Two seals, two power classes, now Chen Zijian has money, food, and strength.

Meritorious volunteers can be easily promoted to change their fate.

Of course, power is not given casually, otherwise it will not be worth much, it is still the original rules, credit, and if you want to be on top, you will at least have convincing credit.

Promoted Zhou Hai, thinking it was casual? There were ten candidates for the captain of the navy, and each of them brought back more than 500,000 silver coins worth goods to Chen Zijian.

The volunteers blocked the sea, basically cut off the trade between the East and the West, and all the goods from the Jiangnan region to the South Seas fell into the hands of Chen Zijian.

Otherwise, it would not be easy for the ten candidates to take credit so quickly, and to clean up the pirates, that little bit can only be added to the head.

No matter when, looting is the fastest way to get money, of course, this requires skills, if you don't have enough confidence, it is easy to be wiped out.

The Volunteers relied on warships to bully merchant ships, which can be said to be easy, you must know that the current long-range weapons of merchant ships are nothing more than bows and arrows, melee combat or the use of cold weapons, such strength meets the Volunteers Navy assembled to the teeth, and the result is only two, either obediently captured, or captured after a burst of artillery bombardment.

Escape at sea, this is absolutely impossible.

Compared with the army recruits, who are still waiting for the opportunity to make merit, the navy can say that the chances of building merit are greatly improved.

Of course, because not everyone in the navy can do it, the chief needs to go through the assessment, at least there are no symptoms of seasickness, otherwise if there is seasickness after getting on the ship, he will have to waste manpower to take care of it, what kind of war is this.

There is one thing in Huaxia that there is no need to worry too much, that is, the problem of manpower, the navy needs manpower to transfer one hundred miles, then one in a thousand, the population of Zhangjiacheng has exceeded 900,000 people, and it is not a matter to select 10,000 navy from it.

In the office, after waiting for the others to go out, Chen Zijian opened a document that had just been delivered.

Chen Zijian is not a workaholic, the management work can be pushed to Zhang Youde to complete himself, he is too lazy to do it, there are some things that Zhang Youde can't get rid of, or things that Chen Zijian is particularly concerned about, will be sent to him.

If Zhang Youde hadn't been killed in advance, the matter of more than 900,000 people in Zhangjiacheng now would be enough to make Chen Zijian collapse.

Previously, Chen Zijian vigorously developed the initial industrial system, especially in steel.

In the steel industry, as long as there is investment, there will definitely be benefits.

In the past six months, Chen Zijian has cultivated a large number of talents in steel, especially a group of blacksmiths that the government was forced to send to Chen Zijian, so as to speed up the training of apprentices in the later stage.

A long time ago, Chen Zijian asked the people of the China Construction Road Construction Bureau to go from the iron ore in Shayuan Town to the railway in Zhangjiacheng, and the railway carrying capacity belongs to horsepower.

It is a train that uses ten horsepower to pull, because the use of horse-drawn trains saves Chen Zijian a lot of transportation costs.

You must know that iron ore mining and smelting, the weight of crude iron is not light, if it is transported by manpower, the transportation cost is to the sky, and the transportation cost is so high in the age of machinery.

Moreover, there is no river between Shayuan Town and Zhangjiacheng, so there is no way to rely on river transportation.

The content of the document, the locomotive imitated by the smelter in Shayuan Town has been completed, and the locomotive belongs to a steam-powered car with a horsepower output of twenty, which is simply not worth mentioning in Chen Zijian's later life.

The blacksmith imitated the locomotive, which came from the improved steam engine purchased by Chen Zijian, and through the imitation of dozens of blacksmiths, there was a Ming version of the steam engine.

As for the horsepower issue! If you want to greatly increase the horsepower, you need to solve the rubber raw materials, which is another difficulty, and Chen Zijian does not want to solve it through the space-time trading center.

Before the Chinese New Year, Chen Zijian sent a large fleet to Macao to warn the Portuguese that if they wanted to stay in Macao, they must hand over the rubber seeds and raw materials of the Americas to Zhangjiacheng within a year, otherwise they would level the stronghold of the Portuguese in Macao at any time.

The horsepower of the steam engine is a little smaller, and it is enough for the current demand.

The Shayuan Smelter is a place to imitate the steam engine, and this time I sent the documents over, explaining that the steam engine locomotive had been made, and Chen Zijian was invited to celebrate.

"Haha, I didn't expect those guys to be able to get me a steam engine so quickly, even if they didn't know much about words."

Chen Zijian has inspected that group of blacksmiths, all of whom are blacksmiths handed down from their ancestors, as for literacy, hehe, counting on the blacksmiths of the Ming Dynasty to be literate, is it possible, the craftsmen belong to the bottom of the Daming Dynasty, especially the craftsmen who make iron, and it is even more impossible to be literate.

But it was such a group of illiterate blacksmiths who helped Chen Zijian imitate the first usable steam engine in three months, which shows that there are many talented people in Huaxia.

After explaining the affairs of the military camp, Chen Zijian didn't need to keep an eye on it, but he was very concerned about the steam engine.

Soon, a fast horse set off and headed for Shayuan Town, dozens of miles away.

