With Min Yuanqi's order, all the banner troops, including Han Sen and a group of small flag officers, put down their spears in their hands.

Li Junsun and Wang Wumai, as well as Xie Xiang and Guo Shangyi, are knife players, two long cards, two rattan cards. Long cards are mainly covered, and rattan cards can take the initiative to attack.

Knife players have higher requirements for skill and physical fitness, fortunately, these people picked by Min Yuanqi are the best in the flag army, especially the two Jiading and Xie Xiang, only in terms of personal martial arts, Min Yuanqi is not sure that he can defeat the two at the same time.

The whole team is divided into three squads, Min Yuanjin, Min Yuanzhong and Liang Shifa are the team officers of the three squads, two of these three people are relatives, the most trustworthy, Liang Shifa is shrewd and capable, the earliest to serve, and he needs to set an example for others.

Han Sen, the general flag, was not awarded the team officer, and Min Yuanqi added him the name of the general flag of calming down, which can be regarded as half erecting Han Sen.

Han Sen couldn't object to this appointment, originally he was the chief banner, even if he was called a squad leader and on an equal footing with the rest of the small flag officers, Han Sen would not be comfortable in his heart, it was better to go down the stairs with the trend, and everyone would be comfortable with each other.

The eight large banner troops then moved forward, their spears were twenty-eight feet long, placed in a corner of the arsenal of the official hall, and they could not stand up.

This kind of 28-foot gun, the head of the gun weighs four taels, the body plus the tail of the gun weighs about seven catties, and the relative weight of the five-foot gun is four catties, which is quite a heavy weapon on the battlefield.

Twenty gunners with five-foot guns came down, and a number of gun racks were placed in the storeroom, and each man inserted his spears into the racks one by one, and placed them one by one.

The knife cards in the library, the eight-foot gun, the five-foot gun, the long card, and the rattan card were placed neatly one by one, and then Min Yuanzhong was responsible for locking them, and then everyone lined up again, waiting for the food.

Min Yuanqi didn't wait here, today's drill started half an hour earlier and ended half an hour early, he had other important things, he couldn't wait until it was dark.

It's past the middle of February, and the weather is getting warmer, and the days are longer, unlike in winter, when the sky gets dark early.

Han Sen is in charge of distributing food today, this general flag has always been square, and Min Yuanqi doesn't have to worry about anything wrong with Han Sen.

Yang Zhijin, Gao Cuncheng, and Min Yuanzhong received the grain early, and the three handed over the cloth bag to the neighbor to take home, hurried up, and followed Min Yuanqi to the east.

The flow of people in the village was originally the largest at this time, and every household would hurry up to cook and eat at this time at dawn, not necessarily anything good, pickled vegetables, pickled radish strips, with coarse grain steamed buns, and delicate ones to make some delicate pasta, although the same is made of coarse grains, but it is better to renovate the tricks.

In this era, interpersonal relationships are much closer, although there will certainly be contradictions, quarrels and even fights are inevitable, but in ordinary times, it is the norm to help each other and support each other. At dinner, as long as the weather is warm, each family will move the small table to the front of the courtyard or under the opposite tree to eat, and the men will squat in one place with a big blue-rimmed bowl, talking about farming or news from afar, so as to avoid two discussions. The women, on the other hand, are short and gossip. The children were running and frolicking around the yard, and the food was coarse grain and rough rice, but as long as the year was peaceful, they could still live.

It's just that the world has become more and more chaotic recently, and the news is bad one after another.

At the end of January, he conquered Ningwu and killed the general officer Zhou Yuji, who resisted, and important towns such as Taiyuan, Datong, Yanghe, and Xuanfu were all threatened by the Shun army.

These news came from the north one after another, which aggravated the uneasiness in people's hearts, people were not worried about the emperor in Beijing, these people who were at the bottom of the society, living the hardest life, although they also knew that they should be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, but really asked them to have any sincere allegiance to the emperor, that is also too idealistic thinking.

People are more worried that the world is really to the end of the world, the Ming Dynasty is going to die, the Shun army in the process of winning the world has to continue to fight, the soldiers and bandits are mixed, the local people encounter the military disaster is the most miserable thing, a few years ago, the Liukou entered the Nanzhi, Fengyang and other places, and later Li Zicheng raised troops in Henan, and returned to Linxian and Qizhou, including Suining and other places have suffered from fire, it can be said that it is thousands of miles of red land, the banner army has no interest in the emperor who went north thousands of miles to save the capital, but he is extremely concerned about the experience of the people hundreds of miles away, Because those people and what happened to them will make the flag soldiers empathize, and this kind of thing may fall on their heads at any time, which is what the flag soldiers are most concerned about and worried about.

In addition to copying the news in the far north, the changes in Huai'an are also worrying.

Originally, with Yancheng as the core, this area has more than 10,000 square kilometers, and only one county in the core area is Yancheng, which is a large place and has a lot of people, but there are not many prefectures and counties, let alone how many soldiers and horses are garrisoned. Although there are many salt lords and pirates and bandits, there are pros and cons to everything, and the people in remote areas rarely see the servants and helpers going to the countryside to make trouble, let alone make trouble.

