"After a loud bang, Zeng Gongliang waved away the rolling dust in front of him with his sleeves and hurriedly walked to the test site. A large pit appeared in the open space in front of him. He jumped into the pit and touched the slightly heated
Ground, murmured: "It's really extraordinary, it's really extraordinary, who can know the mysteries of heaven and earth? It's so magical. Just adjust the formula slightly, and the power will be different. With this thing, add it to the gunpowder
Adding drugs like wolfsbane is simply superfluous. The power of the explosion is enough to frighten the enemy. Yun Zheng, you are right. Once the secret recipe of gunpowder is spread, it will be a nightmare for the Song Dynasty. We are proud of our strong
The city can no longer block the barbarian cavalry. Fortunately, we were the first to solve the mystery of this thing. Fortunately..."
The person who was also calling for luck was Zhao Zhen. The crossbar of the warm sedan chair Lin Lanlan was sitting on could be broken from the middle, causing the pregnant Lin Lanlan to fall heavily to the ground. Zhao Zhen, who heard the news, jumped from the Tongwen Pavilion like a lunatic.
Rushing over, the first thing he did was to put his ear against Lin Lanlan's towering belly and listen. It wasn't until he felt the powerful rhythm in person that he raised his head and looked at the eunuchs and palace maids kneeling at the foot of the steps.
, with red eyes, two words burst out of his mouth coldly: "Death with a stick!"
Hearing the miserable pleading outside the door, Lin Lanlan walked out of the house, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I just fell down, nothing serious, and the child is also safe. This is your Majesty's request."
The blessing and blessing of the child is also a gift from God. I am very grateful for this. This child is blessed with great fortune and will be as broad-minded as your Majesty in the future. These servants just made a slight oversight, or it may be
My concubine is of low status and is not lucky enough to sit in a warm sedan chair. You don’t have to worry too much about it. A child needs a peaceful environment to be born. Indiscriminate killing will undermine your majesty’s benevolence.”
Zhao Zhen looked at Lin Lanlan with pity and nodded: "The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped. Thirty rods!"
The eunuchs and concubines all over the place thanked the emperor for not killing him, and also thanked Empress Zhaorong for her kind heart...
Lin Lanlan seemed to really think that this was a trivial matter. She dragged Zhao Zhen to her Zizhuxuan, took out a lot of small clothes from a red lacquer cabinet, and asked the emperor to take a look.
"Look, this is a tiger head hat, a bat that I embroidered myself, and a five-venom coat. You will need it when the child is born."
Zhao Zhen played with a small soft shoe and asked hesitantly: "How can you be sure that the child in your belly is definitely a boy?"
Lin Lanlan smiled sweetly and said: "When I first became famous, my father invited the goddess to pray for me. Goddess Sang said that I am the image of a man, and I will have at least three sons in this life. Sang
The goddess is a famous goddess in Douchuan, and her female appearance is never inaccurate."
Lin Lanlan said it calmly, but she didn't know that these words were like a bell ringing in Zhao Zhen's ears, "Three men, three men, God, if I, Zhao Zhen, are destined to have three sons who can grow up to adulthood.
, I will definitely build the most glorious temple in Douchuan to thank the gods. No, as long as there is one, I will send people to build the temple."
Lin Lanlan couldn't hear the emperor's thoughts, and was busy arranging these strange little clothes. She even brought some clothes to the emperor's chest to compare, and laughed scornfully. Zhao Zhen let her do whatever she wanted with a smile, and he also
I wonder what my children will look like wearing these clothes.
Zhao Zhen stayed in Zizhuxuan for more than an hour before leaving and went directly to the Queen's residence. Queen Cao welcomed the emperor in with a murderous look on her face and said: "Qian Feng, the eunuch of the Che Accounting Department, committed suicide. He left a message saying that he
I'm sorry, Your Majesty."
Zhao Zhen said sinisterly: "Does Qian Feng have any relatives?"
Empress Cao said: "Yes, there is one sister and one brother. The younger brother's son is now serving in the palace and has been adopted by Qian Feng. He was recently promoted from an ordinary military leader to the title of Du Yuhou."
"The whole family was sent to Qiongzhou, and no one was pardoned." Zhao Zhen thought for a while and issued this order. No one was killed. Zhao Zhen was extraordinarily merciful.
After saying these things, Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "My palace is as rotten as a sieve. Apart from me, the master, there are people who can do whatever they want. Knowing that it is a dead end, they still go on. It really scares me. From now on."
, the ministers of Su Wei are no longer allowed to stay in the palace, and the five city military and horse departments are also personally led by the Privy Council. I want to rearrange the rules of the palace, and outsiders are not allowed to peek into the palace. At the same time, I ordered people to demolish the fan tower, so that everyone can overlook the palace.
All the buildings in the city will be demolished. I think the more relaxed we are, the more these people will profit from it. Small traders actually say that Fan Tower is no different from Da Nei."
Empress Cao helped the emperor sit down and said: "Your Majesty should have done this a long time ago. How can the inner forbidden garden allow others to be rude? It is not good for me to visit Zhaorong at this time, lest she worry too much. Is the child well?"
