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Chapter 647 Transportation team?Isn't it a civilian husband!

On May 14, the 28th year of Chongzhen, at Balipu in the northeast of Shanhaiguan City, hundreds of carriages and chariots were ready to go, and nearly ten thousand soldiers were guarding each vehicle.

Chen Jiugao rode his horse on the top of a hill, and couldn't help sighing: "It's really spectacular. I never thought that the size of your car camp, my brother, is more than double the size of the bandits in Yu Province!"

"hey-hey!"

Zhang Cheng just gave a dry laugh, and said, "No way, no way. They're just improvised auxiliary soldiers."

Fu Yingchong also laughed dryly, "Brother Zhang, these auxiliary soldiers, in my opinion, seem to be more hardcover than the former battalion's regular soldiers."

Zhang Cheng smiled and said nothing, but Chen Jiugao took the opportunity to beat Fu Yingchong and said: "Fu Daya, you have to remember well. The soldiers and horses of the other battalion may be comparable to our front battalion, but the officers and soldiers under Brother Zhang, we Incomparable."

Fu Yingchong was taken aback when he heard the words, he glanced at Zhang Cheng, quite unconvinced, but he didn't say anything more because of the warning from Li Guozhen, uncle of Xiangcheng, and now from his elder brother Chen Jiugao.

Not a moment later, Wei Zhice rode his horse and galloped up the hillside. He first clasped his fists and said, "Commander, all the soldiers in Che Ying are ready for orders, please give me your instructions."

Zhang Cheng yelled: "Send the order, all the officers and men in the car camp immediately leave the camp and set off, and go to Guangning Zhongqian to wait for orders."

"Here!"

Not long after Wei Zhice ran down the hillside, the car battalion began to line up, and they marched in order. Although there were nearly ten thousand soldiers and hundreds of carts, they were not disorderly.

Suddenly, Fu Yingchong exclaimed: "What are these things in the back? The numbers are messy, and the army is not organized?"

Chen Jiugao looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and even some donkey carts appearing behind the army of chariot camps. They were obviously not as neat as the carts in front, and they were dressed in various colors. Strong clothes, not military uniforms.

Behind them are wheelbarrows, and some strong men carrying poles on their shoulders. Although they are all in uniform, their clothes are not uniform. He turned his head to look at Zhang Cheng, and asked with a puzzled face. : "Brother, these are the handymen you are talking about, right?"

"Ha ha!"

Zhang Cheng laughed for a while before saying, "Two brothers, these are the transportation team of my North Road Merchant Gang."

"Transport team? Isn't it a civilian husband!" Chen Jiugao and Fu Yingchong both looked puzzled.

"Exactly."

Zhang Cheng further explained: "I am worried that the army will march into Liaodong, far away from the heartland of my Ming Dynasty. Once the food and grass are insufficient, the army's morale will be disturbed, and it will not last long.

What's more, it was difficult to transport the gunpowder, guns, ointment and other military supplies that were sent out this time, so we cooperated with the local merchants to purchase and transport them to the city of Ningyuan on their behalf.I just pay money! "

Chen Jiugao nodded in thought, but Fu Yingchong kept saying, "Is this how all the money is spent? Aren't the people who transport grain and fodder conscripted?"

Zhang Cheng ignored him, and just said: "Brothers, we also went back to have breakfast, and the whole army set off. Let's rush to the Zhongqian Station and rest for a while."

"it is good……"

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After the hour of the day, Zhang Cheng led the cavalry under his command and Chen Jiugao's former battalion artillery team set off from Shanhaiguan and entered the border of Qiantunwei in Guangning, Liaodong.

Walking on this land, a feeling of desolation and desolation comes oncoming, mixed with indescribable tragic pride.

Since the establishment of slaves in Liaodong during the Wanli period, how many powerful generals of the Ming Dynasty came here?
Over the past few decades, they have followed one after another, continuously pouring into this barren black land, and dumping on this barren land. Their corpses are buried forever in this barren borderland of Daming.

In the desolate and mysterious land of Liaodong, how many thrilling stories have been performed by the ancestors here. This desolate land has shed the blood of too many loyal soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but they still failed to hold this vast land.

In Liaodong, what left the deepest impression on future generations is the endless black land, which is one of the most precious wealth in later generations of China, and the food grown after it was developed did not know how many people were fed.

Not to mention the more valuable oil, coal, forestry, medicinal materials, and many mineral resources with abundant reserves on that land, this place is simply a treasure land.

However, most of those resources cannot be exploited and used at present. Even the precious black land is not suitable for cultivation due to the severe cold of the Ice Age. Only the Liaohetao and Songnen Plains can barely be cultivated, but they are all occupied by Jiannu up.

But at this time, the Songnen Plain area was also difficult to cultivate due to the severe cold of the glaciers, and the yield was limited. Only the Liaohetao area was more suitable for cultivation. No wonder Jiannu occupied a large area of ​​land in Liaodong, but they could not feed their own people, so they had to enter the customs year after year. looting.

At the beginning, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division was set up in Liaodong in the eighth year of Hongwu. In terms of its organizational system, it still belonged to the Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, which governed the 25 guards of Liaodong, 130 eight institutes, two prefectures, and one alliance. Ningdusi and Nuergandusi manage other places.

After decades of construction, the agriculture and handicraft industry of Liaodong capital at that time had been greatly developed, and Liaoyang and other places were even more fertile places where "there is a lot of envy in the years, thousands of miles of rice paddies are connected, and the fortresses face each other".

At that time, the handicraft industries such as iron smelting and salt making in the Liaodong capital were also extremely developed and extremely important. The Sanwanwei and Jilin shipyards under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong capital were well-known iron smelting and shipbuilding centers in the country at that time.

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As soon as he stepped into the land of Liaodong, what impressed Zhang Cheng the most was that there are many piers and abutments here, and the mountains and hills in the west of Liaoning are continuous and undulating, which has the unique advantage of building Yandun.

Moreover, Liaodong Town has been in war for years, and many castles have been repaired and destroyed, destroyed and repaired. , worthy of the name, there are three miles and one pier, and five miles and one set.

On the other hand, Xuanfu, an important town on the nine borders, which is also "sent by the lock and key of the capital", is only five miles away, and ten miles away. place.

Desolation, this is Zhang Cheng's second impression of Liaodong. Along the way, there are ruins and ruins. In fact, there are many rivers in this section of the Liaodong Corridor. Occasionally, there are some villages and fortresses where Liao people live. Every day, they are worried about farming. With a little land, apart from handing it over to the army chief, that is to barely make ends meet.

Zhang Cheng saw that most of the guardhouses and piers he passed along the way were dilapidated, and the official roads were also very dilapidated. I really don't know where the huge Liao salaries issued by the imperial court every year were used?
He looked at the faces of the people around him who were also full of indignation.

(End of this chapter)