Just as Guo Quanshu thought, Baoxiang Camp was indeed going to fight, and it was going to be a big battle.
At the internal affairs meeting, Luo Zhixue asked all internal affairs departments to do their job well and fully support the military operations.
And Luo Zhixue did not hide too much from them. He directly stated that the purpose of sending troops this time was to obtain enough food and other materials, and required all departments in the internal affairs to make relevant preparations. For example, the grain collection office should send personnel Follow the army and be ready to accept all kinds of grain, gold and silver and other property seized by the army at any time, and register them one by one.
The Commerce and Trade Department must purchase enough strategic materials in a short period of time, especially valuable strategic materials such as gunpowder and saltpeter, to avoid unsatisfactory progress after the war breaks out and insufficient external seizures, but the commerce and trade are cut off, resulting in a lack of ammunition.
Each department in the internal affairs department has its own tasks, and none of them are light.
After the meeting, Chen Xingkai and Guo Quanshu talked for a while, and finally Chen Xingkai asked Guo Quanshu to prepare and follow Chen Xingkai to join the army so that he could count the loot and collect grain and grass in a more timely manner.
Guo Quanshu was quite excited about this at first, and even thought that he would finally have a chance to leave Songshan Village. Once he reached the outside world, he would have a chance to escape.
But this thought only lasted for a few seconds and then disappeared.
He, Guo Quanshu, had the opportunity to leave Songshan Village to the outside world, or even carry him away directly, but what about his family?
The entire Guo family is still in his hometown, and the village in his hometown is already under the control of the Baoxiang Camp. Some time ago, the Baoxiang Camp even established a village chief in his hometown village.
If he, Guo Quanshu, dares to run away, the people in the Baoxiang camp will dare to kill his entire family.
Forget it, just prepare to join the army honestly. Judging from the appearance of the rebels in the Baoxiang Camp, they don't look like they are eager to attack temporarily. They must have made a comprehensive consideration before deciding to attack. The action should be smoother. The danger of following the army should not be great.
If nothing else works, just follow the army and flee back to Funiu Mountain.
Guo Quanshu suppressed the strange thoughts in his heart and began to prepare for joining the army.
Song Tiejiang, director of the Industrial Department on the other side, also felt a lot.
Like Guo Quanshu, Song Tiejiang was not really a rebel.
Blacksmith Song and his family originally lived a good life in Lushan County, and they didn't dare to say they were rich. However, with the skills of the three Song family members in making farm tools, weapons, and guns, at least they didn't have to worry about food and drink.
However, they were kidnapped by the rebels from the Baoxiang camp and brought to Funiu Mountain, and the whole family was neat and tidy.
In the past few months, Blacksmith Song worked hard to save himself and the lives of his family.
In the middle and later stages, it was to allow my family to live a better life in the mountains, so I worked very hard.
He even went to great lengths to help these rebels build various weapons and set up an arsenal.
But even so, the former Blacksmith Song did not have much sympathy with these rebels in his heart.
But, I don't know whether it was because of the troubles of the world or because the rebels really valued him and promoted him to blacksmith one after another.
From the beginning as a small steward, to the weapons workshop steward, and now as the director of the industrial department.
Blacksmith Song felt that he had fallen deeper and deeper into this den of rebels.
Recently, he often woke up from dreams, and these nightmares basically had similar plots.
The officers and soldiers went to Funiu Mountain and defeated the 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 he was an innocent blacksmith. In the end, he and his family were The officers and soldiers accused them of being anti-bandits and killed them all.
"Ha, with things like this now, let alone the officers and soldiers, even I don't believe it..." Blacksmith Song sat in his office and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
Whether he wants it or not, he has now become the director of the Industrial Department.
This is no ordinary little boss, but one of the chiefs of the Baoxiang camp. He can be considered a backbone boss, a true rebel.
It is impossible to survive in the hands of officers and soldiers like this.
Not to mention yourself, even your family will be affected by you.
Blacksmith Song, who was deeply worried about the future, took a deep breath, and then began to summon several staff from the Industrial Department and the main leaders of the arsenal, machinery factory, and logistics factory. He wanted to start arranging overtime production tasks for each factory for the war.
Since he can no longer get rid of the name of a rebel, he can only go all the way to the dark side. The only hope is that the Baoxiang camp can last longer so that he and his family can survive.
No matter what happens, he must win the attention and trust of General Luo Zhixue, so that when the army is defeated, he will be qualified to let the general take one of his sons to escape, so that his family will not be cut off.
