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"If only we were part of the People's Army."

"If only we lived over there."

Listening to Zeng Xiong's words, gradually everyone yearned for the People's Army, but every time Zeng Xiong would solemnly tell them not to say these words when there were outsiders, once they were reported, they would be killed and even their families would be killed if they were serious.

Zeng Xiong not only described the beauty of the People's Army, but also often talked about the strength of the People's Army, the Ming court sent a large army to attack the People's Army several times, but the People's Army was defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops died.

Zeng Xiong's description made his subordinates very afraid that the Ming court would go to war with the People's Army again, once the war started, they belonged to the front line here, and they were likely to die on the battlefield, everyone did not have more than half of their lives, and no one wanted to die so soon.

In fact, at this time, Zeng Xiong had already begun to use common sense to pull his subordinates into the People's Army, but Zeng Xiong did not try, people's hearts are fickle, once someone betrays Zeng Xiong, Zeng Xiong's fate is only death, so Zeng Xiong is still waiting.

Zeng Xiong's goal is not only his own subordinates, but also tries to communicate with other Ming army commanders, and guides these commanders through words, Zeng Xiong is also working hard to make meritorious contributions and gain a higher status in the Ming army, and Zeng Xiong can influence more Ming troops at that time.

In the Ming army, there are hundreds of Zeng Xiong working hard, they are basically one-line contact, once someone mutinies, it will not affect more people.

With their efforts, there will be more Ming troops with their hearts set on the People's Army, just waiting for the final outbreak!

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In Foshan, Guangdong, a new factory appeared, the full name of Foshan Machinery Factory, and Wang Dazhui also served as the director of the Machinery Factory.

The birth of the machinery factory is naturally closely related to the steam engine research institute, before the Tang Beiwang sledgehammer project team has studied to build the first practical steam engine, two months have passed, the project team continued to study the steam engine, determine the life of the steam engine, and now the steam engine can be mass-produced.

In order to produce steam engines, there is Foshan Machinery Factory, but the scale of the initial machinery factory will not be too large, there are two main reasons, one is that the current production of steam engines is too little, mainly used for mine pumping, and the other is that there are fewer craftsmen who can be transferred to build steam engines.

The steam engine is not so easy to build, especially the airtightness of the steam engine, which is prone to problems from time to time by skilled craftsmen.

However, the skilled craftsmen under the rule of the People's Army were mainly concentrated in the Foshan Arsenal to make all kinds of firearms for the People's Army.

Compared with the steam engine, firearms are obviously more important, the steam engine plan can be launched later, but the production of firearms cannot be slowed down, the Ming court is the great enemy of the People's Army, and only one of the two sides can survive.

The Ming court is frantically expanding its army, but the strength of the People's Army cannot be increased too much, and the only way to improve the strength of the People's Army is to equip a large number of firearms.

In this case, it is impossible for the machine factory to get many skilled craftsmen, fortunately, the machine factory is also just beginning, the people's army does not need many steam engines, everything can be done slowly, the number of "old" craftsmen in the machine factory is limited, but the young craftsmen have more apprentices, several times more than the old craftsmen.

A craftsman took a few apprentices, and as the years passed, these apprentices became useful as their skills improved, just as the machine shop would expand with the new steam engine.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why the KPA will not go all out to expand its army.

The People's Army has a population of less than 10 million, and if it were to expand its army with all its might, it would even be possible to form an army of up to one million people.

However, if an army of one million is really formed, it will definitely have a huge impact on the production and life under the rule of the People's Army.

Young and strong people have joined the army, the fields can be cultivated by the elderly, children, and women, the factories established have found workers, and the craftsmen have not received apprentices.

The People's Army in this situation is very fragile, unless it can quickly destroy the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army will collapse internally, and if it encounters an irresistible natural disaster, it will collapse even faster.

Limiting the growth of the KPA's strength and sending young and strong people to other places where they are needed, although the improvement of military strength is relatively slow, the strength of other aspects of the KPA will increase rapidly.

Of course, the most important thing is the strength of the Ming Court, if the strength of the Ming Court is very strong, Fang Nan will definitely go all out to develop the military, the strength of the Ming Court is average, and the People's Army can also disperse some energy to develop others.

The Foshan Machinery Factory has started construction and is building a Type A steam engine and a supporting water pump at a slower pace.

The first type A steam engine produced by Foshan Machinery Factory was still built by Tang Beiwang's sledgehammer project team, and the craftsmen and craftsmen and apprentices transferred from other countries were all learning from the sidelines, and it would soon be their turn to get started.

In the process of building a type A steam engine, the Tang Beiwang sledgehammer project team also needs to improve the type A steam engine, maybe there will be a type A type 2 steam engine, a type 3 steam engine and so on in the future.

Because of Fang Nan's guidance, the researchers of Tang Beiwang's sledgehammer project team paid more attention to the type A steam engine, and they paid more attention to the type B steam engine that was still on the drawings, compared with the type A steam engine that could only be used for pumping water, the type B steam engine that could be widely used was the biggest goal of the project team.

However, the project team has only been studying the penetrating type A steam engine for a long time, and it is impossible to succeed in a short period of time if they want to build a more difficult type B steam engine.

Fang Nan has been paying attention to the Tang Beiwang sledgehammer project team, and will go over to see it every month, and the project team will write down the plan progress and report it to Fang Nan every ten years.

The type A steam engine is a vacuum steam engine, and the type B steam engine uses high temperature and high pressure steam to bring a huge improvement to the efficiency of the steam engine, which also makes the type B steam engine much more dangerous than the type A steam engine, and it is easy to cause a major accident of death and injury due to the explosion of the boiler and the machine

There are also ways to solve this problem, such as improving the safety valve, in the case of too high pressure, the safety valve is deflated and depressurized, and the boiler will not explode due to high pressure.

Fang Nan is looking forward to the birth of the B type steam engine, two lives as a human being, comfortable and convenient modern life makes Fang Nan very nostalgic, want to make the living environment towards modern development, this is a long road, but Fang Nan can speed up the speed on this road.

As long as the B-type steam engine is born, the next train and steam ship will not be far away, and Fangnan can travel between Guangzhou City and Foshan, and you can also change from riding a horse to taking a train, obviously taking a train is much more comfortable than riding a horse, and the speed is faster.

Then there are all kinds of steam-powered machinery, so that the productivity of the same number of people is greatly improved, more goods are produced, the cost of production is reduced, the goods are cheaper, and the common people can afford to buy them.

Fang Nan hopes that this day will come sooner, if it weren't for the People's Army's side that can't do without him, probably Fang Nan will take the researchers to work hard to climb the science and technology tree.