If a force wants to communicate from top to bottom and ensure its dominance, the most important thing is communication.
If a dynasty has a vast territory, but information sent from the border to the capital often takes more than half a year to be transmitted, then if something happens on the border, the capital will definitely not have time to respond.
For example, during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the westward conquest had reached the middle of the river.
But the distance between the river and Chang'an is too far, and neither soldiers, horses, nor food and grass can support it.
In the end, the land in the river with fertile water and soil only occupied it for more than ten years and had to be abandoned.
For most dynasties in history, the limit of their rule to the west was the Western Regions...
The Yuan Dynasty built major post roads in the territory, reaching Europe in the west and Annan in the south. Military intelligence reports were transmitted very quickly, and troops, horses, and food were mobilized very quickly, so they could maintain a vast territory.
The post road is the context and lifeline for a dynasty to deliver news and transport soldiers, horses, food and grass!
If the post road is abolished and the dynasty is interrupted, there will definitely be chaos.
Therefore, the Qin Dynasty had Chi Road, the Sui and Tang Dynasties had the Grand Canal, the Yuan Dynasty had avenues that ran through the central, south, north, and south. The Ming Dynasty inherited the Yuan Dynasty's post roads, but in the later period, they were abolished by Emperor Chongzhen...
In addition to carrying people up and down, the post road also served as a barrier for brave people in the countryside.
The postmen of the posthouse are often young and strong warriors from nearby villages. Warriors like this can easily go astray by force if they don't have something serious to do.
Maybe at some point he would go up to the stronghold with a knife and block the road and plunder.
Let this kind of person act as a postman. Firstly, it gives the other party a bowl of rice to eat. In addition, the postman consumes a lot of physical strength every day, which can slowly consume these young and strong spirits.
This gives you the best of both worlds.
Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty did not receive a complete imperial education and did not understand this. As a result, he approved the submissions of his ministers and abolished the post stations and post soldiers, which eventually led to the rebellion of post guard Li Zicheng.
Shen Yi also knew about the later situation of the Ming Dynasty, and paid more attention to the post roads and post stations.
"It won't be long before our army will send troops. Is it too much of a waste of people's resources to recruit craftsmen to build post roads now?"
Wang Jing asked.
Shen Yi said: "I suggest building a post road for the convenience of dispatching troops in the future, but please don't worry, my lord, the construction of the post road is not a one-time construction, but a segmented construction!"
"First send 20,000 civilian craftsmen to build the road south of East Lake, and then slowly build the avenues between Wanshou, Sihong and other cities!"
The water network near Sihong is dense. From Sihong, you can go north along the river to Baize, Quy Nhon, and Suinin, and to the west you can go upstream and enter the East Lake. All directions can be connected by water.
Therefore, the territory occupied by Wang Jing was thousands of miles away from east to west, north to south, but he could mobilize troops and transport food extremely quickly.
Relying solely on water transport is not enough.
If the river floods, wouldn't it mean that Wang Jing's territory is directly divided by the river and is in pieces, unable to be connected?
In addition, Wang Jing will expand to all directions in the future and build post roads and highways in places that cannot be reached by water transportation, which will be conducive to sending troops to attack externally and to rule internally.
"Well, then we will recruit 20,000 civilians and establish a road army, which will be responsible for building official roads for post roads! By the way, we will also set up gates in dangerous places in the future and collect road taxes along the roads!"
"It's just ordinary people, like those wealthy businessmen, they have to pay to take the post road, otherwise the road we built will be built for them!"
Wang Jingfang was cautious and made his words clear in advance.
Bu Zhi didn't say much. Although he came from a famous family, he was the only one of the Bu family here at this time. Most of the clan members were still trapped in the south of the Huaihe River and had not come over.
No amount of road construction or tax collection will affect his interests.
Chen Yi's brows moved slightly, but when he thought of the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty in the source world, he didn't say anything more. He just reminded: "The construction of the post road has not started yet. When the post road is completed in the future, the lord will not set up Guanjin again." Late!"
"Well, I just want to explain what I said first, so that no one will cause trouble with me because of this in the future!"
After Wang Jinghe and the two of them finished talking about the matter, they asked Shen Yi and Bu Zhi to leave.
At present, various chores in the Sihong Military Mansion require two people to handle them. After reporting important matters to Wang Jing and getting permission, they should start doing things according to Wang Jing's decision.
Sihong Military Mansion is at the start-up stage of its business and is extremely efficient in doing things.
After getting Wang Jing's permission.
The next day, Bu Zhao issued a notice to recruit some guardsmen, plus prisoners of large and small forces that had been wiped out in the east some time ago.
All kinds of thorns, a mixture of dragons and snakes, prone to trouble, were all incorporated into the newly established Tongtong Army.
The road army, totaling 20,000 people, was quickly transported to East Lake by large ships and began to build a road southward starting from Nanzhai, where Wang Jing started his business.
There is no influence from the extremely fast-growing vegetation.
By tamping the road, a passage can be quickly cleared. However, this passage cannot support the rapid transportation of troops and food. It needs to be continuously piled and compacted with steamed rammed earth over and over again to build a suitable post road.
In the blink of an eye, another dozen days passed.
Wang Jing reads the intelligence from the Military Intelligence Department every day.
In particular, Fulong of the Five Rivers Qin Dynasty finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to mobilize troops and horses, and there were signs of sending a partial division north to grab grain.
The forces that built the Wubao mountain stronghold on the vast land hundreds of miles north of Wuhe.
Most of them are wealthy families from various dynasties.
When they arrive, they will quickly rise to the top with the strength of the family's children and become households of varying sizes.
The small-scale soldiers and horses did not pose much threat to them.
The only thing that can suppress them is a large army!
at this time.
Among these Wubao cottages, the largest one is the Han family. At this time, more than a dozen men in military uniforms were reporting the situation to the middle-aged man looking up to them in the hall.
The middle-aged man had bright eyes and gently stroked his short beard. After listening to the words of his family members, he couldn't help but sigh: "Wuhe Fulong intends to go north. I'm afraid that the army will come here soon..."
When everyone heard this, their expressions suddenly changed.
"Wuhe Fulong, I heard that he has an army of 200,000. Even if he divides tens of thousands of troops, he can easily sweep us..."
"What should we do?"
There was a commotion among the children of the Han family in the hall. Although the Han family was the strongest among the nearby Wubao, they were usually a little proud, but they were not fools.
Fulong's 200,000 Hu and Han army were like wild beasts in their hearts.
As soon as they heard that the other party was sending troops north, they subconsciously felt timid.
"I wonder if the head of the family has any countermeasures?"
One of them asked aloud. He knew that the head of his family was very resourceful and had even held six important positions in the history of the Origin World, including Minister of Civil Affairs and Minister of War.
Their abilities and strategies are beyond what ordinary people like them can compare with.
Now we are in crisis,
They can only rely on the head of the family to survive.
"The army is heading north. It's just a matter of surrendering and leaving... What clever plan can I have?"
The middle-aged man stroked his beard and sighed.
(End of chapter)
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