The red sun is still burning, and the iron armor condenses light.

The sound of horse hooves trampling on cicadas, and egrets flew by the river.

The Duke Pei of Guozhe stationed in his horse and launched the latest urgent report delivered to him.

"This guy is just a little trick?"

Duke Pei just glanced at him and couldn't help but shake his head, "I've always looked up to him."

After saying that, he handed the urgent report to an aide behind him for circulating it.

"Assassinate the Second Miss?"

Looking at the content of this urgent report, several staff members couldn't help but shake their heads.

Like Duke Pei, these aides had a low opinion of the prince before.

This son is good at hiding his edge, and the waves are hidden in his sleeves.

Some people are good at hiding, but they cannot accumulate any strength.

But the prince is a little different. Although this man looks submissive in the palace and respects everyone as if he has seen a teacher, he still secretly accumulates a lot of loyalty.

But sometimes people are really incomparable.

Compared with Gu Shiwu's, he naturally saw the pros and cons.

Even now they vaguely guessed why the emperor was not very satisfied with the prince.

The Li family is a clan, but the Li family has won the world, and there is still a fundamental difference from the other clans in the Tang Dynasty.

The other clans of the Tang Dynasty were used to suppressing people with power and force. For them, the easiest way to deal with some people who angered them was to kill some practitioners.

But Li's family is different.

Li was the maker of the laws of the Tang Dynasty. These princes of Li should avoid using other clan-like ideas to solve the problem.

They should show differences.

Killing to solve dissidents is simple and straightforward, but the ruler does not use the law but uses such means, which is tantamount to tyranny.

Yang levies a lot of taxes, changes the law at any time, and kills people excessively, so he declines greatly and soon loses his country.

It is impossible for the princes of the Li family to have never taken a reflection class based on history.

But after they began to gain strength in their hands, even the prince who they thought was pretty good was almost the same as the other powerful families when doing things.

Unconsciously use power to suppress people and solve problems with killing.

On the other hand, Gu Shiwu, who now has the wealth of a stronger practitioner, has his usual style in the past.

Can you talk about why you fight?

There are benefits to not killing people, so why kill people?

If you want to become the emperor of the largest dynasty in the world, the most important ability is to be able to reconcile all forces and make everyone happy.

The wealth created by the entire Tang Dynasty was limited. A qualified emperor must allow the Tang Dynasty to create more wealth and better distribute wealth.

The rulers of the Tang Dynasty must indeed be more like a person who can negotiate business with all parties and classes, rather than a cruel official who abuses power.

In particular, they used some small means to arouse the anger of people like Gu Liubai and Pei Guogong, and make them make mistakes in the face of anger. This design itself is very naive.

But the Zulong Underground Palace is too dangerous, just like not being able to make ends meet in business. The various sects have not gained much benefit in the Zulong Underground Palace, but there are many powerful figures that have been damaged, so occasionally there will be cultivators who cannot figure it out to go in and take risks.

A relative of this Xuandu Temple monk found a pit similar to a workshop in the Zulong Underground Palace. The hemp paper records the method of stinging lightly with heavy weapons recorded in the pit.

For ordinary practitioners, this method of refining heavy weapons is of no use, but this Xuandu Temple monk obviously discovered something unusual.

The monk from Xuandu Temple knew that An Zhilu was a real general who led his army to fight, and would definitely see the value of the hemp paper he left behind. His judgment was indeed correct. An Zhilu's hair was standing up all over her body.

This is not what it is. The method of stealing light and improving heavy weapons is clearly a method against the will of heaven!

The hemp paper said that the long spears in the hands of the soldiers holding the spears under the Zulong imperial court weighed twenty kilograms, but by refining them in this way, the long spears can be reduced to less than ten kilograms!

Lose weight more than half!

No wonder this monk from Xuandu Temple mentioned the Modao used by the Tang army from the beginning.

After he read this method of secretly improving light, the first thing that appeared in his mind was Mo Dao in the army.

Whether it is the Tang army himself or the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, they all know that the Tang army's Modao is powerful.

In the past, the Turkic cavalry's scimitars were once invincible, but when they fought with the Tang army, their scimitars could not reach the Tang army's armor at all, and their bodies were cut in half by the double-grown Mo sword.

However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Modao team has never been mainstream in any major war, and even the Modao team does not exist in most border troops at all.

The reason is very simple.

It takes six months for a 9-turn forging process. A real shattering knife takes nearly three years to create. And according to the records of the supervision, it is shown that the number of unqualified ones needs to be reworked and remade is as high as 30%!

The Yongxing Building Factory, which will be directly under the supervision, produces only 300 to 500 knives a year. Putting aside other materials, each knives will consume about 36 kilograms of iron. The value of these iron alone is equivalent to the annual salary of ten state officials.

Now, according to the method of light-smelling improvement recorded on this hemp paper, the creation time is probably not saved, and the process has not been reduced, but the light-smelling can be half, and some iron can be replaced with gray tin. The price of gray tin is less than one-tenth of iron.

what does that mean?

This means that with the same workshop, under the same allocation of money, more craftsmen can be used to create more shamans at the same time.

The most important thing is that at the same weight, these untouched knives can be made longer and larger!

Those three-meter-long magic swords will not be weapons that can be used by those born with divine power or practitioners!

This means that a Modao with less than 30 kilograms is already a giant on the battlefield!

An Zhilu finally understood why the monk from Xuandu Temple had such an expression after hearing him say that he wanted to control his own destiny.

