Su Ming handed the box to the eldest brother, and the eldest brother finally took 200 taels of silver and handed it to Su Ming.

The eldest brother never asked Su Ming where all the money went, and Su Ming spent a lot of money for such a long time, enough for a family to live for several years. Su Ming felt that the eldest brother might have discovered something, because he wanted to go to Fengchidu alone yesterday, and the eldest brother did not refuse.

That's fine, most of the equipment that can be activated now is not fully activated, and the next thing is to activate a crew member, this crew member needs at least 3,000 taels of silver, which is enough for the entire Erweibao for a few years. If you take money in the future, the eldest brother will also help him cover up.

On the first day of the next day, on May 1, Su Ren asked the thirteenth brother to inform all the banner owners, small banners, and villages of Wei Zhuang to go to the fort to discuss matters together, and some respected old people in the fort were also notified.

Su Ming knew that from today onwards, it would be a new starting point for Erweibao. From last night's conversation, Su Ming felt that the eldest brother had something wrong with Yao Qianhu, since the eldest brother didn't tell him, Su Ming didn't ask, anyway, as long as Erweibao's own strength rises, all difficulties are no longer a problem, and Yao Qianhu will not affect Erweibao too much in Su Ming's opinion.

Morning exercise with his eldest brother, Su Ming followed the soldiers to practice the battle formation for a while, and he would participate in the morning exercise if he had the opportunity for more than a month, because Su Ming knew that his rifle would not play a big role in large-scale battles, and the battle formation in this era was still the key to determining the victory or defeat of the battlefield.

Sweating, Su Ming could clearly feel that his physical strength and strength were several times stronger than when he first came to this world, which made the role he could play in the array more and more, and it was no smaller than many small flags.

After eating and coming to the salt factory, the workers have already started work, because the caravan from Fujian will pass by them recently, so Su Ming asked the workers not to boil the green salt first, and the No. 2 new salt field is all filtered into snowflake salt, and when the fleet arrives, they can earn more silver.

Don't look at the eldest brother has more than 1,000 taels of silver in his hand, but if you want to make the economy of Erweibao circulate, these silvers are far from enough, and Erweibao now has no other way to make money except for smuggling snowflake salt, so the silver still needs to be prepared.

If he earns more this time, Su Ming hopes to activate a crew member of the coast guard ship, so that he can have a helper and do a lot of things much easier.

Guarding the snowflake salt shed, Su Ming watched the pots and pots of salt boiled, and when a bag of snowflake salt was filled, the cloth bag would be put into the warehouse, and the 24 cauldrons in the shed were lined up in 6 rows, making the temperature here very high, although the workers were hard, but everyone seemed happy.

The people who can cook salt in the snowflake salt shed are all the old people of Erweibao carefully selected by Su Ren, and it is absolutely no problem to be loyal, everyone knows in their hearts that only Erweibao is good, and they can live a good life by themselves.

Su Ming watched for a while and was about to take the thirteenth brother to practice the gun, when he suddenly heard a chaotic noise outside the fort, many workers had already put down their work and began to run west, Su Ming came out of the salt boiling shed and heard someone outside the fort shouting that the pirates were coming.

"Starling! The patrol spotted the pirates two miles to the north, numbering about twenty of them, and had already begun to land on the shore. Su Zhe was the first to run out when he heard the voice, and quickly came back to report to Su Ming when he got the news.

"But do you see that it's an ordinary pirate, not a pirate?" Su Ming asked.

The gap between ordinary pirates and the Japanese is very large, the Japanese can fight hard, the combat power is very high, and the elite soldiers of the one-on-one guard are not opponents.

The pirates, on the other hand, were bandits or caravans, who were mainly for money, and few of them trained in battle, just like the guards could clean them up.

"It's confirmed that it's a pirate, it should be a small caravan from the south, one step ahead of the big merchant ships, and the landing is to grab something." Su Zhe said.

This kind of small pirate landing often happens every year, and they will leave after looting the salt works, and rarely attack the second Castle.

"Let everyone stop running away first, pick up the weapons and go to the gathering, let's go over and have a look." Su Ming said as he walked out of the fort, and Tie Zhu asked his soldiers to choose the young men of the salt fort and prepare to fight the pirates.

In this case, the salt fort and the villages do not need to retreat to the second fort, they only need to close the gate and organize the young people to resist the pirates, and wait for the rescue of the fort.

Su Ming and Su Ren walked north, and within a few steps, they saw three soldiers walking towards them, led by a small banner.

"Eighth master, there are 24 pirates here, with 4 broadswords, 1 bow and arrow, and 9 spears, and the rest of the pirates have no weapons, no shield holders, and no armor-piercing.

They have landed and are coming towards us, and at most a pillar of incense will come. Xiao Qi reported the pirate situation to Su Ming in detail according to the requirements of the drill.

Hearing that these pirates only had 1 bow and arrow, 4 broadswords, and the main weapon was only 9 spears, he also shouted admiration for this group of pirates, and he dared to land and attack the salt making field with such strength, and he didn't know who gave them the courage!

