The Sichuan-Yunnan highway was an important life passage connecting Shudu and Yunzhou. It was estimated that the total length of the road was 970 kilometers, and the territory of Shudu was about 270 kilometers.
Starting from Chengdu, it continued southward until it reached the Wine City.
Since ancient times, the Wine City had been a battleground for military strategists. There was a saying that 'a natural mountain city is like an iron city.'
As long as the Wine City was not lost, no one would be able to set foot in Shu City.
Due to the importance of the Wine City, Liu Xiang had Xue Yue lead the First Army to station there for a long time, and at the same time, he had Dong Tianyou's Second Army station nearby.
The reason Baldy Jiang didn't dare to send his troops straight into Shu City was because Wine City was firmly defended. One man could hold off ten thousand men!
During this period of time, Tang Wu and Tang Feng had conducted special training classes in the Eighth Army, and they had trained 1,000 qualified military instructors and ideology instructors.
In order to mobilize the people of Shu City to participate in the road construction project, Liu Zheng specially asked Tang Feng to transfer 790 people.
Among these people, except for the 490 people who were sent to Xue Yue and the other seven armies as military instructors and ideology instructors, the remaining 300 people were scattered to various counties and towns in Shudu to do propaganda work.
In terms of agriculture, there were two seasons in Shu City, the big spring and the small spring.
It was currently the time when the farmers were idle. This year's harvest was also very good. In addition, Liu Zheng did not collect land taxes, so almost every household in Shu City needed surplus grain.
Because of the constant war and the fall of various places, refugees from other places flooded into the Great Southwest.
Just within Shu Capital, there were as many as five million refugees in the past three years.
After the refugees poured in, Liu Xiang gathered them and scattered them to various places in Shu City. Then, the Governor's Office funded them to settle down.
There were three main reasons why Liu Xiang did this. Firstly, they were all descendants of China. He could not watch the refugees starve to death. Secondly, he wanted to use this opportunity to buy people's hearts and then prepare for the subsequent expansion of the team. Third, he wanted to use the refugees to assimilate some of the ethnic minorities and eventually take them for his own use.
Liu Xiang's strategy was very wise. The only drawback was: "To a certain extent, the people of Shu City need to scrimp and save to feed these refugees.”
What was the use of repairing the road?
Hoe? Luoyang shovel?
There were no large machinery or specialized construction tools. Facing the cliffs, the ravines, and the coming winter, everything could only be done by climbing and digging, step by step, to open up this passage of life.
Thinking of this, Liu Zheng felt his heart sink.
They had yet to go out to battle, but this road was carved out of human corpses.
In a small county city within Shu City.
"Everyone present, the Sichuan army is about to leave Shu to fight, but there is no way out. People can't go out, weapons and equipment can't be shipped out, and food supplies can't be sent out…That's right, we are indeed here to recruit people today, but the wages are pitifully low. Young and old men, perhaps some of your children have joined the army. Do you know what we are wearing?”
"Grass sandals, grass sandals! In the cold winter, they only had two sets of clothes a year. They had to sew and mend them. They were just short of a fan…Baldy Jiang's Central Army was armed to the teeth, but they ran away when they saw the Japanese. What kind of army was this? We lost the three northeastern provinces, Beiping, the capital Jinling, and the entire East China region…"
Everyone had come to mobilize the people to build roads, but this was only one of their goals.
More importantly, everyone was here to promote Baldy Jiang's 'great feats!'
Baldy Jiang was now promoting the joint war of resistance. If Liu Zheng did not do anything, many people in Shu Du might mistakenly think that he would not fight against the Japanese invaders.
Baldy Jiang had Zhang Liang's plan, so Liu Zheng naturally had no lack of stairs to climb over the wall.
This was the maxim that there was a policy above and a countermeasure below.
They spent a lot of time and effort to train the instructors. The first thing to do was to coordinate the army, and the most important thing was to stabilize the people's hearts.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. If Liu Zheng wanted to secure his position as the commander of the Sichuan army, if he wanted to replace or annex Bald Man Jiang, he had to firmly grasp the hearts of the people.
In another county.
Sun Feifei personally brought the publicity team here.
"Miss, do you get paid for repairing the road?"
"Uncle, I do, but I only get one silver dollar a month. Uncle, you also know the current situation of the Sichuan army. We must first ensure the soldiers 'pay, because not only will they go to the front line to kill the enemy, but they may also pay with their lives at any time.”At this point, Sun Feifei took the initiative to pick up the loudspeaker and said loudly,"This road is very difficult to build because there are either cliffs or ravines along the way…Grandpas, grandmothers, uncles, and aunties, this road is 270 kilometers long. If our sweat can make the soldiers shed less blood on the battlefield, then our sacrifice is worth it! Because as long as the soldiers were alive, they could kill one more Japanese!”
Liu Zheng could have chosen to use force to capture the able-bodied men, because that would save him a lot of unnecessary trouble.
However, Liu Zheng would never do that, because he did not want the world to last for a few months. He wanted it to last for centuries.
Liu Zheng dreamed of leading the Chinese nation to become stronger. He dreamed of awakening this sleeping dragon. He dreamed of the dragon using the international stage as its playground!
There were many flaws in Shu Du under the rule of the warlords, such as the feudal class like the landlord, and the commoners having no land to cultivate…These flaws needed to be changed, but not now!
Because the Sichuan Army's top priority was to defeat the Japanese invaders.
If that day really came, Liu Zheng would order,""The Kingdom of Hua Xia does not accept surrenders. A debt of blood must be repaid with blood!”
While Liu Zheng was mobilizing the people to build roads in Shu City, Baldy Jiang had also obtained relevant information through the military's special agents.
Liu Zheng had yet to arrest the military spies lurking in the Governor's Office and Rong City because he wanted to indirectly pass on information to Baldy Jiang through them.
"Yu Nong, according to what you said, is Liu Zheng really useful?”
" Principal, Liu Zheng is young and full of vigor. He is bent on defeating the Japanese invaders. As long as this is true, I think the Sichuan Army will be incorporated by the principal sooner or later…"
"That's right. As long as the Sichuan army leaves Shu, they will have to rely on the National Government for their weapons and equipment. Yu Nong, go and draft a plan. Give Liu Zheng an army of American equipment. At the same time, transfer a few experienced military and political personnel to Liu Zheng's side…"
"The principal is wise! This way, if Liu Zheng put our people in an important position, it would prove that he had the intention to surrender. Moreover, we could openly and gradually influence the higher-ups of the Sichuan army. On the contrary, Liu Zheng has ulterior motives. When the time comes, we can completely defeat him.”
"Yes…"
In the southwest region, only by obtaining the Shu capital and the Sichuan army could Baldy Jiang completely consolidate his absolute leadership.
In order to achieve this goal, Baldy Jiang didn't hesitate to use an army's American equipment to test Liu Zheng.
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