When Liu Che walked into the hall of Jiaguan, he saw dozens of low-level bureaucrats burying their heads in calculating the expenditure books piled up in the hall like a hill.

It has only been more than two months since the uterus was back in operation.

However, the accounts generated have piled up.

Up and down in this palace, tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, no matter how big or small, are recorded in these account books.

Seeing Liu Che coming, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi, who were urging, hurriedly stepped forward.

As the person in charge of the province that Liu Che made up, it is their duty to account for and supervise these accounts.

In the past two days, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi have been squatting here almost undressed, liquidating and checking the money and food spent one by one.

It's a stupid solution, but it's also a very effective one.

The result of the audit in the past two days is that there are seven or eight fewer people in Liu Che's uterus.

They are all moths who try to falsify accounts and fish in troubled waters.

Thinking of this, Liu Che was a little angry, he was too womb, and just after it opened, there were corrupt people.

Will you have it in the future?

In order to make an example of him, Liu Che was also merciless to those who were found out, and all of them were sent to the Tingwei Yamen to be punished.

"Did you find any problems today?" As soon as Liu Che met, he got straight to the point and asked.

Zhang Tang and Yan Yi glanced at each other in private and smiled bitterly.

In the past two days, the reputation of the two of them has been ruined.

Because of the successive throwing people to the Tingwei Yamen, this is too womb up and down. They are all saying that the two of them 'disregard the feelings of their colleagues' and 'have no personal touch'.

Zhang Tang was different from Yan Yi, but he felt that he was really wronged.

The order to remove the moths was given by the prince. It was also the crown prince who asked for them to be transferred to the court commander's yamen.

But the fellow villagers and clans of those who were transferred blamed the two of them for all the qiē.

Especially Yan Yi, because he ran two officials who were both Confucians, he was very uncomfortable this year.

At this moment, the two of them understood why the prince wanted to tinker with the three-province system.

Under the three-province system, offend people's lives. It's all the courtiers.

But the prince can be detached!

"Back to my home, I audited the expenses of last year's Sixian Garden today, and found that there were a few payments that were not normal. In addition, the prince Zhongdun Sima is similar, there are a few expenses, and they are not very compliant...... "Zhang Tang replied: "There is more." This year's grain purchase. There are also two expenditures, which do not match the account books here of the minister......"

"Look at ...... alone" Liu Che heard this, and immediately became serious.

Even if it's in Sixian Garden, it's a dilapidated house over there, with wind on all sides, and the cats inside are dazzling.

Most of the officials arrested in this audit were planted on the side of Sixian Yuan.

As for Sima Xiangru. Liu Che estimated that he might have taken the money to drink flower wine, as long as the amount was not large. Liu Che didn't bother to care about him.

After all, there will always be something wrong with an excellent literati!

It's just that there is a problem in this grain purchase?

It's unbearable!

It must be investigated!

Yan Yi then handed the problematic account book to Liu Che, Liu Che took it and looked at it, Sixian Yuan, there was a sum of 30,000 yuan that was recorded as the cost of palace repairs.

Liu Che handed the account book to Wang Dao behind him, and instructed: "Go check and check it, find out, if it is an official, let Zhang Tang issue a document and transfer it to Tingwei, if it is a eunuch slave and maid, you can do it yourself!" ”

"No!" Wang Dao took it and nodded: "The slave knows!" ”

In the past two days, there have been four or five eunuchs in the palace who have been killed with rods alone, and they are all unclean hands and feet.

Liu Che was heavy on these guys who stretched out their hands indiscriminately, especially the eunuchs, as soon as they found out.

Although he also knows that such harsh laws cannot eradicate corruption at all.

However, if this is not done, corruption will be even more rampant.

Then he looked at Sima Xiangru's expenditure bill again.

It's all a few hundred dollars, more than a thousand dollars, Liu Che only glanced at it, he didn't bother to look at it, and said to Zhang Tang: "In the future, Sima Xiangru's bill, as long as it is not too excessive, let him go...... By the way, tell Sima Xiangru, Flower Street and Willow Lane, let's go a few less trips, it's insulting to Sven, and finding a good family to marry is the right way! ”

Sima Xiangru has been a frequent visitor to Willow Lane in Flower Street recently.

It is very popular with the bosses of Chang'an's red light district.

The whereabouts of this goods, Liu Che knows it clearly, and even these expenses are specially approved by Liu Che, otherwise, how could Ji Di agree to allocate money?

For Sima Xiangru, a deep-rooted stubborn disease of literati, Liu Che has no choice.

can only pay for his romance.

