"The cannon is made for Mr. Bai, of course it's nothing, but we are not registered craftsmen, on the first register of the county, the chief A is still Mrs. Liu's house in Liu Village, this matter is very taboo."

Tian Dayou's words carried a lot of things, and Li Xi didn't understand it at once.

"We are grass people, and we are not nobles like Master Zhong, of course it is taboo."

Guan Fengsheng said carefully, and Li Xian's understanding of this aspect gradually became three-dimensional.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the general A system was first established, with one class per household for ten households, one head for one family, and one general class for one hundred households to supervise thieves, fugitives and "annihilators", and then set up the "Neighborhood Protection Procuratorial Law", which was implemented in the north in advance and gradually spread throughout the country. And all craftsmen related to blades and weapons must be registered, and they also set up craftsmen in the early days, and later relaxed the control. 【1】

Originally, the Qing court banned civilian weapons, not only did not allow them to be bought and sold, but also forbidden to possess them privately. In addition to supervising thieves, there is also the responsibility of mutual supervision. However, the anti-Qing activities in various places, coupled with the decades-long war in the south, caused a large number of thieves, and they had to relax the control, allowing the people to own weapons such as blades and even shotguns, hoping that the villagers would protect themselves. Only strategic materials such as armor, crossbows, horses, artillery, and saltpeter and sulfur were strictly controlled. 【2】

But...... The key to allowing households to possess weapons is that they must be protected within the framework of the general armor system, that is, from the general armor to the chief armor. The general armor is a wealthy family with identity and property, just like the Lijia system, it still comes down to the squire. So on the surface, although there is a division between the chief and the chief, in fact, it is the squire who counts. When dealing with matters related to this, the state and county officials basically look for squires, and they do not look for people according to the roster.

The general armor of Fengtian Village is Liu Pozi's house in Liu Village, and behind Liu Pozi's house is naturally Master Zhong. They Fengtian Village wants to have or even privately make blades, as long as the bell on the head is not pleasing to the eye, and the family of Mrs. Liu is not allowed to guarantee it, and then report to a villager to build and hide weapons for no reason, Li Zhushou is not easy to cover up.

Now that Fengtian Village is helping to build cannons, Zhong Shangwei naturally won't say anything, what he is afraid of is that after this matter is over, he will remember the old hatred and use this matter to take revenge on the villagers.

The brand armor system that was reestablished in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi has not yet been popularized in Guangdong, and the chief officials of the prefecture and county are more concerned about the Lijia system that guarantees the collection of taxes, so Li Xi has not been exposed to this set of things, and the oxtail short knife at home before is just the fruit knife surname of the later generations, and now he is ready to get some serious self-defense weapons, so he bumped into this big net.

Even after experiencing many things such as Lai Yipin, casting cannons and steel, and exposing leprosy women, Li Shi's status in the minds of Guan Tian and others was already floating on the clouds, but when it came to this kind of taboo thing, they had a lot of worries after all, and Li Shi could only persuade them with his surname.

"It's not something conspicuous, it's just to be prepared. Someone can send a leper up to have leprosy, this is ruthless enough, we can't have no defense, right? ”

Thinking of the trouble behind the leprosy, Guan Tian and the others shuddered and began to waver a little.

"People have already come to the door, do you want to sit back and watch them swing knives to the neck before thinking about resisting?"

Li Shi added a little more force, Guan Tian and the others gritted their teeth, and finally nodded, but there was still some reluctance on their faces.

"There are a lot of empty manpower in the mine anyway, so it's better to organize and train to prevent thieves from making trouble."

Then Li Yan got an inch, he could solve the leprosy matter, and even the trouble behind this matter, he also had a plan. But the next step, he is not sure. If he didn't organize the villagers, he really didn't know the bottom of his heart to deal with another wave of possible revenge.

"Aren't there Mr. Xiao and them?"

"The soldiers in the mine can't just take money and not do anything, right?"

"The fourth brother thinks about things too complicated, most of these leper girls came by chance, how can anyone be so unconscionable?"

Guan Tian and the others shook their heads again and again, and even Carpenter He, who was joining in the fun, also helped. In addition to the fear of things, I don't believe that anyone will be vicious to such a point. Li Xian was afraid that the matter would spread and cause Yang Chun to be vigilant, so he didn't tell them the origin of those leper women, but he also mentioned that someone was behind it, but they were only half-convinced. Even if they believe it, they all feel that there is still an official government and a ...... Tianli, I didn't think about it, I relied on myself.

Guan Tian and the others, who were almost full of trust in him, were so numb, at that moment, Li Shi was really depressed, and the matter of training the miners was so aborted.

What Li Shi wants to create is really just a small thing, except for the handle, the blade is only half a meter long, just like a short sword. Just looking at the three-edged section on the diagram drawn by Li Xian, as well as the thick blood groove in the middle of the blade, Guan Tian and the others were a little stunned, although it was only a short blade, but no matter how they looked at it, they felt very terrifying......

"You don't have to be carefully forged, and you don't have to wrap steel or anything, just use wrought iron to make a shape, and then wrap the ashes of plants and trees into the furnace to burn."

This is a surface carburizing technology, and all that is required is a certain degree of toughness. Li Xian's design is the three-edged spear stab of later generations, but the length and width are added, and the purpose is only a thorn, and he is not ready to be a serious sword.

Guan Tian and the others didn't dare to think too much about it, and according to Li Shi's explanation, they took advantage of Wu Tan's efforts to build an iron furnace, and knocked out ten such short swords, and then put them into the furnace and polished them without mentioning it. When it was handed over to Li Shi, Guan Fengsheng was still very uneasy and told again: "Fourth brother, don't take it outside, don't show it easily, it's easy to get into trouble." ”

Although the braids are thin, they seem to have become the backbone......

