People die for money, birds die for food, this sentence is indeed classic.

Just now, he was still scolding Huo Guang to inquire about the Jiang family, but now, looking at the money in the young man's hand, the old man was obviously moved.

He looked left and right for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "This Ah Lang, this is not the place to speak. If it's convenient, can you go home with the old man and talk about it in detail? ”

Huo Guang frowned and said, "Your home won't be outside the city, right?" ”

"No, no, no, it's in the city." The old man hurriedly waved his hand.

Huo Guang thought about it and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you." ”

End of communication.

The old man gathered the baskets that were all over the floor, and then piled them up in front and back, and picked them up with something that resembled a flat pole.

And then.

Huo Guang couldn't see the old man, he could only see a bunch of walking baskets.

Of course.

You can also hear the old man shouting Huo Guang's voice.

"Young man, please come with me, my house is not far away, and I will be there soon."

"Okay."

Huo Guang couldn't see the old man, and when he heard the voice, he hurriedly responded.

After going around a few streets and turning a few alleys, Huo Guang finally arrived at the old man's house in a corner of Handan County.

I just don't know.

How did this old man find his way in a pile of baskets?

Huo Guang looked at this place, and it felt a bit similar to the feeling of the Pig Dragon Walled City in the movie, and it was very crowded.

It can also be seen from here.

During the Han Dynasty.

Handan is far less prosperous than Chang'an, because Chang'an City cannot accommodate such a place.

"You can find a place to sit, old man, my house is shabby, don't laugh." The old man said.

After Huo Guang heard this, he shook his head with a smile.

He didn't mind that.

When I followed the cheap father Huo Zhongru at the beginning, the bad environment in the countryside was not much better than here.

To use an analogy!

When the elder brother champion Hou had not yet bought a house for his father, his hometown raised pigs, and the pigsty where the pigs were raised was called "Mi".

Meantime!

It can also refer to a toilet.

Why does "溷" refer to both the pigsty and the toilet?

Because it is composed of two parts, namely the toilet and the pigsty, the toilet is on the top and the pigsty is on the bottom.

That's why we're all talking about going to the toilet today, not going to the toilet.

As for the toilets and pigsties, why did they do this?

The main reason is the lack of food, in the era when people can't eat enough, how can there be anything to feed the pigs? Pigs can only be forced to become part of the ecological cycle.

After the old man placed the basket next to the door, he called his wife and made a bowl of tea for Huo Guang.

Huo Guang took the tea and thanked him.

It's just that.

Seeing that the tea was black and bubbling, I couldn't help but feel a little scared in my heart.

He couldn't drink this bowl of tea.

Coughing lightly, he asked the old man, "Well, can you tell us about the Jiang family?" The family of the prince and the widow Jiang Qin, don't they live in Handan City? ”

As soon as I heard this.

The old man frowned, got up and closed all the doors, because the light was not good, although it was daytime, it was also dark.

After doing this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Young man, listening to your accent, it should be a native of Handan, right?" The old man asked first.

Huo Guang nodded and replied, "It's really not, it's only been here for the past two days." ”

"Then it's no wonder you don't know, all the Jiang family's family members were killed by the prince. Especially the father and brother of Jiang Qin and Jiang Qi, the two children, died the worst! The old man sighed.

After Huo Guang heard this, he was immediately frightened.

Killed them all?

Oh, my God!

This prince Liu Dan also has no king's law, right?

Huo Guang frowned slightly and asked, "Old man, is this true or a rumor?" ”

After hearing this, the old man immediately shook his head and said, "Of course it's true, or else they all say that this year's snow, why is it falling so big?" ”

"Because of injustice!"

"Whew..."

The old man said, and couldn't help but sigh.

This made Huo Guang frown slightly, the snow fell heavily, what does it have to do with whether he is wronged or not.

Don't.

If you go small, you won't be wronged?

But then again, if what the old man said is true, then this Liu Dan, the prince of Zhao State, is really vicious!

Ren Jiangqin is the widow you married back, right?

If you don't treat her well, forget it, and send officials to arrest and kill, it's really enough to lose your conscience.

No wonder Jiang Qi wants to run...

No, it's going to be extinct.

Although Huo Guang didn't quite believe that what the old man said was all the truth, he listened to it first, and then asked, "Then King Zhao doesn't know?" He didn't care about his prince? ”

But the old man snorted and said, "King Zhao? The geese fly over to pluck the roots, so that the tourists who come to play will not go around Handan. ”

"A prince and king does not like to build palaces, but is superstitious about ghosts and gods, and likes to do what officials do, and in the name of supervising thieves in the kingdom, they collect money indiscriminately."

"Such a King Zhao, how can he care about our life and death!"

"What's more, the crown prince is the son of King Zhao, what does King Zhao know, can he deal with the prince of his own family? And this prince will be like this, how can he get rid of the relationship with King Zhao. ”

When the old man said this, he was a little resentful.

