Liu Fan looked at the blade of the Mo knife, there was no flaw on both sides, and it seemed that there was still the sharpness of the cadre Mo Xie.

Look at the stake that has been scratched, the incision is neat.

Liu Fan was sure, this was the Modao he wanted.

With a sword swing, a wrestler can cut a horse in two.

Forty-five pounds, plus heavy armor. The soldiers in Liu Fan's army are all carefully selected young and strong, and they can all dance the Mo knife.

But dancing does not mean that you can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, you can't reach the level of a wrestler, your stamina is not sustainable enough, and you may not be able to hold out for half an hour on the battlefield.

"This knife has been forged with three thousand handles. In our army, we should be able to pick out 3,000 wrestlers. ”

Liu Fan ordered Shen Tugang.

"This unusual weapon requires skilled craftsmen to forge three thousand handles, and it will take at least a year. If the general temporarily stopped forging farm tools, new army soldier armor, weapons, and bright light armor. In three months, you can make 3,000 Mo knives for the general. ”

Shen Tugang and Zhao Changsong summed it up and asked for Liu Fan's suggestion.

"Year after year, the forging of farm tools, armor and weapons cannot be stopped." Liu Fan said without hesitation.

All kinds of farm tools are needed now. Soldiers without weapons and armor simply cannot be put on the battlefield to fight.

"No!" Shen Tugang and Zhao Changsong nodded yes.

"A soldier is also a weapon of the state. When casting armor and weapons, you can change the armor and weapons to be more conducive to soldiers' combat, and you can also set up your own armor and weapons. The iron city is the weapon in my hand, and the life of the soldier is in your hand. Once you find a weapon or armor that is not perfect, you will be severely punished. Don't think that being a craftsman has no future, I won't give you high officials, but I can make you a marquis. Whoever can find something that has a major change for the army, the people, and the country, I will let his title be hereditary, and he will rest with the country. ”

Liu Fan looked at Shen Tugang and Zhao Changsong with grim eyes, and said solemnly.

After the two heard Liu Fan's words, they stood there in a daze, as if they didn't know what to do.

"Do you believe my words?"

Liu Fan asked.

Shen Tugang and Zhao Changsong came to their senses at this time, and hurriedly bowed to Liu Fan: "The general will practice what he says, and everyone in the world knows it." We are just frightened, and we don't know what to do. ”

The hearts of the two were extremely surging, although they knew that it would be difficult to become a craftsman. But there was faith in the heart.

Just like Shentu Gang forging Mo Dao before, hundreds of attempts, isn't it just for the sake of success?

"Spread my words to all the craftsmen of the Iron City, and you will encourage them." Liu Fan opened his mouth and said to them.

"No!" Shen Tugang and Zhao Changsong said with tears in their eyes.

Liu Fan was very satisfied with today's trip.

The Mo knife army is a sharp weapon to restrain the cavalry, because the Mo knife is longer than the gun, and the soldiers are holding the Mo knife, after forming a knife wall, if the cavalry does not have too many numerical advantages, it is impossible to pass through.

He wants to make the Hu cavalry in the northwest tremble when he sees his Mo sword army.

"Dian Wei, send someone to send this Mo knife to Heyin, Wuyuan County, and hand it over to Zhong Kang, so that he can practice Mo Dao and study the method of Mo Dao." Liu Fan handed the Mo knife in his hand to Dian Wei and said to Dian Wei.

The person who commands the Modao army must be a fierce general of ten thousand enemies, Xu Chu is good at using knives, and he is the best candidate for the Modao general.

The first Mo sword general in Huaxia was born by Liu Fan in this way.

"No!" Dian Wei took the Mo knife.

"Shentu Gang, is there a lacquer maker named Shentu Pan in Tiecheng?" After Liu Fan walked out of the weapon field, he asked Shen Tugang.

