【It turns out that it has been 500,000 words】

"I wish we were the People's Army."

"I would have liked it if we lived there."

Listening to Zeng Xiong's words, people gradually developed a yearning for the People's Army. However, every time Zeng Xiong would seriously remind them not to say these words when there were outsiders. Once they were reported, if they were seriously reported, they would be beheaded or even implicated their family.

Zeng Xiong not only described the beauty of the People's Army, but also often talked about the strength of the People's Army. The Ming court sent a large army to attack the People's Army several times, but was defeated by the People's Army and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops died.

Zeng Xiong's description made his subordinates very afraid that the Ming court would go to war with the People's Army again. Once the war started, they belonged to the front line and were likely to die on the battlefield. No one of them had more than half of their lives, and no one wanted to die so soon.

In fact, at this time, Zeng Xiong had already begun to pull his subordinates into the People's Army. However, Zeng Xiong did not try it. People's hearts were fickle. Once someone betrayed Zeng Xiong, Zeng Xiong's fate would be death, so Zeng Xiong was still waiting.

Zeng Xiong's goal was not only his subordinates, but also tried to communicate with other Ming army leaders and guide these leaders through words. Zeng Xiong was also working hard to make contributions and gained a higher status in the Ming army. At that time, Zeng Xiong could influence more Ming army.

In the Ming army, hundreds of Zeng Xiong were working hard. They were basically single-line contacts. Once someone betrayed, it would not affect more people.

With their efforts, more Ming army will be on the people's army, waiting for the final outbreak!

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In Foshan, Guangdong, another new factory appeared, with its full name called Foshan Machinery Factory, and Wang Dachui also served as the director of the machinery factory.

The birth of the machinery factory is naturally closely related to the Steam Engine Research Institute. The Tang Beiwang Dahui project team had previously studied the construction of the first practical steam engine. Two months have passed, and the project team continued to study the steam engine to determine the life of the steam engine. Now this steam engine can be mass-produced.

In order to produce steam engines, Foshan Machinery Factory was found. However, the scale of the machinery factory in the early stage was not too large. There are two main reasons. One is that the current steam engines can be produced are too few and are mainly used for mining water pumping, and the other is that there are fewer craftsmen who can be transferred to build steam engines.

Steam engines are not so easy to build, especially the airtightness of the steam engine. From time to time, craftsmen with superb skills are prone to problems.

However, the craftsmen with superb skills under the People's Army were mainly concentrated in Foshan Arsenal to build various firearms for the People's Army.

Compared with steam engines, firearms are obviously more important. The steam engine plan can be launched later, but firearm production cannot slow down. The Ming court was the enemy of the People's Army, and one of the two sides can only survive.

The Ming court is expanding its army wildly, but the People's Army's strength cannot increase too much. If you want to improve the strength of the People's Army, you can only equip a large number of firearms.

In this case, it is impossible for the machinery factory to obtain many skilled craftsmen. Fortunately, the machinery factory has just begun. The People's Army does not need many steam engines, and everything can be taken slowly. The number of "old" craftsmen in the machinery factory is limited, but there are more young craftsmen to learn apprentices, several times more than the old craftsmen.

A craftsman led several apprentices, and several years passed, and these apprentices were able to use as their skills improved. At that time, the machinery factory would also expand its scale due to new steam engines.

This is actually one of the reasons why the People's Army will not expand its army with all its might.

The People's Army has a population of less than 10 million. If it strives to expand its troops, it can even form an army of up to one million.

However, if an army of millions is really formed, it will definitely have a huge impact on the production and life under the rule of the People's Army.

The young and strong have joined the army, and the farmland can be cultivated by the elderly, children, and women. The factories built are found to find workers, and the craftsmen cannot accept apprentices.

The People's Army in this situation is very fragile. Unless it can quickly destroy the Ming court, the People's Army will collapse within it. If it encounters an irresistible natural disaster, it will collapse faster.

Restrict the growth of the People's Army's military strength and send young and strong people to other places where they are needed. Although the military strength is relatively slow, the strength of the People's Army in other aspects will be rapidly improved.

Of course, the most important thing is the strength of the Ming court. If the Ming court is very strong, Fang Nan must have to do his best to develop military affairs. If the Ming court is average, the People's Army can distract some of its energy to develop other things.

Foshan Machinery Factory has started construction and is building a Type A steam engine and a supporting water lifting pump at a slower speed.

The first A-type steam engine produced by Foshan Machinery Factory was still built by the Tang Beiwang Dahui project team. The other craftsmen and craftsmen apprentices who were transferred from the side were learning, and it was their turn to get started soon.

In the process of building the A-type steam engine, the Tang Beiwang Dahui project team also needs to improve the A-type steam engine. Perhaps there will be A-type steam engine, A-type steam engine, etc. in the future.

Because of Fang Nan's guidance, the researchers of the Tang Beiwang Dahui project team attached a relatively average importance to the Type A steam engine. They attached more importance to the Type B steam engine on the drawings. Compared with the Type A steam engine that can only be used for water pumping, the Type B steam engine that can be widely used is the project team's biggest goal.

However, the project team only studied the Type A steam engine for a short time. It is impossible to succeed in a short period of time if it is more difficult to build a Type B steam engine.

Fang Nan has been paying attention to the Tang Bei Wang Dahui project team, and he will go over and take a look every month. The project team will write down the planning progress every ten days and report it to Fang Nan.

The type A steam engine is a vacuum steam engine, and the type B steam engine uses high temperature and high pressure steam to bring huge improvements to the efficiency of the steam engine, which also makes the type B steam engine much more dangerous than the type A steam engine, and it is easy to cause major accidents such as casualties and injuries due to boilers and machines explosions.

There are also solutions to this problem, such as improving the safety valve. When the pressure is too high, the safety valve will be deflated and decompressed, so that the boiler will not explode due to high pressure.

Fang Nan is looking forward to the birth of the Type B steam engine. He is a human being for two lives. The comfortable and convenient modern life makes Fang Nan miss it very much. He wants to develop the living environment towards modern times. This is a long road, but Fang Nan can speed up the speed of traveling on this road.

As long as the Type B steam engine is born, the next train and steam ship will be not far away. The south travels between Guangzhou and Foshan, and can also go from riding a horse to riding a train. Obviously, riding a train is much more comfortable than riding a horse, and the speed is faster.

With various steam-powered machinery, the productivity has greatly increased with the same number of people. More products are produced, the production costs are reduced, and the goods are cheaper, so ordinary people can afford it.

Fang Nan hopes that this day will arrive earlier. If the People's Army had not been able to do without him, Fang Nan would probably have led the researchers to climb the scientific and technological tree.
Chapter completed!