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As the first player to meet the local chief executive, Zhang Zifang was calm and composed, and there were no mistakes in etiquette. The process of presenting the weapon was perfect.

It wasn't until Jiang Shu presented the three drawings to Jiang Ke that there was a small problem.

Jiang Shu is a modern man in the shell of an ancient man, so he can immediately understand the value of those weapon blueprints.

Jiang Ke is not the case. He is a genuine ancient man, and he can understand the principle of the continuous crossbow. But things like matchlock guns and cannons, he has never seen the real thing, and it is difficult for him to imagine these kinds of things just by looking at the drawings. effect of the weapon.

Therefore, Zhang Zifang specially explained to him the firing principles of the two weapons in detail, but Jiang Ke still couldn't understand.

However, if it is difficult to understand, it is difficult to understand. It does not mean that Jiang Ke cannot discover the value of these blueprints.

At the very least, he can imagine the lethality of the Liannu, and from what Zhang Zifang said, the birdcracks and cannons are only more powerful than the Liannu. Cavalry?

"Mr. Zifang can really forge such weapons?"

Zhang Zifang smiled and nodded: "If the Fujun can provide me with human and material support, I can cast it."

Jiang Ke nodded, looking at the drawings solemnly.

After thinking for a while, he ordered his servants: "Go and ask Jin Cao to come here."

"promise."

The servant quickly ran out to inform, and not long after, the lean Jin Caoluo Nong, who was wearing a loose official robe, hurried into the main hall.

Jiang Ke introduced Zhang Zifang to him, and then handed him a few drawings and said, "This is a new weapon presented by Mr. Zifang. Take a closer look."

Hearing that it was a new type of weapon, Luo Nong immediately stepped forward to take the blueprint and stood in the hall to study it.

This look really surprised Ronon.

Unlike Jiang Ke, who sits in the government all year round and deals with government affairs, Luo Nong is Jin Cao, who is in charge of currency, salt and iron, and the iron workshop in the county mansion belongs to Jin Cao.

He often deals with blacksmithing and casting, so it is easier for him to understand the contents of these drawings than Jiang Ke.

Especially for the Liannu, Zhang Zifang didn't even need to give a specific production method, just by looking at the structure diagram, he could conceive the production process of this object step by step in his mind.

"Wonderful!" Ronon shook his head and sighed.

He was so engrossed in looking at the drawings that he almost forgot where he was for a moment, until he saw something he couldn't understand, and then he remembered to ask Zhang Zifang: "Sir, can you explain to me why the priming powder ignites the gunpowder and then Can you shoot projectiles?"

Naturally, Zhang Zifang would not refuse, and the two chatted and chatted.

Luo Nong is obviously an inquisitive nature, and he must understand the principle of the bird gun and artillery. They just discussed it like no one else, and even Jiang Ke couldn't get in his mouth.

When it comes to weapon manufacturing, it is actually beyond the scope of Jiang Shuneng's knowledge, but because he has seen the blueprints, Jiang Ke doesn't mind him staying here to listen for a while.

Finally, the discussion between the two ended, and Luo Nong came to a conclusion: the crossbow can be made, the blunderbuss can be made, and the cannon can also be cast, but it requires money, a lot of money.

"There are not enough coins!" Luo Nong sighed, and then looked at Jiang Shu with longing eyes.

Jiang Shu received his gaze, coughed lightly, and sighed in the same way: "Most of the supplies have been sent back to the army since the previous callback, and the government warehouse is also in short supply!"

To put it bluntly, there is no money.

You have no money, and I have no money!

Jiang Ke was actually the one who most wanted to sigh.

The lack of money is quite fatal. In the past, when Xunyang was still the capital, the taxes collected from merchants and trades alone could make the treasury pile up like a mountain of money. Now, let alone merchants from other countries in the Western Regions, even merchants from Xinzhou and Yongzhou There are very few people who are brave enough to come here.

"Don't worry, everyone. Even if they can be manufactured, it will take a lot of work. I heard that the battle here is imminent. Not only is it too late to start researching firearms now, but it will waste money. It is better to choose simple and cheap ones first."

In the end, it was Zhang Zifang who comforted everyone. His tone was neither slow nor urgent, very calm, but what he said was very soothing.

"The crossbow I drew can be further improved. The brackets and gears can be made of wood. If the crossbow can be enlarged and placed on the city wall, even light cavalry can shoot through it with one arrow. Although its effect is not as good as that of artillery, it is still enough to be used as a weapon for defending the city."