"Yes! This person has already been in the age of sixties, and I didn't want to use him as a craftsman, but I was impressed by his exquisite lacquer carving skills. We have made him the chief of the lacquer makers, and he is responsible for the painting of armor and other things. Shen Tugang replied to Liu Fan.

"Take me to him." Liu Fan nodded and said.

"No! General, please. Shen Tugang explored the way.

On the side of the iron city on the north side of the wall, there is a large courtyard, which is dedicated to the painting of armor.

After most of the armor is completed, it will be painted here, and it is painted red.

The courtyard was busy, and a large number of guards under Liu Fan's command poured in, waking them up and stopping what they were doing.

Only one person calmly picked up lacquer and natural lacquer, painted a pair of armor, and did not lift his head.

He was over the age of six, and his hair was gray. His dedication makes him look radiant.

Liu Fan entered the courtyard and glanced around. The old man was found.

Liu Fan knew that he must be Shen Tupan.

When he met Shen Tugang the year before last, Shen Tugang was also so strict with himself, from beginning to end.

But Cai Yong defined him not as a lacquer maker, but as a famous scholar.

After Shen Tupan came to Yanmen, he did not go to Cai Yong, who was an important official, but just wrote a letter to reminisce about the past.

I lived in Mayi. Be a lacquer maker with the status of a "servant".

The county, the county, and the imperial court have all recruited him, but he has not complied.

He lived in seclusion in the countryside, studied intensively, broadened the "Five Classics", and also knew the study of Tuwei.

The study of Tuwei, this kind of mystery and mystery, some people call it a fallacy, and some people call it false.

Shen Tupan has avoided many dangers in his life, and he is wise to protect his life, which may be inseparable from Tu Weizhi's credits.

"But Chen Liuren, Shen Tu Zilonghu?"

Liu Fan watched Shen Tupan finish brushing this set of armor, and then asked.

"Yes." Shen Tupan raised his head and looked at the person in front of him suspiciously, this person actually knew his words.

Look at Liu Fan's heroic posture again, surrounded by armor soldiers.

Who enters and exits the Iron City with this formation?

Only the hussar generals!

"Shen Tu Pan is rude, meet the hussar general."

Shen Tu Pan reacted in an instant and bowed to Liu Fan.

"Wen Jun has great talent, come to see it."

Liu Fan was upright for Shen Tupan, and the meaning of his words seemed to be that he came to Mayi specifically for him.

"A person who is about to die of wood, who knows a little about the work of a lacquer craftsman, so as to support his family, how can he have any great talent." Shen Tupan said modestly.

"Cai Bojiao admires Jun very much, I just returned to Hetao, it is the time to employ people. I am crowned by the king, whether the king is in office. Liu Fan tried to ask Shen Tugang.

"When I was young, the same county woman Gu Yu killed someone to avenge her father, and Liang Pei, the county commander of Waihuang County, wanted to convict and execute Gu Yu. I was a student of the county school at the time, and I persuaded the county order: The righteousness of the jade festival is enough to feel the shameless grandson, the son of the forbearance and humiliation, and when he is not punished, he should still show the tomb of the Lu, and the situation is to listen clearly, without mourning? The county commander Liang Pei thought that my words were good, so he retried and convicted Yuyu, so that she could be commuted to the death penalty. I know the general's law, and the general can't use people like me. ”

Shen Tupan told Liu Fan about his deeds when he was young, but in fact he rejected Liu Fan.

"The son does not take revenge on the father, nor does the son. But there are no rules, and there is no circle. Liu Fan said with a sigh.

When there is a conflict between the law and the supreme scriptures, the law is often at a disadvantage. Confucianism introduced scriptures into the law to exonerate avengers, and often won the support of emperors who claimed to rule the world with benevolence and filial piety.

Han advocates filial piety, and it can be seen that "filial piety" is the best way to enter the office.

It cannot be said that it is wrong to advocate filial piety.

It can only be said that morality and legalism are always in conflict.

(End of chapter)