"It is that these horses are tall, extremely powerful, swift as the wind, good at short sprints, far superior to Northters in load and impact, but inferior in length and endurance. According to the "Historical Records", Dawan Horse 'its congenital horse also', after it galloped at high speed, the shoulder position slowly bulged, and flowed out like blood-like sweat, so it was named 'sweat and blood horse'. "Su Shuangbowen has a strong memory, and he is a treasure for famous horses.

"Boss Su, have you ever seen this horse?" Liu Ze asked anxiously.

"The Western Regions and Youzhou are thousands of miles apart, the road is far away, and there are both Xiongnu and horse thieves to plunder, and we merchants cannot take risks. There are even rumors that the Dawan country has been exterminated by the Huns, and the Dawan horse has been extinct since then, and I am afraid that it is difficult to find traces of sweat and blood in the world. Su Shuang just kept shaking his head.

Speaking of this, everyone couldn't help but sigh. At the time of settlement, Liu Ze insisted on giving an extra 30% of the money, and said: "Friends belong to friends, business belongs to business, no matter how you say it, you can't let the two bosses lose money to do business." In the future, if the two bosses have good horses, they will have to leave them to their brothers first. ”

Su Zhang and the others couldn't refuse, so they had to accept it, and said repeatedly: "That's, that's." ”

After bidding farewell to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, Liu Ze and others went straight to Quyang with fifty Wuhuan horses. The production of Quyang kiln factory was in good order, and during the period when Liu Ze left, many kilns were kilned, because Liu Ze employed all the skilled craftsmen of Quyang porcelain, the technical points of producing blue and white porcelain were quickly mastered, except for a small number of defective products, most of the products were genuine products that met the standards set by Liu Ze before. Liu Ze ordered people to load the genuine products that passed the inspection into trucks and transport them to Luoyang, and on the other hand, he ordered all defective products to be destroyed and buried on the spot.

Everyone is puzzled, these defective products are just some of the shape or uneven color or slight cracks, which do not affect the use, can be left for personal use or sold at a low price, after all, these defective products also cost a lot of manpower and material resources to burn. But Liu Ze smiled at this and said nothing, without explaining it, in fact, even if it is explained, others may not be able to understand. Since then, the kiln factory has an unwritten rule that only high-quality genuine products will be produced, and all defective products will be destroyed and shall not enter the market.

The spring in the Phoenix Valley is extraordinarily gorgeous, with green mountains, green trees, colorful wildflowers, and crystal clear mountain springs, all of which are filled with vigorous atmosphere. Stepping on the Yin Yin Asakusa that had just submerged into the horse's hooves, Liu Ze's mood became very happy, and even a little impatient, after the New Year, these children have grown a year old, and they should grow taller and stronger, right?

The sentry standing guard at the gate saw Liu Ze's car from a distance and hurriedly went in to report it. After a short time, Guan Hai led all the staff to line up and go out of the camp, and the neat team was lined up in the second row, and they greeted each other in the middle of the road.

Liu Ze smiled and waved his hand, and in the shout of "Good Lord", the horse slowly entered the valley.

Liu Ze said to Guan Hai: "Ziqian, I'm not a guest, why do you want to be so excited?" ”

Guan Hai said solemnly: "The lord is our food and clothing parents, and we have the grace of recreation, and we have the responsibility to respect the lord." ”

Liu Ze smiled, and didn't say anything more, he handed over the fifty Wuhuan horses to Guan Hai, and said: "Ziqian, all these fifty horses are equipped with harnesses, and immediately select qualified personnel for cavalry training. ”

When Guan Hai saw these Wuhuan horses, he was very excited, praised the good horses, and immediately arranged for people to settle the horses. After that, he accompanied Liu Ze to inspect the camp and reported to Liu Ze in detail the situation in Phoenix Valley in the past few months.

In the past few months, a lot of children have been bought from Youzhou and Jizhou, most of them are twelve or thirteen years old, adhering to the principle of selecting the best and eliminating the inferior, the selection of these children is relatively strict, after several months of intensive training, most of these children have passed the preliminary assessment, and the best of them have shown their talent in some aspects. Fewer displaced people with skills such as carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and cook have also been recruited, and blacksmith shops, carpentry workshops, and tailor shops have been established. Scout training has also entered a new stage, with greater difficulty and intensity.

