Since Feng Bao had already planned to form an alliance with Yang Cong, he naturally would not care about Yang Cong's mining anymore. The next day he issued the mining documents, and then began to review the Four Books and Five Classics. He went to ask Yang Cong from time to time, just like he was here to study.

With this convenience, Yang Cong naturally quickly gathered people, worked hard to mine and smel, and prepared to do something big.

Now that there is a copper mine, the manpower is seriously insufficient, because the stall he shops is a bit too big. Not only did he prepare to mass-produce muskets and cannons, catapults, fire dragon chariots, sky thunder, hand crossbows, caltrops and other weapons and equipment, he also did not intend to stop, because he knew that it was unlikely to counterattack the Tartars within at least three or four years, and the defenses of each border town cannot be left behind during this period. If the Tartars take advantage of this time, it would be troublesome.

The production of weapons and equipment such as catapults, fire dragon chariots, sky thunder, hand crossbows, and caltrops has consumed almost all the idle labor in Xuanhua Fucheng. In addition, the mining of iron ore, coal mines and copper mines has almost lost all the military households in Xuanhua Fucheng. What should I do?

If you want to achieve the production of muskets and artillery, you need not a little manpower. Moreover, the production of weapons and equipment must be considered for safety and confidentiality. It is definitely not possible to disperse it to other cities. In other words, people must be recruited to Xuanhua Prefecture City to organize production, and they must be all military families.

It is not difficult to recruit people. He is the governor. With a command, everyone below will command the commander. Qianhu and others will definitely try their best to help him recruit people. Moreover, he recruits people to work for nothing. He has a salary, and the salary is not low. I believe no one is unwilling to come.

The main problem now is that although Xuanhua Prefecture City is large, it cannot accommodate too many foreign populations, because most of the prefecture cities are low bungalows, and they are built in a sparse and messy manner, so there are not many people living in them.

It is actually very simple to solve this problem, that is, re-plan the city, knock down the original bungalow, and rebuild a townhouse or courtyard that can accommodate many people.

If someone else was a governor, I would probably not dare to make this idea, because it would be too expensive to rebuild a city covering an area of ​​nearly 20,000 acres. It would cost too much money. It would not be a few hundred thousand taels. Don't even think about it. How could ordinary people get so much money? Even a governor can't do it.

Yang Cong is different because his family was originally rich, and now his family monopolized nearly 20% of the salt industry business in the Ming Dynasty. After several competitions, most of the salt industry business was controlled by people from his group. The additional expenditure from the salt distribution to the salt exchange was equivalent to saving, and the profit in the middle was simply unimaginable.

In just over half a year, the Yang family has made more than one million taels of profit from the salt industry business, which does not include the more than 600,000 taels of capital prepared by the Yang family. At this moment, he spent less than 400,000 taels, which means that it is not a problem for him to transfer more than one million taels of funds.

In exchange for salt induction, which originally included the border army's weapons and equipment, Yang Cong would not be stingy with this little silver. After the Chicheng copper mine began to be mined, he summoned his civil servants and generals to start assigning tasks. This time, he even recruited military officers from the Tunwei Group, including Wang Fuchen, commander of the Wanquandusi. It can be said that this is also the largest meeting since he entered Xuanfu Town.

At around the morning of the morning, the newly changed government-made civil servants and military generals in Xuanfu Town gathered together. Thirty or forty people gathered in the spacious lobby. Governor Yang Conggao sat on it, slowly glanced around, and then said majestic: "Everyone, according to reliable information, Ji Nang has led the main force of the Tatar to return to Hetao, which means that the Tatars are unlikely to invade this year."

When everyone heard this, they all showed joy. Although they were not afraid of the Tartar cavalry, Yang Cong had just taken office and Xuanfu Town was in chaos. It was the time to vigorously produce weapons and equipment and improve combat power. If the Tartar cavalry came to harass them, they could only respond hastily. Who knows if there would be any problem? It is naturally the best that the Tartar cavalry could not come.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong said seriously: "Although the Tartar cavalry will not come again this year, we cannot relax. This time, I will not only resist the invasion of the Tartar cavalry and defend Xuanfu Town. I have another more important task, which is to change the 60,000 elite troops in the northwest town as soon as possible, and then completely eliminate the Tartar cavalry or drive them out of the frontier."

If Yang Cong said this before, although the civil servants and military generals below would not refute on the surface, they would definitely be a little disdainful in their hearts. They would make a joke, completely destroy the Tartar cavalry or drive them out of the frontier. It has been so many years since we have never seen anyone drive the Tartar cavalry out of the frontier. As for completely destroying the Tartar cavalry, let alone completely eliminate the Tartar cavalry. It would be good if they were not beaten by the Tartar cavalry.

However, after the Pantry and Fort Battle, everyone's ideas changed. They all knew that this governor was not bragging, and they also realized the power of gunpowder weapons. Perhaps, as long as they could produce enough weapons and equipment, they could really completely eliminate the Tartar cavalry or drive them out of the frontier.

Yang Cong slowly glanced around again, then continued: "We have iron ore, copper ore and coal mines, and new muskets have been developed. Now, the only thing we lack is labor, a large amount of labor, and the equipment of the 60,000 elite border troops is not a little bit. If we want to make it in the short term, we can only organize a large amount of labor and increase the output."

When everyone heard this, they were stunned. They were still short of labor. The labor force in Xuanhua Plant and mining areas was almost tens of thousands. How much labor force does the governor want to organize!

Yang Cong was too lazy to talk too much, so he directly ordered: "Wang Fuchen, within one month, he will gather 10,000 more powerful laborers to gather in Xuanhua Prefecture City. Remember, it must be the family members of the Tunwei military households, and there must be no problems with loyalty."

Wang Fuchen was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "Sir, obey the order."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong ordered: "Li Fengming, within one month, all the residents in the northeast and northwest of Xuanhua Prefecture City will be moved away. How much money will you estimate today. In short, half of the area north of the Prefecture City will be vacant."

He fainted. This governor was very rich. In order to produce weapons and equipment for the border army, he actually confiscated half of the land in the city, and he paid for it himself!

Governor can definitely take out the money, so there is no doubt about this. Li Fengming hurriedly bowed and said, "I will obey the order."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong ordered: "Wang Xuan, Tang Shunzhi, Zhao Shichun, Xue Nantang, Li Du, you plan to transform the north of the city into a large military factory, and workshops that produce weapons and equipment such as sky thunder, muskets, cannons, fire dragon chariots, etc. are arranged in the middle, and all the outer edges are built into a tradable bungalow where workers live. You must draw the planning sketch within five days."

Wang Xuan and other officials quickly bowed and said, "Sir, obey the order."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong ordered: "Zhu Xizhong, Qi Jingtong, and Tang Kekuan, I will order you to lead 10,000 elite border troops and 10,000 elite guards to prepare construction materials from now on, and start building a new military factory in five days, and practice will be temporarily stopped."

Zhu Xizhong, Qi Jingtong and Tang Kekuan heard this and quickly bowed, "I will obey the order."
Chapter completed!