"The navy's life is getting richer every day." At the Yancheng Port Wharf, a team of army officers and soldiers who had just landed were discussing. They had just seen the armored warship "Bianliang" being towed into the Hailing Port military base for maintenance. When they heard that this powerful warship was worth 350,000-400,000 yuan, everyone cursed when they heard it, especially those officers who had previously performed combat missions in the continent, who kept shouting that they had been living and dying outside. The Navy's group of people basking in the sun on the beach all day long, and they successfully cheated so much money from the military headquarters. This must be a problem!

These officers and soldiers came from the Third Mixed Regiment of the Army, which was the main body of the Portuguese garrison army. The regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun. After many years of foreign wars, they all returned to the country one after another last year and were allowed to go back to their hometowns to visit their relatives in batches. Now that they have basically gone on vacation, everyone has been pulled to the Pampa Plain in batches for high-intensity military training.

Of course, this so-called high-intensity military training is incomparable to the Navy. The Navy's group of people had to destroy more than 100,000 yuan in money once they went to sea. Various weapons and ammunition were consumed like flowing water, food and alcohol were open for supply, and personnel subsidies were scary. Compared with them, the army trained with two legs and one gun was really incomparable, even the third mixed regiment, which is known as one of the five major aces of the Army (in fact, the Army has only five mixed regiments in total...).

In fact, after seeing the Navy's "Bianliang" ironclad ship successfully conducted a sea trial, the Army also clamored to increase the size of the army, that is, to establish the sixth mixed regiment, but it was rejected. The reason was that the Joint Staff Headquarters is now filled with too many naval personnel. Many of the original army veterans either retired or transferred. For example, Yang Liang, the former leader of the First Mixed Regiment, went to the Army University to serve as the principal (the position of regiment command was taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Wu Yiqun). Those who are still serving in the department are not other senior army generals except Major General Guo Handong and Colonel Lan Fei (the position of regiment commander of the Fifth Mixed Regiment had been handed over to Lieutenant Colonel Zheng Dalin), and there are no other senior army generals, which is very pitiful.

However, there is no way. The geographical location of the east coast determines the extreme importance of the navy. Perhaps in the early days of the country's founding, when facing the land threat of Spanish colonists, the army could still have some say. However, as time went by, the Spanish national power became weaker, the land threat had basically been lifted, and the military headquarters was slowly controlled by the naval faction. Not only did they repeatedly reject the requirements for the expansion of the army, but they also cut off their military expenditures. For example, one-third of the militia training expenses were cut off, the welfare housing of the army officers was also suspended, and the development of new weapons in the army did not receive enough funds, resulting in a slow progress. In short, no matter from any perspective, the army is greatly suppressed by the navy and life is very difficult.

Just like their infantry battalion, which belongs to the Third Mixed Regiment, came to the inland area of ​​Yancheng County for training, the time span was as long as three months, and one person gave two yuan of training allowances. How could everyone feel? Moreover, they had to bear the important task of sending a group of immigrants to settle in the inland areas. The State Development Administration saw that there was a battalion of troops to train, so he gave them more than 18,000 immigrants from overseas and local old areas, and asked them to help escort more than ten new settlements in the inland areas.

Of course, not all of them have been newly established settlements, and a small number of them have been allocated to the two newly established counties, namely Yongchun County and Zhongxing County. The former has Yongchun Town, Gushu Township, Hongshi Township, Yinmi Township and Liqiu Township, which is the 164th county-level administrative unit in the country, and the latter has Zhongxing Town, Xiaowu Township, Gaoqing Township and Ningshuo Township, which is the 165th county-level administrative unit in the country, which is newly established in January this year (1695).

In addition, between the Yanluo Highway (Nancheng District of Luoyang Funan District) and the Shangyan Railway (formerly Yanbu Railway), several settlements have been established one after another, namely: Fangling Township (near Colonel Suarez Town in later generations), Guangqian Township (near Pigui Town in later generations), Yuemo Township (near General Town in later generations of La Madrid), Lixi Township (near Guamini Town in later generations), Dailu Township (near Daireaux Town in later generations), Gengyuan Township (near Bolivar City in later generations), Anshou Township (near Hou Hou

Near the town of Szaykro), Maming Township (near the town of Salazar), Hongren Township (near the town of Henderson in later generations), Jinhui Township (near the town of Pellegrini in later generations), Jinyan Township (near the town of Trenclauken in later generations), Jiacheng Township (near the town of Pevajo in later generations), Huangxu Township (near the town of Carlost Hedor in later generations), Tianjian Township (near the town of Ameriga ameria in later generations), Jinxi Township (near the town of General Pico in later generations), a total of fifteen new settlements.

