Chapter 22: Crisis
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"Your hall's organ technique is indeed unique in the world, I don't deny this. But no matter how ingenious it is, it's just a trick after all. ”
"Second Master's words are not right, what do you mean by just the art of the mechanism? Could it be that I lost the bet I made with the Second Master before? Many disciples under the command of the Second Master did lose under my Ferris Spider. That's because I personally manipulated the mechanism purely with my hands, and if I controlled it with the five tarantula souls inside, both the flexibility and the reaction were much better, and those young people would never have the slightest chance to fight back. ”
"Oh, is it a new technology that your sect has recently been born out of the Maoshan Dao Method? I've also heard that using animal souls as the center to drive mechanisms is indeed a whimsical initiative. But this method is still far from mature, right? Not to mention the martial arts fist intent of the innate master, it is a Maoshan Town Soul Talisman, a Zen chant of the Buddha Gate, and even some methods to drive the Yin Soul on the left side of the door, as long as you find the right time and position, it is possible to directly hurt the soul and directly cause the entire beast to collapse. The hall master Fang directly controlled it with his hands, did he also have this concern?"
"Hmph, it seems that the second master still understands the movements of my hall quite clearly, but how can the mechanism skills of my Shenji Hall leave such a big flaw on people? It includes the most intelligent and outstanding agency talents in the world, and the ever-changing methods and skills are emerging in an endless stream, I believe it will not be long before we can find a solution to deal with it." ”
"Hehe, I'm also very confident in this, it really won't be too much of a problem for your technology, but it's just a mechanism after all. The things that are linked with dead things, the more sophisticated they are, the easier it is to malfunction, and this is also clear to the hall master himself. As long as someone understands the rules of operation and finds the key point, you can restrain it, for example, I only need one punch before"
"How many great masters in the world are as proficient as the second master and have such a powerful vision? Yes, the art of the mechanism is indeed not as flexible as that of living creatures, but it also has the biggest advantage that it is simple and direct, convenient and fast. You can also win by volume. For example, although my skyscraper spider cost more than 800,000 taels of silver, it was gradually realized, and the materials were very expensive. If it is produced in batches after being finalized, it is possible to build one for only tens of thousands of taels of silver. Even if you don't use the soul manipulation and directly train a skilled mechanic, it will cost more than a thousand taels of silver at most, and it will only take a year or two of effort. And the juniors of the second master. How much effort did Tang Jiabao take to train them, not to mention the silver or something."
"Master Fang is far away. No matter how delicate and powerful a mechanism is, it can still be made for human use. Is it possible to create a mechanism that can directly build a mechanism, and can still think about things? Take 10,000 steps back, even if Guitang really has that ability in the future, but it is simply more crazy than the people of the Demon Sect who are controlled by magic and become gods by the sky. I don't mean that your hall's tricks aren't strong, it's just that tricks are just tricks after all. ”
"How can you also bring in the words of Confucianism, the second master is afraid that he will be confused. When did I say again that the apparatus is stronger than the man? The apparatus is really just a tool made for people to use. With powerful tools, you can magnify people's abilities a hundredfold. Ordinary people are not as sharp as those monsters and beasts. Isn't it with the power of tools that we can use tools to be able to use them, and we are not strong enough to eat their flesh and sleep on their skins."
"Master Fang's words are wrong, the orangutan monkey can also use tools"
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Fang Zhifang smeared some cooling oil on her temples, this is a special refreshing elixir made by the Medicine King Valley, a small bottle of nine hundred taels of silver, rub a little on the head, the cool and refreshing feeling that as long as you are not a dead person, you can lift it fiercely. It wasn't until the cool sensation from the sides of her head came back to her head that she breathed a sigh of relief, and the door of her head that felt like it was about to explode finally calmed down a little.
