After a conversation between Ai Ai, the young man named Ma Jun finally retreated outside the tent with unconcealed joy and excitement on his face.

I didn't see the real objects of the silk weaving machine and the catapult cart, but Pei Wan still leaned over and looked at a silk weaving machine and a catapult drawing. She refused to burst into laughter and said to Yan Xing:

"Just looking at this drawing, Ma Jun is very delicate in his mind and skills, but he doesn't speak very well. If he is still dedicated to officialdom and has this natural flaw, it would be a pity."

Yan Xing nodded, combined with Ma Jun's intermittent introduction before, he looked at the two drawings in front of him carefully again.

The silk is a kind of jacquard silk fabric with smooth surface and exquisite workmanship. Therefore, compared with the simple hand-looming machine in farmers' homes, the new silk weaving machine on Ma Jun's drawings is to improve the silk weaving machine to be simpler and easier to operate. The original fifty tread (pedal) and sixty treads on the silk weaving machine are changed to twelve treads. Without the quality of the new silk weaving machine, the new silk weaving machine can improve the efficiency of four or five times more than the original silk weaving machine.

The new catapult is a rotating stone car. In the past, the stone caster took some time to reload stone bullets every time it shot. The new catapult designed by Ma Jun overcomes this disadvantage to some extent. When the stone car rotates like a water truck, the bricks and stones hanging on the large wooden wheels will be continuously shot forward as if they were continuously covered by the battlefield, achieving the purpose of densely covering the battlefield and killing large numbers of enemy troops.

Yan Xing has not seen the effect of the new style of silk weaving machine with his own eyes and needs to wait for feedback on the official weaving room. However, when compared with the situation of the scattered flower silk woven by the former Han silk weaving artist, Chen Baoguang, the wife of Julu Chen Lu, "the machine is 120 treads, and one piece is worth ten thousand yuan in 60 days", from 120 treads to fifty and sixty treads to twelve treads, Ma Jun's improved silk weaving machine efficiency is undoubtedly much more advanced.

As for the new catapult, Yan Xing, who has been through the battlefield for a long time and is familiar with offense and defense, is not optimistic about Ma Jun's rotating catapult.

Although this rotating stone casting car can achieve the effect of densely covering the battlefield for a while, it will take longer to load multiple stone bullets again than ordinary stone casters. It is used to attack cities and deal with city walls. It is too small to deal with enemy troops on the battle formation. It is too bulky to be able to flexibly rotate and accurately aim. Even if it is actually built, it can only be used as large-scale equipment to defend the city.

After putting away these two drawings again, Yan Xing suddenly smiled and asked Pei Wan:

"Wen Chong, tell me, just now I wanted to send Ma Deheng to the weaving room to specialize in improving the loom, why did he blush and sweat like rain?"

Thinking of Ma Jun's embarrassment just now, Pei Wan couldn't help laughing, and he said:

"General, Ma Jun, has a very skilled mind and skill. Although he came to offer silk weaving machines and stone catapults, he did not want to become a famous master in the world like the public sending class. What he wanted to imitate was Zhang Pingzi of the former Han Dynasty. His skillful thinking was just a means of officialdom. He did not want the general to treat him as a skilled craftsman. If Ma Jun had not been inconvenient to speak, he would have to explain the classics of poetry and books and the way to govern the country!"

Ma Jun wanted to become a person like Zhang Heng, not a skilled craftsman like Gongshu. Shi Feng was like this, so Yan Xing could naturally understand it. He couldn't help but smile and said:

"So, I simply removed him into the mansion first, and let him know that the general's mansion is only talented. No matter whether it is an employee of the business or a commerce servant, whoever has the skills of governing the country and assisting the people, I will be promoted, not just the scriptures and books."

Although Ma Jun has a stuttering problem, he is skillful and has extraordinary talent in mechanical technology. Yan Xing believes that in his general's mansion, he will be able to use his unique talents.

Fufeng Ma Jun thought of Ma Teng and his son. Pei Wan also asked about the potential doubts in her heart at this time.

"Since the general has removed Ma Jun from Fufeng into the mansion, why not also engrave the Ma family's children into the mansion to help the Ma family?"

When Pei Wan talked about the Ma family father and son, Yan Xing touched the short moustache under his jaw and kept silent.

After pacifying Guanzhong, Ma Teng's army was eliminated by Yan Xing and was incorporated into his army. The main general Ma Teng was recommended by Yan Xing as General Anxi and placed in Chang'an City. Even many of the children of the Ma family were idle.

Ma Teng has a high prestige in the army and should not let him take charge of the army again. However, in order to amaze the Ma family, it is very necessary for the Ba Mansion to promote the Ma family's children to lieutenant generals and collegiates. However, Yan Xing, as the general of the cavalry, has not been moved for a long time.

This is not because Yan Xing doesn't want to use the Ma family's children. On the contrary, Yan Xing's idea is far further than Pei Wan and others.

Yan Xing was preparing to convene the good sons of the six counties and the children of the powerful Hu Chief to train and form a new army.

