Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1012 Song Emperor is dead
Li Mingxuan took a sip of tea, with a confident look on his face, and said with a smile: "Then Zhao Pu buried countless people in the court, inside and outside the palace, and in the army, hiding too deeply, the only way to do it now Only then can they be wiped out.”

After Li Mingxuan finished speaking, there was no response from Li Siyan for a long time. Li Mingxuan looked up and understood what the latter was thinking. He pampered Li Siyan's head and said, "Uncle knows that you worked with Ye Chen for a while. Since then, people have become very high-spirited, and even the dignified emperor of Song Dynasty can't look down on him. But you can't look down on Emperor Song, but don't you think you can't look down on the empress of the mother of a country. What's more, Emperor Song After the promise is fulfilled, in addition to making you the queen, you will also make me the prime minister. This matter is an excellent opportunity for my Li family to return to the court after the Tang Dynasty and become a great family in the world again. You can't be willful."

Li Siyan bit his lip and said, "Uncle, Siyan understands, Siyan knows what to do."

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Outside the city of Kaifeng, the camps of the various armies guarding Gyeonggi heard the shocking bells of the beacon fire in the palace almost at the same time, and the calm camp suddenly boiled up. The generals of Wei, Shenwei, Shenyong, Xuanwu and other armies immediately gathered their troops and rushed to Kaifeng. Two hours later, [-] forbidden soldiers came to the city of Kaifeng.But at this time, the gate of Kaifeng city was closed tightly, and what greeted them was the [-] city guards on the city waiting in full force.

At this time, the majestic city wall of Kaifeng has become the moat that prevents Zhao Dezhao from saving his life.The commanders of all the military chambers outside the city were shocked and angry, and joined forces, but they could only look at the city and sigh.

In the imperial palace, the imperial city has completely fallen into the hands of the Imperial City Guards. Nearly half of the three thousand inner guards rebelled, and the remaining fifteen thousand inner guards all shrank outside the Chongzheng Palace, layer upon layer. Surrounded by the ground, Wang Haijiang, the commander of the inner guards, held an iron gun and stood on the high steps of the Chongzheng Hall. Behind him was Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao. This place was their last reliance.

The not very hasty sound of horseshoes hitting the stone slab outside made a crisp sound, but it became the death talisman for everyone here.

It didn't take long before groups of soldiers appeared in everyone's field of vision, densely packed, countless soldiers of the forbidden army had surrounded the place tightly, and a giant crossbow was pushed up. Ouchi's guards are all fierce and brave, and there are even many masters among them, but they also showed panic in the face of such a situation.

The rebels separated on both sides. The prime minister Zhao Pu, the political adviser Lu Duoxun, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council Ma Zhikuo, the commander of the city defense army Zhang Fenghu, and the intelligence officer of Song Weifu Fan Changcai appeared outside the Chongzheng Hall.

Zhao Pu came out more and more, looked at Wang Haijiang on the steps, paused every word, and said slowly: "Wang Haijiang, put down your weapons and surrender, or the whole family will be killed, you choose?"

Zhao Pu's hand was raised high, and the crossbow began to tighten with a teeth-stinging sound. Big drops of sweat fell from Wang Haijiang's forehead. He knew that when Zhao Pu's hand fell, it was the crossbow. When the crossbow shot out.Looking back at the closed gate of the Chongzheng Hall, Wang Haijiang let out a long sigh, and the spear in his hand fell to the ground with a bang. As the spear fell to the ground in Wang Haijiang's hand, the fighting will of the more than 500 Ouchi guards was suppressed. It completely disintegrated, and was quickly disarmed by Zhang Fenghu, who was taken aside and guarded.

Zhao Pu smiled proudly, and strode forward towards the Chongzheng Hall. The door of the hall was wide open, and Zhao Pu stood at the door. In the hall, Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao, with a pale face, was standing in the center of the hall with the crown prince in one hand.

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In the early hours of the morning, an eunuch carrying an edict carrying the order document stamped with the imperial edict of Zhao Dezhao's seal and the seal of the Privy Council went to the outside of Kaifeng City, ordering all the troops to return to the camp immediately, and ordered all the commanders of the army to enter the palace to face the saint.Immediately, five of the Xiangdu commanders of the Ninth Army of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty who entered the palace were imprisoned for treason.

Three days later, Emperor Zhao Dezhao died suddenly.The prime minister Zhao Pu, the political adviser Lu Duoxun, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council Ma Zhikuo, and the commander of the city defense army Zhang Fenghu and others took the throne with the seven-year-old prince named Tianqing.Order the whole country to mourn and hold a funeral for Zhao Dezhao.On the same day, Emperor Tianqing appointed Zhao Pu as minister of the auxiliary government, Ma Zhikuo as envoy of the Privy Council, Zhang Fenghu as deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and Fan Changcai as chief envoy of Song Weifu.

