When Ma Xianglin said this, the deputy general was a little confused.

He glanced at Ma Xianglin strangely, nodded in agreement, and then asked again.

"With them, how can we chase Sha Dingzhou?"

"No more chasing."

"Not chasing?"

"Hmm."

Ma Xianglin nodded, commanded the soldiers to take away the wounded abandoned by Sha Dingzhou, and followed him down the mountain.

As soon as they left, Sha Dingzhou soon learned the news.

It's not strange not to chase him, but what is the operation of taking away your own wounded?

They buried the steel wheel when it got angry, and they injured people and are now good people here?

"Young Master, what should we do?" A soldier asked, holding out his head.

"What to do? Get back! Sha Dingzhou glared at him and continued to walk forward. When he came, it was full of 500 people, and when he went back, there were still more than 400 left, Sha Yuan and the others looked at it, and thought they had encountered an attack, and hurriedly asked him what was going on.

"Father, uncle, we didn't encounter an attack, the soldiers who were damaged were blown up by their firearms."

"Fried? But the kind of firearms used in the siege a few days ago? ”

"No, it's a buried firearm, similar to a steel wheel. But it's different. Sha Dingzhou frowned and told what happened not long ago from beginning to end, and several people frowned

"You say they rescued our wounded?"

"Yes, all of them were carried away, regardless of the severity of the injuries."

Sha Yuan and Pu Mingming glanced at each other, and he thought of a possibility.

"That Ma Xianglin probably wants to use the wounded as a breakthrough, these people are familiar with our arming and the surrounding environment. If we rebel against one or two, our situation will be completely grasped by the other party. I'm afraid it's not a good thing for us! ”

"What then?" When Sha Dingzhou heard this, he was also a little panicked. I didn't expect to make such a low-level mistake.

"You shouldn't have left those wounded behind!" Sha Yuan's words were a bit harsh.

"I was wrong for my father, I should have brought back all the wounded."

Sha Dingzhou saw that his father was dissatisfied, so he hurriedly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"Haha, Dingzhou. Your father means that you should not abandon them alive. Pu Mingsheng on the side interjected with a smile.

Belch?

Reasonable!

Why didn't you think of it?

"Don't worry, even if they know about our situation, it won't matter. Doesn't this vast mountain still have to walk in step by step? ”

Seeing that Sha Dingzhou was a little self-blaming, Pu Mingsheng comforted him a few words, and patted him on the shoulder when he left.

On the other side, Ma Xianglin returned to the camp with people.

"You're going to get the defense information of Pu Mingsheng and others from these people?" Qin Liangyu asked with a smile.

"Yes, Mother. Do you think it's possible? ”

"What you think, the other party must think of. However, the armament can be changed at any time, but the terrain cannot be changed. It's also good to know something that isn't on the map. ”

"Then I'll try."

"Go ahead."

Ma Xianglin found an interpreter and came to the place where the wounded were settled.

Rao is he walked all the way, and when he saw these wounded at this time, he had to secretly say a tragic word. He organized his language and watched as the crowd spoke.

"I know we're enemies. There are some things I shouldn't have said, but war is not a matter of two people. Your leader wants to betray the court, so he takes you to war. And we are taking the court's money and serving the court's rice bowl. So, I am ordered to suppress you. Many of you have lost your lives for this, and many of us have died for it. But it can't be helped, war is like that, as long as the day does not end, death will never stop.

We will do everything we can to save your lives. But to save you, it is not bearable to let the faithful warriors die. At the same time, I also hope that I can end the war as soon as possible and save more lives.

Maybe there's your family inside. ”

Ma Xianglin's words were spoken to the wounded through the mouth of the interpreter. Although it may seem fake, it has a different taste in the ears of these outcasts.

His own leader threw himself away in order to flee for his life.

And how ironic it is that the enemy who saved himself did injure himself.

Ma Xianglin finished speaking and left.

Each of these people was injured by the landmine, and it is not certain that a few will survive.

Qin Liangyu and Mu Tianbo's troops fought steadily, and Pu Fame and Sha Yuan made up their minds to hold on. The battle slowed down, they slowed, but supplies were coming from afar. Among them is the 500,000 denier grain that Zhu Youzhen ordered to be transferred.

With so much food, Qin Liangyu was completely settled, and he no longer worried about the defeat of the war due to the lack of supplies.

Capital.

