The sky was drizzling, and the river surface became hazy, and the visibility was reduced a lot. The passenger ships departed from Qinghe County Wharf could not help but slow down some of the ship speed after sailing from Liuhe River into Xijiang.

A woman sat in the cabin with a baby in a swaddling clothes near the window. The latch of the window was damaged and could not be completely closed. As soon as the rain started, the slanting wind and drizzle on the river surface mixed with a hint of cold air flew in through the gap in the window. The baby who was sleeping in the swaddling clothes started to cry.

The woman with the child covered the baby's swaddle clothes tightly to cover the wind, rain and cold outside, while coaxing the child. The wind and rain outside made the unclosed window clatter. The woman wanted to reach out to pull up the window, but she also wanted to hold it and coax the child. She couldn't help but feel embarrassed for a moment, and the child's crying became louder and louder...

"Sister, if you don't mind, why don't we change seats..." At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind the woman. The woman holding the child looked back and saw a handsome young man wearing royal blue clothes with red lips, white teeth, and clear temperament standing up from the seat behind him and looking at him with a smile.

The young man was sitting in the chair behind the woman, with no window next to it, just blocking the slanting wind and drizzle flying in through the window.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much..." The woman hurriedly stood up with the child in her arms, thanking her, and changing seats with the boy.

The boy sat in front and placed a leather bag on his knees. The little wind and rain that blew in from the window was blocked by his leather bag and could not fall on him. Then the boy was leisurely, turned his head and enjoyed the scenery on the river outside with interest.

This young man is Yan Liqiang. Today, it was August 27, the 12th year of Yuanping. Yan Liqiang left Liuhe Town and Qinghe County a day earlier and went to the National Museum in Pingxi County to report.

The 14 or 15-year-old boy is the time to grow up. During these two months, Yan Liqiang has been practicing the Yijin Jing every day, practicing diligently. His height has grown by more than an inch higher in just two months, and his body is more upright and full of strength. Even his temperament, compared with the two months, has revealed some differences from the inside out. His eyes are particularly clear and agile. Anyone who sees it will praise him in his heart. What a beautiful young man.

In the past two months, apart from being busy with cultivation, Yan Liqiang no longer needs to worry about the affairs of Yan Liqiang's family.

Yan Dechang's body has gradually recovered. Apart from some heavy work such as ironwork, his entire actions have basically no impact. A few days ago, Yan Dechang began to slowly teach Zhou Tiezhu his temperature and the secret of making steel in the blacksmith workshop.

These skills were originally Yan Dechang's master's skills and would not be taught to his apprentice easily. However, when the Yan family encountered a crisis this time, Zhou Tiezhu showed his responsibility and character, and worked hard to overcome the crisis with the Yan family. Yan Dechang saw all this and was moved. After this crisis, he officially taught his true blacksmith kung fu to Zhou Tiezhu.

In the two months when Yan Liqiang won the third place in the Guoshu County Examination, the reputation of the Yan Family Blacksmith Workshop in Liuhe Town spread like wildfire. Not only in Liuhe Town, but also in the surrounding towns, but also in many counties, they will come to visit each other. The business of the Yan Family Blacksmith Workshop has improved more than ten times at once, and there are endless customers coming to the door every day.

In this case, Yan Dechang, in accordance with Yan Liqiang's suggestion, renovated and expanded the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, and recruited six disciples from the town who had always wanted to be apprentices in the blacksmith workshop, and gave Zhou Tiezhu 30% of the shares of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop, allowing Zhou Tiezhu, the senior brother, to start taking the junior brother and becoming a master.

In this way, after teaching Zhou Tiezhu some of his skills, Yan Dechang later became the shopkeeper and director of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop, and Zhou Tiezhu became the master of the hammer and the person in charge of the specific work in the blacksmith workshop.

Not only that, under Yan Liqiang's insistence, the management ideas of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop have also been completely changed.

In the past, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop was no different from other blacksmith workshops. They all had all blacksmith workshops, from daily farm tools, hoes, horseshoes, to horse nails, locks, to kitchen knives, sickles, axles, swords, heart protection mirrors, and fire sickles... All of this, as long as the customers have a need, the Yan family's blacksmith shop can help build it. Now, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop only creates one thing - swords, that is, weapons.

Yan Dechang was a little hesitant at the beginning of making such a major change in the management of the blacksmith workshop, but Yan Liqiang easily convinced Yan Dechang - there are so many guests coming to the door now, and there are many things to create. According to the size of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop, even if you recruit ten more apprentices, you can't handle it. If you want to push the guests out and not take the job of the guests, you will offend the guests. The Yan family will be scolded and destroyed. If you take all the jobs, you will have to.

All the blacksmiths who have been guilty of being jealous of the peers in the village, because the business of other blacksmith workshops and blacksmith shops is to create the most common farm tools, hoes, horseshoes, horse nails, door buckles, kitchen knives, fire sickles, etc. You have taken all the work in the surrounding villages. What do you let other blacksmith shops and colleagues eat? In this case, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop can only completely avoid this problem if it concentrates the products on items such as swords and swords and declares to the outside world to make one.

Things like swords and weapons are one of the most profitable, the other is the wide demand, and there is no direct competitive relationship with the blacksmith workshops around them. In the future, Yan's blacksmith shop specially built swords and swords will not have much impact on other blacksmith shops. They will not destroy the jobs of their peers around them, nor will they offend customers who come to the door. They can also gain a good reputation. As long as the swords created by Yan's blacksmith shop are of good quality, they will not worry about not having sales.

