In the ninth section, it seems that the relationship between Shi Zhan and Liu Ze is also very good, and when he said this, he had a hippie smile. Liu Ze didn't blame him, he just smiled and said, "You talk nonsense here again, beware of the governor tearing your tongue." Although he said this, he seemed to be extremely conceited, and indirectly admitted the flattery of the show, Wu Ming's heart suddenly remembered, and suddenly remembered what the boatman said when he passed the sluice gate yesterday, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "You are the Liu Duzao who built the North Gate sluice?" ”

"Exactly, what's wrong, Lord Wu?"

Liu Ze was stunned, obviously he didn't expect Wu Ming to be so out of shape. Wu Ming breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's okay, it's just that I saw the North Gate Sluice Gate yesterday, it's really a god's work, so my heart is shocked." When Liu Ze heard Wu Ming say this, there was a slight smugness on his experienced face, and he didn't even dare to say it.

Shi Zhan pulled Dai Yu next to him, and then said: "Lord Wu, this is even more amazing, the official is the fourth grade, known as the 'Water General' Dai Yu, the water war is very tight, and the 20,000 sailors who defend Nanning are brought out by General Dai." Wu Ming was shocked, he knew just now that this Dai Yu was not easy to mess with, but he didn't expect that he was still such a powerful person.

Dai Yu said with a smile: "Show, don't get sè in front of Lord Wu, Lord Wu's subordinates are full of talents." With someone like you, boasting about yourself, isn't it a joke for Lord Wu to see our Jiangnan Governor's Mansion. ”

Shi Zhan smiled awkwardly, and said: "Lord Dai, this is not right for you, Lord Wu will also be a minister in the same hall with us in the future, why bother to see the outside like this." Before he finished speaking, Liu Ze next to him had already rushed to say: "Lord Wu, the little guy you introduced today is good, he is witty, or introduce a few of us to it." ”

There was no joke in his words, but Wu Ming was moved by what he said, this Liu Ze is so proficient in smelting and water conservancy. He should be very close to Lu Zao, why don't you introduce him to him, and let that kid have a better place to go, after all, with the conditions of the guard camp, although he will not starve to death if he stays inside, the research conditions are much worse. Thinking of this, he replied, "Okay, when the time comes, don't deny it." ”

Liu Ze smiled, obviously not taking this seriously.

Everyone laughed again, and a large group of people made an appointment with Wu Ming to participate in Tao Yu's prayer for heaven in a few days, and then said goodbye to Wu Ming, giggling, and walked away with their shoulders hooked.

Wu Ming waited for them to go far before he withdrew his gaze. It seems that the Eastern Han Dynasty is bound to split. Looking at these young generals in the Jiangnan Governor's Mansion, you can get a glimpse of it. The hearts of the people in the south have been scattered.

The Eastern Han Dynasty has come to this point, and it is not unrelated to the infighting between Tao Ren and Li Tie. I only hope that after the establishment of the new dynasty, the civil and military generals in Jiangnan can still maintain this close friendship.

Thinking all the way, under the leadership of Si Yan, he arrived at the gate of the Governor's Mansion in a short time. Looking back at this magnificent building again, he couldn't help but sigh deeply. He got into the carriage woodenly, and the coachman shouted and whipped the horse, and the horse snorted, and the sound of its hooves sounded. The carriage drifted away in the mist and rain, and in a short time it became a small black dot and disappeared around the corner of the street.

He never saw that in an attic of the Governor's Palace, a pair of autumn eyes looked through the window, and disappeared into the rain with the lonely carriage, before he pulled down the curtain and sighed deeply.

※※※ Lu Fang's residence was arranged by Wu Ming in the upper left corner of the "Konoe Palace". This place used to be the warehouse of the owner of this house, and a large empty house was piled up, and it was cleaned up by Lu Fang to put his bits and pieces.

When I walked into the house, I saw Lu Fang sitting in a pile of broken wood, not knowing what he was rummaging through. His head and body were covered with sawdust and wood shavings. He didn't care about it, and said to himself: "Oh, this hardness still doesn't work, what can I do?" ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "The hardness is not enough, can you consider replacing it with metal?" Lu Fang's eyes lit up, and he replied: "Yes, it's a good idea...... "Suddenly startled, turned his head to look, saw that it was Wu Ming, and said with a wry smile in his mouth: "My lord, you have come to entertain me again, the advantage of metal, that is the patent of the black iron gate, not the chief of my Lu Gate, alas, ......"

"Black Iron Gate ......"

Wu Ming frowned, this word was a little familiar, it seemed that he had heard it there, but for a while, he couldn't remember it, he looked at Lu Fang a little blankly, and said, "Is this Black Iron Gate a famous family?" Lu Fang sat on the ground and immediately laughed. After laughing enough, he patted the saw dust on his body and got up from the ground: "Lord Wu, you don't even know the black iron gate, ah-" He dragged the word "ah" for a long time, as if Wu Ming didn't know about the black iron gate and made some heinous mistakes.

Of course, the Black Iron Gate is not a famous family, and like the Lu family, it is just a combination of craftsmen. The difference is that the craftsmanship of the Lu family has always been passed on only to descendants with blood relations, but the Black Iron Gate is different, but it is to accept a wide range of disciples, and a super capable person will be selected from among the young disciples of each generation to serve as the next master. At the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Black Iron Gate and the Lu family were very vigorous, and they were known as "Black Gold Lumu". It was only later that the Lu family was limited by family rules, and their crafts could not be developed, so that they gradually declined, and had to take refuge in Nanban.

