Fu Jinzhan stood up, looking into the distance with a smile, she stretched her upper body slightly, raised her head and took a deep breath, "Uh-huh......" with a gentle sigh, lazy and intoxicated.

Guo Shao looked at her beautiful posture blankly, and then turned his head to follow her gaze. I saw clear blue skies, vast multicolored plains, large fields of wheat after harvesting, exposed brown soil, and a small amount of white smoke rising from the fields.

"What is that smoke burning?" Fu Jinzhan asked with interest.

Guo Shao took a closer look and said: "The fertility of the land is very important, after the crops are harvested, the farmer will burn the straw in the field as fertilizer. ”

So he took out half a loaf of wheat from his horse, and began to eat it with water. Fu Jinzhan glanced at him: "Soldiers usually eat this, right?" Give me a taste too. Guo Shao listened and broke a piece for her.

The marigold's smooth and scarlet lips opened, and the jade-white porcelain gently bit a small piece, and his brows furrowed slightly. Guo Shao smiled: "Try it more chewing, it will become sweet." ”

She chewed for a while and smiled, "It's really sweet!" It's not unpalatable......"

Guo Shao said: "This kind of cake, of course, is not as good as the finely prepared staple food, and it is very coarse at first glance; But if you taste it carefully, you can still taste the sweetness and its original cereal aroma. ”

"It seems to make a lot of sense." Marigold pursed her lips and smiled. After a moment, she murmured softly, "I have never been so comfortable, relaxed and happy as I am today...... Brother Shao'er was given to me by God. On that stormy morning, you were lying on the side of the street shivering so inconspicuously, it turned out that God was rewarding me in the most inconspicuous way. ”

Guo Shao listened thoughtfully, and the way he leaned his ears seemed to be savoring Fu Jinzhan's words and feeling what she could feel.

Fu Jinzhan turned his head to look at Guo Shao again: "What you said in the Jinxiang Hall yesterday, do you know my mind?" ”

Guo Shao snorted, looking a little wooden, he didn't have many ordinary words, but his daily life was still quite attentive. Fu Jinzhan said: "I want you to be with me all the time." ”

Guo Shao thought about it, and gradually understood the meaning of Fu Jinzhan a little, yesterday she said "When I am leaving" (when I die) and wants Guo Shao to be buried, probably to express a kind of attachment...... It was a bit extreme, but Guo Shao didn't feel scared, but looked at her face movingly. His eyes couldn't help but look at Fu Jinzhan's delicious-looking lips.

Unexpectedly, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance.

The heartstrings that had just fluttered were interrupted, Guo Shao turned his head to look, and saw that Lu Chengyong and the others had finally caught up.

Fu Jinzhan also glanced back, squinted his eyes and danced the straight post road on the plain, and turned back and said, "I still want to run between heaven and earth, like a bird!" ”

Guo Shao listened and hugged her straight onto the horse. This time he didn't run that fast, but rode with the two guards. Fu Jinzhan hugged him tightly from behind, the soft touch from her back made people's hearts pound, and her warm face was also very comfortable in her vest.

"That river is Cai Shui." Guo Shaoyao pointed ahead, and several hills in the distance where the river extended came into view. "Drive!" He let out a snort, speeding up toward the mountain.

The group climbed a hill, and Fu Jinzhan suddenly made a sound in surprise. On the slope of the mountain, there was a noise of "clanging ......" in the wind, and other noises suddenly became noisy.

As far as the eye can see, I can see a large number of horizontal and vertical houses in front of me, and the noise is coming from the complex. Behind these hills, by the Caishui River, it is as if a small city has risen from the ground, and there are at least dozens of crude and simple buildings. A wide canal was dug out of the Caishui River and introduced into a valley not far away, which was divided into more than a dozen tributaries on the side of the mountain, and the river water flowed straight down the valley from above, like a man-made waterfall; There are also many houses in the valley.

Below the waterfall, you can see the wheels of a huge water wheel slowly turning.

It's not a beautiful natural scenery, but it has a unique style, especially the water wheel, which looks like a Ferris wheel in a playground, which looks very magnificent. No wonder the marigolds were amazed when they saw it.

"This is the Armor Workshop?" Fu Jinzhan asked.

Guo Shao said with a smile: "I asked the Queen Mother to allocate a large amount of money directly from the inner treasury to make armor, and the money is out, where is it spent, you see it is here." ”

Fu Jinzhan glanced sideways slightly, and saw that there were guards behind him, so he didn't say anything. The guards still thought she was Guo Shao's wife, Fu Ermei.

"The watermill is the best." Fu Jinzhan said softly, very similar to Fu Ermei's remarks. Second Sister Fu will pay the most attention to this simple and intuitive thing.

Guo Shao said: "The waterwheel is something that Li Fang ordered by the Jiafang Department to find someone to get it, and I only saw his results after I came back from Shu. This guy is a bit greedy for money, but I was so scared that I guess he wasn't very greedy, and the money was spent on ideas; This expedition to Shu has gained a lot, and I have to ask the Queen Mother to reward him again...... Let's go down and have a look, drive! ”

The closer you get to the valley, the louder it gets.

The river water poured down from above hit the huge wheels of the water wheels with a loud "whoosh" sound, and the wheels were not very delicately made, and the friction sound was very loud when they turned, and there was a "gurgling" sound between them and the conveyor belt; The rhythmic clatter sound coming from inside the house must have been the crash of a hammer.

