When he returned to Xiangyang, the work of building the city had come to an end, and Pang Tong had begun to deploy defenses these days, Liu Yi found a very helpless thing, the highest level of employment was only level six, and he wanted to let these apprentices have the same level as himself...... Gotta add money, ten times more!

Level 6 to level 7 seems to be a watershed, whether it is manifested in oneself or the person hired by oneself, in fact, level six has reached the peak of skills, and further up, in fact, in addition to beauty, the actual effect is more reflected in the attributes.

The night is deep, Liu Bei put down the official document in his hand, stretched his muscles, looked at the sky is still early, but continue to read is a little unreadable, at present, the three parties in Jingzhou are in a stage of accumulation, and the whole body is moved, whether it is Cao Jun or Liu Bei or Sun Quan, this period of quiet is a bit too much, making Liu Bei doubt whether there will really be a war.

During this time, it is more about dealing with some decision-making issues, and he does not need to think about how to implement it, Zhuge Liang in Shuzhong, Cui Zhouping in Jingzhou, are all capable people, and will help Liu Bei handle things in an orderly manner, what he needs to do is only a choice in the general direction.

For example, the attitude towards some of the surrounding Nanban or Shanyue, or some important counties and counties to farming as the main or take into account others, economic prosperity is not commercial prosperity, at least not all, want commercial prosperity, at least need to have enough foundation support, the people are not hungry, only have the spare energy to consider whether to improve their quality of life, if even the basic food and clothing have become a luxury, what is the use of developing business?

It is precisely because of now that he has so many people to help him do things, Liu Bei's life is quite easy, and he can let go of his hands and feet to deal with Cao Jun and Sun Quan here without being bothered by problems in the rear.

Pang Tong and Guan Yu came in and reported to Liu Bei about the recent days, the recent mobilization of Nanyang soldiers and horses has become more and more difficult to detect, and it is even difficult for the exploration horses sent by Liu Bei to get close to the vicinity of Cao Jun, let alone listen to the intelligence of the other party, and even set up many checkpoints on various key roads, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the Jingzhou army to obtain information about Nanyang.

But the more this is the case, the more suspicious it becomes.

However, now that the city wall of Xiangyang City has been built, for Liu Bei, it is the best choice to respond to all changes with the same, no matter what kind of plan Cao Jun has, from which side to attack, it must cross the hurdle of Xiangyang, Guan Yu captured Xiangyang, the benefits of this time, it will be revealed, and the ten-zhang high city wall built by Liu Yi with a variety of city defense equipment, is like a tiger with wings.

At that time, everyone estimated that if they wanted to break through Xiangyang, they needed 80,000 troops, but now the Cao army in Xiangyang City does not have 100,000 troops, so don't consider it.

"I heard that Bo Yuan has returned, why haven't you seen him in the past few days?" After chatting about business, Liu Bei relaxed, looked at the two, and asked with some doubts.

"This ......" Guan Yu and Pang Tong's faces were a little strange, and finally Guan Yu said: "I don't know why, after Bo Yuan came back this time, he seemed to be a different person, and he was quite dissatisfied with this new Xiangyang City, and he has been taking craftsmen around to make some modifications in the past few days. ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, right?" Liu Bei wondered, is there anything wrong with this?

Guan Yu smiled bitterly: "I don't know why, Bo Yuan is quite strict about the appearance, the shooting platform on the city wall was originally enough, he personally carved the tiger head on the outer wall of each shooting platform, used to block the arrows at the same time, the broken army crossbow shot out of the tiger's mouth, originally only need to set up a baffle, but Bo Yuan has to spend effort to carve out one hundred and twenty tiger head shooting ports that are not of much practical use." ”

It looks very beautiful, and it looks even more powerful and domineering from outside the city, but what is the practical use? The problem that can be solved by a single baffle is so complex.

"That's not all!" Speaking of this, Pang Tong also complained a little: "The dougong has also been made into the shape of a dragon head, if you look at it from outside the city, this Xiangyang feels like a beast city, and the broken army crossbow has been carved with a lot of patterns by Boyuan!" I heard that he took someone to carve the toilet today, and I don't know what it will look like. ”

When he thought of going to the toilet, he was faced with a lifelike tiger head, and Pang Tong felt that he would be terrified when he went to the toilet in the future.

Anyway, I feel that after Liu Yi came back this time, the whole person became a little inexplicable, and he had an inexplicable habit for all kinds of carving.

"And." Guan Yu thought of something, beckoned to Zhou Cang at the door, and asked him to take the big knife in his hand and hand it to Liu Bei.

Zhou Cang's big knife Liu Yi had fought before, somewhat similar to the later Mo knife, this time after Liu Yi came back, he went to the Tiangong Workshop to design a new knife, and the first experiment was Zhou Cang.

Liu Bei took Zhou Cang's big knife, three feet long handle, the blade is about six feet, good for chopping, the handle is carved with a dragon pattern, lifelike, the dragon's mouth is facing the blade, that is, the back of the blade, are carved with the dragon pattern of the dragon and tiger, the carver is naturally not said, the blade is also quite sharp, whether practical or ornamental, can not find fault.