In Shayuan Town, because of a small iron mine, Chen Zijian invested a lot of human resources in mining.

Especially in the war, the bandits, bandits, pirates and other things captured by the volunteers went out to go out and threw their brains into the mining area to mine.

In addition to mining, the newly built smelter near the iron ore area, the steam engine imitation factory, Shayuan Town has grown from a town of less than 10,000 people to a town of more than 50,000 people today.

If the iron ore here is a big mine, maybe Chen Zijian will give more resources.

That night, Chen Zijian and his entourage rushed to Shayuan Town, and the mayor of the town came out with a group of people to greet them.

The mayor's surname is Pan, who has passed thirty, he used to be a tenant, and he belongs to one of the early to enter the volunteers, that is, the Minnie gun has not yet been equipped with the volunteers, and the external method is used in close combat, and the old Pan injured an arm in a siege and suppression of bandits.

Lao Pan can be the mayor of the town, in addition to merit, but also his own brain, in the volunteer study, Lao Pan belongs to the type of people with smart brains, and has reached the level of primary school graduation after studying for a month.

Although some people have not read since they were children, they can give them a little opportunity to learn like a sponge absorbing water, or these people are born with literary and opera stars, and they have not been discovered before.

Chen Zijian stopped, and someone stepped forward to lead the horse rope.

Pan Ji led people to hurriedly lead people forward, and in Shayuan Town, Pan Ji belonged to the highest official position.

"Hello Chief!"

Seeing Lao Pan in front of him saluting with his remaining left hand, he looked a little different in the group, and Chen Zijian would not have any dislike for his loyal brothers.

"Haha, you're not in the army anymore, so you don't need to give me this set, how did you learn the book you gave you last time."

Pan Ji followed behind Chen Zijian, "Thank you for your concern, my subordinates have learned almost." ”

"Well, that's good, I've heard that the iron ore here is already difficult to mine, so I'll use you in a more important place when the time comes."

This is the condition for Pan Ji to promise promotion, it is rare to be a talent, Chen Zijian does not have many people under him who can be used, and if he finds one, he will definitely not be buried.

Pan Ji was happy in his heart, "Chief Xie, the sky has come down, please rest tonight, the smelter will conduct an experiment tomorrow." ”

Pan Ji, who is an official here, has long known the movement of the steam engine factory, and has seen the huge steel monster walking on the railroad tracks without any traction.

This time, the prime minister came over in person, and he naturally knew what the reason was.

In this era, game meat has never been a problem, Lao Pan heard Chen Zijian's arrival, asked people to prepare meals early, and after dinner, Chen Zijian entered the cleaned room.

"Uh, who are you?"

At night, as the chief, there is never a shortage of materials, dozens of candles are lit, and the whole room can be seen very clearly.

Two women in tulle stood beside the bed, their figures were graceful, and through the thin veil, Chen Zijian could see the two soft parts of the woman.

"My lord, the little girl is here to wait for you."

After speaking, his face turned crimson, and he secretly glanced up at Chen Zijian, and quickly lowered his head.

"Get out!"

Chen Zijian faced the woman, although he was moved, but he had no intention of starting, according to Chen Zijian's character, if he wanted the innocence of these two women, he would naturally take it home.

Now there are enough women in the family, and if you go out, you will take a few women back, and then the No. 1 courtyard will be filled with women.

And Chen Zijian has not reached the point where he can't walk when he sees a woman, the wife at home is enough for him to toss, except for the kind of woman who falls in love at first sight outside, otherwise Chen Zijian will not mess around.

"Your Excellency!"

Hearing that Chen Zijian asked them to go out, he thought that something made Chen Zijian angry, so frightened that the two girls lost their faces, and immediately knelt on the ground and trembled.

Chen Zijian was speechless, when was he so scary, two immature girls were so frightened that they knelt down.

This is Chen Zijian's ignorance of the situation, and in his opinion, it is an ordinary thing, which is to let the two girls out.

But in the eyes of the two girls, if they made the adult angry, it would be a capital crime, and they might be beaten to death when they went out.

This is the natural divide between the two sides.

"My lord, please don't let us go. Otherwise, the little girl will be punished. ”

Chen Zijian: "There is a bed over there, you can go there to rest." ”

There was another small bed in the room, and Chen Zijian had to compromise on the method.

Leaving two strange women in the room, Chen Zijian was not afraid of danger, if the two women were assassins, Chen Zijian might die.

Chen Zijian dared to leave two people, of course, he has his confidence, for this period of time, maybe as the leader, Chen Zijian has a premonition about the people around him, that is, the kind of premonition about whether it is harmful to him.

If the two girls in the room belonged to dangerous elements, Chen Zijian would not bother to talk nonsense at all, and would have taken action to kill the two of them.

That is, perceiving that the two girls were harmless, Chen Zijian was relieved to keep them.

Otherwise, according to Chen Zijian's character of being afraid of death, he would put himself in danger there.

Chen Zijian lay on the bed and quickly fell asleep.

The two women saw that Chen Zijian really didn't mean to move them, and they didn't look angry, the two slept on the bed next to them, as for going out, they didn't have this mind. I want to talk about "The Thief at the End of the Ming Dynasty" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~