Chapter 261: There is a good way for the logistics battalion to arrive

Farewell to Yizhou and the people who sent each other nearby, Zhang Wang's two families raised the banner and began to go to the capital along the winding road, from here to the capital, nearly two thousand miles away.

Walking twenty or thirty miles a day is relatively fast, when the road is difficult to walk, half a day can not move a step, plus this year's large-scale snowfall, even Yizhou, that is, Chengdu where there is light snow, not to mention other places.

Five days later, when Zhang Zhong watched the team carefully protect the livestock on the road little by little, he found his son and daughter-in-law, and said to the two people: "Xiaobao, Juanjuan, the road from Jiannan Road to the capital really has to be repaired." ”

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan glanced at each other blankly, their faces changed, and the words that came out of Zhang Zhong's mouth made the two of them feel scared than letting Zhang Xiaobao use 50,000 guan to fight an economic war with the other party's 400,000 guan, and letting Wang Juan lead a thousand people to fight against the Tubo army.

Zhang Xiaobao clicked his mouth twice and asked with concern: "Dad, are you tired?" It's better to have someone carry you along, and the speed can be increased by passing the bend in front of you. ”

"I'm not tired, even if I'm tired, it's nothing, there are so many people helping each other, resting while walking, but the people are tired, don't we have **, do we have cement? It was fried with **, reinforced with cement, and repaired from Yizhou, where it is still being repaired, so it can be connected. ”

Zhang Zhong frowned, and said with the people in his heart, Zhang Xiaobao estimated the price, repaired from Yizhou to Chengdu City, and then repaired several major roads around it, just counting the cost, it would take 600,000 yuan, how far is that? Unless it's a blind deal, use the road that will be scrapped in two years, that's cheap.

Father's intention is obviously not to build the kind of road that is only for political achievements and does not really think about people's livelihood, so how much does it cost? Convert the current Zhang Wang's two industries into money, and let Li Xun come out of it, it is estimated that it would be good to be able to repair one-third, and it should not be too wide, and it will take a detour when you encounter a mountain.

It also has to be maintained, one is cold and one is hot, there is no technology to lay the foundation, the sand and soil layer are easy to break, and then encounter a little water, how much money do you need to invest in it every year?

Zhang Xiaobao thinks that this task is too difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, the sky is good, you can go up by making a big hot air balloon, so it will be more money?

Seeing that his son didn't speak, Zhang Zhong proposed again: "Or build a canal, you two have to think of a way." ”

"Dad, it's better to build roads, we have to wait, when we occupy two more islands overseas, we can achieve it, and then the family should have enough money, how can we bring other businessmen in? With everyone's efforts, the road will be built, and it will be maintained by the merchants who work hard every time the road is broken. ”

Zhang Xiaobao first drew a big cake for his father, and promised to come down and talk about it later.

Zhang Zhong thought that with a son and daughter-in-law of the gods, it was easy to build a road, and when he saw that his son agreed, he nodded with a smile, and went to look elsewhere with his hands behind his back.

Wang Juan touched Zhang Xiaobao: "Do you really plan to build a road from Xi'an to Chengdu?" ”

"It depends on whether the benefits that can be obtained from this road are enough, the benefits are enough, the repair, and the benefits are not enough, and the delay." Zhang Xiaobao did not deny or confirm.

"What are the benefits of this road? Is it to make the transportation between the two places convenient? Wang Juan felt that it was worthless, at least now he couldn't repair it, what he paid was not proportional to what he gained, it was only for the convenience of a small number of people, so it was better to invest the money elsewhere.

If it's because of the military, it's pretty much the same, but it's not my own business, Li Longji's business.

Zhang Xiaobao looked left and right, and saw that the three old men were not beside him, and whispered to Wang Juan: "This road does not have much interest, but the Silk Road has it, and the tea horse road has it.

When the time comes, you will lead the troops out and knock down all the people over there, why don't I believe in Datang, oh called Daqin, you can't beat Dashi? Aggression, annexation, plunder, this is the essence of animal existence, and if someone accuses us, we say that integration is promoted. ”

"No one says about us, people now are not as bored as we were then, and raising a pig in a cage is also opposed, do you mean that you are not going to invest money to build roads right away?" Wang Juan thinks that the people of this era are really good.

"If you don't repair it, I want to make the prosperous places more prosperous first, and then drive the surrounding areas to gradually prosper, Chengdu is actually good here, but the surrounding places are poor, which will allow many people in remote places to maintain a certain period of material access is insufficient, but in general, it is more cost-effective than investing money directly in remote places."

