"Uncle, you are indeed with Xu Huai - Mr. Zhou, Mr. Hu has invited you to come over to discuss things..."
When it was getting dark, Zhu Zhi walked to the small courtyard by the lake and invited Xu Huai and Zhao Yi to go to the yamen hall of the Marshal's Mansion to discuss matters.
"Have all the items been discussed?" Zhao Yi slowly put down the tea cup and asked.
"I have already prepared a memorial table. I'm just waiting for you and Xu Huai to read it before you and your Highness can review it together!" Zhu Zhi said.
Brothers Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong followed Zhu Hang and Wang Fan north to Lanzhou, and their habits as children of aristocratic families did not fade away.
However, this saying that suffering makes people grow is still applicable to most people.
Tianxiong's army was defeated in Datong City, and Zhu Zhi was trapped in it. He followed Xu Huai and more than ten thousand remaining soldiers and fled back to Shuozhou through hardships. During the second northern expedition to Yan, Zhu Zhi experienced all kinds of dangers and caprices, and his dandy habits disappeared.
Go a lot.
When the Chihu people invaded the south for the first time, Zhu Zhi followed Hu Kai and Xu Huai to serve in Caizhou. Seeing that his family and country experienced such drastic turmoil and changes, his mind and temperament became more and more calm over the past year.
At this time, he followed Hu Kai to serve in the Sima Yuan of the Marshal's Mansion, and gradually became able to stand alone.
Although Zhu Tong's change was not as great as that of Zhu Zhi, he benefited from being at the side of King Jing when he was in Gong County, and at this time he was also at the Marshal's Mansion as an attendant.
Brothers Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong could barely be regarded as members of the clan, and they did not have the restrictions imposed on clan members in the past. King Jing had just laid down his foundation in Xiangyang and was employing people. However, it was also a rare opportunity for them personally.
Xu Huai and Zhao Yi went to the government office. Zhou He, Hu Kai, Gao Chunnian and others had gathered here again to wait. They didn't say much. They just said that everything was at the command of Zhou He and Hu Kai, and everyone headed to the inner house again.
See King Jing.
"My father was bullied by the barbarians, and his life and death were uncertain. As a son of man, my heart was cut by a knife, and I was filled with sorrow and grief. However, the country was in danger, and millions of people were trapped in the hands of the enemy. As the ministers said, we should make plans to fight against the enemy.
"Restore the rivers and mountains," King Jing Zhao Tuan said after reading the memorial written by Zhou He, "all matters concerning the succession will be done according to the opinions of the ministers, but all extravagant things will be omitted and no extravagance will be allowed. In addition, I
It is spacious enough to live here. There is no need to vacate the left and right offices and build palaces. What is the situation now? Even if one more copper is spent on these insignificant things, one less arrow cluster will be cast to kill the enemy.
, I can’t feel at ease, can you understand?”
Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others looked at each other in confusion.
They have cut out a lot of red tape, but the enthronement of the throne is a grand ceremony for the country. In addition to an imperial edict announcing to the world, there must be an enthronement ceremony held in Xiangyang City?
In addition, even if we don't immediately build a large palace in Xiangyang City, it would be too shabby to just use the original economic strategy to appease the bureaucracy and the back house covering an area of only ten acres as the palace without merging the left and right yamen.
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"Why don't you say anything? I promise you, you will always do what I want, right?" King Jing said.
"Going to the altar to offer sacrifices to heaven and receive the seal to ascend the throne is a great gift and indispensable; for all other matters, I will follow His Highness's instructions!" Zhou He and others all thought that the most important thing at the moment was to ascend the throne and inherit the throne, and other things could be accommodated.
After further discussion, they agreed immediately to omit many red tapes, but insisted on the need to perform the ceremony of ascending the altar to worship heaven and ascending the throne.
Etiquette, to put it bluntly, is the rules. The authority of the king, the king, and the ministers are all born from this.
Once all etiquette is abolished and everything is done with fists, won't the whole world be in chaos?
"My father was forced to go north by the barbarians. Things happened in a hurry. I ascended the throne in a hurry and had no time to consult the supervisors. It would be difficult to think carefully about everything." King Jing Zhao Tuan pondered for a while and then said, "
Whether Zhongshu's sect, the Privy Council, and the Imperial Envoy Division are in charge of military affairs can better lead the army and people of Vietnam to fight against the barbarians. It is not yet known for sure at this time, but there is no way to know without giving it a try. From what I see, there are many things
We will first implement it as proposed by the ministers for two years to see the results, and then we will extensively consult with all the road supervisors after two years to make adjustments. What do the ministers think?"
King Jing Zhao Tuan did not want to completely follow the wishes of Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others to establish the center of the court, but at this time, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others were following Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others inside and outside the Marshal's Mansion.
And had to rely on them to rebuild the center of the court.
Weighing the pros and cons, he decided to implement the systems discussed by Zhou He and others on a trial basis for two years, so that he could have two years to sort out the central court and the road supervisors, and then make adjustments according to his own wishes.
It's not too late.
King Jing Zhao Tuan had the aura of a wise king and sufficient prestige. Zhou He and others did not dare to rely on their old age, saying that everything was decided by King Jing.
Although King Jing repeatedly emphasized the need to avoid red tape and prohibit extravagance, in addition to building an altar in the east of the city in preparation for the ceremony of worshiping heaven and enthroning the throne, at the insistence of Zhou He and others, the Yasi near the back house of the Marshal's Mansion was vacated.
, it is temporarily used as a residence for the palace guards and attendants.
