"Be cautious." Min Qiande looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "We can't hide the matter of salt, but how to repair this salt pond and how to crystallize into salt, everyone has memorized this detail for me, and it must not be publicized to the outside world. The flagmen on our side have to train the troops every day, dry salt, and have a lot of things, so don't go out and walk around if you have nothing to do. I heard that Yuan Qi invited the rest of the hundred households to come over to help, so let's do it, I will be a home for Yuan Qi, and I can repair some shacks here, and after a long time, I will repair the barracks, and those who come to help will live here first, and make sure that everyone will not go out and talk nonsense, and then discuss the things slowly, Wang Baihu, Li Baihu, what do you think? ”

Min Qiande's meaning is very simple, the matter on this side of the salt pond Min Yuanqi is also loose on the outside and tight on the inside, if he didn't come in person today, Min Yuanzhong, who is a nephew, would directly let people in, if it is an outsider, it will definitely not be easy to come to this salt pond. There are not enough people, and every hundred households have to send people, and since people come to collect work and do work, they simply live here first. After Min Yuanqi developed for at least a few months to more than half a year, he accumulated a lot of wealth in his hands, raised troops and made weapons to a certain scale, and at that time, if outsiders wanted to imitate, they should also think about the force in the hands of the Min family and Min Yuanqi...... To put it mildly, at that time, there are people within a radius of hundreds of miles who dare to imitate the salt pond by the sea, and Min Qiande can completely let Min Yuanqi directly lead the troops to level the salt pond dug out, and at that time, the Min family, which is rich and powerful, has a foundation, and the strength in the hands of Min Yuanqi, can completely say the same thing in the Yunti Pass, a radius of several hundred miles......

This consideration is completely correct in the eyes of Wang Sanyi, Li Guoding and others, and Min Yuanqi also feels that this uncle's old plan is profound. He only vaguely understood at this time that he did not attach too much importance to the secret technology of salt pond excavation and crystallization piles, in fact, in this era of slow information transmission, he could at least make money for several more years or even ten or twenty years, as long as the technical blockade was in place, it was completely possible to maintain the technological monopoly and blockade for a long time, and even by virtue of power and force, it was completely possible to close this technology for several generations.

This is also the reason for Xu Guangqi's failure, if you want to change the distribution of interests under the old pattern, you can imagine how difficult it is, just like Min Yuanqi's salt pool, in fact, Min Qiande has already regarded it as the industry of the Min family, Min Yuanqi must be Min Yuanqi's, if Min Yuanqi is not there in the future, he can also pass it on to his descendants, and the people of the Min family will of course also serve in the salt pool, and the whole family can benefit from it......

Min Yuanqi can't say good or bad, this is something brought about by the existing customs, since he has taken advantage of this system and has the help of the family, it is not good to overthrow the old things, just now, he wants to do such a thing without this authority and strength, the old pattern system can only be gradually and slowly reorganized and changed in the expansion of power, and too eager will only lead to extremely bad consequences.

"How many catties are you going to make to Huai'an?" At this time, many banner soldiers hurriedly ate breakfast, and their bodies were full of strength, and they began to wave shovels to shovel the wet salt onto the reed mats, and soon the wet salt in the salt pond was shoveled ashore, and gradually formed a salt pile on the shore.

Min Qiande looked at Min Yuanqi and asked: "You and the Shaodong of the Zhu family have an agreement before, and the salt should be selected by his family first, according to my understanding of the Zhu family's firm, it is easy to accept tens of thousands of catties a day." Our salt only needs to be paid for food and labor, not firewood and iron, and the transportation is all dependent on the boats, and now there is no need to go north, we have a lot of idle boats, a ship can hold up to five or six hundred stones, I am afraid that it can't be loaded so much, and five hundred stones and 100,000 catties can be loaded...... What are your plans? ”

"I plan to get together to about 2,000 taels to send a boat, more boats, I bring four to six small flags to escort, one is to pull the fiber when the water is shallow and headwind, and the other is to be careful of bandits, but along the river, there are not many people who can move our hands, enter the city and pay directly on the shore, Lifu foot fee is the Zhu family's business, let's collect cash at the wharf, do not enter the city, there are many guest troops in the city, the Zhu family is powerful, I estimate that Liu Zeqing will also win him over, our people can not enter if they don't enter, those mothers-in-law and guest generals in the guard are easy to make trouble......"

