Approaching the interior of the gourd valley, a few mountain passes turned sharply, and the eyes suddenly opened up, originally when the spring was cold and steep, but the air here was full of blazing heat.

At the first valley entrance, Lu Shi and Tie Ying and Chen Ce Zhao Xing were stopped by the soldiers standing guard, and the excitement in Tie Ying's heart couldn't help but rise, looking at this base, there was not even a sentry in front of the king's gate, but it was heavily guarded here, and it could be seen that this was the key core secret place of the army, and Lu Shi and others could bring themselves here to visit, which showed that they had absolute trust in themselves.

But when he came to the mouth of the valley, the soldier standing guard saw Lu Shi, the king of Chuang, from a distance, his eyes were already excited, and he saluted Lu Shi from a distance, very respectful, Lu Shi smiled and rushed forward, and returned the salute in a proper manner, and said hard work in his mouth.

Tie Ying originally thought that Lu Shi would take everyone into it so briskly, but he didn't want to, Lu Shi stood in front of the soldier in a proper manner, honestly reported his name, and then asked the soldier to pass it on.

The soldier also honestly and unceremoniously took a piece of paper and wrote them down one by one, and then turned around and asked a brother in the sentry box behind him to run inside to report.

When everyone was standing at the mouth of the valley waiting for the return, Lu Shi smiled and accosted the brother: "Is the valley still safe these days?" No one was hurt. ”

"This." The brother had a sad face, and he didn't answer Lu Shi's question for a long time, but kept his eyes on Zhao Xing, who was standing behind Lu Shi with a harmless smile.

Zhao Xing just smiled like that, looking at Lu Shi's back, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Lu Shi suddenly remembered, patted his head and said: "Look at my memory, this should not be asked or answered, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry brother." ”

The brother seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said with an embarrassed smile: "King Chuang is polite, but, where the duty lies, please don't blame." ”

"It's too late to praise, where is there anything to blame?"

Tie Ying was very surprised, but even more envious, if this is in his own cottage, don't say that he is the chief scoop handle, he is a stranger, as long as he goes down for dozens of dollars, even when he slept yesterday, you can easily know that in his own place, there is almost no secret at all, and here, even if he is a dignified king, he is not even told whether he is safe in the valley, which shows the strictness of the military discipline.

"Did you eat well in the morning?" Waiting is a tiring thing, and Lu Shi has nothing to say to this brother.

When asked about eating, the brother immediately clenched his gun, straightened his chest and said loudly: "King Qi, eat well, eat well." ”

Lu Shi smiled slightly, shook his hand and said, "Come on, this is not a report, just talk about it, don't make it so formal." ”

"Report to the king, chat while on duty, and whip five times, I'll report it." The soldier insisted.

At this time, Lu Shi was really speechless, so he had to say to Zhao Xing behind him: "Look, you made it, you can't chat to pass the time." ”

Zhao Xing smiled and said: "Discipline is set after everyone discusses, then you have to abide by it, in fact, King Chuang has already disciplined, I have the right to write down your five whips, and wait until I go back to the prison sergeant to carry it out." ”

Lu Shi's face changed, not angry, but fearful, but he smiled in the blink of an eye, and said with a smile, "Did I offend you?" ”

"Chatting with the officers on duty, being guilty of the same crime as the officers on duty, and deliberately spying on the core secrets of the base area, plotting against the wrongdoing, when you take down the strict investigation, break the king, do you say you committed it?" Zhao Xing still asked with a harmless face.

Lu Shi grinned and said, "First, this brother is on duty, and there is no Fan mistake, because he is reporting, not chatting. ”

Tie Ying looked at Lu Shi and Zhao Xing arguing with interest.

"Second, I'm King Chuang, what am I doing?"

Zhao Xing still looked at King Chuang with a smile and didn't say anything.

"I'm checking the gang, and what I just said is a deliberate attempt to seduce this brother and see if our discipline is fully enforced." With a serious face, the words are convincing.

Zhao Xing squinted his eyes and looked at Lu Shi, and his smile became even more ambiguous.

Lu Shi hurriedly avoided this look, turned around, puffed up his chest, and said solemnly to the brother on duty: "Well, who is that, you are very good, this month's mobile red flag should be given to you." ”

"Report to the king, you said that the mobile red flag doesn't count, then it has to be on our school field, our brigade wins the fight."

Lu Shiyi stretched his neck, smiled awkwardly at Tie Ying, and then continued: "This brother, do you have anything else to say about the food of our troops?" ”

When the brother heard this, he straightened his chest even more, but the dark clouds immediately rolled on his originally excited face, which was very funny: "Report to King Chuang, I have an opinion on the food." ”

Lu Shi looked back at Zhao Xing, deliberately sighed, and then admonished Zhao Xing seriously: "Look, you have to come down often to take a look, investigate and investigate, look, now, the problem will come out, if you don't talk about it, it's better to contact the masses often." ”

Zhao Xing listened with a smile, and then arched his hand to Lu Shigong: "You have passed." ”

Lu Shi raised his neck proudly: "What is this called?" It's called reasonable avoidance, hahaha. Then he said aloud to the brother, "Say, what is not satisfied with the food?" I'll fix it right away. ”

"Report to King Chuang, I insist on not eating rabbit meat, I obviously feel that my ears are wrong."

Lu Shi fell, Tie Ying was surprised, Zhao Xing squinted his eyes and smiled evilly, Chen Ce simply felt the same way.

