Chapter 157: Attacking Zhang Xiu
Yang Xi silently calculated, the average speed of this rail train is about 60 per hour, which is not bad, compared to using pedal three-wheeled transportation to the mainland, this efficiency is not only ten times, but dozens or even a hundred times the calculation, if it is used livestock, there is almost no comparison.
Before the end of the year, the Danyang line and the Qichun to Shuxian line will also be completed, and it will be really under control at that time.
"It's time to talk to Wang Mastiff, if you start from Chaisang, there is a line connecting Liling and Haidu, then go up to Nanchang, and then go south, and then send a line from Nanchang to the east, connecting the counties, and then to Pengze. This is simply another Yangtze River. ”
Yang Xi feels that Wang Mastiff is easy to deal with now, and the current Wang Mastiff is older than ten years ago, and it should be a comfort to see the people living and working in peace and contentment.
Yang Xi decided that when the car arrived in Chaisang, he went to see Wang Mastiff and put the matter on the agenda.
What Yang Xi didn't know was that Wang Mastiff was in Chaisang at the moment, in addition to Wang Mastiff, even many county officials in Yuzhang County were there, and they also wanted to witness what Yang Xi's two-year project looked like.
In the past ten years, Yuzhang County has also been harmonious, Wang Mastiff was shocked by the changes that Yang Xi brought to Yuzhang County, he only needed to cooperate, and the result was that the taxes became more and more terrifying year by year.
Ten years after that war, the population of Yuzhang County of about 1.5 million has increased to 1.8 million, which was not an exaggeration for the largest county at that time.
In addition to the vast land and good climatic conditions of Yuzhang County, another reason is to solve the problem of food and clothing.
At this moment, Wang Mastiff was chatting with the woman next to him, this woman was the grandmother of the Luo family, who was in a hostile relationship back then, and he couldn't imagine that he could still stand together and talk about things now.
Wang Mastiff said: "Unexpectedly, you and I fought back then, and you were still scolding me on a horse, but now because of a relationship, you and I can get along in harmony, which is a miracle." ”
Zu Nan said: "My lord, this person's success is inevitable, we just happened at the right time and at the right time." Back then, my Luo family didn't make such a play, he still dominated the Yangtze River, do you believe it or not? ”
"Naturally, I believe it, don't talk about you and me, even Huang Zu, Cai Mao, Liu Jingzhou, and even Yuan Shu, in the end, they only became the stepping stones for this person." Wang Mastiff said.
Zu Nan said: "By the way, Lord Wang, the newspaper said that this rail car, from Wuchang to Chaisang, only takes half a day, is it a bit exaggerated, you must know that the Chenhe boat takes a day." ”
"It's about to be seen, he Wuchang Port agreed to set off at dawn, at this time noon has passed, three hours, if it is really as he said, it should be within half an hour. You see that there are tens of thousands of people watching here, and he Yang Xi will not be able to talk about it, so he will have fun with so many people. ”
The two were chatting, and it was estimated that it would take half an hour to arrive, but they heard the sound of the mountain crying long live from the distance, coming from the end of the tracks.
Wang Mastiff was shocked, it was so fast.
As Wang Mastiff expected, it was really so fast.
Maybe it's because of the first test drive, those cars are also very honored, as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, and everyone took three turns off on the way, and the speed was forced to increase by five kilometers per hour.
Wang Mastiff and the others saw that a long steel dragon slowly drove over, and finally slowly stopped, creaking and positioning, more than 100 people in the car, shirtless, but Yang Xi and others were behind, a total of more than 400 people came down.
So Meng Zhaoyuan, the county magistrate of Chaisang County, brought hundreds of primary school students, all holding flowers, lined up, and the flowers hanging around the necks of Yang Xi and others were full.
Yang Xi greeted him with a smile all the way, not that he was too tall, and he didn't have to tiptoe to see it in the crowd.
Yang Xi also saw Wang Mastiff, so he came up to greet everyone one by one, and then entered the Chenhe Hotel branch in Chaisang Port.
At this banquet, Yang Xi took the opportunity to talk about the plan to connect the railroad track to Yuzhang County, and Wang Mastiff immediately agreed.
