"What? Gao Zhan, the emperor of Qi State, is your cousin! Then aren't you the nephew of Emperor Qi, and you are also a royal family, what a noble status, why did you come here? Xiao Yao was a little surprised, after all, he himself was also the cousin of the Emperor of the Liang Kingdom, and he knew how noble he was to be a royal family!

"Back then, Emperor Qi Wenxuan favored the traitorous and adulterous people, fornicated in the court, completely ignored the feelings of the same clan, and wantonly killed the ministers of the clan. My grandfather, father and the whole family all died tragically under their hands, Gao Yuan was young at the time, but fortunately the family teacher was desperate to save him to escape their poisonous hands and survived! "Remembering the past, Gao Yuan gritted his teeth and was extremely resentful.

"The family teacher is a disciple of Qi State cast iron master Qi's mother Huaiwen, named Zhou Chao, who got the true cast iron process of his ancestors, and is also a first-class cast iron master, he was favored by his grandfather in his early years, so when he destroyed the tragedy, he sacrificed himself to save him, so that Gao Yuan could survive." Thinking of the suffering of the past, Gao Yuan's eyes couldn't help but shed tears.

"Sure enough, there is a man with a story! Your master is also a man of affection and righteousness, worthy of admiration! Xiao Yao was also a little moved.

"After the family teacher fled from Qi with Gao Yuan, he took refuge in the Zhou State, because the two countries of Zhou and Qi were feuding, so the family teacher wanted to take advantage of the war between the two countries to assist the founding ancestor of the Zhou State Yuwen Tai to destroy the Qi State to avenge our whole family, but unexpectedly Yuwen Tai died suddenly, and the court affairs were handed over to his nephew Yuwen Hu. In the early years, the family teacher had offended Yuwenhu in the Zhou army, so Yuwenhu was found guilty of harming the family teacher, and finally our master and apprentice had to flee south to Liang State. Gao Yuan brought the story to the climax, and Xiao Yao listened to it with relish.

"Your master is also in Liang Kingdom? Don't you know that now Liang is a vassal state of Zhou, and you still dare to take refuge? Aren't you afraid that I will arrest you and take them to the court to invite merit? Xiao Yao thought of this key point.

"I believe that the Xiao family will not, and you will not, son!" Gao Yuan said very confidently: "Yesterday's Ruyi Building, I was originally following Gonggong Liu all the way, ready to find an opportunity to assassinate this lackey of Yuwenhu, but I saw Gongzi beating Gonggong Liu, it was really happy!" ”

"What? Are you going to assassinate Gonggong Liu? Xiao Yao was also taken aback, but thinking about it, this Gonggong Liu is so arrogant and hateful, there will indeed be a lot of enemies who want to kill him.

"Originally, our plan was to kill Gonggong Liu and then go east to Chen Guo! Unexpectedly, I saw Gongzi beat up this Liu Gonggong from Zhou State in Ruyi Building, so we guessed that in fact, your Xiao family, and even the emperor of the Liang Dynasty were not loyal to Zhou State, so Gao Yuan dared to come to take refuge! "High and far beyond their purpose.

"Well, according to you, it turns out that I saved the life of this dead eunuch yesterday, and I knew that you would kill him!" Xiao Yao couldn't help but regret it.

"But forget it, a cheap person has his own income, and he will be retributed sooner or later! You immediately invite your master to the ironworks, I can't wait to meet this heroic man with affection, righteousness and skill! Xiao Yao said excitedly.

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"Master Zhou, I have wronged you, but in this iron workshop, everyone must abide by this rule." Xiao Yao looked at Zhou Chao, who also had a bald head, and was a little embarrassed, after all, he was an elder.

"If you make a rule, you must follow it! Gongzi can be magnanimous, take in our master and apprentice, so that we both have a place to stay, I am already grateful, as for those secular etiquette, Zhou doesn't care, so this is not a grievance. Zhou Chao said gratefully.

Zhou Chao is a middle-aged man in his thirties and a smart person, so he can get out of the way after going through so many dangers! When he came to the blacksmith workshop and talked to Xiao Yao, he was even more convinced that Xiao Yao was an extraordinary person: he could manage the blacksmith workshop in an orderly manner at his age, and the iron casting process he knew seemed to be better than himself!

"You two can stay in the blacksmith workshop with confidence, no one here knows your details, just my newly hired cast iron master and personal guards, and no one in Jiangling dares to trouble our Xiao family!" Xiao Yao said with a grin.

"Thank you, Childe! I believe that Childe has also listened to Gao Yuan's words, so don't you want to ask us about our situation in detail? Zhou Chao was looked at by Xiao Yao with a smile, and he was a little uncalm.

