Rebirth, guarding the mute at the tip of my heart

The research and development of the Tianji Crossbow went smoothly. After all, he had the experience from his previous life. Jiang Xin went to the Ministry of War several more times in the past few days and reminded several masters in his previous life in advance of the problems they encountered during the forging process.

The masters themselves were talented, and they knew that Jiang Xin was trusted by the prince. The colored glassware that was now popular in the capital was also invented by him. Even though Jiang Xin looked younger, they did not dare to look down on him and took Jiang Xin's suggestions to heart.

After nearly half a month of hard work by the entire weapons battalion, the first Tianji crossbow of the Dali Dynasty was finally unveiled.

Avoiding many misunderstandings in the previous life, this crossbow was the final product of the previous life. It was made of special wood and was more than twice as light as ordinary crossbows. However, its range was the same as the previous crossbows, and it could even fire seventeen arrows at a time.

An old craftsman stroked the crossbow with an obsessive look on his face and couldn't help muttering, "If every crossbowman in our dynasty could be equipped with a crossbow like this, they would be truly invincible and unbeatable."

However, Jiang Xin just sighed and shook his head unwillingly: "It's just that the material for making this crossbow is hard to find. I'm afraid it can't be mass-produced."

"It doesn't matter. Even if we just form an army of crossbows in which every soldier is equipped with this crossbow and conduct long-range attacks from the rear of the battlefield, I believe we can defeat a hundred with one and have an absolute suppressive and deterrent effect on the enemy." Another old craftsman said objectively.

"Mr. Xu is right." The old craftsman nodded, and then spoke to comfort Jiang Xin:

"Master Jiang, there is no need to feel too stressed. Not every new weapon is perfect. Our responsibility is to improve and develop new weapons. As for finding suitable weapon materials, there are people who are responsible for that."

"That's right! Others will take care of those things, we just need to study the weapons." Another craftsman excitedly squeezed to the front, holding the original blueprint in his hand, and pulled Jiang Xin to start asking questions:

"Master Jiang, there are still some things I don't understand. Can you explain it to me again? Here, why do we need to put a row of holes in this place..."

Jiang Xin took the blueprint, picked up the pen beside him and began to write and explain. Several craftsmen immediately took out paper and pens and listened and took notes with serious faces, in case they missed anything they didn't understand so that they could ask questions later.

Jiang Xin smiled when he saw this, then lowered his head and began to explain seriously: "..."

In fact, he really liked the research-focused atmosphere in the weapons manufacturing camp. He only dealt with blueprints and machinery every day, which made him feel relaxed and happy.

He has little knowledge and poor eloquence, and he still speaks haltingly. Even if he continues to take the imperial examinations, he probably won't achieve anything.

If he and His Highness can survive the dispute over the throne safely in the future, he would probably want to seek a position in the manufacturing camp of the Ministry of War, right?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xin's eyebrows curved again. He wanted to live a good life in this life, express his feelings to His Highness, grow old with His Highness, and then do something he likes.

Now that the Tianji crossbow has been made and the catapult is almost ready, shouldn't he... think about how to express his feelings to His Highness?

Speaking of which, although he and His Highness had done everything in their previous life, he probably never had any expectations for the outcome between them from the beginning, and there had never been any promises or confessions between them from beginning to end.

Even when he died, he still felt inferior in his heart and thought that the prince's kindness to him might just be out of exploitation and sympathy. How could such a perfect person like the prince really like a disabled and mute person like him?

It was not until he saw how his prince had hurt himself after his death, living in pain and longing every day, that he realized that his prince's feelings for him were much deeper than he had imagined.

His Highness has suffered too much, and he doesn't want His Highness to suffer any more in this life, nor does he want His Highness to have any more anxiety or uneasiness.

He wants to solemnly express his feelings to His Highness. He wants to be with His Highness forever!

Just as Jiang Xin's thoughts drifted away unconsciously and he was already considering how to reveal his true feelings to His Highness in a more solemn and sincere manner, the sound of hurried footsteps came running over and interrupted him.

"Young Master, His Highness asked me to pick you up." Agui looked a little anxious, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't because there were outsiders present.

Jiang Xin thought something had happened to Xie Ze, so he hurriedly said goodbye to several masters and got on the carriage.

