I Am Truly Not a Treacherous Minister Your Majesty

Chapter 2: Let Me See!

To be honest, Qin Ji was completely unprepared.

This was not his fault. The main reason was that it was not him who recommended these people to go abroad for exchange, but the “predecessor.”

Although he had the predecessor’s memories, these memories were not particularly clear, and it had been three years. Even the memories of this body’s original owner could not be guaranteed to be perfect.

So when he just learned that these people would come to see him, Qin Ji was quite headache.

After all, he was not the predecessor. He was really worried about making mistakes in front of these people he had recommended.

So Qin Ji did not follow Xia Yuxiao’s suggestion to greet them together but chose to wait at home. This at least avoided the embarrassment of being exposed on the spot and gave him enough time to prepare.

First, he recalled the original Qin Ji’s appearance.

The original Qin Ji should have been an ambitious guy, so he had to show some ambition and also show some care for his followers.

That is, the feeling of “if I have a piece of meat, you will have a sip of soup.”

This feeling was not easy to find. In his original world, he was not an actor, and acting was not his profession. But at this time, he had no choice but to act.

So, he could only bite the bullet and receive these people.

However, unexpectedly, these young officers didn’t have any formalities at all.

Originally, in Qin Ji’s imagination, these people were at least talents he had recommended, and it was said that they had high abilities and were good at formalities.

But in reality, when he met them, these officers didn’t have any formalities at all. They directly gave him, the Grand Marshal, a warm hug, which scared Ling Yan beside him, almost drawing his sword.

“Old Tang, look at you, show some respect,” Wei Xing frowned.

“Haha, it’s fine,” Qin Ji laughed heartily, then pointed to the banquet he had already set up, “Come, you haven’t eaten yet, right? My cook is trying new dishes, made too much, let’s eat together.”

Wei Xing looked at the table full of dishes in the room.

“Made too much?”

This is called too much? This is clearly a specially prepared banquet, right? Doesn’t he know how many people are in the Duke of Anguo’s mansion?

The only ones who need the cook to serve such meals are Qin Ji and Qin Siyue, at most adding Ling Yan. This full table of dishes is not the usual style of the Duke of Anguo. If he is entertaining them, just say so, why be so polite?

“Yes, made too much, everyone don’t be polite, sit down and help me clean up these dishes—oh, by the way, you have to evaluate how they taste, otherwise my cook’s efforts will be in vain.”

Of course, these dishes were not made for him by the cook, but were specially arranged by him.

But according to the previous information of the Duke of Anguo, these young officers were almost all capable guys he personally promoted and respected him very much. If he directly said that the banquet was specially prepared to entertain them, they might be too nervous to speak.

So he simply used the excuse that the cook made too much, letting them sit down to “handle” it. At least they wouldn’t be so restrained.

“Ah, Grand Marshal, no need to rush to eat,” Wei Xing said hurriedly, “This time we returned from the Western Empire, we brought some things that might be useful. Among them, I have a small item to show you.”

“Oh?” Qin Ji was full of curiosity. At this time, he noticed that Wei Xing had been carrying a delicate box since he entered the door. When the servants took the luggage, this box was the only one that Wei Xing had been holding and never let go, “Since you won’t even eat, it must be something important, let me take a look.”

Wei Xing nodded, then placed the box on a large table and opened the lock. Inside, there was a strange machine.

The machine was very rough in workmanship, engraved with various incomprehensible characters and symbols, made of metal, with some parts seemingly connected to levers.

Qin Ji looked at this thing, completely puzzled.

Although the productivity of this era was much higher than that of the ancient productivity of his world, Qin Ji didn’t think anyone could come up with something like a steam engine or an internal combustion engine, let alone this machine didn’t look like one.

“Your Excellency, please look, this is a machine I specially brought back from the Western Empire. Although the Western Empire’s combat quality is inferior to our army, and their tactical and strategic decisions are often rigid, their equipment is astonishing.”

“This item was originally used on the holy armor of the church knights. But in recent years, the Western Empire has been weakening the influence of the church, so this kind of armor has gradually been used by the army.”

“And this thing is a very important component of the armor.”

Hearing this, Qin Ji became interested.

Finally, he was in contact with black technology outside of Daxia.

Daxia follows the path of cultivation, focusing on oneself. That is to say, after reaching a certain level of cultivation, one can have a body armor.

For example, if he circulates spiritual energy within his body, it is difficult to break his defense.

However, Qin Ji also knew that this method was not the norm.

Not everyone in Daxia is a cultivator. Although ordinary people can learn the basic use of spiritual energy through systematic learning, and the army has a design to greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the organized army (equivalent to adding a group buff), it still does not leave the traditional scope of close combat, throwing, and archery.

Indeed, there are also those like Ling Yan and various celestial masters and warlocks who can use long-range spells, but learning spells is much more complicated than conventional techniques, requiring strong memory and logical abilities. This is why most mages appear to be refined, because learning spells itself requires a fast brain.

People like him, who were born into noble families, naturally had access to the best resources to learn some spells. But even for someone like Qin Ji, he only knew a part of the spells. For ordinary soldiers, learning spells was simply a fantasy.

In the Great Xia, many insightful individuals are currently attempting to enable ordinary soldiers to use powerful spells, but this idea is still under exploration. Now, with what Satellite has brought, it might play a significant role.

“Did you bring their sacred armor?”

He asked eagerly.

However, in response to his inquiry, Satellite regretfully shook his head: “Sorry, Grand Marshal, I also hoped to pay some price to obtain a complete set of sacred armor. But the people from the Visi Empire said they were powerless. Because the use of sacred armor is still monitored by the church.”

“I see…”

This statement conveyed two meanings:

First, although the Visi Empire is now striving to break away from the church, they have not yet reached the level where they can truly confront the church.

Second, their sacred armor’s technical core is probably not entirely in this machine in front of them, but in the sacred armor itself.

Tsk, damn church, the obstacle to the world’s productivity progress!

Qin Ji thought bitterly.

“However, although we couldn’t bring the actual sacred armor, I managed to get a model of it.”

After Satellite said this, Qin Ji’s eyes lit up.

“Quick, let me see!”