The Golden Age

Yu Wencheng said lightly: "You see it?"

"This is not an ordinary knife." Fatty fish took a large knife horizontally: "Forged it for no more than three years." He Ran looked at Zhang Shubao and asked coldly, "Where do your weapons come from?"

Zhang Shubao was shocked, but he replied: "It's all...Ding Zixiu got it. I don't know the specific way."

"Your two-headed family really use it as farts." Yu Wencheng sighed: "The left one doesn't know, the right one doesn't know. You just said, if it's useless, then turn your face and don't recognize people. Should I turn your face now?"

Zhang Shubao's face changed quickly, anxiously said: "Master, these weapons are indeed made by Ding Zixiu, there are still many in the knife library, villains... villains can take you to see."

Yuwen Chengchao looked at Fat Fish and asked, "Where is the knife storehouse?"

"It's in the cave behind." Zhang Shubao said: "The villain now...now take you now."

Yu Wencheng gave Qin Xiao a glance, Qin Xiao understood, put away the blade, and pulled up Zhang Shubao. Zhang Shubao raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his face, walked to the back, pushed the door out, and several people followed behind. I walked out for a while, turned into a mountain trail, and walked for a moment. A cave appeared in front, and the door was locked. The fat fish stepped forward to cut the door lock and kicked the door.

Qin Xiao kicked his feet on Zhang Shubao's **** and said, "You go first!"

It was dark inside, and I didn't know exactly what the situation was, so it would be natural for Zhang Shubao to go advanced to explore the way.

The fat fish saw a torch on the edge of the cave, but it didn't ignite. He took the torch, led the torch, held it in his hand, and followed Zhang Shubao. Several others followed the fish.

Under the fire, I only walked seven or eight steps forward, and I saw that it was very wide, leaning against the wall, and even dozens of large wooden boxes were stacked.

Yuwen Chengchao held the knife forward and pried open one of the boxes. The fat fish held the torch closer. The box was covered with a layer of hay. Yuwen Chengchao opened the hay and saw that it was filled with knives underneath.

Pry off several boxes in a row, in addition to the large knife, there are many spear tips, these spear tips only need to put on the spear shaft, and they can immediately become spears.

Qin Xiao's eyes were shocking.

Xiling had implemented the sword hunting order many years ago, and the civilians should not hide their swords privately, otherwise they would be punished for rebellion.

Even the iron tools for farming will be strictly managed locally. The reason is that the Xiling Gate Valves are indeed worried about the circulation of local knives. If the people are in trouble and have weapons in their hands, it is likely to cause upheaval.

The ore of Xiling's forging weapons is in the hands of the gate and valve. Even the blacksmith shop forging iron tools and the iron shop selling agricultural tools are strictly registered in the government, and the control of knives is even stricter than the customs.

The mountain bandits who screamed into thieves, even if they had weapons in their hands, were mostly snatched farm tools and irons. Axes, hoees, sickles were mostly, even if there were some big swords and spears, it was also a weapon that was privately hidden by the civilians during the war. Most have been confiscated.

There are dozens of boxes of soldier's blades in this cave, with nearly a thousand swords and more than a thousand spear tips. In terms of quantity, in Xiling, a place with extremely strict control over weapons, it is simply appalling.

Although Qin Xiao didn't know too much about weapons, he could see at a glance that these swords were very sharp and could never be weapons that had been lost for many years. They could only be new tools forged in recent years.

Yu Wencheng's face was very dignified at this time.

"Princess, it seems that things are more serious than we expected." The fat fish also frowned. "To build so many weapons, a lot of ore is needed, and it is impossible to be silent. Ding Zixiu does not have that ability. Forge yourself."

Yuwen Chengchao nodded slightly, staring at Zhang Shubao and asked, "How long did you know Ding Zixiu?"

"Actually, I only met a year ago." Zhang Shubao smiled bitterly: "It's just a downhill literati. At that time there was a difficulty. Just when I met Ding Zixiu, he acted generously and helped me to get rid of it. I thought he was a hero, and He talked for a long time, only to realize that he was a king of the mountains. He persuaded me to go up the mountain together, eat and drink without worry, I had no way to go at that time, there was really no way but to go up the mountain with him. On the side of the gorge, hidden in another hill, at that time he had no more than 40 or 50 people in his hand, but he already had a lot of weapons stored in his hand."

"The longest of these weapons is less than three years." Fatty Fish said: "Is there any weapons coming later?"

"Yes." Zhang Shubao said: "Ding Zixiu secretly took over the people, gradually more people, he chose Jigong Gorge to settle down, he felt it was a good place to defend and difficult to attack. We moved here, less than a year, In the middle, Ding Zixiu brought people to bring the weapons twice, each time there were more than a dozen boxes. I privately asked the men who brought the weapons with him. I wanted to know where the weapons came from."

"Where does it come from?" Yuwen Chengchao asked immediately.

