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Chapter 536
May.

"Den, Deng, Deng..."

The beating sound kept ringing.

In a workshop area built in the east of Hanzhong City, laborers are building houses, which is a bustling scene.

Li Zhaocheng walked through the crowd, looked around, found a familiar gunpowder craftsman, and asked, "Where is Daoist Hao?!"

"Looking for a woman over there!"

It was very noisy around, and the two had to raise their voices.

Li Zhaocheng bypassed the foundation and found Hao Xiuyang after a while.

I saw that the old Taoist priest had changed into a brand new Taoist robe, no longer the sloppy appearance before, and was sitting on the rocking chair, waving the whisk in his hand.

In front of him, there were eight young girls with yellow and thin faces.

"What is the Daoist doing?"

Hao Xiuyang sighed with a smile: "I'm old, my muscles and bones are weak, hire some maids to serve tea and water."

Although Li Zhaocheng is a junior, he reminded him in a low voice: "A member of the Taoist sect, is this okay?"

"You've got it, you've got it." Hao Xiuyang pointed at him, and said, "Just because I'm a Taoist priest and what I've done, you're blaming the Taoist sect, isn't it just generalizing? The old way enjoys it, because the old way is rich, What do you have to do with Taoism?"

Li Zhaocheng was speechless for a moment.

He knew that Hao Xiuyang was rich now, and his food and lodging were all from the Li family, so of course he was rich.

"The old Taoist is already so old, and he won't bully them, so what's wrong with helping them?"

Hao Xiuyang waved his whisk and told his servants to start a fire, cook, wash and sweep the floor, and told him to plant some ginkgo in the yard.

He intends to live a decent life in the future.

"I told you to look for something, did you find it?"

Li Zhaocheng then asked his followers to bring the baskets on his back and find out the things one by one.

"This is the compass that the Taoist priest asked for..."

"Hey, what's the use if you can't even see Mount 24? Look again."

Hao Xiuyang shook his head, looked up at the sky, and murmured: "This Hanzhong...doesn't look like there are many iron mines. In a few days, the old man has to go to Guiren Mountain. It's hard work."

He received a lot of money, but he actually did a lot.

Nowadays, most of the firearms, weapons, and armor of Li Xia's soldiers are manufactured by Hao Xiuyang.

This is simple to say, but it is an extremely complicated process from the beginning of mining.

For example, when Li Xia said that he wanted to make a telescope, he felt that jade and amethyst were too expensive, so he argued with Hao Xiuyang...a mirror can be made with sand.

It's just nonsense.

Hao Xiuyang spent countless efforts and burned countless kinds of stones to burn out the lens with crystal silica bought from a jade merchant from Huangzhou, but it still didn't meet the purity Li Xia wanted.

Maybe the ingredients are wrong, maybe it's not hot enough... I don't know, I can only try it slowly.

And what is more important now is not these novelty objects. The soldiers must first have enough weapons and armor before they can train all the more than [-] troops in Hanzhong into combat soldiers.

It's not a bunch of country soldiers with only spears and not even armor.

"Where's the book?"

"Here..."Mengxi Bi Tan" is easy to find, Shicaitang has a printed version. "Sword Inscription" is extremely difficult to find, I asked Linzi to send someone to the south to buy it."

Li Zhaocheng took out the books in the basket one by one.

Hao Xiuyang asked again: "What about "The Seven Signs of Yunji"?"

"The Taoist chief wants to make knives, what do you want the books of the Taoist school to do?"

"You boy, the Daoist sect has the method of pouring steel."

Hao Xiuyang was quite disdainful of Li Zhaocheng, an ignorant scholar, and said: "In the method of making steel, wrought iron is used to make thin sheets, pig iron is placed on top of it, grass shoes are covered, and mud is used to coat the bottom. When the furnace is full of fire, the raw steel will be melted first. , soaked in the wrought iron, the two love each other... This recipe is my secret to steelmaking, and it is tougher than the current swordsman."

Li Zhaocheng asked again: "Since the Taoist priest knows, why bother to turn over the book?"

Hao Xiuyang scolded: "How much is wrought iron? How much is pig iron? How much is grass and mud? How much is firepower? If you don't look it up, how will the old man know? What's more, Shen Kuo's method of 'spraying steel' is different from this 'group steel'... "

"Okay." Li Zhaocheng said helplessly, "Just find these books for the Taoist priest."

"Talk to Marshal Li that this matter is important. Teach him not to talk to the old Taoist about specious things. Steel can't be tempered. You can't make any rules by clamoring to build this and that all day long."

As Hao Xiuyang said, he turned over and pointed to a temple to the east.

"See that Stone Buddha Temple? There is a tall pagoda."

Li Zhaocheng said: "I see."

"The temple must be demolished, and the old Taoist must use the tower to build a huge furnace to make steel for the commander."

"Don't make fun of the Taoist priest."

Hao Xiuyang smiled and scolded lightly, "There are too many temples in Hanzhong..."

Li Zhaocheng looked in the direction of his finger, but saw many ships coming from the east.

"The officials appointed by the court have arrived..."

~~
Wangjiangmen Wharf.

A group of young officials got off the boat and looked up at Hanzhong City.

