The process of the whole competition is very fast, due to the help of the soldiers, a group of iron smelting will be quite rapid iron smelting refining, half a day later, a group of soldiers will be numbered iron again to the judges' table, by the judges to determine the winner of the competition, and at this time Liu Bei in Zhang Zhao's ear commanded.

Listening to Liu Bei's words, Zhang Zhao nodded again and again, but he was still surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that this lord would actually ask for all the blacksmiths to stay, and would provide them with opportunities, so that these ironsmelters would have the opportunity to become officials.

The second item is the manufacture of weapons, which are divided into spears and shields, spears mainly refer to offensive weapons, and shields mainly refer to defensive weapons.

However, this time the process of the real competition is not as fast as before, the real weapon manufacturing competition will take half a month, and it will have to pass the preliminary round and the finals, because there are more people, so some people must be brushed out first, and then only three people will be left in the finals, but all three people need to make a blade and a weapon.

And Liu Bei did not have the intention of waiting in this place for half a month, but took this opportunity to inspect the governance of the cities around Qiuci County again, in general, although after the war, the governance of the entire Qiuci County is still relatively good, and because Liu Bei released all the young and strong, it did not lead to the loss of the pillars of all the people's families, and all the people are still grateful to Liu Bei.

However, Liu Bei also encountered something that surprised Liu Bei, that is, when a county official bought slaves in the hands of a large family in the county, he encountered stubborn resistance, because this large household had a good relationship with some officials in the county government, so the soldiers who carried out the order did not dare to kill him, and Liu Bei was angry about this.

"You are a rich man who doesn't understand the reason, most of the Western Regions protect Liu Duhu and are willing to pay money to buy the slaves in your hands, but you still don't agree, do you have to use the robbery?" It was Zhao Yun who spoke, and since Liu Bei only led three or four people out on patrol, no one knew who these people were.

"Hmph, Liu Duhu calculated a good account and bought the slaves, and then all the subordinates who lacked servants in our family had to be hired, and the wages had to be paid for the employment, and the money for Liu Duhu to buy the slaves was not enough for me to pay a subordinate for a year's wages." The rich scoffed.

What the rich man said is indeed the same thing, Liu Bei's money to redeem the slaves is indeed not enough to pay a year's wages, but the problem is that in order to release the population, Liu Bei only spent money to free the slaves under his benevolence, and there have been several Yellow Emperors who are willing to spend their own money to redeem the slaves.

Then he made all the rich people think that Liu Bei should spend money, and Liu Bei was a little angry about this, so he asked: "In this case, I don't know if my husband thinks it is appropriate for Liu Du to protect the little money and food?" ”

"Hmph, how much food is appropriate? I don't promise to give as much as I want, and my slave can do whatever I want. ”

"What if Liu Duhu must release these slaves?"

"Then let Liu Duhu come and tell me in person, otherwise don't think about it."

Seeing this, Liu Bei also extinguished the idea of discussing with him, directly recruited a personal soldier, said a few words next to his ear, and then the personal soldier left in the dust.

After a while, the soldiers led a group of officials and the county order to the rich household, and the county commander knelt in front of Liu Bei without saying a word.

"This rich family does not respect the law of the Han Dynasty, and all the old and young in the family are killed, all the slaves in the family are liberated, and all the assets are confiscated." After that, regardless of the differences between the eyes of everyone, they left again.

Half a month later, I returned to Yancheng again, and it was already the last day of the weapons competition.

"Created by Zhao Qian, a long sword, a tiger tooth shield"

"Built by Zheng Wang, a ring head knife and a diamond-shaped shield."

"Made by Zhou Neng, a spear, a knight's shield!"

For the three people who reached the finals in front of him, Liu Bei also looked at the weapons made by these people with great interest, and felt that the weapons made by the three people were quite good.

"There is no need to compare these weapons as before, they will strike each other, and whoever breaks them will be defeated." Liu Bei thought about it, and then said directly.

Zhang Zhao sang a promise, then found two soldiers and asked them to fight each other with a sword and a sword. As soon as the swords met, sparks flew everywhere, and no one could let anyone.

