Since Liu Yi was almost assassinated yesterday, Wang San has been following Liu Yi's side for personal protection, with Wang San's protection, for a few days, there was no longer what happened last time, and gradually Liu Yi also put the assassin's matter behind him, after all, there are too many things that need him to do, for the sake of the Arsenal Division, Liu Yi gave up training with Zhang Fei and others, and accompanied Li Blacksmith and others in the Arsenal Division every day.

Liu Yi nested in the Arsenal Division every day, and Li Blacksmith and others discussed and experimented, and finally after a week of unremitting efforts, everyone could use ordinary iron to create a weapon comparable to Yao Lie and others who made the ring head knife made of high-quality iron, this technological breakthrough made everyone happy for several days, and everyone tried the whole process many times, and finally perfected this technology, and then compiled it into the bamboo slips compiled by Li Blacksmith and others on iron building technology. Liu Yi named this bamboo slip "Wugong Ceremony" and enshrined it as a "treasure".

"Lord, please look!" Blacksmith Li held a ring-headed knife that still had residual warmth in his hand, and handed it to Liu Yi with excitement on his face.

Liu Yi took the ring head knife, swung a few knives at the air, and then slashed hard at the iron ore placed on the stove, this knife directly cut off a corner of the iron ore, Liu Yi put the blade of the iron ore that had just been cut in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, the blade was not damaged at all, Liu Yi nodded with satisfaction and praised, "What a good knife!" ”

Blacksmith Li and the others saw Liu Yi's praise, and they could not hide their joy.

"Come on! Master Li and others have made meritorious swords! Fifty coins each! ”

"Thank you, my lord!"

You must know that fifty coins were enough for an ordinary family of three to buy two months' rations at that time, and everyone knelt down to thank Liu Yi when they saw Liu Yi so generously.

After chatting with everyone for a few more words, Liu Yi pointed to the ring-headed knife just now and asked Blacksmith Li, "Master Li, how many weapons like this can our Arsenal Division create in a day now?" ”

Blacksmith Li pondered for a while, and then replied, "My lord! There are only about 20 of us in our arsenal now, and we can only shoot up to ten of these weapons a day? ”

"Ten at most!?" Liu Yi said with some surprise.

"Yes! After all, if you want to build such a weapon, the process is much more cumbersome than that of ordinary swords, and it takes people to transport iron ore and burn furnace fires, and each knife needs four or five blacksmith masters to build, and ten is already the most! Blacksmith Li explained.

Liu Yi frowned and said, "This won't work!" You are all good at doing things on your own, how can you do all that rough work yourself? Isn't that a waste of talent! It's all because I didn't expect it before, in this way, Master Li, I will send someone to find some young people who want to learn building techniques to be apprentices for you from tomorrow, and in the future, you will only be responsible for building weapons and teaching apprentices, and arrange those apprentices to do the rest of the work! ”

Seeing that Liu Yi valued them so much, everyone was very grateful to Liu Yi in their hearts, the so-called "the one who is a confidant dies", everyone made up their minds at this time and swore to be loyal to Liu Yi, a man who knows people and is good at his duties.

In the next few days, Liu Yi found more than 200 young and strong young men, these people are the children of ordinary people in the county, usually except for a short-term job in the big family to earn some subsistence money, there is no other survival technology, I heard that Liu Yi is recruiting apprentices to strike iron here, and there is a salary of twenty coins a month, these people have come to sign up.

In order not to reveal the secrets inside the Arsenal Division, Liu Yi brought these people to his mansion first, and then sent Wang San to call Li Blacksmith and others over to interview these people.

There are three conditions for the interview: the first and most important condition is whether the person is honest, Liu Yi sent someone to investigate some unknown little secrets of each person, and then these secrets will be told during the interview, if someone denies it, then the person will be eliminated. You must know that everyone has some secrets that are not shared with outsiders, and when these secrets are told to the face of others, many people will deny them angrily, only those loyal and honest people will calmly admit their disgraceful past, Liu Yi's trick has damaged some, but it is indeed a very direct way to judge people's character.

The second condition is physical fitness, iron striking is not a light job, and people who lack arms and legs or are too thin cannot do this line of work at all.

The third condition is to sign a labor contract for up to five years, Liu Yi participated in several years of work in his previous life, and knows the importance of the contract for an enterprise that wants to retain talents, although in today's society, people who really want to leave will not care about the contract, but after all, there are very few people, and more than half of them are bound by the high liquidated damages in the contract. Liu Yi's contract not only included a high amount of liquidated damages, but also borrowed the authority of the county magistrate to add a clause that anyone who leaked secrets in the Arsenal Division or did anything that endangered the interests of the Arsenal Division would be severely criminally punished.

Under the screening of the first two conditions, the team of more than 200 people was suddenly reduced to more than 170 people, but when everyone listened to Liu Yi's introduction of the contract, more than 50 people immediately chose to withdraw. Although five years is a long time, but after all, it is an iron rice bowl, everyone does not care much about this contract, what discourages everyone is the last contract that will be severely punished as long as the secret is leaked, in that era, the lives of the people are as cheap as mustard, any small punishment may cost a person's life, not to mention the "severe" punishment emphasized in the contract.

