If you want to talk about such a big project as building bridges and roads, the greater the power of the person in charge, the faster the progress of this project, just like an ordinary civilian wants to dig a small ditch in his own land, then he can naturally dig whatever he wants, but if he wants to dig an aqueduct from a big river hundreds of miles away, then first of all, not to mention whether the people along the way will let him dig, even if he is allowed to dig, he can't dig it, because he has no one!

Daming is Zhu Cijiong's own land, and if he wants to build a railway, he will naturally build it as much as he wants, and if he wants people, he will pull it up casually It is 700,000 laborers; For materials, the railroad tracks of the steel mill have been piled up like mountains, and the stone sleepers of various state capitals, counties and townships are gathering along the line; Who dares to say that you can't beat me like this, a sentence of "the emperor has a decree", climb away immediately, otherwise you will die, this death is not an adjective, it is really fatal!

In short, all parties are actively participating, the construction of the entire railway is amazingly fast, three months, it only took three months, and the railway from Jinling Mansion to Siming Mansion was completed in early October!

Zhu Cijiong originally thought that he would mobilize more than 80 trains to pull all the 200,000 troops and his entourage over at one time, but this time it was not only the First Army of the Praetorian Guard Army and the Second Army of the Border Guards who went to Nanyang, but also the war was not just about people passing by, all kinds of materials had to be transported in place, and all parts of the line were desperately mobilizing materials, and the trains were not enough at all.

In order not to affect the progress of other aspects, Zhu Cijiong only mobilized more than 40 trains in the end, and then dragged the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard and his entourage to Siming Mansion with him.

This military dispatch to Nanyang can be said to be one of the few major operations in the Ming Dynasty over the years, and the entourage is naturally indispensable:

Needless to say, Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun are to protect his safety and take care of his daily life, so they must be brought;

Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the military department, should also bring it to assist him in managing the army;

Cheng Guoxiang, the head of the household department, also had to bring it to assist him in managing logistics;

Wu Meicun, the general political envoy, also brought it this time, and with such a big action, the propaganda work must keep up;

and Zheng Chenggong also has to bring it, this kid is about to become an adult, and he will command the navy for him in the future, so he will naturally take him to study and study in such a big war;

and Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, is also waiting for him in Jinling, after all, the south is his jurisdiction, and he has to coordinate the deployment of all kinds of materials;

There are many, many more, so I won't go into detail here, but there is also a group of very special people here, that is, the Guozi priest Zodiac Zhou and a group of well-known Shuoru in China.

Anyway, this is to go to war, what are you doing with these Shuo Ru?

The so-called "salute first and then soldier", the purpose of the Ming Dynasty this time is not to destroy all the vassal states in Nanyang, but to make them completely surrender and accept the "Ming Vassal State Decree System", after all, not everyone is an outlaw, and some people may surrender without fighting, so Zhu Cijiong decided that before the fight, he would send the Ming envoys to the vassal states to announce the decree, that is, read out the "Ming Vassal State Decree System", if you are willing to accept it, it is easy to say, great preferential treatment, and if you are not willing to accept it, it is easy to say, and fight directly.

This is a subservient person, it is good to declare it, if it is not good, it is possible that people will directly kill the person who announced the decree, Nanyang is a famous Nanban region after all, this kind of thing is possible, so the person who went to announce the decree is likely to die!

Zhu Cijiong didn't know which people to send after thinking about it, and finally he thought of Huang Daozhou, of course, he didn't want to send Huang Daozhou, but wanted Huang Daozhou to find the right person.

Huang Daozhou is not a good person, he is a typical rotten Confucian, hard and hard, to put it nicely, he is principled, has integrity, would rather die than give in, people like him are not lacking in all dynasties, so there is a group of like-minded people who are the only ones who look forward.

For these people, to declare the decree for the Ming Dynasty and let the barbarians surrender, it is simply a great glory, even if they are killed by the barbarians because of this, it is also a model of history, and there are many people who want to go down in history at this time, so as soon as Huang Daozhou conveys the emperor's meaning, the people who come to "look for death" are like carp crossing the river, and there is an endless stream!

For a time, the Guozijian, which was originally full of cultural atmosphere, that is, the Daming Academy of Arts and Sciences, almost became a martial arts arena, and all parties went into battle shirtless, frantically competing for a limited number of "death" places.

This situation even frightened Huang Daozhou, those usually gentle and elegant masters were like crazy at this time, and they couldn't pull it, if they didn't know that the force value was not enough, it is estimated that someone would have started to beat everyone down!

Huang Dao saw that it was terrible to go on like this, and if he really fought, it would be insulting, and in the end, he could only put forward hard indicators and set the screening criteria.

The rules he set are very simple, this hard indicator is the grade, it must be or has been a member of the court above the third grade, and the reason is also very sufficient, this time it is on behalf of the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the emperor to announce the decree, the grade is not embarrassed enough to be the envoy of the Heavenly Empire!

"Huh", nearly ninety percent of the people have been brushed down, although there are many officials in the Ming Dynasty, but there are not many people above the third grade, that is the officials above the Ministry of Waiters, how many can there be in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The screening criteria are simpler, that is, according to age, after all, the old is virtuous, the virtuous is respected, the older you are, the more respectable you should be, now, everyone has nothing to say, and the last ten Shuoru with white hair and beard are smiling Jiuquan, oh, no, it is a smile to be elected.

Of course, these ten people may not be able to use them, it seems that the Ming Dynasty does not seem to have so many vassal states in Nanyang, but it doesn't matter, it's still the old way, whoever is older will go first, anyway, the person has already been selected, and the emperor just gives an order.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't cry or laugh, there are still people scrambling to go to this "death", and there are also seniority rankings, these people are strange enough, and the screening criteria of the zodiac week are simply bull's head and not the horse's mouth, many places in Nanyang are lofty mountains, and if you want to choose, you can also choose some years and strong, these old men who seem to be blown down by the wind, can they go over the mountains and mountains?

Fortunately, the envoys of the Heavenly Empire must have gone in a sedan chair, forget it, but it is just that those who carry the sedan chair suffer, if it is a young and strong messenger, he can also come down and let people pull it over when he goes over the mountain, and it will be much easier for the sedan chair to be lifted empty, as for these old men, you don't expect them to get off the sedan chair.

However, in the end, Huang Daozhou's words dispelled all Zhu Cijiong's dissatisfaction, because Huang Daozhou said: "These are people who are high-spirited and look at death as home!" “

Yes, the envoy of the Heavenly Dynasty must have integrity, must not be afraid of death, if he accidentally assigns a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death to announce the decree, he himself will lose his own people, if he loses the face of the Ming Dynasty, it will be .......