Otherwise, if there is a fuss like Li Taibai's 'Son of Heaven can't come to the court', it will really be ridiculous for eternity, it is better to eat and drink well, write poems and write poems, and praise the Han Dynasty, it will be your own Guo Moruo.

Looking at food spending, it's more complicated.

It also took Liu Che a little time to figure out what was going on.

Those few problematic expenditures are hidden in some normal expenditures, playing tricks like fire consumption.

Liu Che sneered twice and said, "Zhang Qing, who is the person who handles these payments?" ”

Zhang Tang then said a name.

Liu Che frowned slightly when he heard this.

This person still has some backgrounds, and he can probably have something to do with the Dou family, no wonder, he dares to play tricks on this project that Liu Che focuses on.

After thinking about it, Liu Che said: "Let's get started!" ”

This is also a helpless choice.

Prince Jiang fought tigers in Shanghai, facing the Kong family and the Song family, probably such a helpless method.

can only say that Journey to the West really writes all kinds of officialdom.

After dealing with these things, Liu Che said to Zhang Tang: "A few days ago, what Gu Mingqing did in Sixian Yuan, now, how is it going?" ”

These days, because there is a war. Therefore, Liu Che also observed and understood the current standing equipment of the Han army at close range.

He found a problem, and that was the armor in the army. The penetration rate is quite low.

Zhou Yafu's army of 100,000 soldiers, the soldiers who can wear armor, at most 10,000, and the remaining 90,000, all of them are unarmored soldiers.

Even those who have armor and can wear iron armor are all officers at the level of Sima or even captain. Most of the soldiers were wearing leather armor.

Of course Liu Che has changed this situation!

In the history of mankind. The pinnacle of armor defense in the Cold Weapon Age, there is no doubt that the plate armor that was at its peak in the Middle Ages in Europa is the first to be recommended.

Early plate armor was already effective against bows and arquebuses.

At the peak of their development, the Europeans relied on plate armor. There are many classic examples of battles.

Although Liu Che didn't quite want to admit it. But the fact is that plate armor, regardless of defensive capabilities or anything else, is more suitable for war than the eastern armor and scale armor.

In particular, plate armor is reproducible in mass manufacturing and production, and uniform standards.

And for the Han family at this time.

One of the difficulties that plagued the plate armor technology of the first Europeans was the lack of iron production, and there was no zài.

Last year, the total output of pig iron in the country exceeded one million catties, about 500,000 catties in later generations. It is roughly equivalent to the output of 50,000 tons of pig iron, which is enough to support the Han family to expand its army at a rate of 5,000 pairs of plate armor per year.

After the earth-based blast furnace steelmaking is launched. It can make all those who are enemies of the Han family desperate.

Therefore, for China now, the only technical difficulty is the breakthrough of hydraulic forging technology.

Liu Che felt that this should not be a problem.

Of course, the kind of bulky fool's target with his whole body in an iron shell and impermeable in an iron shell, as in the medieval war in Europa, did not work in the East.

Liu Che didn't plan to get on the horse with a fool class like the Iron Floating Massacre.

The kind of goods that have been eliminated by history, Liu Che still can't look at it.

What Liu Che really wanted to develop was the kind of cuirassiers that were in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

When Zhang Tang heard this, his face was embarrassed, and he reported: "Back to the family, according to your request, the minister has gathered more than 100 craftsmen to discuss the feasibility of this matter, but this matter has never been done for a long time, please give the minister some time to ponder slowly......"

Liu Che nodded and said, "It's okay, don't be too anxious, if you need anything, you can tell Gu directly, money, people, and food are not a problem!" ”

The use of water to forge this technique was still too advanced for the craftsmen of the time.

But it doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to spend money and time, you can always research it.

Moreover, as long as this thing is studied, it can lead the scientific level of the entire Han family to take a big leap forward.

Some of these principles can be applied to the waterwheels and water-powered mills associated with them.

Out of Jiaguan, Liu Che thought about it, and it was not suitable to rely on Zhang Tang alone to be responsible for technical research.

Zhang Tang didn't eat technical rice either.

At best, he can be a well-rounded boss.

However, communicating with the craftsmen, brainstorming, and coming up with solutions is still the most powerful in the Mo family!

It's a pity that the Mo family at this time can avoid the government, and few people are willing to go out.

"Yang Zizhong ......" Liu Che muttered this name in his mouth, thinking about his face in his previous life, so he instructed Wang Dao: "Send someone to Luoyang East City, find the son of a businessman named Yang Yi, remember, this person is about twenty-two years old this year, he has a heavy appearance, and he is the best at fiddling with instruments, so invite him to Chang'an!" ”

Although Wang Dao didn't know why the prince ordered this, how did the prince know that there was such a person.

