Lin Jian and Qin Chengzu left Baiyuan by car and returned to Jiyunju.

"Your knife is really not simple, the slash is extremely fast, I think there are few people on Changshan Island who can confidently block your knife," Qin Chengzu still recalled the knife that Lin Tie had chopped plum and broken branches in Baiyuan, and only then did he ask Lin Tie when he returned to Jiyunju, "By the way, what kind of knife technique did you learn?" It seems to be very rare to use a waist knife to directly slash with a knife. ”

"Let Mr. Qin laugh, where did I learn any swordsmanship?" Lin Jian said with a smile that he could only continue to lie in this matter to make it easier for others to accept, "I like to read some miscellaneous books and learn some miscellaneous techniques since I was a child, and when I was a teenager, I got a miscellaneous record called "Splitting Practice Record", which briefly said some methods of practicing splitting, I didn't take it seriously at the time, and I didn't think it was anything for a while, but I felt that it was useful after experiencing many things on Changshan Island. When I came back to Shiliang County, I wanted to find that book again to study carefully, but I didn't know where I had already dropped it. During this time, I relied on my vague memory to sort out some content, but there are still a lot of omissions, and I was about to mention it to Mr. Qin, and let Mr. Qin help see what there are still shortcomings......" Then let Liu Yue'er enter the house and take out the manuscript of the book that he had sorted out to explain the splitting technique.

"You and the leopard are together all day, he is an expert with a knife, what can I discern the shortcomings?" Qin Chengzu laughed, he stood on the steps in front of the corridor and waited for Liu Yue'er to take the "Splitting Practice Record" that Lin Jian had copied from memory, he was curious in his heart what kind of strange book made Lin Lian, a scholar who looked weak, make the knife so powerful.

The leopard that Qin Chengzu said in his mouth was Zhou Pu, a leopard in the forest, and Qin Chengzu's gang of rogue horses, no one could beat Zhou Pu with a knife.

The manuscript was very thin, only six or seven pages, which was very different from the martial arts brochures that Qin Chengzu usually saw, not to mention the move catalogue, and he didn't even mention the trick routines, not so much a martial arts scripture, but a record of the key points of practicing the method of splitting.

Qin Chengzu flipped through the manuscript, pointed his fingers on the words, and read softly: "He has not really split, I must not shake my body manually, and be taken advantage of by the enemy; Every day, we need to practice until the enemy's sword and gun and my body are in line with each other to fight back, so that the enemy is caught off guard. The slash must be forced, and the wound must be heavy, otherwise the enemy will be easily injured by the enemy. To hit people, you need to hit the vital point, and those who are good at hitting must not only hit accurately, but also powerfully. Practice more with the new hands, increase courage and experience, virtual and real changes are experienced by the real split, the more experience of the real split, the more opportunities to take advantage of the momentum. The basic law exercises strength, the virtual and the real change, the non-real split cannot be subtle, and the tricks and routines are useless. When splitting, it is necessary to adopt a combo method, hit the enemy without flashing, take advantage of the momentum to catch up with the attack, do not jump vertically, and advance and retreat. Fighting is not only for practice, but also for each other, and not for affection......"

Qin Chengzu roughly read the manuscript in his hand, there were only six pages, full of fly-headed letters, and there were forty or fifty articles in total, but three or four thousand words, and the story was not martial arts in the ordinary sense at all, but the attention point of daily practice of the art of splitting, and even dismissed the tricks and routines of ordinary martial arts as useless.

If you change to other martial artists, you might have to argue with Lin Lian: what kind of bullshit knife technique is this! Qin Chengzu and they joined the army in their early years, and then became bandits, and their efforts have long been to clean up the useless tricks and routines they learned at the beginning.

Qin Chengzu understands more profoundly, he was born in Xiucai, he gave up writing to join the army when he was thirty years old, he could only say that he was physically strong before, and only after joining the army did he learn a few basic boxing and knife techniques in the military camp. When he was in the army, he didn't need to catch a knife to fight, but he practiced martial arts seriously after falling into the grass. Take the traditional martial arts to say, he didn't practice the basic skills when he was young, he didn't practice his muscles and bones, and it would definitely be a waste to practice hard until he was thirty years old, but Qin Chengzu led the crowd to fall into the grass for ten years, although his skills are far from being compared with Zhou Pu and Fu Qinghe, seven or eight ordinary strong men are not in his eyes, and he will not fall behind when he fights with a knife; When I think about it, I usually just practice those practical techniques.

