Cai blacksmith is a taciturn character, and Sun Gouzi since he opened the inn, more and more tongue to give, the two of them drank tea, it has always been Sun Gouzi foaming at the mouth of the news of Tiannan and Haibei, the black Khan Gaochang State and Khotanese started a war again, Youzhou Han Derang actually promoted the privy envoy of the Southern Court for the first time, because of the work of the salt ditch after the break, Yang Ye was reactivated by the imperial court, and still guarded the north to guard against the Liao. The imperial court Si Tianjian built a new armillary sphere that can turn by itself, and the people of Bianliang all said that this is the auspicious rui of the Taiping Xingguo.

"With the Yang family here, the Khitans don't dare to cross the border at will to fight the grass valley. Cai blacksmith interjected, in the minds of the people in these border areas, it doesn't matter how many Khitan heads are captured and how much land is expanded, the important thing is to protect the people when the Khitans cross the border to fight the grass valley, and in this regard, the Yang family army has done better than any imperial army.

Inserting this sentence, it was Sun Gouzi's teapot spout singing a one-man show, Cai Blacksmith listened to him talk about these news from all over the world, while secretly pondering the reward for building cold-forged plate armor in the Ordnance Division, all the blacksmith shops in Anxi who succeed first can obtain a patent, and if all the blacksmiths in the entire Anxi use this method of cold-forging plate armor, they must pay apprenticeship money to the person with the patent, not to mention that the baggage division itself has a huge order for cold-forged plate armor waiting behind. On the one hand, there is a huge bounty, and on the other hand, there are all the names of the other blacksmiths' masters, which are only a few steps away from the first master of Luban.

"You can't cast it into a thin iron plate first, the iron armor made in that way is too brittle, and it will be broken into several pieces if you hit it hard, let alone defend against knives and spears. When forging, the charcoal fire should not be too hot, and the iron armor made in this way is too soft and easy to be pierced by spears. To achieve the party item is as strong as the slurch, ordinary iron is not good, you must first smelt the iron into good steel, our ancestors are handed down is the craft of 100 steel, in the party item artificial The program is similar, the fried steel and steel in the booklet sent by the Baggage Division are lazy, and the steel is far less good than the 100 steel. ”

"In the book of the craftsmen of the ordnance division, the steelmaking methods of the Tianzhu people are talked about, if the furnace is selected correctly, the heat of the furnace is high enough, and such a high heat will not burn the furnace, and the molten steel made by frying the steel can be comparable to that of 100 steelmaking. The steel has been boiled into water, what a high heat this should be, and what else can stand it, but looking at the Persian treasure knife from the west, it is indeed not inferior to the hundred steel knives, I can't say when to try it, the charge, the heat, and the heat-resistant furnace, if these three things are prepared, is it possible to make a high-quality billet. But what about the billet that is practiced? If you don't use a fierce fire, the better the steel is, the more difficult it is to form. ”

Blacksmith Cai's brows were almost knotted, and he stared at the teapot in front of him with a sad face, the hot steam almost lifted the lid of the teapot, making a tinkling sound, and sighed: "Alas, if you can knead the billet flat, it would be as if the heat could lift the teapot lid lightly and easily." ”

Sun Gouzi was talking with his eyebrows dancing, and suddenly heard Cai Blacksmith's words that did not match the words, and couldn't help laughing: "If that's the case, my brother won't be a blacksmith, but also be a general with the lord, and he grabbed the barbarian general's Xuanhua axe with one hand, and with a roll in his hand, it became a twist." ”

The confinement bends and shines on Kyushu, a few happy and a few sad, Sun Gouzi and Cai Blacksmith drink tea here and talk freely, but there is a gloomy cloud in a farmhouse two or three miles away from this inn.

