The banquet was dispersed on the spot, who would still be in the mood to drink. In particular, the commanders of the guards in Datong understood a reason, that is, why there were three chief military officers here, and there were also tens of thousands of redundant sergeants.

Open the arsenal, reorganize the armor, sharpen the knife, and select the troops.

The ordinary sergeants who were still queuing up to receive food saw all the guard posts, thousands of households, and hundreds of sentry posts. All the heralds, dressed in red and riding on military horses, entered all the main camps.

"Kill one person, and it will cost you two taels of silver. But killing someone is not as good as capturing it alive, and catching one person is three or two. Less than forty miles away, there are two tribes. One estimated that there were five or six hundred people, and there were at least 100,000 sheep or more. The other is a large tribe of a thousand people, and there will be no less than 300,000 sheep. ”

After receiving the order, several thousand households rushed to the camp of the guard where they were located.

The commanders had not yet returned to the camp, and after sending someone to give the order, they were discussing the battle strategy with Guo Deng. In fact, the other two governors were also here, and they were dividing the area of the Loop. It is divided into upper, middle and lower roads, and is subdivided into nine blocks. The first attack, first sweep away the tribes within a hundred miles of the Great Wall.

They count strategy.

Thousands of households have calculated small accounts.

"100,000 sheep, if you don't keep them for yourself. If you hand it all over to the public, you can exchange it for five thousand taels of silver. Or 10,000 stone of grain. A thousand households can immediately live a prosperous year. Plus killed, or captured alive. There are also horses, etc. For a small tribe, they can actually get no less than 20,000 taels of silver. ”

"Part of the card above, we also have tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

One Qianhu was very satisfied with his calculations.

Another Qianhu said: "The report said that it is not stuck. These are the actual numbers, at least what rewards the people above have, it is not for us to know. ”

"Really?"

"It shouldn't be fake, Governor Li and Governor Nian are both people who don't rub sand in their eyes. And a couple of Governors. They want merit, not these small money. I heard the rumor that the one who paid the money said that Wei Li Zhuan was a poor ghost who had never seen the world, but I heard rumors that the one who plucked his hair casually was thicker than Wei Lizhuan's waist. ”

"That. Pick the elite and get ready to fight? ”

"Hit!" Several thousands of households discussed, and immediately arranged for their cronies to go back. How can each Qianhu Institute pick out hundreds of elite main combat personnel, and the rest of them are only auxiliaries and are responsible for pulling goods.

As for how to divide the thousands of households, Bai Minghe didn't mention it, even Yu Qian wouldn't worry about such a trivial matter.

With Li Bing and Nian Fu here, even if these thousands of households deduct some for themselves, it will not be too much.

When the commanders returned to the main camp. The battalion is already full of people, and there are Ding and people among the military households. This time, not only were the soldiers in preparation, but the military households began to kill pigs and sheep, and opened the granaries to prepare dry grain. The women gathered together and began to mend the armor, and many half-grown children gathered together to sharpen arrowheads on large stones.

"This is not to be missed!" A guard commander sighed with emotion.

The other said, "Mobilize the forces of the first guard." More than 5,000 people besieged a tribe of 1,000 people. If you have a heart or not, if you lose. Those of us had to cut off our heads and plead guilty. This time. The entire town of Datong may send no less than 50,000 people for a month, and it is estimated that at least one-fifth of the Hetao will be swept away! ”

In the whole Datong, for three consecutive days, the most common sound is the sound of sharpening knives.

No matter where you walk, you can hear the sound of grinding knives. You can also smell the aroma of pancakes. There is also the aroma of steamed rice cakes.

Three governors and two governors. After inspecting Datong for a few days, even Nian Fudu said with emotion: "Daming armament, I haven't seen such a scene of high morale for many years. Several governors were determined to be more careful, and they were not allowed to be defeated. It is even more necessary to be prepared, in case the tile spurs counterattack to deal with. ”

"Don't worry. Yu Gong has already calculated. We'll sweep the loop before September. Without the Wattlers, there would be no enemy vanguard. Hetao has become a buffer place again, such as the southward movement of Mobei's military power, which is beneficial to our army, coupled with high morale, so that they have no return! ”

Guo Deng is a Confucian general, and he thinks more deeply, and his words are still recognized by his youth.

"We were having a little fight. The white crane is in the formation in Guangdong, and I heard Yu Gong say that the dragon king of the South China Sea on the white crane side is in charge personally. Within thousands of miles of sea and frontier, all those who do not obey the indoctrination are trampled on the level. I heard that there are tens of thousands of pirates alone, and the treasures that the pirates have looted in the past few decades have not collected a penny in the army, and all of them are used to reward the sergeants. ”

Xu Gui's words also have a meaning, the south is also fighting in the sea, and the north cannot lose the face of land warfare.

That's right, the mobilization order on this side of the north is doing well.

But what about the South.

The first guests greeted by the Chunhui Garden of the White Crane were the 12 guards of Guangdong, the commander of the 12,000 households, and the 1,000 households. And, of course, the senior military attachés of the Metropolitan Yamen. Bai Minghe sat in the center, and Yang Neng and Deng Hailong sat on both sides.

Shira-nathan shouted as he pointed to a crude chart of the South China Sea.

