Seeing his eldest brother looking happy, Su Ming became worried.

"Brother, Master Qianhu has vomited so many things this time, I'm afraid he will hate us even more." Su Ming shook his head and said.

"This shouldn't happen... Mr. Qianhu has a very good attitude towards me this time. I think he may have seen that our Second Weibao has the ability to kill Japanese pirates and wants to win over us sincerely.

Nowadays, the Japanese pirates are under increasing pressure. This time he was able to give us so many things because he wanted to strengthen the strength of the entire salt factory. After all, it is also good for him to hold the Weizhuangsuo area." Su Ren was a little unsure.

replied.

"If the commander and the people in the town didn't know about this, how could his surname Yao come up with so many things?

We all know that there is going to be an earthquake in the officialdom of Songjiang Prefecture. Does the Commander not know? Can Yao Zonghan not notice it? At this time, no one in office dares to act recklessly, especially if he wants to capture the hearts of the people and military households.

If the person named Yao doesn't handle this matter well, the commander will definitely skin him." Su Ming looked at his elder brother and analyzed.

"According to what you say, what are we going to do?" Su Ren asked in surprise.

"Just do it now as it was before. Just don't agree to any request from Yao. Those officials are not comparable to ordinary people. The further forward you rush, the faster you will die. After you die, they may not even look at you.

Won't.

By the way, have the rewards for killing the Japanese pirates been paid? This time the town will not deduct the rewards for killing the Japanese pirates." Su Ming asked.

"Yes, the commander gave it to me directly. The thirteen corpses he asked to verify were indeed those of Japanese pirates. Just give me 390 taels of silver. Jinshan Guard's reward for killing Japanese pirates has been increased again. The reward for killing one Japanese pirate has been

It became 30 taels." Su Ren couldn't help but feel excited.

"The reward for killing a Japanese pirate is 15 taels of silver. This is what Yao told us two years ago. When did it rise to 30 taels? If you hadn't made such a big move, brother, we still don't know.

This time, in order to protect himself and prevent you from causing trouble, Yao has also invested money. It’s good that we don’t want to participate in the power struggle in Jinshanwei Town. It’s already very good to get so many things.

After lunch later, I plan to go to the salt field. The new salt field is ready for use. I have to go and see it. And within half a month, I plan to complete the construction and renovation of the second new salt field. So next month we will

Salt production can be quickly increased," Su Ming said.

"Well, I asked Flag Master Cao to go with you. I thought about it for a long time when I came back. You should worry more about the Yantian from now on. We need to train more and try to improve our combat effectiveness so that we can kill more Japanese pirates.

From now on, we will always arrange two small flags to patrol the seaside in turns. If we encounter pirates, everyone in the salt farm will return to Erwei Fort as quickly as yesterday. We will choose to fight or defend based on the number of Japanese pirates." Su Ren tasted the attack.

With the benefit of killing Japanese pirates, he can't wait to increase the combat effectiveness of his troops. He is also very confident now.

It is Su Ren's duty to improve the combat effectiveness of Wei Zhuang's military households. Now Erwei Fort has sufficient food and armor can equip all flag owners and flags. It is much stronger than before. He needs to convert these into weapons as soon as possible.

Just fighting power!

And Su Ming is his biological brother. If he is put in charge of the most important salt factory in Wei Zhuang, Su Ren's influence in Wei Zhuang will become higher and higher.

Su Ming's ability can also increase the output of the salt farm. If he has a pistol, he only needs to prepare a military horse for Su Ming. Even if the Japanese pirates land, it is impossible to keep him.

"Okay, let's follow what the elder brother said. In the next few days, I plan to rebuild the manor of the salt factory. After it is built, I will purify the green salt and put it in the salt factory. The green salt produced in the future will be directly purified.

You don’t have to go to as much trouble as before." Su Ming thought this was fine.

"Well! If you need anything, just ask. We, Weibao, are not short of money right now. I plan to pay the military pay owed by the soldiers this afternoon. This is yours..." Su Ren said and took out a small cloth bag and handed it to Su.

bright.

Su Ming took it and opened it and saw that there was a lot of silver inside. After weighing it, there were about a hundred taels.

"Why did you give me so much money?" Su Ming asked in confusion.

"We, Wei Bao, will be rewarded for their merits and punished for their mistakes. Yesterday, you killed 7 Japanese pirates, and two others were shot and wounded by you. If you kill 7 Japanese pirates directly, you will be rewarded with 15 taels of silver each. If you assist in killing them, you will be rewarded."

There are two Japanese pirates, each will be rewarded 5 taels of silver, a total of 115 taels, this is what you deserve." Su Ren said.

Su Ming cooperated with his soldiers to kill the Japanese pirates, so half of the silver earned went to Wei Zhuang. If Su Ren followed Yao Qianhu to kill the enemy, then half of the 30 taels of silver gained by Su Ming from killing the Japanese pirates belonged to himself, and half belonged to Yao Qian.

The households were redistributed, and Su Ren could only get his own reward for killing enemies, and the silver redistributed by Master Yao.

