"Folks, please get up, this king has written it down!" Looking at the villagers of Bishan who were kneeling in front of him, Liu Wei had tears in his eyes, and arched his hand towards more than 1,000 villagers and said: "The villagers must be tired from staying here for days, and please cherish them!" ”

"Your Highness, General Zhou and the soldiers are still waiting in the barracks!" As soon as more than 1,000 old and young women and children kneeling in front of them got up, a personal soldier walked up to Liu Wei and whispered a reminder.

Liu Wei nodded, arched his hand towards the villagers and said: "This king has been sick for a few days, and I must go to the military camp to inspect it today. ”

"Your Highness, go slowly!" More than 1,000 people, both men and women, clasped their hands, and when Liu Wei led a group of personal soldiers to turn their heads and leave, they followed him and sent them a full thirty or forty steps before they walked towards their residences.

With a team of personal soldiers, walking on the streets of Dayang City, a few pedestrians on the street, who were originally sparsely pulled, saw Liu Wei and others, and hurriedly flashed to the side of the road, looking at this team of brightly armored officers and soldiers with anxiety.

A simple rearmament was carried out in Dayang City, and now the military appearance of the officers and soldiers under Liu Wei has been completely improved.

Xu Shu has read out the military discipline, the discipline of the army is no longer as loose as in the past, and the shops in Dayang City have also reopened.

Liu Wei didn't know that the owners of these shops didn't dare to open the doors at first, but it was Xu Shu who ordered someone to force the shopkeeper to open the door, and the shopkeeper opened the door with anxiety.

After two days of operation, the officers and soldiers did not harass the shops in the city, and the shopkeepers let go of the heart hanging in their throats and started their livelihood with confidence.

While leading his soldiers to the barracks, Liu Wei looked at the shops that had opened on both sides of the street, and when he passed a blacksmith shop and heard the sound of "clanging" from inside, he stopped and turned and walked into the shop.

As soon as he entered the blacksmith shop, the first thing that appeared in front of Liu Wei was a large furnace burning red coals, and a shirtless blacksmith was standing by the stove, holding a piece of reddish wrought iron with iron tongs, and was beating with a sledgehammer.

"This general!" As soon as Liu Wei and the others entered the shop, the people in the shop stopped what they were doing, and they all turned their heads to look at him and the soldiers behind him, and the sound of iron weapons colliding abruptly stopped.

An old blacksmith greeted him, with a smile on his face, and bowed to Liu Wei with his fists in his fists: "It will take some time for General Zhou to order the villain to build a blade ......."

"I'm just looking!" Smiling at the old blacksmith, Liu Wei pressed the sword with one hand, and waved the other hand at the people in the shop and said, "Everyone, be busy, don't pay attention to me and wait, I'll leave immediately!" ”

Seeing Liu Wei and the others enter the shop, the worried blacksmiths all turned their heads when they heard him say this, and continued to be busy with the work in hand, and the "clanging" sound sounded again.

The blacksmiths were busy again, and Liu Wei led his own soldiers and walked straight towards a row of weapons leaning against the wall.

Leaning against the wall was the Pu knife he had instructed Zhou Cang to build according to the pattern, and behind the erected Pu knife, there was also a bundle of spears more than two people long.

"General, Xiaomin has never seen such a strange blade." The frightened old blacksmith followed Liu Bian, walked to the Pu knife placed against the wall, and said to Liu Bian: "The big knife is not a big knife, and the short spear is not a short spear, and it is very difficult to build, but it will not take a few days, and it should be able to be delivered to the army." ”

"Good work!" With a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, Liu Wei first said his hard work to the old blacksmith, and then reached out and took a Pu knife, holding the handle of the knife with both hands and waving it vigorously.

The Pu knife swung out, splitting the air and making a "whew" sound.

"All steel!" Putting the Pu knife back in the corner, Liu Wei said to the old blacksmith: "The steel fire of these Pu knives is not very good, the knife style is dull and unbright, and it is difficult to deliver!" ”

"The general is really a connoisseur!" After listening to Liu Wei's words, the old blacksmith bowed down and said with a smile: "These knives are made of blades sent by the army, the iron quality is not good, and the people have no good iron here, if the general wants to make a good knife, I am afraid that he will have to buy some black sand from the Western Regions." ”

"Usha?" Liu Wei furrowed his brows slightly, looked at the old blacksmith who was standing on the side, and subconsciously asked.

"Exactly!" The old blacksmith bowed down, raised his eyes to look at Liu Wei, and said to him tremblingly: "Good blades, add more black sand, this thing is not found in the Central Plains, only the Western Regions can produce it!" ”

After listening to the old blacksmith's words, Liu Wei already understood what Wusha was.

The black sand in the old blacksmith's mouth should be tungsten sand! Steel with tungsten sand added is much better than ordinary iron in terms of hardness and toughness. It's just that people in the late Han Dynasty didn't know its true composition, so they called it "black sand" according to its black color.

Knowing what to use to build a good blade, Liu Wei could not immediately send someone to buy black sand, he nodded silently, and then said to the old blacksmith: "Without black sand, quench a few more times, the steel of the blade will be stronger, the old man is a blacksmith, I think I should know more than me." ”

"Yes! Be! The old blacksmith bowed and busied.

