The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1636
"Yelu Haowu unexpectedly became the King of the South Court. This King of the South Court is specifically targeting Nan Xia. Isn't Nan Xia targeting our Song Dynasty? It seems that he is our strong enemy."

The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were obtained by Zhao Xu from the emperor of the Liao Kingdom by means. This was not considered solid in the first place. Now where did the Liao Kingdom occupy the ten prefectures? Zhao Xu was also surprised. The reckless Yelu Haowu is actually the king of the South Court. This makes people have to admire how he became the king of the South Court. Is he still so impulsive?
"It was found out that a doctor under the Ministry of Industry colluded with illegal businessmen to seek personal gain, and caused a lot of sacrifices for our frontier soldiers by shoddy goods. He has pleaded guilty, but we still want to find out who is behind him. As a result, he was killed."

It has been more than half a month since this matter happened, and it was found out under Zhao Xu's auspices that it was the idea of ​​a doctor from the Ministry of Industry, but Zhao Xu found out that the things they obtained illegally were gone at this time, uh, I don't know Where did he go? If only this doctor, Zhao Xu, really didn't believe it. When the politician saw who was behind him, he committed suicide. This is a gnawing father. He would commit suicide, and the clues were all broken.

"Hey, it's fine if you die. I'm not so tolerant of ransacking and exterminating the family. Don't tell me that his family is innocent. Does his family benefit from it? I always have to give an explanation to those soldiers who died. People have to be borne by others, otherwise wouldn’t the hearts of frontier soldiers be chilled?”

Zhao Kuangyin heard that the doctor was dead, even if you died, he would not let you go, and he wanted to confiscate his family and exterminate his family, and Zhao Kuangyin said without any scruples that he would let Rang Lai bear the responsibility for such a provocative failure. In fact, it really had something to do with him. Losing so many people, and losing so many counties, is a bit of a sin.

If no one came out to bear the responsibility, if any accident happened to the soldiers on the frontier, there would definitely be troubles, even Zhao Kuangyin couldn't suppress it.

"In addition, this matter can't be left alone. It is still necessary to investigate in private. In addition, only the three of you know about it. Needless to say, the prince, Zhao Pu and Miao Xun are both prime ministers. I also believe them and investigate secretly. We have already lost [-] soldiers at one time, and they all died at the hands of those treacherous ministers, so I won’t count it like this.”

Secret investigation means that it does not seem to be investigated on the surface, but it must be investigated in secret. After all, what is going on outside is war.

"Your Majesty, please follow the order, may I ask your Majesty if the dozens of artillery pieces I built will be sent to the front line immediately?"

Recently, Zhao Pu has been busy with his feet on the ground, because he was ordered to build artillery secretly. In this era, because of the arrival of Zhao Kuangyin, the technology of artillery has reached the level of the later Ming Dynasty.

It also began to equip long guns that are more advanced than firearms. In ten years, Da Song did not know how much manpower, material and financial resources were spent, otherwise there would not be such advanced things, but this kind of thing is far from being fully developed. The army is equipped, and the current long gun team has only 5000 people. These are excellent muskets, many times better than the previous muskets, and more importantly, there are so many earth mines.

That is to say, it is equivalent to a gunpowder can, but it must have a fuse, that is to say, it must be ignited with fire. The technology is not advanced enough to make a bomb, and Zhao Xu has no choice.

"Well, it's all shipped to the north. I want to give the Khitan a little bit of strength to see how they can resist real artillery, and the firearms team will also go, leaving 100 people in Bianjing to continue teaching those newcomers to continue to use firearms. At the same time Continue to create the kind of fire and thunder that the prince said, anyway, now that I have the first family property in Song Dynasty, I can afford the price to avoid the casualties of soldiers to the greatest extent."

Zhao Kuangyin had seen this thing before and knew its benefits, but now he actually thought of transporting all these things to the north. It seemed that Khitan was in trouble this time.

"The minister complies with the order. The minister decided to supervise the whole process. There will be no accidents. To the outside world, he said that the minister was unwell and told him to stay at home. This is the best way to keep it secret. The court affairs will bother Mr. Miao."

These things were always handled by Zhao Pu, and now it was very urgent, so Zhao Pu even thought of tricks like getting sick. It seemed that he wanted to show his loyalty to Zhao Kuangyin.

"Aiqing has worked hard, so I will do as Aiqing said. As for our existing batch of artillery, we have to transport it secretly. We have to pretend to be a businessman to transport it, rest during the day and walk at night."

"Your Majesty, I don't know why, why didn't you transport it to the frontier quickly, so as to reduce casualties, why didn't you use the army to escort it directly?"

Miao Xun really couldn't figure out why Zhao Kuangyin did this, why he made such an arrangement, but Zhao Kuangyin didn't explain to him, so he asked them to retreat first, and Zhao Kuangyin looked at the map of Liao Kingdom alone, wondering what he was thinking.

"Hey, he has been found by His Majesty. Fortunately, we have already dealt with him, otherwise we will suffer too. I wonder how His Majesty will deal with this matter?"

"According to what I know about the emperor, he must not say anything on the surface, but he will investigate secretly. Recently, we must be careful to transfer all our expenses, and we can start our actions."

"The villain understands that we can't fail this time. Taking advantage of the imperial court's battle against Khitan is our best chance, but we can get Zhao Xu away in the end, so that we have the best chance of winning."

"Your thinking makes sense. By the way, the imperial court is going to send artillery to Bifang recently. I have already checked the route. We must intercept them on the road. It will be useful to us in the future. You should start to act." It's all dark No one in the room could see these speaking faces clearly, nor did they know who they were.

But it is certain that these people are quite well-informed, otherwise they would not know so much. They also know that the imperial court will transport artillery. There are many eyes and ears in the palace.

At this time, the people who transported these things in Da Song had already come and set off. They still don't know that they have been targeted, and they don't know what is waiting for them, but there is a more important news It came, so that the court did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Fusang sent envoys here, and they have already appeared in the port of Song Dynasty. The local officials dare not make decisions without authorization, so they can only report to the imperial court and let the imperial court make up their minds. It depends on what the court thinks about what it means to come out as an envoy.

(End of this chapter)