In late June, after Chen Jian returned to Erweibao, he diligently patrolled the eastern coast of Yanbao every day, and he sometimes participated in military training in Erweibao, and he personally led the troops to participate in each drill with the patrol.

The output of the salt mill has stabilized, with an average of 35 stone of snowflake salt per day, and now more than 800 stone of snowflake salt has been accumulated in the Erweibao warehouse. This made Su Ren happy and at the same time couldn't help but worry about the sales of snowflake salt, Erweibao's strength was still too weak, they didn't have the opportunity to trade with those big salt merchants on an equal foot, and it was impossible to even insert a kick.

Ma Xingwang was either in the Salt Fort or in the Erwei Fort every day, Yao Qianhu asked him to write the secret of the Salt Fort, he struggled for a long time or tested Su Ming's words a little, but Su Ming didn't care about this.

Even if Yao Qianhu gets the new Yantian transformation method, he will not show it easily, because the secret of the second Weibao is his, how can he add new competitors to himself, at most, let Zha Yanbao also learn from the second Weibao to transform the salt field, or one day he will use the new Yantian transformation plan to exchange with others, but these Su Ming don't care.

The city wall of Erweibao is still under construction, although the weather is already very hot, but there are more and more people working, Su Ren has begun to drive away the increasing number of displaced people, but the effect is not very great, Su Ming originally expected that the population of Erweibao will exceed 3000 by the end of the month, but the time is only halfway, and the goal has been reached.

"Erweibao was only more than 800 people more than two months ago, and now it has exceeded 3,000 all at once, which is definitely not a good thing. In the past few days, there have been more and more people making trouble with the villages in the fort, and the escort team has been busy all day long. In the living room of Su Ming's house, Cao Chunrui took the lead in talking about public security issues, and now Erweibao has begun to become mixed, and many people from the rivers and lakes have arrived, which has a great impact on the security of Erweibao.

"No, let's expand the construction of the security team, the security of Erweibao has been maintained by the security team of Xinsi Village, and the security personnel of the three squads of Yanbao are also a little insufficient, this time we will expand in place." Su Ming said.

"How can it be expanded, now the security teams of the six villages are full, and the security teams of the new four villages have been overnumbered, and the security teams spend more than two hundred taels every month, not counting the purchase of weapons and equipment." Su Ren said.

"It's nothing more than money, we are now not short of materials in Erweibao, food can last at least three months, and the escort team can not maintain the law and order of Erweibao, which is also part of our strength.

I plan to form four guards in the second Castle, and when the city wall is completed, two guards will be on duty to guard the north and south gates. One more convoy was added to the Salt Fort, so that we had 18 convoys.

As for the arrangement of the number of escort troops, my idea is that each team decides for itself, and the maximum full strength cannot exceed 30 people, so that a large number of homeless young people and rangers will be absorbed, and the security of the second Weibao will be greatly improved. Su Ming said.

"30 people? Isn't that eighteen teams more than 500 people! Why do we use so many guards? Su Zhe said in surprise.

"I don't know if you have noticed, many of the displaced people have come from the direction of Jinshanwei in the past few days, I asked, most of them are people from Zhejiang and Fujian, and more than half of them do not live along the coast.

What does this mean? The pirates have already attacked the inland, and the elite soldiers of Jinshanwei have gone to the south to exterminate the pirates, who knows that the pirates see that our Songjiang Mansion is weak, and they come directly to us, and it is not harmful for us to train more soldiers. Su Ming said.

"It's just the eighth brother, we don't have so many weapons, it's just that some people can't exert much combat power." Su Qingping said.

"If you have weapons, you will first train with wooden guns, and when Erweibao is besieged, training is better than being young. In a few days, I plan to go to Hangzhou Bay to see if I can buy some weapons, and preferably some food. Su Ming said.

Although he was a little puzzled, since Su Ming had already said so, everyone did not object. Although Su Ming has no official status, everyone knows that Su Ming's credit accounts for more than half of the current Wei Castle.

"Then it's decided, the matter of the escort team will be handed over to you, the eighth brother, and the thirteenth brother will assist. We have been firing cement since April, and now we are firing more than 20 koku of cement every day, and the warehouse is piling up more and more.

Considering that we may have more and more salt and grain in the future, this warehouse must be built. This time, I plan to build up the weapons warehouse, grain warehouse, salt warehouse, cement warehouse, etc. at one time, so as not to let the warehouse problems hold us back in the future. Su Ren talked about the construction of the warehouse, and no one present objected, so the matter was directly decided.

Although Erweibao is remote, such a rapid population increase rate must have attracted the attention of Jin Shanwei, so everyone is actually a little anxious. It will take three months for the city wall to be built, and although the current city wall has been repaired, it is still a fool's dream to resist the elite of Jinshanwei.

Ma Xingwang and Chen Jian were both invited to participate in today's meeting, but both of them did not say a word, and Su Ming and Su Ren also knew the reason and did not force it.

As long as they are here, even if it is a kind of relaxation of the relationship between Erweibao and Yao Qianhu, the two sides are not at all to the point of life and death, even if Erweibao is strong in the future, it is possible to cooperate with Yao Qianhu.

"Master Ma has been here for so long, but what good advice do you have?" After everyone had discussed it, Su Ming suddenly asked Ma Xingwang.

