Chapter 28 The Master of Refining
In addition to the six divisions of the Dagen Dynasty, the most important institutions were Kaifeng Prefecture and the Weapons Division.
Kaifeng Prefecture suppressed the internal rioters and corrupt officials, and combined investigation, filing, trial and execution. Since the establishment of the founding of the former Emperor Taizong, there has been a trend of overthrowing the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple, and its power is not to be mentioned.
The Weapons Department has been the foundation of the Dagen army since its establishment and is equivalent to the country's weapon.
Confucianism, Taoism, Law, Mo, and Wu... each have their own strengths, but when it comes to invincible in close combat and fighting first, then it is better to be a brave and brave man.
But the biggest shortcoming of these martial arts monks is the lack of magical weapons and magic weapons. Those border guards must compete with the Demon Kingdom of the North and the Demon Emperor of the South, but they must not be separated from the support of the Weapons Department.
Bao Zheng has only now learned why Kaifeng Mansion wants to recruit sharpeners instead of directly replacing the blunt knife with a new knife.
The reason is that the punishment knife that cuts human heads on the execution ground may become a magic weapon and be able to supply the needs of the Weapons Department.
The weapon refiners in the Weapon Department have no other way to cultivate divine weapons, but how much does it cost? How can it be cheap to directly sharpen the evil sword?
Kill some people who should be killed, and kill a few sharpeners who are death row prisoners. Isn’t it more cost-effective than wasting natural treasures to create magical weapons?
He sharpened the Six Evil Swords and is now a "star" figure in the torture instrument room of Kaifeng Prefecture. It would be no surprise that Cen Xiuzhu would name him.
In fact, Bao Zheng was quite curious about this only weapon refining master in the Great Gen Dynasty, but he was not willing to see him because the rich woman Zeng Yuexin paid 100 taels of silver.
What a temper is this girl? She just hesitated for a moment. She was so sad that she opened her mouth and smashed her with a hundred taels of silver.
Bao Zheng sneered secretly, am I a person who values money? Am I afraid of being smashed by money?
Isn’t it just that the little girl’s money is too much and it’s not safe enough to help you spend money? This is not a matter of money at all.
......
It was not until three o'clock that I came to the Weapons Office.
With Zeng Yuexin leading the way, he didn't even need to check his identity. Bao Zheng found that this girl was a crab in the Weapons Department and could run rampant.
The Weapons Department is divided into the Council Office and the Weapon Refining Hall. When you enter the Weapon Refining Hall, the temperature in the air around you is much higher, which reminds Bao Zheng of the feeling of the Blue Star traveling to Africa in the last world.
The weapon refiners I met on the road saw Zeng Yuexin like spring flowers, and all kinds of rainbow farts were delivered to her like a money-free one.
"Oh, it's Zeng Tongzhi. Why did you have time to come to the refining hall today? I just happened to have a freshly cooked iced plum soup here. Should Zeng Tongzhi use some?
The most crude weapons we refine in the front hall are not the place you should come. Don’t make your face hurt. If Lord Cen knows this, our sins will be great..."
Zeng Yuexin shook her head: "Who wants to eat your plum soup? They are not the longan plums of southern Xinjiang, they are bitter and astringent."
"Yes, yes, yes, I'm just confused. How can such coarse food be passed into Zeng Tongzhi's mouth? Should I beat you? Is this young man a friend of Zeng Tongzhi? He is so heroic and handsome. He looks like a noble young man!"
Bao Zheng is a knife sharpener today, but he is not a saint-hand scholar Li Xunhuan. Although he is dressed in coarse cloth clothes, he is praised as a handsome man in the beauty of Yushu.
No wonder this weapon refiner missed the eye. Zeng Yuexin was so close to him. The virgin fragrance stimulated the nasal cavity, making Bao Zhengzhi want to sneeze, and was embarrassed to say to her...
Zeng Yuexin was too lazy to deal with these flatterers, and took Bao Zheng all the way to the back hall of refining weapons, which was called the secret hall of refining weapons. Bao Zheng couldn't help but curiously said, "Are you still a Tongzhi?"
"That's right, my master is the governor of the Weapons Department and a senior official of the second rank. I am the deputy chief of the Weapons Department. From the fourth rank, I have a salary of 150 taels per month."
