Chapter 26: Victory and reign

However, the peace talks have nothing to do with Duke Feng Guo Li Ru.

He was going back to Beijing, and there were also various departments of the Beijing camp who returned to Beijing with him. There were 50,000 people. These people fought in the Western Regions for two or three years and were definitely considered elite troops.

When he led a large group of people to cross the desert with difficulty and the Gobi Desert came to Jiayuguan, he suddenly felt that it seemed that he had changed his world.

Because, he saw a train station here.

Yes, the train station.

In fact, the biggest problem in the entire Western Regions battle was never to fight, but to ensure the logistics of the army. To be honest, as long as the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of troops successfully entered the Western Regions, as long as the leading generals were not too stupid, they would have already locked in the victory.

Although Li Ru was not considered a famous general, to be fair, Li Ru was also considered a general in the middle of peace. When the Ming Dynasty had more than 100,000 troops in the Western Regions, Li Ru was unlikely to lose. After all, the Yarkand Khanate could be deployed on the battlefield would not exceed this number. Not to mention, the Ming army was more elite than the Yarkand Khanate's troops in all aspects. The only disadvantage was the war horses.

However, there were a large number of war horses in the Western Regions. So when the Ming infantry came here, they became cavalry infantry.

It all depends on logistics.

But he didn't expect that in three years, the railway would be built here.

In fact, although the scale of the Battle of the Western Regions exceeded Zhou Mengchen's expectations, Zhou Mengchen was not the kind of rigid person. He even took this opportunity to complete what he had not completed and built a simple railway between Lanzhou and Jiayuguan.

From the Yellow River transportation line, it can be transported directly to Lanzhou, and then directly to Jiayuguan from Lanzhou. Then, a large number of camel fleets were organized between northwest of Jiayuguan and Hami to transport the goods to Hami little by little.

This section is still a bottleneck.

But it is enough to achieve this step. It is enough to support the 100,000 troops in the Western Regions to fight.

The reason why this simple railway was built so quickly is that most of the railway was built parallel to the Great Wall and was built south of the Great Wall. A large number of soldiers were used to work together.

The speed is so fast.

At the same time, Wang Zongyuan's organizational ability is also quite good. While building these hundreds of miles of simple railways, he also thoroughly reformed the Northwest Wards.

Most of the 100,000 troops left behind in the Western Regions were elite troops of the Northwest Guards. The Ming Dynasty still had a military organization in the Western Regions.

When Li Ru was under Hami City, he attached great importance to farming. After arriving in the Western Regions, he found that the situation in the Western Regions was completely different from other places. Although it was the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties, even if the local people had black hair and black eyes, they did not think they were Chinese.

Therefore, it is easy to overcome and difficult to rule. It is not the difficulty of immigrating here. Just to say, even after immigrating, he suggested that Han immigrants should maintain military organizations, that is, be ready to fight at any time.

After thinking about it, the ward is the most suitable method.

After entering the Western Regions, the Northwest General Gate had a way out, and the biggest resistance was solved. The water grinding skills were all below.

It was only after Li Ru got on the train that he discovered that the simple railway or the simple railway. First of all, it was a single lane. When he met the head-on train on the road, the two train drivers would come down to tell the details, and see who had the more people on both sides, or whose task was fundamentally important, and decide who would not give way to whom.

Fortunately, the speed of trains these days is very slow. They are almost as fast as horses. They are just winning by running day and night.

If this is still a small problem. After all, Li Ru's identity and status are here, and others have always given way to him, not to him. But another thing has troubled Li Ru.

That is some difficult sections of roads, which are not able to carry on the simple railway for a long time, so soldiers are required to push the cart, or carry the cart, and let the train driver perform simple repairs. Go first, then report it to the higher authorities and ask someone to repair it.

This makes people feel very uncomfortable. Sometimes it takes more than half a day to practice.

Even if Li Ru was Duke Feng, there was no way.

However, thinking about the previous hardships of thousands of miles. What is the little problem now?

Duke Feng went down from Lanzhou all the way to Pianguan. Then he went from Pianguan to Shuozhou, and then went to the capital through the Xishan Canal. This transportation line has been opened, that is, from Pianguan to Shuozhou, you have to cross mountains and ridges. Otherwise, it will be a smooth road.

