After the establishment of the firearms manufacturing plant, the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation undertook the task of manufacturing and developing new steam engine warships. Therefore, the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation set up three new schools: the steam engine school, the ironclad ship construction school, and the ironclad ship naval academy at the foot of a branch river next to Surabaya outside Xiapi City.

The steam engine school was moved from Taoling Town to Xiapi, and was responsible for the research and development of marine steam engines. The Ironclad Ship Academy is responsible for the construction of ironclad ships, and the Ironclad Naval Academy is responsible for the training of new naval forces.

After the establishment of a special ironclad ship, Tao Ying prepared three more naval bases, and took the lead in equipping steam engines and ironclad artillery warships. The first naval base is the Juye Lake naval base, which is responsible for guarding the source of the golden waterway of the Surabaya River. The second is the northern enclave, the Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Naval Base guarded by Han Dang.

The third is also the most important Taihu Lake Naval Base in Suzhou County in the south.

Then, the Juyehu Shipbuilding School and Factory, the Xiapi Shipbuilding Factory, the Guangling Shipbuilding Factory, and the Taihu Shipbuilding Factory were responsible for the construction of ironclad ships.

After the planning of the three major departments of the firearms manufacturing corporation was completed, in order to sell these produced things and then call a large amount of gold and silver to build more firearms bases, Tao Ying established a sales and service company of the Xuzhou firearms manufacturing corporation in Pengcheng. Their task was to build trading houses in the counties, negotiate business, take orders, produce them, and sell them.

The most important Xuzhou firearms manufacturing company in Xuzhou, Tao Ying could not manage it personally, so he handed over this important company related to his future to his good assistant - Sun Shao!

So in February, Tao Ying appointed Sun Shao as the head of the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation, and Yu Lu was equivalent to Kong Rong of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, Zhang Zhao of the Ministry of Political Affairs, and Chen Deng of the Ministry of Agriculture.

After the establishment of the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation, Tao Ying knew that once the steam engine was put into use, the next time would be the era of coal and steel. So Tao Ying began to delineate the main coal-producing places in China on the map according to his memory.

The closest to him is Huainan Huaibei Coal Mine, as well as Pingdingshan Coal Mine. These two coal mines were enough for his own use, so Tao Ying ordered to mine the nearest coal mines in Xiangxian and Xiao counties first. Xiangxian is the place where Huaibei is located in the later generations, which is the closest to him, and coal can be transported to Pengcheng and Xiapi by water.

After a series of planning, Pengcheng and the adjacent Xiapi became the capital area of the entire Xuzhou. In order to ensure that Lu Bu in the north would not invade, Tao Ying ordered the construction of a northern barrier - Tancheng!

Tancheng County, the capital of Donghai County, was renamed Tancheng, and heavily stationed in Tancheng, planning Donghai as a large agricultural county, because they have many plains and fertile land, which is a good place to produce grain.

What's more important is that Lu Bu in the north is brave and builds an arsenal in Tancheng, in case it is broken by Lu Bu, the gains will outweigh the losses. Therefore, Donghai County can only be regarded as a barrier between Langya and Pengcheng and Xiapi.

The reform continues, and before the start of the big ** era, cold weapons are still the mainstream of this era. Fortunately, Tao Ying began to transform this dynasty in his own way according to his knowledge level beyond the world of 2,000 years.

In order to earn more money to build Xuzhou, Tao Ying used his constantly upgraded steelmaking technology to start forging weapons. In this era, ironmaking was already very mature, but the steelmaking book was just beginning. And good steel is the best choice to create sharp weapons, when the time comes, steel to make thin, strong and light armor, will sell well throughout the Han Dynasty!

If all the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou are equipped with exquisite steel knives and armor, and when the time comes to fight with other armies, the first equipment will be the first to win!

It's just that if you are equipped with so many weapons in Xuzhou, you can't afford the money you need at all, in order to arm yourself, there is only one way, that is, when you develop peacefully, sell the weapons to the princes who are fighting, earn the money of the world, and then come back to buy back more iron ore, then make steel, and finally develop and equip yourself!

This plan lingered in his mind for a long time, so Tao Ying asked Zhang Zhao and the teachers of the Smelting Academy to discuss it. Because in order to refine steel, it is necessary to consume a lot of coal, and a lot of rare minerals must be added to forge a piece of steel suitable for making swords, so in order to study this pottery, it was decided to establish a new company in March after studying with the smelting school and the government department.

After a month of discussions, Tao Ying set up a second company in Pengchengguo, named Xuzhou Cold Weapon Manufacturing Corporation.

Compared with Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation, Xuzhou Cold Weapons Manufacturing Corporation will be more likely to generate profits. First of all, the world is a turbulent world, as long as there is turmoil, there will be wars, and wars will require weapons and armor, and compared with firearms, they can accept the benefits of weapons such as steel knives more.

The government department of this plan began to negotiate with the three departments of the smelting school and the ordnance factory, and then began to plan how much money would be needed for the initial investment.

After all the budgets began, Tao Ying could only wait for the results there, and then think about how to develop the Cold Weapons Manufacturing Corporation well. This development model can be modeled on the firearms manufacturing corporation, and the R&D department, production department, and sales department can be brought together.

Soon the time came to the end of February, and the Pengcheng Government Affairs Department reached an agreement with the Smelting School and the Cold Weapon Manufacturing Factory, and the Finance Department also allocated the budget items. The final result of the discussion was to merge the smelting school and the weapons manufacturing plant to form a new cold weapons manufacturing company, and the new company was placed in Pengcheng, the capital of Xuzhou.

The newly established Xuzhou Cold Weapons Manufacturing Corporation consists of three parts, the first of which is the research and development institution. The task of research and development was entrusted to two departments, the first was the Xuzhou Smelting School, which was responsible for manufacturing the steel needed for weapons; The second R&D institution is the Xuzhou Ordnance Design School, which is responsible for the design of various handy weapons.

The Xuzhou Ordnance Design School is responsible for collecting types of weapons, and then researching the varieties and sizes of weapons that people in different states and counties like to develop. The Weapon Design School not only designs various weapons, but also undertakes the research and design of various siege vehicles, ladders, climbing locks, etc.

When the weapons are researched, they will be handed over to the special manufacturing center set up to produce and manufacture, which is the second part of the Cold Weapons Manufacturing Corporation!

The place where weapons are produced is also located in a major city on the golden waterway of Xuzhou. The development of Xuzhou cannot only rely on Pengcheng as a place, Tao Ying will develop Xuzhou into a model of five cities starting first and following up. Priority was given to the development of each county's administrative office, which was the first step in Pengcheng's three-year plan.

Of course, with the exception of Tokai County, which does not have much planning for the time being. Sanyang County also gave priority to the development of Juye City, which temporarily slowed down the development of Changyi City a lot.

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