In fact, not only the introduction of silver coins can bring benefits to the People's Army, but also the introduction of copper coins can bring benefits to the People's Army, there are four types of copper coins, after replacing copper coins, the People's Army can recover a large amount of copper, you must know that copper can be used much more than silver.

However, it is not so easy to launch the Equality Coins, the People's Army needs to establish money banks in all the cities under its rule to issue the Equality Coins, and then order the common people to use the Equality Coins.

Many ordinary people, especially large households, will not exchange all the money in their hands for equal coins as soon as possible, and if they want equal coins to circulate quickly, the main reason is that the People's Army itself uses them first.

When the common people see that the equality currency is good, they can take the initiative to exchange the equality currency at the money bank run by the People's Army.

It can be said that the next step is a very important task of the People's Army, and this matter is mainly entrusted to the Ministry of Household Affairs and the People's Chamber of Commerce.

After Fang Nan and his entourage inspected the mint, they walked around the new city, the construction of the new city is very slow, and at present, it is mainly the mint, glass factory, cement factory, the dormitory building attached to the factory, plus the cement road, etc.

The new city construction plan is the key development direction of Guangzhou City in the future, but Fang Nan is not in a hurry about this plan, mainly due to the speed of industrial development and demographic factors.

Mints, glass factories, and cement factories are all part of industrial development, and the old city has a limited area, and it is possible to build factories, but it is more troublesome, so these factories are built outside the city of Guangzhou, or in the new city.

More factories were built in the new town, and the factories needed a large number of workers, so the new town developed.

Population is the most important item in the development of a city, and the total population of Guangdong has probably decreased by more than 100,000 by the People's Army from raising the flag to the Ming army, bandits, bandits, and other evildoers killed during the occupation of Guangdong, and then to the loss of troops in the battle with the Ming army.

Although the population has been reduced, now the common people have their own fields, more couples are willing to have children, and the inheritance has been engraved in the blood of the descendants of Yan and Huang, which cannot be forgotten.

The number of births will definitely increase under the rule of the People's Army, but it will take time for newborns to grow, and the rural population will gather in the cities, and the most important thing is to concentrate the labor factory.

The mint, the glass factory, and the cement factory obviously all needed a large number of people, some of whom could be hired from within the city of Canton, and some of whom had to be hired from the countryside, and these rural workers gathered in the cities.

Guangzhou New Town gathered more and more population, shops, pubs, etc. are slowly opened in the new city, at that time the new city is really developed, nearly a year, it is expected that Guangzhou New Town will not change much, still based on the old city, but give the new city five years or even more time, the center of Guangzhou will slowly shift from the old city to the new city.

Walking on the cement road, Fang Nan is not interested in this backward cement road, Zhou Lei, Wang Mu and others are also used to the cement road, but the people in Guangzhou are still very curious about the cement road, and from time to time they can see the residents of Guangzhou City stepping on the cement road.

Since the appearance of the cement road, the residents of Guangzhou have not stopped talking about the cement road, for no other reason, compared to the dirt road and the gravel road, the cement road is too strong, the carriage is very flat and not bumpy on the cement road, and it will not be muddy when it rains or after the rain on the cement road, to a certain extent, the cement road is smoother than the masonry road.

Novelty always arouses curiosity, so many people take advantage of their free time to walk around the cement road and feel the cement road.

After all, the cement road is just a road, and it stands to reason that the popularity will soon decline, but some large households in Guangzhou are interested in the cement road, and many people want to build a cement road in their own mansions, and some people are even very interested in the method of building a cement road, thinking that this is a business opportunity and can make people make a fortune.

Cement is indeed a business opportunity, although the number of large households under the rule of the People's Army has been greatly reduced, and some of them want to buy cement to build cement roads, but the People's Army is the one with the most wealth, and the wealth of all the large households under the rule is far less than that of the People's Army, and the People's Army's demand for cement is not ordinary.

A large amount of cement is needed to build cement roads, build houses, build water conservancy facilities, and so on, and according to the plan drawn up by Fang Nan, the People's Army will build cement factories in various places and provide cement on the spot.

At present, the cement factory in Guangzhou New Town is training a large number of technicians, and by the end of March at the latest, the People's Military Government will convene a meeting of some businessmen who have ideas about cement, and the People's Army will decentralize cement technology, provide technical personnel and technology, and let the businessmen set up cement plants in various places.

Since the technical personnel and technology are provided by the KPA, the KPA can purchase cement from the cement factories set up by these merchants at a relatively cheap price.

The cost of purchasing cement from the cement plant established by the merchant is certainly a little higher than the cost of purchasing cement from the cement plant established by the KPA itself, but the KPA does not have enough manpower, which affects the development of various plans, and it is a very good choice for the KPA to spend a little more money and let the plan unfold quickly.

The businessmen have money in their hands and some manpower, so that the businessmen can move, and it will also be of great help to the people's army in the development of industry; of course, the main thing that can be helped is in cement, textiles, and other places where the technology is not high, and for heavy industries such as iron and steel plants, the people's army can only come in person.

As the length of the concrete road increases, it will become an ordinary road under the rule of the People's Army, for ox carts, horse-drawn carts, and people, and if possible, it is better to build the concrete road into the village, although this step may take decades to achieve.

Fang Nan attaches great importance to cement roads, and also attaches great importance to railway tracks, and the first railway track under the rule of the People's Army is already being laid, which is laid at the Yuecheng Iron and Steel Plant in Zhaoqing Province.

One track is 12.5 meters long, weighs 30 kilograms per meter, and one rail weighs 375 kilograms, which is very cumbersome to transport, so the rail road was built directly from this steel plant.

Just built more than 100 meters long, a special carriage has also been prepared, this carriage travels on the railway road, transporting heavy rails, greatly facilitating the construction of the railway road, and now the biggest factor affecting the speed of rail construction has become the production of steel.

However, there is another problem to be aware of, this rail road can run a special carriage, if it is a heavy train in the future, there may be problems, mainly the problem of track material, in Fang Nan's eyes, this rail is not a qualified rail.