These people who can become squad leaders are all selected one by one after Zhu Youxiao personally began to lead the team to train, both in terms of culture and military quality, especially Li Yuyu and Li Tu, which made him very satisfied, a very military talent, a particularly thorough understanding of his various military training, not only to do a good job of himself, but also to help others. The ten of them who came in first were helped by him.

And Li Tu is naturally bold and generous, especially with a kind of honest and loyal temperament, which makes Zhu Youxiao like this young man who was born to kill pigs at a glance. He was also the only one of the two hundred teenagers who had ever seen blood. Not human blood, of course, but pig blood. This alone sets him apart from the rest of the world and makes him look more military.

With the appointment of 20 squad leaders, Zhu Youxiao's troops were formed and began to enter a stage of steady development. Twenty of them appeared, so that the eunuchs in Tsing Yi completely retired from the front line, and these twenty squad leaders were responsible for future training and team leadership.

The appointment of the squad leader is completed, and the personnel are transferred by the division. Four months of getting along day and night, so that he is very familiar with these two hundred people, everyone knows everything clearly, in line with the principle of strong and weak matching, he broke everyone up and reorganized into twenty classes.

"Li Tao, Class 1, Xu Wen, Class 2......" One name after another came out of his mouth, and then the person whose name was read stood behind his squad leader and patted it in order of height and shortness.

After a period of confusion, the two hundred men formed a 20x10 phalanx. Then the morning phalanx training began, and after that, the spear assassination training began. At this time, the benefits of the twenty squad leaders appeared, and they took advantage of their leading military qualities to start constantly correcting the movements and exertion methods of their subordinates, and standardizing their practice.

After watching it for a while, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied, after a period of running-in, basically he didn't have to go to the front line in person, he just needed to keep an eye on it. It took him a lot of time to lead the team training, and now that he can get out of it, he can do more.

For example, playing the emotional card with Wanli, getting a chance to train in armed off-road, or asking for some firearms craftsmen, and starting to develop the musket he needs is also a good choice≤ and there are many more for him to do.

"It's been a long time since I've been to say goodbye, it's time to go once." Zhu Youxiao looked at it with a smile for a while, and after he changed his clothes in a happy mood, he took the gift he had prepared a long time ago, boarded the frame, and headed towards the Qianqing Palace. It's been a long time since he's been with Wanli.

Tianjin, Salt Farm.

The newly built salt works on this side of the Bohai Bay have been completed, the neatly planned salt pans have begun to work, and a large amount of seawater has been erected by the wind and dust constantly brought to a reservoir, first the initial filtration and then to the evaporation pond to the sun, and then to the filter pond with many strange things added, and finally the crystallization pond to precipitate crystallization and directly produce salt.

At this time, some crystallization pools have been covered with some yellowing white crystals, which are the fine salt that has just been dried, and the salters keep loading them with burlap bags, and soon the burlap bags are piled up on a small cart and pushed away and stacked in the warehouse.

He has now been appointed steward of the salt works, responsible for the management of production and other things within the salt works. This appointment made Lao Zhoutou very satisfied, not only because the salary of the steward was nearly doubled, but also because of the dignity of this position, he didn't have to dig from the soil by himself.

At this time, the salt drying plant has been able to operate normally, and all kinds of facilities are basically complete. On a high hard slope stood rows of houses, and the dwellings of the Yandings, although the walls were made of adobe bricks and the roofs were seaweed from the seaweed, were also very satisfied, and at least had a shelter from the wind and rain.

Speaking of which, the Yanding are very grateful to this group of decent people from the capital, it is they who have greatly improved the life of Yanding, not only do they not have to work hard to get firewood and grass to cook salt, but also have a stable salary in the future, and there are rewards for doing a good job, and they will also give gifts during the New Year's holidays.

No, it's already the end of November, and there is no need to worry about the salters, these old men in the capital have already bought the New Year's goods for them, so that they can have a fat year that has never been before.

The implementation of these policies has gathered the hearts of the salt lading people at once, and they work very hard, often spontaneously running to the salt fields to start working before the time to work.

Originally, Wang Wenyan still had a lot of complaints about giving such good treatment to the salt dings, where is there such a person who hires people to work, and builds houses, pays wages, distributes clothes, and even buys New Year's goods, how much does it cost. It's not enough for a stove like Yanding to stutter food.

However, after half a month of salt production was brought forward, Wang Wenyan gradually realized the benefits of these actions. This had to make him sigh: "If you are really a natural emperor, you can know the hearts of people when you walk in the world." ”

"Yo, isn't this Uncle Zhou, why are you hanging around with your hands behind your back?" A junior who seemed to be familiar with Lao Zhoutou quipped.

