On November 12, 1675, Tao Village, Qixia County, the Denglai Development Team, was in charge of Taoxia County, Qing. .

The captain of the Denglai Development Team and the commander of the Denglai Security Security Liao Xiaoyao rode a smooth war horse to Taocun, a small village in the Denglai Development Team, which is increasingly important in the Denglai Development Team.

Speaking of which, since the initial planning of the Guyan Line and Taorong Line Railway was completed, the intersection of Taocun, the intersection of the two railways, has become the focus of attention of all parties. This small village formed during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty and was destroyed in the war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties is now stationed in the Denglai Railway Construction Command, the Production and Construction Corps, the Fourth Division of the Denglai New Army and other units. Every day, it is crowded with people and hustle and bustle, which has turned a small village that was originally deserted.

Among these units, the Denglai Railway Construction Command is responsible for the construction of the entire Jiaoyan Line Railway. The headquarters is in Tao Village. In addition, in Jiaozhou and Yantai, there is a branch, so it can only organize the most basic foundation leveling work. It is worth mentioning that although these routes are planned by light rail, Liao Xiaoyao, who is "indiscreet", directly instructed the Denglai Railway Construction Command to level the foundation "high standards and strict requirements" and not lower the standards at will and fool the superiors. People below naturally understand this, so they are currently built according to the standards of normal railways unless they receive the next order.

The Production and Construction Corps are actually the victims from the four eastern and western Shandong governments. They were unable to eat and wear food and clothing under the invasion of drought, locusts, earthquakes and post-quake floods, and had to go to the East Coast control area through various channels, and then they were formed into the Production and Construction Corps, with a total of about 150,000 and 30,000 people. Now, after many years, the number of people who were reduced (work injuries, diseases, fatigue, etc.) when working, the number of resettlement and immigration to sea is now only about 70,000. Two production and construction corps have been reorganized into two production and construction corps. One of them is about 40,000 people busy on the Jiaolai Xinhe construction site, and the other less than 30,000 people are working on the Jiaoliao Line Railway Construction site.

Of course, after tasting the huge benefits of the production and construction corps model, Denglai area has always lacked such a transfer of production and construction team. After all, the people can only serve in the slack season, and they are trying to make up for their vacancies. After all, according to the plan, these people will immigrate to the East Coast one after another in the next three years, and no one will work at that time.

But it is so difficult to replenish the labor force! A place like Denglai is so big that more than one million people cannot fill it, and it can be said that there is not much surplus labor force at all. Therefore, if you want to maintain the establishment and scale of this army, you must think of another way. For example, the Qing army captured and not redeemed prisoners on various battlefields, such as anti-East Coast elements who were confiscated, such as labor reform prisoners, etc., although the number is limited and may be far from being able to make up for the huge gap, it is better than nothing.

In addition, we have to mention the Fourth Division of the Denglai New Army stationed here. Given that Taocun is located in the extremely important geographical location in the future, at the intersection of the Jiaoyan Line and Taorong Line Railway, it is more than 50 kilometers north of Yantai, and less than 90 kilometers west of Zhaoyuan Gold Mine. It can be said to be the heartland, so it has been the headquarters of the Fourth Division of the Denglai New Army stationed in the process of forming. At least three or four thousand troops will be stationed here in the future to protect the safety of this core important place.

Speaking of the Fourth Division of the New Delhi Army, it was actually another unit that was included in the formation plan after the Third Division of the New Delhi Army was formed. Since the Security Command of the New Delhi Army exhausted all resources (mainly equipment, officers and technical arms) when forming the Third Division of the New Delhi Army, the Fourth Division has been delayed in childbirth, and there is a very shortage of officers and non-commissioned officers, and there is no technical arms such as cavalry, engineering soldiers, artillery, etc. Therefore, now, this division only looks like a thousand people, which is very cold.

