What Min Yuanqi wants now is to be able to pick out some smart people, details, observation, and thinking minds in a limited crowd, which is enough.

I don't know how far I can go, so I don't have to think that I can pick out Wolong and Phoenix Chicks among the thousands of mud-legged troops.

Min Yuanqi also faintly came to a conclusion from the matter of the right talent, his brain was very chaotic during this period of time, from the construction site to the living area to the barracks, and then to the storage area, he saw that it was very organized, the salt pond sold salt to buy materials, made military robes, and gradually determined the camp rules, and looked at everything that was done, but many things were done in a disorderly manner, except for the training that was carried out normally according to the previous experience, the rest of the places were relatively chaotic, and it could even be said to be very chaotic.

Money and materials, screening and management of foreign personnel, camp resettlement, distribution of money and grain, and project management brought about by the construction period of the new salt pond, even if it is a shack area, although Min Yuanqi has a detailed plan, the progress and quality of the construction must also be supervised...... Recently, even if he pressed the gourd and lifted the scoop again, all kinds of things were messy, which also gave Min Yuanqi a headache.

This is more than 1,000 people and less than 2,000 people, and the training of several projects and hundreds of people is extremely chaotic, which also makes Min Yuanqi have two feelings: First, his own ability and experience are insufficient, and he is even inferior to some experienced civilian bureaucrats.

Second, there is a serious shortage of talent reserves around him, that is, Min Yuanqi knows how to do it, but he is still very confused, and the main reason is that the talent reserve is seriously insufficient.

At present, many official positions are filled by military attachés of the banner army, and one is that these military attachés are responsible for the transportation of water after all, and they have worked very hard to open their eyes during the journey from south to north, and at the same time they are also responsible for management, which makes these military attaches more or less have some experience and means of management.

But after all, it is best for military attachés to only be concerned with military affairs, civil affairs Min Yuanqi does not want the military attaches to be distracted too much, and now Liang Shifa and Han Sen and others also have military positions, and their main energy is still to be used in the army, even if there are many affairs, Min Yuanqi and Han Sen and others still have to take charge of the army, and they will also participate in daily military training normally.

On the way back to the Baihu Official Hall, Min Yuanqi called a Yu Ding, handed the flintlock pistol to the man, and said: "Send this self-made fire gun to Shen Yong, so that he has nothing to think about, if I can increase the range and lead killing, and then improve the success rate of shooting, I will have a heavy reward." ”

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Liang Shifa has been away from 100 households for more than ten days.

He set out from the hundred households, got a burden, filled it with carefully selected goods, and pretended to be a merchant walking the streets and alleys.

Only this kind of profession will haunt all villages, even remote and risky villages, otherwise you won't be able to make money if you don't get rid of it.

This was a commercial supplement to a certain era, and many remote villages were dozens of miles away from market towns and county seats, and the long-term isolation made the people there afraid to go out. In these places, people will only come to the door when Lijia collects taxes, and only when the summer tax and autumn tax are paid, the people in the village will go out in a big way, sell grain for money and pay taxes, and finish the work of half a year in an old mind.

Merchants are very important to the remote villages, where it is difficult for people to go far and there is little need for shopping, and the shops that are very common in market towns are nowhere to be found, because the more remote the place, the poorer it is, and the demand for shopping and the desire to spend are very low.

Liang Shi's hair belt is quite cheap, needles, threads and brains and other small things are the main, which is not only a household need, but also not expensive, which is the secret of the merchant going to the countryside to make money.

Liang Shifa traveled all the way south and spent five days in Yancheng County, where most of the villages were quite remote except for a few market towns. This is not surprising, Yancheng County at this time more than 100,000 people, tens of thousands of people live in the county and suburbs, tens of thousands of people scattered in at least five or six thousand square kilometers of places to fry salt for a living, everywhere are named after the regiment and the stove, in addition to the stove outside, most of the population is farming for a living, but everywhere is saline-alkali land, the yield and harvest is quite average, the people are generally poorer than Huai'an Mansion.

Liang Shifa encountered a number of bandits in several remote villages, fortunately, the goods on a merchant like him were not worth two taels of silver, and most of these bandits came from these villages, the bandits in this year also had their own rules, most of the looting was to the distant market town, where there were many things that could be robbed, and the kidnapping ticket was mainly tied to the rich, at this time, the poor family may not take out a bucket of grain, silver is a rare and rare thing, only when people pay two taxes people directly sell grain for silver, and have to call the grain merchant to strip together, One of Zhang Juzheng's whip methods was to fold the cumbersome payment in kind and some miscellaneous labor into the fields, and pay taxes in silver to reduce the burden on the people. As a result, in the Chongzhen period, the people lost a lot of money by selling grain and paying taxes, and there was no small amount of miscellaneous taxes and forced labor in various places, and the implementation of the whip law was not thorough.

