This Wang Ju didn't say anything more, and Zhao Niannu didn't ask, but said, "What did you do when you came today?" ”

If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, Wang Julai is definitely not talking about sucrose.

Wang Ju said what he meant.

Maybe Zhao Shibai was unintentional, but in this eventful season, how could Wang Ju not suspect that there was a conspiracy behind it. Zhao 18 sent a matchmaker to ask for a kiss, but he definitely didn't agree, in case there was a conspiracy behind it, at the slightest instigation, Zhao 18 would hate himself, and even take other clan disciples to hate him. But Wang Ju is not easy to explain, and he can't explain, why are you sure you will be able to enter the Chinese book in the future?

Wang Ju had no choice but to find Zhao Niannu.

Zhao Niannu also felt strange after hearing this: "Why? I'll go to the official's house for you and tell you about it. ”

After making a detour, two days later, Zhao Ji personally came to the Ordnance Prison and brought someone over.

Wang Ju looked at Zhang Ji strangely: "Husband, why are you ......?"

Zhao Ji rushed in front of Zhang Qi and said: "Zhang Qi wrote a performance a few days ago, asking the imperial court to allocate some armor to the Baojie army, so I issued an edict to let him go to Beijing to report on his work. ”

The profits of the sugar workshop were allocated to Zheng Baiqu, but the income in the first year was still limited, just hundreds of thousands, and he could only cast weapons, and even casting weapons was not enough, so don't think about armor. But the Western Xia attacked again, and Zhang Qi also realized that the war would break out at any time, so these tens of thousands of Baojie troops would also go to the battlefield at any time, and he couldn't wait, so he wrote this twist.

In fact, it is not only the Northwest Battlefield, but also the River Huang.

However, Zhang Ji still ignored Zhao Ji's attention to these tens of thousands of Baojie troops, and a few days ago, Zhao Ji deliberately convened the two government governors in the political hall to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the government soldiers and the cantonment army system.

There is a background behind this, Wang Anshi's open source has caused a commotion all over the world, so it is best to put the idea on throttling. Throttling can only save two major expenses, redundant officials and redundant soldiers, it is very troublesome to directly reduce officials, look at Wang Ju's various things in the ordnance supervision, that is still a grassroots official, so the only idea is still redundant soldiers.

The previous reduction of troops was very severe, and it could not be cut again, and this Zhao Ji also discussed with Wang Anshi, at least until the border army was not increased, this number could not be reduced. But now there are more than 1.1 million forbidden soldiers, box soldiers, Baojie troops, Fan troops and native soldiers in the Song Dynasty. This does not include militias such as volunteers, strong men, archers, and strongmen, although these militias are not paid, but they are somewhat subsidized. That is, after such a large-scale reduction of troops, this military expenditure is still a staggering amount.

Therefore, after Zhao Ji saw Zhang Qi's performance, he immediately summoned Zhang Qi to the capital, not only asking how the tens of thousands of Baojie troops were, but also asking Cai Ting and Wang Shao in Tuntian, Weizhou and Qinzhou.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, the minister is now only responsible for the affairs of the ordnance prison and the manufacture of the armor in the ordnance prison, and who the armor is made to be allocated is free for His Majesty and the two governments to decide." ”

Zhao Ji asked: "Will Western Xia still invade our dynasty?" ”

"This has to be seen, if the Western Xia has a bumper harvest year after year, and the Liang family is unruly, they will lose the Suide army, and they will inevitably invade and retaliate against our dynasty."

Zhao Ji turned his head and asked Zhang Qi: "Have there been any disasters in the past two years over there in Western Xia?" ”

Zhang Qi shook his head.

Zhao Ji frowned, and Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the Liang family is far from being comparable to Li Yuanhao." ”

"Compared with Guo Kui and Wang Shao, who is better than the military?"

Guo Kui can make do with it, at least a hundred times stronger than Ge Huaimin and Han Qi, but what does Guo Kui use to compare with Wang Shao, but this Wang Ju is not easy to say: "Your Majesty, it is difficult for the minister to know, but seeing Wang Shao persuade Bao Shun alone, this courage alone can be comparable to Wang Xuance and Ban Chao, and the minister thinks that his military talent will not be bad." ”

Zhao Jixi said, "Take me to see the armor." ”

"Whoa."

Wang Ju first took Zhao Ji to see the knife, this is the easiest to compare, Wang Ju asked Xu to open a knife, and then found a knife produced in the warehouse a year ago, cut each other, the original knife was almost split in half at a point, and the gap was split to the back of the knife.

"Can it be compared to the beauty of the Peach Creek Sword?"

"No, if you want to produce a sword like the Taoxi Sword, the Ordnance Supervisor can also do it, but its cost is too high, but now at least half of the armor in the army is unqualified, including the sword, these armor must be replaced in time, and it is impossible to manufacture it like the Taoxi Sword."

