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The rice outside the royal city bowed its head, and when it was almost time to harvest, the half-blooded fishtail came from the northwest, passed through a large field, and rode into the city in a rage, and then rushed into the court courtyard where two stone elephants were standing. The guard at the door tried to stop him, but the tail of the horse was only rolled with a horsewhip, and the guard was put aside.

The civil servants were in a meeting under the leadership of the bark, and Fishtail unceremoniously rushed in, two bloody knives in his hands.

The two knives were thrown in front of the winter bear with a choked sound, and the fishtail roared with red eyes: "Say! What good things did your Ministry of Commerce do? ”

Bringing a knife to break into the court's political courtyard, this is the first time since the establishment of this courtyard. When I saw it, everyone thought that the fishtail was crazy and wanted to kill, and the ministers were more or less frightened. The spirit took all the crossbows he had with him. Seeing that the fishtail was just questioning, they all sat up straight. Spirit placed the crossbow on the table.

The bark knocked on the table and said, "Fishtail, have something to say." What's the matter with you throwing two knives in like this? He can now be said to be above 10,000 people under one person, and the kung fu of cultivating qi can be regarded as practiced, he glanced at the two knives, and saw that one of them did not look like a dynasty product, and his heart tightened.

Hearing the boss speak gently, the other ministers began to scold: "Fishtail, this is not your martial arts academy, and you are not allowed to go wild here." ”

"Get out! Do? Going to kill us? ”

"Don't think that if we don't become soldiers, we're afraid of you!"

Most of these ministers were still hunting in the wild ten years ago, and now they may be a little older, but their blood is still there. Fishtail's action just now startled them, making them feel that their old faces were dull, and they were merciless when they scolded them.

The people of the Shenlongwei appeared in the back, and they were about to start catching the fishtail. The fishtail is consciously reasonable, and is naturally not afraid, seeing that in addition to quarreling, it is about to fight. Bark slammed the notebook on the table and shouted, "Enough! ”

Waving his hand to let the people of Shenlongwei retreat outside the door, Shupi said: "Fishtail, if you don't make today's matter clear, I will let the court beat you until you can't get out of bed for half a month." What's going on? ”

Fishtail has a vulgar personality, but he doesn't eat tree bark, but just points to the winter bear and says, "He does good things, you ask him." ”

Bark said: "You don't patrol the southwest, take two knives and come back to accuse our minister, do you want to say that this knife was sold to barbarians by our people from the Ministry of Commerce?" One of these two knives is ours, but the other is never ours. Q: What is the use of a winter bear? Say, "Where did this knife come from?" ”

As soon as the bark said this, everyone looked at the two knives carefully, and soon most of them changed their faces.

Fishtail looked at the bark, nodded admiringly, and told the origin of the two knives: "This is what I captured from the barbarians!" ”

Ever since it was known a few years ago that the barbarians were hunting children everywhere, the dynasty had judged that they were expanding themselves against the dynasty. Since then, the dynasty has also made a lot of arrangements, in addition to sending people deep into their hinterland to find out the news. From time to time, the military headquarters also sent small teams to patrol and conduct small-scale encirclement and suppression around them. This can be regarded as prevention and military training.

By this time, it was Fishtail's subordinates who were on duty here. A few days earlier, a squad of twenty had unexpectedly encountered an ambush by a team of several hundred. This kind of thing has happened before. On the side of the dynasty's army, they have the advantage of weapons and armor, and they are well trained, and they can deal with this kind of siege.

It was only after this confrontation that the warriors of the dynasty realized that something was wrong. Among the hundreds of enemies, many of them actually use iron weapons. The warriors of the dynasty, who had always despised the surrounding area, were attacked by iron weapons, but all the barbarians had mastered the iron weapons, and in a panic, they were killed on the spot. The rest of the people, relying on the results of high-intensity training, killed themselves from the crowd and fled in the direction where the large army was sitting, and were chased for half a day before they were rescued.

When Fishtail rescued his men, he easily routed the enemy, only to discover that someone in the crowd was using iron weapons. He was so frightened that he captured many captives and tortured them, only to learn that someone had sold iron tools, and even some of them knew how to make iron tools.

At this time, the military iron tools were different from the civilian ones. The civilian iron tools were basically sold by the Ministry of Commerce within the dynasty. In Fishtail's view, this iron tool was obviously bought by someone from the Ministry of Commerce. As for the barbarians' ability to smelt iron, it must have been betrayed by the people of the Ministry of Commerce. Fishtail took two knives and hurried back to question.

After listening to the origin, the crowd washed the two knives and observed them carefully. The bark also asked people to find the people who came to Lambla to distinguish, and after doing this for a long time, the fishtail was tired of waiting and asked, "What's the matter?" I have seventeen brothers who died because of this, and the Ministry of Commerce will not give me an explanation? ”

Winter Bear withdrew his gaze from the knife and said, "My Ministry of Commerce has never sold any iron tools to anyone outside the dynasty. Our people have never entered the ironworks, and there is no way to leak secrets. ”

Fishtail glared: "You didn't sell it?" So what's the matter with this iron tool? ”

Winter Bear said: "It seems that the style of this iron tool was made three years ago. ”

Fishtail said, "So what? ”

Winter Bear said: "In three years, it is difficult to explain how the iron tools were handled. In short, it was not someone from my Ministry of Commerce who did it. ”

In the midst of the noise here, Zhuang Niu heard the news and came from the barracks across the river. After he looked at the two knives on the table, he was also a little moved. Of the two knives, the focus is not on the one that fell out. As Winter Bear said, now the dynasty is up and down, and there are countless iron tools used, and it is inevitable that some will occasionally fall out. The focus is on the other handful.

