Agriculture and commerce are followed by industrial development, in fact, both commercial and industrial development depend on agriculture, and when agriculture develops, the common people have money, and commerce and industry will develop with it.

For example, the glass factory outside Guangzhou, the glass factory has been able to produce small mirrors, if the People's Chamber of Commerce launches this commodity, the people who can buy mirrors are basically only middle and upper class people, and the sales are very small, and the people at the bottom who have just accumulated a little wealth will not spend money to buy mirrors, even if the mirrors are very cheap.

This time, the mirror product will not be on the market until the second half of next year, but the glass factory has already produced some mirrors in small batches and sent them to the People's Army for some family experience.

Commercial development is good to say, at least with the participation of those businessmen, industrial development can basically only be carried out by the People's Army itself.

Industry, especially heavy industry, represents the strength of the People's Army, and the Foshan Arsenal, one of the heavy industries, continuously produces muskets, artillery, and grenades and equips them to the People's Army, and the combat effectiveness of the People's Army has been greatly improved.

It can be said that with the development of heavy industry, the strength of the People's Army will also increase.

The Qiongzhou Mansion has been captured by the People's Army, and the Ministry of Industry is dispatching technicians to the Qiongzhou Mansion, and the first batch of 1,000 coolies is already on the way.

The coolies have made a significant contribution to the development of the People's Army, and they will continue to make more contributions to the People's Army, and when they arrive in Qiongzhou, they will start to build roads for the People's Army, and after repairing the roads to the iron and coal mines, they will also dig and build steel plants.

I don't know how many coolies will die of exhaustion or accidents, but no one cares about the death or injury of coolies, after all, coolies are guilty people, and it is very good that the People's Army can feed the coolies.

Mining Shilu iron ore and establishing the "Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant" is a very important plan of the People's Army in industrial development, and the plan is that the Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant will officially open its furnace for ironmaking in a year and a half at most.

Qiongzhou Iron and Steel Plant is an important project, Foshan Arsenal to increase hydraulic machine tools is an important project, and the research and development of steam engines is also an important project, and each project is being carried out in an orderly manner.

Under the leadership of the People's Army, everything in Guangdong is developing in an orderly manner, there are almost no bandits and bandits, the businessmen do not dare to hoard and live strangely, there are no landlords who oppress tenants, and there are no magnates who bully the common people.

The armistice negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming Court continued, but the situation was getting worse and worse for the Ming Court.

On the morning of the seventh day of December, with a loud bang, a section of the eastern city wall of Wuzhou City, which was besieged by He Yan's Third Group Army, was blown down, and the first troops and grenadier troops cooperated with each other to rush into the city, and after half a day of fierce fighting, the Third Group Army successfully captured Wuzhou City, killing more than 10,000 enemies, capturing nearly 20,000 enemies, and the People's Army suffered less than 4,000 casualties, a great victory!

It turned out that after He Yan's Third Army besieged Wuzhou City, he sent people to dig tunnels in the distance, preparing to go directly to the city wall of Wuzhou City, and finally the city wall was blown down a section.

The People's Army besieged the capital city of Wuzhou for several months, the morale of the Ming army in the city plummeted, seeing that the city wall was blown down, and the attack of the People's Army came so fiercely, more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded, and the remaining Ming army had no idea of fighting, and they threw down their weapons and surrendered.

The capital city of Wuzhou was broken by the People's Army and became a breaking point in the armistice negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming Court, and the Ming Court was originally anxious about the three Ming troops besieged by the People's Army, thinking about lifting the siege as soon as possible, but on the other hand, they did not want to give the People's Army too much compensation.

Seeing that the People's Army had not captured the city for several months, the Ming court thought that the three Ming armies could hold out for a longer time, so that the Ming court would not have to pay much compensation to the People's Army.

Unexpectedly, a city was suddenly broken by the People's Army, and Song Yingchang was shocked when he got the news, this is not only a matter of the fall of a city, the Ming Court lost another 30,000 troops, and the remaining two cities were also in danger of being broken by the People's Army, and the Ming Court fell into disadvantage at the negotiation table.

Not long after Song Yingchang received the breach of Wuzhou's capital city, he received a letter from Wang Shengrongjun, in which he demanded that the Ming court's compensation for the People's Army be increased to three million taels of silver, and warned Song Yingchang and the Ming court in the letter that there would be no need to negotiate the armistice negotiations if they dragged on.

In the face of the warning from the People's Army, Song Yingchang became anxious, and while expressing to the People's Army that he needed to consult the imperial court, he hurriedly sent the news that the capital of Wuzhou was broken by the People's Army to the capital for 800 miles.

A few days later, in the capital, after learning that the capital of Wuzhou had been breached and the 30,000 Ming army had been eaten by the People's Army, Zhu Yijun in the court angrily scolded, scolding Song Yingchang and Mei Yousong for being incompetent, and scolding the officials who had governed Guangdong for being incompetent.

What to do? Now there is only one way, that is, to agree to the conditions of the KPA, to give the KPA a high amount of compensation, so that the two armies can formally cease fighting, and only then can the two Ming armies besieged by the KPA survive.

A few months have passed, the Ming court has been expanding the army, the new army has exceeded 100,000, but they are all new soldiers, the combat effectiveness is very low, sent to the front line to fight with the people's army is to send to death, it will take longer to train, the two Ming troops who are still besieged by the people's army are very important, even if their combat effectiveness is not as good as the people's army, at least higher than the combat effectiveness of the recruits.

Zhu Yijun discussed with the ministers, and finally gave Song Yingchang a will, asking Song Yingchang to complete peace talks with the People's Army as soon as possible, rescue the two besieged Ming armies, and reduce the compensation to the People's Army as much as possible.

It can be said that by now, Zhu Yijun has delegated most of the power to negotiate to Song Yingchang, and as long as Song Yingchang strives for a slightly better condition, Zhu Yijun will almost be able to make up his mind to agree to the armistice conditions of the People's Army.

After receiving the decree, Song Yingchang also sensed the urgency of the imperial court and immediately entered into new negotiations with the People's Army.

The negotiations between the People's Army and the Ming Court are still continuing, and Cheng Xinyuan feels that the negotiations will be completed in two months at most, and the New Year is coming, and Cheng Xinyuan misses his wife and children in Guangzhou City a little.

Cheng Xinyuan misses his wife and children, Wang Shengrong also misses his wife and children, compared with Cheng Xinyuan, Wang Shengrong has not seen his wife and children for more than half a year, and when the armistice negotiations are over, Wang Shengrong can take a small vacation and go back to visit his wife and children.

In the city of Guangzhou, the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, the people at the bottom of the city of Guangzhou are very happy last year, this year's New Year, the smile on their faces is brighter, there is endless food at home, and a few good dishes can be added to the table during the New Year, and the children are wearing new clothes.

I don't know how many people are secretly praying, hoping that today's good days can last forever.