Chapter 552 Huangshui Avenue

Liu Peng did not directly deny or affirm the plan proposed by Zhuang Diaozhi, but looked at the map and examined it carefully.

Obviously, Zhuang Diaozhi obviously put a lot of effort into the surveying and mapping this time. I don’t know how many difficulties and obstacles encountered, let alone the engineering team was seriously insufficient in terms of manpower and material resources. However, Zhuang Diaozhi finally came up with this very feasible roadmap.

However, Liu Peng still put forward a little comment on this roadmap: "Adjust, is the current end point to Shuitougou, Laiyang?"

Now the power of Longkou has not expanded to Jimo County, so Zhuangzhi put the end of this avenue in Laiyang County. However, Liu Peng did not expect that the end of this avenue was not in Laiyang County, but in Shuitougou in the west of Laiyang.

"Yes, it is more appropriate to put the end point in Shuitougou in any aspect!" Zhuang Tiezhi still insisted on his own point of view: "It is impossible for us to eat all of Laiyang now. It is better to take more real and big benefits first. As long as this road is built into Shuitougou, we can take half of Laiyang County, and even form a patrol team directly in Shuitougou."

Laiyang County is a typical super-large county, but how big is Laiyang? It is difficult for outsiders to have a direct feeling.

Liu Peng's core territory is Huang County and Zhaoyuan, but adding up the territory of Huang County and Zhaoyuan is still less than half of Laiyang County, and Laiwu City, the smallest prefecture-level city in Shandong, is less than half of Laiyang County in the Ming Dynasty.

If the subordinate prefectures such as Pingdu Prefecture and Juzhou are not added to the following counties, the region will still be worse than that of Laiyang County.

Because Laiyang County has "large land and abundant grain", Liu Peng has been working hard to develop and operate Laiyang. The province and the government have all agreed to confront this issue, believing that in other areas, we can negotiate slowly with Longkou, but Laiyang is absolutely not allowed. We must fight for an inch of land and not give in.

So to now, although Liu Peng's plan to develop Laiyang has achieved great success, both Laiyang County and Dasongwei are still under the firm control of the Ming government. Liu Peng in Laiyang officialdom could not even insert a needle, and lacked a strong spokesperson in Laiyang public.

Since you can't take over Laiyang County, you can't control the entire Laiyang County, so Zhuangzhi provides another idea.

Shuitougou is a very busy market in the western part of Laiyang. It is named after it is located at the eastern end of Dasougou. It has two or three hundred families and more than ten merchants, and the transportation conditions are very convenient. At least thousands of people come to Shuitougou whenever they go to the market.

Once this avenue is built, Shuitougou can be connected to Zhaoyuan, Huangshan Pavilion, and Longkou. With the current resources and advantages of Longkou, it is impossible for Shuitougou to become the basic area of ​​Longkou.

Zhuang Diaozhi continued: "If the road goes south from Huangshan Pavilion and builds all the way to Shuitougou, there are old rural roads on the entire line. We just need to rely on the old roads to widen it. The most affordable investment is the most suitable. If Laiyang County wants to get closer to us, then you can just build another road from the county town to Shuitougou?"

Speaking of this, Liu Peng's interest became increasingly greater and he had to choose a good way to adjust his skills.

He knew very well that Shuitougou would be renamed Shuituo Town in the future, and it would be the county town of Laixi County, and would lead the entire Laixi to be separated from Laiyang County.

In a sense, Laiyang's territory is too wide and management is very inconvenient, so disintegration is inevitable. In the Qing Dynasty, the county magistrate's office was set up in Jiangshan Town, Laixi, which was called the "Second Ya".

The business in Shuigoutou Town in the Republic of China was extremely prosperous, and the number of merchants and trade volume far exceeded that of Laiyang County, so Shuitougou had the opportunity to lead the entire Laixi away from Laiyang.

It is precisely because Laiyang County is too wide and inconvenient to manage, "it is 800 miles wide, with a lot of grain and a lot of land, which is quite difficult to manage." Although the county town is more than 40 miles away from Shuitougou, it feels beyond the reach of the entire western part of Laiyang. The Qing Dynasty could set up a county magistrate's office in Laixi, but the Ming Dynasty did not have such a temporary system. Therefore, the entire western part of Laiyang now has almost no resistance to the offensive of Longkou.

However, Longkou can take the route of surrounding the city in the countryside. As long as you master Shuitougou, you can then master the entire western part of Laiyang. This is not a small place, but a territory of a county. This territory is even much larger than the entire Huang County. Therefore, Liu Peng asked another question: "What kind of support do you need after the road is built to Shuitougou?"

Zhuang Tiezhi couldn't help but waved his fist hard. He said excitedly: "It's better to open another money house in Shuitougou? With the road and the money house, Shuitougou can control the entire western part of Laiyang in one fell swoop!"

