After Yao Qianhu left, life in Erweibao continued as usual. Households in the six villages had begun digging underground granaries, moving cement out of the warehouses and delivering them to people's homes. A space that could hide people and food didn't need to be big, just a few.

Within days, hidden cellars were dug in people's homes.

However, the construction of tunnels is not that easy. Su Ren requires each village to first dig out the secret tunnels out of the village, and then dig a main tunnel through the main hub of the village.

The secret passage out of Erwei Fort is also under construction. The entrance will be placed in the granary behind the fort, and the exit will be placed behind the eastern coastal hills and forests more than 2 miles away from Erwei Fort. Hundreds of people are digging together and the speed is not slow.

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Su Ming is still engaged in construction in the salt field. He can accumulate 105 rounds of bullets, a grenade, and a first-aid kit for the coast guard ship warehouse every day.

The room is visible to others.

The frequency of people from Zhayanbao entering the Erweibao salt field became less and less frequent, and at most they only sent out four people. They hurriedly left after seeing the people from Erweibao, and few people confused the Erweibao Salt Field.

Something happened.

Su Zhe wanted to take people to Zhayan Fort's territory several times. He hoped to take back the salt fields belonging to Erwei Fort, but Su Ming stopped him.

What Erwei Fort needs most now is time. To increase the output of the salt fields, improve the defense of Erwei Fort, and train its soldiers well are the key to them now. The 100 acres of salt fields occupied by Zhayan Fort will only last a month.

Su Ming's own salt fields were not renovated to produce three or four stones of blue salt. It was not worthwhile to cause trouble for those salt fields.

On April 26, crystallization began again in the No. 1 New Salt Field, and it was time to boil the salt. Su Ming left 30 stones of blue salt for the Second Weibao Warehouse, and he had already used all the extra stones of blue salt.

It was filtered and boiled to make snowflake salt, which was about 12 stones more, and was hidden in their home.

The new salt field No. 2 is boiling salt again, and the new salt field No. 2 is almost ready to boil salt. Su Ming estimates that more than 50 shi of snowflake salt can be boiled before the end of the month.

More than half of the construction of the salt farm has been completed, and Su Ming has arranged for manpower to build houses in the fort. The No. 3 salt field was plastered with cement yesterday, and the cement and control baffles will be completed today. The No. 3 salt field will be built before the end of the month.

You can add salt water, and you can boil the salt before the 10th of next month.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner. To the north of the new salt field No. 3, the old salt field still has about a thousand acres. Su Ming plans to transform it into the new salt field No. 4 and No. 5. The salt field next to Zhayanbao in the south will be transformed into the salt field No. 6 in the future.

Su Ming has already made the design plans for the No. 3 salt field, the No. 4 salt field, and the No. 5 salt field. Tomorrow, when the No. 3 salt field is completely completed, we can start building the No. 4 salt field.

In this month, the salt-making factory workers have become familiar with their jobs. The new village courtyard looks stronger than many forts. Erwei Fort. Nowadays, many people call the salt-making farm courtyard a salt castle. If here,

It can accommodate more than 200 workers when it is built, and its area is only half the size of the Second Weiburg.

With nothing to do, Su Zhe followed Su Ming and wanted to practice shooting. The two came to a reef area in the north of the salt field. Su Zhe took a gun and practiced shooting on the beach. He had practiced shooting many times in the past half month, and his shooting skills were better than those of others.

It has improved a lot before.

After a magazine fired 15 rounds of bullets, Su Zheyi reluctantly returned the gun to Su Ming.

"Brother, where did you buy this gun? If we have a few such guns, it is not easy to deal with the pirates." Su Zhe said to Su Ming.

"Hehe! It's not easy for this gun to come. I get unexpectedly, and the bullets are not infinite." Su Ming took his pistol and wiped it.

"Then ... Belle, don't let me practice in the future, keep the bullets and kill the pirates! What is the use of the bullet without bullet?" Su Zhe thought about it.

"I let you practice it must be enough. After a few days, go out and get some bullets. If you can raise the marksmanship, I will give you this pistol to you in the future." Su Ming said.

Su Zhe was so excited that he was about to ask him at this time a fast horse drove to them. Su Ming looked at the patrol soldiers in the salt field. At this time, it would be possible to find them here.

"Eight Lord!" The cavalry quickly came to Su Ming and salute him.

"What's wrong?" Su Ming asked.

"The day before yesterday, three exiles came from the direction of Zhayanbao in the north. The eight flowers who came this morning have been sent to Erwei Castle. Just now there were more than 40 citizens outside our castle. The eighth master was not in so many exiles.

Dare to keep it. "The military road.

In the past few days, there are more and more flowers from the south, the north to Weizhuang, and some of these exiles are attacked by the pirates of the family by the pirates of the home, and partly because they have no food to escape.

