Under the discussion of Fang Nan and a group of students, one plan after another was decided, and the People's Chamber of Commerce acted the fastest, and the president Xu Yongning spread the news of opening cement technology to allow the construction of cement plants in the newly occupied areas, which immediately attracted the attention of a large number of businessmen, even those who already had cement factories, and they wanted to build more cement plants.

Before the cement factory has been serving the People's Army, the businessmen in the cement business income is only 10% at most, and the glass business is far from comparable, and the other business of the businessmen is also worse, the businessmen are willing to invest in the construction of the cement factory The main purpose is to be the "imperial businessman", followed by the feeling that the cement business has potential, this potential is no longer on the People's Army, but on the people under the rule of the People's Army.

As the merchants expanded the size of the cement plant, the People's Army bought most of the cement produced by the cement plant, leaving a small amount of cement for sale, attracting many people to buy it.

The people who buy cement will certainly not be the people at the bottom, although their income has increased in recent years and they have a little savings, but cement is not a necessity, there is no need to use cement to build houses, plaster the ground, and plaster cement roads.

The people who buy cement are mainly middle- and upper-income families in the KPA-ruled areas, and they have enough money to buy cement, plaster the floor of their houses with a layer of cement or plaster cement roads in their homes, and the smooth concrete floor is much stronger than the "earth" floor.

The cement sold by the businessmen cannot be so low as the cement sold to the people's army, and the profit of the cement sold to the outside world can reach more than 20%, which is already good, and in the view of the businessmen, with the increase in the income of the people, more people will buy cement, and the cement business has unlimited potential.

However, the KPA has restrictions on the cement business, and the establishment of new cement plants must be approved by the KPA, but there are no restrictions on the expansion of cement plants.

No matter how much a cement plant expands its scale, there are limitations, the most important thing is that the consumption capacity of the area around the cement plant is limited, and it is not possible to sell too much cement, and it is the best choice to build a new cement plant in other regions, but it is not possible to build a cement plant casually, and the cement business will be abandoned if the merchants compete with each other, and the People's Army will control the number of cement plants for the good of the merchants.

Now that the territory of the People's Army has expanded several times, it is inevitable that it will need to use a large amount of cement to build roads and water conservancy facilities like Guangdong before, and many businessmen are already waiting for the notice of the People's Army.

It's just that this time the notice of the People's Army surprised the businessmen, and the notice showed that as long as you prepare 3,000 yuan of equal coins, you can get the qualification for registration, and the specific situation will wait for the People's Army to review and determine the final qualifications.

3,000 yuan of equal coins is an astronomical amount for ordinary people, but for some businessmen, 3,000 yuan of equal coins can still be taken out, and businessmen who learned the news went to the People's Chamber of Commerce to sign up.

Not only the businessmen of Guangzhou City, but also the businessmen of Guangdong outside Guangzhou City can participate in it, and businessmen from all over the world can sign up at the branch of the People's Chamber of Commerce in the city.

The cement plant project continued, and other plans made by Fang Nan and the students were also underway, but a few days later, an incident from the north made Fang Nan feel very inexplicable.

"Let the People's Army cease fighting at the cost of giving me the title of king? Interesting, interesting. ”

In the office, Fang Nan looked at the letter sent back by Cheng Xinyuan, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

Fang Nan knew that only the descendants of the old Zhu family could be crowned kings in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no different surname to be crowned king, and now he actually wanted to give him this "anti-thief" king, which was a great shame for the Ming Court, but the Ming Court did this, which shows how bad the current situation of the Ming Court is.

Feng Wang, Fang Nan will definitely not accept it, once Fang Nan becomes the king of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is just a name, what does this make the People's Army think, and what does the people under the rule of the People's Army think.

The strength of the People's Army is already so strong that it can even push the Ming Dynasty to unify the world, it is already the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to accept the title of king.

Of course, Fang Nan also understood that the Ming court gave him the title of king in order to stop the war, in order to delay time, the armistice must be stopped, and Fang Nan did not want the people's army to continue to fight, affecting the farming of the common people in the Ming ruling area, if millions of people starved to death because of the war, it would be Fang Nan's sin.

However, it could not be seen that the Ming Court wanted a truce from the People's Army, but that the Ming Court paid a huge price to let the People's Army cease the war, which depended on the efforts of Cheng Xinyuan, who was in charge of negotiations on the front line.

Almost around the same time, Wang Shengrong, who was in Jiangxi, also received a letter, which was not from other members of the People's Army or Wang Shengrong's relatives, but from Wei Linhan, the minister in charge of negotiations in the Ming court.

Wei Linhan praised Wang Shengrong in his letter, and then wrote that he asked Wang Shengrong to help the Ming court and the People's Army to cease war, and the Ming court could crown Wang Shengrong as the king, and the fief was the whole of Jiangxi.

Looking at the letter, Wang Shengrong smiled, without thinking about it, he knew that this was a ploy by the Ming court to divide the people's army, maybe Xiong Jian, He Yan, and Yan Han would all receive similar letters, and the Ming court was not afraid that the people's army would continue to break out into a big war because of this matter.

Wang Shengrong has never worried that the People's Army will be divided internally, and there is a relationship between the top leaders of the People's Army between teachers and students, and classmates, which is much closer than the relationship between monarchs and ministers, if it is not for the age gap, the relationship between teachers and students can almost be similar to the relationship between father and son.

Wang Shengrong took out a pen and paper and wrote two letters, preparing to tell Cheng Xinyuan and the teacher about the "king".

In Jiande County, the capital of Chizhou, Wei Linhan, the minister of the Ming court, who was in charge of negotiating with the People's Army, had been anxiously waiting since four days ago, and four days ago Wei Linhan had hoped that the People's Army would be able to cease war with the Ming court at the price of "sealing the king".

From the very beginning of the armistice negotiations, Wei Linhan has always fallen into the disadvantage, after all, now the Ming court does not want to fight, and it can't beat the People's Army.

Wei Linhan asked Cheng Xinyuan what conditions the People's Army had to cease fighting, but Cheng Xinyuan did not offer conditions, but asked the Ming court to "bid" first, and continue to fight if it was not suitable.

According to the negotiation a few years ago, Wei Linhan first offered two million taels of silver as a price, hoping that the People's Army would cease fighting, but Cheng Xinyuan directly refused with a sentence of "not enough".

Two million taels of silver was not enough, Wei Linhan was careful to increase the price, but he didn't dare to add too much, the treasury of the Ming court was becoming more and more empty, and he couldn't give much silver taels to the people's army.

But Cheng Xinyuan was very dissatisfied with Wei Linhan's price increase, and became more and more impatient, and said directly: "If this is the case again, we don't need to talk about it." ”

Cheng Xinyuan's words made Wei Linhan very angry, but he was helpless, just when Wei Linhan was thinking about taking out the biggest price that the Ming court could pay, the emperor's secret decree arrived, and the secret decree said that the "king" could be used as the price to let the People's Army cease fighting.