Lin Shiyin pushed a wheelbarrow to walk the streets and alleys of the village, although this village is located in the middle of nowhere, but because of the local production relationship, it is still relatively rich.

The houses in the village are all typical northern-style large tiled houses, red bricks and black tiles, and the outside is smooth and smooth with plaster, and there are no thatched huts in the whole village.

Today is a winter day high, cloudless weather, the most pleasant thing is that there is no wind, and the old people in the village are gathering to bask in the sun. Every old man sat on crutches and chatted on his maza. And these people who like to talk about the shortcomings of their families and talk about the past and the present are the best targets for intelligence exploration.

Lin Shi pretended to be tired, pushed the wooden cart near the old man, and slowly walked to the side of the old man, and found a vacant place to squat down. This village is often visited by traveling merchants, so these old people do not care, but see that an outsider is interested.

"I said, little brother, this big winter is not at home in the cat winter, and you still come out to earn chewing grain?"

Lin Shiyin hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Isn't it an old brother, if there are a few acres of fertile land at home, can I still run around with the soles of my shoes, or this Taozhuang Feng Shui treasure, rich in products, the old brothers seem to have a comfortable life." ”

Lin Shiyin replied while carefully observing these old people, and saw that most of these people's clothes were new, as if they had only recently made clothes together.

And ordinary peasant children, except for walking around during the New Year, working in the fields on weekdays, or living at home, all wear old cloth clothes, which is really rare to show off in ordinary times.

This pole village changed to Taozhuang is also about to come to investigate when I came to explore on the road, I didn't think about it at the time, but today I saw this abnormal state and immediately became suspicious. All valuable information is never put on the table for you to take, and it is necessary to rely on the keen observation of spies to find clues from the clues.

Thinking of this, Lin Shiyin had an idea, and said with a smile: "The spirit of a few old brothers is really tough, this dress is also a new fabric, I don't know which traveling merchant you bought the cloth?

These few words are like traveling merchants often chatting and inquiring about the market, asking prices to solicit business, which is extremely natural and will not arouse the suspicion of others. Unexpectedly, the old men in new clothes showed displeasure on their faces.

"Our cloth is a serious Kyoto Furuixiang cloth, twelve coppers a foot, where do you traveling merchants have this kind of goods. ”

In fact, Lin Shiyin has long seen that although these fabrics are also ordinary muslin, they are tightly textured, evenly dyed and steadfast, and they are good fabrics. I heard that the other party really said so.

Hurriedly pretended to be surprised and said: "Forgive me for being clumsy, forgive me for being clumsy, I said how this fabric looks so bright, it turned out to be Fu Ruixiang's material, it is really a good fabric, twelve coppers, the ordinary fabric is enough after a foot and a half, and the old brothers seem to have made a fortune." ”

As soon as these flattering words were said, the old men looked smug one by one, although they were ordinary muslin, and they were in a remote Taozhuang. But vanity is common to all, and if no one praises him when he wears a new dress, it is really like a brocade robe at night.

One of them had a gray beard, and the oldest opened his mouth: "I can't talk about making a fortune, but all these years of hard work have not been in vain, I waited here for not to be called Taozhuang, but to be called Gongzhuang, I don't know if the little brother has heard of it?"

Lin Shiyin was here with doubts just now, and immediately said: "I only knew that this place had just been renamed when I walked to the cow village in front, and I don't know why, and there is nothing to do now, so it is better for my brother to give me guidance, and I will go out in the future, and tell the people who are coming, so as not to go the wrong way." ”

Most of the old people in this kind of remote countryside have never been out of the village for a hundred miles in their lives, and their knowledge is extremely shallow, so they will feel quite complacent about a little thing, and when they heard Lin Shiyin's humble words, they couldn't help but have a smug face, and said the reason for the name change of this pole village.

