Lord: Start with a copy of Water Margin

Since Zhao Zhen annexed Shuibo Liangshan, he has been most concerned about the army, prisoners, land, and population, but he has paid much less attention to production-oriented talents.

Zhao Zhen thought of this and took advantage of this period to ask each village to conduct a population registration and sort out the various talents in the township.

I only heard Yang Mazi say: "Master, I have taken my apprentices to make two thirty-refined swords in the past few days, and will present them to the master later."

Zhao Zhen was overjoyed after hearing this and looked at a few people with his eyes open.

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Name: Yang Mazi (a skilled blacksmith in the military, good at making weapons, swords, guns, swords and halberds, especially knives.)

Race: Human race

Reputation: 5 (A famous craftsman in Liangshan was originally a blacksmith in the army. He accidentally killed someone in a fight and became a bandit in Liangshan)

Occupation: Blacksmith (production hero)

Level: Level 1, Level 7 (Strength 12)

Attributes: Strength 19, Constitution 18, Agility 7, Spirit 5

Skills: Seven Blacksmith Arts (picking materials, burning materials, forging, shaping, steel throwing, quenching, and tempering)

Martial arts: fists and kicks (entry, use fists and kicks to gain +2 force)

Equipment: blacksmith furnace, wind box, hand hammer, anvil, sledge hammer, grindstone.

Monthly salary: 5 guan

The four apprentices are all young men of 17 or 18 years old. Their strength and physique are at 13 or 14 points. They have only learned martial arts. It only takes one or two years to become a hero. If Zhao Zhen is willing to eat some spiritual things, he can become a hero even faster. Hurry up.

"Xunzi: Kingship" says: No merit will be rewarded, and no crime will be punished. Rewards without merit are cheap. If you can get rewards without doing anything, who will do them seriously? Therefore, Zhao Zhen would not easily give spiritual objects to ordinary people. Only by making meritorious deeds would he be rewarded. Of course, there will be preferential treatment for the talents and fighting heroes that are urgently needed in Liangshan Township. For example, if the fighting heroes are like each other, they will be given the spiritual creature four-bearded carp.

Nowadays, Zhao Zhen is in charge of a township. It is no longer the Xixi Village where there were three or two big cats and kittens, and everyone went to explore it.

Seeing Yang Mazi this time, Zhao Zhen realized that these production-oriented talents were also indispensable. Several people drank and dined, and Zhao Yuanli paid the bills.

Zhang Da led everyone towards the blacksmith shop, and Zhao Zhen talked to Yang Mazi along the way. Zhao Zhen asked: "Brother Yang, have you ever made an advanced weapon?"

Yang Mazi said: "Master, to be honest, if you want to make a high-level weapon, you must have good iron first, and then a good blacksmith. I make weapons that are sharper than ordinary blacksmiths, but I have never made a high-level weapon.

Firstly, there really was no good iron, and secondly, I only learned how to pour steel. "

Zhao Zhen asked: "Is this steel filling method easy to learn?"

Yang Mazi said: "The method of pouring steel is not a secret. It is taught by blacksmiths who have inherited it, including blacksmiths in the army. All edged weapons such as swords and guns must throw steel.

There are two methods of throwing steel in the army, one is called bright steel, and the other is dark steel. The so-called bright steel is that the iron is completely wrapped with steel on the blade of the knife; the so-called dark steel is that steel and iron are mixed and beaten together on the blade. The amount and uniformity of the steel on the blade are the criteria for evaluating the quality of the knife. "

While talking, return to the blacksmith shop. Yang Mazi took out two simple knives and Zhao Zhen took them.

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Thirty Refined Pu Dao (Made by Yang Mazi, a blacksmith in Xixi Village, the knife is more than six feet long, the blade is two feet four inches long, and the Pu Dao's shaft is three feet six inches long. It is combined into a long-handled Pu Dao and broken down into a short sword and a short stick. )

Characteristics: Sharpness +2, Solidness +1 (with steel pouring method, repeated bending 30 times).

