Agriculture and commerce are followed by industrial development. In fact, both commerce and industrial development depend on agriculture. When agriculture develops, only when the people have money can commerce and industry develop with it.

For example, in the glass factory outside Guangzhou city, the glass factory can already produce small pieces of mirrors. If the People's Chamber of Commerce launches this product, basically only middle-class people can buy mirrors, with very few sales. The lower-level people who have just accumulated a little wealth will not spend money to buy mirrors, even if the mirrors are very cheap.

This time, the products of mirrors will not be launched on the market until the second half of next year. However, the glass factory has produced some mirrors in small batches and sent them to the People's Army for some family members to experience.

It’s okay to have business development, at least those merchants participated, and the People’s Army basically only can do industrial development itself.

Industry, especially heavy industry, represents the strength of the People's Army. One of the heavy industry, Foshan Arsenal, continuously produces muskets, artillery, grenades, and equipment for the People's Army. The combat effectiveness of the People's Army has been greatly improved.

It can be said that as heavy industry develops, the strength of the People's Army will also increase.

Qiongzhou Prefecture has been captured by the People's Army, and the Ministry of Works is dispatching technicians to Qiongzhou Prefecture, and the first batch of 1,000 coolies are already on the way.

Cooli made significant contributions to the development of the People's Army under the rule of the People's Army, and they will continue to make more contributions to the People's Army. When they arrive at Qiongzhou Prefecture, they will start to build roads for the People's Army, complete the roads to the iron ore and coal mines, and then they will have to mine and build steel plants.

I don’t know how many coolies will die of exhaustion or accidental deaths, but no one cares about the casualties of coolies. After all, coolies are all guilty people. It is already very good for the People’s Army to let coolies have enough food.

Mining Shilu Iron Mine and establishing the "Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant" is a very important plan for the People's Army in industrial development. In the plan, the Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant will officially start the furnace and smelting iron in at most one and a half years.

Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant is an important project, the addition of hydraulic machine tools in Foshan Arsenal is an important project, and the research and development of steam engines is also an important project, and each project is in progress in an orderly manner.

Under the leadership of the People's Army, all developments in an orderly manner were almost done, and there were almost no bandits and bandits. Merchants did not dare to hoard goods, did not exploit tenants, and did not bully the powerful people. In the eyes of the people, such days were good enough for them, but for Fang Nan, everything is not enough for the People's Army.

The ceasefire negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming court continued, but the situation was getting worse and worse for the Ming court.

On the morning of the seventh day of the 12th month, with a loud bang, a section of the east wall of Wuzhou Prefecture City, besieged by He Yan's Third Army, was blown up. The troops and grenadiers cooperated with each other to rush into the city. After half a day of fierce fighting, the Third Army successfully captured Wuzhou Prefecture City, killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured nearly 20,000 enemies. The People's Army was killed and injured less than 4,000 people, and won a great victory!

It turned out that after He Yan's Third Army besieged Wuzhou City, he sent people to dig tunnels in the distance and prepared to go directly to the wall of Wuzhou City. In the end, the wall was blown down.

The People's Army besieged Wuzhou Prefecture City for several months. The morale of the Ming army in the city fell sharply. Seeing that the city wall was blown down, the People's Army's attack came so fiercely, with more than 10,000 people killed or injured. The remaining Ming army had no intention of fighting and threw down their weapons and surrendered.

The breaking of Wuzhou Prefecture City by the People's Army became a breakthrough point for the People's Army's armistice negotiations between the Ming court. Originally, the Ming court was anxious about the three Ming troops besieged by the People's Army. While thinking about resolutely as soon as possible, they did not want to give too much compensation to the People's Army.

Seeing that the People's Army had not captured the city for several months, the Ming court thought that the three Ming troops could hold on for a longer period of time, so that the Ming court would not have to pay much compensation to the People's Army.

Unexpectedly, a city was suddenly captured by the People's Army. When Song Yingchang received the news, he was shocked. This was not only a problem of the loss of a city, but the Ming court lost another 30,000 troops. The remaining two cities were also at risk of being captured by the People's Army. The Ming court was at a disadvantage at the negotiating table.

After Song Yingchang was captured, he did not accept the case. He received a letter from Wang Shengrong's army, which asked the Ming court to increase the compensation for the People's Army to three million taels of silver. In the letter, he warned Song Yingchang and the Ming court that there would be no need to discuss any further if the armistice negotiations were delayed.

Faced with the warning from the People's Army, Song Yingchang became anxious. While expressing his need to ask the court for instructions, he rushed to send the news that Wuzhou Prefecture City was captured by the People's Army to the capital for 800 miles.

A few days later, when the capital city learned that Wuzhou Prefecture had been broken and 30,000 Ming troops were eaten by the People's Army, Zhu Yijun in the court cursed in anger, scolding Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong Yongcai incompetent, scolding the officials who had governed Guangdong incompetent, and scolding them when they were tired. Zhu Yijun asked the ministers what to do.

What to do? Now there is only one way, which is to agree to the conditions of the People's Army, give the People's Army high compensation, and allow the two armies to formally cease the war, so that the two Ming troops besieged by the People's Army can survive.

A few months have passed, and the Ming court has been expanding its army. The new army has exceeded 100,000, but they are all new recruits and their combat effectiveness is very low. Sending them to the front line to fight with the People's Army is to die, and it will take longer to train. The two Ming troops, which are still besieged by the People's Army, are very important. Even if their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the People's Army, at least they are higher than the new recruits.

Zhu Yijun and the ministers discussed and finally gave Song Yingchang a decree, asking Song Yingchang to complete peace talks with the People's Army as soon as possible, rescue the two besieged Ming troops, and minimize the compensation to the People's Army.

It can be said that by now, Zhu Yijun has granted most of the negotiation power to Song Yingchang. As long as Song Yingchang fights for a slightly better condition, Zhu Yijun will almost be able to make up his mind to agree to the People's Army's ceasefire conditions.

After receiving the imperial edict, Song Yingchang also felt the urgency of the court and immediately held new negotiations with the People's Army.

The negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming court are still continuing. Cheng Xinyuan feels that the negotiations will be completed in at least two months. The New Year is coming, and Cheng Xinyuan misses his wife and children in Guangzhou City a little.

Cheng Xinyuan misses his wife and children, and Wang Shengrong also misses his wife and children. Compared with Cheng Xinyuan, Wang Shengrong has not met his wife and children for more than half a year. After the armistice negotiations are over, Wang Shengrong can only take a small vacation and go back to visit his wife and children.

In Guangzhou, the New Year atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. Last year, the people in the lower class of Guangzhou were very happy. During the Chinese New Year, their smiles were brighter. There were endless food at home. During the Chinese New Year, several good dishes could be added to the dinner table, and children even put on new clothes.

I don’t know how many ordinary people are praying secretly, hoping that the good days of today will last forever.
Chapter completed!