In the valley, Liu Ze carefully inspected the various facilities in the camp, such as the kitchen, dormitory, and training camp, fully affirmed Guan Hai's work, and also put forward some suggestions for rectification. Guan Hai wrote down Liu Ze's opinions one by one, and then implemented rectification. Then it was lunchtime, Liu Ze and everyone sat in the open air and had lunch together.

After lunch, Liu Ze said to Guan Hai: "Three days later, I decided to conduct a comprehensive assessment, first, to test the results of the training in the next half year, and second, to carry out the survival of the fittest. The winners are divided into three groups, a group of excellent civil and military students, a group of excellent martial arts, and a group of excellent literature, and a group of excellent literature, and the future training will focus on this, as for the eliminated ones will also be divided into several groups, articulate, diligent legs and feet go to Luoyang Fuyuanzhuang as an errand boy, and those who are practical and hard-working, can bear hardships and stand hard work can go to the blacksmith shop and carpenter shop to learn the craft, and can also be a horseman. In short, it is necessary to make the best use of people's talents, make the best use of their talents, and each department has its own functions and is good at it. ”

"There must be some incompetent and lazy ones who are eliminated, and they just eat mixed rice on weekdays, what should I do if they are useless?"

Liu Ze said categorically: "All such people will be paid travel expenses and repatriated to their hometowns, I don't have Mr. Nan Guo here, and I can't tolerate indiscriminate refill." A person can be excellent in character and learning, but also in a certain aspect of the emergence of a person, this kind of person can be the best among people: all living beings, although the majority of people are busy, but they are down-to-earth and diligent, and they can also learn a skill, which is the foundation of life in troubled times. If there are lazy, incompetent, useless, and unearned people, I can only say sorry, I am not a relief house here, nor a nursing home, and every meal I eat is not provided for free, I need them to exchange their talents, diligence, sweat, and even blood, survival of the fittest, is the law of nature, but also the law of society. ”

Guan Hai nodded and said: "What the lord said is very true, there are always some mediocre and incompetent people who eat and eat on weekdays, even if I whip it, it will not help, it is really mud that can't support the wall, today there is a ruling by the lord, and you can act according to the rules in the future." ”

Under the auspices of Liu Ze and the invigilation of Guan Hai, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, the assessment went very smoothly. Liu Ze established that the assessment was conducted in an open, fair and just manner, in an all-round and multi-subject manner.

The assessment of martial arts is divided into physical fitness, strength, and wrestling, including a 400-foot short-distance sprint, a 20-mile long-distance weight-bearing run, throwing a gun, archery, lifting boulders, and a competition in the ring.

The assessment of literature is relatively simple, and some literacy and numeracy subjects are examined, which is simple, mainly because these children used to be illiterate due to their poor families, although they studied with Mr. Teaching for more than half a year, but after all, what they learned was limited, and many people may not be able to answer the test if they were too deep. However, Liu Ze thought about it later, and still added the composition item, the topic is not limited, the genre is not limited, the sea and the sky are wide, and you can play at will.

The assessment has been carried out for more than ten days, and the daily projects are brilliant, especially the last project competition in the ring, which pushes the assessment to the highest tide, the children in the ring fight to the death, and the audience under the ring is drunk and fascinated, until the final champion is produced, the assessment is considered to be the dust has settled, and the curtain has fallen.

Watching Guan Hai come in with a few large bundles of bamboo slips, Liu Ze frowned slightly, although papermaking was invented in the Western Han Dynasty and improved by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, paper was still relatively expensive and failed to be popularized throughout the country. Except for the capital city of Luoyang and the big prefectures and counties where paper is sold, it is difficult to buy paper in small places like Quyang, and people still use crude and bulky bamboo slips for writing.

Liu Ze secretly thought, the next step should be to open a papermaking workshop, this is not to make money, the reason why papermaking is included in the four major inventions, the most important point is that paper plays an extremely important role in the spread of civilization, cheap and thin paper provides convenience for people's writing, and culture can spread rapidly. The invention and application of paper made books lighter and easier to carry, laying the foundation for the emergence of printing technology later.

As soon as Guan Hai entered the door, he shouted in a loud voice: "Lord, the assessment results are out!" ”