Qi Ning snorted coldly and said, "Qin Yuege, you are really bold, who instructed you to do all this?" ”

Qin Yuege said respectfully: "Master Hou, I can't understand my humble position for a while. He looked at Mrs. Tian again and said apologetically: "Madam, I am so offended, I really have no choice but to forgive me!" ”

"Qin Yuege, what the hell are you doing?" Qi Ning frowned, glanced at the dark shadow over there, and asked, "Who is he?" ”

"Master Hou, please go to a place to see something, after seeing it, you will understand everything." Qin Yuege said solemnly: "The humble position will also explain the ins and outs of the matter to the Hou Ye in detail." ”

"Where to go?"

Qin Yuege pointed to the entrance of the cave and said, "From here, all the puzzles will be solved." ”

"You're letting me get into this hole?" Qi Ning said coldly: "Where does this tunnel lead?" ”

Qin Yue Ge said: "I believe that the Hou Ye must be interested in the things inside. Hou Ye already knew that this island was actually a warehouse, and the existence of these people on the island was to guard the warehouse here. He raised his hand and pointed to the mouth of the cave and said, "This passage took more than two years before and after, that is, it was just opened a few months ago, and so far, no one on the island has discovered this secret. ”

"You mean...... This tunnel leads directly to the warehouse? Qi Ning understood.

Qin Yuege bowed slightly, and said, "Exactly!" ”

Qi Ning thought for a moment before asking, "Qin Yuege, this island harbors evil intentions, it seems that you have long known about it." ”

"Master Hou, the humble position said that this matter is extremely complicated, only when the Hou Ye sees the goods in the warehouse with his own eyes, the humble position can report the cause and effect." Qin Yuege said: "This matter is very important, and I don't dare to talk nonsense." ”

Qi Ning hesitated for a moment before he said, "Okay, you guys go in first, and I'll follow behind." ”

Qin Yuege didn't say a word, put away the knife, bowed his hand to Qi Ning, and then arrived at the edge of the cave, looked at the black shadow, the two looked at each other, they both nodded, Qin Yuege immediately lowered his body and entered the cave, the black shadow also walked over, glanced at Qi Ning, his eyes were cold, and he didn't talk nonsense, and followed Qin Yuege in.

When the two of them entered, Mrs. Tian said in a low voice: "Master Hou, you ..... You have to be careful with them and don't fall for them, in case..... In case there are traps in this tunnel.....! ”

Qi Ning smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about me, even if they really set a trap, they can't help me." Mrs. Jiang Tian carefully put it down, leaned against the rock wall and sat down, and then said softly: "Madam, what they said is right, the matter on this island is indeed very important, and it is likely to threaten the imperial court. I see there is no trace of those bandits on the island here, you wait for me here, and I will come out soon, okay? ”

Although Mrs. Tian was worried, she also knew that since it was a major matter related to the imperial court, she could not stop it, so she could only say softly: "Then you want to.... Be careful! ”

Qi Ning nodded slightly, thinking of something, stuffed the cold blade in his hand into his wife's hand, and said in a low voice: "It should be very safe here, if something really happens, there is this in the hand to resist, this knife is as sharp as clay." In fact, he knew very well in his heart that if Qin Yuege really wanted to be unfavorable to Mrs. Tian, he would not let himself find it so easily, since the entrance to this underground grotto had not been discovered, it proved that this place was still very safe.

Whether Qin Yuege is an enemy or a friend, it is not completely certain at the moment, if he is really ill-intentioned, Qi Ning does not have a cold blade in his hand, with his current martial arts, Qin Yuege cannot be an opponent at all.

This stone cave is pitch black, Qi Ning is on guard, bends his body and walks slowly inside, about dozens of meters forward, the stone road climbs up, Qi Ning walked for a while, and found that there was a faint fire light in front of him, close to the past, it has reached the end, Qin Yue singer at the exit is waiting for Qi Ning with a fire fold, Qi Ning went out of the hole, found that there was a huge rock on the side of the hole, looked back at the hole again, and immediately understood that this rock was used to seal the hole at a regular time, and it had just been removed.

He raised his head, but found that he was already in an extremely empty stone room at this time, and what he saw in front of him was a mountain of wooden boxes, the wooden boxes were placed very neatly, and they were stacked, Qi Ning looked left and right, Qin Yuege and the black shadow stood in front of him left and right, all looking at themselves.

Qi Ning didn't speak, and walked forward slowly, Qin Yuege followed Qi Ning with a fire fold.

The stone room is extremely wide, and there are so many boxes, Qi Ning only feels that these boxes divide it like a labyrinth, and there are thousands of boxes stored here, not to mention thousands.

Qi Ning walked to the edge of a box, suddenly turned around, and pulled out a knife from Qin Yuege's waist, Qin Yuege was extremely calm, Qi Ning pulled out the knife, stuffed the blade into the gap on the edge of the box cover, and pried open the wooden box that had been ordered, at this time the black shadow had already followed, picked up the box cover with both hands, and carefully placed it on the side, the box contained something, and the top layer was covered with yellow grass, Qi Ning reached out and picked up the yellow grass on it, and after a closer look, his face showed a shocked look.

