Dongsheng, a new land of creation, a new city.

It is said to be a new building, but it is still far from the actual completion: the inner city wall was built shortly after it was built, and the fort was only in the prototype, and the cannon had not yet seen the shadow; the outer city wall was just starting to build the foundation, and as for moats and other things, it was even more shadowless.

However, when anyone who arrived at Dongsheng and saw nearly 100,000 people working hard here, they were sure that at most half a year, Dongsheng would become the largest and strongest city in the northwest.

The most keen one was still the merchants. When they saw Lin Chunhong investing huge sums of money in Dongsheng to build a fortress, they concluded that Dongsheng would inevitably become the basis for Jingzhou to operate the grassland.

Businessmen with this idea all rushed to Dongsheng and seized the commanding heights. The most conspicuous one here is He Yiming. In recent years, He Yiming has seized the opportunity of Jingzhou's overhaul of the rail roads and became the largest supplier of Jingzhou's heavy horses. His assets have expanded rapidly, almost catching up with big bosses such as Hong Qiyun and Zhang Desheng.

What's more, the heavy horse-drawn business is naturally inseparable from the grassland. Therefore, He Yiming spent a lot of money and rented 300,000 acres of excellent grassland in Dongsheng, introduced thousands of heavy horse-drawn mares, ready to show off his skills.

In addition to the traditional business of re-piercing horses, He Yiming also actively expanded the wool textile industry and set up countless wool textile workshops in Xi'an, collecting wool tentacles and even extending to Hucheng.

Given the lack of a large number of herdsmen in the pastures, He Yiming recruited refugees and also paid a lot of money to collect dead soldiers from Luo to Hucheng to deceive the Mongols back to Dongsheng area. The various methods and the remarkable results even Lin Chunhong was amazed.

Compared with He Yiming, Fan Yubin was much more low-key, and only set up a warehouse in Dongsheng to purchase wool, fur, and war horses.

Now Fan Yongdou no longer cares about the mundane affairs in the business world. Fan Sanba took office as the president of the Ming Bank in Yangzhou, and all the Fan family's business was managed by Fan Yubin. Fan Yongdou was an old fox. Although he was wearing the hat of the Ming Dynasty merchant, he set up a warehouse and workshop in Shuozhou, Xi'an and Dongsheng, trying to integrate with Jingzhou and please both sides.

In addition to a few large businesses, the other small and medium-sized merchants have countless cars. Even some farmers in Shaanxi tried to get a piece of the pie. Relying on Dongsheng's nearly 100,000 civilians and tens of thousands of soldiers, they started small-scale transactions and engaged in wholesale to retail.

All this directly led to fewer and fewer hungry people flowing to Henan, and even signs of returning.

"The door to wealth has been opened, Shaanxi is prosperous and hopeful!"

Lin Chunhong came to Dongsheng from Jingzhou and saw the heavy-loaded flat car along the way. He was filled with joy and said to Chen Tianyao beside him.

Chen Tianyao stayed in Bishui for a long time. After hearing Lin Chunhong heading north, she immediately rushed to Luoyang and came to Dongsheng with Lin Chunhong. Seeing Lin Chunhong praise the prosperity of Shaanxi's trade routes, she thought that Bishui had always been inconvenient due to transportation, and was very dissatisfied. She immediately asked angrily: "When will the rail road from Luoyang to Jincheng start to be built? The road is blocked and it is difficult to do anything!"

Lin Chunhong turned his head and stared at the map, answering without a word: "Taihang Mountain lies between Henan and Shanxi, and it is too difficult to cross the Taihang Mountain!"

This made Chen Tianyao even more angry. He knocked Shaanxi hard with his fingers and said angrily: "Taihang Mountain is difficult to cross. Is Ziwuling and Hengshan on Qin straight road better? I would rather waste steel in the yellow sand than enter Shanxi, which will make me angry!"

Lin Chunhong was surprised and was really hard to fool a woman who knew geography. In fact, Chen Tianyao was right. The reason why the rail road did not enter Shanxi was not because the Taihang Mountains were difficult to cross, but because the Shanxi court power was too strong and could not be inserted at all.

"Have you learned to look at the map?" Lin Chunhong asked in surprise. He was well aware of how to deal with women, and knew that it would be useless to reason with women. Instead of trying all the talk, it would be better to lead the topic to something she was interested in.

Sure enough, Chen Tianyao said proudly: "What's the difficulty of a scheming trick? Look, this number indicates the height of the mountain, this..."

Chen Tianyao was tireless in teaching and talked endlessly, just like Lin Chunhong had never seen the map. She didn't know that Lin Chunhong's mind had been wandering around, and her attention was not on the map at all, but on the steel plan in Jingzhou.

After Lin Chunhong arrived in Fangcheng by boat, he boarded the rail carriage and rushed all the way. It took less than three hours to arrive in Ruzhou. The journey was stable and almost exhausted.

The completion of rail roads directly gave birth to large-scale steel workshops. After coking, a truckload of coal from Ruzhou was transported to Yuzhou, which had a steel smelting base second only to Daye.

At the same time, the steel in Yuzhou continued to move south to Fangcheng through the rail road or west to Luoyang, greatly alleviating the embarrassment of iron deficiency in Jingzhou.

It is precisely based on the formation of the second steel base that Lin Chunhongfang may plan a rail road from Xi'an to Lucheng.

