Chapter 45: Not being treated well, the master sneered and said coldly

Zhou Tong pointed at Sun Xin and said: "Sun Xin, your brother is now in charge of military affairs in Dengzhou, and he is quite promising. I am very good at his whipping skills, but your hands are much more unfamiliar."

, I often want to remind you, this time you don’t want to be playful and just follow me to Wangjiazhuang to be a coach, okay?"

Sun Xin was in trouble. He knew that his skills were much worse than his brother Sun Li's. Sun Li had discussed how to improve with him many times before, but Sun Li's vision could not figure out what else he could do.

After a long discussion, the two decided that this was not something that could be studied in a day or two.

But now that the master has spoken this time, Sun Xin knows that if he follows Zhou Tong, he will definitely give him careful guidance. He has even come up with a set of training methods to make up for his shortcomings. He has developed his own skills in a year and a half.

It will definitely increase significantly.

But now that his Zhuangzi has just opened, and all development is on his own shoulders, how can he have so much time to go to Wangjiazhuang as a coach with Zhou Tong?

What's more, he knows that his talent is limited, and even if he trains to the highest level, he can't compare to Sun Li's level. But even Zhu Biao, who can fight Hua Rong for thirty rounds, will be knocked down by one shot against him, and his legs will be damaged.

He was lame, and times had changed. Sun Xin felt that if he was just to protect himself, he might as well think more about modifying fire guns. It was not worthwhile for him to spend a year learning martial arts.

Sun Li glanced at Sun Xin and knew that his brother was unwilling. He quickly gave Sun Xin a wink, telling him not to undermine Zhou Tong in public.

After chatting with his fellow apprentices for a while, Sun Xin found an opportunity to come to Zhou Tong. First, he expressed his gratitude to his master for his kindness very frankly, and then tactfully told Zhou Tong that he had married Sanniang Hu. Now that Zhuangzi had just been established, he wanted to

Being busy with farm work in the village, there is really no way to escape and go to Wangjiazhuang.

Zhou Tong was surprised when he heard that Sun Xin had married the daughter of Hujiazhuang, Dulonggang. He understood what Sun Xin meant, but his face still didn't look good.

He snorted coldly: "So you plan to cultivate some fields in Zhuangzi all your life? Do you no longer want to improve your whipping skills after practicing like this?"

Sun Xin said hurriedly: "I also want to live a good life on my own first. If I become successful in the future, I would like to invite my master to enjoy the blessings in Zhuangzi."

"The construction started a few days ago. I have hired the three craftsmen my father mentioned. I plan to build the watchtower first."

After leaving Dengzhou City, Sun Xin returned to Shilipai to rest for the night, and then went to Dulonggang with Hu Sanniang.

On the other side, Sun Xin and Hu Taigong entered, and Hu Taigong asked Sun Xindao: "Has your Zhuangzi started building a market?"

Seeing that the New Year is approaching, many villagers in Dulonggang whose hometowns are in other places have taken advantage of this new year to save some money and food, and many of them want to go home to celebrate the New Year. The Hu family will arrange a banquet for the villagers at home during the New Year's Eve every year.

Grand Duke Hu specially invited his new son-in-law to come to the village for dinner this year.

“Build watchtowers first instead of building walls?”

Later, the bandit leader defected to Little Japan. The puppet army brought mortars to the village and killed the militia members. They also blew up the two black buildings. After that, the village became a place where these idiots came and went at will.

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Zhou Tong said dissatisfied: "Since you don't like the old man, how can I have the nerve to go to Guizhuang to have a leisurely meal? As for getting rich, haha, go back and ask your father-in-law, Taigong Hu, if he doesn't have the pair of swords, can he build a business?"

Are you coming to Hujiazhuang? I have never heard of anyone who became powerful by farming!"

This kind of black building was the main defensive building in the Shandong and Hebei areas where I lived in my previous life, and it was still in use until the Anti-Japanese War.

Hu Cheng said irritably: "You should talk less. It's almost the Chinese New Year. Don't cause any trouble."

It is said that the villagers' self-organized hometown protection group relied on these two black buildings to deal with the bandits who came to rob them. After several days of fierce fighting, the bandits, who numbered hundreds of people, suffered several losses despite the obstruction of these two black buildings.

After being able to succeed and losing dozens of lives, the nearby bandits did not dare to take advantage of Zhuangzi for several years.

These two bunkers are at one end and the other. As long as muskets are placed on the bunkers called "black buildings", anyone who goes to the market street to rob will be within the range of the muskets.

The two half-collapsed black buildings in the village of Sun Xin's previous life are also county-level cultural relics protected buildings. The black buildings are full of mottled bullet holes.

After Sun Xin learned about the methods of building markets in Zhuangzi in these days, he realized that in Zhuangzi these days, trading places were basically built within the walls of the village. The main purpose was to protect the streets from robbery.

As soon as Sun Xin arrived at Hujiazhuang, he was pulled into the room by Hu Taigong to talk. Hu Cai, who was sitting outside, secretly said to Hu Cheng: "I also just came back from overseas in the past few days. Why is my father missing?"

What's going on when you asked him to go in first while you were waiting for me to go into the room to chat?"

Since then, surrounding villages have followed suit and built black buildings.

Sun Xin understood that he could no longer say these words. He quietly retreated to the corner, and when Zhou Tong asked the disciples to leave, he went with Sun Li with his head downcast.

But the rural streets in Sun Xin's previous life were not like this.

Zhou Tong is a person who cares about face. If he hadn't pointed out Sun Xin to Wangjiazhuang as a coach in front of everyone just now, Sun Xin might still be able to explain it to the master, but now that he said it, Sun Xin asked him to say it again.

Taking it back, Zhou Tong would only become more unhappy because Sun Xin had offended him.

The village where he was born in his previous life was also an ancient village that existed in the late Qing Dynasty. The old market street in the village did not have any city walls at all, only two blockhouses were built at both ends of the market street.

Sun Xin took tea and drew a market street on the table, and then drew two circles at both ends of the street.

"These two places built watchtowers with shooting weapons arranged on them. If someone came to rob this market, they would be within shooting range when walking within the scope of the street. As long as the watchtowers are not captured, no one can seize the market.

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Since this kind of defense setup is combined with long-range firearms, even robbers equipped with repeating guns can be repelled, let alone these days' cold weapons.

But after listening to Sun Xin's words, Hu Taigong, who had never seen this kind of defense method before, frowned: "Isn't this too childish? The market is so long, don't we need to use heavy arrows on the watchtowers? Ordinary archers shoot

If a heavy arrow weighs less than a hundred arrows, it will miss the target. How many crossbowmen can stand on a tower? How to deal with the enemy if there are too many?"

Sun Xin understood that Taigong Hu did not know that he had equipment such as muskets. Looking at this kind of defense with a cold weapon mentality, it must be very unreliable. However, he did not want to expose his equipment advantages so quickly, so he did not have so many in his hands.

For the time being, he can only build these two watchtowers. Once he has the money, he can slowly build the wall. It won't be a matter of a day or two.

Grand Duke Hu nodded in agreement.
Chapter completed!