The entire Heishan Village was moving, from young and strong men to strong women, to half-aged children, and even children under ten years old, they all knew where to go and what to do after the gong sounded.

Some equipment to defend the city has also begun to be set up on the village wall. In this era, no one will set up the crossbow and catapult machine on the city wall like Huo Hai, and then they will start to let everyone constantly try to accurately check the ejection distance and landing point, and set signs for everyone on the ground.

After this work, the guards standing on the top of the city only need to see where the people below walked, and know what weapons to use to kill them.

"Call more people to help build equipment, and keep soaking the wood for making crossbows and catapults. Soon, Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang will collect a lot of beef tendon for us, and we will use it in the future." When Huo Hai checked the defense of the village wall, he told the brothers Zhang Yu and Zhang Zhou, who were responsible for building the army.

You should know that it is actually very simple to create temporary siege equipment. It can be done in ten days and half a month, because it will be basically scrapped after use and will be thrown away directly. However, the materials used for building equipment arranged on the citytop to serve as a guard for a long time are very particular. The wood needs to be hard, and it must be soaked and sun-dried so that it will not crack or deform.

The materials for these equipment on the city wall are all used by Sun's housekeepers from various county magistrates and ministers for Sun Tao. They are wood that had been soaked long ago.

Previously, Chu Yan brought back a hundred yellow crossbows at Sun's family, which is a hand crossbow made of soaked boxwood. It only takes one person to control it. After Huo Hai dismantled it two, he imitated these crossbows and created a simple bed crossbow with a range of three to four hundred meters and could basically kill the range at the foot of the Black Mountain. Now dozens of them have been built, but Huo Hai still feels unsafe.

"Sir, the Zhen family and the Guo family are urging us to send more people to help them build a greenhouse! We also need to send more people to do this?" Wang Dang looked at the village wall, and the whole row of crossbows and stone-catted lanes.

"My goal is to lay these defensive equipment all over the entire village wall, so that people can't get the idea of ​​attacking us with just one look." Huo Hai pointed at the village wall that could not be seen at all.

The village wall of Heishan Village circled dozens of hills near Heishan Mountain, which stretched for nearly a hundred miles, and was built even taller and thicker than the Great Wall. With such a large range, many people need to be on duty, and enough defensive equipment is needed to play a defensive role.

Thinking that the counterfeit village would have to build thousands, even more than ten thousand crossbows, catapults and other things, Wang Dang and others felt numb.

It turns out that everyone will not do anything else in the future and will build these things specifically?

"Sir, Mr. Zhen Ping of the Zhen family and Mr. Guo Yong of the Guo family have come in person, at the reception desk of the small village." Just as Huo Hai wanted to make some more arrangements on the wall of the village, Lin San ran up and said.

The so-called small village is a checkpoint set up by Huo Hai who asked someone to set up thirty miles from Heishan Village. It was originally used to supply the scattered cavalry units and prevent some unrelated personnel from inquiring about the news about the copycat.

Now, its function is actually a rest point for receiving crossing fleets and copycat craftsmen.

Because the recent shipments of counterfeits have been very large, and there are more refugees coming here, which makes the scale of this place much larger, making it a frontier in Heishanzhai.

"Let them come to Dazhai directly! There is no need to keep a secret from them here." Huo Hai said after thinking for a moment.

Soon, a few quick horses went from Dazhai to Xiaozhai, while Huo Hai called Chu Yu and Baoer to prepare wine and food.

To be honest, Huo Hai was not a person who often cooks in later generations. He taught him all these few times in the past few months. Of course, now, not only her is the one who does Baoer's cooking. The chefs of the Zhen family and the Guo family have been studying here for more than a month. Most of the time, they are doing some cleaning and cleaning work.

When they saw the tall city wall of Heishan Village, Zhen Ping and Guo Yong were naturally confused. Although Chu Yan and a group of rangers had been together for more than two years, everyone knew that there was a copycat here, but how did he look like a copycat?

In the entire Jizhou, there is probably only the city gate of Yecheng, which can be compared with this village gate!

"Brother Ji An and Brother Bo Sheng are here. Come in and invite them quickly. The food and food have been prepared for you." Huo Hai intervened at the door of the village and greeted Zhen Ping and Guo Yong, who came with a few followers, also greeted him with a smile. Then, with a full face of doubt, he entered a hall on the wall of the village behind the first urn. Here, the charcoal-burned hot pot and braised meat had been arranged.

"We thought that Heishan Village was just an ordinary mountain village, but we didn't expect that it was taller than the city walls of Yecheng, so it was not an exaggeration to call it Heishan City." Although the wine and meat were fragrant, Zhen Ping, who entered the city tower of the Wengcheng, sighed first.

Without reaching such a high place, he could not see the Heishan Village. Just one Nanzhai Gate had three urns and four walls. Even a person like Zhen Ping who was ignorant of military affairs would have imagined after seeing such a gate design. If he attacked such a camp, how many lives would be needed to be filled in? This is still he did not know that Huo Hai had designed many designs on these tall walls that he saw in movies in later generations.

