world first, take pity on the people, and get the right position as soon as possible, so as to calm the hearts of the people in the world! ”

The discussion of the merchants in the business name naturally did not affect the march of the troops on the road. They continued to follow the marching plan issued by the General Staff and followed the planned route, and came north with full morale.

There are as many as 200,000 troops. There are also a large number of weapons, baggage, artillery and vehicles accompanying them, so naturally they cannot pass by sea, let alone march along the sheep's intestine path. Fortunately, Li Shouhan has never been a student at Harvard University, and naturally he does not believe in the autonomy of the people. Since the start of the infrastructure industry, Li Shouhan has been continuously strengthening the road system and setting up a strict management system. At the same time, it also set up a road construction engineering unit that was criticized by some people as outdated, constantly challenging the mountains and valleys of the rainforest, rivers, and mountains, and finally, after more than 20 years of efforts, it successfully surpassed the Qin people in history and built a new straight road project that can be called a miracle in central and southern China.

This one, or this set of new straight road projects, the northernmost section to Shaoguan and Xianxialing, and the outpost is even deeper into southern Jiangxi. Then, along the way to Fujian and Guangdong, it went all the way south, and kept connecting the prefectures, cities, counties, villages and towns around the country with roads. In Meizhou, in the Pearl River Delta, in Leizhou, in Qinzhou, Lianzhou, in Guilin, weave a dense road network, cross the mountains and mountains, build bridges or pontoon bridges at the ferry. The original port wharves in various coastal areas have been greatly expanded to facilitate the berthing of large ships.

The new straight road project refers to the road classification system of modern China, which is mainly divided into three levels: national highway, provincial highway and rural road, and all of its Chinese roads and most of the provincial roads are built by professional road construction teams.

Because he was afraid that the old-timers of his neighbors would ask for copyright, and at the same time considering the characteristics of the times, Li Shouhan did not dare to adopt the name of the railway soldier, but the specific work of the engineering team was the same as that of the railway soldier. Although Nanzhong is not as vast as New China, with a volatile climate and complex projects, the challenges are similar. That is, it is necessary to use the shortest possible time to open up the connection between the main resource producing areas and the industrial zone, and at the same time, we must also consider the smooth flow of non-governmental logistics to promote economic development. Historically, the railway soldiers dug the Qinling Mountains in the north, went south to Chengkun, crossed Bashu in the west, and passed through Xiangcheng in the west. However, some people can just throw away jade as dung, and when this army has not yet completed the introduction of Luan into Tianjin, what awaits them is not a celebration meeting, but an order to disband. Li Shouhan always looks back on this period of history, always has a pain in his heart, he made up his mind that he must treat these heroes of the mountains and valleys well, and not let Yugong sweat and cry again.

Fortunately, since Li Shouhan has this thought, he naturally doesn't dare to mess around. Therefore, although the engineering troops have always been known for their difficult conditions and high casualty rates, they still attract the best young people to join the army, such as generous food and salary packages and good discharge guarantees. Not to mention anything else, the priority of hiring an enterprise directly under the Li family is enough for the young people of Nanzhong to break their heads and drill into it. Of course, Li Shouhan will not break this point, he always thanks the engineering troops from time to time for their hard work, and then silently raises the salary a little more, and then raises it a little more. Even those officials and slaves who served in the Ruan family's road construction enterprises, as long as they performed well or made meritorious contributions, they could be relieved of their official slave status in advance and become free status. Moreover, Li Shouhan inherited a fine tradition, if there are official slaves in the family, then, whether you are a combat unit, a sailor on a merchant ship, or a worker in a road construction team, as long as you have made meritorious service, you can propose to use your military merits to offset the service period of your relatives, or even directly restore your status as a free man. may be because the education is too low, Li Shouhan has never been accustomed to scolding others for being lazy while lowering his salary.

After the opening of the national highway and the main provincial highway, a rural road project that tested the control ability of the political power was placed in front of Li Shouhan. To put it simply, whether you are a landlord, a factory owner, a sea merchant, or whether you are a temple abbot or a Catholic, as long as you can come up with money and grain to build roads that meet government standards, the government will provide you with industrial subsidies, tax reductions, or business introductions.

At the same time, the completed township roads will be contracted by sections, and the grassroots cadres will be responsible for the maintenance of the township roads. To put it bluntly, it is to copy the township road management system after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is naturally not advanced in today's China, but in that era, it is absolutely groundbreaking.

Generally speaking, there is no road in the first place, that is, after more people walk, the road is formed. Since there is no one to repair it, why should it be maintained? Occasionally, one or two people who repair bridges and roads and do daily maintenance are either regarded as good people with great merit in the township, or strange people. Platoon Commander Li's memoirs said that Bei Tingfang, the leader of the militia in western Henan, had a similar stipulation, that in order to ensure the needs of the Anti-Japanese War, the peasants in the area under their jurisdiction must repair the road after the rain and remove the snow after the snow. Make sure the roads are clear. Platoon Commander Li praised this, and by the way, he also complained, why are so many generals of the Central Army and senior government officials not as good as a militia leader?