In a feudal country like Zhao, the princes and kings had all kinds of taxes in order to loot money.

The taxes of the Han Dynasty were originally fine, but as a result, the princes and kings of the country set up various clever names. After the tax was collected, the tax was collected, and after the tax was collected, other miscellaneous fees began to be collected.

As in "The Snake Catcher Says", taxes are greater than poisonous snakes!

Huo Guang listened to the old man's words, and secretly remembered it in his heart.

Wait until you get back.

It was also copied on the slip, so that he could tell His Majesty what he had learned from the investigation in the future.

The old man was talking here.

Suddenly.

A loud voice came from outside the door, shouting: "Zhao Laoqi, you dead carpenter, who asked you to pile all the baskets in front of my house!" ”

"You can't get out?"

"I counted to three, and I couldn't see all the baskets that people gave you with a fire!"

Hear this roar.

The old man hurriedly said: "This urging Ouyang Zhi, since he can't strike iron privately, he gets drunk and crazy every day and makes trouble for me." ”

"Young man, stay for now, I'll go out and have a look."

The words fell.

The old man got up and opened the door, and after going out, he quarreled with Ouyang Zhi.

People around.

It seems that the quarrel between the two is no longer strange.

Huo Guang naturally couldn't stay and walked out. looked at Ouyang Zhi, who was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and frowned slightly.

Boy.

If this person lives in modern times and doesn't play Guan Gong, it's really a pity.

After a quarrel.

Zhao Laoqi was blocking the door of other people's houses with a basket, and after he knew that he was at a loss, he moved the basket away.

So.

Ouyang Zhi returned home, but he still didn't forget to scold Zhao Laoqi for a few swear words.

Huo Guang looked at the old man who had lost the quarrel and asked, "Is that a blacksmith?" Now that the salt and iron official camp has lost its means of making a living! ”

After the official salt and iron policy was introduced, in fact, it was not only businessmen who were hit by the profits, but also the artisan industry.

For example, this blacksmith cannot open a furnace to strike iron without permission.

In particular, the imperial court's control of iron was tighter than that of salt. Salt is still collected by the private government and sold by the government. Iron is all directly organized by the government to mine and smelt, and the package is cast and sold in the later stage, and it is controlled to death.

This is also the fundamental reason why the policy of the salt and iron official camp will lead to the poor quality of iron in the late Han Dynasty.

Because there is no good blacksmith to study the art of blacksmithing anymore.

When Zhao Laoqi heard Huo Guang's question, he said, "Eh, don't care about him, a blacksmith who doesn't enter the stream." Every day, he says to the outside world that he is the descendant of the master Ou Yezi for many generations, but in fact, he is not a fart. ”

Well.

couldn't quarrel with Ouyang Zhi, so Zhao Laoqi complained about Huo Guang here.

Huo Guang didn't care about the old man's slander of his neighbors, he just smiled, and after listening to what he said about the killing of Jiang Qin's family, he gave the money and left.

He didn't even drink the tea.

It's just that!

Soon after Huo Guang left from Zhao Laoqi, he went and returned.

But it was not the house of the craftsman Zhao Laoqi who returned, but the home of Ouyang Zhi, who was blushing like a monkey's ass.

Ouyang Zhi finished drinking and was sleeping soundly at home.

Huo Guang walked in quietly, looking at the blacksmith's various tools for striking iron, which had been piled up for a long time.

Heart.

I couldn't help but sigh.

The finances of the Han Dynasty in this salt and iron official camp must be improved, otherwise for a long time, the iron smelting level of the Han Dynasty will fall back to the original.

Huo Guang was looking at Ouyang Zhi's iron-striking tools.

This way.

Ouyang Zhi, who was sleeping soundly on the mat, seemed to feel that someone was walking around the house, so he opened his eyes.

Then I found out that the young man who was in Zhao Laoqi's house before!

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Ouyang Zhi's voice was very loud, and he suddenly roared, which frightened Huo Guangdu.

Huo Guangzheng wanted to explain.

However.

Ouyang Zhi didn't give him a chance to explain, and when he got up, he pointed to his nose and said fiercely: "You are a relative of Zhao Laoqi's family, right?" Come to me to steal something, and look for scolding, right? ”

This Ouyang Zhi is really short-tempered.

However, Huo Guang didn't care, but took out the purse from his pocket and said, "I'm not a relative of Zhao Laoqi's family, I'm the buyer." I bought his basket, I heard that you used to be a blacksmith, I will see if you may buy some weapons! ”

Why does Huo Guang make money?

Because money solves a large part of your troubles.

The lower the people, the easier it is to solve things with money, this is not a criticism, but a fact that has not changed since ancient times.

Otherwise.

Why are there so many corrupt officials in any dynasty and generation?

It's just that!

