For more than half a year, time is like the water of a mountain stream.

The third year of the Xuanping of the State of Wei, February.

Beiyang City.

It is the cold time of spring.

In February, winter is coming to an end, but the snow is melting and the weather is getting colder than before.

Zhuque Bridge is located on the north-south central axis avenue of Beiyang City, looking north to the inner city of Beiyang and connecting to the handicraft business area in the east. On the street of Suzaku Street, there is a shop with a banner of "Chen's Blacksmith Shop", and there is a dilapidated wooden board on the outside of the shop, which is filled with all kinds of agricultural tools, knives and other ironware. The bellows inside "whirsh and whoop" sounded. The burning red charcoal fire emitted a blue flame, making the inside of the house much warmer than the outside.

In the blacksmith's shop, a tall and strong young man of about eighteen years old was wheeled with a hammer, and he hammered it again and again on the burnt red iron tools. For the convenience of work, he only wore a very thin short shirt, and his chest and back were already wet with sweat, and the sweat on his neck flowed into his clothes.

The sweat on the arms is full of strength and beauty with the swaying of the thrashing.

This posterity is Chen Xu, for most of the year, the improvement of the five attributes is obviously reflected in his body, and he is taller than half a head in half a year. The originally thin body has also become stronger, and the figure is really good-looking, unlike the exaggerated muscles of the bodybuilder in the previous life. The whole body looks very well-proportioned and coordinated, with a pair of long arms, strands of muscles on the shoulders, prominent pectoral muscle lines, and abdominal muscles one by one. There is an inexplicable beauty of power.

In the past half a year, perhaps not long after being defeated, I did not dare to make a move for the time being, and there were no large-scale wars on the border between Wei and the Northern Han and Rouran, but small-scale conflicts and frictions occurred from time to time.

The biggest duty of the border army of Beiyang Town and the other three towns was to control Beiyang, which formed the defense line of the northern frontier, and not let the enemy in the north cross and invade the interior of Wei. This kind of small-scale friction and conflict has its own local moderation and military to deal with.

Therefore, the border army of Beiyang Town has not been dispatched for most of the year, first, the small-scale friction just mentioned does not need to be dealt with by the three towns, and the second is that they are licking their wounds now, and many recruits need to go out for training.

There was no war, and Chen Xu didn't want to scare people everywhere like a shrew and make enemies everywhere, so he had to focus on the army. The first thing to aim at was the soldiers in his own tube.

When he first came to report to the Beiyang City military camp, there were only two people, him and Suo Hu. New soldiers came one after another. There are those who have been selected for outstanding combat in the local armies below, and there are also newly recruited recruits. But all of them were tall men, Chen Xu looked relatively thin at that time, and he was still martial in the army, so there were naturally voices of dissatisfaction underneath.

If you don't accept it, just do it!

So under Chen Xu's gimmick of "meeting friends with martial arts", everyone who came to "ask for advice" had a deep "understanding".

His all, all kinds of fancy hanging, overwhelming, crushing, every soldier was beaten by him obediently, and the back was already convinced, Chen Xu's name of bravery was even famous in the border army of Beiyang Town, and even the head of the border army of Beiyang Town, Zhang Dashuai, heard of it.

As the saying goes, there is no first martial arts, and there is no second martial arts, and the army is even more so, so there are also people who don't believe in evil and come to challenge, but in the end, everyone's ending is the same......

In the end, you can't earn negative sentiment value.

Because everyone is convinced!

Because his strength has improved too quickly, he has caused some inconvenience in his life, and he feels that he has a lot of strength, and he wants to use the method of striking iron to exercise his control of strength. It also means that you have nothing to do and find some work to do.

He first found a blacksmith shop, the original owner of the blacksmith shop felt that Beiyang City was very dangerous, and if he had saved enough money, the capital of a country would always be safe, right? So I decided to move south to Irai Mansion in Tokyo.

The current blacksmith shop was later bought from them by Chen Xu with the silver he had saved and the military salary.

As for how to learn to strike iron, it was some time before the owner of the blacksmith shop moved, Chen Xu spent money to buy a class, and with the flexible and easy mind brought by the strengthening, he learned the basic principles in it.

The hammer slammed heavily on the iron, making a heavy and crisp sound, and sparks splashed everywhere for a while. At this time, a soft cry of "ah" was heard.

Chen Xu turned around, only to find that a woman was looking at him. The woman's eyes swept over Chen Xu's body, and when he found out, she lowered her head a little shyly, not daring to look at Chen Xu again. Chen Xu, who had good eyes, could see the flush on her face. The basket she was carrying was also clung tightly into her arms, as if she was frightened by something.

She had a full forehead, her eyes were large and bright, and she wore a gray patched dress, but it did not hide her graceful figure. His hair was tied up and wrapped in a gray cloth. Judging from the hairstyle, it is a married woman. Of course, this is not Chen Xu's wife. Her name is Nian Zhen, and Chen Xu asked her to do laundry, cooking, and doing some chores here.

Nian Zhen called softly, "Brother Xu", and hurried into the back room of the blacksmith shop, ready to cook and work.

Chen Xu looked at her slender back and was silent.

Keep striking the iron.

There is one thing on mind.

Recently, he has been training frequently, and he guesses that it may be a war.

A major event happened this year, the emperor of Wei died.

Regarding the emperor's evaluation, Chen Xu can only say that he will not die if he does not die. The cause of death was overindulgence, and he died suddenly in the dormitory, leaving no heirs. can only be passed on to his younger brother, who is now the emperor.

The blacksmith shop where Chen Xu works belongs to the commercial area, and there are local merchants, as well as many from other places. These businessmen are relatively well-informed, after all, those who do business are most afraid of encountering war, and they have some ways to get some news to avoid losses. According to them, the Northern Han and Rouran secretly communicated with Qu and were mobilizing troops to wage war.

Chen Xu he felt that this was not groundless, the previous emperor had just died, the new emperor had just been established, and he had not yet formed his own prestige, in this era of war when "the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, the majestic of the royal family was just a very thin piece of paper, and he couldn't frighten the unruly, arrogant generals, and martial artists with military power. You don't see that the previous dynasties were all military generals usurped the throne, and the most recent example is that the founding Taizu of the current Wei State was the general of the Later Han Emperor.

This is a good time, there is no prestige to convince the new emperor, and if this matter is not handled well, the country will fall apart, and it will not be far off. At the same time, this is also an opportunity, if the new emperor can defeat the invading enemy in this crisis, he will be able to gain enough prestige to sit firmly on this dragon chair.

The current situation is like the Battle of Gaoping in the history of the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong in the history of the previous life. Chen Xu said secretly.

I'm just a head, as for how the upper echelons think about it and how they plan, at Chen Xu's level, I can't hear any rumors, and these are all things that the upper echelons should worry about.