The family card of the huge sea is really good, a box of pearls, plus a long night of bitter thoughts, he successfully entered Mao Jue's command, at least with Wen Meng and the two veterans tearfully recalled that the land of Liaodong before Nurha's red army was in a mess, and the two of them were as good as wearing a pair of pants.

But so far, nothing has changed, the Ming army should be corrupted and continue to degenerate and corrupt, and even this huge sea is just an extra expense to Mao Jue in the case of communicating with Jiannu, and there is also an extra hope of transferring to other places and changing the fat.

This sea patrol, in fact, until last night's deal with Jiannu was completed, the huge sea brought more than 200 pieces of cloth from Phi Island, two boxes of tea, a total of 100 mink skins, more than 300 other animal skins, Liaodong's specialty ginseng, three boxes of deer antler velvet, a box of other medicinal materials, and finally the box of Dongzhu that bribed Mao Jue.

If it is sold to Jiangnan, it is estimated that the profit will be at least ten times, although it will be distributed to three hundred households with almost 1,800 mouths, and each household will share one or two taels of silver, and this is the only income in half a year, but it can eat food for a few months, and there is no need to starve.

Not to mention whether it is dangerous for the two battered Cangshan ships to go in the direction of Arthur Bay, just now that the hearts of the people are home, the sailors have no desire to continue walking.

Early in the morning, the sailors under the huge sea hand were busy on the coast, carrying large buckets of water to the beach, pouring them out, and then fetching water from the mountain spring in the south of Mt. Samurashima, and transporting it back to the ship.

It is no wonder that the image of Western sailors is drunk with an ale glass, beer and the like are kept at sea for much longer than fresh water, and later, after the British Royal Navy occupied rich Jamaica and established a large number of sugar cane plantations, it used the sugar juice left over from squeezing cane sugar to brew rum, which replaced beer and became an important drink of the Navy at sea.

It's a pity that there are no such conditions in the east now, and in the ten days that he followed Shen Baihu on the cruise, Mao Jue pinched his nose and drank green water soaked in insects and algae.

Watching these guys pour out dirty water, Mao Jue's heart was also a lot more relaxed, with pearls in his arms, he didn't go down to work, he sat lazily on the beach and watched the excitement, at this time the tide also receded, the sun shone strongly on the beach, and the stones were hot.

Mao Jue should also be unlucky, he didn't watch the excitement for long, he felt a sharp pain in his hand, boiled his throat, and threw out a crab that looked at him unpleasantly, seeing that the bastard waved two pliers, and slipped away like a mockery with eight big feet, Mao Jue, who was angry, reached out and grabbed a handful of white sand, and before he could throw it, he screamed out again.

"Fuck, this, it's salt?"

The tide receded for more than four hours, and after the sun irradiated, the water in many places had dried up, leaving a layer of white things on this sandy and gravel beach, but unlike the salt eaten in later generations, these things were still coarse, and many impurities in them had not been refined and filtered out.

But wrapped his mouth in the painful wound that was bleeding and killed by salt, and looking at this again, Mao Jue suddenly patted his head excitedly, turned around and ran towards the busy boat.

"Lao Pang!"

"Hey! Master Qian, you command! ”

This head was still thinking about how much money the goods on the ship could sell for when they went back, and then how to find a way to buy more food from those southern merchants who should go to hell, so as to feed them to the mouths of the hundred households waiting to be fed, listening to Mao Jue's shouting, this guy immediately turned around with a smile on his face, however, Mao Jue's next sentence made his smile freeze on his face.

"Ben Qianhu has decided not to leave first!"

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On the beach of Xiaoludao, a busy scene was revealed, more than 200 men braved the scorching sun, holding wooden shovels, digging the originally flat beach into pieces like square fields, and four or five people holding grinding discs to press and tamp the bottom of the beach fields, just like the road construction in this era.

This one is repaired, and the other is the newly repaired sea field, and there are strong men from a thousand households holding a big bucket of water, filling the bottom of the previously repaired fields with trapped seawater, and pouring them onto these newly repaired fields, and the entire small hillside of Oshika Island is made like steps, and one pond after another is filled with seawater.

This busy time is seven or eight days, Mao Jue's first harvest has also arrived, in the top of the sea field of about one acre, the white sand has accumulated a thick layer, four big men are sweaty with big wooden shovels, shoveling those white things into the bag.

It's all new sea salt!

In this year, the most common way of salt production is to boil the sea for salt, the salt administration of the imperial court, how many stoves are allocated on the seaside, boil seawater in a cauldron, refine salt, and the salt drying method is still used in the Huai salt production area in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, compared to Mao Jue, who was excited to see the piled up of salt bags, he still couldn't cheer up, and ordered his men to store the salt bags to the top of the mountain to build a few thatched huts on the top of the mountain.

"Master Qianhu, let's dig it up!"

According to this output, it is no longer a problem to get sixty or seventy tons of salt a year, these salts, with the consumption of six catties of salt per person a year, are enough for thousands of people, but looking at Mao Jue's posture, he still dislikes that it is not enough, and it seems that if he does not turn Xiaoludao into a salt pan, he will not give up.

