Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding looked at each other, both of them understood the meaning in each other's eyes, and before they reached the official hall, their thoughts had roughly converged.

Wang Sanyi asked, "Is there any movement in your salt pond?" ”

"It's been a long time, but it's at least ten days before it becomes brine, and Baihu can't be in a hurry when he says this."

"Oh, let's go see it later?"

"Both of them are elders who have believed in hundreds of households, so of course they can go and see it." Min Yuanzhong said with a smile: "But I really can't see anything now, and in another ten days, the brine will almost be completed, draining from the salt pond to the kanchi, pushing and stirring the crystals, shoveling the salt and stacking it, and it will be beautiful at that time." ”

Min Yuanzhong's appearance is very interesting for Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, although it is still very early to make halogenated crystals, but the little flag official in front of him is already full of confidence, unlike before, he is also full of doubts and anxiety.

It is quite obvious that after Min Yuanqi led people to kill Yang Shida and Guan Er, his prestige has risen sharply, and no one will doubt his salt pool.

"Yuan Qi said no, it takes more than ten or twenty days to dry salt to make brine filtration, or is it a hot time, how is the salt output after that, and how much labor is needed?"

"Adults say that it takes 20 days or even half a month to make halogenated crystals, the brine becomes and then filtered to the kanchi crystals, an acre of kanchi is blown by the sun and wind, and the salt can be 2,000 catties a day, and it takes seven or eight people to ten people to use wooden planks to push and stir in the middle of the night, and then use a wooden shovel to control the water before and after dawn, and then use a wooden shovel to control the water at night, and then the water control is finished at night, it is the best salt that can be sold, ten people at least 2,000 catties a day, if one person is 200 catties per day, a pool of 2,000 catties, we now have more than 20 kanchi, a day can produce more than 40,000 catties, and the manpower needs 200 to 300 people, We have almost enough for 100 households. It is not appropriate to go to Yanchi to work just to train the garrison flag army, so now the adults are considering whether to recruit some people from hundreds of households around to come to Yanchi to work, that is, this work is very hard, and they all start to do it after the child, and they must be busy until after the morning before they can rest. ”

Wang Sanyi said: "Why do you have to do it in the middle of the night? ”

"During the day, the kanchi should be blown by the wind and the sun to crystallize, and if you want to stir and push the salt, it will be delayed for a day, and you can only do it in the middle of the night, stop at the hour, and then wind and sun for a day, and harvest at night. The first time the large brine pool takes more than half a month, and then the seawater can be put into the pool once in a while, and after time precipitation and filtration into brine, and then put into the crystallization pool, it is more than 2,000 catties of salt every day. However, we 100 households said that this output is not enough. Although the price of salt is rising in the current market, it cannot keep up with the price of grain, especially the price of salt here in our two Huai is difficult to go up, a stone of salt is sold for five to six dollars of silver at most, and each catty is worth four dollars of copper money, and the most expensive time is seven or eight dollars, or the price of retail sales. I heard that the salt in Yongzhou in Hunan is expensive, and it can be sold for more than 30 wen per catty, but the waterway is not passable there, and the land transportation is difficult, so that the salt is expensive, although the price of salt in Huguang is expensive, it is only about ten wen a catty at most. As for Yungui place, our salt can't reach at all, although the price of salt is expensive, it has nothing to do with us. According to one stone and five dollars, 40,000 catties and 400 stones a day, and more than 200 taels of silver are sold, which is a lot, which is worth our three months of frying salt! However, it is still not enough to raise soldiers, make weapons, and have enough food...... If there are enough manpower, we will continue to open salt ponds, and it will not be difficult to open more than 1,000 ponds in our area......"

Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding were dumbfounded, if according to Min Yuanqi's words, open more than 1,000 pools, what will this place look like? Twenty employs two or three hundred people, and 1,000 camps are afraid that more than 10,000 people will be employed.

