When he came to the salt factory, Su Ming saw that the No. 2 new salt field had not only been completed, but also all the ditches and control gate valves had been completed. It's only been a few days, and the craftsmanship of the cement workers in the salt plant is getting better and better.

Seeing that the workers of the Zhuangyuan are already building the exterior wall, and most of the foundations have been laid, and the workers who have completed the construction of the salt fields have come to the construction site of the Zhuangyuan, it is very crowded.

"Eighth Master!" Tie Zhu saw Su Ming coming over and stepped forward to greet him.

"I see that everyone is not energetic to cook salt today, what's going on?" Su Ming saw that although all the workers in the courtyard were busy, their spirits were much worse than a few days ago.

"Since using the new salt pan, our salt cooking efficiency has increased by six times, and now the new salt pan has to wait some time to get salt water, so everyone can use the previous salt cooking method, and suddenly feel that the effort is too much and the harvest is too small, so they are like this one by one." The iron pillar returns.

Su Ming thought about it, now the old salt field closest to the village courtyard has been transformed into a new salt field, and the old salt field has to go to a distant place to pick up salt water, so that he can cook one stone of salt a day when he is tired, and the No. 1 new salt field can cook more than 6 stone a day.

At the end of this month, the new salt field can boil salt again, about ten stones at a time, so that even if you don't boil these ordinary salt water now, it will be enough to hand over the green salt from Jinshanwei Town at the end of the month.

Seeing this, Su Ming asked everyone not to boil ordinary salt water first, and dispatched manpower to build the salt farm as soon as possible, and dig another pool for salt water in the manor, so that he would definitely be able to harvest dozens of more stones of salt next month, which is much better than boiling salt like this.

If you don't boil the ordinary salt water, you also save people from cutting down trees and chopping firewood, so that there will be some labor left, and as long as the labor force is sufficient, the new village will almost be built at the beginning of next month.

Su Ming asked the workers to carry the stones together, dig the ground to build the new courtyard, and he himself took Su Zhe to investigate how to design the No. 3 salt field. The salt factory suddenly stopped boiling salt, which made the workers who had been working here a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, now the salt factory is in charge of Su Ming, as long as Su Ren doesn't stop it, everyone has to listen to Su Ming.

On April 19, the new salt water pond in the courtyard of the salt factory had also been cemented, and a new snowflake salt boiling site had also been built.

Watching the four cauldrons of the newly built snowflake salt shed burn, Su Ming couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment in his heart!

This new snowflake salt shed only completed the construction of a row of stoves, a row of stoves above four large iron pots, which not only saves firewood, but also saves space, if this snowflake salt shed is all built, can build six rows of twenty-four cauldrons to cook salt at the same time, than the previous salt field all boil salt efficiency.

After seeing the effect of charcoal filtration, Su Ming told the thirteenth brother about this place, and asked him to take care of the three large filter cylinders in the room, and not let people enter at will, so he went out of the village where the courtyard wall was being built, and went to Yantian to see the excavation speed of No. 3 Yantian.

The No. 3 salt pan is about the same size as the No. 2 salt pan, connecting 23 old salt pans, covering an area of about 120 acres, and is expected to produce more than 70 stone of salt each time after completion, and the monthly output will reach 180 stones.

Su Ming has already seen all the salt pans in the salt field of Weiwei Zhuang, and if he wants to build four new salt pans as big as No. 2 salt pans, he will be able to set up all the salt pans, and about 30 cauldrons will be able to meet the needs of the new salt pans by then. At that time, the number of workers in the salt works may be doubled, but the salt production can be increased by at least forty times.

This is enough, there is no salt field with more than 1,000 stones in Daming, as long as Su Ming can sell the snowflake salt made in the salt field, the silver taels he gets are enough for him to train 5,000 elites. You must know that Jinshanwei is known as the elite 5000, but in fact, there are only 1,000 people who can really be regarded as elite.

Su Ming was watching the construction of the workers on the third place, and a soldier rode from the direction of Erweibao, he was pulling a horse in his hand, and two bags of green salt were pulled on the horseback, which Su Ming asked him to go back to Erweibao to get back.

After a while, the soldier came out of the courtyard and came to Su Ming's side, and Su Ming looked at him as if something was wrong.

"Eighth master, the uncle just said, after a while, the fifth brother will lead 30 soldiers to play the role of Japanese invaders and land from 2 miles south of the salt field, this time we will do an overall drill to check the effect of the deduction in the past few days." The soldier came to Su Ming's ear and said softly.

"Got it, I'm going to find my eldest brother!" Knowing that the drill was about to start, Su Ming still left quickly, and everything would depend on everyone's cooperation at that time, because his particularity was not planned into the drill roster, so it was better not to stay here.

Riding a horse and walking back two miles, Su Ming saw the eldest brother standing on the top of a small hill, he handed over the horse to the soldiers and climbed the hill and came to the eldest brother.

"How are the villages ready?" Su Ming looked at his eldest brother and asked, what he was most worried about was the six villages outside the fort, the salt factory was run fast by young people, there were many drills in the past few days, basically everyone could escape from the salt factory area within five minutes, and it was not easy for the Japanese to catch up.

"I've been practicing for five days, and I've been tormenting six villages in the past few days, and the specific effect is still uncertain if there is no real drill, but with these drills, we are better than before, I don't know how many times." Su Ren said and looked at his younger brother, and his heart was more steadied than he had ever been.

