After inspecting the Iron Officer, Zhao Hong also took the soldiers and drove to the Salt Supervision with Yan Xing's car.

On the way to the Salt Prison, Wei Xuan, who was accompanying him, was still rubbing a crossbow hanging on the edge of the saddle, marveling at him.

Just now, on the Iron Official's test field, he used his foot to slap the crossbow, and then aimed at the crossbow. The range of the crossbow arrows shot out was as long as two hundred steps away. At a hundred steps away, the crossbow arrows could also penetrate the iron armor.

The Han Dynasty inherited the crossbow and arrow technology of the Warring States Period and the Qin Dynasty, and also made breakthroughs in crossbow technology. The strongest crossbow was said to have reached ten stones. It is said that the flying general Li Guang once used this kind of yellow crossbow to shoot and kill many powerful warriors from the Huns from a distance, which shocked the Huns.

In addition to the big yellow crossbow, there are also various bows and crossbows such as waist-induced crossbows, slashing crossbows, slashing crossbows, and continuous shooting crossbows.

The crossbows made in Anyi are concentrated on the crossbows and the big crossbows.

Wei Xuan was originally a military officer in the Shooting Camp in the Northern Army and was very skilled in using crossbows. He also had a song of Zhang Shi under his command. He made many military achievements when he was pacifying Baibo. Therefore, when testing the newly built strong crossbow in Anyi, Yan Xing asked him to test the shooting himself.

After the test shot, Wei Xuan immediately saw the benefits of this kind of crossbow. The crossbow in Anyi is obviously more sophisticated than the powerful crossbows seen in the Northern Army in the past, with a longer range and more labor-saving when turning the string. If he can be equipped in batches to his soldiers, his fighting power will be increased to a higher level.

Unfortunately, when Wei Xuan asked Tieguancheng when such a powerful weapon could be equipped in batches into the army, the Tieguancheng could only smile a few times and speechlessly.

These powerful crossbows were newly created by the Hedong Iron Official after expanding the scale of the Hedong Iron Official and integrating the craftsmen brought by Sanfu under the instructions of Yan Xing.

Many crossbow arms, bowstrings, and crossbow arrows are not yet complete, so it is obviously impossible to produce them on a large scale at present. Moreover, according to the shogunate's instructions, the materials are all available at the back. The first batch of powerful crossbows created must be transported to the Anyi County Government first.

However, in order to alleviate the embarrassment, the Iron Official of Iron Official of Anyi, showed everyone the "big crossbow" of Anyi. This large crossbow that follows Yan Xing's command, "the string big wood is a bow, the feather spear is a arrow, and the aircraft is fired, and the long-range shooting is more than a thousand steps". Next, it will be made into two large offensive and defensive equipment, namely the car crossbow and the bed crossbow.

Unfortunately, Wei Xuan lacked interest in the big crossbow that could only be used to attack the city but defend the city. Fortunately, Yan Xing finally gave him the powerful crossbow that was tested in his hand, otherwise he would have been complaining and returned empty-handed as he accompanied him.

Along the way, if Wei Xuan, the Lieutenant General, was just marveling at the military ordnance of the Anyi Iron Officer, then Sun Zi, who was accompanying Yan Xing, could be described as thrilling.

Especially after watching Yan Xing selecting knights, wearing horses with horse armor and armor, and practicing heavy cavalry to charge and break through the formation, Sun Zi, who was sitting in the car, is still shaking his mind.

Although there were only twenty cavalry, the sound of the men and horses wearing armor, spears and hammering, and rushing in arrays still made Sun Zi, who had never seen the battle formation, frightened. This was much more amazing than Wei Xuan's test shooting of a powerful crossbow, and the crossbow arrows penetrated through the iron armor.

Sun Zi looked at the iron horse that was like a wall and a forest, and could only imagine the fear of the heavy cavalry being trapped in the formation and being invincible. Thinking of this, he secretly looked at Yan Xing, who was sitting in the car and resting without saying a word.

This new prefect, who lives in a quiet place on weekdays, is known as the people's livelihood in Hedong in the county government. But today, the iron officials and elite soldiers and weapons in Anyi emerge in endlessly, and the cavalry of various troops are even more ready to prepare for the horses. It seems that the prefect's livelihood in Hedong is not just for the people's livelihood in Hedong!

After inspecting the Iron Officer of Anyi, the prefect's carriage came to the Salt Supervision again.

The salt of the Hedong Jiechi was famous all over the world during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, and was one of the famous salt-producing areas of this dynasty. The court specially set up a salt supervision here. The salt produced in Hedong was also exported to Henan, Yan, Ji, Sanfu and other places, becoming an important source of national taxation.

What is even more rare is that Anyi salt is made by brine in the sunlight, with white color and good taste, few impurities, and the quality of salt is also excellent. Moreover, Anyi has a good salt-making method: in early spring every year, the salt is used to enter the pond, and the ground is sparsely formed into the bed, and the water in the pond is irrigated. After precipitation is made into brine, then in August and September, when the south wind blows, there is no need to cook it, the salt of the pond is made by itself.

Therefore, during the reign of Dayu, there was a "Song of the South Wind", which described the salt production situation in the salt pond of Anyi.

"The south wind can relieve the anger of my people.

