With the passage of time, everything in Zhu Youxiao gradually became regular.

The port is slowly being built, and the shipyard is also hoarding materials and digging foundations under the guidance of the master who has been invited to come. The salt works have been officially put into production, and with the increasing number of technology and manpower, and the reason for becoming more and more skilled, the output has gradually stabilized at about 1.1 million, and the profit from the expenses is about 300,000 taels of silver.

After a month of searching, the recruits were also recruited. The team is still led by Wei Zhongxian and Old Eunuch Dong, and there is no relaxation in the standards, and the mind, physique, and temperament are all very strict. However, after the experience of the last time, Wei Zhongxian is much more familiar with the road this time, and it was completed in just one month.

The more than 600 new teenagers came from the salt works, from the port construction team, from the children of tenant farmers on the outskirts of Beijing, from homeless beggars from the streets, and from normal families. But without exception, they all came from poor backgrounds.

Compared with last time, Zhu Youxiao added another condition this time, that is, his family is poor. The reason for this is that Zhu Youxiao also has his own considerations.

A young man from a well-to-do family and a young man from a poor family are self-evident from the opportunity to change, the latter needs all the opportunities to get rid of poverty, and for the one who gave him this opportunity, the latter is more grateful than the former and more remembered.

Of course, this kind of strict screening condition is limited to these 900 teenagers, and there will be no threshold for them in the future, except for their physical conditions, and this is also the inevitable trend of the expansion of the army.

After the recruitment, it was training, which was the task of the teaching company, and more than 600 recruits were all handed over to them for training.

As for the teenagers who have participated in the battle, they each have their own tasks. The three combat companies had to go to the salt pans every day to escort the silver two back, the logistics company had to perfect its means of transport and cooking utensils, and the cavalry company had to conduct riding training.

Of the three parts, the cavalry company was the hardest, and now they were basically soaked in the grass fence of the Imperial Horse Warden, riding horses during the day and sleeping with the horses at night. For the training of cavalry, Zhu Youxiao did not give any guidance, but there was only one requirement, that is, to advance like a wall, all cavalry must be trained like the phalanx, horizontal and vertical, and move according to the regulations.

All the affairs are going on slowly, and the relationship between Zhu Youxiao and Wanli has become more intimate, especially after he sent 100,000 taels of silver to Wanli's inner treasury, which is even better.

These 100,000 taels are not once, but every month, and in a year, that is 1.2 million taels of silver. It's no wonder that Wanli couldn't laugh anymore, and he didn't listen to Zhu Youxiao's request, so he waved his hand directly and let him do it himself.

Wanli forty-four years, still not peaceful, natural disasters everywhere, the north of Zhili in the south and Shandong disaster is particularly serious, Wanli has issued an edict to help the victims. However, in Zhu Youxiao's view, the intensity of relief is simply child's play, and it is all measures of thousands of taels and tens of thousands of taels.

Looking at the salt that a large salt farm produces 300,000 taels of silver a month, and thinking about the military expenses of tens of thousands of taels a month for hundreds of people, Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt that he and these people did not seem to live in the same era, and the gap in consumption concepts was too big.

The people of this era are so pitiful. This is Zhu Youchu's intuitive idea, accustomed to the modern society with great material abundance in later generations, and looking back, an inexplicable sense of superiority arises spontaneously.

This feeling only lasted for a while, and then it was extinguished by Zhu Youxiao, this is all cheap labor, as long as they give some money and food, they feel that it is a great favor.

When the disaster began to flood and the victims were begging for survival, Zhu Youxiao gave Wang Wenyan an order, asking him to command the construction team and the salt works, accept the victims in an orderly manner, and transform them into labor. These two places, after a period of running-in operation, have produced a relatively sound system, up and down with personal ability, have given birth to large and small leaders, enough to digest some of the victims.

In particular, the salt pans are currently overloaded, with a serious shortage of manpower, and even in many cases, there is no one to collect the dried salt in some salt pans. Dozens of miles of salt farms, then more than a thousand people are simply not enough. If you want the entire salt works to operate, five or six thousand people per person is simply not enough, especially in this era of pure manpower, there is no machinery.

Recruiting people is just a trivial matter, Zhu Youxiao ordered a thing, the most bitter thing is Wang Wenyan, he originally brought out the managers of the two places, Liu Bin is in charge of the construction team, Lao Zhoutou is in charge of the salt field, basically the affairs of these two places are handed over to them, he is only responsible for solving problems when the two of them have problems.

Originally, he planned to return to the capital after a period of care, how could a staff member come up with advice if he didn't stay with the proprietor? However, Zhu Youxiao's order allowed him to postpone his plan indefinitely, recruit the victims, and enrich the salt works and construction team.

