Before the war, Yu Zhilong talked with the generals about the way to govern the army and seek talents, and once sighed: "Emperor Wu of the former Wei Dynasty was eloquent and strategic, knew people and was good at observing, and it was difficult to dazzle and be hypocritical. Recognize and pull out geniuses, not limited to lowly, and use whatever you can. When it comes to the decisive victory, the momentum is overflowing. Honorable labor should be rewarded, not stingy with thousands of gold, celebrities in the late Han Dynasty, Kong Rong in literature, Lu Bu in Wu, and Meng Deshi and his strengths. ”

casually sang his poem and said: "When you sing about wine, life is geometric!" For example, the morning dew is bitter in the past.

Be generous and unforgettable. How to solve the problem? Only Du Kang.

Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart. But for the sake of the king, he has been groaning so far.

Yo yo deer chirping, eating wild apples. I have guests, drummers and shengs. ”

"The people of the world are more treacherous, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but they don't know that Cao Gong has a heart like the sea, and the Han family is still in danger and still tries his best to help but not take it himself, and it also shows that Cao Gongzhi is very human, and his son is forced to offer the emperor Chan, which is not his original intention."

This "Short Song Xing" mainly expresses Cao Cao's thirst for virtue, and Yu Zhilong feels the friendship in the text every time he sings. He is now considered to be a little wealthy, and he is also eager for talented people to vote.

Fang Xueqi said: "Do you want to follow Emperor Wu?" ”

Yu Zhilong shook his head slightly: "Han has lost the heart of the world, and there is no reason to support him, no matter how eloquent Emperor Wu is, he is just a remnant." I respect, it is its thirst for talent, only talent, civil and military! ”

"Emperor Wu used many talents in his life, although he himself has flaws, but the flaws are not hidden, and he can be called a hero. Heroes, immediately build military merits, and immediately go down to the security community! Today, the Jing'an army grass rises in the mountains, the soldiers are not more than 10,000, there will be no more than a dozen, barely have a foothold, the long way of thinking, difficult, dangerous! I know that my intelligence is far inferior to Emperor Wu, so I tremble every day, like walking on thin ice, if there are guests, I will drum and blow the sheng, sweep the couch to greet each other! ”

Fang Xue sighed: "Adults are worried about the people's livelihood, and they take the removal of the Tartars as their own responsibility. Subordinate Zhao, Wu, Ma, Ji, Mu and other generals are brave people, Xie, Cheng, Tian have intelligence, do practical things, are all strong arm help, although the subordinates are young and dull, they are willing to saddle the horse for the adult, and the effect is modest! It is said in the world that those who have attained the Tao have more help, and now there are few people who are able to do so, so why not send a recruitment list? ”

After thinking carefully, Yu Zhilong shook his head slightly: "It's a pity that the timing is not right." Our army lives in a county, vertical and horizontal only a hundred miles, surrounded by strong captives, sometimes there is a catastrophe of annihilation, at this time, many people who have no livelihood come to join. The wisdom of the talent may not be willing to bend down, and our army is only a candle in the wind in the eyes of the world, and its strength is extremely weak. The prospect is unpredictable, far from being comparable to Gaoyou and Haozhou, and it is not a good choice. At present, it is still necessary to break the captives and survive! ”

There are talented people in the world, many far-sighted, if they are not forced to or have similar interests, they generally will not rashly entrust their lives to the weak. At this time, Yu Zhilong was not a good choice for talented people.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Xiao He and Zhang Liang were both immortal, but one was a minister from the dragon at the beginning, and the other was a great terrorist who assassinated the Qin Emperor, and joined the gang because he was desperate. Yu Zhilong is just a grassroots one, how can He De make the world's great talents hear?

Although the documents and circulars issued at the beginning can make the people at the bottom excited, most of the talented people who can read and write are Confucians, and their families are far more prosperous than the low-level people who have worked all their lives, and their families and underlying forces are often intertwined, and many of them are also large urban and rural gentry. Fighting the local tyrants to divide the land just violated the interests of his family, and now he is the sworn enemy of his family, and the other party is afraid that he will not be able to eat his own flesh, eat his own skin and then be fast.

