Zhu Renzhong was really happy in his heart, he was under great pressure for a while, Yang Shili sent people to Huai'an to carry out activities, how could he hide it from the Zhu family?

As long as Liu Zeqing is moved, the foundation of Yuntiguan will probably not be able to be kept in Zhu Renzhong's opinion.

The Zhu family has not made much money so far, and the cost of opening up the trade route in the early stage is very large, and they have made great efforts to buy a variety of materials for Min Yuanqi, and the silver and favors lost are not small.

This is just starting to make money, and we are still waiting for Min Yuanqi to continue to expand the salt pond and increase the sales volume to 400,000 to 500,000 catties per day.

Min Yuanqi can earn two or three thousand taels of silver a day, and his annual income is seven or eight hundred thousand taels to nearly one million taels.

The Zhu family can also earn an extra 100,000 taels a year.

It's just a transit channel business, and it's not easy to make so much money.

Many salt merchant families are worth millions, and that is the accumulated income of many generations.

Zhu Renzhong has a feeling that if everything goes well, he may be able to see the Zhu family accumulate more than one million fortunes in his lifetime.

From hundreds of thousands of net worth to more than one million, this is a qualitative change, a leap.

The Zhu family can change from an ordinary salt merchant to the top Ming wealthy merchant family, can expand the family studies, can use marriage and many other ways to expand the circle of elites, and cultivate more clansmen as officials.

With such a family, there is no way for idle forces to uproot it, it only takes twenty years, and the Zhu family will become a giant tree deeply rooted in the Ming Dynasty.

If you can do this step, you will also be the right ancestor and future generations, and you will be recorded on the genealogy of the Zhu family.

Originally, when Liu Zeqing sent out his troops, Zhu Renzhong was already desperate, not to mention the foundation of Yunti Pass, and the previous planning and investment seemed to be equivalent to throwing it into the water.

Originally, a small cloud ladder pass would not attract attention, causing a big man like Liu Zeqing to covet it, after all, there is a soldier to protect it, and it is located in a remote area, Liu Zeqing's eyes will not be cast over there, and for a small guerrilla, this big man who has been knighted will not have any jealousy.

Unexpectedly, Yang Shili, a scumbag, made trouble in it, and took out the Yuntiguan Yanchi to attract Liu Zeqing's attention, once this person decided, he would immediately send troops, without the slightest hesitation and scruples.

Zhu Ren's heart is extremely painful, and it is also extremely heavy.

After Liang Shifa said this, he turned around slightly, and even felt very hopeful.

Of course, Liang Shifa will not say explicitly: It is now mid-July, and the new army has been in camp for almost three months, and the initial training has been completed, and it has begun to conduct regular long-distance training and large-scale actual combat exercises.

A small number of officers and men of the New Army were also divided into flag teams and 100 total sizes, and they were dispatched south to exterminate small groups of bandits, so as to gain actual combat experience.

Generally speaking, the training and actual combat are staggered, and with the intensity of Min Yuanqi's training, the officers and men of the new army in three months are much stronger than the veterans of the battalion army in three years in terms of physical fitness and array.

Spearmanship, knives and firearms, most of them are already skilled, but in terms of personal fighting skills, they are not inferior to the battalion soldiers, and their personal skills are definitely far inferior to those of the family soldiers, but combined with the array combat method, it is not without the power of a battle.

For the soldiers of the Cloud Ladder Pass, personal skills are only to serve the array, and only after fighting can they have a chance to win.

This is also Min Yuanqi's teaching to the generals, and it can even be said to be indoctrination.

Fighting only in battle, fighting after battle, this is the principle of Min Yuanqi, and it is also the creed recognized by the soldiers of Yunti Pass.

Even a military attache like Liang Shifa, who no longer accepts battle formation training, thinks so in his heart.

Compared with the battle formation training at Yunti Pass, Liu Zeqing's battalion soldiers are a group of rabble, and those so-called elites are nothing more than veterans with rich battlefield experience and some fighting skills.

Despite the large number of people, Liang Shifa did not feel any threat.

Only those more than 1,000 elite horsemen, almost all of whom are veterans, have outstanding martial arts and courage are qualified to become a member of the cavalry, and the war horses are noble, without outstanding riding skills and skills, there is no chance to become a cavalry, let alone become a soldier of Neiding.

This more than 1,000 cavalry is one of Liu Zeqing's old books, his 100,000 army, the cavalry will never exceed 5,000 people, and the war horses of the entire army, including miscellaneous horses and mules, will not exceed 10,000 horses.

The original Shandong town was a second-line military town, and the number of war horses, the elite degree of soldiers, the number of armor, and the ration of artillery and other firearms were far below the nine sides.

That is, the elite of the nine sides were all lost in the battle of Songjin, and the remaining elite soldiers were in the hands of Sun Chuanting and lost in the hands of Li Zicheng.

Da Ming lost all his family, and the remaining Gao Jie, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, these second-rate generals and their soldiers and horses had a chance to take the center stage.

If Cao Bianjiao and other chief military officers and their nine-sided soldiers are still there, what will happen to Liu Zeqing and others?

The only elite, that is, Liaozhen stationed in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, even if there are only more than 10,000 elite soldiers among the more than 30,000 people, their strength is far from being comparable to Liu Zeqing.

