Zhang Xutuo personally brewed a cup of tea for Luo Cheng.

"I know you don't like sencha, so this pot of tea has no condiments, drink some hangover."

"Thank you."

Zhang Xutuo turned around and sat down, he looked at Luo Cheng holding a teacup and drinking tea, there was a kind of concern in his eyes.

"You're a funny kid."

Luo Cheng didn't know what he meant by this, and looked at him puzzled.

"Do you know, the day before yesterday, Zhangqiu County ordered Zhang Yichen to personally bring a batch of grain and grass to come, and when he talked to me, he talked about you, admired you very much, and asked me to do something, wanting me to be a matchmaker for his daughter."

"Oh." Luo Cheng responded, but in his heart he thought of the thing that his eldest brother had told him before.

"Looks like you're not safe. How's that, interesting? ”

Luo Cheng didn't answer.

"What, do you think that girl is not worthy of you or what?" Zhang Xutuo asked.

Although she is not Zhang Yichen's biological daughter, she is also the daughter of his relatives, who has been fostered in the Zhang family since she was a child, and has always grown up with Zhang Yichen's daughter. Now Zhang Yichen has accepted that girl as a righteous daughter, and plans to marry him to you, and his identity is also right for you. ”

The righteous daughter of the county commander Zhang Yichen, of course, is worthy of Luo Cheng, even if Luo Chengxin gets a nine-grade Lixin lieutenant rank, but after all, he only stepped into the official career with one foot, and he only has an official body, not even an official position. Besides, Zhang Yichen was born in a famous family, and the status of the Zhang family is far from being comparable to the Luo family in Zhangqiu Nanshan Village.

A family of scholars, a blacksmith farmer, to say that it is also Luo Cheng Gaopan.

"Zhang Yichen really admires you!"

Those famous families of the scholar clan can stand for hundreds of years and thousands of years, in fact, there are some doorways. Not only do they have a family history, but most of them also have a lot of land and money, and they have academic, political, and economic advantages, plus they like to marry big families and form alliances.

On the other hand, they will pay great attention to absorbing those talents from poor families, such as accepting some young and capable children from poor families as students, letting the concubines of the family marry, or accepting a maidservant girl as a righteous daughter and then marrying them to the talented people of the poor family, and then attracting them to the family and letting them work for this big family, etc.

These methods are still relatively practical.

After this battle against bandits, Luo Cheng's reputation and ability are indisputable.

Especially now that Zhangqiu City has undergone a major purge, the county lord and the lord Bo will definitely not be able to stay in Zhangqiu anymore, and even those Zuo Shixu officials will have to be replaced.

Wang Bo was captured, and Zhang Yichen had Zhang Xu Tuobao, so there was a great chance of staying.

If Zhang Yichen wants to continue to stay in Zhangqiu, especially if he wants to control Zhangqiu, he can't do without Luo Cheng's help. The easiest way is naturally to marry, if Luo Cheng becomes the husband of his righteous daughter, how can Luo Cheng and the Luo family not help him in the future.

Luo Cheng did not agree to Zhang Xutuo.

That girl seems to be called Red Line, he's seen it a few times, she's a good person, but he never thought about what would happen to her. He has also met with the daughter of the county magistrate a few times, and there has been a faux pas.

In comparison, if he chooses one of the two, he will take a fancy to Zhang Qianjin more.

It's just that he also knows in his heart that Shishu is different, his current identity, Zhang Yichen can't marry his daughter-in-law to him, everyone will think like this.

Accepting a relative's daughter as a righteous daughter, Xu to Luo Cheng is deliberately elevating Luo Cheng's status, thinking about his daughter, it is impossible.

"The kid is only sixteen this year, he has just tied his hair into a child, and he has not yet reached the age of crowning, so it is too early to talk about marriage." Luo Cheng finally refused.

