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"Wei Peng, are you kid dead? Didn't die a fart to listen. Vertex Small Say X 23 U OM"

At the gap in the wooden wall, Sun Biao's banner has already entered the bandit village, and the rest is to clean up the remnants of the mountain bandits on the wooden wall, and open the gate of the village to let the follow-up army enter, in short, there is no suspense in this battle.

"Ahem...... Mr. Qi, don't shake it, your neck ...... It's about to break......"

Wei Peng, who was carried to the corner of the gap by the soldiers, woke up under Sun Biao's constant shaking, he now felt that his neck was very stiff and sore, and it was extremely difficult to even turn around, looking at Sun Biao and Lieutenant General Wu's concerned eyes, he said softly.

......Seeing that Wei Peng was fine, Sun Biao and the rest of the soldiers couldn't help but exhale, and put down the big stone hanging in their hearts.

Sun Biao said angrily: "It's okay, I'm scared to death, I saw you rolling down from the gap, I thought your kid was dead, and I was thinking about how to write your sacrificial words." ”

Wei Peng sat up with the support of the soldiers, touched a piece of neck armor made of fine iron on his neck, and said with palpitations: "Thanks to this neck armor, otherwise I am afraid that I would have been in a different place by now." ”

Liu Ce really took great pains to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, and tried his best to arm all the vital parts of the soldiers with fine iron without affecting the physical movements, and I am afraid that there will be no second general in the whole Great Zhou who pays more attention to the safety of the soldiers' lives than Liu Ce.

Sun Biao kicked Wei Peng off the neck armor that still had a knife mark on his neck, and sighed: "General, his old man is desperate to avoid casualties for us to fight, with these armor protections, how can my Jingwei battalion be invincible?"

Wei Peng gently stroked the bruised and swollen wound on his neck and said: "So it is also a blessing for me Wei Peng to follow the general to join the Jingwei Battalion, for which I must fight bravely to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, and live up to the general's kindness." ”

At this moment, the gate of the cottage was slowly opened, and there was a burst of earth-shattering shouts from Yang Kaishan's spear phalanx, slowly walking towards the gate of the village.

"It seems that this flying harrier will be a thing of the past after today." Sun Biao said to himself, Wei Peng tried to get up and look, only to see that the phalanx in front of him was dazzling with cold armor and spears like a forest, how powerful the momentum was......

On the third day of the fifth month of the Great Zhou Calendar, the "Flying Harrier" Yanque Mountain bandits, who had plagued the Hanling Territory of Yuanzhou for 20 years, were wiped out by the Shanzi Battalion and the Fengya Battalion in the Jingwei Camp, and all the more than 1,700 mountain bandits captured were cut off, and none of them survived.

On the fourth day of the first month of May, the Jingwei battalion broke the Linggou bandits and attacked the "Heavenly King Palace......

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the "Reef Gang" in Jinghai was killed......

On the seventh day of the first month of May, the Huaizi Camp and the Langtao Camp broke the "Longxiao Hall", "Bagua Gate" and "Zhongyi Pavilion" three bandit nests......

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Until 19 May, Su Wencan's return to the Hanling Territory 14 major bandits and dozens of small bandits had all been cleared, and the mountain bandits and bullies that had plagued the Hanling Tomb for decades were all wiped out under the continuous attack of the Jingwei Battalion for half a month, and the Hanling Tomb became the first peaceful and prosperous place in the entire Far East that was free of bandits, creating a relatively good environment for the development plan planned by Liu Ce, Qin Mo and Ye Bin.

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May 20, Han Ling.

"Xiaomin meets Taishou-sama."

In Liu Ce's office room, a young man in his thirties who looked like a scholar was kneeling respectfully in front of him. Due to the pacification of the bandits, Liu Ce officially started the development plan that stayed on paper for nearly two months, and posted a notice five days ago to recruit all talents with a skill, and the remuneration was very high, and the young man went back to discuss with his wife after seeing the notice, and finally decided to come and give it a try.

Liu Ce glanced at the young man on the ground and said, "Get up, my jurisdiction does not prosper and bow, as long as you have a skill, the treatment will be excellent, tell me what you will do." ”

When the young man heard this, he got up and said, "Hui Lord, the little one's name is Lu Jian, and he has a lot of research on farming......

