King Yan is about to come to Daning in person.

The news spread quickly, and many people were saying that when King Yan arrived in Daning, it would be time for the army to go on an expedition.

Although Daning District is connected to Beiping, the distance between Ningcheng and Beiping City is as long as 900 miles.

Nine hundred miles.

In ancient times, a person who walked the road for two hours in a row, even if the road was in good condition, would have no physical strength left, and there was not much left.

The army of Beiping arrived in Daning by train.

The railway between Beiping and Ningcheng has been built for 15 months, and there are many plans for branch railways, which have been put on the agenda.

In addition to the economic difficulties and the size of the railway engineering team, there are also political concerns.

Although King Yan has a lot of influence in Daning, Daning is King Ning's domain after all, even if King Ning has no prestige at present.

Many things need to be approved by King Ning, and if you keep pressing it, it will outweigh the losses.

Liu Zhen accompanied the governor Fang Kuan, and a group of military attachés behind him, inspecting the railway station in Daning, as well as some railways.

"They all say that the railroad is powerful, and I know that it is powerful, but only when I see it with my own eyes can I know how powerful it really is."

Fang Kuan, as well as Chen Heng, who has been transferred back to Beiping to serve as the director of the Beiping Metropolitan Department, can be said to be one of the several founders of the construction of the Daning Military Region.

The two also have the same identity.

From Beiping.

Liu Zhen is a foreign general, not a general of the Beiping family.

The generals of the Beiping system do not mean that these generals are natives of Beiping, and they are not divided by geography, and these people also come from all over the world.

is a label.

The army brought by Xu Da from the mainland was left over from the construction of Beiping, and was inherited and carried forward by Zhu Di, a latecomer.

absorbed more forces, and a combined force, including Kaiping Zhuwei and Daning Zhuwei, branched out from this force.

Beiping is the eldest brother, Daning is the second brother, and Kaiping is the third brother.

As for Liaodong, it can be described as a cousin.

Zhang Yu, the commander of the left guard of Yanshan, did not belong to this political force, and could be regarded as an outsider, not only firmly established, but also controlled the strength of the left guard.

Because at that time, behind this person was the prince's family.

So Liu Zhen, who is also an outsider now, originally made this calculation, wanting to hug the thighs of the imperial court and use the power of King Ning locally.

Even the last Li Xueyan incident, even Zhou Xing of Liaodong personally went to Yanwangfu to "bear the guilt", not to mention Liu Zhen of Daning.

The arrogance of these "outsiders" was dealt a severe blow.

It's not a simple act, it's a power struggle between foreign generals and local generals.

Liu is really a talented person.

Historically, when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled, he took this person as the representative and caused a lot of trouble for Zhu Di.

In the end, the local generals won, so that Zhu Di completely mastered the military power of the whole Beiping, unified the military strength of Beiping in a real sense, and laid the foundation for future victories.

History has changed, and there is one more monster called China Heavy Industry in Beiping.

The eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother, and the cousin were more closely linked, and the military household economic cooperative made the grassroots military attachés of the guard center biased towards the Yanwang Mansion.

Against this background.

The prestige of the Yan Wangfu has long exceeded the height of history, and all the guards are closely united under the banner of the Yan King.

Even if King Ning is a vassal domain, in the face of this situation, he is more obedient than in history, not to mention Liu Zhen.

Under the huge gap, Liu Zhen has already extinguished the rest of his thoughts and worked hard to recover the adverse effects caused by the previous time.

Liu Zhen heard Fang Dudu's admiration, showed a bright smile, and said in shock.

"When the railway was not built, the marching speed of the army generally ranged from 30 to 50 miles, and could even reach 80 or even 100 miles."

Liu Zhen was amazed and admired.

"This is still a phenomenon of short and rapid marches when the roads are in good condition."

"Normally, it takes about twenty days for the Beiping vanguard army to arrive in Daning, and it takes longer for the baggage and follow-up troops."

Pointing to the railway, Liu Zhen saw the Beiping army getting down from the railway carriage with his own eyes, and the soldiers were still laughing.

Full of energy, without the fatigue after a long march, you can immediately go into battle.

Although Liu Zhen was defeated by Zhu Di, he was not defeated by his military talent, and he clearly saw the significance.

"Everything is different."

Liu Xin felt a little bitter.

This change made Yan Wangfu's control over Daning unshakable.

However, Liu Zhen didn't dare to show it, and used a relaxed tone: "The railway from Miyun to Daning, after the two places are opened to traffic, it only takes two or three days and nights for the army to march using the railway. ”

"The soldiers maintained their combat effectiveness, the supplies arrived with the army, even faster than the army, and more importantly, ......"

Liu Zhen subconsciously paused.

This talented and courageous general has put a lot of effort into the railways since the Beiping army switched to a new mode of transportation.

The more he knew, the more terrifying he felt.

Fang Kuan looked at Liu Zhen with encouraging eyes, expecting Liu Zhen to continue.

