The ink writers believe that unlike Jing Ke, who can only hide the dagger in the map, and Zhang Liang, who hires a strong man to throw a hammer and is lucky, he does not do things with a slap in the head, but after careful planning.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, as a group of craft parties, before you do big things, you must first make sharp weapons suitable for assassination.

As a Mo scholar, there are three things I have learned since I was a child: the teachings of the Mo Sutra, personal martial arts, and craftsmanship skills. There are hundreds of craftsmen in the world, and more than 100 Qin Mo also have their own specializations, and generally only one or two apprentices are brought to teach the skills without reservation.

Among them, there are six kinds of gold attacking work, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhu clan is under Qi, the Ye clan is on the Qi, the Ji clan is the sound, the Li clan is the quantity, the Duan clan is the tool, and the Tao clan is the blade...... Over time, however, these techniques have spread and are no longer in the hands of a single family.

Among the ink makers, the one who is most fascinated by forging blades is a Zhao ink artist named "Ai Ji Ao".

When Tang Duo, Shilin and others pulled him in, Ai Ji Ao happily agreed: "My father once learned to forge a sword with Mrs. Xu, a famous craftsman of Zhao State, and together created Mrs. Xu's dagger, which is the utensils that Jing Ke used to stab Qin Shi Huang, extracted poison, and sealed his throat with blood, but unfortunately Jing Ke's sword throwing art was not perfect, and he threw it crookedly......"

The kingdom of Zhao fell, Ai On died on the city wall, and Ai Ji Ao became an orphan and was adopted by the Mo people. Now participating in the assassination of Qin Shi Huang is also regarded as inheriting the old business of his grandfather, and Ai Jiao is very concerned.

Although the Mo family was suppressed, the influence in the Qin Dynasty's military industrial system was still there, except for the giant Cheng Shang who stayed in Xianyang, the rest of the disciples were mostly arranged to Shanglin to assist Fusu in repairing Afang, and many people served as petty officials in the surrounding workshops, and Ai Jiao was a blacksmith.

Taking advantage of his position, he spent more than a month painstakingly crafting an ingenious weapon, which he showed to his brothers at a secret assembly in mid-September.

In order to demonstrate the wonder of that weapon, Ji Ao specially took off his short fight, put on a wide robe with big sleeves that was obviously too big, and walked all the way, polite, but with a slightly ugly face, it made people laugh.

But just as he approached the scarecrow dummy, Ai Jiao suddenly raised his right hand, and after a soft sound, a small sword popped out of it and stabbed into the scarecrow's body!

Everyone was a little surprised, and after inspection, they found that there was a mechanism on the arm of this wide sleeve, which contained a hollow wooden handle, in which the thin sword could be hidden, and it was linked to the ring by the rope line, and it was worn on the little thumb, and the palm of the hand was bent and pulled by the rope line, and the thin sword could be ejected!

"There is a sword in the sleeve, hence the name Hidden Blade."

Edie triumphantly showed them that it was the perfect assassination weapon, but everyone's attention was focused on the ring finger of his severed right hand......

Shilin smacked his tongue and said, "Your finger can't be cut off by the ejected Hidden Blade, right?" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and they all protected their ring fingers and took a step back. Next, let Ai Ji Ao explain, saying that it was just a mistake caused by the first generation of Hidden Blades more than a month ago, and this second-generation Hidden Blade, after transformation, the ring finger will no longer block the way of the sword, and everyone is unmoved.

"It can also be replaced with knives, crossbows, firing grappling hooks, flying eaves and wall ......"

Even if Ai Ji Ao said it, the other ink writers agreed that although this hidden blade was exquisite, and it also used the "spring" made of fine iron wire after the giant Cheng Shang was inspired by Chang Nanhou, it was flashy, and the whole mechanism was heavy and large, and the hand became thicker after wearing it, which was very obvious and could be exposed anytime and anywhere.

"It's better to use a small dagger that is short and easy to hide."

In the end, as to whether the Hidden Blade was used as an assassination weapon, everyone voted by a show of hands according to the tradition of "Shang Tong", and the result was that Ai Jiao agreed, and his ring finger was cut in vain.

After discussion, the Moji agreed that unless Qin Shi Huang traveled in Weifu, the possibility of successfully assassinating him at close range was almost zero.

"The crossbow shoots its car and its people from a distance, but it has a better chance."

Although Ji Ao was lost, he still obeyed the organizational arrangement, stopped the work in his hand, and assisted Shilin, who was proficient in the manufacture of crossbows to defend the city, to develop a new weapon: a strong crossbow that can shoot two hundred steps with a winch!

