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Chapter 5 Crouching Tiger Town

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    Arriving at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Yicai saw the whole town clearly. Different from ordinary square cities, the town was 3 miles long from north to south and only 1 mile wide from east to west. The outer city walls were built with huge stone foundations and rammed loess; however,  The wall fortress is now in dilapidated condition, with many places having collapsed. It has two city gates in the north and south. The whole town is shaped like a crouching tiger. The north gate is the main entrance. There is an archway at the entrance, which is somewhat dilapidated, covered with arrow marks and has been damaged.  The three characters "Crouching Tiger Pavilion" are vaguely written on the traces of the fire.

    In the Han system, 100 households constituted one li, ten li constituted one pavilion, and ten pavilions constituted one township.

    ??In other words, if you are a Tinghou, such as Guan Yu's Han Shoutinghou, you can enjoy the taxes of 1,000 households as your salary, and Zhuge Liang's official title of Wuxiang Hou is a genuine Ten Thousand Households Hou.

    No wonder Zhuge Liang wrote in his suicide note before his death: "I am serving abroad. I have no other arrangements. I carry my food and clothing with me and rely on the officials." "Wanhuhou!"  Definitely a high-paying job in this day and age.

    This place is a pavilion, which means that in theory there are at least a thousand households, but now it seems that half of them are good; most of the people here live in small towns, and there are some scattered near various tributaries of the Panlong River.  In the fishing village

    The old Taoist told Xiao Yi that due to the harsh natural environment and limited grain acres in Wohu Pavilion, the people here had to rely on the mountains and water to get water; Wohu Mountain belongs to the Yanshan Mountains, and there are many jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, so most of the men here are  They go hunting in the mountains all year round, or fish with nets in the rapid water of the Panlong River. In addition, being located in the northern Xinjiang, there are often nomadic tribes intruding. The people are civilians in peacetime and soldiers in war. All this has been developed over hundreds of years.  The folk customs here are tough and good at fighting but also simple and kind.

    It is precisely because of the fierce folk customs here that the soldiers are not only brave and good at fighting, but also fearless of death. Therefore, whenever there is a war, the country has repeatedly recruited soldiers, which has resulted in the shortage of men in Crouching Pavilion. It can be said that every household here has someone serving in the army, even when there is a war.  Bingdu has become the only way out for adult men here.

    The people here come from a variety of sources, including local indigenous people, descendants of the soldiers who guarded the border here, refugees who came because of the war, family members of criminal officials exiled by the imperial court, and even people who came from the grasslands.  Herdsmen

    The old man came here to go to the blacksmith shop in the city. It turned out that the night before Xiao Yi traveled through, there was a strange phenomenon in the sky, and meteors and meteorites landed in the nearby wilderness, and meteorites were the best material for making weapons.  One, that's why the old man went to the wild to look for meteorite that day, but he couldn't find the meteorite, but he happened to pick up Xiao Yi by the river on the way.

    Fortunately, a blacksmith friend of Lao Dao got a piece of meteorite iron. Unfortunately, the piece of meteorite iron was not heavy enough to make a large weapon, so he decided to make three daggers and agreed to give one of them to Lao Dao in return for his original kindness.  favor.

    The blacksmith shop is at the west end of the town, and the sound of knocking can be heard from time to time. The master and the apprentice came to the door of the blacksmith shop. There was a cloth sail erected at the door, which said: "Niu's Blacksmith Shop", with a handle painted underneath.  The hammer seems to be the symbol of the blacksmith shop.

    The front and back two-story courtyard is made of gravel, mud and plant roots. Inside, a sturdy man is slamming a long iron block on the chopping board with a hammer. Two teenagers are doing it next to them.  He must be the blacksmith's apprentice. There are some forged weapons and farm tools lined up beside the wall.

    The folk customs here are martial, and men love weapons, so the blacksmith shop's business is particularly good.

    Early iron was formed by direct reduction of ore, with low carbon content and soft texture.  In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Du Shi invented the iron-smelting water drain, which used water energy to drive the bellows to blow air, further increasing the iron-smelting temperature.  During this period, iron-making technology developed rapidly, and technologies such as casting, forging, softening, carburizing, etc. became increasingly mature.  However, in order to get a good piece of steel, pig iron must be heated and forged repeatedly, which requires a lot of materials and manpower to produce hundreds of times of steel.

    Later, Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty, Cao Cao, used the method of repeated heating and forging to make Baipi swords, with dragons, tigers, bears, birds, and sparrows as their recognitions. There were five swords in total, one each for Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, and Cao Lin. Cao Cao made two swords for himself.  .  Due to Cao Cao's noble status at the time and the manpower and material resources he could mobilize, he was able to create five Baipi knives. This shows how difficult it was to make swords in this era and the cost of forging them was high.