Zhang Xiaobao already has a plan in his heart, from an individual point of view, every person in every place needs to be taken care of, from the general trend, even if the remote place is lost, it can also be supported by the material of the prosperous place, but the money that should make the prosperous place more prosperous is invested in the remote place, and the prosperous place has not been allowed to continue to develop to a certain extent, the efficiency of the use of the money will be greatly reduced.

It's a very unfair approach, but I still have to do it.

Wang Juan didn't know what Zhang Xiaobao was thinking, she thought about what she had been fighting, and said: "It's not easy to fight, it's mainly a matter of religion and ethnic habits, and the other is the adaptability of the army, the sky is very blue over there, but the air pressure is not enough, if you send the soldiers from the south over, it is estimated that more than half of them will not be able to hold on."

Send the soldiers of Jiannan Province to the past, it should be a little stronger, I mean the people who live in the Jiannan Plateau area, then your follow-up operation must keep up, you can't finish occupying it on the front foot, there is nothing to deal with, including materials and culture, if it really fights, I don't have to come back, just play counterinsurgency there. ”

"This is natural, it's not in a hurry now, why don't you have to wait for a long time, it's a land route, the main thing is that we go back and rest, give me enough time to carry out a big economic layout, if only there was a corresponding team, the ability of the inner courtyard is not good, I am ready to revise the rules of the top game of Monopoly again."

Find out the eight generations of ancestors who can be qualified to join the study and research, such talents must not be outflowed, let's go, half of the team is over, we go ahead, look at the local environment, and arrange it first if we can invest a little. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said about his vision for the future, and then put his eyes on the present, wanting to give some people in some places where life is not good, invest some money, let the locals try to develop themselves, and if they can't develop, they can make adjustments and make targeted plans.

Zhang Zhong wandered around for a while, found the three old men Bi, and told the three of them the idea of building a road, which meant to let the imperial court also help.

Old man Bi and the three of them were taken aback, this goal was too big, although the holy decree given by the emperor said so, but it was fake, everyone knew it was fake.

Seeing Zhang Zhong's determined look, the three of them had to ask Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to ask.

"That's right, it's going to build a road, wait for twenty years, and then repair it when the money is enough, otherwise repair a little here, save enough money to build another section, and after a few sections, the previous repairs will have to be rebuilt."

Zhang Xiaobao gave a long time, he didn't want people to stare at the road construction.

When the three old men heard that it would take twenty years, there was still one wait, maybe they couldn't wait, so they shook their heads regretfully, and went their separate ways.

The team moved on, and the fears finally happened, and a heavy snow fell gently, slowly, without strong winds, and even gave the impression of falling vertically.

By noon, it was as dark as evening, and it was no longer clear to see a little farther away.

"It's over, it's finally down, how many years does this happen that it hasn't happened once?" Zhang Xiaobao looked up at the sky, stretched out his hand to catch two pieces of snow, and he couldn't tell that it was six petals, as if a small pile of cotton was quietly melting in the palm of his hand.

"Don't meet a point when you have to say how many years you don't meet once, who cares how many years you have, think of a way, the strong don't give themselves such an excuse to push the responsibility, even if it is not once in 10,000 years, it is a success to solve the difficulty, and if it can't be solved, it is a failure, look at the snow situation, today and tomorrow will be warm, if you continue to fall, it can be warm for two days, don't worry about muddy.

But the longer it goes, the worse the road conditions will be, and when the time comes, whether it's warm or cold, it's not easy to hurry, I don't want to analyze the difficulties, I want the final result. ”

Wang Juan pushed the trouble onto Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Xiaobao blinked a few times, "What's wrong with me?" Don't be afraid, what's the matter with a little snow, our team is powerful, organized and disciplined, usually exercise well, and the nutrition can keep up, even skating and mud can pass.

My solution is to unite, help each other, and rush. ”

"That's it, I'll give the mobilization order." Wang Juan approved Zhang Xiaobao's plan, but he could only stand up, relying on the overall quality of the team, regardless of his heavy snow.

At this time, the road is wide enough, but this is a low-lying area, usually a little precipitation is flowing early in this place soaking, potholes, when it is not snowing, you can dodge when you walk, the snow has been under for a long time, the potholes are blocked, it is difficult to judge.

Fortunately, the snow was so big that it didn't melt away immediately, so it wasn't too muddy for the time being.

Wang Juan's mobilization order rushed over with a word, and rushed over with his hands and shoulders.

Without the slightest hesitation, the people of the Zhang and Wang families quickly assigned their positions, and the animals that helped pull the cart moved with difficulty in the direction of the front.

An hour and a half later, when it was dark and night, the torches that had been prepared in advance were lit, and the men in the inner courtyard took off their coats and laid a mat under the wheels of the carriage, and the procession continued on its way.

