Zhou Liangmin also sighed for a while, but he is not a person in the officialdom after all, on the contrary, as an official gentry, he actually heard a lot of criticism of the emperor, the emperor is indeed thrifty and diligent, and there is no loss in personal morality from the perspective of the emperor, but he is too strict, self-serving, and capricious, in fact, the death of the country cannot be said to be unreasonable.

But in this case, in front of the brother who is in a sad mood, don't say it.

Zhou Lianggong is really a little sad, the ministers understand the character of the emperor, and they are afraid of Emperor Chongzhen, and many people are dissatisfied, and they are unwilling to take responsibility for the emperor, but the emperor of Chongzhen is now the seventeenth year of the emperor, and the people of the world are also looking at it, and the farther away the courtiers, the awe of the emperor is also in their bones.

Either Chongzhen is too stupid, go south in advance, with his prestige in Nanjing, he will still pinch Nanming into a whole, and when the chaos in the north is over, not to mention the swearing-in Northern Expedition, the Northern and Southern Dynasties are quite stable results, and the worst will not be to hang himself on the crooked neck tree, Queen Zhang, Queen Zhou, and her sons are all dead, which is really harmful.

Not to mention that the political intelligence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was quite high after entering the customs, Li Zicheng hastily buried the emperor, and after the Qing army got Beijing, he allowed hundreds of officials to mourn, hold a funeral for the Chongzhen Emperor and Empress, and hang the funeral of the Emperor, which is quite in line with the righteousness of the ancient Spring and Autumn Period in the hearts of the scholars.

Of course, Zhou Lianggong didn't know about Jingshi at this time, but he was sad that the emperor had worked hard for 17 years but ended up hanging and martyrdom...... At the moment, he said to Zhou Liangmin with red eyes: "The emperor is estimated to have been martyred, and the princes and kings have not run out, and then the country will be in chaos if there is no owner. This is a matter of first priority, as long as I can give it, don't extort it, give whatever you want......"

"Okay, don't worry, brother, brother, understand."

Zhou Liangmin only understood at this time that why his brother came here every day, it turned out that it was not for the power of preparing for the army, but for the power of self-preservation like in Weixian County in this troubled world......

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Zhu Wanchun went to Nanjing, Min Qiande first went to Huai'an, and then to Taizhou, and Min Yuanqi didn't care about these things.

These official positions are nothing more than icing on the cake, it is a good thing for Min Yuanqi to get them, and it doesn't matter if they can't get them.

At most, others are a little vigilant, knowing that the troubled times are coming, compared to Min Yuanqi, the troubled times of this era have already begun.

Having elite soldiers and horses in hand is everything, and the rest is fake!

After defeating the bandits, the next ten or so days, the 300th household was busy and busy. After condolences to the wounded soldiers, commemorating the families of the soldiers who died in battle, distributing pension money and food, fulfilling promises, and so on, the newly excavated salt pond finally came out of salt.

Ten large salt ponds with a radius of three to four acres, supporting less than 110 small salt ponds, have taken shape one after another on the seaside with a depth of more than five miles.

Zhu Wen, Chen De and others still followed Min Yuanqi's experience last time, released water into the big pool, and let the wind and sun blow and catalyze the brine. Due to the warm weather, the first large pool to release water did not wait too long, and the brine was almost ready for use by 21 days.

Put the brine into the crystal pool, the small pool is shallow, after a day of drying, and then push and stir overnight, the next day, the same fine white sea salt is launched a whole pool.

Shovel ashore with a wooden shovel, then dry for a day, remove moisture and moisture, and put it into cloth bags, each bag of one hundred and twenty catties, which is exactly one stone.

A pond is at most 20 koku a day, and most of the time it is less than 20 koku.

"Ten pools of 200 stones, 100 pools of 2,000 stones, each stone of five coins of silver, is a thousand taels of ...... a day"

"Good girl, it's 30,000 taels a month."

"You two rammers, you still know how to do arithmetic?"

"I've actually counted many times, but I don't have enough fingers, and I use all my toes."

"What year was that?"

"I haven't calculated this, there are always hundreds of thousands of taels."

In the early morning, the dew on the roadside is still very heavy, and most of the people walking on the village road and the embankment of the ridge river are wet with dew, and there are not a few who are wet with clothes.

Even so, the people who passed by the large salt pond were still eye-opening and interested.

Now the salt pans are pushed forward, and the defense area is also pushed in all directions for about ten miles.

Of course, it is impossible to set up all of them as a security area, after all, it has already involved hundreds of other households.

There are hundreds of households mixed in, so it is unrealistic to completely eliminate contacts.

It's just that in a radius of more than ten miles, each has set up an arrow tower and a sentry tower, and recruits thirty to forty strong men from each hundred households.

He served as a garrison in a place near his own village, and was responsible for guarding the guard tower and arrow tower, checking whether the passers-by were locals, and whether there were any certificates issued by hundreds of households.

Many people also know that in addition to the newly established Garrison Department, there is also a Military Intelligence Department, and Liang Shifa has become the head of this new department, and he has twice made great contributions to military intelligence, and has become the best candidate for this department.

People watched the salt pans count the number of salt ponds, counted the daily silver coins, and let out exclamations from time to time.

Of course, there are also laughter and chatter, after all, although the salt pans on the sea are quite shocking, it is not news here in Yunti Pass, and even many people present have participated in the excavation and construction of the salt pond.

In a flash, the salt pond became a shape, out of the salt, and the current talk is just for people to vent their inner excitement.

If an ordinary big family or a high-ranking official of the health center opened this salt pan, people would be amazed at most, and even jealous, angry, and complaining.

