Chapter 404

Wei Hao suggested that the eldest grandson Wuji should investigate, Li Shimin knew that Wei Hao was taking revenge on the eldest grandson Wuji, but what Wei Hao said was also reasonable, and it was really appropriate for the eldest grandson Wuji to go.

After Wei Hao's suggestion was finished, Li Shimin pointed at Wei Hao and said: "Shen Yong, you suggest that the auxiliary machine go, my father knows what you mean, you want to clean him up, and my father pretends not to know." After all, he has fallen into the well several times for you, and this time, it is also a business matter, but next time it is not allowed to do this, after all, he is your uncle, and he doesn't look at other people's face, you have to look at your mother's face, understand? ”

"Father, look at what you said, I am really out of public heart!" Wei Hao immediately pretended to be confused and said, Li Shimin kicked Wei Hao, he knew that Wei Hao would definitely not admit it, but he knew that he said this, Wei Hao understood what he meant.

"By the way, father, you can't let him investigate immediately, you also know that Fang Zhizhi has just come back, and Erchen has just met his uncle, if he learns that he went by himself, he will definitely think that I did it,

Moreover, outsiders may also know, so, father, you have to wait a few days, as for the iron workshop, the retainers don't want to go, otherwise, you will punish me to prison for a few days? Wei Hao sat there, leaned his face over, and said to Li Shimin.

"Well, you think beautifully, you still have to go to the iron workshop, and now you need steel in the court, so you go and get it, just a few days, you don't have to tell me, you don't have time, you are also busy this year!" Li Shimin glared at Wei Hao and said, Wei Hao understood, just looked at Li Shimin stupidly.

"Don't look at me like that, it's settled, you still want to do nothing?" Li Shimin continued to say to Wei Hao.

"Father, I am the county magistrate of Wannian County, and the others have nothing to do with the sons, you have to know this!" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin and said.

Li Shimin ignored Wei Hao, but thought about the smuggling of iron this time, those surrounding countries actually obtained so much steel, among which the Turks, Tibetans, and Goguryeo, they must have gotten a lot, and a large part of that iron was used for weapons, especially the Turks, who did not have any agriculture there, and did not need too much pig iron at all.

"Shen Yong, you said, now that the Turks have obtained so much pig iron, it is not a good thing for us Datang, we have just finished changing our equipment, I estimate that other countries will also change their equipment soon, and when the time comes, we may not be able to take much advantage!" Li Shimin opened his mouth and said,

Wei Hao looked at him, he didn't dare to say much.

"Shen Yong, we still need to accumulate strength for two years, it's good now, if we accumulate for two years, we will clean up the Turks when the time comes, and defeat the Turks first, and Tubo and Goguryeo can be cleaned up separately!" Li Shimin said to Wei Hao,

Wei Hao heard it and nodded, he didn't know much about such a military command issue.

Li Shimin saw Wei Hao staring at him, and he didn't have the idea of expressing his opinion at all, so he immediately scolded Wei Hao: "You rabbit cub, your father-in-law is a general of the Tang Dynasty, and he has won so many battles, Hou Junji learned from your father-in-law, don't you know to go to your father-in-law to learn, you know how to play?" ”

"Play? Father, let us speak with our conscience! ”

", I mean, you have time, you have to learn more about the art of war, and now you also have martial arts, as a general, can you do it without learning the art of war?" Li Shimin stared at Wei Hao and scolded.

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it when I'm done, I'm busy now, if there's nothing to do, I'll go back, father, you have to remember what I said, don't be so fast!" Wei Hao stood up as he spoke, the matter was over, and he didn't want to stay here anymore.

"You're so busy?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao very unhappily and shouted.

"Hmm!" Wei Hao nodded affirmatively.

"!" Li Shimin immediately waved his hand at Wei Hao, angry, this rabbit cub is now hiding from himself, and he will definitely not take the initiative to get close to himself, which makes him very annoyed.

As soon as Wei Hao heard this, he turned around and left quickly,

Li Shimin saw Wei Hao leaving, and he was sitting there drinking tea, thinking about what Wei Hao said just now, this matter is too big, if it is really investigated, there must be a problem on the side of the military department, and some generals on the front line will definitely have problems, but if they don't investigate, they can't explain to those soldiers who are fighting on the border.

After Wei Hao left the palace, he went to the eastern suburbs, and now the workshop is still being built here.

After watching it for a while, Fang Zhizhi came over, Wei Hao deliberately avoided walking, but he was still caught by Fang Zhizhi, and the two of them arrived at a place where no one was.

"The matter is done, Your Majesty will investigate in a few days, what about me, it is estimated that I still have to go to the iron workshop, and the person in charge of the investigation is Qi Guogong!" Wei Hao put his hands behind his back, looked into the distance and whispered.

"Oh, okay, but, this matter, let Qi Guogong investigate, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" When Fang Yizhi heard this, he was relieved a lot, but when he thought of the eldest grandson Wuji to investigate, he was also a little worried.

"What's wrong?" Wei Hao looked at Fang Yi incomprehensibly and asked.

"This matter must have a lot to do with the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is inseparable from Hou Junji, the relationship between the Duke of Qi and Hou Junji is very good, if he is allowed to investigate, and Hou Junji learns about it, he will definitely let the eldest grandson Wuji not check those meticulous things, and it will be good to catch some substitute ghosts when the time comes, and Hou Junji will definitely be fine!" Fang Yizhi told Wei Hao about his worries,

Wei Hao heard it, smiled, and then said with a sigh: "You said the relationship between Eldest Sun Wuji and Hou Junji, does Your Majesty know?" ”

"I guess you know, right?" Fang Yi listened to it, hesitated for a moment, and nodded.