Min Qiande looked at this nephew with almost undisguised eyes, this nephew was not a few years older than his son, but he didn't take care of these achievements in military training and salt ponds, just thinking about things in front of him, and his sons who were not successful tied together were not as good as Min Yuanqi...... It's ridiculous that he once told someone in private a year or two ago that the son left by Brother Qianli is afraid that he can't pick up the Liang of the Min family......

"You can do these things." Min Qiande sighed slightly, and motioned for Min Yuanqi to go farther away and talk to him. There are a lot of people in front of me, and those women are still making exclamations one after another after so long, and it is really noisy that there is no way to talk seriously.

The uncle and nephew walked dozens of steps eastward, and the tidal flats were already under their feet. The terrain here is higher, you can overlook the sea water through the tidal flats, the Huai River is not far from the north and rushes into the sea, there are several rivers at the mouth of this place for dozens of miles, the Huai River Yunti Pass is the famous shipping distribution center in this place, at least in the Yuan Dynasty, here was once the distribution center of goods and personnel in several places such as Shandong, Henan and Jiangbei, and it is also a famous Haicao center.

At this time, Haizhou port is not developed at all, Jiangbei these tens of thousands of square kilometers of place, thousands of miles of coastline suitable for the port of the place is very few, the offshore places are all tidal flats lack of deep-water port, big ships are not easy to dock, there is nowhere to hide from the wind and waves, until the Haizhou port is developed, the entire two Huaijiang north places can be regarded as a qualified port, even so, compared with Dengzhou in the north, Tianjin, as well as Ningbo, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and other large ports and distribution centers in the south, The port of Haizhou is better than nothing.

In the north of Min Qiande and Min Yuanqi more than ten miles of place is the mouth of the sea, the color of the water at the junction of the sea and the river is obviously mixed, the river water gushes into the sea, the coastline along the estuary is higher than the rest of the place, the water level is also a lot deeper, in addition to a few defensive fortresses built when preparing for the Japanese, there are many dilapidated wharves in the coastal places, because of the disrepair has been dilapidated, so the glory of the Yuan Dynasty is more than 200 years ago, here in the beginning of the country also used for a period of time, Jiajing to Wanli years also had the Japanese Kou since then ashore, but the number is very small, the imperial court in the Yunti Pass set up a preparation of the Japanese Commander, after the construction of the earth city defense, the Japanese Kou will not be extinct, after all, this is a small place, sparsely populated and there is no market town city, the Japanese Kou go ashore here, for them to loot only the poor and not easy to gnaw the military households, not necessarily they are so stupid, have to stare at this place.

As a result, from the early years of Wanli to the present, decades have passed, and this sea has become silent and dry.

There is no trace of anyone, the military households only care about planting the land and frying salt, driving the boat north, going to the sea to fish are all seizing the time, occasionally for it, once the fish condition is not good, they will give up quickly, there is no real offshore households and fishermen do not reach the goal of the tenacity and drill to stop.

This sea is dry and boring, and it is even estimated that there are more fish in the offshore area than in other places, and it is common to see flying fish shuttling across the sea here, and if you change to another seaside place, those flying fish schools will have been caught by the nets long ago.

The uncle and nephew looked at it for a while, but Min Qiande spoke first: "Recently, in addition to training, drying salt, and producing salt, do you have any other plans?" ”

"I'm going to build a batch of armor weapons." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "I, Wang Baihu, and Li Baihu each need five hundred people, in fact, even the women and Yu Ding on my own side, each Kanchi is enough for ten people, and there are not a few people who stack and pack bags during the day, and the sturdy women can do this work." I want to come over, I plan to pick some bold and strong ones to train together in the flag army, in the name of preventing thieves and eliminating thieves, Yang Shida's matter, I just took it out as an excuse, there are hidden bandits in the place, who is qualified to say two words when I train to prevent theft? If there are enough people, I want to make up 400 households, so that I will not be afraid of a thousand people coming. ”

Min Qiande pondered for a moment and said: "Now this situation, it is difficult to say whether the Jingshi can keep it, the rebellion has occupied several state capitals in Henan, the soldiers have entered Hebei, and then go down to the real daimyo and other places are not guaranteed, and soon the north and south will be separated, if the general army of Liao Town and Datong, the towns of Xuanfu can really contribute to the battle with the rebellion, the situation still has room for redemption, if they are the same as Liu Zeqing......"

