After Fu Qian went out, he sent someone to the side compartment of the main hall of the other courtyard to find Chen Daojian.

Chen Daojian is responsible for the group training and the official document writing, distribution, recording, archiving, financial income of the official villages of the Hou Mansion, and the distribution of people, which are also responsible for Chen Daozhu and Kong He.

Hou Mansion plus group training, thousands of Zhuang households and nearly two thousand group training and tooth generals, all kinds of big and small things must be recorded and archived, such as the nationality of the group training soldiers, body shape, family population, etc., Xu Zixian also used these files to deal with the internal affairs of the group training, including the cultivation of the family members of the soldiers who have worries, and the conclusion is also drawn from here.

In addition, each person's training situation is summarized every few days, and there is a detailed record every month.

When Chen Daojian came over, there were still obvious ink marks on his hands.

"Prison." Fu Qian said the cause and effect in just a few words, and then said, "Do you have time to look at the weapons transported by Tingzhou now?" ”

"I have a life, I dare not resign." Chen Daojian was long and jade, his face was always unfazed, and he said casually: "When I come back, I can continue to do the things at hand." ”

"Hard pen writing, are you still used to it?"

Chen Daojian was a serious Confucian disciple before, with a talent identity, and his calligraphy in the pavilion style is quite brilliant, and the handwriting is full and round, and the words are like his person.

Now in official writing, Xu Zixian felt that some people use brushes and some people use hard pens, and the specifications are different, and they will affect each other's speed, so a while ago, he ordered the Hou Mansion and all the officials to use a hard pen to write official documents.

Chen Daojian said: "It's okay, there are a few old masters who are not used to it, and it will be fine after yelling for a few days." ”

Fu Qian said with a smile: "During the Taizu period, it was said that the hard pen was good, but for more than 200 years, there was still a dispute between the hard pen and the brush...... Who doesn't know that the writing of the brush is good, but it is faster than the hard pen. ”

Chen Daojian was silent, his attitude towards this matter was different from Fu Qian's, however, there was no need to argue between colleagues over this trivial matter, and in the end, it was the order of the prince, Chen Daojian could only obey it.

When the two arrived at the door, they saw that Gao Shilai was already waiting in front of the door with a team of young tooth generals holding a long sword or pressing a barrier knife, Fu Qian knew that it was Xu Zixian's arrangement, and nodded to Gao Shilai at the moment, this young sentry officer returned a military salute, and many young tooth generals liked Fu Qian very much, and everyone smiled and nodded to him.

This is Fu Qian's favorite design and construction, Lin Jiusi and others are all led by Fu Qian, the military camp and Mingtang, as well as the school field, are all built by Fu Qian, so in the group of military soldiers and tooth generals, Fu Qian's popularity is very good.

The samples of weapons sent by the He family were placed in a large courtyard in the town, which was temporarily rented by a steward of the He family.

The weapons were wrapped in oilcloth, and the weapons were also smeared with oil, and the guarantee was very good.

Fu Qian looked at the two packs, the axes were all long-handled giant axes, weighing about fifteen catties, the axe body was shining, the blade had been opened, and the polishing was very sharp.

More than a dozen young men stood in the courtyard with knives or in their hands, staring at the long-handled axes with curious eyes.

"That's what the prince thinks." Fu Qian said to Chen Daojian: "When breaking the formation, use the giant axe in the center, and use the wrestler to break the enemy's formation with the axe. ”

"I'm afraid the axe is too heavy." Gao Shilai said not far away: "There are few people who can cut a few times." ”

Ten pounds is not heavy, but it is definitely not good to swing the splitting grid, the strength is small, and it is not the end of the matter with two slashes, after a fierce battle, it is very likely to slash dozens or hundreds of times.

And cut it in the human body, cut the nails and bones, the strength is small, but it really can't work.

"You're still young." Fu Qian turned around and smiled at Gao Shilai: "There are a lot of strong men in their thirties among the martial arts, so they should be able to use it." ”

Gao Shilai nodded, he felt that the giant axe might be a failed experiment for the prince, at least he himself was not very optimistic.

But Modao is really a good thing.

In fact, the shape of the long sword is similar to that of the Mo knife, both of which are flat heads and knife heads, with blades on both sides of the middle sharp, which can be poked and slashed.

The difference is that the head of the Mo knife is much smaller, and the long sword is closer to the spear, and the Mo knife looks much more powerful.

The steward of the He family said at this time: "It is really not easy to build a Mo knife, it is better to use iron, otherwise it can be broken under shaking, and the knife head must be tempered thousands of times, in fact, everyone knows that this is a good thing, but it is too troublesome to build, and there is a lot of iron, and the cost of each handle is expensive." These twenty in front of us are made by us for the prince to enjoy, with all due respect, I want to ask more than 1,000 warriors to use Mo knives, even if the income of Nan'an Hou Mansion is high, you can't squander it like this. ”

The Mo knife originated from the former Tang Dynasty, and the Great Wei Dynasty once equipped the army in batches.

But as the surnamed He said, the craft of making Mo knives is quite complicated, and many blacksmiths can't do this job. And the iron used must be high-grade fine iron, otherwise a battle will not be finished, and the knife will have to be changed.

Even if it is a Mo knife made of fine iron, it is generally damaged after charging into battle.

The Mo Dao team of about 1,000 people will destroy hundreds of Mo knives in a battle, or even more.

