Establishing his own weapon casting workshop is an idea that Mu Jing has had since he was based in Hanzhong, but the time he has settled down is too short, so he has no time to do these things.

Now that the comprehensive reorganization of the army, disarmament, and military training, including logistics and supply, will be overthrown, and we should take this opportunity to rectify the foundry in Hanzhong.

After all, a strong army must have the most adequate logistical support.

This logistical support refers not only to the supply of food and grass, but also to the replacement of armor and weapons.

In fact, if he could, Mu Jing didn't want to make a big effort, and it was not impossible to choose a few workshops from Hanzhong as a workshop for the supply of weapons.

However, Hanzhong is not a place for casting, and there are a few good workshops for iron casting, but if you look at it alone, the scale is actually not large, and the ability to smelt iron is not very powerful, and there are almost no workshops that can make 100 steel knives.

This led to the idea of establishing a unique super-large foundry under the command of the Marquis of Ming, which could supply all the soldiers of the Mu Army.

When he was in Nanyang, Mujing established Jingping Commercial Bank, and its tentacles have actually extended to the foundry industry, as one of the three giants of the firm, the Xu family, is focused on the field of casting, and he brought Xu Jia to some super technologies, such as frying steel, steelmaking method, these iron-smelting skills and concepts were taught to the Xu family, so that the Xu family technology went to a higher level.

Today's Xu family is definitely the top iron-smelting family in the world.

If the Xu family's workshop could always provide weapons to the herdsmen, it would be enough to keep their weapons at the peak level of the late Han Dynasty.

But with the rout of Luoyang, the once huge Jingping Commercial Bank also collapsed overnight.

The businessmen who once haunted Mu Jing's side also dispersed in a hurry.

Of course, Mu Jing doesn't blame them, husband and wife are the same forest birds, and they fly separately when disaster comes, and they are also business partners, and businessmen have the ability to chase interests.

At that time, Mu Jing had little chance of surviving, and he would not drag these merchants to accompany him to the funeral, so he took the initiative to dissolve Jingping Commercial Bank.

Jingping Commercial Bank was dissolved, and the three major merchants led by them also ended their unanimous foreign strategy, lost the protection of the Mu clan above the court, and their lives were not easy, so that they were now completely suppressed in Nanyang.

The Xu family's workshop, without the protection of the Mu family, will more or less attract some attention, Mu Jing believes that as long as Yuan Shu is not stupid, he can find that the weapons provided by the Xu family's workshop are different.

Therefore, the Xu family, unless Mu Jing can confirm his loyalty, he doesn't really want to introduce it.

After a few days in a row, Mu Jing met with the shopkeepers of several foundry workshops in Hanzhong, and after talking, the purpose was obvious, but the progress was not very obvious, and these workshops were a little far away from his goal in terms of scale and technology.

"Looks like we have to start all over again!"

Mu Jing had no choice but to invest more manpower and material resources.

A few days later, on the outskirts of Nanzheng, Mujing established an official office in the name of the Ming Marquis' Mansion, built a house, and occupied a place.

The head of the Armaments Department is a foundry master recruited from Nanzheng by Mu Jing in the name of the Marquis of Ming.

Kou Yue, Kou Nanshan.

This is a Nanzheng person, who is sixty years old this year, and in the casting world of Nanzheng, no one can compare with this old man's reputation, and don't look at this person's sixty years old, but he can still afford to hold a hammer weighing dozens of pounds and build weapons himself.

Mu Jing didn't know what his skills were, but he knew one thing, nine of the ten famous foundry masters in Hanzhong were apprentices he taught, so he wanted to take down the casting blacksmith in Hanzhong, and he was the first to take him.

In order to invite him out of the mountain, Mu Jing sat in the Armaments Division, and almost once came to visit the thatched house, which can be regarded as impressing this humble blacksmith all his life, Kou Yue was finally willing to go out of the mountain and work for Mu Jing with the little time in the rest of his life.

With the establishment of the Armaments Division, the personnel were quickly replenished, with the upper division, the left and right divisions, and the following officials adding up to twenty or thirty people, and the running-in of the personnel began, and the task of the Armaments Division was also raised.

The first step is naturally to implement Mujing's intention and establish a workshop under the Armaments Division.

In order to save time, Mu Jing ordered to directly take down the top five foundry workshops in Hanzhong, two of which are in Nanzheng, one in Xicheng, one in Chenggu, and one in Shangyong, all of which are quite famous foundry workshops in Hanzhong.

Mu Jing is going to merge them together and build a super-large foundry under the name of the Armaments Division.

