Originally, the War Casting Bureau asked the court to move outside the city on the grounds of "convenience for the people", which did not cause the government and the opposition to be suspicious, but before that, Li Man, the secretary of the military department, played the beggar bones, which inevitably made people think about it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

You must know that Li Man, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is only over sixty years old, and Cao Zhi, the former secretary of the Ministry of Works, but he did not resign until he was seventy, and the current secretary of the Ministry of Justice, He Mei, is still in his post when he is over seventy years old, which is enough to prove that Li Man, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is "begging for bones" at this time, and this matter is not simple.

Of course, Li Fu's explanation for this is that the old man (Li Man) is not in good health, but all the officials in the DPRK and China are human spirits, how can they believe this excuse to fool children? After all, a few days ago, they saw the old man Li Feng riding a horse to the headquarters of the military department.

As a result, the ministers of the DPRK and China linked the two incidents of "Li Man's resignation" and "the performance of the Military Casting Bureau" - after all, Li Jin, the director of the Military Casting Bureau, is Li Fei's eldest son, and there must be some connection between the two.

Even, some discerning and intelligent people have connected these two events with the major event that took place at the banquet in Qingwangfu two days ago.

It is undeniable that Li Fei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, guessed well, and the matter of the impeachment of the military casting bureau by the imperial historian was what Zhao Hongrun secretly ordered the crows to do.

The method is very simple, as long as a few simple-looking green crows are called to a few streets near the War Casting Bureau to provoke it, there will naturally be some young and vigorous people who follow those few leading green crows to the Yushitai to complain about the disturbance of the people by the Military Casting Bureau.

As long as there are people complaining, they will naturally impeach the military casting bureau, and the whole thing will come naturally, without any waves.

However, Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, suddenly resigned, which somewhat disrupted Zhao Hongrun's plan.

After all, Li Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and even Li Jin, the father of the Bureau of War Casting Bureau, and his body is still strong, this person's sudden resignation will inevitably make this matter a little political.

"This old fox who is greedy for life and afraid of death......

After learning about this, Zhao Hongrun's teeth itched with hatred.

Of course, he understood why Li Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, resigned, because the other party saw through his intentions - the intention of trying to break the War Casting Bureau out of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

Li Wei knew that he could not compete with him Zhao Hongrun, so in order to avoid being hated by King Qing Hongxin in the future, he simply resigned early and withdrew from the matter.

In this way, even if the military department finally loses the military casting bureau, it has nothing to do with him Li Wei, and Qingwang Hongxin will hate him too much.

Even, Qingwang Hongxin has to thank him, because his voluntary resignation can be regarded as an early warning to Qingwang Hongxin.

But although he saw through the reason why Li Fei took the initiative to resign, Zhao Hongrun was helpless against him, because since Li Fei took the initiative to resign, this shows that this old fox predicted that he would not be able to gain a foothold in the military department in the future, which means that his son Li Jin of the Military Casting Bureau is ready to stand on his side of Zhao Hongrun - since Li Jin took the initiative to take refuge, how can Zhao Hongrun blame his father again?

As a result, Zhao Hongrun could only scold a few words of "old fox" and vent his anger.

"Your Highness, as soon as Old Man Li resigns, it is tantamount to startling the snake, I believe that King Qing also guessed that His Highness was going to deal with him." Zong Wei Zhou Pu said on the side.

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Hongrun waved his hand and said lightly: "This matter is led by Yushitai, what does it have to do with this king?" Even if Zhao Wu guessed that it was the king's doing, there was no evidence, so he couldn't help the king. …… You ask someone to contact the Green Crows so that they can retreat, I believe that Zhao Wu will definitely send someone to track down those who took the lead, if our people are taken down by him, this will be passive. ”

"Yes." Zhou Pu Zongwei hugged his fists, and then said with a smile: "In order to prevent King Qing's people from being angry with the people on that side, the lowly post will also notify the Criminal Department and ask them to send someone to monitor." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded with satisfaction.

