Chapter 249: First Arrival in Kaifeng

Zhang Chu, as the supreme commander of the security army, wants to go somewhere now, it is not so easy, if he does not make arrangements, he will leave, and when he comes back, he will have to be annoyed by everyone's persuasion, and he himself does not want any accidents, the development of the security army now needs a strong leader to bring everyone together, Zhang Chu believes that no one can do better than himself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Guo Xiyuan of the Bureau of Statistics and Yu Jiang of the Special Forces were called to Zhang Chu at the same time.

Needless to say, the amount of money invested every year makes Zhu Jishi feel heartache.

Yu Jiang's special forces have now expanded to the strength of a regiment, and they are all elites selected from various units, using the most advanced weapons and engaging in unknown battles. Their comrades-in-arms in the former unit saw that they had made meritorious contributions and been promoted to officers at some point, but they did not know what kind of battles they had participated in.

"Yu Jiang took a company of special forces to Kaifeng with me this time, and the personnel must infiltrate without a trace, and weapons and equipment will be transported in place with the help of a caravan." After Zhang Chu finished assigning the task to Jiang, he said to Guo Xiyuan: "Your statistical bureau has strengthened its work in the Kaifeng area, doubled the activity funds, and doubled the number of personnel, so we must ensure that this operation is foolproof." ā€

"Please rest assured, we will complete the task." Yu Jiang and Guo Xiyuan replied in unison.

Looking at his two capable generals, Zhang Chu was full of confidence in the future of the security army. These two are neither historical celebrities nor famous social elites, but now they have become the strong pillars of the security army, and Zhang Chu is inseparable from them.

Yu Jiang didn't dare to be careless at all, carefully selected a company of men and horses in the special forces force, and personally led the team to Kaifeng first.

Guo Xiyuan arranged everything and brought more than a dozen people with Zhang Chu, dressed up as a caravan, accompanied by Wang Jijie, Wang Daboss, and his men, they were all genuine businessmen, and a large group of people left Yuncheng, crossed the Yellow River to the south and went straight to Kaifeng.

Zhang Chu was not in a hurry, and he carefully understood the social conditions of that place every time he passed. Along the way, Zhang Chu couldn't help but sigh that it was really the death of the Ming Dynasty, the history of the catastrophe at the end of the Ming Dynasty was rare, the duration was long, the scope of the impact was wide, the disaster in Henan was lighter than that of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, but it was also a large area of barren fields, and the displaced people who left home to beg for food can be seen everywhere, if someone raised their arms and shouted, it must be a beacon fire everywhere, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others arrived in Henan after the team is still growing for a reason.

A few days later, the group finally arrived at Kaifeng City, known as the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties. In Zhang Chu's original era, the city walls lost their defensive function, and the walls of many cities have been demolished for the sake of convenient transportation, so Zhang Chu has little feeling for the walls of big cities.

When Zhang Chu came to the outside of the Kaifeng city wall, he felt extremely shocked by the high city wall. The Kaifeng city wall has been repaired by several dynasties and has been continuously heightened and reinforced. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Kaifeng City has been repaired to five zhang high, with a circumference of 4,700 zhang. There is a city in all directions, there are five city gates, and there is also a triple moon city built in the city gate. There are corner towers at all four corners of the city wall, and there are eighty-four enemy platforms distributed in each section of the city wall.

The wide moat outside the city wall, the river is five zhang wide, the bottom is three zhang wide, two zhang deep, each city gate relies on the suspension bridge to connect the inside and outside, the suspension bridge is pulled up in an emergency, and the moat forms the first natural barrier of Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhang Chu saw these and understood the helplessness of Li Zicheng in the face of the strong Kaifeng city wall in the original history, Li Zicheng used a surprise attack for the first time and a strong attack for the second time, but he failed to succeed. The third long-term siege and the flooding of the Yellow River led to the capture of Kaifeng City, but the millions of people in Kaifeng City and its surroundings survived the war. Every time he recalled this period of history, Zhang Chu felt very unbearable, and he secretly decided that since he had arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he would avoid this human tragedy.

Successfully passed the checkpoint of the city gate and came to Kaifeng City, Guo Xiyuan's people had arranged a place to settle in the city, settled everything, and the people who went out to contact Yu Chunguang also returned. Yu Chunguang arrived to join Zhang Chu after a while.

Yu Chunguang saw Zhang Chu in a hurry, so he pulled Zhang Chu to see the address of the firm he had chosen.

Zhang Chu was also very anxious about the completion of the firm, and came to the location with him regardless of the fatigue of the journey.

When he arrived at the place, Zhang Chu couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he saw it. The place selected by Yu Chunguang is in Kaifeng City, although the place is very large, it is full of potholes, rainwater accumulates everywhere, and some places are a mud pond.

Yu Chunguang was very satisfied with the address he chose, and introduced to Zhang Chu: "Don't look at it now, it's not good-looking, but it's big enough, and it's not easy to find a large piece of land in Kaifeng City now." I want to make some pipes out of your cement from these mud ponds, and it can be easily discharged into the river next door. This place doesn't look good for someone to sell, and it's so cheap. "He can't do without the calculation of the price for a moment.

Zhang Chu listened to Yu Chunguang's thoughtfulness, and he didn't express any opinion on the location of the commercial bank. The place is big enough to be really good for future trade.

In the next few days, the people next to it saw that the original mud pond was bustling with activity, and many craftsmen were busy there. It is said that a big merchant bought this place to build a trading house.

These craftsmen were also strange, but they did not build the wall, but dug many deep ditches there, and the onlookers thought that they were building a house to build a foundation, but they threw a lot of thick pipes in the ditch and buried it. After that, the high walls around it were built.

Curious people can no longer see what's going on inside. On the side facing the street, you can still see the foundations of several houses, and the surrounding walls are constantly rising. Looking at the distance between the front and back walls of the house, some people can't help but be secretly surprised, how big trees must be used as beams for the front and back walls so far away, this kind of big tree is not so easy to find. In the end, no one saw the giant wood arrive, and the house was not only finished with one floor, but also with another floor built on top of it, and built into a two-story building. But we never saw the beams used in the construction of the house. If you don't use beams to build a house, will the house be strong? However, Zhang Chu and Yu Chunguang were not worried about this at all, because not only did they use cement transported from Yuncheng to build the house, but also thick steel bars were added in the middle.

Most people watch craftsmen build houses there just to see a novelty.

There is also a small group of people whose purpose is not so simple. During the construction of the merchant, a few small beggars were always watching the progress of the construction of the house. (To be continued.) )