Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 68
Cao Yu and Wang Kechen walked side by side, and Wang Kechen asked Cao Yu, "Jing Xiu, do you think what we said to Li Buqi is useful?"

Cao Yan shook his head seriously: "I don't think it may be useful. I have long seen that Li Buqi has an idea in his heart, and he can't be persuaded by just a few words."

Li Buqi told the emperor that the concubines in the palace also need to exercise, and only a strong mother can give birth to a strong child, so the emperor spent more days staying with the queen in the past few months.Li Buqi also gave the empress a large source of income, so that the empress could spend money to save the emperor's face when the emperor had to plan to reduce the rewards to his ministers. This made Cao Yi recognize Li Buqi as a strong empress. support role.

Therefore, for the Cao family, if they can keep Li Buqi, they must keep it. With Li Buqi by the emperor's side, they can help the queen speak well.So even though he already knew that it was useless to say these words, Cao Yi still had to say them.

Seeing Wang Kechen frowned slightly, Cao Yi hurriedly comforted him: "Zi Nan, don't worry. Li Buqi is a man who knows the seriousness, and whatever he says comes to an end, and he has never spread it. Zi Nan, don't worry." Li Buqi will speak out."

"Hehe." Wang Kechen responded in a false manner, but he couldn't help complaining about his grandfather again.

Several old grandparents in his family were optimistic about Li Buqi's potential to become an important ally of Jiangmen in the future, so they asked him to explain to Li Buqi how to get involved in the officialdom, otherwise he would be at best in the face of a boy from a family of big soldiers. Just talk about the weather and talk about Fengyue.

Facts have proved that the quality of the kid from the big head soldier family is not high.If he was facing the children of those Jiangmen families, he didn't have to speak so clearly, he could just use the Spring and Autumn style of writing.Just because of this, Wang Kechen is actually not optimistic about Li Buqi's future in the officialdom.

Fortunately, the task given by the old man was finally completed, and the words were so straightforward, it was up to Li Buqi to understand how much he could comprehend, without him, Wang Kechen would have nothing to do.

Inspired by "man can fly to the sky", the nobles jumped up and down looking for good iron, good craftsmen to build what Li Buqi needed, and inevitably spread the news, so even Zhao Zhen knew about it.For this reason, Zhao Zhen called Li Buqi over and asked, "Can people really fly into the sky?"

"That's what the wandering old man said. It's just that the materials that are not easy to get are needed to make the flying utensils, so it's not easy."

"Hmm. Do you want to flap your wings and fly like a bird?"

"That's impossible. Your Majesty can find a chicken to see how thick the meat on the chicken's breast is. Birds can only move their wings with very strong muscles, and human muscles simply don't have such great strength. But Your Majesty should Seeing that birds sometimes do not flap their wings when they fly, the flying equipment is to imitate the appearance of birds at this time."

"Ah, that's it?" Zhao Zhen showed a look of "I don't understand but seems very powerful", and said: "So you do it. You just order the skilled craftsman who will be the prisoner. If you need anything, tell me, Use what you have in Fengchen's treasury."

Fengchen Treasury is a special place to collect treasures for the royal family, and Li Buqi can't use those things.The high-quality steel that Li Buqi needs is steel wire and steel pipe, which are the most beautiful things of industrial violence. These things are still not available in Song Dynasty.

Several top dignitaries sent people to Mingzhou to collect Japanese iron, and some sent people to the northwest to collect iron produced in Hezhou to see if it could be used.Li Buqi didn't intervene in these early stage work. In the past few months, the cat was playing with wine koji in the wine shop outside the city.Judging from the current situation, it seems that there is a sample that can be called Daqu, which can convert solid grains into wine. Although the output is not high, it is believed that the gradual domestication will have good results.

Most of the alcohol that was evaporated was snatched by Cao Yi and the others, so they couldn't sell it, the alcohol was worth as much as gold.With money, Li Buqi bought a piece of land in the city with the help of nobles, and planned to build a yard first.

In October, Li Buqi was busy improving the technology of fermenting and distilling alcohol, so he lived outside the city for several days. On this day, the eunuch Wang Zhongzheng who was beside the emperor rode into the winery all the way: You enter the palace immediately."

Li Buqi rode on the horse brought by Wang Zhongzheng and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Wang Zhongzheng sneaked into Li Buqi's ear and said, "The Xia bandits invaded massively. The soldiers and horses on the Jingyuan Road were defeated. Tens of thousands of people were killed. The deputy envoy Ge Huaimin and others were recruited and disappeared in the army. The Xia bandits drove straight into Weizhou. Looting wantonly. Now the ministers have written many letters asking the officials to agree to the Xia bandits' peace in order to stop the soldiers. The officials can't make a decision, so I want to ask you."

At this time, the Liao Kingdom has expressed its acceptance of the condition of increasing the [-]-year-old coin and no longer asks for land.Therefore, Zhao Zhen has praised Li Buqi for his knowledge of military affairs several times, and it seems that whenever something happens, he will think of Li Buqi.That's a good thing.

Li Buqi asked Wang Zhongzheng again: "It's not easy for the officials to make decisions. Don't the gentlemen help the officials to come up with ideas?"

Seeing that the other eunuchs followed from a distance, Wang Zhongzheng sighed and said: "There is a precedent for adding more coins to the Liao Kingdom. But the Xia thief is not the Liao Kingdom, so this sum must be recorded in the Liao Kingdom." Today's officials have nothing to do with the princes."

Oh I got it.If you lose the war and negotiate a peace, you must pay the old coins.It was Zhenzong who initiated the gift of Liao coins, so adding [-] coins to Zhao Zhen did not put much pressure on him.But if he gave Xixia Sui coins again, he, Zhao Zhen, would be the one who started it, and there was no excuse.So Zhao Zhen is also afraid of bearing this infamy.

Li Buqi knew that next year would be the third year of Qingli, and both Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi should return to Beijing, so after this defeat, Song Xia should have succeeded in negotiating a peace.According to the history seen from the Internet, Li Buqi estimated that there would be no hope of continuing the fight, so this time the history would not be changed.It's just that now that I know Zhao Zhen's thoughts, I can take the opportunity to plant a seed in Zhao Zhen's heart to prepare for the future.

After Lu Yijian disbanded, the official who returned to Zhongshu Province to serve him immediately reported to him: "Master, Li Buqi has arrived. He has already entered the palace."

Lu Yijian immediately ordered: "Please quickly invite Zhang Xianggong and Yan to participate in politics."

Not long after, Zhang Dexiang and the newly-appointed political counselor Yan Shu were invited to Lu Yijian's room. Lu Yijian said: "Your Majesty is still undecided about the Xixia peace request. I have said what I should say many times, and Your Majesty is tired of hearing it." So I want to hear if Li Buqi has any extraordinary opinions. After all, Li Buqi's judgment on the Liao people was very accurate last time.

Li Buqi had fought against Xia Bandit before, so he knew the details of Xia Bandit.My understanding of Xixia also comes from official documents, which are all the same, so the old man thinks we might as well listen to what Li Buqi said, and gain knowledge. "

(End of this chapter)