The other knife is poorly made, the shape of the knife is irregular, the thickness of the blade is not the same, and the edge of the knife has long been unsightly. Zhuang Niu and Shu Bark and others were the first to follow Wang Chuan to strike iron, so they naturally saw at a glance that this shoddy knife was made by hand, and the technology was extremely poor. On the side of the dynasty, it is impossible for such an iron weapon to exist, and if the current technology is leaked, it should not be possible to make such a thing. It's more like someone has rediscovered a way to strike iron.

Zhuang Niu asked, "Have the people from White Rock City seen it?" ”

"Let them see it, and they say it doesn't look like they built it." They have now also been poured Lord. ”

Zhuang Niu said: "I received a report two days ago that the barbarians were suspected of mining behavior, and my people are still confirming it, and now it is confirmed." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at each other, and the entire conference room fell into an eerie silence.

Wang Chuan had told them before that war was one of the most effective means of improving the progress of civilization. Hearing this, they kept fighting skirmishes against the barbarians, using them to train their troops or to summarize the inadequacy of their weapons. I think this is the means of promotion brought about by war. Now they know that this is what the so-called promotion means. The enemy is also strong in the midst of war.

Over the past few years, according to the information obtained from the informants, the number of barbarians has increased exponentially, thanks to the southward spread of farming technology and the meat provided by migratory herds. The population controlled by the dynasty here in the south was no more than 150,000, and the number of barbarians was now estimated at 300,000.

For this reason, dynasties and barbarians also had differences in management structures. On the dynastic side, management focused on conceptual access, while on the barbarian side, it was only about quantity. It's like the dynasty is taking earth to build a city, burning bricks and tiles, building ditches and streets, and considering various divisions and functions. On the barbarians' side, they took the mound of dirt. As long as the soil is piled together, even if there is an occasional landslide, as long as there is no mudslide, it can be piled up regardless of it. It is not an exaggeration to say that the number of barbarians has increased rapidly. But the city can live for a hundred years, and the earth and mountains here can be piled up for a few years, so I don't know.

Wang Chuan had told them these truths before, which was also the reason why Wang Chuan didn't take the barbarians seriously.

But now that I think about it, wouldn't it be terrible if these 300,000 people had iron tools -- in the subconscious cognition of these officials of the dynasty, 150,000 of them would have been able to build the dynasty like this with iron weapons, and there would be twice as many people on the other side as themselves?

These thoughts flashed through everyone's hearts, and some people felt that something seemed wrong. Winter Bear remembered what he said earlier, and then said to Fishtail: "This is not a secret leaked by our Ministry of Commerce. ”

"The Ministry of Commerce is still responsible for this matter." Wolf Ting, who was carrying two big dogs, came in from outside, let the dogs stop at the door, and then said, "Now enter the high-level secret meeting, and unrelated personnel leave the venue." ”

Among the ministers, some of them were illiterate, and they still brought their secretaries to the meeting, and at this time, as soon as Wolf Ting was promoted to a secret meeting, these young secretaries went out obediently.

After Wolf Ting became the Minister of Supervision, she worked in the palace and was only responsible to Wang Chuan. Since she took office, she has rarely appeared on such occasions, but nothing good has happened to her every time. She can always find all kinds of wrong things that many people do in private, and then make it public mercilessly. Even if there is something inappropriate about the bark, she dares to confront it face to face. This kind of person, there is really no one who dares to offend. There are even rumors outside that the dogs running outside are her men, so she can do everything.

Or the old men of the court like her, because every time she appears, the court can be busy for many days and deal with many people.

Wolf Ting stood at the end of the long table, flipped up the notebook in his hand and said slowly: "I am also checking a lot of things, and I think it is not yet time to make it public, but since it has already caused the sacrifice of our soldiers, I will announce some things here." There are currently only two sources of iron for the barbarians, one is that, as you might think, they are mining and smelting iron. Among their upper echelons, there was an elder named Blackface. It is said that he has mastered the ability to make iron. But who this man is and where he came from, I can't find out. What I found out was that forty-seven slaves who had spent years in our royal city or in our iron mines were missing. Before, you didn't know much about reading, and you didn't bother to register, but later the king asked about the situation of these people, and most of you explained that you missed the memory. Now that I have looked closely, at least a dozen of them have fled. You or some of your subordinates did not report it in order to avoid responsibility. The king said that if any of us have secrets that leak out, they are usually brought out. I suspect this blackface is one of those who have fled. Among those involved here are...... I hope that the court will arrest him immediately. ”

Although ironmaking is one of the confidential projects, it is not completely independent of residential areas at this time, and it is possible for people who are interested to see and hear certain things and find patterns from them. After all, the threshold for iron smelting is not high.

"Second," Wolf Ting continued, "I have mastered a smuggling channel that sells iron to barbarians in exchange for slaves. The information I have here is not complete, and it includes ...... from the Ministry of Commerce ...... in Nest City ...... in Sail Town I suggest that these people be arrested and interrogated, and then they should all be killed! ”

After the woman who grew up in the wolf's den reported the names of dozens of people, she said that they were all killed, which shocked everyone in the venue to their scalps.