Lu Ren and Lu Lingqi were arguing, and after about half an hour, Sun Shangxiang led the two maids to the training ground, and after saying a very cordial hello to Lu Lingqi, they began to carefully dry the two hundred recruits over there.

Lu Ren on the side coughed dryly and said to Sun Shangxiang: "County Lord, the two hundred women's troops are all here, I have done according to the agreement, and I hope you can keep your promise." ”

Sun Shangxiang glanced at the women who were running in circles in the training ground, nodded and said, "Lu Yizhou, please rest assured, you can high-five me as an oath." ”

Lu Ren and Sun Shangxiang clapped each other's palms, thought for a while and added: "County Lord, I don't care about how you practice these parts here, but you can't take one person or one thing with you when you leave." ”

Sun Shangxiang said: "This is natural. In fact, I can also be regarded as serving in Yizhou now, and I can't lose a penny of my money. ”

Lu Ren rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, isn't it my own bargaining with the girl? I don't know how to shake my head a few times, but when I was about to leave, I was stopped by Sun Shangxiang: "Lu Yizhou, you seem to have forgotten to give me something." ”

"Huh? What did I forget to give you? ”

Sun Shangxiang pointed to the delicate steel plaque on Lu Lingqi's waist and said: "Every person in charge of Yizhou has such a steel plaque, which is another type of seal, since I am the leader of the women's department, I should also have one, right?" ”

Lu Ren took out the steel plate and handed it to Sun Shangxiang, and then said suspiciously: "Lord Sun, I really don't understand. I've been in Jiangdong for a while, and I know that you have been watching martial arts since you were a child, and the more than 100 maids around you are all teaching martial arts, and you are no different from soldiers......"

Sun Shangxiang shook his head silently and said, "No, it's different." Those maidservants in my house are just accompanying me to practice martial arts and put on a show, and most of them are in name only. Think about it, who will really let women go to the battlefield to fight for their lives? My handmaidens were to be trained according to my arrangement, but in the end they were only amusing me. ”

Lu Ren was mentally prepared for this kind of answer, so it wasn't too strange, but Lu Lingqi shook her head with a smile.

Sun Shangxiang continued: "But Lu Yizhou, it's different with you. It is very likely that these female tribes you have recruited will actually go to the battlefield to fight and make meritorious contributions in the future......"

Saying that, Sun Shangxiang looked up at the sky again, and sighed lightly: "If I have the opportunity in the future, I really want to personally take these hundreds of parts to the battle to kill the enemy." The battlefield of baptism of blood and fire should not only be the world of you men. ”

Lu Renxin said that if you were born hundreds or thousands of years late, you might be able to become a character like the Red Whisk Girl and the Yang Sect Female General, but unfortunately it is the Han Dynasty, so it is not the right time.

Lu Lingqi suddenly asked, "Xiangxiang, but I don't know what weapons you plan to let these troops practice?" I'll go and bring it back. ”

"Oh! I've already figured it out! Women's strength is not as good as men's, and ordinary battle blades are not suitable for practice, so Sister Xue found this when she took me to choose weapons. ”

After speaking, Sun Shangxiang stretched out his hand to the maid, and the maid took something from the saddle and handed it over. Lu Ren glanced at it and reached out and knocked on the door of his head, it was the powerful short crossbow that Shirley had asked the craftsmen to make as a transitional equipment before the musket was completely assembled.

In order to pursue portability and power, the crossbow string of this crossbow is positioned at two stones, which is more difficult to pull. As a last resort, Lu Ren suggested that Shirley add a lever-type auxiliary arm to the crossbow, and a hollow crosshair was also added to the crossbow. When testing the power, because the arrows shot were fast, accurate, and ruthless, Lu Ren jokingly called this crossbow "Big Bird" and positioned it as a sniper crossbow. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is similar to Ida in "Resident Evil 4"? The kind of crossbow used by the king, and there are only two at present, one of these two test supplies is in Lu Ren's collection, and the other is disassembled into parts, which have been handed over to the Ministry of Industry for production.

After a slight hesitation, Lu Ren spoke: "County Lord, if you want to take these parts to practice shooting, how about using other short crossbows first?" The crossbow in your hand is just a reference sample, and there is no stock in Yizhou at the moment. ”

Sun Shangxiang was a little disappointed. Looking at the crossbow in his hand, he thought for a while and said, "Okay then...... But Lu Yizhou, how about borrowing this crossbow for a few days for me to use it first? Three days, and I will return it after three days. ”

"You can do it...... I have other things to do, so I won't bother with anything. ”

After speaking, Lu Ren walked away, he really didn't want to talk to Sun Shangxiang anymore, but he was secretly thinking in his heart: "Sun Shangxiang's own archery skills are good, and he has been bowing all year round, so he got the nickname of 'Bow Waist Queen'." She is quite good at choosing, and letting these two hundred female soldiers practice crossbow arrows can avoid the weakness of women's physical fitness that is not as good as that of men. Hey, if this is really trained for her, it will be quite like the elven archer in Western fantasy novels......"

Thinking about Lu Ren, he turned around and said to Sun Shangxiang and Lu Lingqi: "These two hundred women's tribes will form a battalion of their own, and they will be called the 'elf' battalion in the future." Ling girl, when you call the short crossbow, you can call out a better crossbow, remember to pick the kind that helps the string arm. ”

Lu Lingqi nodded in response, and Lu Ren glanced at the second daughter a few more times before getting on the horse and leaving. The moment the whip was raised, Lu Ren suddenly had a very strange feeling, and said in his heart: "After all, the matter here in Yizhou can't be hidden for too long, and it seems that Sun Quan and I will have a battle sooner or later, if this small army is sent to the battlefield at that time, what kind of feelings will Sun Shangxiang have?"

"Forget it, I can't care so much, for now, I just want to make this Lord Sun happy, try to delay it for a while, and when the people I sent out recruit enough people to come back, I don't have to be afraid anymore. No matter what Sun Quan is, it is impossible to ignore the defense of the Central Plains and mobilize a large number of men and horses to attack Yizhou, right? If it was according to the original process, Sun Quan's attack on Yizhou and Zhuya would still be after he became emperor, that is, twenty or thirty years later. But now Sun Quan definitely can't wait for that time. ”

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It's been another busy day.

When Lu Ren returned home, the sun was gradually sinking, and as soon as he returned home, Lu Ren was very unfigured, lying on the floor and panting.

Liu Ye and Sun Shangxiang came to Yizhou successively, and Lu Ren's sense of crisis became more and more serious. There's no way, who made him basically only a few women left around him who can be in charge now? With such rough work as city defense construction, Lu Ren was embarrassed to let a woman go.

After pouring a large pot of tea in one go, Lu Ren wiped the corners of his mouth and put the teapot on the table. I don't know what kind of nerves he has, so he suddenly sighed for no reason: "Alas, men are really miserable!" We have to let our men go up first......

Halfway through the words, Lu Ren couldn't continue, because Zhen Mi had already appeared in the room, and because there was no one around, Zhen Mi looked at Lu Ren with a little deep resentment...... Lu Ren and Zhen Mi had an agreement before, and Lu Ren was going to have some arrangements with Zhen Mi when he came back this time, but because things came one after another, Lu Ren was simply overwhelmed, and the matter between him and Zhen Mi could only be delayed again and again.

You must know that it is now the winter of the twelfth year of Jian'an, Zhen Mi is already twenty-four years old, and Zhen Mi will be twenty-five in a blink of an eye. Twenty-five-year-old girl, this Nima is the age when you have to worry about getting married in modern society, let alone in that era? Zhen Mi's personality is good, but no matter how good she is, she will have a little temper, so whenever she has the opportunity, she looks at Lu Ren's gaze...... Hehe, still don't say more.

Perhaps because of this bit of resentment, Zhen Mi turned around and went to the shelf to take a roster, opened it and checked it: "Sir, because of the shortage of young and strong men, seventy percent of the people who are now recruited to participate in the construction of the city defense are women. Whether it was carrying stones and carrying water, or burning fire and mud, these women who came to ......"

Lu Ren hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Stop, stop, Xiao Mi, you don't need to say it, I admit that I said the wrong thing, okay?" Yes...... Xiao Mi, there is nothing wrong with the food and salaries of these people who have been recruited to build the city defenses, right? ”

Zhen Mi knew that Lu Ren wanted to divert the topic to solve the siege, so she snorted lightly and opened the account book to check it: "There is no problem with the food. However, according to the meaning of several craftsmen, the people below hope that the grain can be paid to us, and the grain and rice may be a little inconvenient to carry. Moreover, not long after the autumn harvest, every household has more than two years of grain storage, and it is really troublesome to exchange something for grain and rice. ”

"I'm dizzy, where did I get so much money? Besides, you can't be busy minting coins all day long, can you? Moreover, our coinage was minted for emergency purposes at that time, and it could not be circulated at all without Yizhou, and it would conflict with the Han law...... Do you have any good ideas, speak up and listen! ”

Zhen Mi smiled and looked at Lu Ren, as if he decided that Lu Ren must have a way. Lu Ren was dumbfounded, to be honest, he had always wanted to get banknotes out, but there were too many constraints, so he thought about it and gave up. Looking at Zhen Mi again, I suddenly remembered a very common thing in ancient China, that is, the money bank, speaking of which the money bank in ancient China is very similar to the bank, but how does this money bank work?

Slapping his head violently, Lu Ren muttered: "Damn, one person can't think of it, so let everyone think about it together!" I'm just so much material, and I don't care about the places I can't see. Well, that's ......."

snapped his fingers, called the attendant to call a few people in charge to one place, and told everyone the general idea of the money village. That's the way it is, often just a reminder and a start can drive out other people's supplementary ideas. Everyone was satisfied with the results of this discussion, and the matter of opening this money bank was naturally handed over to Zhen Mi. In order to prevent accidents, Lu Ren specially instructed Shirley to send someone to Zhen Mi to deal with the matter of the silver ticket.

After discussing a major event, everyone realized that it was almost dark. said goodbye to each other and went home for dinner, but Zhen Mi rubbed on Lu Ren, and the reason was simple, that is, she wanted to use the excuse of seeing Minchan to go to Lu Ren's house to eat. In fact, Zhen Mi often lives here with Lu Ren, and this kind of excuse doesn't need to be found at all, to put it bluntly, it's just an excuse to communicate more with Lu Ren...... (To be continued.) )