At this time, the victims who gathered here and obeyed the command to expand the salt works were a relatively fixed group. Most of them returned to their hometowns, only to find that their fields were gone, their houses were gone, and even that they wanted to become tenant farmers was an extravagant dream. Forced into desperation, they returned to Zhu Youxiao's construction team again.

Compared with farming, the treatment here is much better, you can get dozens of wages every day, and you can directly exchange for salt, the price is much cheaper than the market, and you can eat it. Of course, not their whole family, but the work. But the women of their families were not idle, and were recruited to work in the quarters.

In this way, the food for the two adults is solved, and both of them have salaries, the burden is greatly reduced, and it is much easier to support the family. After careful calculation, it is much faster than farming, and the combined wages of two people can have two taels of silver a month.

Therefore, the flow of personnel in the construction team of Zhu Youxiao is very large, and the victims who lack travel expenses will come here to work for a period of time, exchange some money and then go back. At its peak, there were almost tens of thousands. However, as the disaster subsided, most of the victims returned to their hometowns, leaving only the 3,000 or so strong laborers in front of them.

They are already vagrants, and if they lose the opportunity to work here, they will have nowhere to go.

However, the victims did not make trouble, the tradition that has been handed down for thousands of years has made them accustomed to eating with their own hands and getting rich with their own hard work.

Looking at the originally energetic face gradually becoming numb, looking at the faintly crying children, Zhu Youxiao's heart ached, he felt that he had to do something, he couldn't just let these victims leave. The consequences of their scattering were either to gather in the mountains and forests and be exterminated by the government, or to starve to death, or to be sold into slavery.

None of these situations are what Zhu Youxiao wants to see, these are his people, and he is obliged to give them a bite to eat.

"Huh? Where are you going? There's still work to be done. Zhu Youxiao turned a blind eye to the situation in front of him, and asked rhetorically in surprise.

“？”

His words caused a commotion among the victims, and those who didn't hear it later hurriedly asked, and when they learned that there was still work to do, they became excited, and the haze on their faces just now was swept away.

Looking at the beaming expressions on the faces of the victims, Zhu Youxiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After handing over the people to Wang Wenyan and Liu Bin, he returned to the capital with more than 200 Yulin troops, and he still had his own plans.

As for the more than 3,000 strong laborers, if you count the family members, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands. However, these people are all familiar with it, they all know the rules, and they are very easy to manage. Moreover, Wang Wenyan and Liu Bin have rich experience in managing the salt farm, and a group of leaders with rich management experience can be set up by transferring a group of leaders with rich management experience from the salt farm.

With a large number of people, Wang Wenyan and Liu Bin came to the mouth of the Haihe River, and the reason why they enclosed this place and returned it to the territory of the salt field was because they took a fancy to the geographical location here. In later generations, it was the famous Tianjin Port, which was an international port.

"Hey! What's going on! Looking at Liu Bin, who arranged the task, Wang Wenyan looked depressed, thinking that he was a scribe and had outstanding resourcefulness.

Shaking his head, Wang Wenyan took a large stack of documents and materials and walked towards the beach. Zhu Youxiao's subordinates are literate, literate, port-planning and design, etc., so naturally he can only do it. He was the only one who could get technical information from the seconded officials of the Ministry of Works.

Da-da-da-da!

The crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded at Chaoyangmen, and people knew that there were a lot of horses at first glance. Pedestrians on both sides of the street were scrambling to avoid being trampled by horses' hooves. However, unexpectedly, a series of large carriages appeared, and this carriage was very strange, and it actually had four wheels.

Four wheels supported a huge carriage with two coachmen in front of it. The carriages are lined up in a long line, making it look like a long dragon winding its way in.

For this strange carriage, the people of the capital have become familiar with it, and in the past six months, this kind of carriage has often galloped on the regular street, transporting things to that strange road.

In the eyes of the common people, the cement road is even more magical, no one knows how the road is built, it looks like a whole, and it is smooth and wide, it is very comfortable to walk on it, and there is no mud on rainy days. The only drawback is that it is a bit expensive to wear shoes, and straw sandals will break after a few days of grinding on them.

Rumor has it that the road was built by the imperial grandson. For this statement, even the most ignorant people don't believe it, how can the grandiose grandson, the heavenly figure, come back to do such a job as road repair. But look at the magical road, the common people don't dare not believe it, such a thing beyond comprehension, I'm afraid that it is the kind of heavenly figure that can only be made.

After the carriage crossed the city gate, it continued without stopping until it came to a stop in front of a grain and oil shop. However, the whole convoy only stopped twice, and the other carriages deviated from the front of the carriage and went around and continued on their way. When they reached an intersection, the convoy dispersed and headed in different directions.

If anyone could see from the sky at this time, they would find that the carriages were scattered in all directions, and stopped in front of the grain and oil shops, and then some men carried burlap bags from them.

