Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 45

"Uncle, wake up - I want to sign up."

Her loud and clear voice shocked the half-asleep middle-aged man almost fell off the bench.

He hurriedly straightened his hat: "Who, who wants to sign up?"

"Sang Xuanqing, I want to sign up for this recruitment of stonemasons."

She hurriedly brought her face closer, hoping that the recruiter with bad eyes could see her.

"Oh, Sang Xuanqing, isn't it? Hey, why does this name sound familiar?" The middle-aged man couldn't remember for a while, he raised his eyes and glanced at her, then retracted his neck: "You are Sang Xuanqing? No, no, we only recruit male workers, not women."

He waved his hand and shook his head in refusal.

Zheng Quchi yelled: "It's not me, it's my second brother."

Only then did the middle-aged man realize that he had misunderstood. He picked up the brush and planned to record: "Oh, it's your second brother, isn't he? He's a stonemason? Which village is it? Has it been rated?"

Zheng Quchi blinked his eyes: "He is a carpenter, but he can also do the work of a mason."

"Hey, you little girl, why are you here to play with me? That's no good. A carpenter is a carpenter, and a stonemason is a stonemason." The middle-aged man's face was sullen, and he slapped down the pen and flatly refused.

Although they are both craftsmen, but the classification of craftsmen is different, how can they be confused?

Masons are actually more respected than carpenters.

Because masonry crafts are more difficult. If you can choose, or ordinary people with good family backgrounds will prefer stable stone houses to wooden houses. The scope of masonry also includes building walls, carving stone tablets, cutting raw stones, etc. Among craftsmen, they consume more physical strength.

Being rejected again, Zheng Quchi was not discouraged. Anyone who has been to a job fair to find a job knows that high-paying jobs are hard to find, and the more competitive positions are, the more they will test people's resilience. Two failures and retreat.

As long as she thinks of the family of three who are waiting to be fed, and the first year's unmarried tax owed by "Sang Xuanqing", she can't just watch the ten pennies fly away like this.

She thought hard, and finally remembered an important thing.

She put her hands on the table and asked the recruited middle-aged man: "Uncle, is there any Mugong officer for the supervisor of your fortification?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, his eyelids wrinkled, and he said in surprise, "Do you know Gongguan Mu?"

From this tone, Mu Gongguan should be there, that's great.

"I don't know, but my second brother does. Please tell him that Sang Xuanqing wants to participate in this project."

"Your brother really knows Mu Gongguan?" The middle-aged man still couldn't believe it.

"Really, my second brother built a camp with Mu Gongguan in Changxunpo some time ago. If you don't believe me, you can go ask and you will know?"

Xiuyingzhai, Sang Xuanqing... These words are like electricity, instantly lighting up the hazy consciousness of the middle-aged man.

Hey!He remembered.

Isn't Sang Xuanqing the one that Mu Gongguan said was the one who built the "earth-moving vessel"!

Thinking of this, he looked at Zheng Quchi differently.

She is that Sang Xuanqing's younger sister?
He stroked his beard and nodded: "That's fine, I'll ask for you, but why didn't your second brother come by himself?"

"Oh, he's going to visit relatives, let me sign up for him."

The middle-aged man didn't pay attention to the contradictions in these words for a while, his mind was elsewhere.

He felt that Sang Xuanqing did have some skills, and Mu Gongguan did praise Sang Xuanqing very much, so it would not be difficult to do him a favor.

In the future, when Sang Xuanqing went to evaluate the craftsman's level, on the day when he was really promising, maybe he would have to ask the other party.

When Mu Gongguan heard that the recruiter came to help pass the message, he was a little stunned.

Sang Xuanqing?
How did he apply for the mason's quota?

No, isn't he a carpenter?
"What's going on here?" He asked the recruiter Zhang Mi.

Zhang Mi was the middle-aged man who had dealt with Zheng Quchi before.

He said, "It was a black girl who said she was signing up for her second brother."

"What else did she say, her second brother is Sang Xuanqing, but isn't he a carpenter?"

"She said she was a carpenter, but she can also work as a mason."

Mu Ke pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "Isn't it because of being blinded by money? Hey, she doesn't know how difficult it is to build the city wall this time. If the truth is really announced to the outside world, no amount of money will pay for it." Someone dares to try it."

"Yeah, it's too difficult. I don't know how many people died of exhaustion, suffering, and falling. Now who can repair the Guipo city wall in Fu County, it will be a matter of benefiting a hundred years."