Seeing that the number of blacksmiths continued to decrease, he consciously took his apprentices and the more than 20 blacksmiths to set an example in front of everyone and signed the contract.

In the end, nearly 100 people chose to sign contracts to stay. For the rest of the people, Liu Yi also rewarded each of them with three coins as a reward for their active participation, and those people thanked Liu Yi gratefully and then dispersed.

Liu Yi looked at the remaining hundred people in front of him, and was very satisfied, it was beyond Liu Yi's expectations to be able to leave so many.

"Master Li, look at how many weapons we can build in a day" At this time, Liu Yi was in a good mood, and said to Blacksmith Li while drinking tea.

Blacksmith Li was also very happy at this time, stroked his somewhat white goatee, and said confidently, "With the help of these apprentices, you can build at least forty weapons a day!" ”

Liu Yi almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of water, and shouted, "It's only forty!?" When I built the Arsenal Division, I thought I would build 200 weapons a day!! ”

Seeing that Liu Yi said that he would build 200 weapons a day, Blacksmith Li said with a bitter face, "Lord! These apprentices don't know anything now, and there are less than thirty masters who can actually create weapons! You can't build 200 weapons a day! ”

When Liu Yi heard this, he also knew that he was a little anxious, so he said apologetically, "It's me who is a little anxious!" In this way, after you go back, each of you will take a few apprentices separately, teach and teach more on weekdays, and strive to make these young people become talents as soon as possible! That way, you can retire and rest sooner! ”

"No," Blacksmith Li replied respectfully.

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he looked at the hundred young men in front of him who were less than sixteen years old on average and said solemnly, "Since you have decided to work for me, then you must learn the craft from your masters, and you must understand that you have come to work here not only to get a salary of twenty coins a month, but to learn a craft that can make a living in the future." After five years, I won't force any of you to stay, but I hope that you will be able to make your life better than others in the future through your five years of study here! ”

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he walked to a big stone that was more than three meters high and more than three meters wide on the side, Liu Yi stretched out his hand and pulled off the red cloth covering the stone, only to see eight big characters engraved on the big stone, "Respect the teacher and be tempting, realistic and innovative" Liu Yi pointed to the eight words on the big stone and explained to everyone, "These eight words are the training of our arsenal in the future, the so-called one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, "respect for the teacher" means that you will treat your master like your own father in the future, "good temptation" It requires you, the masters, to do your best to teach your disciples; The final "realistic and innovative" is to require all of us in the Arsenal Division to uphold a down-to-earth, realistic, and positive and innovative work attitude in the future. This is not only my request to you, but also my expectation of you, and the future of the Arsenal Division depends entirely on you! ”

After speaking, Liu Yi bowed deeply to everyone present.

Everyone was deeply moved by Liu Yi's actions, and they knelt down to worship Liu Yi.

"I will live up to the trust of my lord!!" The crowd shouted.

After a few days of overnight work, the wooden building currently used by the Arsenal Division for everyone's residence was completed yesterday, and after Liu Yi explained to Blacksmith Li, he asked him to take everyone back to the Arsenal Division. After Blacksmith Li arrived at the Arsenal Division, he arranged accommodation for everyone according to Liu Yi's instructions, and then divided into groups of four people, and each group was led by a master.

After Liu Yi sent everyone away, he first went to the school training ground with Wang San to inspect it, and then took Wang San to wander around the street, after all, the New Year is coming soon, this is the first time Liu Yi has celebrated the New Year after crossing here, and I want to feel the atmosphere of the New Year in this era.

The two were chatting while walking, the street at this time was very lively, the street was lined with stalls selling all kinds of items, each stall was full of people who came to buy, everyone's face was full of happy smiles at this time, Liu Yi looked at the peaceful scene in front of him, thinking about the depression scene when he first took office, not only proudly straightened his chest.

Some people's happiness is built on the pain of others, and some people's happiness is built on the happiness of others, Liu Yi is just the second kind of person, Liu Yi, who was often looked down upon in his previous life, was respected and needed by so many people in this life, and people who have not experienced such a sense of satisfaction cannot experience it at all.

The two walked around for a while, Liu Yi suddenly saw a very discordant scene at the mouth of the alley that he had to pass through every day, and saw a very ugly-looking person at the mouth of the alley, this person was wearing a broken head, wearing tattered, and there was a broken bowl in front of him that was only half broken and begging, Liu Yi was very puzzled by the origin of this person, so he walked over with Wang San.

The man seemed to have been looking at the two of them, and when he saw the two of them coming over, he hurriedly turned his hands behind his back as if he was holding something, Wang San felt that this person was different, and hurriedly untied the double halberd axe behind him and held it in his hand, and then blocked it in front of Liu Yi.

Seeing this, the man did not get up, but glared at Liu Yi and Wang San with resentful eyes, Liu Yi looked at the man's eyes, and always felt that he had seen it somewhere, and after thinking about it carefully, he was surprised, "It's you?" Your face...? ”