After knowing the shameless rules of the Tang Dynasty officialdom, the uncle and nephew of the Zhao family came to visit honestly, and they didn't have the courage to send money to ask for accommodation, but fortunately, although the quartermaster who received him there was quite a big shelf, he didn't embarrass them.

After hearing that their Zhao family wanted to supply military rations for the army, but still supplied high-grade polished rice, they immediately asked to see the samples of polished rice, and found that the quality of the polished rice samples was good, so they immediately signed a document to them, telling them that as long as they held the documents and transported the military rations to the designated place, they could receive the silver ticket issued by the Datang Royal Bank on the spot, and pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other.

Of course, there are a lot of restrictions here, the quartermaster will conduct spot checks when the goods are delivered, and if the military rations are not up to standard, it is not as simple as a fine, it is a felony, the kind of robbery and extermination!

Doing business with the army, but you can't play tricks, otherwise you will be exterminated in a few minutes.

And the price given by the military is not high, it is much lower than the market price, but the low price is nothing, the military wants a large quantity, and the demand is stable!

Out of the door, the uncle and nephew of the Zhao family still couldn't believe that things would go so smoothly, if this single business could be successfully completed, I am afraid that there would be a net profit of more than 5,000 taels.

Although this profit is not too much, it is a good start, if the follow-up can be a stable supply of food to the military, this piece is a steady stream of stable profits.

Moreover, it can also make their Zhao family's mechanical rice mill smoothly put into large-scale production, without worrying about the initial sales volume not going up, resulting in the vacancy of machinery, short working hours of workers, and low wages resulting in the loss of workers.

For a factory with a huge investment, nothing is more important than having sufficient orders and ensuring productivity.

After smiling out of the gate of the Quartermaster Department, Uncle Zhao immediately said: "I will immediately go to the post station to send a letter, and use the express mail to let the second brother immediately place a new mechanical order to the Zhaoqing Machinery Factory. ”

The young brocade-robed man also said, "Third uncle, don't forget, there is also a flour machine!" ”

Third Uncle Zhao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I can't forget it!" ”

It didn't take long for Uncle Zhao to come directly to a store with 'Datang Post Station Baoqing Mansion Shaoyang Chengdong Branch', and there were several other lines of big characters in front of this shop that were quite conspicuous:

Send letters and send things, send letters from five cents!

Urgent Pegasus delivery, 300 miles expedited!

The counties of the province are delivered in three days

Guilin ten-day delivery, Zhaoqing half-moon arrival and other words.

You don't need to look at it to know that this is a post station system that belongs to the military, and in order to subsidize the huge operating expenses, it will be for the people at the same time!

Of course, if you think about it with your toes, you can also know that although it is said that sending letters starts from Wuwen, this is generally limited to the city, and the price increases exponentially if it is a little farther away.

Usually an ordinary letter is sent from Shaoyang to Zhaoqing, it costs hundreds of texts, this price is not cheap, and this is just an ordinary letter, when it can be sent to Zhaoqing depends on the will of God, it is possible to be as short as a month, and as long as two or three months.

But if it is urgent, it is different, there are ordinary urgent, there is express urgency, ordinary urgent mail is delivered together with ordinary official documents, and the speed is nominal 100 miles expedited!

The express express mail is known as the 300-mile expedited document, of course, this is just a claim, usually with the official 300-mile expedited official document to be delivered together, but this premise is that the official itself has a 300-mile expedited official document, and it will be brought with it.

If the official does not have a 300-mile expedited official document on a certain section of the road, the post station of the military will not play the 300-mile expedited for you just for a special express mail, so this section of the road will be the same as the ordinary urgent mail, using the ordinary 100-mile expedited document, and under normal circumstances, the official official document is generally delivered at the speed of 100-mile expedited.

As for the price, whether it is an ordinary express or an express shipment, it is expensive, even those big businessmen, unless there is an urgent matter, otherwise they will not use the express express.

But now for the Zhao family, time is money!

Now the milled rice and raw rice in Guangdong are in full swing, many grain merchants are involved, and now many people in Huguang have heard this rumor, and their Zhao family is the first grain merchant in Huguang to introduce machinery to build a rice mill.

In that case, you'll watch the silver fly away!

Not to mention the Zhao family, and said that after the quartermaster was busy for a long time, he walked into the boss's office with a thick stack of documents!

Then, his immediate boss, Colonel Song Shenxiang, the quartermaster of the Logistics Department stationed in the Second Army, was out of the group, and then went straight to the headquarters of the First Army, he was going to attend the meeting of the First Army.

The First Army is going to war, and it is still a war, and the demand for all kinds of military supplies is very huge, and because of the urgency of time, the preparation of these various military supplies is not sufficient, and he needs to report the detailed preparations of military supplies to Hao Bonian, the commander of the First Army, at the meeting.

Hao Bonian, who has mastered the detailed military data, can better formulate various battle plans!

No matter what era of war, the soldiers and horses have never moved, and the grain and grass go first, so all kinds of military life materials such as military rations, ammunition, and even bows and arrows and replacement ordnance need to be prepared in advance.

It didn't take long for Colonel Song Shenxiang to arrive at the headquarters of the First Army, and then sat down in the position he had done in the past, and seeing that it was still early, he talked to a few people next to him.

The people who came to attend the First Army's strategic meeting, in addition to the officers at and above the division and regimental level in the field units, were the same officers in logistics, ordnance, and other fields as Song Shenxiang.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the guards outside the door shouted: "The commander has arrived!" ”

Immediately, all the officers of the First Army, who had arrived in advance, stood up in unison, and immediately, they saw Hao Bonian, who was wearing a general's winter uniform, wearing the rank of lieutenant general on his shoulder, a gold-plated command knife hanging from his waist, and a black leather glove in his hand, striding in!

After coming in, Hao Bonian fell directly into the top, and then said: "All the gentlemen sit down!" ”

Everyone sat down at this time, and then they all raised their heads and chests, put their hands on top of their legs, and sat in the most standard sitting posture, at this time, they only heard Hao Bonian say: "This official doesn't have much time, and everyone has a lot of things to do, so today everything will be simple, let's start!" ”

Hao Bonian didn't have any extra nonsense, and everyone present did have a lot of things to deal with as Hao Bonian said, so they couldn't afford to delay too much time in this meeting.

Although the First Army received a letter from the Second Army asking for cooperation very early, at that time the Second Army had not yet heard that Yuezhou had been defeated, and it was not until yesterday that they received a military report from the Second Army, saying that the Second Army had already captured Yuezhou and was preparing to go south to Changsha, hoping that the First Army would respond well and cooperate with the operation to capture Changsha!

Although the First Army had been preparing for many days in advance, such a short time was still quite insufficient for preparing for a super-large-scale war, thinking of this, many generals of the First Army actually complained a little about Li Chunjing on the Second Army's side.

If they want to fight Changsha, they should have said it a month or even two months ago, so that their first army can complete preparations in advance.

But now, there are only a few days of preparation time, which makes the First Army busy, and what is more troublesome is that because the First Army did not have a super-large-scale offensive in the autumn and winter, Zhaoqing in the rear did not give the First Army too sufficient supplies of ammunition and other military supplies.

Therefore, although it is said that the entire First Army has been fully mobilized and the troops at the front have officially moved out of the city today, the first army has not even completed its pre-war preparations, and there is not enough ammunition or even military rations.

Moreover, many troops had missions before, and it was troublesome how to transfer them back to participate in the campaign.

The huge First Army does not mean that it can send troops to attack Changsha and will be able to set off tomorrow!

But the matter has come to this point, they have no choice, Li Chunjing is leading the main force of the Second Army to Changsha, they can't be indifferent, and although they have some opinions on Li Chunjing's way of doing things, they are not stupid, they all see that it is a great opportunity in front of them!

A great opportunity to seize Changsha, Hengyang, and even the entire Huguang south of the Yangtze River, even if it will face all kinds of difficulties, it cannot be given up casually.

Especially when I heard that Li Chunjing took the huge risk of being besieged in Nanchang, he sent the main force of the Second Army into Huguang, if he did not take Changsha because of the unfavorable cooperation of the First Army, which led to a series of negative effects, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven in Zhaoqing would be furious!

The Son of Heaven was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed!

If Your Majesty is furious, everyone present, including Hao Bonian, will inevitably be punished!

Therefore, despite all the difficulties, the First Army had to send troops, and immediately, immediately!

Any delay can lead to accidents!

These high-ranking officers of the First Army are very clear about this, so at this meeting, although many people complained, no one dared to shirk the tasks assigned to them.

At this critical moment, if someone drops the chain, I'm afraid that there is no need for His Majesty to be angry, Hao Bonian will immediately send him to the military court with his own hands!