"Don't move too much for a while." Wang Sanyi said: "Without that official status, not only our commanders and acquaintances want to rob it, but also the local government and guest soldiers, I'm afraid they won't be polite!" ”

"So we are now opening up to a hundred kanchi, which is a matter of a few hundred households around us, a few hundred thousand taels of silver a day, the military attache of this guard may be tempted, and the local officials and guest soldiers should not be too concerned."

Only then did the two hundred households understand that Min Yuanzhong, a kind person, came to pick up the two of them, and they talked a lot along the way, and the angle and method of the conversation were also refreshing.

Now the affairs of the three hundred households should be bigger, and radiate all around, everyone can have benefits, and Min Yuanqi can train elite soldiers to protect the safety of this side, provided that the big guys work together, and the rest of the hundred households will cooperate. At least the three hundred households in front of them have six or seven hundred people in the banner army, the men add up to more than a thousand, and there are more than a thousand women who can do hard work, if the three families cooperate, the training of soldiers and salt can be done, and the salt can be used to raise soldiers and buy food, so that this place can become a paradise-like place, in this troubled world, Min Yuanzhong's words are simply a very beautiful picture, and the persuasiveness is too strong.

Having said that, everyone has walked to the east of the village, and the originally lively 100 official halls are also on duty, and there are tall warehouses, ordnance, and grain storage here. And the training place has been moved to the east of the village, everyone saw a high platform from a distance, Min Yuanqi was listed on it, more than 100 flag troops were divided into more than ten teams, swordsmen, spearmen, short gunners, boring handles were in place, the array was extremely strict, but the training time was not long, and there were many people who were not very adaptable, when the array rotated to meet the enemy, some flag troops could not keep up with the change of the queue and left the team, once they found that someone left the team, there were flag soldiers standing outside the field with sticks to whip, and then there was a miserable howl......

"Really fighting?" Li Guoding was shocked: "Is it the suppressed soldier who picked it out?" ”

"It's not." Min Yuanzhong's expression was also a little ugly and said: "Each small flag takes turns to come out of the people, standing in a chaotic queue, and those who can't keep up with the change of formation are stepping forward to beat, and they can almost remember it after a few times, and the adults said that everyone should master this kind of array training within a month, not only the Mandarin Duck Formation, but also the small Sancai Formation, the Square Formation, the Circle Formation, and the Sharp Formation...... In the morning, I practiced strength, golden drum flags and arrays, and after lunch, I practiced swords, marksmanship, and boxing. ”

The two hundred household officials looked at Min Yuanzhong, and they were also dumbfounded.

Such a way to take turns to beat people with sticks, it is really a narrow, such a turn to fight, the beaten are not willing to be convinced, when it is their turn, they are afraid that they will have to double the fight back, so take turns down, each flag team will not be merciful, and those who make mistakes will be more careful when they are beaten, so practice the method, the golden drum array is afraid that it can really be practiced quickly!

On the high platform, Min Yuanqi waved the flag a few times, and the original column below quickly changed, the back row went to the front row, and the guns in the front row stood still with guns in hand, but after a few breaths, the original long column had become a horizontal formation.

This time the pikemen are in the middle, the sword is in the middle or behind the spear, the short spear and the boring handle are on the two wings, and the three flag teams are in a formation, and the other two are closely connected to the middle, but slightly behind.

"The main soldiers are not more than three stacked formations, and the surprise soldiers are not outside the two potential formations of the front Jiao, the narrow ground only uses one army, and the wide land uses ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand! The ground is narrow only with the team, the wide area is with the wing team, the team, the ambush team, the enemy is upright, nothing more than the phalanx, is the middle of the army, the spear in the front, the two wings put the knife card boring, the archer and the gun hand in the formation, the enemy is facing the enemy on all sides, the enemy comes to break my stack, and then the next stack to meet each other, everyone remembers their position, where they are in the queue, the enemy comes in a formation, I greet with a formation, the enemy comes with a gun, I meet with a gun, when the enemy is broken, a stack of stacks, a burst of returns, such as a storm, not to break the formation of success is stopped...... Alright, keep up the hard work! ”

Min Yuanqi said that he would hand over the flag to Han Sen, and ordered the other party to continue to use the flag to order the teams to change formations, while he himself stepped down from the high platform and greeted Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding.

