Feng Ziying actually likes this kind of communication very much, simply relying on playing the emotional card or the network card is not long-lasting, only interests are eternal.

For You Shigong, the role of these craftsmen is mainly to maintain the logistics support and maintenance of the camps in Jizhen, which he must strive for and guarantee.

Although warfare in this era is not like modern warfare, in addition to the guarantee of grain and grass, other maintenance guarantees are also not easy.

The manufacture and repair of armor and belts, the addition and repair of weapons and related equipment, and a series of seemingly casual but in fact rather complicated preparations and maintenances such as carriages, tents, saddles, and farriers, all of which are in fact quite complicated, are not at all as simple as the outside world thinks.

Feng Ziying has lived with his father in Datong since he was a child, and naturally he knows something about this, so he never expected You Shiyi to support himself without reservation, and this result has already made him very satisfied.

And this kind of model similar to cooperation is also what he wants, and it can really be more long-term.

In the future, Yongping Mansion will be the foundation of the establishment of the most powerful comprehensive manufacturing base for ordnance, weapons, armor, vehicles, etc., the primary target is Liaodong and Jizhen.

Now the production capacity of the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau has dropped to a very weak point, and there is a shortage of people, money, silver, and technology, so the fire guns will be made by the Foshan side, and the War Bureau can only make some ordinary swords and flag tents and other objects.

If Yongping can develop, relying on its geographical advantages, it can completely replace Foshan and the Military War Bureau as the main military supply base of Jiliao Second Town, and at the same time, it can further open up to Xuanfu, Datong, and Yulin towns, and in the future, it can even monopolize the supply of military materials to the entire northern nine sides.

This is an assumption, if he is the first assistant, he will definitely not tie the supply of weapons and military resources to a certain or even a few private workshops, at least the imperial court should also maintain a basic production capacity, but the military bureau can be restructured so that it can compete with these private workshops.

At this stage, these craftsmen are crucial to the initial coal and iron mining and production consortium or several private coal and iron mining and production associations, but as time goes on and a large number of skilled workers are trained, the role of these craftsmen will decline, and it is not clear what the situation will be in two or three years.

Now Feng Ziying has no intention of clashing with the local gentry and landlords in Yongping Mansion who control a large number of people, but he hopes to use a demonstration effect to attract these local gentry in Yongping to join this huge industrial cluster based on steel and building materials.

There will be a process, but when profits reach a certain level, Feng Ziying believes that no one can resist this temptation, even if it is for the landlords to betray their own class interests.

Just like in Jiangnan, those maritime merchants and the proprietors of silk, cotton, tea, porcelain, and shipbuilding workshops were not landlords in the first place, and there were very few pure merchants, or they all mixed the common identities of merchants and landlords, taking land as the basis for avoiding risks, and devoting more capital and energy to industrial and commercial industries.

After negotiating this major matter, the next thing is relatively simple, such as borrowing troops to solve the problem of bandits that have been plaguing Yongping Mansion.

In fact, the counties and prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yongping Mansion are not ignorant of these bandits, but in view of the lack of their own arrest strength, Lu Longwei's dismissal has greatly weakened the military strength of the non-Jizhen jurisdiction in Yongping Mansion, so the position of Bingbeidao is also very embarrassing here.

Feng Ziying had also communicated with the soldiers in Lulong County between coming to Jizhen Town, and they were also eager to use Feng Ziying's relationship to get through Jizhen Town, so as to eliminate these bandits who had been troubled for a long time as soon as possible.

The sub-patrol roads, sub-guard roads, and military preparation roads of the Beizhili provinces are slightly different from those of other provinces, and they are all directly named by the three divisions and senators of the surrounding provinces, but in fact they are not under the jurisdiction of the three divisions of the province to which the name belongs, but are directly under the jurisdiction of the six departments of the imperial court and the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the six departments of Nanjing and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

For example, Yongping Mansion is in the name of the envoy of Shandong.

Now there are few troops in the hands of Yongping Bingbeidao, and they are not capable of the important task of suppressing bandits at all, but although there is an army on the side of Jizhen, it is not the duty of the town guard to exterminate bandits in the local area, so it is necessary to coordinate and report to the Ministry of War.

Of course, as long as Jizhen makes sense here, the other problems will be simple.

"Ziying, what you said is not a problem, but only the Japanese in Changli, the foolish brother is a little helpless, these widows come and go without a trace, they all come through the sea, and the foolish brother can be sure that there are definitely Changli and Leting here as the internal response, and these internal forces are not small, look at the Huimin Salt Farm is now embezzled by these people, you can know how fat this piece of fat is, even Changlu has transferred salt so that the Si Yamen can't take them, hehe, the water here is too deep,......"