Because everyone knows that even if it is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, in exchange for millions of stone of grain, these benefits must be seized by high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

Even if you need to use local military households and ordinary people to do work here in Yanchi, most of them will treat people as cattle and horses, although they can still earn food, but the feeling must be heaven and earth, and it will not make people feel the slightest pleasure.

But everyone knows that the owner of the salt pond in front of him, Min Yuanqi Min Deputy Qianhu, is not the kind of person who eats all of them.

The men who went to the 300th household to work everywhere were paid quite well every day, and a considerable part of them stayed in the 300th household after the completion of the salt pond.

There are kiln masonry, carpentry workshops, and large blacksmith workshops, not to mention the large number of people.

Just one salt pond employs more than 1,000 people!

Even if it is inconvenient to leave home, the garrison department is also giving priority to recruiting the flag army under the hundred households, issuing knives and guns, training for ten days a month, and patrolling and guarding near the hundreds of households for the rest of the time.

Once you become a team officer, a flag captain and other military attachés, the monthly salary will increase exponentially, and the flag captain of a garrison force will almost offset the income of the previous hundred officials.

After a large amount of salt was released, Min Deputy Qianhu had more money in his hands, and he also took out more silver to feed back to the place, of course, it also made Min Yuanqi's reputation rise like a rocket after the bandits......

The most generous treatment is also the most eye-catching, of course, it is the flag army brought out by Min Yuanqi.

After the large-scale salt production in Yanchi, even though the stall is now many times larger than before, Min Yuanqi still raised the salaries of the banner army again.

For each ordinary banner army infantry, the monthly salary is two taels of silver and one stone of grain, which is similar to the previous officer.

The officers were four taels of silver and two stones of grain.

The flag officer is eight taels of silver and four stones of grain.

The total level of 100 is 12 taels of silver and 10 stone grains.

This treatment makes the monthly salary of the lowest-grade flag army infantry more than double that of the garrison, and nearly twice as high as that of ordinary workers.

That is, the workers of Yanchi, the salary can barely reach about seventy percent of the infantry of the banner army, but also because the Yanchi workers are quite hard, pushing and stirring the salt pond are all night without sleeping, the next morning has to be stacked, and then can rest, and get up at night to eat and get the salt pond to continue to work, so that the hard work in the later generations is easy to cause the disgust of the whole people, in this era, the monthly salary is one or two halves plus a stone of grain, the work of the salt pond has been robbed by many people.

It's a pity that Yanchi only accepts twenty or thirty-year-old strong men, and those who are over thirty-five years old don't want it, and the older they are, the more hidden diseases they have, although with Min Yuanqi's power, a Yanchi worker who dies of overwork every once in a while doesn't have to take it seriously at all, and he can be completely suppressed, but there is no need to damage his yin virtue and destroy his great image in the hearts of everyone.

The high salary of the flag army also detonated the emotions of young and strong men within a radius of dozens of miles.

Especially the banner army under 100 households, the men between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, were even more excited.

The control of the Banner Army is quite strict, and this information has long been spread, and it is just a matter of getting up early to run laps, which is near the 300th household, but the infantry of the Banner Army now has to train frequently, basically once every three days for fifty or sixty miles, and the requirement is to complete it within one morning.

Sometimes it is a hundred miles back and forth to practice, but also to bring bedding, blankets, kettles, flints, first aid kits, knives and other sundries, plus the weapons in their hands, whether it is a knife or a spear, firecracker, it is quite a hindrance when walking long distances...... In later generations, it is too cumbersome to take a mobile phone when running, so try to replace it with a spear and a big knife?

A hundred miles away, you have to run back and forth within two days, and each person carries dozens of pounds, and such high-intensity training is not too new training content for the flag army.

The daily dismounting and dismounting practice of the cavalry was measured in thousands, and each cavalryman walked crookedly......

The sulfur gunpowder that the firecrackers had to put every day was in buckets, and many more firecrackers exploded one after another during this time......

There are rules for the time to get up early every day, when to go to bed, and how to fold the bedding, including washing and going to the toilet.

These things can't be hidden, the regulations are cumbersome, and the training is hard, but they still can't stop people from signing up to join the flag army.

The basic monthly salary is so high, even if you don't consider the promotion, the monthly salary of the firefighter will be increased by half a tael, the monthly salary of the sword player will be increased by one tael, and the monthly salary of the cavalry will be equal to the deputy officer...... Each branch of the army has a symmetrical high salary, if you can become a cavalry officer, the monthly salary is on par with the infantry flag officer, the monthly salary is eight taels of silver, and you have to add four stone grains.

What is this concept?

Nearly 100 taels of silver and dozens of stone grains a year are about equal to the net income of a small landlord with about 300 acres of land for a year.

Of course, the 100 total level is the most enviable, more than 100 taels of silver and more than 100 stone grains a year, and if you want to have such a pure income, you have to have about 500 acres of fields to do it. 500 acres of land, ordinary people rely on frugality to save money, and people can't save these lands in ten lifetimes.

You have to have at least the status of a nobleman, or the family of the military attaché of the Generational Guard, or the Salt Merchant of the Generation, in order to accumulate and buy this amount of land.

The landlord of thousands of acres or tens of thousands of acres of land is considered a top wealthy family in Daming, and he is almost a general, a gentry, a salt merchant, or a noble eunuch.

Only the royal palace is qualified to get tens of thousands of acres of land, and #vinegar-children's literature debut# has no scruples at all.

Back then, Xu Jie overthrew Yan Song and became the first assistant of the world, just because he tolerated too much land, and later the Xu family was disgraced, and Xu Jie's fate was stronger than Yan Song and Xia Yan, but it was not as good as Gao Gong Gao Xinzheng, who stepped down in disgrace.

In this way, you can see how attractive the monthly salary of the flag army is to people.