The last three kingdoms

Chapter 43 The Third Workshop
The third workshop of Shudu is located ten miles southeast of Dujiangyan, adjacent to the Shujiang River. It is said that this is the place where Pu Yuan cast knives for the late emperor Liu Bei. must.

A few miles away from the workshop, it was designated as a military restricted zone, with high trenches and deep trenches, heavily guarded.

Liu Yin and Zhang Le hardly encountered any resistance to entering the workshop. This is the transcendent privilege of the Zhongwei Mansion. According to the regulations, when the Zhongwei Mansion is on business, all departments and bureaus have to cooperate fully. What's more, this case involves When the emperor was assassinated, everyone was in danger. Everyone wanted to try their best to disassociate themselves from the case. Once it was proved that they were involved in the case, it would be the crime of exterminating the three clans.

The owner of the workshop was surnamed Yu, and when he heard that Lieutenant Youcheng came to investigate the case in person, he immediately held up all the account books with trepidation, and answered Liu Yin's inquiries one by one according to the facts.

The third workshop is only responsible for casting knives and does not produce other weapons. There is a quota for each month's production, about [-] pieces per month. From the purchase of pig iron billets to the delivery of finished products, there are strict management , checked at every level.

"Lord You Cheng, it is not a small boast. Since I was the head of the third workshop, there has not been a single leak, let alone a knife, or a piece of iron. There is no mistake. The third The origin and whereabouts of each knife cast in the workshop are marked."

After coming in, Liu Yin did pay attention to the situation here. The workshop and the external guard army are managed separately and are not affiliated with each other. That is to say, the master of the workshop is only responsible for the management of the workshop, and the outer guard is sent by the army. Stationed, even if the master of the workshop steals some weapons secretly, it is absolutely impossible to carry them out.

Liu Yin took a knife, handed it to Mr. Yu, and said, "Mr. Yu, please take a look. Is this knife from your workshop?"

Master Yu held the knife in both hands, looked at it for a moment and said: "That's right, this knife was made by our workshop, probably produced in the twelfth lunar month of last year."

Liu Yin was slightly surprised, he deduced from the degree of newness of this knife that it was a new knife, but Mr. Yu directly said that this knife was produced two months ago, it seems that an expert is an expert.

"Master Yu, can you really be sure that this knife was cast two months ago?"

Master Yu said firmly: "The little ones dare to talk nonsense. To tell you the truth, the knives produced in our workshop, the little ones only need to look at them a few times to know the year and month it was produced, and the error will never exceed one month." .”

Zhang Le chuckled, with a look of disbelief, pulled out his saber, and said: "Is it really so magical? Then come and see, when was my saber made?"

Master Yu glanced at it and said, "My lord's knife was cast in June of the third year of Jingyao. These knives were custom-made by the inner palace. Although the appearance looks the same as ordinary knives, they are actually made of ordinary pig iron. The billet is forged with 72% black iron, so it is much sharper than ordinary [-] knives."

Zhang Le laughed and said: "You really have two brushes, yes, this knife was given by the empress when I entered the palace the year before last." When mentioning the origin of this knife, Zhang Le was quite complacent.

Liu Yin didn't care about his imperial saber, and said to the master, "If that's the case, then does the master know where the sword went after it came out of the workshop?"

Director Yu quickly opened a roll of account books. Although bamboo slips were no longer the first choice for keeping accounts during the Three Kingdoms period, it seemed that thread-bound books had not been invented in that era. Even paper-based accounts were still very long. Roll it up after memorizing it. It has a similar function to bamboo slips, but it is much lighter than bamboo slips.

"Here, all the knives produced in the twelfth lunar month last year were filled into the Habayashi Army's arsenal, because these knives were specially distributed to the Habayashi Army."

"The arsenal of the Habayashi Army?" Liu Yin's hair was black, and he was startled. The Habayashi Army is the emperor's personal guard, and they can obtain weapons from the Habayashi Army's arsenal. It seems that the energy of these assassins is beyond the limit. imagine.

When he said goodbye and left, Liu Yin thanked Mr. Yu, flattering Mr. Yu.You must know that the master of the workshop can only be regarded as the lowest-ranking official, not even two hundred stones. Compared with Lieutenant You Cheng, one is in the sky and the other is underground. To receive such courtesy from Liu Yin, it feels like a dream to the master Yes, until Liu Yin and Zhang Le left, Mr. Yu still stayed where he was dizzy.

Liu Yin and Zhang Le left the third workshop and hurriedly led people to the arsenal of the Yulin Army.

The arsenal of the Habayashi Army is not in the imperial palace, but is located in the southwest corner of Chengdu City, next to the city wall. This area is relatively secluded, and the Habayashi Army is heavily guarded, and pedestrians rarely come and go.

"Stop! What are you doing? The arsenal is a place where idlers are not allowed to enter! One more step forward, you will be killed!" The emperor's imperial guards were really domineering, even the guards guarding the warehouse were so arrogant.

Zhang Le sneered, raised the waist badge in his hand, and shouted: "The lieutenant's mansion sent officials to handle the case, and quickly sent your arsenal order to come out to have an audience."

Those Habayashi guards disappeared immediately. They lived in the imperial city for a long time, so they naturally understood the power of the lieutenant's mansion, how dare they resist, and quickly reported the arsenal order.

The commander of the Habayashi Army's arsenal, surnamed Xing, is sitting there leisurely drinking tea at the moment. He is probably the most leisurely position in the Habayashi Army. He doesn't have to be on duty every day, and only needs to guard a pile of weapons and equipment. That's fine.

There are a wide variety of weapons and equipment stored in the arsenal, ranging from knives, guns, halberds, axes, hooks, bows, crossbows and arrows, hidden weapons and sleeve arrows. There are so many weapons and equipment that Xing Kuling doesn't even know how many weapons and equipment are in the arsenal.

It doesn't matter though, who cares?There are countless things in the arsenal. Even if a few weapons are lost, will anyone come to check?

"My lord, someone from the Lieutenant's Mansion is here to investigate the case?" Habayashi Wei came in to report.

Xing Kuling was startled, people from the Lieutenant's Mansion are coming here to investigate the case?Is there a mistake?There is nothing here except some cold weapons. What are they looking for?
Full of doubts, Xing Kuling got up and came to the door. Zhang Le had already dismounted and stood at the front. Xing Kuling didn't know Zhang Le, so he naturally fixed his eyes on Zhang Le's waist. The method of distinguishing the high and low ranks of officials.

Copper Seal Black Ribbon!

It seems that this person is of the same rank as himself, Xing Kuling has a detached smile on the corner of his mouth, with the same rank, the Habayashi Army seems to be a head higher than ordinary officials, this is the benefit of being the emperor's guard .

But before he could show his smile, he froze there, because he saw the person behind Zhang Le, who was a silver seal and green ribbon!

(End of this chapter)