Qin Chengzu frowned, looked at Zhou Pu who was sitting on the verandah under the eaves, and said, "This slashing technique is a knife technique, but it is a sharp knife technique dedicated to killing...... The method of practice does not seem to be limited to the use of waist knives, do you think it can be done with this method to practice Mo knives? ”

"This splitting technique must have been created by a master in the army, except for knives, with a slight change, it can also be used to guide gun practice...... Zhou Pu said with great certainty. Lin Pu wants to integrate the stabbing technique learned in later generations into the sword art of the current world, and naturally has to consult Zhou Pu in many aspects, Zhou Pu has long been familiar with the thin six or seven pages of the manuscript of this stabbing technique, and also corroborates the stabbing technique with the techniques he has mastered, and puts forward many suggestions for improvement, this manuscript can be said to be jointly formulated by Lin Tie and Zhou Pu, but it is just in the name of an unknown ancestor for Lin Tie, where did he know that the prototype of the splitting technique is precisely the later generations of martial artists who borrowed many combat techniques and martial arts for the military?

Qin Chengzu read the manuscript carefully, and if he didn't understand it, he asked Lin Lian, Zhou Pu, and brought Wu Qi here, and studied this "Splitting Practice Record" together under the eaves of the corridor in front of the hall, the more he pondered, the more flavorful it became, and before he knew it, it was dark, and he picked up the lantern, and under the lamp, Zhou Pu and Wu Qi even took a knife to practice splitting in the snow, Liu Yue'er came over twice and asked if they could have dinner, and they didn't feel hungry.

"This splitting technique can be used to guide and train martial arts to get an elite ......," Qin Chengzu judged, and asked Lin Jian again, "Can I copy a copy and bring it back to Changshan Island?" ”

"Of course, spending all this effort to sort it out is not just convenient for yourself to practice using knives." Lin Jian said with a smile. Splitting is still the most basic method of military training, and persistent practice can only improve the soldier's ability to fight with weapons, and it is far from being able to explain through the practice of training ordinary soldiers into elite divisions. Lin Jian has some experience in later generations, but different combat situations, training methods and tactics are very different, and many training methods and tactics in later generations that he remembers need to be greatly adjusted and modified, but fortunately, in the small-scale tactical cultivation of cold weapons, Zhou Pu can provide Lin Jian with enough experience. Thinking that he would be able to officially serve as the prison officer of Jiangdao Prison after the New Year's Festival, Lin Jian still had some expectations in his heart, he could first use the nearly 200 prison guards in Jiangdao Prison as his experimental field for military training.

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Qin Chengzu was not willing to stay in Jiangning for the New Year's Festival, only stayed for one more day, here Lin Jingzhong directly bought an old cargo ship with Wupeng Brig in the name of Jiyun Society, loaded with rice noodles, cotton cloth and a small amount of tea in the name of transporting it to Chongzhou for sale, carrying Qin Chengzu and others down the river.

This Wupeng ship will go directly to the sea, and it can't use hired boatmen, Wu Qi directly took two of his subordinates and Qin Chengzu and the one person who escorted Qin Chengzu to Jiangning, a total of five people, left Jiangning by boat.

It is hard to imagine how much hardship Wu Qi and they have to endure so quickly to adapt to the life of Zhou Ji after they left the horseback, Lin Jian calculated the time, Qin Chengzu and them are all right, and they will be able to go to Changshan Island after the New Year. Fortunately, the sea is relatively calm in winter, otherwise the risk of capsizing faced by the old two-masted Wupeng cargo ship that cannot be regarded as a big ship on the Yangtze River is too great, after all, Changshan Island is still a day and a night away from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Although Qin Chengzu got a few more boats from Xinpu County, they were all inland river ships that were not conducive to sea navigation, and there were even two mast oars, which were dragged together to Changshan Island. Sailing long distances in the vast sea, not using the power of the wind, but with human oars, it is possible for a boatload of sailors to die of exhaustion in the sea. These inland river vessels can sail in the sea area within more than ten miles of the island, and they have to return to the island in time to avoid the wind when the wind and waves are strong; The only thing that Changshan Island can use for long-distance voyages at sea is the three-masted pirate ship that Lin Bound and they captured in the first place.

Although there are ready-made ships to buy in Jiangning, considering the strong winds and waves in the offshore sea, especially in summer, and even considering the confrontation with other pirate ships at sea as a warship, Lin Jian asked Lin Jingzhong to lease a few old ships to transport goods first, and the new ships they bought must be strong enough to withstand the devastation of the wind and waves in the summer offshore, even if it is several times the price.

