As the Northern Expedition draws closer, the Han army's demand for various types of ordnance is naturally increasing day by day. Therefore, the Sijin Zhonglang Mansion, which used to occupy a large area, has now become wider. According to Yang Qing's estimation, the weapons workshop is almost 100% larger than before. doubled.
When Yang Qing found Pu Yuan, he was coming out of a blast furnace iron-making room with his upper body naked. Sweat flowed down his face and was mixed with dirt, making his originally dark face look even dirtier. He looks a little embarrassed on the outside, but judging from the smile on his lips, today's results are probably very good.
"Why did Yang Dajun come to my place free today?" Pu Yuan said angrily when he saw Yang Qing standing in the distance waving.
He is really afraid of seeing Yang Qing now. Every time Yang Qing comes to Jin Mansion to look for him, he does nothing good. He either makes him work as a coolie to do this or that, or he wants to take away many of his good things.
At this moment, he still felt vaguely that something was not right in his heart, and thought to himself that this boy would not do anything bad again today!
"Of course I miss you, sir." Yang Qing came over and said, "I haven't seen you since I came back from Soochow. I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you very much. Today I have prepared good wine and good food, and I came here specially to meet you. Let’s have a drink.”
Pu Yuan said with suspicion: "You have such good intentions, aren't you trying to trick someone again?"
"There is no trick. You must not accuse someone unjustly. I am here to visit my friend sincerely." Yang Qing said with some dissatisfaction: "If you don't believe me, Qing will leave now."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out, sighing as he walked: "Oh, what a pity for that jar of Zuichoulou's good wine!"
Zuichoulou is a famous restaurant in Chengdu. Its self-brewed wine is famous throughout Shu. The wine is fragrant and mellow. Pu Yuan, a wine lover, likes it very much. However, Ji Han limited the production of wine in order to save food. , so there are only a few dozen jars of wine in Zuichoulou every month. If you go there late, you won’t be able to taste the wine in this restaurant.
Pu Yuan was just pretending, but now that he heard about the fine wine from Zuichoulou, he still dared to take advantage of it. He quickly caught up with Yang Qing and said with a smile: "I believe it, I believe it. I still can't believe your reputation as Yang Mingzhi? Let's go." Come on, I'll go to the house to talk later."
After saying that, he didn't care how Yang Qing responded, and directly pulled Yang Qing towards his house here.
When he arrived at the house, Pu Yuan saw Zhou Xing standing in front of the door. He recognized that this person was Yang Qing's guard. When he saw that one of his hands was holding a food box and the other was holding a jar of wine, he immediately rushed to the house. He went forward and grabbed the wine.
"It turns out to be Jie Qianchou, good, good." Pu Yuan opened the jar and took a sip, his face full of intoxication.
Jie Qianchou is the most famous wine in Zuichou House. It means one drink to relieve a thousand worries. The quantity is even rarer. Pu Yuan was not happy when he saw it and couldn't wait to open the door and invite Yang Qing in.
"I said Pu Gong, you'd better wash up first if you're like this, otherwise wouldn't it be a bit disrespectful to taste the fine wine with this noble face?" After the wine and food were put on the table, Yang Qing saw that he wanted to start drinking wine right away. Drink, he quickly advised.
Pu Yuan looked at his dirty hands, smiled sheepishly, walked quickly into the back hall, and asked the waiter to fetch water.
After a while, he not only washed away the dirt on his body, but also changed his clothes and his messy hair was neatly styled.
"It finally works now, right?" Pu Yuan sat down opposite Yang Qing and said with a smile.
"Haha, sir, don't blame me for being meddlesome. You shouldn't eat and drink such fine wine and food carelessly." Yang Qing said righteously on the surface, but in fact, he didn't want to eat at the same table with Pu Yuan, who was covered in mess just now. , he can't eat it with that look.
Yang Qing filled the wine glass in front of Pu Yuan and said, "Come on, Pu Gong, let's have a full drink for you and me."
"Please, Ming." Pu Yuan drank it down in one gulp, a look of satisfaction suddenly appeared on his face.
"Good wine, good wine." He praised happily, and quickly poured himself a second glass: "Mingzhi, I drank this glass by myself." As he said that, he drank the wine slowly and closed his eyes. Reminisce slowly.
Seeing this, Yang Qing shook his head and smiled: "Pugong, don't just drink wine, eat some food. Not only the wine in Zuichoulou is delicious, the food is also very delicious."
