Zhou Zhiruo knew that Zhao Min must have her own plans. Although they were always at odds with each other, she had given birth to three children for Zhang Wuji after all. In addition, her daily words and deeds were becoming more and more similar to those of her sisters. Therefore, she concluded that Zhao Min was destined to revolve around Zhang Wuji in this life, just like her sisters.
Therefore, when Zhao Min does anything, she must always put Zhang Wuji and the interests of the Ming Dynasty first. Although Zhou Zhiruo does not know Zhao Min's specific plan, she still believes in her from the bottom of her heart. After all, she was invincible in the past. Even if her behavior is a little decadent and a little crazy now, it will not affect the things engraved in her bones.
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About an hour later, the sky became even darker.
Zhao Min selected a number of soldiers who were good at swimming from the army. They threw those things that could barely be called boats into the Edogawa River, which was not very turbulent.
There were probably thirty or forty of those simple broken ships. Zhou Zhiruo took another look at them. She felt that Zhao was just fooling around when he ordered them to be made. If Gong Yu saw this kind of thing, she would probably die of laughter.
Those broken boats were just a layer of fenders added in front of the raft. With this kind of quality, Zhou Zhiruo could probably build five or six of them in a day if she brought Zhu'er along.
In fact, Zhou Zhiruo was not the only one who thought so. Most of the sisters present also thought so. They all felt that Zhao Min was really fooling around.
However, Zhao Min herself did not care about the suspicious looks of the other sisters present. Zhang Wuji did not need to explain what she wanted to do, let alone her other sisters.
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As the broken ships were gradually thrown into the Edogawa River by the soldiers, those soldiers who could be called the first to arrive drove them to the other side of the Edogawa River.
The broken boats moved cautiously, and behind them were countless rafts that didn't even have fenders installed.
Most of those rafts were made of a dozen or so trees as thick as arms, and at most only two or three soldiers could stand on them. Then, in front of Zhou Zhiruo and others, a group of soldiers who had taken off their shirts carried wooden stakes as thick as human legs and jumped into the Edogawa River. A little further away, soldiers carried the wooden stakes on the rafts, moved forward for some distance, and then jumped into the river.
Zhou Zhiruo and the others naturally understood what happened next. The soldiers hammered the wooden stakes that had been prepared long ago into the river one by one. They were very cautious before, but when they hammered the stakes underwater, they could no longer hide their actions.
The clanging sounds instantly spread to both sides of the Edogawa River.
Zhou Zhiruo said: "Hundreds of such piles are thrown into the water, and then a raft is placed across the upstream of the piles, and this simple floating bridge will be completed."
Zhao Min smiled and looked at Zhou Zhiruo: "Fox spirit, those soldiers working in the water now are all shirtless. Aren't you afraid that Wuji will be jealous by staring at them like that?"
After hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo just felt bored: "I'm not the only one staring at them, why do you have to criticize me?"
"Besides, let's see what happened?"
"When Zhang Wuji just started his rebellion against you, I was already hanging around in the army. I've seen everything. Back then, many soldiers made mistakes and I had their shirts stripped off and I whipped them myself."
After hearing this, Zhao Min smiled and said to Zhang Wuji, "Look at your daughter Zhiruo, she even went to whip the soldiers herself. Didn't you do anything about it back then?"
Zhang Wuji gave a bitter smile and said, "I can't bear to care about it."
Zhou Zhiruo couldn't help but feel a little moved after hearing these four words: "I can't bear to care."
However, at this moment, Yu Fei said with a smile: "Sister Min'er, you have experienced what it's like to be in the army. There are hundreds of men working with their shirts taken off. What's there to be ashamed of?"
"Could it be that these men's bodies are better than the men in our family?"
"Besides, Sister Zhou did whip the soldiers back then, but those soldiers were proud of it. There was a saying circulating in the army back then that a man who was beaten by Mrs. Zhou was not considered to have lived in vain."
"After all, she was the most beautiful woman at that time."
After hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo glared at Yu Fei fiercely: "Don't talk nonsense, you little girl. How can you be proud of being beaten? Besides, what do you mean by being the most beautiful woman at that time? Am I not beautiful now?"
"If we just talk about face and figure, who among you can compare with me?"
After hearing this, Zhu'er said, "Zhou Zhiruo, if you say that, then we're going to have a quarrel. I don't think I'm any worse than you, am I?"
Zhao Min also said: "And me, I'm no worse than you."
Zhou Zhiruo was speechless: "It's okay for Zhu'er, but how dare you compare yourself with me now? You have given birth to three children. Is the skin on your belly as smooth as mine?"
Zhao Min was stunned when she heard this: "You vixen, you shouldn't expose people's shortcomings. You will have to pay the price for saying this. Even though the skin on my belly is not as smooth as before, there are no wrinkles. It's at least acceptable, right?"
Zhao Linger also said: "That's right, should you become ugly after giving birth to a child?"
Zhou Zhiruo seemed to realize that she might become the target of public criticism again, so she lowered her head in frustration: "Okay, okay, I have something important to do today, you bunch of vixens are not allowed to hold on to me."
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The clanging sounds have spread to both sides of the river.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Wuji said to Zhao Min, "Min'er, should we roll out the cannons in the army? With such a loud noise, the people on the other side must have noticed something a long time ago."
"Push the cannons to the riverside. If the Japanese make any moves, we can suppress them from across the river."
Zhao Min said: "Okay."
Then she said to the messenger beside her: "Go tell King Yin Ye to transport our dozens of cannons here, so that when the war gets fierce, we can suppress the Japanese on the other side."
The messenger left in a hurry, and then Zhao Min turned around and looked at Zhang Wuji and the sisters: "Some things don't require us to charge into battle. Our artillery shells can reach the other side, and the artillery shells on the other side may also hit us. If anyone is hit by a stray arrow, the others will cry to death."
Zhang Wuji said: "Min'er is right, let's move back a little."
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