Since Shi Kefa sorted out the Jiangfang and successively arranged Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo in Hezhou and Fengyang and other places, in February, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong Town, went south without authorization, although he violated the will of King Qin in the north, but the Chongzhen Emperor and the officials in Nanjing who were far away in Beijing did not dare to deal with it at all.

Liu Zeqing was actually not satisfied with being stationed in Huai'an, Jiangnan was the richest place, Zuo Liangyu was stationed in the Jingbei area, and his subordinates swelled from a few thousand to more than one or two hundred thousand, and it is said that it is still growing. The core of the left department originally had twenty or thirty thousand people, and in the battle of Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu's department was completely crossed, and most of his subordinates were annihilated by Li Zicheng's department.

In troubled times, people's hearts are changeable. More than ten years ago, Liu Zeqing would never and would not dare to have any different ambitions.

In the Chongzhen period, the emperor himself took the lead in repeatedly violating the national law, and was extremely tolerant of the generals who did bad things, Zuo Liangyu repeatedly failed to obey military orders, and confronted the civilian bosses, but there was no, as long as the generals were still useful, the emperor would not use the national law.

This is equivalent to Chongzhen himself ruining the system of his ancestors for more than 200 years, the generals are becoming more and more unruly, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong and other fierce generals do not even pay attention to the old cabinet supervisor like Yang Sichang, although He Renlong later died in the hands of a ruthless person like Sun Chuanting, but Zuo Liangyu is safe.

After the fiasco in Henan, Zuo Liangyu returned to Jiangnan, which has always had the background of the Donglin Party, and got a large number of supplies in the Jingbei area of Jiangnan, and the strength recovered rapidly. After the civil engineering changes in the early years of Yingzong, a large number of princes died, and the tradition of commanding the army disappeared, and the civilian commander became a tradition, and at the end of Chongzhen, there was finally a military general to command the army, which was a rather dangerous omen.

Liu Zeqing himself is cowardly and incompetent, but he is good at conspiracy and change, and he has no bottom line, such a person is easy to stand out in the last days. Before the middle of Chongzhen, Liu Zeqing was just a general, and then he was the deputy general soldier all the way, and now there are 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and there are more than ten people under his command.

Liu Zeqing was not happy about being stationed in Huai'an, he wanted to go to Jiangnan more, but Shi Kefa could not compromise on this issue, according to Shi Kefa's idea, Liu should move to Xuzhou, and prepare to go north to Qinwang with Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo. Liu Zeqing could only retreat to the second, Yangzhou was more populous than Huai'an, the place was richer, and it was more suitable for the growth of the garrison.

At this time, the law collapsed, and the imperial court had no ability to check and balance the military leaders, and after Liu Zeqing's troops arrived in Huai'an, they began to garrison troops in various counties, and at the same time sent a large number of soldiers and horses to various towns and villages to collect grain.

Of course, when requisitioning grain, it is impossible to negotiate with the wind and drizzle, but to be arrogant and domineering, even at the expense of killing.

In just a few days, a large number of Liu's soldiers and horses have beaten and killed people in various counties of Huai'an Prefecture and forcibly robbed grain, and the news has spread everywhere, and people are quite enthusiastic about such news transmission, and even those who do not care about state affairs at all are also worried at this time, worried about the few buckets of brown rice hidden in their homes.

For the banner army of Dahewei and their families, Liu Zeqing's fierceness and tyranny is the news that can be confirmed, the people who have been working in Huai'an Mansion in the past few days have clearly passed back the latest news, Liu Zeqing entered the city and forcibly entered the command yamen of Huai'anwei and Dahewei, and drove out all the military attaches and their families of the original guard.

The foreign guest soldiers are fierce and domineering, and they don't even pay attention to the military attachés at the command and envoy level, and they are stationed everywhere to collect food, so it's hard to say whether they will come to Yunti Pass...... When you think about this, horror is inevitable.

Today, the quiet in the village is not because of external disturbances, but because the salt pond near the sea at the east end of the village has begun to be built.

In order to save expenses, in addition to hiring more than 30 large and small workers, the rest of the labor was all taken care of by the banner army under Min Yuanqi's hundred households.

More than 200 banner soldiers, Yu Ding, as well as sturdy women, and even half-grown teenagers all went to the construction site to help, the amount of earthwork was huge, the reservoir had to be repaired five, plus the supporting auxiliary facilities such as water diversion to make halogenated crystal pools, if all of them were hired to do this work, the hundreds of taels of silver given by Zhu Wanchun might not be enough.

All the people who helped did not give money, that is, for three meals a day, that is, brown rice steamed in a large pot, and each family brought their own vegetables, and each family was extremely satisfied with this condition, they originally fried salt for hundreds of households and thousands of households, and the food they got was quite limited, and now they can eat the grain of hundreds of households every day, which has made these people quite satisfied.

After three months, the seedlings will gradually grow, tassel, yellow, and full, and then it will be time to harvest.