That night, Zhu Chenggong did not talk to Su Yan about the military situation, but held a banquet in the Zhangguo Mansion to celebrate Su Yan's promotion to marquis.

However, according to tradition, after receiving the dowry from Su Yan, they must also prepare a dowry worth 80% of the dowry, and then wait for the man to choose an auspicious day as the wedding date, report to the woman for approval, and after the woman agrees, the groom will go to the woman's house to marry.

At the moment of the great enemy, Su Yan was not in a hurry to get married, so he was ready to wait until he repelled the offensive of the Qing army, and then discussed the marriage date with Zhu Chenggong, who listened to his reasons and agreed.

The next day, Su Yancai, who had woken up, came to Zhu Chenggong's study under the leadership of his servants, who also heard about the new movements of the Qing court, and knew that Shang Kexi, the king of Pingxi, was going to send troops north to Fujian in the near future, and it was very likely that he would call from the direction of Chaozhou and enter the border of Zhangzhou.

This is not difficult to understand, most of the territory of Tingzhou is surrounded by mountains, the road from Tingzhou to the army is dangerous, the price paid is very large, from Zhangzhou into Fujian is much better, although there is a Fenshui Pass in Zhangzhou known as the first pass in southern Fujian, as long as the Fenshui Pass is broken, you can drive straight into Zhangzhou.

After taking Zhangzhou, Longyan and Tingzhou can be taken in the north, and Quanzhou can be taken in the east, what is a better goal than attacking Zhangzhou?

Zhu Chenggong obviously knew this, so his mood was a little depressed, although after taking Zhangzhou, he solved his grain and grass problem, expanded the army, and had a stable base area, but as soon as the Qing army in Guangdong came over, he felt like he was blocking Su Yan's gun.

He has always been the only one who has successfully pitted his teammates, how can there be any reason to be pitted by his teammates?

However, since the other party is his quasi-sister-in-law, or has a bright future, let's block the gun for him, not to mention that he is not standing by and watching, isn't this in Quanzhou City, where there are already 6,000 troops?

Knowing that Su Yan was going to help him deal with Shang Kexi together, Zhu Chenggong of course raised his hands and feet and agreed, just relying on this group of soldiers and horses under his command who were fighting in land battles and fighting from the north to the south was to fight against Shang Kexi, but if Su Yan helped, the chance of victory would be greater.

As a result, the two reached an alliance to join forces against Shang Kexi's Qing army while talking and laughing.

After talking about joining forces to fight against Shang Kexi, Su Yan mentioned the Yongli Imperial Court's request for them to lead the army south to King Qin, Su Yan undoubtedly did not want to go south to help the Southern Ming Dynasty who pulled his hips, and even if he refused, there was a reason, after all, the Qing army in Zhejiang was still gathering, and it was possible to go south at any time to knock on the pass, and it was impossible for him to leave at this juncture.

Contrary to Su Yan, Zhu Chenggong was preparing to go south to King Qinwang of Guangdong after repelling Shang Kexi, but as for how many soldiers and horses to lead south, it will be seen when the time comes, Zhu Chenggong's decision made Su Yan a little worried, he thought about it, if he was ready to usurp the throne and become emperor, would Zhu Chenggong be the first to jump out against him.

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After returning to Quanzhou from Xiamen, Su Yan began to build in Quanzhou.

In November before, Su Yan moved the light weapons arsenal from Dehua County to Hutou Mountain in Quanzhou Prefecture, this is just the migration has not yet completed the upgrade, and it takes 2,500 taels of silver to upgrade from the primary arsenal to the intermediate arsenal, which only takes one month to complete, and after the upgrade, the staff has expanded from 500 to 1,500 people, and can produce 1,000 spears at the same time every month, 800 knives (including sabers, waist knives, long knives, etc.), and 800 tomahawks (used by the Russian garrison). 800 flintlock smoothbore guns and 500 bayonets and carbines, not counting gunpowder and projectiles.

If Su Yan stopped the production line of one of the weapons, he could also increase the production value of each of the other production lines by 25 percent, which was average, and he could also designate a weapon to specialize in the production of this type of weapon in exchange for a sharp increase in the monthly production of this type of weapon.

It is worth mentioning that the carbine here is not a mature firearm of the Second World War, but a smoothbore flintlock pistol produced in 1801 at the Charleville Arsenal on the Meuse River in northeastern France, in other words, it is a product of the Napoleonic Wars.

Although the year of production of this carbine was almost 150 years later, during the Napoleonic Wars, it was only equipped with dragoons and chasseurs, and this type of gun was smaller in caliber than the smoothbore guns equipped with infantry, and the range, power and recoil were also reduced, making it suitable for cavalry on horseback rather than infantry.

After investing 2,500 taels of silver to upgrade the small arms arsenal, Su Yan set out to set aside two villages around Quanzhou City to build textile workshops to lay the foundation for the future military uniform factory.

Handicraft workshops are the foundation of economic prosperity, textile workshops are one of them, Su Yan previously conquered Quanzhou City when he rewarded a Jenny spinning machine technology, but has not been put into use, he is ready to build a textile workshop at the same time, let the gentleman who has mastered this technology He Jiuyun personally guide the manufacture of spinning machines, and then hand them over to the workers in the workshop to use.

Fujian Province has always had a tradition of planting kapok, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang encouraged the people to plant mulberry, cotton and other economic crops that can be made into clothes in the spare time, so Su Yan is not short of raw materials here.

He wants to test it here in Quanzhou first, if the built textile workshop can produce faster and better cotton thread with the blessing of Jenny's spinning machine, then he can promote it throughout the province, and then unlock the shuttle technology later, and the cloth produced can not only supply the whole province and the whole country, but also export a large number of overseas is not a problem.

The reason why Quanzhou was chosen is because the maritime trade here is developed, and the cloth produced in the future can be sold from Quanzhou Port to other port cities and abroad.

After searching on the map, Su Yan finalized the place to set up a textile workshop, paid 2,100 taels of silver to build two workshop areas, the workshop area took two months to complete, when the people of the whole village in addition to cultivating rice and sweet potatoes, but also set aside a piece of land to plant kapok trees, their yard can also plant a few mulberry trees to raise cicadas, and the harvested kapok and silk can be used to make new clothes for their own families.

An entire village can be regarded as a factory, and Su Yan will send people to collect and weave cloth regularly, and reward the best according to the quantity and quality of weaving, and their wages are also settled by quantity to their labor costs.

Cotton and silk were transported by Su Yan's people, and spinning machines were also provided for them to use, and it was a gift to them to be able to pay for labor.

Otherwise, he could have sent someone to buy a group of homeless people in the dental store, and opened his own factory for the homeless people to do, as long as he had food and shelter and did not need to pay wages, he would directly become a black-hearted capitalist.

Anyway, the homeless people here are obedient after buying it, it is completely Su Yan's private property, as long as they are given a bite to eat, they will not think of rebelling against themselves.

But Su Yan didn't want to do this, he wanted to make the people under his rule live a good life as much as possible.

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