"Good knives!" Liu Bei has been fighting for half his life, and his views on weapons are naturally not just superficial, you can be sure that this knife is good in your hand, and the moment the handle of the knife is in hand, Liu Bei faintly has an urge to fight in his heart, and the whole person seems to be full of strength.

"What's wrong with this knife?" Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu puzzled, this knife is very good, not only does it look good, it is pleasing to the eye, it is also quite easy to use, and even if there is divine help, it is no problem at all.

"Bo Yuan is going to equip this knife with the three armies, and the new knife after the Tiangongfang will be made according to this knife, according to what Bo Yuan said, it must be equipped with at least three thousand!" Guan Yu was a little speechless and said: "This knife is powerful, but ordinary soldiers can wield it without moving, besides, in an army, how can it be all those who hold this weapon?" ”

The most important thing is that if such a knife is sold, there will be no counteroffer for 100,000 yuan, and you tell me now that ordinary soldiers have one...... Even if it is equipped with elite soldiers, Guan Yu has a feeling that weapons are more valuable than human lives for the first time.

"These ...... Yun Chang didn't say anything to Bo Yuan? Liu Bei wondered, Liu Yi is not the kind of person who doesn't understand people?

"That's it, so Bo Yuan began to design new armor, bows and shields, and spears." Guan Yu sighed, he had seen the design drawings, let's not talk about whether they were good or not, as far as the drawings were concerned, they were all in the style of Zhao Yun's glazed eye-catching gun.

Think about an army wearing chain armor and holding a glass eye-catching gun, that scene, it feels exciting to think about it, as for the bow, armor, and shield designed by Liu Yi, it must not be too bad, but if such an army really drives to the battlefield, Guan Yu suddenly feels that the kind of arrows with barbs that Cao Jun has studied are weak and explosive, and it is estimated that they will not be able to break the defense, but if Liu Bei really pulls up such an army, they will have to eat soil for many years to come.

Just thinking about the iron ingots that need to be consumed, Cao Cao can directly suffocate to death, he can live to talk about this matter with Liu Bei until now, Guan Yu feels that his life is hard.

"Although these weapons are good, I'm afraid ordinary soldiers can't use them, right?" Liu Bei sighed, just this knife, to say the least, there are thirty catties, those who can dance the knife have to be like Zhou Cang, a powerful person, ordinary generals may not be able to dance, if you really have this ability, you can directly use it as a brave general.

Guan Yu nodded, this is the crux of the matter, the overall quality of the Jingzhou army has been improving over the years, but it has not yet reached the level of the whole army is a strong man, even if Liu Bei gritted his teeth and spent money to make these things, there was no army that could use these weapons.

If no one can use the weapon, what is the difference between it and scrap metal? You might as well build more clusters of arrows to use.

"But~" Liu Bei groped with the blade of the knife and smiled: "Bo Yuan's skills are much better than back then!" ”

Progress is difficult to detect, but if you compare Liu Yi's works from ten years ago with his current works, it will be a judgment.

Liu Bei's double-strand sword was made by Liu Yi when he first defected to Liu Bei, including Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife and Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, but compared with the long-handled knife in front of him, it felt more than a grade worse.

"That's true." Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled: "Yu has ordered someone to recruit some iron and cloud iron, please ask Bo Yuan to help me make a new knife." ”

He is a master of using knives, and he knows better than Liu Bei the extraordinaryness of this long-handled knife, and let Zhao Yun take the lead back then, but this time, Guan Yu directly asked Liu Yi to help him cast a knife, without any hesitation.

"It is not possible for the officers and men of the three armed forces to use such weapons." Liu Bei groped for the blade, shook his head and said: "But you can let Bo Yuan forge blades for some generals in the army, in addition, I remember that Bo Yuan once trained a shield soldier, which is quite strong, you can use this method to form several special troops, select elite soldiers, and cooperate with Bo Yuan's weapons and armor, just like Gao Shun's trapped camp back then......"

At that time, Liu Bei's three brothers suffered a lot of losses under Gao Shun's hands, Guan Yu and Xiahoudun were almost wiped out by Gao Shun's trapped camp, Liu Bei later built the Bai Yu Soldiers, and also imitated the trapped camp, but it always felt like something was missing, naturally it could not be a problem with equipment, but if Liu Yi built equipment, he might be able to find another way to build an army that was not inferior to the trapped camp.

When Guan Yu heard this, his eyes lit up: "Brother's Bai Yubing, my school knife hand, it seems that they are all good." ”

Liu Bei nodded, this is just an idea, how to do it, I have to discuss it with Liu Yi to see if there is a possibility of realization.

"Lord, why don't you go out of the city tomorrow?" Pang Tong looked at Liu Bei and suddenly smiled: "Although Bo Yuan is a little nonsense this time, this Xiangyang City looks really different from the past. ”

Liu Bei thought about it when he heard this, there was nothing to do, and it would be good to go around the city tomorrow, so he nodded and agreed.