As the temporary heart of the empire, Laizhou withstood an unprecedented crowd in three months. Chen De also completed the hardening of the road from Laizhou to Weixian in a state of crowding people.

The new road uses gravel as the roadbed, and a mixed pavement of gravel and mortar is paved on it. The entire new road is more than three feet above the surface, and drainage ditches are also dug on both sides.

This design is derived from the road standards of the capital and Jiangnan, and it is the first time it has appeared in Shandong. Fortunately, many of the construction craftsmen invited by Jiangnan also know how to build bridges and roads, which saved Chen De a lot of trouble.

Unlike the capital and Jiangnan, the pavement materials are the latest mixed mortars in East and West.

As early as before the Tang and Song dynasties, limestone, clay and sand were used to mix mortar as masonry binders. However, Chinese traditions prefer residential buildings with civil structures, so masonry is generally used in city walls, embankments and tombs. The mortar used in city walls has a higher specification configuration: glutinous rice juice with lime.

This is how the Nanjing city wall was built, and even the Japanese pirates could not be knocked out during the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, the cost was extremely expensive and it was impossible to use it to pave the way.

The soil cement in Taisie originated from the ancient Egyptians. They first used the Nile river mud to build buildings, which was very effective in dry and hot deserts. From the 3000 to 2000 BC, the ancient Egyptians began to calcin gypsum as building adhesives and used it for the construction of pyramids.

Later, the ancient Greeks did not burn gypsum, but fired limestone to obtain limestone, which was used as a gel material in the building.

After the ancient Romans annexed Greece, they inherited the Greek tradition of using lime. They mixed sand and finely ground volcanic ash into the lime, and finally obtained "Roman mortar".

There is no volcano in China. The recipe of Roman mortar cannot be copied. However, Shandong is a place where gypsum is abundant. It uses gypsum instead of volcanic ash, and the folk cement formula is fully calcined and finely ground, so that this new type of hydraulic material has been obtained. Although it is called mortar, the actual effect is not much different from that of cement. However, before the formula is determined, the quality of the mortar is not stable. Fortunately, the current road does not need to consider the quality of the project for the time being.

As long as you can get enough carriages to pass quickly.

When gun cars gallop on a flat and hard road under the pull of two horses, the strategic advantages brought by advanced roads are clearly presented to the eyes of the world.

Along the way, there are pavilions set up every ten miles on the roadside, and each pavilion has a dedicated person to be responsible for tea and simple food. A post is set up for the five pavilions to accommodate people and wait for accommodation and food. There are also horse-drawn and horse-drawn so that civil servants can change it.

These places seem to increase local administrative expenses. In fact, they also solve the employment problem of weak laborers, which is part of labor-for-relief. As the trade routes gradually recover, business travel and travel gradually recovered, which greatly alleviated the expenditure problem.

"Official Secretary, change the horses quickly." A group of people stopped at the entrance of the office, and the officer in charge shouted loudly.

The elderly postmaster hurried out and asked the young servant who was a postmaster to lead the horse over, then replaced the sweaty horse, took it to the back and wipe it dry, fed it with fine beans, and recovered well. According to the cannon trucks that have suddenly increased recently, there are probably one or two passing by tomorrow. According to this calculation, these horses can only rest for one day, and then they have to run fifty miles again.

"Come some more water. In order to save horsepower, the brothers are running on the road." The officer grinned, took off the coconut scoop from his waist belt, and drank it with a mouthful of water.

"Sir, do you want to use some food?" The official came forward and asked in a nice voice.

The officer looked at the sky and said, "Let's talk about it before, today is already a long way off."

The servant changed his horse, and the officer checked the wheel hub again, blew the whistle and ordered to continue on the road.

The business travelers in the inn were seeing something new. When the inn came in, they all pulled themselves and asked, "Where is the military master? Where is the war?"

The Yicheng smiled with wrinkles on his face and said, "Didn't you see the logo on the chief's shoulder? That's the prince's soldiers."

"Why are there so many artillery?" someone asked again: "I don't know where it came from."

Yicheng looked at him and said nothing, pretending he didn't hear it. The young man who was keeping the books at the counter looked up and buried it in the book again. He seemed to be keeping the books, but the words in his pen were the appearance characteristics of the person he was asking about just now, and finally he even drew an outline.