Liang Shifa walked along the trail, in front of which was Sanzaotai Village, the name had appeared several times in the vicinity, and it was estimated that there were at least twenty Sanzaotai Villages in the entire Yancheng County around 100 miles, and this one was the most remote one.

He carried a load of maltose, iron needles of various sizes, thimbles, silk threads, flannel cloth, rouge, head ropes, and some tin trinkets, and the kind of goods in which the main sales were clearly aimed at women and children, and men were at the lowest level of the sales chain, as was the case in later generations.

In fact, the status of men in this era is far greater than that of later generations, but most of the things that men like are in the city, but the merchant's picker has no way to pick up antiques, calligraphy and paintings, the four treasures of the high-quality study, or famous prostitutes, wine and other things that men like to sell.

After hearing the sound of the rattle, there were children in the village immediately rushed out, large and small boys and girls, more than ten or twenty children were dressed in tatters, yellow faces and thin muscles, and general malnutrition, Liang Shifa saw more, and immediately put down the pick, and said with a smile: "Don't mess around, ask the adults in the family to ask for some copper money to buy, jelly beans, maltose, and small clay figures, sugar people, small drums, small bamboo horses, bamboo dragonflies, these are all available." ”

Many children sighed, and some children cautiously said, "Uncle, can you change the salt?" ”

"Of course I said that." These three stoves are more than 50 miles east of Yancheng, that is, a coastal village, the people here will definitely not have many copper coins, and it is not like the residents in the city can take out some unused items to exchange for things picked by the merchants, most of them must be salt.

"Then come with us into the village." The boy who spoke was about ten years old, his eyes were shining, but he was quite able to make up ideas, and his tone was quite firm.

Liang Shifa hesitated a little, this kind of offshore village either has pirates, or colludes with bandits, and ordinary merchants are reluctant to enter the village to trade, just at the entrance of the village, if there is anything wrong, you can run away.

No matter what kind of village needs a doctor to enter the village, the idlers dare not embarrass the doctor, even if it is a charlatan who only knows how to sell prescription herbs.

"Don't be afraid, uncle." The boy grinned and said, "We are not like other villages, we are really embarrassed by the merchants, and no one dares to come again when the news spreads." ”

At this time, some women also gathered together and beckoned to Liang Shifa in front of a house in the village, but at this time they couldn't leave, so Liang Shifa pretended to be a little timid, and carried the burden into the village with the children.

There is a dagger on the side of his boots, and he has to grind it every night before going to sleep, Liang Shifa does not expect this dagger to be able to kill the enemy in self-defense, but if there are really bandits who want to tie themselves, most of them are those who have some psychological problems and like to abuse and kill outsiders, this kind of bandit leader is not nothing, for these outsiders who have no oil and water, they are tied to torture and kill for fun, although Liang Shifa is worried about his relatives at home, but he also made up his mind that if he really encounters these people and finds an opportunity, he will commit suicide.

This time, the sentinel task is Min Yuanqi repeatedly explained, we must inquire about the information of the bandits with more than 100 people within 100 miles around, Liang Shifa has gone all the way, obviously has felt that something is wrong, there is nothing abnormal in several bandits near Yunti Pass, and after walking south for a few more days, I found that many bandits with more than 100 people have moved, and most of the bandits in Yancheng are related to Yang Shili, the salt lord, and the bandits have moved, and Liang Shifa has already felt the imminent threat.

Even thinking of the income after the salt pond is released, as well as his future in the army, plus the family is all in 100 households, if a large number of bandits and pirates really attack, who can please him? Even if you want to go home and move to escape, you have to see if Min Yuanqi will let people go, since Yang Shida and his gang were killed, Liang Shifa already understood in his heart that he got on the boat and got benefits, and if he wanted to get off the boat, he was afraid that it would not end too well.

Liang Shifa could only grit his teeth at this time, with a harmless standard smile on his face, and entered the village surrounded by children.

A group of women also gathered around, although these women are thin and yellow, it is not easy to live a difficult life, but it is difficult for the merchant to get this remote place, there are some things that are indispensable no matter how poor they are, such as needlework and thread, new clothes and new shoes are only purchased once in a few years, usually the robe will always be damaged, sewing and mending robes, making shoes and shoes, and even making headscarves and hats are all compulsory homework for women.

In addition to needles and threads, women are also quite interested in ornaments and rouge, but only families with reasonable family background and barely able to eat and drink will buy these things, and most women just look at them.