At this moment, Min Yuanqi did not encounter any resistance and opposition to drying salt here in Dahewei, the main reason is that there are more than 1,000 workers working in the excavation of the salt pond, and there are already hundreds of workers in the salt pond, plus a large number of women are used to cut military robes, as well as daily needs, and the construction of houses and kiln factories in the shack area is not only used by men, but also by women, so not only the two hundred households nearby, but also the banner army and Yu Ding, including the sturdy women, who are almost willing to go out under the thousands of households around, have come over a lot. There are more than 2,000 banner troops with labor and training before and after, and there are hundreds of women, which is already more than half of the number of 1,000 households, so that those who have opinions are those hundred households who have not cooperated with Min Yuanqi, of course, including the middle and high-level military attaches like Li Kecheng who drove the flag army Yu Ding to be serfs in their fields.

Min Yuanqi's biggest concern is that a large number of goods are not easy to get out, and if they are out, it will also bring about turbulence and decline in salt prices, and then count the destruction of his reputation and local economic order, it will be more than worth the loss.

"So my father and son discussed." Zhu Wanchun smiled and said: "On the other side of the two lakes, you can entrust it to the big merchants in Sichuan and the south, and entrust them to sell on behalf of them, which can alleviate a lot." We also have a trade route to Henan, Henan has had several major disasters, not only droughts and floods, but also military disasters, and now most of the places are in the hands of rebellion. However, the number of local people is still the first province in the Ming Dynasty, and it is estimated that the number of people is still about 20 or 30 million. There is very little local salt in Henan, in addition to our Huai salt, Gansu, Shandong, Tianjin, the salt from these places is also sold to Henan. Now the north is chaotic, but no matter how chaotic the people are, they have to eat salt, and the merchants and stove households in the north have reduced production, we have passed, it is beneficial to the people, and the stove households are harmless. As for the market, we are also looking for some commercial banks that can cross states and counties to cooperate, as long as Brother Min produces salt here, there is no need to worry too much...... Even if it is an old sales channel in Lianghuai, in fact, it has always been in short supply, and Brother Min does not need to worry about it. ”

"I see, I really want to be left."

After Zhu Wanchun said this, Min Yuanqi also vaguely understood. There is no detailed survey and data on the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and many scholars have different opinions and no conclusions, but there is one of the most basic conclusions that it must be more than 100 million people, 120 million people, 150 million people, or 200 million people, this can only be inferred and guessed, and there is no way to determine it.

Such a large population base, in addition to the salt production areas are different, Huai salt has no way to sell to Yunnan and Guizhou, to the old market of Huai Yan is far from keeping up with the demand, in recent years, the price of salt has continued to rise, the logistics chaos brought about by the war and the salt industry production is not enough to meet the demand, these are quite important reasons.

According to the Zhu family's plan, add some to Hubei, continue to Hunan and the periphery of Sichuan, open up a sales channel to Henan in the north, and also sell it to Xuzhou and Yanzhou, Yizhou, Shandong.

No matter what kind of war and disaster, the surviving people always have to eat, and eating is inseparable from salt, so even if it is a rebel, a bandit, a narrow gap for the caravan to enter and exit, there will always be some places to go on the trade road between the north and the south, as long as the trade road is open, the road fee goes up, and the price of salt is also appropriately raised.

"That said." Min Yuanqi still said: "A day of millions of catties of production, labor to seven or eight thousand or even nearly 10,000 people, our Yuntiguan here is sparsely populated, the whole is afraid that there are almost less than 20,000 people, there are very few villages and market towns, this large area of only two or three towns, have to go along the Huai River west, Guannan in the north, Haizhou, Yancheng in the south, there are more local market towns and villages in the state and county, we have a remote place here, there are not many Dingkou, and we have to leave people to grow grain, just by buying grain there is always a day when you can't buy it, and food is also fundamental...... A million catties a day, almost exhausted the people's power. ”

This is naturally a kind of pretext, if the Zhu family packs as many tickets as there are, and the price of salt remains unchanged, Min Yuanqida can recruit people from nearby states and counties, the problem is that it can reach three million catties a day, five million catties, and the place needed must be at least more than 100 li, and the manpower will be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

The ancient method of drying salt is much less than frying salt in terms of output and manpower, basically the efficiency of one ding out of two hundred catties of salt a day, if the salt pond is planned reasonably, it is not difficult to produce four or five hundred catties of salt a day.

But this kind of movement is too big, the output is too high, not all seaside places are suitable for salt, maybe the salt farm will stretch for hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles, so many people, such a large output, and there is such a large place, with Min Yuanqi's current strength and status, he can't eat it at all, and if he really does it, it is the standard snake swallowing the elephant, but I am afraid that most of them will not be able to swallow it, and they will kill themselves.

Zhu Wanchun was originally afraid that Min Yuanqi's appetite would be too big, although the Zhu family had already made some plans and preparations in advance, but if Min Yuanqi made the movement too big here, the Zhu family was not sure that he would be able to eat so many goods, and Zhu Renzhong also made some inquiries about the strength of the Min family in Dahewei, and the father and son of the Zhu family now also know that the Min family is at least quite well-established in Yunti Pass. But such an ordinary family is nothing in the current situation.