More than 10,000 people were allocated to as many as fifteen settlements, each settlement was at most about a thousand. But it was annoying that their troops had to repeat fifteen times. But there was no way, the military order was as high as a mountain, and the grandsons of the General Administration of Development of the State said that they could allocate a batch of food, wine, daily necessities, etc. to work for the army, and the battalion commander led the team could only pinch his nose, although they had reservations about whether they needed to send fully armed regular soldiers to escort the pioneers.

"Stop complaining, how is the navy? We don't care. Let's do what we are doing first." The person who spoke was Bai Chuanping, the battalion commander of the 9th Infantry Battalion. He is the grandson of Baishui, a former army veteran. He is less than 35 years old this year. He has already been in the local area. South Africa has carried out dozens of bandit suppression missions. At the same time, he has been in the cold and wet trenches of the South Netherlands for several years. He has fought face to face with the French team. His rich experience is difficult for ordinary officers to compare.

Of course, he was also very dissatisfied with the army receiving such a "nanny mission". He himself was more willing to go to the Far East to serve and make contributions on the battlefield. He had no choice but to go to the Far East to snatch the good things about the Second Mixed Regiment (the Fifth Mixed Regiment has been transferred back to China). They should not be able to get a chance within a few years unless the military headquarters makes adjustments and deploys two Mixed Regiment in the Far East, but is this possible?

"But this road is also bad enough. I have been working for several years. Why can't I get there before I reach Zhongxing County?" The white battalion commander was also a rude master. He just heard him say again: "Are those white shirts embezzling transportation money? Damn, the sales of transportation lottery every year are so large, hundreds of thousands of yuan. It's really a scam to repair a road."

The road that Captain Bai complained about was obviously the Luoyan Highway, a pre-project prepared for the construction of the Luoyan Railway. But it is obvious that this road disappointed our army men. The distance of hardened road surface coverage is not very long and intermittent. It seems that because the local government has not allocated funds or organized manpower to build it, the construction has been completed and has been damaged due to the heavy load carriages over the years and are a mess.

"Can this be considered a first-class national highway? A special defense line, haha, battalion commander, there are serious problems here." The marching staff also came over to speak. Seeing his tone of speaking, it was probably the same as his boss and he was unforgivable.

Bai Chuanping smiled and didn't say anything after all. After all, he was a major officer, so he could just say a few words of complaints. There was no need to keep yelling. Although he really looked down on those civil servants, although the road was poorly built, the farmland on both sides was well-organized, which made people pleasing to the eye.

Now they had just passed Yongchun Town, and the road was covered with crops. Farmers wearing sickle hats bent down in the fields, stood up from time to time, and looked at the team walking on the road. This team occupied almost half of the road and was endless. However, for these farmers, it was not surprising that they were already used to it, because there have been too many immigrants on this road these days, and many of them went ashore at Yancheng Port and entered the road along the road.

It's a settlement. When they look at the new immigrants, they feel a little dreamy, and they also feel a little happy. The reason is that the popularity here is still a little insufficient, especially for young people born in the East Coast who came from the old district, it is too lonely and new people are urgently needed to fill the gap. Therefore, every time they see a new immigration team appear, they are very happy. When officials from the General Administration of Development of the State Administration of Development come to purchase supplies, they are willing to sell the best products.

"In fact, it's not that serious. Although these roads were planned and allocated by the Ministry of Transport, the specific construction was implemented by the State Development Administration and local governments. They got the money. If there were not enough materials or labor, it would be normal to postpone the construction work. Well, some towns have a large population, some towns have few people, some towns have strong determination and are willing to temporarily stop other work in order to build roads, but some towns are unwilling to do so. This is the reason why the roads we see are not one by one, and the progress is different." The logistics consultant is a kind person. He is already forty and does not speak like a young man. He only listens to him: "In theory, such a thing should not be opened, but there is no way. Immigration and resettlement work is very important. People and materials have to go this way, so it's like this, which is understandable."

Yes, it is understandable. The Pampa Plain is so important that as soon as the people on the east coast took it down, they poured out all kinds of enthusiasm and vowed to build it into a livable home. At present, the direction of their settlement is roughly to advance along rivers, railways, and highways, using the transportation advantages of these transportation lines to continuously transport personnel and materials, and then radiate to the two wings, slowly establishing a solid rule on these originally deserted lands and continuously producing wealth.
Chapter completed!