But it doesn't matter, that's what minions do.

So he knelt down and said, "No! ”

Yang Yi at this moment, in fact, to be honest, Liu Che didn't want to summon him so early.

Because, the Mo family technical expert in the previous life, at this time, the technical level has not been exercised, and there is no level like the previous life.

But there is no way, there is a lack of such people under his hands.

No matter what you say, Yang Yi is also a serious descendant of the Mo family, and he has a natural talent for technical problems.

Inviting him to Chang'an to preside over the research and development of hydraulic forging technology should be the most suitable person.

………………………………………………

Two days later, the eastern capital of Luoyang.

A young man was barefoot, fiddling with many instruments in the yard.

He stared at these strange-shaped machines nervously, and there were words in his mouth: "My Mo family ancestor said three tables, if my invention can be successful, it should be a great achievement, and I should be able to leave a name in history!" Hahahaha......"

He clenched his fists and shouted, "Get moving, Wood Eagle!" ”

Then it turns a strange wooden build.

Click, click, click, the strange instrument began to move.

Then, with a snap, the shelves fell apart.

The young man sighed in disappointment: "Hey, I failed again......"

Ever since he was eighteen years old, he had been determined to create a strange thing like the one that had been lost in the public class, a wooden bird that could fly.

It's a pity that time and time again, I have encountered failures.

At this moment a woman walked by the front of the courtyard, and when she saw this, she frowned, and looked extremely disgusted.

"Yang Xin, don't you care about your brother?" The woman crossed her waist and said to a cringing man behind her, "I know how much it has cost me to fiddle with these instruments all these years?" ”

The man named Yang Xin could only accompany the smiling face honestly and comforted the woman: "Xijun, don't be angry, it's all a family, besides, isn't it okay for my father?" ”

"Humph!" The woman twisted her waist fiercely and said, "Sooner or later, this family will be defeated by your brother!" ”

But there was nothing she could do.

This family is the master of the house, but the father-in-law.

And that father-in-law, for his youngest son Yang Yi, is very precious, not to mention that Yang Yi is tinkering with those obscene skills at home every day, even if he wants to pick the stars in the sky, I am afraid he will indulge him.

Thinking about these things, she felt very aggrieved.

Tuk tuk!

At this moment, there was a sharp knock on the door.

"Who!" The woman was already in a bad mood, and when she heard this unceremonious knock on the door, she immediately became angry, and naturally she was not polite in her words.

She stepped forward, opened the courtyard door, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of her.

I saw a large number of heavily armed soldiers standing at the door.

The first person, this woman still recognized, was an official in charge of the East City in Luoyang City, as if her surname was Wang.

usually saw her, and this surnamed Wang was eager to swallow her into his stomach.

But at this moment, the surnamed Wang was full of smiles, a flattering smile on her face, and he bent over to laugh with her.

The woman was startled.

Recently, there has been a lot of panic in the market, it is the rebellion of King Wu, and the official army is attacking and suppressing, and there are still secret agents of Wu in the city.

"Could it be that my family is in trouble?" The woman was instantly frightened and at a loss, and hurriedly said, "Everyone, what's the matter with coming to the cold house?" My adults went out on business...... If there is anything to do, please come back later......"

"Yang Zhang, can your Erlang be at home?" The one surnamed Wang asked with a smile.

"Erlang? ......" Yang Zhang's teeth chattered a little, and these heavily armed soldiers at the door reminded her of a very bad thing.

"Could it be that Erlang's affair happened?" She just felt like her legs were swinging.

The people of the Mo family, the government is very unwelcome!

But the next moment, the voice of the official surnamed Wang solved her out of the abyss: "Yang Zhang, hurry up and call your Erlang out, Chang'an has a nobleman, and I want to invite your Erlang to Chang'an to enjoy happiness and be a big official!" ”

Changan? Be a big official? Enjoy?

Yang Zhang's face changed in an instant, he pinched it, twisted his waist, and shouted inside: "Uncle, uncle, there is a distinguished guest from Chang'an looking for you!" ”

Yang Xin on the side was a little dumbfounded when he saw it.

When has this wife ever been so kind to her brother?

But then he reacted.

That stupid brother of his own, I'm afraid I'm going to soar this time, right?

The realm of Luoyang extends in all directions, and Yang Xin has heard all kinds of rumors and stories.

So, he also hurriedly shouted: "Brother, brother......"

The younger brother is developed, and he who is the elder brother can also follow the light, right? (To be continued......)

PS: Wait for another chapter, 10,000 words today, and everything will be done!