Hearing Li Tai praise his camel caravan, Li Xian couldn’t help but show a proud look on his face, but he sighed, “This place is not as dense as Guanzhong city and convenient as the roads. Once people leave their hometowns, there are few roads to follow. If there is not enough strong animal to serve enough power, a large number of people will be difficult to move.”
Li Tai nodded after hearing this. It was only after he came to Longyou that he realized the harsh traffic conditions here.
Although ancient transportation was naturally far inferior to later generations, where people were inhabited, even if there were no straight chariot and horse roads, the small paths of sheep intestines could be used to walk. After all, there is no road in the world, and more people will walk on it, it will become a road.
Li Tai originally didn’t like the traffic environment in Guanzhong very much. He did not pass through a systematic hardened dirt road. He usually ran with dust and dust, and was muddy and slippery when he encountered rain and snow. Every time he went out, he would become more tired due to road conditions.
If it weren’t for the fire of ambition that wanted to change the dynasty and change the dynasty, he would be more willing to be a rich man who would have no worries about food and drink and a group of servants.
But after coming to Longxi, Li Tai discovered that Guanzhong can definitely be regarded as a prosperous area with convenient transportation. He came from Longguan all the way to Tianshui, and he had never encountered a formed road with a length of more than twenty miles in the middle, and the infrastructure was almost gone.
Although there were no infrastructure facilities in northern Shaanxi where he was stationed before, he was not deeply touched by this. Under the guidance of the guide, he was quite satisfied with the light-clothed hunting in the wild. This is because various construction projects in northern Shaanxi are just starting, and the exchange of materials between different regions is still not frequent enough, so the restrictions on road traffic are not too great.
But after he arrived in Qinzhou, Dugu Xin was about to lead the army to fight the rebellion in the west. The food and supplies of tens of thousands of troops suddenly pressed on his shoulders. The logistics conditions of these materials were strictly restricted in the military period, which was a headache for the harsh logistics and transportation environment in Longyou.
This cannot be blamed on Dugu’s letterhead. The large-scale infrastructure construction in Longyou was probably still in the Han Dynasty. The hundreds of years of troubled times not only prevented these infrastructure from being properly maintained, but was even damaged by various natural and man-made disasters.
In ancient times, logistics transportation was already expensive, and now there is no road that can be integrated and unobstructed. The scrapping rate of horse-drawn carriages by land transportation is astonishing, and transportation through human and animal burden has become the most mainstream way of land transportation.
Among all the animal powers that can be used for transportation, camels are undoubtedly the best. They have a large weight and low dietary requirements. They are hard-working, cold and disease-resistant, and are the most cost-effective transportation method.
An adult camel can carry hundreds of kilograms, traveling nearly a hundred miles a day, so Li Xian’s group of camels are just half a car, and as long as he walks on the road, he will continue to produce considerable profits!
“This camel caravan has nearly 2,000 camels, but it is not all my family.The villagers and camels and animals were also organized into the team. “
Li Xian could hear Li Tai’s envy in his words, so he smiled and said, “The feeding of this thing does not require special attention, just like a cow and a horse, but only when it comes to summer and changes hair, it needs to be taken care of. I don’t know exactly how to serve you. Li Sanqiruo is still curious about this, and the staff will come to answer you later. Nowadays, we still need to transport our capacity when we go back. When we turn back, we will give Li Sanqi a few heads to the fun of the game. “
Li Tai took the initiative to talk about this, but it was not to make money from others. After hearing this, he waved his hand and smiled, “I’ll leave these for later, but the camel group I saw now does not seem to be full, right? “
A camel can carry a few hundred kilograms, and nearly two thousand camels is a transportation capacity of hundreds of thousands of kilograms. The goods that can be transported are naturally amazing. Although Li Xian is also responsible for the supply of some large army, his share is obviously not reaching such a scale. Some of the transportation capacity must be still idle.
Li Xian nodded after hearing this and said, “There are indeed hundreds of camels and animals currently idle. If the provincial government needs to borrow power, it is fine, but the materials must be in place as soon as possible. After all, the military futures cannot be urged to stay here for a long time. “
Li Tai certainly had the idea of leveraging the transportation capacity, but his purpose was not just to complete the current logistics transportation tasks, but also wanted to test the new resource integration and allocation methods.
Among all kinds of military supplies, grain and grass are undoubtedly the most important necessities, and long-distance transportation costs are extremely high.
However, as early as the seventh year of the reign of the Datong period, when Deng Yan secretly occupied Guazhou, far away in Hexi, Dugu Xin and other Longyou generals had already begun to prepare for war. Relying on the Weishui River Channel to establish a warehouse residence in Weizhou to collect and store grain and grass, pushing the military’s headquarters for distribution and supply to the west for hundreds of miles.
However, the army needs not only food and grass for going to the expedition. Various felt tents, spare weapons, hot lacquer wax oil, and various medicines for preventing and treating epidemic trauma are of various types and are essential. The lack of any one will cause considerable trouble and is difficult to obtain when on the front line, so it can only be supplemented through logistics.
However, the reserves of these military supplies in Qinzhou Prefecture are far from enough. Although there are special official workshops for production, the materials accumulated before have been consumed by the Dayue for years. Now, the workshops can only work overnight, make a batch before transporting them to the Prefecture, and sending them to Weizhou from the Prefecture.
The last batch of supplies was shipped two days ago. At present, even if Li Tai wanted to take the free bike from the Li Xian family, there was no goods to ship. Moreover, the Weizhou army was about to set off, but some supplies were still huge. Dugu Xin urged him several times, and his words gradually became stern, but Li Tai was also a clever wife who could not cook without rice.