Qian Bao and the others were working hard in the southern barren forest, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and Su Yi asked Zhang Hongsheng to transfer six taels of silver from the treasury as a reward and reward them.

Most of them were captives captured by Peach Blossom Village, as well as some young and strong homeless people who had just defected to Peach Blossom Village, who originally thought that they were just slaves, but they didn't want to be paid, so these laborers worked harder.

As for Qian Bao and Liu Shisan, Su Yi naturally had another reward.

The repair work of the South Barren Forest is still ongoing, and the training progress of the cottage cannot be wasted, Su Yi has observed Lu Feng, this person has a square nature, and he is also conscientious during the training in the cottage, Su Yi nodded, this Lu Feng can indeed be of great use.

Lu Feng is a military attache of the imperial court, and his strength is slightly inferior to Gao Heihu, which is a grade higher than Scar, and Lu Feng once commanded cavalry battles, compared to Lu Feng, Scar's trick of training cavalry can only be regarded as a half-level, of course, Scar also has his outstanding ability, that is, the trained sword and shield soldiers are quite powerful, and even Lu Feng was surprised when he saw it.

The matter of training the cavalry was handed over to Lu Feng to do, and Lu Feng's training of the cavalry was also decent, he couldn't see how brilliant he was, and there was no mistake, this was the result that Su Yi wanted.

The original chaotic cavalry team, under Lu Feng's training, the ranks of the team are uniform, the cavalry trained by Lu Feng is different from the wrestlers of the high black tiger, the eight hundred wrecks trained by the high black tiger are all bloodthirsty murderers, they will go crazy when they see blood on the battlefield, and they are not afraid of life and death when they rush into the enemy formation.

And the cavalry trained by Lu Feng is obviously not so lethal, but it is much better than the eight hundred wrestlers under the command of Gao Heihu in obeying military orders.

At present, the level of the cavalry in Taohuazhai is uneven, and what Su Yi wants is not a bloodthirsty cavalry, but a cavalry that obeys military orders and can do what is forbidden.

Since the construction of the Southern Barren Forest began, Su Yi often took people to inspect the South Barren Forest.

Now the South Barren Forest has been built, and the Hu people of Yongji Canal have also heard some rumors, saying that there are people building fortifications on this side of the South Barren Forest.

This news quickly spread in the Hu tribe, and the Hu people of all departments were shocked, and hurriedly sent people to the southern barren forest to investigate the news. He Yuan waited in the southern wilderness forest with archers, and shot and killed many Hu spies, and the Hu people tried several times, and both sides were killed and wounded.

The Hu people had excellent archery skills, but they had never entered the Southern Barren Forest, and they underestimated the bad conditions in the Southern Barren Forest, and He Yuan's archers had the upper hand in the confrontation with the Hu people.

This night, after Su Yi learned the news, he sneered and said: "There is no impermeable wall in the world, these Hu people will know the news sooner or later, finally the city wall and the rampart wall have been built now, and the mounds and tree houses have also been almost built. ”

"Yes!" He Yuan, who had been leading people to deal with Hu Ren during this time, nodded tiredly.

Su Yi saw that he was tired, and his expression softened a little: "I have worked hard for you in the past few days, I will ask Zhang Hongsheng to give you credit, and when the Southern Barren Forest is completed, you should take the first credit." ”

He Yuan shook his head and said, "This is what I should do." ”

While the two were talking, Zhang Hongsheng walked into the study. Su Yi glanced at Zhang Hongsheng and said to He Yuan: "You go down to rest first, strictly guard the southern barren forest these days to prevent Hu people from infiltrating in." ”

He Yuan took the order and left.

After He Yuan left, Zhang Hongsheng spoke: "Qin Yu took a few blacksmiths outside the door, they made two thousand pairs of stirrups and horseshoes this time, and in order to assist Qin Yu in making these horseshoes, the cottage arranged a lot of strong people for them to work as coolies, and Ah San's manpower seems to be a little insufficient." ”

Su Yi pinched the bridge of his nose hard, and the busyness of this time made him feel a little tired, "There are still too few young men in the cottage, you can bring Qin Yu in." ”

Zhang Hongsheng glanced at Su Yi with some concern, pursed his lips, and finally didn't speak, and walked straight out of the study.

Qin Yu and a few blacksmiths had been waiting outside the study, and when they saw Zhang Hongsheng coming out with a blue face, they hurriedly greeted him.

Zhang Hongsheng said expressionlessly: "The lord is in the study, come in." ”

Qin Yu hurriedly beckoned a few blacksmiths and brought a few stirrups and horseshoes with him, Zhang Hongsheng glanced at the stirrups held by several blacksmiths and frowned.

After a while, Qin Yu and a few blacksmiths were standing in front of Su Yi's desk, Su Yi put aside the information at hand, looked at a few blacksmiths with a somewhat cramped expression, and said lightly: "You don't have to be restrained, just find a place to sit." ”

Qin Yu said: "Thank you, lord." ”

At the beginning, Qin Yu didn't take Peach Blossom Village in his eyes, his original idea was to stay in Peach Blossom Village for the time being, and then leave after repaying Su Yi's life-saving grace, but as the time in Peach Blossom Village became longer and longer, he found that Su Yi, the king of the mountain, was not the same as other bandits.

At least the stirrups and horseshoes that Su Yi asked him to make were two things that other bandits couldn't draw. Peach Blossom Village has developed rapidly during this time, and the strength of the cottage has been rising, these Qin Yu have seen it in his eyes, as early as after Su Yi asked him to start making stirrups and horseshoes, Qin Yu knew that it would be difficult for him to leave Peach Blossom Village in this life.

"Tell me, what's the matter with coming to me?"

Qin Yu looked at a few blacksmiths who wanted to speak and stopped, and then said: "My lord, I have been teaching some qualified young people according to your instructions, and several of them have also participated in the work of forging stirrups this time, and they have several suggestions for improving stirrups and horseshoes...... So ......"

Su Yi perked up when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Do you have any suggestions for improvement?" Come on. ”

With Qin Yu's encouragement, several blacksmiths picked up the stirrups and horseshoes and described them to Su Yi vividly.

Su Yi listened quietly, although he was a little disappointed at the end, he still listened patiently. The blacksmiths' suggestions for improving the horseshoe and stirrup weren't very impressive, but they were a few suggestions. Su Yi didn't like their methods of improving stirrups and horseshoes, but these blacksmiths had their own ideas and opinions, which showed that they had become real blacksmiths, although they may not have the level of Qin Yu, but at least the level of ordinary blacksmiths had reached it.

After these blacksmiths finished introducing the improved stirrups, Qin Yu said: "Lord, there are now twenty-three blacksmiths in the cottage, among which these few skills are the most outstanding, but the labor that can assist these blacksmiths is too small, so in a hurry, we only drove out two thousand pairs of stirrups and horseshoes. ”

Su Yi heard that Qin Yu was asking for someone from him, and the production of thousands of pairs of stirrups and horseshoes was obviously impossible to complete close to more than two dozen blacksmiths, and they needed a lot of labor to assist them in a series of preparations such as forging and quenching.

Su Yi was slightly silent, he could hear that Qin Yu was putting pressure on him, the strange thing was that Su Yi was not angry, but felt a little relieved, Qin Yu did this, which showed that he had regarded Taohuazhai as his home, and refining stirrups and horseshoes as his own work.