Liu Haojia was not idle these days during the construction of the salt factory! Especially the engineers and soldiers he sent to the salt factory were his spies, and he had long since identified those among these civilians who were suitable for serving as soldiers.
Liu Haojia is preparing to further expand the Wu'an Army, and the Navy also needs manpower. These trained civilians know how to abide by discipline and are the best candidates for expansion. Therefore, when the construction of the salt field was just completed, many officers had already entered the salt field to start
Soldiers are being recruited.
Originally, these civilian husbands were reluctant to leave Tianjin, a place where it was easy to survive. Now that they heard the news about recruiting soldiers, and the treatment was so good, they were naturally willing to defect. So in these days, a large number of civilian husbands have directly changed their jobs and become soldiers.
As for the expansion of the salt field next year, it will be even simpler! After this year, Tianjin's reputation will definitely be greater, and there will definitely be more refugees here in the second year. Then we will just recruit people!
After the three brothers of the Wang family finished working in the salt field, they each went their own way. Wang Da took all the money saved by the three brothers home to serve the old man! And the money he brought back was not a small amount, enough to buy ten
How many acres of land! When he returned to his hometown this time, he planned to exchange all his money for land, then serve his parents and farm the land well!
Wang Er used his brother's eyes to learn how to work and learn to read and calculate accounts. He has achieved some success and has now been officially hired as the steward of the salt factory! From now on, he will no longer have to dig in the soil and can concentrate on working in the salt factory!
As for the third oldest Wang Zhengguo, he is even more legendary! He completed the triple jump from refugee, scribe, junior steward, and senior steward within a few months! Later, he was chosen by Liu Haojia and sent to the military academy.
, became a glorious artillery reserve officer!
Liu Haojia is now fully aware of the importance of officers, especially junior officers! So he simply set up an officer school in Tianjin to train junior officers. People like Wang Zhengguo who knew arithmetic were directly sent to the artillery school by him. After they came out,
He is a qualified artillery officer!
Don’t think that you don’t need an officer to use a smoothbore cannon. In fact, the amount of calculations required by a qualified artillery officer is not a small number! Think of Emperor Napoleon, he was an artillery officer who was born in the Artillery Academy! Moreover, the establishment of the military academy also means that the Wu’an Army is regular
The beginning of transformation.
Fortunately, he did not have to do these things personally, so he still found time to go to the salt field after a few days.
Although it is already close to late autumn, and the sunshine is not as abundant as in summer, fortunately, the sea breeze here in Tianjin is relatively strong, and the seawater in the salt fields evaporates relatively well!
Now the salt field in front of Liu Haojia has been filled with water several times with the help of high tide. After being exposed to the wind and blown by the wind, the seawater inside can now be called brine! Liu Haojia will not point fingers at things he does not understand, so he directly arranged for the salt field to be filled with water.
Three old salt workers came forward to inspect it.
Three old salt workers went directly to the salt field, picked up the brine with their hands and tasted it. After returning, one of the old workers bowed and said: "Master Hou, this brine is almost ready, but if you put it in water again and dry it out, it will still be better."
It can be better!”
Another salt worker looked at the sky and said: "It's almost possible to release water once the tide is high. I think we can pump the salt fields above tomorrow, otherwise salt will form here!"
Zhang Zhi looked at Liu Haojia eagerly when he heard this, and he smiled and said: "You have the final say here, what do you want me to do?"
Liu Haojia was indeed not making fun of Zhang Zhi when he said this, because in the early stage it involved the use of engineers from the Wu'an Army, and there were a large number of people gathering in the salt field, Liu Haojia had to be very careful! In addition, Zhang Zhi and others were inexperienced, so he
Step in and ask!
Now that the salt farm is on the right track, Zhang Zhi and others can also use what they learned in the inner study, so he will naturally stop interfering. Next, he only needs to open the salt road and wait to collect the money!
When Zhang Zhi heard what Liu Haojia said, he immediately said: "Hurry up and inform the people above to drive the water tanker!"
Not long after Zhang Zhi passed the order, more than a dozen water trucks were stepped on one after another. The brine in the salt field was quickly pumped to the highest filter tank, which was filled with crushed charcoal. They
It will play the role of the last filtration. Then the filtered brine will flow to the next level of salt field, where the brine will begin to crystallize.
Watching the waterwheel start moving, Liu Haojia turned to the three old employees and said, "You three, when do you think the salt will be produced?"
After the three old salt workers looked at each other, one of them said cautiously: "Sir, it is autumn now. The weather is not very suitable, but it seems that the wind is not bad. According to our guess, it will be this afternoon or noon tomorrow.
It’s almost time to produce salt!”
After hearing this, Liu Haojia said to Zhang Zhi: "In this case, I won't wait here. If there is any news, please inform me immediately."
Naturally, Zhang Zhi agreed immediately. After sending Liu Haojia away, he and his people stayed by the salt field to see when the salt would be produced.
The next morning, just as Liu Haojia came out of the military camp and entered the city, a man ran towards them panting. Before he could get close, he was stopped by the Jinyi guards outside.
When Liu Haojia saw this person, he signaled to the Jin Yiwei to release him, and said condescendingly: "I know you, your surname is Wang! The eldest of your three brothers has gone home to farm, and the third of your family has entered my military academy. You
Stay in the salt factory and work as a steward, right?"
Wang Er wiped the sweat from his face and nodded and said: "Master Hou is right, it is indeed the case!"
Liu Haojia said with a smile: "Since you are in charge, you should be more steady! How could you be so impetuous and bump into people! Wouldn't it be wronged if others treated you like an assassin and chopped you into pieces! Tell me.
, what happened in the salt field? Is there salt?"
After hearing the first half of Liu Haojia's words, Wang Er turned pale with fright! He had just stepped into the small bourgeois class from a farmer, and he didn't understand why the powerful were called powerful! He might have lost his head before he realized the seriousness of the matter!
But when he listened to the second half of Liu Haojia's words, he immediately forgot everything. He smiled loudly and said loudly: "Salt is coming out, Lord Marquis! Salt is really coming out, and it's starting to come out in many salt fields!"
Liu Haojia was happy when he heard this. He flicked his horsewhip and said, "Let's go first. You can follow us slowly!"
After saying that, he led his men on horseback and ran towards the salt field. Nowadays, Liu Haojia is known to everyone in Tianjin! When he saw that he was leading his men on horseback, passers-by gave way. However, no one scolded him, but there were many