Lu Si had been following behind Zhu Ciyao the entire time, watching the siege equipment factory building the Red Cannon.
"Your Majesty, why are we building so many Red Cannons?”
"Hit Slave Jian! Kong You De, this traitor, has brought over too much cannon technology. Slave Jian has more than 150 Red Cannons. I want them to know that the Ming Empire is his ancestor when it comes to Red Cannons!”
Lui Si pointed at the dozen or so Red Cannons that had already been forged.
"Your Majesty, is a dozen Red Cannons enough?”
"Not enough. I need at least a thousand Red Cannons. I'll let Slave Jian know why flowers are so red!”
"One, one, one thousand Red Cannons?”
Lui Si gestured and stuttered.
Zhai Ying, the aide, was also stunned by Zhu Ciyao's words.
"With a thousand Red Cannons, we have a much higher chance of winning against Slave Jian!”
"Yes, but transporting these cannons is much more troublesome!”，Zhu Ci Xin sighed.
"Do you have enough materials to make cannons? There was still a lot of scrap metal in the Leizhou Prefecture's warehouse!”
Zhu Ci looked at the system's warehouse. All kinds of resources could still be maintained for the time being.
"We can still maintain the normal supply for the time being, but we're a little short of wood! Many of the surrounding trees had been cut in half, leaving only half of them!”
Zhu Cixi did not dare to cut down all the trees, because if all the trees were cut down, it would easily cause soil erosion and damage the surrounding farmland and houses.
Therefore, the first town center was Qiongzhou Island, and the second town center was Leizhou Prefecture. Zhu Cishen only cut down half of the timber resources in the territory.
The remaining half of the wood resources would have to wait for the new small trees to grow for a year or two before they could be cut down.
He had to ensure that all the wood could be used continuously.
The production of the Red Cannons. The two town centers could produce 300 Red Cannons in a month.
Zhu Ci Xin opened the system and checked the resource distribution map of the first town center, Qiongzhou Island, and the second town center, Leizhou Prefecture.
The resources on Qiongzhou Island were different from the resources in Leizhou Prefecture.
" Resources on Qiongzhou Island: 950,000 units of gold, 5 million units of silver, 10 million units of copper, 20 million units of iron, and 50 million units of stone. The other mineral reserves were 20 million units. Wood and food could be regenerated.
The distribution of resources in Leizhou Prefecture: 500,000 units of gold, 10 million units of silver, 10 million units of copper, 30 million units of iron, and 40 million units of stone. The other mineral reserves were 30 million units. Wood and food could be regenerated.
These resources had not been mined, and most of them had been invested in production and construction.
The second town center's resource extraction speed was the same as the first town center's.
Gold: 5000 units/month, Silver: 10000 units/month, Copper: 50000 units/month, Iron: 100000 units/month, stone material: 300000 units/month, Wood: 600000 units/month, Food: 2000000 units/day, 200000 units/day of fodder.
Other than the gold, silver, and copper that were left behind to upgrade the town, most of the resources mined in the center of each town were used to produce weapons, equipment, warships, horses, carriages, and other tools.
Looking at the large-scale development and construction of the entire town center, Zhu Ci Xin was very excited.
Governor Lu Si was also very excited. He walked around and found that there were people who were farming, fishing, building ships, raising horses, and training.
"Your Majesty, the new city you built has a clear division of labor for the people! Compared to the commoners of my Leizhou Prefecture, a plate of loose sand is much stronger!”
Zhu Ci Xin didn't feel anything.
There were 150,000 households in Leizhou Prefecture, a total of 500,000 people. After 15,000 of the landowners and tycoons who had colluded with Slave Jian were killed, it became even more peaceful.
With the rapid expansion of the second town center, the people of Leizhou Prefecture were attracted to settle around the town center.
They realized that the minister in charge of the town center would pay them wages.
As a result, a large number of people from Guangzhou Prefecture, which was north of Leizhou Prefecture, moved to Leizhou Prefecture.
August 5th, twenty-five days to go to Guangzhou Prefecture.
Zhu Cizao was inspecting the production of the red cannons every day. He had already recruited a portion of the 40,000 soldiers that he was preparing to recruit.
Every day, a large number of soldiers were recruited. The second town center would have 60,000 soldiers on August 30th. 20,000 conscription players, 20,000 conscription spearmen, 10,000 conscription archers, and 10,000 conscription machetemen.
In order not to arouse suspicion, soldiers arrived at the camp every day.
They brought their own equipment, but for safety reasons, they put it in the warehouse of the military camp in advance. They pretended to be civilians and joined the army in the military camp.
Lu Si followed Zhu Ciao to patrol. Every day, he saw many commoners coming from all directions to the barracks to join the army. He was deeply shocked.
"Your Majesty, it seems that you are truly blessed by the heavens! As soon as you arrived in Leizhou Prefecture, the commoners came to seek refuge in Leizhou Prefecture!”
Zhu Ci Xin accepted the praise with a clear conscience because these were the farmers and soldiers he had recruited.
If the war was tight, the recruited peasants could still pick up their weapons and go to the battlefield.
Most importantly, the peasants they recruited were comparable to the Green Army soldiers of Slave Jian.
"Your Majesty, the 5,000 heavy-armored cavalrymen are ready to go north at any time!”，Ma Zhanshan reported to Zhu Cixi.
Pu Zhenguo lowered his head, feeling very dejected because he only had 1,300 infantrymen recruited by Qiongzhou Island.
"Your Majesty, we are going north on August 30th, but I only have 1,300 soldiers. Isn't that a little too little?”
"It's enough. When the time comes, I still have 60,000 soldiers recruited from the second town center. When the time comes, you will have 1,300 people as the vanguard. There's no need to prepare too many soldiers!”
Pu Zhenguo nodded.
"Alright then! I'll continue training them!"
Not only did Pu Zhenguo have to train 1,300 soldiers, but he also had to help Zhu Cishi train the soldiers recruited from the second town center.
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