Liu Wenxiu left Nandu with the holy decree of Her Majesty the Empress and returned to Sichuan......

I could see that he was also speechless.

After all, no matter how you look at it, this is all Her Majesty the Empress making trouble, what is the use of Kang Xiangxi taking down those ghost places? It's nothing more than some cold and barren barren mountains and mountains, where even the natives themselves live without people or ghosts. However, this can be regarded as the final ruling of the Zhu Emperor on what they had done before, and they exchanged the opening of Kangzang and the addition of a province directly under the Ming Dynasty in exchange for the Zhu Emperor's pardon for the clan they killed.

Yang Qing's credibility still reassures them.

So the next thing they need to do is just complete this task.

Of course, that's their business.

Yang Qing is not interested in caring anymore, as for the crusade against Burma, it is just a cooperation project between the two sides, and it has nothing to do with this task, after all, if you want to supply the conquest of Burma by the four armies, you must cooperate with Zhang Xianzhong. Only Zhang Xianzhong can recruit enough people in Sichuan to support the long transportation line from Xuzhou to Kunming, and if he wants to cross 3,000 miles by land to support 100,000 firearms soldiers, he will have to transport at least three times as many young and middle-aged people. It's not modern times when there are cars and roads, and the people have to use donkeys, mules, and even flat burdens to travel between mountains and mountains on a road that is impassable even for four-wheeled carriages......

This is the famous five-foot road.

Although it can no longer be described by this word after being widened and repaired over the years, most of them are still stone mountain roads.

There are even a lot of stepped ones.

Not to mention the four-wheeled carriages, even the carts are very difficult, and they can only use porters and packers, and the packers are limited by the number of livestock, and it is difficult to really solve the transportation of materials for a large army of this scale......

This is not the era of cold weapons.

The age of cold weapons did not require the transportation of ammunition.

Food can be partially solved on the spot, if it is a cavalry expedition, even logistics are not needed, with knives, guns, bows and arrows to fight wherever you go, and the speed of movement can ensure that you can plunder supplies as much as possible along the way. Therefore, the Mongol cavalry could make a detour to attack Dali through Kangzang, because they did not need logistics, and the Ming Dynasty's operations from Yunnan to northern Burma had to rely on the collection of materials from Yunnan.

But now is the age of firearms, every shell, every rocket, every box of bullets needs to be transported from the rear.

There is also no water transport in Yunnan.

The shipping of the Jinsha River can only be used for small boats to go down, not up......

Actually, it doesn't really ship either.

This river is a real Jinsha water to beat the clouds and cliffs warm rapids, even the boat going down has to be like gambling on life, maybe it will be destroyed at some time, and maybe when the alluvial sediment and rocks will form a new reef underwater, so the land route from Kunming to Yibin is the main transportation between Yunnan and the outside world.

The rest is the Stilwell Highway.

Yang Qing is indeed building this highway called the Beijing-Yunnan National Highway, but it is estimated that after five years, there is no hope at this time.

There are also two in and out of Yunnan.

One is to go to Guangxi, which is currently the area controlled by the Tusi of western Guangxi, which is also completely transported by land packs, and the other is to the Red River, that is, from Pingbian to the water route through Vietnam, the Butou Road in the Tang Dynasty. However, this is not part of the Ming Dynasty, and in fact the route also includes rafting down the Lixian River from Pu'er after the rainy season. Within the scope of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Qing's only choice at present is to transport the Yangtze River to Yibin, which is now Xuzhou, to the south, to transport materials to Kunming by land, and then turn from Kunming to Dali until Tengchong to Bamo.

Now it's called Manmo.

From this small river port into the Irrawaddy River.

The distance of land transportation in mountainous areas is more than 3,000 miles.

It is impossible for Guizhou and Yunnan, which are controlled by Yang Qing, to recruit so many people nearby, especially not to affect agricultural production.

You must know that the total number of young and middle-aged people in Guizhou is no more than 300,000, and a little more in Yunnan is only 500,000 or 600,000, adding up to 900,000 in the sky, and one-third of the young and middle-aged people supply military supplies is still a bit too exaggerated. Only by gathering the strength of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can we ensure that production will not be affected, after all, Sichuan itself has three million young people. Yunnan and Guizhou provinces plus Hunan transferred some militia, gathered 150,000 young men to be responsible for the transportation from Kunming to Tengchong, and Zhang Xianzhong was responsible for the transportation from Yibin to Kunming with Sichuan people, and finally formed a complete transportation line to ensure the supply of the front line. As long as the logistics could be supplied, 100,000 Ming troops could drift down the Irrawaddy River during the dry season and arrive in Mandalay, or Awa as it is now called, in less than ten days. The core of the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma is in the entire Irrawaddy River valley south of Awa, and the capital is in Taungoo, 300 kilometers away, so the war must be that the Ming army will attack Ava, and the Burmese army will rescue and fight a decisive battle in this area from the south to the north.

After Ava is the hinterland of Donghu.

