More than half a month has passed since the People's Army captured Foshan, and the prosperity of the past when merchants gathered is no longer there, and this situation has not only appeared in Foshan, but also in the city of Guangzhou, and in other places occupied by the People's Army, and commercial and trade activities have almost come to a standstill.

Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, most of the commercial activities were already controlled by the magnates and merchants, and as the People's Army captured the cities, only a small part of the powerful merchants in the cities were caught and killed, and only a small part was able to save their lives.

Even if they knew that the KPA would not attack them, they did not dare to continue their business for a short time.

It was only in some areas of Huizhou City, such as Yong'an County and Haifeng County, which the People's Army first occupied, that some businessmen thought that the People's Army had the possibility of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty or that the People's Army could resist the Ming Dynasty, so they began to take action.

In order to ensure that there is no shortage of daily necessities for the common people in various localities, they mainly rely on the People's Army to carry out commercial and trade activities.

As time goes by, the rule of the People's Army tends to stabilize, and more and more businessmen will start doing business again, and there will also be a small number of ordinary people who will raise funds everywhere and take the first step towards becoming businessmen.

Although the prosperity of Foshan is no longer there, Foshan is still a busy scene.

At the end of last month, Xu Gang led 3,000 men to easily capture Foshan, which had few defenders, and after capturing Foshan, Xu Gang continued to clean up Foshan in accordance with the rules of the People's Army, and arrested all those who were evil.

The actions of the People's Army in Foshan have made most of the people fearful, fearing that the "thieves" will attack them.

Soon the common people found that this People's Army seemed to be better than the official army, not only did not attack them, but spoke politely, and gave them land, if they had been bullied by the gentry and merchants, the People's Army would also give them the master, and even get some compensation.

After such a series of steps, the common people found that the People's Army was very friendly, and the previous government was far inferior, and the common people recognized the People's Army more.

After gaining the approval of the people of Foshan, Xu Gang continued to act, and he did not do much, only to restore the production of many workshops in Foshan.

Most of the workshops have been raided by the People's Army, and these workshops are owned by the People's Army, and there are workshops belonging to the Ming Court, which are even more important, and those workshops are used to forge artillery to make firearms.

What the People's Army lacked was firearms, and of course, the firearms of the Ming Army, only the Franc machine gun, which had a range of more than 1,000 meters, was favored by the People's Army, and other firearms were not necessary at all.

Xu Gang also wanted the workshop to build the People's Army to use tiger head guns, tiger head cannons and hand grenades in short supply, but without skilled craftsmen with relevant skills, Foshan could not create the firearms needed by the People's Army.

In this case, Xu Gang could only ask the craftsmen to continue to build the Franc cannon.

It was very easy for the KPA to get the craftsmen who were originally working in the workshop to return to work, and the KPA would continue to pay the craftsmen because of the distribution of fields and other things, which were also ordinary people, and more importantly, the KPA would continue to pay the craftsmen.

The wages paid by the People's Army to the craftsmen are basically the same as the wages of the previous Ming Dynasty government, but some stewards of the Ming Dynasty government and workshops will deduct the wages of the craftsmen layer by layer, and the wages that the craftsmen get can also make the family have enough to eat, but the People's Army will not deduct the wages of the craftsmen.

Craftsmen do not have the idea of becoming farmers after acquiring the fields, and after being craftsmen all their lives, it may not be easier to work than farming, but they are used to it, and suddenly changing careers will make them unaccustomed to it.

After hearing that the workshop was going to resume work and pay enough wages, the craftsmen themselves came back to build artillery for the People's Army without urging the People's Army.

Half a month passed, Tang Bei, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Dazhui and his entourage came to Foshan from Guangzhou City, and when they came to Foshan, they went to inspect the workshop for building artillery.

"They are all good hands, and the sum of the ten tiger head villages is not as good as here, I think that the iron-striking skills are very high, but compared with those few, it is still much inferior." After walking around, Wang Dazhui said with emotion.

Hearing Wang Dazhui's words with emotion, Tang Bei also said: "With these craftsmen, our People's Army will create more firearms, make the People's Army stronger, and we will definitely overthrow the Ming Court!" Director Wang, it's up to you next."

"Well, we're going to definitely build more Tiger Head Guns, Tiger Head Cannons." Wang Dazhui's words were full of confidence.

Before going back to rest, Tang Bei asked the officials in charge of the Ministry of Industry to call all the stewards of the workshop.

"This is Director Wang Da Hammer Wang, and you will all be under the management of Director Wang in the future."

"Director Wang!" The stewards shouted.

Most of these stewards were promoted from the craftsmen, and only a small number of stewards were in the past, and they did not do anything to bully the craftsmen, so the People's Army did not arrest them and continue to keep them, and the status of the petty stewards was a level higher than that of ordinary people, and they were far from the gentry and merchants.

The first time they saw Wang Da Hammer, the stewards felt very cordial, they could see from Wang Da Hammer's appearance, Wang Da Hammer is also a craftsman, everyone is a craftsman, naturally feel cordial.

"My name is Wang Dazhu, in the future, I will lead everyone to build firearms for the People's Army, under the rule of the People's Army, we all have to live a good life, only if the People's Army resists the Ming Army and even overthrows the Ming Dynasty, our good life can continue, we must work together to build a lot of firearms for the People's Army, so that the People's Army becomes stronger!"

"Director Wang, we know, we will definitely build more firearms for the People's Army."

"Yes."

"It is the People's Army that allows us to live a good life, and the People's Army must defeat the Ming Army."

Wang Dazhui's words were quickly supported by the stewards, and everyone got along very harmoniously.

After a night's rest, the day after coming to Foshan, Wang Dazhui and his party finally started.

The first thing Wang Dazhui has to do is not to build the hydraulic machine tool, but to build several manpower machine tools, which are started by the craftsmen brought by Wang Dazhui from Hutou Village, and the local craftsmen are mainly to start and learn to build manpower machine tools.

The reason why Wang Dazhui first built a manpower machine tool instead of a hydraulic machine tool is very simple, although the hydraulic machine tool has the drawings given by Fang Nan, but this drawing is relatively simple, even if the hydraulic machine tool is built according to the drawings, it may not be able to be used, after all, Fang Nan has not personally built a hydraulic machine tool.

Obviously, it takes some time to build a hydraulic machine, and then more time needs to be used to build more hydraulic machines.

In comparison, manpower machine tools are not as good as hydraulic machine tools in efficiency, but to build manpower machine tools are simpler than hydraulic machine tools, Foshan Arsenal here to build manpower machine tools, and then began to manufacture tiger guns, tiger head guns, grenades.

After the local craftsmen learned these skills, Wang Dazhui would lead people to build hydraulic machine tools, and the manpower machine tools could become part of the hydraulic machine tools in some places.