Sichuan is not like Huguang, and the transportation is not very convenient. Huguang's grain can be sold to Jiangnan and Beizhili to make money, but Sichuan's grain is very difficult.

But don't worry about it now, their food construction army cantonment buys.

The people in the southwest have become more supportive of Wang Hongyu's policies.

Wang Zheng, Li Tiezhu, Zhou Zhaoan, Lin Yuanwai and others were all familiar with the development of the construction of Juntun at this time.

They also grasped the essence of Wang Hongyu's entrustment and implemented the construction of the Counselor's Council of Soldiers and Military Officials, so that every resident of the garrison could become the master of the new life.

The war is gone, the days are better, the technology is better, there is still the right to speak and the right to distribute, and even the ability to read and write.

Who is stupid and wants to leave the construction army and do his own thing?

To put it bluntly, it is a system, and if the system is effective, it will be effective if the people are the masters of the country.

With the rapid development of civil affairs, the military certainly cannot lag behind.

Zhang Mingshi and others built a new ordnance workshop in Chongqing, which can also produce high-quality swords and spears, armor and shields, bird guns, Lumi guns, tiger squat guns, sub-mother cannons, grenades, ceramic cannonballs, and a swarm of bees.

After Wang Hongyu completed the plan for building a military tun, he came to this ordnance workshop in Chongqing to inspect it.

Checking the production of the first batch of ordnance, we saw that the quality of the output was good, but the quantity was not much at the beginning.

"Don't be in a hurry, our ordnance workshop, we must let the tunmin craftsmen be the masters, and the output is not in a hurry to increase, and it is more important for everyone to produce well."

At this time, there is no hurry to quickly and significantly increase the proportion of firearms, to be honest, it is easy to make mistakes if it is fast, and it is easy to deviate from the people in a hurry.

There is not so much pressure from the outside, and it will take some time to accumulate when it is played, so he does not rush.

Zhang Mingshi and others admired his courage, not only did they not have much pressure, but they admired Dingyuan Hou even more.

"By the way, Master Hou, after the war, there are still more than 2,000 people in the Hunhe Army, and there are only 2,000 in the Shennong Army, do you want to expand the army immediately?"

As a general, or the first general of the Hunhe Army under Wang Hongyu, Zhang Mingshi still has a sense of crisis.

He knew that this force was no problem dealing with Tusi, and if he went north to fight *** now, it was estimated that he would be surrounded by the enemy army in numbers, and then defeated in hand-to-hand combat.

"Well, it's to expand, but it's to be stable. The Hunhe Army will be expanded to a maximum of 3,500 and the Shennong Army to 3,000, and the selection of soldiers must still be strict, training must not be relaxed, and the system of the new army must be implemented even more."

"Yes!"

Zhang Mingshi was shocked in his heart, and the other generals wished that they would have more soldiers and horses in their hands, and ask the court for more money.

The Marquis of Dingyuan fed his own elite soldiers, and as long as he had talents and weapons from the imperial court, the rest of the salary and grain were very small.

This is a strong army.

Imagine that Yunyang has only 10,000 tun people who have built military tuns, and Sichuan and Guizhou are currently planning 100,000 new plans.

The people have to eat, they have to build roads, they have to work in the workshops and handicrafts, and if they raise another army of 30,000 or 40,000, they will definitely have a bad life.

At present, it is rated at less than 7,000 people, and there are also some tuntian troops who are not out of production in various construction military cantonments, and there is no need for special people to support them.

This is the path to development.

In fact, of course, Wang Hongyu wants to expand the army, but not to expand the professional army.

Professional soldiers are professional, and after all, they have to eat the food of the common people.

If you raise too much, it will be difficult for the people.

However, the guards who did not leave their jobs were miserable and poor, and they could not eat enough to eat all day long, and the grain output was occupied by military officials, greedy by generals, and expropriated by the imperial court to support civilian officials......

This, of course, cannot be fought.

Wang Hongyu's construction of the military tun also has the tuntian army.

This Tuntian Army is not comparable to the Tuntian Army of the Wei Institute.

There is no commission, strict investigation of greedy ink, no support for a large number of idlers, and full of food, good use, and being the master of the house.

The miners are good at using heavy weapons with sledgehammers.

weapons

The people of the workshop can not only make weapons but also use them skillfully, especially those who make guns, they are not only gun craftsmen, but also the Tuntian army with advanced guns.

He used his own weapons to defend his power and support Wang Hongyu against the enemy, these Tuntian troops just did not leave production to create, but their role in production was greater than that of being soldiers, otherwise they would have joined the Hunhe Army and the Shennong Army a long time ago.

There are also those tun people who build roads, bridges and dredge rivers, and the young and strong ones are also powerful engineers.

This is the armed force directly in Wang Hongyu's hands, and at first glance there are no 7,000 people, and it doesn't look very powerful...... In fact, when it really started, no one could have imagined how strong his strength was.

This is not counting Shizhu, Youyang and Hou Liangzhu of the Sichuan Army, these three soldiers and horses with deep cooperation.

Wang Hongyu came to Zunyi to inspect, which is his birthplace and his sad place. His father was seriously injured during the rebellion of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou, and settled in the Zunyi Military and Civil Mansion.

Now the road from Zunyi to Guiyang has been widened; The roads and waterways from Zunyi to Youyang were also repaired; The waterway from Youyang to the Yangtze River was originally relatively smooth, and now wharves along the way are being built.

The Juntun from Chongqing to Luzhou was carried out relatively early, but there are not many places that can be irrigated, but Sichuan has abundant rainfall, and there is no river to store water to grow rice, and winter wheat can be planted if water cannot be stored in spring and winter, and there is more rain in summer.

The rivers in the east and south of Zunyi are all over this is the best place for Tuntian, although the land resources are scarce, but the area of paddy field development is considerable.

Now that the Tuntian Army has been deployed in this area, winter wheat can also be replanted, and after the wheat is harvested, rice can be planted.

There are 60 kinds of mineral deposits in Zunyi, coal, bauxite, titanium, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, barium, caustic soda are abundant, and coal has been mined, which can be used as fuel or sold to Chongqing and other areas north of the Yangtze River, where coal can be used for heating in winter.

Perovskite, manganese, and magnesium ore are ready to be mined, which are indispensable ores for ferroalloys.

Youyang's magnesium ore, lead-zinc ore and pyrite ore have been put into production.

Chongqing's ordnance workshop and agricultural machinery factory has already started production, and the area is full of rivers and suitable for all kinds of processing plants.

Machined lathes are currently rotated with hydraulic turbines, and some have been built in Yunyang.

The oil reserves in Qionglai County, southwest of Chengdu, are quite large, and the buried depth is shallow, and Wang Hongyu has begun to lay out the development and utilization; Moreover, the natural gas in the Sichuan Basin is abundant, and the ancients have long begun to use bamboo tubes to draw natural gas.

Yunyang's nitrogen fertilizer has been developed, and Guiyang's phosphate rock storage is huge, although there is no chemical theory yet, but under his own guidance, he can make some in a few years.

Of course, the construction of roads is still the key, and Tianqi also fully supports it, attaches great importance to road traffic, and transportation is the lifeblood of economic development, and it is also an important foundation for the deployment of troops to quell the rebellion.