After handing over the war to his subordinates, Yang Feng continued to focus on his industrial construction.

At this time, with the arrival of northern Guangdong, his resource problem has been solved, especially iron ore no longer has any restrictions, including Dading high-grade iron ore continues to be mined, and then transported down the Dongjiang waterway to Foshan, into the iron smelting blast furnace in the fiery red molten iron, and then poured into those converters into high-quality steel, the quality of iron ore here is much stronger than Daye, it is second only to Hainan Island.

In fact, the mining of the latter is also in Yang Feng's plan.

Even the coal mines in Shaoguan and Meizhou have begun to be mined, although because the production is not high at the beginning and the Ministry of Transport is so easy, it is not enough to fully meet the needs of industry, but there is no longer a need to rely solely on the coal supply of Annam, so that the steel mills in Foshan can be free to do their work, and the Emperor is no longer satisfied with his steel industry with a few small converters......

He's going to go to the open hearth.

In other words, this is the royal road of this era!

His five-ton small converters combined could not make more steel than an open-hearth furnace in a day, so he immediately began to build a 50-ton open-hearth.

A new rolling mill was also built specifically for rolling steel plates for the manufacture of ships.

It's not that he's in a hurry to build ironclads, although ironclads should be considered, but what he needs most urgently at the moment is to build a large number of steel merchant ships for the American route.

That's when John. Forbes has taken US President Martin Brown. Van Buren's credentials are back, and the U.S. government is very interested in Yang Feng's proposal, of course, this is a euphemism, Yang Feng can see between the lines that they are in the ecstasy of the pie on the sky, Lao Fan hopes that Yang Feng will send a special envoy to the United States to discuss the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, and John. Forbes was appointed acting consul as the U.S. commercial director in Guangzhou, as a transition to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries......

But Yang Feng still needs to wait.

Because Van Buren is a Democrat, and he will have to step down next year, and the next term will be the Whigs, he sent people all the way at this time, and it is estimated that he is just in time for the old Fan to get out of the White House.

Let's wait!

Waiting for his next ......

Well, Yang Feng has to wait a little longer.

Because the next term of Lao Fan is the tragic Harrison, this guy stood in the rain to make an inaugural speech after being elected, and then got acute pneumonia, and rolled out of the White House covered with the American flag a month later, so Yang Feng had to wait for Vice President John. After Taylor took over, he sent this mission to jointly write the friendship between the United States and the United States, which could be regarded as a great gift for Taylor to take office.

So for the sake of his American layout, it is necessary to start preparing now.

Especially with the boat ready.

When it comes to crossing the Pacific, wooden ships are obviously not as reliable as steel ships.

What's more, he is also shouldering the heavy responsibility of conquering Hawaii, and it is obviously not as reliable as a steel ship to transport soldiers across thousands of miles in a wooden boat, so he is ready to invest two infantry brigades in Hawaii, and also carry out large-scale colonization and construction of military bases there, and the transportation of both personnel and materials in the future is massive.

In addition to steel shipbuilding, other such as textiles, cement, glass, clothing, food processing, etc., in short, all the industrial projects that can be put on are all there, and not only state-owned, he actually encourages the private sector, although those rich people have basically finished after he beat the local tyrants, but those small businessmen still exist, if they want to develop it, it is also casual, and the god emperor will still be happy for their growth.

Of course, if they were willing to go outside to develop, then the God Emperor would be even happier.

And among these, it is even more popular to go to the islands of the South China Sea to dig guano, and those private merchant shipowners are using the increasingly common steamships to pounce on the angry sea, and go to the desert islands of the South China Sea to dig this precious fertilizer, saying that European agriculture in the nineteenth century is all fed by guano, and in order to compete for guano control, South American countries even use ironclad ships, he has such a good place as the Nanhai Islands is not a fool, and he is counting on this solution to the food problem in the short term.

In addition, there is the cultivation of pyrethrum.

Fertilizers, pesticides, improved seeds, water conservancy construction, and so on should be carried out in a multi-pronged manner, and efforts should be made to achieve grain self-sufficiency in the two regions in a short period of time.

At least we can't let the common people eat sweet potatoes.

The poison of the sweet potato era must be cleared, it is said that a nation is finished by eating sweet potatoes, that thing can not be eaten to be strong, eating too much stomach acid is almost the same, but it is okay to make wine and raise livestock.

In addition, the first railway also began to be built, this railway to the south bank of the Pearl River Shiweitang to build to Foshan, although only more than 30 miles long but that is also a real railway, and after the completion of this section will continue to Sanshui to repair and then the Guangzhou-San railway will come out, and in Yang Feng's first five-year plan, not only this railway, even his Guangdong-Hanzhou railway is also in the plan, this railway is the sooner the better, the technicians trained by the Guangzhou-three railway, and then you can start from Guangzhou to Shaoguan to slowly repair.