After taking the money, Su Ming asked Tiezhu to take some of the salt-making workers to the salt factory first. Although the Japanese pirates broke into their village yesterday, they did not damage their salt-making pots at all.

The Japanese pirates also know that destroying the big pot will not do them any good. If the salt factory has fewer pots, it will produce less salt, and they will have less salt to grab next time. If the salt factory cannot survive and everyone flees, then they will

The gains from landing the first time will be even less. Without these soldiers with low combat effectiveness, they are likely to directly encounter the elite Jinshan Guards.

Su Zhe led people to pull hundreds of kilograms of cement out of the warehouse behind the fort. This time when they arrived at the salt field, they wanted to speed up the construction of the salt field and build more houses. Now more than fifty people are crowded into more than ten houses in the village.

This is too crowded.

Seeing that their eldest brother had already led people to start training behind the fort, Su Ming and Su Zhe rode out of Erwei Fort and came to the salt factory. Tiezhu had already led people to start boiling salt.

Before the Japanese pirates arrived yesterday afternoon, the connection between the new salt field and the old salt field had been dug. Now everyone gets salt water from other salt fields. The water level of the old salt field has been restored yesterday, and the connection with the sea has been cut off. Waiting for him

The salt water drops to a certain level, the connection is opened to fill with water, and then the connection is disconnected.

Do this at least three times before the salt water here can boil salt. Each time the sea water is introduced, it takes 4 to 10 days. If it is summer, it may take two days to add sea water again. Such a salt field can generally draw salt water 1 to 2 times a month.

Looking at the new salt field, the water level has obviously dropped in less than a day. Su Ming tasted the saltiness and found that it was much saltier than yesterday. The evaporation rate of the sea water was at least three times that of the old salt field.

It stands to reason that the saltiness is barely enough to make salt, but Su Ming was not in a hurry. He asked Tiezhu's commander to go to other salt fields to get salt water and wait a few days to see.

There were more than 20 people cooking salt, more than 10 people carrying salt water, and about 20 people in the salt field. Su Ming sent half of them to dig fields in the No. 2 salt field, and asked Su Zhe to take the other half to build a house outside the village courtyard.

"Our salt production plant will definitely be expanded in the future. Now we need to build a new yard, but we cannot stop the salt production work. Although it is still early at the end of the month, everyone cannot be careless. If we fail to complete the task, everyone knows the consequences.

But we still have to verify how big the impact of the new salt field will be. This is what I think of the new salt factory... It is composed of a circle of houses, and all 48 houses can accommodate 200 people.

The doors and windows of each house face inward, and the outside is a whole wall with a secret opening. When the secret opening is opened, bows and arrows can be fired to ward off enemies. The houses are all made of cement and stone, with a height of three meters. We will place some on the outer wall in the future.

Barbed wire and iron nails prevented the enemy from scaling the fort walls.

The internal buildings are basically unchanged, but everything will be redesigned and rebuilt when the new hospital is completed. A new purification room and a warehouse will be built in the new castle, so that we can protect ourselves even if we are besieged." Su Ming drew drawings on the ground.

, said to Su Zhe.

"This design is good, but since we have cement, why don't we go to Erwei Fort? If there are Japanese pirates here, we can just run away. It will be safer to return to the fort where there are so many people.

If a Japanese pirate comes and we don't run away, we hide here, and the enemy directly lands hundreds of them, and we and Wei Fort may not be able to defend it. How can we hide here and avoid death?" Su Zhe asked in confusion.

"Of course we can't defend this seaside. We are rebuilding it just because it is too dilapidated and is not conducive to our expansion of production. The workers don't even have a place to live.

Today's houses are all made of stone and mud, and the roofs are made of wood and thatch. It doesn't take much effort for the Japanese pirates to destroy them. They can be burned easily by us with a fire.

Our Second Wei Fort can now bake more than 600 kilograms of cement every three days, which is basically enough for our own use. Now that the castle has money, we cannot stop burning cement!"

"The current cement cannot be used to build fort walls because it has been placed for too short a time. Instead of doing this, it is better to return the manor of the salt factory first. After a few months, the cement will be strong enough and everything here will be almost completed. Our cement

Just put them all in Erwei Fort!" Su Ming explained to Su Zhe.

"Okay! Anyway, I will listen to you. I will have people build the house later. There are too few rooms here, and there is no room for making snowflake salt.

No one can guarantee whether our salt production plant has the informants of Zha Yanbao or Yao Qianhu. In order to ensure that the production method of snowflake salt is not leaked, we will continue to build a new salt production plant." Su Zhe also agreed with Su Ming's plan to build a new salt production plant.

Although Su Ming does not plan to build too many defensive facilities here to resist Japanese pirate attacks, if the Japanese pirates attack here, the houses here can delay the Japanese pirates for some time, and can also buy some time for the people of Wei Zhuang to enter the fort.

Su Ming had basically taken over the salt making plant from the beginning of the day, and there was no objection from the entire salt making plant.

Just because all the flag owners and Xiaoqi knew that 7 of the 13 Japanese pirates yesterday were directly killed by Su Ming, they would not have any objections.
Chapter completed!