Zhang Chu settled down the affairs of Fugu and prepared to go to Zhongyang immediately to prepare for the next battle.

Soon after reuniting with Yue Yue and Li Meigang, how can I live this day, Zhang Chu is determined to clean up these hateful officers and soldiers as soon as possible, and then he can live an arrogant and lascivious life.

Wang Jijie accompanied Zhang Chu from Fugu through various areas controlled by the security army, and Zhang Chu took the opportunity to introduce the development of various places to Wang Jijie.

The first to pass through was the Yulin area, which had always been an important military town, the city was fortified and the terrain was dangerous, and a large number of security troops were stationed there, and it would be very difficult for others to capture Yulin City. After reading this, Wang Jijie had some confidence in the strength of the security army. For the businessman, he should be shown what can make money. Although the salt wells in Yulin are not as famous as those in Sichuan and other places, in fact, more than half of China's underground salt mines are underground in the Yulin area, Zhang Chu has read a news report in his previous life, saying that a new salt mine has been discovered in the Yulin area, and the salt reserves are the sum of the previous proven reserves in the country. Therefore, a netizen in Yulin posted when everyone grabbed salt when there was a nuclear leak in Japan: "Don't rob everyone, our salt reserves in Yulin account for 50% of the country, and it can't be mined for 60,000 years." Zhang Chu was very impressed by this incident.

After the oil was pumped out of the extended oil well, Zhang Chu did not reduce the personnel of the well, but let the well team recruit a lot of new members, some of whom continued to drill new oil wells in Yanchang, and some of them were transferred to Yulin, these people were originally born in salt wells, and they were very expert in finding salt and drilling wells, and soon found a suitable place to drill wells to start drilling wells.

The first thing to see at the drilling site close to the salt well is the high derrick, which is very different from the previous one, Zhang Chu watched the bamboo derrick that drilled the salt well before, and ordered the craftsman to continue to study and improve, and gradually replaced the original bamboo derrick with a steel derrick, the derrick is more firm, and it is more convenient and safe to use.

The security guards on the periphery of the construction site found Zhang Chu and his party, and immediately came over to stop them, and immediately notified the construction site after identifying them, and a group of people came out of the construction site to greet them, and the scene immediately became lively.

Zhang Chu has developed a habit of going anywhere without prior notice, he doesn't want to run an errand and see a fake scene.

Gradually, the security army also knew this rule, and they had to prevent Zhang Chu from appearing by their side one day.

The foreman on the construction site was not very restrained when he saw Zhang Chu, and Zhang Chu was an old acquaintance with them. In order to obtain enough crude oil and refine gasoline to set fires, Zhang Chu took the construction of oil wells as the focus of his work, and for a period of time he ate and lived with the drilling workers, studied the tools and methods of improving the drilling process, and put forward many novel suggestions for the craftsmen.

The foreman introduced the progress of the project to Zhang Chu, and now it is the first salt well in the Yulin area, which has been started for about half a year, and the depth of the well has reached more than 200 meters, and there are signs of penetrating the rock layer, and it is believed that it will not be long before the salt brine that meets the production requirements can be obtained.

The derricks and drill bits used for drilling are now very different from what they used to be. Bamboo and wood structures have been phased out, and steel components have been used extensively, especially since the factory has recently produced new drill bits from new steel, which has greatly increased the speed of drilling and the replacement cycle of drill bits has been longer. Workers are confident that the drilling will succeed soon.

This time, Zhang Chu also specially ordered to recruit several times as many workers to participate in this work, the purpose is to let more people master the drilling technology, once the salt well is completed, the entire drilling team can be split into several teams, and several new wells will be started at the same time.

Wang Jijie listened quietly to the communication between Zhang Chu and the workers, thinking in his heart, this Zhang Chu is indeed terrible, if these salt wells are completed, Zhang Chu's financial resources will increase greatly, even if he does not build Yuncheng, he can also sell salt to the grassland, get horses, cattle and sheep, Zhang Chu has occupied the territory of several counties in Shaanxi and Shanxi, plus the support of these financial resources is by no means comparable to ordinary thieves. Will Zhang Chu become the true son of heaven to replace the Ming Dynasty? The reason why these Shanxi merchants dared to violate the ban of the Ming Dynasty and trade with the Later Jin was that they thought that the Ming Dynasty would not last long. But they didn't think that the Jin people would enter the Central Plains in the future. According to the law of dynastic development, the king of the next dynasty will be elected among the rebels. The big businessmen are also nervously observing the development of the situation, if they find out the true destiny of the son, not only can they keep the existing wealth from being destroyed in the war, because of the dragon's merit, they will definitely be rich in the future, maybe they will become imperial merchants all of a sudden, then they can go sideways on the land of China, not only have money but also status, this is the dream of businessmen for many years, for this is worth the risk.

When Zhang Chu talked about the salt well, Wang Jijie thought he was talking nonsense in order to cheat money, but now when he sees the salt well being drilled, he knows that there is indeed a good way to make money here. If it is prudent to invest some money and cooperate with Zhang Chu to develop salt wells, it will also have a good income.

But this is not in line with Wang Jijie's character, his heart is full of adventure desire, the Ming Dynasty's suppression of businessmen, makes him more important than money.

Zhang Chu took Wang Jijie to visit the drilling process, and encouraged the craftsmen before saying goodbye to the workers and leaving.

After crossing the Yellow River through the ferry into Shanxi and finally arriving in Zhongyang, Wang Jijie found that Zhang Chu's guards were always reading a pamphlet when they were free, and he couldn't help but be very curious in his heart, what kind of book could make the literate soldiers love it.

So Wang Jijie found an opportunity to borrow it from the soldiers to watch, and it turned out that this was a pamphlet written by Zhu Jishi to promote Zhang Chu. The more Wang Jijie looked at it, the more frightened he became, Zhang Chu's propaganda of these things was clearly to change the dynasty and replace the rhythm of the Zhu Ming Dynasty by himself, and after reading the booklet, he knew that Zhang Chu had done so many things. Zhang Chu is really at stake, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, is a poor monk who asks for food, and Zhang Chu, a cultivator in the mountains, may not be able to create the same cause. The soldiers of the security army in various places along the road have been dressed up, and the strict discipline and mighty military appearance of the soldiers gave Wang Jijie a very strong shock, which is a thief, the momentum shown by the soldiers has far exceeded that of the official army, no wonder Hong Chengchou led an army of more than 100,000 in front of the security army.

When Zhang Chu arrived in Zhongyang, he immediately made arrangements, and put on a wonderful performance for Wang Jijie in the experimental factory of the arsenal, showing him the strength of the security army and strengthening his determination to cooperate with Zhang Chu. (To be continued.) )