After grinding her mouth with that Second Master Tang for most of the day, she felt that it was more laborious than drawing ten drawings of the mechanism in a row and then staying up all night to manipulate the mechanism, and the discussion between the two was both heated and intense, but there was almost no progress at all on the actual issues. It's not that she doesn't want to say it, it's that Tang Erye is used to pulling the topic left and right, but it doesn't seem to be completely off topic, and she can't help but refute it, and she can always be so strong and reasonable. Of course, what Tang Erye, who was sent by Tang Jiabao to contact him, was not meaningless nonsense, and undoubtedly had a deeper meaning, so she had to respond to the rhetorical question without showing weakness, and on the other hand, she had to quickly consider the metaphor in the other party's words, guess the other party's intentions, and evaluate the other party's position, whether there was any special intention and intention This is the time for most of the day, Tang Erye was still so energetic until he left, as if she could continue for another day and night, but she was exhausted.
It's really tiring to deal with this kind of person. Fang Zhifang could feel the faint meaning and intention in Tang Erye's words, but the other party covered it up and hid it well, half of it was intentional, and half of it was purely the Tang family's gloomy and obscure habit of not liking positive statements.
It might be much better if it were the other branch masters in the change of parity. After all, as the head hall master of the Divine Machine Hall, there are already too many things to consider, and it is indeed a bit difficult to negotiate with people in person like this. But now the situation has left her with no choice.
"Master of the Hall, forget it. ”
Hear the words behind you. Fang Zhifang was a little surprised, and couldn't help but glance back at the young man who had been standing silently behind her.
Hu Qiao is a young man who is used to tidying himself up, which makes him look much younger than he really is. He is twenty-seven this year, the youngest of Fang Zhifang's twelve deputies, and he has just been transferred from the internal affairs department of the main hall, and he doesn't talk much in normal times, but he just carries out Fang Zhifang's orders very steadily and thoughtfully. Collect the information that Fang Zhifang needs. Compared with Fang Zhifang, who has always been atmospheric, he is like an obedient little daughter-in-law. At this time, he suddenly came up with such a sentence, which surprised Fang Zhifang a little.
"What are you talking about?" Fang Zhifang smiled. Raising her spirits with the help of cool oil, she looked at her youngest deputy with great interest.
Hu Qiao was silent for a while, as if he was not used to expressing his meaning like this, and only after a while did he speak: "I don't think the Tang family has any sincerity, and even the real principal, Mrs. Tang, doesn't show up, so why should we waste time here?"
"You think we're wasting time here?" Fang Zhifang couldn't help but smile bitterly. It has been nearly half a month since their group came to Tangjiabao, but now there is still no obvious progress in things. It seems like a real waste of time.
"Yes, just by their attitude, you know that they don't really take us to heart. Hu Qiao's quiet face was as quiet as a woman's, and there was a flush. It's not shyness, it's indignation that has been held back for a long time. "Although his Tang family is powerful, my Shenjitang is not an ordinary gang, from a small workshop to the present. But decades of hard work can be carried out to this point. Where in the world is there no rudder of our Shenji Hall? Who does not know the exquisite and practical organs of our Shenji Hall? Every year, the income from the rudder of each state transferred to the main hall is millions of taels. What other sect and family in the world have the situation we are in now? And the head hall master, you, as our Shenji Hall, came here to discuss cooperation with their Tang family, but they only sent one Tang family elder to deal with it, and the old man of the Tang family was clearly in the Tang family fort, but he didn't even show up, and this snubbing meaning was that even the blind could see it! These people in the rivers and lakes hold their own force, rest on their laurels, and look down on our skills in organs, but as long as they wait another two or three years. Wait for the 'Heavenly Craft' plan to be fully launched, and wait for our Trap Beast to be officially classified as the imperial court ordnance. In a few years, it will be up to who will look at whom!"
After saying this big call in one breath, the flush on Hu Qiao's face slowly faded, calmed down his breath, looked at Fang Zhifang's rather playful eyes, and lowered his head with some trepidation: "I know that the head hall master must have a deep meaning that I don't know, and I don't need to let me talk more, but I really feel aggrieved." I know that the hall master has also put a lot of thought into this, and he hasn't even slept much for the past two nights."
can feel the love and respect in Hu Qiao's eyes, and a warm current in Fang Zhifang's heart surges, which makes her chest filled with anxiety a lot more comfortable these days. These young people who grew up in the Shenji Hall are basically from poor families, and what they see and hear in their ears is the rise of the Shenji Hall in the past ten years, and they are all the wonders and power of the organs, so there will naturally be a sense of arrogance in their chests. And the achievements of Shenjitang in the past ten years are almost created by themselves, and in their eyes, their position is of course higher than that of the old lady of the Tang family.
