Chapter 26: The Gift
"General Commercial Bank Iron Workshop Zhou Chao and two apprentices to see His Royal Highness King Xing!" The trio saluted.
"You are Zhou Chao? The founder of the ironworks? I heard that he is still a Qi countryman! I didn't expect to be so young that I could make iron tools that were better than Yinhai Firm, I thought it was a gray-haired old master! Ha ha! Chen Shuling looked Zhou Chao up and down and said.
"Zhou is a disciple of the cast iron master Qi's mother Huaiwen, and he has won the true inheritance of the family teacher, so he has some experience in casting iron and steelmaking!" Zhou Chao straightened his waist and said confidently.
Everyone was amazed! Of course, everyone has heard of the name of Qimu Huaiwen, because the Su Iron Knife he created is a world-famous treasure knife!
Even Chen Shuling stood up and said, "It turns out that Master Zhou is a famous teacher!" No wonder the swords produced in the ironworks are so powerful, it turns out that those are the iron knives! Hurry up, please take a seat! This king toasts you! ”
"Your Highness has won the award, the iron workshop has only been open for less than three months, many materials are not ready, and the sword made now is not called a Su Tie Knife, compared to the real Su Tie Treasure Knife, its quality is less than fifty percent!" Zhou Chao told the truth.
Because of the urgency of time, many of the conditions of the iron workshop that have just opened to make iron have not yet been perfected, and the newly recruited craftsmen and apprentices have no technical reserves, which are not as good as the Xiao family iron workshop that Xiao Yao has operated for several years, so not to mention the musket and artillery, even the saber used by Gao Yuan cannot be built now.
"Less than fifty percent? I've heard that those swords are very powerful! Cut several ordinary steel knives in a row, but the blade is still undamaged! It was sold out in Jinling, and this time when I came to Jiangzhou, the king also wanted to say that he would personally go to the ironshop to buy a sword! Chen Shuling was very surprised.
"Haha, how can His Highness's saber be those shoddy things, when the conditions of the ironshop are perfect, I will personally create a satisfactory saber and give it to His Highness!" Zhou Chao said arrogantly, so excited that Chen Shuling immediately saluted Zhou Chao three glasses of wine before stopping.
"Speaking of gifts, His Royal Highness's new Jiangzhou Assassin History, Zhou Mou specially presented a treasure and gave it to His Highness as a meeting gift!" After speaking, Zhou Chao glanced at Gao Yuan behind him and asked him to present the brocade box with both hands.
"When Zhou's master and apprentice traveled to Xiliang, he once worshiped the Xiao family, and he got this treasure by chance! In the whole world, I believe that only with such golden branches and jade leaves of His Royal Highness, the royal family and nobles can be worthy of this treasure! Zhou Chao introduced.
"What treasures do Master Zhou value so much? Xiliang Xiao's family? Could it be ... Fast! Bring it to the king! When Chen Shuling heard that it was in Xiliang Xiao's house, his heartbeat couldn't help but accelerate.
When Chen Shuling opened the brocade box and saw the treasure, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said in surprise: "This, this, this is really a priceless glass treasure!" ”
As soon as he heard that it was a treasure obtained from the Xiao family in Xiliang, Chen Shuling immediately thought of the glazed ware, Xiliang was in a lonely place, and he was still breathing, in addition to the glazed treasures of the Xiao family, what else could be called a treasure!
A few years ago, the long-lost glazed treasures reappeared in the Xiao family of Xiliang, so that the whole world was vibrating, the Xiao family at that time only took out a few glazed treasures a year, and also held an auction for this, so that the world's businessmen rushed to Jiangling, in order to get this rare treasure and bid for each other.
Of course, Chen Guo's Yinhai Commercial Bank is also among them, but it has only won a few glass treasures, and they have all paid tribute to the emperor.
Chen Shuling picked up this golden dragon wine jug, his hands trembled a little, and his eyes couldn't be taken off: the crystal clear body of the jug coiled a golden dragon, and the dragon was the symbol of the royal family!
Seeing Chen Shuling's expression of drooling down, Xiao Yao and his gang were very satisfied, they were really a greedy guy, and their future plans would be much easier!