The Liaozhen soldiers were able to hold out for two days under the strong attack of Li Zicheng's more than 60,000 elite old battalion main force, and fought back and forth.

Shanhaiguan was guarded by Liu Zeqing, Tang Tong and others, but I was afraid that they would not be able to hold out for a day, so they were directly taken down by Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers.

Liu Zeqing's elite is nothing more than the bottom of the Shandong Zhen soldiers, and the elite is Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses when he followed Zhu Dadian to participate in the extermination of the Dongjiang rebels in Dengzhou.

Later, Liu Zeqing participated in the Central Plains war against Li Zicheng and returned with a heavy defeat.

Fourteen years later, the elite of the Ming Dynasty was lost, and the control of the local and military generals was abolished, Liu Zeqing took advantage of the situation to rise up, and collected food in the local area to coerce the strong men, and there were 30,000 people into Huai.

Even so, at the beginning of entering Huai, Liu Zeqing's troops were blocked by Lu Zhenfei's Fubiao battalion, and their combat power can be imagined.

After so long in Huai'an, the army was expanded to nearly 100,000 people, but its strength did not increase significantly, and it was not until half a year later that a large number of materials were obtained from the grain levy, and the Southern Ming Dynasty court also gave the true color and armor and ordnance, and the strength of Liu Zeqing's department slowly and really increased.

At this time, even Liang Shifa only felt that the 1,000 cavalry was more difficult, if he only sent battalions to fight, there would be no pressure at Yunti Pass.

In addition to the 3,500 battalions of soldiers in Yunti Pass, Liang Shifa said that there were 7,000 people, but in fact, the garrison soldiers and horses of the garrison department stationed in each hundred households and guarding Tangxun in Xunkou Hekou Town were also included.

These garrisons are counted as the guards of Tangxun, but they are actually second-line garrison troops.

Sentinel patrols, stationed in the place, and maintains law and order, the young man in the garrison department will not be sure to join the soldiers for a while and a half, and will first enter the garrison department for a period of time.

Those over 30 to under 45 are middle-aged people from hundreds of households and villages, who are unable to work in various workshops and salt ponds for various reasons, because they are away for many days and cannot take care of their own acres and relatives.

After joining the Security Division, it is to be on duty at or near the original residence, and there will be training camps every once in a while, and the training period is only five to seven days.

For Min Yuanqi, it is not realistic to form two or three battalions in the short term, and the pressure of money expenditure is still secondary, mainly because there are not so many officers and qualified veterans.

A veteran with a new army is the limit, and it is possible to expand two or even three battalions in a short period of time, but it is contrary to his decision to take the line of elite soldiers.

The combat effectiveness of the battalion formed in this way is low, and even if training is strengthened, it is unlikely that it will be able to build up combat strength in a short period of time.

Even if it is stronger than the cannon fodder battalion soldiers and rogue recruits of the Ming army, it is not of much significance.

It's just that it sounds better in name, Min Yuanqi will instantly become a general with 10,000 soldiers, but his strength is not as good as it is now.

Liang Shifa and others have no objection or objection to Min Yuanqi's decision, they are brought out by Min Yuanqi, if it weren't for Min Yuanqi, everyone would still be boiling salt at the beach for a year, and going north for a year to transport the army for Caofu, miserable, what future is there?

Now everyone has added 100 households and 1,000 deputy households, and they have changed from the poor banner army to the Ming military attaché.

The change of identity, the hundredfold increase in income, and the change of the entire Yuntiguan Thousand Households, these things are all in the eyes of everyone.

Min Yuanqi's determination and will to protect the township and protect the place of Yunti Pass was also deeply felt by everyone.

Because of this, everyone has great respect for Min Yuanqi, and there may be discussions and disputes in the details of all his decisions, but no one dares to say half a word about the general direction.

This kind of prestige is not something that can be said by mouth, it is in the past six months that Min Yuan has conquered everyone with what he has done.

Just like now, Liang Shiming was also worried about his family and relatives, but he still stayed in the Zhu family, working hard to complete the task handed over by Min Yuanqi.

"Old proprietor Zhu, explain clearly, it's time to guard the old proprietor and leave."

Zhu Renzhong got up slowly, and looked upstairs at the situation on the street.

The twilight is getting deeper, because of today's many chaos that makes the people of Huai'an Fucheng irritated, although at this time, there are still people on the street who can't help but haunt the action, they should be asking each other for news to see what happened......

These ordinary people are concerned about the safety of themselves and their relatives and friends, and they are also worried about what is going on with such a large-scale army.

For ordinary people, the rogue is an incomparably terrifying beast of the flood...... This is indeed the case, whether it is Li Zicheng, who has good military discipline, or Luo Rucai, who pays attention to pleasure and likes to rob wealth, and does not like to kill, or Zhang Xianzhong, who kills people like hemp and even kills people for fun.

Whether it is the early thirty-six families or the current many rogues, when they first started, they all took killing as their main business, and without killing, it is impossible to form rogues.

For the Chinese people, as long as there is a stutter, they will not rebel, and the first rebellion in northern Shaanxi was because the natural disasters were too severe, and the imperial court continued to increase taxes without relief, and the people had no choice but to rebel.

At the beginning of the uprising, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, was in charge, but in fact, there was nothing wrong with it, mainly because the rebellious rogues were peasants who could not survive, and they did not necessarily have the determination to resist to the end and rebel to the end.