The sales of salt in the first two months have not yet been fully launched, but by March, the sales have already brought Kong Youde more than 30,000 taels of silver. The profits of the salt merchants in the partnership are only about 30,000 taels. It seems that there is not much to everyone, but this is just the output of a salt farm.

Nowadays, salt is hard demand, especially fine salt. Many places cannot buy it if you have money, so you must build a few more salt fields to expand production. Salt is a consumable product. It can be sold as much as you can in the first month and as much as you can in the second month. You are not afraid of oversupply at all. When it reaches the level of market saturation, it can be sold to North Korea and Southeast Asia.

These salt dings will organize the early work of the salt farm under the organization of the personnel sent by Shen Fei. Kong Youde, the person in charge of this aspect, assigned to Zhang Hua. After Zhang Hua started construction of the Shahe Salt Farm, he has been working under Tan Lun. He has participated in the construction and production of the Shahe Salt Farm, and he is an absolute confidant, so it is no problem to hand it over to him.

As for the work of Shahe Salt Field, the full power was handed over to. Now Kong Youde has taken over the entire Dengzhou Prefecture, and he is not afraid of being unfaithful. As for reaching out, he definitely dares not. Not to mention that Kong Youde arranged other personnel to monitor it, the risk of such a thing is too great, and it has learned from the past.

When the land reform just began, a minor official named Hu Zhiyi was directly stripped of the gentry because he failed to ask for bribes. Later, some things happened, and Kong Youde was seriously punished. A minor official was beheaded after only embezzled 500 cents.

Now his legal income is 300 taels per month, and there is nothing to be dissatisfied. If his head is chopped off due to his hand, it would be unprofitable.

After dealing with these miscellaneous soldiers, there were about 6,000 remaining Ming army soldiers, including some veterans who participated in many battles. Kong Youde decided to enlist them after deletion.

There are more than 2,000 cavalry here, so of course all cavalry are needed. After all, cavalry training costs are too high, and retraining is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is better to use these ready-made ones. As for whether they are loyal, this is completely unfair to Kong Youde.

They are professional soldiers, and getting paid for money when they are in the army. As long as they have food, drink and money to spend, they will not care who will work hard for them. Moreover, they will be much safer with a general who can always win battles. They are not afraid that they will not want to. When they win a few battles in the future, they will work wholeheartedly.

As for their military habits, it is not very troublesome. After the enrollment, they will be dispersed into three cavalry battalions. Under the influence of veterans and strict military regulations, their bad habits will not be changed soon. If they really don’t want to change, they can be punished. If they are still unwilling to change, they will be beheaded directly according to the military order and kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

Kong Youde picked and selected the remaining 4,000 infantrymen, and only 1,400 were selected and mixed into various troops. As for the others, they were arranged to work in the salt farm that was about to be expanded, which was considered a livelihood and would not cause trouble.

After some reorganization, there were three battalions of cavalry, two battalions of artillery, four thousand battalions of musketeers, and five thousand infantrymen, almost 16,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, more than 1,000 navy troops had not yet been launched, Kong Youde and his full confidence took root in Denglai.

Kong Youde attaches great importance to cavalry. After all, cavalry is like tanks of this era. It is invincible in land warfare. It has a powerful cavalry team that can attack and retreat or defend, and there is a lot of room for play when fighting.

This time, Mao Chengfu's cavalry battalion, after replenishment, had reached 2,000 people. Kong Youde's idea was to train all of them into lancers, and to undertake harassment and raids during large-scale combat.

However, the output of flintlock rifles is limited now, so we can only pay half of the 600 flintlock rifles from Pingshan Arsenal to Mao Chengfu, plus the eighty ones originally allocated from Chu Zhongtian, almost four hundred of them.

These two thousand cavalry will take turns to train the use of flintlock rifles, and then basically produce one batch and can be equipped with one batch.

The current output is about 700 units a month, but it will soon be greatly increased. The main thing limiting the output of flintlock rifles is the number of craftsmen. After all, the arsenal needs to produce a lot of things, and the entire Dengzhou Prefecture has the largest number of craftsmen.

After preliminary agreement in the past two days, the number of craftsmen was far beyond his imagination, so he ordered the screening of these craftsmen. Fifty to sixty strong craftsmen selected by each thousand households were sent to the Pingshan Arsenal to participate in the construction of weapons.

In order to make them devote themselves to their work and to eliminate their thoughts of leaking secrets, their families will gradually concentrate in Dengzhou City, and these people will also be of great use in the future.

I believe that in this way, the Pingshan Arsenal's output this month should be 1,000 units. Starting from May, the monthly output of 1,500 should not be a problem. It is expected that the first cavalry battalion will be equipped in July, and the two musket battalions will be replaced in September.

After reorganizing the army, Kong Youde came to a courtyard in Fushan City. This place was originally the property of an ordinary gentry. The family ran to Jinan to visit relatives as early as the first month of the year, but they have not come back yet. Kong Youde regarded this place as a temporary residence.

After returning to his residence, Li Yangxing had already sorted out the information sent from all directions and placed it on the desk, waiting for Kong Youde to check his skin.

What Kong Youde was most concerned about was about the Tartars. He first found out the news sent by Bai Yulong and Xiong Wenbin. Bai Yunlong is now stationed in Jimo County, and Xiong Wenbin is stationed in Dasongwei. There is still a little distance, so the information is separated.

After investigation by Bai Yunlong, Xiong Wenbin and others, it was finally confirmed that the remaining number of Tartars should be about 300, and nearly a thousand people were dependent on their Han people, Japanese pirates, pirates, etc., which were indeed dormant on the coastal islands south of Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture.

They occupied many islands, but they were mainly concentrated on five larger islands, namely the Danish Island, Nanhuangdao, Tianheng Island, Tuzhang Island and Sanping Island. Their leader was a Tartar named Hetou. It is said that they have been in the territory of Denglai for more than four years.

During this period, they went ashore to rob, but these coastal areas were mainly garrisons, which did not alarm the top leaders, so they did not receive attention, so they took root here.

This time, it was not the first time that it was robbed under the banner of Kong Youde. In the second year of Chongzhen, when the White Lotus Sect was in Laiyang, they also played the trick of fishing for troubled waters.
Chapter completed!