"Alas, you finally came here, but you didn't even eat, the old man was uneasy!" Dong Laohan sighed.

Yang He said with a smile: "There are opportunities to eat, and I will come over often in the future." ”

"Really?" Dong Laohan said in surprise.

Yang He nodded and smiled: "Really, when you are free, I will come over often, why don't you live here permanently, and when the time comes, it is indispensable to disturb the uncle." ”

Dong Laohan was overjoyed: "It's okay, if you don't dislike it, you can live in the old man's house." ”

Yang He smiled: "I'll talk about it then." ”

Seeing Yang He sitting on the side of the kang, Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo hurriedly brought Yang He's boots, and then served Yang He to wear shoes one by one.

Zhang Fengwu smiled when he saw it: "Brother Yingshi, just look at these two boys, and they will definitely be able to make a difference in the future." ”

Yang He smiled and shook his head: "It would be nice if I could use this spiritual head for study and training." ”

Yang He smiled and shook his head: "It would be nice if I could use this spiritual head for study and training." ”

Coming down from the kang, Yang He looked at the West House, turned to Zhang Fengwu and said, "Did you bring silver?" ”

Zhang Fengwu was stunned when he heard this, then reacted, and smiled bitterly and touched a silver ingot from his arms and handed it to Yang He.

Yang He took the silver and put it on the kang: "Uncle, I came in a hurry, and I didn't buy anything for the child, you can take this silver to buy some delicious food for the child, and then buy two clothes for the child, and keep the rest for the family." ”

"How does this work? You haven't used up all the money you gave last time. Dong Laohan said busily.

Yang He sighed lightly and said: "Uncle, I promised Sanshun, his father is my father, what about you, treat me as your son, don't be polite to me." ”

Seeing that Dong Laohan was about to say more, Yang He waved his hand: "Okay, uncle, I have to go, I won't quit the villagers, otherwise I won't be able to leave for a while." ”

After speaking, Yang He bowed and saluted, beckoned to Zhang Fengwu, Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo, and the three of them hurriedly arched their hands at Dong Laohan, and then followed Yang He out of the door.

Out of the door, Zhang Fengwu looked at Yang He and said with a smile: "Brother Yingshi, I really admire you more and more, I heard my brother say, you don't know how much money you spent on those soldiers and people, but you can't even take out a single ingot of silver on yourself." ”

Yang He smiled: "I don't usually use money much, so I always forget to bring silver, but it's not as high as you think." ”

Zhang Fengwu sighed and said: "If someone else is as rich as you, not to mention brocade clothes and jade food, at least you are also a gorgeous crown and beautiful clothes, a high car and a horse, but you are dressed simply and eat lightly, which is the most commendable." ”

Yang He waved his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Qi has said it, and I will be ashamed of myself if I say it." ”

Zhang Fengwu smiled when he heard this, and said no more.

Coming out of Dong Laohan's house, Yang He ordered Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo to go to the county government to sign up, and he took Zhang Fengwu to the direction of the seaside.

Yang He came to Xiayanghe Township this time for two purposes, one is to see the progress of the people of Xiayanghe Township in rebuilding their homes, and the other is to go to the beach to inspect the terrain.

Although Yang He did not know how to boil salt, he knew that in order to boil salt, it must be easy to draw seawater, because seawater comes and goes with the tide, and the tide rises and falls every 12 hours. At low tide, the sea water can recede more than ten miles, and it is very difficult to draw seawater from such a long distance, and it is very useless to exert such force.

Under normal circumstances, there are two ways to draw seawater at low tide, one way is to dig a square pond by the sea, when the tide is high, the sea water will fill the square pond, and when the tide recedes, a large amount of seawater can be preserved in the square pond.

Another option is reclamation.

But these two methods are simply impossible to accomplish with Yang He's current strength.

Therefore, Yang He must choose a place that goes deep into the sea, even if the tide is low, it can still absorb seawater.

Wherever you are by the sea, there are basically such places, even if the tide is low, you can still bring the boat ashore. And such a place is generally used to build a wharf, and if the conditions are good, even a port can be built.

There are also such places in the sea around the mouth of the Yanghe River, and to Yang He's surprise, there is a beach in this sea area, and the beach has a great purification effect on the seawater, which can filter impurities in the seawater.

At that time, although the weather began to warm up, but the sea ice did not completely melt, Yang He walked to the beach, picked up a piece of sea ice and looked at it, it was very clean, almost no impurities.

However, it is not enough to have easy access to seawater, but also to consider whether the terrain is safe and private, after all, boiling salt without permission is a felony, and it is necessary to make sure that there are no outsiders here.

Yang He walked around the perimeter of the chosen place, which was so desolate that it was almost certain that it was uninhabited, but to ensure safety, it was necessary to arrange a garrison around it in case anyone strayed in.

Zhang Fengwu didn't know what Yang He was going around here, but Yang He didn't say anything, and he didn't dare to ask.

In fact, Yang He really didn't plan to tell Zhang Fengwu that he was going to cook salt here.

After all, Yang He had just met Zhang Fengwu not long ago, and he didn't know much about him, this kind of life-and-death event, Yang He, who didn't know the roots, naturally couldn't easily tell him.

