"Wronged?"

Zhang Kegong looked at Zhong Fu with a sympathetic expression, "Weak, the colleagues of Yushitai know that you are wronged!" But now the four thieves of Chen Jian, Yu Tongdao, Xue Ding, and Liu Long have all run away. The evidence of your guilt fell on the Yushitai again, and you are not the sinner who sent troops to surround Qingcheng Palace, so who will be it? ”

"But I'm also being held hostage!" Zhong Fu was full of remorse, "I originally wanted to stop those four thieves, but who knew that those four thieves were so fierce that they directly tied me up...... Zhang Yushi, Xia Guan was really victimized by a traitor, you must be aware of it! ”

"Adulterer?" Zhang Kegong frowned and asked, "Who is this traitor?" It won't be Chen Jian, Yu Tongdao, Xue Ding, and Liu Long, right? ”

"Of course not!" Zhong Fu said, "The traitor is Wu Haogu!" He is the head of the positivist school, Chen Jian, Yu Tongdao, Xue Ding, and Liu Long are all his students, he must have instructed and plotted behind his back, and the lower officials were framed by him. ”

"You say that, do you have credentials?" Zhang Kegong asked.

"Credentials?" Zhong Fu stomped his feet, "Xia Guan is detained here, where to find the credentials?" If you can let me out, I'll be able to find the credentials. ”

Zhang Kegong still shook his head, "How could I let you out?" Weak man, this is the Imperial Prison! Without His Majesty's will, how can you get out? Otherwise, you can prick the official family with blood and see if the official family can spare you this time. ”

"Okay," Zhong Fu nodded, "Trouble Zhang Yushi to borrow a knife from Zhong......"

"Knives?" Zhang Kegong was stunned, "You want to ......"

"Bloodthirsty!" Zhong Fu gritted his teeth and said, "A certain is a martial artist now, don't avoid swords!" ”

"No, no." Zhang Kegong glanced at Zhong Fu, although this guy is a little older, he looks quite strong, and he is by no means a weak scholar. He gave him the knife and he didn't know who he would stab?

Besides, now is not the time to expose Wu Haogu, a traitor! Zhang Shangying has already asked people to say hello to the same party of Yushitai. The official family has decided to reuse the military training of Wu Haogu, and before the military training is completed, whoever impeaches Wu Haogu is boring for himself, and he will all go to be the supervisor of the imperial history.

Therefore, Zhang Kegong would not be so stupid and offered Zhong Fu's blood book...... He just wanted to give Zhong Fu a bowl of fragrant chicken soup.

Who told Zhong Fu why he refused to take the charge down alone and honestly go to Salmon Island? His crime was not to go to Haizhou, but at least to Salmon Island, and then transfer from Salmon Island to an overseas island.

"Weak," Zhang Kegong said, "The rules of our Yushitai are like this, all those who prick blood to write are all written with chicken blood...... As long as you pay for the pawn to buy an old hen and kill the chicken, won't there be blood? Chicken can also be stewed in soup, how good. ”

"Really? That's great. Zhong Fu thought about it well, he hadn't drunk chicken soup for a long time, and he didn't have to be stabbed with chicken blood.

Zhang Kegong sighed, and just as he wanted the Taiwan guard to escort Zhong Fu back to the cell, someone outside came to report: "I supervise the imperial history, and Vice Li Duzhi, who promoted the Imperial City Division, is here." ”

Vice Li knows that it is Li Zhong! He's fine, but he won't come to the Imperial Observatory. Zhang Kegong didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered someone to send Zhong Fu back to the cell, and he strode out to greet him. When I got to the courtyard, I saw Li Zhong dressed as a big mink.

Li Zhong didn't greet Zhong Fu either, but just asked loudly, "Where is the criminal officer Zhong Fu?" ”

As soon as he heard the tone and title of these words, Zhang Kegong knew that Li Zhong was under the emperor's order, so he hurriedly asked people to detain Zhong Fu again, and took a step forward: "The lower official supervises the imperial history Zhang Kegong, and he has already asked people to mention the offending official Zhong Fu." ”

Li Zhong politely arched his hand, "Then there is labor." ”

After a while, Zhong Fu, who didn't know what was going on, was escorted to Li Zhong by two guards.

"According to the command of the Son of Heaven, the criminal official Zhong Fu will immediately enter the palace to meet him."

Pilgrimage to the palace?

This time, Zhang Kegong and Zhong Fu were all stunned.

"Zhong Fu!" Li Zhong glanced at Zhong Fu with some sympathy, of course he knew that Zhong Fu was going to be roasted on the fire next.

Only then did Zhong Fu react and bowed: "The minister obeys the order." ”

After getting up, Zhong Fu looked down at the clothes on his body, and said to Li Zhong: "You know the right and stay for less, wait for Zhong Fu to take a bath and change clothes, and then go to the palace to meet him." ”

Although the conditions of the Imperial Prison are better than those of ordinary prisons, they are still prisons after all. The Zhong Fu people who have lived in it for many days are about to go rancid, and it is very disrespectful to go to see the Son of Heaven in such a stinky and coaxed manner. Therefore, Li Zhong couldn't urge, so he had to say: "Zhong Xiaoweng, please, our family will wait in the hall." ”

"Thank you for that." Zhong Fu just wanted to turn around, but suddenly took another step forward, "I know, I don't know what His Majesty called so-and-so?" ”

Li Zhong said: "It's a good thing! ”

Meddlesome? Zhong Fu said in his heart: It seems that his life can be saved......

Zhong Fu quickly took a bath in the cell of Yushitai Prison, and asked his family to bring him a dress. Only then did he get on the horse and go to the palace under the guidance of Li Zhong.

