Hanzhong.
Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were patrolling together.
Hanzhong is an important node from Chang'an to Sichuan and Shu, and it is also a key buffering point in the east and west directions. From Hanzhong to Chang'an, the Tangluo Road and the Baoxi Road are now relatively smooth, except for Ziwu Road.
After all, it is really difficult to expand Ziwu Road into a road where cars and horses pass. It is not the average difficulty, but very difficult.
In order to increase the smooth road and expand the flow of cargo throughput, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang discussed repeatedly, in addition to further expanding the width of the Tangluo Road and Baoxie Road, another Chencang Road, which is a longer distance, has entered the agenda of restoration and development.
If Chencang Road can be opened again, it will also relieve some pressure on the transfer center in the south of Chang'an City. Because Chencang Road first goes to Xianyang and then turns to Chang'an. This will not only slow down the traffic pressure at Luoyukou, but also promote the economic development of the belt-to-pierce Youfufeng.
Yes, economical.
This word was first created by General Husband and soon became a consensus among everyone.
It is easy to understand whether it is to benefit the country and the people?
The longer I follow the General of the Cavalry, the more I will become the shape of Fei Qian. Bah, I have learned some new knowledge...
After two days, Xu Huang was about to leave Hanzhong and go to Sichuan and Shu. He was about to walk on the Micang Road and take a look at it in Sichuan and Pakistan.
The Micang Road follows the middle of Sichuan line. If the Micang Line is stabilized, it means that the Micang Line is stabilized. The western Sichuan of Jinniu Road and the central Sichuan of Micang Road, these two combined, plus Yufu County, Yong'an County, which are stationed in eastern Sichuan, will make the entire Sichuan and Shu stable.
There was a saying in later generations that if you want to be rich, you should first build roads, but in the Han Dynasty, if you want to be stable, you should first build roads.
The road can be said to be an extension of human civilization, just like an animal who is scattered and urinated on a territory. The road of human beings is to enclose its own sphere of influence.
Near Baoxi Road, there are many camps and some factories under construction today.
On the side of the factory, military camps and residential areas for people were built.
The positioning of Baoxie Road is mainly for commercial freight transportation, because it is slightly west and is closer to Jinniu Road. The transportation route will be shorter. Unless you are not worried about the shelf life goods, you will continue to walk eastward and turn to Tangluo Road. Otherwise, most of the goods will go from Baoxie Road to Chang'an.
During the Zhang family's rebellion, a military camp was built here. Now, after Zhang Liao took over military affairs in Hanzhong, he not only expanded the military camp, but also expanded the private camp.
In fact, there are not many things that can be taken advantage of in Hanzhong, and the quality of tea is actually average. However, as a transportation center, just transporting goods from east, west, south and north has already made a lot of money.
"The lord told me before that there is a "container" method," Zhang Liao said to Xu Huang, "I couldn't figure out what it means at first, until I got here..."
This camp is made of box cages, and many people in the camp are busy. The camp manager next to him nodded and bowed. Zhang Liao said a few words to him, and then sent him back to do things.
There is no technical threshold for box cages, and anyone can make them, so the size, length and other things that anyone makes are different.
Such inconsistency in size leads to trouble during transportation.
Because whether it is Baoxi Road or Tangluo Road, it is transported by water and land. In other words, some places are easy to travel, and some places are too turbulent or lack water in winter, so they go to land. Therefore, it is necessary to transfer frequently, change cars and boats, etc., and the size of the box cages are very tedious when placing them. Sometimes, in order to stuff an item on the car or boat, you have to adjust several times, just like moving the chess pieces on the Huarong Road, the big ones are small ones long and flat, and piled together.
Xu Huang's intelligence value is also quite high. After watching it for a while, he suddenly realized it.
"This move is very wonderful!" Xu Huang nodded and said, "After arriving in Sichuan, he will also make the same size of box cages in Sichuan and Sichuan!"
