The sentry didn't dare to hide it, and said truthfully to Tong Guan: "My team of people patrolled along the south bank of the river, and found from a distance that along the river to the west, in the direction of the confluence of mountains and rivers, there was a red light rising from the mountain, looming, and in the air above the red light, there seemed to be colorful clouds reflecting each other. The little ones don't know what's weird, I'm afraid that they missed the big event of Xuanshuai, so they came back to report. ”

Tong Guan was initially shocked: Could it be that there will be emperors in the mountains? This is very difficult, how to report this to the officials? Boss, there's a place on my side that glows red at night, and it could be your competitor. Don't talk about it, you can't afford this crime of deception.

was embarrassed, and suddenly thought: This matter has nothing to do with them, the other side of the river is the realm of Fanren.

Thinking that it might be in the direction of Sanssouci Village, Tong Guan hurriedly sent someone to call He Si, who was disguised and escorted to Sanssouci Village a few days ago.

He Si carefully asked the direction of the sentry horseman, and the two made a comparison, and He Si said to Tong Guan: "Taishi, the place where the fire is rising should be the direction of Sanssouci Village. ”

Tong Guan was relieved when he heard this, and said to the sentry horseman: "Don't spread this matter, go back and tell your team, if there is a mistake, cut off the head." ”

Frightened, the sentry hurriedly agreed and retreated.

Tong Guan thought carefully about this red light strange thing, could it be that this human realm is going to produce a saint emperor? In troubled times, there will be a holy lord who will be born to rule the world and save the people from fire and water. Two days ago, he received an order from the imperial court to send troops to capture Yanjing, and he was still pondering: If he is good, why should the official family send him troops to attack Yanjing? How does it make a difference who takes Yanjing? In short, wouldn't it be possible to restore the land of Yanyun in the end? Now that I think about it, Xu is official family knew earlier through the officials of the Taishi Bureau who were in charge of the celestial phenomena that a saint would be born in Fanguo? That's why he strictly ordered himself to immediately send troops to attack Yanjing?

It seems that this is the only explanation.

Tong Guan asked: "He Si, did you see Zhou Nan when you went to Sanssouci that day?" What's so weird in the stockade? ”

He Si thought for a while and said: "Taishi, the villain escorted the grain, grass and sulfur, but it was not sent to the same place, the grain cloth was sent to the cottage in the north, but the sulfur was sent to an uninhabited mountain in the south. Both villages have walls and gates, and they are guarded by people. There are many people in the cottage in the north, especially the warehouse behind the mountain, there are actually three rows, and the grain, cloth and silk are like mountains, as well as weapons and arrows. There is also a study hall and a council hall next to this storehouse, and next to it is a large piece of public land, as well as a public stable, I heard that this week, the south used the public field, the public stable, and the public treasury to raise the soldiers in the village and the lonely and widowed old people. By the way, the villain also saw a stone tablet of the Sanssouci Village Convention outside the council hall. The people in the stockade thought that they were transporting grain and other goods to the public treasury, and they all came over to help unload the trucks without being urged. The villain tentatively asked about their big village master, and those people said that their big village master was good and had a way, and said that he led the women in the village to cook for the soldiers every day......"

"That Zhou Nan is, is it a woman?!" Tong Guan asked in surprise.

The villain also thought so at first, they said that Zhou Nan is not the owner of the big village now, and the current master of the big village is a woman. The people in the village were all happy and full of energy, compared to the people in the capital. He Si thought about it and said.

"Public fields, public stables, study halls, weapons, where is this still a cottage, this is simply a rebellion!" Tong Guan said to himself.

It seems that his guess just now is good, the official family must have learned that there is a fan emperor saint in this worry-free village, so he ordered himself to send troops to defeat yanjing as soon as possible, destroy the fan country, and break the hope of the fan people, so that the future troubles can be eliminated forever. Otherwise, when the Holy Lord of Fanren is born and dominates the troubled times, he will have no hope of defeating Yanjing.

It seems that this red light must be reported to the official family immediately, first, to show that he is careful in everything on the front line, and second, he will not fall into the crime of bullying the king in the future. Also, the official family asked him to send troops to attack Yanjing on the same day, so he had to prepare.

"You go, tell Liu Dutong, let him send a hard agent, pretend to be a fan, and go to Yanjing to see the way to attack Yanjing, as well as the towns and garrisons along the way. Then he was ready to send troops north. Tong Guan said to He Si.

He Si immediately agreed and went out to give the order. Although Liu Yanqing's army is now stationed outside the city of Xiongzhou, Liu Yanqing still found a house in the city and lived comfortably in the city, so he didn't have to go out of the city.

Tong Guan began to pick up the pen, and with his little ink, he began to ponder the strange thing about Zhao Ji's faint red light.

Maybe it was because the sky was really pure in that era, or maybe it was because the iron-making furnace had not yet spread to Yanzhou and other places in that era, so the soldiers of the Western Army led by Tong Guan saw the faint red light of the iron-making furnace from afar, but they didn't know what was going on. Coupled with the rendering of a heavyweight minister like Tong Guan, this red light vision began to slowly ferment in Tong Guan's hands.

When I woke up in the morning, I was greeted by the crisp chirping of birds outside the house. It's just that this wooden house is really comfortable to sleep in, and I slept until dawn. Zhou Nan hurriedly dressed and came out, only to see that there was no one in the room next to him, and the door of the sulfur warehouse was locked inside, and he had already started a busy day.

Zhou Nan went to find Cai Xianzhong first, Cai Xianzhong and Zhu Xian's hard work all night, and finally came to fruition. Cai Xianzhong was digging through the mold to pick up the cast bomb casing, while Zhu Xian and three other workers loaded the burned charcoal onto a wooden cart and prepared to transport it to the sulfur warehouse.

Zhou Nan saw that everything was ready, so he said to Cai Xianzhong and Zhu Xian: "The two edicts will come with me to have a look." Once you've seen it, you'll know how to fix it. ”

Three men pushed a wooden cart and carried five bomb shells to the sulphur storehouse, called open the gate, and put the charcoal into the storehouse. Zhou Nan asked Guo Xing's ancestors to make some gunpowder. Guo Xingzu took the tools, crushed the charcoal, and then went to the dispensing workshop, weighed the sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal according to Zhou Nan's proportion, and then mixed them together, and then asked Zhou Nan how to inspect the bomb and gunpowder.

Zhou Nan handed Guo Xingzu an empty bomb shell, and asked Guo Xingzu to fill it with gunpowder and seal it. The group found a safe place in the southeast corner of the village, Zhou Nan and the others found a place to hide, Guo Xingzu ran to more than a dozen zhang away, took out an iron pickaxe, and dug a pit on the ground mixed with stone and soil, and the bottom of the pit was a hard stone that was difficult to chisel. Guo Xingzu buried the iron-shelled bomb in the rocky soil, then lit the fuse, turned around and ran.

This lead Guo Xingzu knows how fast and slow it burns, so he has plenty of time to run back. Guo Xingzu ran back to Zhou Nan's side, and together with Cai Xianzhong and Zhu Xian, he stared nervously at the lead of a wisp of green smoke burning from the rocky soil in the distance.

(End of chapter)