As Guo Quanshu thought, Baoxiangying is indeed going to fight, and it is going to fight a big battle.

At the Internal Affairs Meeting, Luo Zhixue asked all internal affairs departments to do their own jobs and fully support the army's operations.

Moreover, Luo Zhixue did not conceal them too much, and directly stated that the purpose of sending troops this time was to obtain enough food and other materials, and required all internal affairs departments to make relevant preparations. For example, the Grain Collection Department would send people to accompany the army, ready to accept all kinds of food, gold, silver and other goods seized by the army at any time, and register them one by one.

The Trade Department must purchase enough strategic materials in a short time, especially precious strategic materials such as gunpowder and saltpeter, to avoid the failure of the war and insufficient external seizures, but the commerce and trade are cut off, resulting in the failure of ammunition.

All internal affairs have their own tasks, and the tasks are not light.

After the meeting, Chen Xingkai and Guo Quanshu had a moment of conversation. Finally, Chen Xingkai asked Guo Quanshu to prepare and follow Chen Xingkai to join the army at that time so that they could do a better job of counting spoils and collecting food and grass.

Guo Quanshu was quite excited at the beginning, and even thought that he would finally have the opportunity to leave Songshan Village. Once he got to the outside world, he would have the chance to escape.

But this thought only lasted for a few seconds and disappeared.

Guo Quanshu had the opportunity to leave Songshan Village and go to the outside world, and even carried it away directly, but what about his family?

The Guo family is still in his hometown, and the village in his hometown is already under the control of Baoxiangying. Some time ago, Baoxiangying even set up a village chief in his hometown.

If Guo Quanshu dared to run away, the people from Baoxiangying would dare to kill his family.

Forget it, let’s be honest and ready to follow the army. Judging from the rebels in Baoxiang Camp, they don’t look like they are taking temporary attacks. They must have made a comprehensive consideration and decided to take action. The action should be relatively smooth, and the danger of following the army should not be great.

If it doesn’t work, then you will just follow the army and flee back to Funiu Mountain.

Guo Quanshu suppressed his strange thoughts and began to prepare for the army.

Song Blacksmith, the director of the Industrial Department on the other end, also felt a lot.

Like Guo Quanshu, Song Blacksmith is actually not really a rebel.

Song Blacksmith was originally a good family in Lushan County, but he didn't dare to say that he was rich and noble, but with his ability to build agricultural tools, weapons, guns and cannons, he would at least not have to worry about food and drink.

However, they were kidnapped by the rebels from Baoxiang Camp to Funiu Mountain, and the whole family was neat and many were there.

In the past few months, Song Blacksmith initially worked hard to save himself and the lives of the whole family.

In the middle and late stages, it was to allow the family to live a better life in the mountains, so they worked very hard.

He even tried his best to help these thieves build various weapons and build an arsenal.

But even so, Song Blacksmith didn't have much recognition of these thieves in his heart.

But, I don’t know if it’s the world that makes people beat people or the thieves really value him, but they actually promoted him as a blacksmith one after another.

From the beginning of the small manager to the weapons workshop manager, to the current director of the Industry Department.

Blacksmith Song felt that he was getting deeper and deeper in this thief nest.

Recently, he has often woken up from his dreams, and these nightmares are basically similar plots.

After the officers and soldiers arrived at Funiu Mountain and were defeated by Baoxiang Camp, he and his family fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers. No matter how he explained, the officers and soldiers did not believe that they were innocent blacksmiths. In the end, they and their families were all charged with rebel by the officers and soldiers.

"Ha, now, let alone the officers and soldiers, even I don't believe it..." Song Blacksmith was sitting in his office and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Whether he wants it or not, he has now become the director of the Industry Department.

This is not an ordinary little leader, but one of the major directors in Baoxiang Camp. He is still a backbone leader and is definitely a big thief.

It is impossible for such a person to survive in the hands of officers and soldiers.

Don’t talk about yourself, even your family will be implicated by yourself.

Song Blacksmith, who was deeply worried about the future, took a deep breath and then began to gather several staff members from the Industrial Department and the main responsible persons of the arsenal, machinery factory and logistics factory. He wanted to start arranging the wars of each factory and overtime production tasks.

Since I can no longer get rid of the title of rebel, I can only go all the way to the end. The only hope is that Baoxiangying can last longer so that I and my family can survive.

No matter how bad it is, you must win the attention and trust of General Luo Zhixue. Only when you are defeated can you be qualified to let the general escape with one of his sons, so that you will not let your family break off the incense.

Their Song family is in Lushan County, and at least it has been passed down by the iron-storming family for seven or eight generations, so it cannot be broken in its own hands.

