I want to be emperor

Chapter 401 Landing on Qiongzhou Island

After worrying for a few days, Li Guangsheng also conducted an internal self-examination, and confirmed that the people below him were not messing around. At the same time, someone sent a message from the Yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture: Our Great Chu Empire supports the development of industry and commerce. In various prefectures and other places, there are now a large number of gentry investing in various industries and commerce, and investing in various industries can also enjoy certain tax incentives.

Besides, don't do bad things, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

Your Li family didn't do anything shoddy, our government will naturally not trouble you, not only won't trouble you, but will also give you more orders.

So, after the Li family worried for a few days, they were completely relieved.

The logistics officers of the Guangdong-Guangzhou Defense Command joined hands with officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Guangzhou Prefect Yamen to visit the Li family. Regardless of the attitude of the Li family, the military logistics officers directly threw out a huge order!
Of course, the military side made it very clear this time: "The list is given to you. As for the price, I dare not say it is a high price, but I did not treat your Li family badly, but I will put the ugly words first. The quality must be strict. According to the contract, if it should be of the highest quality, it must be of the highest quality, and if it should be of the middle quality, then it is absolutely impossible to take the lower quality to raise money!"

"Once we find out that you are shoddy, the Song family's fate will be your Li family's fate!"

The people in the army spoke very rudely, left a bunch of threats and left.

On the contrary, officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Guangzhou government stayed to appease them. The Li family's business is quite large, and it is still an industry that can provide a lot of employment and tax revenue and stimulate the local economy. For these industries, The officials of the Great Chu Empire have always been very supportive.

In addition, after the local government killed the negative model of the Song family, in order to avoid panic in the local business community, they also wanted to establish a new positive model to indirectly promote the Great Chu Empire's policy of being kind to business.

After people from both the military and the government left, Li Guangsheng stayed alone in the study for a long time, and he could still hear laughter from inside from time to time.

His Li family needs to develop!

Not only did the military place a large number of orders, but the people from the Ministry of Industry also agreed. At that time, Guangzhou Machinery Factory will give priority to supplying various types of machinery and equipment to their Li family's factory in addition to internal needs.

They even allowed the Li family to first select skilled workers to go to factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry in Jiujiang to learn how to operate these machinery.

All this proves that their Li family has completely embraced the thigh, and it is the biggest thigh: the Great Chu Empire!
As a model of government-business cooperation, the Li family is also very good. It immediately applied for the registration of Foshan Li's Iron Manufacturing Company in accordance with the Company Law of the Great Chu Empire, and began preparations for the transformation of the factory next year. The land for the new factory has been prepared. , began to enter the land leveling and plant construction.

The factory of Li's Iron and Steel Company is also the first private factory in Guangdong and Guangxi to embrace mechanical production.

With the fall of the Song family, the establishment of Li's Iron Manufacturing Company and the start of construction of the factory, the officials of the Great Chu Empire have also completed the rectification of Guangzhou, mainly the iron industry in Foshan.

A large number of workshops that had been ransacked were taken over by the Ministry of Industry and rectified, and the Foshan Iron Works was established to coordinate and manage more than 20 subordinate workshops.

The task of the Foshan Iron Works is not to build a large-scale comprehensive factory of steel, machinery, and arsenal. It is purely to keep the local workshops from producing, keep the workers from losing their jobs, maintain the stability of the local situation, and maintain the security of the military's logistics supply.

Afterwards, when several large factories in Guangzhou complete the infrastructure construction one after another, this Foshan iron factory will complete its historical mission. At that time, the Ministry of Industry will directly restructure this iron factory, and some people will fall to the Guangzhou side. Worked in other factories, some of them stayed and brought those workshops to sell... Even the potential next family was found, which is the Li family...

The Li family is not interested in those workshops, but is very interested in the large number of craftsmen in these factories.

As for the factories of the Ministry of Industry in Guangzhou, what they need are high-end craftsmen, and there is actually no demand for ordinary craftsmen.

Mostly the factories under the Ministry of Industry, all adopt the model of large-scale mechanical production, and there are no technical requirements for ordinary workers. A young man can barely get started after ten days and a half months 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-style production.

Instead of ordinary workers in the traditional sense!
However, the Li family is different. Some of the technical industries of the Li family are still relatively traditional Cantonese pot crafts. Although they plan to engage in mechanical production in the future, they have no intention of giving up the local traditional Cantonese pot crafts. Therefore, the demand for these traditional workers is still relatively high. big.

So after discussing with the Ministry of Industry, the Li family soon came to a preliminary conclusion on the restructuring of the Foshan Iron Works a year later.

