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"Stop!" With a break from the side, Liu Zongmin's movements suddenly stopped, and the parts that fell from the loosened iron tongs fell into the bucket, splashing a splash of water and green smoke. Liu Zude walked over from the side, fished out the parts in the bucket, and counted them one by one in front of the onlookers: "One, two, three......"

"Twenty-four, twenty-five!" Liu Zude put down the last part, patted the shoulder of his nephew next to him proudly and said with a smile: "Twenty-five, this time it is Zong Min's first, according to the rules, this month's first prize of five taels of silver is still my Zong Min's nephew." If you want it, you have to get it! His last sentence was to Liu Zongmin.

Before Liu Zongmin stepped forward to say a few words of humility, he heard someone in the crowd shouting: "It's not fair, it's not fair, Liu Tou'er, you are partial to others!" ”

"Which bunny is hiding in the crowd and talking nonsense! Where did Lao Tzu favor my nephew! Liu Zude was suddenly furious, blushing and scolding. A stout man came out of the crowd and said loudly: "Liu Tou, when your nephew was striking the iron just now, you deliberately put a piece of wood under the hourglass, so that the speed of the sand flowing down is much slower, everyone is open-eyed, you are too innocent to play this trick!" ”

When everyone heard the man say this, their eyes suddenly focused on the hourglass on the table beside them, and sure enough, there was a piece of wood one inch thick at the bottom of the hourglass, which could not be seen unless they looked closely. Seeing that his trick had been exposed, Liu Zude immediately stammered, and his fellow clansmen hurriedly rushed up to help, and the companion of the man opposite did not show weakness, and it was about to cause a fight.

"Wait!" Liu Zongmin took a few steps forward, and he had a lot of strength. The craftsmanship is good, and he is still Liu Zude's nephew, and he is already the leader of the Liu family in this workshop, and the stout man saw him coming, thinking that the other party was going to do something, so he hurriedly took half a step back. Rolled up his sleeves and shouted: "What's the matter, do you have to do it if you can't be reasonable?" ”

"Where's the word!" Liu Zongmin said with a smile: "Although I am a rough person, I am not unreasonable, this time it is indeed my uncle's fault, but you can say with your conscience, how is my craftsmanship?" “

When the man heard Liu Zongmin say this, he felt a little empty in his heart, but he refused to admit that the other party's craftsmanship was better than his own, and he replied with a stiff neck, "This." Zong Min, your craftsmanship is indeed good, but I am not bad! And your uncle is really not authentic with this method!"

"That's nature!" Liu Zongmin said with a smile: "In any case, it was my uncle who cheated, and the first reward of five taels of silver must be yours!" Speaking of this, he paused a little and smiled: "But I have a proposal, as the saying goes, 'Wen has no first, Wu has no second', although our is a small road." But after all, it is also a craft to settle down, and it is better to choose a day than to hit the day. Why don't you and I compare it here, and ask everyone to testify, how about dividing the high and low? ”

The stout man also saw Liu Zongmin's craftsmanship, and knew that he was inferior, but he was not angry that Liu Zude relied on his foreman to protect his nephew before he came forward to oppose it, and if he refused, he was afraid that he would show his cowardice. But if he agreed and was afraid that he would lose the competition, he would be a head lower in this factory in the future, but when he was hesitating, he heard a voice behind him: "Okay, just try it, this official will make a fortune." Whoever wins, it's his! Before the words fell, a cowhide money bag was thrown into the crowd, and the sound of the ground was not light!

"Meet your lord!"

"The villain meets the adult!"

Liu Zongmin was blocked by everyone, he didn't see who was talking at the door, he saw everyone kneeling on the ground like fallen woods, and only then did he see a group of people standing at the door, the leader of the group was wearing a green gauze and a horned head, wearing a green Luo Tuanhua brocade robe, a black sable robe on the outside, and a silver belt on the back of a double otter tail turtle around his waist; There is a long knife with a silver handle hanging on his waist, and a short gun hanging on the other side, with thin eyebrows and long eyes, a slight beard under his hair, and a look of not being angry and self-assured, it is Liu Cheng. Liu Zongmin saw his former enemy at this time, and rushed straight to the top door in a puff of anger, but a hand stretched out next to him and pulled him to kneel on the ground, but it was Liu Zude.

