The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 629 Breaking new ground
With the Yangtze River water transport, the efficiency has been greatly improved. The tonnage of Huang's inland warships on the Yangtze River is not large, but there are already dozens of steel flat land ships of about [-] tons. With naval reinforcements, no matter who the base in Hankou is Can't beat it either.

The Huang family has no control over whether the imperial court maintains the Yangtze River waterway, but the Huang family has set up a special team to dredge the waterway. There are dozens of work boats, all equipped with manual buckets, and the dredging of the waterway is always in progress.

The technology of underwater blasting reefs has improved a lot, and it is no problem to maintain the safety of the channel of the Yangtze River from Hankou to Shizhu. This channel can already pass through more than 100 tons of flat river boats.

There are too many trackers needed to cross the Three Gorges upstream, and the Huang family often selects from these trackers those who have worked for more than three years to join the army. They are undoubtedly good seedlings for mountain soldiers.

The efficiency of the Huangjia's river-sea combined transportation is remarkable, and it is naturally profitable. It is the owner's goal to have fun, so the Huang's bid for the tracker is [-]% higher than that of other fleets. Of course, the life of the tracker will improve a lot when the income is high.

What's more, every young tracker has a dream in his heart, and of course it is to be favored by the Huang family. From now on, he will drag his family away from the tragic fate of pulling the track, and become a reserve mountain soldier under the "God of War" with his head held high.

Wu Yi, who runs Yansui Town, has also been fruitful for more than a year. He organized a wheelbarrow transport team to transport grain from Taiyuan City, where the General Military Mansion of Shanxi Town is located, and Datong City, where the General Military Mansion of Datong Town is located.

Datong and Taiyuan have already built new grain depots, opened "Huaxia Big Bank" and post offices. It is not easy to transport grain over thousands of miles, and the efficiency is low.

The journey from Yulin to Taiyuan was only more than [-] miles in later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, it was [-] miles away. The road conditions were still very bad, especially crossing Luliang Mountain was too time-consuming and laborious, and it was really difficult to transport without a wheelbarrow.

Wu Yi has already managed several military attachés from the Military Intelligence Department, who have become regiment trainers or inspectors, and have recruited many cavalry from the front army, numbering more than [-].

The Ming Dynasty's finances were deteriorating, and the cavalry was a force that consumed a lot of money and food. The frontier generals could only guarantee the combat effectiveness of their few servants, and barely kept the servants' horses from losing weight.

Therefore, it was difficult for the frontier troops who could not get along with their servants to make a living. When the imperial court inspected the soldiers and horses, it was found that the cavalry horses would be held accountable if they were disabled, which caused the ordinary battalion soldiers to flee seriously.

The Huang family brought a large amount of money and food to collect cavalry, and operated many grassroots military officers to still play the Ming Dynasty banner, and easily recruited more than two thousand troops.

Wu Yi transferred all their family members to Zhongmingbao to farm, leaving only [-] cavalry in Yulin to ensure the safety of food transportation, and the rest arranged for them to receive training and study culture under Han Kuan's command.

At the beginning, these frontier soldiers didn't dare to take their family members to Shanhaiguan to cultivate land. Wu Yi arranged for several officers to take a group of 300 people to Zhongmingbao for field inspection.

These frontier soldiers saw the twin forts with unparalleled defense, saw the cavalry of the Huang family galloping with thousands of horses, saw the endless farmland, and saw the life of the Huang family's village.

They learned that as long as they come here, they will get five acres of private land. If the family is attacked and killed by Jiannu, even if it is a woman, the Huang family will give 100 taels of silver per person as a standard pension for the dead soldiers.

Three hundred years ago, the frontier army cavalry in Yansui Town returned to Yulin, and told their comrades what they saw and heard two hundred miles away from Zhongmingbao, and also talked about the attitude of the Huang family towards the brothers and sisters of the frontier army. Only then did I feel relieved and boldly dragged my family to the Liaoxi Corridor.

In addition to the many ordinary people taken in, over the past year, the Huang family has transferred more than 5 people from Yansui Town to the vicinity of Zhongmingbao for reclamation. Now there are more than 20 soldiers and civilians in this territory, and more than [-] households.

Infiltrating the Nine Frontiers of the Ming Dynasty is a strategy, and it is the basic task of the Military Intelligence Department to strive to prevent the frontier troops from being thieves.

The prestige of "God of War" is as loud as in Nine Sides, because there are many senior generals here who have followed Huang Sheng to fight, and their promotions are due to the credit of following Huang's family.

The establishment of the "Huaxia Big Bank", the post office, and the grain store in the important town of Jiubian not only did not encounter difficulties, but also received the help of too many civil servants and military generals.

The Huang family fed these military households and paid [-] Wen Huaxia Tongbao as wages every day. Many military households were unwilling to leave and wanted to work with the Huang family forever.

The population of Zhongming Castle has increased rapidly, and the garrison generals Han Kuan, Gu Shanhe, and Cao Hucheng still use the simplest and most effective method to prevent the establishment of slaves.

From the west of Ningyuan, the policy of only allowing personnel to enter and not to exit has been implemented. The work of transporting supplies to Ningyuan and Jinzhou was also undertaken by the Huang family.

Those who came from Liaodong did not need to bother to identify whether they were spies or not, and they could just be sent to Jiaozhi to become a member of the road construction laborers.

Fan Wencheng did not know how many spies he sent to the west of Liaoning to investigate, but there was no news. The mystery of Zhongmingbao made Hou Jin dare not covet it.

Five thousand miles away, the king of Qiongya County was breaking new ground. On September 15, the [-] troops of King Iskandar Muda of Aceh finally entered the battlefield that had been waiting for a long time. Li Dagang and Gu Yicang The cavalry assault quickly blocked the enemy's retreat.

The thirteen thousand who participated in the battle and the 5000-strong stormtrooper formed by foreign nationalities began to collect the nets. The one-sided encirclement and annihilation battle lasted for three days. Less than half of the enemy troops were wiped out, and nearly 10 people became prisoners.

Huang Sheng didn't delay for a day, and immediately transferred the prisoners to Java Island, and returned the captured cold weapons to them as soon as he got off the boat.

The rebels on Java Island were immediately reinforced by 10 people, and their strength soared.

Because these 10 people are quite different from the old and young men and women who came before. Most of them are soldiers participating in training, and all of them are young and strong.

The Dutch have just stabilized the situation and formed a strategic stalemate with the rebels. Unexpectedly, just two or three months later, the rebels launched a large-scale attack here. Several strongholds farther from the sea were breached, and many Dutch soldiers and civilians were tortured and killed. .

Sure enough, the island of Java fell into a protracted jihad. The life of the Dutch would never be easier. Huang Sheng was going to let them continue to toss and wait for a year or two. can also be considered.

Because the First World War almost wiped out the effective forces of the country of Aceh.In the next few months, there were almost no major battles on Sumatra Island, and the enemy surrendered on the sidelines.

All Han descendants were left behind, and all foreign nationalities were sent to Java Island. There may have been more than 100 million people participating in the jihad before and after.

At present, it is conservatively estimated that there are no more than 40 indigenous people on Sumatra Island, of which about [-] are leftover women, who can be married by Han people in the future.

(End of this chapter)