Originally, the Bingzhu Bureau requested the imperial court to move outside the city for the sake of "convenience to the people", which did not arouse the suspicion of the government and the public. However, before that, Li Huan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, submitted a petition to beg for the bones, which inevitably made people wonder.
Already.
You must know that Li Huan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, was only over 60 years old. Cao Zhi, the former Minister of the Ministry of Industry, did not resign until he was 70 years old. However, He Mei, the current Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, is still in his position after he is over 70 years old. This is enough to prove that
Li Huan, Minister of the Ministry of War, "begged for bones" at this time, which was not an easy matter.
Of course, the Li family's explanation for this is that the master (Li Huan) is in poor health, but all the officials in the court are human beings. How can they believe this excuse to fool children? After all, they also watched a few days ago.
The old man Li Huan was riding his horse to the headquarters of the Ministry of War.
Therefore, the ministers in the DPRK connected the two events of "Li Huan resigned from office" and "The report to the Bingzhu Bureau" - after all, the chief minister of the Bingzhu Bureau, Li Jin, was Li Huan's eldest son. There must be a difference between the two.
What's the connection?
In fact, some smart people with unique insights have connected these two incidents with the major event that happened at the banquet in Prince Qing's Mansion two days ago.
It is undeniable that Li Huan, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, guessed correctly that Zhao Hongrun secretly ordered the Qingya people to do the impeachment of the Censor Yanguan.
The method is very simple. Just ask a few simple-looking Qingya people to go to the streets near the Bingzhu Bureau to instigate. Naturally, some young and energetic people will follow the leading Qingya people to the Yushitai to complain.
Bing Zhu Bureau's actions to disturb the people.
As the Yushitai is an official yamen, it is not afraid of offending the Ministry of War or the Bingzhu Bureau. As long as people complain, they will naturally impeach the Bingzhu Bureau. The whole matter will be settled naturally without any trouble.
However, Li Huan, Minister of War, suddenly resigned, which somewhat disrupted Zhao Hongrun's plan.
After all, he was the father of Li Wan, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Li Jin, the Chief of the Military Casting Bureau, and he was in good health. His sudden resignation inevitably gave this matter some political overtones.
"This old fox who is greedy for life and afraid of death..."
After learning about this incident, Zhao Hongrun was filled with hatred.
Of course he understood why Li Huan, Minister of the Ministry of War, resigned, because the other party saw through his intention - an attempt to separate the Bing Zhu Bureau from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.
Li Huan knew that he could not compete with Zhao Hongrun, so in order to avoid being resented by Qing Wang Hongxin in the future, he simply resigned early and stayed away from the incident.
In this way, even if the Ministry of War finally lost the Bing Zhu Bureau, it had nothing to do with him, Li Huan, and Qing Wang Hongxin would have hated him too much.
Even Qing Wang Hongxin had to thank him, because his voluntary resignation could be regarded as an early warning to Qing Wang Hongxin.
But even though he saw through the reason why Li Huan took the initiative to resign, Zhao Hongrun had nothing to do with him, because since Li Huan took the initiative to resign, it means that this old fox expected that he would no longer be able to gain a foothold in the Ministry of War in the future. This means that his son Bing Zhu
Li Jin, the chief minister of the Bureau, is ready to stand by his Zhao Hongrun side - now that Li Jin has taken the initiative to seek refuge, how can Zhao Hongrun blame his father?
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun could only vent his anger by cursing "old fox" secretly.
"Your Highness, Old Man Li's resignation is tantamount to alerting the enemy. I believe King Qing also guessed that Your Highness is going to deal with him." Zongwei Zhou Pu said from the side.
"It doesn't matter." Zhao Hongrun waved his hand and said calmly: "This matter was led by Yushitai, what does it have to do with me? Even if Zhao Wu guessed that it was me, there is no evidence, but there is nothing that can be done to me... You call someone
Contact the Green Crows and tell them to retreat. I believe Zhao Wu will definitely send people to track down the leaders. If our people are captured by him, we will be passive."
"Yes." Zhou Pu Zongwei clasped his fists and then said with a smile: "In order to prevent King Qing's people from angering the people there, I will also notify the Ministry of Punishment and ask them to send people to monitor."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded with satisfaction.
The Ministry of Punishment was the government office headed by Yong Wang Hongyu. If the people of Qing Wang dared to arrest the people of West City wantonly, I believe Yong Wang Hongyu would definitely seize the matter and attack them severely.
After the instructions were given, Zhao Hongrun continued to read in the study.
There was no way, because of what happened two days ago, in addition to Yong Wang Hongyu who shouldered the important task of supervising the country, Xiang Wang Hongjing, Qing Wang Hongxin and Zhao Hongrun were all ordered by the Emperor of Wei to stay in their respective houses and were not allowed to go out.
In the past, Zhao Hongrun might not have obeyed this kind of confinement, but now he was at odds with Xiang Wang Hongjing and Qing Wang Hongxin. If he showed his face publicly, it would be tantamount to giving them a basis to attack him.
At the same time, King Hongxin of Qing also learned about the two events "Li Huan, Minister of the Ministry of War, resigned from office" and "The report to the Military Casting Bureau" at his residence.
At the beginning, Qing Wang Hongxin was deeply happy about the resignation of the Minister of War, Li Huan. After all, after he joined the Ministry of War, although Li Huan, the Minister of War, respected him very much, in the end, the two sides were not
The people along the way - King Qing kept trying to push his confidants to the Ministry of War, while Li Huan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, kept blocking him.
Under this situation, Qing Wang Hongxin had been longing for this old guy Li Huan to get out quickly. After all, Li Huan resigned from the post of Minister of War, so that he could push his people to the post of Minister of War and truly control the power of the Ministry of War.
Therefore, Qing Wang Hongxin was very happy about Li Huan's resignation at first. He felt that the old man Li Huan had finally come to his senses.
But then, without notifying the Ministry of War, the Military Casting Bureau went up to the imperial court and requested that the workshops in the department be moved outside the city. This made Qing Wang Hongxin feel that something was wrong.
If Li Huan did not resign, Qing Wang Hongxin was at most dissatisfied with Bingzhu Bureau's arbitrary opinions. But Li Huan suddenly resigned, and his son Li Jin reported to the court at this time, which inevitably made Qing Wang
Hongxin felt a bit of a crisis.
"Lao Ba must be behind this!"
King Qing Hongxin is not stupid. He just broke up with his eighth boss Zhao Hongrun two days ago. In the blink of an eye, two days later, the Minister of the Ministry of War resigned, and the Military Casting Bureau also proposed to move outside the city. How could anything happen in this world be such a coincidence?
?
So, he summoned the Zongwei Chief Yan Lang and ordered: "Yan Lang, you go to the Bingzhu Bureau immediately to see Li Jin."
"As ordered." Zongwei Yan Lang clasped his fists and retreated, leading several Zongwei on horseback to the Bingzhu Bureau.
When Yan Lang arrived at the Bingzhu Bureau, he found that the workshops in the Bingzhu Bureau had stopped working today. The Bingzhu Bureau, which used to be overcrowded, could not see many living people today.
Seeing this, Yan Liang frowned deeply.
Because he knows very well that the batch of armaments currently being built by the Military Casting Bureau is used to replace the equipment of the Second and Third Northern Armies - especially the Third Northern Army under General Jiang Bi. During the two Northern Xinjiang campaigns, the equipment of the Third Northern Army
The problem of backwardness has been clearly exposed. The equipment of the Suwang Army is at least ten years behind.
Under this situation, Qing Wang Hongxin gritted his teeth and invested a large amount of money into the Bingzhu Bureau. He ordered tens of thousands of sets of armaments from the Bingzhu Bureau at a relatively low price in order to let the Second Army of the North and the North
Equipment replacement of the three armed forces.
Unexpectedly, before these armaments were forged, the Ordnance Forging Bureau suddenly wanted to move. What should we do?
Such a huge military casting bureau has to be moved outside the city, and it cannot be completed within a month or two. Coupled with all the subsequent trivial matters, it will be good to start construction of the military casting bureau in April or May next year.
In other words, this batch of armaments will have to be delayed for at least half a year.
