Han Sen also rushed over after releasing the grain, and two or three hundred people gathered on the edge of the reservoir and looked at Min Yuanqi with blank eyes.

In the distance, the tiles came out of the kiln, and there was a burst of cheers, and many people turned their heads to look, but they focused on Min Yuanqi.

When Xu Guangqi toured around Huaiyang and advocated salt, many salt households only heard that everyone had no chance to learn and practice, and when Xu Guangqi's initiative failed, and the promotion of salt drying in Huaiyang failed, and in a short period of time, the people in Huaiyang did not understand what was going on, and the matter ended hastily.

The hundred households in front of him seem to be confident, but when it comes to everyone's livelihood, who can not be nervous?

Now on this day, the three meals are dry and thin, and the whole family furniture can be full, but if these hundreds of taels of silver are smashed down, and the affairs of the hundred households are not done, I am afraid that everyone will have to eat chaff again, and there is a good vision ahead, who wants to live a hard life?

Min Yuanqi has always paid attention to the water diversion level and drainage canal, plus the docking pool.

In addition, the cistern is used for work. The force is the most, and he wants to see whether the stones at the bottom and the four walls are solid and compact...... In addition to the craftsmen in the city, the other big workers hired are stone and tile work, if these craftsmen do not work, Min Yuanqi naturally has a location.

Fortunately, in this year, people's hearts may be quite simple, or it may be that Min Yuanqi comes to see five or six times a day, at the bottom of this reservoir, Min Yuanqi looks at it, and he can't find a place to save materials and less effort.

The bottom of the pool and the four walls are tamped, with the hand to pick out can not move, the bottom of the four bases with a stone, the middle with tiles, the four walls are tamped, there is no way to use stone or tiles to build up, with the stone of the amount of work is terrible, with tiles can only use soil stick, the process can not pass, after a short time will fall down, in vain kung fu.

Min Yuanqi regretted a little, he vaguely remembered the principle of cement or concrete manufacturing, but the details were not clear, if he used some thought when he saw it, he was afraid that it could be built into a large cement pool, and the function of accumulating brine would be much stronger.

It's just a different angle, even if there is a way to make cement, such a large pool, no matter how much the cost of work is saved, the material money can make the current Min Yuanqi bankrupt.

More than half of the silver given by Zhu Wanchun has been consumed for a while, but fortunately, the salt pond project is almost complete, and Min Yuanqi can't afford to delay.

"Very good, the materials are sufficient, and everyone is working hard." Min Yuanqi looked up, his swarthy faces were looking down at him, even if he stayed at the bottom of the pool, he could smell the smell of sweat on these people, from morning to night, big and small workers and military households, regardless of men and women, all had to do their best...... The food that came down on this day was not eaten for nothing, and doing this work was not as idle as when the farm was busy, but Min Yuanqi seized a good opportunity, most of the people had nothing to do in this slack time, most of the men went to the distance to pick up work, and the women did some stitchwork at home, such as making shoes, or spinning and spinning cloth, and used these things to supplement the family.

At present, there is a ready-made job, which can save more than ten days of chewing grain, which can be regarded as another level of recruitment.

People in this year are not afraid of hardship, let alone complaining, these days, regardless of men and women, when Min Yuanqi looked up, although these people in front of him had dark faces, thin bodies, and tattered robes, even the beggars in later film and television dramas could not play this scene, but Min Yuanqi did not dislike it, and even had a sense of identity.

These days, these people in front of him are no longer simple symbols, nor are they simple names, now Min Yuanqi not only knows everyone, but even knows the family background of many people, including the current situation and even living habits of each family......

For example, Min Yuanzhong's family has the heaviest burden, the eldest of the five dolls is only eight years old, and the youngest is still breastfeeding, although Min Yuanzhong is also a member of the Min family, but it has long been a distant branch, the family has no family background, and the small flag officer does not earn a few more money and silver than the flag army, and the family has a large population and a heavy burden......

Gao Cuncheng has a semi-paralyzed old lady at home, and life is also very difficult.

Liang Shifa's family is not burdened, two dolls, parents are healthy, generous, have many ideas, and are very prestigious in Xiaoqi, but they have a problem of fear of guilt, and they often hear his mother scolding Liang Xiaoqi loudly in the courtyard...... However, this woman's nature is not bad, her mother-in-law fell ill last winter, Liang Shi couldn't send salt to Fucheng and was not at home, this woman ran more than ten miles behind her mother-in-law to Suocheng to find a doctor......

Min Yuanjin and Yang Zhijin are still singles, and Han Sen has three female babies who don't have sons, so it's no wonder that Cheng Tian has a gloomy face......

Xie Xiang is a single, his parents and relatives died early, one person eats enough for the whole family and is not hungry, he has a violent temper and high skills, and he is a famous thorn in the hundreds of households around.

Xu Wenhuan used to be a young man for a while, this person was a shrewd learner and a fast learner, and he originally had a good future, but unfortunately the apprentice's business firm suddenly closed down, and he could only go back to hundreds of households to be an honest flag army.

People who have worked as a young man in other firms, other firms will definitely not take them in, and Xu Wenhuan's future is ruined in this way.

Min Yuanqi also knew that most of the craftsmen were locals, and the craftsmen who had been descending from generation to generation, only Shen Yong was a craftsman from Shandong, when Denglai was in turmoil, almost the entire city of Dengzhou died, Shen Yong fled south with his wife and children and brother Shen Liang, and ran to Dahewei to be cleared and deserted, and continued to be a military household in Dahewei...... This is the fate of military craftsmen, and it is also the epitome of ordinary people in this era, under the tide of the times, it is too difficult for these ordinary people to change their fate.

However, the Shen family is also lucky, although the parents died, but the two brothers and Shen Yong's wife and children survived, which can be regarded as the luck of misfortune, the Dengzhou Wei where it is located is almost ten rooms and nine empty, and most of the people are dead, and no one is left, and the incense inheritance is directly broken.

As for Liaodong, it is even more miserable, originally there were millions of people in Liaodong, and now there is no one in ten, there are more than 100,000 Liao people who crossed the sea to Denglai for refuge, and after settling in Dengzhou, they encountered Denglai chaos, Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde, Mao Chenglu and others rebelled, wantonly slaughtered and even cannibalized people, after the war subsided, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, when the Shen brothers fled south, on the roads, fields, villages, market towns, woodlands, there were dead people everywhere, regardless of men, women and children, from the elderly to the nursing dolls, corpses were everywhere, officers and soldiers and rebels were tug-of-warAfter losing food, even if they were not killed by the rebels, people starved to death in a few days.

After Min Yuanqi knew that situation, he was even more determined about what he had done.

In this era, ordinary people can't even carry a small wave, as long as they are swept up in it, whether they are dead or alive can only depend on luck, Min Yuanqi doesn't want to be swayed by anyone or anything, he wants to work hard to survive, at least with his own efforts, in the last days of Chongzhen's seventeen years, struggle to find a way to live......

Hearing Min Yuanqi's words, the people by the pool shouted happily, the language of people in these years is also very scarce, to put it simply, it is nothing more than income, food, can eat a full stomach and other words.

People are really happy, Min Yuanqi's changes are in the eyes of people, the previous hundred households are a young and strong young man who doesn't know anything, with some family background Min Yuanqi is not bad, every day only care about their own body, practice boxing to make a big gun, people are a little afraid of this trial hundred households, there are also some people disdainful of it, just ten days of kung fu, although in the eyes of some people are still tossing, but at least people have a feeling that the trial of 100 households is quite stable, and it is also very cautious and shrewd, not like it is tossing blindly...... The most important thing is that Min Yuanqi is not stingy with the people under him, which is the reason why more and more flag soldiers are participating in the training, and the people in the village are willing to participate in this big project.

There are many hundreds of households in the Yunti Pass, five in Dahewei, thousands of banner troops, more than a dozen commanders, fellow knowledge, and affairs, and many thousands of households, hundreds of households, and how many officials are in charge of the flag army and their families? Neighboring hundreds of households, each other knows the roots, to say how each hundred households of officials exploit the military households, but it is impossible to say, all the current rules have long been a rule, everyone according to the rules, the grain that should be collected will not be less, even if the military households starve to death, fleeing, the hundred households will not do anything, and they have to admit that their own bad luck is difficult to do.

All this made people have no illusions about the officials, and also made Min Yuanqi think that it was some ordinary measures, which made people feel some differences more or less.

The accumulation of these differences, combined with the rice field-like salt ponds in front of them, has more or less prompted some cracks to bloom in people's hearts that have been frozen for a long time: maybe this is really a great opportunity?

Han Sen grinned, lowered the rope and pulled Min Yuanqi up to the edge of the cistern.

Min Yuanqi clapped his hands, looked at the smiling faces around him, and said: "Today, I will work hard with torches, spread the new tiles in the pond, and release the water early tomorrow morning. ”

This time, everyone cheered!