It's a little sharper than Zhang Dazao's thick-backed sword, but weighs two kilograms less. Zhao Zhen couldn't help but be overjoyed. The weapon was two kilograms lighter, which not only reduced the consumption of iron materials, but the most important thing was that the soldiers carried less weight, and their physical strength for fighting must be more abundant and lasting.

Zhao Zhen asked: "How long did it take to make this simple sword?"

Yang Mazi replied: "Six of us and I can make a 30-year-old steel-making knife in two days."

Zhao Zhen said: "This knife is also very well made. How much did it cost?"

Yang Mazi said: "About four pieces of money."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "Blacksmith Yang, with your current skills, can you make something better?"

Yang Mazi said: "I have also made fifty-refined, seventy-two-refined, and hundred-refined steel swords, but they cost much more."

Zhao Zhen said: "First make twenty hundred-refined knives, and then three hundred thirty-refined plain knives. I still have three hundred gun knives in my village. You should also go and see if there is room for improvement."

I will connect the next yard to this yard and use it as a blacksmith shop. I will recruit more apprentices in the village. If this is done well, I will also promote you to be the deputy steward, and from now on you will be responsible for the forging in the village. "

After Yang Mazi heard this, he knelt down and bowed down, saying, "Master, I'll take care of this matter. The steel knife I made is sharp and durable."

Zhao Zhen helped Yang Mazi up, patted Yang Mazi on the shoulder and said, "In that case, I'll leave this matter to you. Everything will be taken care of by the housekeeper Zhao Yuanli."

Zhao Yuanli nodded and signaled to Yang Mazi.

Zhang Da took out a few farm tools from the side room and handed them to Zhao Zhen: "Master, these are newly made farm tools. They also use Brother Yang's steel filling method. The blades are all made of steel, but there is less forging. Only forged twice."

Zhao Zhen took a sickle and saw that there was nothing else in the blacksmith shop. The methods of cutting ginger, peeling paper, and shaving were all inconvenient, so he had to use the feeling method to try it out. Zhao Zhen held the sickle upside down in his left hand, extended his right thumb and touched the blade horizontally. It actually feels like the skin is about to break, and its sharpness is no less than that of ordinary swords and guns. Others such as shovels and pickaxes are also easier to get into the ground, saving a lot of effort. Hoes, hoes, hoes, and plows each have their own advantages.

Zhao Zhen said to Zhao Yuanli, "This month's monthly salary will be doubled for everyone in the blacksmith shop."

Everyone in the blacksmith shop was overjoyed after hearing this and thanked Zhao Zhen.

While they were talking, the farmhand drove two ox carts to arrive. Everyone helped load the carts and transported them directly to the dock, so that two speedboats could transport them to Liang Village. At the same time, the farmhand was asked to send a message to transport the iron farm tools of Tianzhuang and Zhangzhuang to the blacksmith shop for unified transformation.

Zhao Zhen said: "Zhang Da, this batch of farm tools is of very good quality. The farm tools of the other four villages should also be transformed. It will save a lot of labor in the future."

He immediately asked Zhao Yuanli to notify Tang Ting and Ding Chou to send the farm tools of each village to the blacksmith shop.

Zhao Zhen said to Zhang Dadao: "Zhang Da, your physical condition should have reached 15 points now, right?"

Zhang Dadao: "I also want to thank the owner of the farm. I have eaten a four-whiskered carp and my physical condition has reached the standard of an inauguration hero."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "We will pick a good day to hold an inauguration ceremony so that you can experience the benefits of a hero earlier."

Zhang Da grinned, and his teeth were full of joy. Patting his chest, he kept expressing his loyalty to Zhao Zhen. It can be seen that being able to become a hero is something worth celebrating for Zhang Da.

Zhang Da's qualifications are all accumulated by himself, and I am afraid that he cannot become a hero. It seems that there is only one point of difference, but for Zhang Da with poor qualifications, it may be stuck for a lifetime.

Seeing that there was nothing to do in the blacksmith shop, Zhao Zhen dismissed Zhang Da, Yang Mazi and others, and went to the next place with Zhao Yuanli.