On June 7, in a rare night's dream, Zhao Hongrun did not dream of having sex with Mi Jiang on the bed. He dreamed that he was chewing on a piece of durian meat.
However, when he woke up, he discovered that there was a sock stuffed in his mouth that he had taken off yesterday and thrown on the edge of the bed. This really made him feel chilly for a while.
Zhao Hongrun threw aside the socks stained with his saliva and got off the bed.
After walking a few steps, he heard bursts of thunderous snoring coming from the outer room.
He put on his coat and walked to the outer room. At a glance, he saw Zongwei Chu Heng lying on a small bed and sleeping soundly. While snoring, he scratched his exposed chest with his hands from time to time. His sleeping appearance was simply horrible.
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Zhao Hongrun shook his head speechlessly, walked over, pulled up the quilt that was half on the ground, and threw it on Chu Heng.
"Huh?"
Chu Heng, who was in a daze, slowly opened his eyes, called out "Your Highness" in a daze, and then asked blankly: "Your Highness, what time is it?"
"It's time." Zhao Hongrun said somewhat helplessly.
"Oh. It's almost time to eat." Chu Heng, who was tall and tall, turned over from the couch and sat up. The bed board beneath him creaked under the weight of his heavy body.
He sometimes feels helpless towards this idiot. The guards are worse than the people being guarded sleeping on the ground. So what are the guards doing sleeping in the outer room?
After Chu Heng put on his clothes, the master and his servant walked to the front hall of the north room.
After resting for nearly twenty days, Zhao Hongrun planned to visit the Smelting Bureau today. After all, Wang Fu, the Bureau Chief of the Smelting Bureau, sent someone yesterday to deliver the news that they had fired a batch of fire bricks that were refractory and had good thermal insulation properties.
, and used this kind of bricks to build a furnace in an underground furnace excavated with the help of the Ministry of Industry, which meant that Zhao Hongrun's short vacation was over and he would officially start smelting iron.
It was not yet time to eat, so Zhao Hongrun thought for a while, gave up eating in the palace, and decided to go to the Smelting Bureau first. Anyway, the Smelting Bureau could also make do with a meal.
On the way from the north room to the front yard, Zhao Hongrun saw armor-clad guards saluting him from time to time.
Most of these guards are around forty years old, and they seem to be in their old age, but if anyone dares to underestimate them or dare to provoke them, I believe they will suffer hardship sooner or later.
After all, these palace guards, who are on average around forty years old, are all old soldiers from the Junshui Army. Although their strength and agility are not as good as those of young people around twenty years old, in fact, those young and energetic young people are
People can hardly find any advantage in front of these veterans.
After all, these are all well-trained and battle-experienced veterans.
These people are the Guards of Prince Su. They are the guards who guard Prince Su's palace and escort Zhao Hongrun when he travels. They are also the personal soldiers of Prince Su.
In fact, Zhao Hongrun originally planned to choose directly from the Yulin Lang of the Zongfu. After all, in his opinion, his youngest brother Zhao Hongxuan already had a Zongwei by his side, but the Zongfu still adopted orphans from time to time.
Train them as Zongwei. At this time, those trained Zongwei will most likely be thrown into the Yulin Army as an army to protect the Zongfu.
Zongwei is more comprehensive than the soldiers of the Junshui Army. After all, the Junshui Army only trains people to be brave and well-trained soldiers, while Zongwei has been trained as a general by the Zongfu since childhood.
In addition to martial arts, they were also required to read, read, and learn some military strategies. The two are completely incomparable.
But unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun's request was rejected by the Zongfu. The Zongfu refused to send more Zongwei to serve as the bodyguards of Prince Su's Mansion because the Zongfu felt that this move was not in line with the Zongwei system. Zhao Hongrun was so angry that he was so angry in private. Zongfu Ichiban: A bunch of old stubborns!
Zhao Hongrun was really disappointed with this. After all, who doesn't want his private soldiers to be able to defeat ten of them?