    Seeing the arrival of the old man, the blacksmith quickly put down the sledgehammer in his hand, bowed his hands and saluted: "Well done, Master Immortal."  Wearing a cowhide apron, on his bronze arms, the veins are prominent and intertwined like a dragon, the thick finger joints, the thick calluses at the tiger's mouth, and the little scars show that he has lived with Mars for a long time.

    The blacksmith¡¯s name is Niu Hong. His family has been a forger for generations, but he is not a local aborigine. Instead, he suddenly came to the town with his wife and nephew a few years ago to make a living by making farm tools and sometimes making weapons for others.

    ?Behind him were two young men, one of whom was thick and stocky, with a fat head and big ears, and honest eyes. He wore bull-nosed shorts, a leather skirt tied around his waist, and thin-soled fast boots.  He also held a small-sized hammer in his hand, as if it were made from the same mold as the Niu Blacksmith, only two sizes too small.

    The other young man has a slender figure, broad and powerful arms, and a pair of sparkling eyes. He is obviously a smart person. Especially when the young man looks at Lao Dao, there is a sense of longing. When he sees Xiao Yi standing behind Lao Dao,  He actually showed an extremely envious look.  The two of them also saluted quickly and called them "immortal master".

    "Why are you envious? Is being a Taoist priest an enviable profession these days?" Xiao Yi noticed the envious looks in the two young men's eyes and couldn't help but look at the Hunyuan Bagua Taoist robe on his body.

    "This is Pindao's new disciple, whose Taoist name is 'Wuchouzi'.

    Xiao Yi bowed his head and saluted like a busy scholar: "Immeasurable Heavenly Lord, I have seen the Niu layman!"

    "Don't dare, don't dare, the little immortal master is so polite!" Blacksmith Niu waved his hands while his eyes shone brightly. He was obviously very surprised to hear that the old Taoist had accepted a disciple.  This made Xiao Yi once again doubt whether being a Taoist priest was really a promising career.

    Niu Blacksmith pointed at the stout young man and introduced to Xiao Yi: "The dog is Niuwei, whose nickname is 'Daniu'; Daniu smiled innocently and nodded to Xiao Yi to show his goodwill.

    The blacksmith pointed to a slender young man and said: "My nephew Ma Ning, because he is the sixth in the family, his nickname is 'Ma Liu'." Ma Liu bowed his hands in salute, and Xiao Yi hurriedly bowed his head in return, not forgetting to say: "  Infinite Heavenly Lord.¡±

    As the saying goes, being a monk for a day makes a difference No, it is a Taoist priest reciting a sutra for a day. What¡¯s more, it is now discovered that the career prospects of a Taoist priest are promising.

    In this way, in the blacksmith shop of this small town, Xiao Yi, the "Shenwei Tiance General" of the Wei Dynasty who would be powerful in the future, and his subordinates Niu Wei and Ma Ning, known as Niu Wei and Ma Ning, completed the first task in life.  meeting.  This year, Xiao Yi is 14 years old, Daniel is 17 years old, and Ma Liu is 16 years old.

    "Three Kingdoms" later recorded in Wei Shu:

    "Niu Wei, whose courtesy name is Zhenyuan and whose nickname is 'Daniu', is a native of Yuyang County, Youzhou. His father, Niu Hong, is a master swordsmith. Niu Wei was a poor boy and made a living by forging iron with his father. From time to time, Xiao Yi, the 'Wuchouhou', followed him.  His master Chuchenzi came to visit. Niu Wei was impressed by the wisdom of Marquis Wuchou and followed him all his life. His posthumous title was the Great General Zhengnan of the Great Wei Dynasty, the title of Duke, and the Marquis of Zhenyuan. Niu Wei often said: "My parents are the ones who gave birth to me, and the wise ones who opened my soul are Wuchou."  Hou Ye!

    "Ma Ning, whose courtesy name is Zhiyuan and whose nickname is Ma Liu. He is a native of Xiliang. His father was a court horse breeder. He was killed by the traitor Dong Zhuo. He wandered in Yuyang and went to his uncle Niu Hong to make a living by blacksmithing. He later followed his cousin Marquis Zhenyuan.  Niu Wei met Xiao Yi, the Marquis of Wuchou, and followed him all his life. His posthumous title was the Great General of Zhengbei in the Wei Dynasty, and he was named Marquis of Zhiyuan. Ma Ning often said: "It is a blessing to meet Marquis Wuchou, Ning, for three lifetimes!"  "(Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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