Because of listening to such words, knowing that Shen Kaishan and the others were now in the county office, Ying Nantu and Shen Ning didn't even have time to use breakfast, so they hurried to the county office.

Of course, what they went to was not the county office, but the front hall behind the county government. When Ying Nantu and Shen Ning went there, Shen Kaishan, Shen Zexue, and Shen Zegao were already waiting there.

This is more than a year after Shen Ning saw Shen Kaishan and Shen Zexue and others again. When she saw Shen Kaishan, Shen Ning was a little surprised, she found that this uncle was much older than when she met a year ago.

Shen Kaishan is only in his fifties, but his beard and hair are gray, and there are many folds on his face, at first glance, he is about the same age as his grandfather.

And this uncle, his lips are pursed tightly, his face is full of worry, and he looks like he has a big event. When Shen Zexi had an accident back then, this uncle didn't have such an expression, did something happen?

Shen Ning looked at it again, Shen Zexue, Shen Yuwen and others sitting next to Shen Kaishan also looked worried, and when they saw Shen Ning and Ying Nantu coming in, they just nodded, and their expressions were not much relaxed.

Ying Nantu and Shen Ning glanced at each other again. Originally, before coming to the county office, they were still thinking about why Shen Kaishan was not in the deep mountains of Nanling, presumably now it seems that the matter must not be going well.

At the end of the forty-first year of Changtai, Shen Huashan summoned thirteen Shen family children by the order of the patriarch and divided them into two routes, one of which was that Shen Deshan took Shen Zeyuan, Shen Ning and others to Xining Road to open up Xining trade routes;

Second, Shen Kaishan took Shen Zexue, Shen Yuwen and others to Lingnan Road, converged with Shen Zegao in Shao County, and opened up an weapons division in the deep mountains of Nanling!

This is Shen Huashan's clan order back then!

A clan order that can be heard, but cannot be spoken!

The Shen family opened up the Xining trade road, and still accounted for the great righteousness, because the officials and business roads of Xining Road were leveled, and the greatly increased taxes of Xining Road were continuously transported to the household department, which was beneficial to the country and the people.

But open up an arms division in the deep mountains of Nanling. The deep meaning of this, Shen Kaishan, who received the clan order, did not dare to think about it, and only took Shen Zexue, Shen Yuwen and other clansmen to Lingnan Road, where they converged with Shen Zegao in Shao County, and began to prepare for the establishment of an weapons division.

Shen Kaishan and his clansmen came to Nanling in the spring of last year. The reason why I chose Nanling is because there are long deep mountains, and it is far away from Jingzhao, which is more important. There is a genius craftsman Hu Zhaochang here.

Hu Zhaochang was originally a craftsman from the Crossbow Workshop Department of the Ministry of War. It was he who improved the process of making bows and crossbows. This is a genius craftsman. In that battle to seize people, the Shen family got Hu Zhaochang and sent him and his family to Lingnan smoothly, just so that they could be used one day.

In a remote place. There are genius craftsmen, the wealth of the Shen and Hu families, and many children of the clan, although it is extremely difficult to build an weapons division, it is not something that cannot be done. Originally, Shen Huashan and Shen Kaishan thought so.

But they were too optimistic, nearly a year had passed, and it was difficult for Shen Kaishan and them to make an inch. From site selection to raw materials to craftsmen. Every link is full of difficulties, and they go from place to place, but they don't get anything.

So much so that now, Shen Kaishan is suspicious. The Shen family is preparing to establish an ordnance department in Nanling, can this be done?

Compared to Shen Deshan, who laid the foundation for His Royal Highness Xining Dao, Shen Kaishan came to Lingnan with the children of his clan, and almost found nothing, no wonder they had such expressions and worries.

"So has the location of the Ordnance Division been decided?" After listening to Shen Yuwen's brief description of this year's events, Shen Ning asked curiously. No, in the past year, the uncle has not done anything, right? It's not like my uncle's way of doing things.

Listening to Shen Ning's words, Shen Yuwen was a little arrogant. He knew that this cousin had always been a child of the clan that Bozu relied on, otherwise he would not have told her about such an important matter as Lingnan's plan, and asked her and her husband to come to Lingnan Road to assist them. But when she said this, she asked a bit directly.

"After a few months of exploring, we found a suitable place in the South Ridge. It was a large mountain pass, extremely secretive and inaccessible. If the Weapons Division was placed there, no one would know. Moreover, there are lush forests, which can be made of local materials, coupled with the mineral deposits transported from Xining Road, if it is built in the early stage, it must be a big problem. ”

At this time, Shen Zexue spoke, and his voice was very low. At this moment, here in the front hall are all people who know Lingnan's plan. Needless to say, Shen Ning's niece, although I don't know why my uncle Shen Huashan relies so much on this niece, but thinking of what happened in Jingzhao, Shen Zexue also attaches great importance to Shen Ning's opinion.

Ying Nantu, the niece and son-in-law, also made Shen Zetu. A noble son, who is still a former noble son, he doesn't understand why his uncle trusts him so much, and tells this noble son about the Shen family's weapons department.