"Since Your Majesty knows, then, and send him to investigate, it is naturally Your Majesty's own will, we don't need to worry about such a thing, tomorrow you go back, before you go back, go to the palace, please Your Majesty make a holy decree, let me go to the iron mill, so that ours will be separated from this matter, and other things will have nothing to do with us." Wei Hao smiled and said directly to Fang Yi.

"Well, it's okay, anyway, how to deal with it is also Your Majesty's business, it has nothing to do with us, we just found the problem, as for how to solve the problem, it is Your Majesty's business!" When Fang Yi heard this, he also smiled and nodded, as long as they are safe,

The next day, Fang Zhizhi went to the palace and asked to meet His Majesty, Li Shimin summoned Fang Zhizhi, Fang Zhizhi stated that there is a lot of demand for steel in the iron mill now, and although the pig iron is in great demand, but as a workshop in the court, it is mainly to meet the needs of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, and now he asks for an additional steel furnace and asks Wei Hao to go to the iron mill to assist in the construction.

Fang Yizhi also said that he had gone to Wei Hao several times, but Wei Hao just didn't go, Fang Yizhi hoped to let Li Shimin make an order and ask Wei Hao to go to the iron fang.

At noon that day, the holy decree arrived at the county government of Wannian County, and after Wei Hao received the decree, he asked Fang Zhizhi to go first, and then he went back.

But it wasn't until three days later that Wei Hao set off from Chang'an and went to the iron workshop, and when they arrived at the iron workshop, Fang Zhizhi and they all came out to greet him.

"I said you guys are comfortable here, four people are here, and they are in charge of this iron mill?" After Wei Hao dismounted, he said to the eldest grandson.

"It's very comfortable, you don't come, if you come, we will be comfortable!" Eldest Sun Chong said to Wei Hao with a smile.

"I want to too, but your father won't let me, and now that I'm a small county commander, I can only take my time!" Wei Hao said with a pretended loss on his face.

"My God, Shen Yong, you can't be like this, but I still admire you the most, a Wannian County, up to now, has become a big county that pays taxes in the court, and you have been a county magistrate for less than half a year, this is the ability, everyone knows, the next Wannian County will not be short of money! Otherwise, when don't you want to be it, let me be it? Xiao Rui asked Wei Hao with a smile.

"What are you kidding, you are the person who is the county magistrate, you are probably transferred to the Ministry of Industry, or in charge of other workshops!" Wei Hao smiled and said.

"I feel comfortable being the county magistrate of Wannian County, Shen Yong, think about it, you don't deserve it, consider thinking about it, brothers!" Changsun Chong also said to Wei Hao with a smile.

"Okay, then I must consider the brothers, however, I guess Your Majesty will not easily give you such a high position, this position is what you came back to take after serving in the field, now you still have to manage the iron mill and then talk about it, it is useless to say anything else, now you are estimated that you will not be transferred!" Wei Hao smiled and said.

"Come, please, please, here, we have built a hospitality building, which is decorated with good things, and the tea bought from your house, now our iron mill is very rich, brothers, too!" Fang Yi said to Wei Hao with a smile.

"Okay, let's see!" Wei Hao nodded, and when he arrived at the reception building, he found that the decoration inside was indeed good, and there were many conference rooms, all of which had tea tables.

And Wei Hao also found that there were people coming in and out of many rooms, and when he saw Wei Hao coming, they all stood there respectfully and bowed, Wei Hao nodded, and went to the largest tea room inside.

"Who's that guy? So many people in your iron shop accompany him? A middle-aged man asked a man on the other side of the ironshop.

"He is the founder of our iron mill, and he should be the prince of Xia Guo!" The people in the iron workshop said very proudly that he had also worked under Wei Hao before, and it was an official of the Ministry of Industry who had reported to Wei Hao.

"He, he's Xia Guogong?" The middle-aged man heard it and said in shock. The man in the iron workshop nodded.

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, eh, you say, if I can convince Xia Guogong, then I want to contract the excavation of coal, is it a trivial matter?" The middle-aged man said with emotion.

"How is it possible, Xia Guogong won't care about such a thing, of course, if Xia Guogong speaks openly, then the people below us will definitely do it!" The people in the iron workshop immediately shook their heads with a smile and said, can he still convince Wei Hao? Officials in the capital, who doesn't know Wei Hao? Who doesn't know that Wei Haofu is invincible?

And after Wei Hao arrived at the tea room, he took a look at the decoration here, and it was indeed very good.

"You guys, if you're so bold, aren't you afraid that the supervision office will come to check the accounts when the time comes?" Wei Hao looked at it for a moment, then sat down and spoke.

"We applied to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry agreed, we only built, besides, this money was returned to us by the court, we are free to use, the construction of the construction is good, you don't know, we have built two bathhouses here, and also built two schools, these are allowed!" Fang Yi sat directly under Wei Hao, and reported to Wei Hao,

"That's the way it is, but you are like this, those officials know about it, and it is indispensable to impeach you, but it's nothing, as long as I'm not here, those officials probably won't impeach, if I'm here, hehe, those officials won't let go here, they just want to find my mistake now!" Wei Hao said to the few of them with a smile.

"Shen Yong, you, you still need to ease the relationship with them, it's not a thing if it goes on like this, is it?" Fang Yi said directly to Wei Hao.

"Pull them down, I look down on them, really, they are all pedantic people, but when it comes to their own interests, they are better than ghosts, and when it comes to the interests of other people, they just pretend to be confused, hum, they are all self-interested, and they are so noble on the surface, I just look down on them like this." Wei Hao sneered and shook his head to show contempt,

They heard it, and it was hard to say anything.

"Come, