After inspecting the iron official, Zhao Hong also led his soldiers to follow Yan Xing's car to the salt prison.

On the way to the salt prison, Wei Xuan, who accompanied him, was still rubbing a crossbow hanging on the side of the saddle, and he was amazed.

At the Iron Official's testing ground, he put his foot on the crossbow, and then aimed at the crossbow, and the crossbow arrows shot out were as far as 200 paces away, and at a hundred paces away, the crossbow arrows could also penetrate the iron armor.

The Han Dynasty inherited the crossbow and arrow craftsmanship of the Warring States and Qin dynasties, and also made breakthroughs in bow and crossbow technology. The strongest crossbow is claimed to have reached ten stones, and it is said that the flying general Li Guang once used this big yellow crossbow to shoot and kill a number of Huns' sharp warriors from a long distance, shocking the Huns.

In addition, in addition to the rhubarb crossbow, there are various bows and crossbows such as waist crossbows, kick crossbows, stretch crossbows, and continuous shooting crossbows.

The bows and crossbows built by Anyi are concentrated on the Tension Crossbow and the Great Crossbow.

Wei Xuan was originally a military officer of the shooting battalion in the Northern Army, and he was very skilled in the use of bows and crossbows.

After the test firing, Wei Xuan immediately saw the benefits and disadvantages of this kind of crossbow, Anyi's crossbow is obviously more sophisticated than the strong crossbow seen in the Northern Army in the past, and it is longer in range and more labor-saving when winding, if it can be equipped to the soldiers under his command in batches, then the combat effectiveness of his Song Zhang Shi will rise to a higher level.

It's a pity that when Wei Xuan asked Tie Guancheng when such sharp weapons would be equipped in batches in the army, the Tie Guancheng could only smile bitterly a few times and was speechless.

These strong crossbows are the new ones made by Hedong Tieguan after the scale of the Hedong Tieguan expanded and integrated the craftsmen brought from Sanfu, under the instructions of Yan Xing.

Many crossbow arms, bowstrings, and crossbow bolts are not yet available in materials, and it is obviously impossible to produce them on a large scale at the moment, and according to the instructions of the shogunate, the first batch of strong crossbows created with all the materials in the back must be transported to the Anyi County Government first.

However, in order to alleviate the embarrassment, Tieguan Cheng showed everyone the "big crossbow" of Anyi Tieguan, which according to Yan Xing's instructions, "the string is a big wood for the bow, the feather spear is the arrow, the machine is launched, and the long shot is more than a thousand steps", in the future, it will be made into two large offensive and defensive instruments: a car crossbow and a bed crossbow.

It's a pity that Wei Xuan is not interested in the kind of big crossbow that can only be used to attack and defend the city, but fortunately, in the end, Yan Xing gave him the test-fired strong crossbow in his hand, otherwise he would really have to complain and return empty-handed.

And along the way, if Wei Xuan, a lieutenant general and colonel, was just marveling at the ordnance of the Anyi Iron Officer, then Sun Zi, who was accompanying Yan Xing, could be described as thrilling.

Especially after watching Yan Xing's selection of knights, horses wearing horse armor and battle armor, and practicing heavy cavalry charging to break the formation, Sun Zi, who was sitting in the car, was still shaken.

Although there were only twenty heavy horses, the momentum of the men and horses wearing armor, spears and heavy hammers, and rushing in array still made Sun Zi, who had never seen a battle array, frightened, which was much more amazing than Wei Xuan's test firing a strong crossbow and crossbow arrows through the iron armor.

Sun Zi looked at the iron horse rushing into battle like a wall and a forest, and he could only make up for the terrifying scene of being trapped in a heavy horse and invincible in his own brain, thinking of this, he secretly glanced at Yan Xing, who was sitting in the car at the moment with his eyes closed and recuperating without saying a word.

This new Taishou, who lives in a simple place on weekdays, is known as the people's livelihood in Hedong in the county government, but as seen today, Anyi's iron officials and sharp weapons are endless, and the cavalry of each department is even more powerful, it seems that this Taishou's clothes and food are not just for the people's livelihood of a county in Hedong!

After inspecting the Anyi Iron Official, Taishou's car came to the salt prison again.

The pond salt of Hedong Jiechi has been famous in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is one of the famous salt-producing areas of this dynasty, and the imperial court specially set up a salt supervisor here. The salt produced in Hedong has also been exported to Henan, Yan, Hebei, Sanfu and other places, becoming an important source of national taxes.

What's more rare is that Anyi salt is made by water brine by exposure to sunlight, the color is white and the taste is positive, there are few impurities, and the quality of salt is also excellent, and Anyi has its own set of good salt making methods: every year at the beginning of spring, the salt workers enter the pool, the land is thinned, the pond water is irrigated into it, and the precipitation is made into brine, and then in the use of August and September, the south wind blows, there is no need to decoction, and the pool salt is self-contained.

Therefore, there was "Song of the South Wind" in Dayu, which described the salt-making situation of Anyi Salt Pond.

"The scent of the south wind. It can relieve the sorrow of our people.

When the south wind blows. It can help the wealth of our people. ”

Yan Xing and others came to the salt prison to see that it was the stage when the salt workers entered the pond and led the pond water to irrigate the land.

After learning about the detailed process of salt production in Anyi, Yan Xing also had to sigh in his heart the wisdom of the ancients, who were able to adapt to the time and local conditions, and combined with people's intelligence, to create this set of salt production methods that adapt to the local climatic conditions and geographical environment of Anyi.

Even from Yan Xing's point of view, this set of methods is also the most practical at the moment, and what he can do is to tell the salt officials to strengthen the management of this set of processes to improve the output and quality of salt solution.

Leaving the salt prison, Taishou Xingchun's chariot rode towards the Yi clan again.

After meeting with the officials of the Yi clan and preaching the importance of persuading Nongsang, Yan Xing postponed the banquet in the official temple and settled in the official temple to rest that night.

The next day, Taishou's car set off again and came to Xie County.

Whether it is Yishi or Xie County, these are the counties closer to Anyi, along the way, the farming in Jiucheng, Fangcheng, Sangquan City and other places are also carried out according to the agricultural time, there has never been abandoned fields, as far as the eye can see, the fields on both sides of the road are busy with spring ploughing farmers, tenants.

However, Yan Xing still saw another situation in Xie County in addition to spring ploughing.

That is the sacrifice of the obscene shrine.

In the county, the spring sacrifice is generally presided over by the county official, but not in the county ceremony, and the sacrifice formed spontaneously by the people is an obscene shrine.

Hedong is a large county, and there are many gods worshiped in the territory, but in the official rituals, there are only sacrifices such as Jiemiao and Houtu Temple, and many of them are spontaneously formed by the people.

For obscenity, all dynasties have vigorously cracked down. As far as Ximen Leopard abolished the bad habit of marrying Hebo, as close as Cao Cao appointed Jinan as prime minister, and abolished more than 600 obscene shrines, it made politics and religion great and a county clear.

For these spontaneous folk sacrifices, Yan Xing also has the same attitude, that is, to crack down hard. Because of these obscene shrines, firstly, a large amount of people's fat and ointment are consumed to worship these ethereal mountains and rivers ghosts and gods, and secondly, they are easy to be used by people with intentions as a way to collect wealth and deceive people.

The people are superstitious about the ghosts and gods worshiped in these obscene shrines, which will not only waste money, but also more seriously, and innocently give their lives.

In Wang Fu's "Treatise on the Hidden Husband", he talked about the harm caused by this kind of obscene witch blessing superstition: "Or abandon medicine, and go to the gods, so as for death, you don't know that you are deceived by witches, but you hate witches late, and this glow confuses the people." ”

Yan Xing originally grew up in Jincheng, the land of Liangzhou, and the land was connected to Qianghu, naturally witch wind was prevalent, and the people were superstitious about ghosts and gods, at that time Yan Xing was powerless to change these phenomena, but now he was Ren Hedong, so he naturally needed to come forward and vigorously rectify the chaos in this area.

Therefore, after he met Zheng Duo, who tried to defend the county order, he first encouraged Zheng Duo to make achievements in persuading the people to farm in the jurisdiction, but then he also solemnly admonished him:

Now the war in Hedong has just settled, the people's livelihood is difficult, those obscene shrines that are still in full swing after the war, just worshipping will cost the people how much food, clothing, and wealth, and those witch wishes are not under the jurisdiction of the official temple, but they can summon a large number of people to make rebellion by demagoguery, if they collude with some local heroes and officials, it will cause great damage to the situation in Hedong that has just stabilized.

If we fail to declare the decree in time and abolish the obscenity, this will be an evil thing that will ruin the government and destroy the foundation.

After Zheng Duo listened, he shook his head again and again, and was sincerely afraid, and immediately promised that he would ban obscenity in the jurisdiction of Xie County and crack down on witches and superstitions.

Yan Xing nodded, and after seeing that Zheng Duo understood what he meant, he encouraged Zheng Duo a few more words, telling him to be resolute and strong in cracking down on these obscene shrines, but for those gods who are deeply believed by the people in the territory, they might as well report to the county government, and include it in the rituals, and the county will preside over the sacrifice in a unified manner, so as to avoid the intentional witch blessings and heroes from using these ghosts and gods to confuse people's hearts and accumulate wealth.

At the same time, Yan Xing also asked the accompanying Shuzuo Sun Zi to record the incident, and he believed that the phenomenon of sacrificing obscenity shrines definitely did not exist only in the county of Xie County, but also in other counties in Hedong.

Especially after the war in Hedong, when the people lost their relatives and there was an epidemic in the territory, this kind of witchcraft and obscenity may become popular, and even faintly threaten Yan Xing's rule in Hedong.

Therefore, this is not a matter of a county in Xie County, it is a matter of a county in Hedong, after Yan Xing returns to the county government of Anyi after the completion of the spring, he will pass on the counties, so that the magistrates of each county in Hedong County will thoroughly investigate the affairs of witches and obscene shrines in their jurisdiction, abolish useless obscene shrines, and arrest those witches and heroes who use this to accumulate wealth and goods and deceive people's hearts.

So, after completing the spring trip in Xie County, Yan Xing still adhered to the style of marching and fighting in the past, refused the banquet of the officials and temple officials and local surnames Haoqiang, and only set off for Pi after resting for one night in Xie County.