"Lord Wei, I wonder if I can join your new army?"

"What? You want to stay with me? ”

Wei Shuo looked up and down, left and right, and looked at Cao Hong carefully, and refused: "Cao Langjun, don't be kidding, how can you, a child of a family, come to me as a big soldier?" If the Cao family knows about it, they still have to demolish my barracks? I don't want to get myself in trouble. ”

Cao Hong immediately became anxious when he heard this, stood up and said, "This is my own decision, and it has nothing to do with my family." Moreover, you can rest assured that I will deal with the elders of the Cao family by myself and will never cause trouble to the adults. ”

"Are you really going to come to me?" Wei Shuo became serious at this time, at least he was sure that the other party was not impulsive, but made a decision after careful consideration.

"Well, I've figured it out, since Lord Guardian woke me up, I've been confused these days, and I don't know where the road lies in the future. But today I figured it out, maybe I always used to move my mouth, but I never moved my hand. Now I want to try it myself, don't you often say that facts speak louder than words, and I also want to see with my own eyes how far Master Wei can go. ”

After going back, I don't know how Cao Hong persuaded the elders in the family, in short, he successfully became a new member of the barracks. Although Wei Shuo said that he would let Cao Hong be the big soldier, he would not really treat Cao Hong as an ordinary recruit. In any case, Cao Hong is far superior to ordinary children of good families in terms of knowledge. If cultivated properly, Cao Hong's ceiling is higher than everyone else's.

From the first day he entered the barracks, Cao Hong found that Wei Shuo's army was quite different from the Great Jin army in his impression. The biggest difference is that the learning atmosphere here is very strong. As a boss, Wei Shuo also encouraged soldiers to read and write, and also held various study classes in the army to vigorously carry out literacy activities among soldiers.

"Lord Wei, why do you attach so much importance to the soldiers' learning?"

This is something that Cao Hong has always been unable to understand, among the famous generals of all dynasties and dynasties he is familiar with, he has never heard of a general who pays attention to the problem of soldiers' literacy.

"In the simplest way, soldier literacy helps to upload and issue orders and avoid misunderstandings caused by illiteracy; Deeper, an army of literate soldiers will have independent thoughts. And an army with independent thinking will be invincible and invincible. ”

"Don't understand?" Wei Shuo looked at Cao Hong, who was confused, and asked, he didn't expect Cao Hong to understand the deep meaning of this at once, after all, even if the ancients had a high IQ, they were limited to not having a broad enough knowledge, and they would definitely not see the problem very deeply.

Wei Shuo patted Cao Hong's shoulder and comforted: "It's nothing if you don't understand, you will be able to appreciate the benefits of doing this after a long time." ”

After more contact, Cao Hong gradually got used to Wei Shuo's style, and didn't ask more questions, anyway, there will always be results in the future.

"Let's go, let's go to the paper nail production workshop and have a look."

As he spoke, Wei Shuo led people to the most secret place in the barracks - the armor production workshop. Since Wei Shuo got the papermaking workshop donated by the Pei family, he recruited some newcomers to set up the baggage camp, and placed the paper armor production workshop under the jurisdiction of the baggage camp.

Cao Hong's eyes lit up when he heard this, to be honest, he has been famous for the paper armor on the recruits for a long time, and he has long wanted to see how the legendary paper armor is produced. At the beginning, when he first came to the barracks, he was quite puzzled by the paper armor issued by the soldiers. It wasn't until he saw the effect of paper armor in practice that he was amazed.

Especially after learning that the paper armor design was made by Wei Shuo, Cao Hong felt that he was right to come here. Although Cao Hong was very uncomfortable with life in the barracks at first, sweat, exhaustion, pain and other experiences that he had not had before came one after another. But when he gritted his teeth and survived, he realized that he actually liked it.

For the first time in more than a decade, he felt that his life was meaningful, and although he was always ridiculed by other children every time he returned to the city, Cao Hong had learned to face criticism with silence.

He always kept in mind what Wei Shuo once taught him: There are people in the world who slander me, bully me, insult me, laugh at me, despise me, despise me, and deceive me; Bear with him, let him, avoid him, let him, bear with him, respect him, ignore him, and in a few years you will see him.

