Although holding Wang Ji's letter of sponsorship allowed Chi Ying to travel unhindered in the selection of the gunpowder workshop, Chi Ying did not naively think that Wang Ji was with them, and the reason why Wang Ji personally signed the letter of sponsorship was that in the past few years, Chi Ying, as a personal soldier of the Taishou Mansion, had performed remarkably and was trustworthy, so he would recommend it to Liu Yin.

But in fact, Wang Ji didn't know that this Red Eagle was an undercover agent lurking beside him, who was specially here to spy on his news, Wang Ji did not see through his true identity, and Zhengming said that Red Eagle was good at disguise and lurked, and deceived Wang Ji's trust.

Now Wang Ji's status in the Shu army is equivalent to that of Xianhong, not only continues to stay in the post of Tianshui County Taishou, but also becomes one of the five armies of the Shu army, the rear army protector, responsible for commanding the rear army, in the Shu army, it can be regarded as a popular figure.

With Wang Ji's sponsorship, Red Eagle was able to enter the gunpowder workshop smoothly and served as a chief. Red Eagle's identity information is completely true, he was born in Xinyang County, Tianshui County, and it is also a small family of scholars, even the process of counterfeiting is omitted, and the real identity background coupled with Wang Ji's sponsorship makes Red Eagle green all the way and unimpeded.

Red Eagle entered the gunpowder workshop, and his performance was also exceptionally good, successfully stealing a sample of gunpowder and handing it to Shangfeng and being transferred to Luoyang.

The internal management of the gunpowder workshop is extremely strict, and the control of gunpowder products is simply impeccable, and under such conditions, Red Eagle can still complete the task excellently, showing the quality of Red Eagle as an excellent spy officer.

A loud bang in Chang'an City shocked the people of the world, and the attention to gunpowder was instantly raised to an extremely high position. And Red Eagle, who broke into the gunpowder workshop, became one of the most important spies within the military division.

Although some gunpowder was stolen as samples. But the news from Luoyang made Red Eagle faintly disappointed. The craftsmen in Luoyang did not know this thing at all, and could not imitate gunpowder based on these samples, while if Wei wanted to make gunpowder, he had to get the formula of gunpowder or craftsmen who mastered the core technology.

Therefore, the latest order given to Red Eagle by the Military Division was to try to steal the formula of gunpowder and hold the craftsman hostage, and Luoyang was urging him very urgently, and this task must be completed in the shortest possible time.

Red Eagle was also very worried this time, he had never seen or heard of the formula of gunpowder until now, and such highly secret items were not accessible to people of his level. Since I don't know where to go, that means I can't do it. Red Eagle can only focus on the second task, which is to try to lure or kidnap the workshop's senior craftsmen.

Generally, it is impossible for new craftsmen to master the core technology, and only those old craftsmen who entered the workshop in Chengdu in the first batch are the target of Red Eagle. However, the parents and families of these senior craftsmen were in Shu, and the treatment given by the gunpowder workshop was extremely favorable, so it was very difficult to persuade them to surrender to Wei.

Red Eagle has been lurking for more than ten years, and has not been exposed once, in addition to being extremely cautious and cautious, knowing how to forbear is the magic weapon of Red Eagle to win, in order to obtain an important information. He used to wait patiently for an opportunity, and he waited for three years. This perseverance and perseverance are not something that ordinary people can learn.

After receiving the order this time, Chiying felt a heavy responsibility, and did not dare to slack off in the slightest, knowing that there were tigers in the mountains, and preferring to go to the tiger mountains.

However, fate seems to favor Chi Ying very much, and he quickly found a suitable candidate - Xu Hong from the ingredient workshop. Xu Hong is around forty years old, has no wife in Shuzhong and his parents are dead, so he can be said to be the most careless person. Xu Hong likes to drink a little wine in his spare time, in the monotonous and boring life of the gunpowder workshop, this is almost his only hobby, after all, Xu Hong has also saved a lot of money in recent years, and his family is dead, the gunpowder workshop is located in the valley, the guards are strict, he can't get out if he wants to, and no matter how much money he saves, there is no place to spend it.

Fortunately, there is also a tavern inside the gunpowder workshop, where you can come to relieve your worries and boredom, and Xu Hong has become a frequent visitor here. A little too much drinking, Xu Hong and a familiar craftsman had a conflict, the two sides worked in the same workshop, usually looked at each other unpleasantly, this time relying on the strength of the wine, a big fight, the head broke blood.

Fights are forbidden inside the gunpowder workshop, and if they are discovered, they will be severely punished. However, it was precisely because of Red Eagle's testimony that Xu Hong did not take the initiative to provoke, but was repeatedly forced by the other party to fight back angrily and injure the other party, and in the end Xu Hong was only punished very lightly, and the other party was tortured with twenty lashes.

After that, Xu Hong was very grateful to Chiying, and although there were regulations within the workshop that personnel, craftsmen and security personnel were not allowed to interact with each other, it still could not prevent Xu Hong and Chiying from communicating privately.

Through contact, Chi Ying learned that Xu Hong was also a person who was unwilling to be restrained, and was very disgusted by these rules and regulations of the gunpowder workshop, and longed for a more free and larger range of activities.

People like Xu Hong are the best targets for Red Eagle to rebel, and under the pure and kind temptation of Red Eagle, Xu Hong is even more eager for the days when there are groups of wives and concubines outside, and he is determined to abscond under Xu Hong's arrangement.

The initial period of absconding went very smoothly, and there had never been a single defection incident in the gunpowder workshop since its establishment, which undoubtedly made Ding Hu, the head of the guard of the gunpowder workshop, a little careless, and there were some omissions that should not have been.

It was this omission that Red Eagle caught and made contact with the Wei spies who came to meet him from the cliff in the back mountain, and successfully sent Xu Hong out.

A sudden gong sounded at the late roll call, apparently because the workshop had discovered that a craftsman was missing. The entire workshop was brightly lit all night, and most of them stayed up all night, and Red Eagle's team of people also joined the queue for external searches.

The search operation was undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack, and by dawn, the team where Red Eagle was located had already expanded the search range thirty miles away, and still could not see any progress, and had begun to return. Chi Ying couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, if he couldn't be searched overnight, it was likely that Xu Hong and the people who took him over from the middle of the Guan Military Division had already successfully broken through.

But what Red Eagle didn't expect was that as soon as they returned to Chezhanggou, they ran into the turtledove that had just taken over with him who was escorted by Ah Jian, which made Red Eagle almost break out in a cold sweat. (To be continued.) )