Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 547 - 481

Yu Xiaolian wanted to continue working on the nails and was thinking of a way to send Su Jinghua and Sun Manyue away, when she saw Fang Cao hurrying over to relay a message.

"Madam, the master said that a barricade wall should be set up several tens of steps outside the city gate, and a watchtower should be erected, needing a height of two zhang.

The wall will be on top of the watchtower, with a height of one zhang and three chi, a base thickness of eight chi, tapering three chi at the top, and extending three or two zhang over both ends to block conflicts."

Fang Cao was considered to be the most educated among the maids of the Su Family, so she could clearly remember what Su Jingchen had said.

"The master also said that this way, the opening and closing of the gate wouldn’t be known from outside, even if they break into the wall, stone cannons from the city will rain down, and the sheep and horse walls on both sides can attack the enemy from both sides."

"Hmm, did the master instruct anything else?" Yu Xiaolian asked.

She decided that if there were any eavesdropping needed in the future, she’d send Fang Cao, as the ability to relay everything word for word was quite impressive.

"The master instructed the government officials to assist in building the walls, and for us maids and servants to gather kerosene and... sewage from each household in the city." Fang Cao was a bit puzzled when she said the word sewage.

The master didn’t say what the sewage was for, she thought, but couldn’t figure it out.

In short, it must be related to defending against the enemy.

When Yu Xiaolian heard that Su Jingchen wanted to gather sewage, she immediately understood his plan. It seemed Su Jingchen intended to use the sewage to make golden juice.

The method for making golden juice is like this: Dig a big pit every ten stacks, set an iron pot on the pit, and empty the wastes of the stackers into it.

When the enemy attacks the city, boil the sewage with firewood and splash it down with ladles, causing severe skin pain and death on contact.

Another method is to fill a wooden bucket or crate or bottle, and when the enemy is at the base of the city, spray it with the sewage or pour it over their heads, soaking them and making the city walls too slippery to climb.

This method, though smelly, is still very effective.

However... Yu Xiaolian decided that as soon as this method was used at the city gate, she would stay far away.

"Madam, if there are no further instructions, I need to get busy; Xincao and Xiangcao are still waiting for me!"

Yu Xiaolian waved her hand, "Go ahead and get busy!"

Fang Cao turned and left.

Yu Xiaolian put on a troubled expression, "My head feels a bit dizzy, I want to sleep for a while!"

"Then sister-in-law, you should lie down quickly, I’ll massage your head, so you can rest peacefully!" Su Jinghua said as she came over to assist Yu Xiaolian.

Yu Xiaolian waved her hand, "No need for a massage, I’m afraid it will make it even harder for me to sleep. You all go out, I’ll just lie down for a while."

Yu Xiaolian was not only concerned with making nails, but also wanted to check if other places in the space had undergone upgrades.

After all, it was one hundred thousand taels of silver, only for such a trivial upgrade, which seemed a bit of a rip-off for her.

Is it easy for a lady to save one hundred thousand taels of silver!!!

Once Su Jinghua and Sun Manyue left, Yu Xiaolian quickly closed the door and entered the space.

She eagerly checked for any changes in the space, yet after examining the entire supermarket, she found no changes apart from the added eavesdropping function?

Unwilling to give up, Yu Xiaolian ran to the backyard.

Damn!!!

Her home garage appeared, and Yu Xiaolian excitedly found the key for the garage roller door. She opened the garage door and found her dad’s usual cargo car, the Wuling Divine Vehicle, and the big competition car in the garage, which made Yu Xiaolian really happy.

Even if it couldn’t be taken out as a means of transport, cruising on a motorcycle in her backyard was still great!

It’s been a long time since she felt the thrill of holding the steering wheel, and Yu Xiaolian couldn’t wait to sit in the driver’s seat. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The engine started successfully, the car could move, it was great.

If she could drive the car back to Luocheng, that would be even better, Yu Xiaolian suppressed her excited thoughts.

After driving around the supermarket backyard, she parked the car back in the garage, wandered around the second floor, and finding no other upgrades in the space, Yu Xiaolian went back to picking nails.

After Yu Xiaolian picked out as many as two large bags of nails, Su Jingchen took them to the front yard at night, followed by the sound of pounding filling the front yard, as everyone was making nail boards overnight.

As Su Jingchen prepared for the enemy, he sent He Jian to investigate the battle situation near Linzhou.

The Hu army had besieged the city, and Jun Mobai, with only five thousand troops, remained unflustered.

He connected the cement plants near the junction of the two countries Hu and Liang and captured the Hu Kingdom’s citizens for corvée labor to heighten the tension between the two nations.

From abandoning the cement factory to giving up two cities, Jun Mobai lured the Hu army all the way to Linzhou City.

Though abandoning the citizens of those two cities was a no-choice measure, his skeptical emperor uncle, only willing to move after seeing big consequences, forced Jun Mobai to create chaos to grab the troops from Li Guangpu.

However, the Hu army moved forward fiercely, showing an unstoppable trend, and the situation seemed to spiral out of control.

Jun Mobai started to panic!

Linzhou is where his residence is, and he didn’t intend to give it up. His original plan was to hold Linzhou to the death, waiting for Li Guangpu to bring reinforcements.

He wondered if Fu Tong had arrived in Jinzhou by now?

The reinforcement army needs to arrive quickly!

The Hu army had about fifteen thousand men, their goal was straightforward and brutal, to break into Linzhou City, and plunder it to make the so-called Lord of Linzhou witness their might.

The general leading the Hu army was a burly man with a full beard, named Tingmao. Tingmao was robust, tall, strong-boned and muscular, and the strongest and most powerful warrior among the young generation of the Hu Kingdom.

The Hu Kingdom, like Meng Country, was a nomadic nation, but neither in population nor in livestock did it compare to Meng Country.

Although Meng Country was also a nomadic nation, it was located in the warm Southern Border, where it was spring all year round with lush grass and abundant herds.

In contrast, the Hu Kingdom was much worse off, as it had a very short summer, with only about seventy to eighty days of warm weather throughout the year, the rest of the days were either windy springs and autumns or bone-chilling winters.

Every winter, a large number of cattle, horses, and sheep in the Hu Kingdom would freeze to death, especially the young calves and lambs that had just been born, only a small portion could survive the bitterly cold, frosty winter.

In the past hundred years, there had been fewer and fewer women in the Hu Kingdom, forcing the Hu people to practice wife-sharing.

The practice of wife-sharing did not significantly improve the situation of a shortage of women, so the Hu Kingdom sent emissaries to present their ’national treasures’ to Jun Tingye.

With that ’national treasure’, the Hu Kingdom successfully exchanged over a hundred young and beautiful women from Great Liang, but this was not enough to solve the crisis of the decreasing population in Hu Kingdom.

However, the Hu Kingdom couldn’t gain any advantage over the Great General Li Guangpu. Each time they harassed the border citizens of Great Liang, they would be chased and heavily beaten by Li Guangpu, and over time, a deep-seated fear of Li Guangpu was ingrained in them.