Daming Crazy Emperor

On the banks of Hubei Lake, there are luxuriant grasses, dense forests, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and a faint fragrance in the air.

If you come here to escape the summer heat after retiring, it is indeed a good place.

Taichang secretly sighed, and then said decisively: "Let's start."

After waving the flag, hundreds of Spike warships immediately lined up in ten rows and sailed towards the river bank. The first ones were all the refitted boats with hoists.

However, what they want to build this time is not a temporary pier, but a permanent pier.

This is actually very simple. They only need to hang the brackets of the two temporary piers together to form a pier with a width of Zhang Xu, and then reinforce the two sides with wooden piles, and lay a layer of thick wooden boards in the middle.

Ebei Lake is the widest section of the upper reaches of the Ebei River.

This place is really not like a river, but like a lake, so Taichang simply named it Hubei Lake.

The southernmost section of Hubei Lake has a deep water area suitable for docking armed merchant ships. However, the deep water area is not wide, and only a dozen large docks can be built to dock armed merchant ships.

Other places are also suitable for berthing Spike and Dragon warships.

This problem is not very big, because many tributaries of the upper reaches of the Hubei River can only enter the Feilong warship and the Spike warship. Even if this place becomes an important transit point in the future, the vicinity must still be dominated by light ships.

As for the transshipment of goods, it is only necessary to slender the large wharf so that a hundred armed merchant ships can dock at the same time.

After all, the carrying capacity of an armed merchant ship is millions of catties, and one hundred armed merchant ships can carry hundreds of millions of catties of goods. Loading and unloading such a large amount of goods at one time requires a lot of hoists and a lot of manpower.

It is already very good to be able to load and unload so many goods every day, at least at this stage it is enough.

As for the development of more goods in the future, it is entirely possible to find places to build several large wharfs in the middle and lower reaches of the Hubei River.

Anyway, the railway line will extend north along the west bank of the Hubei River. Even if it reaches the coast of the Arctic Ocean, it will take at most two or three years. There is no need to rush.

The most important thing now is to build the port and city here, and connect the railway network of Daming with the Ebei River system.

Taichang watched the quick movements of the navy officers and soldiers, and couldn't help but nodded slightly. It seemed that the ten piers could be fully set up in a morning at most.

And one morning was enough time for the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion to pull over [-] wooden chariots.

Next, the elite of the Shenwu Battalion on Cao Bianjiao's side and the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate can be pulled over.

He thought about it carefully, and then asked, "Liqing, how many warships have you mobilized in the past two days?"

Yuan Keli sighed slightly: "There is no way, most of the Spike warships have gone to the Yeni River Basin, and there are only a thousand ships left in the Hubei River Basin.

Although Weichen ordered the Feilong battleship to go everywhere to notify, there are only about [-] Spike warships assembled on Bianjiao's side at the moment. "

Five hundred ships is indeed a bit small, but it doesn't matter much. Anyway, it will take at least seven or eight days to get the materials for building the city and large docks.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "If there are five hundred ships, let's go to five hundred ships, send Feilong warships to notify Bianjiao, arrange people to pull the prisoners over, and fill each ship with more people.

Anyway, it's less than a day's voyage, and it's still on the river, there's basically no danger, and you can jam as much as you can.

In short, we must strive to bring all the captives and soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion within seven days.

As for their war horses, it doesn't matter if they are raised there first, and it won't be too late to pull them after the armed merchant ships come over.

By the way, let all the captives bring their tents, and their cattle and sheep should stay there first and don't bring them here. "

Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

After saying that, he bowed and walked away quickly.

At this time, Taichang couldn't help but look towards the jungle to the south.

The railway has already started to be repaired here, and I don't know when it will be repaired.

It stands to reason that the tens of thousands of people plus dozens of large machines on the railway of more than [-] miles will only take three or four days.

However, the terrain here is more complicated, there are not only jungles, but also mountains, and the railway can't turn too much.

It is really not easy to repair the railway in this kind of terrain.

Fortunately, there are enough large-scale machines mobilized this time, both for cutting trees and cutting mountains and breaking rocks. Otherwise, it would take several months to repair this kind of terrain purely by manpower.

Zhu Cihong was holding up a small exquisite telescope to watch the navy build the wharf with great interest, but he didn't hear Taichang speak for a long time, he thought Taichang had already left.

As a result, he turned his head and saw that Taichang was staring at the jungle in the south in a daze.

He couldn't help asking curiously, "Grandpa Huang, what are you thinking?"

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "I'm thinking about building the railway. Do you know why we build the railway here?"

Zhu Cilang thought for a while, and then said seriously: "The purpose of building the railway is to transfer grain, grass and baggage, right?

After all, with so many soldiers here, it is impossible to have nothing to eat. "

The view is a bit one-sided.

Taichang continued to smile and said: "I will teach you a very useful saying, this saying is to build roads first if you want to get rich.

That is to say, if you find a place that is poor, backward or deserted, which wastes great resources, the first step is to repair the road.

Siberia now, including the original Nurgandus, is like this.

Because there is no road, it is inconvenient for ordinary people to come here, and it is also inconvenient to transfer materials. Even if a large amount of wood is cut and a large amount of minerals are mined, it cannot be transported out. Therefore, a large amount of resources are just wasted here.