Li Guoding stepped forward and said: "Yuan Qi's reputation has spread all over the banks of the Huai River recently, but he is not arrogant or impatient, and he only knows how to train soldiers, which is admirable. ”

Wang Sanyi said: "These methods of military training, did Yuan Qi learn them from his family or did he realize them?" ”

Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "Recently, I have read more military books or old year's Tang newspapers!" For example, the three-fold array, the most commonly used formation of my Ming officers and soldiers in Liaodong, send a certain department to the head stack, the phalanx, the spear in the center, the knife card in the gun or behind the gun, the two wings and the side behind the archers, with the momentum of Jiao scissors, the front of the large array placed in front of the rangers, the flanks put the main force of the cavalry, the rangers to the enemy rangers, the front formation to the enemy's front formation, the two wings to prevent the enemy from riding on the side, or our side to send a cavalry formation to attack the enemy's two wings, if the training is good, the array is strict, the armor is strong, and the soldiers have a fighting spirit, then this formation does not suffer a loss to the enemy formation. But the method of our army's bow and arrow is not as good as the captive cavalry, and the bow and arrow are changed to firearms, and it is not like Qi Shuai who widely distributed the chariot array, and the bird guns are very sophisticated, and the chariot array is placed at intervals with fire primer and ejection, and the soldiers usually practice the law, and when they encounter the enemy, they take turns to attack on both sides of the chariot battalion, and the captives have no chance to ride. Qi Shuai is a celestial man, and he has his own way of dealing with both the Japanese and the captives. Later, when the Liaozhen and Sichuan armies and the Zhejiang soldiers fought against the Dongyu, the firearms were not fine, and the soldiers did not practice the battle and played indiscriminately, and the Donglu was good at the battle formation and suppressed our Ming soldiers with bows and arrows, so that the officers and soldiers suffered many heavy defeats in the captivity, and the Zhejiang military vehicle battalion in the first battle of the Hunhe River was broken by the side attack of the captive cavalry many times. It can be seen from this that no matter what the formation is, the first thing is to get the general, the second is to train the troops, and once again the strong soldiers are all in place. If the three-fold formation and the seizure of the Jiao array or the car battalion tactics, then Qi Shuai is heavily defended, Yu Shuai is heavily attacked, my current practice, due to the lack of chariots, horses, bows, arrows, firearms and cavalry, so the heavy spear formation, knife hand-to-hand combat, mainly to the mandarin duck tactics and the small three talent formation, the three-fold array is just to do the drill first, the car battalion formation or the big three talent formation, but now there is no way to practice. ”

When talking about military training and formations, Min Yuanqi was full of energy, and he was simply gushing.

Almost all of his energy has been spent on military training recently, and Min Yuanqi has realized from the first battle of Hefang that the trained elite soldiers can completely destroy those rabble, but that battle is only for some scoundrels, if it is a real rogue, officers and soldiers, or even the Eight Banners?

There are some things faintly appearing in Min Yuanqi's heart, lingering, he is like a naughty child who has gotten the most beloved toy, and he is never tired of it, training soldiers and martial arts and training the flag army, he does not think it is bitter at all, but thinks it is a happy thing!

The trained flag army has also skyrocketed from more than 40 people to 120 people, which is exactly ten flag teams, which can be regarded as completing the formation of the original 100 flag troops.

In fact, there are still many Yu Ding who are also willing to participate in the training, but Min Yuanqi considered the problem of ordnance and food, and the need to use a large number of manpower in Yanchi in a short period of time, that is, he did not organize a large number of Yu Ding in the flag army. Now there are only twenty armors, and most of them are tattered old cotton armor, only the iron scale armor is considered a serious product, and the protection of the chain mail is quite weak, so it should not be of great use. If you want to build a good foundation according to what you think and think, then the most basic premise is to make a strong soldier, and there is no need to train a group of strong men just to get them out for training.