However, the prison Jiaolai Xinhe defense line has a huge desire for troops, and this division must be formed. After all, you can't rely on those servant divisions that are already in a degenerate momentum for the rest of your life, right? When the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, Shun army and Ming army was rising steadily, it was time for the East Coast people to take advantage of some so-called new troops to compete with them. The Liaodong New Army First Division, the Zhejiang New Army Second Division, the Denglai New Army Third Division, the Denglai New Army Fourth Division, and the Zhejiang New Army Fifth Division, the Heishui New Army Sixth Division are the main combat troops of the East Coast people in the Far East for decades.

In Liao Xiaoyao's plan, no matter how difficult the finances are, how tight the equipment is, or how short the personnel are, the fourth division of the Denglai New Army will be formed within three years as soon as possible, so as to replace those semi-independent minions and consolidate the security of the Jiaolai New River defense line.

Today, Liao Xiaoyao came to Taocun. The first thing he did was not to inspect the railway construction site, but to inspect the nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division of the New Army. Looking at these officers and soldiers who were too young and had a lot of wrinkles on their foreheads, Liao Xiaoyao was speechless. After the officers and soldiers of military organizations such as the stand-up team (one and a half-infantry corps, one cavalry corps), local garrisons and other military divisions were dispersed and supplemented to various divisions of the New Army, the East Coast people could only find solutions from the retired officers and non-commissioned officers when they formed the Fourth Division of the New Army.

Some of these soldiers in the village have been farming for several years, but have been urgently recalled and have become professional soldiers again, acting as training officers, and training the newly recruited soldiers. Now the weather-beaten veterans that Liao Xiaoyao saw are just like the weather-beaten veterans. In addition, some of the young people are local graduates of the Corps and Fortress cadres, and some are students of Yantai College (formerly Anti-Qing Military and Political University) who are determined to join the army, and they look very immature.

In short, the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division of the New Army is undoubtedly relatively limited at present. Their biggest role in Taocun is probably to suppress the local area (urge the people of the Production and Construction Corps to work hard) and guard supplies. As for letting them go to war, it is simply a joke about their lives.

Liao Xiaoyao knew this. He now only hopes that this division can be formed as soon as possible, and completed the training in Taocun peacefully, and then pulled it to a small-scale and low-intensity battlefield to practice, accumulate some experience, and finally rely on it as the main force.

Fortunately, the series of wars caused by Liaodong between the Qing Dynasty and the East Coast are gradually subsided. In addition to the Southern Development Team still repeatedly entangled with the Qing army's Hangzhou camp, the war in Denglai in Liaodong and Denglai is basically no longer burning. In other words, Denglai was originally the direction of the Qing army's feint, and the maximum battle scale was only more than 3,000 people. Military pressure was greatly alleviated. Even some servants and soldiers who were quickly transferred to Laizhou Prefecture when the situation was urgent have begun to return home in batches, so the Fourth Division of the Denglai New Army still has enough time to form and improve it.

This is not only the luck of the Fourth Division, but also the luck of the East Coast people. Liao Xiaoyao once read a report submitted to him by the gendarmerie. The report pointed out that after experiencing this failed offensive, the Qing army may no longer choose to attack Liaodong or Denglai areas for a long time in the future. Their military machines will once again turn their focus to the south, trying to wipe out Shunguo, the only place that can barely become an opponent, and then unify the whole country and fight the East Coast people again.

The intelligence analysis officials of the gendarmerie optimistically predict that in the next ten years, the Qing Dynasty will face a series of troubles, such as the disposal of Wu Sangui and his heirs within their internal separatist warlords, such as the threat of the rising Weilat Mongolia to the grasslands, and even the rise of the Han civil and military ministers in their own country. Each one is very smart to deal with. They have to spend a lot of energy on these matters, and will naturally relax the suppression of the East Coast people, and may even seek peace and even a certain degree of cooperation with the East Coast Republic.