The Song family is in Lushan County. After all, they are a blacksmith family that has been passed down for seven or eight generations, but they can't lose it in their own hands.
After Blacksmith Song gathered his men, he ordered the tasks one by one. He also went to the battle in person and went directly to the musket factory to squat, just to let 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, the musket factory is now at the beginning of the first year of the eighth year of Chongzhen. Although its production capacity has not yet reached its peak, it can produce one hundred matchlocks every month.
If we work overtime in the future and adopt the production method of replacing people without stopping work, the production capacity can be further increased by about 150 pieces.
However, if we want to continue to increase production capacity in the future, we will not be able to rely on the 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 in the musket factory is built by the machinery factory. As long as the production capacity of the machinery factory increases, there will naturally be more equipment for producing muskets.
But machinery factories also need more skilled workers to increase production capacity.
So in the final analysis, what is missing is still people.
In this regard, Blacksmith Song had already made a request to Luo Zhixue for additional manpower at the meeting. Luo Zhixue agreed and allowed the Industrial Department to recruit another 20 permanent workers and 80 temporary workers.
Blacksmith Song is quite satisfied with this. Whether they are permanent workers or temporary workers, the total number of workers is one hundred, which is enough for the Industrial Department to do a lot of things.
As for more manpower, he didn't dare to hope.
Because I can’t afford it!
Although most of the workers in the factories affiliated to the Industrial Department only manage food and do not receive additional subsidy wages, only a few technical staff can receive subsidies ranging from tens to hundreds of dollars in addition to taking care of food.
But, just taking care of the food is a big expense, and now food is expensive, and the price of food outside the mountains is rising every day.
Everyone knows that these are troubled times and food is in short supply. Not to mention ordinary people, even those big grain stores often hold back on selling food, further pushing up food prices.
Whether food is expensive or not has little impact on Baoxiangying, because Baoxiangying never uses gold and silver to purchase food, nor does it sell food. Baoxiangying is self-sufficient in food, so if there is a food shortage, Let's go conquer it, for example now...
Now Baoxiang Camp does not have much food. In addition to supplying the army, it also supplies staff in various internal affairs departments and workers in the three major factories under the Industrial Department. Food consumption is very large, Luo Zhixue It is simply impossible to give the Industrial Department too much of a share of grain.
So Blacksmith Song was very satisfied to be able to get a quota of 100 people.
On the same day, the Industrial Department began to recruit workers, but all of them were temporary workers. As for the quota of permanent workers, they would be selected from the existing temporary workers in the factory.
As expected, when news came out from the Industrial Department that they were recruiting workers, people were very enthusiastic. Especially the workers in the three major factories, as soon as they heard that their factories were recruiting workers again, they immediately went home to call for help.
As long as they can enter the factory, they can eat, even if they are temporary workers. And according to their previous experience, these temporary workers recruited in the factory are said to be temporary workers, but they are often hired long-term when they arrive.
After all, the scale of the factory continues to expand, and these temporary workers are often considered skilled workers after working for a month or two. After the factory expands its scale and increases the number of permanent workers, they will often be directly converted from temporary workers to regular workers.
No, twenty people have been promoted to regular positions this time.
The most important thing is that whether you are a long-term worker or a temporary worker, you can have food, and having food is a lifelong pursuit of most people today.
However, some people chose to attack the city in order to make a living, while others chose to join the army.
According to Anyondo's plan, the recruitment of new soldiers must begin before the official operation.
Considering that the qualified soldiers in the villages deep in Funiu Mountain and even some villages in the peripheral hilly areas have been exhausted, the recruitment scope this time is mainly from the villages in the eastern peripheral areas, including Gaotan Village.
Gaotan Village is different from many villages with a single surname. This village has two major surnames, namely Gao and Tan. It is said 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 wasteland and settle here together, and they also got married. As the in-laws for their children, the descendants also have a tradition of intermarrying with each other.
After more than two hundred years, the population of Gao and Tan families here gradually increased, and eventually the current Gao Tan Village was formed.
But unlike many normal villages, there are many fools in Gotham Village.
Gao Zheng is a fool in the eyes of outsiders!
This fool likes to sit on the stone pier in front of his house, saying nothing or paying attention to others, and just stares at the entrance of the village blankly.
Until one day, a group of people came to the village. A group of soldiers from the Baoxiang Battalion who claimed to protect the villagers of Funiu Mountain and let the people have food and clothing came to the village.
Only then did the fool's eyes shine!