The cost of a Mo knife is at least more than ten times, if it is a big battle of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people, with a Mo knife team of tens of thousands of people, no matter whether a battle is won or lost, the Mo knife will use up hundreds of thousands of pieces first, and this kind of battle is as rich as Great Wei can not afford it.

Modao gradually withdrew from the stage of history, and it was not for no reason.

Fu Qian thought that the surname He's speech was ugly, it may be that the He family was far away in Tingzhou after all, and he didn't know that the Hou Shizi of Nan'an acted thoughtfully and made decisions that were not arbitrary, it was very likely that Xu Zixian regarded Xu Zixian as a gentleman of a wealthy Hou Mansion, and patted his head and made a decision.

He was silent for a moment, and continued to open the tarpaulin packages to check them one by one.

The face of the steward surnamed He gradually became difficult to look at, today it was not Yang Yingming who brought someone here, the Hou Mansion changed people to come to check and negotiate, he felt that the situation was not good, Fu Qian checked it quite seriously, which made the face of the surname He even more ugly.

"The head is very rough and has rusty burrs around the edges that have not been polished...... How many years have you been around? ”

"What kind of iron is this knife made of? Rusty? The bayonet can't get stuck? ”

"In addition to the long axe, Mo knife, sword, and knife sent to the prince, they are all unqualified." After Fu Qian looked at more than a dozen packs, his face gradually became solemn, and he was very glad that he did not fall into Yang Yingming's suit.

Most of these knives are inferior goods, and the iron is not good, and the craftsmanship is also very poor.

Steward He's face became quite bad, and he said, "Why do you need to be too good for the weapons used by the regiment to train the soldiers?" Our price is not high, the thousands of knives ordered by the Zhangzhou city defense battalion were also produced in the same batch, the iron of the He family in Tingzhou, of course, is good iron, and the process is sloppy, but the Xiang army and the regimental training have always been like this, to be honest, it is also free to use it. ”

"If that's the case, there's nothing more to say." Fu Qian didn't want to argue too much, although the group of young generals in front of him turned pale and looked quite angry.

"If this is the case with the Hou Mansion of Nan'an," Steward He said quite angrily: "In the future, my He family will not supply the Hou Mansion with fine iron and weapons, and I will not wait." ”

"Listen to me."

He was surprisingly angry, and of course he would not hand over the made Mo knife and long axe to Fu Qian and the others.

There were also a lot of people from the He family, and a group of people were gearing up, but looking at the tooth generals who were holding the long sword and pressing the barrier knife, they pressed down this momentum again.

After Fu Qian went out, Chen Daojian came out and said: "The weapons given to the Xiang army are indeed like this. The weapons we use now are no better than those in front of us. ”

Fu Qian said: "Nan'an group training is to be different, it seems that you can only buy it from the Zhang family at a high price." ”

There is also a branch of the Zhang family in Tingzhou here in Nan'an, and the price was also asked earlier, and the asking price of high-quality weapons is of course very expensive, and the asking price of the He family is lower, but at that time it was stated that the quality needed to be comparable to that of the forbidden army, and now it seems that the He family is untrustworthy.

The weapons of the Great Wei Dynasty, of course, were not built indiscriminately for the merchants, and the weapons of the forbidden army stationed in the Beijing Division were shipped directly from the Beijing Division.

The weapons of the Fuzhou Forbidden Army were not sent from Beijing Jingshi, but were manufactured and shipped by the Jiangling Ordnance Supervisor.

The weapons of the Xiang army are distributed by the local government, and they are manufactured by major merchants, and the quality is of course uneven, but generally speaking, the quality is indeed how to manage things, and most of them are not very good.

"It's the armor that matters." Fu Qian sneered: "A collar of chain mail is at least forty to sixty guan, and the price of iron armor is about eighty to one hundred, the He family is really short-sighted, two to three thousand collar chain mail and iron armor, hundreds of thousands of transactions, in the future, when the son of the world is rich, he must give armor to the soldiers, and do not make the regiment weaker than the forbidden army." They still think that it is the trade of these thousands of long knives and barrier knives, which is really insignificant. ”

Chen Daojian was silent, and when he returned to the other courtyard, after Gao Shilai and the others left, he said to Fu Qian: "Brother Mu, this time it was Yang Yingming who contacted the He family, how did he make things like this?" ”

"There should be something hidden." Fu Qian said: "The strange thing is that the son of the world doesn't seem to be very angry. ”

Chen Daojian was silent, he had been following Xu Zixian, and gradually understood Xu Zixian's mental skills and style of doing things.

He said in his heart, if he was angry, Yang Yingming still had a chance, if the prince didn't say anything, this person would be quite dangerous. But there is no need to mention this, this is just his own speculation, and Chen Daojian also feels that Yang Yingming is also to blame.

……

Not long after Fu Qian and the others left, several large cars stopped in front of the Hou Mansion Courtyard.

Wu Shizhong got out of the car first wearing a green cloth cotton jacket, and his expression was relaxed. In any case, although he has been a doctor's official in the capital for several years, but after all, it is not suitable for southerners to live in the north, and the weather and climate in the north are really not very friendly to southerners.

The students of Mingtang have dispersed, and only a few days are left, and as soon as they see the carriage coming, they will come over to salute and say hello, Wu Shizhong's attitude is very gentle, which is not quite in line with his usual strict appearance.

Xu Zi rushed out when he heard the letter and bowed to Wu Shizhong.

Li Yi, Kong He and others also rushed out, and everyone saluted Wu Shizhong together.