Ji Xiaoxiao is dead!

When he received Zhong Qinghan's letter, Su Ziheng didn't believe it. If Ji Xiaoxiao is really dead, then who wrote this dart biography he received?

Su Ziheng still had a trace of doubt in his heart, Zhong Qinghan didn't seem to write this letter to himself just to tell him the news of Ji Xiaoxiao's death, but more like he was asking for something?

Thinking that Zhong Qinghan seemed to be aware of the relationship between himself and Ji Xiaoxiao, Su Ziheng was even more sure that she didn't write this letter with good intentions. At least that's true for Ji Xiaoxiao.

After reading the letter, Su Ziheng immediately pretended to be depressed, he refused to believe that it was true, and kept asking Lianfeng to take him to see Ji Xiaoxiao's corpse, wanting to confirm whether the news was true?

Lian Feng naturally refused his request without hesitation, although the agents of the Secret Investigation Department saw Ji Xiaoxiao being shot by the guards of Zhongfu Manor with their own eyes, Ji Xiaoxiao's body did not fall into their hands, and it was still parked in the manor.

Except for Zhong Qinghan who came forward in person, she would not dare to break into the Zhongfu Courtyard to inspect Ji Xiaoxiao's body without permission, where did she dare to agree to take Su Ziheng there.

Lian Feng and Su Ziheng said a few words of comfort and condolences, changed the topic, and said: "Master Su, the slave maid came this time, in addition to sending a letter to the young lady, the main purpose is to take away the hundred crow soldiers in the workshop. ”

Su Ziheng naturally had no reason to refuse, although he really wanted the hundred black crow soldiers to stay and help him train his own nursing home, but after all, it was not his subordinates, and others were mainly taking him away, so he had to agree.

He said with a low expression: "Miss Mercy, please take care of yourself, anyway, the craftsmen in the workshop have been withdrawn, and there is no need for anyone to guard them at present." ”

When she was about to go out, she hesitated for a moment, and said, "Su Gongzi had better not run outside recently, it's not safe outside." If possible, it's better to move back into the city. ”

Su Ziheng was stunned for a moment, then thanked her, and said with a wry smile: "Girl Mercy, now hundreds of people in Sujiazhuang are still waiting for me to arrange, and Su really can't leave." ”

Mercy nodded and left.

Sending off the merciful wind, Su Ziheng turned back to the study, and his face immediately became gloomy. The news in front of him told him that he was going to face a very serious situation. Even he had no intention of worrying about Ji Xiaoxiao's safety, as long as he knew that she was fine.

War is coming!

Although Su Ziheng couldn't guess where the war would break out, he was sure that he would never be able to fight Sujiazhuang for a while. In this way, I still have time to prepare.

The most difficult choice in front of him at the moment is: go back to the city or stick to Sujiazhuang?

If you go back to the city, can the city arrange for them to be nearly 500 people? If you stick to it, with the current situation in Sujiazhuang, can you keep it?

Su Ziheng didn't believe that with just a few guns in the space warehouse of his base, he could arrogantly say that he could defend the attack of a professional army. If you really want to decide to keep it, you still have to rely on the joint efforts of the entire manor.

After thinking about it for a long time, Su Ziheng still decided to stay in Sujiazhuang. One is because Ji Xiaoxiao and Zhong Qinghan both sent him a message not to go out; There is still Xu Xiuping in the two cities, and he doesn't know how many clues Xu Xiuping has investigated about the murder of Sikong Lun and the disappearance of his son Xu Bohan?

If Xu Xiuping really suspects himself, entering the city at this time is a sheep into the tiger's mouth. Even if he is sure that he can escape, what about the 500 people who follow him? What do they do?

If you stay in Sujiazhuang, once there are really uncontrollable factors, you can easily summon the Shenlong Battleship, and at worst, you can also bring these five hundred people into the base space.

This is the most basic team for him to build his paradise, and there is no room for error.

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Su Ziheng planned to make some preparations in advance while the war had not officially broken out.

The first is to strengthen the courtyard wall, although Zhong Qinghan took away all the craftsmen of Zhongfu, all the cement left from the previous experiment was left to Su Ziheng, and at the same time, there were many raw materials.

Two days ago, because of the outbreak of the locust plague, Su Ziheng asked the workshop to stop work. Now that the locusts are not coming in the direction of Sujiazhuang, it is natural to continue to operate the workshop.

He planned to divide the servants in the palace into two batches of white and evening shifts, and work non-stop for twelve hours a day, and rush out as much cement as he could.

In addition, the displaced people from outside the city were hired and asked to go to the Jiufu Mountain to cut bamboo. Before the steel bars were manufactured in large quantities, they could only replace the steel bars with bamboo and make a simple version of the bamboo concrete building, striving to build Sujiazhuang into a castle.

The courtyard wall of Sujiazhuang is about one zhang, which cannot be compared with the wall of Xining City, which is almost three zhang high, but for a manor, this height is enough to ensure the safety of the manor.

The last time the bandits of Black Wind Village attacked, if it wasn't blocked by a high wall, I am afraid that they would not be able to hold out until the rescue of the Black Crow Army.

However, this time was different, Su Ziheng knew that he was about to face the rangers of the Mengyuan Empire, and with only a one-zhang high wall, he would definitely not be able to block the cavalry's attack.

What he had to do was to increase the height of the wall to two zhang high and expand the width to one meter wide, so that people could stand on the wall, so that he could face the attack of the Mengyuan cavalry head-on.

It is also a loss that the area of the main courtyard of Sujiazhuang is not very large, and the construction area covers about four acres. With the outbreak of the locust plague, more and more displaced people gathered from all over Xining outside the city.

Su Ziheng doesn't even have to pay for his salary, as long as he takes care of the food every day, there are countless homeless people rushing to work.

When the workshop burns cement, he naturally won't fake the displaced people he recruited. But they can help grind the raw materials into powder, and then arrange for others to dig a two-meter-wide trench outside the yard, which can be regarded as a simple version of the moat.

The excavated soil can be used to build a wall. Su Ziheng planned to use bamboo as a rebar, fill it with earth and stones in the middle, compact, lay bricks on the outside, and then plaster it all with cement.

Although there is no guarantee that it will last for 100 years, if it is properly maintained, it will not be a problem for decades.

He had also copied the architectural drawings of the castle, and planned to build a two-zhang high cement wall around it, with parapet-style battlements and tall corner towers at the four corners. In this way, it is both offensive and defensive. If you really want to provoke him, you will kill all the generals who will commit crimes with Barrett's sniper rifle.

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Su Ziheng was busy hiring people to transform the main courtyard of his manor into a castle, and when he went into the city to pick up Zhao Wan'er, he asked the people of the Zhao Mansion to help buy a lot of sulfur and saltpeter, and almost didn't buy out all the sulfur and saltpeter in the inventory of all the merchants in Xining City, for which he also spent thousands of taels of silver.

The reason why he bought these two things was because he had received positive news from Zhong Qinghan that the Mengyuan Empire had officially launched a war against Great Xia because of the fact that he had been intercepted and killed.

At the junction of Moxi Grassland and Liangzhou, more than 300,000 troops were stationed on both sides, and war was about to break out!