Daming Military Empire

Chapter 327
When it comes to major projects such as building bridges and roads, the more powerful the person in charge is, the faster the progress of the project will be. Just like an ordinary civilian who wants to dig a small ditch in his own land, he can dig it whatever he wants, but If he wants to dig a diversion canal from a big river hundreds of miles away, first of all, whether the people along the way will let him dig it, even if he is asked to dig it, he can't dig it out, because he has no one!
Daming is the land of Zhu Cijiong’s own family. If he wants to build a railway, he can build it as he wants. If he wants people, it will cost 70 labor to pull it up; Stone sleepers in prefectures, counties and townships are gathering along the line; whoever dares to say that I am not allowed to beat me, say "the emperor has a decree", crawl away immediately, or die, this death is not an adjective, it is really terrible!

In short, all parties are actively participating, and the construction of the entire railway is astonishingly fast. In just three months, the railway from Jinling Mansion to Siming Mansion was completed in early October!

The machinery factory of the Daming Royal Machinery Group did not know how many trains it had produced in the past few months. Zhu Cijiong originally thought of mobilizing more than 80 trains to pull the 20 troops and entourage there at one time, but this time there are more than one trains going to Nanyang The First Army Corps of the Imperial Guard and the Second Army Corps of the Border Guards, and fighting is not just about people passing by. All kinds of supplies must be transported in place. All places along the route are desperately mobilizing supplies, and there are simply not enough trains.

In order not to affect the progress of other aspects, Zhu Cijiong only mobilized more than 40 trains in the end, and took the First Army Corps of the Imperial Guards and his entourage to Siming Mansion with him. As for the Second Army Corps of the Frontier Defense Army, Zhu Cijiong simply let Beiyang The navy sent them over by sea.

This military dispatch to Nanyang can be said to be one of the rare major operations in the Ming Dynasty over the years, and the entourage is naturally indispensable:

Needless to say, Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun, these are to protect his safety and take care of his daily life, so they must be brought;
Sun Yuanhua, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, also brought along to assist him in managing the army;

Cheng Guoxiang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, also brought along to assist him in logistics management;

Wu Meicun, the chief envoy of the general administration, also brought it this time. For such a large-scale action, the propaganda work must keep up;
And Zheng Chenggong also needs to take it with him. This kid is about to become an adult, and he will command the navy for him in the future. Naturally, he should be taken to study in such a big battle;
Zhennan King Zheng Zhilong is also waiting for him in Jinling. After all, the south is his jurisdiction, and he needs to coordinate the deployment of various supplies;
There are many more, so I won't go into details here, but there is a group of very special people, that is, Guozijian Jijiu Zodiac Zhou and a group of well-known domestic scholars.

It is said that this is going to war, what are you doing with these masters?

The so-called "before the soldiers", the purpose of the Ming Dynasty this time is not to destroy all the vassal states in Nanyang, but to make them completely surrender and accept the "Daming vassal state order system". After all, not everyone is a desperado, some people It is also possible to surrender without fighting. Therefore, Zhu Cijiong decided that before the start of the fight, he would send envoys of the Ming Dynasty to the vassal states to declare the decree, that is, to read the "Decree of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty". Those who are willing to accept, that's easy to say, just call.

This is to make people bow their heads and proclaim their ministers. If the announcement is good, it is good. If the announcement is not good, people may kill the person who announced the decree. After all, Nanyang is a famous Nanman area. There is a possibility of such a thing. So the people who went to proclaim the decree are likely to die!
After much deliberation, Zhu Cijiong didn't know who to send, and finally he thought of Huang Daozhou. Of course, he didn't want to send Huang Daozhou, but wanted Huang Daozhou to find a suitable candidate.

People like Huang Daozhou don't sound good. He is a typical rotten Confucian. There is a group of like-minded people who only follow him.

For these people, it is a great honor to announce the decree for the Ming Dynasty and make the barbarians surrender. Even if they are killed by the barbarians because of this, it is also a model to be famous in history. There are many people who want to be famous in history, so, As soon as Huang Daozhou conveyed the emperor's meaning, there was an endless stream of people who came to "seek death" like crucian carp crossing the river!
For a while, the Guozijian, the Daming Academy of Arts and Sciences, which was originally full of cultural atmosphere, almost became a fighting arena. The scholars from all sides went into battle shirtless, crazily vying for the limited number of "death" places.

This kind of situation scared even Zodiac Zhou. Those usually gentle and elegant scholars seemed to be crazy at this time, and they couldn't hold back. If they didn't know that their force value was not enough, someone would have already started to beat everyone up. Get down!
Zodiac Zhou Zhou thought it would be terrible if this went on like this, and it would be humiliating if it really came to a fight. In the end, he could only propose hard indicators and set screening criteria.

The rules he set are very simple. The hard target is the grade. You must be or have been a high-ranking member of the imperial court above the third grade. The reason is also very good. This time, he is representing the Ming Dynasty and the emperor to announce the decree. The grade is not embarrassing enough to be the ambassador of the heaven Well!
With a "swish", nearly [-]% of the people were dismissed. Although the Ming Dynasty had a lot of officials, there were not many officials above the third rank, but there were officials above the ministers of various ministries. How many officials could there be in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The screening criteria are simpler, that is, by age. After all, being old is respected, and being tall is respected. The older you are, the more you should be respected. Now, everyone is speechless. The last ten hair and beards are all The white Shuo Ru smiled at Jiuquan, oh no, he was elected with a smile.

Of course, these ten people may not all be available. It seems that Ming Dynasty doesn’t have so many vassal states in Nanyang, but it doesn’t matter. The purpose will do.

Zhu Cijiong couldn’t help but laugh, there are still people scrambling to go to this “death”, and seniority is also considered. These people are amazing enough, and Zodiac Zhou’s screening criteria are simply wrong. Many places in Nanyang are full of mountains. Choose those who are in the prime of life, these old men who seem to be blown down by the wind, can they climb mountains and mountains?
Fortunately, the envoys of the heavens must go in big sedan chairs. Forget it. It’s just that those who carry the sedan chairs suffer. If they are young and vigorous envoys, they can come down and be dragged over the mountain when they are over the mountain. It's much easier to lift an empty sedan chair. As for these old men, don't expect them to get out of the sedan chair.

However, Huang Daozhou dispelled all of Zhu Cijiong's dissatisfaction with one sentence in the end, because Huang Daozhou said: "These are high-minded people who regard death as home!"

Yes, the envoys of the current dynasty must have integrity and must not be afraid of death. If they accidentally appoint a person who is greedy for life and fear of death to proclaim the decree, he will be ashamed.

(End of this chapter)