Drawings, even in modern society, drawings of advanced equipment are also extremely important information.
It seems that Ruan Haoyang's father must have developed some new equipment during his lifetime, and this equipment may have a great advancement in certain aspects of a country.
According to Shao Xi's analysis, it will definitely not be furniture, farm tools, or some entertainment gadgets. It is most likely for military use. A carpenter may not necessarily create any advanced weapons, but he can create Equipment and tools that can play a key role on the battlefield are just like Luban's invention of the ladder.
Although Shao Xi is not sure what this piece of equipment is? But judging from the pursuit of Ruan Haoyang by the Wandaomen and the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, this thing is obviously extremely important to some people. If it is just a simple weapon, their idea should be to hit the Tangmen. Because the Tang Sect's long-range hidden weapons are famous all over the world.
Now I am holding on to a carpenter's son. What is recorded on the blueprint of this piece of equipment must be something that can have a huge impact. It can only be some kind of instrument or equipment used in large-scale wars, like a ladder. Same.
Since it is something with huge influence, why must it be needed for war? Couldn't it be tools needed for farming, manufacturing, or sailing?
Shao Xi's answer is no. If you think about it, would Jianghu sects and organizations like Wandaomen and Ghost Emperor's Mansion send out many masters to hunt down a young man for several years just for a farm tool blueprint? Did these people use such a large amount of resources just to get the blueprints of a production tool? How can this be?
As people who have been plotting rebellion for many years and intending to usurp power and seize the throne, what they want must be something that will help push them to the throne, and this kind of thing can only be used in war.
That's why Shao Xi just told Lao Wu that what they were looking for was a magic weapon.
In other words, if you get this blueprint and make it according to the blueprint, you will have a piece of equipment that will help change the power structure in the world.
Since Boss Ruan was obsessed with strange skills, researching and creating some novel objects, then the thing he created must be unprecedented, and Boss Ruan hid it, probably because he realized that the appearance of this thing might be used somewhere. Changing the pattern of future wars to this extent will cause more people to die in wars.
This is a bit like the black powder formula that Shao Xi created. In order to prevent someone from using it on a large scale for war in the future, Shao Xi chose to keep the formula secret and no longer make it public.
I think Ruan Haoyang's father must have had this idea at the time, so he chose to hide the drawing. You Yi'an has been looking for this drawing in the Ruan family for many years.
If this is the case, then everything that happened to the Ruan family will be explained.
When Shao Xi told Lao Wu his thoughts, Lao Wu also felt that Shao Xi's analysis was reasonable. Something that was easy to hide and could attract such attention from You Yi'an and others should be used to make certain utensils. Drawings, no wonder You Yian has been unable to obtain them in the Ruan family for so many years.
You Yi'an didn't know much about carpentry. Even if Ruan Haoyang's father casually threw this drawing on the table, You Yi'an might not be able to understand it, let alone that it was deliberately hidden.
What makes Shao Xi very curious is, what kind of drawing is that?
Shao Xi searched for the historical knowledge he knew in his mind, wondering if there would be something that matched his idea, such as a wooden ox, a flowing horse, a Zhuge Liannu or something similar to a trebuchet, but Thinking about it, it seems wrong.
These things can indeed play an important role on the battlefield, but they cannot change the pattern of war. For something that only plays a relatively important role on the battlefield, no matter how important it is, they will not spend so much thought on it. .
Therefore, what is recorded on the drawing must be something with subversive significance, just like the black powder prepared by yourself. Once used in war, it will change the mode of war and cause more people to die. thing.
What could that be? Could it be that Boss Ruan also invented gunpowder? Ordinarily it shouldn’t be! How could a carpenter invent gunpowder if he never came into contact with saltpeter, sulfur, or charcoal?
He could only think about what was on that drawing from the perspective of a carpenter, but Shao Xi thought about it again and again, but still couldn't figure it out.
Later, I simply stopped thinking about it. Since I had previously guessed that the blueprint was most likely on Ruan Haoyang, why not verify it for myself when I went to Zhiqiu Pavilion a few days ago? There is really no point in thinking about it here.
So Shao Xi told Lao Wu his plan, and Lao Wu also became interested, making plans to go to Zhiqiu Pavilion with Shao Xi tomorrow.
Shao Xi thought that this old guy was so ugly, wouldn't he scare Miss Ye Zhiqiu when he arrived at Zhiqiu Pavilion? Besides, if you take him with you, you must also take Wu Qiu'er with you. It's better to leave him alone in the inn. Wouldn't it be eye-opening to see the appearance of these two guys in Zhiqiu Pavilion?
But Lao Wu insisted on going with Shao Xi because he wanted to know more about You Yi'an's actions at the Ruan family and see if he could find some clues about what happened back then. Shao Xi couldn't resist him and nodded. I agreed, but I don’t know if the boat tomorrow will be able to carry three people?
