In the blink of an eye, another half a year passed. The peace between Cheng Pan and the Yuan Dynasty continued. In the summer of 1345, the Yellow River continued to riot. The prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty was frustrated and worried. Seeing the shrinking of finances day by day, the head of the Yuan Dynasty was very depressed. Generally, solving this dilemma is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. It is impossible to increase revenue. The Han people have been developed to the extreme. If they increase revenue, they have to pay for the money to suppress this method. Reduce the interest groups in the upper class of the Yuan Dynasty cannot be kind to the leaders who reduce welfare. Employee welfare can only rise but not fall. It can also be practical here. Of course, there is another way to grab a fat sheep. This fat sheep is

Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan now gathers 1.2 million people around the small Huangzhou territory. The two pillar industries of industry and agriculture complement each other and accommodate a large number of people. These people are working and will create value as long as they work. Due to the development of industry, there are many people who trade here. High-quality steel and cloth, mirror soap matches and other light industrial products have long been prosperous in the territory. Although these products are far higher than their production costs, they are always higher than the products produced by agricultural society. For example, steel and steel. Due to the production of converters, the production cost of steel is only one-tenth of that of blacksmiths, but Cheng Pan did not sell ten.

One-quarter price. The price of goods is only one. The black-hearted price of the territory is the cheapest in this era. This is monopoly. Cheng Pan, a monopoly group, thinks nothing bad. This price is ordered by Cheng Pan himself. Industrial development requires the first pot of gold, and it will not be profitable. As for such a high price that affects competition and leads to the inability to advance technology, this situation will not happen within ten years. Industrial production is first of all. After the output is increased, technology is used to improve quality and reduce costs to compete in the market. Cheng Pan has just gotten rid of the dilemma of workshop production. Cheng Pan's industrial system is still a stage of eating meat and growing up, and it is not a part of the market to fight the survival of the fittest.

In stage. At a price lower than the market price in this era, Cheng Pan's steel equipment does not have to worry about sales. In this era, steel is a controlled item, which is a more deadly commodity than salt and grain. Generally, as long as a larger force needs to purchase a large amount of salt and grain, there is still a way to spend money, as long as it is easy to say, but steel is not grown in the fields or boiled in sea water. In this era, only the official is qualified to smelify large-scale iron. Large iron smelting workshops appear among the people are definitely trying to rebel. Moreover, the iron smelting is very disturbing. If you want to create steel in private, you can only knock it secretly. If you want to produce output, the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty came to your door.

In this era, various forces were only worried about not having iron, and iron tools were always out of stock in the market. However, after Cheng Pan's power rose, it broke this situation. In Cheng Pan's market, various farm tools were lined up in a row. These farm tools were made of steel. Most farm tools were cast in pig iron, and they were afraid of knocking stones when used. This shocked the iron-deficient forces and began to purchase a large amount of steel. However, the steel farm tools on the market seemed to never decrease, and they were purchased one batch after another. The foreign trade team also discovered this problem and started selling only 9.5% off metal farm tools, and the wooden pole of those shovels was left. These steel farm tools were just a good weapon as long as they were slightly processed.

So, the surrounding area was small, from local people to buy some agricultural tools to facilitate their convenience, and then they fought with other villages to fight with water sources and land boundaries. To the Yuan Dynasty's military procurement officials bought directly from Cheng Pan in order to be greedy for money. At first, they just bought farm tools and went back to make changes. Later, they found that the gun tips in Cheng Pan's territory were cheaper, so they directly customized them from Huangzhou territory. As for the official iron smelting plant in the nearby Yuan Dynasty, with the efforts of these borers, the craftsmen were dismissed and the blast furnace was extinguished. The Yuan Dynasty's military industry in Jiangnan was completely controlled by Cheng Pan's uncontrolled force.

Steel and military industries are industries that cannot be market-oriented, but the Yuan Dynasty had too low control over its own administrative personnel and was not prepared for it. Under the greed of officials, they passed the market competition and did not receive support from the state in the competition. Instead, they were demolished by the competent officials, and a large number of steel technicians were sold to Cheng Pan.

Tuotuo naturally didn't know this. He was attracted by the wealth in Cheng Pan's territory and really considered whether to rob him to make up for his financial loopholes. However, he was afraid that Cheng Pan would cause great damage to Jiangnan if he became violent. Thinking about the achievements of the Communist Party of China over the years, he finally gave up. Moreover, Tuotuo obtained the news that the Communist Party of China had built a castle on both sides of Ma'anshan, and knew that Cheng Pan's problem would be solved when the year was good. Now that he could not quickly pacify the power of the Communist Party of China in this troublesome autumn, it would only make the current situation worse. Now Cheng Pan's fortress has risen. It is not a problem that can be wiped out by several tens of thousands of households.

Cheng Pan, the tiger, is far stronger than Tuotuo imagined. Not to mention that the steel output in the territory has reached 50,000 tons per year. The reserve construction alone is enough for the Yuan army to eat a pot. Cheng Pan is now conducting extreme mobilization in the Huangzhou territory, and can pull out a pure firearm army of 150,000 people. More than ten large ships loaded with nitro earth mines gave Cheng Pan the confidence to violent soldiers. The militia's 100 rounds of live ammunition training and strict queue training allowed them to quickly go to the battlefield within one month. The Yuan Dynasty's firearm army developed very poorly because the Yuan Dynasty's saltpeter storage was insufficient and the loss was too serious.