In this wooden box, there was a box full of blades.

He immediately looked at Qin Yuege, Qin Yuege just nodded, and Qi Ning immediately pried open two boxes in a row, both of which were filled with knives, and in each box, there were twenty or thirty brand-new blades.

"Master Hou, all the boxes here are filled with weapons." Qin Yuege lowered his voice and said, "Its main thing is a big sword, and there are also short swords and spears. Raising his hand to the northwest corner of the township, he pointed over: "The boxes over there are all filled with longbows and arrows, and it has been estimated that there are at least more than 20,000 broadswords and spears here, and there are nearly 1,000 longbows, and the number of arrows is not much, among which there are hundreds of crossbow arrows!" ”

After the founding of the Great Chu State, the imperial court immediately issued a sword hunting order.

One of the most important items of the sword hunting order is that all the tools that can be used as weapons are strictly forbidden to be owned by the people, and the weapons such as broadswords, longbows, sharp arrows and spears can only belong to the government, and the farming tools used by the people, such as sickles and axes, and other tools close to weapons, are strictly managed by the local government.

The world is undecided, and the strong enemies in the north are eyeing each other, and Chu's move is also to prevent people from making trouble.

According to the usual practice, the Donghai Jiang family is just a merchant, and naturally they are also not allowed to have weapons, but because of the special situation, the caravan of the Donghai Jiang family has been trading with the South Seas, in order to deal with the sea bandits and even for the safety of the South Seas, the imperial court authorized the East China Sea Jiang family to form a sea escort team to protect the merchant ships to be able to come and go smoothly, but even so, the government on this side of the East China Sea will strictly inspect the number of weapons owned by the East China Sea Jiang family.

Even if the Jiang family wants to add an extra knife, they must report it to the local government, otherwise they will violate the laws of the court and be punished as a crime of treason.

At present, in this underground warehouse, such a large number of weapons are stored, and the intention of rebellion is already obvious.

After Qi Ning knew that the goods were stored on this island, he had actually been thinking about what kind of goods it would be, but he didn't expect that it would be a weapon at all.

The Imperial Forging Weapons belonged to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry had a forging field that was specifically responsible for forging weapons for the imperial court, even so, without the approval of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry Weapons Forging Yard was not allowed to cast even a blade without authorization, and the types and numbers of forging blades in the forging field must strictly abide by the documents proposed by the Ministry of War.

And every weapon that comes out of the forging field must be strictly inspected, not only to check the quality of the weapon, but also to be particularly cautious about the number of weapons, specially set up a yamen responsible for counting the number of weapons that come out, this set of procedures is extremely standardized and strict, not to allow the slightest sloppiness, and after the appearance, the whereabouts of each weapon, that is also to be registered, will never let the weapon not be monitored by the imperial court.

The procedures for forging weapons in the imperial court were so strict, not to mention the people.

If the people find that someone has privately cast weapons, they will be directly punished for the crime of treason, and the crime will be several times more serious than that of secretly hiding the blade, and once the crime is punished, it will directly implicate the three clans.

If the Jiang family purchased weapons from the Nanyang side and transported them back to the East China Sea, of course, there was a great risk, as long as the news leaked slightly, the consequences would be unimaginable, so no matter how stupid the Jiang family was, it would never be possible to purchase so many weapons from the Nanyang.

Qi Ning had just observed the style of the knife, which was obviously the method of forging weapons by the Central Plains people, and Qi Ning even doubted whether Nanyang had such advanced forging technology, and even if there was such a technology, it was doubtful whether it would be able to supply such a large number of weapons.

Qi Ning didn't think that one of the most important reasons in this warehouse was that it was hard for him to imagine where these weapons came from.

Of course, the Jiang family in the East China Sea would not be stupid enough to collect weapons from the East China Sea and transport them to this island, the imperial court has always been wary of the Jiang family, so the Jiang family has always been under surveillance in the East China Sea, but if a box of these goods is found in the middle, the court will never show mercy to the Jiang family's subordinates.

So of course, these weapons could not have been transported from the shore, and if that was the case, where did they come from?

"Master Hou, these weapons are only a temporary number." Qin Yuege's expression was grim, and she said solemnly: "Every year, two batches of weapons are sent here, adding up to at least a thousand. ”

The several major battalions of the Chu State garrison capital, with the Xuanwu battalion being the most numerous, but there are only 15,000 soldiers and horses, and once the weapons here are used, they are enough to supply tens of thousands of people, and once tens of thousands of rebels really appear in the East China Sea, the consequences can be imagined.

Qi Ning handed the big knife back to Qin Yuege in his hand, Qin Yuege put the knife into the sheath, Qi Ning was already staring at his eyes and asked: "Qin Facao, since you have been staring at this matter for a long time, then you naturally know who is the mastermind behind this, Ben Hou asked you, who is the mastermind behind this island?" ”