In addition, this is also a kind of protection for Zhang Fengqi, once something happens, Zhang Fengqi can say that he does not know and will not be implicated. If Zhang Fengwu knew about this, then Zhang Fengqi would not be able to get out of it.

Although Yang He and Zhang Fengqi are in a relationship of mutual use, Zhang Fengqi has been of great help to Yang He during this time, and can be called benevolent and righteous to Yang He.

After taking a turn on the beach, Yang He secretly calculated that if he wanted to keep this place from being known to the outside world, he had to arrange at least three sentinels.

However, Yang He's personal guard battalion only has 200 people, some of them have to stay in Xiangshan to protect the military factory, some have to lead the training of new soldiers, and then remove Chen Dingwei and Xu Erzhuang, Yang He has few people who can still be used at all, and if he wants to solve the manpower problem, he can only ask for people from Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian.

Shaking his head, Yang He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, what is this called, he said that he would leave the troops to Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian, and now he wants someone with them.

Yang He sighed secretly: "In the final analysis, there are still too few henchmen in my own army. ”

After pondering for a while, Yang He beckoned to Zhang Fengwu: "Let's go, go back to the county seat." ”

Zhang Fengwu nodded, handed the reins to Yang He, Yang He took the reins, moved the saddle and pedaled, turned over on the horse, and then urged the horse to go to Funing County.

When the two returned to the county office, it was already dark, but there was an endless flow of people at the entrance of the ya.

Getting off his horse and throwing the reins to the two soldiers on duty at the door, Yang He slowly walked into the gatehouse.

"The fourth brother is back." Li Maochun got up and said with a smile.

Yang He hugged his fists and smiled: "Big brother has worked hard, how is it?" How many people were recruited today? ”

Li Maochun said with a smile: "There are more than 100 people, all of whom are young students, and the oldest is nineteen years old. ”

Yang He smiled when he heard this: "Yes, so many people can be recruited just after today's notice is posted, it seems that it should not be a big problem to recruit eight hundred people." ”

Li Maochun smiled and nodded.

Yang He thought for a while and said, "How did you place those recruits who signed up?" ”

Li Maochun said with a smile: "I asked them to go home to make military uniforms and shoes, and then come to the yamen to report in three days." ”

Yang Heqi said: "Do they make clothes and shoes? ”

"Hehe, Master Zhang asked them to go to the silk village to get cloth and cotton, and they don't need to spend money." Li Maochun said with a smile.

Yang He nodded: "Go back to the silk village and pay the money." ”

"Don't worry, it's not a lot for them." Li Maochun said with a smile.

"By the way, how much silver do you have there, a few days ago, Lord Zhang helped me advance three thousand taels of silver, if you have it, you will return it to Lord Zhang first, and you will go back to the mountain to get it." Yang He said.

Li Maochun nodded: "I'll return the silver to Master Zhang later." ”

After thinking about it, Li Maochun said in a low voice: "Is it the money used in the business?" ”

Yang He bowed slightly.

Raising his eyes to see Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo looking into the gatehouse at the door, Yang He smiled and beckoned to the two.

The two saw each other and hurriedly walked in.

Pointing at Li Maochun, Yang He smiled and said, "This is General Li." ”

Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Li Maochun: "The villain knocks on the general." ”

Li Maochun looked at Yang He suspiciously.

Yang He sighed and said, "It's the family of the brother who died in the battle in Guangning. ”

When Li Maochun heard this, he immediately knew that these two people were the ones that Yang He wanted to focus on.

Waving his hand, Li Maochun said: "Get up, train hard in the future, and don't live up to President Yang Qian's expectations." ”

"Yes, the villain will never live up to the expectations of the chief." Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo were busy.

Yang He pointed to Zhao Liangsong, who was registering, and said: "This is my bookstore Zhao Liangsong, don't slack off when you see you in the future." ”

"Yes, the villain has seen Zhao ......" The two were about to salute Zhao Liangsong, but suddenly saw that Zhao Liangsong was very young, and the two of them immediately hesitated.

Yang He smiled when he saw it: "Hengzhi (Zhao Liangsong's character) is not a few years older than the two of you, you are still brothers." ”

Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo hurriedly responded, got up and hugged Zhao Liangsong: "Brother has seen Brother Zhao." ”

Zhao Liangsong hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

Yang He pointed at Zhang Fengwu again and said, "This is my staff, you can call him Mr. Zhang." ”

"The student meets Mr. Zhang." Zhao Liangsong hurriedly got up and bowed to Zhang Fengwu.

"The villain kowtows to Mr. Zhang." Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Mr. Zhang, disrespectful, disrespectful." Li Maochun smiled and hugged his fists.

Zhang Fengwu hurriedly bowed and saluted: "I have seen General Li, Zhao Shuban and the two little brothers are very polite." ”

After seeing the ceremony, several people couldn't help but think silently in their hearts, why Yang He suddenly officially introduced everyone to each other, and there were two soldiers who had just joined the army.

Li Maochun and Yang He are brothers, and they understand Yang He's mind best, and they quickly figured out that Yang He was showing his attitude, which meant to tell everyone that these people were from the same circle.