"What kind of wood are those spears made of?" After explaining that the old blacksmith wanted to quench the blades more, Liu Wei pointed to the spears bundled in a pile and asked the old blacksmith again.

"Back to the general!" Glancing at the bundle of spears, the old blacksmith bowed down and said to Liu Wei: "Such a long spear shaft must be made of iron shirts, but it costs a lot of copper coins to purchase wooden poles. ”

"The army won't let you suffer!" First said a word of relief to the old blacksmith, and then Liu Wei said to a personal soldier behind him: "Draw a spear, I will see the hardness of the spear shaft!" ”

The soldier answered, walked over to the pile of spears, and stooped down and drew one.

The spear was very long, and when the soldiers drew it, the long tip of the spear stretched all the way to the street, and finally the spear was drawn.

Taking the spear, Liu Wei first looked at the tip of the spear and the copper buckle set at the tail end, and felt that the quality was okay, he raised the spear horizontally, put his knee on the top, and pressed the hand holding the spear down violently.

The spear slammed into his thigh, and Liu Wei felt a pain in his thigh, but the spear shaft didn't even bend.

He nodded with satisfaction, handed the spear to the soldiers on the side, and said to the old blacksmith: "The army needs good blades, each one will be carefully inspected, if it is not available, it will definitely be returned, if you don't want to lose money, you have to build it well!" ”

"Don't dare to deceive the army!" The old blacksmith bowed down and answered with a trembling voice.

Satisfied with the blades made by the blacksmith shop, Liu Wei waved to the soldiers behind him, called out, and walked out of the shop with his feet raised.

Watching him and a group of soldiers leave, the old blacksmith sighed, raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, calmed down, and then turned to the blacksmiths in the shop and shouted, "Did you hear it?" It's not good, I'm going to lose money, it's all fine! ”

The blacksmiths answered, and the "clanging" continued.

led the soldiers, and before he reached the gate of the barracks, Liu Wei saw a group of people standing outside the gate of the barracks from a distance.

Seeing Liu Wei walking towards the barracks, Zhou Cang, who had been waiting outside the Yamen for a long time, hurriedly greeted him with a few officers.

"Your Highness!" When he arrived in front of Liu Wei, Zhou Cang clasped his fists with both hands and said to him: "The soldiers are already waiting on the school ground......"

"Let's go inside!" Raising his hand and pointing towards the tooth gate, Liu Wei strode towards the barracks.

When he entered the barracks, he saw the red-colored officers and soldiers on the school field from a distance, and the officers and soldiers shouted in unison: "Your Highness is mighty!" Your Highness is mighty! ”

"It's still mighty!" Hearing the shouts of the officers and soldiers, Liu Wei smiled slightly, and said to Zhou Cang, who was walking behind the side: "The Japanese king has become a sick cat these days, and I think that when I came to the school field that day, this king was quite ugly!" ”

"Nope!" While following Liu Wei towards the school field, Zhou Cang said to him: "His Royal Highness fainted in the school field that day, and the soldiers were all panicked. ”

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Liu Wei didn't speak again, took Zhou Cang and the others to the school field quickly, jumped on the high platform, crossed his hands on his waist, looked at the officers and soldiers lined up in a neat queue on the school field, and said loudly: "I haven't seen you for a few days, but the queue of soldiers is getting more and more neat!" ”

"All military divisions are well-trained!" As soon as Liu Wei's words fell, Zhou Cang, who was standing behind him, whispered: "Before the military division left, he explained the key points of the last general's training, and the last general followed the instructions of the military division, and it really took a few days to have some results!" ”

Liu Wei nodded, and did not respond to Zhou Cang's words, but continued to shout to the officers and soldiers: "I haven't seen you for a few days, I really miss the soldiers!" ”

"I miss Your Highness too!" A partial general stood under the stage, looked up at Liu Wei, and shouted to him: "In the past few days, the brothers have been looking forward to His Highness coming to the barracks earlier, and today is really what the brothers are looking forward to!" ”

"Thank you, all the soldiers!" Holding his fists and bowing deeply to the officers and soldiers, Liu Wei saluted all the officers and soldiers before shouting to them: "In the past few days, this king has been thinking about the soldiers, worrying about whether the soldiers can have a good life and training, food and clothing, and whether you strictly abide by military discipline!" Now it seems that these worries are a little redundant, you are the best soldiers this king has ever seen! ”

The 4,000 officers and soldiers who stayed in Dayang City, most of them were born in the Yellow Turban, and a small number were born in Dongjun soldiers, in terms of military quality, they were not as good as the 3,000 people taken away by Xu Shu, after listening to Liu Wei's words, their hearts suddenly warmed, and they raised their blades one after another, and shouted loudly: "Your Highness is mighty!" ”

Standing on the high platform, talking to the officers and soldiers, when Liu Wei came down from the high platform, he said to Zhou Cang, who was following him: "The king went to a blacksmith shop to see, some blades have been built, and when all the new blades are built, the soldiers will be divided into three battalions of swords, spears and swordsmen, and strengthen the practice of combat techniques." ”

"No!" Zhou Cang responded, and whispered to Liu Wei: "The sword guard camp is easy to practice, but the battle method of the sword and spear is simple, but the last general doesn't understand it. ”