There are also occasional people passing by on the road, all of them were shocked by the scene in front of them, such a large team, the road is so difficult to walk, there is not the slightest mess, except for the undulating shouting of trumpets, the sound of stepping on the snow, there is no other movement, the speed of travel is called a fast, even the army fighting can not reach such a level, right?

Waiting for a gust of wind to blow away the hanging flag, the people who saw the pattern on it finally knew what team it was, the Yizhou Logistics Battalion, no wonder it was so capable.

That's right, except for the Yizhou Logistics Battalion, I don't believe that other teams can do it to such an extent, and it's really not in vain.

All the people who knew which team looked at the team changed, so that the three of them were honored, and the three of them had to admit that the people of the Zhang and Wang families were really strong, clearing the snow, digging the soil, padding clothes, and cooperating, they could only be described in two words, tacit understanding.

"This is the team spirit that Xiaobao and Juan Juan once mentioned, with their own cultural connotations, if you want to defeat such a team, you can only impact their culture first."

Old man Bi looked at the two cooks who were in charge of boiling soup for the people in front of him while pushing the cart away.

Old man Yao and old man Zhang also nodded in agreement, usually live together, the descendants of the old man Yao and the old man Bi and the two families of Zhang Wang can't see much difference, and now they have encountered an emergency, and they are compared all of a sudden, and the subordinates of the two old men's families have worked very hard, but they can't cooperate.

Needless to say, Li Xun's team is a real army, and Li Xun also asked for a training plan from Wang Juan.

Old man Yao looked at it for a while and said, "After a while, you have to let the people in your family practice well, the gap is too big." ”

The snow was still falling, the team was still moving forward, and the people who had been watching for a while suddenly dispersed, and they didn't know where they had gone, and the anti-people disappeared in a blink of an eye.

When it was really night, when the team stopped to rest and eat, a lot of people came out from both sides of the road, wanting to let the seedling team find out, and after stopping and asking, it turned out to be local people, with tools for work in their hands, gathered here, said hello, and ran to the front of the team to level the road.

The people in the team were stunned, and they didn't understand why the people were so kind.

Zhang Zhong personally went to the person who led the way and asked, this is an old village, and the whole village has a surname, surnamed Hao, who came to build roads.

Old man Hao was simple and said to Zhang Zhong: "We have heard about your affairs here, and it is also beneficial to exchange old grain for new grain, and there are still twenty-two cattle that you have exchanged for have not been collected, and they will be brought back when the snow stops, and it will be convenient to cultivate land next year."

When the army passed, your logistics battalion did not let a single soldier who fought in the war freeze to starve on the road from Yizhou to Pengzhou, did not let them suffer any delay on the road, and helped us defeat the Tibetans.

When you go home today, we also want to follow your example and level the road for you, and when you go tomorrow morning, twenty miles ahead, we will ensure that it is smoothed for you, so that you can be unimpeded. ”

Hearing the old man's words, Zhang Zhong's eyes turned red, he pursed his lips and nodded, without saying anything more, turned back, repeated the old man's words to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and lowered his head and ate sullenly.

At this time, on the road ahead, someone ran over with a torch and shouted, "Hao Village, my village has also moved, twenty miles, demarcated the place, and then do it, early tomorrow morning, it can definitely be repaired, more people rush to the front, and some people have already run to tell the village in front."

When the time comes, let the people of our logistics battalion also walk on a smooth road, and I will say, don't worry, let's go, there is still a shortage of manpower there, I have to run back. ”

After the man finished shouting, he turned around and ran back, as when he came, he ran in a hurry, the road was not good, and he stumbled in a few steps.

Zhang Xiaobao stood up, looked at the busy figures in front of him, and said to the maid next to him, "Bring the money box." ”

The maid turned around and went back to find Zhang Wang's, and came over after a while and handed it to Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao opened the money box, took out a thousand pieces of flying money, and said: "As soon as the snow falls, the local people will have a hard time, this snow is estimated to be impossible to stop for a while and a half, people are running to repair the road, the house at home is dangerous, and the livestock are also easy to freeze to death, plus their tools are already old, and they will break down a lot, and it will be difficult to work tomorrow in the spring." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaobao handed over the flying money in his hand to his father, and said: "Dad, you can send it, one village is 500 yuan, and one is given to two villages, so that they can go to Yizhou to buy tools and more livestock."

If they can't spend all the money they have left, they will stop the work they have to do first, compensate them, and let them use this spare time to see wood, cut stones, build good cattle pens, raise more cattle, and pave the roads. ”

Zhang Zhong also felt that the money should be spent, so he took it and went to find Old Man Hao.

