Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 439 Developing Ryukyu Island
The design of this dangdang cart is still very exquisite. It uses a wooden flat two-wheeled cart and also uses wooden iron-clad wheels.

Pulled by two strong mules.

A coachman, no ticket seller.There is a money box next to the driver, just bring your own change and put the money in it.

Don't look at the fact that this car can only seat eight people, but in fact it often does fifteen or six people.Most people get off within two or three miles, and only a very few people will take the entire route.Running back and forth, there is also a copper coin of one or two hundred Wen.There are forty or fifty trips a day on the bustling roads, and you have to hire several people just to count the money.

Zhang Sanle couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and said cheerfully: "The soldering iron is not in vain, and the clang car makes money, but counting the money is too troublesome."

Li Si glared at him: "You'll get cheap and be good."

The large clang carts pulled by mules, combined with the small carts pulled by donkeys, walk the streets of Tokyo every day.

The drivers in the car dealership have many capable men of Chai Meng.These people have different purposes and belong to different departments, and most of them don't know each other.

The line of the car dealership was considered stable, and the information was reported to Cangzhou, and Chai Lin received the report and praised Lei Zi for doing a good job.

Instructions to keep a low profile, do not make publicity.

Cangzhou headquarters.

Chailin leaned back on the chair, stretched and sighed.

"Every day, there are so many things. There are things everywhere."

Chailin looked at the map and was also worried. It is easy to fight but difficult to manage.

Now the territory of the Cangzhou Army is very huge, including Hejian Prefecture, Cangzhou Prefecture, Dezhou Prefecture, Gaotang Prefecture, Dongping Prefecture, Qingzhou Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Tai'an Prefecture, Mizhou Prefecture, Yizhou Prefecture, and Dengzhou Prefecture.

There are as many as 20 cavalry and infantry.

Chai Lin called Wu Yong, Zhu Wu, and the prefect of Cangzhou Qin over.

Chai Lin knocked on the table and said: "A total of 23 soldiers, more than half of them are Xiang troops who lack training. What do you think? Let's talk about it."

Qin Zhifu said: "Others are afraid of fewer soldiers, but we are also afraid of too many soldiers. I want to say that there are not many soldiers. We have enough food. If we lack training, we just need to strengthen training. Most of these soldiers have no ability to earn a living. Really If they are all fired, they will not be able to live."

"There is no need to dismiss a large number of people. By next fall, our grain and grass warehouses will explode. Besides, the Xiang army can't fight wars, but it doesn't mean it can't do other things. Reorganize the Xiang army, select 10 people, and form The ten armies, which can be named the Engineering Corps, have repaired the entire official road on Jingdong Road, so that merchants can operate and economic development should bear the brunt of the road." Wu Yong suggested.

Zhu Wu shook his head, and said: "Let me tell you, I personally don't think these people are strong or weak in combat. The difficulty lies in that they are not soldiers trained by us. They are definitely not easy to use, and I am worried that they may turn against us. Instead Leave it like this, it is better to dismantle all the establishments and transfer them all away."

The prefect of Qin didn't know much about the outside world, so he asked, "Where are we going to get transferred? There are hundreds of thousands of people here."

"The Marine Corps carried by the Second Fleet has landed on Ryukyu Island in the South China Sea. The place is sparsely populated, the land is fertile, and the seasons are like spring. Rice can be harvested two or three times, and there are many kinds of valuable trees. Compared with Dead Leaf Island in the north Well, I don’t know how many times. The big man-eating wolf is ambitious and wants to occupy this place, so we have to do it first. Reclamation army here, and then there will be a lot of rice piled up.” Zhu Wu said.

Wu Yong said: "Let me tell you, as long as we develop normally, the possibility of these soldiers turning against the water is extremely low. People always have to follow the trend of history. I still tend to keep these people to develop Jingdong Road."

"The population of Jingdong Road itself is not a problem, and the childbirth subsidies are fully promoted. It can give birth to 200 million babies a year, and it is not inappropriate to transfer tens of thousands to develop Ryukyu. Isn't Ryukyu right next to Fujian?" Qin prefect said.

Chai Lin slapped the table and said, "You three are right, I don't know who to listen to. The Xiang army and township soldiers from the original state capitals were transferred to form ten engineering corps. Two were transferred to Cangzhou Prefecture and Hejian Mansion, building fortifications. Three were transferred to the Ryukyu Islands to farm, and five stayed on Jingdong Road to rest and reorganize the official road."

This matter has been settled in this way. The Cangzhou Army is taking the road of elite soldiers. The number of infantry cannot be too many. Too many are also cumbersome, so ten engineering corps have to be reorganized.

The prefect of Qin suggested, "Why don't you transfer me to the Ryukyu organization to farm?"

"It's not necessary for you to dispatch the organization for the three legions to garrison the fields. Let's run Cangzhou well. This is our base camp. The cost of food adjustment from other places is still very high, and the focus is still to develop our local area." Chailin said.

"Hey, I still want to go out and hide for a while, this is my life." Qin Zhifu sighed.

Wu Yong and Zhu Wu dispatched the reorganization of the engineering corps, and the treatment of the seven corps remaining in the local area was the same as that of normal soldiers, and they were all paid [-] cash per month.

Some projects have been completed, and there are small rewards.

However, those who are transferred to Ryukyu Island to farm fields have overseas subsidies, which are [-] yuan more per month.

The [-] construction corps in Cangzhou Prefecture were deployed by Qin Zhifu, mainly to build and repair the fortifications of the nine county towns, and build some reinforced concrete arrow towers on the basis of the existing city walls.

Originally, according to Chai Lin's meaning, there is no need to build these things. A strong army, only a strong army is the strongest guarantee.

As a result, the rich and local tyrants in the city, in order to maintain and increase the value of their real estate, jointly petitioned the government office and donated money by the way, demanding that the city wall of the county be strengthened.

Only then did Chailin agree to their request.

The [-] engineering corps of Hejian Mansion was deployed by Pang Wanchun to build the city defense facilities of Hejian Mansion.

As for Jingdong Road, it is mainly concentrated in the west Dongping, Jejufu, and Gaotangzhou, which is an important front line lower than foreign enemies.The [-] construction corps were distributed in the three state capitals, widening and strengthening the original rammed earth official roads, and adding sand and gravel to the road surface.The road surface composed of clay and sand can effectively prevent the muddy road surface.

In addition to road repairs, trees need to be planted on both sides of the official road to protect the road.

As for the [-] engineering corps on Ryukyu Island, it was handed over to Tao Zongwang to lead, and Li Kui led [-] soldiers to defend against possible invading enemies.

The order was issued to start the reorganization, and all the soldiers with poor combat effectiveness and unreasonable age structure were reorganized.

Those who are older and do not like to fight can join the Engineering Corps on a voluntary basis.

In particular, a sentence said by the generals, everyone loves to hear: the training of the engineering corps is not hard, the main thing is to work, build roads and farm fields.It's hard work, but no wars.

This made many soldiers very excited, and ten engineering corps were reorganized in half a month.

(End of this chapter)