Moreover, these are the guest soldiers heading south of Huaihe River along the official road. If there are any passenger soldiers walking through the water route, the number will continue to increase.

Get off the water from Huai'an Shuipu, go north through Suqian, enter the Huaihe River Shuipu from the canal waterway, and head eastward. Not far after passing Guanyun is Yuntiguan. Although there are many detours compared to land marching, it is also the direction of the salt-like ships from Yuntiguan that can transport military supplies.

The situation Liang Shifa saw during the day was that in order to save food and pay, the journey of the visiting soldiers was extremely limited every day, and the troops were scattered in the market towns and villages, so they must ask the officials and gentry of the local town to come forward to raise food and cook, and the visiting soldiers could just wait for food.

No wonder it is hard to go fast. When you go to the place, you ask people to raise food and cook. If you go far, you will not be able to wait for food on hunger. It is not good for the generals to treat the soldiers too harshly. You should know that during the Chongzhen period, although Liu Zeqing could not leave the court, the hungry soldiers could not leave the generals at all. Each general could not restrain the troops, and the ultimate loss of Liu Zeqing's face was still the ones.

Therefore, even if the military order is urgent, the generals will still march slowly. Liu Zeqing will not force him too much, because he is a guerrilla and will also act the same when he is a general. There is nothing special about marching and fighting.

Only in the early Chongzhen period, when military orders were strict and civil officials were still majestic, and when the governor and governors were strict and the commanders were rushing to the road, and violators might lose their heads, these generals would use Needi bullets to suppress the camp and soldiers and force everyone to rush on the road. They would prepare some dry food as food, and the speed of the daily marching would increase.

Another situation is that if you are defeated and flee, then of course you will run as fast as you can.

Under normal circumstances, walking about twenty miles a day is the normal speed of the Ming army, and even ten miles a day cannot be said to be slow. Everyone walks like this, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Compared with the marching speed of fifty or sixty miles a day in the pre-Qin period, this is the rigidity and regression of the eldest civilization.

The quality of roads, logistics supplies, military discipline, military laws, soldiers and generals has not improved, but has been greatly reversed.

Before dark, Liang Shifa handed the carriage to the military personnel who came to pick him up. At the same time, he received a summary of information from Huai'an and Andong. He estimated that the information for the day was written in secret, then sealed it in Lawan, and then handed it to an emergency delivery personnel of the Andong intelligence war. He sent it to Yuntiguan overnight. There were post stations in Guannan County and several major towns along the way. You can change horses or people, but the distance was not far. This military personnel should be able to send the information to Yuntiguan in the second half of the night.

Because it is the highest level of urgent items, you can get it when you arrive. Even when Min Yuanqi is still asleep in the second half of the night, he will be awakened by a knock on the door and then read immediately.

Liang Shifa felt a little comforted when he thought that Min Yuanqi would soon know the situation here.

It is impossible for the situation during the day to affect him, or even make him feel a little nervous.

The foundation of Yuntiguan has taken shape, and the hundreds of households on the south bank of the Huai River have become one as a whole. Min Yuanqi has invested a lot of capital in it. Large areas of salt ponds are like fertile fields scattered by the sea, and a large number of workshops and military camps are all built with heavy funds.

There are also all the security department and other institutions under the 100 households, and several generals have also added the positions of the 100 households under the 100 households under the 100 households.

A large number of civilians and military households were shining saline-alkali land under the leadership of Li Guoding and others, hoping to get a good harvest.

Liang Shifa's newly built house and small family are both in Yundi Pass, and everyone knows what kind of morality the visiting soldiers are.

Even though they were all a group of robbers in normal times, if they fought, they still didn't know what kind of human-shaped beast they were.

It is estimated that except for Yanchi, it will be burned to pieces. Apart from the guards in Yunti Pass, there are not many people who can survive in the surrounding villages, regardless of military households.

This is without exaggeration. The officers and soldiers have always fought with bandits. The people in the war areas may still survive when they encounter bandits, but most of them cannot be spared when they encounter officers and soldiers.

The so-called thieves come like combs, and soldiers come like combs, which is the experience summarized by the people at that time.

With many hidden worries, Liang Shifa first lived in a safe house near Andong County. After tomorrow, he would disguise himself as a visiting doctor in Xuanlingyou Township and continue to move along the avenue to Guannan County.

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The military personnel who delivered the letter rode on horseback and changed horses twice halfway, so they could maintain the highest speed.

It was only after the fourth and fifth updates, and it was the time when people slept the deepest, and military personnel also arrived along the road to the periphery of the 300th household.

Unlike Andong, Guannan and other places, there are still county-level official roads. The more you go east, the greater the distance between villages and the fewer market towns.

There is no official road, it is just a small road between villages.

These tracks are mostly based on the north and south sides of the Huai River, and are mostly built by self-communication between towns and villages. Most places can only accommodate two single-wheeled trolleys or a two-wheeled trolley.

There are even some places where the middle road faults are broken, and the cavalry must pass through the village, otherwise they have to travel through shrubs or fields by the river. In this way, they will get half the result with twice the effort, and it is better to pass through the village.

Fortunately, the year is not good these days. It was originally a habit for farmers to hold a puppy in the New Year and raise it with leftovers. At the end of the New Year, I became a fat dog and happened to be slaughtered during the New Year, which is also a nourishment for the whole family.