"Every time they went down after dark, and rushed to the place, there was already a box there." Zhang Shubao explained: "The place where the box was pulled twice is different, but they are not far from Jigong Gorge, and the box was found. At that time, no one was guarding the box. Ding Zixiu knew where the box was every time. When he arrived, he immediately loaded the truck and shipped it back overnight." After a pause, he said, "I have always been very strange in my heart because there are so many weapons on the mountain It is not easy to get so many weapons in Xiling, and there are only so few people on the mountain. It seems that...it seems unnecessary to stock so many weapons."

Yu Wencheng groaned slightly before saying, "Crazy man, you take him out."

Ning Zhifeng took a knife and escorted Zhang Shubao out of the cave.

"Fat fish, what do you think?" Yu Wencheng Chao thought for a moment before asking.

"It's a matter of great importance." Fatty Fish said abruptly: "Master, the conspiracy behind him, I'm afraid it's much more serious than we thought." Pointing to the wooden boxes piled up in front of my eyes, said: "The weapons here are enough to pull up one. A team of thousands of people can provide Ding Zixiu with so many weapons, at least the people behind the scene feel that they can control Ding Zixiu, otherwise they will not be so generous."

Qin Xiaodao: "Master, Ding Zixiu may be just the tip of the iceberg. Xiling is covered with mountains, how many people are hidden in the mountains, and how many weapons are scattered in Xiling, the number may be much larger than we thought."

"Wang Xiao was talking about ideas." Yu Wencheng looked dignified: "Ding Zixiu's weapons are enough to pull up thousands of people, and there are places we don't know. Once the riots occur at the same time, the consequences are... unimaginable! "

The reason why the Xiling Gate Valve didn't care much about the mountain bandits and horse thieves. Except that these people were fighting each other, the most important thing was that they had no weapon source and no silver support, but some small fish and shrimp. Die them.

But Yuwen Chengchao now found that things were not that simple.

Being able to provide so many refined weapons proves that the people behind them are strong. Since they can support weapons, they can of course also provide silver two. With silver two, they can recruit personnel, and with weapons, they can riot at any time.

Ding Zixiu's materials can recruit thousands of people. This is the secret that I discovered here today. Then there are still undiscovered places, and how many unknown secrets are hidden?

"The source of these weapons must be investigated clearly." Fatty Fish said abruptly: "Princess, these people store such a number of weapons, not only for fighting homes, but also for riots. The target of their riots can only be directed at The official mansion, more clearly, is directed at the Yuwen family."

Yuwen Chengchao took out a big knife from the box, and under the fire, the big knife shone with cold light.

"Fat fish, this is definitely not the sword of the Wu Tuo people." Yu Wencheng said suddenly.

The fat fish nodded and said: "It is exactly that the Wutu people's forging technology is completely different from ours. I can be sure that this is not provided by the Wutu people, and it will never be provided by the Tusun people." Suddenly, he said: "Kunlun customs will be strictly inspected in and out of the goods, even if the Wutu people want to send weapons in, it will not be possible."

"Yes, these weapons can't come from the west." Yu Wencheng said frowning: "Could it come from within the Guan?"

Fatty Fish pondered for a moment before shaking his head: "The eldest son, smuggling weapons, is equivalent to rebellion, and transporting weapons from Jiayuguan in large quantities. Who has such a courage? How can he pass Jiayuguan?"

"If it can really be done, the people behind the scenes are really hand-to-eye." Yu Wencheng Zhao sneered: "If these weapons do not come from outside the gate, nor from the gate, then where did they come from? Is it on the ground of Xiling? , Has anyone secretly provided weapons to the bandits?"

The fat fish's lips moved slightly, but he didn't say it after all.

Qin Xiao understands that there are not many forces that have the strength to provide so many weapons in Xiling. I am afraid that only the three gates of Xiling can do it.

But who dares to do such a thing?

"Princess, there is one thing that is very strange." Qin Xiao thought for a while, then said softly: "The sentence that Zhang Shubao said before, don't know if you still remember? He said that Ding Zixiu knew that he had no strength to fight against the Yuwen family, So secretly accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to make trouble."

"He is like this." Yu Wencheng nodded.

"I used to think this was a sentence Ding Zixiu said casually." Qin Xiao said softly: "But there are so many weapons in stock here, and then I think back to that sentence, it should be very meaningful. That is to say, Ding Zixiu may be true He is waiting for the opportunity, and he feels that the time will definitely come, and he must have the opportunity to make trouble for the Yuwen family." Looking at Yuwen Chengchao: "Is his confidence related to the real murderer behind the supply of these weapons? Behind the scenes, there are indeed people who are plotting to be detrimental to the Yuwens and even the entire Xiling Gate Valve?"

Yuwen Chengchao thought about it, the fat fish nodded slightly, but suddenly thought of something, frowned: "No, if it is true, Ding Zixiu made a fatal mistake."