A unified standard box cage will save a lot of time and speed up the operation. Of course, compared with the original "adjustment and plugging" model, a standard box cage may cause some space utilization to be insufficient. After all, not all goods can be filled with a standard box cage, but the speed increase in transportation can greatly offset this kind of waste in space.
After all, now that the boom equipment is available, it will take a while to fall together.
Xu Huang and Zhang Liao were located on a small hill, and below the distance below the hill, there were all working people and laborers, as well as a large number of Hu slaves, including the Ba people and Di people after the last defeat, etc.
"The factory and housing here can be fully repaired in about a month. At that time, these people can enter the mountain and repair a new plank road," said Zhang Liao. "The north end of Chencang Road is almost always going to have a plank road... But if it is really repaired, this road may not be faster than the Baoxi Road!"
Most of the men who work here are middle-aged men, fifty people are organized into a team, and five teams are organized into a song, and a team of soldiers are supervised. When the work to build a house here is finished, the rest are basically lighter work such as production of boxes and cages, so the heavy labor is not used, and additional arrangements are needed.
Xu Huang nodded, then looked around and said, "Can the grain and grass reserves still keep up?"
As a general, the first thing he cares about is naturally the soldiers and equipment. To a certain extent, food and grass are also a kind of equipment allocation.
Zhang Liao smiled and said, "It's thanks to Zhang..."
Xu Huang was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed, "It's true. Haha, it's true..."
Labor is not free, but also requires money and food. If it were before, the large number of concentrated labor for a long time would really cause headaches for local officials. But now, due to the clearance of Zhang's family and the "Silver of Atonement" of the relevant gentry tyrants...
To some extent, it is indeed "Silver of Atonement".
Contradictory opposition and unity, light and shadow are always together.
It's like arsenic, it was originally a medicine.
When it comes to arsenic, cinnabar, etc., many people may feel chilled. In fact, as long as these fatal "toxic substances" are scientifically prepared, strictly, controlled, and the dosage is determined, and the adaptation of the disease is accurate, they can cure the disease and save people, and even achieve unexpected results. Simply put, if used well, they are medicine, and if used too much, they are poisonous.
『At that time, let them build roads, from Baoxi Road to Chencang Road.』 Zhang Liao stretched out his finger and pointed to the north, "It's just that the soil is hard in winter, it's rainy again in spring, and there are many insects in summer...』
Xu Huang nodded and said, "Yes, difficulties are always present, but there can be no difficulties, so we will never do them?"
"Haha, that's exactly what it means." Zhang Liao said with a smile, "Walking forward? Today I remember one place to attract thunder to open the mountain and remove the huge rocks."
Xu Huang agreed, and the two continued to move forward, entered the Baoxi Road, and walked along the road. After walking for about an hour, they turned into a fork, and then walked for a while. They became more and more rugged and could not ride horses, so they got off under the rocks and climbed up the rocks.
The mountains in each place have their own characteristics. The mountains in the southwest have many caves, and in the Qinling Mountains, the huge rocks and stacked structures have become obstacles to blocking the roads.
In the Qinling Mountains, there are malt shale, volcanic rock, marble, etc., which are different, but they are basically big and hard, completely different from the kind of sandstone or limestone.
If there is no gunpowder and you want to open a passage in the mountains, you can only build a plank road.
There was really a plank road here in history.
Lianyun Plank Road.
The construction started in the Han Dynasty, and then it was not until the Northern Wei Dynasty that it was fully completed. It took about two hundred years to build it. It was an era without gunpowder, and it was a time when we snatched the road from the rocks!
As long as Chinese people have direction, they never say "fear of difficulties"!
What I fear most is losing direction.
Don’t seek God, because God does not save others, you can only seek yourself.
If you are blocked by mountains, you will move the mountains!
If there is a flood, it is water control!
This is the case with the ancient people. Could it be that later generations have become weaker?
Most of the people who opened the mountain here were slaves. These guys who originally tried to plunder China now have to face the bitter fruit that was difficult to swallow. These slaves greatly made up for the lack of labor, especially heavy labor, and accelerated the process of building mountains and roads here.