"Are you going to die? Adults don't kneel when they come! Liu Zude scolded his nephew twice, kowtowed to Liu Cheng, and said: "My nephew is a rough man, I have never seen a nobleman, so I was frightened, and I ask the adult to forgive me!" ”

"It's okay, get up!" Liu Cheng approached the factory with a smile, made a gesture for everyone to get up, and followed Tang Muyao and Thomas behind him, followed by more than a dozen personal soldiers. It turned out that after Liu Cheng had arranged all the matters in Ningxia, he took Du Guoying, Thomas, and a guard composed of 200 cavalry and 200 cavalry and cavalry infantry to the south of Chaoyi, preparing to cross the Yellow River here and enter Shanxi, and then pass through Shanxi to Jingshi to face the saint. After he arrived in Chaoyi, he took Thomas to visit his factory, firstly, to show his strength to the other party and strengthen his determination to take refuge in him; Second, it will also allow him to examine his existing processing capabilities and prepare for the next step in making artillery. But I don't want to just walk to the metalworking workshop and see the scene in front of me.

After getting Liu Cheng's order, the workers all stood up from the ground, and everyone looked at Liu Cheng with frightened and curious eyes, for them, Tang Muyao, who was in charge of more than a dozen factories and thousands of workers, was already a man of heaven, and this big man was following Liu Cheng at this time, speaking in a low voice, obviously Liu Cheng's identity was much more obvious than Tang Muyao, for these poor people who were hungry and craftsmen not long ago, it was really extremely difficult to correctly understand Liu Cheng's identity. A few sharp-eyed people also saw Thomas behind Liu Cheng, and they pointed at him curiously, and said something to each other.

As a former mercenary leader and military engineer, Thomas had long been accustomed to being pointed at by strangers, and he looked around him with the eyes of an insider, looking at the anvils, huge bellows, crankshaft forging hammers, and swarthy workers, and finally he walked to the table, picked up a part, and asked Liu Cheng in a heavily accented Chinese, "What is this?" ”

"It's an iron piece, and this one is used to connect two pieces of material that need to be moved!" Tang Muyao said: "Boats, carts and many other things can be used!" Then Tang Muyao demonstrated it to Thomas twice, and Thomas's eyes widened in surprise: "It's so good, who came up with this." ”

"It's the craftsman!" Tang Muyao pointed at Liu Zongmin and said, "He came up with it more than a month ago!" ”

"Lord Governor, that man is a genius!" Thomas pointed at Liu Zongmin and said to Liu Cheng, "Can you let him work for me?" ”

"No, Thomas, it's not him who works for you. It's that you and he are both working for me! Liu Cheng said to Thomas with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Governor, we are all working for you!" Thomas bowed his head in frustration: "I thought you had promised me to become an official. ”

"Yes, I promised you! But if he wins this competition, he won't be just a craftsman anymore! Liu Cheng patted Thomas on the shoulder and smiled: "Don't care, do a good job." You will find that I am more generous than you can imagine. ”

At this time, Liu Zongmin and the stout man were already ready by the anvil, Liu Cheng asked a personal soldier to pick up the leather bag, shook it twice, and there was a sound of metal currency colliding inside, and he said loudly: "There are twenty eagle coins in this, whoever wins is his!" ”

There was a cry of envy from the crowd, and the eyes of the two people who cast them in the center of the playing field became eager. The eagle coin was a silver coin minted by Liu Cheng at that time, each weighing 30 grams, eight silver and two copper. One side is printed with the image of an eagle, and on the other side is a pair of crossed spears and birds, which were called eagle money by the common people at that time, which were already used to purchase goods and pay the salaries of workers and soldiers, and also accepted the purchase of goods and the payment of cents and bridge tolls, and a skilled worker had about two eagle coins a month, and that pocket was almost equal to a worker's salary for a year. The stout man swallowed and couldn't help but clench the iron tongs in his hand.

Liu Cheng saw that both of them were ready to stop. nodded slightly to Tang Muyao, and Tang Muyao hurriedly shouted: "Begin!" "The stout man was like a warhorse that had been whipped in the face. Pick up a piece of material to be processed with the fastest action, put it under the forging hammer, and build it; But Liu Zongmin still maintained the usual rhythm, picked up the iron unhurriedly, took it to the forging hammer and processed it, and the onlookers also cheered according to their usual likes and dislikes.

"Mu Yao. Who do you think will win? Liu Cheng looked at the movements of the two, he had never worked in the factory after all, so he asked Tang Muyao beside him.

