Chapter 529: Dead?
How long does it take to get from Changan to Jeju?
The answer is that it takes four and a half days to deliver a piece of news at the fastest speed, and about eight days if it is a person.
The opening of the Changluo Railway has greatly saved the time for personnel exchanges, and now most people go to Luozhou first, and then take the train to Chang'an.
Although it may seem like a detour at times, it saves a lot of time, and over time, trains have begun to be accepted.
Especially those businessmen who value their time and money are more and more concerned about this.
The sleeper carriage allowed these merchants to find another shortcut, only need to sleep, only need a day, can reach Chang'an.
In terms of freight, the results are even more prominent, fast and low, as a budget-conscious businessman, what reason is there not to choose train freight?
Insurance, on the other hand, is a seamless cooperation with the railway to underwrite the goods, of course, at the cost of the owner of the goods.
Fortunately, the price is not expensive, the default small box needs one money, two dollars for the middle box, three dollars for the large box, the insurance amount is 200 yuan, 400 yuan and 600 yuan, if you need to insure the price, the premium will continue to rise, and the price of one dollar per 200 yuan will be accumulated.
In this way, the railroad and the royal insurance are a win-win situation, the railway no longer has to pay compensation for the fear of losing goods, and the insurance has another way to earn money.
Of course, although the loss of goods does not need to be compensated by rail, if it is really lost, there is still a penalty for the officials on duty, this punishment is not money, but it is their future, and they may not be promoted, or even demoted, or expelled, etc.
It not only protects the interests of the insurance company, but also maintains the reputation of the railway, of course, the scope of compensation is not only limited to loss, but also includes damage and so on.
After coming and going, between Chang'an and Luozhou, the price within a radius of 100 miles has magically dropped by more than a quarter after a year.
Railways and insurance companies, as well as merchants, have made money, and the people have also received actual benefits, and Datang can be described as a good situation in China.
And the cabinet is even talking about the railway, such as where should the next railway be built? How to plan to maximize the benefits, and even many people are looking forward to how much benefit will be generated when the railway is built to Haizhou?
The sound of this discussion in the middle of the court was interrupted by a fast ride.
Fast Ride does not use a train, because the speed of the train is still too slow compared to the two.
Only letters below 400 miles will be delivered by train, and above 400 miles, it is better to pass through the post station system.
And each person only needs to drive twenty miles away, and this distance will not have much impact on people and horses.
"Wang Xuance has fully captured Jeju, and Jeju Wang Gaohou has also chosen to attach the Tang Dynasty, but on the way to Chang'an, he encountered extreme weather, and although the fleet took emergency countermeasures, it still lost eleven transport ships, including a ship carrying the Gaohou family, and the crew lost nearly 500 people...... Li Yuanji roughly explained the situation.
The faces of the ministers were instantly stunned, and the previous excitement dissipated in an instant.
What did you encounter at sea? They don't know, and they don't have the opportunity to know.
The loss of eleven ships, they may not care, the loss of nearly five hundred crew members, they may not care, but the death of the Gao Hou family, they have to care.
This is a political problem, more serious, and it will even have a huge impact on the recruitment of sailors in the future of Datang, which will make people afraid of the sea, and also make the next conquered place afraid of the sea, and even dare not take Datang's warships again.
Li Yuanji's words, they will not believe it at all.
Because everyone knows that a king like Gao Hou is not liked by Li Yuanji in his heart.
Even those kings of the Western Regions are now in Chang'an, but they have brought a lot of trouble to the imperial court, and Li Yuanji even thought about getting rid of them, but was later persuaded by Wei Zheng.
At this time, there is no reason to get another idle king, don't you feel messy?
It's just that why did Gao Hou die on the road? Are you going to die at sea?
"Your Majesty, the minister feels that the officials involved should be punished." Fang Xuanling sighed in his heart, and could only continue according to Li Yuanji's meaning.
The thing has been done, what can he do? Is it difficult to come forward to expose Li Yuanji's lies?
And don't you see it? He also pulled out eleven transport ships and nearly 500 officers and soldiers as a foil, at this time, even if someone said that Datang deliberately killed the Gao Hou family, I am afraid that it is not very convincing.
After all, to kill the Gao Hou family, it is enough to sink only one ship, and there is no need to take five hundred soldiers and eleven ships.
Of course, this is just an announcement.
