"Master Chen, all of our drill requirements are that if you are shot by an arrow, you must exit the drill as soon as possible and stand on the side of the road without moving until the drill is over.

The cavalryman was shot by the Japanese archers, and he had already withdrawn from the drill, and two of the Japanese were also shot, and you can see that they also withdrew from the drill. Su Ming pointed to the soldiers who had withdrawn from the "Japanese Bandits" team in the distance and explained to Chen Jian.

"This is more reasonable, but if there are really so many people wearing armor, the role of the short bow may not be so great, of course, this does not affect the fairness of the drill." Chen Jian also sensed the significance of this drill, and kept staring into the distance and said to Su Ming.

By the time the "Wakos" arrived at the salt works, the workers had already left, the gates of the salt works had been closed, and only two of the five cavalrymen remained, but they were still able to slow down the advance of the Wakos, which also bought time for the retreat of the villages outside the fort.

The Japanese came to the salt factory, and more than 20 people went to the salt factory, but when the gate was closed, they could only climb the wall to enter, and the wall made of cement was not easy to damage.

At this time, Erwei Fort was the most lively, all the guards organized the people to enter the fort in an orderly manner, the people of the new four villages were the fastest, it took less than a quarter of an hour, all of them had already entered the gate, and the people of the other six villages also arrived one after another, although they were nervous, but no one was crowded.

When the "Wako" passed the salt fort, they divided into several parts and went to each village, and half of the "Wako" went in the direction of Erweibao.

Ma Xingwang and Chen Jian saw that the drill was less than half a quarter of an hour, and the people of the ten villages outside Erweibao had basically entered the fort, and when Cao Chunrui led more than 50 "Japanese robbers" came to the outside of Erweibao, the gate of Erweibao was closed, and the people who did not have time to enter the fort fled to the surrounding woods.

"This is unimaginable, no wonder the people outside Erweibao are not afraid of pirate attacks, children dare to go out of the castle to play, I originally thought that those who do small business do not know life and death, it turns out that everyone has something to rely on." Ma Xingwang sighed.

Chen Jian and the soldiers he brought were silent, they watched Su Qingping take people to each village to check if there was anyone here, but they were stunned for so long and did not find anyone, they all knew that it was impossible for all the people in the village to escape, they could only say that everyone was hiding too well.

Continue to wait here for half an hour, the gate of Erweibao opened, and today's drill is over, Su Qingping gathered all the people found in each village and let them wait at the entrance of the village, and each village counted the people who were found, and then rewarded or punished everyone according to today's performance.

Ma Xingwang and Chen Jian thought that the drill was over, but they were taken back to Erweibao by Su Ming, and saw that all the captains and small flags in the villages of each village had arrived, and a total of more than 60 people were sitting in the training ground of Houbao, Su Ren summarized today's drill.

Where did everyone behave inappropriately today, which people did not handle it properly in which link, the flag owners talked with the captain and the village, and the scene was very lively. This discussion lasted for more than two hours, until everyone was already hungry and rumbling, and Su Ren summed up and announced the reward and punishment of personnel.

The rewards are all real silver, and the punishments are mostly training, Chen Jian couldn't help but shake his head when he saw it, feeling that so many rewards were a waste at all.

Today's drill wasted most of the time of Erweibao, and Su Ren still spent so much money, even if Erweibao had more money, it would not be such a waste. And he always felt that the untouchables were not worth caring so much about, and that it was a waste to spend money on them.

In the afternoon, all the captains of the guards of Erweibao, Xiaoqi, and the people above the village went to the inn to eat together, everyone didn't drink much, they were all chatting about the recent changes in Erweibao, Ma Xingwang heard from everyone's mouth that everyone cherished the current life, and everyone regarded the Japanese and pirates as the biggest enemy.

At night, Ma Xingwang was in his room, and when he saw the maid taking out the newly made clothes for himself, he didn't know what he was thinking. In the other courtyard, Chen Jian heard his subordinates talking about today's drill in Erweibao, and it was not difficult to see the envy in his heart, Chen Jian couldn't help but feel bored for a while, he wanted to go to Ma Xingwang to chat, but he didn't know what to talk about, fortunately, he was lying on the bed alone and how to report Erweibao to Yao Qianhu.

In the early morning of the next day, Ma Xingwang originally thought that Su Ming would come to him, but when someone from the Su family brought a message, saying that Su Ming had gone out of the fort to Xincun to check the newly built cement-burning stove, and asked him to arrange it himself today.

Ma Xingwang didn't fully believe what he had seen in the past few days, Erweibao was just a small hundred households in Jinshanwei, but the discipline he showed was even better than that of Jinshanwei Town, and he must take a serious look at the true face of Erweibao alone.

There was still a sound of training behind the fort, and the soldiers of Erweibao seemed to be training every day, which Ma Xingwang had become accustomed to. When he came to the business district, there was already a store in the near world, and Ma Xingwang entered and saw that there was a grain store here, but the price was about 3% higher than that of Jinshanwei, and he felt that the Su family was too dark.

But think about it, Erweibao is close to the sea and does not produce grain, and the grain sent by Jinshanwei Town every year cannot even feed a hundred people, and there is no other grain channel here, which is simply untenable here, this Su Ren must be very difficult to buy grain, and the price of grain should be more expensive.

There is nothing to see in other places, except for the old people and children, the young and strong people are working inside and outside the fort.