"Here, three hundred miles south of Qionghaiwei, there is a small stone that must also be marked. These 300 miles are the coastal guard area of Qionghaiwei, and no boat is allowed to approach. Kill those who dare to come close. The white crane slapped the map vigorously, and slapped the wooden board behind the map with a crackling sound.

"Xiaobai, there is not half a bird there, Qiong Haiwei is not convinced. Ask to sail to Xisha and sweep away the pirates in Xisha! ”

"Fart, if you don't accept it, you have to accept it!" Yang Neng slapped the table and shouted angrily. But he immediately turned his head and said to Bai Minghe: "Xiaobai, this kind of goods don't know a basket of big characters, it's useless for you to reason with him." You don't have to actually tell him, what's the use of guarding. "Yang Neng played a flower child.

Bai Minghe also gave face, but asked Bai Minghe to tell the details.

Shira-naka didn't answer, just looked out the window.

"Xiaobai, there are no outsiders here. There are also people who are also in the East Factory! Yang Neng added.

Bai Minghe sighed softly: "I originally planned to put this plan on hold. Wait until after the autumn harvest to carry it out, but what is needed now is to clear the site, and there can be no outsiders here. All the people must be military households, and the fields from which military households come are rented out and planted. The place where Qiong Haiwei is located is a treasure land, if it is well repaired, it will ...... a year"

When Shirana Crane said that it was a year, everyone pricked up their ears.

"Two million quintals! Salt! ”

Bai Minghe's words shocked the thirty-odd men present so shocked that they couldn't even breathe. There was silence in the house!

"It's a lot of investment, and the salt pan has to be divided into several layers, and it requires a lot of manpower. So we can't be in a hurry, we don't have so much silver in our hands at the moment, and there are quite a lot of bandits there. A pirate attack will wipe out at least tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres, of salt pans. ”

"Xiaobai, you just say. How many salt pans can be carved out there, depending on your opinion! "Yang Nengxin said, don't be your white crane miscalculated.

Hainan is not without salt farms, there are!

As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a salt farm. It was built by the local government after the salt workers in Fujian Province fled to the past. It is called Yangpu Salt Farm, and there are about seven or eight hundred acres of salt fields.

"More than 100,000 acres. If there are enough manpower, 200,000 acres of salt pans can be built. ”

"One mu of salt pan is forty quintals per year, and two hundred thousand mu is eight million quintals. Xiaobai, you said two million quintals, you are really modest! Yang Neng laughed at Bai Minghe. Bai Minghe shook his head: "Big Yantian, one person has to take care of several acres, or even more than a dozen acres. The yield will not be comparable to that of a small salt pan. Two million quintals are also net profits. The tax of a load of salt in the Ming Dynasty is two taels of silver, which is the income of four million taels. If there is a private salt, this benefit ......"

Bai Minghe didn't say any more, and the retail price of a pound of snow salt in the capital was three dollars of silver.

"Don't mention this matter again, Qiong Haiwei, give you two months to clear the waters of the south of the island for three hundred miles. The cost of repairing and building ships should be reported in a list. ”

After giving instructions to Qiong Haiwei, Yang Neng said to Bai Minghe again: "Guangdong will leave half of the benefits of this salt field!" ”

Bai Minghe stretched out a little finger: "This little profit, I don't want a penny of silver from Bai Minghe." It's just that when the time comes, I'll exchange salt for something, and I'll just pay for the salt according to the price. A load of salt is three taels of silver, and I even paid the salt tax. ”

Yang Neng waved his hand: "No, if you don't want it, we don't dare to ask for it." You want to be in the cashier on behalf of Long Live it. If you don't want it, this salt pan is a knife to kill. So there is no need to discuss this matter anymore, you can't push it off and you can't refuse. ”

"Okay, let's talk about it later. Let's sweep away these pirates first. ”

The white crane only asks for it, and Yang can assign the task.

According to the calculation of the modern sea area, what the white crane wants is to clean up the entire South China Sea, and the scope is larger than that of the modern era of later generations. What's more, Shiramei Crane requires a detailed chart, which must show the location of all the islands in detail, as well as a safe and fast route.

"Xiaobai, do you want a head or a living mouth?" Liu Mingxuan knocked on the table and motioned for the others to shut up, and then asked.

"What can those pirates do?" Bai Minghe said that he had the serious troops of the Daming Water Division in his hands, so what was the use of asking for those third-rate goods.

Liu Mingxuan shook his head: "It's useful." Let's talk about the powerful ones first, fight to the death, and if you can't die, you can be obedient and work. There are some things that are not very convenient for our sailors, especially the things that catch the live mouth, and the sailors also have to take care of their reputation. Those who are not useful can be sent to mine, and it is okay to work on the salt pans! ”

Shira-nae didn't speak, he was thinking about the feasibility of this thing.

Speaking of which, the people of Guangdong Dusi really give face to themselves, and they still make themselves nod their heads for this kind of thing.

Liu Mingxuan said again: "After I came back, I heard a news that Hua Wuwu was defeated. It was not the defeat of the sword, but the defeat of the fist and foot kung fu in the hands of the murderer known as Shi Luohan on the rivers and lakes. These people, how many pirates you can conquer! (To be continued......)