"In this world, not everyone is willing to cooperate with me seriously and barter with me with what I need, like Ji An and Bosheng."

Huo Hai's implication is that he must have some self-protection methods, and the two of them agree with this.

Judging from the current trend, Huo Hai's speed of accumulating family business should be the fastest in Beidi, because they have received news that Huo Hai is not only cooperating with his two companies, but also cooperating with the Zhang family and the Su family. Fortunately, Huo Hai has plans for those two companies, and their market is in Zhuhu tribes, and there is no conflict with his two companies' business.

After several people settled in the seat, Guo Yong took the lead and said, "I'm here this time, and I have two things to talk to you clearly.

Of course, first of all, what we want to say is this first point. We want to ask, what kind of relationship does Mr. and Taiping Church have to be inseparable."

Huo Hai smiled and shook his head, "I told you before that I have never joined the Taiping Sect, so naturally there is no such thing as not being divided. I am a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship with them and you."

Upon hearing this, Zhen Ping and Guo Yong breathed a sigh of relief. Zhen Ping took over Guo Yong's words and said, "Now, the court has the intention to deal with the Taiping Cult, and the Taiping Cult is also starting to move. We have told the teacher before that our respective families are not optimistic about the Taiping Cult. It is better to abandon our cooperation with our two families, and even the Zhang family and the Su family, and our five families can cooperate with us.

In this way, sir, you will have any resources. The things you make are not hindered by sales. You can get more food and livestock to recruit and feed more refugees."

"Is this a kind of persuasion to me?" Huo Hai smiled and looked at the two of them.

The two nodded solemnly, waiting for Huo Hai's attitude.

"In fact, it's not just you two, I'm not optimistic about Taiping Church's success. I have deeply understood this truth from the process of managing the copycat during my period.

But in fact, the current situation is that I, or rather, we, will not work without cooperation with them." Huo Hai said with an argument that made Zhen Ping and Guo Yong frown into the shape of Sichuan.

"Not cooperated? Why is this?" Zhen Ping asked.

"You have people in your family who are in Luoyang or in various states under the rule of the court. So, I would like to ask you, how is the military preparations of the court?" Huo Hai asked back to the two.

"The military preparations of the imperial court?" Zhen Ping and Guo Yong were stunned and began to search for information about this in their minds. Then, their eyes suddenly became solemn.

Did the imperial court have military preparations? Maybe, but that was near Luoyang and outside Luoyang? Take Changshan Kingdom for example. Zhou Zheng had less than 3,000 county soldiers, and he was assigned to thirteen counties. How many county can there be? About 200 people, can this person defend a county town?

No, because the Taiping Church has more than ten times the number of believers in a county town, and you can't tell who they are, whether they are in the city or outside the city.

In other words, once the Taiping Cult is launched, most county towns may be compromised by them, and what are the wealthy families in the county, such as Zhen Guo’s family, facing?

Just robbed by them.

Seeing the eyes of the two, Huo Hai knew that they already understood what they meant. "We are not optimistic about Taiping Buddhism, and we should have a clear understanding of the damage they can cause. I believe that you also want to preserve the family's foundation in a turmoil in the world!"

Zhen Ping and Guo Yong nodded, intervened to greet Huo Hai, "I don't know, sir, have you taught me?"

Huo Hai raised his hand and signaled that they didn’t have to be polite, and then smiled, “Your family should have had various ways to deal with troubled times, so why bother asking this question!”

Upon hearing this, Zhen Ping and Guo Yong quickly began to communicate with each other. Obviously, before coming here, they had a lot of discussions. Their attitude towards Huo Hai in their respective families was to try their best to fight. If it really didn't work, they were trying to place bets on both sides, but they didn't expect that Huo Hai had guessed their thoughts long ago.

"If our two families take the risk to continue to cooperate with Mr. Wang, can we keep our two families safe in this chaos?" Zhen Ping asked solemnly.

"As long as you two are not stupid enough to tell everyone that the snowflake salt and white paper soap were made by Taiping Cult and asked you to resell it, then there should be no big problem." Huo Hai said without any guarantee.

The more he did not say anything, the more worried Zhen Ping and Guo Yong were. Guo Yong continued, "Of course we would not be stupid enough to do this. According to what the gentleman said, most of the snowflake salt, white paper, and soap were given as gifts. When others asked us, we also said that this was a fine product made by our two families at a huge price. The quantity was limited, and it was only a loss but no profit for sale. After all, the price we sold was not much higher than ordinary salt and paper, which made everyone lose their covetousness for these things."

Huo Hai nodded with a smile and said nothing. They should not know that they had become Huo Hai's offline dealers, and the gentry who asked them to order snowflake salt, white paper and soap became distributors of these products.
Chapter completed!