In the early morning of the second day, Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng did not rush to set off, but first went to a place two miles south of the Fujiang Wharf to check the Fujiang Bridge, which was under intense construction.

The bridge is a wooden arch structure with stone piers. In winter, the water of the Fujiang River dries up, exposing several shallow sand dunes in the river. The craftsmen took advantage of these shoals in time, digging sand and earth to build foundation pits on them, and built three large stone piers.

The piers are twice as wide as the bridge deck, and the waterfront surface is streamlined, and it is said to be very strong after bonding, and it is said to be very strong when glued. Although red sandstone is softer than bluestone, the stone is finer and more workable, and the chisel lines at the joints (Note 1) can be made very smooth.

On top of the piers, four wooden arch bridges with stacked beam arch structures (Note 2) are flying. Small arches are built on top of the large arch intervals. Wooden columns of varying lengths are erected on the arch beams of large and small arches to firmly hold the top flat wooden deck.

Because Zhu Pingjin attaches great importance to it and has abundant construction funds, the construction of this bridge is progressing extremely quickly. The stones are quarried locally, and the big wood is provided by the Miantong Wangzhuang upstream. In order to save time, the big wood was not changed to a square wood with a more uniform force, but the bark was scraped off, and the tree was chiseled slightly, and it went directly to the bridge. At present, all three piers have been built, two of the four arches have been built, and the remaining two are being installed. Hundreds of bridge workers from Tongchuan and Shehong are hanging wood from the bridge like never-ending worker ants.

"A hundred zhang of the river, actually flying across with a rainbow!" Liao Daheng sighed, "The prince is really generous, and the old man might as well be good!" ”

That's true. Liao Daheng traveled from south to north, and he had never seen such a long porous arch bridge. The Mengjindu Yellow River Bridge north of Kaifeng and the Nanjinguan Jialing River Bridge in Baoning Province are all pontoon bridges connected by hundreds of boats. The pontoon bridge is inexpensive and fast to erect, but it has two fatal drawbacks: it affects shipping and it is afraid of flooding. The Mengjindu Yellow River Bridge and the Jialing River Bridge in Nanjinguan can only be built when the water is dry, and demolished when the water is abundant, and the passage can not be guaranteed throughout the year.

Zhu Pingjin saw Liao Daheng stroking his beard and shaking his head, his eyes were half-narrowed, and he knew that he was a great poet, so he hurriedly said: "The shadow of the Qinghongqiao is out, and the sound of the autumn geese is coming!" ”

Just as a broken fishing boat passed by in the distance, and a white stork was rowing in the sky foraging for food. Master Qian hurriedly praised: "The son of the world is a good poem! Touching the scene, entering the scene into the painting! ”

"How dare this son get an axe in front of Duke Liao?" Zhu Pingjin smiled dumbly, "This is the masterpiece of Xiangshan Monk (Bai Juyi)!" ”

Master Qian suddenly blushed. It's just that after many years of public career, his cheek has already practiced invulnerability: "How many poems about the ancient Yinqiao are more than a million, and the prince can fit the scene with two sentences at his fingertips, and it is not everyone's kung fu?" ”

It turns out that the thieves who steal poetry are also divided into three, six, nine and so on! Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng looked at each other and immediately laughed. With the laughter, Liao Tycoon's poetry disappeared. Liao Daheng knew that Zhu Pingjin, the kid, was in a hurry to go to Shunqing Mansion and deliberately made trouble just now, so he laughed a little, looked at Zhu Pingjin and asked his eunuchs to take out the silver to give some souvenirs to the bridge workers, and then waved his carriage.

Back at Magudu Wharf, dozens of large ferries have been prepared. In three waves, Zhu Pingjin and his party of hundreds of people and horses can all be transported across the Fujiang River. Shehong Zhi County and Pengxi Zhi County are leading the county gentry and virtuous people to kneel at the ferry pier. These two magistrates will hold on here for a few more days until they have finished crossing the infantry that had gone east. After the independent No. 1 Baggage Battalion led by Wei Gan and Li Yongjing transported military supplies to Shunqing Prefecture, two of the baggage companies will return to Huaikou Town via ferry in the near future as planned to undertake the task of long-distance armed transportation of important materials such as firearms and gunpowder.

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On the evening of the third day of December in the 14th year of Chongzhen, Shu Shizi and Sichuan governor Liao Daheng successfully arrived at Shunqing Mansion on the right bank of the Jialing River.

This is already the front line against the local rioters.

The most obvious feeling is that there are many refugees who have fled from Qu County, Yuechi County, Xichong, Pengzhou and other places in Shunqing Prefecture. As soon as Zhu Pingjin arrived at Shunqing Mansion, he once again threw the Du Governor's Mansion, who was eager to see, to Liao Daheng. From Chengdu to Huaikou, and from Huaikou to Nanchong, he rode for more than 600 miles in three days, and he was too tired to hold on.

