The king once sued Ding Wei for rebellion in front of Liu E., but Ding Wei immediately ran into the palace to explain to Liu E. However, after he explained to the screen for a long time, there was no movement behind the screen. At this time, a little eunuch came out and said to Ding Wei: "Who are you talking to? The Empress Dowager has returned to the palace to rest long ago?"

The little eunuch's words knocked Ding Wei down into the bottomless abyss, because Liu E's intention to do so was very obvious, and she didn't even give him the opportunity to explain, which was obviously determined to kill him.

"That night, Ding Wei left the palace in a daze, and the news that he was neglected by the eldest lady in the palace was also spread. As a result, the king had just finished the morning court today, and other ministers also stood up to count Ding Wei's crimes, including the enemy who sold state assets, and the following drunkenness and even the crime of teasing women came out. It was a foe on all sides and there was no possibility of turning the tables." Zhao Zhen finally spoke again.

"The wall is falling and everyone pushes it, but don't Ding Wei have many gangs? For example, I heard that Linte is very close to him?" Li Zhang sighed first, and then asked again, Linte is their teacher, and he almost cheated Li Zhang at the beginning.

"Hehe, Ding Wei has many gangs, but most of them are tempting and tyrannical followers. When they saw that Ding Wei's situation was over, these people immediately turned against each other. As for Lin Yishan..., although he was very close to Ding Wei, he has been sick recently and has been recuperating in the mansion. I heard that the people are now prohibited from leaving the mansion, and I guess they will inevitably be implicated in the future." Zhao Zhen also had a look of hesitation on his face when he mentioned Lin Zhen. After all, Lin Te was good to him before, so even if he knew that the other party was Ding Wei's fellow disciple, he was still a little soft-hearted.

"Hmph, he is lucky, but Linte is not just as easy as getting close to Ding Wei. He is actually Ding Wei's number one confidant, and he is also very good at ease. He didn't go to court today. If he was at the court meeting, I'm sure he would be the first to take the lead in pouring dirty water on Ding Wei's head!" Li Zhang saw that Zhao Zhen still had a good impression of Linte, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment. No matter how he taught Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen's character as a soft-hearted and bad person has never been able to change.

"Actually, Lin Yishan is not that bad..." Zhao Zhen seemed to want to defend Lin Te a few words at this time, but when he saw Li Zhang's annoyed eyes, his voice became lower and lower. Finally, he smiled guiltily and stopped talking.

"You, you, you can't be so slutty as an emperor. If I am corrupt and abused the law in the future, will you pretend that I didn't see it?" Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen's appearance and said helplessly, even taking it out as an example.

"I believe cousin, you will definitely not do these things!" Zhao Zhen immediately showed a trusting expression when he heard this.

"What if that happens?" Li Zhang said unyieldingly. He wanted to see where Zhao Zhen's bottom line was?

"What if..." Zhao Zhen finally showed a hesitant expression at this time. After a while, he finally slapped his thigh and said, "If my cousin did something wrong before, I can call you into the palace, and then let us brothers have a good chat. I believe I can definitely convince my cousin to get rid of these bad habits!"

Hearing Zhao Zhen's answer, Li Zhang couldn't help but slam his forehead in despair. Zhao Zhen never considered these issues from the perspective of an emperor from the beginning to the end, but his answer also touched Li Zhang a little. After all, even if it is a relative, few people are as tolerant as Zhao Zhen.

The country is easy to change, but nature is difficult to change. It is not a matter of one's personality overnight. Li Zhang no longer cares about Zhao Zhen's personality at this moment, but asked about something about the court today, and did not return home until it was late.

The next morning, Li Zhang left Tokyo City in a carriage again. As for Ding Wei's affairs, he no longer had to care about it, because he knew that Ding Wei would be demoted to Hainan, and his gang members would also scatter the tree and scatter.

Compared with the ups and downs in Tokyo, the imperial village seemed very calm. When Li Zhang returned here, the first thing he saw was Liu Shu who was guarding the gate. When he saw Li Zhang's carriage, he immediately rushed forward and asked with a nervous look on his face: "How is it, did the Empress Dowager agree?"

Liu Shu was more concerned about Musket than Li Zhang because he also saw the future development prospects of Musket. For Liu Shu, he was not from an orthodox imperial examination, and he had almost reached the end of his career as a judge. However, he was only middle-aged and was still very young in the officialdom, so he was very unwilling to give up. Musket was his hope of breaking his origin and taking further in the officialdom, so he was more concerned about Musket than anyone else.

"Don't worry, Judge Liu, this is your new appointment, but you have been demoted!" Li Zhang smiled and took out an official order from his arms, and handed it to Liu Shudao.

