Bold, how dare you break Ben Hou

"Relying on the position of the Song family, I have become less and less important to me. The matter of Xiliang this time, aside from other things, do you know what he even wrote in the three books? It's not that I'm wronged, at this moment, he can still take on the posture of an elder, and is leisurely teaching me a lesson? If it weren't for the fact that the Song family has served my Gu family for several generations, his head would have been in serious trouble."

"Song Daoshan must not get rid of his involvement in the matter of Xiliang. You know that Xiliang is just a small county in Beilu, and it has always been herding for a living. It was not until I was brought into the dynasty by Daxing that I started to exchange things. Only then can I get in touch with the people of the Central Plains." Everything about culture. They are lacking in resources. Although they have a team like the Tiger and Leopard Camp, they are empty of brave and good fighters. What if they don’t have good horses and weapons? But that day we were in Xiliang, helping Mutai fight against Mengda At that time, I found that the weapons they used were engraved with triangular patterns—”

"Triangle pattern?"

Gu Jixiu nodded, and patiently explained to him: "Every time the Ministry of War makes a weapon, it will mark it on it. Once it is identified as our weapon, it can be used in wartime to allow soldiers to quickly analyze that you are the enemy. It's a friend, it's not just my dynasty, I think, it's the same practice in Dashi or Haiwo."

"That's natural. Weapons with triangular patterns must have flowed out of the Ministry of War? But isn't Xiliang also a county of yours? It makes sense to use weapons with patterns."

"Of course it doesn't make sense." Gu Jixiu said coldly: "When the ancestors defeated Xiliang, they also understood how powerful they are. Xiliang people have always been good at fighting, but it's a pity that they are born with good conditions, but they don't have good weapons. Let it play. Emperor Taizong ordered that the weapons manufactured for Xiliang every year must be quite different from those used by the Ministry of War. Waste weapons. And without avoiding confusion, all weapons sent to Xiliang will be marked with a four-pointed star."

"However, what they are using now is indeed a sword with a triangular pattern... Someone sold them a weapon that can actually be used?!"

Gu Jixiu's face became more and more ugly. The military department is no different than the six departments. It is difficult to join the military department. The person who can be responsible for making weapons must not be an ordinary person.

"Shangshu of the Ministry of War is not named Song, but his surname is..."

"Surname Zhu?"

Gu Jixiu was quite surprised, this time he really did not expect Qingzhi to react so quickly.

"So the members of the Zhu family are all your spies?"

"spy?"

"It means careful work."

"Oh—" Gu Jixiu nodded, and then repeated a few words "spy" back and forth in his mouth? "It's a new word—it's just that Zhu Tong'an, who is in charge of making weapons in the Ministry of War, really isn't my place. Although the Zhu family is not as prosperous as the other four major families, it is still a big family. Among the entire Zhu family, Only Zhu Ruilin's lineage is my successor."

"So... Zhu Ruilin brought his own relatives, too?"

"exactly."