"This is Hanzhong City and Ancient Liangzhou." Someone murmured.

"It's really broken."

"There are too few people, far inferior to the city of Lin'an, who are standing shoulder to shoulder..."

"Yunzhanping mountain for a moon tour, horseshoes are happy to step into Liangzhou for the first time." Hu Sanxing chanted.

Huang Rong laughed, turned her head and pointed to the Han River behind her, and then chanted loudly: "The ground is connected with Qin Yongchuan, and the water is flowing day and night."

This is Lu You's poem, which expresses the magnificence of the ancient Liangzhou and Hanshui in one word.

Everyone couldn't help getting angry.

Huang Zhen strode forward and continued the next sentence.

"The remaining captives are weak and weak, and they are far away, and the lonely ministers are lonely and worry about themselves."

At this point in the poem, all the young officials echoed the last line in unison...

"It's a good time, I'm afraid it will be the hatred of others, and it will be another autumn at the end of the festival!"

The high-spirited voice echoed in the city cave.

The common people around who were carrying the burden all looked sideways, seeing these officials with extraordinary clothes and servants like a cloud, they hurriedly dispersed.

The officials were still not satisfied, and shouted again.

"It's a good time, I'm afraid it will be the hatred of others, and it will be another autumn at the end of the festival!"

"I don't know where the Dasan Pass is, I didn't see it..."

"Good poetry! Good poetry!"

"Lu Fangweng's talent is generous, and the restoration of poetry is also true!"

"It's not...You guys know the Great Sanguan Pass..."

"When the time is good, I may be hated by others. As officials in Hanzhong, we must seize the good opportunity and wait for Master Wang to return to the north to sacrifice Mr. Weng!"

"Gentlemen, take care of me, Da San..."

"Everyone knows that Lu Fangweng still has a Hanzhong poem... Back then, he searched for a feudal lord for thousands of miles, and guarded Liangzhou with a single horse!"

"Okay! What a good sentence, 'a horse guards Liangzhou'!"

"I'm waiting here because...Zhu Yan gradually changed his fame and reputation, and he has repeatedly performed the tragic song!"

"well said……"

~~
Liu Jinsuo, who was standing guard on the top of the city, took a look, said "Hey" and cursed, "Scholar is really noisy."

He beckoned, laughed and said, "Go, take these tender eggs over..."

~~
"Strike the elegy again and again!"

"it is good!"

"Let's go, I went to see Li Jieshuai, and each went to his post, doing civil affairs..."

"Tomorrow I will part with you gentlemen."

"Let's see who will rule the best..."

Seeing a general coming over there with someone holding a knife, Zan Wanshou stepped forward and said: "I am ordered by the court to go to Hanzhong, I don't know where Li Jieshuai is?"

"Hahaha."

Seeing that the general smiled instead of saying a word, all the officials couldn't help being taken aback.

"So-and-so, Liu Jinsuo, the commander of the Zhenxi Army!"

"So it was General Liu in person..."

Liu Jinsuo was very happy. It was the first time since he was appointed as an official that he pronounced his name in such a majestic manner to outsiders.

"Hey, you are very good, you seem to be able to fight well."

This is quite rude, and many officials are no longer happy.

Although Zan Wanshou is a county lieutenant, he is also a martial arts examiner, how can he be so polite?
But they were newcomers, and their hearts were empty after all, so they didn't dare to say anything.

Liu Jinsuo waved his hand and said loudly, "Come with me!"

As he spoke, he strode towards the outside of the city, towards the west.

"Go!"

"Dare to ask Liu Tongzhi, Li Jieshuai is not in the city?"

"do not know!"

"Then we are... not entering the city?"

"What are you going to do in the city? Of course I will take you to stay here first! When the next batch of officials arrive, we will set off together..."

Hu Sansheng couldn't help but asked Huang Chen in a low voice: "He said he was going to leave? Didn't he go to work?"

"It must be a reckless person who can't tell these things apart..."

~~
Walking and walking, the farther away from Hanzhong City.

Hu Sansheng frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong, he turned his head and glanced, seeing Lu Xiufu's face was pale, he couldn't help saying a word of concern.

"Junshi, are you not acclimatized?"

From Lin'an to Hanzhong, more than [-] miles of waterway, nearly a month of exhausting boats and vehicles, even Hu Sansheng, a middle-aged scholar, can't stand it.

It was the first time for 24-year-old Lu Xiufu to trek so far. In addition, he was seasick all the way, so he was obviously ill.

However, he still tried his best to maintain a steady pace, and opened his mouth to spit out two words.

"It's okay."

Hu Sansheng turned his head to look, and shouted to Liu Jinsuo: "Liu Tongzhi, we are going to the official post, can we go to see Li Jieshi tomorrow?"

Liu Jinsuo turned his head and said loudly: "Where is there an official post? Let's rest here!"

"The county magistrate Lu is ill. He is a young Jinshi, and the magistrate is attached to Nanzheng county..."

"Then I'll find a doctor!"

"There is no doctor outside this city..."

Hu Sanxing was halfway through speaking, when he turned his head to look, he saw a military camp slowly unfolding in front of him.

(End of this chapter)