The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 70 Everything is ready

Seeing that Lou Gan seemed to have something to hide, Zhao Tong became anxious, thinking that he had encountered something big. "What happened to Lou Gan? Is there any difficulty at home?" Zhao Tong leaned over and asked softly.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I drank too much and boasted that I was very familiar with the Prince." Lou Gan secretly raised his eyelids to see if the Prince was angry. Outsiders knew that the Prince was kind, but in the personal army, the new recruits If they made a mistake and were punished, the words that the veterans kept talking about were, "When we were training, if the prince saw you like this, huh, you would be miserable." So although the recruits did not experience the pain of the prince himself, He was punished, but under the coercion of the veterans, he was both respectful and afraid of the prince.

"That's why, then you don't have to go to the prince's door to make a noise, right?" Liu Sheng patted Lou Gan on the shoulder and said funnyly. It's normal for young people to brag. He drank too much and even said that he slept in the same room with the prince. Well, it's just that he slept standing up at the door, and the prince slept lying down in the room.

"But they took it seriously and made a request," Lou Gan said timidly with a grimace.

"What on earth are you bragging about, and who are you telling it to?" Liu Sheng became wary when he heard this. The prince has offended a lot of people this time when he went south. It would be a bad idea if he took the opportunity to go against the prince.

"Damn it, little one." Lou Gan was frightened when he saw Liu Sheng's serious look on his face. He knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty asked those of us who were engaged to go back to get married during the holiday. My mother-in-law's family is from another village. I went to discuss it yesterday. During the wedding, after drinking a few glasses of wine, the younger one boasted a few words, and their family took it seriously and made a request..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want to ask the prince for more gifts?" Liu Sheng slapped him on the head and said viciously.

"No, no, my mother-in-law's family are all responsible people. They don't want money or land. They just want me to borrow the prince's carriage on the day I get married. They said that their daughter married someone close to the prince. "My face will be bright, and I will have face in front of relatives and neighbors." Lou Gan said honestly. He didn't know what kind of evil he was possessed that day. He told his mother-in-law and family that he was the prince's coachman. The prince treated him like a brother, but there was something wrong with him. Everything he asked for was granted, and they made such a "small" request. When he sobered up after returning home, he felt regretful. He was just a driver of the baggage team, and he had never even gotten close to the prince's carriage. , using the prince's car to pick up the bride is not a foolish dream, but the bull has already been blown out. If it can't be done, one's own people will be greatly embarrassed, so today I bite the bullet and come to the palace.

"Hey, you really don't know how many bowls of rice you eat in one meal? Don't drive the carriage tomorrow, go ahead and set off the cannons. The prince's carriage can be borrowed casually, let alone you. If you ask around, he will dare to do it when the prime minister Are you going to use the prince's carriage? If you drink two ounces of horse urine, you won't be afraid of anything. If you are riding in the prince's carriage, then there is no need to hold a happy event, just a funeral..." Liu Sheng, a kid with a bad mouth, scolded him and slapped him. A slap in the face. In fact, what he said is true. Ancient China had a strict hierarchical system. As part of it, the system of using official cars reflected a kind of majesty. It also reflected the distribution of political interests between large and small officials. The cars used by officials of different levels Categories and grades are different and are used to show the difference in status. You cannot sit in the car blindly, otherwise you will really lose your head.

"Okay, Liu Sheng, you drank too much and you are not as good as him. Do you want me to tell you your 'glorious' history?" Zhao Tao kicked Liu Sheng. Liu Sheng received the kick and stood aside with a smile. Lou Gan now knew that he was in serious trouble, so he knelt there without daring to say a word.

"Lou Gan, when will you get married?" Zhao Tong pulled him up, patted the dirt on his knees and asked.

"Your Majesty, we are scheduled to get married in two days." Lou Gan was frightened by Liu Sheng and did not dare to raise his head, so he answered honestly.

"Well, apart from using my king's carriage, do your family have any other requirements?" Zhao Tong nodded and counted the days, thinking that he could still stay until then.

"My lord, no more. There is nothing else but this request." Lou Gan said with a sad face. This request almost killed him, so he dared to make any request.

"Okay, in three days, I will personally drive to welcome you to the wedding," Zhao Tong said.

"Your Majesty..." As soon as Zhao Tong said this, everyone present was stunned. What rank did the prince drive the car? The honor given by the prince was so great that even the older people couldn't believe it.

"Lou Gan, don't be stunned. Go home and get ready. The car is from the palace. Although it's not my car, it still belongs to the palace. I'll give you some face at least," Zhao Tong said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, how can I let the prince drive the car himself? Isn't this killing the villain?" Lou Gan did not expect that his rude request would lead to this, so he knelt down again and said.

"What's wrong with this? Are you afraid that I will drive the car into a ditch? My skills are no worse than yours. Besides, how can you show that we are close by just borrowing a carriage? I'll drive there. Let's see if any of them dare to look down on you. , said you were bragging," Zhao Tao said, patting his chest.

"Your Majesty..." Lou Gan kowtowed three times and left crying.