In these years, the gap between the official and the private sector is too big, so there are not too many mergers, more is a clever grab, to be honest, if Mujing uses the private method to acquire, I am afraid it will not be able to come up with a lot of money.

In order to reorganize the army this time, in order to make up for the retirement pension of retired soldiers, he has already bankrupted his family, and even borrowed a lot of money in the name of many merchant families and families in Hanzhong.

Therefore, he couldn't afford it at all, and he could only use one brutal means to directly attribute these workshops to the Ming Marquis Mansion.

However, doing so will cause some people to be disgusted.

But this matter is not too out of line, the status of blacksmiths is not high, and most of the owners of these workshops are merchants, they dare not anger the Ming Hou at this time.

So this thing is settled.

However, the integration did not go smoothly as scheduled, and it was not the merger and acquisition of some small workshops that could establish a large workshop, whether it was from the supply of raw materials, the synchronization of skills, or the deployment of personnel, it was a problem.

Things are not going well, but they are progressing.

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The work of rectifying the pastoral army is also being carried out in an orderly manner, with Xi Zhicai personally leading, the cooperation of the army masters, and the financial support of the South Study Room, which is much smoother than expected.

By August, the Yellow Turban Army was the first to complete disarmament and rectification.

"The Yellow Turban Army, the commander of the registered army, 13,800 soldiers, the Zhonglang general Huang Shao, the military Sima Yang Feng, set up a five-party battalion!"

Mu Jing was in the Beiwu Hall, and after reading the drama records, he provided the file, and after half a ring, he asked, "How is the military spirit now?" ”

"There's some turmoil!"

Xi Zhicai said: "After all, a lot of soldiers have been laid off, and the Yellow Turban Army is less than half, and the sadness of the soldiers is still there, but I believe that Huang Shao, he can handle these things well, this person himself is a strategist, and his mind is much more delicate than ours!" ”

"Hmm!"

Mu Jing smiled: "At the beginning, my father gathered the Yellow Turban Guards, but it was not easy to suppress him, but it is undeniable that this is a powerful general, usable, usable, and rarely a boss who can be alone!" ”

"Boss?" Xi Zhicai squinted: "In your heart, I'm afraid there are few people who deserve such a name!" ”

"The boss, not the boss!"

Mu Jing sighed: "Now there are few people under my command who can take on the role of handsome, they are all generals!" ”

"Yes!"

Xi Zhicai nodded in agreement: "The Yellow Turban Army, Jingping First Army, Jingping Second Army, Violent Bear Army, Quartet Army, Four Zhonglang Generals, they are indeed generals who have gone through the Great War, if you want to say that you still have the ability to take charge alone, but the ability of the commander has not been tempered after all, and it is not as stable and overall as Huang Shao!" ”

"So the Yellow Turban Army is ready to be dispatched north and stationed in Yangping Pass!"

Mu Jing said: "In the next few years, the task of the Yellow Turban Army is to train, train, and retrain, there is no need to attack, as long as they nail me to the north, with the ability of Huang Shao, plus this elite, I can not have the slightest worries!" ”

His offensive strategy was to the east and south.

But the Chang'an court in the north will keep an eye on him all the time, and if there is no steady commander to guard the northern barrier for him, he will always have some unease.

"Hmm!"

Xi Zhicai nodded, he was silent for a while, and said: "The rectification work of the Jingping First Army and the Jingping Second Army has also begun, and there are not many elite soldiers in the Jingping and Jingping armies, especially after one big battle, the casualties are greater, so there are not many generals who can be cut, I believe it will be completed soon!" ”

"Jing Pingjun, I'm not worried!"

Mu Jing said: "I'm worried about the Violent Bear Army, since last year, after the Violent Bear Army was seriously injured in Guanzhong, it has not eased its breath now, plus a rectification, I am afraid it will cause chaos, after all, it is the soldiers and horses established by my father, since my father went, there is a little less fighting spirit!" ”

"Zhou Cang should be able to stabilize!" Xi Zhicai thought for a while and said: "Although this person was suppressed by the ancestor back then, he didn't show his ability very much, but the key is that he doesn't make mistakes, there are many generals who can make meritorious contributions, and there are not many people who don't make mistakes!" ”

"Has Li Yan been transferred back?" Mu Jing thought for a moment and asked.

"Hanzhong is too guarded to release people, and Li Yan is officially appointed as the military commander of the Violent Bear Army!"