Of course, these road maintenance costs naturally have their origins, and they will not let the township and township grassroots officials find their own way, and Li Shouhan can't do the kind of thing that wants the horses to run and the horses not to eat grass. As early as the Ha Tinh period, he promulgated the relevant laws on roads, and all registered vehicles and vessels, in addition to being requisitioned for public service, were required to pay road tolls and road tolls in ordinary times. The kind of good thing that merchants transport goods for profit, but let the people along the way perform labor to repair the road, may be possible in the Central Plains, but don't even think about it in Nanzhong.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of national, provincial, and rural roads, as well as bridges erected on countless rivers, pontoon bridges built at ferries, and permanent ferries have provided a good hardware foundation for the rapid mobility of hundreds of thousands of troops. With these smooth roads, it is possible to ensure that the troops can complete the perverted speed from formation to march to the territory of Liangguang within 40 days.

Of course, these are not just completely dependent on hardware. The formulation and implementation of various systems and programs are the guarantee of victory. Not to mention anything else, just talking about the formulation of the marching plan, in the history of our country, there has always been a saying that the army has passed like a comb, and there is even a rule that if a large army passes through a certain place, then the army will not be arranged to pass from here within three years. Why? It is because of the passage of the brigade of military horses that it will cause great harassment to local life. The system of the Ming court is even more excessive, and it is clearly stipulated that only when the army arrives at my acre and three points of land for more than three days, I will send food to you. In these three days, you will first eat and drink the wind and dew, and cultivate the immortals and practice the qi! But you can't afford not to fight, or even to lose. Otherwise, don't blame me for impeaching you with a brilliant pen!

And the marching scheme avoids this.

The plan developed by the General Staff Office, at the same time copied to the office. The joint writing of the two departments basically means that a certain unit, with a regiment as a unit, has the number of personnel, horses, and vehicles, and passes through a certain province and a certain place on a certain day, and orders a certain department to prepare a number of food, firewood, grass, beans, fodder, vegetables, and other things for the department. The relevant expenses should be booked, and the official of the ministry should sign and confirm with a seal, and the verification will be organized in a unified manner in the future.

In this way, it not only avoids road congestion and blockage, which affects local traffic, but also allows passing troops not to worry about food, and they can have a hot and delicious meal to eat after marching dozens of miles. At the same time, you can also bring some vegetables and meat to the front campsite. This kind of situation can only occur in the old base areas. During the Battle of Qingfengdian, the North China troops flew 240 miles in one day and night, from Xushui in the north of Baoding, to the Fangshunqiao battle area in Dingxian County. The masses in the old base areas of central Hebei have set up grain and water stations every 50 meters on both sides of the road dozens of miles long, boiling water to cook porridge and steaming steamed buns and flatbreads day and night. The women not only carried baskets and dustpans to the soldiers, stuffed torn roast chickens in their pockets, hard-boiled eggs, pancakes, sweet potatoes, steamed buns, peanuts, jujubes, persimmons, and walnuts, but also filled the vats with porridge at the right temperature after cooking, so that their soldiers could eat all the way.

On the contrary, the well-equipped national army, relying on American-made ten-wheeled trucks, can only march dozens of miles a day, let alone eat, and even drink a sip of clean water. The reason is also very simple, there is no perfect grassroots organization and political power, and the people's hearts and minds have been lost, and no matter how good the weapon is, it is also a trophy prepared for others.

In addition to the fact that the crossing of the army is no longer a nuisance to the people and a scourge to the township, it is even said that the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep raised by the villagers themselves, the fish in the pond, the vegetables in the vegetable field, and the fruits on the trees are often bought by the passing troops to improve the food for the brothers. There are many things that amaze the officials of the former Ming system headed by Jiang Yihong and Huang Xigon in Liangguang.

Originally, I thought that if the country had a major conquest, then it would inevitably be boiling with all kinds of grievances among the people, because all kinds of affairs such as requisitioning grain, sending errands, pulling husbands, requisitioning vehicles and ships, and so on, would be spread on the heads of the people.

When they first saw the mobilization order, marching plan and other orders issued by the office, their first reaction was to be shocked! In the first phase, 15 brigades and 200,000 people were mobilized to the north, plus the vehicles, mules, and horses accompanying the army, and the people, vehicles, and ships that needed to be mobilized.

Needless to say, the consumption of money and various military materials, the problem of food for these 200,000 people to go north along the way is a huge amount. What's more, the above also sent down the distribution quota for grain, grass and beans to go north.