On this day, Liao Daheng, Liu Zhibo, and Chen Qichi painstakingly prepared for the Bazhou offensive for more than a month, and finally launched it slowly and slowly with the unique rhythm of the Ming official army.

North Sichuan Province Long Wenguang and veteran general Gan Liangchen sat in Guangyuan and Chaotian Pass to defend the Sichuan-Shaanxi Pass.

Liu Zhenfan, the deputy general of the North Road, led thousands of people in the Qi Barracks as the Chinese army, with more than 1,000 elites of the guerrilla Yang Zhan as the vanguard, 1,500 people as the partial division, and 700 of the former Sichuan commander-in-chief Hou Liangzhu's son and guerrilla Hou Tianxi's family Ding Zhaoyong as the backup, starting from Baizhang Pass, straight to the side of Bazhou, cutting off the Nanjiang River and Tongjiang River south to reinforce Bazhou, and depending on the battle situation, he turned to attack Bazhou.

Zhang Zuokai, the deputy general of the middle road, was forced to be helpless by the Sichuan government, so he had to take out more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers from all his family backgrounds and set off from Yuxichang to attack Bazhou.

1,500 men from the veteran Wang Chaoyang's department, transferred from Gan Liangchen's subordinates, took over Zhang Zhuokai's defense area, and defended the two counties of Langzhong and southern Baoning Prefecture.

Baoning guards the 1000 households and 100 households Tao Yongzuo garrison Cangxi County north of Langzhong to ensure the connection between Baoning Mansion and Guangyuan and Jianzhou.

The 3rd Battalion of the 4th Regiment of the Caravan Guarding Caravan stationed at Xinzheng Dam had been urgently transferred to Pengzhou and Yingshan, and the offensive task on the southern road had to be taken over by 6,000 men from the Jia Deng Joint Division of the Chu Army, the general reserve of the campaign. The Chu army took Yilong County, which was occupied by Wang Xingwu, as the starting base for the attack, and attacked Bazhou together.

Ma Gan, the new deputy envoy of the Sichuan Military Garrison, sat in the camp of Zhang Zuokai on the middle road and commanded the three-way army in a unified manner; Long Wenguang of North Sichuan Province sits in Guangyuan, staring closely at the road from Shaanxi to Sichuan in the north; And the veteran Gan Liangchen, the general soldier of northern Sichuan, sat in Baizhang Pass and commanded the attack on the north road. Part of the main barracks, led by Wang Xiang, the general of the middle battalion, actually went on the offensive at the beginning.

Mo Chongwen of Dazhou abandoned Dazhou and transferred to Jingchu. Without Mo Chongwen's cooperation in the west, the target of the Bazhou offensive this time was retained, reduced by one, and added by one.

The general objective of the campaign to capture the city of Bazhou must be preserved. Because Bazhou is the target that the emperor named in the holy decree to recover. Whether or not Bazhou is successfully recovered is extremely important to the career of Liao Daheng and others.

The plan to encircle and gather the local tyrants under the city of Bazhou was abandoned. Because Mo Chongwen abandoned Dazhou, he let the local rioters come and go freely and unimpeded in the eastern flank of Badong. The Taiping camp guard Tan Hong's more than 1,000 people, according to the city to protect themselves and three times a day, where do they dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy?

As for the goal of the increase, of course, it is hoped that the local rioters will be attracted by the official army's Bazhou offensive, and withdraw the main force of the brigade from Pengzhou, Guang'an, and Hezhou to the north from Bazhou, so as to reduce the military resistance encountered by the Protector Army in recovering these three states. However, whether the local tyrants will easily give up the fat they have already arrived, and retreat north to Bazhou to fight the official army, Liao Daheng and Zhu Pingjin are not sure.

The intelligence work of the officers and soldiers is also very poor. They only know that the local tyrants who stayed in Bazhou to fight against the official army are the king of neatness, Shunhu Chaotianxing, Yang San and a king who does not know his real name, as for who is the leader of the local tyrants who ravaged Pengzhou, Guang'an, and Hezhou, and how many local tyrants remain in Bazhou, no one can say clearly.

The officers and soldiers were like a herd of blindfolded bulls, crashing headlong into the darkness.

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On this day, Luo Yuhong, who had not returned for a long time, was finally pulled back to Chengdu by the carriage with a clear nose, because she had a cold.

On the night of returning to Chengdu, Luo Yuhong, who was tired and sick, suddenly lost control of her emotions. First he threw something in the room, smashed a two-foot-tall piece of red coral, and then got into the quilt and cried bitterly.