"With Li Yan cooperating with Zhou Cang, it can be regarded as giving me a little confidence!" Mu Jing said: "But Li Yan can't be in the army for a long time, this is a talent, there are not many opportunities to get ahead in the army, and he can't show all his talents. ”

Mu Jing remembered that Li Yan had done a lot of great things in the history of Shu Han, although in his later years he seemed to have done a lot of wrong things in the competition for more profits, but he was just wrong in the position of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, and in the strategy of recuperation in Shu, he actually did something worthy of Liu Bei's trust.

If this person wants to use it, he still has to put it in the south study.

"You're really welcome, in front of me, dig up the generals in the army and give them to the south study!" Xi Zhicai glanced at him, very dissatisfied with his partialistic behavior, the South Study and the North Wutang can be regarded as the left and right arms of the Ming Hou Mansion, how can they favor one over the other.

"Whatever kind of talent it should be, how to use it!"

Mu Jing said lightly.

As the main father, employing people is the first thing, he must consider all factors, the biggest consideration is whether it is suitable or not, put a person in a position, first of all, it must be appropriate.

"Humph!" Xi Zhicai snorted coldly and ignored him.

Two days later, Mu Jing held a meeting of the South Study and the North Martial Arts Hall, and in the lobby, he directly submitted a plan for the eastern tour.

The eastern tour is to go east out of Nanyang.

Hanzhong has stabilized for the time being, and as his authority becomes more and more stable, Hanzhong, from the family to the common people, will not have any objection to him as a Ming Marquis for the time being.

But Nanyang, he needs to go and appease him personally.

Now the city in Nanyang in his hands is not much less than that of Hanzhong, and in terms of population, even the most desolate west of Nanyang is not comparable to Hanzhong, and there are seven or eight remote county seats, and the population is much more than that of Hanzhong.

"You're going to Nanyang?"

Hu Zhao was worried: "Will it be too sensitive to go to Nanyang at this time?" ”

"You're worried about attracting Yuan Shu's attention?"

"Yuan Shu, I'm not worried, his attack on Jiujiang is not going well now, Jiujiang's resistance is very strong, the news sent back by Jing Wusi last month, he has been forced to mobilize the Jiangdong Army into the west of Jiujiang!"

Hu Zhao said softly: "In this way, he is in Nanyang, it is impossible to have enough troops to suppress us, at this time, he can keep most of the territory of Nanyang, it is already lucky, it is impossible to provoke us!" ”

"What Hu Changshi is worried about is probably Jingzhou!"

Xi Zhicai's eyes were lifelike, and his eyes flashed with a touch of coldness.

"Jingzhou?" Mu Jing took a deep breath and said indifferently: "Liu Biao, it's just a dog guarding the house, I don't believe he dares to go out of Jingzhou, and I just want to meet him for a while, whether I fight or not, I should always see him, whether he wants Nanyang, or I want Jingzhou, I also need to talk about it!" ”

"Now the Jingzhou family has a lot of support for Liu Biao!"

Hu Zhao said a key.

"That's all he can do!"

Mu Jing sneered.

The matter of the eastern tour was still settled, and the time was set for August 18, starting from Nanzheng, accompanied by the Shuofang battalion of the Jingping First Army.

However, before leaving Nanzheng, Mu Jing and his father-in-law Cai Yong had a long talk.

Cai Yong is out of office, but he always has a mustache.

So Mu Jing thought of a way to compromise, not only to give full play to Cai Yong's ability, but also not to make Cai Yong a little depressed and end up in the draft, he rebuilt the Hongdu Gate School in Nanzheng, and used Cai Yong as a sacrificial wine.

Cai Yong used to be Taixue's sacrificial wine, and he was very handy in this regard.

And Mu Jing once promised some people that he would rebuild Hongdu Gate School, and now Nanzheng also needs a prestigious academy that can attract scholars from all over the world.

Whether it is fighting the world or sitting in the world, there is no shortage of readers.

This is also so that the late Han Dynasty will be an era of a family, because in this era, the family controls eighty or ninety percent of the world's scholars, that is, they secretly control the entire world.

Mu Jing wants to get rid of this trap, he must split another way, he rebuilt Hongdu Men School, that is, to cultivate his own scholars, only let the poor scholars come out, in order to really suppress the so-called family.

Otherwise, even if he kills ten or a hundred more families, he will not be able to make these families completely obey their words.

And this is Cai Yong, which is also the best place to go.

He can go out of the career, can serve the pastoral scene, there has always been a conflict with his principles and beliefs, and now he teaches and educates people, regardless of region, which can be regarded as a whole of his Hanchen's heart.

Of course, as the former Taixue sacrificial wine, it is still a little awkward to rebuild the first pair of Taixue in the past, Hongdu Menxue.