The whole forging hammer assembly has basically not changed, that is, the power unit has changed from storage to hydropower, and the ancients used waterwheels in many places, including boats, but it is easy to move them to use the same scoop...... It is true that Guo Shao did not handle this step, and he was still fighting in Shu at that time. This kind of workshop is too noisy, and it will indeed make noise to the people for a long time in the city, and now it has been relocated to the suburbs.

Hydraulic hammer! That's how it came out. Guo Shao doesn't know what the structure of the hydraulic forging hammer developed in human history is, but it is definitely not what he sees now, in fact, this set of devices he made is very strange and nondescript, but it can forge a whole metal abrasive...... As long as it works, he can't figure out what a hydraulic forging hammer should look like anyway.

"The waterwheel drives this wheel. The waterwheel is large and slow, and the runners inside are small and fast. Guo Shao pointed and said.

Fu Jinzhan watched with wide eyes with interest. In this dirty, dusty workshop, she looked like a pearl that had fallen into the dust, and it was a strange scene.

"Do you see the chain hanging on the outside of the wheel?" Guo Shao pointed again, "When turning, because the direction is far and near, the iron chain will be pulled." ”

The circular motion is transformed into a linear motion, and the efficiency of the transformation seems to be a bit low, and there is no way to do it.

At this moment, two civil officials came in, and Li Fang was still gasping for breath, and he was simply running. He immediately clenched his fists and said, "Meet Guo Du for inspection, Mrs. Guo." ”

The other official who was in charge of the ceremony was actually the guest provincial envoy Zan Jurun, what was this guy doing here? The relationship between the armor workshop and the guest province made the eight poles incompatible, and Guo Shao ignored him for a while.

"Commander Li, you did a good job." Guo Shao patted him on the shoulder. Fu Jinzhan ignored them, she is now the second sister of Fu, and she can't say anything like mourning that the family has a reward.

Li Fang hurriedly said: "The things that are within the division are the things that are within the division...... The lower officials were able to get Guo Du to check and drive, and they were very happy. ”

Guo Shao said: "Continue to work hard, I can't treat you badly." ”

Fu Jinzhan asked softly, "These things were made by Li Fang?" ”

Li Fang hurriedly said: "Madam, it's all made according to the arrangement of Guo Du's inspection, the person I was looking for." ”

Fu Jinzhan couldn't help but glance up at Guo Shao.

Guo Shaodao: "The hydraulic transmission was made by Li Fang. ”

"It's not me, it's the shopkeeper Lu, who built the ship...... The person I'm looking for. Li Fang said. Guo Shao smiled when he heard this: "It is also a skill to find someone who can use it." ”

Li Fang said with a smile: "Guo Du has a good reputation. ”

At this time, Guo Shaocai turned his head to look at Zan Jurun, who was hanging aside, and asked, "Envoy Zan came to inspect the affairs of the Jiafang Department?" ”

Zan Ju Runzuo said: "A while ago, I attacked Shu, and the lower official was in the Northern Route Army as a supervisor, and I found that the defense of the new armor was very good, and the previous ring lock armor bows and arrows were not very resistant, and this whole armor had a very high defense against sharp blades, so I came to see the workshop." ”

Guo Shao nodded, not thinking. This Zan Jurun has always been an official of the Zhou Dynasty, and there is no problem with being an official.

At this time, Zan Jurun said: "The lower official thinks that it can be changed, for example, the helmet and the soldiers of the North Route Army are not breathable, and the whole iron plate cannot be worn in hot weather." came over and let people try another look, General Guo was interested. ”

"It's really not breathable, and I'm not comfortable wearing it." Guo Shao went with him to see it.

I saw that there were all kinds of armor in another room that was used as a warehouse, and there was a small guard at the door, probably managing the things that came in and out. A pair of armor hangs from a wooden frame, the chest and arms are unchanged, and the helmet and shoulder armor are slightly changed. The helmet was connected by two pieces of armor with rivets, and the iron plate on the top pressed against the bottom, and the middle was breathable, but the connection was two layers, which was not easy to be inserted by weapons; The appearance on the top has also been changed, and a feather has been inserted, which really looks much better.

Zan Jurun said: "The lower officials watched the battle, and felt that the clothes and armor looked better, the plastic surgery was more powerful, and the morale of the generals was also higher. There is also this shoulder armor, which makes it easier to move. ”

Guo Shao took a closer look and couldn't help but glance back at Zan Jurun. The chain mail of the moving parts is thickened and attached to the plate armor, so that the soldier can wear it directly, without the need for two layers of inner and outer layers, which reduces the weight. Guo Shao can see that the most troublesome thing about this armor is not the main part of the plate armor, but the chain mail of the connecting parts, such as the skirt armor; Of course, plate armor will consume more iron.

Sure enough, Li Fang said: "Chain mail is laborious and costly, dozens of workshops above are all made of chain mail, and only a dozen sledgehammer workshops below are enough." Fortunately, the inner treasury is generous in allocating money, and if you have money, you can't find anyone. ”

Guo Shao said: "Li Zhiling is quite good at finding people. ”

Li Fang said: "There are not many master craftsmen in nail making, and the lower officials pay for the master craftsmen to take their apprentices...... The Queen Mother's money. ”