As Zeng Yuexin said, she began to complain: "Hmph, the official family is more stingy than the master. She only paid 150 taels of salary from the fourth rank, which is not enough for me to buy a box of rouge and water powder. The things from the Dagen Dynasty are so expensive. I am so poor..."
Bao Zheng stopped speaking and quietly took a few steps back, setting apart from her.
You must keep a safe distance from such a person so that she will not implicate herself when she is struck by lightning.
......
After entering the inner refining hall where Zeng Yuexin boasted all the way, Bao Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up.
The girl of Versailles didn't brag this time.
The entire inner refining hall is like a large array with exquisite arrangement. As soon as you enter here, you will feel a cool breeze that swept away the outside heat. There are ponds, waterfalls, pavilions, towers, hot springs, and flowers that never fade in all seasons.
"My master often says that one day I become a third-grade god-transforming cultivator and can have such a large weapon refining array of my own. The master also said that having such a large array is only the first step, and I have to cultivate my own furnace and cauldron to refine the magic weapon and magic weapons above the middle grade."
Speaking of this, Zeng Yuexin's face collapsed slightly and complained: "But it's so annoying to practice. I'm too busy, so how can I have time?"
Bao Zheng asked in confusion: "I wonder what Miss Zeng is busy with every day?"
"Look... I have to have morning tea first when I wake up. I will have to eat breakfast bar in two quarters of an hour. When the hour passes, I have to prepare to eat breakfast noodle soup. Brother Bao, you know how good you are in eating it. You should know how famous the breakfast noodle soup in Aunt He’s noodle shop on Jinshui Bridge is, right?"
Zeng Yuexin pointed her finger and said, "I must have lunch at noon, and I have to eat enough.
Fanlou’s Baihua Banquet is something that can barely be mentioned recently, but they are too arrogant in their business. There are too many princes and young masters who go there. Sometimes they can’t queue up, so they even have to make an appointment in advance!”
"Then afternoon meals, supper, midnight snacks..."
"You always have to hold a fruit or something in your mouth before going to bed, right? Well, the cantaloupe from Fozhou in the West is not bad, but I have to choose it myself to be relieved."
Bao Zheng gritted his teeth and made a creaking sound.
Turning his head and staring at Zeng Yuexin, his eyes full of class hatred and national hatred.
"You...why are you watching people do this?"
Zeng Yuexin's pretty face turned red and she gave him a light look.
"I'm just wondering, why don't you lose weight when you eat like this every day!"
Bao Zheng said angrily: "It's not that Brother Bao wants to scold you, look at what you look like!
Others are afraid that they want to take Master Cen as their teacher and are not allowed to do so. You are so good! Looking at the world's number one master of refining weapons, you will know how to eat every day without studying hard and improving. Eat and eat... You are a pig, you!"
Zeng Yuexin's face turned white by his scolding, and suddenly her eyes turned red: "You... are you scolding me? The master scolds me, you... are you scolding me too... wuwu..."
"Haha, I've scolded well, I've long wanted to scold this incompetent little girl."
A laughter came, and an old man with a black robe on the ground, a wooden hairpin on his head and a wooden shoe appeared in front of him.
His hair and beard are all white, but his face is as rosy as a boy. He is Cen Xiuzhu, the former Mohist master, and the most incomparable weapon refining master in the history of the Mohist family.
Bao Zheng also learned from Bai Yutang's chat during dinner that this former Mohist master never likes to do anything "either loves to attack". He is just obsessed with the magic of the Mohist artifacts. In order to solve the rare problem of weapon refining resources, he simply joined the court and became a senior official in the court.
The Mo family disciples hated him for not fighting and had already collectively dismissed him, the giant.
It doesn't matter if Cen Xiuzhu stays happily in the Weapons every day, hoping to refine an immortal weapon in his lifetime.
Immortal weapon?
When Bao Zheng heard Bai Yutang say this, he knew that the master of weapon refining was crazy.
I have a measure of heaven, which is the treasure of Han Feizi, a true immortal of the Legalist. The difficulty of the second-grade master to refine immortal weapons is not ordinary.