"Here, this is our primary arsenal."

Just when Cao Hong's thoughts were wandering, he didn't know that he had come to the armor workshop. He glanced up at the somewhat rudimentary courtyard and asked, "My lord, this is where paper armor is produced?" Also, what do you mean by Arsenal just now? ”

Wei Shuo explained with some embarrassment: "It's the meaning of a workshop specializing in the production of military weapons and equipment, let's go inside." Now there are 500 people in this workshop, and an average of 250 pairs of paper armor can be produced every day, and in a few days, ordinary soldiers in our army will be able to change into paper armor. ”

"Two hundred and fifty pairs?!" Cao Hong was a little stunned when he learned about the output, he didn't expect the output of this small workshop in front of him to be so high, but he didn't know that Wei Shuo had worked hard to increase the output of the workshop. It not only greatly increased the wages of craftsmen, but also applied the assembly line production method that was common in later generations, which greatly improved the production efficiency of the workshop.

However, even so, the paper armor produced by the workshop is only enough for Wei Shuo's new barracks. Although paper armor has many advantages, its biggest disadvantage compared to iron armor is that it is extremely resistant to wear and tear. Coupled with Wei Shuo's tight grasp of the training of soldiers, the daily wear and tear of paper armor is extremely high.

Walking into the workshop, Cao Hong found that all the workers were busy and working in an orderly manner. After a series of processes such as sorting, stacking, stuffing hemp and silk, and finally reinforcing a series of processes, a pair of paper armor is taken off the production line from time to time and sent to the quality inspection office for inspection.

In the paper armor workshop, Cao Hong opened his eyes, he didn't expect that the paper used for writing every day would become the armor that the soldiers on the battlefield relied on to survive after simple processing.

After Wei Shuo carefully checked the production of paper armor, he left with someone. As soon as he got out of the workshop, Wei Shuo turned his head and asked Cao Hong beside him: "After watching the production of paper armor, how does Jifu feel?" ”

Cao Hong thought for a moment and replied: "I didn't expect paper to be of such great use, in the past, the imperial court was limited to the lack of iron production, so that iron fish scale armor could not be equipped with the army on a large scale, and now there is paper armor with low production cost, which is enough to arm all the armies." It seems that some things really have to be done with a calm heart, and paper armor can never be born just by thinking and saying. ”

"Could it be that Zifu doesn't have any other ideas when he sees the craftsmen in charge of producing paper armor?"

"Artisan?" Cao Hong was stunned, like everyone else, subconsciously he did not pay attention to the so-called craftsmen, in his eyes, craftsmen were inferior pariahs, and their status was even worse than that of ordinary people.

"Yes, it's the craftsman! Don't you realize that without those craftsmen, even if I designed the best armor and weapons, I wouldn't have been able to equip the army? "Wei Shuo's series of actions in recent days are to completely subvert Cao Hong's previous worldview, only by re-establishing the worldview that Wei Shuo hopes, Cao Hong can truly become the talent he relies on, otherwise even if Cao Hong says it wildly, he will not dare to reuse the other party.

"Actually, I've always wondered why the imperial court, while relying on all kinds of weapons, tools, and equipment produced by craftsmen, disdained them with extreme disdain to become pariahs. Why did the craftsmen make great contributions to the country and the imperial court, but they could not be praised by the imperial court? ”

"This, this, isn't that what craftsmen should do?"

"Shh Wei Shuo sneered and said disdainfully: "You are a robber logic!" Why do other craftsmen provide you with conditions for enjoyment, but at the same time accept your bullying? Isn't that bullying? ”

"If, I mean, if one day, there will be no more illiteracy in the whole world, and everyone will become scholars, what do you think you families will have left besides eating, drinking, and having fun?"

Wei Shuo's words before leaving made Cao Hong break out in a cold sweat, and it was only at this time that he realized that the so-called superiority of the family was not worth mentioning in front of Wei Shuo. In the future, the world has really reached that point, and the family may not have the status of craftsmen, because everyone is a scholar, and there is no difference in identity, but other craftsmen still have a skill, but what are the children of the family?