At the critical moment, Zhang Huang showed his leader-level talent and vision, and could only guess He Ying's overall intention thoroughly, which shocked Zang Ba and others.

Indeed, the prefect of Mount Tai He Ying was indeed planning this way.

It is undeniable that although He Ying is insidious and cunning, his key to grasping things, that is, his insight, is indeed something that ordinary people can't imagine. It can only be said that he is worthy of being the prefect of Mount Tai.

Just a waist-baring card, He Ying instantly realized that Zang Ba was most likely to be involved with Xu Xun, a bandit in Taishan. In a moment, he came up with a vicious plan: He ordered two hundred county soldiers and escorted Zang Ba's father Zang Jie and the other 120 prisoners to Fei County in Xishan at night, and deliberately released the news to lure Zang Ba to come and rob the prisoner. It would be best if he even led Xu Xun, a bandit in Taishan.

Catch it all in one place!

Thinking of his compliment, He Ying couldn't help but show a bit of cruelty in his eyes.

"Is it really for Zang Ba that young man who is still young, so he mobilized so many people?

In the seat opposite He Ying, a big man in a military robe touched the beard on his chin and asked with a smile.

This man's surname is Ma Yan. In the early years, when He Ying was just a county magistrate, he was He Ying's confidant deputy and served as the county magistrate. Later, He Ying became the prefect of Taishan and was later promoted to Taishan County Magistrate. Yan Hu rose all the way and was eventually promoted to county magistrate. In this Taishan County, he was under one person and above ten thousand people.

Ma Yan's reputation in Mount Tai is very good. It is said that this man is skilled in martial arts and has the courage to be inappropriate. He Ying's wife and county magistrate Wang Hu of Taishan County were born by Ma Yan. Xu Xun, the leader of the Taishan Army, dared not confront He Ying head-on and hid in Mount Tai and disappeared, which was actually related to Ma Yan's existence.

"Old Ma, have you heard of this guy?" He Ying asked in surprise.

Ma Yan laughed and said, "I have heard of this boy leading several diners up the mountain to hunt tigers. The adults also know that Lao Ma is a rough man. He doesn't like those scholars who are good at writing and writing. He just loves those bold and arrogant boys. I also thought that one day I would ask that boy to come to my hands to serve."

He Ying nodded after hearing this and said in a deep voice, "My Taishan County, the Zang clan is indeed a talent. My official recruited Zang Jie more than once... I didn't think about that bastard. If I hadn't promoted him, how could he have transformed from an insignificant minor official into a prison in Taishan Prison? But that ungrateful thing is good, secretly recording my official's crimes in private."

Ma Yan opened his eyes and kept silent. In fact, he knew this. Taishan Prison Prison Cao has a great official position. Simply put, he is the head of the prison in the prison. His status is comparable to that of Ma Yan.

"What are you still keeping him for? In my opinion, you can kill it with one knife!"

"No, let's keep Zang Jie's life for the time being." He Ying told Ma Yan all the time his plan, and Ma Yan nodded repeatedly when he heard it.

"So that's it. Are you planning to put bait line on and catch big fish? But how can you be sure that Zang Ba must have secretly met Xu Xun?" Ma Yan asked with a frown.

He Ying sneered and said, "If Zang Ba had not secretly communicated with Xu Xun, how could there be the waist card of Xu Xun when he was Jupingwei? This time, this official ordered two hundred county soldiers to come to Fei County. The number of people was not large or small, but it was not Zang Ba who could use his own strength to get his father out. The only way he could think of was to ask Xu Xun for help... This official had investigated. Last year, Xu Xun rebelled out of Taishan County. It was very likely that Zang Jie asked someone to open the city gate in private, so that Xu Xun could escape from the county town smoothly. Xu Xun owed Zang Jie a favor. If he was still a personal figure, he would definitely come back this time. At that time, you and I will wait for the rabbit to capture and kill him here!"

"What if that guy doesn't come?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't come." He Ying said with a sinister look on his face, "No matter whether Xu Xun comes or not, Zang Ba will definitely come to rob prisoners and rescue his father. My Han law clearly stipulates that those who rob prisoners will be punished with the same crime as the prisoner, and then add another level to the death. If Zang Ba comes alone, it doesn't matter. This official just takes this opportunity to completely eradicate the Zang family of Taishan."

"My master's trick, I thought about it carefully at this time, and I still felt that it was very clever. I admire it, I admire it!"

The accompanying chief clerk Tian Zhang once again praised.

Ma Yan glanced at Tian Zhang and said to He Ying, "Don't worry, as long as Xu Xun has the courage to come to Fei County, Lao Ma will personally kill this villain and present his head to him!"

He Ying looked overjoyed when he heard this and said with a smile, "It is because I don't worry about you that I plan to bring Xu Xun here! But then again, the prisoners in Fei County..."

Ma Yan snorted lightly and said with a complacent look, "Don't worry, who dares to cause trouble in my Fei County? Even if all the thousands of soldiers here are sent out to ambush Xu Xun, those scumbags dare not cause trouble!"

Huh? There are a thousand soldiers stationed in this small small land in Fei County?

