After hearing this, Zhang Guang was a little depressed, you said that you will accept apprentices, why do you want to involve me?

Of course, Yan Lao could see the unhappiness in Zhang Guang's heart, Zhang Guang never hid it in front of his own people.

"Zhang Guang, I'm old, I'm going to leave sooner or later, these blacksmiths who come from the oblique ground have the talent to make iron, and they will definitely be the pillars of the arsenal in the future."

"In our blacksmith industry, there is a rule, once you bow in front of the ancestor master, then you will be the master for life, and you can't betray it."

Zhang Guang chuckled in his heart, since when did he start to suspect his own people's minds.

Zhang Guang, who was shocked into a cold sweat, hurriedly got up and saluted Yan Lao.

"Old Yan, it's me Zhang Guang who thinks about it, how do you say I should be punished?"

"Haha, Zhang Guang, Lao Tzu is willing to follow you, what is important is that you are above board, punish you, well, drink thirty bowls in a row in front of everyone!"

Yan Lao's voice was very loud, and everyone present heard it.

These men, who were already bold and upright, suddenly got up and coaxed: "The lord wants to drink thirty bowls in a row, everyone come and give him some courage."

"Thirty bowls, can't scare me, I'll drink, pour wine!"

Zhang Guang also got up, got up and went to the side to play a set of marksmanship, and after sweating slightly, he returned to the table and drank the bowl.

There was really no interval, thirty bowls of wine, drunk in a row.

Thirty bowls, nearly twenty catties, although it is not a highly distilled liquor brewed in Chang'an City, it is enough to drink.

Zhang Guang drank it continuously, and suddenly felt a little strong wine, thinking about luck to force out a little wine.

Yan Lao grabbed Zhang Guang and signaled him not to force out the strength of the wine.

Zhang Guang understood, picked up a bowl again, faced everyone, and took advantage of the strength of the wine, and the sound was like a bell.

"Brothers, I have already drunk the punishment, the next three bowls, I respect everyone, the reason why our Ninth Legion can be invincible and invincible is inseparable from the sophisticated weapons provided by the arsenal."

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

Thousands of people shouted in unison, and the sound shook the valley, making these hot-blooded men boil.

Yan Lao knows these men with superb skills but recklessness with benevolence and righteousness in their loveliness.

Zhang Guang drank this drink, drank out of pride, and also drank with these craftsmen.

"Everyone, I found out that this arsenal is full of men, that is, your family didn't come here with you."

"In this way, if you are willing, go to Yan Lao to ask for leave, and go back to bring your family members."

"There's a lot of open space in the valley that they can reclaim and liven up the place."

After Zhang Guang finished speaking, it did not cause a warm response, and Zhang Guang looked at Yan Lao suspiciously.

"Zhang Guang, they work as craftsmen here, although the income is higher than that outside, but it is not enough for them to move their families here." Yan Lao explained.

So that's what happened!

It seems that he was negligent.

In order for the arsenal to truly develop, it is necessary to make these craftsmen their homes.

Only in this way can Yan Lao teach them many key skills, and the efficiency can rise.

"Everyone, I know what you're worried about."

"In this way, if you are willing to take your family over, all the expenses will be settled by us."

"Also, after your family arrives here, within three years, they will eat and drink with you, and we will solve it all."

"In a few days, I will ask a young man to come over and solve this problem."

What Zhang Guang thought of was Fazheng.

Fa Zheng has been pestering Jia Xu every day recently.

He studied with Jia Xu for a while, and pestered Xu Shu, Wei Zhen and others to learn a lot, and then followed Mr. Shui Jing.

I think I have made a lot of progress, and I want to compete with Jia Xu again, although I say that the teacher will always be a teacher, but I always have to fight hard to know if I can be a teacher.

Jia Xu, who is busy with smoking buttocks, how can he have time to pay attention to him?

Zhang Guang decided to bring Fa Zheng to the arsenal first, when to make this place the home of all craftsmen, and when to return to Chang'an.

Early the next morning, Yan Lao hung the statue of Taishang Laojun on the iron-making furnace of the largest workshop, holding a big rooster in his hand, Zhang Guang stood beside him, and there were more than 100 oblique young men below.

The first rays of sunlight shone on the statue of Taishang Laojun.

Zhang Guang took the big rooster and bit the cockscomb with his mouth, and the bright red chicken blood dripped into the iron-making furnace.

"The disciple knocks to see the master and the uncle!"

More than 100 bowls of wine, after dripping with chicken blood, more than 100 people have a bowl per person, and the wine does not leak.

The ancestor worshipped the master in front of him, drank the blood wine given by the master, and was a disciple of the Zhang Iron Pavilion for the rest of his life.

Elder Yan arranged more than 100 people to those old blacksmiths, starting from the most basic bellows.

Everything was arranged, Zhang Guang and Yan Lao came to the top of the mountain on the north side of the valley, and Yan Liang waited there with a platoon.

With a brand-new musket, Yan Liang aimed at a large wooden stake a hundred paces away.

With a snap of the index finger, the gun rang out, and the large wooden stake in front of it was beaten into a sieve.

"This musket, according to the idea you gave, together with those old blacksmiths, has experimented countless times, and finally no longer needs to use a pull rope, it has a trigger and a firing pin, which is indeed much more convenient and safe."

"It's just that the range is too short, within 100 steps, there is basically no problem, within 100 zhang, it is barely possible, once it exceeds 100 zhang, there is basically no accuracy and lethality."

Zhang Guang took the musket, looked at it, and knew that under the current technology, the range and lethality of this could be regarded as reaching the limit.

Under this purely manual process, bullets cannot be manufactured, and suitable repetitions cannot be carved into the chamber of the gun, which can reach the current range and lethality, which is considered the limit.

"Old Yan, with the current skills, you can only reach this level, the next thing to do is to find a way to speed up the production, within three or four years, you must let Yan Liang pull up a musket regiment."

Four years later, it was the battle of Guandu between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was defeated, and Cao Cao became the biggest tyrant in the Central Plains and the north.

At that time, if Cao Cao gave up going south and chose to go west, Zhang Guang would usher in a real war.

Win Cao Cao, Zhang Guang is very confident.

If you want to minimize the casualties of the Ninth Legion, these firearms are your secret weapons.

"I'm afraid it's very difficult, just this firing pin and gun barrel, only three people in the entire arsenal can do it, and there will be no more than ten groups in a month." Yan Lao said with some embarrassment.

"It depends on the more than 100 iron geniuses who just joined today, try to cultivate them."

"That's all it can be." Yan Lao said helplessly.

Mixed with copper powder, the armor and weapons are more malleable, and they are no longer so easy to break.

The ** inside the fire bomb, after repeated research, the safety has improved a lot.

Yan Lao added iron slag again and became a small version of the hand**, it was the lethality and weight that made Zhang Guang give up the idea of arming himself.