When the south wind is in, you can reap the wealth of my people."

Yan Xing and others came to the Salt Supervision to see this stage when they entered the pool and drew the water from the pond to irrigate the burrow.

After understanding the detailed process of salt production in Anyi Salt, Yan Xing had to feel in his heart that the wisdom of the ancients was able to adapt to the time, adapt to local conditions, and combine human intelligence to create a set of salt making methods that adapt to the local climatic conditions and geographical environment of Anyi.

Even from Yan Xing's perspective, this method is also the most practical at the moment, and what he can do is to instruct the salt officer to strengthen the management of this process to improve the yield and quality of salt removal.

After leaving the Yanguan, the prefect Xingchun's chariot and cavalry came to Yishi again.

After meeting with a group of officials from Yi and promoting the importance of persuading agriculture and sericulture, Yan Xing postponed the banquet in the Guan Temple and settled in the Guan Temple that night.

The next day, the prefect's car set off again and came to Jie County.

Whether it is Yishi or Jiexian, these are counties closer to Anyi. The farming work in Jicheng, Xiacheng, Sangquancheng and other places along the way is also carried out according to the farming season. There has never been abandoned fields. As far as you can see, the fields on both sides of the road are filled with farmers and tenants busy with spring plowing.

However, Yan Xing still saw another situation in Jie County besides spring plowing.

That is the sacrifice of the lewd temple.

Among counties, spring sacrifices are usually presided over by the officials of the county, and the sacrifices spontaneously formed by the people are lewd temples.

Hedong is a big county, and there are many sacrificial temples in the territory, but in the official sacrificial temple, only Jiemiao, Houtu Temple and other sacrifices, while many of them are spontaneous sacrifices formed by the people.

The erotic temples have been vigorously attacked throughout the dynasties. As far as Ximen Bao abolished the bad habit of marrying Hebo, and as recent as Cao Cao was appointed as the prime minister of Jinan, abolished more than 600 erotic temples, which led to a large political and educational establishment and a county was clear and peaceful.

Yan Xing also had the same attitude towards these spontaneous sacrifices among the people, that is, to fight hard. Because these lewd temples consumed a lot of people's wealth and ointment to worship these illusory mountains, rivers, ghosts and gods, and on the other hand, they were easily used by those who were interested as a way to make money and bewitch people's hearts.

People believe that these ghosts and gods worshipped in the lewd temples will not only waste money, but also more seriously, but will also save lives innocently.

In Wang Fu's "Qianfu Lun" he talked about the harm caused by this kind of superstition of witches and superstition in the temple: "Someone abandons medicine and changes the past gods, so when he dies, he does not know that he is deceived by the witches, but instead hates the witches for the late days, which is why he deceives the people very much."

Yan Xing originally grew up in Jincheng and Liangzhou, and the land was connected to Qianghu. Naturally, the witch style was prevalent. Many people were superstitious about ghosts and gods. At that time, Yan Xing was unable to change these phenomena, but now he is Ren Hedong, so he naturally needs to come forward and vigorously rectify the chaos in this area.

Therefore, after he met Zheng Duo, who was trying to guard the county magistrate of Jie, he first encouraged Zheng Duo to make achievements in his jurisdiction to persuade the people, farmers and sericultures, but then solemnly warned him:

Now that the war in Hedong is just settled, people's livelihood is difficult. Those lewd temples that remained in constant fire after the war will consume a lot of food and clothing among the people. Moreover, those witches are not under the jurisdiction of the official temple, but can conjure people up to rebel by bewitching people's hearts. If they collude with some local tyrants and officials, they will cause great damage to the situation in Hedong that has just stabilized.

If the laws cannot be declared in time, the decree of abolishing the lewd temple, and continue to do so, this is a bad thing that destroys political affairs and destroys one's foundation.

After hearing this, Zheng Duo nodded repeatedly, feeling intimidated and immediately promised that he would forbidden lewd temples within the jurisdiction of Jie County, and to crack down on witches and divinations, and superstition.

Yan Xing nodded. After seeing Zheng Duo understand his meaning, he encouraged Zheng Duo a few more words, telling him to be firm and strong in cracking down on these lewd temples. However, for those gods who are deeply believed by the people in the country, they might as well report to the county government and take it into the sacrificial ceremony. The county and county will preside over the sacrifices to avoid the intentional witches and the powerful will use these ghosts and gods to seduce people and accumulate wealth.

At the same time, Yan Xing also asked the accompanying Shu Zun Zi to record the matter. He believed that the phenomenon of sacrificing sacrificial temples was definitely not only in Jie County, but also in other counties in Hedong, these phenomena must also exist more or less.

Especially after the war in Hedong, when people lose their relatives and there is an epidemic in the country, this kind of witch and divination style may become popular, and may even faintly threaten Yan Xing's rule in Hedong.

Therefore, this is not a matter of Jie County, but a matter of Hedong County. After the Spring Festival and returning to the county government in Anyi, Yan Xing would send an edict to the county officials in Hedong County to thoroughly investigate the affairs of wubu and lewd temples in his jurisdiction, abolish useless lewd temples, and capture those lewd temples who use this to accumulate wealth and bewitch people's hearts.
Chapter completed!