It turns out that Fei County is not an ordinary county town. It is one of the few iron ore veins in Taishan County. The demand for iron ore in the Han Dynasty is well known.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, smelters had developed the [block refining method], which, as the name suggests, was to use a whole piece of iron ore to continuously beat it and gradually cast it into the shape of a weapon. But unfortunately, this iron (soft steel) is too soft, and it is not as hard and sharp as the bronze sword cast after the smelting technology has reached its peak, so it has not become a material for military weapons.

However, this iron smelting technology did not disappear because of this. After research, the foresighted iron smelting craftsmen improved it to [block carburizing method]. During the repeated heating and casting process, the block iron smelting contacts with the charcoal fire, and carbon seeps into the iron to enhance the hardness of the iron. This iron is classified according to the repeated operations of smelting, beating, and smelting, so there are many names for 10 wrought iron and 100 wrought iron. Among them, 10 wrought iron, its strength and sharpness are far greater than that of bronze weapons.

Then in the early Han Dynasty (Western Han Dynasty), iron smelting technology was further improved and the [steel stir-frying method] was invented: heat pig iron into semi-liquid and liquid form, then add iron ore powder, and stir continuously, and use iron ore powder and oxygen in the air to remove part of the carbon in pig iron, so as to reduce the carbon content in pig iron, remove the residue, and directly obtain steel.

However, what was used in the Han Dynasty today is the newly studied iron smelting method and steel filling method that was studied under the summary of many previous experiences in iron smelting technology. It selects iron ore with relatively high quality to smel out high-quality pig iron, and then pours liquid pig iron on the cooked iron. After several degrees of smelting, the iron carburizes into steel. Since the pig iron and cooked iron are "suspended" together, the steel refined is also called [Su Tie].

If Zhang Huang learned about it, he would probably be shocked, because at this time, the Han Dynasty had already begun to study and improve the steel filling technology, which was the prototype of iron smelting and steelmaking in later generations.

There is no doubt that, under the premise that the Han Dynasty had already possessed such a level of iron smelting technology, it completely abandoned the bronze sword, or even pig iron sword, and instead mass-cast weapons with [Su Tie] texture to strengthen its military. Since this is the case, how could the imperial court have little demand for iron ore?

It is natural that Fei County became an iron mining county supported by Xuzhou Prefecture. However, because of the hardship of mining and even the life of mining shafts, the local people were unwilling to participate in such dangerous things. In desperation, Xuzhou Prefecture had to change its strategy, use prisoners to mine, and send county soldiers to guard it.

Because of this, although Fei County is just a small county, it has a very high status in Taishan County and even Xuzhou Prefecture. After all, the iron ore produced here is directly supplied to craftsmen's workshops in Luoyang. There is a deadly regulation on how many kilograms of mining each year.

I have to say that Ma Yan is not a good thing. In the early years, in order to achieve his achievements, he used the name of recruiting local people in Fei County to squeeze and force local people to mine for him. It was even worse than mine slaves. The baskets of iron ore transported to Luoyang were filled with resentment from many people who were exhausted, and even if the people had any complaints, Ma Yan instructed his soldiers to punch and kick them. Several times when he was in a bad mood, he personally took action to kill the people who took the lead. Therefore, he was privately called "Ma Yanluo" by the local people in Fei County.

Later, a large number of male men in Fei County either died in the mine or fled from their hometown. The county town, which originally had as many as 300 households, was left with only about 40 households in Ma Yan.

Ma Yan was afraid that Xuzhou Prefecture would send people to investigate the matter thoroughly, so he simply recruited a thousand soldiers from Taishan County and officially entered Fei County. As for the mining personnel, he discussed with He Ying. Anyone who committed crimes in Taishan County and did not have the qualification to behead the head would be escorted here quietly to mine for him. Sometimes there was even a shortage of manpower. Even if it was a death row prisoner requested by Xuzhou Prefecture, He Ying and Ma Yan threw the death row prisoners into the mine using the excuse of escorting them on the way.

In his opinion, those death row prisoners died when they arrived in Xuzhou, so where isn’t they dead?

Day after day, year after year, this Xishan Fei County is like Ma Yan's private land. Here, Ma Yan is like a local emperor and is happy to hand over all the military affairs of Taishan County to his disciples, He Ying's wife Wang Hu, who is dedicated to doing good deeds here. So when Ma Yan mentioned, the local people in Fei County were frightened to talk about it, especially those young men in the village who died of their family, who were even more miserable. All beautiful people became Ma Yan's forbidden body, and they were miserable every day. Life was worse than death.

There is no way. As the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Who told Ma Yan, who holds the power of a thousand soldiers, is the unreasonable domineering land in this land?

"Squeak--"

The wooden door was pushed open, and a military officer under Ma Yan strode in. He glanced at He Ying and Ma Yanhou, who were sitting high in the room, and bowed and hugged them.

"You two sirs, everything is ready."

"Very good." He Ying nodded with satisfaction, and after looking at Ma Yan, an inexplicable sneer appeared on his face.

"My husband Xun, see if you are still alive this time?"

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