Seeing that his tenant farmers were motivated, Duan Zhixian was happy, picked up the hoe and took two turns like a weapon, and then took the hoe over and looked at it carefully. After looking at the panel of the hoe for a while, his eyes suddenly tightened, and he carefully touched the iron plate of the hoe with his hand, and then tapped it with his fingers to listen to the crisp sound of the iron plate. Suddenly, he looked stunned, raised his head and said to his cousin: "Cousin, I also like these farm tools for my brother, our family still has a few hundred acres of land in Daxing City, and there are many places to use farm tools, but there is no such farm tool sold over there, so you can bring these farm tools to my brother first."

Duan Zhixuan's cousin looked embarrassed after hearing this, and after seeing this situation, Duan Zhixian said with a smile: "It's okay, you quickly send someone to buy it, it doesn't matter if you spend a little more money, our tenants will send a hundred wen first, and now they are not available, and there is not much rice in the pot, so you can have enough food before you have the strength to do farm work." After hearing this, the tenant farmers in the Zhuangzi quickly knelt down and thanked the lord for his kindness. In the afternoon, Lao Duan pulled the plow and the building cart all the way back to ........

In the Qin Palace, Chang'an City, Li Shimin was handling official business in his study, and when he looked up, he saw Duan Zhixuan walking in from outside, and said to him with a smile: "General Duan is not busy with spring ploughing, is there anything to find me today?" Now that the world is peaceful, there is no other war to speak of." I saw Duan Zhixuan walk in and say to Li Shimin: "Your Highness, the minister is here for farming, please move your Highness to the flower bed in the courtyard." When Li Shimin arrived outside the courtyard, he saw a pile of farm tools on the ground, Li Shimin looked at them for a while and said, "You are all farm tools?" How do I feel about these farming weirdness, what is it? Duan Zhixuan leaned down and took a shovel and poked it into the soil in the flower bed, and in front of Li Shimin, a shovel went down, and the entire shovel easily disappeared into the soil. Boy! Li Shimin saw the benefits of this thing at a glance and praised loudly.

"Second brother, what good things have you found again? Ordinary things can't get into the eyes of you, the King of Qin", before the words fell, a young woman in palace dress walked in at the gate of the courtyard, this woman was of medium stature, her eyebrows were lightly swept, her face was white, her nose was straight, her eyebrows were pasted with a few flowers, but her face was not coated with too much fat powder, a pair of sharp phoenix eyes looked left and right, her beautiful eyes were shining, her head was combed in a flat bun, and two golden steps were inserted horizontally on the bun, and she was wearing a yellow high-waisted skirt with a large placket collar, and her shoulders were draped with red silk, and she wore a green long skirt with a red belt and foot brocade boots, but there is no weakness of a woman between walking, and her gestures are like men, but she exudes a heroic air all over her body. This woman was the female general who was talking to Li Er when he left Weinan City to face Liu Wuzhou.

"Third sister, this is really a good thing", Li Shimin said to the woman, "Today, General Duan brought a lot of new farm tools from Zhuangzi in Yushan County, and using these farm tools to farm can increase the crops by three percent.

Seeing Li Shimin talking to his sister-in-law, Duan Zhixuan said to Li Shimin: "Didn't His Highness find anything else?" Li Shimin looked at him curiously and said: "This plough and the building cart, you General Duan have already explained just now, do I still have something I haven't seen?" General Duan said bluntly, there is no need to compare a certain family." "My Highness", Duan Zhixian stomped his foot and said, "Don't you see, this hoe is made of 100 steels?" ”

"100 steels?" Li Shimin glared at these hoes and shovels on the ground and asked Duan Zhixuan. "Yes, it's a hundred steels", Duan Zhixian replied, Li Shimin turned to the woman and said, "Third sister, you go to the study and bring my sword."

