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

Gongsun Sheng smiled and poured wine for Blacksmith Zhang:

"You are a blacksmith, and Lao Li is just a carpenter, but as a result, two new craftsmen came, even you, and the castle owner let Lao Li take care of it."

"Hehe, it's all like this, does the castle lord have an opinion on you, you don't know?"

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

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

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

That Xie Zhen asked, "Mr. Gongsun, Brother Zhang is a blacksmith, right?" Why did the lord of the castle let a carpenter take charge of the craftsmen of the castle? The blacksmith is more important, right? ”

"Brother Xie Zhen, that's why I invited you here today."

Gongsun Sheng poured him wine diligently:

"After following the castle master for these days, I can see that our castle master is different from other places!"

"What's the difference?" Xie Bao asked curiously.

"Have any of you ever seen that after only one year of getting a village, you dare to take someone to fight the castle master of the Tartars?"

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

In fact, this is not a matter of the length of time to be the owner of the castle, not to mention that he went to fight the Tartars in less than a year after becoming the owner of the castle, even if he has been the owner of the castle for 10 years, he does not dare to do the same thing.

"No, it's only been a few days since the Tartars were beaten, and the castle lord encouraged the whole family to fight Fulai Mountain." Gongsun Shengxu pointed to the direction of Fulai Mountain in the north, and said in an obviously proud tone: "Then there are 5 stockades in Fulai Mountain now, and it will not be a problem to build 3 dock forts after they are defeated, right?" ”

"There are only 6 adult males in the two generations of the Xu family, who do you think the owners of the three new dock forts should be?"

"Our castle lord's restless character, who do you think he will fight next year?"

"What about the year after? And what about the future? If you can't beat it, if you build a new fort, who are the owners of those new dock forts? ”

Speaking of which, Xie Bao was still a little confused, but Xie Zhen had already understood everything.

"There are not so many people in the Xu family who are castle masters!" He whispered an explanation to his brother.

"Brothers, I plan to sell it to the Xu family in my life—no, I sell it to the castle owner!"

Gongsun Sheng lowered his voice and said slowly:

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

"But this castle belongs to the Xu family, who can manage a village, it has to be decided by our castle master, all brothers are celebrities in front of the castle owner, at that time, please give me a few more good words."

Gongsun Sheng invited these people today for a reason.

Among them, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao are directly subordinate to Xu Shiyang, who is obviously very valued, but they are newcomers, and Gongsun Sheng thinks that they are no threat to his target.

Xu Er is the deputy captain of the pro-soldier team, this is an embarrassing position, and there is a captain Xu Da above him, if you want to put a dock castle master from outside the pro-soldier team, the honest and obedient Xu Da is much more suitable than Xu Er.

But Xu Er couldn't have thought of anything else, Gongsun Sheng needed his support, and in turn, he also needed Gongsun Sheng's help.

As for Blacksmith Zhang'......, uh, he originally wanted to win over Carpenter Li, but today Xu Shiyang promoted Carpenter Li to the head of the craftsmen of the entire Fifteen Tun with one sentence, and this status was immediately different, Gongsun Sheng even felt that Carpenter Li would be an important competitor in the future to compete for the position of the castle master.

The Taoist priest now regretted a little, perhaps, should not have given Carpenter Li the credit for improving the craftsmanship of the wooden cannon—at least not all of it.

"I'm also quite a castle master." Xie Bao muttered quietly.

"I also want to, who doesn't want to be the castle master!" Xie Zhen said angrily.

"Brothers, let's help each other, we all have a chance." Gongsun Sheng said with a smile: "The castle master is not a safe one, the battle will continue to be fought, and the Xu family's dock fort will become more and more ......." ”

Xie Zhen suddenly asked, "Mr. Gongsun, what if you are defeated?" ”

"It depends on whether you are willing to fight for a day of good wine and good meat, 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, with the flesh and bones, and chewed it all and swallowed it.

"Lao Zhang, think about it too."

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

"It's ......." Blacksmith Zhang sat on the stool in a daze, unable to say anything.

Most of the people present were thinking about their future.

Only Xu Er was still eating and drinking with an indifferent face.

Future? He had already figured it out, and he didn't need Gongsun Sheng to remind him at all.

Be a castle owner? Hehe, what's the point of that?

As a personal soldier, Xu Er was more familiar with Xu Shiyang's character than Gongsun Sheng—their castle master especially hated Wu Fort, because although it spread the risk, it was also difficult to concentrate his forces.

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

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

Under his subordinates, who wants to be the master of the dock fort, although he fights for it, Xu Er's goal is to become the captain of the personal army!

……

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

Participating in this operation, including Xu Shiyang's personal army, a total of 50 children between the ages of 14 and 16, of which 17 are veterans, and the rest are newly recruited, including children from the original village, and 20 boys that Xu Shiyang bought from Zheng Tianshou and have decent physical fitness.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for buying back these children, Xu Da Xu Er would really not be able to get together the 50 people he requested.

In fact, the so-called pro-soldier team is really useful, but there are only 30 people, all of whom are "veterans" in the pro-soldier team, as well as children from the village.

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

There were a few more muskets, including those newly crafted by Blacksmith Zhang, and those used by other docks to exchange Tartar captives, for a total of 15 guns.

That's a lot, after all, the other dock forts are also preparing for battle, and their blacksmiths have to urgently forge some weapons.

Xu Shiyang planned to organize the thirty soldiers who could participate in the battle into two teams, one of which was responsible for using muskets. Another team was responsible for operating the wooden cannons.

The remaining 20 people who could not participate in the battle were trained to reload gunpowder during this time and help the front line do what they could.

On this day, Xu Shiyang ordered the two blacksmiths to suspend all work in their hands and create a batch of spearheads for the pro-soldiers, which were required to be inserted directly into the barrel of the musket, so that the musket could be used as a short spear instead of an embarrassing iron rod when participating in white-knuckle combat.

This is not a bayonet, and the model is not uniform, but fortunately, Xu Shiyang only has a total of 15 muskets, and he can prepare a spearhead for each gun, so he doesn't have to worry about the exchange of parts.