Chapter 190
It was June in a blink of an eye. In the past month and a half, there was constant good news within the People's Army.
The best news is that the monthly output of tiger head guns has been increasing, which has allowed the People's Army to grow rapidly and increased the confidence of the People's Army to resist and even defeat the Ming army.
Secondly, it means that the two products Fang Nan asked to study, one is cement and the other is glass.
After the efforts of the Ministry of Workers and the guidance of Fang Nan, it took a month and a half to study the relatively basic cement and glass.
Primary cement and glass have been researched, but the Ministry of Industry is still studying the formulas of cement and glass, hoping to find better cement and glass.
Cement can already be produced on a large scale, and a cement factory has been established outside Guangzhou city. The cement produced by the cement factory will be mainly used for road construction and water conservancy facilities. In the future, more cement plants will be established in Guangdong.
As for glass, there is also a glass factory outside Guangzhou city, but it has not yet reached the point of mass production.
At present, the People's Army mainly needs glass to grind telescope lenses. Telescopes play a great role in naval and land warfare. The Ministry of Works has mobilized a group of skilled craftsmen to grind lenses.
Grinding lenses does not require much glass, so glass factories do not need to carry out large-scale production. The current task is to study glass technology to produce better glass.
In fact, there are other reasons why glass is not produced on a large scale. The glass produced by glass factories is only small pieces, which is OK for grinding lenses. If you want to produce larger door and window glass or mirror glass, you need to improve technology.
Doors, windows, glass and mirrors will be the largest part of glass sales. Of course, this is still the future. Even if the glass factory can take out large pieces of glass now, many people will not buy it.
Ordinary people have just been assigned to farmland. This year is the first time to cultivate their own farmland. Autumn is the first time to harvest, and then the wealth of the people will increase slightly.
The wealth of ordinary people who have been poor for half their lives has just increased a little. They can eat some meat and buy cloth to make new clothes, but they cannot buy or even afford doors, windows, glass and mirrors.
Also, when the good days of the people stabilize and they have more money in their hands, they will buy some low-priced "luxury goods".
If the People's Army now launches doors, windows, glass or mirrors, only those wealthy families can buy. You should know that when the People's Army occupied most of Guangdong, it searched a large number of gentry and merchants, and the remaining one is less than one-fifth of the previous number. How much can they buy?
Moreover, the People's Army will not care about doors, windows, glasses, mirrors and other contents. The third round of battle between the People's Army and the Ming Army is getting closer. Only by defeating the Ming Army again, the People's Army will gain a foothold and cannot resist the Ming Army, and then all development will be in vain.
Fortunately, the People's Army now has a lot of confidence to win the third round of battle in the camp.
Good news made Fang Nan smile more, but what really made Fang Nan smile was Hu Xiaoya's arrival.
Since the People's Army broke the second encirclement and suppression of the People's Army by the Ming army, the People's Army has launched a large-scale attack on the city and land in Guangdong. It has been half a year since now.
In the past six months, Fang Nan has been in Guangzhou City, while Hu Xiaoya has been in Hutou Village in the mountains. The couple has been separated for half a year. On weekdays, they can only solve the pain of longing through letters.
In the Hutou Village, Zhou Lei's second wife Gu Lihua finally gave birth to a daughter for Zhou Lei.
Given the current situation of the People's Army, there must be experienced doctors in Hutouzhai, but with the traditional medical level of this era, no one can guarantee that they will be safe if they have children. Even the Ming Dynasty royal family will experience the death of mothers and babies. Women are struggling on the brink of life and death for giving birth.
Hu Xiaoya stayed in Hutou Village and was worried about Gu Lihua. With Hu Xiaoya there, there was a way to alleviate the problem. Seeing that Gu Lihua and her daughter were safe, Hu Xiaoya left Hutou Village and came to Guangzhou City.
Gu Lihua has only been giving birth to the child for more than a month. She is weak and can't stand the long journey. The newly born baby can't stand it. She has to stay in Hutou Village. When Gu Lihua recovers and the baby grows up, Zhou Lei's two wives and sons and daughters will come to Guangzhou City to reunite.
Half a year has passed since the People's Army occupied Guangdong, and the People's Army has stabilized under its rule. Fang Nan was very busy in the early days. As time went by, with Zhou Lei and ministers of various departments, Fang Nan became more and more relaxed, and the government affairs that needed to be handled every day continued to decrease.
Hu Xiaoya came to Guangzhou City, and Fang Nan invited her a short vacation to accompany Hu Xiaoya for a few days. The figures of the two appeared in many places in Guangzhou City, but the common people in Guangzhou City did not know that the governor they were talking about was passing by with their wife by their side.
Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya, who have been separated for half a year, are now like a couple who have just gotten married. They are tired of being together every day and don’t want to separate.
When he arrived in Guangzhou City, Hu Xiaoya couldn't help crying when she saw Fang Nan for the first time. When he stayed in Hutou Village, Hu Xiaoya was always worried about whether Fang Nan was injured, whether she was very tired and hard every day, and whether she couldn't eat well every day...
Even though the two often had letters, Hu Xiaoya still couldn't help crying alone at night. Finally, she came to Fang Nan again. This time she didn't want to be separated from Fang Nan for so long and didn't want to be separated for a day.
Fang Nan also comforted Hu Xiaoya and said, "We will never be separated again. Wherever I am, you will be."
With the development of the People's Army to this day, Fang Nan will hardly appear on the battlefield again. Leading troops to fight is what all the officers and generals of the People's Army have to do. Fang Nan, as the chief commander of the People's Army, will be in charge of Guangzhou City, so that the rear will be more stable.
So Fang Nan's words to comfort Hu Xiaoya were not lying to Hu Xiaoya.
After crying and laughing, Hu Xiaoya happily accompanied Fang Nan, wandering around Guangzhou City.
Hu Xiaoya was very happy to be by Fang Nan's side, but there was one thing that made Hu Xiaoya even happier. At Fang Nan's home in Guangzhou, Hu Xiaoya did not find any extra women.
There are still women in the mansion where Fang Nan lives, all of whom are maids and old mothers, and there are not many people. The "woman" that Hu Xiaoya thinks is the extra hostess in the family.
As a woman, especially when she knows what happened to Zhou Lei, Hu Xiaoya knows that she can't stop her, but this kind of thing really happens to her will still make Hu Xiaoya feel heartbroken. In the letter, Fang Nan did not talk about other women. If there was really a mistress in the family, Hu Xiaoya would feel very uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Hu Xiaoya was worried that the situation did not happen.
Chapter completed!