Zhao Ji sighed slightly.

Wang Ju took Zhao Ji to look at the Divine Arm Bow again, Zhao Ji tried it, but he also pulled it full, although he pulled it very hard, and said: "This new bow is good." ”

"Although the new bow is good, the cost is too high."

Speaking of money, it's still money, so Wang Ju's evaluation of the long piece that Su Dongpo wrote painstakingly is intrigued, is it wrong for the country to be rich and strong?

After reading the Divine Arm Bow, Wang Jucai took Zhao Ji to look at the armor.

This armor is still the kind of armor made by Wang Ju in Huachi, but the price of the capital is expensive, and there are no free handymen, so the production cost is higher.

Zhao asked: "How many sets can be made in this year?" ”

"If the funds are sufficient, we can produce more than 60,000 sets a year."

"Can you have more?"

"Your Majesty, money." Wang Judao.

In fact, it is very good to be able to manufacture more than 60,000 sets a year, this is Wang Ju's use of an assembly-line production method, otherwise the output will be lower, after all, it is armor, and the armor pieces are slowly created one by one.

But this output is not too small, and there are various workshops will also produce some armor, the two cooperate, as long as this output can be maintained, five years can be used to replace all the unqualified armor of the forbidden army, as well as cloth armor and leather armor, paper armor, nine years, including the border army, all of them.

Then, like that time in history, at least the entire army can use the new armor.

However, that is impossible, just say that these more than 60,000 sets of armor, it will cost more than 2 million guan, this is Wang Ju is here, Wang Ju is not there, all aspects reach out to get a little, then it will cost more than 3 million guan, the armor is only a part, and there are expenses for various hospitals. The armor alone costs 10 million yuan a year, Zhao Ji agrees, and the ministers will not agree.

Zhang Qi smiled, and then reached out to check the weight of the armor, as for the quality, he didn't care too much, with Wang Ju's check, it would not be bad if he wanted to.

In fact, this weight has always been very sad in the Song Dynasty in history. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Song and Liao did not attach importance to armor, and it was rare to have full armor, so Li Jilong used Tian Jing's heavy cavalry to kill Yelu Xiuge alive.

It wasn't until the Song and Xia battles that Li Yuanhao's cold-forged heavy armor, especially the Iron Harrier, repeatedly defeated the Song army, so Tian Guojian craftsmen used cold anvils to create pure steel armor, and the Song Dynasty's Buren armor appeared. Then to the Jin country, Song and Jin fought, because the foot armor is cumbersome, defeat is the annihilation of the whole army, and the victory is because of the clumsy speed, can not gallop, the order is not taken, no reason to capture, so more light armor, long but not knee, can not wear elbows, and the vest is easy to be leather armor.

Therefore, this kind of light steel armor created by Wang Ju killed the Western Xia people dumbfounded in the battle of Dashun City. However, the Xixia people are not bad, seeing its wonders, they are also imitating it, but they are trapped in finances, they are not very armed, and they have not obtained carbon tempering technology, and the quality is not as good as the current light armor.

However, Wang Ju was still very dissatisfied, after all, the weight reached thirty catties, which still slowed down the marching speed.

It's just that he doesn't have the economy or energy to develop bone china armor, and he may not succeed.

Wang Ju's thoughts Zhao Ji didn't know, in short, after looking at a few libraries of armor, Zhao Ji was very satisfied, and said: "Wang Qing, I solved your matter for you." ”

Wang Ju understood that incident and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

After Zhao Ji finished speaking, he left the ordnance prison, leaving the two to talk.

"Zi'an, the official asked the armor just now, why didn't you say it?"

If the armor is created, it will not always be kept in the armory, and it will inevitably be redressed for the soldiers of each battalion. If Zhang Qi didn't want it, most of the imperial court would have changed the clothes of the forbidden soldiers. However, a larger war is coming, and God knows where these forbidden soldiers will be at that time. The worst thing was to change the clothes of the Guards Forbidden Army, which was purely an ornament and could not be sent into battle at all.

"Brother Qianfu, you don't understand, the two chiefs of Xifu are Duke Wen and Duke Lu, they like to be quiet, plus they have a tacit relationship with Sima Gong, and I am evil with Sima Gong, so they don't like me much, it's better if I don't say it, once I say it, you can't get any armor."

"But the big war is imminent."

"It's a big war that is coming, and maybe Wang Shao will open the border river in a year or two, but His Majesty was afraid of everyone's opposition, so he didn't say anything."

"It's possible, but it's more important."

What Wang Shao is doing now is to digest Yu Longke, that is, Bao Shun's subordinate department, and the second is to store grain and grass in Tuntian, once the preparation is completed, eight or nine times out of ten he can send troops to Hehuang, others can't see it, but Zhang Qi can definitely see it.