Two days later, the prince drove there as promised. Dressed as a coachman in green clothes, he actually drove the carriage to pick up the bride. He played with the whip, moved the horse stool, lifted the sedan curtain, helped the newlyweds get into the carriage, and asked for red envelopes. Meticulousness is called professionalism. If it weren't for the fact that he was followed by a group of guards, no one would have believed that the coachman could be the prince. And Lou Qian's wedding became the most beautiful wedding in the mansion, and even from Xiangyi to Gongzhou. There were huge crowds of people on the way to pick up the bride. I don't know what it was. Look at the bride or look at the prince.

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Once the incident spread, there were both praise and criticism: the praise was that the prince was benevolent and righteous, he loved the people like a son, and he drove a carriage for his coachman regardless of his status; the praise was that the prince actually worked as a coachman regardless of his status, which was unbecoming and undermined the royal majesty. .No matter what others say, there is an endless stream of people proposing marriage to the prince's personal guards. Not to mention looking for a wife, there are people who are willing to become a concubine.

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A few days ago, Zhao Tong took the time to inspect the combat readiness situation again. What is gratifying is that the number of rifles and cavalry produced has reached 2,000, and the number of revolvers is 500, and there are sufficient reserves of wearing parts; Ten Gatling machine guns; twenty Furniture cannons; ten projectile mortars; one million rounds of bullets; fifty thousand kilograms of gunpowder; and more than three thousand sets of winter and summer clothing and bedding, and two thousand sets of leather armor. There are 500 sets of armor, 2,000 sets of saddles, 2,000 sabers, and more than 100 four-wheeled baggage and special-purpose vehicles; the food factory has successfully trial-produced compressed dry food, with a daily production capacity of 500 servings, and some air-dried meat. , the bacon reserve can guarantee a month's supply; only the number of horses is not satisfactory, but there are still 3,000 horses.

One thing is the same in ancient and modern wars. The battle is economic and the battle is logistics. Logistics support in ancient times was much simpler than today: it was mainly responsible for food transportation. In the cold weapon era, weapons did not consume much, mainly arrowheads. But in modern times,

The war's requirements for logistical support have increased dramatically: mainly due to the rapid projection of firepower and its rapid consumption. His rough calculation

After a moment, a gun fires an average of one hundred rounds of bullets in a fierce battle. Calculated based on one thousand people, one hundred thousand rounds of bullets are needed. This does not include those machine guns. The current reserve of one million rounds of bullets cannot support it.

How long will it take? In the future, on the battlefield, the transportation of gunpowder and bullets will be restricted. If a musket is out of bullets, it will not be as useful as a saber.

Now he is about to engage in a protracted battle between Song and Xia. The war has turned into a competition between the two sides for logistical supplies. Whoever can ensure the food supply for the frontline troops will win the initiative in the confrontation; whoever destroys the other party's logistical supplies will win.

You can take the upper hand in conflicts. In this era, there are no cars, airplanes, highways or developed transportation systems. You have to rely on yourself to solve these problems.

Solution. Zhao Tong has long known that a modern war requires at least three to six months of logistical preparation. Therefore, supplies must be nearby, so he decided to let the trading company transfer most of the equipment and manpower to the northwest base in the name of purchasing a fireworks branch.

, put into production as soon as possible, and other relevant departments must also switch to wartime preparations to ensure demand. In this regard, everything is ready for war preparations, only the east wind is needed

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"After leaving, I don't know how long it will take to come back." Zhao Tong wandered in his garden, which was still the same as before, with rockeries, pavilions, and frozen ponds.

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It is not as quiet and beautiful as the Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou, and not as luxurious as the Royal Palace in Beijing, but here he will feel very peaceful and peaceful, and his tense nerves will stretch. Thinking of leaving again tomorrow, he becomes anxious

When I wake up, there is always a lingering inexplicable fear in my heart that I can’t explain.

"I'm not afraid of fighting. I was born to be a warrior, but why would I be afraid?" Zhao Tong climbed up the rockery and had a panoramic view of the surrounding area for miles. He murmured to himself that he had spent ten years building this little

world, water conservancy construction,

He built factories, developed agriculture and commerce, built guns and cannons that should not have appeared in this era, accumulated a lot of wealth, formed a new type of army, and had tens of thousands of people to support him. Although he did not dare to say that he was invincible in the world,

But it is enough to dominate one side.

"Oh, I understand, this era has its rules, and I am here to break these rules. Some things must be changed." Zhao Tong finally figured it out. Now he felt like he was standing in a dark tunnel.

I don’t know how long it is, I don’t know what’s inside, and I don’t know where it leads to. But if you walk in, there will be no way back. Everything is unknown. You don’t know where you can go, and you don’t know what the ending will be.

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"Why are you afraid that your life will be in vain? You worry about gains and losses, and you are hesitant. Why is it our generation? If we win, we will create a new Song Dynasty. If we are defeated, the earth will not stop rotating once. I just think that my life has been in vain.

Go back, learn from the experience, and do it again." Zhao Tong smiled, and when he returns to Beijing tomorrow, there will be a northwest wind.