Therefore, Li Yi issued a recruitment notice, and arranged for the states and counties to recommend upwards, after layers of selection and assessment, 16 young people with basic cleverness production skills, a certain basic knowledge of gunpowder, and interested in the development of firearms were selected, all of them were concentrated in Yunnan Jiangwutang, taught by Li Yi and Lin Qingliang, and systematically learned the principles and preparation of gunpowder, the basic process and precautions of firearms production, and other knowledge.

Of course, Li Yi and Lin Qingliang are only half-understood, and many things are still explored by themselves, so if they want to truly become firearms talents, they still need to rely on their own understanding and exploration.

Fortunately, two of these sixteen people are quick to think, and after Li Yi and Lin Qingliang's careful allocation, they quickly mastered the relevant knowledge of gunpowder and can skillfully apply it to production.

What Li Yi admires the most is a young man named Feng Qi, who was originally a hunter in the mountains, and has been good at studying ingenuity since he was a child. What is even more commendable is that this person is thoughtful and thoughtful, and has his own unique views on the development of firearms, which soon impressed me.

And another young man named Xi Guan is also what Li Yi wants to be optimistic about. He has a strong hands-on ability, and with a little bit of a nudge, he can grasp our intentions, whether it is deploying gunpowder or making KitKat mechanisms, he has a unique talent, and soon became the backbone of the Firearms Bureau.

Li Yi carved out another secluded place in Jiuxiang, which was specially used as the research and development base of the Firearms Bureau, and was closely guarded by nearly 100 soldiers. With Feng Qi as the director of the Firearms Bureau and Xi Guan as the bureau, dozens of skilled craftsmen were organized to quickly devote themselves to the preparatory work of the Firearms Bureau.

Li Yi and Lin Qingliang went to give guidance from time to time, pointed out the direction of research and development, and jointly explored ways to improve firearms, so that the work of the Firearms Bureau was quickly launched.

In a blink of an eye, it has come to the end of April, and it has been a full year since Li Yi came to this era. Although he has tasted the ups and downs, joy, happiness, troubles, pain, and fears have been with him, Li Yi has settled down and regarded this place as his warmest home, and will continue to work hard in the future to make his life more colorful.

Now Yunnan, all aspects are on the right track, which is also what makes Li Yi feel the most gratified. After a year of hard work, Yunnan's financial revenue has increased sharply month by month, especially after handing over the Yunnan Commercial Bank to Lu Lizhan to take care of, the income of various industries has risen sharply, according to the preliminary estimate of the last 10 months, including the interest income of the Bank of Yunnan, the income of the government has exceeded 1 million, and it is still increasing rapidly.

Although Yunnan has introduced a lot of measures to benefit the people, so the funds consumed occupy a relatively large proportion of the fiscal revenue, but the increase in Yunnan's population and the activity of economic and trade activities have made the tax revenue increase exponentially, far exceeding the growth level of expenditure.

However, the improvement of the people's living standards, the reduction of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the improvement of the level of welfare and security have made the people have no worries about the future. Under the circumstance that incomes have generally increased, trading and investment have been active, people's spending power has been greatly enhanced, and the volume of social product transactions has increased substantially, which has also made fiscal revenues rise with it, and there is no longer the embarrassing situation of being overstretched before.

Now this season, Yunnan has been sown with the cotton that was previously promoted, and the wheat planted last year has begun to turn green, and there is less than a month to go, and the large-scale wheat harvest season in Yunnan is coming, and now is the most critical time.

Therefore, in order to fully understand the growth of wheat in Yunnan and better promote it, I decided to take a look at the production areas of wheat planted in Yunnan and plan the next planting plan.

Last year, no effort was spared to promote wheat planting, but there were not many responders; except for 900 mu of official land, all of which were planted with wheat and cotton, the rest of the local people still treated them with a wait-and-see attitude, so that there were only a dozen or so small wheat planting plots in the whole of Yunnan, and the total planting area was only two or three thousand mu.

Of course, there are many mountainous areas in Yunnan, and the amount of cultivated land is small, and the common people are not willing to use the limited land to plant wheat that they do not understand, so it is reasonable that the promotion in the first year will encounter resistance, and when the wheat harvest is bumper, the wheat price that is several times higher than the price of rice will arouse the interest of the common people, and the promotion will be much smoother, and the income of the farmers will be greatly increased.

Since the wheat cultivation area was limited to a dozen places, and all of them were in the western part of Ningzhou, Li Yi, after inspecting the 900 acres of official fields that was growing well, took Sihu to join the army Jianghua, and two deacons and officials who had considerable experience in wheat planting, as well as a dozen or so personal soldiers such as Lian Jun, Ling Feng, Le Meng, and Lin Chi, rushed to the western part of Ningzhou.

Along the way through Linjiabao and Guojiazhai and other places, Li Yi did not go in to see, although they also planted a large amount of wheat there, but they are out-and-out pioneers, planting experience has been quite rich, and there is no need to go over to guide, so the destination of our trip is a few villages in the west that have just begun to plant wheat, including Dujiazhuang, Qiujiazhuang and other large grain producers who fought side by side with themselves before.

When the group walked to Pingyang Pass, there were still more than ten miles away, turned south, passed through several small hills, and came to an open terrain.

There are Qiujiazhuang, Chenjiagang, Xuegoutun, Dujiazhuang, and the villages of Zhulonggou that fought fiercely here a few days ago, and the Fengming Village of Ran Yanchao and Feng Xinyan must also be near this place.

This large village is flat and fertile, and the wheat seedlings are green and green in the crop fields that cannot be seen at a glance, and the wheat growth is very gratifying. A river called the 'Niulan River' runs from north to south, making this area very well watered, which is the best place to grow food.

The group abandoned their horses and walked, while admiring the intoxicating pastoral scenery, while checking the growth of wheat seedlings, and the accompanying Deacon Wang and Deacon Teng carefully inspected and spoke highly of the growth of crops here.

Speaking of which, the villagers here have initially mastered the wheat planting technology, although the planting area is not very large now, but as long as the farmers taste the sweetness, the next step is much easier to promote.

At this time, there were already farmers in the field who were busy working, and Li Yi sent someone to inquire only after learning that this place was called Xuegoutun, which was the village closest to the official road, but the population of the whole village was less than 100 people, and the amount of wheat planted was also very small.