After Li Wenyuan left, Cheng Yanjin picked up the wooden box that Li Wenyuan handed over to him, and slowly opened the fire paint on the seal. Only then did I know that what Li Wenyuan said about this kind of Tianshan snow lotus must be in the ice cellar so as not to lose its medicinal properties is not a lie. This seemingly large wooden box in his hand contains a large amount of ice cubes. On top of the ice cube lies a palm-sized, white-petaled flower, which is exactly what the doctor said about the snow lotus.

Since the doctor had already said that this thing could cure his mother's illness, Cheng Yanjin no longer spoke politely to Li Wenyuan. After taking a few snow lotus flowers and decocting water for his mother, sure enough, his mother's complexion was much better than before. Although there are still some symptoms, they are not as serious as before.

Time passed, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the day of the martial arts examination. Qin Qiong had just gotten up to clean her face and rinse her mouth, so she dressed and came to the courtyard to prepare for the final exercise. As soon as I pushed the door open, I saw Cheng Yanjin sitting on the steps in front of the door with his axe, frowning and thinking about something. Qin Qiong smiled and said, "I don't see you practicing so diligently on weekdays, why did you get up earlier than me for the exam today, and you were stunned here?" ”

Cheng Yanjin was shocked by Qin Qiong's sudden words, turned his head to see that it was Qin Qiong, and then said with a wry smile: "After serving the old lady last night, I went back to my room and went to bed, and this sleep was really surprisingly heavy. In my dream, an old man taught me a whole set of exquisite axe techniques. When I woke up, I knew it was a dream. Only then did he get dressed and came to the courtyard to prepare to practice the axe technique. But you also know that I am stupid, and I have never had much understanding of martial arts. A whole set of exquisite axe techniques, and now I only remember the first three styles, so I am worried here. ”

Hearing Cheng Yanjin say that he had learned a set of axe techniques in a dream, Qin Qiong was also very curious. At that moment, he straightened his clothes and carried his spear and said, "Come to Tie Niu, you fight against me, let me see what the three sets of axes you remember, what are the subtleties." ”

The two of them got on their horses and competed in the courtyard. Cheng Yanjin saw that Qin Qiong was ready, and immediately pressed his legs between the horse's belly to urge him to step forward, raised the long axe in his hand, and slashed Huashan directly at the oncoming Qin Qiong with one move. Qin Qiong saw that Cheng Jin's axe was heavy, so he didn't dare to underestimate it. Hurriedly raised the spear in his hand and blocked it upward. At this moment, Cheng Biting Jin saw that Qin Qiong wanted to block the axe he was chopping with a horizontal gun. Dengshi's shoulders struggled to restrain the axe momentum, and then he offered the axe and stabbed directly at Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong wanted to change his position at this time, and it was too late to use the spear to remove the axe. I had to use a trick of iron plate bridge on the horse, and dodged the axe that stabbed straight in.

At this time, the two horses were in the stirrup, Qin Qiong had just received the kung fu of the iron plate bridge, and straightened up on the horse, before he had to turn the horse's head, when facing Cheng Biting Jin, he suddenly heard a gust of evil wind behind him, and it was Cheng Biting Jin who turned the axe in his hand and swept it to his back. Qin Qiong had no choice but to listen to the sound of the wind and put the spear in his hand behind him. I could only hear the sound of the metal crashing of the two weapons together, and then a huge force was transmitted to Qin Qiong's body and hands. Qin Qiong's mouth was numb, and at this time, Cheng Yanjin also put away the axe, smiled at Qin Qiong, and said with some embarrassment. "The changes given by the old man in the dream are the only three types that I remember. ”

Qin Qiong hung the spear in his hand on his horse again and rubbed the tiger's mouth that was a little numb. Looking at Cheng Yanjin on the opposite horse, he said: "Only these three styles are enough for you to climb the list of martial arts." There is another point that you should keep in mind, when you are fighting against others, it is the best strategy to be improvised. Don't stick to the rules, you must follow the order of these three formulas. ”

Soon after, the sky was bright, and with Li Wenyuan's nod, the first martial arts examination in the Western Regions began. The examination items are mainly stone locks that check whether candidates are qualified for the martial arts examination. Only those who can move the stone lock can carry out the next examination of the foot bow, foot battle, horse bow, and horse battle. As for those who can't lift the stone lock, there is another way to choose, that is, to take the exam of the art of war, and in the future, they can also be promoted to the army as a staff member. Thanks to the precision of Li Wenyuan's pre-arrangement, even if the number of martial artists from all over the country who came to take the exam reached hundreds, there was no confusion, and the exams were being carried out in an orderly manner.

After several days of exams, I finally completed the spring martial arts examination. Among them, 100 people with excellent results in the infantry section, the cavalry section, and the staff section were selected for recruitment. Those who do not pass the grades can also go to various schools to give those children who have been forced to enter the school as teachers of physical education, waiting for the next martial arts examination.

Some people with high military force have long been hired by the imperial court, and many people are unwilling to come to the relatively remote Western Regions to serve at this time. Therefore, Qin Qiong, who has been trained in the army for several years, won the champion of this martial arts examination. And Cheng Yanjin relied on the three-board axe to win the seventy-third place in the infantry division after receiving some of Qin Qiong's guidance and his own understanding. These people were all placed separately in the Yingyang Mansion of Zhangye and Wuwei Second County, waiting for their positions to be assigned.

And these are not what Li Wenyuan is concerned about now, what Li Wenyuan is most concerned about is that not long after the start of the martial arts examination, the golden shopkeeper sent him a message that the flintlock musket that Li Wenyuan had been thinking about day and night was finally tried out by the gold shopkeeper and a group of craftsmen.

Li Wenyuan picked up a musket in front of him and looked it up and down with his eyes. This flintlock musket is largely the same as I remember, using flint to strike a piece of metal to produce a spark, which falls into the fire door of the gunpowder stored underneath, igniting the gunpowder and firing a projectile. Now in his hand, this is a musket that has not yet been loaded with gunpowder, but has only been able to fire intact. The body of the gun was made of spruce wood, which was abundant in Wuwei County, and a skilled carpenter was hired to rely on the rough sketches drawn by Li Wenyuan for processing.

As for the most important barrel parts except for the ignition mechanism, Li Wenyuan only gave the golden shopkeeper a passage of the original words recorded in the Tiangong Kaiwu: Where the hammer is a bird, the iron is first made of a piece as big as a chopstick, and it is wrapped in red iron and hammered. The first is three connections, the interface is red, and it is trying its best to collide. After the combination, the quadrangular steel cone is used as a big one, and it is rotated through it to make the aurora clean, and there is no blockage in the medicine.

Relying on these few words, the golden shopkeeper and many former royal craftsmen who represented the highest level of craftsmen at that time tried to produce the first flintlock musket of this era.