Su Ren listened to Su Ming's suggestion. Generally, the exiles have been collected. It may be that the news that Erweiburg retains the citizens has been spread. More and more people who arrived in the past few days were more and more.

The population has doubled.

"You are sure where they come from. If you really can't live and want to rely on us, send it to Erweiburg." Su Ming said.

It is very rare to have more than forty exiles this time. Generally, there is no right to collect the people without the right to collect the people, and no one has a lot of food to eat. But Daming is a human society.

An room, as long as these exiles are not criminals in the court, there will generally not be much problems if they collect them.

In the evening, when all workers ended, Cao Chunrui took two flags to guard the salt field.

Back home tonight, Dasao boiled rice porridge. The steamed buns were white -faced steamed buns.

"Brother, what's going on?" Su Ming looked at the elder brother.

"Old Eight, this month we have received 176 creams, and 63 people have been collected today.

It turns out that the food in the castle is enough, and the more exiles have nothing to do with us. Today I went to the granary and made Cao Qi the master statistics. In this only one month, we consume nearly two hundred stones for a month.

For a year for food, even half a year is not enough. "Su Ren said worriedly that the most important thing for Erweiburg is the food.

"Now the people have food, and this dried rice is too much. It should also be consumed.

Recently, Erweiburg is either digging tunnel or building a house. Everyone should eat more dry rice. As for the big brother, you are worried about food, I think it is completely unnecessary. We can buy it without food, anyway, there is money. "Su Ming said easily.

Then, then

"You were able to buy food back from Hangzhou last time, but you may not always succeed. The imperial court strictly prohibits maritime trade. Every time you go out, it is an adventure. How can we put the source of food at sea?" Su Ren worried.

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"In addition to the sea, we can also buy from the northern mountains and forests, such as Fenglingdu, or we can go to Jinshanwei Town. The money we have on the surface is enough to buy food for three years. What will we be like in three years?

I know!" Su Ming said easily, but Su Ren couldn't help but feel relieved after hearing this.

Su Ren was most aware of Weibao's difficult situation last month, but now Yao Qianhu actually apologized to him. Zhayanbao's pressure on them suddenly dropped. Su Ming's brain was much more flexible than his. He said he was not afraid of shortcomings.

Liang didn’t think about it himself. Su Ming had already told him that this month

In addition to the 10 stones of snowflake salt sent to Fenglingdu, the salt farm can also accumulate more than 50 stones of snowflake salt. If this snowflake salt is sold, Erwei Fort will no longer be short of money. He can purchase weapons and equipment in large quantities to improve Erwei.

With the strength of the fort, Yao Qianhu would not dare to touch them when the time comes.

"Myna, we don't care about food, but the population of Erwei Fort is getting more and more. Now there are houses built everywhere in the fort. This fort is getting more and more crowded." Su Zhe said to Su Ming.

"One aspect of the crowding is that we have built several new shops in the fort to sell food and various tools. Nowadays, villages outside the fort come to the fort to buy things, so there are naturally a lot of people.

There are dozens of households in the fort, but the land occupied by their houses is not too large. The main reason is that the land use planning in our fort is not good.

In a few days, I will re-plan the buildings in the fort. When the new fort wall is built, all the people's courtyards in the fort will also be remodeled. We will be responsible for building all the houses this time. After the new Wei Fort is completed, although the area

The increase will not be much, but the habitable population will increase several times.

Also, the number of people in the fort should also be reduced, and a few more villages should be built outside the fort, so that refugees who come in the future can be resettled there," Su Ming said.

"But these newly recruited people are building fort walls now and digging tunnels are still useful. What will they do in the future? We don't need so many workers in the salt factory." Su Ren asked.

"Don't we also use people to bake cement? The newly built villages mainly let them bake cement for us. Each village is responsible for a part. As long as the proportion of our cement is not leaked, it will not be easy for others to steal it.

At that time, everyone who works for us will be paid wages, including the workers in the salt factory, and we will clear the wages that month," Su Ming said.

Erweibao had no money before and owed everyone a lot of money. Now Erweibao has begun to build shops. Only when the people have money can Erweibao's productivity increase rapidly. Only when the internal economic cycle in the heart is opened.

If 10 stones of snowflake salt are sold at the end of this month, and he has 1,200 taels of silver, Su Ming plans to pay all the soldiers and workers military salaries, and then determine the wages for all workers. Behind Su Ming is a man who produces hundreds of dollars a month.

The large salt field of Shixuehuayan, he has the ability to make Erwei Fort more and more prosperous.

Su Ren vaguely felt that there was a bigger chess game in his younger brother's heart, but he was not good at it, so he would not stop the eighth brother in Er Weibao's decision-making. Now everyone still doesn't know that Er Weibao is the second brother.

At the helm, no one paid attention to them.
Chapter completed!