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The initial plan of Chang'an officials was to allow the King of Han and his family to live directly into the newly repaired Weiyang Palace, but they were opposed by Liu Jing. The people's land was not managed, the people's hearts were not picked up, and they entered luxury first, which was not the way to build a country. This was the reason why Liu Jing opposed it.

Chang'an officials changed their plans and temporarily closed the Weiyang Palace, allowing the King of Han and his family to move into Xiyuan Palace. This was the temporary palace when Emperor Ling of Han Liu Hong inspected Chang'an. It was nominally a palace, but in fact it was a large mansion covering an acre of land. It was far from comparable to the Weiyang Palace covering an area of ​​thousands of acres. However, it was also exquisite and elegant. The painting pavilion corridor, the clear springs gathered into a lake, and the weeping willows swaying by the lake, which had a unique artistic conception.

The princess and other family members were busy moving into their new residence, but Liu Jing went directly to the large military camp outside the northern city to inspect and condolence the soldiers. The Han army had 100,000 troops in Guanzhong area, 50,000 troops in Longxi, Hehuang and Hexi areas, and 150,000 troops in the entire Guanlong area, of which 80,000 troops were directly stationed around Chang'an, mainly divided into places, namely the famous Bashang, Jimen and Xiliuzuo military camps. Due to their important geographical location, they are still in use.

Liu Jing inspected the military camp as the Zhijun camp in Chang'an. It was located in the former site of Changle Palace outside the northern city. There were 20,000 soldiers. He was mainly responsible for the defense of Chang'an city and maintaining order in Chang'an. The military camp occupied a large area. After the Changle Palace was demolished, a flat foundation was left, which happened to be used to garrison the troops.

Accompanied by Zhao Yun and Zhang Ren, Liu Jing climbed to the magnificent Xiquetai. The Xiquetai in Changle Palace and the Dongquetai in Weiyang Palace echoed each other, forming a spectacular double-que landscape. Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han, climbed to this Xiquetai and overlooked the world and enfeoffed the princes and kings.

However, at this time, the Xique Platform was changed to a military parade platform, and you can overlook the military camp covering thousands of acres. Of course, you can also see the majestic Weiyang Palace in the west. Liu Jing came to the railing, held the railing and looked into the distance. In the distance, there was the surging Wei River, flowing eastward and looking up at the railing, which made people feel open-minded.

There were dense military camps under the Que platform, and soldiers could be seen lined up in training in the open space. Liu Jing turned around and asked Zhao Yun and Zhang Ren with a smile: "Why don't you see the cavalry training?"

Zhang Ren stepped forward and said, "Report to Your Highness, there are 20,000 Chang'an garrisons here, and there are thousands of cavalrymen, but the cavalry went to the West Navy camp for training. It will take half a year to train and will not be back in two months."

Going to the Xihai Plateau for training is a national policy formulated by Liu Jing. Almost every soldier has to go to the Xihai Military Camp to train for half a year, which has a significant effect on improving the physical strength of soldiers. This plays an important role in improving the combat effectiveness of southern soldiers with weak strength and physiques.

Liu Jing nodded, he looked down at the entire barracks, walked down the quetai, and came to the soldiers' barracks. A group of people walked into a large tent. Several soldiers who had just finished training were resting. Suddenly, they saw the large group walking into it, which scared them all stood up.

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "This is His Highness the King of Han coming to visit you."

The soldiers hurried forward to salute, and Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled, "You're welcome, please sit down and talk."

He sat down, and the soldier sat timidly opposite him. At this time, several soldiers from the tent came in quietly and surrounded them on both sides. Liu Jing turned around and smiled at the soldiers, "Sit down, just sit down."

The soldiers sat on the ground one after another. Liu Jing asked the famous soldiers with a smile: "What are your names? Where are they from?"

"Report to Your Highness, you are a nobleman, Yang Qing, a native of Hejian County."

"I am a man named Luo Xiaoliu, a native of Hanzhong."

"I am a man from Qianchuan, a native of Longxi."

Liu Jing asked a black soldier with a smile and said, "You are actually from Hejian County. How could you appear here? Are you the soldier who was captured at the beginning?"

