Chapter 768
"I forged this batch of weapons to test the performance of steel essence."
Zhao Yu walked under the weapon rack and took out a bite of eight. Face the sword, draw the sword out of its sheath, sword light feels chilling: "It looks good now. If you like it, you can take a bite. I have to give it to Meng De, I am afraid it will not be easy to get."
The first batch of steel essence produced was smelted by Zhao Yu himself, and the weapons were also made by himself. Even if steel essence is produced in large quantities in the future, in terms of quality, it will be even worse than the first batch. These weapons, Zhao Yu, are useless. Once they are handed over to Cao Mengde, they will definitely be treasured by Cao Mengde. Only after his subordinates have the merits can they be rewarded.
Xiahou Dun and Cao Chun understood that they were happy now, and not greedy. Xiahou Dun chose the long spear in his hand, while Cao Chun put down the eight-sided sword and exchanged for the horse-cutting sword.
"many thanks Mr. Zhao for giving divine armament!"
Xiahou Dun held his spear and arched his hands, and Cao Chun followed it.
Zhao Yu waved his hand, indifferently saying: "Weapon is a weapon of killing, and I am not on the battlefield. It was originally for you."
Then the three of them returned again. study. Xiahoudun had two weapons, and they couldn't put it down and didn't want to let go.
There was another chat, Xiahou Dun said: "This gun is the most eye-catching, but a little heavier. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a lighter long spear in the library."
It's quite a pity.
With the strength of Xiahou Dun, a 50-60 catties iron gun is just suitable, but this long spear weighs 80 to 90 kg. It does not matter if the time is short, but it is not suitable for the battlefield.
Zhao Yu slightly smiled: “It’s okay, it’s okay, you will surely let Yuan Renshi move this gun in the future.”
At noon, Zhao Yu asked the grandmother to make a big meal. All kinds of dishes made Xiahoudun both swallow their tongues.
"This is the potato?"
Xiahou Dun can’t help asking because of the wonderful food.
Zhao Yu nodded: "Exactly. This potato has a high yield and is the best to satisfy your hunger. It tastes good when you cook it."
"It really is a good thing!"
Xiahoudun and Cao Chun could not leave the army for a long time, and they had to leave after dinner. Zhao Yu sent them to outside the village, saying: "Everything is about, Meng De already knows it. The two of you have been in your mind during this period of time. In order to train the army, once Meng De came to dominate the East County, he immediately controlled the important land in the East County. In this East County, also Qiaolai is die-hard. Since Wang Kui is coming, let him take the lead and stab him. Let’s clean up a batch. Puyang City has been keeping my eyelids down. When Wang Hu pulls out some thorns, I will have my own way to deal with the others."
"Thank you, sir!"
The two turned on their horses and left eagerly.
When I leave the core area of Zhao Family Village and walk around, I can see the shadows of craftsmen who build canals and roads, and farmers who grow potatoes and various crops everywhere. The entire tens of thousands of acres of land is completely different from the outside.
Xiahou Dun sighed again and again: "Mr. Zhao Guoshi, Meng De can get the help of Mr. Zhao, I do not know that it is the blessing of Xiahou Family and Cao Family in a few lifetimes."
Cao Chun nodded, deeply agreeing: "If Mr. Zhao's Zhuangzi is built, when Mengde enters the East County, the entire East County will have Heaven and Earth turning upside down. When the time comes, I don’t know what kind of flourishing age. What a sight."
"The eldest brother also asked me to tell Yuanren's big brother not to be evil, Mr. Zhao. How can Yuanren's big brother have ideas at this time?"
"Fortunately Even!"
Xiahou Dun said with a smile: "What about..."
He looked rather inexplicable: "This Mr. Zhao is not a weak scholar."
Cao Chun laughed heartily: "Of course not. Yuanrang, do you still believe that Mr. Zhao is immortal?"
"This...I don't believe it, but Mr. Even if Zhao is not immortal, I don’t know how much it exceeds immortal in my eyes."
"In this matter, I don’t want to write a long letter to tell the older brother." Cao Chun said, "You said the older brother sees the letter." , Believe it or not?"
Xiahou Dun hearing this, couldn’t help laughing: "It doesn’t need to be in my opinion."
"oh?"
"Just give Meng De had a pleasant surprise. When the time comes, when Meng De kisses, I wonder if the eyeballs will fall out?"
"Oh? Hahaha..."
The two laughed Away.
In the following days, every half month, Xiahou Dun and Cao Chun always came to Zhaozhuang. And every time I came, the Zhao Zhuang I saw was completely different from the last time.
When the news came that Sun Jian was defeated by Xu Rong, the whole Zhaozhuang, more than 50,000 acres of land, was already green and secluded. Cement roads extend in all directions and water canals extend in all directions. Waterwheels stand in the fields, carrying the water in the canals to every corner.
At the same time, it is finally raining.
Nowadays, there are ten cement kilns. Except for the cement used by Zhaozhuang itself, the cement of the overwhelming majority is hoarded in several huge warehouses.
In addition to the mother furnace, there are only three steelmaking blast furnaces. There is no way, the raw materials can't keep up, and building too many is useless, and that's it for the time being. However, the hoarding of steel essence has exceeded thousands of tons. This is only half the amount. Of the steel essence produced in each furnace, half of it was ordered by Zhao Yu to build weapon armor.
