After Yao Qianhu left, the days of Erweibao were still the same, and the households in the six villages had begun to dig underground granaries, and the cement was moved out of the warehouse and delivered to the people's homes.

The construction of the tunnel was not so easy, and Su Ren asked the villages to dig out the underground tunnels out of the village first, and then dig a main tunnel through the main hub of the village.

The entrance will be placed in the granary behind the fort, and the exit will be placed behind the eastern coastal hills and forests more than 2 miles away from the fort, and the excavation speed of hundreds of people is not slow.

Su Ming is still engaged in construction in the salt field, he can accumulate 105 rounds of bullets, a grenade, and a first-aid kit for the coast guard ship warehouse every day, all of which he hides in the coast guard ship warehouse, so he doesn't have to worry about being seen by others in his room.

The frequency of the people from Zha Yanbao entering the Erweibao salt factory is getting smaller and smaller, and at most they will send four people, and they will leave in a hurry after seeing the people of Erweibao, and there are few things that confuse the Erweibao salt pans.

Su Zhe wanted to take people to the territory of Qiyan Fort several times, he hoped to take back the salt fields belonging to Erwei Fort, but was stopped by Su Ming.

What Erweibao needs most now is time, to increase the production of the salt pans, to improve the defense of Erweibao, and to train the soldiers well These are the keys for them now, the hundred acres of salt fields seized by Qiyanbao are only three or four stones of green salt in a month, and Su Ming's own salt fields have not been transformed, and it is not cost-effective to make trouble for those salt fields.

On April 26, the No. 1 new salt field began to crystallize again, and it was time to boil salt, Su Ming left 30 stone blue salt for the Erweibao warehouse, and the extra stone green salt had been filtered and boiled into snowflake salt, about 12 stone more, which was hidden in their home.

This No. 2 new salt field is also about to boil salt, and before the end of the month, Su Ming estimates that it can boil more than 50 stone of snowflake salt.

More than half of the construction of the Yanchang Village has been completed, and Su Ming has arranged for people to build houses in the fort. The No. 3 salt field has been plastered with cement yesterday, and the cement and control baffles can be made today, and the new salt field No. 3 will be able to enter salt water before the end of the month, and the salt will be boiled before the 10th of next month.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, in the north of the No. 3 new salt field, the old salt field is about a thousand acres, Su Ming plans to transform into the No. 4 and No. 5 new salt fields, and the salt fields in the south and Qiyanbao are transformed into No. 6 salt fields, and the design plans for the No. 4 and No. 5 salt fields Su Ming has already made them, and tomorrow when the No. 3 salt fields are completely completed, you can start to rebuild the No. 4 salt fields.

In this month's time, the salt mill workers are also familiar with their work, the new village looks stronger than many forts, Erweibao now many people call the salt factory Zhuangyuan salt fort, if it is built, it can live more than 200 workers, only half of the area of Erweibao.

There is nothing to do, Su Zhe followed Su Ming and wanted to practice the gun, the two came to a reef area in the north of the salt field, Su Zhe took the gun to practice shooting at the beach, he has practiced many times in the past half a month, and his marksmanship has improved a lot compared to before.

After firing 15 bullets in one magazine, Su Zhe reluctantly returned the gun to Su Ming.

"Starling, where did you buy this gun, if we have a few more guns like this, it will not be easy to deal with the Japanese invaders." Su Zhe said to Su Ming.

"Huh! This shot was not easy, I got it by accident, and the bullets are not infinite. Su Ming took his pistol and wiped it.

"That's... Starling, don't let me practice in the future, keep the bullets and kill the pirates! What's the use of this gun without bullets. Su Zhe thought for a moment and said.

"I'll let you practice with enough bullets, and I'll go out in a few days and get some bullets back, if you can improve your marksmanship. I'll give you this pistol to use in the future. Su Ming said.

Su Zhe was excited when he heard this, he was about to ask at this time a fast horse was coming towards them, Su Ming looked at the patrol of the salt factory, and there must be something wrong with coming here to find them at this time.

"Eighth Master!" The cavalry quickly came to Su Ming and saluted him.

"What's wrong?" Su Ming stepped forward and asked.

"The day before yesterday, three homeless people came from the direction of Qiyan Fort in the north, and the eight homeless people who came this morning have been sent to Erweibao, and just now more than forty homeless people arrived outside our fort, and we dare not take in so many homeless people when the eighth master is not there." The soldiers.

In the past few days, more and more displaced people have come to Weizhuang from the south and north, some of these displaced people have been attacked by pirates, and some of them have escaped because they have no food.

Su Ren listened to Su Ming's suggestion, and generally took in the displaced people, it may be that the news of Erweibao taking in the homeless people has spread, and more and more homeless people have arrived in the past few days, and the population of Erweibao alone has doubled compared to a month ago.

