"This is what Cheng Yuanzhi stepped on?" Ma Qiang looked at the silk thread in his hand and felt a little incredible.

"Yes, it's the first time I've seen such a silk thread, and when I arrived, a few people were dismantling it, and I fought with them to get it back." Xian Yufu took a sip and said.

"Got into a fight? Big brother, are you alright? ”

", what can I do?" Xian Yufu glanced at Xian Yuyin, and then continued to ask, "Sir, what the hell is this?" ”

Ma Qiang glanced at Xian Yufu, I actually want you to call me my lord.

Ahem.

"This should be an alloy, but it's certainly not steel, the texture of steel is much harder than this, I'm afraid it's made of copper as the main material." Ma Qiang touched his chin and felt that this Taiping Road was getting more and more interesting.

China's metal wire drawing technology was not recorded until the Song Dynasty, but it was not without it before, but only used in jewelry, Liu Bei's ancestor Zhongshan King Jing's tomb unearthed gold thread jade clothes, this gold thread is gold wire.

However, the Han Dynasty only had gold, silver and copper wires, because the texture of these three metals was softer, and the wire drawing plate could be achieved by manpower, and the wire drawing plate could be used.

The silk thread in Ma Qiang's hand is a bronze alloy, although it is not as strong as steel wire, but it can also be used.

In this way, Zhang Jiao, these Taiping Taoist priests, do not only know chemistry.

"Okay, that's the end of this matter, we will prepare for a day tomorrow, and leave Jixian the day after tomorrow, and we will trouble the two brothers along the way."

"What Mr. said, it is also a blessing for our brothers to protect Mr. and I only hope that Mr. will get a high position in the future and can comfort the people more." Xian Yufu sighed and arched his hand, "I've been waiting outside for many years, and the people... Bitter! ”

Ma Qiang nodded and sighed, "Yes... In the past few days when I came out of the mountains, I have a deep feeling, the people have vegetables on their faces, you can always see the homeless people wandering outside the city, and I heard that the price has increased by 30% in the past two years, that is, there is no military disaster..."

Saying that, Ma Qiang took a breath, less than a year later, the military disaster will come, and those who feel bitter now, at that time, will only find that this year is already the best time in the next few decades.

The next day, it was the day to pack up the luggage and prepare the convoy, not to mention that the people in Dasong Village had been looking for ox carts and grease and other things all over the city in the past few days, so that the people of Jixian County could feel the happy life of only being able to afford to eat lean meat in advance, Ma Qiang quietly found Zhang Sheng and asked where to buy a large amount of paper.

"Paper? This thing is either unused, can only be burned or used as runes, or it is expensive to death, what? Is the immortal master going to do it? ”

"Don't call me an immortal... Call me sir! I want paper for something else. ”

"Something else? For what? ”

"You just say if you have it! Why do you ask so much! ”

Ma Qiang couldn't hold his face a little, so he had to let himself say that the paper was to make his chrysanthemum more comfortable when he pooped.

It's been so many days, Ma Qiang has long since acquired this ancient without toilet paper, God knows what it was like when Ma Qiang used a tree branch for the first time in Dasong Village...

That's humiliating!

After arriving here at Li Jue, Ma Qiang has secretly used a lot of paper to go to the toilet, but these are definitely not enough, Ma Qiang has made up his mind that no matter where he goes in the future, he will bring a carriage of toilet paper!

A carriage!! Such a big carriage!!

"Yes! I know where to sell them, so I'll help you order some, how much does the gentleman want? ”

"Three ox carts!!"

Chrysanthemum's resentment!

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On the loess road, a convoy walked slowly, a group of cavalry was divided into two teams, these cavalrymen were wearing leather armor, carrying bows and arrows, holding scimitars, looking elite.

"Brother Yan Rou, you're tired, come, take a sip of wine." Xian Yufu handed Yan Rou a cowhide bag, Yan Rou took it and took a sip, sighed and smiled, "Good wine!" ”

"That's, it's the best wine in Jixian County." Xian Yufu smiled and looked back at Ma Qiang, who was stiffening and riding a horse.

"Sir, you have to follow the horse's movements when you ride a horse, and you have to be one, you are so stiff, you see, you are almost out of breath when you ride this horse."