As for the quality of swords, although Yan Blacksmith cannot create any top-quality swords, there is no problem if it is to create a high-quality sword.

Just a week ago, a brand new iron art sign was hung on the blacksmith workshop of the Yan family, which was completed and expanded. The sign was just four words - Yan's sword.

Yan Liqiang used his painting skills and designed a unique trademark full of artistic sense for his sword products - a tiger and a flying dragon formed an abstract and concise circling circle. In this circle, there was a word Yan. Yan Liqiang told Yan Dechang that in the future, all swords produced by Yan's swords would be stamped with this steel mark and put on this mark, indicating that this thing was created by the Yan family.

The craftsmen of this era are still a little unfamiliar with the concept of trademarks, let alone intangible assets. However, Yan Liqiang, who has lived for two lifetimes, is very clear about the significance of it.

Yan Dechang was a little dissatisfied before, but when he saw the word Yan in the mark that Yan Liqiang took out, a solemn sense of honor still rose in his heart. He told Yan Liqiang that since the word Yan was dropped on the sword, the sword that passed through the sword must not be sold without his inspection in the future, so as not to ruin the reputation of the Yan family.

Yan Liqiang is naturally happy to see this.

In addition to the big change in the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, Yan Liqiang asked Lu Wenbin to buy land and shops, and also made up his mind.

Coincidentally, the land and shops that Lu Wenbin bought for the Yan family were the property of the Hong family before.

After Mr. Hong's death, the news that the Hong family hired a murderer to deal with the Yan family's father and son was circulating in Qinghe County, and almost everyone knew that Qinghe County directly took back the 200 acres of land for the Hong family's raising soldiers in advance on the grounds that the descendants of the Hong family had lost their morality and disorderly laws.

The Hong family was divided and attracted the covetousness of outsiders. The Hong family had more than 400 acres of land in Yuntao County and two oil noodles workshops, but in the end, some local snakes in Yuntao County took the IOUs made by Hong An and took them away. The rest of the Hong family were all wine bags. A few Hong family's children went to Yuntao County to file a lawsuit. The lawsuit was not won, and the land and workshop were completely helpless.

Without Yuntao County's industry, the Hong family's people competed for the remaining land and houses of the Hong family in Liuhe Town. In the end, the remaining Hong family simply divided the land and houses of the family equally. After dividing these properties, the Hong family was worried that in a few days, someone would use some IOU to make trouble. In addition, the Hong family's reputation in Qinghe County and Liuhe Town became bad. Yan Liqiang won a top three in the Guoshu County exam. The Yan family's status in Liuhe Town is different now. In order to fear that the Yan family's revenge, the Hong family was anxious to turn those land and houses into money, put them into money, and then leave Liuhe Town with money.

In this case, after Manager Lu discussed with Yan Liqiang, he came forward and directly connected the more than 460 acres of Shanghaoyuan, which was connected by the descendants of the Hong family in Liuhe Town, as well as the six two-story shops and two oil noodles workshops in the town, in the name of the Lu family, and then transferred them to the Yan family in the name of the Lu family.

During the whole process, Manager Lu did everything without any mistakes, so that no one could find any problems. When he was trading with the Hong family, Manager Lu also hired witnesses and contractors. After delivering the land deeds and house deeds of the Hong family, he went to the Qinghe County yamen to record and record. Later, when the Lu family transferred these things to the Yan family, he went through the procedures again.

The Hong family's old house in Liuhe Town and other fragmented land industries were bought by several other wealthy families in Liuhe Town.

After selling all the property, the Hong family moved away from Liuhe Town one by one. The entire Hong family disappeared in Liuhe Town in the blink of an eye. Except for Hong Tao, who was already crazy and was ridiculed by children every day, he left nothing.

The Yan family also became a large household and landlord with hundreds of acres of fertile land in Liuhe Town. The former Hong family's employed farmers all moved to the Yan family and signed a contract with the Yan family, becoming the Yan family's employed farmers.

The family business suddenly grew bigger, and management and care were also needed. In this case, Zhou Hongda and his wife stayed directly in the Yan family. Both of them were diligent and diligent. Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu Ma were responsible for the family affairs, cooking and cleaning every day, and Zhou Hongda became the first manager of the Yan family.

There were too many people at home to eat, and Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu Ma could no longer handle it. As a last resort, he found a few maids and servants. As a manager, Zhou Hongda often had to collect rent and deal with the hired farmers. Sometimes it was useless to rely solely on words, and he could not take care of the money and grains he had to take care of. The Yan family hired two more guards.

So many people have to eat and live in the Yan family on weekdays, but the Yan family’s previous house was not enough to live in. When Yan Liqiang left Liuhe Town, the new Yan family’s mansion located by Liuhe River was in full swing...

After the name of Yan's sword was expelled, Yan Dechang was still a little worried these days. He didn't know if his blacksmith workshop could support so many apprentices. So before leaving, Yan Liqiang drew a new weapon pattern for Yan Dechang, so that the Yan family's blacksmith workshop would create and produce this thing in the future...

The weapon pattern left by Yan Liqiang is the Nepalese scimitar commonly known as dog legs.

During the last life, on Earth, Nepal's scimitar shape was strange, but it was known as the most consistent with the principles of mechanics in the world.

With this weapon that subverts the impression of many cultivators and warriors of this era, Yan Liqiang is absolutely confident that he can expose the brand of Yan's sword...

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Chapter completed!