On this day, Ye Renwu followed two female officials into Helen's Hulit Palace with some trepidation, because she couldn't understand why the emperor would send a fast carriage to pick her up from the capital of Tianjuan and bring her here, even eating, drinking and sleeping in the carriage, changing horses at every post station and continuing on the journey without stopping for a moment.

"General Ye Renwu, please wait here for a moment." The two female officials stopped in front of a big door, "Let us go and report to His Majesty the Emperor."

Ye Renwu nodded and glanced around. Except for two or three corners far away where there were guards standing guard, the surroundings were surprisingly quiet. It seemed that even the wind had stopped.

This made Ye Renwu feel a little uneasy. Since Helen ascended the throne and Tianjuan started the army, she had been ordered to sit in the Tianjuan Palace to monitor the officials and people's livelihood for Helen. She thought she was serious and fair in her actions, but she didn't expect that in the past six months, she was repeatedly reprimanded by Helen. The most recent time, she was directly reprimanded in front of all the officials in the capital, which made her very embarrassed. But before she could get over the embarrassment, she was hurriedly brought here...

After a while, two female officials hurriedly came out from the gate, bowed and saluted, then turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation: "General Ye Renwu, His Majesty the Emperor is admiring the flowers in the garden at this moment, please follow us."

Night Blade Dancer nodded: "Lead the way."

After entering the gate and walking through the hall and corridor for a while, two female officials brought Ye Renwu to a half-open carved wooden door: "General Ye Renwu, please." After that, the two turned around and left without saying much.

Ye Renwu hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and pushed the door open.

The moment the door opened, a hint of deep surprise flashed across Ye Renwu's eyes, because the green plants, flowers, rocks, and small yard in front of him were exactly the replica of the backyard of the Green Building.

Helen, who was sitting in front of a bush, waved at Ye Jianwu. When he saw the smile on her face, Ye Jianwu felt less uneasy and quickly walked over to pay his respects: "Greetings, my emperor."

"No need to be polite." Helen's smile deepened. "Look at this environment. Do you feel familiar with it?"

"Familiar." After hesitating for a moment, Ye Renwu nodded.

"Ah..." Helen sighed softly, "I am responsible for state affairs, and there is not a day that I am not tired and exhausted. Only by sitting here can I feel at ease and relieve my fatigue."

Ye Renwu didn't dare to respond, but she sighed secretly in her heart. In fact, as soon as she saw the scene in front of her, she already understood some of Helen's thoughts.

After another long sigh, Helen stood up and said, "Ye Renwu, I have wronged you for the past six months."

"Ye Renwu dare not." Ye Renwu bowed his head quickly.

"No need to be so polite." Helen waved her hand and continued, "There's no one else here. Sigh... do you know why I have been scolding you over and over again for the past six months?"

"This..." Ye Renwu hesitated for a moment and replied, "Ye Renwu dares to speculate that His Majesty is either annoyed that Ye Renwu is not capable of such a big responsibility or worried about the instability in the rear, so he urged all officials to do this."

Helen smiled slightly, with a hint of helplessness in her eyes: "Ye Renwu, you are indeed smart, but you forgot to say one thing. The more times I reprimand you, the more I miss you. Ye Renwu, I have conquered this huge territory now, but I don't even have a close friend around me. Sometimes, I miss the days in the Green Tower..."

As she listened, waves quietly began to stir in Ye Jianwu's heart...

…

Ever since being frightened by the devil whale, the cute baby has become idle. He doesn't want to go out to the sea anymore, nor does he want to wander in the forest. Accustomed to eating sea beasts, how could he be interested in small animals?

After a few days of leisure, Mengbao got a job - to be Wu Lai's best man.

The simultaneous pregnancy of the three women undoubtedly solved the most troublesome problem for Wu Lai. Putting aside Iress, neither Shelley nor Lori wanted to be known as an intolerant person, and no one in the Koch family was thicker-skinned than Wu Lai - he happily ran to the Koch family and said, your heir and my other two women are now pregnant with my children. As a man, I naturally have to give them an explanation. After careful consideration, I personally feel that I cannot favor one over the other, so I decided to marry them on the same day, and the three of them agreed, because I said that whoever disagrees will postpone the marriage.

Of course, the above are not the original words. Although the original words are much more euphemistic, the meaning is the same. Therefore, although the head of the Kochi family, that is, Gulu and Loli’s biological father, was secretly resentful in his heart, he could only grit his teeth and nod.

The Lord's wedding was naturally the most important event on Grindo Island. With Gulu's careful preparation, Wu Lai's plan of "keeping everything simple" was broken.

On the day of Wu Lai's wedding, the whole island took a day off. Fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, scholars, scholars, peasants, merchants and workers all took a break. Each town set up a chain banquet, and four meals a day were served with good wine and meat. It was lively and lively. In the evening, there was a lantern festival to watch.

Those who were well-known and had the means simply went to Town No. 2 where Wu Lai lived to watch the ceremony. The scene was so packed with people that even the West Point Military Academy's thousand-man guard of honor was almost dispersed.

