1683. After ten years of drinking ice, it is difficult to cool the hot blood.
Beitangkou Industrial Zone, there are now thousands of companies here, doing everything.
From logistics to canneries, there are many types.
At the beginning, the soldiers in the Beijing camp listened to Yang Fan's advice. If there was a problem with their identity, it was better to quit. They followed the advice and used the money they earned in the northwest to jointly set up a factory and recruit some refugees as workers.
These factories include spinning mills, nail factories, paint factories, metal processing factories, metal tool factories, agricultural tool factories... There are so many types. But the most common ones are food factories. Because of the large number of fishing boats launching and trawling in the open sea.
The huge catch of fishing boats has led to the need for a large number of food factories to canned fish.
It is difficult to keep marine fish fresh, so you must start processing it as soon as you get off the boat.
Therefore, there are more than 300 fish and meat canning factories here. The equipment is bought from Xincheng, and the formula is sold by Yang Fan. The tinplate is bought from Xinghe Iron and Steel Tinplate Factory. The spices are bought from Xinghe Nanyang Spice Company.
In the north of the Ming Dynasty, there is now widespread hunger, and food is the best commodity.
In the years of severe disasters for several consecutive years, the fields yielded no harvest and even the seeds were wasted.
Many rich people cannot buy food with money. Only rural landowners with land can have a surplus of food. In this era, materials are very scarce. Even rural landowners rarely eat meat in a year. But things are different now.
In the past two years, a strange phenomenon has appeared on the market in Ming Dynasty, that is, meat is cheaper than rice. This meat is canned sea fish and various seafood.
Rice in North Zhili has risen to five taels of silver per load. But a 50-kilogram bucket of braised sea fish only costs two taels of silver. This kind of upside down was unimaginable before. It was because of the large number of trawlers equipped with steam engines.
Get into the water.
Yang Fan knew clearly that there was a fish flood in China's offshore waters. He didn't even need sonar. As long as the time came, he would organize a fleet of fishing boats to catch fish. As long as the size of the mesh was controlled, a large number of fish would be caught every year. Compared with modern China every year
The fishing volume of tens of millions of tons, in this era, ranging from hundreds of thousands of tons to millions of tons, has no impact on the ocean at all.
Therefore, under the strong demand of the market, canneries sprouted everywhere. And this kind of fried sea fish had no worries about selling. Whether it was meat or oil, it was an urgent need of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
In the conference room of Longsheng Logistics, shareholders such as Ma Xiaoping and Zhao Yongtang are holding a meeting. More than fifty low-level officers and veterans from the Beijing camp retired and started this company. In the past two years, they have established a foothold in Beizhili.
, on track.
No matter how many things are produced in the industrial zones of Tanggu and Beitang, raw materials need to be transported in and products shipped out. The largest material transportation here is two white and one black. The white ones are rice and cotton yarn, and the black ones are coal.
Dingyuanbo has millions of acres of paddy fields, which will continue to expand in the future.
Because the reservoir was filled with water, Yang Fan began to frantically buy land downstream. He annexed land on a large scale and then transformed it into paddy fields. He then recruited refugees to farm. This even caused the land price to double.
There are two kinds of Yang Fan's rice, one is grown in Shuntian Prefecture, and the other is Northeast rice from the Suifen River Basin. The prices are also different. Northeast rice is more expensive. But because it is delicious, even the southern gentry likes to eat it.
Longsheng Logistics not only set up a fleet of horse-drawn carriages, but also bought three large ships to run the route from Beitangkou to Nanjing. Now Longsheng Logistics has a staff of 3,000 people.
"Everyone knows the news of Marquis Dingyuan's return. This is the notice sent by Marquis Dingyuan to recruit militia. Let's take a look at it. Let's discuss whether we should respond." Ma Xiaoping, as the largest shareholder and chairman, took the lead in saying.
This is the reason why we have been called together for this meeting.
"What's there to discuss? Now that the commander is back, how can he tolerate the raging slaves? I've long wanted to deal with these bastards."
"During this period, the employees below were very excited. The creation of slaves was so hateful, and it caused so much harm to Beizhili, which was already beginning to prosper. If we hadn't suppressed them, someone would have organized volunteers to fight them.
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Ma Xiaoping was very happy. He actually wanted to fight, but he didn't have enough strength. Now that Marquis Dingyuan is back, they immediately have a backbone. So what are they afraid of!
At this time, various factories are full of people who have prepared their own weapons and armor. Some of these people are bosses, some are workers, and some are managers, but they all have a common identity. They are former officers and soldiers of the Beijing Camp.
They fought bloody battles, defeated Mongolia in Southern Mongolia, and defeated Mongolia in Mongolia. Although they have been retired for two years, their hearts are still filled with blood. The education they received in the army gave them a clear understanding of the rise and fall of the country.
shared responsibility.
What Yang Fan didn't expect was that a large number of former Beijing Camp officers and soldiers came from all directions. In just three days, more than 15,000 people gathered. Later, more than 3,000 people came.
Yang Fan personally greeted them at the main campus. When these former Beijing camp officers and soldiers saw their commander-in-chief, their eyes were red. Yang Fan shook hands one by one and called them by name if he knew them.
They were so excited that the commander still remembered them.
Yang Fan organized these veterans according to their original duties and personal abilities. They distributed weapons and armor and unified them into five infantry regiments. They simply made flags and drums. After the pirates from Mo table arrived, they integrated all the troops.
There are already more than 30,000 people.
Among them are 18,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and 1,500 tanks and armored vehicle brigades. The remaining 500 people are the guard battalion.
Seven days later, Yang Fan took the oath of surrender at the Beitangkou Campus, assembled his army and officially marched towards the capital.
An armored train slowly drove out of the platform.
This train has two locomotives at the front and rear, which are very powerful. At the front is an armored car equipped with a six-barreled 30mm caliber machine gun. At the back is an artillery car equipped with a gas tank mortar. Then there is the steam locomotive.
Behind are water trucks and coal trucks. In the middle is a two-story VIP car, which is taller than an ordinary passenger car.
But it doesn't matter. There are only bridges on this road, not tunnels. It can be passed at higher altitudes. Behind are three passenger cars. Inside are people from the pro-barracks. There are dining cars and supply trucks at the back. There is also a steam locomotive at the rear.
, plus a cannon carriage at the rear.
Behind this train, there are two more trains pulling the army's baggage, following behind. The army can be supplied with what it needs anytime and anywhere.
Yang Fan and his family checked into the VIP car. Then the train began to move slowly. On the roads on both sides of the railway line, fifteen tanks and more than a hundred armored vehicles also drove on both sides. Smoke and dust billowed on the road for a while.
Yang Fan sat on the ground on the second floor of the VIP car. The height of this floor was only 1.8 meters, which was relatively low, but the floor was laid, so you could sit on the ground. A map of the situation in the Beijing-Tianjin area was spread out on the ground.
The pencil in Yang Fan's hand marked the distribution map of the Qing army, and finally stopped at Tianjin Acropolis.
"Tomorrow we will go to Tianjin Acropolis. We will capture it first, and then we will talk about marching into the capital. After capturing Tianjin, we can look for an opportunity to have a decisive battle with the main force of establishing slaves."
