Chapter 76 The test is coming
Before dawn, everyone in the South Blacksmith Camp gathered together.
The old blacksmith masters were okay. Regular tests were an examination of their skills, and they were already used to it.
The apprentices are eager to show off their skills in this test, and it is best to become a full-time employee directly.
Even if I think I can't do it, I still want to see it.
After all, people from the four major blacksmith camps would come to the regular test once a year. For the blacksmiths, this was a grand event.
If you can't do other things, you can still join in the fun.
Fifteen old masters including Zhao Yankui, Qi Blacksmith, and Tang Blacksmith walked at the front, all carrying ironware wrapped in linen.
As an apprentice, Jiang Lin is the only one in the same row as them.
No one thought it was inappropriate. After this test, Master Jiang's reputation was completely stable.
"This test is the day when our Nan Blacksmith Camp becomes a blockbuster. I don't want to say anything else. All you need to do is to raise your spirits! Who dares to glare at you and beat the hell out of you! If you fall, the South Blacksmith Camp's Awesome, I will be the first one not to spare him when I come back!”
The blacksmiths and apprentices all echoed loudly.
Zhao Yankui then waved his hand: "Let's go!"
There were nearly six hundred people in total, and they were so majestic that they could raise a cloud of dust whenever they walked. The momentum was extraordinary.
A piece of rice cake prepared last night was hard and hard to swallow.
But everyone ate it as if it were the most delicious food in the world.
If you don't fill your stomach, how can you have the strength to compete with others!
The regular test is at the Foundry Department, which is located in Kyoto. It takes at least half an hour to walk from Minami Blacksmith Camp.
Except for delivering weapons to the Nanling Camp with Old Man Wei last time, this is the second time Jiang Lin has left the Nanling Camp.
The path he took was completely different, and he looked around curiously.
Zhao Yankui pointed in one direction and said: "More than ten miles over there, there is a river called Juliu, which is wide and long. The river is not fast, and the boat rides on it very smoothly. Most of the flower boats in Kyoto are there. On the river, the girls are in full bloom, the prices are fair, and their skills are extraordinary.”
In the first half, Jiang Lin was still listening carefully, wanting to expand his geographical knowledge.
As a result, I felt something was wrong when I heard it. Is this changing from geography to biology?
He quickly said: "Master, I didn't say I wanted to go."
"Sooner or later, we have to go." Zhao Yankui laughed and said, "Which young boy doesn't yearn for the Juliu River? At worst, you can secretly go there in the middle of the night, and we can just pretend not to know."
The old blacksmiths all around laughed loudly, and some even started chatting directly about which flower boat's girl was more beautiful, whose "skills" were more outstanding, how he had made those girls scream and beg for mercy, and so on.
Jiang Lin finally understood what the word "囧" meant.
But once interrupted by these people, the journey was not that far.
As we talked, the tall city walls of Kyoto were already in sight.
The city wall is five feet high. The closer you get, the more you feel as if you are walking in front of a huge mountain.
Even though he was used to seeing tall buildings hundreds of meters tall in his previous life, this was the first time Jiang Lin saw such a majestic building in this world.
The entire Kyoto is also astonishingly large. The wall alone stretches for tens of thousands of meters, and the end is not visible in the distance.
The city gate is two feet high and three feet wide, and there are more than one gate, there are three gates. This size design is obviously for wartime preparations. Once a war breaks out, a large number of troops can emerge in a short period of time.
As for whether having too many city gates will increase the difficulty of one's own defense, according to Zhao Yankui, there is no need to consider it at all.
Daqian has been a country for four hundred years. It has always expanded outwards and conquered endlessly, and it has never been invaded.
If one day people really attack the city, no matter what the city gate is, they can just rush out and fight to the death.
When Jiang Lin thought about it, it was indeed true.
A powerful dynasty that can conquer for four hundred years may not be able to bear the humiliation of being beaten to the gates of Kyoto, so it will just open the city gates wide and defend its final dignity with its life!
As soon as they reached the city gate, loud shouts came from the back.
Jiang Lin turned around and looked back, only to see dust rising behind him with great force.
Among the thousands of people in the team, dozens of tall men with bulging muscles and strong breaths walked at the front to clear the way.
Zhao Yankui snorted and said: "This East Blacksmith Battalion likes to be in the limelight. They deliberately make dust fly all over the sky every time, as if this makes them look very powerful."
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Jiang Lin looked carefully and saw many people deliberately kicking the road with their feet, raising dust.
However, this is one of the other three blacksmith camps?
There are too many people!
There are more than 600 people in the South Blacksmith Camp, which is not a small number. But looking at the East Blacksmith Camp, there are probably two to three thousand people.
Zhao Yankui said: "Except for our Nan Blacksmith Camp, the other companies all have at least three thousand people, and sometimes there are four or five thousand. Otherwise, why do you think we get a maximum of 10% of the work every year? Sometimes we don't even get 10%." Can’t get it.”
Jiang Lin silently looked at the team of thousands of people and felt the gap between them.
No wonder Zhao Yankui was not reprimanded for speaking like that when Yu Maoming came last. Compared with the other three blacksmith camps, South Blacksmith Camp really suffered a lot.
"Master, don't be anxious. In a few years, we may not have fewer people than them." Jiang Lin said.
Zhao Yankui smiled happily when he heard this. He patted Jiang Lin's arm as thick as an iron pillar and said, "This is what you said. When can the South Blacksmith Camp surpass the other three, Master will give you a wife!"
Jiang Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Did he look like he needed a woman to warm his bed?
The people from the Foundry Department had already come to the city gate in advance to wait. Otherwise, if the soldiers had to check one by one, how long would it take for so many people to wait?
At the gate of the city, in addition to the familiar deputy craftsman Yuan Gaohao, there was also deputy craftsman Qiu Weiren.
"Sir Yuan, Sir Qiu." Zhao Yankui led Jiang Lin and others over and bowed his hands.
After Yuan Gaohao handed over his hands, he curiously looked at the linen bags carried by more than a dozen people and asked, "What is this packed in? Is it a specialty of my hometown? It's so bulging."
Zhao Yankui said with a smile: "It can be considered a specialty. Except for our South Blacksmith Camp, it is rare in other places."
Yuan Gaohao was stunned. He was originally joking, but he didn't expect Zhao Yankui to actually pick him up. He couldn't help but become more curious, what are the specialties of South Blacksmith Camp?
"Master Zhao seems to be in good spirits. I am afraid that after this regular test, he will be called Master Zhao." A dark and muscular man with a similar build to Zhao Yankui came over and said.
Zhao Yankui raised his eyebrows and said: "Yuan Bingqi, if you are not convinced, we can just compete in front of the master craftsman in the regular test. There is no need to act like a bitch here."
That's right, the person who came here is Yuan Gaohao's nephew, one of the master craftsmen of the East Blacksmith Camp, and Yuan Bingqi who competes with Zhao Yankui for the position of deputy craftsman this year!
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