"This matter... I have to go and report to the higher-ups in person. Sang Xuanqing's situation is different. It all depends on the higher-ups' intentions."

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Sang House
Not long after Zheng Quchi left for the county seat, Yu Wensheng took down Huige's letter to read, and then disappeared into Sangzhai.

long training camp
"General, where is Madam?"

Wei Yao looked behind him.

Yu Wencheng squinted at Weiyao with narrow eyes under the mask: "Is she your mother?"

Otherwise, why is he so concerned about whether she is there?
"...This is the honor of my subordinates."

Wei Yao thought to himself, as long as I have a thick skin, I won't be afraid of the general's poisonous tongue.

Wang Zebang also came up to him at this time: "General, the catapults in the Julu Kingdom have just begun to take shape, do you want to take a look? There are also thousands of carts brought back before, and the craftsmen dare not dismantle them without authorization." , I am worried that the damaged structure will not be able to be restored, and I am going to ask you for instructions."

"Then go and have a look."

When I came to the school grounds, there was a large-scale equipment. The main components were wooden frames, pulleys, short shafts, and ropes, and the core components were pulleys.

It is indeed similar to the earthenware made by Sang Xuanqing before.

In addition to the master craftsman, there was also a woman in ordinary craftsman's uniform on the school grounds. She had clean and gentle features, her wide sleeves and trousers were tied up with rope, her long hair was tied behind her waist, and she worked neatly. look like.

At this time, she is not too hardworking, and is helping to adjust the equipment.

"The general is here."

When the craftsmen saw Yu Wensheng coming, they hurried forward to greet him.

"General, it's a success, it's a success!"

The craftsmen excitedly asked him for credit.

The woman was startled. When she turned her head and saw the tall figure wearing the Asura mask and the black armor and red cloak, she couldn't help but lick the corners of her upturned lips, and stood there dignifiedly, blessed.

Yu Wensheng stepped forward and looked at the heavy industrial equipment. There was little difference in appearance between it and the wreckage he brought back. It was basically restored to a good degree, but he didn't know how effective it was?

"Have you tried it?"

"It has been tried. It can throw boulders under three or four hundred catties, and it can be raised and lowered to a height of three feet. It will have miraculous effects when used for climbing city walls and long-distance fixed-point combat."

A clear female voice sounded at this moment.

The craftsmen looked at Gongshulan one after another, and when they thought of her recent contributions and help, they couldn't help praising: "Miss Gongshu really amazes us. If it weren't for her guidance, the lifting equipment with this complicated craftsmanship would be a piece of cake. Still need to work harder.”

"Yeah yeah."

It was also rare for Wang Zebang to be kind to someone at this time: "Miss Gongshu is worthy of being a public loser, and her ingenuity is indeed extraordinary."

"Where, compared to my brother's ingenious workmanship, I'm not as good as one or two." She blushed a little from their praise.

But still not as coy and uncomfortable as ordinary women, instead she straightened her back gracefully and accepted all praises.

She looked at Yu Wensheng with a slight twinkle in her eyes, wondering what he would think of her, but saw him curling the corners of his mouth with a half-smile: "So, so many well-known craftsmen in Ye Kingdom are still It's not as good as a woman from a public loser's family, so what's the use of General Ben keeping you people with vain names?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone seemed to be stabbed in the chest, the blood flowed backwards, and the smiles and joy on their faces froze instantly.

Wang Zebang immediately realized his mistake just now.

The public loser is from Beiyuan country, and their master craftsmen from Ye country tout a person from Beiyuan country so much, wouldn't they tear off the dignity and face of their own country and stomp hard on the ground?
As soon as the air dropped below zero, everyone was trembling, and they didn't dare to say anything.

Fortunately, Yu Wensheng didn't really intend to pick off their heads at this time, he smiled harmlessly and naturally: "No exaggeration? Well, come and test the effect."

"……Yes Yes."

Wiping the cold sweat off his brow, this time, no one paid attention to Gong Shulan's affairs, and instead concentrated on arranging this new equipment.

"Put stones!"

"cast!"

Bang!
It should be about a hundred meters away.

Yu Wencheng squinted his eyes, rubbed his fingertips a few times: "Continue."

"Put stones!"

"cast!"

Bang!
"continue."

……

After repeating this four times, there was a "click" like a sound of wood breaking. Yu Wensheng's ears were sharp, but he had already caught the abnormal sound the first time.

At this time, the sound was no longer subtle, and everyone was startled. They stopped putting stones, and hurried to check. Finally, it was determined that the fixed plate was broken and loosened by prying.

In the next second, pop!With a bang the whole fracture collapsed.

Yu Wensheng had a creepy smile on his lips, and stared at him with deep eyes.

After all this happened, everyone's legs were weak, and they didn't even dare to breathe out.

what happened?How can this happen?
Gong Shulan also had a look of disbelief.

She ran over quickly, inspected the pile of wood residues, and finally murmured: "The base was obviously strengthened, but why did it break after being thrown less than ten times? Could it be that the wood is not hard enough, or..."

Yu Wencheng's mocking voice sounded behind her: "The lifting equipment in the Julu Kingdom can adjust its orientation independently, and it can throw stones sixty to eighty times in the time of a cup of tea, but now it can withstand even a few times. Can't live."

The voices of the craftsmen trembled, thinking that they could still fight for their lives: "I, we will continue..."

"Wei Yao, show them the blueprint." Yu Wensheng said.

"Yes."

The craftsmen accepted a blueprint with doubts and apprehensions. After reading it carefully, although they couldn't understand what was written on it, the drawing of the equipment that seemed to appear in the blueprint made them all see it straight. Eye.

Yu Wensheng seemed worried that they would not be enough to stimulate them, so he added slowly: "It looks light and simple, but it can bear three to four hundred catties of soil, and the chassis can be easily rotated at will to adjust its position."

They were all stunned.

"This, what is this thing?"

"You don't even understand what it's for, haha~" Yu Wensheng's lips smiled like a spring breeze, but his eyes swept over them like scraping bones and rotting flesh: "This general spends hundreds of gold every year to support you A bunch of waste, now they have no achievements, but they can still live with peace of mind, what makes you think this general is very generous?"

Plop!All of a sudden everyone knelt down in fright.

Wang Zebang recognized the blueprint, it was drawn by Sang Xuanqing.

Seeing this situation, he was helpless and as if he had a premonition long ago, he let out a long sigh.

General, you still haven't let go of Sang Xuanqing.

Gong Shulan's face was ugly, Yu Wencheng was not only embarrassing the craftsmen, but also slapped her in the face.

"This should be a kind of lifting device, but its structure is very simple, and it is impossible to lift such a heavy object. I don't know who drew the blueprint. Maybe the general was deceived by someone—"

"Gongshuo girl." Wang Zebang quickly interrupted her, not letting her continue talking.

If she completely angered the general, even if Gong Shu came, it would not be able to save her life.

They have witnessed the authenticity of this drawing, so even if she has a reasonable guess, the general will think that she is slandering and questioning.

He told her: "This blueprint is real. This is called an earthenware. It was made by a carpenter in Fu County when he was building a camp. This is not just a fake name."

Gong Shulan's eyes widened upon hearing this.

The craftsmen couldn't believe it after hearing it.

A carpenter in Fu County?This kind of carpenter in the countryside is probably not even rated as a craftsman. Can he make such a wooden instrument? !

Yu Wencheng looked at their stupid and decadent appearances, which were very different from the previous ones who were complacent and seemed to have achieved a lot.

Yu Wencheng lowered his voice, lingering in his ears like chanting a curse: "Now, you should know that it is not that there are no skilled craftsmen in Ye Kingdom, but that you have always worked behind closed doors, that's all."

That's all, the four-character evaluation simply turned all the proud craftsmen into ashes.

Their faces suddenly turned ashen, as if they were mourning.

In the eyes of the general, these outstanding craftsmen selected from all over the country are not as capable as a carpenter in the countryside. What are they doing alive, they might as well be dead.

Wei Yao and Wang Zebang looked at each other, but they both felt strange. Compared with the past, the generals today seem to have a much better temper. If it was at this time in the past, he might have buried a few unfavorable craftsmen. As a warning to others.

But today, his emotions and sanity were in danger several times, but he was never on the verge of losing control... After thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing special affecting him recently, except——

The general married the general's wife.

The eyes of the two suddenly woke up.

Shout out amazing.

It turns out that to cure the madness and murderous madness left by a person after he lost control on the battlefield, all he needs is to give him a soft wife?
At this time, a soldier ran over: "General, Officer Mu brought the list of masons and said that there is something that needs to be seen by you."

(End of this chapter)