Miss Luo suddenly lost control of her emotions, which immediately frightened many people. The eunuch Qin Yi, who stayed in the palace, went out of the palace overnight and knocked on the door of Zheng Anmin, the right chief. But when Miss Luo announced Zheng Anmin's audience on the second day, apart from her sick and tired appearance, Zheng Anmin couldn't see anything unusual on Miss Luo's face. On the contrary, Miss Luo also confidently announced to him: within two years, the Sichuan salt tax will be covered, which will add at least one million taels of silver to the annual income of the Shu Palace; And the tax collection of each county can also add one million stone of grain to the Shu Wangfu!

When Zheng Anmin carefully mentioned that the prince ordered that 50,000 stone of rice from Guanggan Cangchang be sent to Chongqing Mansion, instead of being angry, Miss Luo immediately ordered Zheng Anmin to contact the Qiu family in Chongqing Prefecture, and if there was still a warehouse capacity, another 50,000 stone of grain could be sent over.

Miss Luo said, this war against the local tyrant is not a war of the son alone. As the future princess known to the whole of Shu, she wants to live and die with the son. The prince did not return from the battle for a day, and all the personnel under the palace should be brace their spirits and use the speed and efficiency of wartime to deal with all kinds of things.

Finally, Miss Luo also clearly reminded Zheng Anmin that since the prince had a will before the expedition, during his absence from Chengdu, everything inside and outside the palace was under Miss Luo's orders, and the two teams of Shang and Zhuang, which had not yet participated in the war, were also under her full command. Then in all rear areas outside the theater of operations, all the reports that should be sent to the prince for review, whether military, political or civilian, should be submitted to her at the same time, which is the so-called "double-headed submission".

The correspondence between the prince and her should be carried out by special means to establish a safe and fast line. A letter arrives at Shunqing Mansion from Chengdu, and the time on the road must not exceed two days, which is called "800 miles expedited". Anyone who despises her must be recorded and archived, reported to the prince and handed over to the police department for trial, for the crime of losing the courtesy of the monarch and the minister!

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On this day, a team of about 100 people, carrying heavy bags, took advantage of the night to set off from a Wangzhuang named Deng Shuang in the south of Xinjin County, and quietly and secretly moved forward along the southeast foot of the Zonggang Mountain Range.

Their target is a big mountain in the north of Pujiang County, which is subordinate to Qiongzhou. Perhaps because of the cool breeze on the top of the mountain, this mountain is called the Cool Breeze Top by the locals. Halfway up the mountain with a cool breeze, the protruding cliffs on both sides half hold a paradise. This paradise is neither a Wang Zhuang nor a other business, but is said to be the nest of a bandit surnamed Meng in Jiajingnian. Although Mengjiazhai is dilapidated, it is good to shelter from the wind and rain; There is an ancient well in the village, and there is no risk of water interruption for personnel.

As an important measure for the layout of the Qiongmei action team of the intelligence bureau, Meng Jiazhai was selected by the captain Wei Shen as a special cantonment base for the action team. The reason why he values this place is that it is secluded and the location is good. From the cool breeze to the north, thirty miles away is the road from Qiongzhou to Meizhou. At the beginning of the year, Shizi led the army from Yazhou to Renshou County, and this is the way he walked.

It occupies the top of the cool breeze and can threaten the fastest communication line between Qiong and Mei at any time.

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Also on this day, more than 200 people from three families from a village in Huguang sold everything valuable and exchanged it for edible food, and then embarked on a long journey from Jingzhou to Sichuan. The three ethnic groups were surnamed Wang, Wen, and Pu, and originally lived in a village near Xiangyang. The thief entered Xiangyang, and the three surnames did not want to follow the thief, so they fled south and arrived in the rich Jingzhou through Jingmen.

Who knows that after a lot of hardships, Jingzhou is not a place to live. They wandered and wandered, living by working and begging. At this time, some clansmen heard with their own ears from the mouth of a benevolent and generous Shu clan that there is a son who loves the people like a son in Shu, and he will let the people have food to eat, have land to cultivate, and enjoy the peaceful and prosperous world again. The desperate patriarch of the three surnames decided to take a gamble and continue to travel west to Sichuan!

From Jingzhou to Chongqing alone, there are more than 2,000 miles, and it takes three months to walk on the road. On this road, there are thousands of mountains and ravines in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, tigers, leopards, jackals that eat people and do not spit out bones, officials and soldiers who behead and immature, and there are cruel and ferocious bandits.

They knew all of this, but they still didn't hesitate.

Note 1: The joint surface of the stone joint should not be too smooth, and it must be butted with fine and neat chisel lines, otherwise the bridge pier will slide open under the strong hydraulic impact.

Note 2: See the structure of the arch bridge in the "Qingming Riverside Map". If you are interested, you can try it with matchsticks or chopsticks.

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