In addition, road construction is also carried out on a large scale.

In his plan, all counties and townships should be connected to sandy roads, running four-wheeled trucks, at this time this kind of carriages have been very common, the post office mail cars shuttle all over the place, but because of the road problems freight volume has not been able to rise, fortunately, there are waterways in Liangguang this place can solve the traffic, so this problem is not so prominent.

Now that everything is stable, it is natural to start building the road quickly.

Water conservancy facilities have to be repaired.

Small reservoirs must be repaired, those mountain streams must be repaired if they have conditions, no matter what controversy there is about dams, but it really has to be indispensable, just don't build too high, anyway, he just regulates the amount of water, minimizes flooding, and supplies agricultural water.

Small reservoirs are useful.

In short, the first five-year plan of the Ming Empire was vigorously launched.

At the same time that Yang Feng was carrying out large-scale industrial and peasant construction, the French warship Erigona arrived in Guangzhou, and Philip's envoy Zhen Shengyi officially met the emperor as a diplomatic envoy.

He actually wanted to go to Beijing.

But on the way, he learned the news that the British were wiped out by the Ming army, it was obvious that the bad luck of the British was the most happy for the French, and Yang Feng was also more valuable than the Qing State, especially after learning that the British had purchased new weapons from Yang Feng, he was more valuable to the French, and he did not mind Yang Feng's arrogance when he met him, and said that after taking a trip to Guangzhou, especially after seeing the prisoners of the British warships and prisoner of war camps in Humen, he knew better that this arrogant emperor was really arrogant.

And then he got what he wanted.

Yang Feng arrogantly granted the French government the qualification to set up a consulate in Guangzhou, and in addition, French merchant ships could go to Guangzhou to trade, and French merchants could live in Guangzhou, but it was forbidden to carry out any religious activities, and the missionaries were hanged directly once discovered, and there was no problem in buying new rifled guns.

However, as a reciprocal exchange, the Ming will also send consuls to France, and the Ming merchants can also live in France to trade, of course, this must be no problem, France is not a closed country, Zhen Shengyi is very enthusiastic to welcome, he does not know that he is welcoming a ghost, and this ghost will lead to the fall of the Orleans dynasty. Immediately after that, Yang Feng's tinder class, five special talents who specialize in learning French, are ready to go to France as consuls and businessmen respectively, and they will go to France with the Erigona on a long-sail clipper made by the Ming Dynasty. In addition, they will also visit European countries other than the United Kingdom, such as Portugal, the Netherlands, and especially Portugal, and His Majesty the Emperor is very dissatisfied with some of the deviant behavior of the Portuguese in Macau, such as what is the Governor of Macau? If Maria does not explain it to him, Uncle Yang will revoke the Portuguese residence in Macau and expel him from the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Emperor allowed you to live in Macao, he only lived and did business, and did not allow you to run any parliament and government by yourself.

Of course, this has its own special circumstances.

After all, Shenzhou fell for two hundred years, during which the Ming Dynasty did not govern Macao, and it is understandable for you to make an autonomy yourself, which is a problem left over from history, so the Emperor also deliberately gave you a chance to make corrections, withdraw the officials and garrisons of the Portuguese government in Macao, and the Portuguese in Macao accepted the management of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Portuguese government went to Guangzhou to set up a consulate, but if you continue to be stubborn, then don't blame the Emperor for being unkind.

In addition, the mission is also tasked with changing China's image in Europe.

After all, the previous Europeans' view of China was that it was Tatar, that is, pig's tail, that is, poor and ignorant, in fact, we have long understood what kind of virtue the Qing Dynasty is, and we don't need to open the door of the country at all. Europeans have long known that the legendary dream country of the East has become similar to India, otherwise the British government would not have decided to start a war against our Qing Dynasty based on the reports of Yilu and others, if it were not for the fact that this opponent was so bad, which government would be stupid enough to let thousands of army soldiers and four third-class ships go on an expedition against an empire with a population of hundreds of millions?

The MPs of the British Parliament who voted in favor are not fools.

They know that there is no suspense in victory.

The only suspense is the number of troops invested, thousands are not enough and 20,000 are always enough, so at this time, our Daqing is only worth 20,000 British troops in their minds, and it is on the same level as Afghanistan, but what makes them stunned is that 20,000 British troops in Afghanistan are not enough, and it is useless to fight our Daqing.

Saying......

Anyway, this is really an accident!

Therefore, Yang Feng must let the Europeans see the real image of China, the pig's tail does not represent China, the Ming Dynasty is Huaxia, he is the orthodoxy of China, and the Tatars are just colonizers like the Mughal Empire.