Just like Fengjiazhuang before, if Zhao Ming had not been born, most of them would have been destroyed by bandits.
Even after surviving the period when banditry was at its worst, these wealthy families did not dare to go out easily, mainly because they lacked armed manpower and were afraid of encountering bandits again.
Since Fengjiazhuang had more people and more money, it naturally recovered the fastest among them.
In the letter, Fengjiazhuang's textile factory has been successfully opened in Xi'an Prefecture, but the initial investment was relatively large, purchasing many second-hand textile machines, spending tens of thousands of dollars, renting land, recruiting old masters, etc.
The letter stated that now that winter is about to begin, cotton-padded clothes and quilts are selling well, with a net profit of about 5,000 yuan in the first month.
However, the scattered management cost thousands of dollars. Now the cotton-padded clothes are easy to sell. If summer comes, they are likely to be unsalable.
Feng Yunyun expressed some worries about this in her letter.
After reading this, Zhao Ming couldn't help but smile, it was considered a good deal.
With a net profit of 5,000 yuan per month, even if it doesn't sell well in the summer, there is actually no need to worry about selling.
Zhao Ming knew very well that war was a very resource-intensive matter, and the military would also spend a lot of money on purchases, especially in the Battle of the Central Plains the year after next.
About 800,000 people participated in the war, which lasted from early spring to the depths of winter. By then, major factories would be unable to meet demand even if they worked overtime.
Zhao Ming is not worried that the military will not give him money. If there are too many things that are done to exploit the benefits, the factory will go bankrupt.
It's just that the profit is a little less, but small profits but quick turnover is not a good choice.
And with subsequent wars continuing, there is really no need to worry about selling such urgently needed items.
But speaking of it, it is indeed not as fast as making money from your own mine.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ming was full of expectations for the development of the mine.
Now that the houses in the camp have almost been expanded, Zhao Ming will not let the prisoners rest. If there is no other work, they will go mining.
It is an open-pit mine anyway, and a lot can be collected purely manually, so the efficiency will not be much lower.
Now it can stably produce about five tons every day. The quantity is really a bit low, but it is enough for pure labor without too many equipment and the construction of rail transportation to achieve this level.
When Boss Guo comes over, you will see piles of coal mountains, and the mine will enter a stage of rapid development in a short period of time.
For several days in a row, everything seemed so calm. Zhao Ming did not let his brothers plunder the Outer Mongolians. He just kept to himself and did not touch the bad luck of the Outer Mongolians except for normal inspections.
I don’t know what the Outer Mongolians think, and they have ignored them since that day.
Now, almost half a month has passed since the last night raid, and the result...
Except for stationing a team of 500 people at the old site of Pingqiantun to conduct simple investigations, they actually didn't want to talk to them at all.
Thinking about it carefully, it's normal. The cannons and heavy firepower have been captured, and now they are teasing such a group of people.
Not to mention whether it can be eradicated, even if it can be eradicated, it will cost a huge amount of manpower, material resources and time.
Obviously, the Outer Mongolians don't want to continue spending time, and they just treat each other in a friendly way if you don't touch me, and I won't touch you.
Zhao Ming was relaxed and urged his brothers to practice hard every day.
Not only the herdsmen of the Chabei United Army are training hard, but Chang Wei and other newly arrived brothers are also training the team.
In addition, Zhang Kai's group of brothers who later suppressed Song Army also had to practice equestrian hard.
It's quite warm under the outer sun during the day, but this is relative to the temperature here, and it's also incomparable if it's in the south.
Here everyone still has to wear jackets and practice hard in the cold wind.
Squatting on a wooden pillar nearby, Zhao Ming puffed out a cigarette and nodded from time to time while watching the brothers training in the distance.
But when I look at the bare scene on the mountains in the distance, I can’t help but sigh.
He had been to the grasslands in later generations, and so had Ximeng. In fact, some places with mountains still had patches of forests.
But in this era, there are no such things as woods. From a distance, everywhere is bare. Maybe there are some trees in spring.
But before winter, they had been cut down by herdsmen.
At this moment, there was the roar of a horse. Turning around, he saw several herdsmen delivering horses in the horse pen.
This is quite strange. Generally speaking, the breeding season of horses is from April to August, which is the breeding period of northern horses.
The pregnancy cycle of horses is about 11 months, so most horses give birth from March to July or August of the next year.
In this season, I don’t know if I will survive after birth.
Now there are not enough horses in the stable.
Several hundred horses have been sold to Boss Guo one after another. This is actually nothing, but the losses of the horses in the recent war are not small.
Sometimes a simple horse is hit by an arrow or a shot. Even if the four hooves are not hit and the vital parts are not injured, it is difficult for the horse to continue to serve as a war horse.
The total number of horses now stands at 3,000. Throwing out the old, young and injured horses, there are less than 2,000 that can serve as war horses.
It is estimated that after a few more fights, this horse will not be enough.
"It's really one trouble after another. I hope we can produce more horses next year."
Zhao Mingke also fantasized about forming a cavalry team of at least 10,000 people, but he couldn't afford to die because of this.
In Zhao Ming's plan, cavalry is absolutely an indispensable part.
It would be a pity not to take advantage of this unique opportunity.
He wants the cavalry, and he will also want the armored division later on, but he will have to do those things slowly.
At least there is an artillery battalion now, right? All they lack is ammunition and shells.
There is still a lot of room for cavalry in the Central Plains, but in the southern battlefield, the cavalry may not be of much use.
But who said we must retreat to the south?
Now that he has resurrected his life, it is also an important period of time when the day has changed. Zhao Ming has many uneasy feelings that need to be redeemed.
He didn't want to see the tragedies in Pingdingshan, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Panjiadaizhuang, Changjiao, Pingyang and so on.
The Japanese have committed too many crimes on the land of China. Perhaps the most well-known one is the Nanjing Incident.
But in addition, as early as 1894, when the Japanese entered the Liaodong Peninsula, they launched a massacre for four days and three nights. More than 20,000 people were killed and blood flowed like rivers.
In the entire city of Lushun, there are only 800 people alive.
In 1928, that is, on May 3 this year, nearly 17,000 people were massacred by Japanese people in Jinan.
The funny thing is that this happened before the Anti-Japanese War.
What's even more ridiculous is that this turned out to be the foreign aid sent by Marshal Zhang Zongchang, the Feng clique warlord who was defeated steadily during the Northern Expedition.
The 6th Japanese Division, worried that they had no excuse to march into Jinan, quickly occupied all the major strategic points in Jinan City.
Later, they used the national army to plunder the Japanese expatriates in the city and massacre 12 people as an excuse to launch a brazen attack on the national army.
However, the principal repeatedly compromised and refused to resist, causing the frontline soldiers to retreat, causing the Japanese to take the opportunity to massacre the soldiers and civilians in the city.
The means used include bayonets, machine guns, grenades, poison gas, and other means.
What is even more outrageous is that the personnel sent by Nanjing to negotiate were also shot and killed mercilessly.
The negotiator was also the director of the diplomatic office dispatched to Jinan by the field political committee, and was also the special negotiator for Shandong from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Of the eighteen negotiators, only one survived.
And this is not an isolated case. In the past two hundred years in modern times, almost most cities have had the tragic experience of being massacred.
I would like to ask how any Chinese son can see this scene?
In fact, Zhao Ming is not an angry young man. In his previous life, he was a selfish ordinary person.
