Min Yuanqi's attitude was still quite plain... As expected, he just clasped his fists to Min Gan De: "My nephew is here today. If you have something to do, please help me."

Min Gande said in a deep voice: "Are you talking about Yang Shida's trouble? Well, although you are reckless in this matter, the reason is not bad. I can ask a few well-known people to talk about it. Li Kecheng is useless. My Min family is deeply rooted in Dahewei, but it is not so easy to mess with. As long as you don't mess with him in the future, he will never be able to cause trouble for you. If it goes on for a long time, I'm afraid you won't be able to compensate you."

Although Min Gande was a little dissatisfied with Min Yuanqi's recklessness, he still had considerable protection for his cousin and planned to take this matter to him.

Min Yuanqi was moved. The second uncle in front of him was really worried. He was really worried when he encountered something. He was good.

"Second uncle doesn't have to do this..." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "Yang Shida is nothing, let him jump around for a few days, and I'll go to deal with him in a while. There is a big deal now, so I want to ask for help from Uncle Second."

"What's the matter?" Min Gande said suspiciously: "Don't you make any more misleading. I'm old, and you are the only one in the clan who is more skilled and brave. Uncle Er looked down on you before, and felt that you were not determined and even a little cowardly. This time you dare to fight with Yang Shida, it's a good thing. In the future, you will point to you to support the Min family's lintel... The world is in chaos, and there is no big one in our family to come up with it. The future life of the younger generation will be difficult... Yuanzhi, Yuanjin, Yuanzhong and others will not succeed, they can only look at you."

When he spoke, Min Gande's face was also ugly. There were dozens of young and strong children in the Min family, but there were about ten people who became the general banner of the Little Banner. Among them, the ones with outstanding reputations were those in front of him. Min Yuanzhi was Min Gande's son, two years younger than Min Yuanqi and had no official position. When he was young, he wanted to study and improve his martial arts. He was very ordinary, so he was afraid he really couldn't count on it.

Min Yuanqi knew his second uncle's temperament. He looked gentle and knew very well, and he also made a decision at the critical moment... For example, Min Ganli suddenly passed away, Min Gande immediately took over without hesitation. If this second uncle hadn't come up at the critical moment, the situation of the Min family would be worse than that now.

This is the habit and responsibility of the children of aristocratic families. If you enjoy the benefits within the clan, you will have to reward the family...

Min Yuanqi said everything about his plan to dry salt. When he was speaking, Min Gande didn't say a word, but just sat upright and looked extremely serious... Min Yuanqi ignored it and finished his words. Finally, he said: "The construction of the reservoir and the Kan pond requires five major labours, at least ten minor labours, and the rest of the heavy work can be done by the remaining heavy work. Even so, a large labourer is two cents a day, five cents a day, and a daily wage of at least one tael of five cents, and at least twenty days of work, the wages must be dozens of taels. In addition, at least a hundred people do the work, and several stones of grain are required to provide for food every day, and the money is over a hundred taels, and the material is at least three hundred taels. Now I still practice flag soldiers to prepare for bandits and bandits. I don't have to pay money and grain, so I want to ask my second uncle to transfer a few craftsmen to my 100 households, which means I can save some..."

This is Min Yuanqi’s goal today. Whether it is a private household, a stove household, a military household, a craftsman, or a craftsman, these were all set by Taizu when he was founded. The demarcation of the family was designated. In the past 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, all the descendants were a craftsman, and the same was a military household, a stove household, and a craftsman.

Military households were in distress and fled, and the craftsmen and craftsmen were not much better. Especially the craftsmen, whose status was lower than that of military households, had lower salary and food, heavier work, and worse treatment. They were almost the lowest class of the Ming class.

Blacksmiths, wooden, silver, brick and brick tiles, etc., are divided into large and small labor, and the work and food costs are not low.

But if you use a craftsman, you can hardly pay wages, and you don’t even have to feed the craftsman. This is the gap.

"This is a small matter." Min Gande said without hesitation: "You can give me some food and drink, but you really save a lot of money and food. Yuan Qi, you are not only skilled in martial arts, but now you are much more intelligent."

Min Gande was very pleased, and Min Yuanqi also smiled without any moral integrity.

"I'll send you five craftsmen in a while. It's almost enough, saving you dozens of taels of silver." Min Gande thought for a moment, and then continued: "But is the method of drying salt? I know that Mr. Xuan Hu wanted to change to drying, but the matter was not done."

"That thing is because Mr. Xuan Hu was indifferent. The movement was too big and the involvement was too deep. Now I am doing it in my own households, and my income is limited. We are biased here. There will be no big salt merchants and powerful people, so it doesn't matter."

"So that's the reason. According to Yuan Qi, this matter is very exciting." Min Gan De praised him. He originally had thick eyebrows on his face, bright eyes, quite serious, purple-red, and beautiful beard and extremely breasted. Min Yuan Qi felt that his second uncle could play Guan Erye without makeup, but now Min Gan De's eyes shining, and his face was extremely anxious, and he was like a change of person in an instant.

