Zhu Gaoxu put down the hammer and looked at the craftsmen, who were making arrows for bows and arrows.

Now he has a total of three craftsmen, all of whom are dedicated to him for the time being.

His bow was a three-stone strong bow, and Zhu Gaoxu had only twenty or thirty arrows in the past, and Zhu Gaoxu felt that there were too few, so he asked people to build a hundred for backup.

"When will the arrows be fired?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"Tomorrow should be fine." Li Mo whispered.

After a few people stayed in it for a while, they felt very hot and quickly turned around and prepared to go out.

Zhu Gaoxu walked halfway and turned around: "Let them stop." ”

Li Mo hurriedly asked someone to stop.

The people in the room all looked at Zhu Gaoxu, there were three craftsmen, and four seemed to be apprentices.

"The weather is relatively hot, everyone will take a break for a while, drink more cold water, rest early in the afternoon, and don't rush for a while."

Li Mo was slightly moved, and the craftsmen didn't seem to react.

"The short axe is good, and each person will be rewarded with a tael of silver." Zhu Gaoxu said again.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Only then did the craftsmen shout happily, and then everyone shouted together, their expressions all happy.

It seems that everyone still likes real things after all.

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he took Veda and Li Mo out of the house and went to another room next door to cool off.

Li Mo said: "The young craftsman's surname is Zhou, and he used to run a blacksmith shop in the north of the original city, and the lower officials recruited him with a salary of five taels of silver per month. ”

"The blacksmith has moved over here, under their old banner."

"The eldest Li blacksmith used to be a military craftsman in the Beiping Guard, and because of his old age the year before last, his son took over, and he went home."

The handicraft producers of the Ming Dynasty were divided into military craftsmen, folk craftsmen and stove households, military craftsmen and stove households were only engaged in the production of specific products, military weapons and salt, while folk craftsmen were flooded with various departments of the official handicraft industry, producing all kinds of handicraft products.

Like the blacksmith Zhou who was recruited by Li Mo, he belongs to the people.

But the folk craftsmen also have a unique management system of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 17 years and 26 years of two changes, in general, is to determine the craftsman first, and then shift craftsmen, live and sit craftsmen.

The meaning of the shift craftsman is that the craftsmen from all over the country, according to the number of dings, the distance is far and near, and they have to go to Beijing to serve every year.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, carpenters and tailors are reincarnated every five years.

Blacksmithing is a four-year cycle.

There are a total of 62 kinds of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, the most miserable are the watchback craftsmen, black potters, casters, embroiderers, steamers, archers, silver craftsmen, knife makers, Liuliu craftsmen, file grinders, crossbowmen, etc., a year of reincarnation, which is equivalent to every other year, you have to go to Beijing to stay for a year.

And the craftsmen in the Jingshi are called seated craftsmen, which means that they are relatively close, and they are used to distinguish them from shift craftsmen.

Like Zhou Ji Blacksmith, Zhou Blacksmith just returned from Jingshi last year, and according to the four-year round, he can wait four years before going.

His treatment in Beijing was very poor, and although his family was exempted from servitude, he only had one stone and six buckets of rice per month, or about the same treasure money. (Coke banknotes are worthless.) ）

Of course, this is not bad, since Yongle, the shift craftsman only has three buckets of rice per month, barely enough to eat, and some are not even enough to eat, the treatment of craftsmen is getting worse and worse, no wonder the firearms and armor at the end of the Ming Dynasty are not as good as the Manchu Dynasty.

Li Mo offered five taels of silver, and it was not a treasure banknote, of course Blacksmith Zhou was willing.

But what moved Blacksmith Zhou the most was that Li Mo said at that time that if you are willing to follow the king of Gaoyang County, you may be able to skip the next four-year shift.

Blacksmith Zhou was of course happy when he heard this, and decisively threw himself into Zhu Gaoxu's arms.

After listening to this, Zhu Gaoxu asked with a smile: "I see that they are shooting arrows, are they not archers?" ”

The archers are the most miserable among the craftsmen every other year.

Li Mo said with a smile, in fact, blacksmiths are all-encompassing, many blacksmiths can hit a lot of things, smart people say that they are blacksmiths, and some honest people, for example, can also shoot arrows, and when it is over, you will be classified as an archer.

