After Li Guangsheng was worried for a few days, he also conducted an internal self-examination and confirmed that the people below him were not messing around. At the same time, the Guangzhou Prefecture’s Yamen also sent someone to send a message: Our Da Chu Empire supports the development of industry and commerce, and in Han Tianfu and even Jiangnan In various prefectures and other places, there are now a large number of gentry investing extensively in various industries and commerce, and they can also enjoy certain tax benefits when investing in various industries.
Besides, if you don’t do bad things, you won’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door.
If you, the Li family, have not done anything shoddy, our government will naturally not cause trouble for you. Not only will we not cause trouble for you, but we will also give you more orders.
Ever since, after worrying for a few days, the Li family was completely relieved.
Logistics officers from the Guangdong and Guangxi Garrison Command, together with officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Guangzhou Prefecture's Yamen, visited the Li family. Regardless of the Li family's attitude, the military's logistics officers immediately placed a huge order!
Of course, the military made it very clear this time: "I've given you the order. In terms of price, I can't say it's a high price, but I haven't treated you Li family badly either. But let me put the ugly words up front. The quality must be strict." According to the contract, if it’s supposed to be top quality, it must be top quality, and if it’s supposed to be medium quality, you absolutely can’t use top quality to raise money!”
"Once we find out that the products are substandard, the fate of the Song family will be the fate of your Li family!"
The Army people were very rude and left a bunch of threats before leaving.
However, officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Guangzhou Government stayed to comfort them. The Li family's business was quite large, and it was engaged in industry, which could provide a large number of jobs and tax revenue and stimulate the local economy. For these industries, Dachu Empire officials have always been very supportive.
In addition, after the local government got rid of the negative model of the Song family, in order to avoid panic among the local business community, they also wanted to establish a new positive model to indirectly promote the Chu Empire's policy of treating business well.
After everyone from the military and political parties left, Li Guangsheng stayed alone in the study for a long time, and from time to time he could still hear laughter coming from inside.
His Li family wants to be prosperous!
Not only did the military place a large number of orders, but people from the Ministry of Industry also agreed. At that time, the Guangzhou Machinery Factory would give priority to supplying various types of machinery and equipment to their Li family's factory in addition to internal demand.
The Li family was even allowed to select skilled workers to go to factories affiliated with the Ministry of Industry in Jiujiang to learn how to operate these machinery and equipment.
All this proves that the Li family has completely embraced the biggest thigh: the Chu Empire!
As a model of government-business cooperation, the Li family is also very smart. They immediately applied to register Foshan Li's Ironmaking Company in accordance with the company law of the Dachu Empire, and began to prepare for the transformation of the factory next year. The land for the new factory has been prepared. , began to enter land leveling and factory construction.
The factory of Li's Iron Company was also the first private factory in Guangdong and Guangxi to embrace machinery production.
With the fall of the Song family, the establishment of the Li Iron Manufacturing Company and the start of factory construction, the Da Chu Empire officially completed the rectification of the iron making industry in Guangzhou, mainly in Foshan.
A large number of workshops that had been confiscated were taken over by the Ministry of Industry and reorganized, and the Foshan Iron Works was established to coordinate and manage more than 20 subordinate workshops. However, it was only a takeover, and no drastic rectification of the production in the workshops was carried out. .
The mission of Foshan Iron Works is not to build a large-scale comprehensive factory of steel, machinery, ordnance, etc. It is purely to keep local workshops from stopping production, keep workers from losing their jobs, maintain the stability of the local situation, and maintain the security of military logistics supply.
Later, when several large factories in Guangzhou have completed their infrastructure construction, the Foshan Iron Works will have completed its historical mission. At that time, the Ministry of Industry will directly restructure the iron factory, and some people will fall to Guangzhou. Working in other factories, some people stayed and took those workshops for sale... They even found potential buyers, which was the Li family...
The Li family was not interested in those workshops, but they were very interested in the large number of craftsmen in these factories.
As for the Ministry of Industry, their factory in Guangzhou needs high-end craftsmen, but there is actually little demand for ordinary craftsmen.
Mainly factories under the Ministry of Industry adopt a large-scale mechanical production model. There are no technical requirements for ordinary workers. Any young man can barely get started after ten days and a half of training.
Of course, factories under the Ministry of Industry also have a great demand for technicians, but these technicians are either traditional senior craftsmen or technicians who understand machinery and new production.
Not ordinary workers in the traditional sense!
However, the Li family is different. Some technical industries of the Li family still use traditional Cantonese pot craftsmanship. Although they also plan to engage in mechanical production in the future, they have no plans to abandon the local traditional Cantonese pot craftsmanship. Therefore, the demand for these traditional workers is still relatively high. big.
Therefore, after some discussions between the Li family and the Ministry of Industry, a preliminary conclusion was quickly reached on the restructuring of the Foshan Iron Works in one year.
At that time, the Ministry of Industry will transfer a group of senior craftsmen who are willing to go to Guangzhou, and the remaining ordinary workers will be packaged and sold to the Li family together with their workshops.