The black soldier scratched his head and said, "Your Highness, I only joined the army this year. I heard that the taxes in Guanzhong are very low, so our family of seven came to Guanzhong from Hejian County to make a living. I ranked first at home. In order to get twenty acres of military land, my parents let me join the army."

The soldier's frankness made everyone laugh. Liu Jing nodded and asked again, "Then how much land is there in your family now?"

"The whole family of Beizhi was placed in Lantian County. The whole family was seven, and they cultivated 10 to 20 acres of land and had two bulging cows."

"Is the land owned by yourself?" Liu Jing asked again.

"Report to Your Highness, seventy acres are the land that belongs to you, twenty acres are military land. As long as you have been in the army for five years, the military land belongs to you. The other ten acres are rented official land. As long as you continue to cultivate and do not put a waste, you can get tax exemption within five years."

Liu Jing turned around and asked more than 20 soldiers and said, "How many of you are the same as him."

More than a dozen soldiers raised their hands. At this time, Zhao Yun said: "Most of the soldiers of the garrison are new soldiers, and more than 70% are northerners, and most of them are Hebei people. According to statistics, there are more than 8,000 soldiers from Hebei."

Liu Jing asked the black soldiers curiously, "Why are there too many soldiers from Hebei?"

The soldier sighed and said, "Most people in Hebei miss Yuan Benchu. After Cao Cao unified Hebei, he collected heavy taxes on Hebei counties. In addition, a large number of strong men were forcibly arrested to join the army. We Hebei people have always had hatred for Cao Cao. Two of my clan brothers died in the Battle of Red Cliff, and my elder brother was also captured in the Battle of Red Cliff. Later, His Royal Highness of the Han King released him back, which made our whole family very grateful. This time, a fellow villager said that Guanzhong was recruiting people, so my parents immediately decided to lead the whole family to Guanzhong to repay His Royal Highness's kindness to release his elder brother."

The soldier's statement also made Liu Jing quite moved. He did not expect that his decision made so many people feel grateful to him until now. It can be seen that the people have a scale in their hearts, and they know very well which is right and wrong.

At this time, a guard squeezed into the tent and said in Liu Jing's ear: "Captain Ma is here, waiting outside the tent."

Liu Jing nodded, stood up and smiled, "I won't disturb everyone's rest. Everyone should train hard. Please remember my words: I usually shed more sweat and less blood in wartime."

Everyone bowed and bowed together, "Abide by the order"

Liu Jing walked out of the tent, and Ma Jun, who was waiting outside the tent, immediately stepped forward and bowed: "See Your Highness."

"When will Captain Ma come back?"

"Report to your highness, I have just rushed back. Please follow me to inspect the Ordnance Academy."

"Thank you for your hard work, let's go now."

Liu Jing immediately said goodbye to Zhao Yun and others, and led the guards and Ma Jun out of the military camp gate.

The Ordnance Academy is located in the west of the city. It is a wilderness covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand acres. It is surrounded by Yingzha and a small river flows through the northeast corner and pours into the Wei River. The building part of the Ordnance Academy covers an area of ​​about acres and consists of dozens of houses and courtyard houses of all sizes. Currently, there are more than 2,000 craftsmen and students of the Ordnance Academy, divided into ten branches, including crossbow bows, shield armor, swords and spears, firearms, military ships, etc.

In Liu Jing's plan to attack Hu, various new weapons against Hu Qi will play an important role, including long-range attack crossbow arrows.

In fact, in recent years, the Han army has equipped Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry with many new weapons, such as the turbulent oil missile used when shooting Shangfang Valley, with a five-step range. For example, the improved yellow crossbow, which originally required four or five people to be manipulated, reduced the ten-stone yellow crossbow that was originally required to be controlled by seven stones, and reduced the weight by half, and two soldiers can operate it. At present, two thousand units have been created, with kill range step and arrows can pierce armor.

The reason why Liu Jing rushed to the Ordnance Academy was because he heard a news that Ma Jun led his apprentice to develop a continuous bee-firing crossbow, which was very harmful, which aroused Liu Jing's great interest, and even this factor included his rush to come to Chang'an this time.

Liu Jing and his group followed Ma Jun into the Ordnance Academy. Ma Jun smiled and said, "Do you want to visit the Ordnance Academy first, or go and see the new bee crossbow first?"