However, when ten knives were cut out one after another, only a crisp sound of "pop" was heard, and the ring head knife had already broken into two before it touched the long sword.

"Zhao Qian wins!"

The soldier placed the sword in front of Wang Chen for his inspection. I saw that although there were some gaps on the blade, the sword body was not injured. If it's on the battlefield, it's already very good.

Considering this, Liu Bei said to Zhao Qian: "Zhao Qian, this time you have won the competition with the ring sword, but you have not compared it with the spear, I don't know if you dare to compare it with the spear?" ”

"Yes."

So two more soldiers fought the long sword and the spear again, but this time the long sword was not as tough as the spear, and it was split by the spear after only ten battles. As a result, the top three of the blades came out.

"Zhou Neng is the first, Zhao Qian is the second, and Zheng Wang is the third."

As for the comparison of the shield, it is simpler, directly let the soldier pick up Zhou Neng's spear to stab the shield, and finally determine the toughness of the shield based on the size of the shield first.

The results also came out quickly, but Zhao Qian was first, Zheng Wang was second, and Zhou Neng was third. At the same time, the design results of the armor also came out, although they were similar, but they could barely be divided into one, two, three.

Seeing this result, Liu Bei stood up and said slowly.

"In the past, my Han Dynasty fought with the Huns, and with the advantage of weapons, he could often block ten with one before he would subdue the Huns outside the disaster. It can be seen from this that an excellent army is naturally indispensable for this sophisticated weapon. ”

"Now I have given you and other official positions as the Iron Supervisor of the Protectorate of the Mansion, and I am responsible for supervising the manufacture of weapons and bows of our army. I can give you three years to replace the armor, weapons, and shields of all the soldiers in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty. But there is one thing, you must promise me, or I would rather not appoint you! ”

"My lord, but it doesn't hurt to say it!" All the craftsmen knelt down and agreed.

"I will hand over this craft to all the craftsmen below, and I will make every handful produced by the Iron Supervisor of the Imperial Palace, and they will all be very well made. And the same style of weapons are all made exactly the same. ”

"Since the lord can afford us, then we will sell all this ability to the lord. I don't dare to guarantee anything else, but every piece that comes out of the Duhufu Iron Supervision is guaranteed to be not inferior to the quality of this competition. ”

"Okay, very good, if there is anything in the future, you can entrust someone to come to me, this time the iron smelting supervisor will be temporarily set as Zhao Qian, and the iron smelting supervisor will be hugged by those who can go up and down."

"Thank you, lord!" Zhao Qian knelt down again.

Later, Liu Bei appointed some other people to work for the iron smelting supervisor, and then instructed: "As for the armor design, I have seen that many of the armor designs are quite good, but the design of the armor should be combined with reality, and I hope that you can work together with the iron smelting supervisor to create suitable armor." ”

After finishing the craftsman's work, Liu Bei rushed back to Nancheng again without stopping, but he received a letter from Lu Bu two days ago, saying that his brother-in-law Wei Xu and his friend Zhang Yang had come to seek refuge in him, and he had sent Wei Xu and Zhang Yang to Nancheng to find Liu Bei.

Liu Bei didn't care much about Wei Wei Xu, because if Wei Xu didn't have Lu Bu in history, it is estimated that he would not have a chance to become famous, and Wei Xu was at most a military general similar to Pei Yuanshao.

But Zhang Yang is different. According to historical records, Zhang Yangzi Zhishu, and Zhou Yun people, once seized Hanoi, and became one of the forces of the Eighteen Road princes, and was finally named the Great Sima. What made Liu Bei feel the most was that Zhang Yang actually accepted Lu Bu twice, which shows the daring of Zhang Yang and Lu Bu.

Although Zhang Yang's force is not as good as Lu Bu, Zhao Yun or even Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, but it is not a general, after a few days of hurrying, Liu Bei rushed to Nancheng, at this time Gumo City is not the same as a month ago, it can be seen that the speed of construction.

Liu Bei liked Zhang Yang and Wei Xu very much after seeing them, although he did not directly divide the official positions, but he promised the two of them that when there was a suitable position, they would be given priority.