Zhao Zhen glanced at the queen and said: "The child is fine. Fortunately, Mrs. Lin is strong. She is an innocent and simple woman. She really thought that today's incident was an accident. She also helped those damn slaves to plead for mercy. According to my thoughts
They all deserve to die. Don't treat her like an ordinary palace concubine. Take care of her more. She doesn't know how to protect herself. She maintains the glory and blood of my Zhao family, and also maintains the prosperity and decline of your and my future affairs.
Throw away those petty thoughts and take good care of her. There are not many people in this palace that I can completely trust, so you should work harder."
Empress Cao closed her eyes and said sadly: "I have been following you since I was thirteen years old. Although I have nothing to do, with your Majesty's words today, I dare not not do my best."
Who would have thought that the dignified emperors and empresses of the empire would not live a satisfactory life in the palace. Even though they were called the best in the world, they still could not make them smile too much. What power brought to them was sometimes a suffocating heaviness.
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Han Qi is back. After Jia Changchao was dismissed as Prime Minister, Han Qi naturally came back to serve as the Councilor and Governor. As soon as this Councilor and Councilor came back, he jointly issued the "Troop Reduction Order" with the Privy Council. He had discovered it when he was training troops in Hebei.
He knew the secrets of the corruption of the imperial army and the Xiang army, so he needed an accurate number of soldiers and horses to consider how to eliminate part of the empire's huge Xiang army in the future.
Han Qi, who returned from the underworld, has a very clear understanding of the current situation of the Song Dynasty, and is now actively looking for a way to continue to make the Song Dynasty prosperous.
When Han Qi served as a local official, he managed the army well, managed the people well, established laws and regulations, maintained buildings, managed arsenals, and encouraged agriculture and education. Everyone was happy with him. In May of the seventh year of Qingli, Han Qi became the governor of the west of Beijing.
Lu appeased the envoy and moved from Yangzhou to Yunzhou. In November, Wang Ze launched a mutiny in Beizhou, which was later suppressed by Wen Yanbo and Ming Hao. In December, Han Qi moved to Zhizhi and became the German army. In April of the eighth year, he moved again
Zhi Dingzhou. Dingzhou has been guarded by military generals for a long time. The soldiers are arrogant and the military discipline is lax. After Han Qi took office, he first vigorously reorganized the army, adopted a method of both kindness and power, and mercilessly killed those soldiers with bad conduct, even to death.
Those who attacked were given heavy rewards. Later, he studied the art of war of the famous Tang Dynasty general Li Jing, imitated the three formations of Fangyuanrui, and ordered the soldiers to practice in the sun and moon. As a result, the Dingzhou army was as "vigorous as Heshuo".
He believes that today's Xixia is in a state of ruin after experiencing a coup, while the Khitan people are now living in a state of intoxication. At this moment, it is the time for the Song Dynasty to make a difference. When he learned about the German army, he once wrote in a memorial: "Now the Song Dynasty is dying.
The border is peaceful and the barbarians are pacified. At that time, when the internal troubles are being rectified, as long as the Song Dynasty rectifies the internal troubles, the national defense of the Song Dynasty will change from a pure defensive to an aggressive offensive. At such a good time, no matter whether it is in Xixia,
People are still Khitan wise men and they will definitely not give it to the Song Dynasty for too long. Once a good opportunity is missed, it will be lost forever."
Emperor Zhao Zhen was deeply convinced and decisively dismissed Jia Changchao as prime minister and appointed the capable Han Qi. However, Wen Yanbo remained calm about the Fu Bi mentioned in Han Qi's memorial. The failure of Qingli's reform broke the emperor's heart. He originally thought that he
By strongly supporting Fan Zhongyan, you can win the support of most of the courtiers, but the result is counterproductive. Not only do these people refuse to give in to their desire to sacrifice their mother, but they also keep saying that for the long-term stability of the empire, they should establish a prince as soon as possible.
This was completely beyond the emperor's expectation. For reasons that could not be explained, he hated Zhao Zhongshi to the core, and had no good impressions of Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo. Han Qi understood the emperor's thoughts, and when he thought of himself
A person is about to rush to war against the nobles of the empire, and his heart is full of grief and anger.
"The young army has been reorganized? Wu Sheng's army is about to withdraw from the imperial army? That's nonsense. This young man really doesn't know the heights of the world. Is it child's play to have an army of more than 40,000 people in his hands? Zhang Fangping is just a stone's throw away. Is it possible?
Isn't it okay to just ignore it? Oh my god, it took four months to complete the army. How many innocent souls in Wu Sheng's army were crying in Shu?
He organized his own army into the German Army. It was a famous Forbidden Army with many properties in its name. Although the officials had embezzled some of it, most of the soldiers could still have enough to eat. Wu Shengjun was a third-class army. It was said that those people were a group of refugees.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that these people don’t have enough food and clothing, so this young man dares to report so brazenly that he has completed the reorganization of the army?”
When Han Qi asked the question, Bao Zheng happened to be visiting Han Qi in the political hall. He overheard Han Qi's roar and said with a smile: "If you are talking about Wu Shengjun in Sichuan, I think you should not make a final conclusion first.
Maybe the army has really been reorganized. You have never seen that young man, but I have not dealt with him once or twice, so I am not a big talker.
Zhigui, you'd better find out before you get angry, so that you don't get off the tiger in the future. That young man is extremely smart, just as powerful as you when you were young!" (To be continued)