Huo Guang didn't expect that his money would lose its effect on Ouyang Zhi.

"Boy, while I'm not angry, hurry up and take your money, get out!" Ouyang Zhi snorted, not moved by the money Huo Guang took out.

Angry?

In his previous life, he might get angry and squirt back. But I don't know why, after only a few days of following the side of the imperial historian Zhang Tang, my heart began to change.

Really.

Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black!

Seeing that money couldn't move Ouyang Zhi, Huo Guang took back his purse and said with a smile: "Let me introduce myself, my name is Huo Guang, I am the champion Hou brother, and I am the chief speaker." ”

"I have a secret book, which was written by the master Ou Yezi in his later years, which can be regarded as a collection of a lifetime of experience. It is said that if a craftsman learns it, he will become a new master in less than two years. ”

"It's a pity!"

"The person who can understand Master Ou Yezi's forging secret method is a genius of iron smelting!"

"I came all the way from Chang'an to find this person who can understand Master Ou Yezi's secret method of ironmaking."

"But as a result, I walked all over Handan, but I didn't see such a person!"

"What a pity..."

The words fell.

Huo Guang turned his back to Ouyang Zhi and walked outside.

However.

Where did Ouyang Zhi, who had a intestine, know about Huo Guang's fancy routines, and immediately clapped his hands and shouted: "Whew! Boy, wait! ”

Huo Guang turned around when he heard this.

I saw that Ouyang Zhi was tinkering with a pile of iron-striking tools, found the iron-striking tools, and then took off his coat, revealing the tendons and flesh of the ninety-nine and one, and began to pretend to be the previous iron-striking appearance.

After a set of unsmooth iron striking actions are finished.

Ouyang Zhi said with a serious face: "Young man, if you are not joking, you might as well show me Ou Yezi's cheats!" ”

"Maybe?"

"Ben Blacksmith is the one-in-a-million genius you call it?"

Boy!

I'm out of breath with a hammer.

What does this have to be?

Huo Guang squinted at Ouyang Zhi, frowned, and said, "Really?" Then you have to make sure if you are qualified to read the cheats of Master Ou Yezi's writings. ”

"I know that you blacksmiths, if you make a perfect weapon, you will not sell it for money."

"It's about keeping it yourself, right?"

Want to see his collection?

Ou Yezi frowned at this time, and suddenly said with an IQ online: "Why should I believe you?" ”

"You don't need to believe it, you show me your forging level, and I'll show you the secrets of Master Ou Yezi, it's as simple as that!" Huo Guang said lightly.

If you really want to have a cheat, can you show it to people casually?

Definitely not!

But this Ouyang Zhi was obviously greedy, and he calculated an account slightly.

Take out your proud work and show it to the young man, whether he is fooling himself or not, as long as the things are not robbed, there is no loss.

But that young man's cheats, if he were to read it by himself, it would be worthless!

This account, no matter how it is calculated, is all earned by his blood!

Thereupon.

Ouyang Zhi immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll go get a few swords out, young man, you are here, don't go!" ”

"Okay."

Huo Guang nodded and responded.

Thereupon.

This Ouyang Zhi went back to the house and rummaged through the cabinets to find it, and after a long time, he came out with two long swords on his face full of excitement.

"These two swords were forged by me five years ago, and they are named the Little Dragon Yuan Sword and the Great Dragon Yuan Sword respectively!"

Long Yuan Sword? Is it still small or big?

All right!

This Ouyang Zhi is undoubtedly an iron fan of Ouyezi.

Subsequently.

Huo Guang only saw this Ouyang Zhi plucking one of his hair, and with a light blow, the hair was broken.

It seems that the ancients are not exaggerating when they say that they are sharp-nosed.

"Good sword!"

Without further ado, Huo Guang applauded directly.

This man is indeed a bit level of sword forging!

However.

Ouyang Zhi was indeed not impressed by his applause, but said lightly: "I have already shown you the sword, what about Master Ou Yezi's cheats?" ”

"Not on me." Huo Guang shrugged and said.

Present.

That Ouyang Zhi was furious, glared at him and said, "Are you kidding me? ”

"No, I mean the cheats are in my head. Ouyang Blacksmith, there is coal at home, I can write it out for you! ”

"Yes!"

Soon.

Ouyang Zhi came out with coal, and Huo Guang said that he was writing, but he was actually painting.

It's still three-dimensional.

The steps of the various parts of an ancient flintlock pistol were all painted on the wall by Huo Guang.

Wait until you're done drawing these.

He looked at Ouyang Zhi again and asked, "This is a part of the secret book, can you understand it?" ”

"Uh..." Ou Yezi was suddenly embarrassed.

I can't understand this!

People in 120 BC can't understand it, that's right.

Forthwith.

Huo Guang said with deep regret: "It seems that you are not the genius who is unique in ten thousand. ”