"Haha, you actually arrived first." Zhang Gongjin walked into the meeting hall of the Governor's Mansion and saw Feng Daiwen sitting there drinking tea early in the morning, and said with a smile.

"I've seen Uncle Zhang, hehe, haven't I been thinking about it, I just arrived, I just arrived." Feng Daiwen explained embarrassedly.

"Hehe, the old man also thought about it early in the morning, isn't this coming." Zhang Gongjin saw Ma Zhou and the others walking outside, and said with a smile.

"I've seen the governor, Lord Hou." Ma Zhou and the others came in and saw that the two chiefs were there, and hurriedly bowed their hands.

Generally, when Zhang Gongjin and Feng Daiwen are together, they will call Feng Daiwen Marquis, and the guards are all called General Feng Daiwen.

"Hehe, King Bin, Xu Changshi, no need to be polite, let's sit down and talk about yesterday's transaction." Zhang Gong beckoned anxiously and said.

"Back to the governor, the total tax received in this mutual market is more than 1.18 million yuan, mainly 500,000 yuan received from large transactions, more than 680,000 yuan in store sales, rentals and other shop transaction taxes, 13,000 war horses recovered from merchants, plus the purchase of grain and iron ore, etc., there is still more than 250,000 yuan." Ma Zhou took out a booklet and introduced them one by one.

"Ahem, ahem, that's all there is to it?" Zhang Gongjin almost choked, coughed twice and asked in surprise.

"A lot of these are just paid for the subscription, and the balance has not been paid," Ma Zhou added.

"Also, how much worse? What did you buy? Zhang Gongjin asked in a low voice, for fear that he would be disappointed again.

"Shuofang has only found a small coal mine at present, which is expected to be insufficient, and paid 50,000 yuan to the Taiyuan Wang family for a long-term order, ordered a large amount of iron ore from the Changsun family, paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan, ordered grain from the Zhangjia family in Jiangnan, ordered saltpeter and other mines from the Huang family in Shuzhong, and ordered a large amount of alkali ore from Henan." Ma Zhou reported everything one by one.

It should be mentioned here that many mines in ancient times were in the hands of the family, and the government was only responsible for issuing the amount of materials needed each year, and then receiving a sufficient amount, and did not care how to raise enough.

"What are we doing with so much iron ore?" Zhang Gongjin was taken aback and asked, thinking that they had any different intentions.

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, this is the little nephew who bought it, I want to build new weapons and equipment, the saint knows about this, just let the saint take a look at it after it is built, as for the money, don't worry, Shuofang will be the largest wool clothing production base in the future." Feng Daiwen hurriedly explained.

"That's good, but this mutual market is really good, but it's a pity that it has to be once a month." Zhang Gongjin breathed a sigh of relief and said greedily.

"Haha, Uncle Zhang, this is the first time, so there are many people coming to the transaction, and there will not be so many in the future. Of course, there may be more. Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"The Wang family and the Cui family said that there were too many goods, and they would leave early in the morning, so they would not come to say goodbye to the governor." Ma Zhou remembered something and said to Zhang Gongjin.

"Alas, it's okay, I'm old, I haven't rested well, and I'm happy again, Weiguo, you look at the arrangement, the old man is going to rest for a while." Zhang Gongjin walked away boringly.

In Feng Daiwen's view, a good soldier is one who obeys orders, is physically strong, as strong as an ox, with the best weapons, the best armor, the best equipment, and the best logistics, and can form the most powerful army.

Set a goal, work hard towards the goal, the body is strong, the strength is as big as an ox, you need better food, more training, these will be handed over to Xi Junmai, Feng Daihuo, they will train.

The best weapon, the best steel, with coal can be coking, with coke can be burned at a higher temperature, but also can directly smelt steel, so the east of Shuofang is the barracks, but also the new steelmaking kiln, and the west of the brick kiln to form two to smoke clouds, what you see during the day is black smoke to the sky, and what you see at night is red light.

Maybe this is the price paid for development, fortunately, Shuofang is sparsely populated, the pollution is not bad, and it is good to stabilize it, it seems that the new city should be replanned, it is better to build a city in front of Shuofang, and just move forward, Feng Daiwen stood at the head of the city and thought secretly.

The best armor Feng Daiwen seems to be the best rattan armor, lightweight, and outstanding defense, so Lingnan and Shuzhong are the best armor manufacturing places, Meng Huo's rattan armor soldiers have given Zhuge Wuhou a headache, Feng Daiwen has asked the Huang family to help find and buy, of course, it is impossible to have so many rattan armor to equip so many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and the assault armor is also good, it can be used for the infantry.

The shields used to be mostly wooden shields, but now there are coal smelting, and there are so many captives to help mine, there is enough iron to make iron shields, of course, not all of them are iron shields, there are two kinds of iron shields in Feng Daiwen's design, one is a shield with iron sheets on the outside of wood, which is mainly used to prevent bows and arrows when charging.

One is a large shield made of completely iron plate, one person high, the back can be supported by wood, there are buckles on both sides, and the entire shield wall can be formed, and the extended version of the spear on the top of the shield has completely become a hedgehog, which can defend the cavalry charging formation, and can also be used as a mobile city wall, camping in the field, which is a kind of defensive city wall, and can also protect the team when attacking the city until the outside of the opponent's city wall.

Think about it, when his troops are escorted by the shield wall under the enemy's city wall with building carts, catapults, crossbows, bows and arrows to suppress the siege, it should be a very easy thing, especially the melee of the siege does not need Tang soldiers, Feng Daiwen can't help but be excited when he thinks of this, after all, every man's heart is yearning to fight on the battlefield and take the enemy's head angrily, how happy it is.

As for the equipment, the cavalry three treasures can also be officially built, many of the previous cavalry can only be said to be soldiers on horses, playing with the wind is OK, with the cavalry three treasures, saddles, horse shoes, horseshoe, it is much easier to train excellent cavalry, with horseshoes, war horses will have a longer combat life, before a big battle, many war horses were injured hooves and could not run fast, with horseshoes, war horses even if they ran on the stone.

The saddle, coupled with the pedals, allows the rider on horseback to better leverage his strength, freeing his hands, so that each rider can hold a weapon in both hands and keep his body stable.

Two cavalrymen of the same force in the battle, there are horse pedals, the saddle man can play more than three percent of the combat power, one is to divide the strength to clamp the war horse, stabilize the body, one with the foot to pick the horse pedal can also borrow strength, the result can be imagined.

The throwing gun is another weapon that Feng Daiwen equipped with for the cavalry, it is a spear head in front of the wooden stick, and it is thrown hard when the cavalry charges, with the help of the horse, it is farther than the bow and arrow, and the power is greater, and the strength can penetrate with the person and the mount, even if it is thrown into the ground, it will affect the cavalry attack behind, and it is also convenient to recover after the war, which can be described as inexpensive.

Generally, if you are shot with a bow or arrow in an unimportant place, you can continue to fight, but if you try to fight with a short gun stuck in the thick of a ping pong ball, you will still be killed.