No wonder everyone is so enthusiastic. First, who is getting married? It's the Lord, Lord Wu Lai, who leads everyone to live a stable life and is getting better and better. Second, you see, this wedding is so fresh and beautiful.

Of course it is fresh, as the bride marries three daughters at once. But this is not the point. The point is the wedding parade.

Under the escort of dozens of cavalrymen in distinctive armor, a cute baby with a red silk around his neck led the way, shaking his head. Wu Lai followed not far behind it on a tall horse. Not only did he look heroic, but he also had a big red silk flower wrapped around his body. Even the horse was covered in red and decorated with patterns. Behind the horses followed three big red flower bridges carried by eight people. A row of female cavalrymen were guarding the flower bridges, and two rows of musicians were playing music, making it quite lively. Behind the three sedan chairs was a gift team of nearly a thousand military academy soldiers. Two people in a group carried a big basket. The basket was filled with all kinds of things, including food, drinks, clothes, daily necessities, flowers to decorate the house, and even two puppies that were just born not long ago.

The items in these baskets included wedding gifts from the Koch family and dowry that Shelley prepared for himself, but most of them were gifts from the islanders. Ever since people knew that Lord Woolley was going to get married, they had been vying to send their gifts to the West Point Military Academy. In just a few days, a large warehouse in the academy was almost filled up. The ones carried out by the 1,000 soldiers for the parade were only a small part of them; the bulk had not yet been taken out.

As for the two newborn puppies, a fisherman thought the cute baby was lonely and specially selected them as companions for it...

After a long circle around the town, the three flower bridges stopped in front of Wu Lai's house. Amid the laughter and cheers of the people watching the ceremony, the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, and three brides in red dresses and red veils covering their heads got off the sedan chair under the guidance of the bridesmaids. Seeing this, the head of the Kochi family, who had been waiting in front of the house, finally put down the stone hanging in his heart. You know, he had only one purpose to guard the door of Wu Lai's house, that is, to help his beloved daughter Luo Li realize the dream of being the first to enter the house - this was actually Luo Li's request for him to do so, because Luo Li felt that whoever stepped into the door first would naturally have a higher status. Even if it was not the case in Wu Lai's mind, it must be the case in the eyes of outsiders, because everyone would think that the order of entering the door was the order of status.

Unexpectedly, Wu Lai not only played the trick of covering the bride with a red veil, but also arranged two bridesmaids to support and cover each bride. In this way, who could tell who came first and who came later?

What comforted Miscalculated Loli was that, although she couldn't see what was happening outside, she was sure that she was the first one to step through the door, which seemed to explain something...

Although it was a newlywed couple, they were all old friends, and the brides had to rest and take care of their pregnancies, so Wu Lai only did it symbolically for two days and then went back to being busy. Meng Bao really liked the two puppies and took them for a stroll around the town all day long. He was much happier than Wu Lai.

…

A month and a half later, a caravan of a hundred carts slowly drove into Salt Marsh City...

"Dear Governor Planci, I am Deleng, the head of the Greendo Island caravan, Deleng Kochi." The head of the caravan walked into Planci's office and introduced himself with a smile.

"De Leng Koch?" Plancy's eyebrows jumped slightly. "You are from the Koch family, right?"

"That's right." De Leng nodded.

"Please take a seat." Plansy gestured with his hand and asked, "I want to ask, are you and Gulukochi close relatives?"

"Yes, although I am only a few years older than him, he is my nephew." De answered with a sneer. In fact, he has always been highly valued in the family, but because he is not a legitimate son, he has always been busy with internal affairs and rarely has the opportunity to show himself and become famous. This time, he was able to replace Clee as the head of the Grindo Island caravan. It was a decision made by Wu Lai after listening to Loli's recommendation and personally evaluating him.

Therefore, De Leng was sincerely grateful to Wu Lai, because it was Wu Lai who gave him the opportunity to succeed. You know, although his father had passed away long ago, his mother was still alive. He had always been very filial to his mother, and for so many years he had been looking forward to an opportunity to make some achievements and make his mother proud in front of the clan members.

"So that's how it is. I just heard the guards' report saying that this time, you brought a hundred large carts at once, all of them heavy trucks. So... does Lord Wu Lai have any instructions?" asked Plancy.

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"Lord Wu Lai asked us to bring a lot of goods this time. In addition to cigarettes, glass, mirrors, and fish oil, there are also super flower fertilizers and weapons." De replied with a sneer.

"Oh? Weapons? Super fertilizer?" Plancy was stunned. Although cigarettes, glass and other things were in short supply in every city, they were not new to him. Instead, the weapons and super fertilizer were quite attractive. He was just curious about the fertilizer. As a warmonger, he was naturally more sensitive to weapons.

"Super flower fertilizer is only used to cultivate potted flowers. It's not expensive and very effective. But weapons are different. They are sharp offensive and defensive weapons designed and supervised by our Lord Wu Lai. The swords, shields and halberds are all made of iron, which are several times stronger than copper." As soon as De Leng made the introduction, Plancy couldn't help but get excited and stood up and shouted that he wanted to go and see the goods. De Leng had already invited him, and seeing that he was so proactive, he was naturally happy to save trouble.