"But Your Highness, what happened?" Jiang Xin was a little uneasy about Agui's appearance and asked hurriedly.

"No, Your Highness..." Agui hurriedly shook his head and told Jiang Xin not to worry. However, he began to hesitate when he spoke, and his eyes were evasive when he looked at Jiang Xin, as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

Jiang Xin frowned, thinking that Agui's reaction was a little strange. Just as he was about to continue asking, he saw the people not far from the carriage pointing in his direction and talking about something with the people next to them from time to time.

But their voices were very soft, and Jiang Xin couldn't hear clearly even if he pricked up his ears to listen while sitting in the carriage.

Ah Gui obviously saw the movement outside, and quickly pulled down the curtain, and said nervously: "Sir, let's go back first."

Jiang Xin looked at Agui's expression and guessed that the problem must be with himself, so he was no longer anxious and waited quietly to return home.

The people on the roadside watched the carriage with the Xianwang Mansion logo leave before they dared to talk loudly.

"That was the carriage from the Xianwang Mansion, right? I heard that the Xianwang was under house arrest, so the person in it couldn't be the prince, so it must be Young Master Jiang?"

"It must be him." A man dressed as a scholar looked at the direction the carriage left and said with a mocking look on his face:

"Besides him, who else would have the honor to ride in the carriage of the wise king? I heard that a prince wanted to take a ride in the carriage of the prince before, but he rejected him on the spot, not giving His Royal Highness the prince any face at all.

I was wondering how capable Jiang Xin was to be treated so courteously by the prince. It turns out that he gained his favor by selling his body and serving the prince with his beauty. "

"That... you can't say that. At least Young Master Jiang can develop something as beautiful and practical as Liuli. He is quite capable."

"How could he have figured it out?!" Another person popped up and sneered:

"I heard that the Wei family had already researched most of the colored glaze, but the wise king was unreasonable and snatched the formula away and gave it to his subordinates to research. When the colored glaze was made, it was put under Jiang Xin's name just to make Jiang Xin famous!"

"This...can't be done, right?"

"Let's not talk about anything else. If you say that this colored glaze was researched by Jiang Xin, I'll be the first one to not believe it! He has been praised as a genius these days. What kind of young genius is he? He is extremely intelligent.

I have a good friend who studied at Baishan Academy. He said that Jiang Xin was just an ordinary person, even worse than ordinary people. His scores in every school test were low, and his poetry and essays were a mess. The teacher once commented that he was a rotten wood that could not be carved.

How can such a person have any real ability? !"

"Isn't it said that the virtuous king particularly dislikes the love between Long Yang and Yang, and a few years ago he almost killed a rabbit who coveted him?"

"It's a smokescreen! After all, liking a man is not a glorious thing, and it's even more taboo in the royal family. I heard that there are many masters in the noble families who have male favorites, but they keep it hidden from the public, for fear of losing face for their family!"

"So, Jiang Xin has no real ability, but he is pretty good in that aspect. Even a madman like the Xian Wang was coaxed into submission by him, and he even gave him so many benefits!" A middle-aged man with sunken eye circles, a pale face and a thin body touched his chin, revealing a lewd smile and said meaningfully.

"If you want, you can go and recommend yourself to the virtuous king!" A man next to him looked at him and said jokingly, "But looking at your appearance, the virtuous king probably doesn't like you!"

"I don't have that ability." The middle-aged man shook his head. He looked like he was overindulging himself but still acted like a gentleman. He said with disgust, "I can't do such a shameless thing."

Even if you want to do it, someone has to look up to you! The person next to him rolled his eyes, complained in his heart, and was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore, and continued to chat with others about the matter of the virtuous king and Mr. Jiang.

If we didn't talk about this, it would be fine. But once we started talking, we found out that the virtuous king had done a lot for Young Master Jiang!

Let’s not talk about the distant past, let’s just talk about the most recent one. He even made enemies with the Fourth Prince for Jiang Xin and destroyed the entire Jiang family. However, he was dismissed from his post by His Majesty because of this, and has been ordered to be under house arrest and not allowed to leave the palace!

And then there were those things that happened in the past, one by one. If Jiang Xin was really just a companion, would the wise king do so many things that were detrimental to himself for a companion?

