Chapter 47: The Gift of the Old Fool
Wang Hou has an old friend in the Han flickering world?
It seems that there is really one! In a daze, he followed Wang Pole down the mountain, and looked at the intersection, Wang Hou's eyes immediately widened like glass balls, full of disbelief, and he screamed in dismay.
"Old Yu, why are you here?"
Wearing a gray-blue robe, with all-white hair neatly tied up, and a gray beard spread out arrogantly, the old man who was sitting on the ox cart and playing in a bullock cart was not Yu Ji or which one? Listening to Wang Hou's stunned shout, the old guy finally opened his eyes and smiled.
"Wang Lingguan, I haven't seen you for ten days, it's always good?"
Zi said: There are friends from afar, it is not appropriate to greet them! After greeting a few words under the mountain, under Wang Hou's "invitation", Yu Ji took the ordinary apprentices and happily walked into Wang Hou's one-third of an acre.
The old guy is also a celebrity, don't look at the unofficial and unemployed, the pomp is not small, the twenty-odd apprentices are driving more than a dozen ox carts, each ox cart is pulling heavy boxes, I don't know if it is the last time I saw those Coptis chinensis, the wheels are pressed on the black mountain peak road full of slag ash, the pressure is creaking, a probe that attracts the tenants who work is very curious to look at it, there are many people, this old god stick is a fairy wind and bones and read the road number, bluffing those tenants were stunned.
Halfway up the mountainside mine, Yu Ji took the two apprentices to carry a big box, followed Wang Hou into his small room, the box was thrown on the kang, the old guy enjoyed it very much, and sat cross-legged on the kang head, a typical Northeast silver appearance in later generations, baked a few seconds of fire to warm up, Yu Ji is emotional fist holding.
"Before the future of Xuchang, I heard that the king ordered the official spring bed wonderful, and when I saw it today, it really lived up to its name! When the old Taoist traveled to Liaodong, on a cold day in winter, it was difficult to sleep, if he could be equipped with the spring bed of Wang Lingguan, it would not be so difficult to go to the bitter cold place! The commander really has a seven-trick exquisite heart. ”
"Yu Lao Miao praised!"
It was also a polite return of the courtesy, and Wang Hou asked curiously: "I don't know what the old man is doing when he comes to the cold house?" ”
"Oh! When he was parting a few days ago, didn't the commander give the old man a hexagram? The old man went back to watch the stars at night, deduced Zhou Yi, and more and more confirmed the hexagram of the commander, the ants are still greedy, how can the old man not be like this! Therefore, this year, the old decay will not go south, and he plans to harass the commander for a year, and he will be in Xudupan! ”
"Forehead ......"
Wang Hou's face was a little twitched, there was a feeling of lifting a stone to hit his own feet, good guy, Yu Ji didn't go to die, he had to eat and drink in his mansion for nothing, this old Taoist alchemy and medicine refining was a money-burning job, he was not willing to offer such a great god at home for no reason, and put on a smiling face, Wang Hou pretended to be smiling, but he hurriedly waved his hands again and again.
"Yu Lao's visit, it's really shining! However, the poor house is really afraid of neglecting Yu Lao, and then Wang's sin will be great! ”
"Haha, the commander doesn't need to worry, he sleeps in the open air, he has a meal to satisfy his hunger, and a good sleep is enough! What's more, Wang Lingguang is as warm as spring here, and it is already so good that he came all the way! ”
All right! Yu Ji looked smiling, he was here in the end, but just when Wang Houyi was depressed, the old guy waved his hand to the side with a smile, pointed to the box and smiled.
"By the way, didn't the commander ask the old man about saltpeter sulfur last time? This time, Lao Dao went to Huangshi Mountain, and specially asked Daoyou for half a box of saltpeter and half a box of sulfur, and specially brought it for the commander! ”
After saying a word, Wang Hou was so scared that he almost didn't go back to his breath, good guy, he was dozens of degrees hot on the kang, and the kang was carrying dozens of catties of gunpowder face, if it was blown up, I don't know which one to blow him up, the Han Dynasty had already hooked behind, he didn't want to experience the life of a primitive man again, Yu Ji was confused, Wang Hou sadly dragged the old man out of the house, slipped out of twenty or thirty meters in one breath, and saw that the house didn't blow up He was sweating, and turned back sadly.