Especially that big fat guy!
Now that the matter has been agreed upon, all they have to do is wait for the three of them to go by boat tomorrow morning. Shao Xi told Lao Wu and Wu Qiu'er to rest early tonight and get up early tomorrow to take the boat to Zhiqiu Pavilion together.
After nightfall, Shao Xi did not practice as usual. Instead, he lay on the bed and went through all the things he and Lao Wu analyzed today from beginning to end in his mind.
Back then, someone sent You Yi'an to infiltrate the "Jingcheng Division" just to get some internal information from the "Jingcheng Division". During this period, You Yi'an was sent to the Ruan family to wait for an opportunity to obtain the drawing. It took a whole ten years for You Yi'an to succeed.
Shao Xi guessed that the main reason why You Yi'an revealed the news about Fengjiazhuang to the person behind it was because he did not do well in the Ruan family during the ten years and was reprimanded by his master, so he wanted to use the Fengjia Village to make up for the crime. Zhuang's news to gain some credit for himself.
At the same time, maybe because it took ten years to find the blueprint, the people behind it also lost their patience, so the incidents at Ruan Family and Fengjiazhuang happened one after another.
When these two things happened, it happened that the young masters of both families escaped. However, his young master was too young at the time and was taken to the northern grasslands by Lao Wu. Ruan Haoyang, the young master, had already escaped when he fled. He is fifteen years old, and within six years, due to some chance, his martial arts progress has greatly increased.
So four years ago, Ruan Haoyang returned to the Ruan family again to kill You Yian, and at the same time took away the blueprint hidden in the Ruan family. After learning about this, the person behind You Yian not only used the The Wandao Sect also invited the Ghost Emperor's Mansion to join, just to get the drawings in Ruan Haoyang's hands.
This is similar to the time when Wandaomen was sent to the grassland to hunt down himself and Lao Wu, but back then he only sent Wandaomen because he was not sure whether the thing was on him, but now he should be very sure that the thing is on Ruan Haoyang On the body, that's why the Ghost Emperor's Mansion joined.
Now from the relationship point of view, Wandaomen should have a cooperative relationship with the old eunuch Gao Cai. Back then, Gao Cai cooperated with Xiao Yuzhi to do the Fengjiazhuang matter. At the same time, You Yi'an also cooperated with Wandaomen. , then on the surface it seems that the person behind You Yian should be Xiao Yuzhi.
However, Shao Xi once asked Lao Wu before. Anyone who knows something about Feng Changlin knows that he can't get anything he wants from Feng Changlin, so why did Xiao Yuzhi go directly to Fengjiazhuang? If he was a smart man, he should know that even if he killed everyone in Fengjiazhuang, he wouldn't be able to get what he wanted.
In other words, he was not smart enough and he did not think of this level.
But if this is the case, why are the methods adopted against the Ruan family different from those used by the Feng family? He spent ten years patiently searching for the blueprint for the Ruan family. Even if he finally destroyed the Ruan family, he did not burn it down like he did for the Feng family.
The reason why he didn't set the fire was simple, just to arrange for You Yi'an to continue looking for the blueprint at Ruan's house, but why did he burn down Feng's house?
Admittedly, it is not ruled out that he wants to destroy his own evidence, but does Jiucai Liuli hold him back? Or maybe he thinks that if he burns his own evidence with fire, even if he burns the nine-color glazed button, at least others won't get it, but does he really think so?
The nine-color glazed button is not an ordinary thing. It is a token of inheritance from emperors of all dynasties. It also contains two peerless martial arts, Jiuzhou Yuanqi and Dragon Transformation Technique. He can wait another six years for a blueprint. Why do he want nine-colored glazed button? Why can't he wait another six years?
For two things of the same nature, the Nine Color Glazed Button is far more important than the drawing. Why did he adopt two different methods? Is Xiao Yuzhi really the person behind it?
Shao Xi doesn't think so. Although he hasn't really found the truth of the matter yet, he feels that he has touched something.
While Shao Xi was lying on the bed thinking about these things, he suddenly saw a bright light flashing outside the window. It felt like a lantern hanging outside the window was being blown by the wind, and the lantern was shaking. The light flickered into the room through the window.
Shao Xi felt a little strange. Normally, every household would have turned off the lights at this time. Who would light a lantern outside at this time?
Besides, I was staying in a guest room on the second floor of the inn. Looking at the way the light was flashing, if it were a lantern, I would have to use a long pole to lift the lantern to make myself feel so bright in the room.
Curiosity drove Shao Xi to get up from the bed and look out the window. It didn't matter if he didn't look. At one glance, Shao Xi was shocked...
