Chapter 103 The suffocation of keeping a low profile
Zhao Xi has been hesitating during this time. The guard camp was completed, but he was hesitant to do some things that he had planned to do step by step.
A few days after the selection of soldiers for the self-defense battalion, Zhao Xi was informed that he had to go to court to listen to politics.
This does not need to be discussed in court, just Xianggong Pang casually informs the prince. This is also one of the contents taught by the prince's teacher to the prince.
From this point, Zhao Xi knew that the court was not happy to see him spending time in the guard camp. Even if there were civil servants in the camp, the prince could not hang out with some soldiers all day long.
You can only go to the court and listen to the literati's nonsense...
It saves trouble. It can even be said that the preparation of this guard camp is redundant.
The East Palace is also in the palace. Every day, it is either the Zichen Palace, Wende Palace, or Yanfu Palace. So do you need guards? Even Wang Zhongzheng and Li Xian can replace them, one person a day... They are very enthusiastic about the training of the guard camp.
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Zhao Xi understood that he was a little rash. He always thought that he had already established a reserve, and with the East Palace and the preparation of a escort team, he could take the lead and show off his talents.
But we have forgotten the characteristics of today’s era!
He should be a gentle and gentle heir to the empire who is neither impatient nor impatient, nor tepid nor angry, and who even refuses to complain when someone criticizes him.
In the eyes of the court, he is still a child and has not yet been finalized. Therefore, even if His Highness the Crown Prince is not that kind of person, the Court must make His Highness the Crown Prince become that kind of person.
So Zhao Xi became a prince who reassured all the princes in the court.
During the morning court, it was like a wooden stake stuck in the court hall, listening to different people talking about different things, and then listening to the opponents talking about finding faults. In the end, the whole thing was uncertain, and the court dispersed in a noisy manner...
Then, I stayed with my father, listening to the minority talk nonsense about whether it was Zichen Hall or Wende Hall. This is called playing right.
After listening to a lot, Zhao Xi would naturally understand how chaotic the country was, and he hesitated to speak several times... He knew that he was only listening to politics.
In the words of later generations, he was attending as a guest. There should not be many taboos about his father. There was no dispute between him and him for power and gain. What really made him taboo was the court.
It's already a bit reckless and a bit radical. If you don't know how to advance or retreat, and don't understand why, I'm afraid that even if you inherit the throne, you will be in absolute opposition to the court.
So Zhao Xi became a good boy, a good boy for a long, long time, until the court could ignore many things about him.
Fortunately, Neiyuan is still pretty good. Spending a lot of money over the years has still blocked most people's mouths. At least the people around me and those who have more contact with me will not talk about myself casually.
some things.
For example, I often go to the guard camp... Alas, I built it myself, and now I still have to pay attention to the frequency of going there.
Originally, Mr. Lu meant that the road between the inner garden and the camp... was regarded as a road, and at least one battalion should be sent to guard it.
Zhao Xi declined resolutely. He would rather not turn around than show his teeth and make it known to everyone.
Lu Gongzhu was not a fool. After thinking about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's recent behavior, he compromised and became a capital escort, rotating every day and led by the military chiefs of the four battalions in rotation.
The four military chiefs all instantly gained rank just because they were selected into the escort team.
Not to mention Cao Lin and Gao Jingxian, they were already the eighth-rank xuanjie lieutenant and deputy lieutenant. Even the other two kinds of friendship and zhe were feasible, but they were also easy to pass.
The eighth-grade official was already considered a military attache in the military general sequence. In the peaceful era, he could become a military attache directly without any military merits, but it actually did not cause any disputes in the court.
At first, Zhao Xi thought this was a trap for himself, waiting for the future to settle the score.
He also specifically told Mr. Lu to pay attention to this aspect, especially when the escort team goes out, they must not fight back or scold them, maintain strict discipline, and be upright, so that they can avoid being criticized.
Mr. Lu was confused, but after communicating, Zhao Xi realized that he was wrong.
It turns out that these two men also have a following, and they are both nephews and sons of generals in the Western Army.
Sure enough, as in ancient and modern times, no accident is without cause.
It's not that Zhao Xi has stopped all his plans, because there is an excuse for a table, chair and bench workshop, and the whole workshop will not attract too much attention.
Don't be surprised, after the court participated in the selection, the only thing that interested him were the tables, chairs and benches. Originally, Zhao Xi set up the guard camp workshop as an arsenal for future generations, but in the end it became a furniture factory.
This is what makes Zhao Xi the most helpless. Although the generals were very interested in looking at the bedding of the escort team, in the court... they were all like quails and did not dare to mention this matter.
This is the current situation. The court has no role for the military commanders to speak at all. It is about matters involving the military. In the end, it was the civil servants who quarreled, and the military commanders listened and waited for the result.
Once the military commander opens his mouth, all the civil servants will put aside their positions and unanimously criticize the military commander.
Over time, no general felt uncomfortable, which led to the current situation.
I don’t want to talk about it anymore, and I don’t want to think about it anymore. Just these days when Zhao Xi is in charge of politics, the impression left on him by the entire country, the impression left by the entire court discussion... there is really a long way to go.
Therefore, he still has to do what he should do, but he needs to do it only in private.
Since learning about Su Song's hobby, Zhao Xi gave Su Song the hand sprayer made by the master craftsman and introduced it to him along with the master craftsman.
Zhao Xi’s original intention was to hope that he could make the Bronze Fire System. Zhao Xi remembered that the earliest record of the Bronze Fire System should be two or three hundred years later. There was no industrial revolution at that time. He thought he could get some inspiration from a pattern. It may not be impossible to do it at this time.
As a result, Su Song, working with a master craftsman, actually made a large flintlock cannon... Zhao Xi couldn't even imagine how strong the trigger must be to pull it.
He felt itchy and anxious, but Zhao Xi still had to accompany his father and listen to the husband's talk about how to get money in Hebei.
He understood it clearly and knew how to solve it appropriately, but Zhao Xi had to hold back.
The guard camp has already revealed his interest in the military. If he values money so much again... this is chasing profit, which a scholar-bureaucrat is not ashamed of. Forget it, just bear with it.
He can't talk too much about this for the time being, but he still has a lot to say about flintlock artillery.
As he expected, Su Song and the master craftsman actually set up a wooden pole for the huge trigger, and three or four people worked together to use it... This was more tiring than a crossbow.
This was not what Zhao Xi expected, nor was it what he knew.
"Teacher Su, the copper fire system is used as an individual weapon. I suggest that it may be appropriate to set up a fuse. In addition, try to reduce the construction price."
With the current cost, not to mention equipping the Imperial Guards, but also equipping the Guard Battalion, the Imperial Court doesn't have the spare money right now, let alone the little income from the Guard Camp workshop.
Just this one branch has used 30% of the profits of the entire carpentry workshop in recent times.
There is no way to put it on the table. Without the support of the court, we dare not ask for support from the court.
Zhao Xi is in the stage of hiding his strength and biding his time.