As time went by, everything in Zhu Youxiao gradually became normal.

The port is slowly being built, and the shipyard is also hoarding materials and digging foundations under the guidance of the masters invited. The salt farm has been officially put into production. With more and more technology and manpower becoming more and more skilled, the output has also increased.

It gradually stabilized at around 1.1 million, and the profit after expenses was about 300,000 taels of silver.

After a month of searching, the recruits have been recruited. The team is still led by Wei Zhongxian and Old Eunuch Dong, and the standards have not been relaxed in any way. The requirements for mind, body, and character are all very strict. However, after the experience last time,

This time Wei Zhongxian had to be more familiar with the road and completed it in just one month.

Among the more than 600 newly arrived teenagers, there are some from salt fields, some from the port construction team, some from tenant farmers on the outskirts of the capital, some from street beggars, and some from normal families. But without exception, they all

Born into poverty.

Compared with last time, Zhu Youxiao added another condition this time, that is, his family was poor. The reason for this was that Zhu Youxiao also had his own considerations.

It is self-evident that a young man from a well-off family and a young man from a poor family have the opportunity to change. The latter needs every opportunity to escape poverty, and the latter is more grateful and remembers those who gave him this opportunity than the former.

mind.

Of course, this kind of strict screening conditions is limited to these nine hundred young people. In the future, there will be no threshold except physical conditions. This is also an inevitable trend in the expansion of the army.

After recruitment, it comes to training. This is the task of the teaching company. More than 600 recruits are all trained by them. Zhu Youxiao does not interfere, only supervises and corrects mistakes.

As for the young men who participated in the battle, they each have their own tasks. The three combat companies have to go to the salt field every day to escort the silver back, the logistics company has to improve its own transportation tools and cooking utensils, and the cavalry company has to conduct riding training.

Among the three parts, the cavalry company is the hardest. Now they basically spend time in the horse pen of the Royal Horse Supervisor, riding horses during the day and sleeping with the horses at night. Regarding the training of the cavalry, Zhu Youxiao did not do much.

What advice, but there is only one requirement, that is, to advance like a wall, all cavalry must be trained like a square formation, horizontally and vertically, and move according to regulations.

All affairs are proceeding slowly, and the relationship between Zhu Youxiao and Wanli has become closer, especially after he sent one hundred thousand taels of silver to Wanli's inner treasury.

This one hundred thousand taels is not one time, but every month. In one year, it will be 1.2 million taels of silver. No wonder Wanli is laughing from ear to ear, and he is even more concerned about Zhu Youxiao's request.

He didn't even listen, he just waved his hand and told him to do it by himself.

In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, there was still no peace. Natural disasters were everywhere. The disasters in the south of Beizhili and Shandong were particularly serious. Wanli issued edicts to provide relief to the victims. However, in Zhu Youxiao's view, the intensity of relief was simply child's play.

It's a measure of several thousand taels or tens of thousands taels.

Looking at the monthly output of a large salt farm of 300,000 taels of silver, and thinking about the military expenditure of tens of thousands of taels per month for hundreds of people, Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt that he and these people did not seem to live in the same era, and their consumption concepts

The gap is too big.

The people of this era are really pitiful. This is Zhu Youxiao's most intuitive thought. He is accustomed to the modern society with extremely abundant materials in later generations. Looking back, an inexplicable sense of superiority arises spontaneously.

This feeling only lasted for a while and was extinguished by Zhu Youxiao. These were cheap labor. As long as they were given some money and food to eat, they felt it was a great favor.

When the disaster began to spread and the victims were seeking survival everywhere, Zhu Youxiao gave Wang Wenyan an order to direct the construction team and salt field to accept the victims in an orderly manner and transform them into labor force. After a period of development, these two places

After running in and out, a relatively sound system has been created. Based on their individual abilities, top and bottom leaders have spawned leaders, large and small, enough to absorb some of the victims.

Especially the salt fields are currently overloaded, with a serious shortage of manpower. In many cases, there are even no people to collect the dried salt in some salt fields. For a salt field that is dozens of miles long, more than a thousand people are simply not enough. I want to

For the entire salt field to operate, five to six thousand people each are simply not enough, especially in this era of pure human power and no machinery.

Recruiting people was just a trivial matter. It was just an order from Zhu Youxiao. The most difficult thing was Wang Wenyan. He originally brought out the managers of both places. Liu Bin was in charge of the construction team and Lao Zhoutou was in charge of the salt field. Basically, this was

The affairs of both places were left to them, and he was only responsible for solving problems when they had problems.

Originally, he planned to return to the capital after taking care of him for a period of time. How could a staff member make suggestions without staying with the proprietor? However, Zhu Youxiao's order made his plan to be postponed indefinitely. He recruited disaster victims and enriched the salt field and construction team.