Zhu Youzhen sat in the Qianqing Palace and listened to Wang Chengen's report on the situation in Yunnan, and after learning that the allocated grain had been completely delivered, he sighed.

It's too slow.

The south is not as good as the north, and if there is an emergency, I am afraid that the soldiers on the front line will starve to death, and the food is still on the way.

"Summoning Fan Jingwen over, I have something to discuss with him."

After a while, Fan Jingwen walked in gently.

"Minister, knock on the emperor."

"Excuse me, sit down." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand casually.

Fan Jingwen sat on the chair brought by the eunuch and waited for Zhu Youzhen to speak.

"What position are you in now?"

"The Cabinet Auxiliary Minister is also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry."

"What else?"

"And? Ah, the director of the railway department. ”

"Since you are the director of the railway bureau, I ask you, how long has it been since the two railways planned before have been repaired?"

"More than half a year."

"Is it open?"

"It's open."

"Is it easy to deliver supplies?"

"Extremely convenient!"

"What's next?"

"Huh?"

"Keep repairing! Overhaul! ”

"But..."

"But what? Having difficulties? ”

"If it is according to the eight vertical and eight horizontal plans envisaged by His Majesty, I am afraid that the railway will not be completed, and the Ming Dynasty will..." Fan Jingwen glanced at Zhu Youzhen and did not dare to continue.

"Just like Emperor Yang of Sui, the country has died?"

"Don't dare!" Fan Jingwen hurriedly got up and made a gesture to kneel.

"Okay, okay, don't put on a show. It is said that the fall of the Sui Dynasty is related to the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but you can look at it until now. How many years has the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal been used? When I first built the railway, a large number of people opposed it, and the number of people who played it was higher than anyone else. What now? One by one, they have never taken a train in the capital, and they have become hillbillies. Why? Because there's value to it.

People say that you have to take a long-term view of everything. As the first assistant of the cabinet, the secretary of the six ministries, and the director of the railway bureau, you are a very popular minister, and you should take a long-term view. The construction of the railway, eight vertical and eight horizontal, is the plan I proposed, and I did not think that it would be completed in ten or eight years. Can it be 30 years and 50 years of head office, right? Are you trying to do it? Everything depends on me to figure out a way for you, what else do I want you to do? Yes? ”

Zhu Youzhen began to get a little angry as he spoke.

"Your Majesty atons for your sins! After His Majesty said it last time, the minister also considered this issue, and although there was some surplus silver in the treasury, the expenses were also not small. But if the construction of the railroad were to begin in full swing, the money elsewhere would inevitably be reduced, and I am afraid it would cause unrest. ”

Fan Jingwen felt that he was a little wronged, so why did he suddenly launch a surge.

"Don't kneel. Kneel and kneel, annoyed! Zhu Youzhen stood up. I really don't want to talk about you, you're a pig's brain. That's it, it's the first of a hundred officials!? I ask you, how did you build the cement road on the nine sides in the first place? ”

"Huh?" Fan Jingwen's heart was spinning, and a big light bulb lit up on his head!

"Essentially, building a railway is the same as building a concrete road. The fact that the imperial court did not have the money to undertake the simultaneous construction of so many sections of the railway did not mean that the people did not have money. For example, the section of the railway from Beijing to Shenyang, we can divide it into three, five, or even ten sections for bidding.

Let them finance the construction. At the same time, they enjoy privileges for a certain period of time, that is, the right to operate and transfer the railway. After a certain number of years, the imperial court nationalized the railway. Isn't that how the railroad will be built? Build-operate-transfer, trinity.

The court didn't spend money, they didn't lose money. Isn't it the best of both worlds? ”

Zhu Youzhen's words almost made Fan Jingwen's head unable to turn.

"Your Majesty, what if after the railway is built, they arbitrarily raise the freight?"

"It's good to say, the railway bureau has the power to set the price of the national railway, and you publish the toll for each leg of the journey. Take this capital to Tianjin as an example, how much is a person, how much is a catty of goods. Isn't it enough to give him a clear calculation?

If you don't feel at ease, make another rule. Those who violate the regulations will be fined, reduced the number of years of operation, and even more severely imprisoned. So they will be dishonest? But the premise is that you have to remember one thing, you must make them money. You have to make a lot of money! ”

"Why is that?" Fan Jingwen said curiously.

"Who is playing with you if you don't make money!?"

Chapter 299: Who Plays with You If You Don't Make Money?