The belly of the fish in the east is white, and the sky is gradually brightening.

When the first rays of morning light rose, 2,100 farmers lined up in a long line waiting to be screened. Cao Cao came specially to watch how Wen Chou selected troops.

Because they had just dropped their hoes, these peasants still had a strong personal style, and when they lined up, they still exchanged words with each other.

Wen Chou raised his head suddenly, looked around and glared angrily. Those who whispered, intimidated by the power of Wen Chou, were busy and closed their mouths.

A cowhide drum was vigorously beaten by Wen Chou for a while, and the rumbling drum sounded like thunder.

"I only need a thousand soldiers who meet the standard, and I don't want any more, just because Cao Gong can't afford to raise him. "Wen Chou's opening remarks are simple and clear.

laughed loudly, and after getting along for more than ten days, they were all grateful to Cao Cao for being able to eat three meals a day, although one dry and two rare were much better than in other landlords' homes.

Salt is a valuable item at this time, and its price is higher than gold.

The fish are caught by farmers from the river with large fishing nets in the time and space cloud merchants, and two super large fishing nets are pulled against each other, catching at least 1,000 catties of fish at a time. There are five or six thousand catties of fish in a day, and if you can't eat them at one meal, you can only drown them with salt, otherwise they won't stink in summer.

"People don't believe it, but it's true. Wen Chou said eloquently: "My soldiers eat dry rice three times a day, eat a pound of fatty meat, and drink wine once every seven days, do you think Cao Gong can raise it?"

"Eat dry rice three times a day, eat a pound of fatty meat, and drink wine once a day!" the two thousand and one hundred peasants were inspired, swallowing saliva in their throats and their eyes glowing green. I haven't had this kind of day before the Chinese New Year, and I have to be a soldier.

"Everyone has enough to eat, let's have strength!" Wen Chou suddenly shouted and asked loudly.

"Yes!" replied in a mixed voice.

"The voice is too small to hear, and two thousand one hundred people are not as loud as I am alone. Wen Chou deliberately deaf.

"Yes!" the peasants roared.

"Let's run around this dragon mountain, follow me for two laps, and I can't finish the run. ”

The run was easy, and everyone was happy and there was a lot of excitement. Not to mention that everyone can run down, traffic habits depend on walking.

Cao Cao's face was as calm as water, without a trace of waves. watched without saying a word, and watched Wen Chou deal with it like this.

"Then stand in the sun and make wooden figures, only a thousand are needed, and the winner is the one who stands in the end. Wen Chou announced the second level request.

"Standing in the sun!Pediatrics, it's too easy. The peasants spoke with disdain and disdain.

"Take me as the standard! Start with a wooden man, whoever moves will lose. Wen Chou smiled faintly.

"Are you playing child's play?" Cao Cao's deep eyes flashed a trace of confusion for the first time. I didn't see how difficult it was for the wooden man.

At the beginning, it was a gourd painting scoop, Xuewen ugly head held high, like a javelin, half an hour later, the original iron will, with the passage of time is quietly wearing. Sweating profusely, sweat on his forehead like a waterfall. After an hour in the morning, people began to wipe their sweat, scratch itches, and quit with sore legs.

Cao Cao looked at it and was puzzled, is the wooden man harder than doing farm work? Let's also try it, and learn to be ugly and hold your head high.

"I'm so tired. Cao Cao tried it and found that it was indeed more tiring than doing farm work.

By the end of the morning, there were only a thousand farmers left.

Wen Chou said to the remaining 1,000 farmers: "For the first time, seven people paired up by themselves, and elected a squad leader, seven squad leaders elected a squadron leader, and seven squadron leaders elected a squadron leader. In the future, you must follow the captain's orders. ”

After grinding for half a moment, all the squad leaders, squadron leaders, and group leaders were all done.

Yan Songjie recorded the names of each small, medium, and large captain in the notebook.

