The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 24 Rearing the Arms for War
Seeing that Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie were looking at him with burning eyes, Zhao Dongting nodded and said, "I do have a plan to defeat the enemy, but I have to wait for a while."

The ministers looked at each other in blank dismay.

Although Zhao Dongting has been in charge of the government well these days, but at his age, they still have some doubts about his saying that he has a strategy to defeat the enemy.

So many generals in the Southern Song Dynasty were defeated by Yuan thieves. What can the 11-year-old little emperor really do?
Taking charge of government affairs and marching to fight wars are two different things.

But at this time, they didn't dare to say that they were going to leave Quzhou Island.

A few days ago, even Zhang Shijie was beaten by a board!
Seeing that they were silent, Zhao Dongting suddenly asked, "How is the situation in Leizhou?"

Leizhou is not far from Quzhou Island, but these days, Leizhou Zhizhou Gelijun has not met Zhao Dongting in the future.

Zhang Shijie knew these foreign affairs best, and immediately replied: "Leizhou is still stable, and Lord Zhizhou Geli is preparing his army for war."

Zhao Dongting said again: "How is Ge Lijun?"

In terms of understanding of the court officials, Zhang Shijie was not as good as Lu Xiufu, so he looked at Lu Xiufu.

Lu Xiufu said: "When I was in Lin'an in the early years, I met Lord Ge Li. He has a brilliant literary talent and is full of integrity. He should be worthy of the emperor's trust."

Zhao Dongting still trusted Lu Xiufu, he nodded lightly when he heard the words, and said: "In that case, please trouble Master Lu to contact Ge Lijun, and ask him to send someone to cooperate with you, and transfer the people of Xianglong County to Leizhou Mansion Go resettle, a big war is coming, and innocent people will inevitably be hurt.”

When the ministers heard this, they immediately understood that Zhao Dongting had made up his mind to stay on Quzhou Island, and he was helpless.

Lu Xiufu bowed his hands and accepted the order, "The minister accepts the order."

"and many more!"

Zhao Dongting suddenly said again: "Before moving the people, we are now recruiting soldiers and horses to see if there are any strong men who are willing to serve our court."

He said and looked at Su Liuyi, "Master Su, I entrust this matter to you to supervise, can it be done?"

Su Liuyi didn't expect that the emperor would still trust him so much, he was overjoyed and said, "I will live up to the emperor's trust!"

He was not afraid that Zhao Dongting would not do things for him, but he was afraid that Zhao Dongting would alienate him.Because his performance in front of Zhao Dongting these days was really not good, and he stood on the wrong team one after another.

Zhao Dongting nodded, "The rest of the divisions and ministries will do their best to supervise the preparations for the war and prevent the Yuan thieves from attacking. There must be no mistakes!"

The ministers of all departments and ministries should be like this.

The atmosphere in the Palace of Political Affairs became unprecedentedly tense, as if the Yuan army was about to attack Quzhou Island.

Zhao Dongting thought about it, there was nothing missing, he was silent for a few seconds, and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"

No one speaks.

Zhao Dongting announced the disbandment of the dynasty.

All the ministers left in a hurry.

Zhao Dongting also took Li Yuanxiu away from the Palace of Political Affairs and went straight to the weapons workshop.

So another two days passed.

In the early morning of this day, the craftsmen of the weapon workshop were beating outside to temper their weapons, when they suddenly heard a loud noise from Zhao Dongting's small room.

The house seemed to tremble a few times.

The craftsmen were all shocked.

Li Yuanxiu's complexion changed drastically, he exclaimed "Your Majesty", and was about to open the door and run in.

At this time, only Zhao Dongting ran out of the room in disgrace, with a face full of excitement, "Fuck! It finally succeeded!"

Of course the craftsmen didn't understand what Zhao Dongting meant by "fuck", and they were all very puzzled when they saw the emperor was so embarrassed but still so happy.

Li Yuanxiu also looked at Zhao Dongting stupidly, and then looked at the room.

He was shocked by the sight in front of him.

The house was full of dust and noise, it was a mess.

Li Yuanxiu said slowly: "Your Majesty, what... what's wrong with this?"

Zhao Dongting couldn't help laughing, "It's nothing, it's nothing, hurry up, go and announce Yue Peng and the Minister of the Household Department Chen Jianghan."

After speaking, he fell to the ground.

The explosion just now almost knocked his head out.

Li Yuanxiu wanted to support Zhao Dongting, but Zhao Dongting waved his hand to stop him, so he ignored it and walked out of the courtyard.

He told the guards outside to go to Xuan Yuepeng and Chen Jianghan, and he turned back.

Not long after, Yue Peng arrived first.

He was wearing silver armor all over his body, majestic and majestic. He knelt on one knee and said, "Kowtow to the emperor."

Zhao Dongting asked him to get up, and said with a smile: "Go and change this armor, put on casual clothes, and follow me to Leizhou Mansion."