Li Yuanji and they did this very secretly, but Fang Xuanling still found some problems, of course, they only found it inadvertently.
About 2,000 families left through Haeju before, and the destination was Jeju, and Fang Xuanling had absolute reason to believe that among the more than 2,000 residents, there were definitely families of 500 soldiers who died in an accident.
And the eleven transport ships, hehe, Datang said that it sank as many as it sinks, and which one it says sinks, after all, there are so many ships, no one can find which one is missing.
Even, in fact, there may not be a single ship lost.
"It's a punishment! All the officers involved who bear direct leadership responsibility will be fined for half a year! Li Yuanji nodded and said without pain.
The ministers were speechless, but they couldn't find any problems.
Moreover, what can I say about this feeling, I feel that the punishment of these generals is not to give an explanation to the Gao family, but to give an explanation to those soldiers who were killed.
Well, the emperor's world, of course, is what the emperor says, no one will take this aspect seriously, and they don't believe that 500 soldiers died.
The ministers, who had long been accustomed to Li Yuanji, did not continue to say more at this time, but looked at Li Yuanji one by one, knowing that some words had not yet been finished.
"The other is about the next planning and arrangement...... "Seeing that the ministers have seen through their lies, Li Yuanji is not embarrassed, anyway, this matter is a good thing for Datang, what is there to hide?" For Jeju, he has the confidence to make the people have a sense of belonging to Datang.
"The previous reconnaissance of Jeju was only on the surface of the sea, and did not go deep into the land to conduct reconnaissance, so there was a big deviation in intelligence.
In this operation, not only did they occupy the whole of Jeju with negligible losses, but they also gained a deeper understanding of the situation in Jeju.
There are about 100,000 aborigines on Jeju Island, and the cultivated land is about 1 million mu, and the degree of development is only about one-third of that of the entire Jeju Island.
The purpose of the training was not achieved, so Wang Hyunce's suggestion was to send supplies to Jeju Island from now on, as long as the weather permitted, and prepare for four months before launching an attack on Baekje at the end of August. The other is to increase the number of troops in case Goguryeo comes to the rescue. ”
"This ...... Isn't it a bit too rushed? Cheng Zhijie was stunned, he didn't plan to speak, but now he had to speak.
According to the plan, it would be at least four or five years before an attack on Baekje would be launched.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty was completely ready, and Wang Xuance had almost 100,000 troops in his hands, and on land, he could also gather at least 200,000 troops to attack from both sides and destroy Baekje and Goguryeo in one fell swoop.
But now there are only more than 50,000 people in Wang Xuance's hands, and the imperial court has just put forward a plan, and it has not even begun to be implemented, so it will start at this time, which means that the troops in Wang Xuance's hands will be increased to more than 100,000 in a short period of time, and preparations must also begin on land.
But how can this kind of preparation be so easy?
The railway has not yet been built, and a large number of materials can only be transported by manpower, and it will take at least a year to prepare for such a long distance, and even so, it is still not safe to say that it is safe.
Baekje is not to be feared, and what is really worrying is Goguryeo.
And when the Tang Dynasty attacked Baekje, would the Goguryeo people not see the intentions of the Tang Dynasty? At this time, the whole country will definitely rescue Baekje, otherwise the next one to be destroyed will be Goguryeo.
If it was only a one-sided war, Goguryeo could still use the terrain to delay and even drag the Tang army down, but if there was no material problem on both sides, no one could come up with a reliable reason to make Goguryeo sit back and watch.
"I'm in a hurry!" Li Yuanji nodded, he also felt a little anxious.
But it is also very clear that the fighter plane is fleeting, and the best way is for the Tang Army to quickly destroy all the countries on the Korean Peninsula in a short period of time with the speed and advantage of destroying the withering and decaying, so that it can become the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Because the Korean Peninsula is important and not important to Li Yuanji, his real goal is Japan.
Five years and ten years are too long, and Li Yuanji also feels that he can't wait, but in this case, he can only go in an unconventional battle mode.
"Next year, this time next year, an attack on Baekje. It took a year to prepare and mobilize as many supplies as possible to Jeju, and at the same time, the shipyard also had to speed up the construction of more transport ships and warships. On land, feints were mainly used to deter Goguryeo from pouring out, and they could not easily enter the battle unless necessary. As for the increase in troops......
Transfer the new army to ......" Li Yuanji said lightly, as if all this was not a problem.