"Hey, the owner handed me over this place, I have to be worthy of others, but let's see if you monkey cubs are lazy." When others teased him, he wasn't annoyed, he just replied with a smile.

"How can it be, Uncle Zhou, the new owner is so good, and treats us so heartily, why can't we be sorry for the owner, is this still a person? Uncle Zhou, you underestimate a few of us too much, but fortunately, we can still distinguish it. Hearing him say this, this later life suddenly became anxious. In the past, he could still collect the past if he was lazy and cut corners, but now the owners are so good, being lazy will make people poke their backbones, if this reputation is bad, how will he marry a daughter-in-law in the future.

"Haha, look at you in a hurry, your Uncle Zhou didn't say that you were lazy." Old Zhou Tou laughed out loud and went to inspect elsewhere. Walking over and over again, he instructed the young people in various positions over and over again how to do it more smoothly. With his many years of rich experience, Lao Zhoutou quickly understood the secret method of drying salt, and now it can be said that he is the person who knows the most about each process in the entire salt farm.

Just looking at it, his smile suddenly retracted again, his face was replaced with a sad expression, obviously absent-minded, and he didn't listen to the muttering in his mouth, "Do you want to say it, do you want a book?" ”

"Dead old man, what about you wandering spirit, why did you get here if you don't go to the salt works to patrol." A familiar Hedong lion's roar was an equally familiar pain, and a thin middle-aged woman tugged at his ear.

"Oops, it hurts, let go of the dead mother-in-law." After finally breaking free from his mother-in-law's iron claws, Lao Zhoutou looked around and found that he had unconsciously walked to the position of the room.

The house was located next to a deep well, not far from their new home. This well is the water source of the entire salt field, and this well does not know when it existed, Lao Zhoutou only knew that this well existed when he was very young, and now that it has been more than 40 years, there is still no change at all, and even the water level has not decreased by an inch.

Lao Zhoutou's wife was also appointed as the housekeeper of the house because of her cooking skills, responsible for cooking and boiling water for the salters. As soon as she put down the work in her hand, she saw her man walking aimlessly with a look of disobedience. This can make her anxious, it is not easy to have such an errand in charge now, this unproductive person does not guard the salt field and watch it carefully, in case something happens, how can the errand be yellow, how can it be good, and it can't live up to the good of the owner.

"What are you muttering about, what should you tell or not?" Lao Zhoutou's mother-in-law was very shrewd, and quickly grasped the key point and hurriedly asked.

"Oh, men's business, what do you ask about a woman." Old Zhou was a little impatient. But his words poked at the sensitivity of his mother-in-law, which made his mother-in-law suddenly angry.

"Okay, you coward, what did you say when you wanted to marry your mother, but now it's good, you pretend to be a dog in front of your mother." The thin woman stretched out her hand and pinched it violently, making Lao Zhoutou scream like a pig. Her thin lips are even more unrelenting, and a lot of things about Chen Sesame and rotten grains have been turned out, and they are all old Zhoutou's troubles.

Some of the women who were working next to them saw that it was the old show of the two of them again, after the salt lady godhusband, they just smiled and laughed, and they all watched it lively.

"Stop, stop!" Old Zhou endured the pain and begged for mercy in a low voice: "Give me some face, and go home at night as you like." ”

Lao Zhou said so, how could his mother-in-law not give face, the face of a man outside is the most important. But after putting down her hand, she added another inquisitive sentence, "Okay, but you have to explain to me what happened just now." ”

"Okay, okay, tell you." This matter has been buried in Lao Zhoutou's heart for a long time, he himself will not be able to make up his mind for a while, and wants to find someone to discuss, this mother-in-law is usually quite shrewd, and she is very hot to handle things, so it doesn't hurt to tell her. After thinking about it like this, Lao Zhoutou pulled his mother-in-law down to a secluded place next to him and secretly told her what he was worried about.

"What, you still hide such a thing, your conscience let the dog eat it?" How do you know that as soon as she heard about it, his mother-in-law scolded her.

"You be quiet, this is a matter of human life, in case the news leaks in the future, where can we afford it?" Old Zhou Tou hurriedly came up to cover his mouth, his face was full of panic, and he even looked around, and he was relieved that no one had heard.

Thinking that her mother-in-law didn't know where the strength came from, she broke free of his hand and pointed at his forehead and scolded: "You are a dead wreck, I have really fallen for eight lifetimes with you, and I don't know how I fell in love with you in the first place." Why can't you figure this out? ”