"You're good at doing it." Min Gan De said: "Our Min family's ancestral hall, clan school, and clan fields have been ruined over the years. Even if the furniture has been sold a lot, the inner pockets have come. If you really have a good time, the chance for my Min family to turn things around is to come."

This is also inevitable. Min Yuanqi was not disgusted with it, so he stood up to agree.

Min Gan Dedao: "Don't rush to leave tonight. Let's go back after drinking with Yuanzhi, Yuan Xiu and the others."

"If you want to do everything, you must be decisive," Min Yuanqi smiled and said, "It's best not to delay for a day."

Min Gande was used to being a military officer in the garrison. It was common for ten days and half a month to go on. There was a look of surprise in his eyes. Although this nephew is a close branch, Min Gande had not paid much attention to it before. He had thought Min Yuanqi was skilled in archery and horse skills, and after Yang Shida's affairs came out, he felt that Min Yuanqi was quite brave and had a salt drying, which showed that he was scheming and flexible. However, he refused to invite him and acted very decisively and firmly, not disturbed by external objects... Min Gande nodded with satisfaction, walked to Min Yuanqi and said in a deep voice: "You can do it well, everything is mine. I wish you a great future. This old tree in my Min family can produce new branches."

...

After traveling back and forth for more than 30 miles, it was almost dark when Min Yuanqi returned to the Baihu Institute.

It’s not that he rides a donkey slowly. The donkeys are all middle-aged male donkeys. They are very stubborn and hateful, but they are not slow to run. However, on the way back, Min Yuanqi took nearly thirty craftsmen and their relatives and relatives to walk together. Among them, there are old and young, many of them are thin and weak, with extremely poor physique, and it is difficult to walk long distances. Moreover, these craftsmen have to carry their own tools, from rulers to ink buckets to hammers, brick knives, to large and large saws, chisels, planes, etc., as well as blacksmith’s sledgehammers, clamps, files, etc., all of them have to walk along, and the speed is severely slowed down.

Min Gande was indeed determined. Not only did he help Min Yuanqi find several carpenters and bricklayers, but he even found a blacksmith.

Dozens of people walked in a winding manner, and they only entered Baihu Village in the evening.

The village suddenly became sensational. Min Yuanqi said he wanted to build a drying pond and dry salt. The people of the hundred households were skeptical. As soon as these craftsmen came in, everyone understood in their hearts that Min Baihu was not talking, but really going to do a big job.

The craftsmen followed him to wait outside the Baihu Official Hall, and many flag soldiers and family members gathered.

Min Yuanqi was not in a hurry, and only said to Han Sen who had arrived after hearing the news: "I'll ask Mr. Han to find a few empty houses and place these craftsmen and their little ones."

"That's easy to deal with." Han Sen smiled and said, "There are about twenty rooms in the east. When preparing for the Japanese, it was built for the visiting soldiers. Although it was in disrepair every year, I found some people to strengthen the walls and cover some straws, so that I could live with these balls."

Han Sen's words were quite disdainful of the craftsmen. The craftsmen did not say anything or had no expression. However, Min Yuanqi saw a young and strong craftsman with a look of anger. He raised his eyebrows and eyes a few times, but was pulled by another middle-aged man next to him. Both of them lowered their heads.

"Well, thank you Mr. Han."

Min Yuanqi nodded, but started to move his body with the person who was voluntarily trained.

Since we talk about morning and evening classes, we cannot get back, evening classes will not be abandoned.

When practicing gun technique at night, Min Yuanqi pulled out a large gun and felt the weight... it weighed about seven or eight kilograms, which was heavier than an ordinary long spear.

The gun body is made of thick wood. It is said to be thick wood. Min Yuanqi didn't know which type of tree it was. He only knew that this was the best wood for making guns. It was a standard hardwood, slightly elastic and not rotten. After making a gun, it would still be as new as it was carefully maintained after decades.

The materials used for making guns are first used to use thick wood and secondly used to use wood. The wood is slightly soft, with sufficient elasticity and insufficient hardness, so it ranks second.

In fact, whether it is thick wood, sandalwood, beef tendon wood, tea strip wood, or white wax pole, no matter what kind of wood, the most solid and intact wooden sections should be selected, which are long and straight and solid. This is the most basic condition. If there is no section or scar, it cannot be soft or hard to have no elasticity. If a long spear is carefully manufactured in its prosperous era, it will be expensive from creating the gun head, making red tassels, choosing the gun rod, and making the gun tail.

If you are casually fooling around, cut a long wooden pole and add an iron spear tip, it will still be a spear, but the effect of using it is two different things.

The large guns collected in the official hall are all made of high-quality thick wood or mixed wood, and the gun head is also well-built. Each gun has an iron bottom, so this gun is slightly heavier than ordinary folk guns and inferior guns.

Although the guns were good, the quantity was a bit insufficient. Fortunately, the food hidden in the military households might not be a stone, and there were always long spears or big swords. Liang Shifa and others went out to shout a few times, and then another big gun was sent.
Chapter completed!