You Shigong has a lot of schadenfreude in it, Huimin Salt Farm is the most important salt field in Yongping Mansion in Yongping Mansion, but now it has been repeatedly looted and burned by the Japanese Bandits, which eventually led to the salt transportation of Yongping Mansion and even Liaodong, and had to transport salt from the side of the river.

However, after the disintegration of the Huimin Salt Farm, it became the prey of the big families in Changli, and these private salts even occupied the local market in Yongping for a time.

The Changludu Salt Transfer Envoy Division also repeatedly restored the Huimin Salt Farm, but it was repeatedly destroyed and suffered heavy losses, so it could only be given up in the end.

The court played the court, but the Japanese came from the sea, and the local government was indeed unable to solve it, and the Yongping Mansion and Changli County were not responsible, but it was too difficult to exterminate the Haikou who came and went without a trace, and it was too difficult for the Yongping Mansion, even if You Shigong had the heart to help, he was also helpless.

"Who is the Imperial History of Changlu Patrol Salt now?" Feng Ziying frowned.

"I was just dismissed, and now the court has not yet appointed it." You Shigong smiled, "There may not be no such factor, but it's really hard to say what role the former salt patrol imperial history played in it, I don't believe that a dignified salt patrol imperial history would take the matter of Huimin Salt Farm at all, or there is another hidden secret, then it's hard to say." ”

As soon as Feng Ziying heard You Shigong's words, he knew that most of the people here were greasy, and it was inevitable that there would be entanglements of interests and factional battles in the imperial court.

Because the imperial history of the two Huai patrols has always belonged to the emperor's own land, the income has to go into the inner treasury, and after Emperor Yonglong took office, this income still belongs to the emperor and has not yet been handed over to the emperor.

"Brother You, this widow is from the sea, you said that there is an internal response in Changli, but where are these widows hiding? I don't believe they can come all the way from Japan, this is not in line with the realistic conditions, right? ”

Feng Ziying was also very puzzled, there are really not many cases in the north of the country, especially in Beizhili, where they have been attacked by the Japanese invaders, especially after the Renchen Japanese rebellion, this situation is even rarer, you say that there is such a situation in the south of the Yangtze River, but Yongping Mansion is still aimed at the salt field, which is inevitably suspicious.

"There are several possibilities, but they can't get rid of one, the Japanese must have a foothold in the surrounding area, which needs to be checked carefully, but I believe it will not be too far, hundreds of Japanese to hide, as well as food and clothing, it is not a simple matter, there must be someone to cover up for them, this matter depends on your ability to know, or that sentence, if you can use my side, you can say it, but when it comes to things at sea, there is nothing you can do for your brother."

Of course, Feng Ziying will not pin all his hopes on You Shigong, this is not the responsibility of others, he just wants to obtain a certain degree of support from the other party.

After solving the problem here, it can be regarded as making great progress, and Feng Ziying quickly returned to Lulong.

The family was coming, and it took nearly ten days to come, and Baoxiang also asked Baoxiang to re-purchase a house next to the government in Lulong County.

In fact, there is a Tongzhi Mansion in Fuxia, but the scale is too small and too simple, so you can only live temporarily.

This is also the practice inherited from the former Ming Dynasty, that is, not to repair the yamen, as long as it is passable, the status quo will be maintained.

Wu Yaoqing and the others were already busy, as Feng Ziying's main staff here, Tongzhi Gongfu was actually mainly handed over to him and Gu Dengfeng to use.

"The three sites have been determined, and we have begun to come up with several design drawings for coal coking, which have been contacted with Qian'an County and Lulong, and the wardens of the workshops in the counties on both sides have come to check on the spot, and the land and forests have been bought, and the land deed has been filed in the yamen.

Gu Dengfeng, Zhuang Limin and the two representatives of the Jin merchants sat in the hall of the public house, sitting sideways, Feng Ziying was dressed in a cyan regular suit, and a white pheasant was added, sitting in the middle, but also had a little bit of the same atmosphere.

"Mr. Zhuang, Dengfeng, Shaoquan, since all aspects have been equipped, I have already told the prefect in the government, yesterday I also negotiated with General You in the Santun camp, and the craftsman will be sorted out in the shortest possible time, as long as you can do it here, you will definitely be able to deliver it on time, but how to operate, you must have a detailed strategy."

"Don't worry, my lord, after the site selection is over, and the counties on both sides have also been negotiated, I have arranged for someone to notify the ship in Guangzhou to go north, but there is no decent wharf here in Yongping Mansion, so they will re-pass the canal north in Yangzhou, and then come from Tongzhou, it is estimated that they can arrive within a month."

In his opinion, once a production base is established in Yongping Mansion, it can not only supply the entire northern region and the nine sides of the military supply, but also open up the markets of Japan and North Korea.