"Haha, Brother Zhang, what do you think?"

Gongsun Sheng smiled and poured wine for Zhang Blacksmith:

"You are a blacksmith, and Old Li is just a carpenter. As a result, two new craftsmen come. Even with you, the lord of the fort let Old Li take care of you."

"Hehe, it's all like this. Do the Castle Lord have any opinions about you? You don't know?"

"This, this..., alas..."

Zhang Blacksmith squirted for a long time, but in the end he didn't say a single word, so he could only lower his head and drink.

However, the Jie Zhen and Jie Bao brothers who were eating food on the side felt that the atmosphere seemed to be a little wrong.

Xie Zhen asked, "Mr. Gongsun, Brother Zhang is a blacksmith? Why did the lord of the fort let a carpenter manage the entire fort? It should be more important to be a blacksmith?"

"Brother Jie Zhen, this is exactly why I invite you here today."

Gongsun Sheng poured him wine attentively:

"I have seen it all these days with the lord of the fortress. Our lord of the fortress is different from other places!"

"Where is the difference?" Xie Bao asked curiously.

"Who have you ever seen a village that you dare to take people to fight the fortress lords of the Tartars in just one year?"

I haven't seen it before, and no one has seen it before.

In fact, this is not a matter of how long it takes to be a fortress lord. Not to mention that if you become a fortress lord in less than a year, even if you become a fortress lord for 10 years, you would not dare to do the same thing.

"Now, it's only been a few days after the Tartars. The fortress lord encouraged his whole family to fight Fulai Mountain." Gongsun Shengxu pointed to the direction of Fulai Mountain to the north and said in a obviously proud tone: "There are now 5 villages in Fulai Mountain. It's not a problem to build 3 forts after the battle is completed, right?"

"There are only 6 adult males in the Xu family. Who do you think the three new forts should be the lords?"

"Who do you think our Castle Lord will hit next year with his restless personality?"

"What about the next year? What about the future? It would be fine if I couldn't win. If I set up a new castle, who were the new castle owners?"

Speaking of this, Jie Bao is still a little confused, but Jie Zhen already understands it all.

"There are not so many people in the Xu family who are the castle lords!" He explained to his younger brother in a low voice.

"Brothers, I will sell it to the Xu family in my life - no, I will sell it to the fortress owner!"

Gongsun Sheng lowered his voice and said slowly:

"I don't hide anything, I want to be the lord of the castle!"

"But this castle belongs to the Xu family. Who can manage a village? Our castle lord has the final say. All brothers are popular people in front of the castle lord. At that time, please give me a few more good words."

There is a reason why Gongsun Sheng invited these people today.

Among them, Jie Zhen and Jie Bao are directly under Xu Shiyang, and they are obviously very valued, but they are new, and Gongsun Sheng believes that they are not threatening their goals.

Xu Er is the deputy captain of the personal army team, which is an embarrassing position. He also has a captain Xu Da. If he wants to release a fortress from the personal army team, Xu Da is much more suitable than Xu Er.

But Xu Er could not have no other thoughts. Gongsun Sheng needed his support, and in turn he also needed Gongsun Sheng's help.

As for Zhang Blacksmith..., uh, he wanted to win over Carpenter Li, but today Xu Shiyang promoted Carpenter Li to the head of the craftsman in the entire Shiwutun with just one sentence. This position immediately changed. Gongsun Sheng even felt that Carpenter Li would be an important competitor in the future to compete for the position of the fortress master.

The Taoist priest regrets it now. Perhaps, he should not give the credit for improving the wooden cannon process to Carpenter Li - at least he should not give it all.

"I am also a castle lord." Xie Bao muttered in a low voice.

"I also want to, who doesn't want to be the lord of the castle!" Jie Zhen said angrily.

"Brothers, we will watch over each other and help each other, and we will have a chance." Gongsun Sheng said with a smile: "The lord of the fort is not a serene person. The war will continue, and the Xu family's forts will increase and more...."

Xie Zhen suddenly asked, "Mr. Gongsun, what if he defeated?"

"It depends on whether you are willing to fight for the days when you have good wine and meat every day, or are you willing to be an ordinary hunter."

Gongsun Sheng sat back in his seat, picked up a piece of rabbit meat and threw it into his mouth, chewing it all over the bones and meat, and swallowing it.

"Old Zhang, think about it too."

"Do you want to be a blacksmith for your whole life, or do you want to do what Lao Li do and leave a village for your two sons in the future."

"This..." Zhang Blacksmith sat blankly on the stool, unable to say anything.

Most of the people present were thinking about their future.

Only Xu Er still had a lot of food and drinks on his face.

The future? He had already figured it out and didn't need Gongsun Sheng to remind him.

Being a castle lord? Haha, what's the point?

As a personal soldier, Xu Er is more familiar with Xu Shiyang's character than Gongsun Sheng. Their fortress owners especially hate the fort, because although doing so disperses the risks, it is difficult to concentrate their strength.

Gongsun Sheng only knew that Xu Shiyang liked to fight, but he didn't think about it. To fight, of course, the more concentrated the strength, the better.

Only the boss who is determined to be successful will like to build a new fort, and the leader of that kind will definitely not be Xu Shiyang.

Under his command, whoever wants to be the lord of the fortress is to fight for it, Xu Er’s goal is to become the captain of the personal soldiers!

...

On October 16th, the preparations for the 15th Tun entered the war.

Those involved in this battle included Xu Shiyang's personal soldiers, a total of 50 children aged 14 to 16, 17 of whom were veterans, and the rest were newly recruited, including children from the original village and twenty boys who were bought by Xu Shiyang from Zheng Tianshou and had good physical fitness.

To be honest, if it weren't for buying these children back, Xu Da and Xu Er wouldn't be able to get all the 50 people they asked for.

In fact, the so-called personal soldiers are really useful, but only 30 people are all "veterans" in the personal soldiers and children from the village.

The 20 boys who bought this time were just to feel the battlefield, and their physical fitness had not yet recovered to the level of being able to participate in the battle.

The number of fire door guns was increased, including those newly built by Zhang Blacksmith and other forts used to exchange for Tartar prisoners, with a total of 15 shots.

This is already a lot. After all, other forts also need to prepare for war, and their blacksmiths have to urgently build some weapons.

Xu Shiyang planned to organize the thirty personal soldiers who could participate in the war into two teams, one team was responsible for using fire gate guns and the other team was responsible for operating wooden cannons.

The remaining 20 people who cannot participate in the battle will be trained to recharge gunpowder during this period and help the frontline do some work within their ability.

On this day, Xu Shiyang ordered the two blacksmiths to suspend all their work and create a group of spearheads for the personal soldiers. This spearhead was required to be directly inserted into the barrel of the fire door gun. In this way, when participating in hand-to-hand combat, the fire door gun can be used as a short spear instead of an embarrassing iron rod.
Chapter completed!