Wei Ba stayed in the study for half an hour and rushed to the workshop. The stonemasons selected by Steward Chen were indeed good, and it only took two hours to carve two stone plates, and they had already begun to test print the form, and even some difficulties that Wei Ba did not estimate at the beginning were solved by them in a very ingenious way.

Looking at the form that had just been printed, Wei Ba was very satisfied.

"Steward Chen, what do you think?"

"Okay." Steward Chen smiled, and the wrinkles on his forehead faded a lot. "I didn't expect to be able to do this, and our Wei family will have another way to make money in the future."

"How to make money?" Wei Ba didn't react for a while.

"Young master, what do you think, this stone can print forms, and you can also print other things, such as peach charms during the New Year, and you can also print some books at ordinary times, at this speed, which bookstore can compete with us? Hehe, we can not only dominate the market in Hanzhong, but also open a bookstore in Chengdu. Young master, you can't tell others about this method, and if others learn it, we won't have any money to make. ”

Wei Ba was taken aback, this Chen steward looked ordinary, but his brain turned quickly, and he suddenly discovered the hidden business opportunities of this lithographic printing technique, as well as the awareness of patent protection, and even thought of secrecy.

"Well, you're right. However, the stone block is too brittle after all, and I have to improve it, and when it is changed to a woodblock type, it will be more durable and lighter. Wei Ba looked at the printers who were becoming more and more proficient, "Steward Chen, how much can you print tomorrow night?" ”

Steward Chen twisted the sparse rat whiskers and muttered for a moment: "They are all doing it for the first time, and their proficiency is not enough, and there are often papers that are scratched by them, even if those stone tablets are all carved out and work together, by tomorrow night, there will probably only be fourteen or five thousand pieces of paper." ”

Wei Ba frowned: "What can I do then?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Steward Chen was confident: "Young master, don't worry, you didn't say that the delivery would be made tomorrow or night, but the morning after tomorrow, plus one night, I think 20,000 pages is more than enough." If the young master feels that it is not safe, I can ask them to carve a few more stone plates, anyway, there are more people, and they will definitely be able to guarantee the delivery on time. ”

Wei Ba was relieved, and reached out to pat Steward Chen's shoulder: "If this matter can be done, you are a great merit, and I will ask my father and wife for you when the time comes." ”

Steward Chen smiled more and more happily: "Thank you young master, thank you young master." ”

Seeing that the printing was going well, Wei Ba left the printing workshop and went to Tiezuo again. The three blacksmith masters who came with him commanded a group of blacksmiths of the Wei family, who were transforming tools and refining furnaces according to the experience they had found in the iron work of Weiyang, although they were busy and sweaty, but from the shining eyes and loud voices, it could be seen that they were very satisfied with the conditions of the Wei family. This is also true, although these tribes are not much different from domestic slaves, after all, they are related to each other, and most of them have children who fight in the army, Wei Yan still has to rely on them to make meritorious contributions, and of course it is better for them than the government to officials and slaves.

Seeing that the Wei family has complete supporting facilities, Wei Ba is very happy, with the cooperation of these people, if there are any new ideas in the future, it will be much more convenient to arrange people for trial production. He called the steward of Tiezuo and instructed: "Everyone work hard, follow the master to study hard, prepare more iron, and build some iron ...... first."

"Hit the iron first, won't the weapon have to be delayed?" Huan'er carried the corners of her skirt, carefully avoided the stagnant water and iron slag on the ground, walked over on tiptoe, saw Wei Ba looking at him, her face flushed, she hurriedly put down the corners of her skirt, covered her hands in front of her lower abdomen, and said: "The big war is imminent, of course weapons are the most important, and agricultural tools such as iron and other agricultural tools should be slow is the right reason, I don't know what the overlord thinks?" ”

Wei Ba sighed regretfully, this Huan'er person is not bad-looking and smart enough, but his face is tense all day long, which is really annoying to watch. He smiled faintly: "That's the case, but there is still something to do in the specific arrangement." Now that spring ploughing is underway, new farming tools are created, and they can be used immediately, but weapons are not in a hurry. Although a big war is imminent, it will not be fought at all within three or five months, and even if there are some sporadic wars, there must be a reserve of weapons available at home, so why rush to build a new one. ”

Huan'er's eyes rolled, and just as she was about to say more, Wei Ba kept staring at her, and when she saw her mouth, he immediately said: "What's more, we have just found a more haode way, if we build weapons according to a new method, the weapons will be sharper, and the performance will be further improved." Wouldn't it be better to use more Haode weapons when the time comes? ”

Huan'er was interrupted by Wei Ba, and her mood was a little frustrated. I wanted to wait for Wei Ba to finish speaking before refuting him, but when she heard Wei Ba say that he could create more haode weapons, she hurriedly swallowed back what she wanted to say. The Wei family is a martial arts family, how important the significance of high-grade weapons is, she also knows very well, if she interferes with Wei Ba's arrangements in this matter, she is afraid that not only the head of the family, Wei Yan, will be angry, but even his wife will be unhappy.