"Mr. Zifang is really knowledgeable and well-informed!" After listening to his analysis, Jiang Ke couldn't help but sigh.

Afterwards, he lowered his tone and said: "I am ashamed to say this. With Mr.'s talent, he should have been granted a high position. Unfortunately, there are currently no important positions in the mansion. Only Jin Caozhong still lacks a deputy. , would you like to take office, sir?"

With Jiang Ke's status, saying these words is definitely a way of showing respect to the corporal, but Zhang Zifang shook his head without hesitation, and said: "There is no need to be an official. If the lord doesn't mind, you can let me go." Tiefang will be a technical guide."

There are too many responsibilities and affairs to be an official. Zhang Zifang knows that he will not stay in the game often. If he takes this official position and does not do practical things, he will be irresponsible to his colleagues and the people, so he directly rejected the request. .

"Sir, open-minded!" Hearing this, Jiang Ke admired this person even more, and at the same time regretted that such a talent could not be allowed to enter the officialdom and serve the court.

For some unknown reason recently, such talented people appear frequently.

First there were mountain hermits who sent sweet potatoes and maps, and then there was Zhang Zifang who donated weapon blueprints but was unwilling to become an official. Do not want to be used by the court.

Thinking of the government that is now controlled by Kong, Jiang Ke can understand their thoughts, but he can't help but feel a deep pain in his heart. After all, the king is the king, the country is the country, and the court is just the court.

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It was already noon when Jiang Shu returned to the Cangcao Office because he wasted too much time in the main hall listening to things related to weapon manufacturing.

Recently, due to the time of summer harvest, Cangcao affairs are also relatively busy, and lunch was quickly settled, and Jiang Shu dealt with the accumulated work in the morning without taking a break.

Now Xiaowu has grown up a lot, although he still follows him to work in Cangcao every day, but he is no longer as clingy as before, and usually runs out to play with the little wild cat after eating.

Jiang Shu doesn't care about being left out by pets. Without the cat's disturbance, he can concentrate more on his work.

After working all afternoon, Jiang Shu finally remembered that he had forgotten to pay attention to the process of suppressing bandits.

Worried about the players causing trouble, he immediately opened the forum, wanting to see what stage the bandits were in.

It stands to reason that when the mountain was attacked in the afternoon, the county soldiers should be fighting with the bandits at this time. However, when I opened the forum, the first popular post title I saw was [After the bandit suppression ended, I got a huge reward for paddling all the way].

The banditry is over so soon?

Jiang Shu frowned, and entered this post in doubt.

[Qu Lu: Comment on the popular bandit suppression action on the Internet.

I want to say, those who left the barracks early, you are really at a loss!big!up!

I really didn't expect that this task was so simple. I imagined that the bandits would fight each other out of their wits and fight hard. There was no scene of "you go, I'm the queen" at all. , and then... there is no more, those bandits have put down their weapons, squatted on the ground and caught them without a fight.

The most exciting and intense part of the whole process is actually the player grabbing the head, can you believe it?

Because I was paddling in front of me, I saved my energy, and finally rushed to the front to tie up eleven bandits. Not only did I get an extra 550 points, but I was also praised by the captain for being brave and mighty.

A girl in my real life was praised for being brave and mighty for the first time, and she really burst out laughing!

Niu Aili: I'm so envious, the soldiers feel very good to get experience!

77mnlk: This is the Nth post I saw today mocking players who escaped camp.

Luo Chuan: I'm bored, what's the point of laughing, why don't I want to stay in the barracks?It's only [-] points, anyway, I don't think it's a loss.

Chaonan: Going back upstairs, not only [-] points, but the basic [-] points and [-] experience for receiving tasks. The landlord is equivalent to paddling water and got [-] points and [-] experience. This... Anyway, you don’t I am sour.

Zhu Duxiu: Damn it, the final head-grabbing link is really dangerous. If I hadn't acted quickly, I would almost have been slashed by my companions.

Zhang Fei: Not to mention, there were really two players who beheaded their companions for the sake of stealing their heads. They died laughing, and now they are being arrested and interrogated...]

Jiang Shu: "..."

He really wasn't surprised to see such things as players backstabbing. It would be strange if everyone was very polite and let people take the head first!

However, the process of suppressing the bandits was so smooth, Jiang Shu was quite puzzled.

Those Jiehus didn't kill people and rob food and grass before, and they looked extremely vicious. This time when the officers and soldiers came to the door, they didn't fight no matter what, and they didn't run away, and they were captured without any resistance?

Incredible!