Before the age of fifty, the military craftsmen can still be supported by the guards in various places, and after the age of fifty, there are sons who inherit their father's business, and they are usually no longer responsible, and those who have no sons inherit their father's business have to work until they are sixty years old.

Therefore, the blacksmith Li Mo recruited was the older of the military craftsmen, and no one took care of it.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, signaling that Li Mo did a good job.

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Early July.

Zhang Hao suddenly received a secret report from Shi Gecheng, the governor of King Yan's mansion, and King Yan pretended to be crazy.

It turned out that Zhang Yu, Xie Gui and others had already felt at ease, thinking about the emperor's reward afterwards, and suddenly received this news, which was like a bolt from the blue.

Zhang Xin, who was present at the time, said sharply: "Is the news accurate? Don't go wrong? ”

"Absolutely." Ge Cheng said: "Lu Zhen, the commander of Yanshan's right guard, saw it with his own eyes. ”

The Yan Wangfu is the same as the Junwang Mansion, and the guards are taken by the three guards in turn, but when it is the turn of the right guard, the Yan King only lets Tan Yuan, the deputy thousand households, be in the inner courtyard of the palace, and Lu Zhen can't enter the inner courtyard, obviously only trusting Tan Yuan.

Lu Zhen was dissatisfied, probed in many ways, and sent henchmen to mix in, and finally he found out that King Yan was pretending to be crazy.

At that moment, several people hurriedly discussed countermeasures.

After some discussion, several people decided to transfer the seven guards in the city and the Tuntian sergeants to garrison the nine gates of Beiping, first blockading the whole city, and then Zhang Xin led the troops, and cooperated with the palace governor Shi Gecheng and Lu Zhennei to capture the king of Yan in one fell swoop.

It takes time to transfer troops, and after several people discussed, they immediately went their separate ways.

Zhang Xin was the first to walk out of the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, at this time the sky outside was clear and the sun was shining, Zhang Xin looked at the sky and breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly felt so comfortable in his heart.

In fact, he had already made a decision in his heart, but he didn't expect to suddenly hear that King Yan was crazy, which startled him.

After Zhang Yu and Xie Gui determined that King Yan was crazy, Zhang Xin was half-convinced, but now when he heard the truth, he became excited.

Wang Qi in Yan? That's what my mother and father said, you have to make a choice?

Glory and wealth are just around the corner.

Zhang Xin hurried home, and after taking something, he immediately dressed up, came out of the back door, and came to the back door of King Yan's mansion.

Someone at the back door of King Yan's mansion was on duty, and Zhang Xin said that he asked to see King Yan.

Soon news came from inside, King Yan went crazy and disappeared.

Zhang Xin begged several times to no avail, and he was anxious.

In the original history, he thought of another way to take the woman's sedan chair to ask for a meeting, and then entered the palace.

But he didn't think of sitting in a sedan chair this time, but thought of the king of Gaoyang County.

He hurried back to the east street of his house, searched for a while, and sure enough, he found a Gao's cloth shop on the street.

Zhang Xin looked left and right, and scolded secretly in his heart, this Gao's cloth shop is quite close to his house, does the king of Gaoyang County send someone to spy on him.

Zhang Xin walked into the shop and found that there was not much fabric on the counter, and the business in the shop was not good, and there were no people.

There was only a little two-looking bored standing inside.

Seeing that there were customers coming, the shopkeeper didn't react much.

"How much does this white cotton cost?" Zhang Xin asked deliberately.

"Three or two." Little Erdao.

"So expensive?" Zhang Xin was surprised, this was more than half more expensive than the market price.

Xiao Er didn't speak, and gave him a blank look, which means, if you buy it, you can buy it, and if you don't buy it, you will pull it down.

Zhang Xinxin thought, Gaoyang Junwang's meticulous work still needs to be practiced again, and it is easy for people to see that there is a problem.

There is no way, these people only started to arrange after Zhu Gaoxu came back, and many of them were in a hurry, of course, they were not professional enough.

"I'm looking for Mr. Gao." Zhang Xindao.

This time, Xiao Er's eyes lit up, he stared at Zhang Xin, and immediately said, "Guests, please, wait a minute." ”

(Ask for a follow-up.,It's going to be over if you raise it again.,Almost can't be promoted.,According to the current chasing reading.,The next round will be dangerous.,Please, everyone, point to the last chapter every day.。 ）