Gao Junshan summoned Ke Tianzhu and Chen Jinmu in the Carrier Hall.

He sat on the top of the main hall, and Ke Tianzhu and Chen Jinmu came down to the main hall under the guidance of Tian Fang.

"Ke Tianzhu and Chen Jinmu meet King Qin!" The two of them saluted the high mountain.

"Two of you, please!" Gao Junshan smiled all over his face, "It's not easy, I heard that you have insisted on resisting the Ming Dynasty at this point for three hundred years." ”

Ke Tianzhu said: "Insisting on resisting the Ming Dynasty for 300 years is the banner we played, not really fighting a war for 300 years, but we are the descendants of Chen Youliang's army, which is true." ”

"General Ke doesn't deceive me!" Gao Junshan got up and said with a smile, "I don't hide it from General Ke, our army is strictly disciplined, and if you want to join our army's sequence, you must obey our army's military discipline." ”

The two bowed again: "The last general is willing to obey the general's order!" ”

Gao Junshan grabbed one with one hand and said, "As long as we work together, from now on, we will be brothers who eat meat in a pot, you all sit down and talk!" ”

After he finished speaking, he sat down on the throne of the main hall by himself, and only after the two of them had also sat down did he ask, "Where are your 20,000 troops now?" ”

"Returning to King Qin," Ke Tianzhu got up and said, "It's true that we have 20,000, but we are all dragged with our families, and there are only three or four thousand people who can really fight." ”

Gao Junshan asked with concern: "Do the old people and children usually follow you around?" ”

Chen Jinmu said: "Then what's the way, if everyone doesn't form a group, how can we live?" ”

Gao Junshan asked again, "Where are all your people now?" ”

Ke Tianzhu replied: "It's just outside the city." ”

Gao Junshan said: "From today on, your family doesn't have to follow you to kill everywhere, this Wuchang is your home, you can go into the city to settle down, and your three or four thousand people will be under the command of my son Sun Dahai, are you two willing?" ”

Chen Jinmu asked uneasily: "Is it the home of the two of us that can settle down, or can all of our families go into the city and settle down?" ”

"Everyone's home, of course!" Gao Junshan replied clearly, "If they have a skill, we will also recruit them to the government offices at all levels." ”

Ke Tianzhu was very grateful: "King Qin treats us as his own family, and we are broken bones, and we will not hesitate to do so." ”

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Not long after, Zhan Longxiang, Xi Dingxuan, Zhou Guzhi, Xu Liangcai and others came to vote, these people were all officials of the Ming court, Gao Junshan was appointed as a state and county official in various places according to his position, and was given an official seal, a reward of silver, and included in his own administrative management system.

In this way, Gao Junshan has been busy spending the New Year in Wuchang, and the two youngest babies have been able to turn over in bed, and he has no time to go back to Xiangyang to take a look.

Just after the New Year of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643 AD), Gao Junshan began to plan the southern expedition to Changsha, and he expected to bring the entire Huguang into his jurisdiction through a year's campaign.

He was ready to go out in person, but was strongly opposed by Zhou Shichen and Xu Yixian, who agreed that Gao Junshan must sit in Wuchang, and the matter of conquering the city should be left to the generals.

This time, Gao Junshan accepted their suggestion, and in this way, the heavy task of the southern expedition was handed over to Zhou Shichen, who led Liu Wenxiu's Eighth Brigade and Ma Jin's Ninth Brigade to set off on the second day after the Lantern Festival.

After Zhou Shichen and his departure, most of the people who stayed in Wuchang, except for Ma Wen's field artillery battalion and Zhou Wenjiang's naval army, were newly recruited Xinding, or surrendered Ming troops, these people numbered about three or four hundred thousand, Gao Junshan formed twenty new barracks, and scattered them in the new barracks for training and transformation.

These twenty recruit battalions are named Xingwu Camp, and of course, each battalion has instructors and supervisors, so there is no need for Gao Junshan to worry too much.

Gao Junshan has to worry about military production.

Now he began to build a large shipyard in Wuchang, an iron factory, a copper factory, an aluminum factory, a glass factory, and a weaving factory.

These need the support of technical force to be able to build, and the engineers who undertake these tasks are sent by Chongwen Institute of Technology, which is the cradle of engineers.

The shipbuilding task undertaken by the large shipyard in Wuchang can be imagined to build a large ocean-going ship, and the ship it builds must be larger than the "Xiangyang No. 1", and it must be powered by a steam engine, which is Gao Junshan's request to the engineers, although the steam engine has not yet been built, Gao Junshan believes that it will be built in the near future, so the large shipyard must start construction before the steam engine is built.

Gao Junshan introduced hull lofting technology to large shipyards, which made the shipbuilding process more precise and made the ship larger. This time, he put forward a request to build a large ship 40 zhang long and 8 zhang wide, which was modeled on the "Xiangyang No. 1" and was also a three-story deck and a two-story bottom cabin.

The lowest floor is the power compartment, which is the heart of the entire ship, and the steam engine that has not yet been built will be placed on this level. The complex slurry shaker system of Xiangyang No. 1 will no longer exist, saving nearly 100 paddle shakers and replacing them with boiler workers and mechanics.

The second level is the storage compartment. The storage compartment is divided into four areas, one is the living reserve area, one is the fresh water reserve area, one is the powder storage area, and the other is the fire and life-saving supplies storage area. There are obvious isolation measures between districts, and there are special personnel to keep them.

The third and fourth floors are the fighting compartments, which, like the "Xiangyang-1", are equipped with artillery, of course, the number of artillery pieces is twice as large as that of the "Xiangyang-1".

The fifth floor is the command cabin and the rest cabin.

This is the big framework that Gao Junshan gave to the engineers, which is a blueprint, and the specific details need to be designed by the engineers.

In order to meet the needs of the war, Gao Junshan designed this unfinalized ship as an ironclad ship, although after putting on heavy ironclad, it will affect the sailing speed, due to the application of the power system, even if the speed is reduced, it is faster than the current "Xiangyang No. 1", not to mention, it is in exchange for survivability, such a sacrifice is still worth it.

Gao Junshan named this big ship that was still in the concept "Wuchang No. 1".

"Wuchang No. 1" and "Xiangyang No. 1" belong to the same series, but "Wuchang No. 1" has an added power system, the hull is larger than that of "Xiangyang No. 1", and the speed is also larger than that of "Xiangyang No. 1". However, in the future, "Xiangyang No. 1" will also be modified into a power system, and maybe who will be faster than whom!

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the first step is taken, "Wuchang No. 1" will definitely be built in the end, this is only a matter of time, Gao Junshan is very confident, just as he believed that "Xiangyang No. 1" will be able to go into the water.

Just when Wuchang's military production was in full swing, the engineers of the Xiangyang Shipyard transformed the two captured centipede ships into "Xiangyang No. 2" and "Xiangyang No. 3", and drove to the city of Wuchang to guard the river surface of Wuchang together with "Xiangyang No. 1".