At this time, Li Xun next to him asked puzzledly: "Since they can build roads for us today, why didn't they build them before?" ”

"How do you know they haven't done it? The terrain here is low, and the dirt road will be broken as soon as it is repaired, so how much work does it take to build a stone road? With that kind of work, making money to subsidize the family, they can live a life, they only lack an opportunity, or a start-up capital, with this money, as long as they are not too stupid, life can gradually get better. ”

Zhang Xiaobao knows very well the inner things of this kind of poor village, as long as others help, then they can make changes, but many times, because the effort is not proportional to the income, or the time for the funds to be withdrawn is too long, no one is willing to take out the money.

If it weren't for the villagers who came to help their team build the road, they wouldn't have used money to help, after all, some of the livestock had been given to the place, and the old grain for new grain also benefited the locals.

Li Xun's eyes lit up when he heard Zhang Xiaobao's words, and said: "After waiting for the places of these two villages, I will pay the money for the next two villages, as long as I help build the road, I will give 500 yuan for one village, how many villages do you say you can meet along the way?" ”

"I didn't look at it, there should be on the military map, it is estimated that there are a lot, if we all help build roads, all the way to the capital, I think our money is not enough to give, the village is not only on the side of the road, but also in depth, such as Haojia Village, they are on the south side of the road, is there a village in the south, is there a village in the north?

Now they build the road from the heart, they don't expect us to give them anything in return, and when they give money all the way, many people may rush over from farther places for money, no, I have to say more to my father, let the old village keep it secret first, and then take out the money and use it after we leave for ten days. ”

Zhang Xiaobao explained two more sentences to Li Xun, suddenly reacted, and hurried to find his father.

Li Xun thought for a while, and then said to Wang Juan: "Do you have the intention to be good, although the good is not rewarded, and the evil is not punished?" ”

"No, absolutely not, Xiaobao is worried that the money given may not be able to achieve good results, first change the economic conditions of the village of the people who are willing to build roads for us, it belongs to the pilot, if it is successful, it will be promoted later, if it fails, it will be specifically analyzed."

Wang Juan began to worry about money when he thought of this development model, if he only used his own money to do this, he would not even have enough money for the pilot.

When Zhang Zhong gave the money to Hao Village, Hao Cun said that he didn't want anything, they came to work voluntarily, not for money, and said to Zhang Zhong:

"You are a good official, everyone knows that your family is leading troops out to fight hard in Yizhou, and it is an economic war, and you have made a lot of money, but your family has not left a penny, and it is all used on the people around us, and the business is made with your own money.

If you don't help for your own good, we can't build roads just for good. ”

When Zhang Xiaobao came, the two of them were still persuading each other, and finally Zhang Xiaobao said that they would use this place as a place to try and see if they could drive more villages to live a good life.

Only then did Hao Village collect the money, and promised to distribute half of it to the village next to him after ten days, and said that in the future, there would be more livestock and poultry, and while planting, while cutting, there would be more wood sawn down, as long as the people of Zhang Wang's family came to collect it, even if it was cheap, it would not be sold to others.

With the support of money, Old Man Hao immediately had other thoughts, beckoned people to come over, let the people in the village see the time, and if the time was enough, the road should be widened, and the specific reason would not be explained now, so as not to leak the matter of collecting money.

Old man Hao thought clearly, since he had the money to help, he would take the opportunity to repair the road in one go, saving him a second time.

Early the next morning, when the team went on the road, there was still snow on the road, it was falling at night, the sky was not clear, the women left in the village rushed over with their children or old people, more than a dozen houses were crushed, and they came here to wait for their own laborers to go back to repair.

The cooks of Zhang Wang's two families made more meals for some people, and left in a hurry after giving them food to the people in the village, and the road was really different when it was repaired, and the snow sweepers opened the road in front, and there was no need to rely on manpower to fill the pits.

The speed was also fast, and it only took an hour to rush to the road to another village, which was also covered with snow, and the road was also smooth, so I said hello and continued to move forward.

Another hour passed, and the road repair team appeared in front again, and the road at this time was still a little unrepaired, and the news came late, and the people were working hard.

"This is the power of the human heart, just because it is your Zhang's logistics battalion that came over, let a road that was originally difficult to walk be unblocked, and this flag of your Zhang's family is easy to use."

Old man Bi followed next to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan and said to Zhang Xiaobao.

"Withdraw, withdraw immediately, my family doesn't want to reach the level of winning the hearts of the people and winning the world." Zhang Xiaobao pursed his lips and replied.

"Don't, don't withdraw, the logistics battalion is also set by the imperial court, not by your family, so that other people can see, listen to the words of the imperial court, build a place, and lead the troops to win the battle."

Old man Bi stopped.