If Yue Fei's words about allowing the artisan to leave the country made all the artisans so excited that they couldn't help themselves, Huang Zong's shout made the artisan calm down again. They looked at Yue Fei expectantly, hoping that Yue Fei would reject the prefect's proposal.

Huang Zong also ignored the eyes of all the craftsmen who wanted to kill him, and said to Yue Fei, "Pengju, this matter must not be. Although the artisan system is not good, it also has its reasonableness. When Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, a large number of craftsmen from Yan and Zhao fled to the grasslands, which greatly improved the equipment of the Huns, and directly posed a great threat to the Qin and Han dynasties. Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.. It is for this reason that the artisan household system came into being. If these craftsmen are allowed to leave their naturals, they will flee to Jinxia, which will be the catastrophe of our Great Song Dynasty. Even if they don't flee to Jinxia, letting them live among the people will be a great factor of instability. After all, the weapons they make can be used by the rebels at any time. ”

Before Yue Fei could reply, the old craftsman who came out to speak just now hurriedly said, "Lord Prefect, we are Song people, if we surrender to the Golden Dog, we would rather have five thunders in the sky." ”

Yue Fei stretched out his hand to stop the old craftsman and continued. said with a smile, "Although Lord Huang's concerns are reasonable, he has forgotten one of the most important reasons. Time shifts and things change. The tyrannical Qin regarded the people of the Six Kingdoms as slaves and slaughtered them on a large scale, and those craftsmen who surrendered were also dead, and if they did not surrender, they could only flee to the grasslands and seek refuge from foreign races. However, the later dynasties did not reflect on the evil government of the tyrannical Qin, but instead changed Bengali and established the artisan household system. As a result, the craft level of our Han nationality has always stayed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and there has been no major development at all. As a result, up to now, the armor of our Emperor Song Dynasty is not as good as the monkey armor made by the Xixia people. Shouldn't we still be rethinking the artisan system? ”

Huang Zong was still not convinced, and said loudly, "Although Pengju's words are reasonable, he forgot that these craftsmen do not read the Four Books and Five Classics, and do not understand the righteousness. ”

Yue Fei laughed, and he patted Huang Zong's shoulder with his hand. "Lord Huang, can you see the people who can't live in the high hall but have to live in the pigsty? Can you see that people don't want to be dogs? Although the military power of our Emperor Song is weak, but the civilization is the best in the world, compared with other countries, our people live like nobles. Will they flee to the two kingdoms of Jinxia as slaves? On the contrary, those great Confucians who read through the Four Books and Five Classics are ambitious and want to be high-ranking officials. As long as someone can give them high-ranking officials, they are willing to be dogs. This kind of thing has always happened one after another. Lord Huang forgot Zhang Yuan and Li Hao's two dogs? Have you forgotten Cai You's father and son? It's just that such a dog who has abandoned his ancestors and forgotten his ancestors is regarded as an idol by many readers. Don't you think it's ridiculous? ”

Huang Zong said angrily, "Zhang Yuan and Li Hao surrendered to Western Xia in order to vent their personal anger, which made our emperor Song uneasy for a hundred years, and they are both disloyal and unrighteous people. Cai You's father and son surrendered to the golden dog, so that my Northern Expedition army was completely wiped out, and it is not an exaggeration to say that such a person will be cut with a thousand knives. ”

Yue Fei smiled, "That's why I often say that Lord Huang is an outlier among scholars. Master Huang has the country in his heart, and the vast majority of scholars only have Jun in their hearts. It is this difference that makes Lord Huang iron-clad, and other scholars are as soft as cowards. ”

"There is a country in my heart, and a king in my heart." Huang Zong silently recited this sentence twice, and suddenly understood the thoughts of other scholars who were scrambling to surrender to the golden dog. It is precisely because the Four Books and Five Classics only talk about loyalty to the monarch and not patriotism, so the scholars always believe in the truth that the victor is the king and the strong are the king. Even if a group of mad dogs is extremely powerful, the reader will regard the mad dog as Zhengshuo, and find a thousand reasons for the mad dog to inherit the mandate of heaven and succeed the emperor and the Song Dynasty.

