"It's an extremely scarce ore, and more importantly, it's only found in one place."

"Where?"

"The Templar." Dugu Shao smiled bitterly.

Shen Ye was surprised, when he met Nan Rongfu, he knew about the existence of the Holy Hall, and judging from the reactions of the people around him to the Holy Hall, it should be the most sacred place in the Baiyi Tribes.

"This is a gift from the Templars?"

"The Templars have always regarded the ore there as a treasure, so how could they give it away?" Dugu Shao said with a worried expression.

Shen Ye suddenly understood something, the situation must be very complicated.

Shen Ye didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the Eastern Camp and the Holy Church, so he didn't continue to inquire about the matter. He picked up the leech stone in his hand and asked, "The Templar treats these stones as treasures, is there any secret in these stones?" ”

"The secret of these stones is themselves, go, let's go out." Dugu Shao held a leech stone in his hand and took the lead in walking out of the medicine camp.

Shen Ye looked at Dugu Shao's back, hesitated slightly, and after taking a few more things from the side, he followed him out.

At this time, the night guard soldiers outside the tent were still running to search for the "masked man", and when they saw Dugu Shao and the three of them appear in their field of vision, someone soon ran over.

"General Shao?" The soldier was a little surprised.

Dugu Shao was not in a hurry, he asked with a straight face, "What are you doing here?" ”

The soldier replied: "We found a sneaky man in the battalion. ”

"What about people?"

"Haven't found it yet."

"Why don't you go find it?"

"Yes!" The soldier looked at Dugu Shao's clothes with strange eyes and left here.

At this time, Shen Ye also understood why the two of them rarely saw the guards when they came, and it turned out that they were attracted away by Dugu Shao, who was dressed in black.

Dugu Shao led the two to a brazier, and he threw the small piece of leech stone in his hand directly into it.

Under the astonished gaze of Shen Ye and the others, the small leech stone began to expand rapidly, writhing like a leech, and its volume increased dramatically, nearly twenty times more than the original, until the flames in the brazier were completely covered and the flames were extinguished.

"There is such a thing in the world!" Su Yan exclaimed.

Dugu Shao picked up a branch from the side, gently flicked the leech stone, and a piece of smoke and dust emitted from it, and he pulled it from the brazier to the ground, and such a large volume fell to the ground, but only made a soft sound.

Dugu Shao squatted on the ground, observed for a while, and then grabbed it directly with his hands.

"Ahem, ahem." Shen Ye covered his mouth and nose and put away the smoke and dust in front of him, he looked at the vermiculus stone in Dugu Shao's hand that had changed, and said curiously: "Your hands are not hot?" ”

Dugu Shao said with a smile: "This leech stone is a natural thermal insulation material, don't look at the stone wall on your side is still red, in fact, the temperature on the other side has dropped." ”

Su Yan said: "This small stone actually has the function of heat insulation and fire prevention? ”

"It's more than that." Dugu Shao pointed to the dust flying in the air and said: "If these limes are used to wrap on the wall, they also have the effect of moisture and sound insulation. ”

Shen Ye thought of it a deeper level, and he said slowly: "That is the case, if this thing is mixed with cloth, it is used to wrap the hooves of the war horse......

Dugu Shao's eyes flashed, he didn't expect Shen Ye to think of this immediately, he nodded and said: "Not only that, because this material is extremely light, it will be more effective when used to make military shoes or pasted on walls, arrow towers, and tents." ”

Shen Ye exclaimed: "If we can mine in large quantities, whether it is for military operations or civilian construction, we will." ”

Dugu Shao interrupted: "But such a good thing has always been monopolized by the holy churches of the Baiyi tribes, and they worship these stones as divine stones, and outsiders are strictly forbidden to touch them. ”

The mention of these words made Shen Ye's heart move, and he took out the other two kinds of stones he was holding behind him and asked, "Could these be the same?" ”

Dugu Shao was a little dissatisfied with Shen Ye's unauthorized behavior, but he still explained it for the two, he pointed to the orange-red semi-crystalline stone and said: "This is the cockscomb stone, it is produced on the holy mountain where the holy church is located, this thing is the nemesis of snakes and insects, when you are ambushing in the mountains and forests or camping on the march, if you put some powder of this thing around, you can prevent snakes and insects." And this white stone is called arsenic. ”

"Arsenic? What does such a nice name do? ”

Dugu Shao's expression was a little weird: "This thing was originally used to repel insects and snakes, it will emit pungent poisonous smoke when it burns, it is not like the previous two ores, it is a unique existence of the Holy Church, this thing can actually be found in the mountains and forests all over Yizhou, but there are more in the Holy Hall." ”

Shen Ye asked, "It was originally used to repel insects?" Is there still any use now? ”

Dugu Shao grinned: "Have you heard of Heding Red?" It was a highly toxic substance extracted from an ore called red letter, and the arsenic was the same thing as it. ”

Shen Ye was like being stung by a bee, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly threw this arsenic out of the way.

Dugu Shao immediately rushed over and picked it up, he blamed: "Be careful, this thing is easy to dissolve in water, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince throws it into the well, then all the soldiers on my side will suffer." ”

Shen Ye's face turned slightly pale: "It is said that the people of the Baiyi tribes are good at using poison, and now it seems that they should be affected by the environment they are in." ”

"Of course, there are countless poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains and forests of Yizhou, and if you don't have some means of defense, you can't survive at all." Dugu Shao dug a pit in the ground and buried a few stones underneath.

Shen Ye asked rhetorically, "Then why did you drive it into the mountains and forests?" ”

"Isn't it their own reason that they were driven into the woods? If they want to live in peace, of course we welcome it, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know that the current people of Yizhou are all Yi people who like peace and stability. ”

"Aren't there still many tribes still in the mountains and forests?"

"Those are just tribes that don't obey us." Dugu Shao said in a cold tone: "Many rulers of the Baiyi tribes are unwilling to give up the power in their hands, they advocate the respect of the strong, ignore the rules and order, follow the ancient tribal rules, and the phenomenon of indiscriminate killing continues to occur, which leads to continuous rebellions and disputes within the Baiyi tribes, and the ordinary clansmen below are miserable, Ruojia, Nanrong and other tribes are tired of endless battles, so they are separated from there, and the same is true for these people in Yizhou, they are from different tribes." ”

Dugu Shao continued: "But the situation may change in the future, the most warlike Gongshan clan is about to be destroyed, and while my eastern battalion is now strong, it is time for the Yizhou mountains and forests to rectify and rectify." ”