When he returned to Xiangyang, the work of building the city was coming to an end. Pang Tong had already started to set up defenses these days. Liu Yi found something helpless. The highest level of employment was only level 6. If you want these apprentices to have the same level as you... you have to increase the money, ten times more!

Level 6 to Level 7 seem to be a watershed, whether it is reflected in yourself or the people you hired. In fact, Level 6 has reached the peak of your skills. Going further up, in addition to being beautiful, the actual effect is more reflected in the attributes.

It was already dark. Liu Bei put down the official documents in his hand, stretched his muscles and bones. After reading it, it was still early, but he couldn't read it any more. At present, the three parties in Jingzhou were in a stage of accumulation of momentum, which moved his whole body. Whether it was Cao's army, Liu Bei or Sun Quan, it was a bit too quiet during this period, which made Liu Bei wonder whether there would be war.

During this period, he deals with some decision-making issues more, and he doesn't need to consider how to implement them. Zhuge Liang in Shu and Cuizhou Ping in Jingzhou are all capable people who will help Liu Bei handle things in an orderly manner. What he needs to do is just a choice in the general direction.

For example, the attitude towards some surrounding southern barbarians or mountain and yue, or some important counties should focus on farming as the main focus. Economic prosperity is not about commerce, at least not all. If you want to prosper, you need to have enough foundation to support it. The people are not hungry, so that they can have the spare time to consider whether to improve their quality of life. If even basic food and clothing become a luxury, what is the use of developing business?

It is precisely because of the fact that Liu Bei's life is very easy now that he has so many talents to help with his work, so he can let go of his hands and feet to deal with Cao's army and Sun Quan here without having to worry about the problems behind him.

Pang Tong and Guan Yu came in and reported to Liu Bei about the past few days. Recently, the mobilization of troops in Nanyang has become increasingly difficult to detect. The probes sent by Liu Bei are even difficult to get close to Cao's army, let alone to inquire about the other party's intelligence, and even set up many checkpoints on important roads everywhere. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the Jingzhou army to obtain Nanyang's intelligence.

But the more this happens, the more suspicious it will be.

However, the city wall of Xiangyang City has been built. For Liu Bei, it is the best choice to keep changing. No matter what the Cao army plans or attacks from, they must cross the hurdle of Xiangyang. The benefits of Guan Yu conquering Xiangyang will be revealed at this time. The ten-meter-high city wall established by Liu Yi, combined with various city guarding equipment, is even more powerful.

Back then, everyone estimated that it would take 80,000 troops to break through Xiangyang, but now the Cao army in Xiangyang City does not have a 100,000 troops, so don’t think about it.

"I heard that Bo Yuan has come back, why haven't you seen him these few days?" After chatting about business, Liu Bei relaxed, looked at the two of them, and asked in confusion.

"This..." Guan Yu and Pang Tong looked a little strange, and in the end, Guan Yu said: "For some reason, after Bo Yuan came back this time, he seemed to have changed a different person. He was quite dissatisfied with the new Xiangyang City. In the past few days, he has been bringing craftsmen to make some modifications."

"Isn't this wrong?" Liu Bei said in confusion. Is there nothing wrong with this?

Guan Yu smiled bitterly and said, "For some reason, Bo Yuan has very strict requirements on the appearance. The shooting platform on the city wall was already enough. He personally carved a tiger's head on the outer wall of each shooting platform. While using it to block arrows, the Pojun crossbow shot out of the tiger's mouth. It was originally only necessary to set up a baffle, but Bo Yuan had to spend time carving out 120 tiger's head shooting ports that were not very practical."

It looks very beautiful, and from outside the city, I feel even more majestic and domineering, but what are the practical uses? The problem that can be solved with a baffle is so complicated.

"Not only that!" Speaking of this, Pang Tong also complained a little: "The bracket has also been made into a dragon head. If you look outside the city, Xiangyang feels like a beast city, and the Pojun crossbow has been carved with a lot of patterns by Bo Yuan! I heard that he took people to carve the toilet today, but I don't know what it would look like."

When he thought of himself facing a lifelike tiger head when he was going to the toilet, Pang Tong felt that he would be frightened when going to the toilet in the future.

Anyway, I feel that after Liu Yi comes back this time, he becomes a little confused and has an inexplicable habit of various carvings.

"And." Guan Yu thought of something and waved to Zhou Cang at the door, asking him to hand the big knife in his hand to Liu Bei.

Liu Yi used to hit Zhou Cang's big knife, which was somewhat similar to the later Mo Dao. After Liu Yi came back this time, he went to Tiangongfang to design a new knife. The first one to experiment was Zhou Cang.

Liu Bei took Zhou Cang's big knife, with a three-foot long handle and a blade of about six feet, which is conducive to chopping. A dragon pattern is carved on the hilt, which is lifelike. The dragon's mouth is facing the blade, and even the blade on the back is carved with dragon patterns of dragons and tigers fighting. The carving is naturally useless. The blade is quite sharp, and no problem is found in both practicality and ornamentality.