Wu Lai's main product this time is iron. For swords, the most important mechanical properties are strength, hardness and toughness. If the hardness is too low, the toughness is good but the blade is easy to curl, such as the mainstream copper sword on the mainland. However, if the hardness is too high, the toughness becomes low and it is easy to break, such as the iron swords processed by some ordnance workshops using traditional methods.

Their iron swords are naturally not comparable to those produced on Greendo Island, because Woolley has the carbon blowing quenching process. Quenching is the simplest and most effective way to increase the hardness of steel, but it is only applicable to steel with a high carbon content. If the carbon content is too low, martensite will not form during quenching. The hardness of steel increases after quenching because martensite is obtained. However, the stress after quenching is too large, so tempering is required.

Although the hardness of the weapons produced in this way is sufficient, they are still very brittle. If the side is hit hard, it is easy to break. Wu Lai's solution is to thicken the body of the weapon. Although this will make the weapon heavy, the soldiers on the mainland are used to heavy weapons. Great swords and heavy swords are the mainstream. How can they break the enemy's large shield with such light weapons? However, the weapons that Wu Lai approved for sale cannot be compared with the carefully crafted ones by the craftsmen in the arsenal. They are all the result of mass production on the assembly line. Although the quality is inferior to that of refined products, they are definitely better than ordinary copper swords, and their sharpness is far better than that of copper swords.

De Leng demonstrated the iron sword in the simplest and crudest way - he casually took out a sharpened iron sword, and then asked Plancy's guard to draw out the bronze sword, and then slashed the sword blade against the sword blade three times in a row. Not only did the bronze sword have three fingertip-long cuts, but the surrounding sword blades were also chopped off. Then De Leng passed a large wooden shield, and after it was set up, he slashed it with force, and the large shield with copper bars on it suddenly cracked...

"How many are there? What's the price? Can I have them all?" Plancy's eyes lit up.

De Leng smiled slightly and replied, "Lord Wu Lai has instructed that if you sell it to others, you can get four and a half times the weight of copper. If it is Lord Plansi who wants it, four times will do. Lord Plansi, the cost of this weapon is about three and a half times the weight of copper. You know that Lord Wu Lai has a large group of people under his command who need to be supported."

"I know that." Plan nodded, frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and waved his hand, "I'll go by the price your Lord Wu Lai said, but I don't have that many coppers on hand. Can I use cotton cloth, silk or something like that to pay for part of the payment?"

De Leng showed an embarrassed expression: "Lord Planci, our Lord Wu Lai never explained this, and we are already able to be self-sufficient in the things you mentioned, so…"

"You can keep it for your own use, and you can also sell it somewhere else. So, I will charge you 75% of the market price for my goods, and I will buy all the ironware on your island, and you are not allowed to sell it anywhere else. How about that?" Plancy said quickly.

After hesitating for a while, De Leng smiled bitterly and nodded: "Well... okay, but I have a request."

"Speak." Plancy was delighted when he saw De Leng nod.

"I hope Lord Plancy can give me a letter explaining that it was your initiative to propose using cotton and silk as payment for the goods. Otherwise, the lord might misunderstand me." De Leng said with a bitter face, but he was secretly happy in his heart. Before setting off, Wu Lai had explained that the bottom line for the price of weapons was to exchange for two and a half times the copper. Just now, when he saw Plancy was excited, he raised the price a little. He didn't expect that the other party would agree so readily and was willing to use cotton and silk, which were in short supply on the island, to pay for the goods at a low price.

"That's no problem at all." Plansy laughed. "Come on, you must be tired after all the travel. I'll treat you to a meal and a drink first, then everyone can have a good rest tonight and we'll trade tomorrow."

"I will follow Lord Plancy's arrangements." De Leng said with a smile.

…

Six days later, after completing the transaction with Plancy, De Leng left Saltmarsh City. After instructing his deputy to escort the convoy back to the island first, he took only five carts and more than ten followers and set out on the horse road to Longvington City.

"Master Deleng, are we going to Longvington to sell flower fertilizer?" asked one of Deleng's close followers curiously.

"Yeah." De Leng nodded. "Although the population of Salt Marsh City is larger than before, there are still very few citizens. Super flower fertilizer can only be sold in places like Lunvington City."

Although this was his answer, the actual situation was not like that - before he left, Wu Lai had arranged a secret mission for him, which was related to trade but not limited to trade. De Leng did not dare to let others know.

"Lord Wu Lai is so amazing, he seems to know everything. And the school he built, sir, my two children will be able to go to school in two months." The follower's face was filled with a happy smile.

Deleng smiled but said nothing, but in his heart he was thinking - yes, he is a God-given all-rounder, he knows everything and can do everything well. If I can follow him, I, Deleng Keqi, will definitely achieve great success, just like David...