"Well, I wonder when I'll be able to return to that land of bliss on earth?" Wang Wenyan looked west at the capital, held a glass of wine in his hand, and drank it with a frown, he missed the Du family wine shop very much at the moment, especially the pretty and spicy widow Du.

Recruiting disaster victims is simple, but there are too many things involved, and recruitment alone is not enough, we must find ways to let them stay, this is Zhu Youxiao's real intention, and these things are definitely not something that Liu Bin, a grassland escapee, and Lao Zhoutou, a generation of salt workers, can handle.

Only Wang Wenyan can do this, and only he can do these things properly and satisfy Zhu Youxiao.

"No, I have to find some helpers, how lucky I am to be able to catch the line of Taisun now, it is simply the blessing of the ancestors and the ancestors, I must not sink here, I must mix up my personal appearance." Pinching the wine glass, Wang Wenyan's mind turned.

On the one hand, he is a little too busy to be busy, and on the other hand, he does have the consideration of consolidating himself. Now that His Royal Highness Taisun is diving in the abyss, and has not yet ascended to heaven, it is the most cost-effective to take refuge at this time, it is definitely the road to heaven in one day, and the ministers of the hidden mansion are not talking about fun.

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Based on Wang Wenyan's observation during this time, His Royal Highness Taisun is definitely a generation of heroes, with no lack of ambition, ability, and skill, what is lacking is just time, it takes time to grow, and it takes time to wait.

It's just that Wang Wenyan had the idea of looking for a helper, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that he didn't know a few capable people, after all, he was only a prison official, and he also escaped to Beijing because of the prison guards, where can he know a few people who can be on the stage.

"Forget it, I'll ask someone to pay attention to this later, and now call a few of my former subordinates over." Wang Wenyan used to be regarded as a figure in She County, and there were naturally a few people under him who were running around, all of whom were used to it, and now they can also help when they are called.

He can see that His Royal Highness Taisun doesn't need anyone to come up with ideas at all, everything is in his chest and abdomen, what he wants is just someone who can carry out his intentions, since this is the case, Wang Wenyan doesn't plan to go to Beijing, just take root on the shore of the Bohai Sea, make some achievements, and think that he is the step to advance.

Not to mention Wang Wenyan's busyness, Zhu Youxiao also began to be busy with his own affairs in the palace. Although Wanli repeatedly said that he could do it boldly and do whatever he wanted, Zhu Youxiao still didn't dare to be careless and was still cautious. You don't need to think about the struggle for the throne to know how cruel and dirty it is, and there is no room for mistakes.

Although Zheng Guifei is a teacher, and Zhu Changluo is stable, the undercurrents flowing below are innumerable, and now there is just a lack of an opportunity, Zhu Youxiao must not let people find an excuse to take the opportunity to make trouble.

If you don't dare to touch the firearms and armor, then do something else. The salt farm has brought him great benefits, and with sufficient funds, he can carry out many things.

With the will of Wanli, Zhu Youxiao wantonly searched for skilled craftsmen in the palace, such as blacksmiths, potters, carpenters, etc., as long as they were skillful, he wanted them.

With the help of Jinyiwei, the masters of the Ministry of Industry couldn't hide it at all, so they were all looted and placed by him. As for the craftsmen under the twenty-four yamen, not to mention, which big eunuch dares to hide it privately, as long as the master likes it, they can't wait to go over by themselves.

Bustling with four or five hundred people, the master craftsmen with their apprentices and their families were all put into their own chassis by Zhu Youxiao - the western suburbs cement factory. Although there is an extra burden, it is still necessary to do it out of secrecy, but this is limited to the master craftsman, and the apprentice is not treated so well, so he can only stay in it by himself, and he can only go out after he ascends the throne.

He enclosed a large piece of land around the cement factory, and even a royal village was occupied by him. The brick walls are five or six meters high, enough to block the sight of all prying eyes, thin with all the secrets inside.

Naturally, after Zhu Youxiao robbed the craftsman, his reputation stinked again, what playthings were demoralized, what carpenter's grandson, all kinds of things that discorded with his mainstream values were exposed, and circulated in the scholar class. But Zhu Youxiao doesn't care, he has read the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and he knows deeply that these doctors are just a group of paper tigers, and under the sword, they don't have any blood.

After the master craftsman was found, Zhu Youxiao divided the place for them, and then arranged the task, and after he told them some of his skills and knowledge, he let them tinker with it themselves, and only went to see it when there were results or problems with the masters. Zhu Youxiao is very busy, he has no empty bubbles here to engage in technological innovation, and he is not a real carpenter, he is interested in doing carpentry work.