"Thank you for your great kindness and kindness, and thank you for your eight ancestors!"
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Dinner is egg sauce and braised hand-rolled noodles! Sitting on the kang, the dignified gods are like hillbillies who have never seen the world, the chopsticks are like the wind, almost didn't swallow the tongue, Wang Hou is looking at it is pity and shook his head, the ancients were bitter! I have never seen anything in the world, and I have never eaten anything delicious.
It's just a moment of mercy, Wang Hou became a little headache again, Yu Ji is not an ordinary person, his reputation is so strong that it is even enough to make Sun Ce rush to be afraid, even if his subordinates and generals advise, even Wu Guotai has come forward, he will kill him! Taking in this old fool by himself, can it arouse the jealousy of Mr. Cao, Wang Hou really has no bottom in his heart.
Can you take it in? It's a trivial matter to tear Yu Ji's face, sulfur saltpeter is in the hands of Fang Shi Taoist priests this year, and Wang Hou is trying to get gunpowder in the future, so it will be even more difficult!
Let's go to Mr. Cao to report to Mr. Cao tomorrow!
"Wang Lingguan, I'm adding a bowl of noodles to the poor road!"
Stunned, a pot of eggs beaten with lo noodles was actually made by this old Taoist with a few apprentices, no wonder Yu Ji is so strong, and he can eat so much at this age! Confused for a moment, Wang Hou quickly pulled his throat.
"Lao Fu, add rice !!"
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It seems that Mr. Cao's pattern is much bigger than that of Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, and by reporting work, Wang Hou carefully reported that Yu Ji was going to borrow his "cold house" for more than a year, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to care at all, and he responded impatiently with a look of Guan Laozi's troubles and turned over.
This matter was confused, but Wang Hou breathed a sigh of relief, pretending to be enthusiastic about work in the morning, he went to the empty Taicang for a walk, and at noon he personally presented the sword and armor promised to Xiahoudun to the house, and in the afternoon he slipped home and waited to collect the money.
However, as soon as he returned to the mine, Yu Ji was gone, and asked Wang Gongzi, the old guy was not afraid of smell, and took his apprentice to Niujia Village to actually inspect Wang Hou's biogas digester, it is estimated that Wang Hou's theory of grain reincarnation still makes this Taoist leader care very much, so he chose to give up going south to Wuyue, and come to Wang Hou to see if his five grains reincarnation is reliable.
As long as the old guy doesn't lift weights and rebels, preaching that the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand! Wang Houdu went with him, there was no need to worry about this old way, he could continue to work on his career again.
Today's mine is also a lot more lively, because it is the first batch of weapons to be built, and when it comes to the day of distribution, the private army of the family is stronger than the peasant armed forces recruited, and a large part of it is also strong here, because according to the Han law, the peasant soldiers who are conscripted need to bring their own weapons and armor, and the quality of the weapons in the world is different, far less stable and reliable than the batch built by the great family.
The granting of weapons is also a very ceremonial thing in the feudal era, just like the later generations of Japanese warriors have the right to cross the sword and the commoners do not, take the weapon, although it is still a slave, but the social status is a higher level than the tenant farmers, and although the Qin Dynasty left the twenty military merits and other lordship system under the impact of the rise of the great family and the inspection system, it has already become in name only, but there are military merits on the battlefield, and there is still a chance to get rid of this slave identity and get your own feudal field, even if you still have to rely on Wang Hou, the lord to continue to be loyal, that's also the smallest level of the scholar master!
Therefore, Wang Fu did not dare to issue it privately, and waited until Wang Hou came back, and then transported the weapons to the edge of the earthen platform in the small school yard, and Wang Hou personally distributed them one by one.
It is really ceremonial, this Wang Fu roll call, the queue has been quite strict in the trilogy of the team in turn, to the front of the earthen platform, the military salute kneeling, Wang Hou hands holding the armor and the ring head knife handed over, the recipient of the armor is kowtow to report his name, and then thank the lord for the grace of the armor, then hold the armor down, as for the long halberd, it is long and heavy, and the meaning is not yet how much the ring head knife is heavy and not separated from the sword, after receiving it, go directly to the long weapon rack to get it.