"Your Highness! Your Highness! This baby is called the Golden Dragon Wine Pot, the golden dragon coils around the body of the pot, the dragon head is the spout, the dragon tail is the handle, the exquisite design, and with the nine dragon cups printed with different shapes, it is simply this thing should only be in the sky! Zhou Chao introduced this glass wine jug according to Xiao Yao's original words!
"This, this, is indeed a clever treasure! Sure enough, it should only be in heaven! I don't think the ones in the palace add up to half a point like this! It turns out that the glass treasures are so cool and silky to the touch! Chen Shuling couldn't help but stroke the Golden Dragon Wine Pot up and down!
"Haha, when Zhou saw this golden dragon wine pot for the first time at Xiliang Xiao's house, he was firmly attracted by it, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time! My two apprentices can't be called, haha" Zhou Chao said with a smile.
Chen Shuling, who came back to his senses, smiled awkwardly, took his eyes away from the Golden Dragon Wine Pot, and said, "Haha, the world-famous glass treasures are of course the treasures that everyone dreams of!" It turns out that Master Zhou once went to Xiliang Xiao's house, huh? So how did you get this baby? It can't be sent by the Xiao family, right? ”
"How can Zhou, the Xiao family not give me such a precious treasure! At the beginning, Zhou was also fortunate to worship the Xiao family's iron workshop with the craftsmanship of the cast iron, and met the legendary and extremely smart young son of the Xiao family, when their Xiao family fired this golden dragon wine pot, it was ready to pay tribute to the Zhou State, but Zhou was a native of the Qi State, so he naturally couldn't see such a treasure fall into the hands of the Zhou State, so he used a little trick to get it, and then left the Liang State! Zhou Chao shook his head and said, looking very proud.
Everyone in the world knows that Qi and Zhou are feuding, and Zhou Chao used this reason to explain why he wanted to win this golden dragon wine pot in the hands of the Xiao family, which is very reasonable, and no one will doubt it.
Chen Shuling glanced at Zhou Chao with a little meaning, and said with a smile: "Haha, Master Zhou is really not an ordinary person!" Come on, come on, this king will toast you again! ”
Everyone drank a few rounds, and Chen Shuling finally noticed the two people who had been standing behind Zhou Chao, and asked, "Could these two behind Master Zhou be your apprentices?" ”
Zhou Chao nodded and said, "Yes, this is my eldest apprentice Gao Yuan, and this is my little apprentice, Xiao Yao." You two don't hurry up and salute His Royal Highness King Xing! ”
"Oh, surnamed Xiao?" Chen Shuling couldn't help but look coldly at this young man who was about the same age as himself!
Zhou Chao saw Chen Shuling's doubts and explained: "Hehe, Your Highness is too worried, although Xiao Yao's surname is Xiao, but the Lanling family, his parents died when he was a child, Zhou took him as an apprentice and raised him, we all call him Shilang." ”
"Oh, Lanling people, I can't imagine that there are still people surnamed Xiao in Lanling now, didn't your Qi Kingdom kill them all? Ha ha. "Chen Shuling has no good impression of the Xiao family, after all, it is the surname Chen who has taken the world of the surname Xiao.
Li An naturally couldn't see such rudeness to his young master, so he changed the topic and said: "Haha, Your Highness is laughing, don't underestimate the two apprentices of Master Zhou, they are not idle people!" The big apprentice is high in martial arts, and he defeated the three masters of the Julong Gang in three moves, and now he is the leader of the Xunyang County defenders! And this Xiao Yao Xiao Shilang is even more talented, it all depends on his strategy, we can exterminate the Julong Gang in one fell swoop! ”
"Oh, Master Li said before that there are righteous people to help, is it them?" Chen Shuling was taken aback.
"Yes, Master Zhou's master and apprentice can be said to be the benefactors of Jiangzhou, and they have made great contributions in the battle to exterminate the Julong Gang, and even General Xiao Moke said that he would accept Shiro as his righteous son!"
Ang Lee released another fierce news, which made everyone's eyes focus on Xiao Yao!