Even though this half a year does not seem to be long, the problem is that next year, King Su’s Army will have to change its equipment again. By then, will the Ordnance Casting Bureau give priority to forging the equipment of King Su’s Army, or the equipment of the Second and Third Northern Army?
Thinking about it, you know that Bingzhu Bureau must give priority to satisfying King Su's army.
The reason is very simple. If the Bingzhu Bureau cannot satisfy King Su's army, a certain King Su will be dissatisfied, and if this King Su is dissatisfied, the Smelting Bureau will stumble the Bingzhu Bureau - as long as the Smelting Bureau cuts off the iron embryo. , the supply of crude steel and other raw materials, all the workshops in the Ordnance Casting Bureau had to stop working.
In this way, how long will it take for the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army to prepare these armaments?
The year after tomorrow?
By the year after next, this batch of armaments will be almost obsolete, so why do we need it!
Thinking of this, Yan Lang, the chief of the Zongwei of King Qing Hongxin, rushed to the office where Li Jin, the chief minister of the Bingzhu Bureau, was located, and ordered Li Jin to postpone the relocation of the Bingzhu Bureau.
In this regard, Li Jin plausibly said: "Master Zongwei, it is not that the lower officials want to move, but the Yushitai impeached our Bingzhu Bureau for disturbing the people and ordered our Bingzhu Bureau to move outside the city. This matter has alarmed Your Majesty. Unless Your Majesty and the Yushitai withdraw their orders, I will forgive you for not daring to make any arbitrary decisions."
Hearing this, Yan Lang was shocked and asked in astonishment: "Your Majesty has given an order to move the Bingzhu Bureau outside the city?"
Li Jin smiled slightly in his heart, but said seriously: "No, it's His Highness Chui Gong's order."
"Cui Gong Hall...Prince Xiang!"
Yan Lang suddenly woke up.
In today's Chui Gong Hall, apart from the Emperor of Wei, only King Yong, who shoulders the important task of supervising the country, has the authority to issue such an order.
While being frightened, Yan Lang asked Li Jin: "Master Li, if the Bingzhu Bureau begins to move, when will it be possible to start work again?"
"Well..."
Li Jin, the chief minister of the Ordnance Casting Bureau, said with a wry smile: "This matter depends on the Ministry of Industry and the Smelting Bureau."
"What do you mean?" Yan Lang asked in shock.
"It's like this." Li Jin explained: "Although our Bing Casting Bureau can allocate a piece of land outside the city to build official houses, the forging furnace needs to be built by the Ministry of Industry. Our Bing Casting Bureau is not good at construction. ; However, the fire bricks required to build the furnace need to be smelted and calcined..."
Listening to Li Jin's coherent explanation, Yan Lang's heart dropped.
Although he intuitively believed that Li Jin would not deceive him on such a matter, the problem was that the Metallurgical Bureau was the department headed by Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, and the people from the Ministry of Industry, they had a close relationship with the Metallurgical Bureau. We are so close that we wear the same pair of pants together.
Since King Su Zhao Hongrun wants to use this matter against King Qing Hongxin, then it is not a problem at all that the Smelting Bureau and the Ministry of Industry have been stuck on this matter for three to five months.
"Master Li, can't you be more accommodating? Yan thinks it can be like this. Until the new office outside the city is built, your office will still be in the city..."
However, before Yan Lang could finish his words, he was interrupted by Li Jin, who shook his head and said: "Our Military Casting Bureau announced the suspension of work today. The public's resentment has subsided, and we dare not restart it to revive the public's resentment."
Yan Lang tried to persuade him for a while, but when he saw that Li Jin still refused, he left the Bingzhu Bureau angrily.
As soon as he left, Li Jin's nephew came in and said with a smile: "Uncle is still clever. He guessed King Qing's thoughts early and dismissed the craftsmen early..."
Li Jin smiled slightly and looked at the direction Zong Wei Yan Lang was leaving.
King Su Zhao Hongrun took the lead, and King Yong Zhao Hongyu made the decision. Even if King Qing Zhao Hongxin tried his best to oppose it, it was difficult to resist.
In fact, the winner of this battle between the princes has already been decided from the beginning.