It makes people wonder.

In the early years of Jiajing, no, before the thirty years of Jiajing, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to use force against Hami, it would have to send troops from the capital, go south first, then gather baggage to Guanzhong, and then transport it thousands of miles to Gansu, and then get involved in the troops in Gansu Town.

Hami was not strong, and even the Turpan Khanate was not strong. However, after such a long transportation line, the Ming Dynasty's national strength was at its last moment. The troops and horses placed under Hami were only tens of thousands, and there were no more.

The Guard Army was enough to fight before. Even if the number of people was a little smaller, they were not afraid of the Mongols. However, the combat effectiveness and food and salary of Gansu Town have declined. Hami has been put on hold.

Now, the reform of internal transportation in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with military reform, and the superposition of the two, the ability of the Ming Dynasty to deploy power to the Western Regions has increased by more than ten times, and is even much better than when it was founded.

Otherwise, it would not have been so easy to conquer southern Xinjiang.

When Duke Feng Li Ru returned to the capital, he felt like he was a different life.

Before he entered the city, he had already inquired about the latest situation in the capital.

When he was inquiring in the Western Regions, the most lively thing now was the change of cabinet leadership. This was still a new thing for the Ming Dynasty. When Zhou Mengchen took office as chief minister, he promised three things: peace, reform of the Ministry of Revenue, and governance of the Yellow River, many people had their opinions.

First of all, it is to peace.

During these five years, the Ming Dynasty not only did not have peace, but instead fought everywhere. First attacking Liaodong and then the Western Regions. In the eyes of many people, they were all military and very happy to achieve success. In the end, they fought.

As for the restructuring of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhou Mengchen did a good job and rebuilt a set of financial systems for the Ming Dynasty. Although there was no reform of land tax, the financial resources allocated by the Ming Dynasty were greatly increased by just streamlining the finances and the central government's budget and final accounts system.

Whether it is fighting Liaodong or the northwest, it is very expensive, especially in the Western Regions. The logistics is the most important, but in the end, Zhou Mengchen took over it easily, including some additional needs in Jiajing, local disaster relief, river repair, etc., and all aspects.

However, after the Ministry of Revenue reform, many people became uncomfortable.

Because after the reform of the Ministry of Revenue, there are people responsible for every expenditure, some supervise and some review. It can be said that every amount of money must be found clearly, and the gray income of yamen at all levels will be either whitewashed and included in the court's main items. Since it has entered the court's main items, then follow the supervision mentioned above. Some have been explicitly prohibited. In this way, the profit margin of court officials will be greatly reduced.

Some people even shouted the slogan of officials being in trouble.

Of course, this is not just because of Zhou Mengchen’s reform of the Ministry of Revenue.

There is also Gao Gong's actions. Zhou Mengchen couldn't control Gao Gong at all, and Gao Gong's affairs were all decided by himself. Gao Gong's cabinet is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice, so he naturally carried out drastic reforms to officials. Especially for the Ministry of Justice, he cleaned up old cases in the Ministry of Justice, but many officials were dismissed and made many new regulations on officials. Even Zhang Juzheng's creativity in examining the law was used to learn from it.

In short, it is naturally difficult for Ming officials to meet this boss who cannot tolerate sand in their eyes.

However, it is also necessary to do so, because the officials worked tremblingly under Gao Gong's whip. Zhou Mengchen's many reforms were implemented smoothly. Zhou Mengchen also wanted to thank Gao Gong for this.

But the more things Zhou Mengchen did, the louder he would oppose them.

Now, this kind of force against Zhou Mengchen has formed a powerful force of opposition to Zhou Mengchen before Zhou Mengchen took office, and some storm is brewing.

Duke Li Ru of Feng wanted to come back so soon because of the changes in the capital. He was not for Zhou Mengchen, but for himself. After all, everything he had in the Western Regions could not be done with the support of Zhou Mengchen. If he changed the chief minister, even if he had the support of Jiajing, he would be worried about any accidents.
Chapter completed!