In these days of salt factory construction, Liu Haojia has not been idle! In particular, the sappers he sent into the salt works were his eyeliner, and he had long circled the people who were suitable for being soldiers.

Liu Haojia is preparing to further expand the Wu'an Army, and the navy also needs manpower. And these trained people know that discipline is the best target for recruitment. Therefore, when the construction of the salt works was just over, many officers had already entered the salt works and began to recruit soldiers.

Originally, these people were reluctant to leave Tianjin, a place where it was easy to survive, but now that they heard the news of recruitment, and the treatment was so good, they were naturally willing to defect. Therefore, in the past few days, a large part of the people have directly become soldiers.

As for the expansion of the salt works next year, it will be even simpler! After this year, Tianjin's reputation will inevitably be greater, and there will definitely be more homeless people here in the second year, and it will be time to recruit people directly!

The three brothers of the Wang family also had their own whereabouts after their work in the salt factory was over. Wang Da took all the money saved by the three brothers with him and went home to serve the old man! And the amount of silver he brought back was not a small amount, enough to buy more than a dozen acres of land! When he returned to his hometown this time, he was going to exchange all his money for land, and then serve his parents and farm well!

Wang Er took advantage of his younger brother's optics to do things, learned to read and settle accounts, and has been very effective, and has now been officially hired as the steward of the salt factory! In the future, he will no longer have to dig in the soil, and he can concentrate on working in the salt works!

As for the old three kings, Zhengguo is even more legendary! He had completed the triple jump from the homeless, the scribe, the petty steward, and the grand steward in a matter of months! Later, he was sent to the military academy by Liu Haojia and became a glorious artillery reserve officer!

Liu Haojia is now fully aware of the importance of officers, especially grassroots officers! Therefore, he simply set up a military academy in Tianjin to train grassroots officers. A person like Wang Zhengguo, who knows how to learn, was directly sent to the artillery school by him, and after he came out, he became a qualified artillery officer!.

Don't think that you don't need an officer to use a smoothbore gun, in fact, the amount of calculation required for a qualified artillery officer is not a decimal! Think of Emperor Napoleon, who was an artillery officer from an artillery academy! Moreover, the establishment of the military academy also means the beginning of the regularization of the Wu'an Army.

But fortunately, he didn't have to bow down to these things, so he still found time to go to the salt pan after a few days.

Although the time is close to late autumn and the sunshine is not as abundant as in summer, the sea breeze here in Tianjin is relatively strong, and the sea water in the salt pans has evaporated relatively well!

Now the salt pan in front of Liu Haojia has been filled with water several times with the help of the high tide, and after being exposed to the sun and wind, the seawater in it can now be called brine! And Liu Haojia will not point fingers at things he doesn't understand, so he directly arranged for the three old salt workers from last time to come forward to inspect.

The three old salt workers went directly down to the salt pan, picked up the brine by hand and tasted it, and then came back, one of the old workers bowed down and said, "Master Hou, this brine is almost there, but it would be better if you put the water to dry it again!"

Another salt worker looked at the sky and said, "I can release water almost once at high tide, and it is estimated that the salt pans above will be pumped tomorrow, otherwise salt will be formed here!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi looked at Liu Haojia eagerly, and he smiled and said, "You have the final say here, what do you see?"

Liu Haojia really didn't say this to ridicule Zhang Zhi, because in the early stage, it involved the use of sappers from the Wu'an Army, and there were still a large number of people gathered in the salt field, Liu Haojia had to be strictly careful! In addition, Zhang Zhi and several people had no experience, so he intervened to ask!

Now that the salt farm is on the right track, Zhang Zhi and the others can also use the things they learned in the inner study, so he naturally no longer interferes. Next, he just needs to open the salt road and wait to collect the money!

When Zhang Zhi heard Liu Haojia say this, he immediately said, "Hurry up and inform the people above to drive the water truck!"

Not long after Zhang Zhi passed down the order, more than a dozen waterwheels were stepped on one after another. The brine from the salt pans was quickly pumped to the highest filter, which was filled with crushed charcoal. They will act as the last filtration. The filtered brine then flows to the next level of salt pans.

Inside that salt pan will be where the brine will begin to crystallize.

Watching the waterwheel move, Liu Haojia turned his head and asked the three old employees, "Three, when do you think the salt will be released?"

After the three old saltmen looked at each other, one of them said cautiously, "My lord, it's autumn now, and the weather is not very suitable, but it seems that the wind is fine. According to our guess, the salt will be out this afternoon or tomorrow at noon!"

After hearing this, Liu Haojia said to Zhang Zhi: "Since this is the case, Ben Hou will not wait here, if there is any news, he will inform Ben Hou immediately."

Zhang Zhi naturally agreed immediately, and after sending Liu Haojia away, he took people to guard next to the salt pan and watched when the salt would be released.

The next morning, as soon as Liu Haojia came out of the barracks and entered the city, a person ran to them panting. Before he could get closer, he was stopped by the brocade guards on the periphery.

When Liu Haojia saw this person, he motioned to Jinyi Wei to let him go, and said condescendingly, "I know you, your surname is Wang!" The eldest of the three of you brothers went home to farm, and the third of your family entered the military academy in Ben Hou, and you stayed in the salt factory to be a steward, didn't you?"

Wang Er wiped the sweat from his face and nodded, "What Master Hou said is right, it's true!"

Liu Haojia said with a smile: "Since you are a person in charge, you must be more steady! How can you be so frizzy and bump into people! If someone else treats you as an assassin and chops you off, wouldn't it be a grievance! Say, what's going on in the salt works? Is there salt coming out?"

Hearing Liu Haojia's first half of the words, Wang Er was already pale with fright! He had just stepped from a peasant to a petty burgher, and he didn't understand why the magnates were called magnates! When you hear it, you may lose your head and realize the seriousness of the matter!

However, when he heard the second half of Liu Haojia's words, he immediately forgot all about it, and he said loudly with a smile: "It's salt, Master Hou! Salt is really coming out, and it's starting to come out in a lot of salt pans!"

Liu Haojia was happy when he heard this, and directly shook his horsewhip and said, "Let's go first, you follow slowly!"

After saying that, he led his men to ride his horse and ran towards the salt field. Now Liu Haojia is known to everyone in Tianjin, and everyone knows it! Seeing that he was leading people to ride out, passers-by avoided it. But no one scolded him, but many people made arches on the side of the road!