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"The Huanyi Weaving Factory has purchased 12 tons of raw silk and 50 tons of cotton from various parts of Zhejiang Province. It is expected that it can weave 120,000 rolls of high-quality silk and 100,000 rolls of high-quality cotton cloth."

"In addition, there are only more than a thousand looms in the laundry weaving factory. According to the current production scale, at least two thousand looms need to be added."

"The 400,000 dan of grain, 5,000 jin of salt and tea, and a batch of luxury goods sent from Dai County to the imperial court have already been shipped from Dai County and are expected to arrive in the capital in ten days. Qin Shun will then meet them in the capital."

"At the same time, Dai County sent a message that a large number of spies have been sent deep into the desert grasslands, but no trace of the alien race has been found so far."

Xu Wan'er spent several minutes reporting in one breath on the progress of current engineering projects and other plans.

After recording the conversation, Xu Wan'er breathed a sigh of relief.

Hearing this, Xia Yun's mind quickly fell into a brief period of thought.

It was not until dozens of seconds had passed that Xia Yun finally spoke.

"First, the Hangzhou Construction Bureau will immediately allocate funds to build 3,000 new looms for the Huanyi Weaving Factory, as well as other necessary facilities."

"The second thing is to continue to promote the infrastructure construction in Hangzhou and make sure that Hangzhou is built into an industrialized city before the end of this year."

"Third, all the newly recruited soldiers will be collectively named as the Hangzhou City Defense Army. Jiang Wenzhong and Chong Heihu will each lead 2,000 soldiers to supplement their own forces, and Qin Tian will be in charge of the unified command and deployment."

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yun personally instructed on three things in Xu Wan'er's series of reports.

As for the rest, he was completely confident in letting Xu Wan'er arrange it herself.

"Yes, my lord!"

Xu Wan'er nodded seriously.

"In addition, starting tomorrow, we will explore the mineral reserves throughout Zhejiang Province and prepare to mine and smelt iron."

Immediately afterwards, Xia Yun made a new arrangement.

Now, except for cement and other materials that are locally available, most of the other construction materials needed in Hangzhou are transported from Dai County.

Xia Yun has been operating in Dai County for three years and has already established a complete working foundation.

Hangzhou City has finally settled down in peace. If it wants to become an industrialized city, the first thing it needs to solve is the refining of various basic materials.

"Yes, my lord!"

......

In the blink of an eye, another two days passed.

On this day, a messenger sent by the imperial court appeared in the governor's office and quickly conveyed the news that Xu Wan'er was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang.

The situation was different from the last time Xia Yun was promoted to governor.

This time, the court did not send eunuchs to convey the imperial edict.

In the court, everyone who learned the news of the promotion showed excitement on their faces.

"Wan'er, from now on, you are the first female official to serve as the governor of our Liang Dynasty."

After sending the messenger away, Xia Yun immediately congratulated Xu Wan'er.

"From now on, we can no longer call you Master, we have to call Xu Wan'er Master Xu!"

Chong Heihu started to make a fuss on the spot.

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter and the atmosphere became quite lively.

As for Xu Wan'er, she was also filled with excitement when she received the appointment from the court.

After all, this was a recognition of her by the emperor.

However, this excitement did not last long, and Xu Wan'er's heart quickly calmed down.

"Sir, the number of soldiers recruited by the Hangzhou City Defense Army has reached about 12,000. The troops are short of weapons and equipment. I don't know what to do with them?"

As usual, Xu Wan'er directly brought the topic to work.

Hearing this, Xia Yun raised his eyebrows for a moment.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about this matter constantly. With Dai County's production capacity, it is not difficult to arm a force of more than 10,000 people with guns.

But the key point is that the Hangzhou city defense army was composed of new soldiers recruited locally in Zhejiang Province.

Once they are directly equipped with firearms, there will always be some hidden dangers.

"The weapons used by the Hangzhou City Defense Army are all modeled after those of the Zhejiang Camp. As for armor, they are all equipped with heavy armor!"

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yun gave an answer.

Soon, Xia Yun designed a drawing and handed it to Xu Wan'er.

The moment Xu Wan'er saw the drawing, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

The heavy armor that Xia Yun designed personally was not the kind of heavy armor he had seen in the capital before.

In Xia Yun's design, each soldier was covered in iron armor from head to toe, and the places where the iron armor was connected were all cushioned with paper armor.

In this way, although the weight of each set of heavy armor reaches thirty or forty kilograms, it can greatly protect the safety of the soldiers!

"First, select some skilled blacksmiths in the city to forge ten sets of armor and see how they perform."

At this time Xia Yun spoke again.

After receiving the order, Xu Wan'er turned around and led her men out of the court to forge armor according to Xia Yun's instructions.

Xia Yun stayed in the court and began to think about other things.

The Hangzhou City Defense Army has recruited 1,200 soldiers, which is undoubtedly enough in terms of numbers.

But in terms of quality, I'm afraid they are all not very good.

After all, he was able to recruit such an army in just a few days, relying on his absolutely strong financial resources.

After a while, Xia Yun brought Qin Tianye and others to the Hangzhou camp.

Hangzhou Camp was originally the location of Hangzhou’s garrison troops, but in the past two years, the number of garrison troops in Hangzhou city has been very small.

Especially over the past month, Lei Zhenning took away Hangzhou Deputy General Wang Lei, and there were even fewer soldiers left in Hangzhou City.

Nowadays, this Hangzhou camp is being used by Xia Yun, and all the soldiers recruited in the past period of time have been deployed here.

"Emergency gathering!"

Accompanied by Chong Heihu's whistle, tens of thousands of Hangzhou City Defense Army soldiers rushed out of the dormitory building and gathered in the open space in front of Xia Yun.

However, at first glance, Xia Yun couldn't help but reveal a bit of helplessness in his eyes.

As he expected, these newly recruited soldiers had no military qualities at all.

Among them, there are not only many skinny children, but also many 56-year-old elderly people!

It is obvious that they all came here just to have a full meal!

"Order everyone to be separated by age immediately. Soldiers under 20 will line up on the left, those over 50 will line up on the right, and the rest will line up in the middle!"

Xia Yun really couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and immediately let out a loud shout.

Upon hearing this, Chong Heihu did not hesitate and immediately led his personal soldiers to command the twelve thousand people to form a new line.

It was not until noon, when the scorching sun was mercilessly burning the earth, that the 12,000 people were redivided into teams according to Xia Yun's instructions.