In the Ming Dynasty, the price of salt was also the most expensive in the feudal era, a pound of salt cost three to four dollars of silver, or three hundred to six hundred copper dollars, if you really want to sell all these salts, then at least thirty or forty thousand taels of silver, but the problem here is Phi Island! Military Town!

On the one hand, it is close to the sea, like a huge sea, they have hundreds of households, eat salt, and secretly cook some seawater by themselves, so they are self-sufficient, on the other hand, military salt is the official salt rationed by the imperial court from the Changlu Salt Farm in Shandong, which contains the intricate interests between Shandong salt merchants and court officials, and the huge sea knows that Mao Jue's background is quite deep, but he does not think that Mao Jue has the strength to use private salt to drive down the official salt transported from Shandong.

In that case, wouldn't any amount of salt be wasted?

As for the trafficking of illegal salt to the Guannai, don't even think about it, up to the officials and nobles, eunuchs and fathers-in-law, down to the reckless people, green forest heroes, I don't know how many people eat salt discounts, they are lonely in Dongjiang Town, they are not familiar with the place, dare to bring private salt over, it is estimated that even people with salt let these land snakes swallow, don't think about the bones and slag.

And it doesn't matter if Mao Jue wastes, he uses the manpower in his own hundred households, take a step back, manpower is not worth much these years, he turns a blind eye to his secret trade with Jiannu, and he will work for nothing for him, the problem is that if he loses money, he still has to blame himself when he turns back, which is called unflattering.

It's no wonder that the huge sea hesitated.

However, facing his bitter gourd face, Mao Jue waved his hand indifferently.

"Don't worry, Lao Tzu has his own plan, as long as you follow Lao Tzu and work hard, when the time comes, the silver will be indispensable to you! Who, don't be lazy for Lao Tzu, this thousand households are in charge of food! If you don't fucking work, don't eat tonight! ”

Seeing that Mao Jue didn't finish half a sentence, he jumped to his feet and shouted, with that look of great joy, he shook his head sadly when he saw the huge sea, it seems that this master will not hit the south wall and will not look back.

I hope he doesn't hold a grudge against himself in the future!

The sun is gradually moving westward, but even if it is the sunset, it is full of firepower, coupled with the wild northern wind, the water vapor in the blowing is visibly dissipated in the air, and the salt pool on the top, the coarse salt of the white crystal crystal crystals crystallizes little by little, and the white flowers are like snowdrifts.

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"Left and right!"

The small banner of the general flag carried the flag, and in the hoarse voice of the head of the hundred households, a small phalanx marched forward in the barracks training ground under the scorching sun, and with the order of the official, they were placed in various formations, and the thirteenth thousand households were also located in it, but it was not Mao Jue who was responsible for carrying the command of the thousand household generals, but Wen Meng.

There are 5,000 soldiers and horses for training, Mao Jue has never participated in it, and he doesn't know how to cooperate with it, and even, if it weren't for Mao Youde sending people to Xiaoludao to upload the general's order, Mao Jue didn't know that the Ming army would have been trained.

With a completely untidy pace, the spearman was holding a spear, lined up behind the car, and the bird gunner was holding a fire gun to lift, release, lift, release, it seemed that there were many people, and it was quite imposing, however, so many times did not let go of a shot, stabbed it, just walked around in a formation, and on the command platform that he watched, Mao Jue even yawned.

Especially one point, most of these nine thousand households are sailor battalions, and they are driving boats, Mao Jue can't understand, they practice this land battle array, is it useful?

The remaining ten days of this month are intensive training, this first day of big training, and then every three days each hundred households have a small practice, and these days, the soldiers on Phi Island are the most concentrated, but the concentration is not only training, but also the distribution of military salaries, rations and materials is also carried out for a while.

In the evening, carrying two jars of good wine, Mao Jue stood outside Mao Youde's tent in a worried mood, in his previous life, he was too straight-tempered, and he couldn't stay in several units after graduating for a month or two, and finally his family sent him to the shipyard with a relationship, but he didn't have the eyesight to see, he didn't know how to give gifts, other workers turned regular in half a month, and the salary of three thousand five a month, but he did more than half a year, and did the hardest and most tiring work, so he barely survived.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at this Daming, he had to go through the back door.

Fortunately, Mao Wenlong, the old leader, has a much better face than his father in his previous life, and after receiving the wine, Mao Youde happily took the list of materials he sent, and praised and preached.

"It's really worthy of being behind the gate, these thirteen thousand households are in the hands of the elder brother, it's really a rapid progress, last month they were evaluated or B, this month is already a middle school, the elder brother is training hard, the elder brother is deeply pleased! This month, the silver of your thousand households will be distributed according to seventy percent! ”

"But ......"

Glancing at the material list applied for by Mao Jue, Mao Youde shook his head in confusion.

"Brother, what do you want so many big wooden barrels filled with water for?"