Lu Bu came to the arsenal, and Zhang Shiping, who had been waiting all night, greeted him outside the gate: "The Marquis of Chu can be regarded as coming." ”

"Don't you think I'm coming too often today?" Lu Bu smiled slightly and asked Zhang Shiping.

Zhang Shiping replied: "How dare I think Chu Hou comes frequently, the arsenal was originally for Chu Hou to forge ordnance, and Chu Hou should come ten times a day." ”

"It's a very nice thing to say." Lu Bu said with a smile: "If you say it so well, is there something you need from me?" ”

"Chu Hou won't forget about last night's events, right?" When Lu Bu asked, Zhang Shiping looked at him in astonishment.

"What happened last night?" Lu Bu pretended to be stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "If you don't mention it, I really forgot about it." Last night, I promised you that I would think of a way to recruit women craftsmen for you. ”

"Exactly!" Lu Bu still remembered this incident, Zhang Shiping breathed a sigh of relief, and said to him: "I thought about it all night last night, and I didn't think of what method to use to recruit female craftsmen to come to the arsenal. Most of the men who have been working in the workshop have been outside, and even if there are a few women, they are all left in the backyard. ”

"It used to be like that, but it won't be like that in the future." Lu Bu said: "I also know that women have always been left at home to do things like husbands and children. But in this world, there are either men or women, and men do things outside, but the number of people is limited after all. If we can make use of all women, why worry that Xu Yang Erzhou can't grow as soon as possible? ”

"Chu Hou is right, but everyone in the world thinks that women should stay at home." Zhang Shiping replied with a bitter face: "If you want them to go out to do things, I'm afraid few people will agree with ......"

"We do things, and we still need the world's approval?" Lu Bu said: "Last night I was in the back house and talked about this with a lady in the back house. Madame told me that the women refused to come to the arsenal because they and their families felt that it was not safe. ”

"Not very secure?" Zhang Shiping was stunned and said: "Chu Hou has allocated a lot of guards in the arsenal, if you want to say that it is safe, I am afraid that there is no place more stable than here." ”

"Madame's words are not very safe, and she does not refer to these specific things." Lu Bu said: "The arsenal is full of men now, and some women have come to enlist, and they will work here in the future. Men have always treated women as they wanted. When they came to the arsenal, how did they and their families put their minds at ease? ”

"I understand what Chu Hou means." Zhang Shiping replied: "But the world is like this, and I don't have any way to ......."

"It's time to change the way of the world." Lu Bu said: "We can't deserve the whole world, can't we even change a small arsenal?" ”

"What does Chu Hou mean......" Probably understood what Lu Bu meant, Zhang Shiping asked him in astonishment.

"You immediately issue an order in the arsenal, but when women come here to do business, no man shall do anything to them, let alone make fun of them." Lu Bu said: "Anyone who violates it will be handed over to the government for questioning for murder." ”

"Murdering someone?" Zhang Shiping was stunned for a moment, and asked Lu Bu: "Wouldn't it be too heavy to ask for such a crime?" ”

"If you don't give the guilt a heavier sentence, how can you restrain the men in the arsenal?" Lu Bu said: "If you can't restrain them, this order you gave will be useless, and if you want to recruit female craftsmen in the future, it will be difficult to reach the sky!" ”

Zhang Shiping suddenly said to Lu Bu: "I'll ask someone to draft a document and post it outside the arsenal." ”

"It's just posted outside the arsenal, and there aren't a few people watching here, so it won't be of much use." Lu Bu said: "You have to have people put this order on the streets and alleys so that everyone can see it." This order will only be useful if the people see it, and you give it. ”

"I understand what Chu Hou means." Zhang Shiping replied, and then asked Lu Bu: "Do you want to announce it in the arsenal as well?" ”

"Of course it will be announced." Lu Bu said: "If you don't make it public, the craftsmen don't know, if you treat someone because of this at that time, wouldn't it make people unconvinced?" ”

"I'll talk to the craftsmen when I've drafted the notice." Zhang Shiping said: "If it weren't for Chu Hou's reminder, I would have almost missed a big thing." ”

"Get the notice out and put it out first." Lu Bu explained: "As for announcing it to the craftsmen, I am not in a hurry. You will announce it, and the craftsmen may not remember, and the women who came to the arsenal to enlist are unlikely to know. Rather than annoying the craftsmen by talking to them now, it is better to wait until all the women who have been drafted have arrived, and then gather everyone together to proclaim the order. In this way, the women who worked in the arsenal knew what rights they would have in the future, and the male craftsmen also knew that the women here could not be touched. In order to make more women feel at ease with the arsenal. ”

Lu Bu didn't let Zhang Shiping immediately go and announce the order to the craftsmen, and of course Zhang Shiping couldn't go against his will.