She looked at Wei Ba in a daze for a long time, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that the Wei Ba in front of her was not like a person from the Wei Ba in her impression. In the past, Wei Ba was weak, and he couldn't even speak well when he saw her, and as he grew older, there was a little more greed in his eyes, but because of his wife's prestige, he never dared to show it in front of her. Now Wei Ba not only dared to look at her calmly, but there was less cowardly greed in his eyes, but more of a ...... Regret. This feeling made Huan'er very uncomfortable, not to mention that he had just choked the words in his mouth.

Huan'er wanted to refute him, but he couldn't find a more reason, and opened his mouth a few times, but Zuihou still gave up. Just as she racked her brains to find a way to gain the upper hand and save a little face, Wei Ba glanced at the old blacksmith who had already prepared. The old blacksmith did not hesitate to have him, and drew the red-hot iron bar from the coal-fire, raised the hammer high, and slammed it down.

There was a loud sound of "dang", the blacksmiths didn't care, but Huan'er rarely came to the ironwork, and was so frightened that he lost his face, jumped up like a spring, took two steps back, and stepped on the stagnant water on the ground, and the corners of the brocade clothes were suddenly stained with dark brown molten iron. Her eyes widened, she glared at the helpless old blacksmith, her anger surged, and she was about to scold, but Wei Ba once again grabbed in front of her and spoke: "Be careful of the stove." ”

Huan'er felt that her back was hot, and she knew that she was too close to the stove, so she hurriedly took a step forward, turned around to look, but smelled a smell of burning silk, and knew that her brocade clothes were burned, so she panicked and circled around herself, looking like a cat chasing her tail.

"Fire ...... Fire ......" Huan'er felt the fire behind her, her tears were about to come out, she couldn't maintain her reserve anymore, and shouted with her mouth: "Help me put out the fire." ”

The blacksmiths gathered in a circle, rubbing their big hands, but no one dared to step forward to help her put out the fire. Needless to say, the newcomer naturally didn't dare, even the people in the village didn't dare, this was a cronie around the lady, who dared to pat her with his stinky hands? They looked at each other, and couldn't think of a better way for a while, and at this moment, Wei Ba stepped forward and grabbed Huan'er's arm, and pressed her into the quenched sink without hesitation.

The fire was extinguished, Huan'er was soaked, and she drank a sip of dirty water. Although it was still spring, and her clothes were not very thin, but after being soaked in water, they also hugged her body tightly, revealing her bumpy figure. The towering bun on his head was soaked in water, and he suddenly drooped down, coupled with the dirty water that kept dripping on his face, Huan'er, who was originally as proud as a peacock, suddenly became a soup chicken, how embarrassed and embarrassed he was.

"You ......" Huan'er jumped like thunder, she couldn't control her emotions anymore, and her lady's lesson was forgotten, and she raised a finger and pointed at Wei Ba's smiling face: "You ......"

As soon as the words came out, Wei Ba's face suddenly changed, he reached out and held her slender jade fingers, and said in a cold voice: "What am I?" ”

Huan'er looked at his fierce and vicious posture, and suddenly remembered Steward Zhang, who had just been twisted off by Wei Ba two or three hours ago, and suddenly turned pale with fright. She pulled back hard, but her fingers were held tightly by Wei Ba, and she couldn't pull them back. Thinking that his fingers might be twisted off by Wei Basheng, Huan'er didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, tears were circling in his eyes, Chu Chu looked at Wei Ba pitifully, wanting to ask for mercy, but he couldn't say anything soft.

In this manor, she didn't need to speak softly to others, especially Wei Ba, who she had never taken seriously.

"What do you want to say?" Wei Ba looked at Huan'er with a smile. His smile fell in Huan'er's eyes, it was so hateful, so insidious. Huan'er opened her mouth and stammered, feeling the liliang of Wei Ba's palm getting bigger and bigger, and feeling the more and more intense pain in her fingers, she finally gave up her pride, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and burst into tears: "Young master, the servant is wrong, please let the young master go in a lot, let the servant go." ”

"Humph!" Wei Ba slowly let go of his hand, turned around, turned his back to Huan'er, and waved his sleeves very arrogantly: "Go, tell Madame what happened just now, I believe Madame will give you a fair result." It's about to start building new farming tools, and it's going to be loud, so if you don't get used to it, don't come back. ”

Huan'er covered her almost broken finger in front of her chest, bowed and bowed, turned around and fled to hide her face.

Steward Chen watched all this and didn't speak, and when Huan'er left, he pulled Wei Ba's sleeve and pulled Wei Ba aside. "Young master, as soon as you come back today, you first beat Steward Zhang, and now you have taught Huan'er a lesson, although it is happy, but after all, Mrs. Yu's face is damaged, this is ...... It's not very good, in case the lady blames it...... "—————— Monday, ask for recommendations, new books, and even more recommendations." Today's three watches, please give me liliang!