It's the middle of March, the weather is getting warmer, and when people walk along the path in the fields outside the village, they can see that the wheat seedlings have grown significantly taller by the moonlight, and the greenery around them is also very obvious.

In the middle of the night, more than 300 people walked outside the village, because the path was very familiar and no one walked with torches, and the team of more than 300 people walked into a huge long line, which was quite quiet in the middle of the night, except for the occasional birdsong and the rustle of people walking.

The team was actually quite excited, and after more than 20 days, the brine of the salt pond had been qualified, and it was discharged in 21 kanchi ponds in turn.

Kanchi stores water for a day during the day, and under the action of wind and sunlight, it can already be seen that there are obvious white grains in the brine.

This is great news, and people are already eager to try it in the evening.

Because this matter is quite important, Min Yuanqi is also an exception, and today's evening exercises have been stopped.

The earliest batch of the entire 100 households and 10 flag teams have been training for a month, and the effect is quite obvious. The banner soldiers are more familiar with the swords and guns in their hands, and because of the non-stop drills, the spirit of each flag army is very different, and many flag soldiers are no longer too thin and withered, and those who have participated in actual combat have gradually become murderous.

Food is also gradually plentiful, with four litres of food per person every day, never a day late. In this way, in addition to the prestige of killing Yang Shida and his gang, Min Yuanqi's image of Xinyi was also erected, and the banner army at the bottom would not care whether there was food or lack of food at the top, as long as there was food every day, it was peace of mind.

At the beginning of March, Min Yuanqi gradually purchased hundreds of stone grains and put them in the warehouse, and the grain reserves were relatively sufficient. Now in addition to coarse grains, each trained flag army has a liter of fine grain every day to receive, every few days in the village there will be people to cook fine white noodles or dumplings for children to eat, those children with yellow faces and thin muscles as long as they eat a few meals of fine grains are obviously different, and the cheeks are obviously full of meat, which makes the whole hundred households more grateful to Min Yuanqi.

After the food is sufficient, the people's hearts are more stable, the flag army is still practicing for four hours a day, two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, and the rest of the work is to patrol the sentry duty, and now the entire Baihu Village is very tightly guarded, and it is very difficult for outsiders to enter.

This makes the news that Yanchi is about to release salt spread throughout the entire Yunti Pass, but there are still not many people who know the specific details, only Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi, who have friendships and are in a state of cooperation, are eligible to enter, and the rest of the hundred households or the chief flag officer want to enter the village It is very difficult, not to mention the edge of Yanchi to find out the truth.

Recently, the Tui Guan of Huai'an Mansion went to the Yunti Pass to inspect once, this Tui Guan summoned a lot of military attachés, and also met Min Qiande and Li Kecheng, everyone is impossible to identify Min Yuanqi and the flag army under his command as the murderer of Yang Shida, the Tui Guan visited for several days and got nothing, if the ordinary people are replaced, the Tui Guan can directly order the arrest and then torture, not afraid of not being able to ask, but the three hundred households are heavily guarded, and no entry is allowed inside and outside, unless the Tui Officer orders the soldiers to enter and suppress the entire hundred households, Otherwise, it is impossible to catch anyone who knows the inside story.

There was no real evidence, no human and material evidence, and there was nothing the official could do just to rely on the rumors, so he inspected the guard station and the nearby market town and then to Shuiguan, tortured some famous local ruffians, arrested more than a dozen people and went back to set up a cage, and then returned in vain.

However, Min Yuanqi knew that the matter was not over, and Yang Shili would not give up, and Min Qiande also reminded him to be careful of Yang Shili's revenge, and to beware of guest soldiers interfering in this matter.

If the guest soldiers intervened, it would not be so easy to end, and it would be possible to directly break the village and arrest people, or even slaughter the entire hundred households.

Yang Shili may also send someone to come, pretending to be a bandit, or even directly colluding with the bandits.

Recently, the entire hundred households have been heavily guarded, of course, not only to prevent outsiders from entering and exiting the salt pond at will, but also to prevent possible violent retaliation.

Min Yuanqi didn't tell anyone about these troubles, including Han Sen, all of them were his subordinates, he was the number one in this system, and when he encountered difficulties that could be solved, he could ask his subordinates to give advice and increase their centripetal force and sense of collectivity, but now none of these troubles can be solved, Min Yuanqi can only hide in his heart and secretly think about solutions.

There are a lot of troubles, but fortunately, everything is going well inside the hundred households, the food is enough for the soldiers, and now these flag armies are practicing every day, and the array is becoming more and more familiar, Shen Yong took some assistants to make some spear heads and wooden rods, and made a batch of long and short guns that are quite qualified, and the shields have also been made more than ten sides, at least the ordnance of the sword players is enough for the time being. Min Yuanqi's training is still based on the Mandarin Duck squad and the small three-material team, and there are still few three-fold arrays or large three-material formations, as well as circular formations, square formations and other arrays. Running circles, boxing, marksmanship, knife skills, are mainly based on the new book of discipline and effectiveness, Min Yuanqi can only do these things according to the wisdom of his predecessors, he himself is not a genius in military science, and at the same time I feel that the experience and methods of later generations may not be suitable for this era, since Qi and Yu are famous generals in China decades ago, they have actual combat examples of Japanese and northern prisoners, and it is the safest way to train soldiers with their methods.

In addition to the more than 100 banner troops, there are more than 200 Ding, except for women, the elderly and children, most of the men in the 100 households are here.