Xu is there a burlap bag that does not explain, and was grabbed by a guy and dragged down, and suddenly broke, and some white flower particles flowed down from it, and if you look closely, this is not what salt is.

Soon, there was a sign that the guy played out a sign that said, today's salt price, one or two pounds, and a graphic was drawn next to it, representing the salt and the price.

Occasionally, a sturdy man dressed in a short costume passed by the grain and oil shop, turned his head to look, and suddenly couldn't move his eyes.

"Three dollars a pound?" The man's eyes were as big as copper bells, his mouth was snorting and panting, and he subconsciously touched the cloth bag in his arms, which contained his salary for the past few days, which was the money he was going to drink and buy meat. After hesitating for a long time, he still stepped in, being a coolie, it was okay not to eat wine, but it was absolutely not okay not to eat salt at that time.

In a small pavilion in the back garden of the British Mansion, Zhang Weixian and Zhu Chunchen were sitting opposite each other, drinking wine and enjoying the coolness.

"Lao Zhang, are you really going to get involved?" After Zhu Chunchen took a sip of wine, he asked with some confusion.

"Hey, when I think about it, that kid with no eyes in my family robbed the little doll's money, and he can't get out of it for a long time." Zhang Weixian was also depressed, compared to Zhu Chunchen's arrogance, he was much more elegant.

The benchmark among the heroes of the composition Jingjing, the British Mansion and the Chengguo Mansion have always been friends, and the two families can be said to be world friends, and there are often people moving around, this time it was Zhu Chunchen who found out that Zhang Weixian was selling low-priced salt, and he specially came over to ask.

"Hehe, that little doll's Taoism, can you still plant it? I'm afraid you want to catch up with that side yourself. Zhu Chunchen was a little disdainful, and said a word.

"......." Zhang Weixian stopped talking, held his wine glass, and fell silent.

"That little doll is a bit of a doorway, and the two hundred Yu Lin Lang under him don't know how to practice, they are extremely strong, and they are better than the old people in my house."

Hearing Zhang Weixian's words, Zhu Chunchen's face suddenly became solemn, he knew that the other party said that he also had it in his own mansion, which was available in every Guogong mansion, and it was the foundation of their foothold in the army.

"It's not as godly as you say, how big is that little doll, even Qi Shaobao doesn't have such a big ability at his age." Zhu Chunchen's face was full of disbelief.

"Hey, don't forget, the descendants of Yu Long and Qi Hu, Qi Jin and Yu Zhigao are under him." Zhang Weixian reminded.

"Also, how capable those two were at the beginning, as long as their descendants have seventy or eighty percent, they can run rampant in the world." Zhu Chunchen was stunned.

"However, we are in the same vein as the country, is it necessary to lean over in such a hurry." Zhu Chunchen is still a little puzzled by Zhang Weixian's approach.

"Hmph, with his current performance, of course I won't. But ......" Zhang Weixian leaned forward, took out an ingot, and gently placed it on the table, "What if you add this?" ”

"Silver?" Zhu Chunchen was puzzled, "How much benefit did he promise you?" ”

"The price of salt he gave me is this ........." Zhang Weixian stretched out his right hand and raised two fingers.

"Poof!" Zhu Chunchen was startled and squirted out the wine in his mouth, "How much?" ”

"Two pieces of silver!"

"For the purchase price of two yuan, you sell it for three yuan, and you can make a profit for one dollar." Zhu Chunchen muttered to himself and began to calculate, "If it is my family, one hundred and three grain and oil shops, in a month, can sell almost 100,000 catties of salt, so that the net profit can be 10,000 taels." ”

"Ten thousand taels a month!"

This number suddenly made Zhu Chunchen breathless, and the Guogong Mansion said that it was majestic, but the family was big and the expenses were large, and they could only do some small business to maintain it except for the land estate, but this aspect was suppressed by the civil officials, and they couldn't stretch out their hands, so they could only stay in the capital.

Now it's just a change of seller, and he can get an extra 10,000 taels of silver a month, how can this not make him covet. Immediately, he shouted urgently, "Lao Zhang, our two families have been friends for generations, you have to help me with this, with that little doll, no, with His Royal Highness the Taisun, saying that Lao Zhu also wants to buy goods from him." ”

"Naturally, there is no problem with this, but I can tell you that in the front, if you want to get the goods from Taisun, you must follow the rules he set, and the price must be three coins and a pound of silver, and if he lowers the price in the future, we will have to follow suit." Zhang Weixian said with a smile.

As the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, they have no burden at all when it comes to selling illicit salt. However, this is also the reason for the corruption of the salt government today, many people take salt and cannot exchange it for salt, and these eyes are sold privately.

"No problem, no problem." Zhu Chunchen agreed, he was not stupid, he knew that this was a means of wooing the grandson, even if the price was lowered at that time, the other party would protect their interests.

[Author's digression]: I'm sorry, I'm too busy at work, I'm sorry.