Volume 17 Chapter 50 The Great Development of Xibo (I)

On the magnificent Siberian Plateau, a railway runs through the center, this railway is thousands of miles long, stretching from Manjingwei in Nuer Gandusi to the city of Tunguska in the Yeni River Valley, as if a giant dragon hovering over the snowy plateau.

With the connection of the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway, the material transportation of the Ming army on the southeast and southeast routes was transferred to the shorter Western Regions Railway, and the trains running on the Siberian Railway became gradually scarce, and sometimes even a few days could not be seen, as if they were about to be abandoned.

However, on this day, the Trans-Siberian Railway was full of vitality again, and hundreds of trains were scattered on the railway line thousands of miles long, looking from a distance, like a galloping steel monster, galloping on the Siberian plateau.

Could it be that the Western Regions Railway was not able to transport it, and the Ministry of War restarted the Siberian Railway, in fact, if you look closely, these hundreds of trains are passenger cars, not freight cars, obviously, it is impossible to load the grain, grass and baggage of the Eastern Road Army.

The buses must be loaded with people, and such a large-scale transfer is likely to be the soldiers of the Ming army, but almost all of the regular regiments of the Ming Dynasty have been transferred to the front line, and more than 100 buses can also carry three or four hundred thousand troops, and the possibility of this being a regular army is not very large.

If you look closer, you can find that there are indeed Ming soldiers wearing Chongzheng uniforms in the carriage, but there are more old people, women and children.

These people are the first batch of military households transferred to Siberia in the relocation plan of the Ming Army, don't look at the hundreds of trains that are scared to death, in fact, this trip only transported a total of 100,000 military households, the number of military households is not much, but the number of people is quite a lot, each military household has four or five people, and the 100,000 military households, men, women and children are all counted at least four or five hundred thousand people!

The homeland is difficult to leave, this word not only refers to the difficult hometown plot, but also implies the difficulty of dragging the family and leaving the hometown.

However, this time, since it was a transfer organized by the unified organization of the military department, they did not have to worry about their belongings, and everything they could bring could be stuffed into the train, and those who could not be taken away were also compensated.

Therefore, although each train only loaded a thousand military households, it was full of stuff, not to mention people, women, the elderly and children did not occupy much space, mainly these people's belongings, what pots and pans, quilts, clothes and even wardrobes, as well as chickens, ducks and even cattle and sheep, the whole carriage was chaotic, it was indescribable.

On one of the trains, Luo Zongshan sat by the window, enjoying the cool breeze outside, looking at the scenery outside, and his heart was happy.

He was originally one of the hundred households of the Shaanxi Xingdu Suzhou Guard, but this time the Ministry of War called on the Tunwei to move to the Xibe Khanate in the north, and he was the first to respond, not only registering himself, but also mobilizing more than 100 military households under his command to sign up.

The place where they used to live was originally a relatively arid desert, and in addition to the severe drought in the past ten years, the harvest was not enough for them to eat, and if it were not for the imperial court to send food on time every month, they did not know how many people would have starved to death.

He thought that no matter how bad the place was, it would not be worse than Suzhou Wei anyway, so he didn't inquire about any preferential policies, and directly signed up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the order of the Ministry of War came, he was actually promoted to the 10100th household of Xibowei!

Maybe this is a reward for his positive response to the military department's order, he touched his brand-new Chongzheng clothes, not to mention how beautiful it was.

"Darkly, secretly", just when he was too high, a baby's cry suddenly sounded in the carriage, and the howl was heartbreaking, and it annoyed people and wanted to hit the wall.

Luo Zongshan was so angry, he swept his head directly, and then roared angrily: "Second baby, let your mother-in-law coax the baby well, and then I will beat you up when I cry." “

The second baby is also a guard wearing a new-style Chongzheng suit, he was frightened by Luo Zongshan's roar, his neck shrunk, and he hurriedly helped his mother-in-law coax the baby.

However, there is more than one child in the carriage, Luo Zongshan's roar directly scared all the other children into crying, and for a while, the whole carriage was crying wolf, so it was not lively.

Luo Zongshan's fire was even bigger, and he was about to stand up and count them one by one, but a middle-aged beautiful woman beside him frowned and said: "Old man, don't do it, who didn't cry when the baby was a child, you are cowardly, what are you yelling about?" “

This time it was Luo Zongshan's turn to shrink his neck, in this carriage, and even in the whole train, he was not afraid of anyone, but he was afraid of his mother-in-law, and when his mother-in-law said this, he immediately didn't dare to shout, while everyone was not paying attention, he hugged his mother-in-law and begged for mercy: "Daughter-in-law, save some face for hunger, hunger is like a thousand households." “

The middle-aged beauty glanced at him, and scolded with a smile: "You melon batch, move your hand, so many people look at it." “

Luo Zongshan let go of his hand with a smile, stood up and said loudly: "Melon babies, you can cry hard, you are hungry and like to be lively!" “

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The train swayed for more than ten days, and the destination finally arrived, Luo Zongshan explained a few words, asking everyone to quickly unload their belongings, but he took the order and ran off the train to find someone.

He didn't know where he was going, so he had to ask the commander, but fortunately, there was the name of the commander on the order, Ma Kai, the commander of the twenty-first guard of Xibowei.

He ran off the train and looked at it, and was dumbfounded, this is a small station, there is only one platform in total, and there are few people on the platform, it seems that they are all standing guard, I didn't see the commander, what should I do?

There were more and more people getting out of the car, and they were almost blocking his view, and he was about to run to ask those who were standing guard, when a young man in a formal suit suddenly ran in the distance, asked a few words in the crowd, and then walked towards him.

As soon as he raised his foot, the young man came up, gave a military salute, and said loudly: "Dare to ask if this is Lord Luo Qianhu Luo?" “

Luo Zongshan hurriedly returned a military salute and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, dare to ask this adult?" “

Although this young man does not have as many bars and stars on his shoulders as he does, the fact that people can find him proves that he must be a cronie of the people above, and he naturally does not dare to slack off.

The young man didn't bully people, he laughed and said: "Lord Luo said that I am laughing, I am a personal guard under Lord Ma, how dare I be called so by Lord Luo, Lord Ma is busy with things, I really can't come to pick you up in person, so I sent me to guide you, Lord Luo, if you want nothing to do, just follow me to meet Master Ma." “

Of course Luo Zongshan is fine, he just came down to find the commander, he heard this, and hurriedly nodded: "I'm fine, I'm fine, please lead the way in front of this adult, and I'll go with you to see Master Ma." “