"You first determine where they came from, if they really can't survive and want to join us, send them to Erweibao." Su Ming said.

This time, more than 40 displaced people came at one time, which is very rare, and under normal circumstances, the health center has no right to collect the displaced people privately, and no one has more food for the displaced people to eat. But the Ming Dynasty is a humane society, everything has room for maneuver, as long as these homeless people are not criminals of the imperial court, it will not be much of a problem to take them in.

In the evening, when all the workers finished work, Cao Chunrui took two small flags to guard the salt field, and Su Ming and the salt field workers went home.

Back at home, my sister-in-law boiled rice porridge tonight, the steamed buns were white-flour steamed buns, and the three brothers ate together, Su Ren seemed to have something on his mind.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" Su Ming looked at his eldest brother and asked.

"Eighth, we have taken in 176 displaced people this month, and today we have taken in 63 people in one day.

It turns out that the food in the fort is enough, and it is nothing for us to collect more displaced people, today I went to the granary, and asked Cao Qi to count, this is only a month, we have consumed nearly 200 stones, not to mention that the grain is used for a year, even half a year is not enough. Su Ren said worriedly, the most important thing for Erweibao is food.

"Now that the people have food, they have to eat more of this dry rice, and they should consume more food.

Recently, Erweibao has either dug tunnels or built houses, and everyone should eat more dry rice. As for your worries about food, I don't think it's necessary. If we don't have food, we can buy it again, as long as we have money anyway. Su Ming said lightly.

"The last time you were able to buy grain from Hangzhou, it may not be successful every time. The imperial court strictly forbids maritime trade, and every time you go out is an adventure, how can we put the source of food at sea. Su Ren said worriedly.

"In addition to the sea, we can also buy it from the northern mountains and forests, such as Fengjingdu, or we can go to Jinshanwei Town, we have enough silver on the surface for us to buy food to eat for three years, what will we become after three years, who knows!" Su Ming said it easily, but Su Ren couldn't help but relax when he heard it.

Su Ren knew the most about the difficult predicament of Erweibao last month, and now Yao Qianhu actually apologized to him, the pressure on them from Qiyanbao dropped suddenly, Su Ming's brain was much more flexible than him, he said that he was not afraid of lack of food, so he didn't think about it, Su Ming had already told him that at the end of this month, in addition to the 10 stone snowflake salt sent to the wind chime, the salt field could also accumulate more than 50 stone snowflake salt, if this snowflake salt was sold, Erweibao would no longer be short of money, he could buy weapons and equipment in large quantities to improve the strength of Erweibao, At that time, Yao Qianhu would not dare to touch them.

"Starling, we don't think about food, but Erwei Fort is now more and more populous, and there are houses everywhere in the fort, and this fort is getting more and more crowded." Su Zhe said to Su Ming.

"One aspect of the congestion is that we have built a few new shops in the fort to sell food and all kinds of tools. Nowadays, all the villages outside the fort enter the fort to buy things, and there are naturally many people.

There are dozens of more families in the fort, but their houses do not occupy too much land, mainly because the land use planning in our fort is not good.

In a few days, I will re-plan the buildings in the fort, and when the new fort wall is built, all the courtyards of the people in the fort will be rebuilt. We are all responsible for the construction of the house this time, and after the completion of the new Erweibao, although the area will not increase much, the number of people who can live in it will increase several times.

Also, the people in the fort should also be cleared a little, and a few more villages should be built outside the fort, so that if there are displaced people in the future, they can be settled there. Su Ming said.

"But these newly recruited people are now building fort walls and digging tunnels, so what will they do in the future? We don't need so many workers in our salt mills. Su Ren asked.

"Aren't we also employing people in this firing cement? The newly built village mainly asks them to burn cement for us, and a village is responsible for a part, as long as our cement is not leaked out, it is not easy for others to steal it.

When the time comes, all the people who work for us will be paid, and the same will be true for the workers in the salt works, and we will pay them that month. Su Ming said.

Second, Willburg used to have no money and owed a lot of money to everyone. Second, now that Erweibao has begun to build shops, only when the people have money, the productivity of Erweibao can be rapidly improved, as long as the internal economic cycle is opened.

At the end of this month, if 10 stone of snowflake salt is sold, with 1200 taels of silver, Su Ming plans to distribute all the salaries of all soldiers and workers, and then determine the wages of all the people who work, Su Ming has a large salt farm behind him that produces hundreds of stones of snowflake salt every month, and he has the ability to make Erweibao more and more prosperous.

Su Ren vaguely felt that his younger brother had a bigger chess set in his heart, but he was not good at these, so he would not stop the eighth brother in terms of the second Weibao decision-making, and now everyone didn't know that the second Weibao was the second brother at the helm, and no one paid attention to them.

As long as he can find out quietly for two or three years, Su Ren doesn't know what Erweibao will become, and even if Jin Shanwei wants to move them at that time, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!