"Bodao, your ancestral home is Taiyuan, thousands of miles away from Longyou, how did you know this prince?"

While asking Hao Zhao, Yuan Mai spread out a simple map on the table, looking for Longyou's location.

Hao Zhao took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and told Yuan Mai about the matter.

It turned out that Hao Zhaozu's family background was average, although he was not poor, but he had absolutely nothing to do with wealth. After Zheng's sister married into the Hao family, seeing that her husband's family was poor, she asked her husband to learn the horse sales business from his mother's family to make ends meet.

The work of selling horses is not something that can be done by one person, so Hao Zhao's uncle often took Hao Zhao and his son to buy horses from horse farms in various places. That's it, by chance, Hao Zhao got acquainted with Wang Shuang.

Of course, from Taiyuan County to Liangzhou Longyou, the distance is thousands of miles, in recent years, the war has been continuous, the Yellow Turban thieves have come and gone, the Qiang people often Kou Luo Guan, Uncle Hao is impossible to take Hao Zhao and his son to run so far, thousands of miles to Longyou to buy horses, so how did Hao Zhao get to know Wang Shuang?

It turns out that the Wang family is a big horse breeder in Longyou, which has gone through four or five generations, and there are nearly 2,000 people in the racecourse alone, which is quite powerful in the local area. In the fertile grassland of Longyou, there are more than a dozen horse farms and thousands of large and small horses.

In addition to Liangzhou, the main sales areas of Wang's horses are also exported to Sili, Yizhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other prefectures and counties. Without a certain strength, who dares to take the risk to go to Liangzhou to buy horses, so the Wang family has horse farms in many places to supply those small-scale customers to buy horses.

The place where Hao Zhao met Wang Shuang was the Wang family's horse farm set up in Lu County, Shangdang County. It was last year, Hao Zhao followed his uncle to the horse farm of the Wang family in Luxian County to buy horses, and happened to meet Wang Shuang, the second young master of the Wang family, who escorted 200 horses from Longyou to Lu County, so they met.

Wang Shuang, who is tall and tall, left a deep impression on Hao Zhao when he was training the martial arts of the racecourse, and he sighed to himself. It's just that he has been busy for the past few days, and he is not very familiar with Wang Shuang, so he didn't think about it, and at this moment, Yuan Mai was scratched for a while, which made him have a flash of inspiration and remembered this warrior.

After listening to Hao Zhao's narration, Yuan Mai was a little carried away with joy, and his previous depression was swept away, insisting that he would leave for Lu County today to find Wang Shuang and ask him to come out to assist him.

Hao Zhao groaned: "The second young master of the Wang family is not in Lu County every day, and he can only see him occasionally when he comes to send horses, and Zhao can't guarantee that he will definitely be able to find him when he goes to Lu County now." ”

"I can't care so much, Lu County can't find it, so I go to Didao. Di Dao couldn't find it, so he searched all the horse farms of the Wang family, anyway, no matter what, this prince Quan, I must invite him here! ”

Yuan Mai picked up the teapot, poured a big sip, and pulled Hao Zhao to leave.

Hao Zhao hesitated: "Xianyong, it's not me who hits you." It's just that it's not so easy to invite this Wang Shuang, I heard that Han Sui, Li Dao and others have recruited him before, but they were all politely declined by him, let's go to him, do we have to prepare some generous gifts? ”

"Look at me, huh...... I thought that inviting people to be like you Hao Bodao, yes, yes, you should prepare a generous gift! ”

Yuan Mai smiled bitterly, patted his head, and complained that he was in a hurry. There is a saying that when a corporal is hired, the gift is more or less secondary, but with a heavy gift, at least it will make people feel that they value him more.

"Has the military pay been paid?"

Yuan Mai's brain was spinning rapidly, wanting to embezzle the military salary to buy some expensive gifts first, and then plug the hole in the military salary when Wang Shuang came.

Hao Zhao shook his head: "Zhao asked General Koji just now, and he said that our team is Gongzi's private army, and he is only responsible for supplying grain Cao, but the military salary cannot be received from the Northern Expeditionary Army, so let us go into the city to find Lord Bo Cao Xu Yu to lead the army's salary." ”

"This dog's thing, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's intercession for him, this guy's head would have moved a long time ago!"

Yuan Mai scolded angrily, but there was no choice but to go to the city to find Bo Cao to engage in Xu Yu and ask for the military salary of 500 people.

At this moment, it was time for lunch, and he was not in a hurry, so Yuan Mai had dinner with Hao Zhao, and instructed the brothers Fan Hu and Fan Bao to prepare a few carriages, and then they would go into the city with him to ask for military salaries.

While eating, while looking at the horses outside the tent, Yuan Mai suddenly remembered something and said to Hao Zhao: "Bodao, you will send a few people into the city and find a few blacksmiths to come over, I have important things to do for them!" ”

Hao Zhao couldn't help but be stunned: "Xianyong, what are you looking for a blacksmith to do, do you have to cast weapons?" I think your 'Chongxiao' sword is a rare weapon in the world, so you don't need to build another weapon, right? You don't need to charge, I need to build a spear. ”

"No, no, you can't leak it, you will naturally know when the time comes!"