"Now there are no less than 100,000 army horses in Songjiang Mansion, Gannan, Ningbo and other places, and the sailors are not counted. It is also necessary to consume heavy baggage for the transfer of the eldest prince of Shandong, this, this. This, roughly calculated, has to eat at least four or five hundred thousand people a month! Such a huge consumption, this is to waste the accumulation of the lord over the past decades! ”

Although Jiang Yihong, the governor of Liangguang, has been in the Nanyue Army for several years, his way of thinking still cannot jump out of the mindset of traditional readers. He roughly estimated that the rations of four or five hundred thousand people were calculated according to the minimum standard of one stone of grain per soldier per month, and at least 600,000 stone of grain should be stored in the north for the army to eat. (The extra 100,000 stones are the consumption quota for transshipment and transportation along the way, as well as the need for backup.) What's more, the food standards of the Southern Guangdong Army also include oil, salt, meat, vegetables, and so on.

Compared with him, Huang Xigon, who was recently transferred from Guangxi as a political envoy to Guangdong as governor, although he was also taken off by this number, he was much younger after all, and his thinking and consciousness came much faster than Jiang Yihong.

"My lord, I don't think it will necessarily shake the foundation of the country. Although the lord's work always seems unbelievable, the results are often unexpected. ”

"Alas! Zong Lin," Jiang Yihong called out Huang Xigon's words, "Don't say that right now, the only places that I can really take to compare with the Tartar are the two Guangzhou, Fujian, half of Yunnan, and Nanzhong under the rule of the lord." If it was the Chongzhen period when the first emperor was alive, the Ming Dynasty still had the power to fight. However, now most of the country has fallen into the hands of the Tartars and has become a bloody land. You and I are both scholars, familiar with historical events, if such a big fight, don't say that it is the Chongzhen Dynasty, that is, when the dynasty was first established, the three dynasties of Hongwu, Yongle and Xuande, which were known as the strong national strength, were also boiling and mourning all over the country. You must know that Cheng Zu's several expeditions to the desert in the north were all in Shandong to recruit people, mobilize soldiers and horses, and there were hundreds of thousands of people before and after. The result? caused the Tang Sayer White Lotus Sect to rebel. Dozens of thieves of all sizes followed, such as Bin Hong, Dong Yangao, Ding Gugang, Liu Xin, Liu Jun, Wang Xuan, Hao Yunzhong, Bai Baier, Gao Yang'er, Wang Zhu'er, and Yang San. Swept Qingzhou, Laizhou, Juzhou, Jiaozhou and Anqiu, Shouguang, Zhucheng, Jimo and other nine prefectures and counties, the whole Shandong was shaken, and thousands of soldiers and horses of the two generals of the imperial court were all lost in her hands. Although it was only for dozens of days, the whereabouts of the culprit Tang Sai'er are unknown. Cheng Zu was furious, and on the charge of "arsonist and silent chaos", he executed the political envoys, senators, envoys, deputy envoys, and county officials who had revolted. In order to trace Tang Sai'er's whereabouts, worried that he would cut his hair and become a nun or mix with female Taoist priests, he ordered the arrest of female nuns and female Taoist priests in Beijing and Shandong twice between March and May of the same year, and later arrested tens of thousands of female nuns and female Taoist priests across the country, escorted them to Beijing for examination, and thousands of monks died before and after. ”

"My lord, how can you compare Chengzu with the lord? Since the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di has been repeatedly frustrated in Shandong, which is to hate the people of Shandong, not to mention that he himself almost died in Shandong several times, and his descendants have been completely damaged in Shandong, which can be regarded as a deep hatred like the sea. In addition to the previous conquests of the desert that the lord said to recruit the people, he moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing and overhauled the palace. In order to support the officials and the army of the Beijing Division, they also organized the transfer of grain from the south to the north, repaired the canal, dug the Huitong River, and recruited a large number of people, and the Shandong people bore the brunt. During the Yongle period, floods and droughts occurred in Shandong continuously. How can the people not rebel if they eat tree bark and grass roots to survive, but they are still "forced to do so and collect endlessly"? How can you reason with Chengzu without the knife and gun in your hand?! ”

After staying in the Nanyue army for a long time, Huang Xigon no longer took Chengzu Zhu Di and other emperors of the Zhu Ming court too seriously, not only calling them by name, but also lacking a little meaning of being a venerable person in his words, directly linking the root cause of the Shandong chaos with the revenge mentality in Zhu Di's heart.

"My lord, he is also a big state-owned worker, and he is also recruiting a large number of people. The national and provincial highways in the two provinces completed in your hands seem to be no smaller than the amount of work required to excavate and dredge the canal, right? Has it ever caused public resentment to boil? ”

Huang Xigon is half telling the truth, half slapping the boss's ass.