The commander's eyes widened, as if he had been stunned by the acupoint, and then suddenly bowed and said excitedly: "Mr. Xu, please accept the next bow!" ”

Xu Zizhen hurriedly held it and said with a smile: "I am a mortal, but I can't stand the incense, and I am guilty of sin." ”

When he joked, the commander also laughed, then stood up straight and said: "I don't know Taishan with my eyes, so please don't blame Mr. Xu for the crime of being abrupt." ”

Xu Zizhen waved his hand and said: "This place is also my hard work, the more rigorously you guard, the happier I am, what's not to blame." ”

The sergeant next to him also had their eyes shining at this time, looking at Xu Zizhen with an extremely reverent expression, the commander was slightly straight, and said sideways: "Lord Meng is already waiting in the army, sir, please come with me." ”

Xu Zizhen nodded and said, "Okay, but I have to bother my brothers to run to the other side for me first, I still have a partner there, and I also brought some other things." ”

The commander arranged for people to cross the river to pick up people, and then took Xu Zizhen to drill into the forest, his face full of excitement.

As early as when he was in Lanzhou, Xu Zizhen had been the commander of the capital for a while, so the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty had a natural affinity for him, and this one in front of him was no exception, although Xu Zizhen was a militia at that time, and he was a regular army, but he still felt extremely proud.

After entering the forest, Xu Zizhen found that it was not so simple here, there were hidden mechanisms every three or five steps, and only the patrol sergeant here knew where the safety point was, otherwise if others rashly broke in, they would have to be captured and even lose their lives.

After a while, he passed through the forest, and his eyes suddenly brightened, and Xu Zizhen stayed there all of a sudden.

On the other side of the forest is a large open space, which is nearly a thousand acres in size, and the open space is divided into more than a dozen pieces, which seems to be orderly and orderly, and there are craftsmen working on each piece of land, there are more than a dozen people carving around a long huge log, there are a few people grinding small objects, and a group of country women are skillfully sewing sails, all of them are working silently, no one is talking and chatting, and the whole field is a little solemn like a church.

But these are not the reasons for Xu Zizhen to be stunned, but such a large area is actually sunken out of thin air, that is to say, a huge pit has been dug out of this place, and then everyone here is working in this pit, even if the forest has an accident and is touched in, it is not necessary to see the whole situation here at a glance, unless it is like Xu Zizhen now, completely out of the forest and to the edge of the pit, in order to see the whole picture.

"Good guy, that's a good idea, who thought that?" Xu Zizhen couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

The commander smiled and said: "The idea of digging a pit is believed that the prince thought of it, and then we had a lot of children here, and they helped to improve it, don't look at such a big pit, no matter how heavy the rain is, there will be no stagnant water." ”

Xu Zizhen immediately understood that those children were the students of the science and engineering department of Yingtian College that he secretly sent, and those students were all from the common people who were bitter, and they were much more proficient in doing things like this kind of rainwater pipes than the academy.

In the distance, more than a dozen people walked quickly through the big pit, and the first one walked like a wind and was wearing a shiny thin armor, and the commander smiled and pointed out: "Sir, Lord Meng is here." ”

Xu Zizhen also saw it, and hurriedly went down from the edge of the pit and greeted him.

When they met from afar, Meng Du had already laughed and said, "Zizhen, why did you come?" But it makes me think badly! ”

Xu Zizhen also laughed, and when he arrived in front of Meng Du, he saluted and said, "Master Meng, are you still used to staying here?" After speaking, he squeezed his eyes at Meng Du.

Meng Du pretended to be displeased and said: "Three points of the world is a bright moon night, and two points of scoundrels are Yangzhou, if I still say that I am not used to such a good place, wouldn't it be more hypocritical than a girl?" After he finished speaking, he laughed, hugged Xu Zizhen, and whispered, "Zizhen, thank you!" ”

Xu Zizhen said: "It's time for me to thank you, Master Meng, for your hard work!" ”

He said this completely from the bottom of his heart, this place was originally just a tidal flat, so rotten that even the nearby villagers didn't bother to come over, it was Zhao Zhen who planned and built here, and Meng Du built this place completely, and made it a well-guarded military base, it can be said that everything Xu Zizhen sees now, Meng Du is indispensable.

While he was talking, the boat that went to pick up people on the other side also arrived, and Gao Pujun and others came here under the guidance of the shore guards, and like Xu Zizhen's reaction just now, everyone stayed for a while.

Xu Zizhen led them to Meng Du and introduced them, Gao Su's second daughter bowed to the juniors, Meng Du also knew that these were Xu Zizhen's two wives, so naturally he had to say a few words of greeting, when he introduced Yushen and Shang Tong, Meng Du's eyes lit up, he was an officer, and the first thing he thought of was to take advantage of the fact that Xu Zizhen would not leave in the past few days, and let these two senior fingers point to the group of soldiers under him.

Master Yu Shen touched his bald head and smiled without saying a word, while Shang Tong smiled bitterly: "Master Meng said that he was joking, with Second Master Wu here, what is the value of mentioning the head of the gun stick sect in this area?" ”

Meng Du was shocked, when he learned that the one-armed head in front of him turned out to be the former Liangshan Wu Song, he was overjoyed, Wu Song is the leader of Liangshan's infantry army, with his ability and experience, of course, he is more suitable than Yu Shen Shangtong to teach his soldiers, and not only because of this, Meng Du has always had respect for the heroes of Liangshan, especially every time he mentioned the death of the people in Liangshan, he sighed, and when he saw Wu Song today, it was like seeing an idol that he had revered for a long time.

Xu Zizhen interrupted Meng Du's excitement with a smile and said, "Lord Meng, where is my ship?" I heard that it was built? ”

As soon as he said this, Meng Du's mood suddenly changed again, and he became extremely excited, and he actually took the initiative to pull Xu Zizhen's sleeve and said: "Let's go, I'll take you to see, good guy, I have never seen such a mighty ship in my life." ”

Other people are extremely curious, a ship is a boat, where is there anything mighty, could it be that Xu Zizhen built a dragon boat? That's just a better carpentry job, carved like a don't look like it, or make it bigger?

Xu Zizhen didn't say anything, smiled and let Meng Du pull him, towards the northeast corner of the big pit, when he crossed the big pit diagonally, he took a special look at what everyone was doing, and found that whether it was carpentry or lacquer work or even those women who sew sails, all of them are exquisite craftsmen, obviously just the recruitment of these personnel took Zhao Zhen Meng Du a lot of thought.

After walking through the big pit and walking a pillar of incense, Meng Du stood in front of a big iron door, and there was a team of sergeants guarding the door, even if he recognized him as Meng Du, he still had to show his waist card before opening the door, and everyone was extremely curious when they saw such a cautious attitude.

Crunch ......

There was a sound of grinding teeth, the iron door slowly opened, and what appeared in front of him was a downward staircase, and after dozens of steps down, there was a long road, and pine torches were inserted on the earthen walls on both sides of the road, and the top of the road was sealed with thick wooden boards, and not even a trace of sunlight could penetrate it.

Everyone got down the corridor and looked forward, and suddenly they all straightened their eyes.