There was a huge fortress in the middle of the iron field. It had no windows and was made of three feet thick fine iron. There were layers of defensive inscriptions on the fine iron, making it extremely sturdy.
This was where the Zhang family stored their weapons.
Wang Chong's WuZi Steel weapons were stored here.
Wang Chong walked over and picked up a WuZi Steel sword from the pile in the center. He picked it up and looked at it carefully. There were no windows in the fortress, but there were luminous pearls shining brightly on the ceiling.
Under the soft light of the luminous pearls, one could see that the lines of the WuZi Steel sword were very smooth. Although it had not gone through the final quenching and other processes, the outline of the sword had already been forged beautifully and beautifully.
"The Zhang family's craftsmen are really good!"
Wang Chong looked at the sword and did not say anything, but he nodded in his heart.
A thousand WuZi Steel swords were no small matter, and they needed to be forged day and night in such a short period of time. Wang Chong was most worried that the Zhang family might be perfunctory in the process.
But it turned out that the Zhang family still valued it very much.
Each of these WuZi Steel swords had been tempered hundreds and thousands of times, and a lot of effort had been poured into them. The Zhang family's craftsmen valued this precious material much more than Wang Chong had imagined.
After looking back and forth for a while, Wang Chong weighed the sword and nodded.
"Not bad!"
Each of these WuZi Steel swords was heavy in the hand, and they were all made of pure WuZi Steel. Wang Chong personally managed the WuZi Steel business. Every WuZi Steel weapon had to go through his hands, so he was very familiar with the weight of the WuZi Steel.
The WuZi Steel could not be mixed with other metals, or else it would be ruined!
"Help me send these weapons over first. You can send the rest over later!"
Wang Chong put down the WuZi Steel swords and said.
As for the Zhang family in the capital, Wang Chong was completely at ease.
After leaving the Zhang family's iron yard, Wang Chong went straight to the cave outside the city. Subsequently, the WuZi Steel sword embryos of the Zhang family in the capital were also continuously sent into the cave.
Time passed slowly. Wang Chong had completely forgotten about the outside world as he devoted all his attention to the training of the WuZi Steel weapon.
Batch after batch of WuZi Steel Swords passed through Wang Chong's hands and were sent out of the cave into Deflecting Blade Mountain. Then, together with the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron Helmets of the Zhang Clan and a few other clans, they were distributed to the Real Martial Realm experts recruited by the aristocratic clans.
'Quality is more important than quantity. 'With these weapons, the thousand-man elite force that Wang Chong hoped for was slowly taking shape.
Time was short, and while Wang Chong was paying no attention to the outside world, cutting off all communication and devoting himself to tempering the WuZi Steel swords in the cave, the outside world had been turned upside down.
The war in the southwest was affecting the entire empire, tugging at the hearts of millions of people. Every day, a constant stream of news came from the southwest.
The details of the defeat in the southwest were constantly being unearthed. The more they knew, the more conflicted they became.
Several days later, a letter was sent from the southwest front lines, causing an even greater uproar in the capital.
More than half a month had passed since Xianyu Zhongtong had set off with the 180,000 Tang Dynasty elites in the southwest, and now, the Imperial Court had finally received a letter from Xianyu Zhongtong.
This was a letter asking for reinforcements!
The letter stated that the rations in Lion City would not last for long. At most, they would run out in a little while, and the Imperial Court was requested to quickly send more rations.
And then it was stamped with Xianyu Zhongtong's seal.
From this letter, everyone learned for the first time that 80,000 of the 180,000 soldiers of the Annan Protectorate still remained, and that these soldiers had taken refuge in a place called Lion City. After countless days and nights of worry, this was undoubtedly the most gratifying news.
But very quickly, questions began to surface. Just what was Lion City?
And where was that place?
Why was it able to stop the assault of Mengshe Zhao and Ouzan's hundreds of thousands of soldiers?
Countless questions surged into the minds of the people!
The officials from the Bureau of Revenue and Bureau of Personnel were quickly summoned to the Imperial Court to ask about Lion City. But to everyone's astonishment, not a single one of the officials from the Bureau of Revenue and Bureau of Personnel knew what Lion City was or where it was.
And even more bizarre was that Lion City was nowhere to be found on the map of the Tang Dynasty. Not even the old officials of the Imperial Court who knew the southwest like the back of their hands and had lived there for decades knew what Lion City was or where it was!
This conclusion left countless people flabbergasted and hard to accept!
A large number of spies were dispatched to the southwest. No one dared to be careless as the lives of the 80,000 elite Tang Dynasty soldiers were at stake.
Because everyone knew that these 80,000 soldiers were the final barrier to the southwest gate. With them present, they could restrain the two foreign empires, preventing them from acting recklessly.
Without them, Mengshe Zhao and Ouzan would have nothing to fear, and the allied army formed by Gelofeng, Dalun Ruozan, and Huoshu Huizang would be able to push deep into the southwest. No one would be able to stop them from the southwest all the way to Longxi.
But while countless people were trying to find out the location of Lion City to no avail, an unexpected reversal came from a minor official in the Bureau of Military Personnel.
He suddenly remembered that when Zhangchou Jianqiong had invited Wang Chong to the banquet in the capital, Wang Chong had mentioned that he wanted to build a city in the southwest.
Moreover, there was a person by Wang Chong's side who had consulted him on this matter. Back then, he had vaguely mentioned that the location of the city was Lion Rock.
When this news came out, everyone was dumbfounded.
And when it was confirmed that the Wang Clan had indeed sent a large number of guards to the southwest half a year ago and transported a large amount of resources, and that Wang Chong had transported a million taels of gold to the southwest, the entire court was shocked!
The impact this matter had on the court was unimaginable. Even Wang Chong's big uncle, Wang Gen, was shocked speechless.
He knew that Wang Chong had asked Zhangchou Jianqiong for a plot of land. And he had been there at the time. But not even Wang Gen knew that the strategically important Lion City in the southwest war was actually built by Wang Chong, and more than half a year ago at that!
At this point, even the slowest person could vaguely sense that something was amiss.
Did that brat of the Wang Family already foresee this war half a year ago, and even built this important, strategic city?
Countless people found this notion hard to believe.
"Madness, this is madness! This is complete madness! "
"How could he know that the Tang Dynasty and Mengshe Zhao would fight there?"
"Impossible! Only a fool would build a city there for the sake of war! And how could he know that Mengshe Zhao and the Tang Dynasty would fight there? "
"How much profit does the Tea Horse Road have? If it wasn't for the sake of war, would it be for the sake of commerce? Would you build a city there for the sake of commerce and invest millions of taels of gold? "
"This …"
The person who had spoken up was dumbfounded.
A war involving 180,000 elites of the Tang Dynasty, 300,000 soldiers of Mengshe Zhao, and nearly a million civilians of the southwest had been decided by an unremarkable scion of the Tang Dynasty's imperial capital. No one could have imagined this.
This was simply inconceivable!
Regardless of the truth, regardless of whether it was for the sake of commerce or for the sake of war, Wang Chong and that distant Lion City had attracted the attention of all the officials and officials of the court.
Letters were sent to the Wang Clan, and at the same time, the Imperial Court's request was sent to Wang Chong.
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