Old man Wang looked at the two sons kneeling on the ground with a pale face, pointed to the ancestral tablet in the hall, and scolded: "If you want to get out, get out, you two cubs were really born for nothing." His wife, Wang Zhou, wiped her tears and couldn't say a word. The eldest son, Wang Bao, persuaded on the side: "Two younger brothers, it is good to be at home for a thousand days, but it is difficult to go out for a day, and there are old fathers and mothers at home, can't you two stay and serve your parents with your eldest brother?"

Erlang Wang Qing didn't say anything, but Sanlang Wang Xing heard the words and said: "The eldest brother is a full man who doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, the government has issued this "Eldest Son Inheritance Order", and in the future, my father will pass away, and you will inherit this great business. Wang Bao was choked by his words, and his face was ugly. The old man Wang was so angry that he slapped the table heavily, the Wang family has moved to Lingzhou for several generations, and finally laid the foundation, this generation is even more prosperous, got three males, originally expected to spread out and gradually develop into a big family in the township, but the Anxi army issued the "Primogeniture Inheritance Order", so that the pastoral land of ordinary farmers can only be inherited by the eldest son. Due to the traditional concept, in most families, the eldest son was originally the natural candidate to inherit the family, and at this time, with the support of the Anxi military decree, he was even more reluctant to give the land property to the younger brothers, and the other sons who were deprived of the right to inherit the land property had to split the family as soon as possible and earn a family business when they were young and strong.

Wang Zhou looked at the two sons who insisted on going out of the house and spoke, crying, and said in a low voice: "Erlang, Sanlang, are you willing to give up your mother and go to other counties?" Wang Zhou's family was a little afraid of her husband on weekdays, but today she only cried and said: "His father, can't you discuss with Da Lang and let these two brothers have some of them? The imperial court is granting land, and there are three men in the family, so more acres of land should be given to my family." ”

"Shut up! Confused aunt," the old man Wang shouted, this decree of the government, he agreed with it from his heart, the land and property cannot be divided, and the family will be weak if it is divided, and it will be passed on to the eldest son later, but he is not angry with these two little ones, and he can actually pull down his face and now he has to divide the family alone, and the full food of twenty or thirty years has been fed to the dogs.

"Mother, the rules of the government, only recognize the household and not the Ding, if my brothers do not stand on their own, our family of three will only grant 60 acres of land, and we will deduct the number of acres that our family has cultivated. In addition, the government issued a "grass planting and animal husbandry order", which prohibits the cutting of mountains and forests, and only grass is allowed to be planted and grazing on slopes, and there is not much land near my house that can be cultivated. In order to maintain the strength of the land, the government issued a 'fallow rotation order', this acre needs to rest for a year and plough for a year, and now the field does not need to be cultivated by three people, I and my younger brother went out to set up their own doors, and did not compete with the eldest brother for this property, just ask my father to let us take the ancestral tablet with us, and when we settle down, I will come back to visit my father. Erlang Wang Qing is a filial son, and when he saw his mother crying, he patiently explained.

"Isn't this the meat that was stripped of the mother's heart?" Wang Zhou couldn't understand what this official decree had to do with his son's separation. Wang Qing and Wang Xingzhi knelt in front of the ancestral tablet in a daze, waiting for his father to fall.

Only Wang Zhou's sobs were heard in the house, and after a long silence, Wang Laohan finally said in a muffled voice: "Since you two insist on leaving, then let's go, but you can't be a traitor anywhere, so that the ancestors of the Wang family will have no face." ”

Three days later, Wang Qing and Wang Xing took their daughter-in-law and children to bid farewell to their parents in the hall, and each of them carried a burden containing the ancestral tablet and embarked on a long road to the unknown. With the only hope they had in their arms, the sergeant at the destination would give them farm tools, livestock, and food, and then go to build a shed near the field and rebuild their homes with one hand and one foot.

Halfway through, the child was crying, and Wang Qing's daughter-in-law Yu asked her husband to take out the dough cake from the baggage and break it, and feed it to the child with water.