Both parties are quite satisfied with this.
The Ministry of Industry is very sure that the future industrial center of Guangdong and even the Guangdong and Guangxi regions will be in Guangzhou, Guangzhou City to be precise.
As for Foshan, although it is not far from Guangzhou City, there is still some distance, which is not conducive to future development.
Therefore, the Ministry of Industry does not plan to invest too much in Foshan.
For the Li family, Foshan is their base camp, and with the fall of the Song family and the Ministry of Industry withdrawing from here in the future, the Li family will become the largest local iron manufacturer in Foshan. There is no need to worry too much about local internal friction, but you can focus on external competition.
Things in Foshan have come to an end, but the Chu Empire's various military operations in Guangdong have not stopped yet.
In June, the Seventh Division under the Guangdong and Guangxi Garrison Command dispatched several battalions as the core, supplemented by garrison troops with two or three times the strength to attack cities and territories.
On June 14, the Chu army captured Zhaoqing City, and then continued westward along the Xijiang River, capturing Deqing Prefecture and other places.
On June 23, a vanguard unit of the Chu army captured Fengkai, and the vanguard had reached not far from Wuzhou City.
At the same time, the Chu army also sent troops to the east, capturing Humen, Xin'an, Zengcheng, Boluo and Guishan in Huizhou Prefecture. Many other counties in the east actively surrendered. When June was low, hundreds of Chu army's main forces And more than a thousand garrison soldiers have entered Chaozhou Prefecture. However, they encountered stubborn resistance from Zheng Zhilong's troops from the Fujian direction. They have not yet been able to conquer strategic places such as Chaozhou Prefecture's Fucheng and Nan'ao Island.
On the western front, in addition to part of the main force attacking along the Xijiang River toward Wuzhou, there are also some troops attacking the southwest of Guangzhou Prefecture and the southern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture, such as Shunde, Xinhui, Xinning, Xiangshan, and Guangzhou Prefecture. Haiwei and other places, Gaoming, Yangchun, Yangjiang, Pisces and other places in Zhaoqing Prefecture.
The main force of the Chu army in this part actually only had one reinforced battalion and one garrison regiment. The total strength was only more than 3,000 people. However, it swept all the way. In late June, it conquered various places in Gaozhou Prefecture and entered the city. Went to Leizhou Mansion.
When they arrived at Leizhou Prefecture and captured Xuwen and the Hai'an Station in the south, Army Colonel Xie Xingfa, who led the operation, saw that although the Qiongzhou Strait was a bit wider, Zheng Zhilong's fleet was not in the strait. Although Qiongzhou Prefecture also had some ships from the local Ming navy, the Chu army fought all the way and actually accepted some ships from the navy or simply pirates from the western coastal areas of Guangzhou.
On the Navy's side, under the Pearl River Fleet, the Qiongzhou Squadron was established, specifically for offshore operations west of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong.
Although the strength is not strong, it is not a problem to suppress the Mingting navy and pirates on Qiongzhou Island opposite.
Although the navy of the Dachu Empire is not very good, it still depends on who it is compared with.
Compared with Zheng Zhilong's huge fleet, the Dachu Empire's navy had fewer ships and fewer personnel, but compared to other pirates, the Dachu Empire's naval strength was still quite good.
As a result, Army Colonel Xie Xingfa saw that the Ming court troops on Qiongzhou Island were not very well prepared and their strength was even worse. There was no Zheng Zhilong fleet to cause trouble, and the Qiongzhou Strait was not too wide.
The most important thing is that Army Colonel Xie Xingfa was worried that Zheng Zhilong's troops would respond and stationed on Qiongzhou Island after the time delay. By then, it would be extremely difficult to land on Qiongzhou Island again.
The navy was not sure it could resist Zheng Zhilong's fleet and cover thousands of troops landing on Qiongzhou Island.
Under such circumstances, Colonel Xie Xingfa wasted no time. He had just taken the Haikou Institute, and after only one day of hurried preparation, he sent troops to cross the Qiongzhou Strait by boat and successfully landed in the Haikou Institute area.
During the process of crossing the sea, we encountered resistance from local Ming navy ships. However, the resistance was very small. Only a few ships came to intercept. After waiting for the escorting Qiongzhou Squadron ships to fire to intercept, several small ships on the opposite side He just turned around and ran away.
The beach landing did not encounter any practical resistance. The small number of local Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers saw the Chu thieves coming and had no courage to resist.
Even they know that resistance is pointless.
Most of Guangdong on the opposite side has been captured by Chu thieves. No, it should be said that except for Yunnan and Guizhou and other southwest regions, many provinces in the south have fallen under the control of the Chu Empire.
Under such an overall situation, it actually does not make much sense for only one island like Qiongzhou Island to continue to resist.
And more importantly, why are they resisting?
Several Ming court civil and military officials on the island thought hard for several days and racked their brains but could not find even a single reason to resist the Chu army!
