Yang Yan stayed for a few days and returned to Banzhou City, while Yang Bangxian stayed in Hailong City to discuss with his father about the preparation of the Banzhou New Army. In order to give full play to the role of firearms, Yang Bangxian proposed to carry out a pilot project with reference to the establishment of the Perak Army, and to prepare for the first phase of the establishment of a light infantry brigade, under the jurisdiction of a special battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, and a training battalion. This plan was strongly supported by Yang Wen, who put him in full charge of the matter. Yang Yan waited in Banzhou City for a few more days, and Wang Youfu and Du Daquan arrived with a large team. Wang and Du are officially the chief and deputy representatives of the Perak Army in Banzhou, mainly representing the Perak Army in handling political, military, economic, cultural and other matters with Banzhou, while Yang Yan focuses on the affairs of Nanyang Company. The division of labor between the two is different, but they cooperate with each other.

It was decided by the joint meeting of the military and the government that the Perak Army would set up an arsenal in Banju, which would produce muskets, artillery, grenades, mines and other firearms in addition to cold weapons, but the technology was a generation behind the latest firearms of the Perak Army, and the machine tools and equipment needed were also obsolete after the technological upgrade of the Dayi Arsenal. But even these second-hand and old equipment, the firearms produced are far ahead, and the performance of all forces around Miaojiang is beaten. Firearms technology is the core asset of the Perak Army, and it is actually extremely difficult to set up an external factory, but the Perak Army and Banzhou have established an alliance, and Yang Yan is pregnant at the moment, so this decision can be reluctantly passed. In fact, this decision also attached conditions, first, that all technical positions should be filled by technicians sent by the Dayi Arsenal, second, that the core raw materials and key tools were also regularly transported by the Perak Army, and third, that the sale of firearms was still subject to a licensing system, and that they could not be sold to third parties outside Banju without the authorization of the Perak Army.

Nanyang Company focuses on economic and trade affairs, as well as intelligence gathering, mountain and topographic surveys, and other related affairs. Before Zhu Zhuozi died in the line of duty, the Nanyang Company had set up trading posts in all major tribes in Miaojiang, forming a trade route extending in all directions. In addition to Miaojiang, efforts have been made to open up channels to the outside world, and four major foreign trade routes and more than a dozen branch lines to Tanzhou, Guangzhou, Qinzhou and Dali have been formed. In the trade of these routes, there were many bandits along the Tanzhou direction, and the profits were thin; The two states of Guangzhou and Qin have a long way to go but are lucrative, and they can purchase a large number of strategic materials from overseas. Compared with the above routes, the road in Dali is much more difficult.

Miaojiang and Dali are close to each other, and the roads are mature and there are few bandits along the way, but they are subject to political factors. After the Mongols occupied Dali, they forbade the trade between the two sides, and the tribes of the Luo Ghost Kingdom and the bordering Dali barbarian tribes often had grievances over land and water sources, so the civil trade also dropped significantly. After Kublai Khan became Khan, out of the need to alleviate ethnic contradictions, he did not ban non-governmental trade, so that the trade between the two sides was restored. Later, he transferred the famous Mongolian general Wuliang Hetai stationed in Tun Dali, which was a Mongolian hardliner who was pro-Ali Buge, and had always only known how to solve problems with iron and fire. After he was transferred out of Dali, the relationship between Miao Jiang and Dali gradually eased, and the two sides resumed normal trade.

Driven by the Mongolian army, the Wuman tribe attacked Luo's cottage several times in a row, but was defeated and returned. With the support of the Perak Army and Banzhou, the Dong tribe is no longer what it used to be, not only has food and clothing, but has even excavated coal and iron mines, built stoves for weapons and agricultural tools, and even has a well-equipped standing army of hundreds of men. There was no blood feud between the neighboring Wumanbian tribe and the Dong tribe, and now they could not fight and saw that they were greedy, so they quietly sent people to find the Banzhou official stationed in Tun Luo's cottage - at Ouyang Xuan's suggestion, Luo's cottage had been renamed Liupanshui, asking the two sides to coexist peacefully. As soon as Yang Wen and Zhu Zhuozi heard that the clan of Yanpan was coming to sue for peace, they immediately agreed, because the official name of the tribe's territory in Dali was Dongchuan County. The copper ore resources here are extremely abundant, but they are a strategic resource that the Thunderbolt Army covets. Ouyang Xuan had talked to Yang Wen about this place many times, and he also wrote many times to urge Zhu Xuanzi to visit this place. To a large extent, the establishment of the Nanyang Company by the Perak Army through Miaojiang was for the copper mines of Dongchuan County.

It's just that in order to test the sincerity of the Gang Ministry, Yang Wen's reply is that if he wants to cooperate, he must first kill the Mongolian officials stationed in the Ben Ministry. The Banzhou side thought that it would be impossible for the company to agree to this condition, but unexpectedly, the department sent the heads of more than 50 Mongolian officials and soldiers half a month later. Kublai Khan also transferred a large number of elite Mongolian cavalry from Dali because of the struggle with Ali Buge, and most of the troops stationed in Dongchuan were white barbarians and black barbarians, with only a small number of Mongolian officials. The tribe tricked the Mongols out of the city, killing them all in the wilderness, claiming that they had been attacked by the Banshu army. Over the years, they had had enough of the oppression of the Mongol army, and if in a few years, with the barbaric system of "first night power", the children of the tribe would be all Mongols.

Faced with the more than 50 Mongolian heads sent, Yang Wen was overjoyed, and immediately signed a covenant with the blood wine of the Gang Division. He did not take it seriously at the claim that the Mongols were attacked by the Banzhou army, but ordered people to spread it. One is to take the opportunity to promote the prestige of the Banzhou army, and the other can also prevent the Mongol army from retaliating. As for the Mongol army coming to attack Banju? Just let them taste the power of Miao Jiang's poisoned arrows and new firearms. After the signing of the covenant, the two sides carried out a series of communications, agreeing that Banzhou would send people to Dongchuan to teach the agricultural and mining techniques of the Banban tribesmen, and that the Banban tribe would send young children to the Banzhou Confucius Institute to study. The two sides cooperated in opening mines, sending caravans to each other, and expanding trade exchanges.......

Although Dali can also produce industrial products such as pottery and iron farming tools, the quality is obviously far inferior to that of the Perak Army, and the price is too small to be extremely high, even after deducting the transportation costs, it cannot compete with the products industrially produced by the Perak Army, let alone Banzhou, which is very close. Zhu Zhuozi even decided to establish a civilian product production base in Liupanshui in the next step, first encroaching on the power of the Mongols from the economic level. In the process, the department will also make a lot of money by becoming an agent and transit point for Thunderbolt products. Of course, all this will not be implemented with great fanfare, but in the shadows.

Although the Mongols' power in Dali has shrunk, their military power is still very strong. Take Dongchuan County as an example, although the Mongols did not send people to directly govern after the officials were killed, there are still 3,000 new annexed armies of Baiman and Wuman, although these new annexed armies are similar to the language and customs of the Yanban Department, they are easier to get along with than the Mongols who kill at every turn, and they will not stop the trade between the two sides after taking the benefits, but if the matter is too public, they dare not cover it up, otherwise it will inevitably attract the interrogation of the Mongol army.