"The preservation of the Ming Duke is the reason why the Great Song Dynasty has been unable to sing and dance for a long time!" Zeng Gongliang was furious and planned to leave after leaving this sentence, the so-called non-speculative more than half a sentence is like this.

Jia Changchao smiled and said: "It is common for people to have different political opinions, why should Ming Zhong speak badly and hurt people, or not, the old man will leave the court to you young people, and here is the old man's handwritten recital, so I will bother Ming Zhong to submit it to His Majesty." ”

Zeng Gongliang was extremely surprised, what did Jia Changchao mean by this, but found that Jia Changchao took out a written fold from his left sleeve and put it beside Zeng Gongliang, and then left Chengtai Hall with his sleeves flicked.

Zhao Zhen was behind the curtain, his face was pale, he was a cunning old thief, and there was only a little movement in the palace, so he could take the first step to invite himself out, and there was already evidence in the case of the defiled palace that he Jia Changchao could not get out of it.

Walking out of the curtain and seeing the stunned Zeng Gongliang, Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "People say that you Zeng Mingzhong is a good person, I didn't believe it before, but now I find that it is true." ”

Zeng Gongliang pointed to the book in his hand, and then pointed to himself, he found that the things he encountered today were all unexpected, and none of them could make him clearly position himself.

Zhao Zhen took the fold from Zeng Gongliang's hand, opened it and looked at it, then gently tapped his palm with the fold and said, "Go to work and return to your hometown?" It's too easy, isn't it? Can I laugh at the humiliation? ”

Zeng Gongliang arched his hand and said: "Please also make it clear that if Your Majesty is humiliated, Weichen will definitely fight to the death to seek justice for His Majesty." ”

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "It's your discipline to humiliate the ministers to death, but no, people just think that I won't make this matter public, so I will be so unscrupulous, so my humiliation is certain and cannot be changed, and the insult I received will be greater, and the royal face will be gone.

Didn't you come to play chess with me? Then we start, I just want to be quiet. It's good to kill on the chessboard to get rid of bad luck. ”

The suspicious Zeng Gongliang accompanied the emperor to play chess in the flower hall, and was naturally defeated by the emperor in a panic, and after a game of chess, Zhao Zhen threw the chess pieces in his hand into the lacquer box and said with a smile: "Ming Zhong is uneasy, this chess game has no taste." Since you are an honest person, don't learn from others to think too much, your practice is very good, it is natural that I am a capable minister in the Great Song Dynasty who is not suitable for these intrigues, let's talk about it, what is the important thing for you to enter the palace to see me, I don't believe that you Zeng Mingzhong will have the leisure time to come to me to play chess. This is very inconsistent with who you are. Let's talk about it, I'm at ease at this point. ”

Zeng Gongliang reluctantly put aside the doubts in his heart and said, "Your Majesty, have you ever received the new gunpowder secret recipe handed over by Yun Zheng in Shuzhong?" ”

Zhao Zhen seemed to think of something interesting and said with a smile: "I did receive it, and let the child military system be passed, the power is indeed amazing." Completely unexpected, I had already prepared the title of Lord Lieutenant of the Light Car for Yun Zheng, as a thank you for his fierce loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zeng Gongliang habitually rubbed his hands and said: "Weichen has the courage to take a look!" ”

Zhao Zhen refused without thinking a word: "No!" ”

Zeng Gongliang arched his hand with difficulty: "Why? As a military overseer, Weichen knows that the secret recipe is right. ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Zeng Gongliang's flushed face and forced a smile and said, "Fire prevention, anti-theft." Anti-Zeng Gongliang! As soon as the words came out, the emperor couldn't stop laughing, and slapped the table and shook the chess pieces that had not been put away into disarray.

It took a long time to recover, and when he looked at Zeng Gongliang's resentful face, he began to laugh again, and finally stopped laughing, and then said to Zeng Gongliang: "This is the original words of Yun Zheng, and there are thousands of reminders." If you are the master of the military secrets of the Great Song Dynasty, you have a bad habit of writing books and sayings, and if the secret of gunpowder is leaked, the Great Song Dynasty will be even more dangerous. He also ambitiously said that the secret of gunpowder must not be leaked until the Great Song Dynasty had built a strong military defense line. ”

Zeng Gongliang asked curiously: "The military defense line of the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Zhao Zhen walked to the edge of the list of rivers and mountains, scratched his hand on the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and then sat down again. When Zeng Gongliang spoke, when Yun Zheng's recital was handed over to him in the cold forest, Zhao Zhen stayed awake all night, Zou Tong held a candle and accompanied the emperor to look at the frontier of the Great Song Dynasty over and over again, if Yun Zheng's plan succeeded, Zhao Zhen thought that he could die and have an explanation to his ancestors.

Zeng Gongliang's memory is very good, the emperor just took his hand and swiped it casually, and his heart set off a storm, and he looked at the emperor suspiciously and said: "Your Majesty, if Weichen is not mistaken, you just seem to have included Qingtang, Hanhai, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and even Dali Nanzhao and Annanguo together." ”

"The high mountains are the key, the Hanhai is the barrier, the Xiongguan is the throat, the rooster cries in the east, the moon and a half in the west, the spring grass in the south, and the cold ground in the north, which is the reason why the Han and Tang Dynasties are majestic and ......."

