This time, Jiang Yimou didn't need to try. Zhu Renxia touched one and held it in his hand.
I saw that the spear was about the height of a person and a half, the thickness was just right for my hand, and it weighed about seventeen or eight kilograms.
Zhu Renxia came from a royal family. When he was a child, he also practiced martial arts with the instructors of the Jingjiang Prince's Palace. He could swing a spear with style.
"Brother Xia is so handsome!"
Jiang Axiu stroked her thick and long braids, her watery eyes almost mesmerized by the sight.
Lu Buping, who was making bows and arrows, also praised him repeatedly, "Good marksmanship!"
Jiang Xiaoyu, who was wrapped in a sheet and had a wooden sword on his waist, said without mercy: "If my brother-in-law is so powerful, why did he get beaten one day?"
"Xiaoyu, don't talk nonsense."
Jiang Axiu glared and reprimanded, "Two fists cannot defeat four hands, and a tiger cannot defeat a pack of wolves."
Jiang Xiaoyu sighed and left: "Oh, I can't stay in college. My elbows are turned outward before I get married. Why am I so miserable?"
"Thank you Tianzun for the gift of weapons."
Zhu Renxia turned his head to the sky, held his gun in his hand and thanked him.
Zhu Changan didn't sleep well last night, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting at the moment.
"You can process these steel guns a little bit and they can be used as weapons. I'm going to sleep... and go to practice."
After the words fell, Zhu Changan yawned and entered the bedroom, falling down to sleep.
Zhu Renxia, Jiang Fuzi, and Jiang Yimu counted the steel guns, no more, no less, exactly 200.
Under the sunlight, the spears shone with dazzling brilliance.
"It's so tough!"
Jiang Yimou was full of admiration, "I have been working in iron for thirty years, and I have never seen steel of this quality."
Mr. Jiang stroked his beard and said: "The whole one is made of steel, which is really a waste. If they are all processed, one long gun can be used to make more than a dozen red tassel spears. These two hundred long spears are enough to arm an army of two to three thousand people."
"With the help of the gods, our supplies will be inexhaustible. Old Master, please don't forget about the hardships and the sweetness."
Zhu Renxia called five or six young people over, and together they carried the weapons into the thatched house that served as a warehouse.
"Please help me, Brother Ichimoku, to put red tassels and handles on all the spears."
Zhu Renxia then directed everyone to move Jiang Yimu's blacksmith furnace and bellows to the warehouse to make it easier for him to work.
"Leave it to me."
Jiang Yimu agreed immediately, "But I only have a few clusters of red tassels left at home. I'm afraid I need to trouble the women to help make them."
Before Zhu Renxia could speak, Jiang Axiu volunteered: "This task has been left to me. I'll go find the second aunt, Chunmei, Xiang'er and others for help."
"Well... I'm here to help Xiu'er!"
Zhu Renxia happily touched his wife's delicate head.
Jiang Axiu smiled: "My husband, an outsider, has worked so hard for our Jiangjia Village. How can I just eat and not work!"
Master Jiang smiled and said: "Ren Xia is now the son-in-law and commander of our Jiangjia Village. He is no longer an outsider."
"Uncle is right, I'm looking for someone to work for!"
Jiang Axiu made a face and skipped away, as happy as a lark.
Jiang Yimou held a "long spear" in his hand and looked up and down.
"This spear is really strong, but I don't know what to do with the hole in the back?"
Zhu Renxia looked at the pinhole as big as his fist and was equally puzzled, "Maybe it's used to lock the enemy's weapons?"
After a pause, he said regretfully: "The guns are good guns, but there is no master who can teach the villagers how to use guns. We have a master of guns in the Jingjiang Palace, his name is Xu Zilong. If we can recruit him to be our instructor, we can OK!"
"Xu Zilong?"
At this moment, Jiang Xiaoyu, wearing a bedsheet, came back again, "The name is quite prestigious, but can he be as powerful as my third uncle?"
"Your third uncle?"
Zhu Renxia looked puzzled, "Which third uncle?"
Master Jiang took over the conversation and said proudly: "Haha... Xiaoyu is talking about my third child, whose original name is Jiang Sanli."
"Oh...I remembered."
Zhu Renxia scratched his head and remembered that Jiang Axiu had mentioned this to him.
Mr. Jiang had three sons. The eldest died when he was ten years old. The second son was Jiang Erhu, and the third son was called Jiang Sanli. I heard that he was serving as a soldier in the north.
At that time, Zhu Renxia just asked casually and didn't take it seriously.
Jiang Yimu took over the old man's words again and said with admiration: "Sanli is the pride of our Jiangjia Village, even the pride of Yinma Town!"
"Oh... tell me in detail."
Zhu Renxia immediately became interested and chatted while helping Blacksmith Jiang work.
"Young master, do you know the Qi family army?"
"Of course I know that General Qi defends his family and country and kills Japanese pirates and common people. Everyone knows about it. It's a pity that I was born late and didn't have the opportunity to see General Qi's style."
While lighting the fire, Jiang Yimou said, "My brother Sanli serves in the Qi Family Army."
Mr. Jiang stroked his beard with his hand, his face full of pride: "Haha..."
Jiang Xiaoyu stopped being naughty and stood aside quietly to listen, his eyes full of admiration.
"My brother Sanli is born with arms and waist, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He has a dignified appearance."
Jiang Yimu was full of praise, "Of course, the young master is also a talented person."
"Go on."
Zhu Renxia smiled and put carbon into the stove.
"My third brother has been strong and agile since he was a child. When he was eight years old, he followed a wandering Taoist priest to practice martial arts. He practiced his spear skills very hard and became a master of martial arts with a long spear.
When he was nineteen years old, he went to Zhejiang to join Marshal Qi, and followed the Qi family's army in the north and south.
Within five or six years, he was promoted to the position of General Manager Qian, and was personally renamed 'Jiang Champion' by the commander-in-chief, praising him for his bravery in the three armies! "
"so smart?"
After listening to Jiang Yimu's introduction, Zhu Renxia couldn't help but be fascinated, "Being praised by Marshal Qi as the bravest of the three armies, how powerful is this martial arts?"
Master Jiang suddenly sighed: "It's a pity that after the death of Marshal Qi, the Qi family army has no leader. Sanli has not been back for five or six years, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive now."
Zhu Renxia sighed: "Mr. Qian is still a sixth-grade official after all. Didn't the county government give me preferential treatment?"
Master Jiang smiled bitterly: "I heard that the senior officials in the imperial court particularly rejected the Qi family army. Even Marshal Qi was demoted back to his hometown before his death. What kind of preferential treatment can the county government give!"
Zhu Renxia sighed with emotion: "It would be great if Brother Sanli could return to the village one day!"
In the evening, villagers performing their respective duties came to report that the city wall was basically repaired.
Zhu Renxia and Master Jiang inspected together, and saw that the city gate had been reinforced with rivets, and wooden bolts as thick as a person were inserted into it. Even a water buffalo would have difficulty breaking it open.
The stairs on the four city walls have also been refined, and nine steps have been built on the three-meter-high white jade stone to make it easier to go up and down.
In addition, many wall stacks were also built on the city wall, which were almost identical to the arrow stacks on the city wall.
However, since the circumference of this city wall reaches two thousand meters, only a small part of the wall stacks has been built. It will take at least half a month to completely build it.
After the inspection, Zhu Renxia called a meeting with all the men in the village and required all villagers above the age of fifteen but below the age of sixty to be present.
The meeting place is set under the South City Gate.
