The meeting continued.

"One thing needs to be explained, cement technology is provided by our side, as the price of providing cement technology, within five years, our people's military government will purchase cement from your cement factory, and the price will be increased by one percent on the basis of the cost, and you will sell cement to other people without this restriction.

However, the cement produced by the cement plant must first be supplied to the people's military government, and the rest can be sold. ”

Not long after Wang Mu's voice fell, some businessmen chose to leave the meeting, and it was a good thing to become an imperial businessman, but the money earned from doing business with the People's Army was too small, and at most it was only a profit, and there were many businesses that could make a lot of money, so there was no need to stare at cement.

After a while, one-third of the seats in the conference room were vacated, which meant that one-third of the businessmen gave up the cement business, and the businessmen who stayed behind still had the idea of doing cement business even if they had the harsh conditions of the People's Military Government.

Imperial merchants are only one reason, and many people focus on the sale of cement to outsiders.

Whether cement is good or not, some businessmen have learned in advance, take a walk on the cement road, and go to the "new city" to see the houses built of cement bricks.

The People's Army divides the land among the people, and as long as two years have passed, the people can become "rich", and when the people have money, they may buy cement to build houses.

To be able to become a businessman, you still need to have a business vision, but some people are short-sighted, and some people can see the long-term.

A third of the people left, but it did not affect Wang Mu to continue the meeting, and Wang Mu continued to put forward some conditions for the businessmen, such as the cement factory workers must prepare masks, and the cement factory must be built outside the city.

Seeing that Wang Mu put forward one condition after another, some businessmen left the conference room, and the number of businessmen left in the final meeting was less than two-fifths of the number when they arrived.

"I've finished talking about the conditions, and everyone is still in the conference room, which is enough to show that they all want to run the cement factory, and for the collaborators, our people's military government will also provide some help......

The first help given by the People's Army Government to the merchants was to divide the areas for all the merchants, and only one merchant was allowed to set up a cement plant in the same place, and the specific division was determined by the merchants by drawing lots.

The second help is to build a cement factory, to build a cement factory outside the city, which may occupy arable land, and the businessmen have to make some compensation, which is mainly to the people's military government, and the people's military government will replace the land for the peasant households who occupy the cultivated land, and turn some official land into private land.

The third help......

Wang Mu threw out one benefit after another, and some businessmen's impression of the People's Military Government improved a lot, these help was too useful for them, and they would inevitably compete with each other, and there would be a lot of trouble, although they made little money at the beginning, they might make a lot of money in the future.

As long as you don't lose money, you can try to do business with the People's Military Government, this time it will be remembered by the People's Military Government, and maybe you will be able to get the opportunity to make a lot of money in the future.

The meeting lasted for a morning, but it was not over yet, and it took a lot of time from the time the businessmen decided where to open the cement factory and the cement plant officially produced cement.

When the construction of cement factories is completed and cement production begins, the People's Army's road construction plan can be carried out quickly, and even the construction plan of water conservancy facilities can be accelerated.

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In Longnan County, southern Jiangxi, the First Group Army of the People's Army is forming the first standard division of the People's Army after the restructuring, and the full name of the division is the First Division of the People's Army, and the division commander is Zhao Dayou.

As the first division of the People's Army, Wang Shengrong naturally wants to build this first division into an elite unit that can win every battle.

A standard division consisted of a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a pioneer regiment, a grenadier regiment, two ordinary regiments, and the division headquarters, with a total of more than 8,000 men.

It is impossible for the musket regiment to be equipped with only tiger head guns, but also a large number of tiger head guns as light artillery, the maximum range of tiger head guns is almost the same as that of tiger head guns, and tiger head guns are relatively light, no need to use vehicles or horses, two soldiers can carry them directly, and the musketeers will not delay the speed of the march.

The heavy artillery regiment is all equipped with heavy artillery, and only the Franc cannon with a maximum firing range of more than 1,000 meters is selected, and the People's Army is ready to equip three firing ranges of the Franc machine gun, which are respectively with a maximum firing range of more than 1,000 meters, 1,500 meters, and 2,000 meters.

Basically, the longer the range of the artillery, the heavier it became, and a large number of wagons were required to transport it.

The pioneers of the first regiment each have a shield as a defensive weapon, and the offensive weapons can choose axes and broadswords.

The shields used by the pioneers have average defensive power, and they can resist the lead bullets fired by the birds at a distance, but they can't be blocked if they are closer.

There has been a lot of deliberation within the military department, considering using steel to create a shield with higher defense, which can block the lead bullets fired by the bird's guns even at close range.

However, the weight of such a steel shield will also be greatly increased, and there will definitely not be many fighters in the People's Army who can use the steel shield normally.

Hu Zhuang even thought of wrapping the warrior's whole body with steel to create a hoplite, such hoplites were absolutely unstoppable on the battlefield, but the warriors who could bear the weight of steel armor were even rarer.

The grenadiers of the grenadier regiment mainly carry two weapons, one is a grenade and the other is a goose knife.

Grenade consumables, throw out all the grenades you carry, at this time the grenadiers may retreat back according to the order, or they may draw the goose feather knife to fight the enemy, both weapons grenadiers have to practice.

The ordinary regiment is mainly equipped with spears and goose feather knives, and more often the ordinary regiment is used as combat auxiliaries and logistics, and when fighting, they follow behind the musketeers, the first soldiers, and the grenadiers, and only when the main force suffers heavy losses, the soldiers of the ordinary regiment will fight the enemy.

Units were drawn from all parts of the First Group Army, and the First Division of the People's Army was quickly formed, but it still took time for the First Division to be formed.

It is said that it is a standard division, but it is also a mixed division, and the division commander needs to consider the cooperation of each unit during the battle, and the cooperation of the various units in the past is mainly a matter for the army commander and deputy army commander to consider.

The simply armistice between the People's Army and the Ming Court will not start the war in a short time, and there is enough time for the standard divisions to complete the run-in and be able to exert their maximum power when the war comes.

In fact, Fang Nan would prefer to form a unit equipped with firearms, but Fang Nan also understands that an all-firearms force is sometimes not easy to use in today's era, such as in street battles, musketeers will be cut down by enemies armed with broadswords before they have time to shoot.