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Although Ma Jun is quite famous in Guanzhong, he is just a craftsman. In the officialdom, he is still an unknown minor official at this time.

But the dignified Jingzhou master actually proposed to travel with him alone, which not only surprised Ma Jun, but also surprised the military officials around him.

Even Jia Xu couldn't help but persuade: "It's probably a bit inappropriate to go there as a single person. It's better to bring a few guards with you. Please ask Zhou Musi."

On the surface, he used safety as a saying, but in fact he implied that Liu Jing had to consider his identity. After all, Ma Jun was just a good craftsman, so he could only use him with a lot of money, and there was no need to bend his body like this.

Everyone advised each other, but Ma Jun stood aside and said silently. He couldn't speak, but he understood in his heart that he thought Liu Jing was pretending to behave, but he didn't want to give in.

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled at everyone, "Don't persuade you anymore. I'm not powerless. There is no problem, don't persuade you anymore."

Seeing that Liu Jing was unable to persuade him, Jia Xu stopped persuading him. He pulled Li Jun aside and whispered: "Use military ships to escort both sides, and make a bigger momentum."

Li Jun understood what Jia Xu meant. Since it could not solve the problem of low-level state and governorship, then sex would make a big splash in Ma Jun. "Don't worry, sir, I will make arrangements."

Li Jun turned around and made arrangements. At this time, the generals came ashore one after another. Jia Xu and Liu Jing's personal soldiers boarded several other cargo ships and headed east with Liu Jing.

The fleet slowly turned around and headed towards the Han River. In the cabin, Liu Jing saw that Ma Jun was still a little restrained, so he smiled and said, "I also have some ideas. I want to discuss with the teacher and give me advice."

Ma Jun nodded silently. He did not expect that Liu Jing did not pretend to be a pretentious person, but asked him sincerely. As Liu Jing's status as a state patriarch, he actually bowed down and sat in a humble cabin with him. This was something he could not imagine. It also shows that Liu Jing attaches great importance to him. It was this kind of grace that touched Ma Jun very much.

But he would not express it, but just kept this gratitude silently in his heart. He Liu Jing sat down opposite him and said sincerely: "

"In a war, a large amount of arrows and weapons are often consumed, ranging from 100,000 to 10,000, so war is also a battle of national strength. I won't talk about this, let's just talk about weapons."

Liu Jing took a piece of paper and drew a few arrows and weapons parts on it, and said with a smile: "The problem that is often encountered in combat is that the weapons are of different quality. Some craftsmen have excellent skills. The weapons they make can allow soldiers to exert their maximum combat power, but some craftsmen have insufficient skills. The weapons they create often have accidents in combat, such as knife cut by the enemy, etc., causing the soldiers to die in misfortune. I wonder if there is a way to solve this problem."

This is no longer as simple as mechanical manufacturing. It involves management issues. Although Ma Jun is not very interested in this area, he was very serious about Liu Jing's sincerity and thought about it: "This problem was actually solved in Qin State. You can engrave the name of a craftsman in the weapon and clearly hold the responsibility so that the craftsmen dare not be careless. In addition, the inspection of weapons can be strengthened, so that the entry of inferior weapons can be greatly reduced."

Liu Jing laughed, "Although this is good, I still feel that it is a bit incurable. As the saying goes, "It is better to stop fire than to stop fire than to stop fire, sir, what do you think?"

Although Ma Jun stuttered severely, his thinking was extremely quick. He immediately realized that Liu Jing had a plan, so he asked with a smile: "Prince of the State, please... continue talking."

"I have two ideas that can be used as a supplement to my teacher's plan. One is to have accurate standards when making weapons. For example, a unified mold should be used to make knives. The width and thickness of each must be specified. Some blacksmiths are good at reverse molds, so they specialize in mold casting. Some blacksmiths are good at forging, so they only care about forging and specialize in their skills.

In this way, each craftsman is responsible for one link, making a knife walks like running water, and the same goes for bows and arrows. One bow and arrow pass by the hands of more than a dozen craftsmen, and the weapons they make will surely be the best."

Ma Jun nodded repeatedly. He agreed with Liu Jing's specialist skills and his interest was completely raised. He was more concerned about Liu Jing's second thought at this time. "Secondly," he asked impatiently.

"The second solution is to build a craftsman, cultivate qualified young masters in the hall, so that all students can achieve real skills, so that weapons and talents will continue to flow out."

Ma Jun was fascinated by the fact that if he could even imagine his skills, he would build a craftsman hall, which was something he would never dare to dream of. It was not that he could not do it, but that the craftsman had a low status and belonged to the official slaves. Who would do it for the craftsman.

Although the princes in various places also attached importance to finding good craftsmen, they did not really respect craftsmen, and no prince thought of running a craftsman hall, but heard it only from Liu Jing.

Ma Jun stood up and bowed deeply to Liu Jing, his words full of gratitude, "It is a blessing for craftsmen to have such a view...the knowledge and mind."

Although Liu Jing had the idea of ​​establishing a craftsman, he threw it out now to catch Ma Jun, the big fish. He had long discovered that Ma Jun was scheming and was a straightforward person.

So if you want to get it hooked, you must use his favorite bait. It is probably useless to get promoted and make money. Then use the bait of craftsman. After all, Ma Jun is a doctor of Fufeng County.

Liu Jing smiled like a fox. He looked at Ma Jun with a smile, but said sincerely: "I had the idea of ​​building a craftsman before the New Year. But no one around me can't establish it yet. I know that Mr. is an official doctor. Can you ask me to help me prepare a craftsman and do your best to improve the status of a craftsman?"

Ma Jun was very embarrassed. He actually didn't want to come to Jiangxia to become an official, so he treated Liu Jing coldly at the beginning, but Liu Jing's words had already talked about this journey. If Ma Jun did not agree, he would be the eternal sinner of the craftsman.

Liu Jing saw Ma Jun's hesitation, and stood up and bowed, and said earnestly: "The craftsman has been a slave in the official household for several years. Liu Jing intends to defeat him. If the gentleman refuses, he will eventually make Liu Jing's ambition hopeless."

Ma Jun was finally convinced by Liu Jing's sincerity, and he could no longer refuse, so he had to stutter and agreed: "Since the envoy has... such ambition, Ma Jun'an... can't help me, I just want the envoy to let me go home and tell my mother first, and then resign from the official position... I will definitely come to Jiangxia in a month."

"Okay, I believe what sir said, it's all right."

Speaking of this, Liu Jing smiled and said, "Zhang Ji, the guard of Changsha, is a famous doctor in the world. If Mr. comes to Jiangxia, I will ask him to treat the symptoms of stinginess for him, and there will be some improvements."

Ma Jun was overjoyed. The problem of speaking and stuttering was his lifelong pain. If Zhang Ji could cure this disease for him, he would have a major heart disease, and he also had an excuse to resign from his official doctorate.

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Xiazhi County has always been a small county in Jiangxia and has been unknown for several years. However, since the carbohydrate oil produced here became a strategic military resource a few years ago, Xiazhi County has become one of the important counties.

Although more and larger natural oil wells were found in Jingling County, Xiazhi County is still an important source of tincture oil for the Jiangxia Army. More importantly, the large-scale workshop for the Jiangxia Army to refine tincture oil was located in Xiazhi County.

At the same time, Xiazhi County Waifushui planted alfalfa nearby on both sides of the river, making Xiazhi County and Yangxin County a high-quality forage base for the Jiangxia cavalry. The forage grass of thousands of war horses from Jiangxia cavalry all comes from here.

This makes Xiazhi County's status particularly important. For this reason, Jiangxia carried out a population migration and moved the population of Xiazhi County to Wuchang one after another. Currently, Xiazhi County has less than five households, almost all of which work for tinea oil and forage.

That morning, an old white-haired scholar led a donkey to the city gate. The donkey was bony, but his belly was extremely large, and a year-old boy was following him. The old scholar looked nearly 60 years old, his back was a little hunched, his constitution was weak, and he kept coughing as soon as he approached the city gate.

Xiazhi County is very strict in garrison. The residents in the city have waist signs, and soldiers will conduct strict interrogation and investigation of every outsider, even women are no exception.

"Show your waist card" the gatekeeper shouted loudly.

The old scholar was so angry that he was almost breathless. He squatted on the ground and curled up in a ball. The little boy said in an accent of Anlu County: "My grandfather and I defected to my uncle. My uncle's surname is Wang, so we live in the county."

When they heard that it was an outsider, several soldiers immediately surrounded him, but they were not nervous. After all, they were an old Confucian scholar and a child. After a while, the old Confucian scholar stood up with difficulty, trembling, weaker than the eighty-year-old man, as if a gust of wind could blow him down.

He panted and said, "My nephew is a butcher who sells meat in the east of the county. I have no place to support me. I come to surrender and ask Jun Ye to let my grandparents and grandchildren go to the city to seek relatives."

The soldiers saw that they were pitiful, and they couldn't bear to drive them out, so they said, "Then follow the rules."

Several soldiers came forward to check their grandparents and grandchildren thoroughly. There were only a few dry cakes, a pot of water and dozens of copper coins, and there was also a black bamboo plaque with more than a dozen seal characters engraved. They didn't know anything. The old Confucian scholar hurriedly bowed and said, "The copper coins are sold to the military master."

"Who wants your money?"

Seeing that the copper coins were all bad money, he looked down on him, so he returned the money to him and waved his hand and said, "Come with me to send them into the city and find their family."

This is also a regulation that outsiders must be protected by locals, and the old man and the other urinated slowly and followed several soldiers into the city.

The soldiers in front were talking and laughing about whether they would be the detective Cao's army. Shi Chang glanced back at them and said, "If these two men were the detective Cao's army, they would always cut the birds for you."

Everyone burst into laughter, but a strange smile appeared in the old Confucian scholar's eyes. He was not panicked at all, and still led the donkey and walked forward slowly. After a moment, they finally arrived at the door of Wang Butcher's house.

Just so happened that Wang Butcher, who was thick and fat, came out of his house, and Shi Chang stopped him, "Wang Butcher, there are outsiders looking for you here."

Wang Butcher walked forward in surprise, and the old Confucian scholar burst into tears and shouted loudly: "Nephew, I still know Uncle Wei in Xinye County ten years ago. You were bitten by a snake, but have you forgotten the venom that Uncle Wei sucked for you?"

As he said that, he handed him the bamboo card, "You still know this."

The butcher Wang recognized the bamboo card, and then identified the old man for a while, and finally shouted, "Uncle, why are you so old?"

Seeing that they were indeed relatives, Shi Chang waved his hand and said, "Let's go."
Chapter completed!