But the black iron gate is even worse, because these craftsmen are good at smelting, and for a period of time, they even found many novel methods, and the quality of the swords they trained chased after the famous weapons. And also energy production. This was a taboo for the imperial court, and at that time, the imperial court put the black iron gate on the hat of rebellion in the name of "secretly refining elite soldiers and trying to misbehave". For a time, all the black iron door craftsmen were caught, and they escaped, but they also disappeared, and most of their inheritance was lost. Although the imperial court later issued a document to rehabilitate the Black Iron Gate, the entire Black Iron Gate was almost completely lost, and it was difficult to restore its former glory.

Lu Fang finished speaking in one breath, and smashed his tongue again and again.

Wu Ming then remembered that he had mentioned this in the book he borrowed from Mr. Tang Ziou, the priest of Guozi's sacrificial wine, but after a long time, he had long forgotten about it, and now after listening to Lu Fangyi, he remembered, and he continued: "I will introduce you to a person, this person is good at smelting, water conservancy, you ask him for advice, it may be helpful to you." ”

Lu Fang's eyebrows raised and said, "Is this person a person from the 'Black Iron Gate'?" ”

Wu Ming smiled: "I don't know, but this person's name is terrifying, Jiangnan Governor Liu Ze, you may not know if it's too far, the sluice gate at the north gate of Nanning was designed and completed by him." ”

"No, it's not."

Lu Fang replied with his head tilted, but said dispensably: "It's okay, it's okay to go and see, I just don't know, who asks whom, hum." ”

His arrogant mistakes began to be committed again, but Wu Ming didn't want to tell him clearly that he actually wanted to send him out. I had to say in a muffled voice: "You go and clean up, let's leave immediately." ”

Lu Fang slapped off the slightly thicker shavings on his body, and said, "It's not to see my daughter-in-law, what is there to prepare, I want to see who the other party is, is it so powerful......" He was about to say more, and when he saw Wu Ming's gloomy face, he hurriedly closed his mouth.

Liu Ze's place of residence is very easy to find, just find a pedestrian in Nanning and ask. When the two walked to the door of Liu's mansion, they saw that the door was closed, and there was no one to guard the door. The two walked up and were about to knock on the door, when they heard someone say, "Ah, who is the distinguished guest?" This voice is none other than Liu Ze's.

The voice seemed to be shouting close to their ears, the two of them were startled at the same time, and took a few steps back, Wu Ming secretly said in his heart: "I can't see that this Liu Ze is still a martial arts master, this hand gathers qi into a line, and the sound transmission is also skillful." When his thoughts came to him, Liu Ze smiled again: "Wait a minute, you'll be here soon." ”

After waiting for a while, I heard footsteps inside, and the door squeaked and opened. When Liu Ze saw the two of them, he was also taken aback, and said, "It turned out that you were here, Lord Wu?" ”

Wu Ming said: "What, isn't Lord Liu welcome?" Liu Ze hurriedly opened the door and jumped out of it, and said without a word: "There, there, Lord Wu can come, so that the cold house will be brighter, and it will be too late to be happy, so there is something unhappy." As he spoke, he pointed his right hand inward and made a virtual gesture: "Please inside!" ”

Wu Ming pulled Lu Fang and followed Liu Ze inside. Liu Ze's residence is very simple, not big, a few people have come all the way, and there are not a few people, and it is extremely deserted. After a while, the three of them arrived in the living room, and when the three of them stood still, Wu Mingcai said: "Lord Liu is simple and simple, which really impresses me." ”

Liu Ze was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, and said: "Lord Wu, you misunderstood, it is one thing to be in Xia Xijing, and there is another important reason, that is, in this house, I have installed gadgets in many places, which will inevitably be injured by mistake, so there are relatively few people." Even when you two arrived, I didn't know until I heard the bell in the hall. ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to a pair of bells in the hall: "As soon as you two step under the eaves of the gate, this bell will sense and make a sound, and I will learn that a distinguished guest is coming." At this point, he pointed to a small horn under the bell: "This is the microphone device."

He explained for a long time, but Wu Ming didn't know what to do, and he was confused. He had to pull Lu Fang and said: "Lord Liu, I came today just to introduce you to a person, this person's surname is Lu, proficient in wood, maybe it will help you......" Lu Fang is now listening to it with relish, Wu Ming pulled him out, right in the middle of it, he stepped forward, said a few words, Liu Ze was already shocked, and shouted: "This kind of idea is really wonderful, it seems that I still have to improve." ”

The more the two talked, the more excited they became, and a large category of professional knowledge such as "vibration", "induction", and "machine" came out. The more Wu Ming listened, the more confused he became. Later, they simply stopped listening, and the more they talked, the more excited they became, and after a long time, they broke up like old friends at first sight.

Liu Ze was so excited that his face was flushed now, he walked to Wu Ming's side in a few steps, rubbed his hands, and said a little embarrassedly: "Lord Wu, can you do me a favor and let Lu Xiaoyou come to my side, Ze is grateful." ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "Although this kid is still a member of my guard camp, I have not restricted his right to freedom, if he is willing, it is no problem to come to your side, don't hide it from Lord Liu, I originally came to you for this matter today." ”

Liu Ze glanced at Lu Fang, a smile appeared in his eyes, and he said, "That's the best." ”

When he said goodbye to Liu Ze, he simply waved his hand, then turned his head and continued to discuss with Lu Fang with great interest.

When I walked out of Liu's Mansion, it was already dark. Every household in Nanning City has been lit with candles and oil lamps, and the faint light is even more blurry in the rain.

He walked deep and shallow in the dark, only to feel that the footsteps were also empty, indescribably lonely. In the distance, the candlelight flickered and flickered, like the rare red candle that night.

Looking at the lights in the distance, he couldn't help but whisper: "The Red Mansion is cold across the rain, and the bead foil floating lantern returns alone." He stood still, letting the winter rain pour in, but his heart was like a knife splitting, and it hurt like a heart.