Even if people have a heart, there is Liu Tianwang in front of him, and he is only the main general of one of them, and outsiders may not understand the mystery of this.

After thinking about it, Yu Zhilong finally felt that it was too early to summon the list.

Fang Xue went to a private school, and he still knows about this "Short Song Xing". He has determined to follow Yu Zhilong, so naturally he doesn't think about it. Just because he is still young, there are twists and turns of family ruin, since entering the troubled times, he has encountered many people such as Mu Chun, evil officials, slaves, etc., and he wants to say that he is a person, and his city is still shallow.

At this time, Fang Xue had no intention of being jealous of the virtuous, and he was pleased that the Jing'an Army was able to summon people of great virtue and power. Now he does things almost without touching the ground every day, and he also hopes that there will be talented people to share part of it.

Liangxian couldn't do it for a while, but Fang Xue had something to say at this time.

"General Yu, Master Lu is waiting to see you outside."

"Oh, could it be that there is news about the production of the repeater? Hurry up, please! ”

Master Lu Craftsman, surnamed Lu Ming'an, was originally a craftsman under the Zhending Road Armament Craftsman Lifting Division. Because his family was poor and unable to make ends meet, he had to flee with his family, and he traveled all the way to Yidu Road as a slave farmer.

This master Lu came to report to Fang Xue earlier, stating the results, Fang Xue learned that he was overjoyed, and saw that Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi came together, and happened to come to Chen Yu.

After a while, a black and thin man about fifty years old nervously entered the tent, he glanced slightly, and saw a young general sitting in the main seat, recognizing Yu Zhilong, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Little Lu'an, I have seen two generals!" ”

Yu Zhilong hurriedly said: "Master Lu, please get up quickly, come here, take a seat!" A personal guard immediately brought a chair and placed it on the bottom, and Lu An carefully sat next to the chair at the suggestion of Yu Zhilong.

"When the master sees me today, is there good news?" Yu Zhilong couldn't help asking.

This Lu An was originally a craftsman in the Yuan court government, specializing in bows and crossbows and arrows, since the abolition of Zhilong's slavery, his family can finally divide the field, divide the silver and make a living independently, Lu Anxin was delighted, and then learned that the Jing'an army was in urgent need of bows and arrows, so he took the initiative to ask Fang Xue, and was willing to guide the method of making bows and arrows, thinking that it was for military use.

Fang Xue immediately introduced it to Yu Zhilong, and Yu Zhilong was overjoyed, not to mention the Jing'an army, even the Shuntian army was in urgent need of bows and arrows. When the two armies are fighting, the bow and arrow are the first, and the bow is sharp, so it is natural to take the lead.

However, Yu Zhilong regretted that the production procedures of the bow and arrow were complicated, and Linqu County not only lacked various corresponding materials, but also couldn't wait in time.

According to Lu An, there are six kinds of basic materials for the first selection of materials, namely dry, angle, tendon, glue, silk and lacquer, also known as "six materials". Its functions are respectively "those who do it, think it is far away; The horned one thinks it is a disease; Those who have tendons think they are deep; glue, think and; The silk is solid; Lacquer people, think it is frost dew".

The selection standards of the six materials are very strict and graded, such as the bow trunk, "where to take the dry way seven", which is superior to the wood, the second has the wood, the oak tree, etc., and the bamboo is the bottom.

Horns, mainly with horns, with white, middle and young, unabundant horns are better

The selection of tendons should be small and long, and the large ones should be round and moist.

Glue, mostly use deer glue, horse glue, bovine glue, mouse glue, fish glue, rhino glue and other six kinds

Northland bowstrings are mostly made of beef tendons, and silk strings are also widely used later. The bowstring can be taken from the leaf cocoon, and its silk is tough. Each one is made of more than 20 silk threads as bones, and then wrapped horizontally with threads. The silk is divided into three stops, and the space is one or two points apart from seven inches, so when the string does not open the bow, it can be folded three times and collected. Yellow wax for the maintenance of strings. Where the bow and two Xiao are in the area, or with the thickest cowhide, or cut soft wood such as a small chess piece, nail the corner end, the name is called the pad string, the meaning is the same as the qin. When the strings return, the male force is inward, and it must be resisted by this, otherwise it will be damaged.