But I've never heard of him being so nice to any other subordinate. It seems that the relationship between His Royal Highness the Wise King and Mr. Jiang is really...

Common people are all gossipy, especially about royal secrets, they are even more interested!

No one knew who first spread the news, but soon the whole capital was talking about it.

It turns out that the virtuous king who was rumored to hate the love between men and women actually likes men! It turns out that the genius Master Jiang who was discussed a lot some time ago is actually a idiot, and his "ability" was obtained by winning favor from the virtuous king!

In order to take revenge on the Jiang family, Jiang Xin even instigated King Xian to destroy the entire Jiang family and sent his own biological father to the border!

Although the Jiang family was indeed at fault, he was his biological father after all. It was really frightening that such a cruel and cold-hearted person could exist.

Seeing the direction of public opinion, the Wei family quickly seized the opportunity to open two glass shops, and took the opportunity to confuse the public, spreading the word that Jiang Xin had actually stolen their Wei family's recipe. They wanted to use this to turn their Wei family's glass shop into a truly clean aristocratic vessel.

Wei Daxueshi keenly felt that something was wrong and wanted to advise him, but the Fourth Prince had just been ridiculed by the whole capital because of Xie Ze. Seeing that the Fourth Prince was in trouble, he was unwilling to miss the opportunity to kick him when he was down. He directly opened the shop without the Daxueshi. When the news spread, he comforted the other party with a kind heart:

"Grandpa, don't worry. We weren't the ones who spread the news in the first place. I just added fuel to the fire when everyone knew about it. I'm not the only one who did this. The law doesn't hold everyone responsible. Even if Xie Ze wants to investigate, he can't offend all of us brothers, right?

Besides, the little things between him and Jiang Xin are most likely true. Now that it has become a big deal, it will be difficult for him to get past the father first. How can he have time to take care of us then?"

What the Fourth Prince said made sense, but Academician Wei was still a little uneasy. However, now was the best opportunity to open a shop. If they missed this opportunity, it would be almost impossible for their shop to turn the tables and surpass Xie Ze's shop.

Thinking of this, Wei Daxueshi had no choice but to nod his head in agreement, but he still kept a cautious eye and warned: "No matter what, we must quickly find out who is behind the attack on the virtuous king. If we can win him over, that would be the best. If we can't, Your Highness should also be careful and never let the other party use him as a pawn."

"Don't worry, Grandpa. I know everything." The Fourth Prince nodded.

At this time, neither of them had thought that the person who would make the move would be the Second Prince. After all, Xie Ze and they were now at loggerheads, and this was a good opportunity for the Second Prince to win over Xie Ze. It was totally unjustifiable for them to touch the person closest to Xie Ze at this time.

Various factions are ready to join this public opinion war for their own interests, trying to muddy the waters even more.

As for Jiang Xin's reputation, he is just an unpopular young man from the former minister's family. Apart from Xie Ze, who else would care about him?

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yuan Jiang leisurely made himself a pot of tea in the room. He slowly savored the fragrance of the tea for a while. Only when he began to feel sleepy did he casually get up and stroll to the second prince's study.

"Sir is here, please come in!" Yuan Jiangze is now the backbone of the second prince. When he saw him coming, he even went up to greet him into the room.

Yuan Jiang was very satisfied with the Second Prince's courtesy, thinking that it was worth it for him to choose him from among so many princes after his rebirth. After he came in, he bowed and said:

"Your Highness, the time is almost right. Your Majesty should have received news from outside the palace and knows the relationship between the virtuous prince and Jiang Xin."

The second prince nodded and said excitedly, "Sir, you are right. Someone in the palace has sent me news that my father has summoned Xie Ze and Jiang Xin to the palace. He will definitely question them about this matter, and he may even hold Jiang Xin accountable.

If what you said is true, Xie Ze has deep feelings for Jiang Xin, he will definitely contradict my father and confront him. Tell me, should I…"

Yuan Jiang drank a cup of tea and said calmly, "Your Highness's top priority is to go to the palace and comfort His Majesty to stay calm. When the virtuous king quarrels with His Majesty over Jiang Xin, find a way to guide His Majesty in his rage and make the virtuous king choose between the throne and Jiang Xin."