Strictly speaking, Wang Hou's armor is not plate armor, just a whole piece of water-forged armor on the chest, and the abdomen is a slatted armor made of long pieces of armor similar to the lobster's abdomen, and the back is also similar to the same design, but in terms of arm and leg defense, Wang Hou seems to be much more stingy, like Cao Zong's tiger and leopard ride, the armor is defended all the way to the wrist, and the thighs also have a lot of armor pieces hanging from the two crotch defense, these are not at all in Wang Hou's place, his newly baked armor is like two turtle shells.
However, compared with the mainstream armor scale armor and leather armor of this era, Wang Hou's armor maintains a relatively light weight at the same time, and strengthens the defense to the maximum, the whole body armor of the tiger and leopard rider weighs 26 kilograms, plus what halberd, horse lance, bow and arrow, and saber, a heavy armor knight needs to carry a weight of about 40 kilograms, but Wang Hou's tortoise shell armor is only about 13 kilograms, plus the halberd, the small round shield and the matching knife are only 25 kilograms, and the weight of less than 15 kilograms means that you can maintain more physical strength on the battlefield and fight for a longer time.
Eighty-four new Ding plus nine tigers and leopards to ride, it still took Wang Hou two hours to give the armor, buckle the newly issued turtle shell armor on the body, tie the belt on the left rib, and then sway the halberd of about three meters, Wang Congge Jiu who has eaten and seen is obviously a little disapproving, but those Xinding is full of novelty, from time to time there is a halberd stab, pull out the ring head knife and play twice, and have a lot of fun.
It's just that these newcomers don't know at all, they have sent real guys, and starting tomorrow, the training will have to be a little harder!
In the afternoon, it was a holiday, and to cultivate the pride and identity of the pro-soldier tribe, it was necessary to make them feel that they were superior to their fellow villagers who farmed the land.
After finishing his personal work here, Wang Hou went into the room next to the small military camp again, and opened the box that Yu Ji brought to him yesterday next to the window, and a smell of sulfur suddenly came to his face.
I have to admire the ancient alchemists, and I don't know what kind of means this unmasked Dan family priest has, the saltpeter and sulfur in the box are refined to be extremely pure, and the color is black and yellow, but looking at these two boxes, Wang Hou is face is full of entanglement.
The golden ratio of black powder in later generations is fifteen to two to three, but here saltpeter and sulfur are more than one side, a total of more than 20 kilograms of appearance, configured into gunpowder, even if one gram is not wasted, but can be configured with a little more than thirteen kilograms of gunpowder, Wang Hou is equipped with gunpowder is intended to be used to bomb mines, this thing, a drop in the bucket, even if there is more, according to Yu Ji's supply, it is estimated that it will not be able to supply Wang Hou's demand for iron mining.
Can you throw it away like this? It's a pity! Like a monkey, he scratched his ears and cheeks and circled around the box several times, and closed the lid of the box heavily, Wang Hou turned around and slipped into the blacksmith shop again.
There, just finished building the sword for Xiahoudun, Wang Yuan didn't even rest, and continued to temper the next sword with a hammer all the time, I really don't know if his ancestor has the blood of the cadre Mo Ye.
However, he raised the hammer high, and before the wheel went down, he stopped suddenly and suddenly sounded behind him, and his strength was useless, and he almost didn't let him stretch his waist disc protrusion, and put the hammer aside in a depressed manner, watching Wang Houfeng come in in a hurry, Wang Yuan couldn't get angry, he could only suffer a face full of muscles, and hugged his fist sadly.
"Master, do you command?"
"Can you fight these?"
The drawings had already been drawn, Wang Hou was a little excited to put the yellowed paper against it, took it in astonishment, glanced at it twice, and Wang Shenjiang asked again with astonishment.
"Master, what are you doing with so many iron pipes?"
"Ask if you can fight, where is there so much trouble!"
"This, the little one really hasn't been beaten, you Rong Xiao's research and research!"
With a sad face, Wang Yuan was tangled in his calloused slap.