Plus gunpowder.
Of course, all claims to the outside world are called "Five Elements Thunder".
"I'll pay homage to the general!" The military academy in charge of gunpowder came to pay homage to him.
"No gift," Zhang Liao nodded, "How are you prepared?"
"The General, you are ready and are now evacuating people." The military academy replied.
Gunpowder is a special item, and is governed by both the military and the craftsmen. The Huang craftsmen are responsible for approving the quantity, use location, and usage, while the military grenadier is responsible for the specific use. Such double insurance will ensure the confidentiality of the gunpowder for a considerable period of time, but sooner or later, loopholes will be found. These measures are just delays as much as possible.
After all, some technologies are outdated.
The gunpowder used to open mountains has been revised, improved and improved again and again. In this process, the theories and research in the chemical industry and physics and chemistry are also constantly improving.
If it were the original man, even if gunpowder was made, at most he would write a note, such as the raw materials were the best charcoal there, saltpeter there was the best, etc., but it would never be like the present. There were also Huang's craftsmen following him, constantly recording the situation, and then summarizing it to Chang'an...
What is the best charcoal in a certain place?
What is the best saltpeter in one place, and what is the bad saltpeter in the other two places?
Simply put, the great Han, at least the great Han in Guanzhong, began to move from knowing the truth to knowing the reason.
This is a small step, but also a huge step.
Just like the current construction of Lianyun Plank Road, it seems like a small step to divert from Baoxie Road to Chencang Road, but it means a larger, wider and smoother direction.
"Be careful." Although this is probably a cliché, Zhang Liao still instructed, "Okay, go."
This time, the medicine is released to open the mountain. This time, it is not the first time for Zhang Liao to watch it, but it is still quite fresh for Xu Huang.
Hanzhong is full of mountains and the road is very difficult to walk.
There are more mountains in Sichuan and Shu, and the roads are even harder to walk.
In other words, China has been born since ancient times, so there has never been a good path.
Isn’t it just like this that I have come step by step?
"This mountain-opening thunder is said to have two ways to do it," Zhang Liao said to Xu Huang while looking in the distance, "One is called the lost wax method. As the name suggests, it means to use wax to make a mold first, apply mud shells on the outside, and then the mud shells dry and can be roasted on fire, and then the wax will flow out..."
"You know all this?" Xu Huang was a little surprised.
Zhang Liao laughed and said, "Curious, I'm just curious, I just checked some internal documents..."
Xu Huang nodded, and his evaluation of Zhang Liao was even higher.
In the military, matters are very complicated. Especially for the commander of the army, sometimes there are so many things that are unimaginable. From major battle planning to the food, drinking, and defecation of soldiers, even the mood fluctuations of some military academy non-commissioned officers in the army sometimes have to take care of them. There are a lot of articles that need to be approved without a god. I still have the leisure to read internal documents that are not very relevant?
Just for personal curiosity?
Of course, if it is just for ease, you can throw all these matters to the adjutant or the civil servant, but if others do it for the sake of doing it for the sake of the effect, it is the end of the matter...
This time, Xu Huang got a lot of gains when he came to Hanzhong.
This kind of gain does not mean how much money you have obtained, but how personal growth it has. After staying in Chang'an for a long time, his thinking will easily become solidified. Now, after taking a trip, Xu Huang found that he has gained a lot of new knowledge.
Xu Huang has a calm personality. On the one hand, this calmness is natural, and on the other hand, it is acquired. Compared with Xu Huang, Zhang Liao has become much more active, especially since Zhang Liao did not join Cao Cao as a loser as he did in history. Naturally, he would not be as cautious as in history. Even if he was suspected of being monitored by Cao Cao, he would pretend not to be visible...
Therefore, Zhang Liao's current thinking and other things are more open and more farther than Xu Huang.
It was just like the peasant and soldier training promoted by Zhang Liao in Hanzhong.
Peasant soldiers are not a new word, but "peasant soldiers training" is.