Liao Xiaoyao deeply agreed with this and asked the staff of the Denleigh Security Command to formulate a series of war plans, including military strikes and population collection, in order to prevent the situation from undergoing major changes. Of course, this is just a plan. For any major decision in the Far East, the Three Feudatories must first obtain the approval of the local executive committee, otherwise the problem will become very serious.

After inspecting the military camp, Liao Xiaoyao finally came to Taocun Railway Station, which was under construction, with his followers. Since the future is the intersection of two railway lines, the Taocun Railway Station covers a considerable area. Liao Xiaoyao looked around and saw a construction site full of sand everywhere, with wooden signs written on "platform", "mechanical repair factory", "waiting hall", "warehousing base", "police station", and "coal and water station" written on the ground, indicating the future use of the land.

After seeing this, Liao Xiaoyao felt very happy. He pointed at the area in front of him and rushed over from Haicangkou Fortress to report his work, Wang Shizhuan, the commander of Jiaolai River Defense, who came to report to him, said: "I feel very comfortable seeing these. This is probably the last major project during my tenure. I may not even see these buildings and the day when the railway is completed. But I still hope that even after I leave, you will continue to work hard to do a good job in the Jiaoyan Line and even the Taorong Line that may be built in the future. You must know that the railway has always been a multiplier of our war power. With the railway, our troops and military funds can be easily mobilized everywhere to form strategic advantages for the enemy."

Speaking of this, Liao Xiaoyao vaguely remembered the developed railway network in Germany when he read the history books in later generations. The Germans used this railway network far beyond France and Russia to continuously transport various materials and personnel to various places, so that they could always form various materials and personnel advantages in local areas. This is the strategic advantages brought by the railway, and the East Coast People's Congress can follow it.

"Of course, war is not the norm after all, peace is the mainstream. After these two railways are built, the population, money and materials of Denglai will be close to both sides of the railway. Therefore, the Jiaoyan Line and Taorong Line Railway are also economic multipliers in the jurisdiction of our Denglai Development Team. Now the work of military-to-civilian (i.e., lifting military control and establishing local governments) in the entire region has been underway for some years, and local economic development may only be faster and faster. In the future, we will rely on the railway to reap the money for our military and officials." Liao Xiaoyao then added.

Of course, what he did not mention is that the massive profits of the railway in the future may not be exclusive to the government of the Denlai Development Team. After all, the Denlai Development Team alone and the Sanfan Far East Frisbee are not able to build these two railways. They must also introduce professional talents and funds, such as the Central Railway Company and the Nanci Railway Company. But judging from the current situation, the former is slow to react and is not very interested (maybe they want to avoid policy risks and do not want to have a hard time with the Executive Committee), while the latter is very positive. The cooperation with the Denlai Development Team has been more in-depth. The two sides have even agreed to operate together and use various means to order the Executive Committee to "receive extrajudicial grace" and specially approved the Nanzi Railway Company to build the Gumo Line and Taorong Line here.

Liao Xiaoyao carefully deduced it and felt that the chance of this matter being passed is quite high. Therefore, he did not build the light rail line as planned, but constructed it according to ordinary railway standards as soon as he got up. After all, the difference between the horse-drawn track car and the La Plata Star train is still extremely huge!

"By the way, what are the recent movements of the Qing army opposite? My river defense commander." After talking about the railway, Liao Xiaoyao finally brought the topic back to the military.

"Commander-in-Chief, very good. The Qing army is now very honest. Our scout cavalry has not seen Qing army with more than 3,000 people moving in the field for a long time. The most recent battle was three months ago when Sabusu led his army to attack Haicangkou Fortress, but he retreated after a long time of fighting. It looked more like a errand." Wang Shichuan thought about it and replied: "I think that Denglai will enjoy a long period of peace. The Qing army has actually given up on launching a large-scale war with us here, just like the Liaodong battlefield where the war has gradually subsided. I even doubt whether they will come over with a shy face and say that they will sign another peace agreement with us. I really think they can do it."
Chapter completed!