Ma Qiang was sweating at this time, and now that he has money, he naturally buys a horse, this time in addition to the people who came to Dasong Village, there are more than a dozen coachmen, Ma Qiang simply waved his hand and bought ten inferior horses for Lu Qingcheng and them to use.

As for the good horses and war horses... This is just starting a business, what kind of bicycle do you want!

"It's okay, I'm slowly getting used to it." Ma Qiang forced himself to relax slowly, he was not afraid of the horse under the ass losing his temper, he had already communicated with the horse, it was the first time for him, he had to be considerate.

"The Yellow Sky descends to the world, save the world!!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of Taiping Dao singing in the distance, and Ma Qiang raised his eyes and saw hundreds of people kneeling around a Taoist priest on the ridge in the distance.

"There are still people who believe in Taipingdao? Don't they know about Jixian Doufa? Lu Qingcheng looked at it and couldn't help but say, "These demons are deceiving people again, I'll teach them a lesson!" ”

"Let's not get in trouble, let's hurry up." Yue Yang was afraid that Lu Qingcheng would be impulsive, so he said urgically.

"Yue Yang is right, Qingcheng, let's go." Lu Qinglime sat on the ox cart and persuaded Qingcheng who was riding a horse on the side, Qingcheng snorted, and then continued to walk forward.

"Mr. Ma is not angry?" Yan Rou looked at Ma Qiang with an indifferent expression and asked with some curiosity.

"What's there to be angry about, to be honest, I didn't have much opinion on Taiping Dao, they are just a product of the times, without them, there will be two flat roads, three flat roads."

"What did Mr. Ma say about this? I want to listen to it for a while. Yan Rou found that his understanding of Ma Qiang still didn't seem to be enough, he thought that Ma Qiang and Taiping Dao were mortal enemies, but he didn't expect that Ma Qiang didn't have much opinion on Taiping Dao.

"To put it simply, since the eunuchs came to power, the scholars in the court have been comprehensively suppressed, and the rationality of these scholars whose futures have been blocked has changed from what the fourth and third princes have changed to asking for land, which is the most experienced by the two brothers."

Xian Yuyin nodded and sighed, "Yes, now that the world is declining, the world only knows the smell of money, but does not know virtue." ”

"There are so many fields in the world, and although there is constant new reclamation, in the absence of effective organization, this kind of self-cultivation is too inefficient.

The big families began to ask for land, so the fields of the small families of the poor family will inevitably be encroached upon, and the first to bear the brunt is the homesteaders who are not even from the poor family, after all, the field is the lifeblood of any family, and it will not be given up until the necessary moment.

There is still a bit of a family background in the cold or something, not to mention the famine in recent years, it is a good year, and you have to borrow money when you encounter red and white things. ”

Saying that, Ma Qiang looked at the group of people who had gradually left the shadows, sighed and said, "The Taiping Dao people can help each other and communicate with each other, which is saving the lives of these people, so the prosperity of the Taiping Dao is not because of their Taoism or Fu Shui, but relying on the continuous exploitation of the yeoman farmers by the imperial court and those big families, as long as this pressure does not stop, the Taoists of the Taiping Dao will only increase."

At the end of the day, they just want to live...."

Ma Qiang knew too well the methods of the Taiping Dao or the later White Lotus Sect and the Ming Sect, and everyone in their sect communicated with each other, and when they encountered difficulties, the sect members helped each other, and it was easy to gather people's hearts, which was similar to the later pyramid schemes.

"Today's big man is bound to accumulate salary, as long as there is a little spark, a raging fire will ignite!" Ma Qiang sighed, "When this monstrous fire is ignited, I don't know how many people will be burned alive by this fire." ”

It was the first time Yan Rou heard someone analyze the general situation of the world like this, he lowered his head and thought for a while and asked, "Then Mr. Ma, what role will you play in this fire?" ”

Ma Qiang thought for a while and said with a smile, "Protectors, protect as many people as you can, there is a Mr. Mao in our school who said that the people, only the people, are the driving force to create world history." Since I came here by chance, I only hope that I can protect as many people as possible with my own strength and let them live a good life, have Brother Yan ever seen a fire in the forest? When the fire is extinguished, the seeds that have been protected by the land will sprout again, and more forests will emerge on the land. ”

"Protector?" Yan Rou muttered the first time he heard the word.

Nothing to say all the way.