They say your illegitimate child is worthless, yet you rebel with seven wives?

"Perhaps I need to change my mindset..."

Xie Changming, who had initially felt very aggrieved, suddenly came to his senses. Perhaps this wasn't an insult to him, but rather... an opportunity.

Even Xie Changyun supports Su Luo; this mysterious young master might actually have something to rely on.

Rebellion... is basically impossible, but once his strength has developed to a certain level, if I surrender now, I will reap considerable benefits!

Anyway, I've already been "forced" onto the ship!

Why overthink it?!

Thinking this, Xie Changming's fighting spirit soared. If Su Luo really succeeded in his grand scheme, the position of city lord of Feiyun City...

What does it matter?!

……

Flying Cloud City, City Lord's Mansion.

City Lord Xie Mingkong frowned as he looked at the two letters.

"Feixia Town and Yunhai Town have both applied for the same warhorse? What happened over there? Why are the warhorses suffering such heavy losses?"

Xie Mingkong considered not giving out this batch of warhorses. Other things were negotiable, but warhorses were too precious, as they were genuine war supplies.

Although Feixia Town and Yunhai Town jointly applied for only one hundred warhorses, giving them those one hundred warhorses would mean Feiyun City would lose one hundred cavalrymen!

One hundred cavalrymen are more valuable than one thousand infantrymen!

However, as the city lord of Feiyun City, Xie Mingkong was undoubtedly the number two figure unless Si Nanhou came to Feiyun City in person.

However, even he had to obey the Xie family head.

If it were just Xie Changming's application, he could easily brush it off, and even have the right to give him a few harsh words... After all, Xie Changming is just a collateral relative.

However, Xie Changyun has already applied!

"Third Young Master..." Xie Mingkong was somewhat gloomy, but in the end, he could only write two words: Approved!

However, after the approval letter was sent out, Xie Mingkong still felt very uncomfortable. It was one thing for the Xie family patriarch to be like this, but now even his son was going to try to control him?

Thinking this, he summoned his men and said in a deep voice, "This time, when you transport the warhorses to Yunhai Town, make sure they don't just come back like this!"

The subordinate immediately understood Xie Mingkong's meaning and said, "Don't worry, Lord City Lord. The mayors of Feixia Town and Yunhai Town asked for a hundred warhorses from us, but gave us nothing else..."

"I will make them understand that the warhorses of our Flying Cloud City are not so easy to take."

This subordinate had served Xie Mingkong for many years and knew his character well. If Xie Changyun and Xie Changming were to include some gold and silver treasures when applying for warhorses...

Perhaps Xie Mingkong's expression wouldn't be so bad.

But relying on just two letters is going too far.

Xie Mingkong glanced at him and said calmly, "I heard that Xie Changming is selling official positions in Feixia Town. You should investigate him thoroughly."

"Third Young Master..."

He paused briefly, then sighed, "The Third Young Master has performed exceptionally well; he must have a use for this warhorse, so there's no need to investigate too thoroughly."

The subordinate accepted the order and left, mobilizing two hundred soldiers from Flying Cloud City to escort the warhorses.

"Hmph, it's only because you provided the Mo family with a lot of miners that we're doing this..."

Xie Mingkong thought to himself, "But you'd better not get into any trouble... otherwise, it won't be so easy for you to come looking for me again..."

……

After visiting the military camp in Feixia Town, Su Luo and the others returned to Xiaoyun Village.

After landing, before he could even properly spend time with his seven wives, he received news that Xie Mingkong had agreed to send him a hundred warhorses!

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Luo immediately went to Langya Mountain.

"If we can get these hundred warhorses, plus those from Yunhai Town and Feixia Town, we can gather several dozen more... and there are also some warhorses that Langya Mountain and Ye Hu brought before..."

"There will be a total of three hundred warhorses!"

A smile crept onto Su Luo's lips. Once these three hundred warhorses were successfully assembled into a cavalry, it would be enough for a long time!

After all, generally speaking, even the soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty were mostly infantry!

Of a thousand infantrymen, there would be no more than a hundred cavalrymen...

Su Luo now commands over two thousand men, regardless of rank (first, second, or third class). However, he also has three hundred cavalry!

Coupled with their superior equipment, they are practically an invincible army!

Even an army of ten thousand might not be a match for Su Luo in a head-on battle!

The Yanhuang Army is growing rapidly!

Su Luo, however, did not notice that when he was about to leave, Ye Lin's face was full of unspoken words.

Yun Shuxian stepped forward, her gaze deep, and said to Ye Lin, "Linlin, please tell me about this village..."

Ye Lin was helpless; it seemed she couldn't continue to speak well of Su Luo. His seven wives were about to be exposed to Yun Shuxian…

She could only hope that Yun Shuxian wouldn't get too agitated, and even more so, that she wouldn't force her to leave Su Luo.

……

Langya Mountain is currently being guarded by Shen Laosan.

He used to be an accountant, and now he is the second-in-command of the Su Luo Workshop, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about anything else besides the workshop's affairs.

On the contrary, the fact that Langya Mountain was a space that could be used to "conduct experiments" made Shen Laosan very satisfied.

He also became more attentive to all matters concerning Langya Mountain.

Even in training troops, this was one of the more outstanding areas under Su Luo's command.

"Young master, what did you say?"

Upon hearing that Su Luo planned to seize warhorses, Shen Laosan was immediately surprised. "Seizing warhorses? That will cause a huge upheaval!"

“Warhorses are no ordinary objects; if any are lost, Feiyun City will definitely take notice…”

"At that time, it's very likely that the troops stationed in the four towns will come to investigate!"

Su Luo smiled and said, "Uncle Shen, of course I understand what you're saying, but if we succeed, our strength will increase significantly!"

"You don't want to stay cooped up in Langya Mountain forever, do you? This tiny place will only hinder our operations!"

"We've created so many great things, we can't just limit our sights to the small Wolf Fang Mountain!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Laosan's expression changed immediately, and he said, "Young Master, then... can we use explosives?"

"Actually, if we were to use explosives, even with our current strength, we could take Flying Cloud City directly!"

When he said this, Shen Laosan was extremely excited. Clearly, he had great confidence in the explosives.

In reality, what he was thinking about was not attacking Feiyun City, but rather attacking the Sinan Marquis's mansion in Linshui County directly...

All of this was because the explosives Su Luo took out were too terrifying!

Su Luo shook her head, "Not for now!"

"Because explosives are too uncontrollable, they can easily kill a thousand enemies but also lose eight hundred of your own... In the short term, we can only use them as a last resort, to fight to the death!"

"Let's do this first about plundering warhorses. We'll deal with any problems that arise later!"