After understanding the strength of Shen Yu, Chu Heng and other clan guards and the methods of training them, Zhao Hongrun was really not happy to ask Zhao Hongrun to find a group of ordinary people to form King Su's guards.
But there was no way. The clan government strictly abided by the clan guard system and only allowed each prince to have ten clan guards as his initial team. There was no one more. This made Zhao Hongrun have no choice but to settle for the next best thing and recruit veterans from the Dredging Navy Army. Find a way.
It would be great if one day we could get the Habayashi Army...
Zhao Hongrun thought to himself while nodding and greeting the veterans who had retired from the dredging army.
But he also understood that unless he took the position of his second uncle Zhao Yuanyan in the future and succeeded the latter as Zongzheng of the clan, otherwise, wanting to take charge of the Yulin Army would be simply a dream.
Instead of thinking about these unrealistic things, it is better to train an army yourself.
In fact, Zhao Hongrun had a source of troops. After all, he held two armies, the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army. Although these two surrendered armies were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Ministry of War, I believe anyone with a discerning eye could see clearly that except for the Emperor Wei Besides, who can mobilize these two armies?
Unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun did not have any generals who were good at training soldiers.
I don’t know where the third uncle is...
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but think of Zhao Yuanzuo, the King of Southern Liang, mentioned by the Sixth Uncle Zhao Yuanli.
"Has the King of Nanliang arrived in Daliang?"
Zhao Hongrun turned around and asked, but when he took a closer look, he realized that Chu Heng was following behind him, so he simply ignored it.
After all, Gao Kuo, Zhong Zhao and others are always responsible for inquiring about information. As for Chu Heng, it seems appropriate for such a fool to ask him to charge into the battle and inquire about information? Haha.
When walking through the courtyard, Zhao Hongrun was surprised to see Mi Jiang by the pool next to the forest garden. The girl looked at Princess Yulong with a smile. Mi Rui and the girls Yang Yan Xing were playing in the water with their bare feet by the pool.
Zhao Hongrun originally wanted to remind them to be careful about falling into the pool, but when he saw that there were many newly recruited maids and several palace guards following the pool, he simply didn't bother to shout.
But surprisingly, Mi Jiang seemed to notice it and turned around to look at Zhao Hongrun and Chu Heng.
Somehow, Zhao Hongrun always felt that the faint smile on the corner of Mi Jiang's mouth seemed to have some deep meaning.
Well, it feels quite sinister and proudly mocking.
Why is that woman so crazy?
Zhao Hongrun looked at Mi Jiang a few more times in confusion.
Suddenly, he was slightly startled.
You know, when I was most anxious a few days ago, when I saw Mi Jiang, I felt a faint urge, as if I wanted to strip her naked and throw her on the bed. But today, my mood was unexpectedly calm.
Has that thing finally given up on confusing me?
Zhao Hongrun was a little confused.
He thought for a while and decided to have a good talk with Mi Jiang when he came back from the Smelting Bureau. After all, the influence of the green poison disappeared inexplicably, which was not necessarily a good sign.
When Zhao Hongrun arrived at the Smelting Bureau in a carriage, Wang Fu, the chief minister of the Smelting Bureau, was waiting in front of the department's house.
"Does Wang Jucheng know that this king is coming?"
After getting off the carriage, Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.
Wang Fu smiled and said respectfully: "Given His Highness King Su's great interest in iron smelting, I sent someone to notify His Highness yesterday, and I guessed that Your Highness will definitely come today."
"Hey!...How long have you been waiting here?"
"Uh, not too long, not too long..." Wang Fu's expression looked a little strange. I believe he might have been waiting here for a long time.
"I understand Wang Jucheng's intention, but in the future, this kind of false courtesy should be avoided. I hope you can make some more practical contributions instead of wasting time here... Don't forget,
Our Smelting Bureau must seize the time and become the standard for our great Wei."
After hearing the word "standard", the look on Wang Fu's face suddenly became solemn. It's no wonder, after all, the slogan put forward by Zhao Hongrun has already become the goal that everyone in the Smelting Bureau strives for.
Think about it, what an honor it is to become the standard for all craftsmanship in the Wei Dynasty!
"By the way, Your Highness, the Bingzhu Bureau sent someone over yesterday..."
"Bing Zhu Bureau?" Zhao Hongrun frowned and asked in confusion: "What are they doing here?"
Wang Fu lowered his head and said: "The Weapon Foundry Bureau asked our Smelting Bureau to smelt a batch of iron embryos for them to use to make weapons and armor."
"Reject them!" Zhao Hongrun said without saying anything.
However, after hearing this, Wang Fu showed a troubled look on his face, and cautiously reminded: "Your Highness, the Military Casting Bureau has taken out the mission document of the Ministry of War, and it is also stamped with the red seal of Chui Gong Palace..."
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Zhao Hongrun showed a bit of surprise on his face.
The Smelting Bureau took out the documents from the Ministry of War. This is nothing. It only shows that the Ministry of War took the lead in this matter. However, Zhao Hongrun can also refuse. After all, let alone the Ministry of War cannot control the Smelting Bureau, including the Ministry of Industry.
The other five government offices have no control over it.
However, the document was stamped with the red seal of Chui Gong Palace, so it was difficult to refuse.
This means that Zhao Hongrun's father, Emperor Wei, gave his nod to this matter.
Strange...Father shouldn't be involved in this matter.
Zhao Hongrun felt a little puzzled.
You must know that the reason why he rejected the request of the Weaping and Manufacturing Bureau was to make the six and twenty-four departments of the imperial court realize that his Smelting and Manufacturing Bureau was different from the past and would no longer provide help to other departments in vain.
Not long ago, when Zheng Jin, the beloved nephew of Bingzhu Bureau Prime Minister Li Jin, came to threaten Yezhu Bureau, Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to offend the Li family and gave Zheng Jin a lesson in order to scare the monkeys.
However, Emperor Wei never discussed this matter with Zhao Hongrun.
Regarding the reason, it is obviously not possible that Emperor Wei was unaware of it, but rather that Emperor Wei guessed what Zhao Hongrun wanted to do and turned a blind eye.
It was a bit strange that Emperor Wei now hinted that the Smelting Bureau would help the Weapon Casting Bureau, something he once acquiesced to.
"Isn't it too late for the Ordnance Foundry Bureau to build that batch of armaments?" Zhao Hongrun asked doubtfully.
Wang Fu shook his head and said in a low voice: "Your Highness does not know that the replacement of the military equipment of the Sixth Battalion of the Garrison can actually be completed by the Military Casting Bureau without the help of our Smelting Bureau... However, Chui Gong Palace has added additional military equipment."
"Add?"
"Hmm!...I learned from the people at the Bingzhu Bureau that Chui Gongdian asked the Bingzhu Bureau to build 50,000 sets of weapons and armor before the end of this year. The people at the Bingzhu Bureau are going crazy."
Fifty thousand sets? Darling...
Zhao Hongrun was also surprised when he heard this. You must know that the Ministry of War originally had an order for a total of 80,000 sets of equipment for the Sixth Battalion of the Garrison. Now it has added an additional 50,000 sets and ordered them to be built before the end of this year. It is no wonder that the Military Casting Bureau
People are going crazy.
Could it be that...
Reminiscent of the news about Longxi sent back to Daliang by Uncle Liu Wang, combined with the fact that Emperor Wei recalled Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, who was good at leading and using troops, to Daliang, and the current order of the Ministry of War in Chui Gongdian, asking the Bingzhi Bureau to add 50,000 yuan.
Zhao Hongrun already knew how many sets of equipment he needed.
This seems to be a good opportunity to grab a job in an open and honest manner! (To be continued.)