Compared with the inheritance and past of the Min family, the father and son of the Zhu family attach more importance to the force that Min Yuanqi is now in his hands.

It is no exaggeration to say that a brave general is good at military training, and he has sufficient financial resources, this is the capital that Min Yuanqi can soar in the future, and everything else is just a bubble phantom.

Everyone talked and laughed all the way in, and the banner army and Yu Ding who followed around also looked at this Zhu family Shaodong with curious eyes, unexpectedly personable and gorgeously dressed, this generation of salt merchants and government gentry often explained, and the background was not comparable to the ordinary businessmen of the nouveau riche. Salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty higher social status, especially after the donation of officials opened, it is not difficult to donate a three or four official positions, in the Ming Dynasty, most of the children of salt merchants are also famous, most of them are tributes and donations, the Ming Dynasty did not open the door of donations, Nasu is the official at most to dismiss the officials, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it is mostly a prison.

Zhu Wanchun is a prisoner, and Zhu Renzhong also found a miscellaneous official position after accepting the prison, but later resigned from the official position, and he also had an official position.

Only such an identity, the prison officials plus hundreds of millions of net worth, the relatives in the family also have the identity of officials in the court, and they have to cling to the eunuchs and nobles, the salt merchant is barely the number one person in the ecological circle of the Ming Dynasty, this is where the capital of the Zhu family father and son can deal with many powerful people, if it is before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the status of the merchant is extremely low, even if the net worth is tens of thousands of tens of thousands of silver, the county is enough to go bankrupt and break the family, after the middle period, the Shaanxi merchants and the Jin merchants have risen up successively, and the merchant family has made every effort to train their children to study, Finally, Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei and other famous ministers of this dynasty have been produced, and Zhang Siwei is even the first assistant as a merchant child, and from this point of view, it can also be seen that the status of Ming merchants has changed.

With the knowledge and experience of the 300 military households, as well as their status, they originally saw a giant businessman and prisoner like Zhu Wanchun, and they should retreat on both sides of the road respectfully, if Zhu Wanchun said hello in advance, it would not be difficult for thousands of households like Li Kecheng to come over to accompany him, then the military households on both sides of the road would have to kneel down to greet each other.

At this moment, Min Yuanqi accompanied him, but the surrounding flag army and Yu Ding's family members were in their own way.

Zhu Wanchun had already seen several sentry towers, and the flag troops on the sentry towers were heavily guarded, and they did not relax their guards because of Min Yuanqi and his identity.

Occasionally, a patrol of flag soldiers in the village, armed with spears, knives, boring handles, standard mandarin duck squad equipment, when marching, it is also a team officer, the knife card is in front, the firefighters are at the end, even if it is patrolling in the village, it is also a strict queue, these flag soldiers patrol in the village, and also patrol the shack area on the west side of the school field, and stop some idle people passing by to check, with a very serious attitude.

Zhu Wanchun has never seen such a scene, when he walked forward in the village, he found that the roads and open spaces were very clean and tidy, although it was still a dilapidated village, but there was a faint vitality and high-spirited atmosphere, these details made Zhu Wanchun admire in his heart.

In the school area, the training of the flag soldiers also opened Zhu Wanchun's eyes.

"Four hundreds, one hundred total placed on the two wings, with the mandarin duck squad to expand as a team, guarding the two wings of the main formation, three formations in the middle, each total for a group, each flag team for a row, each row of two wings for the knife card, there are also a small number of knife card guerrillas, to prevent the enemy from messing with my position, the middle is a spear, each formation is like this. This is a three-fold formation of head-on confrontation, when encountering the enemy, the phalanx meets the enemy head-on, the two wing squads wander to defend themselves, if there is cavalry, also put two wings, if there is an army with a division, the cavalry is placed in the middle of the two divisions or on the flanks of the two divisions, depending on the situation of the battlefield. If the archers are sufficient, the sword card is placed in front of the archer, and the spearman is still in the middle, but unfortunately we are not enough archers now, but fortunately, Brother Zhu sent enough sulfur this time, and I tried to practice the bird gunner, thinking that it was a supplement to the long-range attack method. ”

Gao Cuncheng stood on the wooden platform, waving the flag, the spearmen quickly assembled in the north-south direction, and the two sides quickly stood up with swords and cards, and the position was slightly more protruding than the spearmen, and a few soldiers in armor and holding swords stood about ten steps in front of the gun formation, and the sword players of the rest of the teams were on guard.

Each flag team has a flag bearer positioned slightly forward, and when the flag is waved on the high platform, they respond with a flag gun and then adjust the array accordingly.

Zhu Wanchun was dumbfounded, he had also seen the battalion drills, and the battalion soldiers would only put some flashy things such as the Nine Palace Bagua Array, it seemed that the soldiers were running around with the banner, but even a layman like Zhu Wanchun knew that the chaos on the battlefield was not an array, and he was simply looking for death, and those fancy formations could not mess with the enemy, they would only mess with themselves, but the Ming army was tired of practicing those formations.