Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

Bafu took Che Ying and his party for a stroll around Bailu Town. Che Ying and the others made it clear that they were particularly interested in those enclosed places.

How could Bafu and a few people stop such a group of people, they broke into the workshop.

And just as Che Ying and the others had expected, those enclosed places were indeed workshops, where there were those who weaved and spun silk, and those who made clothes.The innermost one is the paper-making workshop they have been thinking about.

Che Ying and others also discovered that Tang Bo had divided the papermaking workshop into several parts very cunningly. The people working in each part were not connected with each other, and only made part of the papermaking, so as to prevent the leakage of papermaking technology as much as possible.

Bafu stopped them several times, saying that only the lord can bring people here.

But Che Ying and the others took advantage of the large number of people and the high official status, so they didn't take this little butler seriously at all. They just led people around the workshop and asked the people who worked inside.

Che Ying knew that their actions were no different from robbers, but papermaking was so important, the more discerning people were, the more they would understand what this thin piece of paper carried.

Three clerks followed Che Ying, writing and even drawing everything they saw and heard.

Bafu took a look when he blocked him, and found that these three clerks should have been specially selected. With the notebooks and pens produced by their Bailuling, they could draw everything they saw completely, and the drawing speed was very fast. , very well drawn.

Che Ying himself was also taking notes. Besides him, the officials who followed him also wanted to memorize them, but when Che Ying glared at him, no one dared to be so blatant. They could only rely on their memory to remember as much as they could.

The business of paper must be handed over to the Grand Duke, but their own family can also try to do it. If they can't sell it now, it doesn't mean they can't sell it in the future, even if it's just for their own family use.

For this reason, everyone who broke into the workshop became the most research-spirited scholars. When Che Ying asked the workers, they listened carefully and wished they could memorize them verbatim.

"You don't know the raw materials used in papermaking? You don't know the process of papermaking?" Che Ying frowned.

"Yes, my lord, I dare not hide it." The foreman lowered his head, trembling and respectfully replied: "We are only responsible for cutting the paper that has been made, and then make various notebooks and picture scrolls according to the requirements."

Che Yingying couldn't find anything after asking the workers, so he called Bafu and asked if there were other workshops.

Bafu said with an angry but forced expression: "I have already told the adults that papermaking is such a precious technology. If our lord knew that it had already been dedicated to the Grand Duke, we would just buy the paper sent by others. Then do secondary processing, and then sell it.”

"Who sent that paper?" Che Ying asked.

Bafu didn't want to answer, but under Che Ying's intimidation, he could only reveal something: "I don't know, only the lord knows the source of the paper. Every time the people who come to deliver the goods take a big ship. Last time our lord We also took that big ship to Sita County together."

"Oh? What about the boat? And the people who brought the paper?"

"I don't know, they flew away by boat."

"Fly away? You said they flew away by boat? To the sky?" Che Ying was surprised.

Bafu nodded, with pride and fear mixed in his expression: "Yes, the leader of those people is a great divinely favored person. They were guided by the gods and found our White Hart Collar, and they are willing to give such precious paper Share things with our lords, and let our lords sell them on their behalf."

It's serious.

Che Ying's expression became serious.

The appearance of the favored person indicates that the opponent must come from a great power.

"Where are they from?" Che Ying asked.

Bafu shook his head: "I don't know, they only talk to the lord, and only the lord knows their origins."

Che Ying believed it.How noble and rare are those favored by the gods. These people are either nobles or the lords of a country. If they can talk to a little baron, they are already subordinates. It is impossible for them to communicate with other people with lower status.

The final result still has to wait for Tang Bo to come back.

Bafu took the initiative to invite them to live in the unfinished castle, but Che Ying refused, and they went back to Sanshu City.

How comfortable it is to live in Three Tree City, where you can also shop.What is there in this small broken town, the castle has not been built yet.

When Che Ying led the people away, he turned his head to look at the not-so-high but steep Huishi Mountain. It is said that the Red Mountain Territory is just past the Huishi Mountain.

However, the road from Huishi Mountain to Hongshanling is very difficult, and even water sources are hard to find on the road. Generally, tax officials go to Hongshanling from the main road from Three Tree City.

What Che Ying didn't know was that Tang Bo was standing on the gray stone mountain and watching them.

What Che Ying and the others saw was real, but the visual space was expanded by using the hallucinogenic magic circle.

In fact, Che Ying and the others didn't go to the center of Bailu collar at all, they only reached the edge of Bailu collar.

But as long as they go to the White Deer Collar, no matter which way they go, they will step into the phantom formation and finally come here.

And the phantom array will make them look like they are walking a straight path, but it is actually leading them around in circles, which will give them the illusion that they have traveled a long distance.

