Chapter 135 This move is tantamount to betraying the country!
Chapter 135 This move is tantamount to treason!
Chen Sisi struck while the iron was hot: "That's it. Think about it, the empress also sent someone to pass on Wu Li, but have you seen anything happened to her in the past two days? Nothing happened to her, but only you did. Have you ever thought about it...
…”Why?
Before the last three words were uttered, Wu Fang'er interrupted with an angry look on her face: "Why!"
Why has it been reported that she is the only one who has something to do, acting like a monkey, and looking miserable?
Wu Fang'er was very unbalanced in her heart, and she found an outlet for the indescribable hostility and jealousy hidden in her heart, and turned it into the open.
Chen Sisi was silent. Before he could continue to provoke, Wu Fang'er took the bait directly. It was really...
There is no challenge and no sense of achievement!
…
Yu Chigong took the time these two days to ask Zhengzi about the situation at Lihua.
You don't need to think about it to know that after the little thief gets his only reward, some people will be lonely and look for trouble.
Yuchi Gong only cares about whether Lihua can cope with it.
From childhood, Zhuozi learned that Lihua was a very thief. Someone went to tell her that she could not even be found, so she was too lazy to take care of the trouble. She almost didn't pay any price and had no consequences.
After all, when the concubines sent people to Qunfang Palace, they were worried about the Queen Mother and were not stupid enough to report themselves. The servants all said that their mother-in-law invited them, and the nobles invited them.
Therefore, even if Lihua comes back and finds out that someone has been rumored about her, she doesn't know who it is, so she will naturally not have to bear any consequences. Wu Fang'er is just stupid enough to be a living target in the Qunfang Palace.
Yuchi Gong immediately laughed. Little thief, little thief, he was even more thief than he thought. He actually shrank up like a little turtle. He knew very well that if you can't offend, you can hide.
He thought in a wicked way, really looking forward to what the little thief would be like when he met those concubines on the spot, whether they would be as violent as they were in front of him.
She had no idea that Lihua and Concubine Zhao had already met, and her few words almost made Concubine Zhao regard her as one of her own.
Yuchi Gong asked about Pear Blossom's condition. Knowing that she was a good person, he could no longer spare time.
He was so busy that he didn't even have time to deal with the arrangements he had promised the Queen Mother to make. He only asked Zhang Defa to prepare them first.
Late night in Cangchen Palace.
A minister with unkempt beard and slovenly clothes knelt on the ground and reported something to the emperor. The emperor on the throne looked solemn.
If any courtiers saw that this minister was not thrown out despite his slovenly appearance, they would be extremely shocked.
Zhang Defa personally stood guard outside the palace, with a smile as usual on his face, but in fact he was on full alert, not allowing anyone to approach, and was surrounded by iron barrels.
"... shoddy. Those weapons look the same on the outside, but they are much easier to break when used. These weapons have slowly flowed into the camps of various ministries. If I hadn't followed the method proposed by Long Live Lord a few days ago, I would have discovered
It is difficult to detect differences in weapon breakage rates etc..."
Yuchi Gong's face became increasingly ugly. He stood up and walked down, picked up a knife with the edge removed, and asked someone to fetch his sword and hand it to Wu Dingbang.
Wu Dingbang knelt down in fear and did not dare to answer: "Long live my Lord, my lord..."
Yuchi Gong's face was stern and he said: "Get up!"
Wu Dingbang had no choice but to take it, half-kneeling, holding the sword across his hands and raising it above his head.
"Hold it firmly!" Yu Chigong reminded, holding the handle of the knife tightly, and swung the knife down.
There was only a "clang" sound, and there was only a faint scratch on the scabbard of the sword, which was not damaged at all, but the sword actually broke into two halves, and the other half flew out and was inserted into the pillar of the hall.
Wu Dingbang's tiger's mouth was numb with vibration, and he could hardly hold it. He was horrified. He didn't expect that the emperor had such strength to break the knife with just one cut, even though his fingers were not touched by the spring water.