"Hehe, your affairs are not complicated, what is there to understand! It's nothing more than Gao Yuan has an enmity with the Qi State, you have an enmity with the Zhou State, and then you can't take revenge, and now you come to the Xiao family for refuge. Xiao Yao summed up their situation in one sentence.

"Childe really sees things thoroughly, but this involves the interests of all parties, and the situation is complicated, doesn't Childe have to think about it carefully?" Gao Yuan reminded Xiao Yao.

"Then you mean that I tied you up and then took it to invite merit?" Xiao Yao asked rhetorically.

"Of course we don't mean that, it's just that now Liang Guo is also attached to Zhou State, and Yuwenhu is in Zhou Guoquan, and I am afraid that it will affect Gongzi at that time, so I still hope that Gongzi can think about it thoroughly." Zhou Chao hurriedly explained.

"Although I am young, I still know a little about the current situation! The four countries of the Central Plains, to be precise, there are only three countries, Zhou Qichen, our Liang State is not a sovereign and independent country at all! The three countries of them are fighting each other, and now you are either you fighting me, or I am fighting you! Even our Liang State, although it is still attached to the Zhou State, but listen to my brother, our emperor has long been dissatisfied with this humiliating position, and is actively recruiting troops, and when the time comes, not only will the Chen State be invaded in the east, but also the army will go north, and finally unify the Central Plains! Xiao Yao domineeringly.

"That's right, it can also be seen that the Liang State is now actively developing, just like the Yue Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period of that year, lying on the salary and trying to be strong, actively preparing for war, and then destroying the Chen State in one fell swoop!" Zhou Chao echoed Xiao Yao's tone, a bit of a sycophant.

"Kill the fart! Still lying on the salary and trying to be strong? I'm not afraid to make people laugh when I go out, the current Liang State can only survive under the protection of the Zhou State, if there is no Zhou State, it would have been destroyed by the Chen State a long time ago! Xiao Yao suddenly reversed and poured cold water.

Xiao Yao's thinking turned too fast, so that Zhou Chao couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all, and he was speechless for a while, so he could only look at Xiao Yao stupidly, unable to answer at all.

Xiao Yao looked at Zhou Chao, who was speechless, and sneered: "You can see it, can't Yuwenhu see it?" So now the Zhou State is constantly suppressing the Liang State and paying tribute every year, I dare that the treasury of the Liang State is not as rich as the Xiao family's treasury! Where did Liang get the money to recruit troops? Back then, the Zhou State broke through Jiangling, but he still supported the Xiao royal family to restore the Liang State, which was nothing more than wanting to restrict the Chen State through the Liang State, and then concentrate on dealing with the Qi State himself! It's only my brother who is still stupidly thinking about how to curry favor with the Zhou State, hoping to borrow troops to attack the Chen State in the east, which is simply seeking skin with the tiger! Xiao Yao pointed out the key at once.

"Yuwenhu's methods of playing with power have always been very powerful, so now the court of the Zhou State has been controlled by him! And his means of killing two birds with one stone in the Liang State, the Xiao royal family is deeply rooted in Jiangling, and if the Zhou State wants to completely annex Jiangling, it must have a lot of manpower and material support, which is indeed not as convenient as supporting the Xiao family to establish the Liang State to rule. Zhou Chao also agreed, and was deeply amazed by Xiao Yao's point-to-point analysis, this son is extraordinary!

"Therefore, if the Liang State wants to get rid of the current humiliating position of being subservient, it must take the Chen State in the east, and build a strong army with the vast land and large population in the south of the Yangtze River, so that it has the ability to confront the two countries of Zhou and Qi!" Xiao Yao looked up and said confidently.

However, Xiao Yao suddenly made a big turn and sneered at Zhou Chao: "But these are all wishful thinking and blindly optimistic visions of our Liang Guo!" The reality is cruel, and now because of the support of Liang and the Shu land, the national strength has gradually increased; The government of Qi was chaotic, brutalizing Zhongliang, and the national strength began to decrease greatly; Chen Bozhong, the new emperor of the Chen State, has just ascended the throne, and his foundation is not stable! Therefore, among the three big countries in the Central Plains, the situation of Zhou is the best, and when the time comes, as long as Zhou destroys Qi and then moves south to eliminate Chen, it will be easy! At that time, there will be no need for the Liang Kingdom in a corner of peace to exist. ”

Xiao Yao, as an engineering tyrant, although the history is zero, but the approximate historical development is still known, and the last thing in history is the unification of the Central Plains by the Zhou State, but it was usurped by the surname Yang in the middle, and the Zhou State became the Sui State.