You must know that if there is even the slightest rumor of this matter, it will be the extinction of the Shen family!

Although he was quite puzzled in his heart, Shen Zexue knew that his uncle Shen Huashan, as the patriarch of the Shen family, must have a reason to do so, and as the children of the clan, they could only obey the orders of the patriarch. Besides, past experience tells me that my uncle will definitely not be good if he is above the overall situation and above the clan strategy, and they have a blind newcomer to Shen Huashan.

In fact, the Shen family has been moving forward steadily in recent years, and its prosperity has reached an unprecedented level, which is the reason why Shen Kaishan, Shen Zexue and others believe in Shen Huashan.

Perhaps, this is also the unique spirit of a family. Only the children of the clan believe in the patriarch in their hearts, and strictly follow the clan policy he formulated, although they have reservations about many things in their hearts, but the general direction will definitely not be biased.

"Now that the site has been decided, the most important first step has been completed. The follow-up things are carried out on this basis, so the prototype of the Ordnance Division should be able to come out. Why did my uncle and brother not move forward? Listening to Shen Zexue's words, Ying Nantu was a little strange.

If this first step is done, the follow-up things will be done step by step. Preparing for the establishment of the Ordnance Division is a great difficulty.

It is necessary to ensure that the craftsmen can make those bows and crossbows, and to avoid the eyes and ears of those around them, and to have the right passage to transport the raw materials and finished products. To do all this, the most important thing is the question of choice.

If the imperial court comes to do it, it can just demarcate a place, but if the Shen family is planning for the future, it must carefully choose the location. Now that the location has been decided, it should be clear then, but the tone of these uncles and brothers doesn't sound like that.

Shen Zexue also wanted to sigh, Ying Nantu's thoughts, why didn't he know. Although this address was chosen, there was a big problem, and this problem happened to come from the South Vietnamese family!

Because not far from this mountain col is the place where the South Vietnamese people live. If they were doing something else in the col, they would have forgotten that the South Vietnamese might not have found out. However, what the Shen family wants to build is the Weapons Division, and they also have to take into account the future development, and the movements in this mountain col must not be hidden from the Nanyue clan.

With this in mind, Shen Kaishan and others have not been able to finalize this address. They also searched all over the deep mountains of Nanling, but there was no more suitable place than this mountain col, and there were always all kinds of problems in those places, and none of them could compare to the unique advantages of that mountain pass.

Even that genius craftsman Hu Zhaochang said the same, because next to the mountain col, there is a river, and the water flow is sufficient, which can be used to supplement the needs of future smelting, otherwise, just using water is a big problem for the Weapons Division.

Now that col is the most ideal address for Shen Kaishan and the others, they really want to get this col, and even think that only in this col can the Shen family's weapons division be truly established, if it is built in another place, it will definitely not work! It's a kind of certainty, and it's also an incomparable longing for that mountain pass.

However, there are Nanyue clans next to them, and the Shen family's movements can't be hidden from them, is this swollen and broken?

"The South Vietnamese clan? Aren't you going out of the mountains? Shen Ning asked Shen Zegao. This is still the news intercepted by Shen Ze before, if the Nanyue clan goes out of the mountain, then the clan must be migrated. Moreover, the South Vietnamese often migrate, and this settlement is not necessarily defended for them. As long as they are out of the mountains, there is no big problem.

"You don't know about that. Even if the South Vietnamese people go out of the mountains, it will not be the whole tribe that migrates. There must still be some left there, this is their settlement, and maybe they will come back. What's more, there are also people from South Vietnam in this settlement, in case the imperial court is ...... Encirclement and suppression of the South Vietnamese people. The secret of the Weapons Division must not be kept. ”

This is one of the key points they consider, they can't let the Nanyue clan find the Weapons Division, nor can they let the imperial court discover the Weapons Division. Once the Weapons Division is exposed, everyone knows very well what awaits the Shen family and the in-laws.

Although the Shen family can foresee the chaos in the world and prepare in advance, but the courtiers and people of Dayong don't think so, the Shen family dares to build the Weapons Division, this is not looking for death, what is it?

"In this way, even if the Shen family wants to build an weapons division in Nanling, how can they not bypass the Nanyue clan? The uncles have not gained anything in Nanling for a long time because the problem of the South Vietnamese clan cannot be solved? Ying Nantu said, hitting the nail on the head, pointing out where this difficult problem lies.

"There's nothing wrong with that...... In order to solve the problem of the location of the Ordnance Division, it is necessary to solve the problem of the South Vietnamese people. That is the great difficulty we are facing right now. There are 30,000 people in the Nanyue clan, and their power is getting stronger and stronger, and even Shaoxian and Lingnan Wei have nothing to do with them. And there is more and more confrontational tendency. It is very difficult to solve the problem of the South Vietnamese people. ”

Shen Zegao spoke, as the chief official of Shao County, he was most familiar with the Nanyue clan.

"It's not that there is no way, but you need to take risks......" After pondering for a long time, Ying Nantu said cautiously. He thought of a piece of news he had learned earlier. Perhaps, there is no way to solve the problem of the South Vietnamese people.

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