In the entire Puyang area, 70% to 80% of the craftsmen were gathered by Zhao Yu. Today, more than 5,000 sets of finished weapon armors and 100,000 arrows are lying quietly in the warehouse.
With these armors, you can assemble a steel army at will.
"This year's rice cannot be eaten." Zhao Yu is telling Zhang Wang: "Tell the farmer that rice should be kept as seeds. You must know that our village is actually a Place of Origin. And there are, whether it’s potatoes, wheat, rice, or even peppers, how many seeds can be retained, which will be useful in the future..."
Last year, due to the season, no rice was sown, but this year Years later, the seeds that Zhao Yu cultivated in the small world of primal chaos beads were only a few thousand acres.
This Zhuangzi, Zhao Yu is used as a model and seed base. Any kind of primal chaos beads small world cultivated crops can retain as many seeds as possible. How big the world is and the seeds needed are all here.
Zhang Wang expressed his understanding: "Yes, the boss. After I get down, I will communicate one after another."
"en." Zhao Yu nodded, just about to continue, Wang Tian Knocked on the door: "East house."
Zhao Yu stopped talking and looked up: "Come in."
Wang Tian came in: "East house, Wang Taishou came to visit."
p>"oh?"
Zhao Yu hearing this, his expression couldn't help but moved slightly: "So, our Wang Taishou has pulled out all the thorns in Puyang City?"
p>Wang Tian said: "The boss, according to Brother Baili, the first person in Puyang City to jump out to confront the Wang Taishou has been pulled out."
"First..." Zhao Yu laughed: "That is, is also hidden under the water?"
"Yes, Dongjia. Seven or eight of the rich family in Puyang City refused to accept this Wang Taishou."
Zhao Yu hearing this, shook his head slightly: "I am afraid that the prefect Wang doesn't know yet. I probably thought he was relieved."
At the beginning of the new year, Wang Kui came to Puyang to take up his post. For these two or three months, I have been fighting against the wealthy families in the city. But now that he has free time to visit Zhao Yu, it shows that he thinks he has mastered Puyang.
Zhao Yu has nothing to do with the rich family in the city, and hardly interact with each other. In the past few months, there has been some discord secretly, and it is the changes in Zhao Zhuang that have attracted covetousness. But Zhao Yu calmly dismissed them. Dianwei has a hundred guards. Although there are not many people, they are not any cat or dog. No matter what his methods are, Zhao Yu doesn't care.
A few days ago, the Natural Residence in the city was smashed several times, but the person who started it fed the dog on the same day. Zhao Yu didn't directly act on the mastermind behind the attacker, because Zhao Yu knew that the relationship between the rich and the family is inextricably linked, and which one touched a little is to move the whole body.
At least before Cao Mengde entered the East County, Zhao Yu would not do anything to them. Just kill chickens and monkeys, cut off their paws, and frighten them.
Probably this Wang Taishou also knows that Zhao Yu, a tyrant outside the city, has little to do with the wealthy family in the city. Therefore, when the Wang Taishou was fighting against the tyrants, Zhao Yu was not involved. I'm afraid that I might have some purpose when I came to visit at this time.
"Hurry up, please."
Zhao Yu changed his mind and went out to meet him.
Wang Kui was not a pure literati, or in the Han Dynasty, there was no pure literati.
There are many people who go to war and dismount to rule the country.
For example, Lu Zhi, such as Huang Fusong, or Zhu Jun, are both civil and military characters.
Those scholars, if anyone can't play a double-handed sword, then they are not qualified. Compared with the degraded scholars who were unable to restrain the chicken hundreds of years later, the literati of the Han Dynasty were much stronger.
At least, the eight-faced sword is heavy and has considerable combat ability. Degenerate into a kind of fluttering sword used for decoration, completely different from later generations.
It's all nonsense to say that the sword walks lightly. What does the sword do? kill. The Han sword is probably the pinnacle of the killing sword. It degenerates later. The Han sword is a two-handed sword with a long hilt and a thick body. It is not waiting to kill people.
This Wang Taishou looked at Qingzhu, but his palm joints were thick and his skin was rough. He must be a figure from the army.
In fact, it is true that Wang Kui is a general under Liu Dai's command.
"The monarch is coming, why don't you send someone to notify me, I'm so early to greet him!"
The head of a county is generally called the county honor, a county The length is called the prefect or the prefect, or directly called the prefect. As for the term "adult", it was only started during the Ming and Qing dynasties of later generations. In this age, adults are the honorific name for father.
Wang Hu said with a smile: "The prefect came here for the first time, and it is time to visit the place. Mr. Zhao has said that he is serious."
"Man, please."
"Please."
So he entered the manor.
After that, there was also some nonsense.
The main purpose of Wang Hu is to test Zhao Yu and see what Zhao Yu thinks about the rich family in the city.
In this regard, Zhao Yu made no secrets and despised it.
It fits Wang Hu's taste.
Apart from this, I just want Zhao Yu to support him.
In this regard, Zhao Yu is vague and does not reply directly.
Even so, when Wang Hu left, he was still more satisfied.
For this Zhao Family Village, whether it is the rich family in the city, ordinary commoners, or the Wang Taishou, they are very curious. Especially after witnessing this Zhao Family Zhuang which is completely different from other places, Wang Brau thinks more.
But before he realized his idea, the bad news came.