Both men and women here seem to have endless work to do every day, and yesterday afternoon I didn't go out, but in half a day, the new city wall at the gate of the city rose more than three feet high, which is amazing.

After taking a turn in Erweibao, Ma Xingwang went out of the fort alone to the previous six villages, and yesterday he already knew the location of the six villages.

After arriving at the old village, Ma Xingwang found that the people in these villages were as busy as the people in Erweibao, and everyone got a lot of refractory materials, clay, carbon slag, etc. to crush and send them to Xinsi Village to exchange money.

After turning around the six villages, the villagers looked at Ma Xingwang with a kind face and did not look like a bad person, and everyone did not hide what he asked, knowing that the wages of the salt factory workers were at least 2 taels of silver every month, which made him stunned.

A worker who boiled salt earned more than his master, and the sense of superiority in his heart was severely hit. And working in the village can almost make more than ten yuan a day, and these two Wei Banbai are much richer than many civilians in Jinshanwei Town.

Seeing that most of the people were wearing coarse cloth clothes, and most of the people who passed on the linen clothes were new homeless people or subordinates, Ma Xingwang felt that there was already some taste of the city here, but the officials and masters in Jinshanwei Town still didn't know anything about this place.

In the next few days, Su Ming and Su Ren rarely showed up, and Chen Jian took his men to train with the soldiers of Erweibao all day long, and they ate well every day and trained enough, and their combat power improved quickly.

Ma Xingwang either drinks tea in his yard every day, or walks around, this day Su Ming is checking the quality of the freshly fired cement in the West Village, asking the person in charge of the firing heat and time, and putting forward his own opinions, but at this time he saw Ma Xingwang coming from a distance.

"Ma Xingwang, is he also out of the fort?" Su Ming saw Master Ma step forward and asked.

"Eighth master, I've been here for seven days, Yao Qianhu asked us to come to inspect the output of the salt field and put forward suggestions for the transformation of the salt field, we have been in the fort for so many years, when will we go to the salt factory?" Ma Xingwang asked.

"Look at my memory, I've been too busy these days, I've forgotten about business, I'm almost busy here, or let's go to the salt field now, I also want Master Ma to give us more advice." Su Ming said.

Master Ma walked near the salt factory several times in the past few days but did not pass, because he knew that the salt factory was the most important thing for Erweibao, and if there was no one to take it, it would be very dangerous to go there alone.

"It's not too early today, it's tomorrow! Tomorrow, if we don't bring Chen Qi to master them, after all, Yao Qianhu asked them to protect the salt factory. Ma Xingwang asked cautiously.

"There is no problem, I will let someone inform Lord Chen in the afternoon, and we will have lunch tomorrow." Su Ming said.

Erweibao usually eats two meals a day, soldiers only eat three meals if they have a strong training task, Ma Xingwang These guests can also eat three meals if they want, and lunch is generally eaten in the middle of the day, this time should be the busiest time for the workers, Ma Xingwang nodded when he listened.

Su Ming saw that the furnaces in the four villages were all built, among which the stoves in the west village and the north village were built to burn cement, and the stoves in the east village and the south village could be built to burn bricks and tiles, because Su Ming felt that the construction of bricks and tiles in Erweibao was very important, and the cement consumption was not large now. After a few days the bricks are fired, the watchtower will be ready to be built.

When I returned home, I saw that Tie Zhu was pulling back all the snowflake salt that had been boiled today. Since the No. 5 salt field is also about to be put into production, the furnace of the salt factory has rarely stopped in recent days, and today the iron pillar brought back four carts of snowflake salt, a total of more than 35 stones, and the weather is getting better and better recently, and the salt castle has become more and more salt.

"Eighth brother, you're back! How is the stove built in the new four villages outside the fort? Su Ren saw Su Ming come back and asked.

"No problem, I have asked the East Village Stove to fire bricks, and the South Village Stove to fire tiles, so that we can also become an income in the future." Su Ming saw that the servant had already brought him face washing water, and he washed his face as he spoke.

"Or the eighth brother, you have the most capital, this way to make money one after another, recently our store income has been increasing, I went to see it yesterday, there are more than thirty taels, so at the end of the month, it is about to balance with our expenses." Su Ren looked at Su Ming and said with a smile.

"Our expenses are basically workers' wages and soldiers' salaries, and now we can balance it because things such as grain stores and cloth stores have been consumed, and our expenditures should also be counted together for goods such as grain and cloth.

Ma Xingwang came to me this afternoon and said that he was going to the salt factory tomorrow. Su Ming said.

"What do you think should be done?" Su Ren asked.

Originally, Yao Qianhu sent someone to arrive, and the contradictions between the two sides were already irreconcilable, but Su Ming boldly showed everything in Erweibao in front of the other party, and now the relationship between everyone is not bad, but Yao Qianhu will find an excuse to deal with them after all, Su Ren is still very worried.

"If you want to see it, let him see it! Big brother, you find a chance to get close to Chen Jianduo and leave a good impression on him, I think it won't be long before Ma Xingwang and Chen Jian will report to Yao Qianhu about the situation here.

As long as Yao Qianhu doesn't feel that we have strong hostility, he won't make up his mind to break the net with us, and if our affairs don't go to the commander, the problem is not too big. Su Ming said to the eldest brother.

"Okay, tomorrow after seeing the salt factory, I will invite Lord Chen Qi to come to the house for a drink." Su Ren said.