Both the castle and the town are real. The castle is the place where Tang Bo and Gu Ding will live in the future. It is also the first foreign war fortress of Bailuling. It will be gradually expanded in the future until the entire northern main road of Bailuling is covered. All surrounded.

A large number of wooden houses in the town are temporary housing for construction workers.

The area with only mud houses is the junction of Bailuling and Sanshu City. It was originally a small forest, and Tang Bo once fought with the people of Sanshu City here.

In order to expand and build roads, Tang Bo sent people to push the forest away, planning to level it into fields and then build roads.

Knowing that Luma City was going to send people over, they built some mud houses on top of the workers' temporary housing. These mud houses were built without waste, and pigs were raised in them.If someone goes to the house to see, it is said that people and pigs live together, which is also very common nowadays.

The gray stone mountain that Che Ying turned his head to see was originally just a small hill, but through the phantom array, it looks like a large mountain from a distance.

The real Graystone Mountain is still far away.

And behind the gray stone mountain that Che Ying saw was the real Bailuling, and going further south was the real Bailuling where the Bailuling lived.

But Che Ying and the others went through this exploration, and they all saw and heard it by themselves, and they were obstructed to some extent, which made them all believe that what they saw was the real White Deer Collar.

In addition, in the records of Luma City, Bailuling is a small territory with a diameter of [-] kilometers, and the area of ​​the whole territory is only [-] square kilometers.

The small town they saw and the barren land in front of them added up to about that size.

As for the fact that papermaking was not found, although they were annoyed, they were not too surprised.

Neither Che Ying nor anyone else, including Grand Duke Luma himself, thought that a small white deer leader who might not even be able to recognize the common characters could invent such a great technology as papermaking.

Anshen, the princess of Sita County, and the tax officer over there made a secret announcement to Lu Ma, saying that the lord of the White Deer Lord had colluded with the Principality of Lanji, and the Duke of Luma guessed that the papermaking technique most likely came from the Principality of Lanji.

Even the Duke of Luma guessed the reason why the Lanji Principality possessed such technology, but kept it from others and only sold it privately.

One is to make a fortune before the news leaks.

The second is that they don't want people from other principalities to know that Lanji Principality possesses such technology so quickly.

The third is to use paper trading to corrupt the nobles of other principalities, let them be used by the Principality of Lanji, and even make those nobles betray their principalities and seek refuge in the Principality of Lanji.

Before coming, Grand Duke Luma had a secret talk with Che Ying.

Che Ying verified the facts that she saw and heard with her own eyes, and felt that the Grand Duke's worries were not unfounded.

This Principality of Lanji (maybe other countries) has reached out into the Principality of Luma, and its national strength or technology in some aspects has far surpassed the Principality of Luma.

Che Ying returned to Three Tree City, and immediately wrote a letter to his confidant to send it back to Luma City as soon as possible, while he continued to stay in Three Tree City to wait for the Lord White Deer to return.

He must ask Tang Bo who and where the traveling merchant who provided him with the paper came from, even if he is arrested and tortured, he has already received an order from the Grand Duke to act cheaply before he came.

Che Ying also took the time to visit Gu Ding, the lord of the Three Trees, but unfortunately he didn't meet.

It is said that because this young master has never grown up, he heard that Tumojiao seems to have a way to make people grow up, so he took people to find Tumojiao. He has been away for a long time, and he does not know when he will come back.

At present, the government affairs of Three Tree City are jointly managed by a steward named Pijie and a steward named Donglin.

Ten days later, Bailuling's butler Bafu finally brought news that their lord had been found and he was on his way back. If he was quick, he could come to Three Tree City tomorrow.

But at this time, Che Ying could no longer take care of the "good" news. He was very anxious about not being able to contact the three thousand soldiers sent to him by the Grand Duke.

The incident happened two days ago, and he would send someone to contact the three thousand soldiers who followed him every other day to ensure that the communication was smooth and he could send them over at any time.

But two days ago, the people he sent came back and said that the three thousand soldiers could not be found.

Che Ying turned pale with shock and asked people to look for it again.Those were three thousand soldiers, how could they suddenly disappear?

The person sent out just came back, but they still said they couldn't find it.

Che Ying first suspected Bailu Ling Tang Bo, but then overturned the suspicion himself.

Those were the [-] elite soldiers under the Lord Luma, not a motley army of serfs or peasants, those soldiers had all seen blood, and the leader was the best seed of the next generation of their Che family.

What can the white deer collar have?

Even with the [-] disaster victims that Tang Bo brought back, it was impossible for him to kill all the [-] soldiers.

