After Fang Tianjie and others led the troops south, Zhao Chongyang took several newlyweds to live in Shuibo Liangshan for a period of time, and he helped Liangshan Machinery Factory solve some technical problems.

Then, under the escort of Luda, Wu Song, Dai Zong, and 300 special soldiers, they swam around the mountains and rivers on both sides of the river in a steam boat, and finally after the boat entered the canal, they decided to go south along the Grand Canal to Nanjing and Xishan Island of Taihu Lake to prepare for the ships and troops to go south.

In mid-July, we arrived in Yangzhou. I stayed in the big restaurant in Yangzhou Wantong Mall for two days, visited the places of interest in Yangzhou, and then set off to Nanjing.

On July 20, he arrived at Zhaojia Wharf in Nanjing and lived in the headquarters of the Vantone Chamber of Commerce. That night, Zhao Wuji and his wife held a banquet to entertain their son and several daughters-in-law, accompanied by Liu Erye, Wang Zhennan and others.

On the second day, Zhao Chongyang took Luda and Wu Song to the shipyard. The shipyard was led by Ye Tianzao to manufacture large sea ships, and Ye Chun, Ye Xia and others cooperated with the machinery factory to build a 20-ton steam ship.

At present, the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has 30 sea-going ships with a deadweight of 500 tons and five sea-going ships with a deadweight of 1,000 tons. There were more than two hundred steamships with a deadweight of twenty tons.

According to Zhao Chongyang's request, he originally planned to build a steam ship of more than 100 tons, but after building it several times, it has not been successful, so he has to give up for the time being.

In the next few days, Zhao Chongyang and the technical backbone of the machinery factory carried out technological innovation, and improved the lathe, steam engine, and water energy engine, and the cost of products made by the Wantong Chamber of Commerce in the future was undoubtedly reduced.

They stayed here until the Double Ninth Festival, and everyone celebrated Zhao Chongyang's seventeenth birthday together before going south to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

After they arrived in Suzhou by boat, they only stayed for one day, then went to Hangzhou, inspected in Hangzhou for two days, and then went to Fangjiazhai and Bangyuan Cave in Qingxi County, Fang Baihua's hometown. Zhao Chongyang took out one million yuan from the system warehouse and handed it to the person in charge here, so that they could exchange all the grain and store it in the ice cave of Bangyuan Cave in case of the famine year and the needs of future wars......

At the end of winter, Zhao Chongyang returned to Suzhou and officially lived in the Hou Mansion that Wang Yan and they repaired for Zhao Chongyang.

At this time, news came from the beggar gang that the prince of the Eight Kings had inflicted heavy losses on Wanyan Gao in Goryeo, and had wiped out more than 76,000 Jin soldiers before and after. Due to the lack of troops, the Jin people had abandoned Goryeo and all withdrew to the Jin Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Jin plundered more than a million people from Goryeo, as well as a large number of cattle, sheep and horses. But this is still the case, and Jin Guo is still suffering from a big injury. Because, within one year last year, they lost nearly 150,000 troops, which has exceeded half of the total strength of the Jin State, Zhao Chongyang analyzed, within three years, the Jin State should not be able to invade the south.

Due to the addition of a large number of rebels, Zhao Binghua's men and horses have grown to 150,000. The Goryeo people took the initiative to serve Zhao Binghua as the king of Goryeo. The big thing has been decided, and Lu Junyi has returned to the Daimyo's Mansion. In this way, Zhao Chongyang ambushed a strange army under the wings of the Jin people......

During the time when Zhao Chongyang settled on Xishan Island, he spent all day with Liu Jinlong, Tang Long, Ling Zhen and others, studying the production of poor guns.

Originally, Zhao Chongyang thought that the slippery cannon was easier than the backroom rifle, but in fact, from a technical point of view, this is indeed the case. But judging from the difficulty of machining, the backyard gun can be made by hand, but the cannon cannot.

So a few people began to study the backroom gun again. With the basis for making revolvers and flintlock pistols, the three of them finally built the first backyard gun after more than a month of improvement.

A rifle was made, and there were also matching bullets. Of course, this is much simpler than making a gun, Tang Long, Liu Jinlong, Ling Zhen and others took two days to create a matching bullet.

Through the rotation of several people, they identified the shortcomings of the first gun and improved them one by one. Then, on the basis of the first one, several improved backyard rifles were made, and several people tested them at the shooting range every day, and sometimes the princess brought a few sisters to shoot a few shots. A year ago, the various data of the first backyard gun were finally determined, and the next step was to arrange for workers to produce in batches.

In the middle of the month, the Gu family fleet heading north brought news of the advance army and a report on the situation of Fang Tianjie and Zhu Wu. The report not only gave a detailed report on their work in Da Nang in the early stage, but also said that they had traded with several groups of Hu merchants' fleets, and all the goods they brought in the early stage had been dismantled. At the same time, a large number of saltpeter, copper ingots, pepper and spices, and several thousand catties of potato seeds were constructed from Hu Shang, and after the goods of both sides were discounted and offset, they were worth millions of yuan of gold and silver.

From the report, Zhao Chongyang knew that the advance army was developing well in the Da Nang area. Zhao Chongyang replied with a letter, asking Zhang Shun and Nangong Yongjie to lead part of the navy to return to Middle-earth with six large ships and 20 steamships, and go to the northern Jiaozhou port to transport the first batch of 15,000 immigrants and a batch of goods to Da Nang.

The New Year arrived, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, Wang Yan, the person in charge of the Jiangnan Branch, led the responsible persons of various departments on Xishan Island to pay New Year's greetings to Zhao Wuji's father and son.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhao Chongyang took several beauties, accompanied by a small number of guards, to visit the towns and villages of Xishan Island.

They saw that the people on Xishan Island had enough food and clothing, and every household was immersed in the joy of the New Year, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces. He felt that the country he wanted to build in the future should be such a country. Taihang Mountain, Xishan Island, Shuibo Liangshan, Sado Island and other places are model projects in the future.

The new Annan Kingdom, which is about to be built, can be developed according to this model......