The most powerful minister in the world

In the afternoon, the sky was covered by scattered clouds. On a hillside, Jingxi and Taozi each rode a good horse and stood at the entrance of the camp.

The guard at the door had a serious look on his face and called out to the two of them from a distance: "This is an important military camp. Anyone who is idle should retreat immediately!"

Jingxi held the rein in his hand, leaned over the horse, took out a token from his sleeve and shook it.

The two guards took a closer look at the general token inlaid with gold and jade, and immediately marched: "General!"

Jingxi and Taozi dismounted and handed the reins to the two guards: "Don't make any noise. I'm just here to hang out. Just put the horses in place."

"Yes, General, sparks are flying everywhere, General, please pay attention."

Jingxi nodded and led Taozi inside.

This is the forging camp that Jing Xigang asked Liu Huangying to organize and build after he established Xizi Camp.

Its battalion is responsible for the construction of the weapons required by the soldiers of Xizi Camp. All kinds of short blades, long spears, crossbows, bucklers, heavy armor, and armors all come from here.

When it comes to consumption, this kind of military supplies is probably like a beast that never stops swallowing gold. Every day the money here is flowing, the white flowers are gone.

Jingxi walked along the dirt road and looked at the bare-chested blacksmiths beside the stoves, using large hammers and small hammers to shape the blades of swords, sparks flying everywhere.

Different from the other three countries, all military weapons in the Southern Kingdom are hammered and forged.

This is also the fundamental reason why the soldiers of the Southern Kingdom can be rampant on the battlefield. The casting technology of the other three countries, although there are many finished products, has many small cracks and is not resistant to impact.

On the contrary, a forged weapon has a moderate degree of rigidity and softness, avoiding many defects.

When the weapons of other countries confront the weapons of the South, you will be defeated.

Just when Jingxi put his hands behind his hands and nodded with satisfaction, he suddenly heard a sharp tinnitus in his ears. Before he could turn his head, Taozi pushed him aside and turned away from the place.

Shao Qing, where Jing Xi was standing just now, a hole as long as an arm and as deep as the palm of a hand was blasted out by something unknown.

Jingxi fanned the dust from the tip of his nose and kept coughing. Many patrolling soldiers rushed over. After Jingxi revealed his identity, they escorted him out of here without hesitation.

Jingxi waved his sleeves and said, "What is this?! What created this?"

At this time, a man almost as big as Jingxi stumbled over.

He was sweating profusely, the clothes on his body were full of filth, and the hem of his skirt and shoulders were completely burned.

Underneath the black oil on his face, his big white teeth were shining brightly. Looking at the top of his head, it looked like he was carrying countless iron caltrops stretching out in all directions.

Jingxi shouted: "What a monster this is, catch him quickly!"

Unexpectedly, this "monster" squatted in front of the newly blasted hole, raised his butt and shouted at Jing Xi: "You are the monster, your whole family is a monster."

Hmm, Jingxi really didn't expect this. He looked around with his eyes wide open, completely confused as to what was going on.

All the soldiers were seen guarding Jingxi behind them, and the leader of the corps commander cursed: "You bastard, I blinded you, this is our general, do you know that you almost caused a huge disaster! "

"Why don't you come over and apologize!"

Under the chorus of the soldiers shouting, the monster still squatted in front of the pit with its butt stuck out, holding a thin wire to measure the size, and kept mumbling something.

The leading corps commander stamped his feet, and when he saw that he had no intention of paying attention, he turned to Jing Xi and said, "General, don't blame me, that kid has been acting so erratically. It's because my subordinates didn't take good care of him. Please punish me, General." "

Jingxi waved his hand and said with a smile, "Interesting, do you accept stuff like this here?"

The corps commander with a Chinese-style face wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's a long story. His mother is from Japan and his father is from Jinling. He became an orphan at some point and has been wandering around Jiangnan."

"A few years ago, a veteran saw him and took him to the military camp. He settled here and studied some weird things all day long."

When Jingxi heard this, he just said lightly, then waved to everyone to signal them to retreat.

He walked directly behind the man and asked, "Is he famous or not?"

The man still pointed his butt towards Jing Xi.

Who is our Jingxi? That’s me! Aiming at the butt with a bang, the man dived forward and slid for several meters with his face on the ground.

I ate a mouthful of loess and iron filings.

The man crawled on the ground for a while, turned around with his face close to the ground, and looked at Jing Xi with gritted teeth.

Then he rushed towards Jingxi like a mad dog, trying to hug Jingxi from the waist, but with his little three-legged cat skills, he couldn't get into Jingxi's body.

Jingxi turned around brilliantly and changed his position. When the man slid to his side, he kicked him again.

After going back and forth four or five times, the man put his hands on his knees and gasped for air. He looked at Jing Xi with a pair of bloodshot eyes and launched another offensive against him.

After a few more rounds, Jingxi opened the folding fan, waved to the team leader and said, "Go bring a stool over."

As a result, until dusk, there were more and more people here. Even many experienced blacksmiths, hearing the sound, stopped their work and came to watch.

At this moment, the onlookers naturally form a hollow circle. The two people fighting in the circle, one is calm and the other has a red face, acting like a ghost from the underworld.

"Hey, hey, I see that he is probably going to fight me to the end. Are you just in charge of the meal?"

The people around him cheered: "That must be taken care of! This little beast is usually very ferocious, so we must treat him."

In less than half a stick of incense, the captain brought out a bowl of noodles. When Jingxi took it, he used his feet to turn the man rushing towards him, and he passed by Jingxi again.

Jingxi looked at her face and tsked: "Is this called meat slices? Come on, let's go to the market to kill two pigs first. I'll treat you to fifty chickens tonight!"

Jingxi's move naturally aroused applause. This group of simple men who devoted their lives to flames and iron weapons were the ones most easily moved by emotions.

In the evening, everyone dispersed and gathered together, eating the dishes and liquor bought by Jingxi's messengers. Jingxi gave them a rest tonight.

But when he was holding the wine bowl in one hand and the chicken legs in the other, the man suddenly straightened up and walked towards Jingxi.

Without waiting for him to ask questions, the man sat down next to Jing Xi's legs and reached out to grab the chicken legs.

Jingxi teased him, and the chicken legs were dangling in the air: "How are you? Have you taken it?"

The man tilted his head, and his bristle-like hair almost scratched Jing Xi's arm.

"Don't be ignorant, my time is the most precious. I've given you a lot of face by playing here with you all afternoon."

Hearing this, the man turned around and said in a childish voice: "Jizhu."

Before Jingxi could recover from the contrast between his voice and his previous one, the drumstick was snatched away from him.

Jingxi sat on the chair, lifted up his hem and crossed his legs and said with a smile, "Why did you have such a girly name?"

Jizhu glanced at Jingxi displeased and said, "My master started it, you are not allowed to talk nonsense."

Jingxi stopped the wine bowl that had not been brought to his lips, and was stunned when he saw the gleam that could not be concealed under his dusty face.

The sky gradually darkened, and Taozi whispered from the side: "Second Young Master, it's time to go back. You haven't bought the Qingtuan that Lian'er wants yet."

Jingxi slapped his forehead, stood up, touched the caltrops and said, "Follow me from now on, and don't torture yourself to death before I come to find you."

"I want you to take care of it!"

Looking at Jizhu who turned his back, Jingxi laughed loudly and toasted everyone with a bowl of wine. After everyone stood up and returned the greeting, they rode away on horseback.

After Jizhu finished eating the chicken legs, he wiped them randomly on his body, ran back to measure the size of the pothole, and even picked up the loess and put it in his mouth to taste.