Li Shimin held the sword in his right hand, hooked his toes, and a hoe bounced to his left hand, clenched the hoe and cut it down with a sword, although this sword is not a peerless sword, but the sharpness of this sword is very well known, I originally thought that the iron plate of the hoe would be cut into two pieces, and the worst would be cut down, only to hear a sound of gold and iron, a few sparks came out at the junction of the blades, and only a small half-inch gap was left on the hoe iron plate, although I saw that although my sword was fine, Li Shimin was shocked, turned around and said to the subordinate next to him: "Go, invite the worshipper Hu master in the backyard, quickly!" ”。

After a while, a middle-aged man came over from the backyard, came to the front and saw Li Shimin and said, "The villain Hu Zhongchun has seen His Highness, I don't know what His Highness commands?" Li Shimin pointed to the farm tools on the ground and said, "How about asking Mr. Hu to take a look at these farm tools this time?" How is it made? Hu Zhongchun looked up and saw a pile of farm tools next to him, only looked at it a few times and then rushed over, knelt on the ground and touched the ploughshare and cocoon feet with his hands, trembling tears all down, and looked at it for a while and choked up and said: "Your Highness, where did you find these precious farm tools, you know that once these farm tools are popularized, my people in Datang will no longer be in danger of hunger."

Li Shimin waited for the master Hu in the house to be excited, and then said: "Mr. Hu, take a look at these farm tools again, what are these hoes made of?" After picking up the hoe, Master Hu looked at the gap in the iron plate that had just been split by Li Shimin, and said affirmatively: "100 steels!" The real 100 steel, which one is so extravagant, using 100 steels to make farm tools", Hu Zhongchun did not stop after saying this, pointed to the black and blue place on the iron plate of the hoe and said: "Your Highness, General Duan, you two are still a little unconcerned, you look at the blue part of the hoe iron plate, if the villain is not mistaken, this hoe must have been quenched, if it is only 100 steel, Your Highness, your sword can be cut into an inch without a problem, after quenching, the rigidity and toughness of this hundred steels have reached a perfect balance, This is also the reason why your sword is only cut into one point, but Your Highness, this quenching method has been lost in the late Han Dynasty, and today it has appeared in my Tang Dynasty...".

After listening, Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan looked at each other, and the two of them, as commanders leading the troops, knew very well that if each soldier had a weapon or armor made of 100 steels in his hand, if he faced the enemy in battle, he didn't have to think about the result.

Li Shimin listened to Hu Zhongchun's introduction and also came to the interest, and then asked him how to look at the plough and the car, Hu Dajiang heard the spirit of the moment, and when it came to these, he had a kind of demeanor, "Your Highness, you don't know that the villain is not good at other aspects, but for the making of tools, can be compared with the villain in this Tang Dynasty is not more than ten people, the first two years the villain also wanted to try to make this building car, but tried several times and failed, the Han book records that this cocoon is three eyes, but now it is five eyes, Although this is to increase the two eyes but the structure of the building car has been turned upside down, you see the place where the seed hopper is placed, the size of the pendulum behind each seed is different, but the number of swings is the same, this is not the average person can do it, all the places where the car is stressed are made of steel, and these components are made of forging technology and then riveted together, so that these tools are not easy to break, even if it is broken, remove the bad parts and replace them with good ones. Look at this ploughshare, although only the width of the palm, one and a half feet long, is made of the best of the hundred steel, but it is the most durable, the point of the plough is placed in the best position, these two kinds of agricultural tools can become amazing works no matter which one comes out, the most strange thing for the villain is that the world can let which master have such a way, so that these farm tools are all born in one moment."

"Mr. Hu is really insightful, although it is not the words of a saint to listen to Mr. Gao's argument today, let us have the feeling of returning to the same place in the world", I don't know when Li Shimin stood behind two old men about fifty years old, one was not tall, the face was white and beardless, a hair bun was tied on his head, a copper hairpin was pinned, and he was wearing a blue round-necked narrow-sleeved robe; The other was wearing a tall robe made of green silk, with a horizontal scarf under the robe, a short beard of three inches, and a headscarf, and the two old men stood there looking at everyone with a gentle and elegant air.