Work hard without complaining? Hard work pays off?
I am an old man, but I am ambitious for a thousand miles?
What the hell?
Xiao Zongshui, Li Hongyuan and others turned their heads and ignored Zhou Shu.
After getting along these days, they had long been surprised by Zhou Shu's weird words from time to time, but who made him have Shang Fang's sword now?
Even if you see him unhappy, you have to endure it.
"Master Xiao, please take Zhang Yibei and others to Workshop No. 97."
"Master Li, Wu Laoliu is yours."
"Mr. Zhang, these apprentices will be left to you for the time being."
"..."
Zhou Shu assigned the weapon-making apprentices to the various principals, and then said, "Everyone should follow the plan. If any principal does not cooperate, tell me and I will solve it!"
All the principals rolled their eyes. They have been working here for several days with humiliation. Who would give up halfway?
At worst, if you endure it for another month, isn’t it just like being a cow or a horse? Who can’t do that?
When this mission is completed, please get as far away as you can from Zhou. I never want to see you again!
Xiao Zongshui, Li Hongyuan and other principals left Workshop Zero with the weapon-casting apprentices assigned to them without looking back.
After everyone left, Zhou Shu returned to the smelting furnace and prepared to continue forging soldiers himself.
In the past few days, he has been training Zhang Yibei and others, and his own progress in forging soldiers has been delayed.
The number of zanma swords has only reached half now, and there is still some distance between them and a hundred.
He had just picked up the hammer and before he started casting, he heard a loud voice outside the door.
"Old Zhou, I came to see you. Long time no see. Did you miss me?"
Sun Pingping's figure walked in from the door along with the sound.
"Oh, I haven't seen you for a few days, your place has really changed a lot."
"Why are you here?"
Zhou Shu said.
He had not seen Sun Ping Ping again since the last time he forged a horse-killing sword in public.
At first, he thought that Sun Pingping was feeling guilty for not inviting Yin Wuyou for him and was too embarrassed to come to him.
Thinking about it later, Sun Ping Ping was so thick-skinned that there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
"You don't seem to welcome me here."
Sun Pingping said, "It's really sad. I treat you as a brother, but you-"
"Are you trying to say that I originally set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch?"
Zhou Shu said angrily.
"Hey, that's what it means."
Sun Pingping chuckled, "Old Zhou, do you still have such literary talent?"
"I originally set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch. It's really good. That's what I'll say from now on!"
"Okay, stop talking about those useless things and tell me what's going on."
Zhou Shu said, "Don't ask me to borrow money. I really have no money now. Did you see here that I owe a lot of debt to build this place?"
"Look at your potential!"
Sun Pingping gave him a look and said, "Don't worry, I won't ask you to borrow money!"
"I came to you to help me forge weapons!"
"I knew you wouldn't go to the Three Treasures Palace for anything!"
Zhou Shu said, "Looking for me to forge weapons? You are not mistaken, right? I am not a weapons forger yet, and I cannot forge high-quality weapons."
Sun Pingping is already a ninth-grade warrior. For first-grade warriors, standard weapons cannot bring out their strength, so most of the weapons used by first-grade warriors are first-grade weapons.
Of course, except for those who have no money to buy high-end weapons...
"I've thought about it. Instead of using a low-quality high-end weapon, I might as well temporarily use a high-quality standard weapon."
Sun Pingping shook his head and said, "So, I have decided that before I save enough money to ask someone to help me cast a suitable high-end weapon, I will use standard weapons first!"
"Isn't that easy to handle? Doesn't your Divine Catcher Division also have standard weapons?"
Zhou Shu said, "I remember that Workshop No. 56 specializes in supplying standard weapons to the Divine Catcher Division. Swords, guns, swords and halberds are not just for you to use."
"I don't like those things, they are not worthy of my status!"
Sun Pingping waved his hand and said, "Old Zhou, we have such a good relationship, do you think you will help me forge a unique weapon?"
"Be more powerful and domineering, worthy of my status as a divine catcher."
"Look, you helped the Hu Ben Army forge the Huben Sword, and you helped the Daxia cavalry forge the Bailian Huanshou Sword, and even the infantry had a horse-cutting sword..."
"Our God Catcher Division is much richer than them. If you help us forge a unique standard weapon, we will never let you suffer."
Sun Pingping talked nonstop.
Zhou Shu had a dark line, "I said Sun Dashen, do you think it is so easy to develop a weapon? You want it if you want it?"
"No, it can't be done!"
Zhou Shu simply refused.
"No, I'm here to talk to you seriously."
Sun Pingping said, "It is now being spread outside that you are a weapon-making wizard who is rare to see in a century in Great Xia. Even His Majesty has recognized it. Isn't such a trivial matter easy for you?"
Zhou Shu looked at Sun Pingping with a strange expression. His eyes made Sun Pingping a little uncomfortable.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Something is wrong, something is very wrong!"
Zhou Shu muttered.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Pingping wondered.
"This is not your style!"
Zhou Shu touched his chin and said, "When did you, Master Sun, ever compliment me like this? If you praise me, the sun will rise from the west!"
Sun Ping Ping always claims to be a genius. When did he surpass others and become a once-in-a-century genius?
"Old Zhou, you have no conscience."