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"Oh, I wonder when I can return to that paradise place on earth?" Wang Wenyan looked west at the capital, holding a glass of wine in his hand, and drank it with a frown. At this moment, he missed the Du family wine shop, especially the pretty and lively Du family.

widow.

Recruiting victims is simple, but there are too many things involved, and recruitment alone is not enough. You must find ways to make them stay. This is Zhu Youxiao's real intention, and these things are definitely not Liu Bin's grassland.

The fugitives and Lao Zhoutou, a generation of salt workers, can handle it.

Only Wang Wenyan can do this, and only he can handle these things properly and satisfy Zhu Youxiao.

"No, we have to find some helpers. I wonder how lucky someone is to be able to join the line of Taisun now. It is simply a blessing from our ancestors. We must not sink like this. We must behave like ourselves."

While holding the wine glass, Wang Wenyan's mind was spinning.

On the one hand, he is a little too busy to do anything, and on the other hand, he does have the consideration to consolidate himself. Now His Highness Taisun is hiding in the abyss and has not yet ascended to heaven. It is most cost-effective to come here at this time, and he will definitely ascend to heaven in one day.

Lu, the minister of Qiandi is not joking.

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Based on Wang Wenyan's observation during this period, His Highness Taisun is definitely a hero of the generation. He is not lacking in ambition, ability, and skills. What is lacking is just time. It takes time to grow and time to wait.

However, Wang Wenyan had the idea of ​​​​looking for help, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that he did not know a few capable people. After all, he was only a jailer, and he escaped from the capital because of a prison guard. How could he know a few capable people?

The person who wins the stage.

"Forget it, I'll ask someone to inquire about this later. Now let's call some of my former subordinates here." Wang Wenyan used to be considered a figure in She County. Naturally, he has several people running around, all of whom are familiar with the skills.

If you're used to it, I can help you a little if you call me over now.

He could finally see that His Highness Taisun didn't need anyone to come up with ideas at all. Everything was in his mind. All he wanted was someone who could carry out his intentions. In this case, Wang Wenyan did not intend to go to the capital.

Let's get it together, take root on the shores of the Bohai Sea, make some achievements, and think that it is the first step to advance.

Not to mention Wang Wenyan's busyness, Zhu Youxiao also began to be busy with his own affairs in the palace. Although Wanli repeatedly said that he could do it boldly and do whatever he wanted, Zhu Youxiao still did not dare.

Careless, but still cautious. You don't need to think about it to know how cruel and dirty the struggle for the throne is, and there is no room for mistakes.

Although Zheng Guifei is a teacher and Zhu Changluo is stable, there are countless undercurrents flowing underneath. Now they just lack an opportunity. Zhu Youxiao must not allow anyone to find excuses and take the opportunity to cause trouble.

If he doesn't dare to touch firearms and armor, then he should do something else. The salt farm has brought him great benefits, and with sufficient funds, he can start many things.

With Wanli's orders, Zhu Youxiao searched for skilled craftsmen in the palace, including blacksmiths, potters, carpenters, bamboo craftsmen, etc. As long as they were skilled in craftsmanship, he wanted them.

With the help of Jin Yiwei, the great craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry could not hide at all. They were all robbed and resettled by him. As for the craftsmen under the twenty-four yamen, let alone the craftsmen under the twenty-four yamen. Which eunuch dared to hide them secretly?

Like it, they wish they could go there by themselves.

There were four to five hundred people bustling around. The master craftsmen, their apprentices, and their families were all placed by Zhu Youxiao on his own chassis - the Xijiao Cement Factory. Although it was a bit more burdensome, he still had to do this for confidentiality reasons.

However, this is only for master craftsmen. Apprentices do not have such good treatment and can only stay in there by themselves until he ascends the throne before he can go out.

He surrounded the cement factory with a large area of ​​land, and even occupied an imperial palace. The five- to six-meter-high brick wall was enough to block all prying eyes and protect all the secrets inside.

Naturally, after Zhu Youxiao robbed the craftsmen, his reputation once again became bad. Things like being a loser for playthings, being a carpenter's grandson, and all kinds of things about him that were inconsistent with mainstream values ​​were exposed and spread among the scholar-bureaucrats. However,

Zhu Youxiao didn't care. Having read the history of the late Ming Dynasty, he knew deeply that these officials were just a group of paper tigers. They had no blood at all under the sword.

After the master craftsmen were found, Zhu Youxiao divided the place for them and then arranged tasks. After telling them some of his techniques and knowledge, he let them fiddle with it themselves, and only went to see when there were results or when the master craftsmen had problems.
Chapter completed!