The Criminal Department, that is the government of King Yong's reign, if King Qing's people dare to wantonly arrest the people of Xishi, I believe that King Yongwang Hongyu will definitely seize this matter and attack fiercely.

After the instructions were completed, Zhao Hongrun continued to read in the study.

There is no way, because of the incident two days ago, in addition to Yongwang Hongyu, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of supervising the country, Xiangwang Hongjing, Qingwang Hongxin and him Zhao Hongrun were all ordered by Wei Tianzi to be grounded in their respective mansions and not to go out.

In the past, it seemed that Zhao Hongrun would not have listened to this kind of confinement, but now he has a bad relationship with Xiangwang Hongjing and Qingwang Hongxin, if he openly shows his face, this is tantamount to giving the two a handle to attack him.

At the same time, King Qing Hongxin was in his mansion and also learned about the two incidents of "the resignation of Li Wei, the secretary of the military department" and "the performance of the military casting bureau".

At the beginning, King Qing Hongxin was deeply pleased with the matter of "the resignation of Li Man, the secretary of the Ministry of War", after all, after he entered the Ministry of War, although Li Man, the secretary of the Ministry of War, respected him very much, but in the final analysis, the two sides were not all the way - King Qing tried his best to stuff his henchmen into the Ministry of War, and Li Man, the secretary of the Ministry of War, kept prevaricating and blocking.

In this case, Qingwang Hongxin had long wished that Li Man, an old thing, would get out of the way quickly, after all, Li Fu resigned from the post of secretary of the Ministry of War, so that he could push his people to the post of secretary of the Ministry of War and truly control the authority of the Ministry of War.

Therefore, Qingwang Hongxin was very happy at first about Li Man's voluntary resignation, and he felt that Li Man, the old thing, had finally opened his mind.

But then, without notifying the Ministry of War, the War Casting Bureau overstepped the level to the imperial court and implored that the workshop in the department be moved outside the city, which made King Qingwang Hongxin feel wrong.

If Li Feng had not resigned, Qingwang Hongxin would at most be dissatisfied with the unauthorized proposition of the Military Casting Bureau, but Li Feng suddenly resigned, and his son Li Jin played the imperial court at this time, which inevitably made Qingwang Hongxin feel a bit of a crisis.

"This matter must be the eighth ghost behind his back!"

Qingwang Hongxin is not stupid, he only tore his face with the eighth Zhao Hongrun two days ago, and two days later, the resignation of his military department and the military casting bureau also proposed to move outside the city, how can things be so coincidental in this world?

So, he summoned Yan Lang, the head of the sect guard, and ordered: "Yan Lang, you immediately go to the Military Casting Bureau to see that Li Jin." ”

"Yes." Zong Wei Yan Lang retreated with his fists clenched, and took a few Zong Wei to ride a horse straight to the Bing Casting Bureau.

When Yan Lang arrived at the Casting Bureau, he found that the workshop in the Casting Bureau had actually stopped work and turned off today, and the Casting Bureau, which was overcrowded in the past, couldn't see a few living people today.

Seeing this, Yan Liang frowned deeply.

Because he knows very well that the batch of armaments that the Ordnance Casting Bureau is currently building is used to replace the equipment of the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army - especially the Northern Third Army under the command of General Jiang Wei, in the two Northern Xinjiang Battles, the problem of backward equipment of the Northern Third Army has been clearly exposed, and the equipment of the Su Wang Army is at least ten years behind.

In this case, Qingwang Hongxin gritted his teeth, took out a large amount of money to invest in the Military Casting Bureau, and ordered tens of thousands of sets of armaments to the Military Casting Bureau at a relatively low price, in order to replace the equipment of the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army.

Unexpectedly, this batch of armaments has not yet been forged, and the War Casting Bureau is suddenly about to move, how can this be good?

Such a huge military casting bureau was all moved outside the city, and it couldn't be moved at all in a month or two. Coupled with all the trivial things in the follow-up, it would be good if the War Casting Bureau could start construction in April and May next year.

In other words, this batch of armaments will have to be delayed for at least half a year.

