The last three kingdoms

Chapter 486 Lead the snake out of the hole
A secret gunpowder workshop aimed at purging the spies of the state of Wei was launched, but from the outside, the workshop was calm, as always.

The existence of Wei Guo's spy is indeed a huge hidden danger. He is like a maggot with bones, lurking inside the gunpowder workshop, always coveting the formula and process of gunpowder.It is precisely because of such a huge risk that Liu Yin has to treat it with caution. If the gunpowder formula is stolen, it is absolutely unbearable for Liu Yin.

Therefore, the clean-up operation is imperative. Liu Yin personally stayed at the Gunpowder Workshop to direct the operation, ordering A Jian to mobilize elite soldiers to conduct a thorough investigation of the inside and outside of the Gunpowder Workshop.

However, in order not to startle the enemy and affect the normal production order of the Gunpowder Workshop, all investigations were conducted in secret.

The current scale of the Gunpowder Workshop is no longer the same as when it was in Chengdu. A large amount of gunpowder was used when attacking Chang'an. It can be said that the inventory of the Gunpowder Workshop was wiped out. The demand for gunpowder was far from being met by the existing production scale, so in Tianshui, the scale of the gunpowder workshop continued to expand, more than three times the size of the Chengdu workshop.

When he moved to Baling this time, Liu Yin made it even more obvious that he would double the size of the gunpowder workshop and increase the production of gunpowder in an all-round way to meet the growing demand for gunpowder.After the Battle of Chang'an, the power and performance of gunpowder weapons have been widely known to the world, and Liu Yin naturally no longer needs to hide it. If the production bottleneck is not resolved, it will inevitably affect the operations of the Shu army.

To expand the scale, workers must be recruited. The original craftsmen brought from the middle of Sichuan are obviously far from enough. To solve the problem of labor shortage, it is necessary to recruit craftsmen from the local area.

Of course, in view of the particularity of the gunpowder workshop, the craftsmen and guards recruited this time have been screened layer by layer. It is almost a very difficult task to completely prevent Wei State spies from using fake identities to sneak into the gunpowder workshop. After all, the land of Yongliang has been ruled by Wei State for more than 40 years, and Wei State’s intelligence system is also deeply rooted here. No one can tell how many Wei Guo spies got into the gunpowder workshop this time, but according to this defection, at least one Wei Guo spy was involved.

But trying to find this spy of the Wei state among these thousands of people is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"Young Master, after the investigation of the past few days, no suspects have been found. I think this Wei Guoxie has been hiding very deeply, and his identity has been completely faked. It will be very difficult to identify it." Tian organized a large number of manpower to identify and verify the identities of the newly recruited artisan guards from Longxi, but now it is clear that there is no problem with the origin of these people, and they want to identify Wei from this way. It is almost impossible for foreign spies to come.A Jian also seemed helpless when he reported to Liu Yin.

This is not beyond Liu Yin's expectation. If Wei's spies are caught out so easily, it can only show that Qingniao is too incompetent. This is definitely a difficult and terrifying opponent.Liu Yin is also quite a headache for the blue bird. How to eliminate this cunning opponent, Liu Yin has worked hard, but he has never found an effective way.If the blue bird is allowed to continue to get away with it, it will eventually become a serious problem for him.

The defection of the craftsmen this time has caused a certain amount of chaos inside the Gunpowder Workshop. People are panicked and everyone is in danger. This situation is very unfavorable to the Gunpowder Workshop that has just been relocated and rebuilt. It is imperative to restore the normal order of the workshop, and this will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of investigation.

After hearing A Jian's report, Liu Yin fell into deep thought. After a while, he said, "Since this Wei Guoxio refuses to show up, let's create some opportunities for him and force him to show up."

Ah Jian said: "Young master, what if this meticulous work has been dormant and does not take the bait?"

Liu Yin smiled slightly and said: "This time the Wei people acted hastily without complete assurance, which is enough to prove that Sima Zhao in Luoyang is quite interested in gunpowder. With Sima Zhao's urging, Wei Guoxi wanted to give up. It's an easy task, and now the only way for us to find this masterpiece is to lure the snake out of the hole."

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Chiying was a military lord of the Guanzhong Military Division. He was born in Tianshui and spoke fluent Longxi dialect. Before the Shu army invaded Longxi, Chiying had been a low-ranking military officer in the Tianshui prefect's mansion.

Of course, this is only his identity on the surface. In secret, he is an interim military commander of Wei Guoguan's middle military division. His main duty is to monitor every move of Tianshui prefect Wang Qi. The responsibility of the police is not simply external, but at the same time, it is responsible for monitoring and controlling internal officials to prevent desertion or defection.

However, the rapid development of the situation in Longxi was far from being controlled by a little Dubo or a military lord. Wang Qi defected to the enemy, and Chi Ying could only truthfully reflect Wang Qi's situation to the top. The power of it is not enough to change anything.

Shangfeng replied quickly, asking Chiying to break into the Shu Army's gunpowder workshop.

At that time, the Battle of Chang'an hadn't started yet, and no one had seen the power of gunpowder, let alone what gunpowder was. Chi Ying was also at a loss, not knowing why Shang Feng wanted him to sneak into the workshop.

But for Chi Ying, who has been loyally serving the military commander for decades, Shangfeng's order is greater than the sky, and he must carry it out unconditionally, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire, he will never hesitate.

Chi Ying entered the gunpowder workshop as a guard. Chi Ying did not know exactly how Shangfeng operated. However, Chi Ying got a letter of sponsorship from Tianshui prefect Wang Qi, which allowed him to enter the gunpowder workshop very smoothly. He joined the gunpowder workshop and became a captain of the workshop guard, in charge of commanding a ten-man team.

(End of this chapter)