The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#698 - Thriving

When Madam Wen sent people, she obviously didn't know about the matter between Lu Jing and Yan Yun.

Upon hearing that Lu Jing wanted to build a fort, she lent all the skilled craftsmen from Wen Family Village to him, and with Zhou Yu's help, some more were found from Ju County, adding up to almost a hundred people.

And just a few days ago, these people had already arrived one after another.

They gathered together at the foot of Green Dragon Mountain, and the oldest craftsman from the Wen family, with white hair and beard, had even surveyed the terrain and drawn up the blueprints.

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Lu Jing took it in his hand and looked at it, but unfortunately, he didn't graduate from civil engineering, and he didn't understand it very well, so he simply asked directly.

"How is the defense after this fort is built?"

The old craftsman raised a finger, "If everything drawn on the blueprint can be built, as long as there are a thousand strong men in the village, it will be enough to resist six or seven thousand elite soldiers, as for the refugees, no matter how many come, it will be for nothing."

Lu Jing was quite satisfied with this answer.

Being able to withstand six or seven thousand elite soldiers is already very impressive, any more than that would be meaningless, this place is not a strategic location, and there are no important figures inside, it is not worth sending a large army to attack.

As for being besieged, Lu Jing was even less afraid.

This is a very simple arithmetic problem.

Six or seven thousand elite soldiers, their daily food and drink are a considerable expense, plus the compensation for casualties, even if his village is taken down, it is not worth it, the general leading the troops is too full and has nothing better to do than to waste time with him here.

Not to mention that there is also Ju County not far away, which can support each other and watch over each other.

If it can really be built, the sense of security for the people living in the fort will definitely increase greatly.

The only trouble is that Lu Jing doesn't have a thousand people here yet.

During this period, Ge Ping and Yu Zhen went out and rounded up some small groups of bandits in the vicinity.

Including their families, there are now about three hundred people on Green Dragon Mountain, which is quite a bit short of a thousand.

Moreover, Lu Jing didn't want his territory to be full of bandits, these guys are mostly not good people, and have done a lot of bad things to fill their stomachs, now letting them farm, inevitably some people are unwilling.

Even with the foundation of Green Dragon Stronghold, and Ge Ping doing his best to maintain it, the management cost is still a bit too high.

So Lu Jing is now planning where to get some normal people from.

But the problem is that everyone knows that the bandits are fierce in the Ju County area, and even the government soldiers have been beaten away, so ordinary people are even more afraid to approach, even the refugees are detouring.

Forget it, let's wait and see, anyway, the fort hasn't been built yet, and there aren't six or seven thousand people attacking.

Among the people sent by the Wen family this time, there were not only craftsmen, but also people responsible for training soldiers, who were said to have been instructors before.

His name is Wen Lin, and although he is only a third-rate expert, he is skilled in archery and horsemanship, excellent in spearmanship, and quite good at combined attacks.

And he is very satisfied with these "farmers" on Lu Jing's territory.

Wen Lin could tell at a glance what these guys did before, not to mention that many of them still call each other by nicknames, revealing a bandit aura.

However, this kind of thing should wait until the dragon in the secret realm is resolved, if this trouble can't be dealt with, it's hard to say whether everyone will have a future, and Lu Jing doesn't need to worry about who is older or younger.

In addition to the people from the Wen family, Lu Jing also received another gift.

This gift was somewhat unexpected to Lu Jing, because it came from Thunder Fire Hall.

After Jiang Lei's death, Wen Lun took over the Thunder Fire Hall.

This was originally the career that she and Jiang Lei had created together, now that Jiang Lei is gone, Wen Lun becoming the hall master did not encounter too many obstacles.

However, after losing Jiang Lei, the gunpowder genius, the Thunder Fire Hall was still greatly injured.

In addition, although the matter with Jin Duoduo was finally resolved privately, the Thunder Fire Hall obviously paid a considerable price.

So after Wen Lun took over, she reversed the previous trend of recruiting troops and expanding, and turned to a comprehensive contraction.

She even took the initiative to give up many territories and sold many industries, trying to repay the previous debts, in short, Lu Jing heard that she seems to be having a hard time recently.

Although Jiang Lei was not killed by Lu Jing, and Lu Jing finally found the murderer who killed Jiang Lei, this also disrupted Wen Lun and Jiang Lei's plan, not to say that it was all thanks to Lu Jing, but Lu Jing certainly couldn't escape the blame.

Lu Jing put himself in Wen Lun's position, and felt that the other party shouldn't like him very much.

But this time, Wen Lun heard from Wen Family Village that he was planning to build a fort, and actually sent a batch of gunpowder weapons, mostly for defending the city, a full fifty boxes.

So Lu Jing also wrote a letter and gave it to the Thunder Fire Hall disciples who came to deliver the weapons, asking them to pass it on to Wen Lun to express his gratitude, and also returned thirty ginseng plants as a thank you gift.

Looking at the lively construction scene in front of him, Lu Jing also felt a sense of prosperity.

Not bad!

It seems that his industrial park has been pulled up, as long as he does a good job, it won't be long before he can live a corrupt life where money comes in even when he's lying down.

And there's no need to worry about the coming of troubled times at all.

After taking care of the ginseng field and the fish pond, Lu Jing also circled around his territory.

But after walking around, he felt that something was missing.

After thinking about it, Lu Jing slapped his thigh, "Where are Mr. Sun and Mr. Song, did they run away?"

"Oh, no, Mr. Sun and Mr. Song went to Ju County to purchase today."

"Why are they going?" Lu Jing frowned.

Ge Ping looked very innocent, "Because we were all wanted by the government before, and some people even had their portraits drawn, although the wanted notices have been withdrawn now, but Grandmaster Lu has instructed us to develop in a low-key manner, I thought that we should avoid trouble as much as possible.

"We can't make the county magistrate lose face too much, so we let Mr. Sun and Mr. Song take charge of the purchasing, this is not the first time they have been to Ju County, and besides, this time they are buying their own things."

"What things?"

"Mr. Song is of course buying cooking utensils for the kitchen, as for Mr. Sun, he plans to open a blacksmith shop in the village, so he went to the city to buy them," Ge Ping explained.