All the way into the palace, the Son of Heaven was summoning foreign ministers in the Chongzheng Palace. Zhong Fu was led by Li Zhong to wait at the gate outside the Chongzheng Palace. As soon as the two arrived, they saw Zhang Yuan and a fat black official, an official of medium height, wearing a purple robe, with a fish bag and a sword hanging from his waist, talking and laughing.

Zhong Fu was extremely surprised: "Who is that person next to Zhang Zhiping?" Wearing a purple robe at such a young age, is it a clan? ”

"It's not the clan, he's the coastal city ship system envoy Wu Haogu!" Li Zhong smiled, "I'm only twenty-nine years old, and I'm already a full-time defense envoy." In the near future, he may be the Privy Councillor, and he will be among the deacons. ”

"What!?" Zhong Fu opened his mouth wide, "Wu Haogu is going to know the affairs of the Privy Council?" But he's a military attaché! ”

The Great Song Dynasty was not without military resources to know the Privy Council, but the proportion was very low, according to the statistics of later generations, only 9% of the Privy Councillor II (principal and deputy positions) were military attachés, and the rest were all civil officials.

"Your Majesty wants to train the army and use martial arts, so naturally you have to reuse the military attaché." Li Zhong said lightly.

"But he's not even 30 years old......"

If Wu Haogu is in his forties this year, no matter how much military merit he makes, it would be nothing to become a privy councillor. But Wu Haogu is only 29 years old, which is too young, right?

Li Zhong smiled: "It's true that I'm younger, but the official family can't wait for ten or eight years...... Now that the Western Thieves have been pacified, and the Khitan is getting weaker and weaker, ten or eight years later, the Son of Heaven should be in power. Do you think that no one is in charge of military training and privy council reform now? ”

"Training, but also reforming the Privy Council!?" Zhong Fu said in his heart: Wu Haogu is looking for death! When will the Great Song Dynasty be able to tolerate such a martial artist? It seems that he doesn't need to write a book to expose him, it won't be long before he will be ruined......

……

In the Chongzheng Palace, Wu Haogu was talking to Zhao Ji about his plan to march to the Great Food Country. His knowledge of the Privy Council was not implemented so quickly, Zhao Ji nodded is one thing, and the edict of Xuanma is another. Zuo Xiang Su Zhe and the Taiwan admonition system will definitely cause trouble, and Zhao Ji has to fight with them for a while before it is possible to really let Wu Haogu be the pivotal minister.

However, the "expedition" of the big food and the prelude to the era of small navigation can finally be implemented.

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom also stepped on two boats, on the one hand, they proclaimed themselves ministers to my Great Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, they accepted the official position of the Great Food Country. Moreover, the country has always put the Great Cannibal country above our court, helping the big cannibals to block the strait and prevent our ships from entering the Western Ocean......"

At present, Wu Haogu, who is still the envoy of the coastal city, is slandering Zhao Ji and slandering the innocent Three Buddhas.

"So you're going to send 8 warships and 2,000 soldiers to Srivijaya?" Zhao Ji frowned, "Is there too little force?" ”

Of course, Wu Haogu would not tell Zhao Ji that he had gathered 36 warships and more than 10,000 sailors to go to Srivijaya. Because there were not so many warships and sailors on the books of the coastal city shipbuilding division. 8 warships and 2,000 sailors are already eighty percent of the maritime forces of the coastal city.

"Not a lot." Wu Hao Gu said, "The minister has ordered the craftsmen of the Metallurgical Institute to make 200 pairs of Qizi armor and distribute them to the water master. This is enough to deter the thieves of Srivijaya! ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ji asked with interest: "Have you played the Qingtang Jia?" ”

"It's been played." Wu Haogu said, "Before the minister left the Jiehe, the Metallurgical Institute had already punched out the cold forging armor. ”

It was not much difficulty to hit the cold forging armor, and Wu Haogu had already captured half of the blacksmiths in Qingtang City to Jiehe and Haizhou. Moreover, the problem of sulfur and phosphorus in pig iron is not difficult to solve. There may not be enough wood near Xuzhou to burn charcoal, but both Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City have channels to import charcoal, which is not a problem at all.

In addition, the iron ore of Li Guojian is actually very good, low sulfur and low phosphorus, and the iron content is also high.

Therefore, the two metallurgical institutes in the north and south have already produced qualified cold forging armor. However, the production volume is still a bit low - in order to reach the level of mass production, it is necessary to solve the quality control of wrought iron, improve the design of the hydraulic hammer, and create a wider carapace to reduce the difficulty of piercing the carapace.

However, it is still possible for the two major wrought iron yards in the north and south to produce 200 pairs of scarf armor in a few months. With these 200 pairs of armor, Hu Yanqing can equip a team of ironclad soldiers to deter the Sriwijaya and control the island.

"Can you let the people of the Ordnance Supervisor go to the Metallurgical Institute of the Yuntai Academy to study?" Zhao Ji asked.

Wu Haogu smiled: "I'm afraid I can't learn it." ”

"That's right." Zhao Ji thought for a while, "Your positivist school of learning uses too many things in arithmetic, metaphysics, and physics...... Go back and let the students of the Qingcheng Academy go to the Jiehe to study. ”

"The minister must let the professors of the Yuntai Academy teach them well." Zhao Ji nodded, and said to Ji Yi again, "Ji Qing, the Three Buddhas are certainly disrespectful, but you also have to salute first and then soldier, and you can't bully them wantonly with a little force in your hands, do you know?" ”

"The minister must follow His Majesty's teachings."