After summoning the manpower, Song Blacksmith ordered the tasks one by one. He himself went to the musket factory and squatted, just to make the musket factory increase its production capacity and deliver a batch of muskets as soon as possible.

After more than a month of construction, trial production and continuous improvement of the musket factory, at the beginning of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, although its production capacity has not yet reached its peak, it can produce 100 mesh rope guns every month.

If you work overtime and use the production method of changing people and not stopping work, the production capacity can be further increased by about 150 units.

However, if you want to continue to increase production capacity in the future, it will not work if you rely on current manpower and equipment.

More production equipment is needed and more trained workers are needed.

There is no need to worry about production equipment, because all the production equipment of the musket factory is built by the machinery factory itself. As long as the production capacity of the machinery factory increases, there will naturally be more equipment for producing muskets.

However, it also requires more skilled workers to increase production capacity by machinery factories.

So after all, what is missing is still people.

In response, Song Blacksmith had already made a request to add staff to Luo Zhixue at the meeting. Luo Zhixue agreed and allowed the Industrial Department to recruit another twenty long-term workers and eighty temporary workers.

Song Blacksmith was quite satisfied with this. Whether it was a long-term worker or a temporary worker, there were only one hundred people in total, which was enough for the Industrial Department to do a lot of things.

As for more people, he dare not expect too much.

Because I can't afford it!

Although most workers in factories under the Industrial Department only manage meals without additional subsidies, only a few technicians can receive subsidies ranging from dozens to hundreds of cents of yuan after they manage meals.

But, just this food management is a considerable expense, and now the food is expensive, and the price of grain outside the mountains is one price per day.

Everyone knows that it is a chaotic world and food is in short supply. Not to mention ordinary people, even those big grain stores often hold on and refuse to sell, further pushing up the price of grain.

Whether grain is expensive or not has little impact on Baoxiangying, because Baoxiangying never uses gold and silver to purchase grain, nor does it take out the grain for sale. Baoxiangying’s grain is self-sufficient. If it is short of food, it will be levied. For example, now...

The food in Baoxiangying is not much now. In addition to supplying the army, it also needs to supply staff from various internal affairs departments and workers from the three major factories under the Industrial Department. The food consumption is very large, and Luo Zhixue could not give the Industrial Department too much grain share.

So Song Blacksmith was also very satisfied to get a quota of 100 people.

On the same day, the Industrial Department began to recruit workers from outside, but they were all temporary workers. As for the quota for long-term workers, they would be admitted from existing temporary workers in the factory.

As expected, news came out of the Industrial Department that people were hiring workers, and people were very motivated, especially when workers in the three major factories heard that their factories were going to recruit workers, they immediately went home and called for people.

As long as you can enter the factory, you can have a meal, even temporary workers. According to their previous experience, the temporary workers recruited in the factory are said to be temporary workers, but they will often be hired for a long time when they are in the factory.

After all, the scale of factories is continuing to expand, and after working for a month or two, these temporary workers are often considered skilled workers. After the factory expands its scale and increases the number of long-term workers, they will often become directly transferred from temporary workers.

Now, this time I have become a regular person and twenty people.

The most important thing is that whether it is a long-term worker or a temporary worker, you can have a meal. Being able to have a meal is already the lifelong pursuit of most people in contemporary times.

However, some people chose to attack the city in order to make a living, while others chose to join the army.

According to EYD and their plan, the recruitment of recruits must begin before the formal operation.

Considering that the qualified soldiers in the villages deep in Funiu Mountain and even in some outer hilly areas have been exhausted, the recruitment scope this time is mainly in the villages in the eastern outer areas, including Gotham Village.

Gotham Village is different from many villages with a single surname. This village has two major surnames, namely Gao and Tan. It is rumored that the ancestors of the Gao family and the ancestors of the Tan family were sworn brothers hundreds of years ago, and finally chose to open up land and settle down here together, and they also became children and in-laws. The descendants also have the tradition of intermarrying each other.

After more than two hundred years of continuous development, the population of the two families of Tan gradually increased, and eventually formed the current Gotham Village.

It’s just that unlike many normal villages, there are many fools in Gotham Village.

Gao Zheng is the fool in the eyes of outsiders!

This fool likes to sit on the stone pier at the door of his house, without saying a word or paying attention to others, and just can see the entrance of the village in a daze.

Until one day, a group of people came to the entrance of the village, a group of people who claimed to defend Funiushan villagers and let the people have food and clothing to have food and clothing to come to the village.

The eyes of this fool only appeared in the eyes of him!
Chapter completed!