Wen Chou continued: "The squad leader will be rewarded with one tael of silver per month, the squadron leader will be rewarded with ten taels of silver per month, and the captain will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver per month. After a month's time, you can challenge the squad leader, and the winner will be the squad leader. Until me, the one who can challenge me to win will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver. ”

To sum up, whoever has a hard fist will be the boss. Wen Chou's expression and tone revealed the pride of despising the world.

"This month's bounty is now being paid out and cashed out immediately, which makes the captains excited. ”

"A month. "Countless people are gearing up and eager to try, and they are all interested in the position of captain, and they will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver every month.

The three captains held a hundred taels of silver, so excited that they almost burst into tears, their hearts were happy, and they were nervous, "Don't be defeated next month and lose your life when you return to the small soldier queue." ”

"The captain is not only good, the seven-seven system, one person makes a mistake, seven people are punished together, and the captain is doubled. ”

The 1,100 farmers who were not selected were all remorseful and asked if they had a chance.

"Yes After a month, you can challenge any soldier, and the loser is out. ”

"High! It's really a clever move, everyone is in danger, dare not to strive upward. Cao Cao applauded thoroughly.

Wen Chou and Yan Songjie glanced at each other, and couldn't help laughing, they enjoyed being a soldier too much.

"Wen has Yan Songjie, Wu has Wen Chou, and a thousand tigers and leopards will ride in the future. Cao Cao was thinking about the beautiful blueprint in his heart, and a smile secretly flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Gently brushing his short beard, his face was as calm as water, but in his narrowed eyes, there was a slight smugness inadvertently.

"Master, Mr. Yan handed over the materials to the blacksmiths, and the weapons were melted and refined. The old housekeeper of the Cao family whispered in Cao Cao's ear.

"Garbage! a bunch of garbage. Cao Cao's chest was full of anger, and he almost exploded in his chest.

"Brother Meng De, it's not the blacksmiths' fault, I took out special steel materials, not ordinary iron, and the charcoal fire will definitely not melt. Yan Songjie is not surprised at all, the problem is that the blacksmiths don't believe it, and it will be wrong to have thousands of years of inheritance of charcoal.

"Songjie, how to solve this problem. Cao Cao saw that there was a way, and he was surging with anticipation.

"Participating blacksmiths must be kept top secret and must not be contacted by outsiders before they can speak. Yan Songjie said unhurriedly.

"Great goodness, just find a blacksmith who is a slave in the family. "Cao Cao still has four blacksmiths who meet the standards.

The coal resources in Qiaoxian County are very abundant and readily available.

The coal, after entering the furnace, is isolated from oxygen and heated to a thousand degrees. It is mainly through drying, pyrolysis, melting, solidification, semi-coke formation, shrinkage and finally coke. It takes a few days to refine a batch of coke, and it is easy to make steel with coke! Note that it is steel, not iron.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, iron was hammered into steel, rather than melting steel at one time.

Wen Chou and Yan Songjie's special big knife is too time-consuming, first create a Mo knife, weighing eighty-eight pounds, Wen Chou made it, it felt too light, and the weight was increased to one hundred and eighty-eight pounds before taking advantage of it.

Yan Songjie's Mo knife weighs 288 catties, which is 100 catties heavier than Wen Chou's Mo knife.

Each person builds ten Mo knives, consuming more than two tons of special steel containing rare earth elements.

"Master, a hundred pounds of steel have just been baked. The horse blacksmith was excited, and his blood was boiling.

"One hundred pounds of iron, what's so exciting, I'm here to report the good news. Cao Cao's eyebrows tightened, and he looked displeased.

"Master, just baked a hundred catties of steel, all of which are of the finest iron. There was also a slight smugness in the flattering words of the horse blacksmith.

"Reward a hundred taels of silver!" Cao Cao was surprised, dazed for a moment, suddenly realized, and was full of joy: "Yan Songjie is really a baby, he can do anything, practice iron art in batches, and make a fortune." ”