Cheng Pan has been visiting warehouses in major cities in the Yuan Dynasty in recent years. As long as there are cannons, the saltpeter in the warehouse was taken away by Cheng Pan regularly. The people who managed the warehouse were unknown, so they had to report that the saltpeter was evaporated because of the hot weather. This reason was also accepted by officials of the Yuan Dynasty because they did not happen together. As a large consuming saltpeter, the firearm army naturally could not be formed, and the long-range strike force of the Yuan army was still mainly bows and arrows. The senior officials in Henan who originally wanted to form the firearm army gave up this idea and even stopped Cheng Pan's purchase of firearms.

Cheng Pan, who has such strength, has also had shortcomings. The total wealth production of the main base of Huangzhou No. 1, which is now developing into industrial zones, has begun to reach the highest level of three territories. A large number of population and physical industries are gathered here, without any strategic depth. Especially the heavy industrial zones on both sides of Huangzhou, this place is the essence of Cheng Pan's rule, which concentrates 30% of the heavy industrial production capacity in the territory at this time. However, this place is too close to Nanjing, only a few dozen miles away from a river. If the Yangtze River was not a natural danger, it had been controlled by Cheng Pan's water forces, Cheng Pan would not even sleep. The Yangtze River blocked the Jiangbei Territory, but

The Ma'anshan mining area was in the south of the Yangtze River and there was no protection. Cheng Pan's army was still a village protection team. Cheng Pan's firearms army and militia team fought a battle with the landlords and the landlords' siege army in Dangtu County and determined the local foothold of Ma'anshan Mountain Village. For the landlords, these bandits did not go out of the mountain to rob the road, but just opened the mountains to obtain mines, and the livestock was harmless. At this time, Cheng Pan had no other enemies here. However, as Cheng Pan's power grew, the Yuan Dynasty began to prevent Cheng Pan, and Ma'anshan, the lonely land isolated by the Yangtze River, became Cheng Pan's Achilles heel. In order to ensure that the large iron ore in the territory was not in trouble, Cheng Pan decided to build defensive fortifications.

Of course, to build the best famous ridges, Cheng Pan's first choice. The constantly folding city wall has no dead corners of fire, and the thickness of the city wall should be greatly enhanced at the protruding and concave edges. In other places, the inclined rocks and shells will touch the inclined surface and be removed from the force.

In fact, Cheng Pan spent a lot of money to build a bastion, which was a waste. In this era, even the Yuan Dynasty's cannons were smooth-bore cannons. Not to mention breaking through the bastion, it would be difficult to even break the outer bricks and inner walls of Hezhou.

.The Yuan army used sieges, that is, Huihuans, when siege, more. As for artillery attacks, they killed people on the city wall, and did not challenge the turtle shell city wall. In the future, the artillery range in the territory has always suppressed the opponent, and there were very few long-range heavy weapons that could hit the bastion. After Cheng Pan unified the country, the batch of bastions built at this time were only historically commemorative.

Now, under the order of Cheng Pan, a large number of red bricks and cement were transported to several construction sites. Several bastions to the east of Huangzhou territory blocked Nanjing's flat land against the territory. The two bastions at Rugao County base also began to protect the coastal base. In the second half of 1345, the defensive pressure of the territory was greatly reduced, and in this year, there was no war in the Communist Party's army. After the difficult period at the beginning, Cheng Pan began to move towards the road of peaceful rise.

At this time, the Taiwan territory began to exude a strong production power. After the Keelung coal mine was put into production, a large amount of coal began to be supplied to the Huangzhou territory and the local No. 3 steel plant. At the same time, the primitive chemical industry began to emerge in Taiwan. The output of three acids and two alkalis was getting bigger and bigger. By October 1345, 600,000 people had immigrated to the Taiwan territory. Most of them were farmers. On this empty land, with the help of high-quality iron farm tools, animal power and steam power, Taiwan's grain output could be self-sufficient

.In Cheng Pan's plan, before the emergence of the synthetic ammonia industry, Taiwan needed to accommodate 3 million people. As for now, it is far from enough to fully develop agricultural resources in the Taiwan territory, of course, Cheng Pan's meaning is not that Taiwan can only raise 3 million people, but that only three million people will not let the fertile land on Taiwan be deserted. As for Taiwan's population exceeding 3 million, it is time to start grabbing the fields of the islands of Nanyang. In this century, the population is far from enclosed. There are too many people in a certain place, are there any workers?

The business area relies entirely on the tertiary industry to feed the excess population, which is purely a waste of human resources. This is the case with the feudal society in China. The lower-level agricultural population feeds this huge civil servant management class and the tertiary industry group of clothing. In ancient China, a nobleman was rushing forward by a large group of people. These servants surrounded the nobles were the people in the tertiary industry. Compared with the modern tertiary industry, these people only served the aristocratic class. Therefore, Cheng Pan said to some people in the original time and space that every time the dynasty changed, the Chinese people were

The saying that the land is free to resolve conflicts is the opposite view. It is not that the peasants are killed every time the dynasty changes, but that the aristocratic occupants entrenched in the high-level areas is cleared and the shackles of the vast majority of farmers are loosened. What causes disaster to the peasants are those masters who do not do production and ink. They are the ones who master public opinion, and they are also the ones who exploit the public. China's land can accommodate 200 million people. But often reaches 100 million people, and everything is the fault of those literati managers who are out of reality.
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