Yuchi Gong's face turned cold. He cut off the knife in his hand and threw it on the ground. The sound was like ice: "The country's moth is very good. If an enemy invades, using such a weapon is tantamount to letting the soldiers die. How can we not
defeat?"
He strode up to the throne and flipped through the chart drawn by Wu Dingbang. In the past years, the loss rate of weapons fluctuated, but in recent years, the loss rate has increased year by year.
However, the cost of each weapon has not changed, and the expenditure on iron materials, craftsman casting, etc. has only increased slightly, which is not a big change and is difficult to detect.
By forging a good weapon, you can make three to five defective weapons. These people mixed good and bad weapons together and made them beautifully. It is self-evident where the rest of the money went.
But this is not the worst impact. The most frightening thing is that these weapons have flowed into the military camp, and according to the accounts, they have taken up an unknown number. Four years have passed, and as those people's appetite and courage have grown, they have wanted to do a lot.
If in a few more years, the entire military camp uses these weapons, and there is an enemy invasion...
The more Yuchi Gong watched, the angrier he became: "This move is tantamount to betraying the country!"
Fortunately, it was discovered early and everything could be undone in time.
He issued decrees one after another, ordering Wu Dingbang to conduct a thorough investigation in secret and not to leak the news and drive away the people.
Then he ordered people to go deep into several camps to understand the situation of the infiltrated weapons.
Externally, the fire in the Arsenal Department was used as an excuse to order the Ordnance Bureau to manufacture a batch of new weapons. After they were completed, they were first sent to the camp on the outskirts of Beijing and the border fortress for replacement. The aliens and feudal kings must not be aware of the clues before this.
Then someone was sent to watch the people from the Ministry of War, especially the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, to prevent people from escaping. At the same time, the families of the senior officials of the Ministry of War, as well as the family of the Minister of War, were not allowed to leave the capital, and they would report any changes at any time.
After leaving the main hall, Wu Dingbang looked at the stars in the late night and felt that a storm was coming.
Zhang Defa came over and asked someone to give him his cloak.
Wu Dingbang cupped his hands and thanked him silently, then put on a black cloak and a hat, and walked out of the palace, followed by two black figures quietly behind him, walking silently.
Wu Dingbang knew that those were shadow guards, specially used to protect the emperor. The matter was of great importance. He did not dare to pass through the hands of others, and he was secretly sent to the palace when he came.
When they reached a palace gate, the shadow guard heard someone hurrying, and he lifted Wu Dingbang's shoulders from left to right and stepped into the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, someone walked through the palace gate and headed towards Cangchen Palace.
In the darkness, Wu Dingbang breathed a sigh of relief and recognized that it was someone from the Department of Internal Security. Perhaps the person who was interrogating the Department of Arsenal had made some progress.
Not long after, a carriage was quietly sent out from the gate of the palace. From this moment on, the guards of the Arsenal were even tighter, appearing loose on the outside and tight on the inside.
As Wu Dingbang expected, the Internal Security Department pried open the mouths of two confidants of the left minister of the Ministry of War, and found something from the clues given by the two men.
One of the inconspicuous drawings of making crossbows caught the emperor's attention.
It was definitely the first time he had seen this picture, but it felt inexplicably familiar to him.
Yuchi Gong's intuition was wrong: "Has the Ordnance Bureau ever made such a crossbow?"
The people from the Internal Security Department replied: "No, I haven't replied to Long Live Lord, but this is just one of them..." and then reported the information they found out.
The dog author knelt down and hugged the little master's slender thighs: Little master, the dog has something to do tomorrow and he really can't stay up all night. I'll just post a chapter. I beg you to be merciful and don't slap the dog in the face!
(Ahem, the male and female protagonists will probably meet again in the next two chapters. What kind of sparks will be created?
I don’t know either, I haven’t coded it yet, ouch!!!)