The craftsman who shouted was Shen Yong, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Shen Yong's face was red with anger, and he happened to see Wang Mingyuan, who was looking at him with a ledger, so he strode up to Wang Mingyuan, and said loudly: "Wang Xianggong, many of the people who do the work are from the 400th household, even if they don't work, even if they don't work, the prescribed work is not good to do, Xianggong, do you care or not?" ”

Wang Mingyuan said impatiently: "Isn't it just digging down into the ground, what clever way can you have?" ”

This Xiucai spoke like this, Shen Yong was first a sign, and then a little depressed.

Chen De, Li Tianfu and others, as well as a few officials, all came over, everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to argue with Wang Mingyuan.

Shen Yong lowered his voice and whispered: "The excavation of the salt pond should take into account the introduction of seawater by the high tide and isolate the seawater when the brine is dissolved, so a certain slope should be dug out, and the water should be diverted quickly, and the side near the sea water should be porous, and the height should be just right, so as to facilitate the brine to plug the mouth and isolate the seawater at high tide, it is not as simple as digging down in one path." ”

Wang Mingyuan couldn't imagine that this craftsman would dare to argue with himself face to face, he looked at it a few times at the moment, and sneered: "You said you want to slope, I think it's almost the same as digging down, you people are just relying on these skills to talk nonsense, not necessarily things are as complicated as you say, this salt pond is just a big pit, the kan pond is a small pit, you can push the salt out by bringing water in, how can you say that the skill is so profound!" ”

Shen Yong couldn't imagine that this talented Xianggong was so unreasonable, he was trembling with anger at the moment, and the craftsmen on the side did not dare to speak out, but there were many military households who echoed the voice, the original status of the craftsman in the guard house was under the military household, and he had always been looked down upon by others. There are hundreds of strong soldiers under his command, and everyone is counting on a good life under Min Yuanqi, and they are in awe of Min Yuanqi, and secondly, they are flattering, even if they are a little jealous or dissatisfied in their hearts, they dare not say it to others.

These craftsmen are not so polite, they were originally looked down upon, and now they are pointing fingers at each person's head, how can it be convincing?

Not to mention the ordinary flag army, even Wang Sanyi, Li Guoding and others, I am afraid that they attach too much importance to craftsmen in Min Yuanqi, and they feel disapproving.

Everyone stopped what they were doing at this time, and while talking gossip mocking Shen Yong and the others, they took the opportunity to rest, and many people in the distance also stopped the shovels in their hands and looked at this side with a smile on their faces.

Shen Yong had the heart to argue with Wang Mingyuan, but the deep-rooted habits restrained him, not to mention that this is an out-and-out showman in front of him, the square scarf and the pasted caftan are a symbol of status, a craftsman like him doesn't even dare to provoke the flag army, and the showman is at least equal to the officials of a hundred households in the military household, how can he have the qualifications to argue and debate with the prince?

Shen Yong was silent, planning to retreat like this, at this time, everyone saw Min Yuanqi striding over not far away, there were no officers accompanying this hundred household officials, even the two family members were not regarded as guards, but put them in the flag army as the flag captain, the entire three hundred households took the original official hall as the core area, where there were valuables such as silver and Sugang hidden, the barracks area was the middle area, the two wings were the official hall and the salt pond, and more than a dozen arrow towers were built on the periphery, all of which were wooden buildings five or six zhang high, and there was a squad of flag troops who took turns to change shifts every dayIn a coastal plain like Dahewei, standing on such a high arrow tower, you can even see that there are a large number of people in ten miles and can't escape the eyes of the sentinels, and outsiders can't hide at all.

Since Min Yuanzhong was punished for letting people in without authorization, Min Yuanzhong, a Chinese military officer, has extremely strict management of the patrol work, and there are hundreds of people who come from outside every day, but they are not allowed to enter, and they must screen and find companions to do the protection before they can come in, and they will live in the shack area as soon as they enter, and they will not be allowed to go home for a long time, and the other is to strengthen management so that these people can adapt to Min Yuanqi's management style. The second is to play a role in technical secrecy, now Li Kecheng and others are also very concerned about the matter of the salt pond, they know that they can't get in, so they want to find the rest of the hundred households to inquire about the news, Li Kecheng is already raising money, he can command a lot of flag troops, those flag troops are the tenant farmers of the Li family, Li Kecheng also has some silver on hand, more than a thousand taels are always taken out, this person saw a boatload of salt goods sent to Huai'an, and then brought back silver and a large number of materials, it was already anxious like ants on a hot pot, Min Qiande called someone to send news, The protection of the salt pond in the near future must be cautious and cautious, and Li Kecheng must not be given a chance.

There are sentry towers on the periphery, and there are mobile sentry posts patrolling inside every day, in case outsiders come to the village too much to steal, or fight and make trouble, fortunately, the flag army that comes over are honest people, and most of those who are slippery by nature are not in their own hundred households, and they all go to various market towns or county towns to make a living as green-skinned scoundrels, and after Yang Shida's incident, I am afraid that no green-skinned scoundrel will run to the 300th household without opening his eyes to seek a dead end.

