After a conversation with Ai Ai, the young man named Ma Jun finally retreated out of the tent with unconcealable joy and excitement on his face.

I didn't see the real objects of the silk loom and the catapult, but Pei Juan still leaned over, looked at a drawing of the silk loom and a catapult, couldn't help but smile, and said to Yan Xing:

"Just looking at this drawing, this Ma Jun's mind and craftsmanship are very exquisite, but he doesn't speak very well, if he is still a dedicated eunuch, and has this natural defect, it will be a pity."

Yan Xing nodded, combined with Ma Jun's previous intermittent introduction, and once again carefully looked at the two drawings in front of him.

Silk is a kind of surface smooth, exquisite workmanship of jacquard silk fabric, so the loom compared with the simple handloom of the farmer, to be more sophisticated and complex, and the new loom on Ma Jun's drawings is to improve the loom to be more simple, easy to operate, the original loom on the fifty feet (pedal), sixty shoes are all changed to twelve, in the case of quality is not reduced, the new type of loom can be four or five times more efficient than the original loom machine.

The new type of catapult is a wheeled stone truck. In the past, it took some time to reload the stone bullets every time the stone throwing machine was fired, but the new catapult designed by Ma Jun overcame this shortcoming to some extent, when the stone throwing wheel rotated like a water wheel, the masonry hanging on the large wooden wheel would be continuously thrown forward, achieving the purpose of densely covering the battlefield and killing and injuring a large number of enemy soldiers and horses.

Yan Xing has not yet witnessed the effect of the new silk weaving machine, and needs to wait for the feedback from the government-run weaving room, but compared with the situation of the scattered flower silk woven by the former Han weaving silk artist and Julu Chen Baoguang's wife, "the machine is one hundred and twenty feet, and one horse is made in sixty days, and the horse is worth ten thousand dollars", from one hundred and twenty to fifty or sixty feet and then to twelve feet, Ma Jun's improved silk loom efficiency is undoubtedly much more advanced.

As for the new type of catapult, Yan Xing, who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is familiar with offense and defense, is not too optimistic about Ma Jun's wheeled catapult in his heart.

Although this kind of rotary catapult can achieve the effect of densely covering the battlefield for a time, it will take longer to reload multiple stone projectiles than ordinary stone throwing machines. It is used to attack the city, to deal with the city walls, the tower is too small, and it is used to deal with the enemy soldiers and horses on the battle array, it is too bulky and heavy, and it cannot be flexibly rotated and accurately aimed, even if it is really built, it can only be used as a large equipment to defend the city.

Putting away the two drawings again, Yan Xing suddenly smiled as well, and asked Pei Xuan:

"Wen Chong, tell me, just now I wanted to send Ma Deheng to the weaving room to specialize in improving the loom, why did he blush and sweat like rain?"

Thinking of Ma Jun's embarrassment just now, Pei Juan couldn't help laughing, and he said:

"General, this Ma Jun, mind, craftsmanship, although he came to offer the weaving machine, catapult, but he does not want to become a world-famous master such as the public loss class, he wants to emulate, it is Zhang Pingzi of the former Han Dynasty, the ingenuity is just the means of the eunuch, he doesn't want the general to treat him as a craftsman. If it weren't for Ma Jun's inconvenience, I'm afraid that he would also have to explain the classics of poetry and books and the way of governing the country! ”

Ma Jun wants to be a character like Zhang Heng, not a skilled craftsman like the public loss class, the wind is like this, Yan Xing can naturally understand, he couldn't help but look at Pei Juan and said:

"Therefore, Gu Suo first expelled him into the palace, and first let him know that the employment of the general's mansion is meritocracy, regardless of industrial and commercial servants, but anyone who has the skills to govern the government and use the army, and support the country and the people, will be used by Lone, not just the scriptures."

Although Ma Jun has a stutter, he is ingenious and has an extraordinary talent in mechanical technology. Yan Xing believed that in his general's mansion, he would definitely be able to give full play to his unique talents.

Thinking of Ma Teng's father and son, Pei Juan also asked about the potential doubts in his heart at this time.

"Since the general has expelled Ma Jun from Fufeng into the mansion, why don't you also bring several children of the Ma family into the mansion to appease the hearts of the Ma family?"

Listening to Pei Juan talk about the Ma family's father and son, Yan Xing touched the short mustache under his chin and was silent in thought.

After pacifying Guanzhong, Ma Teng's army was eliminated by Yan Xing and incorporated into his soldiers and horses, while the main general Ma Teng was recommended by Yan Xingshang as General Anxi and placed in Chang'an City, and even many of the children of the Ma family were idle.

Ma Teng has a high prestige in the army, and it is not appropriate for him to be in charge of the army again, but for the sake of the hearts of the Ma family, it is very necessary for the Bafu to promote the children of the Ma family to lieutenant generals and colonels, but Yan Xing, who is a hussar general, has not moved.

It's not that Yan Xing doesn't want to use the children of the Ma family, on the contrary, Yan Xing's idea is far farther than Pei Juan and the others have to think.

Yan Xing was ready to gather the sons of the Liangjia of the six counties and the sons of the chieftains of Haoqiang Hu to organize and form a new army.

Because the people of the six counties of Longxi, Tianshui, Anding, Beidi, Shangjun and Xihe approached Rongdi, practiced war preparation, high strength, and gave priority to shooting and hunting, they always gave priority to Yulin and Qimen from the good families of the six counties.

