Jiang Wei smiled bitterly and diverted the topic: "Speaking of the approaching New Year, after half a month, Mr. Ji Chang should be able to reunite with Brother Ling's family." ”

Unexpectedly, Ma Liang shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work." Youchang (Ma Tanzi) wrote a letter the month before, saying that Deng Fang, the governor of Nanzhong, was in poor health, and the powerful alien race was about to move. At this time, as the Taishou of Yueshan County, he must not leave his post without permission. ”

"Is Nanzhong going to be in chaos?" Jiang Wei frowned slightly, and muttered in his heart, the rebellion in Nanzhong began after Liu Bei's death, about two years later, how to follow the description in Ma Yan's letter, Nanzhong was already in turmoil at this time?

Seeing his appearance, Ma Liang hurriedly explained: "Nanzhong is like this, the wealthy people are ignorant of education, despicable and greedy, and rebel at every turn. ”

"......I see," Jiang Wei bowed slightly, but he had quietly noticed it in his heart.

******

Because of Ma Liang's reminder, Jiang Wei also knew that the New Year was approaching, and the officials of all ministries and offices were looking forward to taking a regular vacation, but this was not a good time to handle official business, so he calmed down and rested, and everything was said after the year.

In addition to official business, he has a lot of personal affairs to do.

In the next few days, he visited Zhang Bao almost every morning to check his diet and prescriptions; In the afternoon, he will teach Liu Chan and Ma Cheng martial arts. With his personal supervision, Liu Chan no longer dared to be lazy, and sweated like rain every day.

He also took advantage of the gap to visit the tomb of General Huang Zhongzhi. After all, the two had a friendship of passing on the arts, and they often visited at that time.

Today was the first time he worshipped, and in order to show his solemnity, he brought enough preserved jujube offerings.

When he arrived, he saw new footprints around the grave, new soil was added to the grave, and there was paper money for wine and food in front of the tombstone; Not far away, there was an arrow target, and there were three holes in the middle of the target.

After only a cursory thought, Jiang Wei knew that it must be the companions of the old general Huang who had come to worship before him.

He respectfully put on a stick of incense, and said silently in his heart: "The old general was vigorous during his lifetime, and his kindness and righteousness were widely spread, and I can't let the general fall into a lonely and unfavored situation behind me......"

******

In his spare time, he visited several elders, relatives and friends, and this first one was Master Zhao Yun.

In the Zhao family's mansion, Zhao Yun sat cross-legged, listening to Jiang Wei tell the story of the westward journey, and let out bursts of admiration from time to time.

He had already heard his eldest son Zhao Tong talk about the westward journey in detail, but this time he heard Jiang Wei say it again from the perspective of the commander, but it was a different scenery.

When he heard that he had defeated Hu Haojie in the Xihai Grassland with his three skills, such as guns, swords, and bows, Zhao Yun couldn't help it anymore, stroked his long beard, and laughed:

"Five Tiger stunts, Boyo, you get the third, this is really a great opportunity."

In addition to complimenting, he subconsciously looked to the right, and saw Zhao Tong and Zhao Guang's two beloved sons standing respectfully and listening.

Although Zhao Tong is a few years older than Zhao Guangda, both of them are teenagers on weekdays, and there is no difference in demeanor; But when he returned from this trip to the west, Zhao Tong's back was straight, his eyes were resolute, and he had obviously the spirit of a manly man compared to his younger brother, which was probably the benefit of military experience, and he was also able to serve as a general in the Chinese army because of his military exploits.

Zhao Yun pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "I heard that Boyo is forming a new army on the orders of the lord?" ”

"It does."

Zhao Yun bowed his head slowly, and said: "The camp, baggage, and soldiers of the new army of the Chinese army are all dispatched by the old man. ”

Jiang Wei was overjoyed and thanked him: "So, thank you, Master!" ”

Zhao Yun pointed at Zhao Guang again and said, "Guang'er will be sixteen years old after the New Year, and he should also experience it as a man." If Boyo wants to lead the army, can he take Guang'er under his account and listen to it? ”

After that, he glanced at Zhao Guang.

Zhao Guang understood, walked to Jiang Wei, hugged his fists and bowed down, and said, "In the future, I will ask my senior brother for more advice." ”

Jiang Wei was even happier when he saw this.

He thought that Zhao Yun would follow Zhang Fei and arrange for one son to be a martial artist and a son to be a civilian, so he didn't count Zhao Guang at all when building the framework of the new army, and he didn't want Zhao Yun to take the initiative today.

Speaking of which, Zhao Guang is his junior brother and a member of the Heluo Society, if he is willing to help, it would be a good thing.

Jiang Wei hurriedly helped Zhao Guang up, and said with a smile: "This matter is wonderful, if the junior brother helps, even if Ma Zhong and Zhang Yi don't come, what's the matter?" ”

******

After two days, he finally took the time to visit Ma Jun in the Chengnan Ordnance Supervision Workshop.

The Ordnance Supervision is an important place for military aircraft, and a large number of officers and soldiers are deployed around it to defend martial law. Jiang Wei was also led in by Ma Jun himself after inviting the guards and soldiers to enter the briefing.

After a long absence, as soon as the two met, they laughed and embraced.

looked around, but saw that Ma Jun was obviously much thinner than when he was a doctor of the Five Classics, but looking at his face was full of red light, his eyes were full of energy, but he looked like he was enjoying it.

In fact, it is no wonder that he was obsessed with the road, and this time the imperial court allocated a number of highly skilled craftsmen to be sent by him, and there were countless wood organs for him to study, so he was happy and forgot to return, no wonder he had to move out of the prosperous brocade, and ate and lived in the huge ordnance supervision workshop.

Ma Jun introduced Jiang Wei to the workshop while introducing himself after he joined the company.

It turned out that Cao Peng, a soldier of the Great Sima Mansion, was in charge of the imperial court's military equipment, but he was awarded this position because of his dedication to the silk loom, so he had been helping the imperial court to manufacture and promote new silk looms for the first three months.

As they spoke, the two of them had already walked to the Ordnance Supervision Workshop, but they saw that this house occupied a large area, and there were a variety of finished and semi-finished instruments inside.

Jiang Weizhi frowned at this chaotic scene of sawdust mixed with iron chips, but Guan Ma Jun was overjoyed, as if he had seen the most wonderful landscape in the whole world.

I saw him walk to a shelf, take a weapon that looked like a crossbow, and hand it to Jiang Wei.

"Gentlemen...... Zhuge crossbow, the end ...... It's finally done. ”

Jiang Wei took it and looked left and right, but saw that the appearance of this thing was similar to what he saw in Zhuge Liang's Mansion last time, but the model of the real thing was a few points larger than the model, and the appearance was more exquisite, because the real thing was framed by wood and iron was bone, and it was quite weighty in his hand.