"Good knife!" Liu Bei fought for half his life, and his views on weapons would naturally not be superficial. He could confirm that the knife was good when he held it in his hand. Moreover, the moment he bought the handle of the knife, Liu Bei felt a slight urge to fight, and his whole body seemed to be full of power.

"What's the problem with this knife?" Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu in confusion and said, "This knife is very good. It not only looks good, but also pleasing to the eye, but also very easy to use. It even has the help of God, and it is absolutely fine.

"Boyuan is preparing to equip this knife to the three armies. The new swords from Tiangongfang will be made according to this knife. According to what Boyuan said, there must be at least three thousand!" Guan Yu said speechlessly: "This knife is powerful, but ordinary soldiers can't wield it. Besides, how can all hold this weapon in an army?"

The most important thing is that if you sell such a knife, you will not bargain with a hundred thousand yuan. Now you tell me that every soldier is a handful of... Even if you are equipped with elite soldiers, Guan Yu feels that a weapon is more valuable than human life for the first time.

"Didn't Yun Chang talk to Bo Yuan?" Liu Bei said in confusion. Isn't Liu Yi the kind of person who is inhumane?

"I said that, so Bo Yuan began to design new armor, bows, shields and spears." Guan Yu sighed. He had read the design drawings. Not to mention whether it was useful or not. As for the drawings, they were all in the style of Zhao Yun's glass finishing gun.

Think about an army wearing chain armor and holding glass-finished guns. The scene is exciting. As for the bow, armor and shield designed by Liu Yi, it must not be too bad. However, if such an army is really driven to the battlefield, Guan Yu suddenly feels that the arrow with barbs developed by Cao's army is weak and cannot break the defense. But if Liu Bei really pulls up such an army, they will have to eat dirt for many years to come.

Just thinking about the iron ingots that need to be consumed, Cao Cao could suffocate to death. He could live until now and talk about this matter with Liu Bei. Guan Yu felt that his fate was hard.

"Although these weapons are good, ordinary soldiers may not be able to use them, right?" Liu Bei sighed. This knife alone has at least thirty kilograms. Those who can dance the knife must be as powerful as Zhou Cang. Ordinary generals may not be able to dance. Those who really have this ability can directly use it as a brave general.

Guan Yu nodded. This is the key to the problem. In recent years, the overall quality of the Jingzhou army has been constantly improving, but it has not yet reached the level of being a strong man in the entire army. Even if Liu Bei gritted his teeth and spent money on these things, he did not have an army that could use these weapons.

If weapons are good, if no one can use them, what is the difference between them and scrap iron? It is better to create more arrow clusters to use.

"But~" Liu Bei groped and smiled, "Boyuan's skills are much more sophisticated than they were back then!"

It is difficult to detect such things as progress, but if Liu Yi’s works ten years ago are compared with his current works, then the right and wrong will be judged immediately.

Liu Bei's double-stranded sword was made by Liu Yi when he just joined Liu Bei, including Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Sword and Zhang Fei's Snake Spear. However, compared with the long-handled sword in front of him, it felt that it was more than one level worse.

"It's true." Guan Yu smiled and said, "Yu has ordered people to recruit some tar and Yuntie. Please ask Bo Yuan to help me create a new knife."

He is a master of swordsmanship and knows better than Liu Bei's extraordinaryness in this long-handled sword. He asked Zhao Yun to take the lead back then, but this time, Guan Yu directly asked Liu Yi to help him cast the knife without hesitation at all.

"It is impossible for the soldiers of the three armies to use such weapons." Liu Bei groped through the blade and shook his head and said, "But let Bo Yuan forge weapons for some generals in the army. In addition, I remember that Bo Yuan once trained a shield soldier, which was quite powerful. You can use this method to form several special troops, select elite soldiers, and cooperate with Bo Yuan's weapons and armor, just like Gao Shun's trapped camp back then..."

At that time, Liu Bei and the three brothers suffered a lot of losses under Gao Shun's hands. Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun were almost destroyed by Gao Shun's camp. Liu Bei later built the Baili army and followed the example of the camp. But he always felt that something was not bad, so it was naturally impossible to be a problem of equipment. But if Liu Yi was to build the equipment, he might be able to find another way and build an army that was not inferior to the camp.

When Guan Yu heard this, his eyes lit up: "Brother's Bai Libing and my school knife hand seem to be fine."

Liu Bei nodded. This was just an idea. For details, we have to discuss with Liu Yi to see if there is any possibility of realization.

"Lord, why not go out of the city tomorrow?" Pang Tong looked at Liu Bei and suddenly smiled: "Although Bo Yuan was a little nonsense this time, the Xiangyang City looks a bit different from the past."
Chapter completed!