Zhang Junping was not surprised by Du Yude's choice.

That's the choice of smart people.

"So do you want to go to the Ma Army or the Infantry Army?"

"Ma Jun!"

"Okay, you go to Zhang Bao's envoy to report!

I'll go back and apply for military registration for you!

You go first! Zhang Junping waved his hand and signaled that Du Yude could leave.

When Du Yude was about to leave the camp, Zhang Junping said behind him: "Do a good job, the deputy envoy of the Ma Army is not your end, it is only your starting point!"

Follow me, it's not a problem to seal your wife and son! ”

"Xie Zhi County official!" Du Yude turned around and hugged Zhang Junping with a fist.

Du Yude didn't believe Zhang Junping's words, how could it be so easy to seal his wife and son, but he had no other choice now.

Just like he was fighting in the cottage, Du Yude had already lost his goal, the only purpose was to live, he couldn't let the Du family break his roots, in order to live, he was at peace with what he encountered, even if he was a bandit, it didn't matter.

"Zheng Kui!"

"I've seen the magistrate!"

"In the future, just call me the county magistrate, you don't need to bring the three words of a big official!"

"Yes, Zhixian!"

"Sit down and talk!" Zhang Junping pointed to the chair next to him.

Let Zheng Kui stand, the pressure on his neck is too much, and he has to tilt his head and talk to Zheng Kui.

"Xie Zhixian!"

"Settled in the house?"

"Thank you for your concern, you have settled down! Your brother bought a yard for the villain, and my lady likes it very much! Zheng Kui stood up again and bowed to Zhang Junping and thanked him.

"You're welcome, sit down and talk!" Zhang Junping hurriedly waved his hand and motioned for Zheng Kui to sit down.

"Yes!" Zheng Kui also knew that he was too tall, and if he stood by himself, it would be very difficult for others to look at him.

In the past, when he was in the blacksmith shop, he always bent down to talk to others.

When he arrived at the bandit, he straightened his waist and talked to others at the request of the second master.

"You should understand that what I value you is your blacksmith skills, and your unstained character from the mud!

In the cottage, in that environment, you never abandon your lady, and you don't participate in their murder and arson!

This is very valuable! ”

"Don't dare to be praised by the magistrate, my lady doesn't think I'm poor, marry me, and I won't have a good life for a few days, if I abandon her, then am I still a person?" Zheng Kui scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

The more I look at Zheng Kui and Yu Qingyang, the more I like it, it's really a piece of jade.

This figure, this physique, to be honest, it's a real loss to strike iron!

With a little training, you'll be a fierce general!

On the battlefield, this physique alone makes the enemy five points more frightened.

However, Zhang Junping did not have the luxury to the point of letting you go to the battlefield as a blacksmith grandmaster.

"Zheng Kui, I'll call you Da Kui in the future!

It's a name that is kind! ”

"Yes!"

"Da Kui, I will temporarily appoint you as the head of the Xiang Army, you can choose ten people in the Xiang Army and give you a hand!

Specially responsible for creating weapons and armor for the Xiang Army!

This is a horse chopping knife, you take a look first, how long does it take you to build such a horse chopping knife? Zhang Junping reached out and took a horse chopping knife and handed it to Zheng Kui.

"Back to Zhixian County, this horse chopping knife is seventy refined, and a small one can be built in five days!"

"Five days?" Zhang Junping frowned.

There is a battalion of the Xiang Army, and Zhang Junping is ready to open the configuration according to the full capacity, that is, the configuration of 500 people, which does not include those logistics miscellaneous services.

Five hundred, that is, five hundred chopping swords, and after removing the chopping swords that the family already has, there are still four hundred and sixty swords!

There is still room to spare, so that is, at least 500 of them must be built.

"What can be done to speed up the build?"

"If the magistrate can recruit my senior brothers and have them help to beat the pig iron into steel billets, it can be shortened to two days!"

"So as long as you have enough steel billets, you can build one in two days?"

"It depends on the quality of the billet!

Those junior brothers of mine can only achieve fifty refinements, and then I still need to continue forging to reach this seventy refining standard! ”

"In other words, if the steel billet is good enough, even a real hundred refining will not be a problem, right?"

"Back to Zhixian County, the speed of building sword soldiers mainly depends on the speed of ironmaking!

Pig iron is constantly forged into steel billets, and then it continues to be forged until we need fifty refinements, or seventy refinements, or even a hundred refinements! ”

"Got it!

You go and choose someone first, where are your brothers and sisters in that blacksmith shop? ”

"In Dengzhou Mansion, the Lei family's blacksmith shop in the west of the city!

I've been away for many years, and I don't know what's going on over there......" Zheng Kui felt a little sad when he thought of being kicked out by the new shopkeeper, that is, the master's son.

"Leave this matter to me!

Even if I can't find your brothers, I'll find you enough blacksmiths!" Zhang Junping promised Zheng Kui.

If a soldier wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon.

This is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

Zheng Kui left the camp and went to pick up an assistant, an apprentice blacksmith.

"Zhang Ming, it's up to you next, the training is hard, the food must keep up, the food can't keep up, it's easy to break people's training!

You don't have to worry about money, figure out the accounts, how much money to spend, I'll give you the top! ”

"Yes!

Lang Jun, do you still need to make medicinal porridge for them to replenish their blood and qi? ”

"At the beginning, we must boil medicinal porridge to replenish blood and qi, and we can't save this aspect!

Go back, I'll have someone send you the medicinal herbs! ”

"Yes!"

"Get busy! I'm leaving! After Zhang Junping finished explaining, he got up and left the tent.

With Zhang Ming here, Zhang Junping doesn't have to do everything himself, otherwise training alone will take up most of his time, and he won't have time to deal with other things.

Leaving the camp tent, on the martial arts arena outside, the family members of the ten generals who served as ten generals were training their military posture with their soldiers.

Standing in a military posture is an important process of transformation from ordinary people to soldiers.

Zhang Junping glanced at it, got on his horse and left the barracks.

Answering the county government, the chief bookkeeper Liu Daojie has not come back from the Mid-Levels Academy.

went with Liu Daojie and the officials were all thoughtful.

Zhang Junping asked Sun Xu to come over.

"How many blacksmiths are there in the county?"

"Back to Zhi County, there are five blacksmith shops in the county, five blacksmiths, and about a dozen apprentices!"

"Recruit three blacksmiths, including their apprentices, to the barracks to report to Zheng Kui Zheng Team Leader!"

The Song Dynasty was also very strict in the management of craftsmen, and craftsmen all had craftsman certificates.

That is, all craftsmen must be registered with the government before they can engage in the relevant craftsman profession.

If you want to compare the artisan household system of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Song Dynasty was much freer.

The government's recruitment of craftsmen can be divided into two forms, one is hired and the other is hired by errands.

Hiring is free to negotiate, and the craftsman can refuse or accept it.

This is a compulsory conscription, and you must obey the dispatch of the government.

However, regardless of whether it is a hired employee or a poor employee, the salary must be paid according to the market price.