Three thousand well-trained soldiers against thirty thousand ordinary people who have held hoes, unless there is a miracle, the loser will definitely be the latter.

And does Bailu collar have 3 people?There are still [-] young and strong.

If not White Hart Collar, then who?

The second thing that Che Ying thought of was the mysterious traveler who was favored by the gods.

But why did the other party kill those three thousand soldiers?Could it be that they are already planning to tear themselves apart from the Luma Principality?

No matter how he guessed, Che Ying reported the matter to Luma City as soon as possible.

If there are really people from other countries who come to the Luma Principality to kill people, then the Luma City must be vigilant and come up with countermeasures.

The next day, the butler Bafu appeared again, and said to Che Ying and the others with regret on his face: "Our lord wanted to come to see you as soon as he came back, but he was seriously injured while hunting, and he came back with strength all the way, and fell down when he came back. .”

Tang Ze, who disappeared for a while and reappeared, immediately jumped up when he heard this: "What? My son was seriously injured? Take me to see him!"

Che Ying and the others looked down on the former White Deer Lord. He said he was looking for the foreman, but the foreman didn't come, so he went to look for it by himself, and the foreman he brought back was the same person as the foreman they saw in that small town.

He asked Tang Ze if he knew the paper supplier, and he said no.Asking everything is his son's responsibility, he just enjoys it, it's really useless to them.

Che Ying was full of anger. He felt that everything was not going well since he came to Bailuling, and he didn't believe the housekeeper's words at all. He sneered and said that since Tang Bo couldn't get up, he didn't need to come to see him. He just went to see Tang Bo .

The steward was in a dilemma, but he was powerless to resist, so he could only take these malicious officials to the unbuilt castle.

Tang Ze also followed.

Che Ying and others saw the seriously injured Tang Bo in the castle.

Seeing them, Tang Bo showed a faint wry smile.

Che Ying was taken aback when he saw Tang Bo for the first time.

This Tang Bo is actually very handsome, his handsomeness is very in line with the popular feminine beauty nowadays, his face is extremely pale due to injury, but there is a little blush on his face that may be caused by fever.

Her lips were so red that they could be called coquettish, her straight nose was like jade, and her eyes were like the deepest pool of cold water.

His short black hair and slender body gave him a masculine look, which made everyone who saw him never doubt his gender.

In short, this kind of Tang Bo is very in line with the image of aristocrats in people's minds nowadays, and it is also the kind of noble beauty that nobles themselves like and admire most.

Some people who had a preconceived and bad impression of Tang Bo, saw Tang Bo like this, and wanted to protect him.

"Come here, change my medicine." With the help of his servant, Tang Bo sat up and ordered again.

The servant retreated in silence, and after a while, someone followed the servant in.

It was a young man who smelled of herbs.

The man saluted Tang Bo, and opened the medicine box he carried with him.

With the help of his servants, Tang Bo took off his outer shirt, revealing the wound cloth wrapped on his chest.

"Everyone, please wait a moment." Tang Bo said calmly.

At this time, Che Ying and others should leave, but Che Ying didn't move, and neither did the others.

In front of these people, Tang Bo asked the pharmacist to remove the medicinal cloth for his wound, and to clean and apply medicine to his wound again.

Those who stood close saw the three claw marks on Tang Bo's chest that were scratched by wild beasts.

The claw marks were very deep, the wound was black in color, swollen and rotten flesh squeezed out of the wound, and streaks of blood continued to flow down.

The pharmacist cleaned Tang Bo's wound and changed his dressing. Tang Bo was obviously in severe pain. He clutched the quilt tightly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

The pharmacist thoughtfully gave Tang Bo a piece of wood wrapped in cloth for Tang Bo to bite.

Tang Bo shook his head and refused, and endured until the end.

Che Ying couldn't bear to see it. If such an injury was done on purpose, the price would be too high.

This kind of injury is not easy to cure. Many people have suffered such severe trauma, and it will not take long for them to have a high fever, and then they just disappear.

When the pharmacist stepped back, Tang Bo seemed exhausted, leaning against the head of the bed with his eyes closed, unable to speak.

Che Ying also understood why Tang Bo had to change his dressing in front of them, and only then said: "Since Lord Tang is not feeling well, I'll come back in two days."

Tang Bo opened his eyes, and said in a cold voice: "No, what I want to say is today, in two days... I'm afraid I won't last until then."

Che Ying frowned.

Tang Ze rushed forward and shouted, "Son, are you going to die?"

Tang Bo's voice was colder: "Aren't you happy that I'm dead? You can bring your illegitimate child back."

Tang Ze actually replied: "Yes, so you'd better get through it, otherwise everything you have worked so hard to create now will belong to other people."

Che Ying and the others: "..."

