"The owner, I have already found out the identity of Zhou Zhongyu."

Wiped out the dragon that drilled the mountain and the defeated soldiers who defected to him, the follow-up troubles are far from being eliminated, and the Zhou family, who are ready to take the defeated soldiers to the grass to be Kou's military advisor, must always figure out the origin.

"That Zhou Zhongyu is the son of a concubine in the fourth room of the Zhou family, it is rumored that he has not been treated well since he was a child, and his food and clothing are not as good as others, and then he won the favor of the old lady of the Zhou family for some reason, and he served by his side for a few years, and they all said that he was quite shrewd and capable."

Zhao Hengyi squinted slightly, and had already sketched in his mind how the son of a concubine struggled to survive in a flourishing family like the Zhou family, and climbed up step by step.

Presumably that Zhou Zhongyu is also a ruthless person, but he has a bad background in the Zhou family, he is shrewd and capable, and he is unwilling to be subservient, so he finally chose to act as the tool of the Zhou family to control the bandits.

If he didn't have his own military training, he would have ruined Zhou Zhongyu's plan, and it is impossible to say that after three or five years, Zhou Zhongyu is very likely to grow into a heroic!

In the future, he will return to the Zhou family and seize power.

When it's true, it's fate.

Now, even the local rich people like the Zhou family have begun to become restless, wanting to ensure their own interests through crooked ways, and they know that this big Yanguo mansion is about to collapse, and the troubled times are coming.

Maybe the people of the Zhou family don't have such a long-term vision, but the prophet of Chunjiang Plumbing Duck, who is at the bottom of the Great Yan Kingdom, has instinctively chosen to change and take risks in order to protect himself.

Coupled with the defeated soldiers who entered Dangyang County through secret channels, Zhao Hengyi had to adjust the pace of his development.

This feeling of haste is not wonderful, but in the middle of the game, as the one who is watching coldly, Zhao Hengyi has to take precautions.

It's time to upgrade the blacksmith shop, although with the current conditions and financial resources, Zhao Hengyi still can't build a kiln that can directly train molten steel, but he has been able to make some preparations in advance.

Technology upgrading is a relatively complex system, and some things can be done in one step, but there are many key pre-steps that cannot be bypassed in the matter of steelmaking.

"The bull still doesn't want to summon the newly recruited blacksmiths?"

Speaking of his cheap apprentice, Zhao Hengyi also had to pinch his brows, it was really Zhang Daniu's fool who was too reasonable, "Erhu, you go and call him over, it seems that my master has to add something like family law!" ”

As the most important part of adjusting the pace of development, the blacksmith shop had to make changes, and Zhang Daniu and his apprentices could no longer meet the needs of Zhao Hengyi's plan.

Zhao Hengyi asked two blacksmiths to be recruited in a nearby village, but Zhang Daniu was extremely resistant, and not only was he unwilling to teach the new blacksmith the craft of making crossbows, but he also did not allow the two blacksmiths to enter his expanded blacksmith shop.

Now Zhang Daniu has become a figure in the village by virtue of his identity as an apprentice of the owner, and even the old village chief does not dare to force him to do anything.

It's just that on weekdays, Zhang Daniu will not do anything evil except for a new braggadocio, and Zhao Hengyi has never been too lazy to deal with him.

Now this fool is making a mess, and he has to beat it, but it really can't be done, and it's not impossible to be expelled from the division.

Zhang Daniu, who tilted his head and squinted his eyes, was brought to Zhao Hengyi with a stubborn face, and before Zhao Hengyi could speak, this fool fell to the ground first!

"Master, the secret method of the master should not be passed on lightly!"

"Even if I take your group of apprentices to die in the blacksmith shop, I can't pass on this craft to outsiders!"

"If the master thinks that I don't know what to do and mess around, I will admit it!"

"It's up to you to beat or scold, just say hello to the thick meat when you fight, don't delay the construction of the blacksmith shop!"

This fool, Zhao Hengyi clicked his mouth, and he felt that he had nothing to say.

Zhang Daniu admits death, but it is also true that this fool is loyal, Wang Erhu previously said that in order to rush to work, this fool has stayed in the blacksmith shop for more than ten days and has not gone home.

"Then tell me, what should I do if I can't finish too much?"

The more he thought about it, the more angry Zhao Hengyi kicked Zhang Daniu's legs, but this honest and rough skin and thick meat didn't take it seriously at all, "Next, I will expand the blacksmith shop into a smelting workshop, and I need more manpower, if you don't let others learn the craft, just you and those apprentices will be too busy to be tired!" ”

Hearing that the blacksmith shop would be expanded, although it was not clear what the smelting workshop was, Zhang Daniu was already smiling.

"Master, I have a way!"

A rough man who struck iron for a living, and the appearance of a villain who squeezed his eyebrows and made eyes into slander, looked even uglier!

"Stand up and speak, make it clear, if what you say doesn't work, you have to listen to me honestly!"

Looking at Zhang Daniu's appearance as if he was about to tell the truth, Zhao Hengyi was angry.

"Master, those two blacksmiths you recruited from the neighboring village really don't need them, he and us are not of the same mind, and they will definitely run away secretly after learning the craft!"

"The descendants of the village, I have long noticed, it is the material of iron, all of them have become your apprentices, and I can no longer pick out suitable people."

"If you want to keep the secret method of the master, there are still enough people to summon it, we can go to the tooth store to buy people back!"

"The person who bought it back, all the deeds are in your hands, but anyone who has two hearts, let them fight and kill!"

"Even if that person learns the craft and runs away secretly, it is the identity of a fugitive slave, and wherever he escapes, he will be caught!"

"Even if you really run away for that person, he can't open a blacksmith shop as a fugitive slave, won't we keep this craft?"

Zhang Daniu obviously pondered about this matter for a day or two, and even inquired about the sale of slaves!

Zhao Hengyi was still strange before, some time ago, Zhang Daniu pulled Steward Song to stay in the village as a liaison officer, Xing Xiaorong, who was fine, kept chatting, it turned out to be to inquire about these things.

Although Zhang Daniu's idea is a little rough and even a little naïve, the method he said is practical!

Buying and selling slaves is an extremely common behavior in the Great Yan Kingdom, and ordinary people do not resist, on the contrary, ordinary people who almost everyone has enough to eat think that being able to be bought as slaves by large families is a good way out that they don't have to starve to death!

To be honest, Zhao Hengyi was moved.

"Master, I have inquired with Brother Rong, there are ready-made blacksmiths for sale in the tooth shop of Jiangling Mansion, and many of them are about to be imprisoned, and now in this world, even if it is a blacksmith who has committed a crime, there may be that honest and honest person in it!"

Looking at Zhang Daniu's triumphant face, Zhao Hengyi only felt that his teeth were itchy...... What a talent you brat is!