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 with their workshops.

Both sides are quite satisfied with this.

The Ministry of Industry is very sure that in the future the industrial center of Guangdong and even Guangdong and Guangxi will be in Guangzhou, to be more precise, Guangzhou City.

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.

As far as the Li family is concerned, Foshan is their base camp, and with the fall of the Song family, the Ministry of Industry will also withdraw from here in the future, then the Li family will become the largest iron manufacturer in Foshan. You don't have to worry too much about local internal friction, but you can focus on external competition.

The matter in Foshan has come to an end, but the various military operations of the Great Chu Empire in Guangdong have not stopped yet.

In June, the Seventh Division under the Guangdong-Guangzhou Defense Command dispatched several battalions as the core, supplemented by a garrison with two or three times the strength to attack the city and seize territory.

On June [-], 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 force of the Chu army captured Fengkai, and the vanguard had already reached not far from Wuzhou City.

At the same time, the Chu army also sent troops into the east to capture Humen, Xin'an, Zengcheng, Boluo and Guishan in Huizhou Prefecture. The rest of the eastern counties actively surrendered. And more than 1000 garrison soldiers have entered Chaozhou Prefecture, but they have encountered stubborn resistance from Zheng Zhilong's troops from Fujian, and have not yet been able to conquer strategic locations such as Chaozhou Prefecture City and Nan'ao Island.

On the western front, apart from a part of the main force attacking along the Xijiang River towards Wuzhou, some troops also attacked the southwestern part of Guangzhou Prefecture and the southern area of ​​Zhaoqing Prefecture, such as Shunde, Xinhui, Xinning, Xiangshan, and Guangxi in Guangzhou Prefecture. Haiwei and other places, Gaoming, Yangchun, Yangjiang, Shuangyusuo and other places in Zhaoqing Prefecture.

The main force of this part of the Chu army actually only has a reinforced battalion plus a garrison regiment, with a total strength of more than 3000 troops, but they swept all the way, and in late June they captured all parts of Gaozhou Prefecture and entered the Leizhou Prefecture.

When they arrived at Leizhou Mansion and captured the southernmost Xuwen and Maritime Safety Offices, Colonel Xie Xingfa, who led the troops to fight, saw that although the Qiongzhou Strait was a bit wider, there was no Zheng Zhilong's fleet in the strait. Although Qiongzhou Prefecture also had some ships of the local Ming army navy, the Chu army fought all the way, and actually accepted some of the navy or pirate ships from the western coastal area of ​​Guangzhou.

On the navy side, under the Pearl River Fleet, the Qiongzhou Squadron was set up, which is dedicated to offshore operations west of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong.

Although the strength is not too strong, it is not a problem to suppress the Ming court navy and pirates on Qiongzhou Island opposite.

Although the navy of the Great Chu Empire is not good, it depends on who it is compared with.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong's huge fleet, the Great Chu Empire's navy has fewer ships and fewer personnel, but for other pirates, the Great Chu Empire's navy is still quite good.

As a result, Colonel Xie Xingfa saw that the Ming government troops on Qiongzhou Island were not well prepared, and their strength was even worse. There was no Zheng Zhilong's fleet to make trouble, and the Qiongzhou Strait was not too wide.

The most important thing is that Colonel Xie Xingfa is worried that Zheng Zhilong's troops will react and enter Qiongzhou Island after the time delay, and it will be extremely difficult to land on Qiongzhou Island again.

On the navy side, they were not sure of resisting Zheng Zhilong's fleet and covering thousands of troops landing on Qiongzhou Island.

Under such circumstances, Colonel Xie Xingfa did not waste any time. He just took down the Maritime Security Office, and after a day of hasty preparations, he sent troops to cross the Qiongzhou Strait by boat and successfully landed in the area around Haikou Station.

During the process of crossing the sea, it was once resisted by the local Ming army navy ships, but the resistance was very small. Only a few ships came up to intercept them. Just turned around and ran away.

The landing on the beach did not encounter any actual resistance. After seeing the Chu bandits killing them, the few local Ming army officers and soldiers did not have the courage to resist at all.

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 apart from Yunnan, Guizhou and other southwestern regions, many provinces in the south have fallen under the control of the Great Chu Empire.

Under such an overall situation, there is only one island left, Qiongzhou Island, to continue to resist, which actually doesn't make much sense.

And more importantly, why should they resist?

Several civil and military officials of the Ming court on the island thought hard for days, and racked their brains but could not find even a reason to resist the Chu army!

(End of this chapter)