At the same time, a high wall was built to separate the back house and the front office to show the difference between the palace and the palace.
Everything needs to be kept simple, the emperor's seal needs to be re-engraved, the dragon robe and ribbon need to be embroidered immediately, and many other things are ready, and the official enthronement ceremony to worship heaven is already in May.
King Jing officially ascended the throne and enshrined Emperor Tianxuan, who was escorting the barbarians to the north, as the supreme emperor. He established King Zhao Guan of Lu as the emperor's younger brother and the title of King of Huai. He changed the Yuan Dynasty and established succession, which meant reviving the foundation of Dayue and inheriting the Zhao family's imperial line.
In addition to establishing a central court with Zhongshu Menxia Sheng (six ministries), the Imperial Envoys Department, the Privy Council, the Yushitai, and the Four Supervisors of the Nine Temples as the core, the new dynasty also issued an edict to clarify the roles of various roads in charge of military affairs.
The Economic Affairs and Appeasement Department was under the leadership of the Privy Council; the Changping Department (Cangsi) was promoted to be merged into the Transportation Department, which took charge of local financial and taxation affairs, and was under the leadership of the Zhongshu Menxia Provincial Department; the Penal and Prison Department (Xiansi) was promoted to the imperial court
Commander Shitai.
After the Changping Department of Zhulu Tiju was merged into the Transfer Envoy Department, all the Changping Envoys of all roads were transferred to Xiangyang for selection.
This is equivalent to having more than ten senior officials at once, which can fill the current tight vacancies in the central court.
Emperor Jian Ji Zhao Tuan also issued an edict to formally redress the injustice caused by the Jingsheng Army's mutiny. He also defied public opinion and posthumously awarded Wang Xiao the title of Jingzhou Jiedu Envoy, stabilized the prefecture, and conferred the title of Xu Huai on the Marquis of Jingsheng.
And was promoted from the rank of fourth-rank military minister to the rank of Yulu general...
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After the succession was completed, Xu Huai said goodbye to Emperor Jianji and Princes Zhao Yi, Zhu Hang, Wang Fan and others of Wuwei County and returned to Chushan.
The weather was getting hot at this time, so Xu Huai did not return directly to Huaiyuan or Zhouqiao, but stopped when passing through the old town of Huaidu.
He waited for Shi Zhen, Yu Chengzhen, Su Laochang, Xu Wuliang and others to arrive to meet him, and then went directly to the Shibaliwu Iron Station.
Hundreds of refugees were heading south through Chu Mountain every day, but the money and food supply in Chu Mountain was so urgent that every copper coin wanted to be broken into two flowers. He was eager to see with his own eyes how effective the coal smelting was.
The Shibaliwu Iron Station was originally owned by the Tang family. Tongbai Mountain was invaded by bandits. Shibaliwu was captured by bandits led by Chen Zixiao and others. The Tang family suffered heavy casualties. The whole family of the clan leader, Tang Wenzhong, was wiped out.
Tang Tiande was instructed by Xu Huai to organize a large-scale funeral for Tang Wenzhong. In order to plan the funeral, build a tomb and a family temple, Tang Tiande sold the fields, houses, iron yards, and shops accumulated by Tang Wenzhong from one house for several generations to raise money.
In this process, tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land were transferred to the name of the rural soldiers who had made great achievements in suppressing bandits, and the Tiechangpu courtyard was transferred to Zhufengtang, which was reasonable and legal in the world.
Families with big surnames and powerful men in the world usually use this method to wipe out their families.
The Tang family has been operating the Shibaliwu Iron Works for several decades. Although the scale was not large before, tens of thousands of kilograms of iron were produced to supply Huaiyuan every year. However, over time, the felling of mountain trees and the burning of charcoal for iron-making will also
The trees on the left and right were cleared.
However, in addition to transporting a large amount of charcoal from outside every year for iron-making, the Shibaliwu Iron Works also has a charcoal kiln to use the felled wood from the mountains upstream of the Shibali Stream to burn the charcoal.
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There is also coal mining near Shibaliwu.
There are many inconveniences in using coal to make iron, and the quality of the iron is poor, but the best thing in the world is to monopolize the business.
It is difficult to transport external iron materials into Tongbai Mountain for sale due to transportation difficulties and rejection by Tang syndrome.
Therefore, even if the agricultural tools and other ironware produced by smelting iron from coal in Shibaliwu were inferior and expensive, there was no need to worry about not being able to sell them in Tongbai Mountain.
The Shibaliwu Ironyard wants to experiment with the method of smelting raw coal, and the conditions here are complete.
"After the secret message from Commander Jie came back, Zhuang Shouxin personally rushed to Huaidu to keep an eye on the matter. A few days ago, news was sent to Zhouqiao that the raw coal was smoldering with charcoal, and the scattered coal would melt and condense together.
"After Shi Zhen met with Xu Huai, he took out a piece of silver-gray coal wrapped in cotton cloth and handed it to Xu Huai, saying, "This is made by refining the charcoal method after several adjustments. The pungent smoke is greatly reduced.
, it is almost imperceptible, resistant to burning, and the shape remains intact after burning, but the quality of the iron needs to be compared by making several furnaces of iron to make knives..."
The methods of testing the quality of iron in this world are extremely limited. The simplest and most direct method is to cast swords for comparison.
If you want to make a detailed comparison as much as possible, you must use the method of a hundred-forged sword to conduct experiments. It cannot be concluded in a day or two. Shi Zhen, Yu Chengzhen, Su Laochang, and Xu Wuliang did not know at this time whether iron was made from cooked coal.