Li Xian thought to himself, everyone in the world can have your enlightenment, and the Qing Dynasty will really be ten thousand years old.

At night, in the classroom, when Li Shi distributed nine short swords with simple wooden sheaths to his nine "disciples", the faces of the teenagers were both excited and puzzled.

"The villagers don't know what's going on in the world, I know! So Lai Yipin was cleaned up, and the village was exempted from imperial grain! ”

"The villagers don't know how to build cannons faster, I know! Therefore, everyone can be exempted from debts, and they can live a better life! ”

"The villagers can't see leprosy, I can see it! So the village escaped the fate of becoming a leprosy village! ”

Li said angrily that the villagers had recorded their kindness on "Kangxi Ye" before, and he could only endure it. But now that it has been calculated to such an extent, it has almost become a leprosy village, and the villagers represented by Guan Tian and the others are still in a dazed posture. Just build some blades, organize villagers to train to prevent thieves, full of the majesty of the government and the power of Master Zhong, and at the same time guard the cowardly kindness, the indisputable evil fire in his heart is difficult to suppress.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, didn't the common people have a blood surname!?"

Li Xian snorted and panted, and realized that he was a little off-topic, and his thoughts quickly pulled back. Tonight is talking about "military affairs", so Second Sister Guan was coaxed back early, what he has to do is to really pinch this group of careful belly as his own people as soon as possible.

"I'm not a god! I just know more things, understand the truth more deeply, see things farther, and understand what I should do! ”

"Now, there are still enemies hiding in the shadows, ready to continue attacking, but those people in the village only think about one day at a time, and their eyes are only on their hands and feet, and that's all!"

Li Xi made up his mind today to completely "bewitch" these boys.

"They're just full of food and sleep, and they're full of food! I asked you at the beginning, what are you living for? Now I don't ask you for an answer, but the answer of the villagers is clear, it is to live for the sake of living! Are you the same!? ”

His gaze swept over the nine boys between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, and the flickering flames were like the light of the morning light in Li Shi's eyes, burning the boys' chests, and they couldn't help but straighten their waists.

After studying with Li Xi for so many days and knowing a lot of things, their vision is already different from that of the villagers. Li Xian's words immediately aroused their resonance, people, how can they live just to live?

"It's different!"

The boys replied in unison, and they all felt that today would be an unusual day. Jia Gouzi and Wu Shishi's heads were tilted even straighter, not to mention the previous things, at least to peek into the leprosy girl, which made them feel that they had followed Li Shi and stepped into a realm far beyond the villagers.

"Yes, you're different! You're not them! I will teach you more things, let you know the truth of this world, let you understand the meaning of human life, let you know why you should struggle, and you will eventually fly high above the clouds, looking down on the world......"

Li Xian's eyes were filled with more enthusiasm.

"Eventually, you'll be me."

The boys' bodies seemed to float, and they felt like they were about to enter a whole new world.

"You will eventually live for a great purpose, and that is a ...... It is worth giving up the goal of the surname. ”

When Li Xi said this, the boys all gasped, and even some of the boys were so throated that they were whining, and everyone clenched the short sword in their hands, vaguely understanding the meaning of Li Xi giving them this thing.

"What the goal is, when you learn what I can do, you will naturally know. In front of me, there are a gang of enemies eyeing us, looking at our village, looking for an opportunity to continue to attack, you say, are we just honestly squatting and waiting for them to kill!? ”

Li Xian asked in a deep voice, and the nine voices that were still in the stage of voice change gathered together, and under the deliberate suppression, the classroom buzzed and whispered.

"No!"

Wu Shishi stood up suddenly, his eyes spewing with a blazing light.

"Fourth brother, where are they!? Let's kill it! ”

The boys whispered in response.

Li Xian was relieved in his heart, and it was still his own enlightened talent who worked.

In the thatched hut next to the classroom, Fan Jin Fan Xiucai crumpled a piece of paper irritably and flicked his horseshoe sleeves towards the next door hatefully. Just now, the boys shouted for a while, and the hand that was copying the book slipped away, and the piece of paper on which he had written three or four hundred words was all wasted, that was ...... Three cents of silver!

Continue to copy the book, while copying and lamenting, such a layout, such a speed, the calligraphy that I have practiced for many years is definitely going to be wasted, but what can be done? Silver...... Now all he has to do is silver.

"For this silver, I can give up my life, let alone any calligraphy!"

Fan Jin shouted in the depths of his heart.

"Silver Bell!"

In another place, Pan Jinling was also crying out in despair.

"Why!? I'll be clear to you, why do you ......"

Pan Yinling, who was leaning on her arms, chuckled lowly, and the corners of her mouth were bloodshot.

"In this world, there are always things worth sacrificing your life to fight......"

[1: In the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, the two levels of General A were set up as three levels of "brand", "protection" and "A", and the control measures were woven more clearly. In the fourth year of Yongzheng, this armor was promoted to the "naturalized" ethnic minorities and gentry, and it was further improved by Qianlong. Originally, the Jiabao system was not very valued by the local government, but in the context of apportioning the land into the mu, the Lijia and other tax household systems collapsed, and the Baojia system was able to be completed, and finally became the core household policy to control and stabilize the whole society. 】

[2: As far as weapons are concerned, the Qing Dynasty originally wanted to strictly control civilian weapons, but later found that it was unrealistic, such as the Tuke weapons fighting in the south, not to mention swords, shotguns and even cannons. The government's attention is more focused on regulating civil gatherings and associations, that is, preventing grass people from forming together. 】