In fact, Zhu Youxiao's real intention was to build a secret industrial base in Tianjin, and to build roads to facilitate his travel between the two places. Many secret things can be placed near the salt farm, and the salt field is very close to Tianjin Wei, and it is under the surveillance of the army, which can reassure Wanli.

Of course, these are just Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, Wanli doesn't really care, he really doesn't believe it, an eleven-year-old doll still has the ability to usurp power, his emperor in the past few decades is not in vain.

With Wanli's approval, everything gave him the green light, mobilized officials and craftsmen to build roads from the Ministry of Industry, and then recruited a large number of green shapes, reincarnated cement firing yards, opened mountains and stones, and then began to build roads.

The road surface is leveled, gravel is laid, the roadbed is tamped, and finally cement is poured. Starting from Chaoyangmen, a spacious cement road appeared, such a novel section, naturally there were a large number of people watching, but a large number of Shuntianfu's catchers were guarded by the side, and no one was approached at all.

The cement factory Zhu Youxiao is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, where the forests are dense, the mountains are numerous, and the resources are abundant, whether it is clay or limestone needed to burn cement, or energy, it is very rich. After firing, he had the cement packed into burlap bags and sent to Chaoyangmen.

The cement road starts from Chaoyangmen, repaired all the way, and after arriving in Tianjin, it goes all the way down to the vicinity of the cement factory, and then turns around and goes to the salt factory. After the road was repaired, Zhu Youxiao did not stop, but directed the victims and began to expand the salt works.

Although there are not as many brine resources as other places in the Changlu Salt District, the terrain is vast, windy and rainy, which is just suitable for Zhu Youxiao's salt drying method.

Now it is a drought, but the disaster has gradually eased, because of the storm on the day of Zhu Youxiao's battle, many places have lifted the drought and begun to sow seeds. Every day he has people leaving here, but there are also people coming in, and here is the daily pay, and they are all here to earn some travel expenses.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still a large number of laborers, Zhu Youxiao is making every effort to expand the salt factory. This time, the salt works he expanded were not made of crushed stone, but only the foundation of the crushed stone was laid, and it was covered with bricks. With cement, clay-fired red bricks can play a huge role, leveling the ground and building quickly.

In this day and age, the role that brick and cement can play is nothing short of miraculous. As long as there is enough labor, it is definitely not a myth to build a city overnight.

During the expansion of the salt works, Zhu Youxiao also made certain improvements to the salt works, he eliminated the windmills originally used to extract seawater, and instead used the daily tides of the sea to store seawater for salt. He deliberately built many ditches along the seashore, and every time the tide rose, it flowed down the ditch into an empty evaporation pond, and then began to evaporate, forming brine.

He thought that the design of the whole salt field was very reasonable, and he thought that the design was a stepped type, and the use of the terrain could allow the brine in the salt field to flow freely, saving time and effort.

The scale of the whole salt farm is very large, and at the very edge of the salt field, you can even vaguely see the city of Tianjin. The expansion of the salt works naturally required a huge amount of labor, some of which could be recruited from among the victims, some from the direct possession of military households, and some of which were collected from other dilapidated salt works for their own use.

He tried Wanli many times, and found that after the other party really let him do it, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the cover on the surface, and directly used the name of his imperial grandson to occupy a large area of the entire Tianjin seaside, even including the estuary of the Haihe River.

The reason why it occupies this place is because it is a good port, and Zhu Youxiao wants to build a shipyard here so that he can play the role of the unexpected Galen ship. Originally, he didn't plan to enter the ocean so early, but after getting this Galen ship, he was very ambitious, planning to directly climb the marine technology tree and form a navy.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao wanted to open a secret industrial base here, make steel and armor, and develop firearms, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up again, he was still too weak and had no ability to protect himself.

The risk of making armor and producing firearms is too great, and once it is denounced, the consequences are unimaginable. But the navy is different, since the legend of the treasure ship's drawings was burned, the Ming Dynasty has not paid much attention to coastal defense, even if the Jiajing period broke out a huge rebellion, did not take naval construction to heart.

The biggest difference between Colonel Zhu and the people of this era is his vision, he really knows the potential and importance of the navy. As the saying goes, ten years of the army, a hundred years of the navy, although it has not reached that level now, it is not wrong to start early, and when he ascends the throne as the emperor, it can be used.

And if something really happens and he fails to ascend the throne, this newly formed navy can still help him escape overseas as the foundation for his comeback. And these are things that a military factory can't give.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Youxiao felt that the move of the navy was really wonderful.

The last month of the forty-third year of Wanli and the first half of the forty-fourth year of Wanli passed in the full life of Zhu Youxiao's paving of roads and expansion of salt works.

The expansion of the salt works went very smoothly, and no one could resist a shameless imperial grandson, not even those shameless civil officials. Occasional riots and violent confrontations also crumbled under the neat phalanx and two hundred and twenty-three spears.

After this road construction, Zhu Youxiao has gained great experience, and he has been in contact with the people at the bottom of this era for a while, which has a huge impact on him. And the bigger gains are the teenagers under him.

Since there was no one available, Zhu Youxiao could only use these teenagers to help him deal with affairs, although there were a lot of jokes and accidents at the beginning, but later he gradually got on the right track.

After the experience of the world, the youth's faces gradually faded away and were replaced by self-confidence and pride. From the envious eyes of the victims, they really felt the benefits of following Zhu Youxiao. This benefit is not present in the discussions and aspirations of their peers in the past, but is felt by them in the eyes of others.

This kind of fact is more useful than any kind of words.

Today is the last day of March in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, with the capping of the last warehouse, the entire salt field is expanded, according to Zhu Youxiao's estimate, the monthly output can reach about one million. This is a suffocating figure, with an output of nearly one million, even if a pound of salt is sold for two dollars of silver, there is an income of 200,000 taels a month.

Of course, this is only the gross income, and the cost of salt ding and the maintenance of the salt plant should be removed. However, these are only tens of thousands of taels of silver a month, which are not worth mentioning compared to income.

"It's finally time to start making a profit." Looking at the continuous cement buildings, Zhu Youxiao was delighted. The salt works were built and put into production again and again, and then because they were not monolithic, they could not be maximized. Even the income from the salt produced was invested in the expansion.

For this reason, he had to endure the exploitation of those big salt lords, let them buy at a low price of half a tael of silver, and then sell it at a high price of one tael or eight cents. He really didn't have the manpower to sell salt. There is not enough salt, and there is not enough Yu Linlang under his hands.

The expansion of the salt field was completed, and Zhu Youxing was extremely happy, but the people behind him gradually became dull. They are all victims of the disaster working here, and when the project is finished, it is time for them to leave. But the home has been destroyed, and his land has become someone else's, where can he go?

The victims were at a loss.

In the distance, in a thatched shantytown, countless women, or their own children, or their old mothers, also slowly gathered towards this side, they silently found their husbands, silently, just standing, sadness is pervasive.

It seems that something is wrong, more than two hundred teenagers immediately formed a phalanx and surrounded Zhu Youxiao, the atmosphere is strange at this moment, no matter how kind these victims are, they can't be careless, and the safety of His Highness is above all else.

And here, Zhu Youzheng was happy, and suddenly there was a mess in front of him, and countless figures shuttled in front of him, quickly forming a phalanx to surround him.

"This ......." Zhu Youxiao was dumbfounded, not knowing what was going on.

"Your Highness, the situation here is strange, please leave quickly." Zhang Shize and Li Yuyu came to report at the same time.

It is gold that shines wherever it is, Li Yuyu is like this, through this period of long-term training and work, he has conquered everyone in the Yulin Army with his ability and personality charm, and there are faint signs of being the first person in the army.

Of course, this does not include Zhang Shize. Due to the addition of more than 20 Yanding children, there are two more classes in the Yulin Army, and Zhang Shize is the squad leader of one of the classes.

How could his dignified future British duke bow his head to a child of a military family? After more than half a year of experience and study, every teenager's knowledge is not what it used to be, and everyone knows that the current system is not perfect, and it will definitely change in the future, and everyone wants you to shine and get a higher position in the future.

The same is true for Li Yuyu, he overpowered everyone else by himself, but he couldn't subdue Zhang Shize, although Zhang Shize was a gentleman, he was not a straw bag, others could see it, he naturally saw it, and he naturally wanted to fight for the title of the first person in the Yulin Army.

In the face of Li Yuyu, everyone retreated, only he didn't. This caused the scene just now, and the two came to report at the same time.

Who knows, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about their warning, just stared at the two of them, and then glanced at the demeanor of the teenagers who formed a phalanx around them.

"It's time, it's almost time." After saying such a sentence that made the two of them a little inexplicable, Zhu Youxiao separated the crowd, came to the outside of the phalanx, and quietly looked at the silent crowd.

[Author's digression]: I have to work overtime tomorrow, I don't have time to touch the computer from morning to night, I guess I can't update it, sorry.