Min Qiande smiled bitterly when he said that, as far as Tang Tong and Bai Guangen were concerned, which one could be much stronger than Liu Zeqing?

Like Hong Chengchou was forced to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, Sun Chuanting was forced to go out of the pass before he was ready, Zuo Liangyu and Ding Qirui and others obviously did not want to fight but were forced to fight with Li Chuang in Zhuxian Town, and the 170,000 Ming army was wiped out in one battle...... This kind of thing can't happen in the current Ming Dynasty.

The most critical place is that the prestige of the Son of Heaven has been repeatedly weakened, and the mysterious aura of the Son of Heaven is only useful to ordinary people, and the eunuchs, ministers, ministers, civil officials, and military generals around him, the higher the status, the more contacts he has, the more obvious the criticism in secret.

From the first year of Chongzhen to the seventeenth year, this strict character of the Son of Heaven has done too many wrong things, and his impatience and resoluteness are diseases, but it can be treated, too many ideas and changes can also be accepted, and the courtiers can also use suspicion and distrust of their subordinates, and the courtiers can also grasp the medicine according to the prescription, and strive to adjust themselves to adapt to the Son of Heaven. If you don't take responsibility for doing things, you can also adapt to it...... But all these problems are the result of a son of heaven, which makes it impossible for his subordinates to adapt and accept.

From the first year of Chongzhen to the seventeenth year, the first assistant changed more than fifty, and the first assistant who was killed was also several, although it was seventeen years to encounter a lot of troubles and problems, but from the age of Chongzhen when he was seventeen years old, he showed all the flaws in his character and the wrong way in governance, he liked to be suspicious and self-righteous, and dared to kill him, and then he was uncertain, he liked to change the order of the day, he was too impatient, he wanted to see the results yesterday and today, and once things did not go well, he felt that it was the fault of his subordinates...... Some people say that things are bad in the Donglin Party during the Chongzhen period, which is actually wronged, with the character of Emperor Chongzhen, except for Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, no minister can run even the smallest political group in the Chongzhen Dynasty, but what about Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, he has only been in the scenery for a few years......

Traitors actually have the role of traitors, forming a political group, sharing interests, no matter what their goals are, after holding power, they can make the upper and lower government orders accessible, at least everyone will not always make stumbling blocks for each other.

Wei Zhongxian of the Apocalypse Dynasty has been praised by many descendants, but in fact, Wei Zhongxian's political vision is average, and he can't talk about any dazzling governance, and measures such as the Lisheng Temple are a waste of a lot of wealth. But Wei Zhongxian, with the trust and support of the Apocalypse, was completely in control of the court situation in about three years, the local government and the central government worked together, the financial collection was in place, the army did not dare to disobey the order, and the officials listened to the orders of the nine thousand years old to do things, so that even if it was an old peasant eunuch in charge, the state affairs could also operate normally, and the Apocalypse only worked as a carpenter in the palace, which was much more chic than his younger brother, and the state affairs during the Apocalypse were much more normal than those in the Chongzhen period...... The same is true of the Wanli Emperor who pushed up, first using Zhang Juzheng, then Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, and Fang Congzhe...... Wanli is lazy in government, and the three major cases brought by the fight for the country are even more stupid, but Wanli is attentive in two things, and they have done well, one is to choose a qualified first assistant to maintain the most basic operation of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is to care about military affairs.

Of course, the consequences of Shenzong's lazy government are also extremely serious, and the officialdom that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng have cleaned up is tired again, and under all kinds of lazy government and waste, coupled with the cost of the three major levies, the finances of the Ming Empire went bankrupt again. Moreover, Shenzong is so lazy that he doesn't even appoint officials, and half of the officials of the six departments can be shortage, and the officialdom from the center to the local government has no discipline and no motivation, plus the internal strife among officials caused by the struggle for the country eventually formed a party struggle, which is the evil result of Shenzong, and it will affect the descendants of the gods.

But no matter what, the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not so bad that it was inevitable to lose the country, not to be the emperor today, there was no need to invite Zhu Chongba back, or Yongle, Renzong, Xuanzong These outstanding emperors, as long as Wanli lives for another ten years, or the apocalypse lives for ten more years, the Ming Dynasty will not make trouble to the point of losing the country......