It is equivalent to the Shanhai Pass of the Donghu Dynasty.

The Taungoo dynasty ruled over a population of 2 million in 1635, a number estimated by the Europeans based on their tax figures, which should have been even less now, and they had entered a period of decline over the years.

They mobilized a maximum of 300,000 troops.

In fact, this number is also very difficult, because the Donghu Dynasty is only Burmese, whether it is the Mon or the Shan, they are all hoping that they will be unlucky, and these guys are even most likely to cooperate with the Ming army, so it is absolutely impossible for the Donghu people to really mobilize more than 200,000.

100,000 Ming troops were enough.

Not only to defeat Donghu, but also to restore rule over the other Tusi, then the only problem is logistics.

"If you want to get rich, build roads first!"

The Protector sighed.

In front of him was a brand-new train, parked on the same brand-new railway, which was more or less a real train than the Thomas Train before it, at least much more pleasing to the eye than Stephenson's Voyager. There were a total of ten carriages hanging in the back, all of which were simple and wooden, and what was parked in front of Yang Qing was a special luxury carriage with a huge sofa inside......

"Everyone, let's start a new era together!"

He said with a smile.

There was applause on either side of him.

And around this train was a cheer, even on the city wall not far from them and on the Yuejiang Tower, which was already crowded with people, the same cheers were resounding in the sky.

"Your Majesty, please!"

The Lord Protector turned around and bowed down to make a petition.

Behind him, Her Majesty the Empress, who was wearing a purple dragon robe and a black gauze winged crown on her head, immediately stretched out her right hand, and then the imperial husband took the empress's jade hand like a little plum serving Concubine Yi. Her Majesty the Empress stepped forward in cheers, and the Lord Protector took her hand half a step behind, and continued to bow down in a speechless manner, as if they were really the eldest of the Empress. Then the Empress stepped on the pedal in front of the door, walked into the carriage with the Imperial Husband, sat down on the sofa, and the Protector hurriedly stood aside, and Her Majesty raised her hand and smiled to greet the people on both sides.

At the same time, the passengers in front of the doors of the other nine carriages walked in and sat down in the double seats.

This is the first commercial railway in Daming.

It took only eight months to build.

Of course, in fact, it is from the wharf to the steel plant, the total length of more than 40 miles, in order to avoid the Qinhuai River in the south, Yang Qing chose the line from the north of the city, that is, the modern Nanjing railway station, bypassing Zhongshan and then turning south, and the freight road in the south just complements each other. Along the way, there is no mountain to block the second real river, not even the swamp forest, is to lay the roadbed in the Huangzhuang farmland on the periphery of Nanjing and install the track sleepers, the real bridge is a truss bridge of tens of meters.

Such a railway was officially opened to traffic in more than half a year with the participation of tens of thousands of militiamen gathered by the surrounding Huangzhuang.

Just stand at the end of the two.

However, like the train of the steam age, it can be stopped casually, and some people on the road only need to wait at the stop sign if they want to get on the train, but passenger transportation is a fresh, after all, this point is only half a day's walk, mainly to transport coal and iron ore. High-grade iron ore from Hainan Island is transported directly to the steel mill by train, and coal from the upstream is also transported to the coking plant by this railway.

Of course, this also includes the transportation of goods from other factories along the route.

The area is developing into an industrial area.

More and more chimneys stood at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, so much so that the Ministry of Rites was dissatisfied with this, after all, these chimneys had destroyed the scenery of Zhongshan Mountain.

"Drive!"

Yang Qing stood behind his wife and said to the driver waiting outside the door.

The latter immediately saluted and left.

Immediately after that, under the expectant gaze of the people on both sides, he boarded the locomotive and stood at his post......

Open-air.

Actually, there should be a shed.

But today's weather is good, the warm sun of early spring does not need shade and no need to shade the rain, so there is no need for a shed at all, the open air is bright, the vision is wide, it may be a little smoky, after all, the big chimney is in front. However, the driver did not think of this at this time, he quickly turned on the steam engine, and with the sound of a whistle, the train slowly started under the steam drive......

A boiling cheer rang out.

As the wheels of the train turned, Her Majesty continued to wave to her subjects in her special carriage.

Then the train speeds up.

One by one, her subjects passed backwards.

The Lord Protector is still standing there, protecting Her Majesty the Empress in a serious manner.

The train continued to accelerate.

Soon it began to turn on the railroad tracks, and the train, which was originally parallel to the Yangtze River, quickly turned eastward, and then the cheering crowd in the middle of the road continued to flow backwards, and the Zhongshan Mountain standing in the distance kept getting closer......

"Sometimes I wonder, where is the boundary of knowledge?"

Her Majesty suddenly became profound.

She held her cheeks blankly, leaning on the armrests of the sofa, looking at the subjects who were passing faster and faster, her face was still pretty against the background of the black gauze winged crown and purple dragon robe......

"Just be your empress, pretend to be a philosopher!"

The Protector patted her on the back of the head and said.

Her Majesty covered the back of her head and gave him a roll of the eye.