"It turns out that the reason why we call it Pole Village here is because this place is rich in ash wood, which has been purchased by people from remote places in the past years, and we don't know what we want these ash wood for, but we know that these people come to give half of the deposit first, and then pay the other half when the ten years expire. ”

Lin Shiyin was very excited when he heard this, "Isn't this exactly the material of the gun barrel used in the "Sharpshooter's Gate"? Moreover, listening to this old man, it can only be harvested in ten years, and it is even more suitable for the material requirements of this military supply.

The brothers of Jiangnan Yanyulou don't know much about ordnance, but Xu Fei is extremely proficient in this way, and once said that the spear line seen in the barracks warehouse, in addition to the spear head is extremely sharp three-edged iron vertebrae, the gun barrel is also the duck egg thickness ash wood used in the "magic spear door".

This kind of thick and straight ash barrel is heavy and dense, the skin is cyan, there is no scar on the whole body, it can be folded in half and continuously, straight piercing without bending, which is exactly the toughness of the gun barrel required by the "Sharpshooter" marksmanship.

Because this peach village is more than 80 miles away from the capital, and the power of the Supreme Gate is never involved here on weekdays, so it has been investigating and exploring in the villages around Kyoto, but I didn't expect that it was actually the "Sharpshooter" who has been buying ash here all year round.

It's just that the "Sharpshooter" is extremely secretive, and in the past ten years, it has only shown its face in paying the deposit and taking away the materials, so Jiangnan Yanyulou has not been aware of it.

It's just that I don't know why the pole village was renamed Taozhuang this time, and I just hope that the old man will continue to talk. Sure enough, the old man opened the conversation box and continued to talk.

"The soil climate here is most suitable for the growth of ash wood, so the ash produced can be said to be incomparable, the guests who purchased it were generous, and the deposit given was enough for our village to live, plus we planted some crops on weekdays, and we had a good life. This kind of once-in-a-decade trade has been going on for as long as I can remember, but this year the customer asked for something else. ”

Lin Shiyin just heard that the key point was tight, but the old man sold a pass, he was anxious, but there was no show on his face, and he answered with a smile.

"I don't know what this guest wants?"

If a person keeps talking about the past and the present, and the other party has no reaction, it is not interesting at all, and now I see that this traveling merchant is really clever, and he holds his words, paves them steadily, and just waits for himself to speak, and he is in a happy mood.

"This year, the guest did not come according to the ten-year agreement, but asked someone to send a letter, saying that the delivery would be postponed by one year, but he was even more generous, and gave the other half of the money in advance, saying that he still had a share of the money when he came to pick up the timber. Now everyone in the village was very happy. ”

"No, a few days ago, people came, cut down the ash wood, but there is a new requirement, that is, to plant peach trees on the mountain, and the pole village is renamed Taozhuang, but people have said first, and the peaches produced in the future belong to us, and the money for buying and selling once every ten years is paid according to the same as in previous years, as for when to plant ash wood again to listen to the news. ”

After saying this, Lin Shiyin had already determined that he had found the right place, it was located in a remote place and had no intelligence value, so it had always been the blind spot of the spies in Jiangnan Yanyulou, but he didn't expect it to be the source of supply of the "Divine Spear Gate" spear materials. This time I want to cover up, and I must be doing this because I am afraid of leaking the news.

But this thing is done to add to the snake, if this pole Zhuang supply is nothing, after all, the ash wood here has its own uniqueness, and it makes sense to come from thousands of miles to purchase. However, this temporary name change and the replanting of peach trees are just an attempt to cover up the existence of a nearby workshop!

Normally, the purchase once every ten years is to ship back to the "Sharpshooter", but this time it was suddenly postponed for a year, and the time happened to be the time period of the recent turmoil in the capital, and it seems that the time of the postponement was used to secretly transfer the craftsmen who made the spears and many manufacturing tools and materials from the border to the vicinity of Kyoto.

The finished products in those barracks happened to be the time after the pole village was renamed Taozhuang.

The Lance Workshop must be here!

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