Accompanied by Zhang Shiping, he walked into the factory, and Lu Bu asked, "Did you assign work to the craftsmen yesterday?" ”

"Back to Chu Hou." Zhang Shiping replied: "It has been assigned, and the craftsmen have also done what Chu Hou ordered at night, which is really much faster than before." ”

"Have the soldiers from the army arrived and handed over to the craftsmen to tailor their clothes?" Lu Bu asked again.

"It arrived yesterday." Zhang Shiping said: "Tall, short, fat and thin, there are all kinds of physiques. The craftsmen had already measured the size of the armor they were wearing, and in the future, they made five sizes of armor and battle robes according to what Chu Hou had explained. ”

"When people wear clothes, in fact, they only need to fix a few sizes." Lu Bu said: "Tailor-made clothes are also to make the clothes a little looser. People are tall, short, fat and thin, and there is not much difference between them. Except for a few people with unusual physiques, most people's clothes are among these five sizes. ”

"That's what Chu Hou said." Zhang Shiping said: "If it weren't for the fixed size, it would not be easy for craftsmen to make armor suitable for soldiers in the army." Now that there are sizes, as long as the craftsmen cut according to these, all the armor sent to the army should be usable. ”

"Extra-large and minimum, do less." Lu Bu explained: "The most should be large and medium. Most of the officers and men in the army wore armor of these two sizes. ”

"I understand." After Zhang Shiping complied, he ordered someone to draft an order that the arsenal should not harass female craftsmen.

Lü Bu went to the arsenal, and Sun Ce went to the official residence of the Chen Palace.

After seeing Lu Bu, Chen Gong was also thinking in his heart, how to get the things Lu Bu explained.

With today's world, there are definitely not many people who are willing to send the women of their families to the arsenal.

Even if he went from house to house, he would not be able to recruit a few women who were willing to work in the arsenal.

Just when Chen Gong was upset, the guard reported that Sun Ce was here.

Since he joined Lu Bu, Sun Ce has always been by his side, and of course Chen Gong didn't dare to slack off, so he hurried out to greet him.

After meeting Sun Ce, Chen Gong asked, "How come General Bo Fu has the leisure to come to me?" ”

"I just came to protect Duke Chen on the orders of the Marquis of Chu." Sun Ce said: "Recruiting women to the arsenal will definitely be resisted by some people. If there is a disturbance, with me by his side, Chen Gong can be safer. ”

"Even if they resist, it's just the people." Chen Gong replied: "Marquis Chu also specially ordered General Bofu to come over, which is indeed a bit of a fuss. ”

"Chu Hou cares about the danger of Chen Gong'an, so he will do this." Sun Ce replied with a smile: "He also specially instructed me that no matter what Gong Chen does, I must not interfere with it." Please also rest assured that when you are doing things, I am only supporting you, and as for the rest, I will treat it as if I didn't see it or hear it. ”

Although Sun Ce said so, Chen Gong didn't think that he would really do it.

Lu Bu sent the people around him here, if he didn't say that he was doing things to keep an eye on him, Chen Gong wouldn't believe it.

"Just now I was thinking about how to convince the people to let the woman go to the arsenal." Chen Gong said to Sun Ce: "But come to think of it, this matter is not so easy to do. General Bo Fu also knows that the world looks very closely at the women in the family, even if they are ugly, they will inevitably not be ridiculed when they go outside. There are all kinds of men in this world, and there are always a few ...... who are not too picky."

"What Gong Chen said is indeed reasonable, but I believe that Chu Hou will definitely respond to this." Sun Ce replied: "My days of following the Marquis of Chu are not as long as Gong Chen, and when it comes to understanding him, I am far inferior to Gong Chen'......"