In the east of Moling Lake, on the shore of Longjiang Lake, which is connected with Moling Lake, there is the Longjiang Shipyard under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning, which is the largest official shipbuilding base of the Dayue Dynasty, and has the ability to build large ships with eight masts and a load of up to 20,000 or even 30,000 stones.

Longjiang Shipyard not only for the government shipbuilding, but also for private businesses and private shipbuilding, when prosperous, Longjiang Shipyard claimed that the newly built boat sail can cover the entire Longjiang Lake more than ten miles in a radius of more than ten miles.

Since the rebellion of the Hao family, the imperial court has definitely no intention or ability to dispatch water camp warships to remotely harass the hinterland of the luxury family from the East China Sea, and the shipbuilding funds allocated to the Longjiang shipyard will naturally be directly cut to the rebels in Dongmin as military salaries. In addition, in recent years, the southeast tax grain was mainly used for the southeast war, and the Cao transportation to Yanjing was weak, from the peak of 8 million Shi Cao grain per year to less than one-third of the level, Jiangdong, Liangzhejiang and other counties have a large number of Cao ship capacity idle, and the Longjiang Shipyard has hardly received an order for a new ship in these years. Not only Longjiang Shipyard, but also the government-run and private shipyards in other parts of Jiangdong have been in a desperate situation over the years, and the government-run shipyards can still hold on, and the owners of private shipyards can only sweep away.

In these shipyards, there have always been a few or even dozens of new ships that have been caused or are about to be caused in these shipyards over the years because the seller has withdrawn the order or is unable to pay the purchase price of the ship, and one of Lin Jingzhong's tasks during this period is to inspect the various official or private shipyards in Jiangning Prefecture for Lin Bin, in addition to choosing new ships that will use the sea in the future, the other main thing is that these new ships are smashed in the hands of various shipyards and cannot be handed down, and Lin Jingzhong also has to take the opportunity to lower the purchase price.

These days, the tea shop managed by Gu Tianqiao took the nearly two thousand catties of old tea provided by the Gu family and Lin Mengde to pave the way in Jiangning City, Lin Lian made a name for Jiyun Society in the domain, and Zhang Yubo, the left secretary of Jiangning Mansion joined the army, and Zhang Yubo, the tea shop did not encounter any other major resistance, and even the money for the soldiers and horses to patrol the streets was less than half of that of other shops, but the daily profit these days was only two handfuls of silver, which was already a very good tea shop in Jiangning.

If the tea shop wants to make a large-scale profit, it will have to wait for the Gujia new tea to go on the market next year, but even if the Gujia new tea is successfully underwritten in the coming year, the net profit of Jiyun Club in a year will only be two thousand taels of silver at most, even if Lin Jingzhong still has nearly seven thousand taels of silver to spend now, where does he dare to spend it casually?

A few days after Chinese New Year's Eve, the people of the streets and alleys of Jiangning City are preparing for the New Year's Festival. Lin Jian personally went to Zhao Shuhan's house to give a New Year's gift, but Gu Wuchen was confined to the party struggle and refused to use Zhao Shuhan, which also made Lin Jian a little ashamed of Zhao Shuhan. Zhao Shuhan suddenly let go, and he also knew that Lin Jian had done his best for him, and besides, he had seen through some things in the past few years, and his mood was not affected, and he either stayed in the house to write books before and after the New Year's Festival, or went to Jiyunju to find Lin Jian to drink, and the yamen of the Jiangning Criminal Department rarely went.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Mengde also came to invite Lin Jie to Dongyang Hall on Chinese New Year's Eve to participate in the township party banquet left in Jiangning, Lin Jie first drank in Gu Wuchen's mansion, and then went to Dongyang Hall to drink, drunk and returned to Jiyunju in the early hours of the night, listening to the sound of gongs and drums, the cheers of the alley people, the new year, the 9th year of Chongguan came.

The New Year's Festival, that is, the Spring Festival often called in later generations, is the festival that the people of the world attach the most importance to, the first few days of the first month and concentrate on a number of important festivals, the fifth day of the first month to welcome the God of Wealth, the first month of the eighth day of the eight cereals, the thirteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, until the eighteenth day of the first month, the atmosphere of the New Year's festival is considered to be fading. The yamen in Jiangning City have resumed normal sitting, those who should go out to work only go out to work, and only those who have gone out to work in a boat to go to other towns will release a boat to catch a car to go to other towns, whether it is for officials or people living in a healthy city, the long holiday that lasts for almost 20 days to a month still has an end on this day, and it is also the eighteenth day of the first month, and the official letter from the Jiangdong Inspector Si Jiangdao Prison Prison was officially delivered to Lin Lian.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.