After some conversation, Liu Ce kept nodding his head, although he didn't know anything about farming, but combined with some information from his previous life in his memory, he could still hear that what Lu Jian said made some sense.

"In this way, the small people dare not boast that the harvest of one acre of land in one season is definitely more than one stone." Lu Jian talked about what he had learned all his life, hoping to be recognized by Liu Ce.

Lu Jianshi is poor and afraid, and he is eager to change the embarrassing situation at home, as long as Liu Ce recognizes his ability, at least his wife and children will not starve anymore.

Seeing that he finished speaking, Liu Ce said to Zhou Feng, who was already a clerk on the side: "You must remember that after the land is reclaimed, it will be experimented according to what Lu Jian said, and if it is really feasible, it will be promoted on a large scale. ”

"Yes." Zhou Feng responded and quickly recorded everything Lu Jian said just now with the brush in his hand, so that it could be useful in the future, and he could also send technical dividends to Lu Jian.

"Thank you, sir." Lu Jian was busy kneeling down to thank him, and suddenly thought of what Liu Ce said just now, so he bowed to express his gratitude.

Liu Ce nodded, signaling that he didn't have to be like this, and then said: "I heard that your family is currently in distress, and a pair of children are growing up, so you should first serve in my newly established technical department, and then study agricultural production and strive to increase more output, after all, the people take food as the sky." ”

When Lu Jian heard this, he hurriedly hugged his fists and thanked him, and under the leadership of the guards outside the door, he happily went to the Technology Department to report.

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"Bang!"

In the craftsman's workshop, Liu Ce was staring at the animal power forging hammer, the technical product of Gao Laohan, only to see the huge forging hammer smashing heavily into the fine iron plate fixed in the mold seal......

"Damn, I knew this thing wasn't reliable! What bastard made up that an animal-powered forging hammer can stamping steel into shape at one time? Make me happy in vain. Liu Ce greeted the supporters of the pre-Renaissance hammer plate armor theory fiercely, and of course he was one of them before.

As everyone knows, before the Renaissance, whether it was hydraulic or animal power, the plate armor was made of wrought iron, and it was after the European Renaissance that steel could be stamped and formed at one time and popularized on a large scale.

And the so-called refined iron in this world is already infinitely close to the steel of the previous life, and the improperly sealed forging hammer stamping naturally cannot beat them into shape at one time.

"General, do you want to try not to make the fine iron thinner?" Gao Laohan saw that Liu Ce's face was very ugly, and said timidly.

Liu Ce shook his head: "It can't be any thinner, you can't joke with the lives of soldiers, and you can't be in a hurry, Gao Laohan, you think about it again, and strive to develop a method that can press fine iron as soon as possible." ”

Gao Laohan said: "Don't worry, general, I will do my best and study it again." ”

Gao Laohan has never treated him badly since he followed the Jingwei Battalion, and after he became a little rich, he followed Liu Ce to the Far East and renewed a widow in her forties, and her small life was also enjoyable. After he was idle, he also began to think about how to improve his craftsmanship and go to the next level, not long after Feng Ying made a hydraulic drilling machine, his animal forging technology was also born, he thought that his technology had reached its peak, and he didn't want to fail to forge fine iron today, which caused him a big blow, and secretly vowed to solve the problem of stamping fine iron.

Liu Ce glanced at him, sighed and said, "Old man Gao, you don't have to be too anxious, you have to pay more attention to your body." After all, Gao Laohan is in his fifties and has limited energy, and Liu Ce doesn't want him to be tired.

Old Man Gao smiled: "What did the general say? How can it be exhausted? The old man is now immersed in the study of craftsman technology, and he is fascinated every day, hehe......"

Liu Ce nodded, gratified by his enthusiasm, and was about to say more, when he saw Wu Chengxiao running in from outside and said to Liu Ce excitedly: "It's done, general, I've succeeded!" ”

When Liu Ce heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said goodbye to Gao Laohan and the surrounding craftsmen and ran to another house with him.

Wu Chengxiao's workshop is different from Feng Yinggao's old man, the inside is very clean, and he will be carefully cleaned every day to look spotless as much as possible. Because the craftsman industry made by Wu Chengxiao is not a piece of iron, but related to glass......