"Boy, you can think about it, others can't get such an opportunity. Although Zhang Yichen is only a county order, their Zhang family is also a family of hundreds of years, especially Zhang Yichen is only in his early thirties now, but it is a county order, with his talent, a few more years of experience, it is very possible to go directly to the ministry in the future. ”

"If you become his righteous son-in-law, you will not only get the support of the Zhangqiu County Commander in the future, but also the support from the Zhang family. Do you know how important it is to have their support? ”

"Juncheng, the kid understands that I'm just a farmer, but I'm still too young now."

Zhang Xutuo shook his head.

"You're still too young, but I like your temperament, and you have the demeanor of when I was young. Forget it, if you don't want to, you don't want to, and you don't have to worry about anything, Zhang Yichen, I will personally say it for you, and he will give a few points for the old man's face. You don't have to worry that Zhang Yichen will trouble you in the future, he is a smart person and will not do that stupid thing, but he will definitely not help you so hard in the future. ”

"Understood."

Zhang Xutuo picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, he looked at Luo Cheng's face, but saw that there was no fluctuation on his face.

"I heard you're practicing now?"

"Well, last time my third brother took Wang Bo's horse lance and gave it to me, I practiced every morning, but no one pointed me out, just practiced blindly."

"The horse lance is a weapon of war, but without good training, it will not be able to exert its true power." Zhang Xutuo pointed to Luo Chengdao, "What is a horse lance? The spear is long and the eight are called the lance, and the horse lance is actually a change of the spear. ”

According to what he said, the appearance of the horse lance was not too early, it was a product of the chaotic era of Wuhu Chaohua in the later Jin Dynasty, and the horse lance was also a product of the same era as the armor and cavalry.

The rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty triggered the Wuhu Rebellion, which plunged the Central Plains into three hundred years of turmoil.

Wars and wars continued, and weapons and tactics developed rapidly in this era.

Heavy cavalry armor and cavalry equipped with men and horses were very dazzling in this era, and with the emergence of knights with armor for men and horses, then the cavalry needed a correspondingly sharper armor-piercing weapon.

Ordinary spears no longer meet this need.

So, the lance appeared.

The length of the horse lance is about the same as that of a spear, and it is eight zhang. It is not one zhang and eight feet, but one zhang and eight inches, and this one zhang is also a unit in the Han Dynasty.

As the old saying goes, seven feet is a gun, eight feet is a stick, and a spear is one foot and eight inches.

One foot of Han is equivalent to twenty-three centimeters, so the spear of Zhangba is about two meters forty-eight, and the eight-foot-tall man is about one meter eighty-four, which is not very exaggerated.

The length of the horse lance is exactly this, nearly two meters and a half, which is absolutely enough to use on a horse, but the armor-piercing ability of ordinary spears is not good, and the traditional spear shaft is not strong enough.

Thus in the end there was the horse lance, which had a longer blade and a blade of fifty or sixty centimeters long. At the same time, the lance blade of the horse lance is still an eight-sided prismatic structure, which is the most suitable for armor piercing.

Whether it is Liangdang armor or fish scale chain mail, Mingguang armor and other iron armor, under this kind of armor-piercing lance blade, it will also be broken with one blow.

The lance of the horse lance has also been changed from an ordinary wooden pole in the past to a composite wooden pole.

What is called composite wood pole, just like the wardrobe board in later generations, using composite technology.

The wood used for the lance is made of the precious mulberry wood in the mulberry wood, which is soaked in oil and dried with fine stalks, and then bonded with fish foam glue. Then the hemp rope should be wound horizontally, cut into the lance, so that it has the ability to bear the force laterally, and finally it should be lacquered and wrapped in kudzu cloth, and finally form a whole lance.

Just one lance, dozens of processes before and after, it takes three years to make. In particular, the materials used are enough for a single lance to make ten strong bows.

Such a horse lance pole should be extremely hard and have enough toughness to fit the specific charging strength of the cavalry, and it is not easy to break.

Paired with a sixty-centimeter eight-sided prismatic armor-piercing lance blade, it was truly invincible.

"If you want to learn the lance, I can teach you!" Zhang Xutuo took the initiative.