The Qinlu Line has extraordinary strategic significance. It can not only extend its tentacles to the grassland, but also completely change the dilemma of the Han people facing the threat of nomadic peoples for thousands of years, but also drive the industrialization of Shaanxi and even the grasslands with developed logistics.

Guanzhong has always been the core area of ​​the Han people and the natural core of the Han people's management of grasslands and the Western Regions. Without the wealthy civilization of Guanzhong, how can we talk about the wealthy civilization of the entire nation, and how can we talk about the pioneering and enterprising on land?

Lin Chunhong was also thinking about extending the rail road to the west slowly. Once the steam era comes, he could directly drive the train to the distant core of the mainland island, thereby seizing the commanding heights of land power.

Thinking of this, Lin Chunhong couldn't help but shake his head and thought to himself that steel is still far from enough, and the rail roads from Luoyang to Xi'an are not open yet.

Chen Tianyao was just talking happily, and saw Lin Chunhong shook his head and asked, "What? The symbol of the mountain is so ugly, there is no beauty at all. Is it wrong?"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "It's very ugly, a straight triangle, so ugly!"

Chen Tianyao was furious and pinched Lin Chunhong's thigh with his hands and scolded: "Are you listening to me? Where did I mention the symbol of the mountain just now? I was saying that you tried your best to wipe out the Tartars, but the court was like guarding against thieves, desperately preventing the Jingzhou army from contacting the Tartars! At present, except for the destruction of Lushun Fort, there is no force available anywhere!"

Lin Chunhong and Chen Tianyao actually keenly discovered the strategic dilemma facing Jingzhou in Liaodong!

Lin Chunhong looked at Chen Tianyao in a daze and said, "Tianyao, you have grown up. Are you still used to the hard days of Qinshui? I think Qinshui doesn't have to go back, live a good life of taking care of your husband and children!"

This made Chen Tianyao feel a little embarrassed. She lowered her head and blushed and said stutteringly: "If you want to teach your children, you must have a son to teach you!"

Lin Chunhong's blood gushed, and he hugged Chen Tianyao in his arms, happily saying, "This will let you have a son!"

...

In the next few days, all the senior officers of the Northwest garrison were summoned to Dongsheng. The generals were busy fighting on the battlefield and could never meet each other on weekdays. Now they gathered together, and they were naturally extremely excited and called each other to accompany each other. It was very lively. When the generals discovered that the generals were in the Governor's Office, the General Manager of the Governor's Office, the General Manager of the Army, Lu Shiming, the General Manager of the Logistics, and the General Manager of the Military and Political Affairs, Tang Wenjie, were all stunned when they were in Dongsheng.

The generals were frightened. Obviously, the Jingzhou Army will introduce major measures in the near future, which is related to the future of the generals and cannot be ignored.

Among the generals, there is only one exception, that is Zhang Fengyi.

Since receiving Lin Chunhong's order, Zhang Fengyi has been worried about gains and losses, and has no desire to eat and drink. She wants to find an excuse to not go to Dongsheng, but she can't think of a reason to show off.

As a last resort, Zhang Fengyi gritted her teeth and headed south. Along the way, she kept thinking about what to say when she saw Lin Chunhong and how to place her hands. Should she be careless as usual, or stay quietly, and try not to attract Lin Chunhong's attention...

Such messy thoughts made Zhang Fengyi breathless, making her feel annoyed.

In the end, Zhang Fengyi made up her mind and decided not to think about anything, just like Sheng Kunshan pays homage to Lin Chunhong.

After hardening her heart, Zhang Fengyi's mood improved a lot. However, when she saw Lin Chunhong from afar, her heart was pounding unscrupulously. Moreover, she also found that Lin Chunhong's eyes were searching for her in the crowd. After her eyes met, Lin Chunhong actually nodded slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth!

this……

A general who commanded tens of thousands of soldiers to make a final decision in the last battle almost turned into a little girl.

When it was Zhang Fengyi's turn to come forward to see the ceremony, her mind was blank, she just mechanically half-kneeled to the ground and said, "I will pay my respects to Marquis Jiangling..."

Lin Chunhong was already standing, and at this time he just put his right hand on his chest, nodded and bowed, and said, "General Zhang, please get up quickly. In the wind and sand, General Zhang led his army to fight for more than two months, and his military achievements are outstanding. Thank you for your hard work."

It was an extremely ordinary word of condolence, but in Zhang Fengyi's ears, her eyes instantly turned red. Over the years, the grievances and pain she endured were almost unimaginable to ordinary people.

Perhaps, in the eyes of others, she is a powerful general with great military achievements, but how many people know that she is fighting on the battlefield is just to temporarily forget the pain in her heart.

Zhang Fengyi still remembers that she is a subordinate. She was about to say some scenes, but she heard Lin Chunhong continue to say: "General Zhang, Chen Tianyao is also in Dongsheng. She asked me to tell you that she brought a valuable gift to you."

Zhang Fengyi was stunned and nodded, "I thanked Marquis Jiangling and the third wife..."

...

After seeing Lin Chunhong, Zhang Fengyi went directly to Chen Tianyao's residence. As soon as the notice was completed, she heard her dreamy voice coming from the courtyard: "Mom...Mom..."

I saw a girl about ten years old rushing towards Zhang Fengyi like a flying girl. The girl was none other than Zhang Fengyi's daughter Xuan'er.
Chapter completed!