Chapter 383: The Convenience of the Post Road

"Metropolitan Governor, do you see if you can let the Huaxia Army also send troops to help the Southern Ming Kingdom fight the Portuguese? The Portuguese are too powerful, at least at the same level as the Huaxia Army, and I can't cope with it in the Southern Ming Kingdom. ”

Although Zhang Qiang gave guns and cannons, and sent people to help them train the army, it was not until the end that Zhang Qiang knew that he realized that this was the case, no wonder Su Guansheng personally came over to ask the Huaxia Army to send troops to help them fight.

Zhang Qiang reacted, looking at Su Guansheng's eyes, "You really don't want to solve it yourself, you want us to help you fight?" After speaking, Zhang Qiang looked at Su Guansheng with a smile.

Su Guansheng looked at Zhang Qiang's eyes and shuddered suddenly, "This, it's better not to do it, the Huaxia Army can send some people to help train the soldiers." Su Guansheng hesitated for a moment, and immediately changed his mind, a lesson from the past, the Huaxia Army is too pitiful, the Longwu Nanming of the pit has destroyed the country several times, and it is weak and unbearable, every time the territory of Longwu Nanming is returned to the Huaxia Army, which cannot but make people vigilant.

"Forget it, I'll go to the front line to see it myself, find out, and see how you and the Portuguese fell to the ground to fight, everything just said is business as usual, and what the Huaxia Army promised will not change." Zhang Qiang waved his hand.

"Thank you Governor Dadu, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor Su, I would like to thank the Governor for his profound understanding of righteousness and saving the people from fire and water."

Zhang Qiang ended the conversation with him, and all the material transfers reached the military department through His Excellency, and then Zhang Qiang and Zhou Congee explained that they would guard the door of their homes, take care of the negotiations with the Qing army, and rush to Xiangshan with the guard regiment, where He Jin was commanding the troops to besiege the Portuguese, and the order must be much faster than Zhang Qiang's guard regiment.

The Huaxia Army began to build post stations from the era of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and the post stations were only used for the transmission of intelligence and intelligence personnel, heralds, and officials at or above the ministerial level to travel and work, generally there was no official business, and officials at any level could not use the post station, so as to ensure that the resources of the post station were used in the transmission of intelligence, and the transmission of orders from the center and the local area was fast and convenient.

In addition, another function of the post station is to send, receive, and transmit official letters from various localities and centers, and later the function of civil letters was added.

The post station has a special two-lane stagecoach, the road where the stagecoach walks, ordinary people can not walk on the road, there are special cleaning and nursing people and people on the post road, and there are post station garrisons and horses sent by the post station to patrol the line, once the act of destroying the post station is found, the current resistance is killed, and those who are caught are sent to the local Ministry of Industry Yamen for interrogation, and then handed over to the officials of the Ministry of Supervision for interrogation, convicted, and after conviction, the condemned prisoners are all sent to the local prisoner camp for reform, and the official documents are sent to the Central Supervision Department for the record.

Ordinary people or soldiers who violate the rules will be fined 1 Huaxia Yuan to 200 Huaxia Yuan, and at the same time sent to the local post cleaning and maintenance department to work for one to seven days.

With such a strict system, to a large extent, the malicious sabotage or unintentional collision of post horses, heralds, and intelligence personnel by most people was prevented, and it played a great role in the Chinese army's government orders reaching all directions.

These are free of charge, two-thirds of the expenditure is allocated by public funds, and the rest is paid by the income generated by the function of sending letters at the post station.

Of course, these do not guarantee the balance of income and expenditure of the post station, so the cleaning and maintenance department in them is used by low-wage nearby people, by the militia, the soldiers who have retired from the army serve as managers, and at the same time send some prisoners who behave well in the camp and are about to be released from prison to be sent here to let them reform in this department, generally in the last year, honest personnel, who have not opposed the history of the Huaxia Army, but only because they are forced or coerced to resist the prisoners of the Huaxia Army. Moreover, most of these captives were people who wanted to become civilians in the territory of the Huaxia Army.

From the central Jinhua Mansion to the seaside, across the sea, and to Baozhong City, Tang Dianfeng's defense area conveyed the news, the slowest was seven days, the fastest was just over three days, and the time to reach Guangzhou Mansion was only four days, that is to say, the longest time for the government order to walk on the road was only seven days, and the administrative efficiency of the Huaxia Army was about eight days.

That's a lot of speed.

There is a green belt next to the post road, a ditch through the water, it is a road, and the Chinese army uses prisoners to work on the road, so the cost can be said to be very low, and there is almost no financial funds used.

Usually they are not sent here for the death penalty or serious criminals, and the important prisoners are working in the hard labor camps, and those people are kept in well-guarded places, and the places where they work are under the river banks, in the valleys, in the mines, where there is danger, where they are taken, and it doesn't matter if they die.

At present, the Huaxia army is holding 500,000 such prisoners, and there are also nearly 100,000 such prisoners in the hard labor camps, so that in a few years, the roads can be built in all directions, the water dug in various waterways can be unimpeded, shipyards and wharves can be built, and even the walls of some prefectures have been demolished, expanded by several kilometers and rebuilt with stones, new moats have been dug up, and the defenses of the prefectures have been renovated.

Tunnels through the mountains have been opened, nearby roads have been built, and roads around the mountains have been built.

Later generations used so much money, so many tunnels, bridges, roads, the Chinese military used hundreds of thousands of people, one hand at a time to build out, did not spend much money, how much money, this Zhang Qiang learned from the United States, the United States used Chinese workers to build a railway, it can be said that every railway, every kilometer below the sleepers, buried the corpses of these Chinese workers, and the same is true of the Chinese army, under every road, under every kilometer of road, there are at least a few prisoners buried under the road.

For these people, Zhang Qiang will not say that they are members of the Chinese nation, nor will he say that they are Chinese, because now is the end of the Ming Dynasty, when national integration has not yet reached its peak and has not stopped, and everyone is still a person of their own nationality and a person of their own country, that is to say, an enemy country.

For the people of the enemy country, it can only be said that it is human, and now there is no ****** crime, it is the robber in order not to be oppressed by others, and the wreckage himself is condemned, a bit of a virgin.

For the sake of Daming and Huaxia, Zhang Qiang felt that such a sacrifice was worth it.

The post road extends in all directions, the avenue is neat and wide, Zhang Qiang's guard regiment is also fast, it is okay to take the land route, it is also possible to take the waterway, and it is faster to take the waterway, but it is a bit grinding to transfer the materials to the ship, Zhang Qiang led the guard regiment full of cavalry to go by land, and it is only a matter of ten days.

(End of chapter)