Such things are of no use to ordinary practitioners, but for those who really want to control their own destiny,

The sound of cicadas became more and more harsh outside the window. An Zhilu's body trembled slightly, and sweat slid down his temples, hanging on his jaw without falling. The study was so hot that it was suffocating, and the dust slowly floated in the moonlight passing through the window frame, as if time was stagnant here.

"The ratio of gray tin to iron... the quenching temperature... the key to forging..." His lips twitched silently, and his eyes stared at every word on the paper. These seemingly simple craft descriptions made his heart beat violently in his chest, and blood hit his eardrums, making thunderous sounds.

His movements did not change at all, but his pupils contracted slightly at this time.

He heard some changes in the sound of cicadas.

The sound of cicadas in the distance was suddenly gone, and soon the sound of cicadas outside the courtyard became much smaller. Such changes made him feel that someone would definitely come.

His breathing was smoother at this time, and he still didn't pick up the hemp paper. He just kept silently chanting, looking at the content on the hemp paper over and over again, and remembering all the words in his mind.

When someone pushed open the gate, he reluctantly moved his eyes away from the hemp paper, then took a deep breath, and the content on the hemp paper was repeated in his mind, slowly walking out.

The person who came was a man in his thirties, wearing a dark purple round neck robe with a silver silk lace around his waist. The corners of the robe swung slightly with the pace, but almost no sound was made.

Even though he was dressed so neatly, he did not feel hot at all in this summer, but instead gave An Zhilu a feminine and cold feeling.

His face was pale and his skin was almost sickly pale under the moonlight. His eyebrows were as thin as willow leaves, but his eyes were deep black, like two secluded wells, without any light.

"General An." He spoke, his voice was not high, but it was like a thin blade gently scraping his eardrums. "This place is secluded."

When he walked, his shoulders and back were straight, but he had a strange softness, as if his bones were fewer than ordinary people. His right hand was pressed against his waist as if there was a wound there, which made him feel pain.

The night wind blew, bringing a faint agarwood fragrance on his body, mixed with a faint smell of medicine. His nails were trimmed very neatly, and his fingertips were slightly bluish. At this moment, he was gently rubbing the dark patterns embroidered on his cuffs - it was a pair of Chilongs with their heads and tails, and they could only be seen clearly if they were brought close together.

When he stopped in front of An Zhilu three steps, a nocturnal moth flew over his face. He did not blink or wave to drive him away, but the corners of his mouth were slightly tense for a moment, as if he was disgusted, and as if he had long been used to these little things that were striving for themselves.

An Zhilu bowed and bowed, "Who are you?"

"Yin Ruhui, the Minister of the Provincial Court of the Eunuch. He usually does some miscellaneous work such as managing the palace servants and punishing women's family. However, this time it was General Manager Gao who asked me to come." The man smiled femininely.

An Zhilu bowed her body and said respectfully, "So it's Yinqing of Gaofu, who is Yinjuan here to find me this time?"

Yin Ruhui smiled and said, "The report you submitted stated your whereabouts, but you didn't say what you were doing in this courtyard."

An Zhilu felt a little chill in her heart, but her expression did not change much. She just said, "The assassin from Xuanduguan said this place name before he died, so I mentioned my whereabouts in the report, but I don't know what he meant by mentioning this place name, so I came to investigate."

Yin Ruhui smiled slightly and said, "What did you find out?"

An Zhilu said: "There is a dressing box in the study with a piece of hemp paper. I just picked it out with a scabbard. What I recorded was the method of affair refining with heavy weapons. The rest of the place has not yet been carefully investigated."

Yin Ruhui nodded, as if he was a little satisfied, so he walked straight into the study.

He seemed to have picked up the hemp paper on the ground casually and looked it into his sleeves, but during this process, he carefully looked at the traces in the room.

He didn't stop in the study either. After putting in the hemp paper, he walked out and walked to An Zhilu who was waiting for him, and changed his smile. His face was filled with gentleness at this time, "General An, you have already fallen into the eyes of General Manager Gao, let's help each other in the future."

An Zhilu said in a deep voice, "You are polite to the Minister Yin, I am just a sinful person now."

"It's not from now on." Yin Ruhui took out a document from his sleeve and handed it to An Zhilu, and said with a smile, "The appointment document has been completed. General An, you are now temporarily serving as the Yongxing Commander of Luoyang. You can transfer patrols around Luoyang. Although it is still only a sixth rank, there are very few officers from outside who are placed in such a real power position at once. General An has a bright future. As long as the matter is done well this time, I'm afraid it will be prosperous next."

Even though An Zhilu now has Wang Youshan’s intelligence network to transmit information at any time, she has not received any news before such an appointment.

He couldn't help but be stunned. After taking the document and taking it, he was stunned again, "Let me cooperate with the inner guard to investigate the important case...what important case?"

Yin Ruhui suddenly smiled, "General An, among the people who assassinated you this time, some of them have very special identities. They are important positions among the imperial tomb guards. In addition to their good cultivation, these people also have many underground abilities. This time, there are many people who have the idea of ​​attacking the Zulong Underground Palace. You happen to be from outside. General Manager Gao thinks you are more at ease, so you have such an opportunity to command troops. Tomorrow, you will report according to the local area and the military command is the command talisman. Of course, there will be special officials to inform you that I will not prevent you from resting. I have a carriage outside the door. If you want to rest in the carriage, it will be fine if you want to rest in this yard."

An Zhilu bowed again and said, "Thank you, Yin Bureau Chief."

Yin Ruhui smiled and said politely, then said goodbye and left.

Shortly after he walked out the door, he got into a carriage, and there was a serious blue-shirt official sitting in the carriage.

The blue-shirt official looked at him and asked, "How is this person?"
To be continued...