Don't look at this small half a year doesn't seem to be long, the problem is that next year, the Suwang Army will have to change its equipment again, and when the time comes, will the Military Casting Bureau give priority to forging the armaments of the Suwang Army, or forging the equipment of the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army?

Thinking about it, you also know that the War Casting Bureau must give priority to satisfying the Su Wang Army.

The reason is very simple, if the War Casting Bureau cannot satisfy the Su Wang Army, a certain Su King will be dissatisfied, and this Su King will be dissatisfied, and the Smelting Bureau will stumble on the War Casting Bureau - as long as the Smelting Bureau cuts off the supply of raw materials such as iron embryos and crude steel, all the workshops up and down the Military Casting Bureau will have to stop working.

In this way, how long will the armaments of the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army have to wait?

The year after?

By the year after tomorrow, this batch of armaments will be almost eliminated, and what will it do!

Thinking of this, Yan Lang, the head of the sect guard of Qingwang Hongxin, hurriedly came to the office where Li Jin of the Military Casting Bureau was located, and ordered Li Jin to postpone the date of the relocation of the Military Casting Bureau.

In this regard, Li Jinzhen said eloquently: "Lord Zongwei, it is not that the lower officials want to move, but that the Imperial Historical Observatory impeached our military casting bureau for disturbing the people, and ordered our military casting bureau to move outside the city. ”

Hearing this, Yan Lang was shocked and asked in astonishment, "Your Majesty has ordered you to move the Arsenal to the outside of the city?" ”

Li Jin smiled slightly in his heart, but said with a serious face: "No, it's the order of His Highness Vertical Gong." ”

"Vertical Arch Hall...... King Xiang!"

Yan Lang suddenly woke up in his heart.

In today's vertical arch hall, except for Wei Tianzi, only King Yong, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of supervising the country, has the right to give such an order.

Frightened, Yan Lang asked Li Jindao: "Lord Li, if the War Casting Bureau starts to relocate, I don't know when it will be able to start work again?" ”

"Well...... this"

Li Jin, the director of the Arsenal Bureau, said with a wry smile: "This matter depends on the Ministry of Industry and the Smelting Bureau." ”

"What do you mean?" Yan Lang asked in surprise.

"That's right." Li Jin explained: "Although our Arsenal Casting Bureau can arbitrarily set aside a piece of land outside the city to build a house of the government office, the forging furnace needs to be built by the Ministry of Industry, and our Arsenal Casting Bureau is not good at construction; However, the fire bricks needed to build the hearth need to be smelted to calcin......"

Listening to Li Jin's coherent explanation, Yan Lang's heart was cold.

Although he intuitively thought that Li Jin would not deceive him in this kind of matter, the problem was that the Smelting Bureau was the department in charge of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and the people in the Ministry of Industry, their relationship with the Smelting Bureau was so good that they wore a pair of pants.

Since Suwang Zhao Hongrun wants to deal with Qingwang Hongxin with this matter, then it is not a problem at all for the Smelting Bureau and the Ministry of Industry to block him for three or five months in this matter.

"Master Li, can't you be accommodating anymore? Yan thinks that it can be like this, until the new office outside the city is built, your office is still in the city......"

However, before Yan Lang's words were finished, he was interrupted by Li Jin's shaking of his head: "Our military casting bureau announced the suspension of work today, and the people's grievances were slightly extinguished, and they did not dare to open it again, so that the people's grievances would resurge." ”

Yan Lang persuaded for a while, but seeing that Li Jin still refused, he left the Soldier Casting Bureau in a rage.

As soon as he left, Li Jin's nephew walked in and said with a smile: "Uncle Gao Ming, I guessed King Qing's mind early and dismissed the craftsmen early......

Li Jin smiled slightly, and looked faintly at the direction where Zong Wei Yan Lang left.

Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, took the lead, and Zhao Hongyu, the king of Yong, made the decision, even if Zhao Hongxin, the king of Qing, tried his best to oppose it, it was difficult to parry.

In fact, the battle between the princes has already been divided from the beginning.