Xu Huang watched "Farmership and Soldier Training" once a few days ago.
"Pean and Soldier Training" is somewhat similar to the "Pean and Soldier Union" in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty, but it has essential differences.
The system of "integration of soldiers and farmers" is that service personnel are usually scattered in villages and communities to serve as farmers, and only temporarily recruit soldiers during wartime. When they are farmers on weekdays, weapons are collected and uniformly kept by the state. When they are recruited, weapons are also issued at the same time.
This type of peasant soldiers is obviously different from the regular soldiers who are always in the hands of the soldiers and are always in the hands of the soldiers, forming a system of soldiers who gather in the battle and temporarily receive troops.
The reason why the system of "integration of soldiers and farmers" was eliminated is because this thing has too low combat power, it is purely cannon fodder. As the intensity of war on the Chinese battlefield becomes higher and higher, such low-quality soldiers will certainly become less and less suitable for the needs of war.
Zhang Liao's "peasant and soldier training" was not a need for war, it seemed that it was just to train farmers...
It was like Xu Huang who saw a training for a peasant soldier.
That was near No. 5 Tun Fort in Hanzhong.
The No. 5 Tun Fort is surrounded by military farms. There are about 200 households in the Tun Fort, and there is a schoolyard, which is not large. Then the peasant soldiers train in the schoolyard.
There is no farm work in winter, and those who participate in training are rich, so many people are very enthusiastic. Anyway, they are idle, so they don’t have to go to fight to kill the enemy. Isn’t it good to take some money to subsidize the household?
In fact, the training is not very effective.
But this is not important. What is important is that these farmers have taken the first step from home to outdoors.
Then there is the competition between the trestles and the forts, just like the competition between the soldiers and soldiers. If someone wins, then some people will lose. If they win, there will be rewards. If they lose, they will go back with their noses and faces. They will inevitably hold their breath and compete again next year.
This is when the farmers in the Tun Castle want to win, not others force them to win.
Zhang Liao said that he was going to improve this model and report it to General Cavalry to see if it could be promoted to all the Tungtian Forts...
The military farming soldiers are for soldiers during the slack farming period, and farming during the busy farming period looks beautiful, but it is not a good idea, because no one can guarantee that the enemy will cooperate with the seasons of farming period. They only fight during the slack farming period, or the war is halfway through, and they see that there is not enough time, and when the busy farming season is almost time, both sides will close their markets, return to their own houses and wait for the next year to continue.
Therefore, the long-term recruitment system adopted by the General of the Cavalry is more in line with the current needs. However, such recruitment system also brings some problems, that is, the farmers only focus on farming, and once the troops are lost, the farmers who have no combat experience may collapse instantly.
This is the conclusion made by Zhang Liao in combination with the battle in Hanzhong. No matter how many peasant soldiers Zhang recruited at that time, as long as the front line of the main soldiers collapsed, the situation would collapse completely and could not be saved.
If there are peasant soldiers who can rely on the fort to take over for a while, or do not follow the chaos, or even just need to understand the orders of soldiers when they are running away, distinguish the left and right, so as not to directly hit the formation that has finally been closed, and not to form a joint effect of snowballing?
Is it another situation?
This is the importance of "agricultural and soldier training".
These farmers don’t necessarily need to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but if they can play a little role in extreme situations, then the training costs and money and food expenses they spent before will be worth it!
Xu Huang exhaled slightly.
It seems that I have been at peace for a while and I have been caught up with me...
Xu Huang thought to himself, then glanced at Zhang Liao. And Zhang Wenyuan, who is currently thinking about writing military books and doing some martial arts ambitions, otherwise how could he spend time to understand those more biased knowledge?
For example, the production method of the Five Elements Thunder...
"It's going to be ignited!" Zhang Liao pointed to the red flag shaking on the mountain.
After a moment, there was a loud bang, echoing between the rock walls of the valley. Even though it was so far away, it still felt that the eardrums were buzzing and could not calm down for a long time.
Chapter completed!