The man had no idea that his unintentional words had been labeled as "suspicious".

These accountants who were placed in the main streets of the Jinlin Society were the first batch of eyeliners specially trained by the Jinlin Society. Most of them were able to write and draw, with clever ears and eyes, and received simple reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance training. Although their technical level was only equal to later film and television dramas, their serious attitude was even better.

Zhu Cixuan admired Xu Dun's awareness of training, and especially ordered him to routinely organize this training, start intelligence classes, recruit and train more intelligence personnel. For a great country, no matter how much Xu Dun expands his enrollment, the number of people will not be enough. What's more, the talent requirements of intelligence personnel are extremely high, and they are not just a single catch.

In contrast, the old Dongchang is a bit slow in progress, and the main forces are still concentrated in the city. I don’t know that the Jinyiwei already has a new leader and has long had the idea of ​​seizing power.

The cannon carriage ran the dirt road and boarded the newly built hard road, and its speed increased a lot. After solving the steering problem of the four-wheeled carriage, the advantage of high load capacity was revealed. With the supporting hardened road, it took only two days to go from Jiaozhou to Weixian. It only took seven days to go from Weixian to Dezhou.

Just as the artillery arrived in Texas one after another, Tanning's Third Guards finally won the championship and won the first victory since its establishment.

On July 12, the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Third Guards completely occupied the nine counties of Guangping Prefecture and stationed in Handan, the prefecture was built. While organizing manpower to build fortifications, it also showed its fangs to Xingtai, Shunde Prefecture, to the north.

When Zhu Cixuan received the good news, he was already in Dezhou and prepared fortifications of Dezhou. Xiao Mo also pulled the main force of the first battalion to Dezhou City. From here, it was the sea and the Taihang Mountains to the west. Dezhou was just between the two. The first battalion of Guards stopped here, and the Donglu could not detour left and right. If he wanted to go south, he had to fight for this nail.

On the same day on July 12, the Eastern Lu South Army Bahana and Shi Tingzhu also set out from the capital's camp. The Northern Army Ye Chen's troops scheduled to set off the camp the next day and bypass the Taihang Mountains from the north and enter Jin.

"Tanning is still punctual." Zhu Cixuan was not very satisfied with the performance of the Third Battalion of the Guards.

The Guangping Defense Commander of the Dashun Army, Qu Fengqi and the governor Liang Dong, ran fast and fled when Li Zicheng retreated westward. The guard was the commander Guo, who was in charge of the brigade Chang. The troops had only 500 soldiers, and there were no artillery, and the soldiers had not been strictly trained. Even so, Tanning relied on five gates and one seven guns and with an absolute advantage in his troops, he fought for two days before he captured Handan.

However, Tannins, who came from the training department, are good at controlling the damage of the war. Moreover, being able to recruit soldiers on the spot for training after the war and expand their strength as much as possible is also a highlight of mediocre results.

"Your Highness, Dezhou City is small, you should be in charge in Jinan." Xiao Mo said in a statement.

"Are you afraid that I will steal your command?" Zhu Cixuan said with a smile.

"I am worried about your highness's safety." Xiao Mo said seriously without joking.

"Don't worry, I'm here and my morale will be higher." Zhu Ciyang said: "This is our first confrontation with the Donglu. Before, our officers and soldiers of the army had never been able to get benefits from the Donglu. If the land outside the pass was lost again and again, it is inevitable that some people would be afraid. This time we must fight a beautiful battle and pick up the face we had lost before! So this time, danger and opportunity coexist. If we fight well, the Donglu dared not mess with us before the New Year. If we lose, we can only hide in the east of Lexia and wait for two more years."

Xiao Mo nodded.

Zhu Cixuan turned to You Shiwei on the side and said, "General You, have the Jinyiwei agreed with you about the war situation notification?"

"Go back to Your Highness," You Shiwei said, "It has been agreed. Our General Staff Department will set up a Military Information Department, which is responsible for communicating military information with the Jinyiwei and conveying the various armies."

Zhu Ciyang nodded without commenting. According to his understanding of organizational evolution, the Military Intelligence Department will soon work hard to expand its power like a cell division, and eventually become an intelligence agency similar to the Jinyiwei.

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