But all the expenses and wages are paid by the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.
Yang Xi felt that this was not a loss, after all, the cars running on the railroad tracks were all their own goods, and every extra one was shipped, then there would be an income, and in the long run, it would definitely be earned.
This is the reason why later generations of capital signed contracts to build roads in China, in order to plunder the convenience of resources and the efficiency of dumping products.
Yang Xi also made this calculation.
Yuzhang County is so big, and the natural resources are also very rich.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you don't plunder, with this, the merchants around here are developing so fast that they are afraid that they will go to the sky.
At the end of the year, the railroad tracks were completed one after another, and it took only two years.
At the same time, Cao Cao, the general of Jiande, has also been proud of the spring breeze recently, not to mention the expansion of his power, this year's Tuntian has also had a great harvest, and he will get 1 million stone of grain in the first year, and he will no longer worry about the problem of military rations.
This tuntian system is the basis for Cao Cao's unification of the north.
Liu Bei is now temporarily sheltering in Cao Cao's place, Cao Cao takes it very seriously, and now his life is quite proud.
General Zhao Shan fought with Cao Ren in the east and west, making Cao Cao love and hate.
Love because it is invincible, and hate because it has killed two prisoners and slaughtered the city once in the process of conquest.
Seven or eight thousand people in a county town, because they helped the guards to defend the city, on the day the city was broken, Zhao Shan ordered to slaughter all the live mouths in the city, and the pigs and cattle were not spared.
But this kind of thing happens from time to time, and it can't make waves.
In the blink of an eye, in the second year of Jian'an, in the first month, one thing that should have happened did not happen.
Yuan Shu was supposed to be the emperor in the first month of this year, but now Yuan Shu only has a small piece of territory, plus Sun Ce, and only Wu County and Jiujiang, Danyang and Lujiang are not the emperor.
It can be regarded as Yuan Shu who escaped.
Moreover, Yuan Shu also ordered people to lead troops up to Runan County, and Sun Ce's brother Sun Xiang was ordered by Yuan Shu to be the Taishou of Runan. Since Yuan Shu did not claim the title of emperor, then Sun Ce had no reason to turn his face with Yuan Shu, because nominally, Sun Ce still belonged to Yuan Shu's generals.
In this way, Yuan Shu's power was maintained in Runan, Jiujiang and Wujun, plus two other small places, which could be regarded as not weak, with more than 80,000 armor.
In the first month, Liu Biao's strength was also expanded, but because of one thing.
In order to relieve the threat of Xu Du, Cao Cao led his troops to attack Zhang Xiu, who was stationed in Wan County. Zhang Xiu is the nephew of the hussar general Zhang Ji, the first year of Jian'an moved to Jingzhou with Zhang Ji, when he entered Nanyang County, Zhang Ji was shot dead by Liu Biaojun, Zhang Xiu then led the people to surrender to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, and Tunjun Wanxian, forming a great threat to Xudu, Cao Cao's army just entered Huashui, Zhang Xiu led the whole army to surrender.
As a result, Liu Biao lost Zhang Xiu and lost his strength.
Cao Cao likes to drink, and literati and writers are good at it.
Just got Zhang Xiu's surrender, naturally he wanted to have fun, but he was drunk on this day, and asked left and right, "Is there a prostitute in this city, is it a woman?" ”
Cao Cao's nephew Cao Anmin said: "Uncle, prostitute, what does it mean to be a woman, I saw a woman in Zhang Xiu's family yesterday, who is very beautiful, I asked, is Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Ji's wife, do you want ~?" ”
When Cao Cao heard this, his height suddenly increased from 1.55 meters to 1.6 meters.
This Cao Anmin knew his hobby too well, and said to Cao Anmin: "Hurry up, help me get this person, you don't have to go anywhere else, just go to the military tent, let them all disperse, disperse!" ”
At that time, all the generals were drunk, and they were bombarded by Cao Anmin, and they dispersed.
After a while, Cao Anmin took Zhang Ji's wife, and Cao Cao saw that it was really too beautiful, and he was extremely happy.