Suspecting that there was some kind of conspiracy, Jiang Shu looked through several posts that broadcast the process of suppressing the bandits, but still couldn't find the answer.

Almost all the players who participated in the operation saw the same situation. When they went up the mountain, the bandits were ready to be caught, and they didn't even have weapons in their hands.

These people seem to have been arrested at the door, how weird it looks.

Could it be another trap set by the Huns?

Even though he had doubts in his heart, Jiang Shu had no idea about it, so he could only wait for the county soldiers to come back with doubts.

Judging from the player's description, Jiehu is bound and guarded strictly, at least he should not be able to make any tricks on the way back to the city.

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Because more than 200 more prisoners slowed down the schedule, it has been a week since the bandit suppression team came back.

The Jie people captives were directly pulled into the barracks. According to Jiang Ke's arrangement, these people will go to hard labor in the future, build roads, houses or city walls, and spend the rest of their lives in endless labor.

Because Jiang Shu had doubts in his heart all the time, and because he had never met the Jie people, he was also a little curious about their looks, so when the county soldiers returned to camp that day, they went to the west gate to join in the fun.

When he arrived at the barracks, the prisoners were being tied up in strings to register their names one by one.

Jiang Shu was shocked for a while when he saw those Jie people.

Different from the bearded, tall and rough appearance he imagined, most of these Jiehus were thin and haggard, as if they had been hungry for half a month without eating.

Jiang Shu thought that the county soldiers might hate these Hu thieves, but they shouldn't abuse them on the road. After all, these captives are future unpaid labor.

He was full of doubts in his heart, so he went into the shed and asked the military history recorder who was in charge of interrogating Jiehu to understand the cause and effect of the incident.

As soon as I asked, I became more and more surprised.

It turned out that these Jiehu were not villains in the first place, most of them were ordinary people on the border of Xunzhou.

Because of the war between the Xiongnu and the State of Wei, the Jiehus who lived in the villages close to the Huns' territory were all captured by the Huns to be slaves. In some siege battles, these Jiehus were often the first to act as human shields.

And they didn't dare to retreat, because the lives of all family members were in the hands of the Huns. If anyone dared to resist or defect, their relatives would be killed immediately.

The same is true for this group of Jiehu thieves. They were forced to sneak into Yanqiao County half a year ago and set up camp in Jingkuang Mountain in order to cut off the grain road from Yanqiao to Xingjun at a critical moment.

According to the original progress, their plan was obviously successful, but now with Jiang Shu's intervention, they have been robbed of loneliness.

After cutting open the sacks and finding that most of the grain carts were filled with loess, Jiehu knew they were finished.

The Huns were cruel and heartless, and they never regarded them as human beings. If this operation failed, their families must have been brutally slaughtered.

Things have come to this point, going back is a dead word, staying in the mountains or being captured by the Wei army may save their lives, so this group of people will be captured without any will to resist when the officers and soldiers go up the mountain.

Jiang Shu didn't know what expression to make after hearing this.

These Jiehus were really miserable, but it was also a fact that they killed dozens of county soldiers of the grain transportation team. From the perspective of the Wei people, Jiang Shu really couldn't sympathize with them.

Now that he has understood what happened and knows that there is no conspiracy, Jiang Shu is ready to go back.

And just as he turned to leave, his gaze inadvertently glanced at a prisoner who was being led by the county soldiers to the barracks with a rope.

In an instant, something seemed to flicker in his mind, and his steps stopped suddenly.

Immediately, he changed his direction and almost ran over to stop the county soldier, saying "wait a moment" to the soldier, but his eyes glanced unabashedly at Jiehu's young and wild face.

This person has a rather exotic face.

High nose, deep eyes, thin chin, and a pair of light brown lower three white eyes showing a wolf-like dangerous look, but these are not the reasons that attracted Jiang Shu's attention, what he cared about was the three rows between the corner of the left eye and the temple small mole.

At this moment, these three moles are like invisible fire, roasting Jiang Shu's internal organs, making his heart beating wildly, so fast that his ears are ringing!

"You, what's your name?" Jiang Shu even felt her voice tremble when she asked this sentence.

After looking up and down for a few seconds at the gentle gentleman in front of him, Jie Hu twitched the corner of his mouth without a smile, as if deliberately mocking him.

After waiting for a while, he replied in a hoarse voice: "Xing Sang."

Jiang Shu trembled all over, just because of these two words.

Xing Sang is the only protagonist in his novel "Respecting Jiangshan".

It is also the violent emperor who will wipe out the Hu and Han regimes in the north and south in the future, unify the world, and establish the Great Xia Kingdom.