Liu Jing smiled and said, "Let's talk about the bee crossbow after visiting the Ordnance Academy, and I have been waiting for it for a long time."

"Since that's the case, Your Highness, please follow me."

Everyone went directly to the crossbow branch courtyard, which was an entrance courtyard. The front yard was a lecture hall, consisting of five main halls, which could accommodate up to five people to listen to lectures at the same time. The middle yard was a place to study new style of crossbows, consisting of more than twenty houses, and the back yard was a crossbow test field, which was an open land covering an area of ​​about ten acres, with a total of masters and disciples.

The reason why Ma Jun called it the new bee crossbow is because they invented the water bee crossbow in Jiangxiajiang as early as ten years ago in Jian'an. They used the big yellow crossbow to modify it and installed it on a small boat to shoot close-range shots on enemy ships, but the new bee crossbow invented this time is completely different.

In a display room, Liu Jing saw the new bee crossbow recommended by Ma Junli. It was indeed completely different from the water bee crossbow in the past. Liu Jing saw a square cabinet with a very similar shape to a wooden cow, but it had four wheels. Liu Jing patted the cabinet and smiled and said, "What is this, is it a four-wheeled wooden cow?"

Ma Jun smiled mysteriously and pulled a mechanism behind the cabinet. The cabinet slowly unbuttoned. Ma Jun's two apprentices quickly pulled open the cabinet board, and a cross-shaped crossbow frame appeared in front of him. The longitudinal axis was about six feet long and the horizontal axis was four feet long. They were all made of hard and fine walnut wood.

On the crossbow keel is attached to an iron box about two feet long. The iron box is made of fine iron and is very smoothly ground. There are dense small holes at the front end, as many as ten holes. An arrow is placed in each hole. There is a string of beef tendon at each end, and the other end is fixed on the horizontal axis of the crossbow chassis.

Liu Jing couldn't help laughing. Isn't this the enlargement of the defense crossbow on the wooden cow? Ma Jun understood Liu Jing's smile and explained: "This kind of bee crossbow is actually a kind of continuous crossbow. The wooden cow crossbow has the same idea as it, but the wooden cow crossbow has a short range, only fifty steps. The range of this bee crossbow has steps and can be fired continuously, and its power is far greater than that of the wooden cow crossbow."

Ma Jun pulled out a crossbow arrow and handed it to Liu Jing, "In fact, the most difficult point in development is this arrow. Please check it out."

Liu Jing took the heavy crossbow arrow and found that it was an iron arrow, about one foot long, and the arrow weighed at least ten taels. He frowned and asked, "How could it be an iron arrow?"

Ma Jun spoke very slowly, but his mouth was already very clear, and he could say long words. If it was the first time he met him, he would never have thought that he was a serious stuttering patient a few years ago. Ma Jun used great perseverance that ordinary people could not imagine to have gradually overcome the chronic disease that had troubled him since childhood.

"The arrow has many feathers and good balance, but the flight speed is slow. The crossbow arrow has few feathers, but the stability is poor and it is easy to turn somersaults in the air. Our iron crossbow arrow has no feathers. Feathers will seriously affect the launch. At first we used wooden arrows, but they were always unsuccessful. Later, we found that it was because it was light and was greatly affected by the wind, so we changed to iron arrows, and the stability was greatly increased and we were no longer blown by the wind."

"Can the balance problem be solved by using iron arrows?" Liu Jing asked again.

"It just solved the problem of swaying left and right, but the problem of rolling back and forth has also taken a lot of effort."

Ma Jun took an iron arrow, crossed his fingers and said to Liu Jing: "Your Highness, please take a closer look at the appearance of this iron arrow."

Liu Jing went forward and looked closely. Although the entire crossbow arrow looked very symmetrical at first glance, if you looked closely, you would find that the front end was slightly thick and the tip of the arrow was spindle-shaped. He nodded and said, "The front was heavy and the back was light."

"Yes, the key is here. Dozens of crossbow arrows shot out from an elevation angle and flew out an arc. They will turn their heads downwards and use the weight of the iron arrows themselves to penetrate downwards. The power is amazing. We have done many experiments and can penetrate two layers of leather armor outside the step."

Liu Jing couldn't help but feel expectant and smiled and said, "I want to see his power with my own eyes."
Chapter completed!