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Compared with those Confucian scholars who swaggered to gather in Xianyang City and were caught by the government, after all, the ink people have been engaged in secret organizations for two hundred years, and the ink people who participated in the "violence" are even more one-on-one contact.

On this day in late September, everyone received a notice from Tang Duo to pass on the black paper kite, and gathered in the name of "learning the Book of Ink" in the Afang Palace, which had not yet been built.

After half a year of careful selection, a total of more than 50 reliable Mo family disciples were willing to join the assassination, accounting for one-third of Qin Mo's total. Today, there are only 11 people as representatives, plus Tang Duo, who has not yet arrived, a total of 12.

While waiting for Tang Duo, Yang Yi, who had been hesitant to assassinate the emperor, sighed when he heard Shi Lin and Ai Ji Ao keep talking about the big crossbow that had been secretly made and hidden somewhere in this palace.

"In the past, the public loss plate was a weapon for Chu to build a cloud ladder, and it was completed to attack the Song Dynasty. Zi Mozi heard it, set off from Lu State, traveled for ten days and ten nights, and as for Ying, he saw that the public lost. ”

"But today, as the disciples of Zimozi, we have developed a murderous weapon that is more terrible than the ladder......"

"Didn't Qin do these things a long time ago when he was unified?" Ai Ji Ao squatted in the corner, holding a small book of ink printed on paper, and muttered.

Shilin found that even among the more than ten people, there were a few who were worried about it.

So he encouraged the people and said: "Iron ore does not distinguish between good and evil, and so does the iron obtained from smelting iron ore, and the sword made of gold and iron by a blacksmith is not guilty, and the short sword that sharpens wood is no different from the sword used to kill people, but the difference is in the person who uses it, and the difference is in what he does......

"It is used to attack small countries in big countries, everyone usurps small families, the strong rob the weak, the noble are arrogant, and there are many deceitful and foolish, then this sword is evil."

"If it is used the other way around, to help the weak resist the strong, to punish the evil and promote the good, then this sword is good!"

"Who decides good and evil?" Some people have suggested that they have not been sure whether what they are doing is right or wrong.

"Of course, it is determined by heaven and by the wishes of the people!" Shibayashi said as a matter of course, and began to explain his thoughts to the crowd.

"It's been a month since the Glowing Guard, and the First Emperor of Qin listened to the words of the sorcerer and was still looking for the incarnation of the Glowing Star, especially those in the south, those with different faces were mostly arrested and interrogated. But in my opinion, this disaster star that disturbed the world and brought about military disasters, massacres, exterminations, funerals, and corpses was none other than Qin Shi Huang himself! ”

This bold statement surprised everyone.

"That's right, Your Majesty the Emperor, he's the Glowing Star! Since unification, the Northern Expedition, the Western Expansion, the Eastern Expedition, the Southern Expedition, all the conquests, all because of their great desire, his chaotic tyranny, is the root cause of the disappearance! This is the sign, it is the will of heaven! ”

"Zi Mozi said that the Son of Heaven is violent, and God can punish him!"

Shilin glanced at everyone: "Dare to ask you, the three generations of tyrant kings, the tyrant kings, the tyrants, the three generations, the swords, who are the swords, and the swords that obey the will of heaven and punish them?" ”

Zhao Yin said: "It's Shang Tang." ”

Yang Yi thought about it: "It's Zhou Wu." ”

Ai Ji Ao put away the ink scripture, got up and said, "It's a rioter!" ”

Shilin bowed: "That's right, Tang, Wu, and the same countrymen as us!" No matter whether you are virtuous, foolish, noble or low, as long as the Son of Heaven is violent, you can punish him! ”

"In order to redeem this dying Ji Shi, if others don't stand up, we ink masters must stand up and make a sword to punish the Son of Heaven on behalf of the sky."

He drew his sword and swore: "We are the sword of the will of heaven, and the sword of the son of heaven will be punished!" The sword of the world! ”

The ten of them got up, and one sword after another was unsheathed, and even Ai Jiao's short hidden blade came over and repeated his words.

"The ink is like the night, not fighting for glory, standing up today, giving his life, no fear and no retreat, and no regrets in death!"

"Our actions are driven by the will of heaven, so we are no longer Qin Mo, but the ink of the people of the world, and the ink of heaven!"

"Okay, what a Heavenly Exorcist Ink!"

Someone came, but it was Tang Duo, the leader of the "Heavenly Exorcism Ink" who was still late, and he glanced at everyone:

"Second and third sons, there's a chance."

Tang Duo said with some excitement: "I got the news that Qin Shi Huang is going to travel at the end of the year to inspect Afang Palace, and then go west to Yong, so as to sacrifice the temple of Qin Jun of all dynasties on the first day of the first month of the thirty-seventh year, and we will start at that time!" ”