Although Jiang Zichuan, the governor of Youzhou, was killed with a cane in court, this did not alleviate the resentment of the new emperor Li Rui. He also seized the official positions of Jiang Zichuan's son Jiang Yunsheng and son-in-law An Pinbai, and exiled their families together. Yongzhou went to the territory of Zhouyi to build the Great Wall.
The Jiang family, which was once prosperous because of this victory, suddenly plummeted.
Fortunately, when the Jiang family was in Youzhou, they had always been kind to the people, and when the family was in decline, no one took the opportunity to add insult to injury.
Jiang Yunsheng and Jiang Yunyao could only dismiss most of their servants, and drove an ox cart with only a few loyal servants to Yongzhou under the escort of several Youzhou government officials. The official lying on the ox cart was It was An Pinbai who had the same butt blossoming experience as Zhou Yi.
Along with the Jiang siblings and An Pinbai, they were accompanied by some officials from the eldest prince's palace and several masters and apprentices of Gongsun Zhu, the number one forger in the capital, who had cast the Fangtian Huaji for Wang Dachui.
Originally, Gongsun Zhu and the others should have arrived at the border of Yongzhou long ago, but because the Xiongnu and Qiang Di tribes invaded the border last time, the government officials escorting Gongsun Zhu deliberately stopped for a long time on the road until Zhou Yi and Wang Dachui led their troops to attack the Xiongnu. The aliens were repelled before continuing on the road.
After entering the boundary of Yongzhou, An Pinbai, who was lying on the haystack of the oxcart, unexpectedly discovered that Zhou Yi himself came to hand over the gangsters in front of him.
An Pinbai was greatly moved after seeing this. He did not expect that Zhou Yi, who was the governor of Yongzhou, would come in person for himself, a criminal.
Originally, Zhou Yi only came here for the number one foundry master in the capital, but he never expected that he would meet his old friend An Pinbai here.
Zhou Yi and Wang Dachui felt guilty for abducting more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Youzhou. Now that they were in desperation, Zhou Yi naturally had to take care of them.
After Zhou Yi looked at An Pinbai, who was shackled on the ox cart, he hurriedly dismounted and walked to his side, pretending to be sad and said: "A few months ago, the general threatened the world with his white horse and silver robe. I never thought that he would stop today." Here it is!”
"An is a sinner. I never thought that Mr. Zhou would come to greet him in person. I am really ashamed of myself!"
"Come here, open the shackles quickly."
The yamen escorting An Pinbai and his party wanted to say something, but Zhou Yihu glared at him and took out the key tremblingly in fear.
Seeing the yamen servant's dillydallying, Zhou Yi snatched the key chain and unlocked An Pinbai's shackles with three strokes.
An Pinbai felt a lot more relaxed as the shackles were removed from his body. He looked at his brother-in-law who was also shackled. Zhou Yi, who was like a man, immediately understood and asked his men to remove everyone's shackles.
"I heard that on the day when the new emperor Li Rui ascended the throne, he appointed the former emperor's demon concubine Li Wanji as his queen. The general's father-in-law spoke uprightly and understood the pros and cons, but he didn't want the new emperor to block the emperor's hearing. Not only did he not accept it, he also killed such a wise minister. It's really painful. What a tragedy!"
An Pinbai wanted to get up, but the wound on his butt hurt so much that he grimaced.
"General An, don't be anxious now. When you get to our Yongzhou territory, take a good rest first. If you have any questions, we have a long way to go, so we can talk to you slowly."
After that, Zhou Yi directed a group of soldiers to carefully carry An Pinbai onto the carriage originally prepared for Gongsun Zhu.
A woman next to An Pinbai knelt down and thanked Zhou Yi with tears streaming down her face: "Jiang Yunyao, my husband, thanks you for your kindness!"
Zhou Yi quickly lifted him up, took out a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao from his arms and handed it to him, saying, "Sister-in-law, I have good gold sore medicine here. You should also get in the car and take care of General An first!"
Jiang Yunyao nodded slightly and entered the carriage with his younger brother Jiang Yunsheng.
Zhou Yi himself did not expect that when he came to pick up Gongsun Zhu, the number one foundry master in the capital, he met An Pinbai's family instead.
Zhou Yi's behavior as a courteous corporal was also noticed by Gongsun Zhu, who was also in the distribution team.
Nowadays, the advantages and disadvantages of the Chen Kingdom are not only seen by knowledgeable people, but also craftsmen like Gongsun Zhu and others feel deeply about it.
Especially after experiencing the experience of refining the Fangtian Painted Halberd for the treacherous prime minister Yan Song, Gongsun Zhu even realized that the treacherous person was in power.
His two apprentices only went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to deliver weapons, but they were poisoned and silenced by the traitorous Prime Minister Yan Song.
Although he didn't know what happened, Gongsun Zhu knew that his apprentice must have known some great secret, otherwise he would not have been so implicated.
Gongsun Zhu did not resent his disciples, he only resented the current world where traitors were in power and there was no justice.
Therefore, after this incident, Gongsun Zhu decided not to cast any utensils for others.
After Zhou Yi sent someone to send An Pinbai away in a carriage, he looked at the group of exiles and asked loudly: "Who here is the number one caster in the capital, Gongsun Zhu, Mr. Gongsun!"
Gongsun Zhu in the crowd didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that Zhou Yi was looking for him. Gongsun Zhu, who had already decided to stop his career, did not answer Zhou Yi's questions.
Zhou Yi shouted again in the crowd, but still no one responded.
When Zhou Yi shouted for the third time, an official of the eldest prince's palace who knew Gongsun Zhu saw this and hurriedly ran to kneel down in front of Zhou Yi and said: "Sir, I know who Gongsun Zhu is, I know!"
"Oh? Then tell me quickly, who is Mr. Gongsun?"
Qi Buyu, an official in the eldest prince's palace, quickly pointed at Gongsun Zhu who was surrounded by several disciples in the crowd.
"That old man is Gongsun Zhu, the number one forger in the capital!"
"Sir, can you please watch this villain point out Mr. Gongsun for you and reward me with some food? I'm really hungry and can't stand it anymore!"
Zhou Yi waved slightly, and the guard beside him took out a bag of dry food and threw it to Qi Buyu.
Zhou Yi walked quickly towards Gongsun Zhu in the crowd, and the criminals who were exiled to Yongzhou quickly made way for Zhou Yi.
"Oh, Mr. Gongsun will give me a good meal!"
The reason why Zhou Yi wanted to find Gongsun Zhu was entirely because their craftsmanship skills in Yongzhou had reached a bottleneck period, and the efficiency of melting and recasting steel bars was too low.
When next spring comes, Zhou Yi will prepare to attack the Xiongnu, but the casting of arrows for 200,000 soldiers is still too slow, so Zhou Yi wants to see if the first forger in the capital has any good ideas.
Gongsun Zhu pushed aside the guards of his disciples and directly met Zhou Yi, the prefect of Yongzhou who was walking towards him.
Before this, Gongsun Zhu had also heard about Zhou Yi's use of the Fire Ox Formation to defeat hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu and Khitan coalition forces.
On the way to exile this time, I heard that Zhou Yi once again led an army to repel the invading Xiongnu and Qiang Di tribes, conquered the Qiang and Di tribes in one fell swoop, opened up territory and established Liangzhou.
Gongsun Zhu didn't know how Master Zhou Yi, who had so many troops and was so powerful in the world, knew that he was among the exiles.