Because the people of Longxi, Tianshui, Anping, Beidi, Shangjun and Xihe were approaching Rongdi, practicing war preparation, and gaining strength, and taking hunting as the first priority in the Han Dynasty, they always gave priority to selecting Yulin and Qimen from the six counties, and were officials with their talents and strength, and joined the army to fight. Therefore, many famous generals were found in Guanxi.

However, due to the influence of the Qiang Rebellion and other factors, the two counties in the north moved inward, and only some counties were retained. After the two counties and counties in the Shangjun and Xihe, they completely became horse-herding places for the Qianghu tribes. Because of the Bianzhang and Hansui rebellions, the two counties gradually broke away from the control of the Han court. Therefore, the Han court had no idea of ​​selecting good families from six counties to join the army to fight.

When Emperor Ling arrived, the Han court became more reliant on the troops of the Qianghu tribes such as Yi Conghu, Xiongnu, Tuge, Wuhuan, etc., as well as recruiting Sanhe knights, Danyang soldiers and Huai Si soldiers from counties and states as supplements.

Yan Xing was preparing to convene the children of the six counties and the children of the powerful Hu Chiefs to organize and form an army. In addition to trying to use the advantages of their Guanxi people to practice war preparation and to enhance their strength, he also used another way to win over and stabilize the powerful generals of the powerful people of the Qiang and Hu tribes of the six counties.

The children of the Duan family, such as Ma, Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, etc., as well as the children of Qianghu, Pugulu and other Qianghu, as well as the powerful and powerful families of Anding Yang Qiu, Anding Huangfu family, Niyang Fu family, and Linjing Hu family, as well as the future powerful families of Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang, Wudu and Hexi counties, will all be summoned by Yan Xing.

This will be a special "Qin Hu soldier", which is different from other armies in nature, but Yan Xing will tightly melt it into shape in the form of an army. The domineering mansion that he is will form a centripetal force on them, making each of them proud of it, and forming a strong collective, and this collective will become an important force under his command.

Regarding this army, although Pei Wan was specially brought by Yan Xing by his side, Dona Yan Xing didn't want to discuss too much with him for the time being. He changed the topic and said to Pei Wan:

"It's not too early today. Wen Chong, you can go back to the account first. After following Gu to inspect the river canals and the water in Chencang tomorrow, Gu will have to go to another place."

"Where is the general who wants to go?"

Pei Wan changed the subject to Yan Xing. He was smart and didn't care. Instead, he became interested in Yan Xing's temporary intentions and decided to go to the place he was going tomorrow.

Seeing Pei Wan asking curiously, Yan Xing had a smile in his eyes, and many things suddenly appeared in his mind, which made him feel a little dazed for a moment. He blurted out and said:

"Oxtails gather!"

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The next day, the oxtail gathered.

When Yan Xing and his team traveled through mountains and rivers for a long time, they found the oxtail that had become ruins and had become unrecognizable, and Yan Xing, who had stepped on this old land again, couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

This made him feel more excited than the battlefield ruins he was in when the Chencang War was not long ago.

It is in this place that the fate of fate has changed the trajectory of his life that has been changed.

When he first entered the oxtail gathering, Yan Xing felt like "a few peach blossoms were all red, and the wild people saw the spring breeze", and unexpectedly stepped into a paradise. But today, he returned to the old place where the fire was burned down, and the ruins were also gone by time. Yan Xing could only stare at a nearby wild peach blossom, creating a sense of isolation of "the face of man is not known where, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze".

Looking at the beautiful peach blossoms on the branches and the buds that are about to bloom, Yan Xing couldn't help but think of June far away in Anyi. These peach blossoms were like her smile, melting the ice and snow, refreshing the heart.

There are beautiful women in the valley, who are left alone and independent!

Pei Wan, who followed Yan Xing, also made indirect attacks along the way. He learned that many generals of the cavalry were in love with the oxtail gathering. Pei Wan, who was keen, could not empathize with it, but instead had a faint sense of crisis about this situation.

He slowly turned his attention to Yan Shu, who was traveling with him.

Yan Su was also immersed in the memories of the past. After the mountain people who gathered with Oxtails escaped through the tunnel, the mountain people had to drag their families to migrate to Wudu County in the south because the cowtails had already been burned.

After Wudu waited for the mountain people to settle down, Yan Su and Liu Yue left quietly and embarked on the road north again.

Seeing Yan Su immersed in his thoughts, Pei Wan gently approached Yan Xing's side, looked at the peach blossom, and sighed.

Hearing Pei Wan sighed, Yan Xing looked at him curiously. When Pei Wan, who was following him on the road, talked about his experience in his downfall, although Pei Wan kept saying aloof, Yan Xing could feel that Pei Wan was absent-minded.

Pei Wan is smart and smart, and has great talent. The only shortcoming is that he has been smooth sailing since his birth. He has been growing up vigorously under the protection of Pei Mao, Pei Qian, Yan Xing and others, and lacks the toughness he has tempered.

"Wen Chong, why are you sighing?"

Seeing that it had attracted Yan Xing's attention, Pei Wan said with respect:
Chapter completed!