However, Lu Yuqing, the former political adviser, and Li Jixun, the envoy of the Privy Council, were imprisoned pending trial because they were suspected of being involved in the case of rebellion by the commander of Xiangdu, the commander of the five armies.All of a sudden, the situation in Kaifeng changed, and every household in Kyoto hung white lanterns and began to pay tribute to Zhao Dezhao, who had been declared dead.

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The weapons and equipment production base has undergone earth-shaking changes in just over a year. With the increasing number of troops in the Xiangfu Kingdom, the demand for weapons and equipment has increased sharply. Various siege equipment and massive weapons and equipment have rapidly promoted the rapid development of Xiangfu country's weapons and equipment production base. This development is not only the expansion of production scale, but also the improvement of production speed and efficiency, as well as the The improvement of quality, in addition, is the birth of some new weapons and equipment.

Of course, what made all this happen is not simply the promotion of war. The Song and Liao countries have also been fighting continuously in recent years, and the number of troops is larger, but why there is no such brilliant result?The discerning people in the whole world know that the root of all this is Ye Chen, the great emperor of Xiangfu Kingdom.

Specifically, it is the result of a series of policies and measures implemented by Ye Chen, such as the emphasis on Gephysics, the establishment of Xiangfu College, the establishment of the Weapons and Equipment Research Department and the Civil Research Department, the implementation of the patent application and reward system, As well as vigorously improving the status and generous remuneration of the craftsman industry, in addition to the craftsman training technical school opened by Ye Chen at the base, etc., it is because of Ye Chen's vigorous promotion of these things that today's big Song and Daliao, and even all countries and forces in the world wanted to get a glimpse of the secrets, and even wanted to obtain the secret weapons and equipment production base at all costs.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of the scale of the base, craftsmen with special skills from all over the country and abroad flocked to invest, and the number of master craftsmen increased year by year. The control and control of the domestic population, especially the control and surveillance of craftsmen, strictly prohibits them from leaving the country at will.

Now the small town that was more than a year ago has expanded several times. Although the weapons and equipment production base of Xiangfu Country is under militarized control, in addition to the weapons and equipment production base, the small town developed by relying on the weapon and equipment production base In the town, there are relatives and family members of the craftsmen. The craftsmen strictly implement the one-week-off system. Every seven days they work, they will get a day off. At this time, they will return to their homes in the town and share the family relationship with their families. happy.

The living conditions of the craftsmen have improved, and their pockets have bulged. Some shrewd businessmen saw the business opportunities here. It is unknown who was the first to buy land, build a house, open a shop, and start a business here. Afterwards, the number of businessmen who came here to do business grew like a blowout, and now the number of people here has exceeded 5, which is the size of a county town.And this is not the only small town that suddenly appeared like this, and the area where the Civil Research Department and various workshops in the east of Xiajing City has also developed into a small town.

The area where the weapons and equipment production base was located was previously under the jurisdiction of Wushan County under the Xiajing government, and later it was directly placed under the jurisdiction of the Equipment Department of the Military Commission. Over the past year, with the rapid development of the weapons and equipment production base, Han Xizai and Yang Jiye After discussion and research, after asking Ye Chen to agree, he simply separated the entire area of ​​the weaponry production base and established a county government unit, because the people living in this county are craftsmen and their families, as well as guards of the base. For the army and its family, Han Xizai named it Wugong County, dispatched officials to administer it, and was directly managed by the court of Xiangfu State Zhongshu Province.

Although Wugong County is directly under Zhongshu Province administratively, there are actually two other departments on top of it that can also govern its specific affairs. Born from here, his importance can be imagined.The second is the security department, because security and confidentiality matters are so important here, and even everyone here is involved in security and confidentiality matters.

Of the three departments, the most powerful is the Equipment Department. The Wugong County Government Office of the Zhongshu Provincial Department is only responsible for the daily management of Wugong County, maintaining law and order, and collecting taxes. A battalion of the army is responsible for various security, confidentiality and defense matters.The Armament Department of the Military Central Department has great jurisdiction, and has direct jurisdiction over the core weapon production base in Wugong County.This includes production research, construction and production of weapons and equipment, promotion rewards for craftsmen, level assessment, etc., as well as the allocation of weapons and equipment to each legion, and the order or receipt of each legion.In short, almost participated in all the work of the entire weapon and equipment production base. In view of the importance of the weapon and equipment production base to the entire Xiangfu country, Yu Wen, the head of the equipment department of the military affairs department, agreed with Yang Jiye. After inviting Ye Chen, he simply equipped himself The Ministry of Yamen moved to Wugong County.

The entire Wugong County is divided into two areas, the living area and the equipment production base. The two areas are separated by a wall. The living area cannot help but come and go, but it is not so easy to enter the equipment production base.Every craftsman or apprentice in the equipment production base has a special badge and an exclusive number. Only those who have these badges can enter and leave the base.

(End of this chapter)