Chapter 627: Breaking New Ground

With the Yangtze River water transportation, the efficiency has been greatly improved, and the tonnage of the Huang family's inland river warships on the Yangtze River is not large, but there are already dozens of steel flats of about 100 tons, and with the reinforcement of the navy, no one can beat the base in Hankou.

Whether the imperial court maintains the Yangtze River waterway or not is not under the control of the Huang family, but the Huang family has set up a special team to dredge the waterway, and there are dozens of work boats, all of which are equipped with manual buckets, and the dredging of the waterway is always in progress.

The technology of underwater blasting of reefs has been improved a lot, and there is no problem in maintaining the safety of the channel of the Yangtze River from Hankou to Shizhu, which is already capable of passing more than 100 tons of flat-ground river boats.

When going up the Three Gorges against the current, too many slender men are needed, and the Huang family always selects these slender men to work in the army for more than three years, and they are undoubtedly good seedlings of mountain soldiers.

The efficiency of the Huangjia river and sea intermodal transport is remarkable, and the natural profits are huge, and the joy of the family is the purpose of the head of the family, so the Huang family's bid for the slender man is higher than that of other fleets, and the slender man's income is high, and of course his life is much better.

Besides, every young slender man has a dream in his heart, which is, of course, to be favored by the Huang family, and from now on, drag his family away from the tragic fate of pulling fiber, and become a reserve mountain soldier under the command of the "God of War".

Wuyi, who ran Yansui Town, also achieved great results in the past year or so, and he organized a wheelbarrow transport team to transport grain from Taiyuan City, where the General Military Office of Shanxi Town is located, and Datong City, where the General Military Office of Datong Town is located.

Datong and Taiyuan have already built new-style grain depots and opened "Huaxia Daqian Village" and post offices, and it is not easy to transport grain by land for thousands of miles, and the efficiency is low.

Yulin to Taiyuan in the later generations only more than 600 miles away, in the Ming Dynasty is a thousand miles away, the road conditions are still very bad, especially through Luliang Mountain is too time-consuming and laborious, no wheelbarrow is really difficult to transport.

Wuyi has already operated several military attachés of the Military Intelligence Department who have successfully ascended to the post, and these people have either become regimental drills or patrol inspectors, and have recruited many cavalrymen of the front army, with a number of more than 2,000.

The financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is deteriorating, and the cavalry is a kind of army that consumes money and food, and the border generals can only ensure the combat effectiveness of their own few soldiers, and barely maintain the war horses of the family members from losing fat.

Therefore, it is difficult for the border army to make a living when the imperial court inspects the soldiers and horses, and when the imperial court inspects the horses, it will be held accountable if the cavalry's horses are discarded, which leads to the serious flight of ordinary battalion soldiers.

The Huang family brought a large amount of money and grain to collect cavalry, and operated many grassroots military attaches who still played the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and easily recruited more than 2,000 horses.

Wu Yi transferred all their families to Zhongmingbao Tuntian, leaving only 500 cavalry in Yulin to ensure the safety of grain transportation, and the rest arranged for them to be trained and learn culture under Han Kuan.

At first, these border troops did not dare to take their families to the Shanhaiguan Outer Settlement, so Wuyi arranged for several officers to take a group of 300 people to Zhongming Fort for a field investigation.

These border troops saw the Twin Forts with unparalleled defensive power, the Huang family cavalry galloping with thousands of troops, the endless Tuntian, and the Huang family's tunhu were all living a nourishing life, and their hearts were moved.

They learned that as long as they came here, they would get five acres of private land, and if the family was attacked and killed by Jiannu, even if it was a woman, the Huang family would give a compensation of 100 taels of silver to the fallen soldier according to the standard of one person.

Three hundred years ago, the cavalry of the border army in Yansui Town returned to Yulin, and in 1510 told his comrades what they had seen and heard in the vicinity of Zhongming Fort for 200 miles, and also talked about the attitude of the Huang family towards the border army brothers.

In addition to the many ordinary people who took in, in the past year or so, the Huang family has transferred more than 50,000 people from Yansui Town to the vicinity of Zhongming Fort to settle for reclamation, and now there are more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in this territory, and more than 40,000 households.

Infiltrating the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty is a strategy, and striving to prevent the border army from becoming thieves is the basic task of the Military Intelligence Department.

The prestige of the "God of War" is as loud as in the nine sides, because there are many high-ranking generals here who have followed Huang Sheng to fight, and their promotion is the credit of following the Huang family.

Not only was the opening of the "Huaxia Daqian Village" and the post office and grain store in the important town of Jiubian not only not met with difficulties, but also received the help of too many civil and military generals, and even the price of requisitioned land was very fair, and many military households would come to work when the construction began.

The Huang family fed these military families and paid 30 Wenhua Tongbao as wages every day, and many military families were reluctant to leave, so they wanted to follow the Huang family to work forever.

The population of Zhongming Fort increased dramatically, and the garrison generals Han Kuan, Gu Shanhe, and Cao Hucheng still used the simplest and most effective method to prevent the construction of slaves.

Since Ningyuanxi, the policy of personnel only being allowed to enter but not leaving has been implemented, and the work of transporting supplies to Ningyuan and Jinzhou has also been undertaken by the Huang family.

The people who came from Liaodong and defected didn't need to bother to distinguish whether they were spies or not, and just sent them to Jiaozhi to become a member of the road construction laborers.

Fan Wencheng didn't know how many fine works he sent to Liaoxi to investigate, but there was no news, and the mystery of Zhongming Fort made Houjin dare not covet it.

On 7 September, the 150,000 troops of Iskandar Muda, the king of Aceh, finally entered the battlefield that had been waiting for a long time, and the cavalry assault of Li Dagang and Gu Yicang quickly blocked the enemy's retreat.

The 13,000 generals who participated in the battle and the 5,000 stormtroopers formed by the alien nationalities began to close the nets, and the one-sided encirclement and annihilation battle lasted for three days, a small half of the enemy army was wiped out, and nearly 100,000 people became prisoners.

Huang Sheng did not delay for a day, and immediately transferred the prisoners to Java Island, and still returned the captured cold weapons to them as soon as he got off the ship.

The rebels on the island of Java were reinforced by 100,000 men at once, and their strength skyrocketed.

Because these 100,000 people are very different from the old and young men and women who came before, most of them are soldiers who participated in the training, and all of them are young and strong.

As soon as the Dutch stabilized the situation and formed a strategic stalemate with the rebels, who knew that just two or three months later, the rebels launched a large-scale attack here, several strongholds farther from the sea were breached, and many Dutch soldiers and civilians were tortured and killed.

Java Island is really in a protracted holy war, the Dutch will never have a good time again, Huang Sheng is ready to let them continue to toss, wait for a year or two, and when the Dutch find that they can't defend Java Island, they can come forward to buy the East India Company, and equity participation can also be considered.

As the First World War almost annihilated the living force of the country of Aceh. In the months that followed, there were few major battles to be fought on the island of Sumatra, and the enemy was all looking for the wind.

All the Han Chinese were left behind, all the aliens were sent to Java, and probably more than a million people had gone to the jihad.

At present, it is conservatively estimated that there are no more than 400,000 indigenous people on the island of Sumatra, of which about 100,000 are women who are left behind, and can be married and concubineed by Han people in the future.