Zhao Zhen casually recited a short paragraph, grabbed the chess pieces on the table and rubbed them casually, thought for a long time and sighed: "This is the limit of my dream......

However, some people say that it is short-sighted for Taizu to wave a jade axe by the Dadu River and say that the country of the Great Song Dynasty has come to an end, and if a country loses its desire for land, it will also lose the momentum to move forward......

It is also said that the reason why the Great Song Dynasty is now full of ills is that there are many soldiers, many officials, and less land for the people, just imagine, once the Great Song Dynasty has the sixteen states of Yanyun, the garrison of Hebei only needs two or three achievements to rely on the geographical advantages to drain the water of the border guards, and the same is true for the northwest, if Hanhai is in my hands, there is still a need to store millions of people in Huanzhou, Yongxing Military Road, and Qinfeng Road?

He also said that there were not many officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and that the structure of the stacked bed frame houses was only because there was not so much land to house these officials, and if the reality just mentioned was formed, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty might not be enough.

The Yellow River, the Huai River is the two harmful rivers of the Great Song Dynasty, the Yellow River will be diverted once in decades, each diversion will bring huge scars to the Great Song Dynasty, once the Yellow River enters the Huai River, that kind of disaster is even more painful.

The Great Song Dynasty governed the Yellow River, the Huai River has invested huge financial resources and manpower, and now the result of the transformation is to make the embankment of the Yellow River has been higher than Kaifeng City, the guy also said that if he wants to attack the city, he does not have to entangle with the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, just send cavalry to dig the embankment when the flood season of the Yellow River comes, so that Bianliang City can not attack itself. Back then, didn't Wang Qian, the fierce general of the Qin State, rely on the water to irrigate the Liang and finally destroy the powerful Wei State, there is already a precedent in history, that guy asked me if I was not worried?

If the land of the Great Song Dynasty is vast enough, the Great Song Dynasty will not have the theory of land annexation, and the Yellow River will be difficult to govern, then it will not be governed, and we will move the people away from the Yellow Flood Area, so that after every flooding of the Yellow River, it will bring a large area of fertile land to the Yellow Flood Area, where we can only grow food and not live on people. ”

Zeng Gongliang took off his official hat, scratched his hair, and said to the emperor: "This is a dream!" ”

"I know!" Zhao Zhen replied angrily, licked his dry lips and said, "Why hasn't anyone had this kind of dream before?" ”

Zeng Gongliang sighed and said, "No one dares, and no one has ever had such a strange idea. ”

"But some people say that how big the heart is, how big the future is, as long as you persevere, you will always achieve your goal in the end, that guy even mentioned the matter of breaking the sixteen states of Yanyun to be the king, and even said that in the future, if he reaches that height, he wants me to give him Qiongzhou as a fief, and he plans to ......retire there."

"Who is this man?" Zeng Gongliang gritted his teeth and asked word by word.

"Yun Zheng, aren't you talking about him?" Zhao Zhen seemed to be very happy and continued: "If he can really take back the sixteen states of Yanyun, the prince will say that it doesn't matter if Qiongzhou is given to him, anyway, it is a land of smoke and miasma......"

"Your Majesty, wake up, this is simply an unrealizable dream, this is bewitchment, Yun Zheng should be assigned to Qiongzhou!"

Zhao Zhen smiled, pointed at Zeng Gongliang and said: "People described such a scene to me in the song, which made me addicted, but it is difficult to say, this guy now has 10,000 male soldiers......"

"That's 10,000 Xiang Army, 10,000 Xiang Army who can only work and sell coolies, there are more than 30,000 mouths behind him that need to be filled, and he can be self-sufficient within ten years, and Weichen is thankful."

Zhao Zhen clicked his mouth, reluctantly left the topic and said to Zeng Gongliang: "The secret recipe of gunpowder has been burned by me, so it can only be passed on by word of mouth, the secret recipe is very simple, however, Aiqing, you have to think clearly, once you know the formula of gunpowder, you will always be under the protection of the child army, and it will be difficult to keep any privacy." ”

Zeng Gongliang didn't care about these things at all, he was now alone in Beijing, his family was still in his hometown, and there were only two old servants by his side.

As he spoke, Zhao Zhen casually wrote out the classic formula of gunpowder that Yun Zheng taught him, so that Zeng Gongliang took a look at it and personally threw the small paper ball into the small charcoal stove for cooking tea, and used fire tongs to scatter the paper ashes.

It is impossible to hide the gunpowder formula from Zeng Gongliang, and if the Great Song Dynasty wants to mass-produce gunpowder, it cannot do without Zeng Gongliang, so the emperor will tell him the ultimate secret of gunpowder after warning him.

Zeng Gongliang closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and said to the emperor suspiciously: "So simple? ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "It's that simple, those rough soldiers in the children's army can make it, and there shouldn't be any problems in your hands, but Hanlin said that the gunpowder made by the children's army itself is not as powerful as Yun Zheng's own zuò." ”

Zeng Gong nodded and said: "This is inevitable, as long as the ratio of the amount of medicine is a little worse, the effect will be very different, and the purity of those things will also affect the quality of gunpowder, Weichen will definitely pay attention to it." ”

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Chapter II