In fact, many women are excited, and even want to come along, but Min Yuanqi ordered them to go to bed early, and come to the seaside tomorrow morning to cook on the stove, and at the same time the women can also help to do these jobs of salt and water, because the flag army will be busy all night, you can rest early after tomorrow morning, and continue to practice in the afternoon, if the salt is normal tonight, tomorrow the other two hundred households of the flag army and Yu Ding will come over to help continue to push the salt in the middle of the night, and at the same time Min Yuanqi will prepare more manpower to continue to dig the salt pond and the pond, the goal is what was said before, Kanchi should be at least more than 100, so that a day can produce about 200,000 catties of salt, that is, according to five dollars and one stone, there are more than 1,000 taels of income a day, if you employ thousands of people, each person will have a lot of four liters of grain per day, the year is not good, many people rush to do this work, the daily wage is only forty stones, the cost is forty stones, and the silver money earned is enough to buy two thousand stone grain, even if the price of refined grain has been rising, it is not too different.

After all, Huai'an is an important grain transshipment center of Caoyun node, a lot of grain from the south of the Yangtze River has water storage grain, Huai'an Suqian Xuzhou area has water warehouse, so even in the Southern Ming Dynasty Jiangbei four towns are not too short of grain, the true color has not been lacking, what is missing is the silver two fold color.

The mood was quite excited, almost reaching a peak.

The flag army is too hard, almost no own land, when the army is worse than cattle and horses, the harvest is limited and most of it is taken away by the top, if you have time, you need to go out to work, otherwise you can't even guarantee food and clothing.

Now there is a big salt pond, Min Yuanqi, a hundred households, do not deduct everyone in terms of welfare, and the good wages and food will not be less than one point for everyone, whether it is in the official hall and the current East School Field training, it is four liters of grain per day, and the men are not enough to eat all of this food, each flag army eats at least three liters, and has to be equipped with some miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables, and the remaining one liter of the family's women, old people and children are almost enough to eat, at least the children will not shout hungry every day.

If the salt from the salt pond is normal, Min Yuanqi promised that after a while, the grain of each trained flag army and salt ding will be raised to six liters, and more than half of the refined grain and coarse grain, in addition, at the end of the year, both the trained flag army and salt will have enough dividends.

The salt pond is dug by Min Yuanqi's investment and employment, from the idea to the technology and capital are all Min Yuanqi himself, which is different from frying salt, almost all the benefits are enjoyed by Min Yuanqi alone, and the rest of the people can only look at Min Yuanqi's decision to share the profits, fortunately, so far, Min Yuanqi has given everyone a pretty good prospect.

Two quarters of an hour after midnight, everyone reached the vicinity of Kanchi.

People wear hemp shoes on their feet, wearing these straw sandals on the edge of the slippery pond is not easy to fall, twenty-one ponds are lined up in turn like farmland, and the water on the pond is rippling under the moonlight, just from this point it shows a little difference from the farmland, otherwise, these well-arranged ponds are too similar to the farmland, if outsiders occasionally pass by here, I am afraid that they will really regard these crystallization ponds as farmland.

In the early morning, people put the brine in the salt pond into the kan pond, the sea water content that has been precipitated and weathered has been extremely high, and it has been filtered and purified in the process of receiving and discharging water, the seawater in the kan pond is about just to the position of people's calf, slightly lower than the calf position, the mu of large kan pond has been fully crystallized after weathering and sun exposure all day during the day, now what people have to do is to use the tools in their hands, keep pushing the brine in the kan pond, speed up the process of crystallization, and at dawn, Push the piled up fine salt and shovel it onto the prepared straw mat to control the water, and pack it at night after controlling the water all day, which is the whole process of drying salt.

The most important thing in the whole process is to push and stir the crystallization all night, the previous nano tide brine is quite small, and the large salt pond can be more than 20 days at a time to ignore it, just slowly convert the seawater into brine by time.

All the people have pre-delineated the kan pool, these pools from south to north are pre-delineated and numbered, even if the flagmen do not know a few good or bad words, they will count, at least ten fingers will still count, each small flag officer with his own team of people, and then make up more than a team of flags, tonight is the first time to push the crystal, with more people.

The tools had already been prepared, a thick wooden stick as a wooden handle, and the front end was a half-foot-long and wide plank, and everyone sat on the edge of the pool and began to take off their shoes, whispering to mock the smelly feet of their partners.

In fact, many people have washed their feet before departure, everyone has followed adults to learn to fry salt since childhood, salt is as important as food, even if people who don't know how to read and ink, they also know that if they don't eat salt for a long time, their hands and feet will be soft, and their hair will fall out, and they will lose their teeth for a long time, even if these military households on the seaside and the stove households around Yancheng are not short of salt, but there are not a few people who are poor and can't afford to buy salt, and people have heard a lot even if they haven't seen it.

People have a sense of awe for salt, this thing is lacking in the body, and it is the source of support for everyone, everyone is the first time to stand in this sea water to push the salt, curiosity and awe and a little mystery are mixed, and even no one dares to laugh out loud, before going to the pool, they are carefully soaked and scrubbed with boiling water at home, I am afraid that they are not so careful and careful during the New Year.

"Okay, each team goes into the water in turn, the flag Ding pushes forward to the opposite side, and Yu Ding follows, don't push each other, you can only keep pushing on one side."

Han Sen shouted and gave an order, and at the same time, he also got into the water.