"If it were the same as before, General Bo Fu said so, I would definitely admit it." Chen Gong interrupted Sun Ce: "I'll tell you the truth, since the Battle of Xiapi, I don't feel that I can understand Chu Hou." He tends to do things differently than he used to. To say that Chu Hou has suddenly changed people, I will definitely not have any doubts. ”

"Isn't Chu Hou the way he is now?" Sun Ce had also heard of Lu Bu's bad reputation, but he still asked Chen Gong about it.

Chen Gong replied: "Bo Fu should have heard of the reputation of the Marquis of Chu, and the past was indeed not very good. Since the Battle of Xiapi, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others wanted to speak ill of him, but it was not as easy as in the past. Today's Chu Hou does things without leakage, and he has completely lost the rigidity of the past. He didn't have the temperament of a small family, he always wanted to stand up by relying on others, but now he is thinking about how to stand up with his own ability all the time. To be honest, I really can't understand him. ”

"Actually, I also heard some things about Chuhou in my early years, and when I first joined the service, I was still wondering if I had voted for the wrong person." Sun Ce replied: "But after following the Marquis of Chu, I realized that as long as he is there, even if I am entrenched in Jiangdong, it is impossible to achieve any great things." Instead of being an enemy of the Marquis of Chu, it is better to hand over all his net worth to him and help him achieve great things. ”

"It is really admirable that General Bo Fu can have such an insight." Chen Gong answered, and then said to Sun Ce: "I'm still thinking about how to open my mouth to the people, although Bo Fu came to support me on the order of the Marquis of Chu, please don't be anxious, wait until I find a way......"

Chen Gong tried to convince Sun Ce not to worry, and a guard ran into the courtyard from outside.

Coming to Chen Gong, the guard bowed and said, "General Qiyu, we saw someone posting an announcement in the market just now, and after asking, we learned that it was someone from the arsenal. The general had previously told him that he would come to report any action in the arsenal, so he asked them for a notice to send to the general. ”

The guard held a notice in both hands and presented it to Chen Gong.

At this time, the materials that people in the world are accustomed to writing are bamboo slips and silk silk, although Cai Lun developed paper as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, and made certain improvements to the paper, but Cai Hou's paper is very poor, and there will be ink stains when writing, and if the word is written small, it is likely to become an ink spot.

There is another reason why the world will not choose Caihou paper, even if it is an improved Caihou paper, the cost is very expensive, and even slightly cheaper than silk.

Not many people are willing to spend a little less than silk silk to buy less practical Caihou paper, so the notices used by Zhang Shiping are also snow-white silk.

Taking the notice from the guard, Chen Gong browsed it, and his face showed joy: "This idea must have been given to Zhang Shiping by the Marquis of Chu, and with this notice, I will have something to say to the people." ”

Just now, when he mentioned recruiting women to go to the arsenal, Chen Gong still showed a touch of confusion on his face.

After reading the notice, he actually seemed to be a different person, and he also had a lot of confidence in recruiting women to go to the arsenal, which made Sun Ce feel a little surprised.

Sun Ce asked him suspiciously, "What does the notice say?" Why did Chen Gong have so much confidence in recruiting women to go to the arsenal after reading it? ”

"General Birfu, please see." Handing the notice to Sun Ce, Chen Gong said: "The arsenal has issued an order, but all women who enter it are not allowed to be laughed at and harassed by other men. Many people can give a woman to someone else, but they won't let someone who doesn't want to do it touch their woman. As long as I have this notice, I have something to say to the people who are worried that women will be harassed when they go to the arsenal. ”

"In that case, what are Chen Gong waiting for?" Sun Ce said: "It's better to ...... now"

"Don't be busy yet." Chen Gong said: "To recruit women to go to the arsenal, you need to come step by step. Ordinary people, we can't visit one house at a time, but those scholars and merchants, and they have many beautiful servants in their homes. It is easier for them to send some women than to recruit them from the homes of the people. ”

"Recruiting the servant maid Mei Ji from the families of scholars and merchants, I am afraid that it will not bring much impetus to the people." Sun Ce hesitated and said: "The number of people employed in the arsenal will not be too small......