Yue Peng was a little puzzled, "To Leizhou Mansion?"

He only thought that Zhao Dongting was still a child at heart, couldn't bear the loneliness, and wanted to go to Leizhou Mansion to play.He thought, if the emperor wanted to go to Leizhou Mansion to play, then he would have to persuade him even if he was scolded. The big battle was coming, this moment was not the time to play, and he had to call himself, the general, to go.

Just as he was thinking, he heard Zhao Dongting say, "Go and buy something! Something that can make our army victorious!"

Yue Peng was startled. Although he was puzzled, he was also overjoyed. He nodded again and again, "The last general takes orders!"

Then he backed away in a hurry and went back to change clothes.

Afterwards, Chen Jianghan, Minister of the Household Department, also arrived. Seeing Zhao Dongting's disheveled face, he was full of doubts, but he didn't dare to ask, holding back very hard.

Zhao Dongting said directly to him: "Master Chen, give me some silver taels, I'm going to Leizhou Mansion to buy something."

Chen Jianghan blinked and blinked, "What is the emperor going to buy?"

He also thought like Yue Peng, thinking that Zhao Dongting was going to Leizhou to play.

Zhao Dongting replied, "Porcelain pots."

"Porcelain pot?"

Chen Jianghan blinked again, feeling even more puzzled.

He was born with the habit of blinking, whether it was eating or talking, if he didn't blink, he would not be able to eat well or speak well.

Zhao Dongting knew that if he wanted to tell them "landmines" and "bombs", he would not be able to explain them clearly, so he didn't bother to say more, put on the emperor's airs, and said: "I have a wonderful use, you hurry up and prepare silver taels. I will probably buy tens of thousands of porcelain jars of this size, and you can figure out how much it costs."

As he spoke, Zhao Dongting also gestured with both hands to measure the size.

Although the Song Dynasty had paper and pens, but at this time there were many wars and the court was at stake. Only copper coins, silver ingots, and gold ingots were the hard currency.

Seeing what Zhao Dongting said, Chen Jianghan had no choice but to retreat with his eyes blinking.

Zhao Dongting took Li Yuanxiu back to the bedroom, and the two also changed into casual clothes.

Not long after, Yue Peng came, and Chen Jianghan also brought the silver ingots.

The group of three left the Forbidden Palace, walked out of the settlement of "refugees" in the Southern Song Dynasty, rented a boat at the ferry, and went to Leizhou Mansion.

Zhao Dongting hadn't left Quzhou Island before, and when he arrived at Dehai, he looked back and saw the antique imperial city, and he felt a little bit moved in his heart.

Unexpectedly, being killed by that bitch woman actually came to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Such a clear sea and such a blue sky are really rare in modern times...

He lay on his back on the boat, squinting at various scenery near and far, and gradually fell asleep.

When he woke up again, he was woken up by Li Yuanxiu.It turned out that the ship had already arrived at Leizhou Prefecture.

Leizhou Mansion is located in the southernmost part of the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is a peninsula. At this time, it has not been affected by the flames of war, so the ferry is quite lively, and there are continuous passenger ships and fishing boats.

Zhao Dongting asked Li Yuanxiu to pay and took the two of them ashore.

Here at the ferry, there are many vendors selling small objects, including porcelain.

But Zhao Dongting did not stop here.

Tens of thousands of porcelain pots cannot be easily produced by such small traders.This kind of business, you have to find a big workshop to take over.

They rented two horses at the ferry, Zhao Dongting and Li Yuanxiu rode together, Yue Peng rode one alone, and the three went straight to Haikang County under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture.

After several inquiries along the way, it took several hours before I finally arrived at Haikang County.

Haikang County is a heavy county in the prefecture of Leizhou. Pedestrians come and go at the gate of the city, and hawkers are hawking. It is very lively.

Zhao Dongting sat on the horse, while Li Yuanxiu and Yue Peng led the horses and walked into the city.

Then they found a tavern in the city to fill their stomachs, and asked the boy where the largest porcelain workshop in the city was, and the three of them left the tavern again.

Zhao Dongting saw those hawkers selling snacks on the road, and couldn't help but buy some to try.This ancient snack has a different taste from itself.

Stopping and stopping, and counting for 10 minutes, I finally arrived at the porcelain workshop.

The three of them were about to go in, but at this moment, there were several fast horses galloping along the road.The leader was a son from a rich family, yelling loudly and waving his whip again and again, so unrestrained.

Zhao Dongting was eating snacks with gusto, but he didn't notice.When it was discovered, the horse had already arrived.

The son of the rich family shouted at him: "Don't get in the way! Get out of the way!"

But his horse had already rushed several meters in front of Zhao Dongting, how could Zhao Dongting hide in time?

Fortunately, Li Yuanxiu reacted very quickly, took two steps across, and stopped Zhao Dongting.

(End of this chapter)