The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 284 Greedy Manifestation

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 was time for the army to march.

Although Daning District is connected to Beiping, the distance between Ning City in Daning and Beiping City is as long as nine hundred miles.

Nine hundred miles away.

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

The army in Peiping arrived in Daning by train.

The railway between Beiping and Ningcheng has been built for fifteen months, and there are many branch railway plans that have already been put on the agenda.

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

Although King Yan has great influence in Daning, Daning is still King Ning's vassal, even though King Ning has no prestige at present.

Many things require the approval of King Ning. If you keep forcing them, the gains will outweigh the losses.

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

"It is said that the railway is powerful, and I know it is powerful, but only when I see it with my own eyes, can I know how powerful it really is."

Fang Kuan, and Chen Heng, who has been transferred back to Peiping to serve as the chief of the capital, can be said to be one of the founders of the construction of the Daning Military Region.

The two still have the same identity.

from Peking.

Liu Zhen is a general from other places, not a general from the Peking faction.

The generals of the Peiping line do not mean that these generals are natives of Peiping, and they are not divided by geography. These people also come from all corners of the country.

is a label.

The army brought by the original Xu Da from the inland was left over when Beiping was built, and was inherited and carried forward by the latecomer Zhu Di.

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

Peiping is the eldest brother, Daning is the second younger brother, and Kaiping is the third younger brother.

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

Zhang Yu, the commander of the left guard in Yanshan, does not belong to this political force, he can be regarded as an outsider, not only firmly established his foothold, but also controlled the force of the left guard.

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

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

Even in the Li Xueyan incident last time, even Zhou Xing from Liaodong personally went to Yan Wangfu to "plead guilty", not to mention Liu Zhen from Daning.

The arrogance of these "outsiders" was severely hit.

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

Liu is really talented.

In history, when Yan Wang Zhu Di rebelled, this person represented him and caused Zhu Di a lot of trouble.

In the end, the local generals won, allowing Zhu Di to completely control the military power in all of Beiping, truly unifying the military power of Peiping, and laying the foundation for future victories.

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

The elder brother, the second brother, the third brother, and the cousin were connected more closely, and the military household economic cooperative made the grassroots military officers in the guards favor the Yan Palace.

In this context.

The prestige of King Yan's Mansion has already surpassed the height of history, and the guards are closely united under the banner of King Yan.

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

Under the huge disparity, Liu Zhen has put out the rest of his thoughts and tried his best to restore the adverse effects caused by the previous episode.

Hearing Dudu Fang's admiration, Liu Zhen smiled brightly and said in shock.

"When the railway was not built, the marching speed of the army generally ranged from [-] to [-] miles, and could even reach [-] miles or even hundreds of miles."

Liu Zhen was amazed and admired.

"This is still a short-term rapid march when the road conditions are good."

"Usually, it takes about 20 days for the Peking vanguard to arrive in Daning, and it takes longer for the logistics and follow-up troops."

Pointing to the railway, Liu Zhen saw with his own eyes the Peking army getting off the railway carriage, and the soldiers were still joking.

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

Although Liu Zhen was defeated by Zhu Di, it was not because of his military talent, he clearly saw the meaning of it.

"Everything is different."

Liu Zhenxin felt a little bitter.

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

But Liu Zhen didn't dare to show it, and said in a relaxed tone: "After the railway from Miyun to Daning is opened to traffic in the two places, it only takes two or three days and nights for the army to use the railway to march."

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

Liu Zhen paused subconsciously.

This talented and courageous general has made great efforts on the railway since the Beiping army switched to a new mode of transportation.

The more he understood, the more terrified he felt.

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

Fang Kuan is different from Chen Heng.

Chen Heng is a radical figure in the Peking Department, but Fang Kuan thinks that he should take the initiative to recruit outstanding talents.

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

If more people are recruited, the interests of the people from the Peking Department will be invisible, after all, there are only so many positions.

Exceeding this degree will affect the cohesion of the Peking Department.

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

Fang Kuan is a high-ranking general, one of the top figures in the Beiping family. He has his own political philosophy and will not change it easily. Therefore, in the Daning area, he began to pay attention to many generals from other places.

I hope that through these actions of my own, the two parties will be united together.

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

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

In order to protect their own rights, they must seek refuge with King Yan, otherwise they 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 meant to flatter Yan Wangfu, and conveyed his heart to Fang Kuan.

"How powerful is the railway? The people's power and self-consumption required during transportation have been reduced by a hundred times and a thousand times. These saved resources can be invested in more troops."

Liu Zhen cited an example and said: "If a soldier needs ten civilians to maintain logistics, then under the railway transportation, ten soldiers only need one civilian to maintain."

"What does this mean?"

Liu Zhen looked politely at his colleagues around him.

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

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 promotion of generals from other departments will not affect his rights, so he doesn't care about his brothers.

This kind of complaining mentality is shared by many mid-level generals.

"The Headquarters said through the internal statement of China Heavy Industry that this phenomenon shows that the productivity of farming civilization has been liberated. Compared with nomadic civilization, the biggest shortcoming of farming 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 brother of the Peking Clan.

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

"Like a bucket, how much water the bucket can hold depends not on the longest plank, but on the shortest plank."

"The shortest piece of wood was replaced with a longer one. In the Daning area, logistics supply and transportation will no longer be a problem in our foreign wars."

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

As a result, there is obviously a ten-fold productivity advantage, but it cannot be shown because of transportation and logistics problems.

This line, like the invisible upper limit of the farming civilization's foreign wars, firmly locked the farming civilization until the age of great navigation.

New modes of transportation and logistics emerge.

Soldiers and supplies are loaded on the same boat, and there is no need for civilian labor or transportation consumption. Like a nomadic civilization, they live by grass.

On the sea, the productivity advantage of farming civilization has been released.

naval battle.

The embodiment of a country's comprehensive national strength.

Technology, productivity, organization, soldier quality... everything is indispensable.

The railway is an epoch-making product.

The productivity of nomadic civilization cannot build railways, because the productivity of nomadic civilization cannot supply the excess population.

Without a surplus population based on food, it is impossible to organize production. Without a production scale, how can there be a huge amount of iron.

The living environment of nomadic civilization, so they can only choose to live in the grass, can not be fixed.

under great change.

Many are invisible.

Bolin Timur.

It can be seen from the name that this person is a nobleman.

Who wouldn't want to be a slave owner?

He wants to restore his glory, and many others want to become slave owners again. It has only been 30 years since he fled the Central Plains, and many old people have not forgotten it.

On a piece of grass, many prairie riders are like patches of forest.

They grew up on horseback since they were young, and riding a horse is just like walking in other areas, forming their instinct.

It was this person who sent a rider to scout Daning last time.

Bolin Timur, who was full of energy, brought tribal clothes, silk, Han books, fans, jewelry...

These various commodities are piled up in front of everyone.

"These are manifestations of Han people's greed and enjoyment. We must always be vigilant and maintain our wolf nature."

"burn!"

Bolin Timur ordered.

These products were ignited, and the black and unpleasant smoke made many people regress.

There are also many people who have concealed reluctance in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)