Of course, glass alone is enough, and Liu Ce didn't expect a piece of glass to make a fortune at all. Just imagine, the next jade screen tens of thousands of taels of silver and a glass screen tens of thousands of taels of silver, which one would you choose? The ancients were not stupid, and the people of this world were the same, they might be deceived once, but they would never let you slaughter them, just like the price of a piece of glass half a person high somewhere in ancient times in the previous life was even pressed to less than two taels of silver and could not be sold.

What Liu Ce really cared about was a single-eye speculum that Wu Chengxiao and his craftsmen had jointly created through his own vision.

"This is the speculum?" Liu Ce stroked the wooden long handle in front of him, which was about sixty centimeters long and covered with copper skin on both sides, and asked in a trembling voice.

"That's right, this is the speculum that the subordinates and the craftsmen of the workshop processed and polished day and night according to the paper you drew that day, for this speculum, the consumables are huge, but fortunately, it has finally been formed." Wu Chengxiao was also very excited when he said this, the material of more than 100,000 taels of silver was only made into one, how extravagant this is, fortunately, at the moment of formation, all the craftsmen almost shed tears, Liu Ce didn't lie to them, there is really this kind of magical thing, which opened their eyes at the same time, they also knew that as long as they dare to think and dare to do, nothing is impossible. At the same time, he also admired Liu Ce's courage, the raw materials of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he didn't frown and purchased all of them for himself to study, and he never asked halfway.

Liu Ce picked up the speculum glass, pulled off the lids on both sides, put it in front of his eyes and looked out the window, and the surrounding craftsmen looked at him nervously, for fear that he would be dissatisfied.

Liu Ce lifted the speculum, squinted one eye and kept looking around the window, for a long time, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the craftsman suddenly relaxed, it seemed that the young general in front of him was quite satisfied with the speculum.

"Good!" Liu Ce put down the speculum in his hand, came to the craftsmen and said to them with appreciation: "You have worked hard during this time, and I, Liu Ce, am very grateful for your contributions." After speaking, he bowed deeply, and his attitude was very sincere, without the slightest pretentiousness.

Wu Chengxiao and some other craftsmen hurriedly bowed back: "The general must not be like this, this is the duty of his subordinates!" ”

Craftsmen have a low status in the Great Zhou and belong to a lowly industry, and no one generally pays attention to them, but Liu Ce has always treated them politely, making them feel something called dignity. People may be born high and low, but there is no reason for any profession to be noble or low, Liu Ce wants to break this kind of prejudice of the scholar clan and let them know that everything they have now is what the people at the bottom have in exchange for their blood and sweat.

After returning the salute, Wu Chengxiao said: "General, it is still a little difficult to mass-produce this speculum at present, and it is too time-consuming and labor-intensive to polish these lenses, but since I have the first experience, it will not be long before I will let all those who are above 100 leaders in the Jingwei battalion be equipped with one each." ”

"Grinding difficult?" Liu Ce seemed to have caught some inspiration, but he really couldn't think of it for a while, so he had to say: "Don't worry, take your time, I have Jingwei revenue for this technology, and after a while, I will issue dividends to you, I think you don't have to worry about the wearing of old snacks in your family within fifty years." "Liu Ce has always been stingy with the reward of technical talents.

"Thank you, General!" Wu Chengxiao and other craftsmen were indescribably excited, and some even twitched the corners of their mouths, they could finally get rid of the embarrassment after so many years, and a better day was coming......

Seeing them like this, Liu Ce nodded with a smile, and said in his heart Although the great cause of plate armor was not successful, fortunately, with the speculum, it could be regarded as a lost harvest.

"You're tired these days, go back early to rest, I have to go to other workshops to inspect, so I'm gone." Liu Ce said as he put the speculum into the mirror bag, then hung it on his belt, and walked out of their craftsman's studio without waiting for Wu Chengxiao to speak.

When Wu Chengxiao came back from the excitement and was about to continue working, Liu Ce had already left the room, and suddenly a craftsman shouted: "Not good!" The general took the speculum away, and I didn't have a reference object......"

Wu Chengxiao slapped his thigh when he heard this, and secretly said how to forget about it, and then pushed the door and shouted: "General, wait!" However, Liu Ce has long been gone, and he doesn't know where he has gone.

Wu Chengxiao sighed: "Well, since I have had an experience and many drawings, it is not difficult to polish and shape it for the second time, since the general loves the speculum so much, it is also an affirmation of our technology, and I don't want to force it again......"