If there is another ten years, let these young people be more mature, let the foundation of the Shenji Hall be more stable, and show some more, Fang Zhifang often can't help but imagine this beautiful scene.
It's a pity that there is no spare time for more than ten years in reality, and she can feel that she and Shenjitang have both walked to the edge of a huge abyss, and they may sink into the bottomless darkness at any time. It's just that these young people can't see it yet.
Fang Zhifang looked at Hu Qiao's face, which was still a little green, thought about it, and still asked: "Xiao Hu, do you think that our Shenji Hall is now in the middle of the day, and there is no need to cooperate with anyone at all?"
"Isn't it?"
"Yes. In the past few decades, no gang or organization in the rivers and lakes has developed as fast as our Shenji Hall, not as much money as we have made, and no more influence we have brought to the rivers and lakes and brought with the world. Now that the border army has begun to gradually adopt our trap beasts, if the Tiangong plan is smooth, from now on, all the qiē will be changed because of the tricks, these are all you can see. Fang Zhifang smiled, but the smile was a little bitter. "But you don't see that our roots are too shallow relative to our achievements. Didn't you hear what Second Master Tang always said today? No matter how subtle the organ is, it is just an organ after all. ”
"Really, how could it be, who could" Hu Qiao had a dull expression like hearing a heavenly book.
"There are so many people who can. But you can't see it, you can't see it. For an organization that spreads too fast and too much, and relies too much on the power of businessmen and craftsmen, a shallow foundation is the most fatal. If the hand holding the mechanism is not strong enough and does not hold it tightly enough, it may be snatched away by someone along with the mechanism. Fang Zhifang's smile became more and more bitter. "So all we have to do is try to find a strong enough hand to help us, or at least scare people as well. In fact, we have had such a hand before, but it is a pity that millions of taels of silver are offered every year, but it turns out that others have not even looked at us, so now we can only find a new one. The Tang family is the hand we need now. ”
"So that's the case? The subordinates don't know the head hall master's distress, it's really true" Hu Qiao's face turned red, a little shy and anxious, and there was no way to do it. "But now that the Tang family clearly doesn't see us in their eyes, has they also seen through this?
"Nope. The Tang family has the intention of cooperating with us, if Mrs. Tang can see far enough and be smart enough. Fang Zhifang glanced meaningfully out of the inn window. This is the guest room specially arranged for them by Tang Jiabao, and from the window, you can just get a glimpse of the huge shadow of the Tang family's inner house. "Although the Tang family's hand is very powerful, very powerful, so powerful that almost no one dares to touch him. But this would not be the case when someone else held a powerful mechanism in their hands. You know, they don't dare to move, it's not that they don't want to. If the old lady of the Tang family was not confused, he would definitely understand this. ”
Hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the door, and a sweaty man rushed into the chamber without even knocking on the door, holding a blank piece of paper in his hand, and said urgently to Fang Zhifang: "Master of the main hall, report urgently! Something happened to the Xuzhou main hall! Master Wei Se was attacked and killed, and it was Tang Si of Tangjiabao who chuckled Tang Si and He Xi'er of the Maoshan faction!"
"What?" Fang Zhifang stood up suddenly. A stack of account books in Hu Qiao's hand behind her slipped to the ground, but people didn't know it. Both of them were pale and shocked.
"How could it be, Wei Zuo is an important part of the Tiangong plan, we still have many plans that need him to complete, how could the Tang family send someone to do such a thing?"
It's not like Hu Qiao's stupid chicken. Fang Zhifang's face was also ugly, but her eyes were as cold as ice, and after flashing a few cold lights, she took a big step towards the outside of the wing: "Pack up all the materials and go directly to see the old lady of the Tang family with me." If he doesn't see me yet, I'll immediately turn back to Xuzhou and bring all the beasts of the Divine Machine Hall to ask him for an explanation. (To be continued......)