This era cannot apply the standards of future generations, let alone talk about things like being unable to bear it. People are seriously lacking in oil and water, and even having to have food and clothing, it is impossible for any love to spread.

In Henan and other places, when bandits and natural disasters are raging, it is normal for people to eat people, let alone eat their own yellow dogs.

Besides, dogs were originally one of the six animals. They were originally domestic animals that raised food. Their status was the same as pigs, but they had one more skill in protecting the house than pigs. This also allowed middle-class families to keep dogs forever, but they might not be killed in one year.

The years have not been good in recent years. There are not many families in each village who raise dogs. When it is about 300th away, a large number of dog barking sounds suddenly.

When the military personnel heard the barking of dogs, they breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ride their horses forward.

The roads outside Baihu Village have been rebuilt and widened, and there are not many other things here, so there is quite sufficient manpower.

The roads between the hundreds of households have been rebuilt, and the avenues outside the hundred and thousands of households have been rebuilt and solidified, and drainage ditches have been dredged. In addition, several original Beiwu Tu City have been rebuilt, sweeping away the garbage in the city and moving out of the residents of the city, and sending some guards to guard the city.

When military personnel passed through Tucheng, amid the barking of dogs, someone picked out wind lights from the city wall above Tucheng. After the first appeared, more than ten wind lights were picked out in an instant, which shone brightly on the official road.

There were more than ten people holding bows and arrows and short crossbows between the city walls. Someone shouted: "The person who came to report his identity command, but if he didn't report it for three breaths, he would be considered a spy shot and killed!"

"Military Information Department, Chen Lei, the command Xunlei."

Most of the staff of the Military Intelligence Department are outsiders, while most local personnel are outside for visits or as the person in charge of the Military Intelligence Station.

Most outsiders use pseudonyms and code names, and also have their own special identification password.

The Arrow Tower from Tucheng to Baihu is the first floor of defense. There are patrol teams in Baihu to conduct further investigations. Finally, outside Baihu’s official residence, there will be people from the Central Military Department for the final inspection, so that we can see Min Yuanqi himself.

Passwords are also divided into several levels according to the errands performed. Now Chen Lei reports the highest level of emergency password.

The personnel guarding the Tucheng changed color after the review. Even if a captain of the police flag came out on a mixed horse, he was responsible for bringing military intelligence personnel into the hundred households.

After passing the second line of defense, the Central Army Chief Min Yuanzhong had already stood up after hearing the news. After a brief examination before the Baihu official residence, he said with a calm expression: "I have sent someone to wake up sir, please follow me."

Unlike Liang Shifa and others who opened houses one after another, the official hall of the hundreds of households where Min Yuanqi originally lived was simply repaired.

The martial arts field in the courtyard was repaired, some broken bricks were replaced, and square bricks on the floor were repaved, and the carpenters made some furniture. It looked very good, so Min Yuanqi had no intention of further major renovations.

He lived alone, and it was enough to have an old servant and two servants. Because he was in the Yanchi Workshop and other places all day long, he didn't have much time to live at home. Many times, Min Yuanqi lived in the military camp, so the official hall of the hundreds of households was even more important.

However, in the eyes of others, this is the style of Min Yuanqi not changing his frugality after his wealth, and it is also a truly admirable thing.

Thinking about it, Min Yuanqi now earns tens of thousands of taels per month and earns hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.

Such wealth is incomparable to the wealth of relatives, the Duke of Qian, or the maritime business leaders like Zheng Zhilong, and is far from the giant merchant families with backgrounds in Susong, but it is no less than ordinary big merchants.

If I waited for decades, the wealth Min Yuanqi accumulated was about the same as these top aristocratic families, and the Min family could also become the most wealthy salt merchant family.

But Min Yuanqi used these wealth on all kinds of things without any worries. He even couldn't bear to spend more money on repairs. The old houses of Li Kecheng and Min's family in Suocheng had several yards. The furniture inside was made of high-quality mahogany or rosewood. The furnishings in the courtyard were also extremely exquisite and luxurious. The silk, silver, pearls and jade were also hidden. Compared with the two, although Min Yuanqi's official houses were also one of the old houses, it was obviously defeated. Even if it was slightly repaired, it was far from comparable to the mansions in Suocheng.

This incident also furthered Min Yuanqi's prestige, and even maintained a relatively frugal and pragmatic atmosphere in the entire hundred households.

Even if Liang Shifa and others built the mansion, they actually improved their living conditions. Everyone had no intention of spending their thoughts and money on meticulously carving and decorating the display.

Chen Lei, who came to report the news, hired by Anton. He was originally a thief, but when evaluating his character and character, he found that his sneaking was because he had to support his sick parents. His essence was not bad. Only after being absorbed as a military personnel can he gradually take on some core tasks and have channels to go up.

If those rogues, thieves, riders, footmen, and coachmen are too involved in the habits of the world, they can be used as whistleblowers and detectives, but they are all under certain constraints and jurisdiction, and they cannot access core secrets and tasks, so their upward channels are quite limited.

After entering the official hall, the Antonian not only felt that the gate was wide and that the three entrance halls were not available to ordinary people after all, but the official hall felt that the official hall was quite simple and unpretentious, and even a little dilapidated.

The blue brick houses are obviously old, and even if they have changed to some new bricks, the decayed atmosphere will inevitably appear.

Although new square bricks were replaced on the ground, there were obvious signs of weeds growing out of being pulled out, and deep moss grew in the corners of the wall.
Chapter completed!