Let's say that after Duan Xing asked Zhang Yi to stay, he said to the soldier who came before: "You are not bad, go down first, I will call you if there is something." ”

"Yes, Lord Baihu, the villain retires" The soldier responded, then turned around and left the room, Duan Xing called Zhang Yi in front of him, took out a drawing that had been drawn a long time ago, and said to Zhang Yi mysteriously: "You open this first." While speaking, he handed over the drawing, Zhang Yi took it with both hands, unfolded it, and saw that the picture was a weapon shaped like a dagger, but the front end was like an awl, and there was a ridge engraved at the front end, and a blood groove was opened. It looks like a weapon, but it's never been seen before. Duan Xing said: "This is a unique weapon I saw outside earlier, named *." As for the features, it is suitable to carry around, and once stabbed by it, it will bleed nonstop, and the wound is extremely difficult to heal. When Zhang Yi heard this, he was shocked, this weapon was so terrifying, and in addition to being shocked, he became more and more curious. Then he said tentatively, "Since you have such a sharp weapon, why don't you let the blacksmith in the castle make one for each brother?" When Duan Xing heard this, he even said: "No, no, this kind of weapon has extremely high requirements for iron, and it can't be cast by refining steel, and it takes a lot of time to polish, so it can only be made of elite to a small amount of equipment." When Zhang Yi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in frustration.

Duan Xing saw Zhang Yi like this, so he said to him: "Now that I have just received the news, the nearby barbarian rebellion is imminent, you immediately rush back to the fort overnight with this map, and privately carefully select twenty skilled and clever people from the army and the young men in the fort, and let them wait for me to go back." At the same time, you have to have the best blacksmith and whetstone in the fort build twenty pieces according to the diagram and the instructions on the diagram, and if you don't have enough manpower, call them from somewhere else. Duan Xing said: "Tell the selected people to strengthen their training, and the requirements must not be relaxed at all, do you understand?" ”

"Yes, mark it clear." Zhang Yi agreed, and when he was about to leave with the picture, Duan Xing stopped him and said, "This matter must be kept strictly confidential, except for you and me, no other unrelated personnel are allowed to leak it." Zhang Yi said: "Rest assured, Lord Baihu, the mark will live up to expectations." After saying that, he went out and went back to Xingyi Fort.

Duan Xing saw Zhang Yi's departing back at the door of the inn, and thought of the predicament he was about to face, his heart couldn't help but move, and muttered to himself: "I hope everything I do can change all this......"

Just when Duan Xing and Zhang Yi were discussing this matter, a big thing was being planned in a stockade dozens of miles away from here.

The whole village was brightly lit, and in the largest bamboo building in the middle, dozens of people in different clothes were sitting on either side, constantly exchanging heads and ears, as if talking about something.

At this time, I could only hear the person sitting at the top say slowly: "Leaders, leaders, I have gathered everyone here today because there is a major event to announce in public. As soon as the words fell, someone became anxious: "I don't know what the patriarch of Muye has to announce?" A middle-aged man in his forties with a long beard under his chin asked. This person's name is Meng Hao, after Meng Shu, he is also the leader of a tribe, originally his tribe was the strongest among the tribes in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, but because of his ancestor's time, he mistakenly helped the Northern Yuan Liang King to put Zaraermir and the last governor of the Yunnan Governor's Office, the last king of Dali Duan Shi to resist the Ming army led by Mu Ying and Fu Youde, after the defeat of the army, in order to protect the survival of the clan, he was not allowed to sacrifice all the adult men of the whole clan, and slaughtered all the adult men for Mu Xin, so that the vitality was greatly injured, and it has continued to this day.

Despite this, Meng Hao was still able to restore a large part of the clan's strength with his own skills and stratagems, but there was still a big gap compared to Mu Ye's family. Therefore, although Meng Hao was very familiar with Mu Ye, and he was also very disdainful of Mu Ye's personality, Mu Ye's strength was stronger than him, so he could only swallow his anger and keep silent.

At this time, I only heard Mu Ye say: "Everyone knows that our people in the Yungui area today, and we ourselves, are exploited by Han officials and profiteers in our lives, so that our lives have been embarrassed and difficult, and I decided to do the opposite." If the rank has this intention, it is appropriate to raise the banner together to seek great things. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present was startled, and for a while, there was silence in the hall.

After a while, someone shouted, "I don't agree." Before the words fell, everyone turned their heads to look at the voice.

I saw that it was a tall young man sitting under the head who spoke, he slowly stood up in front of everyone's eyes, and said: "Patriarch Mu, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to do this, you know, although the Ming Dynasty is declining at the moment, there are still thousands of thousands of households and millions of soldiers, not our rivals, if you want to raise troops at this time, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!" ”

Listening to this young man's words, Mu Ye was unhappy, but because of the presence of everyone, he couldn't attack, so he could only sit down with the anger in his heart, and at the same time glared at the young man fiercely, full of unwillingness.

Note: The Yunnan Governor's Mansion was the Yuan Dynasty's local management of ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Duan clan of the Dali royal family served as the hereditary governor.