For example, the wood here, the jungle you have seen these days is only a small part, from the west of the Yeni River to Nuer Gandusi, there are such dense forests almost everywhere.

Think about it, how much wood is there in a dense forest that is bigger than the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty?

Even if we don’t plant trees, but cut down some big ones and let other trees grow naturally, it’s a trivial matter to harvest tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of logs a year here.

At the moment, even ordinary wood costs a penny at least. Think about it, how much is it?

And the grasslands and arable land here, if they are all planted with grain and raised with cattle and sheep, how much will it cost a year?

There are also mineral deposits here, the value of which is even more immeasurable.

Think about it, if we repair the road, how much money can we make a year? "

Uh, well, Zhu Cihong's little head still can't figure it out.

He thought for a while, and then said weakly: "Grandfather, what you said about logging wood, growing food, raising cattle and sheep, and mining, all of them need a lot of people, right?

There seems to be no one here.

What's more, I heard from them that the winter here is terribly cold, much colder than the capital city, and people can freeze to death if they go out and walk around.

Can ordinary people live in such a cold place? "

This is indeed a problem.

If it is just to send troops to garrison, it will be fine. Anyway, when it comes to winter, everyone stays in the city and stays in the house and does not go out.

It will be different if it is engaged in large-scale development. Tens of millions of people can't live in their homes for half a year, can they?

Not to mention anything else, if you run out of food, meat, vegetables, or charcoal, coal, etc., you have to buy something.

It is impossible for anyone to store all the things that will be used for more than half a year.

Traveling this winter is indeed a big problem, what should we do?

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

During this morning, the navy officers and soldiers really built ten docks for berthing the Spike warships, and the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion also pulled over [-] wooden chariots.

Taichang directly ordered the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion to arrange [-] chariots into two square formations, one large and one small.

The small one in the middle, with all the fronts facing inward, was reserved for the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate.

There is a big circle around the outside, and the fronts of the cars are all facing outwards. They are reserved for the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp and the Southeast Camp.

Moreover, the periphery of the formation happened to be the location where the city wall was built.

In this way, it will be much more convenient for the soldiers of Shenwu Battalion and Southeast Battalion to guard the captives. As long as all the captives of the Siberian Khanate are driven into the small cart formation in the middle, if they want to escape, it will be as difficult as besieging a city.

Soon after the formation of chariots was set up, the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion also escorted the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate and came in a Spike warship.

These guys are really good at stuffing. There are hundreds of people stuffed into a Spike warship, and this trip directly brought 6 to [-] people.

If you add in the soldiers from the Southeast Battalion who drove over with their chariots, that would be 7 to [-] people. It seems that the construction of the city and the port can be started.

However, Taichang is not in a hurry to start construction.

Because starting construction now can only dig a foundation for the city wall.

If people were to dig this thing, more than [-] people would have to dig for several days.

It would be different if a railway excavator was used to dig it, and it would be easy to dig in one day.

Anyway, the materials for building the city and the port have not arrived at this moment, so he doesn't need to rush for a day or two.

Cao Bianjiao's transfer of captives was quite fast. In five days, [-] soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and more than [-] prisoners of the Siberian Khanate were left behind to take care of the horses, cattle and sheep, and all others were pulled over by him.

This time, the large and small car formations were suddenly overcrowded, and there were densely packed tents everywhere.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help frowning slightly.

This is nearly 30 people, and they can't always be idle.

He stared at the jungle to the north for a while, and then asked, "Mr. Li, where is the railway going?"

Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, according to reports from the express boat, the railway is only twenty miles away from here.

Moreover, there are basically jungles in the middle, and there are no undulating mountains. I believe they will be able to repair the railway the day after tomorrow at the latest. "

Do you have to wait two more days?

Taichang thought about it carefully, and simply ordered: "You send the fast boat to pass the order, let them cut down the trees along the way first, and then send two large excavators to dig the roadbed to dig the foundation of the city wall."

This is not a big problem, anyway, all the trees are cut by machines.

The next morning, several machines for cutting trees and logging rushed out of the jungle in the south, followed by two large excavators.

Taichang immediately ordered the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to escort the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate to dig mud and burn bricks, and ordered the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion to dig the foundation of the city wall with two excavators.

The entire construction site was in full swing, the brick-burning kilns stood up one by one, emitting white smoke one after another, and the foundation of the city wall was taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In two days, the foundation of the city wall was dug, and the surroundings of the foundation were covered with kilns for firing bricks.

At this time, the railway was also repaired, and [-] armed merchant ships also arrived.

Taichang immediately ordered the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion to take construction materials such as cement and steel bars ashore first, and ordered the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to escort the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate to start building cities, stations and large docks.

The name of this city is Shenwu City.

Because it turns out that there are Shenwu Zuowei, Shenwu Right Guard and Shenwu Qianwei near Xi'an Fucheng.

However, at this moment, these three guards have all been merged into the Beida Camp, and the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Commissioner has also changed from a border to an inland area, so there is no need for guards at all.

The name of Shenwu City is not only to commemorate the original Shenwu Zuowei, Shenwu Right Guard and Shenwu Qianwei, but also coincides with the name of Shenwu Camp.

As soon as this name was chosen, the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp were excited. They all regarded Shenwu City as the main city of the Shenwu Camp and were building it.