In the past, Su Ren only thought about how to keep the inheritance left by his father, so he exhausted his mind, but seeing that Erweibao's survival was becoming more and more difficult, he was always anxious.

After the younger brother came back, everything changed, and now he didn't have much feeling for the Qianhu Lord who was both helpless and frightened in his heart, the strength in the hands of the Qianhu Lord was not much stronger than the current Erweibao, and this was still without considering Su Ming's pistol.

Su Ming didn't tell everyone in Erweibao that he had a 95 rifle, and the more dependent he was, the more difficult it would be for Erweibao to strengthen his strength, and he would not be able to catch up with the rescue at any time.

"Now our biggest threat still comes from the sea, Jin Shanwei will not easily move against us, Yao Qianhu will not dare to touch us if he does not easily take us down.

If he moves, and our Erweibao is not completely wiped out, then his position as a thousand households will definitely not be guaranteed. He is not stupid to be able to do thousands of households for decades, and his family will not give up the salt factory. ”

Su Ming said this to comfort the eldest brother, he knew that the pressure on the eldest brother was too great, and now the secret of the salt refinery in Erweibao would be known to Yao Qianhu sooner or later, and the contradictions between the two sides would inevitably be inevitable at that time.

"That's why I attach so much importance to the training of the soldiers, according to the regulations, our Erweibao can have 112 soldiers, if all the full staff are trained off-duty, not to mention his surname Yao, Jin Shanwei has to think carefully if he wants to move us." Su Ren knew the combat effectiveness of those soldiers in the barracks, otherwise he would not have allowed the Japanese to easily break through the coastal guards.

As the two were talking, one of the soldiers rode quickly from the direction of the salt works, and when he came to a village not far away, the whole village moved rapidly.

The villagers quickly gathered and the young and strong were led by the lieutenant to send the old and weak to each other to quickly transfer to Erweibao, and the soldiers on horseback quickly spread the news to the six villages, and then returned to Erweibao.

Erwei Fort was also fully mobilized at this time, and while they let the soldiers and young men climb the fort wall, they organized the people of the six villages to enter the fort. The workers of the salt factory were also on their way back to the fort at this time, and in the distance, Su Qingping with 30 soldiers and equipment played the role of Japanese robbers, and they had already appeared on the beach not far away.

When those workers ran halfway, they saw that the "would-be robbers" who came turned out to be Su Qingping, and their steps suddenly slowed down, and some even wanted to go back to the salt factory to get their own things, and Su Qingping caught up with these people, although they didn't really cut them with a knife, but they were also beaten, and for a while, the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves kept coming from a distance.

"Big brother, those who were caught by the fifth brother today must be punished, and those who perform well should also be given a certain reward.

Although the drill is not real, it must be treated as if it were real, and the fifth brother and the others are good this time, they may have chosen a place where it is difficult for the patrol to find and land, and this time the patrol team reported that it was too late. Su Ming said as he walked down the mountain with his eldest brother towards Erweibao.

"Listen to you, it's time to give them some punishment, we've been training for five days, and there are still people who don't take it seriously, punish them today to save their lives in the future." Su Ren said.

The two quickly returned to Erweibao, and saw that Cao Chunrui had led more than 20 soldiers and nearly 100 young men to climb the fort wall, and the people outside the fort continued to enter, but the speed of the people entering the fort was really slow, and when Cao Chunrui led the "Japanese Kou" to 200 steps outside Erweibao, the gate of Erweibao was closed, and more than 200 people did not enter the fort.

"Let the small flags and villages count their own numbers, and how many people are missing and report to me in half an hour." Su Ren was also very angry when he saw this, seeing that the number of people in each village in this fort was no more than three hundred, which meant that at least three hundred people had not entered the fort.

The number of people was quickly counted, and the small banners and villages stood in front of Su Ren and bowed their heads and didn't dare to speak, they used to give Su Ren a big package of tickets and never pulled down a person, but today's result made them speechless to face Su Ren.

"There are still 348 people left, open the city gate and let Lao Wu bring all the villagers into the fort, I think this number seems to be much worse, so many people disappeared in one drill?" Su Ren said with a cold face to the small flags and villages in front of him.

The drill is at the step of the people entering the fort, the city gate is closed, the drill is over, and everyone is put into the fort, many people are injured, and the number of people is less than eighty, Su Ren asked Cao Chunrui and Su Qingping to look for these people together.

It was busy until the afternoon, and all of them were found, and more than 30 of the 82 people thought that the Japanese were really coming, and they fled to the mountains and forests, and some of them hid in the villages outside the fort and did not move.

"Big brother, maybe we don't think about it, just like the villager just said, his grandmother is eighty years old this year, and she can't walk and can't escape with the villagers.

There is also the one who said that his wife only gave birth to a child yesterday, and it is a little difficult to bring all the people into Erweibao. Su Ming said.

"That's the only way, if there is really a large number of Japanese robbers coming, how much can be saved, and then I will let the families of the soldiers move to the fort, at least these people can't mess up." Su Ren said with a sigh.

"Big brother, in fact, we still have a remedy, when many people in the six villages outside our fort encounter the Japanese invaders, they flee to the barren mountains and wilderness as soon as possible, although this is not right, but the chance of survival is also very great.

In every village, there are people who can't escape due to physical reasons, so we can let them build some tunnels at home, and hide directly in the tunnels when they encounter danger, and everyone's food can also be hidden in the tunnels.

The Woko won't spend too much time searching the six villages in the fort, and the six villages will be able to drag the Woko to buy time for our fort. Su Ming said.