The time soon came to April 13, ten days had passed since the Japanese landing, and during these ten days, the entire Weizhuang Office was busy, and the No. 2 salt field was finally dug up, and only cement remained.

"Old eight, I have had the third round of discussions with Lao Wu, Chunrui, and a few Xiaoqi on the drill plan you wrote, and now it can almost be decided.

The day after tomorrow, I plan to start the drill, and everyone means that you will be in charge of the command of this exercise. Su Ren looked at Su Ming and said.

When Su Ming brought a drill plan of more than 30 sheets to him a week ago, Su Ren was shocked when he saw it. The drill plan written by Su Ming was very detailed from the discovery of the landing of the Japanese pirates to how everyone responded, especially the requirements for the patrol team and the herald soldiers.

With this drill plan coming out, Su Ren believed that even if a large number of would-be robbers suddenly landed from them, Wei Zhuang would be able to quickly react to organize a defense or even counterattack in the second Wei Castle after withstanding the first wave of the opponent's attack.

"It is also very important to play the role of the Japanese during the drill, and when the time comes, let the fifth brother personally lead the five small banners to play the role of the Japanese and organize 100 young people to join, we can't let the people underestimate the strength of the Japanese invaders.

Today, the No. 2 new salt field can be cemented, and I will go over after dinner, and when the No. 2 salt field is put into operation, our salt output will be greatly increased.

It's just that the foundation is still being laid in the salt farm, and there is no extra place to build a pot stove for boiling salt, and now only 24 pots can be boiled together. However, when the new 40 rows of pots and stoves in the yard are completed at the end of this month, we will be able to boil salt together with 64 pots next month. Su Ming said.

"There are more and more people in the salt farm, and everyone in Weizhuang can see it clearly, and many old people say that we are no worse than Erweibao two years ago."

Su Ren's eyes began to turn red as he spoke, what kind of scene was it in Erweibao two years ago, his father and five uncles were their heavens, and now they are all gone, only a few of their brothers remain.

The huge population of the Su family has decreased by ninety percent, and its majesty is not as good as before, even to the point that they dare not speak out when they are bullied by Qiyanbao.

"Big brother doesn't have to be like this, our second Weibao will definitely get better and better in the future. In the past few days, I have seen a lot of homeless people coming to us, and how many homeless people we have received this month. Su Ming asked.

"There are 29 people, 3 of whom are good at martial arts, I have all moved them into the fort, and now they are already training with the soldiers. The others are placed in the villages outside the fort, these days there are more and more families building houses in the fort, everyone wants to build houses when they have money in their hands, some people want to buy our cement, do you dare to sell it? Su Ren looked at Su Ming and asked.

"There's nothing you don't dare, this concrete house is not only strong, but also fast.

Big brother, I see that there have been some foot merchants outside the fort these days, and there are a lot of people buying things, why don't we buy some daily necessities from the town and buy them for everyone, so that we can still earn the money ourselves.

If someone wants to use money to buy food, the grain behind our fort can actually be sold, and when the time comes, we will go to other places to buy it. Su Ming wanted Wei Zhuang's economy to circulate internally, because he knew how important a place's economy was to development.

"I've already discussed with a few banner owners and Xiaoqi to form a caravan for our Erweibao, anyway, we can't sell salt and buy grain in the future without our own team.

It's just that who will lead this team hasn't been decided yet, and the most suitable person for our second Weibao is actually you, but you are inseparable from the salt factory now. Su Ren said.

"This person with a talent for business and trade still needs to observe, now it is to buy some simple daily necessities for the people of Wei Zhuang, you can send people to do it, build a shelf first, and then we will pull up the team if we need it later, so that everyone can familiarize themselves with it first." Su Ming said.

"That's right, Eighth Brother! I've heard that the people from Qiyan Fort have come to our salt factory to make trouble these days? Su Ren asked suddenly.

"This Zha Yanbao is really getting more and more excessive, they don't seem to be afraid of making a big deal at all, I can't come forward in this matter, the thirteenth brother fought with them the day before yesterday." Su Ming couldn't help but have a headache when he thought of this.

"If there are a lot of people coming, let people inform me, this Zha Yanbao really thinks we are easy to bully if they don't give some color. Yesterday, Lord Qianhu sent a message asking me to go to town today, and when the time comes, I will ask the contact point of the Li family if they still want to trade with us. Su Ming said again.

Although Erweibao has money now, this money is dead, and it will be gone when it is used up. Even if the snowflake salt can be sold for money in the future, it can't be taken out, so this gray transaction with the Li family is actually very necessary for Erweibao.

"Yes, if the Li family is willing to continue trading, we will still use green salt, this time we can trade 2 stone green salt to them, and our green salt production this month is definitely enough." Su Ming said.

"Well, I will tell the Li family, you should be careful when you go to the salt farm, everything is based on your own safety." Su Ren admonished.

Su Ming and his eldest brother participated in a morning exercise for an hour, and then drove a cart of cement with Su Zhe to the salt factory, at this time the workers of the salt factory had already eaten lunch and started to work.

The foundation of the Yanchang Zhuangyuan has been half-beaten, and the foundation is fixed together with cement and sand, which is much stronger than the bricks of later generations, although it is troublesome.

The No. 2 salt pan has been dug up, the bottom side is being watered, and the workers have sprinkled dry cement powder on the salt pan according to Su Ming's requirements, just waiting for the last layer of cement to be plastered on the No. 2 salt pan to be built.

Su Ming looked at such a huge No. 2 new salt field, and he was also very happy in his heart, this is the foundation for the future strength of Erweibao, and their days will be better and better in the future.

At this time, Su Zhe walked over, and his words made Su Ming even happier.

"Starling, just now Xu Lao told me that the No. 1 new salt field has been added with brine four times, and now there are signs of salt field crystallization, and at this time it is necessary to start using the brine of the No. 1 new salt field, and Xu Lao estimates that the No. 1 new salt field can at least boil 10 stones of green salt." Su Zhe said to Su Ming.

The No. 1 new salt field is only ten days, Su Ming has been dragging to see how long it takes for the purity of the salt water to evaporate to the maximum, but he didn't expect that it would only take ten days to boil 10 stone of salt, although it is only an estimate, but according to this figure, 30 stone of green salt can be boiled in a month, which is equal to the output of their salt field in one month.

"Let Xu Lao arrange for someone to boil salt quickly! The salt water of No. 1 Xintian is finished, let's hurry up and enter the salt water again, and the other old salt fields should not take salt water for the next few days. Su Ming said happily.

Told Tiezhu to watch the workers and cement construction, Su Ming and the thirteenth brother came to the gate of the village together, the workers came to Su Ming's special set up to take water and use a flat pole to pick up salt water, they followed the workers into the village, and waited for the salt water to be poured into the cauldron, just watching the workers keep stirring the pot water.

The workers picked up buckets of brine and poured it into the pot, and the water in the pot was boiled over the high heat, and the water level continued to drop after boiling, and when they saw that crystals began to appear at the bottom of the pot, they had to keep the brine boiling on low heat.

After adding water for the third time, it didn't boil for long, and crystals formed in the cauldron again. Seeing this, Xu Lao, who was in charge of boiling salt, walked over to Su Ming happily.

"Eighth master, this new salt field is really amazing, you can start to produce salt after boiling it two or three times, so that the labor force of workers can be reduced by more than two times, and the quality of green salt will be much better than before." Old Xu said happily to Su Ming.

Xu Lao is an old worker in the salt factory, and he boiled salt here forty years ago when Su Ming's grandfather was a hundred households, and his technical control of salt pans and boiling salt is not comparable to ordinary people.

"That's great, which means that after we put two new salt pans on those four salt pans, the output of the salt pans in this area can increase by about ten times." Su Ming thought about how much his method could increase the yield of Yantian.

"If all the brine is of this quality in the future, our salt boiling speed can be increased by about four times, if the new salt cooking pot stove is established, it is not a problem to increase the output by ten times, if the eighth master you give the No. 2 new salt field another new salt field, and lead it to the gate of our village, so that it becomes easier to take salt water, our salt factory has about forty workers, and the manpower is not much more than before." Xu Lao said with a smile.

"This is for sure, when the situation in Yantian is concerned, Xu Lao will have to worry a lot. When the new courtyard is completed, I will bring the final salt water from all the salt fields to the courtyard, and we won't even have to leave the yard to get the salt water at that time. Su Ming said with a smile.

Because of the high concentration of brine in the new salt field, it only took two hours for a pot of salt to be boiled, and the workers lifted the cauldron aside, and waited for the crystallization inside to completely solidify, and shoveled out all the salt, Su Ming saw that the salt was at least five or six catties.

Su Ming was about to go back to Erweibao to tell the eldest brother the good news, when a patrol soldier returned to the village and saw Su Ming running over quickly.

"Eighth master, thirteenth master! Qiyanbao came to our salt field again to make trouble, and our Xiaoqi saw that not only did they not leave, but they also beat people, Thirteenth Master, you go and take a look. Seeing Su Ming and Su Zhe, the soldiers hurriedly said.

"These grandsons, see if I don't clean them up today!" When Su Zhe heard this, he immediately became angry, and shouted that he was going to fight with the other party.

More than 20 young men quickly gathered in the salt field, and they took their weapons out of the salt factory and quickly headed north.

"Starling, just leave this matter to me to solve, you better not show up, let the grandsons of Qiyanbao see that there may be trouble!" Su Zhe saw Su Ming coming and whispered in his ear.

"You try not to get into a conflict with Zha Yanbao later, just drive them away, now is not the time for trouble." Su Ming instructed.

"I know!" After Su Zhe finished speaking, he led people to quickly go to the northern salt fields to support, if they went late, their patrol personnel might suffer!

Su Ming followed behind, and when he came to the conflict site, he saw more than a dozen people from Zha Yan Fort surrounding the two Weibao four people shouting loudly there, and two Qi Yan Fort personnel also deliberately threw stones and sand into the salt pan of the Second Weibao, and when they saw the support of the Second Weibao coming, they all retreated and stood together.

Su Ming saw that these people from Zha Yan Fort should be soldiers, and the leader might still be a small banner. Su Zhe stepped forward to negotiate with the other party, and the other party saw that Su Zhe brought a lot of people and many people had weapons, but he was not afraid to retreat.

Su Zhe also kept in mind Su Ming's instructions, and he did not pull out his big knife. The two sides seemed to be unsuccessful in their negotiations, and began to collide physically, at which point everyone knew that no matter which side did not restrain itself, the conflict would turn into bloodshed.