Pu Yuan opened his eyes after hearing this, glanced at him, and poured himself another glass.
: "Mingzhi, otherwise I'll give you all these dishes and you won't drink the wine. I'll just drink."
"Haha, if others knew that Mr. Pu was like this, I think Pu Gong's reputation for good wine would be even more famous." Yang Qing said teasingly.
Pu Yuan also laughed when he heard this. After drinking a glass, he poured it for both of them.
After eating some food and wine, Pu Yuan put down his chopsticks and said, "Okay, I've eaten the food and drank the wine. If you have anything to say, just say it. Later, I have to go see that the new sleeve armor is ready. No."
"What, the sleeve armor has been improved?"
Tubular sleeve armor is different from the double armor. This type of armor has iron sleeve armor with shoulder pads on the shoulders, which increases the protection range. If used in conjunction with a high-top iron helmet, the protection of the sergeant is even more powerful.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang planned to gradually replace the double-dang armor in the Han army with sleeve armor and use it as the standard armor of the Han army to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Han army.
Pu Yuan nodded: "That's almost it. Prime Minister Zhuge also came to visit a few days ago and gave some good suggestions. Now the attachment of various parts of the armor is extremely suitable. It is estimated that this time the finished product will be ready, and at most it will be fine." Adjust it a little bit."
"I see. After the sleeve armor is made, will the Lord have a lot less things to do?"
Pu Yuandao: "What do you mean by this?"
"Hehe, it's not interesting. I mean, my father-in-law will be a lot more relaxed next time. Then he can go to Hanzhong with me. I heard that there are also fine wines in Hanzhong." Yang Qing said nonchalantly.
"Going to Hanzhong?" Pu Yuan exclaimed, "Why are you going to Hanzhong for no reason?"
"Wait a minute, I heard that you are going to be transferred to Hanzhong Prefect, do you mean to ask me to go with you?" He reacted quickly, and soon learned the real purpose of Yang Qing's visit today.
Yang Qing took a sip of wine and said, "Yes."
"Are you kidding me? Go to Hanzhong and ask me to do whatever you want!"
Yang Qingdao: "Of course I invite you to go to Hanzhong to forge weapons, otherwise I would not dare to let a great talent like you leave Chengdu for no reason."
"Going to Hanzhong to build weapons? Wait a minute, didn't the Prime Minister ask me to go with him to Hanzhong next year?" Pu Yuan asked confused.
"The Prime Minister will be stationed in Hanzhong next year. Does the Duke know about it?" This surprised Yang Qing. This matter is still top secret.
Pu Yuan said proudly: "Why shouldn't you know about this? Don't underestimate me, kid. As a great craftsman, I will definitely move with the army. When the army moves into Hanzhong, the weapons workshops will naturally have to move there. Moving the workshops is also a troublesome matter. Of course, the Prime Minister will tell me to prepare in advance."
"That's right. It's true that Qing didn't think it through well. However, I have told the Prime Minister that you should go to Hanzhong first to survey the copper and iron mines and select the location of the workshop. You can do the preliminary work first. If the time of moving north is advanced, You won’t be in a hurry.”
Seeing that what he said was serious, Pu Yuan immediately believed it: "Is this what the Prime Minister really means?"
"Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, go ask the Prime Minister." Yang Qing replied firmly.
"It's okay to go to Hanzhong first, but you have to wait until I finish the sleeve armor." Seeing that his expression didn't seem to be hypocritical, Pu Yuan had already believed it.
"Of course, my appointment hasn't been announced yet, and there are still a few days left."
Seeing that Pu Yuan believed, Yang Qing breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Today he came to trick Pu Yuan to go to Hanzhong with him, but he did not expect that Zhuge Liang would ask Pu Yuan to station in Hanzhong with the Prime Minister's Mansion and the army next year. He did not Obtain Zhuge Liang's consent to let Pu Yuan go ahead of time.
Fortunately, this was not a lie. Anyway, Zhuge Liang allowed him the right to choose his subordinates and retainers at will, and he believed that he could persuade Zhuge Liang to let him go. The reason he just told Pu Yuan actually made sense. He had to go to Hanzhong first. Carry out the preliminary work.
"That's good. I'll go north with you then." Pu Yuan said, "It's not bad to drink Hanzhong's wine in advance."
"Haha, I guarantee you can drink it." Yang Qing raised his glass and said in salute: "Pugong, please!"