"It should be the worker surnamed Liu, the one with a little leg problem!"

"He? But I can see that the rhythm next to me is faster? Liu Cheng asked puzzled.

"My lord, you don't understand!" Tang Muyao said with a smile: "Although this iron piece looks simple. But to make a rough embryo that can go to the next process, there must be 14 actions, if there is a mistake, it will be a waste product, either to return to the furnace, or to trim. Although the lame worker did not move quickly, he was in this rhythm on weekdays, and one out of a hundred did not necessarily make a mistake; The other may be to covet money, the action is much faster than usual, and the feeling in the hands is naturally a lot worse. ”

"That's the truth, you can't get it quickly, right?" Liu Cheng smiled and nodded, he looked at Tang Muyao appreciatively: "Muyao, it seems that you have put a lot of thought into it these days. I have won the battle outside, and the firearms, swords, guns, and armor in the hands of the soldiers are inseparable from your hard work here. You can rest assured, I have all these things in mind, and the rewards in the future will not be inferior to those of Dugu, and they will not be spoiled. “

Listening to Liu Cheng's praise, Tang Muyao hurriedly bowed down and said: "The villain can have today, all thanks to the grace of adults, even if he is broken, it is difficult to repay the adult!" ”

"But there's one thing you can't do well!" Liu Chengyu turned around: "At present, I have to build a business stall bigger and bigger, Chaoyi wants to build a factory here, and I also plan to build an iron factory and a firearms factory in Guihua City, but the talents I have on hand are limited." Mu Yao, you are covered in iron, how many iron nails can you make? If you see something that can be made, you must cultivate it well, and you don't have to be limited to this place, you have a greater future! ”

Although Tang Muyao was less than twenty at this time, after Liu Cheng left, almost all of the production and personnel related to smelting and forging here were in his hands, and the environment shaped people, he was no longer the simple little blacksmith he used to be, and he also learned from the messenger that after Liu Cheng left the school, he captured the old man and returned to kill Ge Liyan; Defeating Lin Dan Khan, killing Bu Lost Rabbit Khan and other exploits, the idea of following Liu Cheng's green clouds to the top is like a spring sprout that irrepressibly breaks out of the ground. But according to the practice at that time, being promoted to an official and making a fortune was either to capture the flag and behead before the battle, or to be a civil official strategizing and planning a temple, which had nothing to do with his craftsmen who were tired of dying and living in front of the anvil and the stove. Although Liu Cheng is a maverick, Tang Muyao still doesn't dare to have the idea of making an exception for himself, but from Liu Cheng's mouth, he heard that his reward will not be inferior to Du Gu, and it will not cost them to get rid of it, and he said that he has a greater chance, and his heart is about to jump out of his mouth.

"My lord, please rest assured, tomorrow I will select capable people in each workshop, train well, and never miss the adult's affairs!"

At this time, the competition in the field was coming to an end, and sure enough, as Tang Muyao expected, as the game progressed, the stout man's movements were chaotic, and there were several waste products in a row, he became more and more flustered, but the more he wanted to hurry, he couldn't get up, but Liu Zongmin was like a precision machine, always according to his own rhythm, one by one, putting the manufactured parts into the quenching bucket.

"Stop!" The sand in the hourglass finally ran out, Tang Muyao shouted, Liu Zongmin calmly put down the iron tongs in his hand, on the other hand, the stout man rushed to put the last iron material under the forging hammer, but he didn't put it in the right position, he was smashed into a discus by the forging hammer, but there was one more scrap, he couldn't help but spit in frustration and muttered a foul word.

"You two go over and bring the bucket, and the official will count it himself!"

With Liu Cheng's order, the two soldiers brought the bucket containing the parts, Liu Cheng rolled up his sleeves, fished out the parts from the bucket and counted them one by one: almost all the parts made by Liu Zongmin came out of a mold, and as long as the burrs were slightly polished, they could be sent to the next process; On the other hand, the quality of the other side is uneven, some are good, some are deformed, and some of the metallographic structure on the surface is different, obviously skipping a few forging processes, which has a great impact on the mechanical properties of the parts. Liu Cheng frowned, counted the parts roughly, and said in a deep voice: "The results of the competition have come out, this Master Liu has made a total of twenty-four pieces, and this one here has made a total of twenty-seven!" “

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )