The meeting continues.

"There is one thing that needs to be explained. Cement technology is provided by us. As the price of providing cement technology, within five years, our People's Military Government will purchase cement from your cement factory, and the price will be too high and the cost will be increased by 10% on the basis of the cost. You will not be subject to this restriction when selling cement to others.

However, cement produced by cement plants must be supplied to the People's Military Government first, and the rest can be taken out. If you are unwilling to accept this condition, you can leave now."

Not long after Wang Mu finished speaking, some merchants chose to leave the meeting. Becoming an imperial merchant was a good thing, but the money earned too little in business with the People's Army, at most 10% of the profit. There are many businesses that can make a lot of money, so there is no need to focus on cement.

After a while, one-third of the meeting room was vacant, which meant that one-third of the merchants gave up the cement business. Even if the remaining merchants were harsh conditions of the People's Military Government, they still had the idea of ​​doing cement business.

Royal merchants are just one reason, and many people focus on selling cement to outsiders.

Some merchants have learned in advance whether cement is good or not. They walk on the cement road and go to the "New City" to see the houses built by cement bricks.

The People's Army will share land for the people. As long as two years pass, the people will become "rich". When the people are rich, they may buy cement to build houses.

If you can become a businessman, you still have the vision of doing business, but some people are short-sighted, while others can see the long-term.

One-third of the people left, which did not affect Wang Mu's continued meetings. Wang Mu continued to put forward some conditions for the merchants, such as preparing masks for the cement factory workers, and building the cement factory outside the city.

Seeing Wang Mu put forward one condition after another, and some merchants left the conference room, the number of merchants left the meeting in the end was less than two-fifths of the number when they arrived.

"I have finished talking about the conditions, and everyone is still in the conference room, which shows that they all want to run a cement factory. For the partners, our People's Military Government will also provide some help..."

The first help the People's Military Government gave to merchants is to divide the areas for all merchants. Only one merchant is allowed to establish a cement factory in the same place, and the specific division is decided by the merchants.

The second is to help establish cement plants outside the city to establish cement plants, which may occupy arable land. Merchants need to make some compensation. This compensation is mainly for the People's Military Government. The People's Military Government will replace land for farmers who occupy arable land and turn some official fields into civilian fields.

The third help...

Wang Mu threw out one advantage after another. Some merchants have a lot of impression of the People's Military Government. These helps are too useful to them. They will inevitably compete with each other and reduce many troubles. Although they make less money at the beginning, they may make a lot of money in the future.

As long as you don’t lose money, you can try it and do business with the People’s Military Government. This time you will be remembered by the People’s Military Government, and you may also get the opportunity to make a lot of money in the future.

The meeting lasted for a whole morning, but the matter was not over yet. It took quite a while for the merchant to decide where to open a cement factory to officially produce cement in the cement factory.

After the construction of one cement plant after another is completed and the production of cement begins, the People's Army's road construction plan can be carried out quickly, and even the construction plan of water conservancy facilities can be accelerated.

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In Longnan County, southern Jiangxi, the First Army Group of the People's Army is forming the People's Army for the first standard division after the reform. The full name of the division is the First Division of the People's Army and the division commander Zhao Dayou.

As the First Division of the People's Army, Wang Shengrong naturally wanted to build this First Division into an elite unit that could win every battle.

A standard division consists of a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a first-row regiment, a grenade regiment, two ordinary regiments and division headquarters. The total division has a total of more than 8,000 people.

It is impossible for the musket regiment to be equipped with only tiger-headed guns, and it is also equipped with a large number of tiger-headed guns as light guns. The maximum range of tiger-headed guns is almost the same as that of tiger-headed guns. The tiger-headed guns are relatively light and do not require carriage or horse-carrying. Two soldiers can carry them away directly. Being with musket soldiers will not delay the speed of the march.

All the heavy artillery regiments are equipped with heavy artillery, and only the Folang cannons selected are selected, with a maximum range of more than one thousand meters. The People's Army is preparing to equip three types of Folang cannons, namely, the maximum range of more than one thousand meters, 1,500 meters and 2,000 meters.

Basically, the longer the range of the artillery, the greater the weight, and a large number of carriages are needed to transport it.

The first-row warriors who are on the first-row regiment have a shield as a defensive weapon, and can choose an axe and a big knife to attack weapons.

The shield used by the First Landing warriors is average in defense, and it can withstand the lead bullets shot from the bird gun if the distance is closer, it cannot be blocked.

The Ministry of War has been discussing something, considering using steel to create a shield with higher defensive power, so that it can block the lead bullets shot from the bird gun even at a closer distance.

However, the weight of such a steel shield will be greatly increased, and there will definitely not be many soldiers in the People's Army who can use steel shields normally.

Hu Zhuang even thought of wrapping the whole body of the warrior with steel and building a heavy infantry. Such heavy infantry will definitely be unstoppable when they go to the battlefield, but there are even fewer soldiers who can withstand the weight of steel armor on the whole body.

The grenades of the grenade regiment mainly carry two types of weapons, one is a hand grenade and the other is a goose-ling sword.

Grenade consumables, throw out all the grenades carried on you. At this time, the grenade may retreat backward according to the order, or draw out the goose-feather sword to fight the enemy. Grenadiers must practice both weapons.

Ordinary regiments are mainly equipped with spears and goose feather swords. Most of the time, ordinary regiments are used as combat assistance and logistics. When fighting, follow musketeers, first climb the warriors and grenadiers. Only when the main force suffers heavy losses will the soldiers of ordinary regiments fight against the enemy.

A group of troops were drawn from all over the First Army, and the First Division of the People's Army was quickly formed, but the first division just formed still needed time to get started.

It is said to be a standard division, but also a mixed division. Each branch is mixed together. During combat, the division commander needs to consider the cooperation of each branch. In the past, the cooperation of each branch was mainly the matters that the commander and deputy commander considered.

The People's Army and the Ming court simply ceased to fight, and the war would not start in a short period of time. There was enough time for each standard division to complete the running-in and be able to exert its maximum power when the war came.
Chapter completed!