Lu Shi was speechless, and the soldier brother said with hope in his eyes: "King Chuang, what you can say, solve it immediately, please solve it quickly, now, the brothers will vomit when they see the rabbit meat." ”

Lu Shi nodded and said solemnly: "What, Zhao Xing Chen Ce, let's go." After saying that, he pulled his legs and ran.

While running, he muttered: "If you don't eat rabbit meat, how can we digest the rabbits we produce according to the land?" In order to boost the economy, eat you. ”

Originally, he called for raising rabbits, which was to improve the physique of the brothers in the army, but also to increase the income of the sisters in the old camp and find a sense of accomplishment for Chunlan, but I didn't expect that the reproduction of this rabbit was too strong, and later, for fear of hitting the enthusiasm of the sisters, especially Chunlan, had to buy it for the sake of acquisition, so that the soldier's vegetables have changed from one-tenth of the original rabbit meat to one-tenth of the current vegetables.

Tie Ying swallowed his saliva and said enviously: "If Huanglong's brothers are the same as the brothers of Chuang Jun, and they have enough meat every day, then they will not be beautiful to death?"

Chen Ce looked at Tie Ying's envious face and muttered in a low voice, "Don't be complacent, there are times when you cry." ”

At this time, a group of people in the valley rushed out, and the tall brother who took the lead bowed to Lu Shi from a distance: "King Chuang is here, let you wait for a long time, rude, please come in quickly." ”

It was Blacksmith Zhao, now the leader of the Artisan Battalion.

Lu Shi stepped forward and took Blacksmith Zhao's hand and looked it up and down, and couldn't help but smile dumbly after looking at it, Blacksmith Zhao's face was horizontal and vertical, black and gray iron powder, and the original good craftsman uniform on his body was even bigger and smaller, dense, which was just right if he wore it in summer.

Looking at the rough calloused hands again, Lu Shi couldn't help but feel distressed, and blamed in a low voice: "You are a manager, you are not a front-line worker." ”

Blacksmith Zhao's eyes were hot, and he turned to laugh and said: "I am this fate, I can't sit still in the shed at all, and at the same time, there are many places where I don't see it in person, I just don't worry." Looking at the people behind him, he hurriedly tied, "Leaders, hurry up and enter the valley." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and then followed Blacksmith Zhao to the valley.

Along the way, the more you go inside, the more strict the guard, the more frightened Tie Ying is, and the more joyful he is, what is frightened is that this is the key, the core secret, and the joy is that he can be brought here, which means that the army has regarded himself as a brother's henchman.

Turning the foot of the last mountain, there are four large blast furnaces stationed in the sky in the distance, which are emitting yellow smoke, under this big blast furnace, there are countless small men, naked and naked, trotting and busy beside the furnace that constantly emits red, and nearby, there is a rumbling sound of water and a loud noise next to a reservoir, and countless small wheelbarrows shuttle back and forth, pushing some stones down in a huge, water-driven huge mill, in which the stones that were poured into were crushed into small pieces, and finally became stone powderUnder the action of the river, the original yellow stone powder was washed into a swarthy powder, and then it was salvaged and spread out on the open space on the riverbed to dry, and then a group of people pushed the dried iron powder to the tall blast furnace with a small cart.

Chen Ce whispered but proudly introduced to the stunned Tie Ying: "This is the core of our base core, the steel plant. Looking at Tie Ying like an idiot, he said again: "Under the innovation of King Chuang, our steel factory directly produces good steel, and now, I can proudly say to Tie Ying that the steel we produce is worth the annual output of Daming, or even more." ”

Looking at Tie Ying's jaw drop in shock, he couldn't help but sigh obviously: "It's a pity, it's just that this vein is too small, otherwise, our annual output will far exceed that of the whole year of Daming." ”

Looking at the four huge blast furnaces, Tie Ying believed that what Chen Ce said was true, "If we have this steel, wouldn't all the equipment of our army be self-sufficient?" No wonder, our soldiers are all equipped with fine steel spears, sabers, and swords and shields. ”

Chen Ce said proudly: "Not only that, after we are self-sufficient, we also export a large number of our sabers and guns. ”

Tie Ying's face immediately turned pale, Zhao Xing knew that Tie Ying had misunderstood, and quickly explained in a whisper: "Brother, don't misunderstand, we will sell all the saber guns to Yunnan, a few days ago Brother Zheng Hongda passed the word, Yunnan Tusi's rebellion, I believe that with the help of our saber and gun, it has shifted from a see-saw to a counteroffensive, and I believe that within two years, the rebellion in Yunnan will be extinguished." ”

Tie Ying let out a sigh of relief, but immediately had a worried face: "If the rebellion in Yunnan is quelled, then the millions of silver saved by the imperial court every year, as well as the hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in Yunnan who encircled and suppressed the rebellion, will be overwhelming, and by then——"

Chen Ce sighed: "Why don't we think so? But King Chuang insisted and said that it was all the blood of the Han family, so let's keep a breath of vitality for the Han family. ”

Tie Ying is silent, this is the character side of King Lu Shi, who has the heart of a bodhisattva and the righteousness of the nation.

"But." Chen Ce suddenly raised his head high, and said loudly and confidently: "However, we have hot-blooded brothers, we have a steady stream of steel, iron and blood, therefore, we will be invincible. ”

Iron and blood, yes, as long as we have both, then who can defeat us?