"Master...you also said that they would not agree."
Seeing Cen Xiuzhu appear, Zeng Yuexin smiled and ran over, hanging on the old man like a koala.
"Master, I have worked so hard to get the bag. But thank you for your hard work. How do you reward me this time?"
"Well, then the master needs to think about it."
Cen Xiuzhu hugged the female apprentice, and her old eyes narrowed into slits: "Oh, it's so hard work. I must reward you, I must reward you!
Let’s do this, the master will buy you a piggy-porn leather bag from Huajia Trading Company in Nanshi tomorrow. Do you like it?"
"Hmph, the master wants to cheat again. The bag I bought last time was fake!"
"Nonsense! The bag I bought by Cen Xiuzhu is fake. Will I buy fake bags for my female apprentice?"
Cen Xiuzhu said angrily: "Don't look at who the master is? The master is the governor of the Weapons and a second-rank official in the court! Not to mention not buying fake goods, even if the master buys fake bags, it is true!"
"Anyway, I don't want a bag. I want to add pocket money. I will pay 5,000 taels a month from now on! Master, you don't know, now the prices have risen again, and your baby apprentice can't afford to eat pork..."
Zeng Yuexin's beautiful eyes were dizzy and she was about to cry: "You see, I've lost weight."
"Okay, okay, only five thousand taels, the master has money!"
Cen Xiuzhu patted his apprentice's buttocks and said with a smile: "Good apprentice comes down first. If there are guests here, don't let others laugh at us."
Bao Zheng said seriously: "There is no need for Master Cen to do this. I didn't see anything. Bao actually just wanted to ask the old master, do you still lack an apprentice?"
Cen Xiuzhu laughed: "My friend, it's definitely not possible for others to ask this, but you are different. Maybe you really have a chance."
While saying that, he coaxed Zeng Yuexin, put her on the ground, looked up at the sky, and smiled and said, "The time is here, please wait a moment, and I will talk about what I have done after I finish my work."
"Please take care of yourself, the old master."
Bao Zheng stood aside and looked at Cen Xiuzhu curiously.
"Get up!"
Cen Xiuzhu stomped on the ground with his toes, and a mist of water suddenly appeared in the inner refining hall, which formed a large cloud and rushed into the air.
It was just four minutes before the yang energy was in full swing, but it was not the most intense moment.
The clouds of water mist seemed to have risen to the height of the sun. Looking through the mist, the scorching sun became slightly pale.
Cen Xiuzhu and Yuntuan were in harmony, but he didn't know what magical power he used, but turned into a cloud-shaped giant. He looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, and his two giant hands quickly pinched the magic tricks.
As he pinched his magic tricks, several needle-shaped golden lights suddenly appeared in the scorching sun, leaving the sun's flames and suddenly shot towards the cloud-shaped giant he turned into.
As soon as he approached a little, the cloud-shaped giant sounded a hissing sound, and instantly became much more depressed.
Cen Xiuzhu pinched the magic trick in his hand, and fell down with a cloud of water and mist all over the sky, finally causing a needle-shaped golden light to fall into the refining hall.
"The five elements and five changes, and they are constantly changing, and they are collected!"
Buzzing!
The entire inner refining hall suddenly vibrated, and four rays of light shot out from the east, south, west and middle directions, quickly integrating with the cloud-shaped giant.
A five-color flowing, as if a gourd-shaped array diagram slowly appeared, and it actually sucked the needle-shaped golden light firmly.
The inner refining hall kept trembling, as if a major earthquake occurred, the array map continued to rotate, and the five elements were born like a wheel, and the needle-shaped golden light finally gradually calmed down.
Cen Xiuzhu suddenly appeared again, clenched her fists and screamed: "Stop!"
The array diagram dispersed, and the five rays of lights were like five divine dragons, tightly entangled with the needle-shaped golden light, finally pulling it in front of Cen Xiuzhu and throwing it into a black jade gourd that he took out from his arms.
"Haha, today was going well, Xin'er, is the master powerful?"
"If this continues, in a few dozen days, even if this gourd sun magic needle is refined, Xin'er, you can rest assured if you have this gourd sun magic needle to protect your body..."
Bao was stunned by the audition.
Chapter completed!