The pirates didn't need Su Ming to take this point, and the hundreds of workers in the salt factory could take them down.

The reason why these pirates dared to attack the salt mill with such poor equipment was entirely due to the fact that they had been in the army for so many years. Many villages and farms along the sea have been attacked by the Japanese bandits, who have not willfully killed people when they saw them, robbed things when they saw them, and how many people died under their swords.

Most of the people can't tell the difference between pirates and pirates, and the fear of hearing that there are pirates landing makes them want to escape, which gives many small groups of pirates the opportunity, and after logging in, they can go directly to the coastal villages and villages to loot.

Su Ming asked this little flag to return to the salt fort, organized the young man to defend the salt fort, and waited for the soldiers of the second weibao to come to support them, and he himself and Su Zhe continued northward, if he could, he would not let these pirates leave.

"Here, this pistol is for you." Su Ming had already seen the figure of the pirate in the distance, and took out the pistol and handed it to Su Zhe.

"Starling, you give me the pistol, so what do you use?" Su Zhe wanted to take the pistol and shoot the pirate, but he still asked.

"You stare at the pirates with a pistol and retreat, wait for my gun to go off before you shoot, don't let one of these pirates go." Su Ming said and ran to the forest next to him to hide, Su Zhe heard that Su Ming still had a gun, so he took a gun and retreated back.

Hiding in the woods, Su Ming saw pirates approaching him in the distance. These pirates were not much better dressed than the homeless people collected by Erweibao, and more than twenty people walked together in a mess, seeing Su Zhe actually slowed down, and waited for him to go away before chasing.

The group of pirates obviously had little confidence in their own combat prowess, and they shouted loudly one by one, but they only used their voices to scare people, and their steps were very slow, as if no one wanted to rush to the front.

Su Ming saw that all the pirates had passed in front of him, and there was nothing wrong with the total of 24 pirates. He took out the 95 rifle and checked the magazine, everything was fine, pulled the safe, put on a steel helmet, put on body armor, and walked out of the woods.

The slowest walking pirate had some hunchbacks, and he just turned his head when he heard the sound behind him, Su Ming pulled the wrench rifle and fired continuously, and a burst of gunfire rang out, and the pirates kept falling.

When Su Zhe heard the voice, he also started shooting with a 92 rifle from the south, and the pirates didn't react yet, they just felt that they were being ambushed, and they saw their teammates falling down continuously.

Su Ming knew that after the magazine was shot, at least half of the people were shot by him at a distance of more than ten meters, and he just took out a magazine and was about to replace it, but he saw those pirates all kneeling on the ground with their hands raised, and the weapons in their hands were thrown far away by them.

"I'm still a pirate, I haven't started playing yet!" Su Ming came to the pirates as he spoke, and those pirates trembled with fright one by one, and Su Zhe also came over at this time.

"And that's the end? I only fired three shots, where did you get this big gun, starling, it's really amazing! Su Zhe saw the rifle in Su Ming's hand, and then looked at his pistol, and felt that it was suddenly not fragrant.

"It's a secret, don't ask. Let them kneel in a row, you watch them here, and when the soldiers come, take them all back to Erweibao, and hand them over to the eldest brother to pack up, and I will go and see if their ships can keep all the pirates behind. Su Ming said as he picked up his gun and walked north.

After walking more than a mile to the north, Su Ming saw three small boats docked on the seaside, and as soon as he approached the small boats, the other three small boats were all far away from the coast, and they actually began to escape!

The pirates had absolutely no idea that there was a danger with their rifles, and they were still so cautious when they approached their three ships alone, with at least three people on them.

Seeing the other party leaving, Su Ming wanted to find the figure of the pirates in the three small boats and was ready to shoot, the other party seemed to have decided not to show his head, and when the boat left the sea for a hundred meters, Su Ming thought that the other party would wait for his partner, but he didn't expect them to drive directly to the south.

The pirate was decisive to Su Ming's surprise, he returned to the place where Su Zhe was holding the prisoners, and saw that the eldest brother had arrived with more than fifty soldiers in armor, and those pirates knelt on the ground and did not dare to move.

"Eighth brother, are you okay?" Su Ren saw Su Ming and asked.

Su Ming had already put the 95 rifle into the sea of consciousness, and he saw that these pirates were thin and weak, and they were still pirates like this, and the combat effectiveness of the pirates he met last time was very different.

"With these pirates, their combat power is not even as good as our salt workers, what can I do?

Big brother, is there a reward for these pirates to send to town? Su Ming asked.

"What are the rewards for a normal pirate? If it is the size of hundreds of people, the commander may give a little reward, and these small and medium-sized pirates do not encounter a few times a year when they attack any guard, and they can only loot in the villages outside the fort. ”

Su Ming said that he asked more than a dozen pirates who were kneeling on the ground to be escorted back to Erweibao, and those who died were thrown directly into the sea, and the injured pirates were escorted into the woods by several soldiers, and their fate was known without thinking.