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 civil and 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 think about it."

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 governors, he simply created momentum to become 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 more than 100 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 kindness that made Ma Jun very moved.

But he would not express it, but just kept this gratitude silently in his heart. He sat down opposite Liu Jing and said sincerely: "Prince of the State...please say!"

"In a war, a large amount of arrows and weapons are often consumed, ranging from 100,000 to 100,000, and as many as one million. Therefore, 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', what do you think?"

Although Ma Jun had a serious stutter, his thinking was extremely quick. He immediately realized that Liu Jing had a plan, so he asked with a smile: "Please continue talking by the minister of the state... "

"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 should be specified. Some blacksmiths are good at reverse molds, so they specialize in mold casting. Some blacksmiths are good at forging, so they just focus on 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. A bow and arrow pass by the hands of more than a dozen craftsmen, and the weapons they make will surely be excellent."

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

"The second solution is to establish craftsmanship, cultivate qualified young masters in the school, so that all students can learn real skills, so that weapons and talents will continue to flow out."

Ma Jun was fascinated by the fact that if he could even think of "specialized skills" then building a craftsman school is something he would never dare to dream of. It is not that he could not do it, but that the status of a craftsman is too low and belongs to the slaves of the official family. Who would run a school for a craftsman?

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

Ma Jun stood up and bowed deeply to Liu Jing, his words full of gratitude, "I can have such a view and ambition, which is a craftsman... It's a blessing!"

Although Liu Jing had the idea of ​​establishing a craftsmanship, he now threw it out 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 craftsmanship. After all, Ma Jun is a doctor of official studies in Fufeng County.

Liu Jing smiled like a fox. He looked at Ma Jun with a smile, but said sincerely: "I had the idea of ​​establishing craftsmanship three years ago. But no one around me can't establish it yet. I know that Mr. is a doctor of official studies. Can you ask me to help me prepare craftsmanship and do my best to improve the status of craftsmanship?"

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 reached this level. If Ma Jun did not agree, he would be the eternal sinner of craftsmen.

Seeing Ma Jun's hesitation, Liu Jing stood up and bowed, and said earnestly: "The craftsman has been a slave for hundreds of 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 replied: "Since the envoy has such ambition, Ma Jun'an... If you can't help me, I just want the envoy to let me go home to tell my mother first, and then resign from my official position... I will definitely come to Jiangxia in a month."

"Okay! I believe what sir said, it's just a matter of just one word!"

Speaking of this, Liu Jing smiled and said, "Zhang Ji, the prefect of Changsha, is the leader of the three famous doctors 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 doctoral degree in official studies.

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Xiazhi County has always been a small county in Jiangxia and has been unknown for hundreds of years. However, since the carbohydrate oil produced here became a strategic military material three 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, nearly alfalfa was planted on both sides of the Waifushui River in Xiazhi County, making Xiazhi County and Yangxin County a high-quality forage base for the Jiangxia cavalry. All the forage grasses of thousands of war horses from Jiangxia cavalry came from here.

This makes Xiazhi County's status particularly important. For this reason, Jiangxia carried out three population migrations and moved the population of Xiazhi County to Wuchang one after another. Currently, Xiazhi County has a population of less than 500 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 skinny and had a very big belly. A **-year-old boy was following behind him. The old scholar looked nearly 60 years old, and his back was a little hunched, and his constitution was weak. 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 search 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, curled up in a ball, and 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."

When the soldiers saw that they were pitiful, they couldn't bear to drive them out. The soldiers said, "Then search according to the rules!"

Several soldiers came forward to search the two grandparents and grandchildren. 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 were the spies of Cao's army. Shi Chang glanced back at them and said, "If these two men were spies of Cao's army, I'll cut the bird 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 big and thick and fat, came out of his house. Shi Chang called him, "Wang Butcher, there are outsiders looking for you here."

The butcher Wang walked forward in surprise, and the old Confucian scholar burst into tears and shouted loudly: "Nephew, do you still know Uncle Wei? Ten years ago in Xinye County, you were bitten by a snake, but Uncle Wei sucked out the venom for you! Have you forgotten?"

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

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

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

The soldiers left, and the old Confucian scholar and the little boy followed Wang Tuhu into the yard. He closed the door, suddenly straightened his back, and breathed a sigh of relief, "I am so exhausted!"
Chapter completed!