Finally, the prepared bow arm is painted to prevent the erosion of frost and moisture, and the color of the paint must be clear.

When I first listened to Lu An's explanation of the production method, I heard that Yu Zhilong's head was big, and the production of a bow was so fine, which was somewhat beyond his imagination. However, Lu An's subsequent words hurt his eager heart even more.

Lu An continued: "There is a time to take the six materials, cut the bow in winter, and cure the horn in spring; Treat tendons in summer, gather all materials in autumn. In the cold winter, the bow arm should also be placed in the bow box to set the shape, and the surface should be repaired. Wait for the spring to install the strings, and hide it for another year before it can be used. ”

Coarse and rough, a bow is selected from the material, to the disassembly and production, to the repair and finalization, at least two to three years.

In Zhilong's heart, this is just the preparation of a bow, if it is a fire gun, I don't know how to bother and work hard! The original idea of preparing for the preparation of a batch of firecrackers in advance stopped!

When asked about Mingxiong and Xie Lin again, the reserves of these six kinds of materials in the county treasury are mostly very small, let alone making a hundred bows, even fifty are difficult. And the monks have more porridge and less porridge, which is far from enough for the military. Even if you count the damaged bow and arrow parts, and repair them together, the number will not be much more in the end.

After thinking for a long time, Yu Zhilong asked helplessly: "Since there are no good materials now, I don't know if I can simplify it according to the place, and first build some simple bows and arrows, even if the range and armor penetration are weaker!" ”

Lu Anbai said: "If it is for a momentary need, the small one can relax the selection of materials, but the simple ones are difficult and far, and they are very easy to be damaged, and they may be difficult to use for a long time." ”

"It's okay, it can be used for half a year." Yu Zhilong didn't care. If you have the utensils first, you can win this battle.

"I'm afraid it's four or five months at most, two or three months at the least." Lu An is not sure, dry, horn paint, etc. can be replaced by the simple, this tendon, silk is really not easy to find to replace, and skilled craftsmen are scarce, there is only one son by his side to be a helper, and he is not sure how much he can make in the end.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the materials needed are available in the army and the county treasury, you can use them, and you can decide the craftsmen you need. I will inform Liu Tianwang and ask him to agree. At present, the invasion of Yidu Tartars is imminent, and there is a shortage of bows and arrows in the army, no matter what, two hundred strong bows and four thousand arrows must be prepared within ten days! Yu Zhilong commanded.

Lu An received the order, learned from Fangxue, Xie Lin vigorously checked the available craftsmen nearly 100 people, cut wood and bamboo, exhausted the available animal tendons, silk threads, etc., and finally got more than 300 bows and more than 7,000 arrows.

These bows and arrows were of great use against the Yidu Yuan army. After the war, Yu Zhilong rewarded Lu An with a second-class reward and 20 acres of land.

Today, when Lu An comes again, there will be good news, and Yu Zhilong can't wait for it.

Lu An bowed and said: "Back to the adult, the previous time the adult had ordered the small trial production bed, after the small one went back, repeatedly recalled, pondered, yesterday finally completed a body, although not exquisite, the effect is still unsatisfactory, today the special report to the adult decision." ”

Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi were overjoyed, and the bows and arrows prepared by Lu An helped the Jing'an army a lot, and they really made a contribution to the enemy Tang Wuwei. Previously, Zhao Shi and others had also hoped to make a strong crossbow against the enemy, but they had to give up because the production was more elaborate and difficult. At that time, Yu Zhilong asked if he could make a big crossbow to deal with the charge of the Yuan Cavalry, Lu An just shook his head when he heard it, the time given was too short, and he didn't have the required materials and good craftsmen to cooperate, and he could try his best to complete the production of these bows, but it was already to his personal limit, and it was completely impossible to make a big crossbow if he wanted to be distracted again.