Liu Peng nodded, and said, "Okay, the road must be built, the money house must be set up, the patrol team and the donation bureau must be handled. In this way, Shuitougou will be ours!"

But Zhuang Diaozhi understood that this matter must be done step by step, and he couldn't be too anxious. He immediately said, "Mr. Liu, I think we can go in two steps. This winter, we can first build Huangshan Pavilion to Zhaoyuan County, and then build from Zhaoyuan to Shuitougou, so that we can better grasp it."

This is a very safe suggestion, and Liu Peng was very satisfied: "In this way, our Longkou has a depth. As long as the road is built to Shuitougou, we can naturally advance and attack and retreat!"

He felt that Zhuang Diaozhi had indeed chosen a good place. Mastering the ditch head was not just about adding a large area of ​​land. Attacking Jimo to the south could completely cut off the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, gradually controlling the entire Laiyang County to the east, and considering the development to Pingdu Prefecture to the east.

In the past, the development of Longkou was to form a long snake formation along the East-West Guanma Avenue, which was seriously lacking in depth and was at risk of being cut off at any time. Now, Longkou has enough depth to maneuver in the future.

In fact, the main road from Huangshanguan to Shuitougou almost follows the same overlapping route as the Huangshui Highway in another time and space. The Huangshui Highway is actually the northern section of the Qingdao Huangxian Highway in the early years of the Republic of China. As long as the avenue extends south to Jimo, the entire peninsula can be cut off.

Zhuang Diaozhi immediately said, "Mr. Liu, I still have to say that to cultivate this great way, two thousand people may not be enough!"

Zhuang Diaozhi himself only had an engineering team of more than 60 people. Although he collected all the road construction masters and engineering technicians in the Longkou system, it was not enough to rely on this engineering team to fully repair the avenue, let alone large-scale reconstruction and widening.

Although it uses the old official roads and country roads between counties and townships, Liu Peng requires different standards, so Zhuangzhi must require more requirements: "Is it because you want me to collect another 100,000 workers?"

"Yes!" Zhuang Diaozhi said firmly: "With the winter idle, there should be no problem for 100,000 workers."

The 100,000 workers mentioned by Zhuang Diaozhi does not collect 100,000 farmers, but 100,000 working days. If there are 100,000 workers at the same time, it means that these 100 people will have to work for 100,000 workers. This is definitely a big number for the agricultural society.

Liu Peng shook his head and said, "There are too many 100,000 workers. You should try to use the manpower along the avenue. You also know that since they are building roads for their villages and communities, they are willing to contribute their efforts. There are twenty or thirty people in a village, and there are so many villages along the route, and there will definitely be one or two thousand people coming to work..."

"As for the additional manpower collected outside, I will prepare 10,000 labor for you first. If it is not enough, I will make up for it later!" Liu Peng took advantage of the protest of Zhuang Dian, and had already expressed his own solution: "But I can give you additional staffing on the Engineer Team. Instead of using outsiders, it is more convenient to use your own."

Zhuang Diaozhi was surprised. He knew that Longkou is becoming more and more regular now, and the organization has been stuck very hard. It is already a blessing from the law for his engineer team to have more than 60 people. Unexpectedly, Liu Peng would rather give more staff than transfer more people. He asked immediately: "Mr. Liu, how many people can you give? You deduct 90,000 working days at once."

Liu Peng immediately replied: "Another road construction team was added to you for management. It will be based on the model team formed by the research institute. There are 100 people in the whole team, but I must make it clear that the 100 people in the road construction team must be really working. Don't stuff all the cats and dogs in it!"

He added: "You must also have your own construction power. If the road is well built this time, consider enriching the organization and integrating the engineering team into one unit."

Now the Zhuangtui suddenly became excited. Now Longkou is always the most important combat organization for the team. Although one team has a large number of people, at least 300 people, there is no higher fixed organization above the teams. Several team-level units are temporarily required to cooperate and fight. Often, they can only be designated to command the teams. However, the battle will be over.

However, with the development of Longkou, the team's organization is no longer suitable for the needs of major battles. A large battle often requires more than a dozen team-level units to be dispatched. Therefore, in addition to further studying the organization of the model team, the research institute and the military are also considering adding a higher-level unit to the team. After this news came out, many old people in Longkou cheered for it.

However, although Zhuang Diaozhi was highly valued by Liu Peng, he had no hope of reaching the sky in one step and became a senior commander of the Longkou Army. After all, this was equivalent to having hundreds of fixed subordinates under his command.

Although the process of cultivating this great road in the next process, Zhuangtu can command thousands of people, most of these thousands of people are temporarily recruited farmers, and once the road is opened, it has nothing to do with Zhuangtu.

If the engineer team and the road construction team can be integrated into one large unit...
Chapter completed!