Yuan Mai was eating while shaking his head and making a fuss.

Hao Zhao couldn't guess it, so he didn't guess anymore, called a chief to come over, and ordered him to lead ten soldiers into the city and hire a blacksmith to come to the barracks to listen to the dispatch.

After lunch, Yuan Mai and Hao Zhao took the brothers Fan Hu and Fan Bao, led twenty cavalrymen, escorted two carriages into Yecheng, and went to Bo Cao Yamen to collect military salaries.

Bo Cao was in charge of a state's money, food, and materials, and was an important local official, and Yuan Shao handed over this important position to his fellow countryman Xu You. For this reason, Yuan Mai shook his head, Xu You's virtue, others don't know if they don't know, can they still not know?

Fortunately, Xu You bought face for Yuan very much, and on the basis of Yuan Shao's approval, he allocated an extra month's military salary to Yuan Mai, which made Yuan Mai feel very comfortable, and his hatred for Xu You was a little worse.

Yuan Shao had already issued an order, and Yuan Mai's pro-soldier team allocated three months' military salaries according to 200 yuan per person per month, totaling 300,000 baht. In order to curry favor with Yuan Mai, Xu You made his own decisions and allocated four months' military salary at once, which made Yuan Maishou and his brothers very happy.

At that moment, the soldiers brought by Yuan Mai started together, and loaded the 300,000 yuan military salary into two carriages, and Yuan Mai asked Xu You to exchange the remaining 100,000 yuan for silver taels and gold, so that it is easy to carry, and it is used to hire Wang Shuang, so you can't bring a box of five baht money to invite someone, right?

Xu Yu didn't say a word and obeyed the order.

After doing everything well, Yuan Mai said goodbye to Xu You with satisfaction, took his subordinates, escorted two large carts of military salaries, and left Bo Cao Yamen.

Back in the barracks, Yuan Mai asked Hao Zhao to find a few honest and reliable people who knew how to write and settle accounts, and who could take charge of military salaries.

Hao Zhao took the order and left, but it didn't take much effort, and he brought seven or eight people. Yuan Mai had an interview and was very satisfied with these people, so he let them take charge of the military salary.

Seeing the two large truckloads of military salaries transported into the camp tents, those recruits became more energetic one by one, training hard under the sun, hoping to make meritorious contributions in the future and be promoted and rewarded.

At this time, Hao Zhao sent someone to invite the blacksmith to the barracks, a big man in his forties, dark-skinned, who called himself "Han Blacksmith", claiming that no one in the entire Yecheng could surpass him in iron casting technology.

"Oh...... Does Mr. Han really have such a ability? Then I'll draw a drawing and see if you can make it, if you can make it, my son will be rewarded! ”

After listening to the self-introduction of the Han blacksmith, Yuan Mai picked up the pen with a smile, drew a saddle on the drawing, and then added a stirrup on each side of the saddle, and instructed the Han blacksmith to draw a gourd in the same way, compare the drawings to build a hundred pairs of stirrups, and then use tough leather to connect the saddle together.

"Oops, the general is really a genius! The stirrups fell on both sides of the saddle, and it would be much more convenient to ride a horse in the future. ”

Looking at the drawings bought by Yuan, the blacksmith Han rubbed his dark and rough face that had been roasted by the furnace because of the perennial iron, and was amazed.

Nowadays horses do have stirrups, but only on one side, which is used to facilitate getting on and off the horse. After the stirrups were equipped on both sides, it was easy to drive, but no one could have imagined it in this era.

"Sure enough, it's a genius design, Childe is really a masterpiece, if it is paired with such a pair of stirrups, he can shoot with both hands on the horse!"

Hao Zhao is a person who has been riding a horse for many years, and he can understand what kind of convenience it will produce after the horse is matched with a stirrup. His admiration was more of a shock from the bottom of his heart than a compliment from blacksmith Han.

Listening to Hao Zhao and Han Blacksmith's compliments, Yuan Mai was proud, "Bo Dao, just wait, after adding the stirrups, I guarantee that your martial arts will improve a lot!" ”

The heart said, isn't it just to make a stirrup, this year, traveling to the Three Kingdoms, making stirrups is the most basic common sense.

It's a pity that I'm stupid, and I don't know anything about automatic machinery, gunpowder, etc., so I can only make stirrups and horseshoes and other basic supplies. No, in addition to stirrups, Ben Gongzi will also make matza and small stools......

It's really uncomfortable to see you generals and strategists, kneeling and sitting one by one when you drink, and when I have the opportunity in the future, I will design a bench so that people in this era can enjoy the fruits of "high technology".

At this time, Yuan Mai suddenly thought of a problem, making stirrups is not a difficult technology, but people before they didn't think of it. If the stirrup technology spreads and the princes from all walks of life follow suit, it will not be difficult to produce stirrups, then their own cavalry will have no advantage, and they must let the Han blacksmith keep it a secret!

However, how can you get Blacksmith Han to keep it a secret?

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