Huang Zong figured this out and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Although he is informal and has a heroic relationship, he still has a little sense of superiority as a scholar in his heart. But now it seems that it is not the scholars who can save the Emperor and Song. It was the scholars who could destroy the Emperor Song. No matter how lenient and generous the Emperor Song was to the scholars, it could not stop thousands of scholars from surrendering to the Jin Kingdom. Among the tens of thousands of jinshi, how many outliers like themselves can there be?

Yue Fei saw that Huang Zong's face was a little gloomy, and hurriedly said, "Lord Huang is a good man. The sins of other scholars have nothing to do with you. Lord Huang should not take others over his body. ”

Huang Zong sighed, "I have never been knowledgeable, but today I know that the world is wide." Pengju, I was wrong. These craftsmen are not inferior to us scholars. What we scholars can enjoy, they also have the right to enjoy. ”

Hundreds of craftsmen have been listening to the conversation between Yue Fei and Huang Zong with their ears pricked up, and as soon as Huang Zong admitted that he was wrong, and said that craftsmen also have the same rights as scholars, the old craftsman immediately went up the wall and asked Huang Zong directly, "Can the prefect allow us to leave the country?" ”

Huang Zong said with a smile, "You are the armory of the Protector Army, and you should ask the Yue Tuan training envoy about leaving the country." ”

The old craftsman immediately turned his expectant gaze to Yue Fei again. He was afraid that Yue Fei would retract what he had just said. Yue Fei nodded to the elderly artisan household, and said resolutely, "In the territory under the jurisdiction of my people's protector army, meritorious artisan households are allowed to leave their nationality and can engage in any industry. ”

Yue Fei's words fell, and the craftsmen were chaotic with a bang. Some craftsmen are crying, some are laughing, and some are crying and laughing. There was joy on their faces that bordered on madness.

Since the establishment of the artisan system, all artisans have lived in a hopeless life, and the rise and fall of dynasties has nothing to do with them. Anyway, no matter which dynasty they are, they are craftsmen without any freedom.

Today, Yue Fei's words gave them hope. Not to mention that there is a reward system, even if there are no other rewards, the mere fact that they are allowed to leave the country will arouse all the enthusiasm of the craftsmen.

Yue Fei and his entourage looked at these half-crazy and half-stupid craftsmen, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings. Zhihun said with a smile, "Yue Tuan training envoy, the news has spread here, and all the craftsmen in the world belong to my people's army." ”

Yue Fei sighed, "The oppression and oppression of these craftsmen by the past dynasties and dynasties are too ruthless. Even if we can relax a little, we will not be pressed and beaten by the northern barbarians. ”

Huang Zong said with some skepticism, "Peng Ju thinks that with the weapons made by these craftsmen alone, the golden dog can retreat?" ”

Yue Fei said with certainty, "Of course. When the weapon has developed to a certain point, the iron horse that the golden dog is proud of is not vulnerable at all. ”

At this time, the craftsmen finally calmed down from their ecstasy. Led by the elderly craftsmen, all the craftsmen knelt down to Yue Fei. Yue Fei hurriedly told them that there was no kneeling in the Protector Army.

The old craftsman looked up, his face full of tears. "Yue Tuan Lian makes great benevolence and righteousness, and Xiao Lao'er is not kneeling for himself, but for Xiao Lao'er's children and grandchildren."

Originally, these craftsmen were going to kowtow, but seeing Yue Fei's ugly face, they realized that Yue Fei really didn't like kneeling, so he slowly stood up. The old craftsman suddenly thought of something, and asked Yue Fei, "Little old man Liu Huo is a master craftsman in the armory workshop. Just now, Yue Tuanlian said that he had something important to come to the armory, I don't know what it is? Does the little old man have the right to listen? ”

Zhang Xian brought the only remaining thunderbolt to Liu Huo. "Uncle Liu, this thunder is what you used today. Do you know who did it? That's a big deal. ”

As soon as they heard that it was a great achievement, all the craftsmen wanted to see the objects in Zhang Xian's hands and see if they had made them themselves. Liu Huo was also a little moved. He cautiously took the thunder, looked at it with a complicated face, and then whispered, "This is made by that kid from the old Zhang family." ”

Yue Fei always believed that the person who made the thunderbolt was a skilled craftsman. As a result, after the kid from the old Zhang family came out of the crowd, Yue Fei found out that this was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.

The little boy's name is Zhang Bao'er, and he is wearing armor, and it seems that he has no clothes to wear. The body is thin, the face is thin, and the arms and legs are also thin and weak. Only one pair of eyes is particularly large and particularly bright.

After he walked in front of Yue Fei, not only was he not afraid, but instead stared at a pair of big eyes, and asked Yue Fei for credit first. "General Yue, I heard what you just said about the reward standard. I don't know what reward I should give for this thunderbolt? ”

Zhang Bao'er saw that Yue Fei was dressed in armor and was majestic, so he put the title of general he heard in the story on Yue Fei.

Yue Fei looked at Zhang Bao'er incredulously, and he really didn't want to believe that this thunder was done by Zhang Bao'er. But looking at the expressions of the craftsmen present, it seemed that it was indeed this child who did it.

This Bao'er looks like a bold one. Yue Fei wanted to scare Zhang Bao, and his face sank deliberately. "What reward do you want, little kid?"

Zhang Bao'er smiled and stretched out two fingers, "At least you should give me twenty-two months." ”

Yue Fei said loudly, "No. ”

As soon as Zhang Baoer spoke, other craftsmen were discussing. They weren't saying that Zhang Baoer was going to be too much. On the contrary, they are saying that Zhang Baoer is too greedy. You want twenty-two months of money for every child, so where can we put the faces of our uncles? But Yue Fei's loud refusal made the hearts of the other craftsmen lift up. They were afraid that Yue Fei would be angry.

Zhang Bao'er's father walked out of the crowd and said very carefully, "Yue Tuan Lian, Bao'er is still a child, I don't know the severity, I ask for credit in vain, I hope you have a big ** amount, don't blame." ”

Yue Fei waved his hand and didn't let Zhang Bao'er's father say any more. continued to look at Zhang Bao'er and said with a smile, "Zhang Bao'er, do you know why I rejected you?" ”

Zhang Baoer was really scared. But seeing Yue Fei's smiling face, he suddenly became bold again, and said tentatively, "Could it be that General Fei thinks I'm going to be less?" ”

Yue Fei laughed, held Zhang Bao'er's waist with both hands, lifted Zhang Bao'er above his head, and said, "Not bad." Just because you created this thunderbolt, you should give me a reward of five thousand taels. Zhang Bao'er, you know what. You're a genius. As long as you can make thunderbolts in large quantities, you can enjoy more treatment than mine. ”

Zhang Bao'er's body was hanging in the air, and she was not afraid, but shouted at the craftsmen with her hands, "I have made a great contribution." I'm rich. I have the money to pay for my mother's medical treatment. I have money to buy new clothes. ”

Yue Fei put the excited Zhang Bao'er on the ground and announced the new appointment on the spot. Anyway, all the chief and deputy ambassadors of the armory appointed by the imperial court were cut into meat by the craftsmen during the daytime rebellion. Yue Fei asked his junior brother Xu Qing to serve as the ambassador of the armory. Liu Huo and Zhang Baoer served as deputy envoys.

Xu Qing was born in a family of blacksmiths and studied weapons very well. Besides, in Yue Fei's planning, the armory workshop is an extremely important military place, and Yue Fei must let a person he trusts be in charge of the armory. Xu Qing has a calm personality and is suitable to serve as the ambassador of the Armory Workshop.

If Liu Huo's appointment as the deputy envoy of the armory workshop was not surprising to the craftsmen, Yue Fei's appointment of Zhang Bao'er made all the craftsmen dissatisfied. They felt that Zhang Baoer was just a little kid, and he accidentally invented a thunderbolt that was different from the past, and he would break the sky by giving a reward of 5,000 taels. Why do you want him to be the deputy envoy? Does he make armor? Does he make weapons?

Yue Fei heard the whispers of the craftsmen. So he said loudly, "As long as any of you can make a weapon more powerful than this thunderstorm, you can squeeze out Zhang Bao'er's position as deputy envoy and serve as the deputy envoy of the armory workshop yourself." ”

As soon as Yue Fei gave this order, many craftsmen suddenly stopped talking, and they began to think about how to squeeze Zhang Bao'er out of the position of deputy envoy of the armory. Over there, Zhang Bao'er clenched her fists and said to her father with a tight face, "I, Zhang Bao'er's deputy envoy, have made it." No one wants to squeeze me down. General Yue said, I am a young genius. ”