However, due to the influence of the Qiang Rebellion, the two counties of Anding and Beidi moved inward, and only a part of the counties were retained, and the two counties of Shangjun and Xihe were completely reduced to the land of horse grazing of the Qianghu tribe after the internal relocation, and the two counties of Longxi and Tianshui (Hanyang) gradually got out of the control of the Han court because of the rebellion of Bianzhang and Han Sui, so the Han court selected the sons of the good families of the six counties to serve in the army, and there was no way to talk about it.

By the time of Emperor Ling, the Han court became more dependent on the soldiers and horses of the Qianghu tribes such as Huangzhongyi, Conghu, Xiongnu, Tuge, and Wuhuan, as well as recruiting Sanhe Knights, Danyang soldiers, and Huaisi soldiers from the county as a supplement to their troops.

And Yan Xing's preparation this time to convene the sons of the Liangjia and the sons of the Haoqiang Hu chieftains of the six counties to train and form an army, in addition to wanting to give full play to the advantages of their Guanxi people in cultivating war preparedness and high strength, it is also to encircle and stabilize the Hao chieftains of the Haoqiang and Qianghu tribes in the six counties in another way.

The children of the Duan family, the children of the Ma family such as Ma Chao, Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, etc., as well as the children of the Qianghu adults such as Quan Qu Evil and Servant Gulu, as well as the sons of the powerful surnames such as Yang Qiu, Huangfu of Anding, Fu, and Linjing Hu who have recently won the hegemony, plus the children of the powerful surnames of the four counties of Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang, Wudu, and Hexi, will all be summoned by Yan Xing.

This will be a special "Qin Hu soldier", its essence is different from other armies, but Yan Xing will be tightly molded in the form of an army, and the overlord headed by himself will form a centripetal force for them, so that each of them will be proud of it, so that they will form a strong and powerful collective, and this collective will become an important force under his command.

Regarding this army, although Pei Juan was specially brought by Yan Xing to cultivate it, Dona Yan Xing didn't want to discuss too much with him for the time being, so he changed the topic and said to Pei Huan:

"It's not too early today, Wen Chong, you can go back to the tent to rest first, and tomorrow after following Gu to inspect the canals and rivers in Chencang, Gu will go to another place."

"Where does the general want to go?"

Pei Juan changed the topic to Yan Xing, he was smart, and he didn't care, but became interested in Yan Xing's temporary intention and decided to go tomorrow.

Seeing Pei Juan asking curiously, Yan Xing had a smile in his eyes, and a lot of things appeared in his mind at once, which made him think for a while and couldn't help but be in a trance, he blurted out:

"Ushio gathering!"

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The next day, oxtail gathered.

When Yan Xing and his entourage trekked through mountains and rivers, searched for a long time, and relied on strict guidance to find the oxtail gathering that had been reduced to ruins and changed beyond recognition, Yan Xing, who had set foot on this old land again, couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

This is even more exciting than the battlefield site where he was in the Battle of Chencang not long ago.

It was in this place that the fate of the underworld changed the trajectory of his life.

When he first entered the oxtail gathering, Yan Xing had a feeling of "a few peach blossoms are red in one color, and the savage fence falls to see the spring breeze", and he accidentally stepped into a paradise, but today he returned to the old place after the fire burned down and the ruins were also wiped out by the years, but Yan Xing could only stare blankly at a neighboring wild peach blossom, resulting in a sense of isolation of "the human face does not know where to go, and the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze".

Looking at the peach blossoms and budding buds on the branches, Yan Xing couldn't help but think of Lu Yue who was far away in Anyi, these peach blossoms, just like her smile, melted the ice and snow and refreshed people's hearts.

There is a beautiful woman in the valley, left behind and independent!

Pei Juan, who followed Yan Xing to come, also knocked on the side all the way, and learned that many hussar generals were fond of the hidden feelings of oxtail gathering, and it was difficult for Pei Juan, who was sharp-minded, to empathize, but had a faint sense of crisis about this situation.

He slowly turned his gaze to Yan Zhi, who was his companion.

Yan Zhu was also immersed in the memories of the past at this time, after the women and children of the mountain people of Niuweiju escaped through the tunnel, because Niuweiju had been burned, so the mountaineers could only drag their families and move to Wudu County in the south.

After Wudu waited for the mountain people to settle down, Yan Zhi and Lu Yue quietly left and re-embarked on the road to the north.

Seeing that Yan Zhi was immersed in thoughts, Pei Juan gently approached Yan Xing's side, looked at this peach blossom, and sighed with emotion.

Hearing Pei Juan's sigh of emotion, Yan Xing looked at him with some curiosity, and when Pei Juan, who followed him on the road, talked about what happened to him when he was defeated and down, although Pei Juan was silent, Yan Xing could feel Pei Juan's absent-mindedness.

Pei Juan is smart and sensitive, and his talent is very useful, the only deficiency is that his experiences since he was born have been smooth, and he has been thriving under the protection of Pei Mao, Pei Qian, Yan Xing and others, and he still lacks a tempered tenacity.

"Wen Chong, what are you sighing again?"

Seeing that he had successfully attracted Yan Xing's attention, Pei Juan said with respect on his face:

"Thinking of what happened to the general back then, Chong sighed that the general is really a rare true hero in the world!"