Fang Kuan is different from Chen Heng.

Chen Heng is a radical figure in the Beiping system, but Fang Kuan feels that he should take the initiative to absorb outstanding talents.

However, in the early Ming Dynasty, countless victories retained a large number of experienced military talents, which also created the enthusiastic emergence of talents.

So there are more people absorbed, and it turns out that the interests of the people in the Beiping system will be invisibly weakened, after all, there are so many positions.

If it is too much, it will affect the cohesion of the Beiping system.

Therefore, Zhu Di is still inclined to Chen Heng, unless he is a particularly good general, he will take the initiative to recruit his subordinates.

Fang Kuan is a senior general, one of the bigwigs in the Beiping department, he has his own political ideas and will not change easily, so in the Daning area, he began to pay attention to many foreign generals.

I hope that through these actions, the two sides will be united.

Liu Zhen was valued by Fang Kuan, and it was an opportunity to be named to accompany him to inspect Daning Railway Station.

King Yan's strength and prestige in Beiping have been too high and too high in the past few years, and he has no other choice.

In order to protect his rights, he must take refuge in King Yan, otherwise he will be squeezed out sooner or later.

In front of everyone, he praised the railway system so hard, although he really thought so, but he also had the meaning of patting the sycophants of Yanwangfu, and conveyed his mind to Fang Kuan.

"How powerful is the railway, the civilian power and its own consumption required for transportation are reduced by a hundred times and thousands of times, and these saved resources can be invested in more troops."

Liu Zhen gave an example and said: "If a soldier needs ten people to maintain logistics, then under railway transportation, ten soldiers only need one people to maintain it." ”

"What does that mean?"

Liu Zhen politely looked at his colleagues around him.

Some generals nodded, some generals didn't look at Liu Zhen, and some showed disdain.

Not everyone is like Fang Kuan, and some people are even dissatisfied with Fang Kuan's behavior.

Fang Kuan is in a high position, and the promotion of foreign generals will not affect his rights, so he doesn't care about his brothers.

This kind of complaining is shared in the hearts of many middle-level generals.

"According to the internal statement of China Heavy Industry, this phenomenon shows that the productive forces of agricultural civilization have been liberated, and compared with nomadic civilization, the biggest shortcoming of agricultural civilization is gone."

Fang Kuan gave Liu Zhen a step and took the initiative to take over the topic.

Everyone has to give Fang Kuan face, even the generals who are dissatisfied with Fang Kuan, because Fang Kuan is a big man in the Beiping system.

Everyone showed serious eyes, as if they were listening carefully.

"It's like a bucket, and the amount of water it can hold depends not on the longest plank, but on the shortest plank."

"The shortest plank was replaced and replaced with a longer plank, and in the Daning area, in the future, our foreign wars, logistics supply and transportation will no longer be a problem."

If it is said that the productivity of the agrarian civilization is ten times that of the nomadic civilization, but the resource transportation mode conditions of the agrarian civilization are ten times worse than that of the nomadic civilization.

As a result, there is a tenfold advantage in productivity, but it cannot be shown because of the problems of transportation and logistics.

This line, like the invisible upper limit of the foreign wars of the agrarian civilization, firmly locked the agrarian civilization until the Age of Discovery.

New modes of transport and logistics emerged.

Soldiers and supplies, loaded on a boat, do not need the people and do not need the consumption of transportation, as if the nomadic civilization lived in the grass.

On the sea, the productivity advantage of agricultural civilization has been unleashed.

Battleship.

The embodiment of a country's comprehensive national strength.

technology, productivity, organization, soldier quality...... Everything is indispensable.

Railways are epoch-making products.

The productivity of the nomadic civilization cannot build the railway, because the productivity of the nomadic civilization cannot supply the surplus population.

Without a surplus population based on food, production cannot be organized, and without a scale of production, there will be no huge amount of iron.

The living environment of nomadic civilization makes them choose to live by grass and cannot be fixed.

Under great change.

Many people are invisible.

Burin Timur.

As you can tell from the name, this person is a nobleman.

Who wouldn't want to be a slave owner?

He wants to restore his glory, and there are many people who want to become slave owners again, and it has only been thirty years since he fled the Central Plains, and many old people have not forgotten it.

In a meadow, many grassland riders are like a forest.

They grew up on horseback, and riding horses is like walking in other regions, forming their instincts.

The last time he sent a rider to explore Daning, it was this person's assignment.

The high-spirited Bolin Timur brought the tribe's clothes, silk, Han books, fans, and jewelry......

These colorful goods were piled up in front of everyone.

"These are all manifestations of the greedy enjoyment of the Han people, and we must always be vigilant and maintain our wolf nature."

"Burn!"

Bolin Timur ordered.

These goods were ignited, and the black unpleasant smoke made many people can't help but regress.

There are also many people with a vague reluctance in their eyes.

(End of chapter)