Chapter 293: Zhuge Private Army

When Tao Ying thought of Zhuge Liang, who was almost twenty-five years old, he planned to let him lead the army alone to take charge of himself. And before letting him lead the troops, Tao Ying wanted to equip him with the best generals, so that he would not lose to the deeds above history!

Tao Ying knew that if Zhuge Liang was allowed to take charge of the military and political power at this time, Xuzhou would be opposed from top to bottom, and he could not be promoted indiscriminately because he was his own righteous son. So after nearly two months of thinking, Tao Ying decided to let him go to Huainan for training.

Before going to Huainan, Tao Ying was ready to assign generals to him, after all, Huainan's enemies were mainly from Sun Quan, and Sun Quan's subordinates were capable and should not be underestimated.

Those who can assist them in managing their internal affairs can directly mobilize officials from other localities who have made achievements in the new school. Fighting is a big problem, so Tao Ying decided to mobilize the Confucian minister Li Dian to assist Zhuge Liang.

In addition to Li Dian, Tao Ying followed Zhuge Liang with Zhang He and Zhang Liao, who came from the north, so that Zhuge Liang could form his own effective general system. The three generals dealt with Sun Quan, Tao Ying was still not at ease, and Tao Zhong, the deputy general of Taishi Ci, who was particularly loyal to him, led the Shiting army to Huainan to obey orders.

Every place is a radish and a pit, if Zhuge Liang is allowed to serve in Huainan Mansion, he must drop the people in Huainan Mansion back, so Tao Ying withered and transferred the Huainan Governor to Xuzhou as the prefect.

Yu Ban was also the first general to follow him, and at that time, his territory was still a Pengcheng, so Tao Ying was very grateful to Ban. When other officials have been promoted to the prefect of the big mansion, only Yu Ban is only the governor of a county, although Tao Ying promoted him to the specifications of a prefecture, but the discerning person knows what is going on at a glance.

Therefore, Tao Ying will be transferred to his own nest to serve in the ban, and let Yu Ban, who has the talent of commander, guard his own nest Pengcheng, firstly, he has good trust in the ban, and secondly, he will not chill the hearts of these veterans.

Winter came, Yu Ban rushed to Xuzhou with his family from Shouchun City, Huainan Prefecture, and Zhuge Liang also took his family members from Pengcheng, Xuzhou to Huainan Mansion to take up his post. Everyone was opposed to Zhuge Liang being promoted to the prefect of Huainan, because Zhuge Liang had no merit and could not rely on relationships to be promoted.

So Tao Ying downgraded Huainan Mansion to Huainan County, Xuzhou Prefecture, Zhuge Liang served as the Taishou of Huainan County, nominally under the Xuzhou Prefect Yu Ban Moderation, but Tao Ying gave Zhuge Liang a privilege, that is, he could recruit soldiers and train sergeants by himself, and at the same time, Huainan County, Zhuge Liang's county, had autonomy and the right to conquer!

Winter passed quickly, and when the spring breeze blew again, it was 206 years in a blink of an eye, the twelfth year that Tao Ying came to this world. Xuzhou's industrial development has entered a very strong point, steelmaking has been developed at a great speed, the biggest achievement in the spring of this year is that Zhuge Liang took office in Huainan County, in Huainan newly established Huainan Traffic School in the experiment of successful steam train!

That's right, in the past ten years, although Zhuge Liang has learned various ways to lead troops to fight, Zhuge Liang has shown his super wisdom in inventions! In ten years, Zhuge Liang has studied all the books on physics, mechanics and smelting compiled by Tao Ying, and now Yanran is the most prestigious physics and mechanical expert in Xuzhou!

The improved steam engine was installed on the train, and the new generation of train was successfully developed in Shouchun. After the successful development of the train, Zhuge Liang used the steam engine in mining, which greatly increased the speed of mining, and the coal eradicated from the large coal mines in Huainan could be sold to all parts of Xuzhou through water transportation.

And after the success of the train experiment, Zhuge Liang named him Huainan No. 1, and then reported to Tao Ying, Tao Ying was very excited when he heard this, so he decided to continue the truce for a year in 206, and use the national tax collection to build the railway, and at the same time expand the Huainan Traffic School and recruit more students to study train technology.

In April 206, after four months of hard work, Tao Ying finally planned the first railway route in Xuzhou. The experimental route was from Pengcheng to Xiapi, and the new train was used for two purposes, the first to transport goods and the second to carry passengers.

Although there are ships, the ships with many merchants who travel between Pengcheng and Xiapi every day cannot meet them, so this train line is the first to be planned.

According to the plan, the rails will be smelted by the Pengcheng smelter from April, and the Xiapi Iron and Steel Group is also responsible for the construction of the Xiapi section of the rails. With the help of the whole country, the railway track from Pengcheng to Xiapi will be laid by October.

The train was developed by the Huainan Transportation School and then transported to Pengcheng by water. So the Ministry of Communications had a new plan, and after two months of day and night processing, a new plan appeared in front of Tao Ying's desk.

In the plan of the Ministry of Communications, in the next five years, it will continue to improve water transport in various parts of Xuzhou, continue to open more water transport flights, stop investing in water transport in 207, and turn to private enterprises to operate and build passenger ships and terminals.

The cost saved was to build a railway from Pengcheng to Shouchun, the river transportation from Shouchun to Pengcheng was not developed, and the development direction of the whole Pengcheng was in the north, west and east, except in the south gate, because there was no large city to connect its development.

However, after the recovery of Shouchun, there were southern cities that could undertake various tasks in Pengcheng, so after the roads were built, the coal from Huainan could be continuously transported to Pengcheng to meet the heating and other tasks of Xuzhou Prefecture.

The plan plans to use 50,000 people in 207 years to build the Pengcheng-Shouchun railway, and plans to open the Pengcheng-Shouchun railway by the end of 207. Then it will take fifteen years to open trains from Pengcheng to the major cities of the counties!

The invention of the train once again brought Pengcheng's traffic to a new level, and Tao Ying couldn't help but want to invent the airplane, but at today's industrial level, it is still too impossible to develop the airplane!

In the first industrial revolution, Tao Ying thought that he could quickly unfold through his knowledge, but twelve years have passed in a flash, and now he is still dangling in the first industrial revolution. In fact, I don't blame myself for all this, because the world's knowledge level is very underdeveloped, but after 12 years of training, Pengcheng industry has emerged a batch of talents, these talents have greatly promoted the development of Xuzhou in all aspects, which is the most gratifying place for Tao Ying.

It is said that when Tao Ying kept refreshing one record after another, Cao Cao here was not idle. In 205, Cao Cao wanted to attack Youzhou and obtain the gateway area connecting the grasslands in the north, but unfortunately, the sudden rebellion of Bingzhou at this time made Cao Cao have no time to compete with Tao Ying for the land of Mergezhou, so he could only lead the army to attack the Gaogan of Bingzhou while Tao Ying's troops were sent to Youzhou.

The war lasted for almost a year, and it was not until October 206 that Cao Cao attacked Huguan. The Huguan generation is the last barrier of the state, if the Huguan is broken, the state will die!

So a big war kicked off in the Huguan area in October!

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