Liu Shu also hurriedly opened the imperial edict at this time. When he saw the content of the imperial edict, he couldn't help but show a look of joy. The imperial edict removed him from his official position as a judge of the Iron Case and changed it to a police officer. Although his official position was one level lower than before, his rank was upgraded. Speaking of the officials in the Song Dynasty, the separation of positions only represents the level of the official rank, and the position was real power. Liu Shu was upgraded to a level, but his official position was demoted. On the surface, it was actually a promotion openly and secretly.

However, Liu Shu didn't care about changes in his official position at all, because the imperial edict gave him full responsibility for the construction of muskets. As long as he could do this, his future would definitely be bright in the future. Moreover, through muskets, his name had already reached Liu E's ears. In addition, he had clinged to Li Zhang, a close minister of the emperor, and it was not difficult to break the limitations of his origin.

At that moment, Li Zhang took Liu Shu back to the imperial village, and then found Hu Yan Shouxin. After asking the people around him to retreat, he took out Hu Yan Shouxin's imperial edict. After reading the imperial edict, Hu Yan Shouxin immediately clasped his fists and said, "The Queen Mother asked me to listen to Brother Li, you have full command, but the imperial edict did not say anything, so please give me instructions!"

"This matter is a long story. Brother Hu Yan, come with me. I will let you talk about it when you see something!" Li Zhang thought about it and then spoke. It was a bit troublesome to explain the matter of musket. Hu Yan Shouxin didn't know that they were building muskets in advance, so he would let him talk about other things when he saw the power of muskets.

Hu Yan Shouxin was also very curious at this time. He followed Li Zhang to the yard where he lived, and then Li Zhang took out another musket from his room. Not only did he build one musket. In fact, during this period, Judge Liu and the blacksmith built a lot of experimental muskets, some of which were destroyed during the experiment, while the rest were collected by Li Zhang.

At that moment, Li Zhang, after filling the bullets, shot a shot at the big tree in the yard, and with a "bang", the bark on the tree was knocked off again. Speaking of which, this tree was really unlucky. Li Zhang used it as a target and was shot a lot. It is estimated that there will be fewer leaves next year.

"This... what weapon is this?" Hu Yan Shouxin was also startled by the power of the musket, especially when he saw the traces on the tree trunk, he looked shocked. Even though he was wearing iron armor, he had no confidence to block such a small lead ball.

"This is called a musket, which is actually a kind of firearm. However, it is different from ordinary firearms. Not only is the structure more complex, but the gunpowder used is also different..." Li Zhang first introduced the musket at the moment, and then mentioned that Liu E wanted to build a pure musket army, which is temporarily limited to the first battalion, which is the five hundred men under Hu Yan Shouxin.

Hu Yan Shouxin became more and more frightened as he heard that the court was about to form an army with all these muskets, and was temporarily managed by himself, he couldn't help but show an ecstatic expression and said, "It's great. If you can have such a weapon, why worry about the unfairness of the border?"

"Brother Shuixin, don't be too happy too early. Nominally, I am the commander of this musket battalion, and you can only be wronged and be a deputy commander. Of course, you must be responsible for the actual training!" Li Zhang suddenly showed a helpless smile at this time, and then took out an imperial edict and said, "This was given to him by Liu E. In addition to letting him be responsible for supervising the construction of muskets, he also asked him to temporarily serve as the battalion commander. It is estimated that the army like the musket battalion is in the hands of others. She was worried that Li Zhang would take over the position of Hu Yan Shuixin, and Hu Yan Shuixin could only be his deputy.

"Haha~, this is just right. I was worried that I didn't understand muskets and didn't know how to train the army. With Brother Li, it's wrong. It was Commander Li's guidance, so I no longer have to worry!" Hu Yan Shouxin laughed at this time.

With Hu Yan Shuxin's cleverness, he naturally saw that the court was worried about the musket camp, so Li Zhang was asked to serve as the nominal commander, but he didn't care. After all, as Li Zhang's identity, he seemed to have to enter the court sooner or later. Being his subordinates would only benefit from it. For example, if it weren't for Li Zhang, it would not be his turn to do anything.

Seeing that Hu Yan Shouxin had no objection, Li Zhang was relieved. At that moment, he asked Zhou Lizheng's family to help prepare a banquet, and then asked Liu Shu and Hu Yan Shouxin to eat and chat. Liu Shu was responsible for the construction of muskets, Hu Yan Shouxin was responsible for the training of muskets, while Li Zhang was responsible for the training of muskets in two aspects, and at the same time he needed to reconcile them. For example, Hu Yan Shouxin wanted to get musket training immediately, but Liu Shu didn't even choose craftsmen well. According to his estimate, it would take at least half a year for the mass production of muskets.

Although the general direction was decided, the details determined the success or failure of the matter. Therefore, Li Zhang used this wine to make an arrangement for the responsibilities of the two and what they had to do during the next period. At this time, Liu Shu and Hu Yan Shouxin discovered that Li Zhang had arranged their positions clearly without any confusion, which made the two admire Li Zhang very much.
Chapter completed!