Although Min Yuanqi is alone, he is actually very stable, and he does not need to worry about safety, he usually practices in the camp at this time, and does not come to Yanchi very much, many people come all the way to greet him respectfully, Min Yuanqi is full of smiles, and keeps nodding his head as a return gift.

When he arrived at Shen Yong and the others, Min Yuanqi saw the abnormality, and after asking the reason, he looked at the slope of the salt pond, and said to Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, who rushed over: "What Shen Yong said is reasonable, the bottom of this slope is dug too straight, the water is too slow to be released, and the slope is too high and not easy to block. ”

Min Yuanqi has always been polite to these two hundred households, but at this time he was ruthless, Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding were a little embarrassed, and when they looked around, they saw that something was wrong, and they didn't dare to stay, and they quietly took shovels and shovels one by one to hurry up to do the work at hand.

Min Yuanqi frowned and looked at the construction site, feeling that his thoughts were not right recently, the people who came from each hundred households were all under the control of the military attachés of each hundred households, and he thought that the two hundred household officials would be able to manage it very well here, but now it seems that this is not the case.

It's just that Min Yuanqi himself is short of people available, Han Sen became a pacification officer, responsible for military discipline, Min Yuanzhong was a middle officer, and his main energy was also used in the army and overall defense, Min Yuanjin was meticulous and cautious, and acted properly, Min Yuanqi planned to use him mainly to manage the military and political affairs, and handed over the recruitment, daily welfare, retirement, and compensation for the wounded and killed to Min Yuanjin in the future.

Liang Shifa is in charge of military quartermasters, most of these people are literate, and Min Yuanqi will gather these henchmen together every night to open a small stove for them, mainly common sense and literacy education, plus basic arithmetic.

These things are simple, but they are actually the most important shortcomings of these military attachés.

In terms of geographical knowledge, these people are much stronger than ordinary people, not to mention the poor in these years, even the people from middle-class families rarely go far away, even if the scholars do not go out as officials or go out for long-distance study, at most they know the nearby states and counties, such as what rivers are after crossing the river, how many states and counties, how to walk the road, most of the people are black-eyed. Even these military attachés were familiar with the situation in the prefectures and counties along the canal, and when they asked them how many prefectures there were in Henan, how many people were stationed there, and how many rogues there were, they were all at a loss.

This is the limitation of the times, so only those civilian officials who pay attention to the current situation, know how to train troops, know practice, and know geography can become qualified commanders. Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, these civilian officials who know military affairs and geography are also a kind of representative, but there are too few people in this category, most of the military attaches are illiterate, do not know the general trend, civil officials can only talk rhetorically, and they know nothing about the enemy and themselves, but they know that they are nitpicking on paper, and both are undesirable, and there are too few real talents in the late Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as the manifestation of the disadvantages after the centralization of China's involution.

It's just that how to manage the construction site next is a problem, Min Yuanqi squinted for a while, and naturally saw that the construction period was not satisfactory, before he dug the salt pond with hundreds of people and craftsmen, the construction period was faster than when there were more people now, four liters of grain were sent down every day, and everyone was grateful, but Min Yuanqi did not want them to be grateful, but wanted them to do the things at hand faster. But under such supervision there are still a lot of people playing tricks, these military households are not actually slippery, but as long as there is no whip and military stick, laziness is actually human nature, in retrospect later generations also have collective farms and state-owned salt farms, before there is a bonus system, I am afraid that most of them are grinding foreign workers, those farmers and workers are of course not necessarily bad people, nor lazy, their own land and things are very attentive to do, really lazy are as second-rate people, but human nature is like this, not their own business and there is no reward and punishment system, of course, can grind, grind, As long as there is a grinder, those who are willing to work hard will also be unwilling, and if they do too much, they will be regarded as fools.

Everyone went to do things one after another, Min Yuanqi held a musket in his hand, pulled Shen Yong aside, and asked, "Shen Yong, do you recognize this firearm?" ”

Shen Yongxian was denied, Min Yuanqi affirmed his opinion as soon as he came, he was grateful, and his mood was also a little unstable, he took the musket and looked at it several times, and finally said: "This is a self-generated gun, this thing is quite rare, even no one used this thing in Dengzhou Town at the beginning." ”

"Isn't this thing as good as a bird?"

"If a bird is carefully made, it is better than a self-generated gun." Shen Yong patiently explained: "We have a lot of firearms, including rockets, muskets, three-eyed guns, bird guns, Lumi guns, turtledove guns, big passionflowers, small passionflowers, this self-made fire guns came out late, as if someone used them a few years ago, the villain has seen it once, and I feel that it is not as good as the bird guns." ”

The self-made firearm was developed by Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, which was the firearm in the hands of Min Yuanqi, the research and development was late, the cost was high, and the manufacturing process was complicated, of course, it was impossible to spread it on a large scale, and this thing had not been created when Shen Yong was in Dengzhen, of course, it was impossible to distribute it in Dengzhen at that time.

However, Shen Yong can see it once, and he can be regarded as well-informed, according to his opinions and opinions, this thing in front of him cannot be compared with the bird gun at all.