"Uh... I think it is necessary to add four escort teams, the population of the second Weibao has exceeded 3,000, which is no worse than some thousand households, but the adults of the hundred households do not have the right to directly appoint officials, and we have to find other ways to manage these two Weiban.

Although we can't set it up, we can let the guard team serve as a concurrent, so that the security of Erweibao can definitely be greatly improved. Ma Xingwang said cautiously.

"It's worthy of Master Ma, that's a good point. We have a patrol team, a prison team, and two patrol teams, one of which is responsible for the inside of the fort and the other outside the fort.

22 Escorts are a bit difficult to manage, so be it! These four escort teams are formed into the first squadron, recruiting more educated and capable people, and they can also be directly transferred from other squadrons, and the monthly money can be as high as the same as the escort team.

The four escort teams in the city formed the second squadron, the four escort teams of the four villages outside the city formed the third squadron, the four escort teams of Yanbao formed the fourth squadron, and the six squadrons of the six outer villages formed the fifth squadron. Su Ming said.

The others listened with wide eyes and distributed the ringing silver of the small flag, and there were many people who received it, except for the official position that did not have the imperial court, this work was much better than the small flag.

Moreover, Erweibao does not need to look at the household registration, and the people in the rivers and lakes can all serve as the squadron leader, and the significance of this position has become significant.

Chen Jian looked at Su Ming quietly, Su Ming's ambition was revealed at this time, this was because he didn't want to take the road of the imperial court, he was close to the forces of the rivers and lakes, Jin Shanwei definitely didn't want to see Erweibao do this.

No one objected, and the matter was settled, but Su Ming handed over the right to appoint the squadron leader to the eldest brother, and there were some things he could put forward his opinion, and the absolute right must be on the eldest brother.

After the meeting, Su Ming took Ma Xingwang and was about to go to the salt factory, and in the past few days, they have been renovating the pots and stoves and pottery jars in the salt castle, and many devices have become cement structures.

For example, the former filter water tank, now made of cement filter pool, as long as one or two filter pools, workers through steps and levers to easily send the brine up to filter, and the brine through the newly built canal can go directly to the salt pot, the person who takes care of the salt pot can add brine at any time, which further increases the efficiency of boiling salt.

Before he reached the gate of the salt castle, Su Ming saw a member of the first team of the salt castle guards running towards them quickly on horseback, and the workers of the salt castle were also quickly assembling outside, and Su Ming's heart couldn't help but sink.

"Eighth master, eighth master! Pirate attack, three and a half miles north of Salt Fort, a big ship, four small boats, more than a hundred pirates, the thirteenth master has already taken people! The escort explained the time and number of pirate landings in the simplest words according to the requirements of the evening, and he hurried to Su Ming's side without slowing down, and shouted at him.

Su Ming heard that he was walking quickly from the path to the northern coast, this time the number of pirate landings was the largest this year, he was afraid that the thirteenth brother would lead the cavalry team to lose too much, so he wanted to hurry up to support.

"Eighth Master, where are you going?" Ma Xingwang heard this, chased after him and shouted to him.

"Ma Xingwang, you go back to Erwei Fort now, or go directly to Salt Fort, this time the pirates landed more than a hundred people, there should not be much threat to Salt Fort, I will go and see the thirteenth brother and them, don't leave the fort until the danger is lifted." Su Ming slowed down slightly, and after speaking, he quickly walked in the direction of the pirate landing.

Ma Xingwang wanted to go with Su Ming, but he also knew that he might lose his life if he went, so after thinking about it, he finally ran to the salt fort, if all the more than 100 workers in the salt fort retreated, he would just retreat to the second fort.

When he arrived at the beach, Su Ming ran hundreds of steps north, and saw Su Zhe riding a horse and standing far away with four escorts, and the pirates were still landing in the distance, and their speed was much slower than everyone expected.

Seeing Su Ming, five people rode towards him, this time the pirates were menacing, Su Ming saw that many pirates on the shore were wearing armor, and the pirates who landed saw that the two Weibao cavalry had found them, so they began to form a formation on the shore.

"Starling, why are you here?" Su Zhe saw Su Ming running over on foot and stepped forward to ask.

"This pirate's plan this time should be not small, the four of you should go back to the fort first, inform the workers in the fort to close the gate, you don't have to withdraw all to Erwei Fort, and don't let the villages go to great trouble, let the eldest brother bring the soldiers here." Su Ming looked at the weapons and equipment of the pirates and the quantity, and said to Su Zhe.

From June to August every year, the most frequent time for pirates to land and attack coastal guards is the most frequent, and some forces that did not follow Wang Zhi's fleet to do business by sea must start working if they want to survive.

Not all forces on the overseas islands like to do business, and there are some people who fail to do business and can only work as full-time pirates. Before May, Wang Zhi's fleet did not leave, and the pirates did not dare to make too many mistakes, and when Wang Zhi's merchant ships went north, it was time for them to be active.

Therefore, the relationship between the Ming sailors and Wang Zhi and other sea merchants is peculiar, because Wang Zhi can provide them with a lot of wealth when the pirates in the East China Sea are rampant and the imperial court attaches great importance to the Daxing sailors.