"How, you can ask Zhang Zihou."

Zhang Qi also heard about the situation in the imperial court, but he didn't expect it to be so strict, so he said silently: "Then I didn't come here for nothing?" ”

"No, you were specially summoned to Beijing to report on your work, I think your majesty agreed, I will teach you a strategy."

"What's the solution?"

"You write another letter to Xifu, only one thing, this year's Xixia invasion of the Suide Army is just a temptation, I am afraid that the scale will be larger in the future, and Xifu will take the initiative to enlarge the amount of armor given to the Baojie Army."

Zhang Kai thought.

"Brother Qianfu, if a large-scale battle starts, as long as the Baojie Army is equipped, the Baojie Army will definitely be used, and the Baojie Army will save costs, what do you think the two guilds of Lu Wen think?"

Zhang Qi smiled bitterly and said, "Zi'an, after listening to your words, I feel a little suffocated in my heart. ”

"Don't use it, if it's not like this, how can there be so many dynastic changes throughout the ages? You hold your breath, but you are not in the capital, but I am in the capital. In fact, after the ordnance supervisor is over, I also plan to find a way to leave the capital. ”

"Then come to the Northwest."

"I'm afraid it's unlikely."

"Doesn't the imperial court value your military talents?"

"It is precisely because of the importance that some people don't want me to make meritorious contributions, and some people don't want me to do too much."

"However, it is the husband of Jiefu."

"His Majesty summoned me to Beijing precisely because he wanted me to assist Jiefu Gong to change the law, but I didn't agree, God knows what Jiefu Gong thought in his heart."

"How is Jiefu Gong?"

"Please see King Fang Du Li."

"Who is King Li?" Fang Du Zhangqi knew that Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were obscure.

"Li Xin, Wang Dan."

Needless to say, the most powerful internal governance of the Song Dynasty in the Song Dynasty, Li Xin has to occupy half of the credit. Wang Dan's evaluation is a little complicated, especially since he has served as prime minister for so many years, he actually did not stop Song Zhenzong from worshipping the great god, so that he repented before his death and asked his son to shave off his hair and put on monk's clothes and bury him. But the strange thing is that when he was the prime minister, no matter how Song Zhenzong worshiped the great gods, the Song Dynasty could continue to maintain development, prosperity and stability, but it was really unclear what Wang Dan did. There can also be a comparison, after Wang Dan's death, Kou Zhun and Ding Wei were the prime ministers of the two strongmen, looking at the chaos of the Song Dynasty in those years, it was not as good as Liu E presiding over the state affairs.

"I understand, so shouldn't the law of the ancestors be changed?"

"I'll just say one thing, Buddhism. Everyone in the world accused Zhou Shizong of arranging the Buddha, so he was retributed, but Taizu went to Xiangguo Temple and asked Xiangguo Temple host Zanning, this Buddha, should I worship, Zanning helplessly said, if it is the past Buddha, His Majesty Xià is the present Buddha, and the present Buddha does not worship the past Buddha. Taizu just gave it up. I towards the heavy rain does not stop, Taizu sent people to Longmen Guanghua Temple fearless three Tibetan pagoda in front of the Buddha to make a declaration, if the rain does not stop, the tower will be demolished. Then to Taizong, when there was a monk in Jiangdong who wrote that he was willing to build a big temple for the Buddha, and when the temple was completed, he was willing to burn his body to repay it. Taizong Zhuzhi, the temple was completed, and Shaoqin, the guard of the Taizong faction, came. The monk disagreed, saying that I went to the capital to burn myself in front of His Majesty, but Wei Shaoqin ignored it, and threw the monk directly into the fire pit, and then told Taizong that he had already done something. However, how many ministers do not believe in Buddhism now? ”

"But Taizu Taizong ......" Although the two are friends, Zhang Qi didn't dare to say it, but it means that the two emperors will not die well, Zhao Kuangyin died unexplained, and Zhao Kuangyi was born with an inflamed wound, and almost rotted his legs to the bones and died.

"But what about Zhenzong, what about Renzong." Song Zhenzong believed in Buddhism, but he also died of illness, not to mention Song Renzong, who was a famous Ren Emperor in history, but none of his sons survived, and he finally raised an adopted son, and also made a Puyi dispute. As for Zhao Shu, not to mention, the real Xianshi Bao, in his thirties, only served as an uncomfortable emperor for three or four years, and then died of illness.

"However, it is impossible to change the law quietly."

"Brother Qianfu, has Taizong changed the system of Taizu, Zhenzong initiated the rule of Xianping, and Renzong has changed again, but when have they shouted to change the law?"

"I understand, Fang Du Li Wang is difficult to learn, but you can learn Zi'an, no matter what, do it and talk about it."

"Hahaha," Wang Juju laughed, and slapped Zhang Ji with a fist again. R1152