Tang Bo didn't seem to want to pay any attention to this father anymore, facing Che Ying, he said, "If you have any questions, just ask. I heard that Luma City will increase taxes for us in Bailuling? It's ok, anyway, the ghost who will be the lord next year knows it is Whoever you want to add."

Tang Ze immediately said: "Son, you can't mess around. I'm going to live after you die."

Che Ying raised his hand to signal everyone to go out, until only he, Tang Bo, and two servants were left in the room.

Che Ying sat down on the chair brought by the servant, "You should know your current situation, right?"

Tang Bo smiled miserably, and pointed to his chest: "I know, and I also know that someone wants to kill me to silence me."

Che Ying narrowed his eyes, and immediately sat up straight: "Silence? You mean the businessman who provided you with the paper?"

Tang Bo closed his eyes: "I don't know if it was them, but I shouldn't have been injured so badly, and the thing that hurt me was definitely not a beast."

"What do you know, it's best to say it now, I can tell the Grand Duke what you said, maybe you can continue to be your lord, including taxation will not change." Che Ying said seriously.

"...I need protection." Tang Bo was silent for a while, and then said: "You don't need to send someone to protect me, as long as I can guarantee my current lordship and title, and prevent other territories from attacking me, I will Tell me what I know."

"That depends on whether what you said is worth the value." Che Yingwei said coldly.

Tang Bo touched the freshly bandaged wound, with hatred on his face: "Okay, I will tell you what I know. I don't know who those people are, I only know that there are some of them who are favored by God. I found me before, and said that I want to make some deals with our White Hart Collars. I see that the other party is on a big ship that can fly, so of course I want to make deals with them..."

Tang Bo talked a lot, to the effect that he didn't know the origin of those mysterious traveling merchants, but they provided him with a lot of paper and asked him to sell it on his behalf.The price was for him to buy a large number of slaves in the name of White Hart Collar and sell them to them.

"Those disaster victims in Sita County, did you also trade them to those mysterious traveling merchants?" Che Ying frowned.

Tang Bo nodded: "My Bailuling is only this big, and I only have some spare money from selling paper in the past two years. How can I feed tens of thousands of victims when winter is approaching?"

Che Ying has already believed [-]% of the time.

Tang Bo said bitterly again: "At that time, I thought it was Bai Luling's blessing that allowed me to meet such rich traveling merchants. Who would have thought that they would have bad intentions at the beginning, and they asked me to sell paper for them, and they made most of the money?" Yes, and asked me to provide them with a large number of slaves. As a result, the unlucky one is my White Hart Collar. I originally wanted to go to Luma City to talk to the Grand Duke about these mysterious merchants, but they... poisoned me , threatened me not to disclose their information, and forced me to sell paper on a larger scale."

Che Ying shook his head.He actually understood why Tang Bo did this.A small lord in a barren territory with little experience in the world, finally met a wealthy caravan, so naturally the other party did what they said, and on the surface, the White Deer collar did make some money.

As for the political aspects involved in this transaction, what does a small remote lord know?Not only did he foolishly act as a pathfinder for the other party.

Tang Bo sneered again: "Later, they saw that I was useless, and those people forced me to take them to Sita County. They knew about the flood in Sita County. I can only take them there. I think Princess Sita should have cooperated with them now."

Che Ying said seriously: "What evidence do you have to doubt Princess Sita?"

Tang Bo: "No. I'm just speculating. But I overheard those people saying something. They seem to be planning to cause civil strife in my Luma Principality. I'm not the first lord they contacted. I haven't I want to understand why the other party insists on me selling paper with great fanfare. Now I understand, they just want to use me to attract the attention of the grand duke and use me as a shield so that they can secretly plot with other lords for other bigger things. If you don’t believe me, just wait.”

Che stood up eagerly, what Tang Bo said was too important.He must send a message to the Grand Duke immediately!

After Tang Bo said this, his energy was gone, and the servant helped him to lie down.

Before the car greeted him, he turned his head to look at the unlucky young lord.Looking at his dejected appearance, he knew that this handsome young man might not live for a few days.

When the car came out, other people gathered around to inquire about the situation, and someone even interceded with Tang Bo, saying that as long as Tang Bo handed over the papermaking technology to Duke Lvma, he could make him do something wrong.

Che Ying can't care about papermaking now, and the tax increase of Bailuling has been put aside. The most important thing now is to spread the news that he was dug out from Tang Bo back to Luma City.

"Go back to Luma City." Che Ying ordered.

Others haven't reacted yet: "Leave now?"

"Yes, let's go now!" Thinking of the three thousand soldiers who disappeared, Che Ying's intuition told him that if he didn't leave, he might not be able to leave.