Sun Pingping called Qu Dao, "I used to think you were very good at making soldiers. Otherwise, I would treat you as a brother?"
"Can my brother, Sun Ping Ping, be an ordinary person?"
"Stop it!"
Zhou Shu quickly said, it is indeed the same Sun Pingyi!
"Tell me first, what happened! What do you mean His Majesty also approved it? Why did you suddenly come to me to help you make soldiers!"
Sun Ping Ping is actually a proud and arrogant person at heart. Previously, Zhou Shu suggested that he would help Sun Ping Ping cast weapons after he became a weapons forger, but Sun Ping Ping never took the initiative.
To put it bluntly, it was because he didn’t quite believe in Zhou Shu’s strength.
Now he came to Zhou Shu Zhu Bing for no reason. If he said there was nothing going on here, Zhou Shu would never believe it!
With Sun Pingping's vision, he couldn't even look down on ordinary weapon builders. He had to be at least a senior weapon builder to catch his eye. Would he take the initiative to find Zhou Shu to build weapons?
"Lao Zhou, this is not a good habit of yours." Sun Pingping said, "Brother, I am here to bring you business. What do you mean by doubting me?"
"Thank you."
Zhou Shu said, "But I'm too busy right now and I don't have time to do your business. How about you hire someone else?"
"Hell!" Sun Pingping muttered, "I knew it wouldn't be that easy. That guy Lao Ma still insisted on letting me come."
"Okay, it doesn't matter if I tell you, you will know it soon anyway!"
Sun Pingping said, "Your Majesty has authorized you to participate in next year's military parade in Daxia!"
"As a soldier-making apprentice, you are the first person to be allowed to participate in military parades and martial arts exercises since the founding of Daxia!"
"If His Majesty hadn't seen that you are a rare soldier-making genius, would you have made such a decision?"
"I know what that guy, Lao Ma, is thinking. He wants to build a good relationship with you before you get rich. I said it's unnecessary for him. We are brothers, do we still need to have a good relationship?"
Sun Pingping kept talking, and Zhou Shu was stunned for a while.
He had heard of the military parade in Daxia before. It was a preview of Daxia's military exercises for the Ten Kingdoms, and it was also a grand event in Daxia.
The military parades of the Ten Kingdoms were held once every ten years, while the military parades of the Great Xia were held once every five years. This was a system established by the Great Xia court in order to maintain the martial arts style of the Great Xia.
Next year happens to be the year of the Great Xia military parade and martial arts exercises, and it is also the year of the ten-nation martial arts exercises.
Daxia's military parades and military exercises were actually divided into two parts, one was the military parade and the other was the military exercises.
The so-called military parade refers to the high-level officials of the Daxia court reviewing Daxia’s weapons and equipment.
The military performance is for the three armies of Daxia to show their strength.
Generally speaking, it has the same meaning as Zhou Shu’s military parade in his previous life.
"I am from the Weaponry Division, isn't it normal to participate in the military parade?"
Zhou Shu said strangely.
"Normal shit!"
Sun Pingping said, "When did you hear that apprentices in military casting are eligible to participate in military parades?"
"I've heard about it. I've heard people say that a weapon-casting apprentice developed a new weapon at a military parade, and was then rewarded by His Majesty with the secret recipe for forging a high-quality weapon..."
"Where did you hear the gossip?"
Sun Pingping rolled his eyes and said, "How can it be possible for an apprentice soldier to cast soldiers during a military parade?"
"Let me tell you, during the military parade, although standard weapons will be inspected, they are all cast in advance by the Weapons Foundry Department. Weapon Foundry Apprentices are not qualified to participate in the military parade!"
"Only military forgers, senior military forgers and master craftsmen are qualified to forge weapons at the military parade ceremony!"
"So you know how exaggerated it is for His Majesty to allow you, an apprentice soldier, to participate in the military parade?"
Zhou Shu raised his eyebrows. He had only heard about the military parade before, but he really didn’t know the details.
"Is it an exaggeration?"
Zhou Shu said that he didn't care much. With his ability, isn't it normal for him to participate in the military parade?
"You——"
Sun Pingping gave him a thumbs up and told him to pretend!
"Stop talking nonsense, Lao Zhou, just tell me whether you can help my brother or not!"
Sun Pingping said angrily, "You have climbed onto His Majesty's high branches, and you look down on your brothers?"
"Can you talk properly?"
Zhou Shu rolled his eyes and said, "It's not that I don't help, it's that I can't help!"
"It's not that easy to develop a new standard weapon. Although I am a genius, I can't just cast it."
"Besides, I still have tasks assigned by General Meng, and I don't have time for them in the past month."
"At most, I promise you that if there is a suitable opportunity later, I will develop a unique weapon for your God Catcher Division. Is that okay?"
"This is what you said!"
Sun Pingping thought for a while, and it was indeed true. How could it be so easy to develop new standard weapons? Weaponsmith, but it has not produced new weapons for many years.
"What I said is that once a man's words are broken, they are hard to follow!"
Zhou Shudao.
"I knew you were a brother!"
Sun Pingping laughed loudly, "Let's go, brother, I'll buy you a drink!"
"No——"
Just when Zhou Shu was about to refuse, he suddenly froze on the spot.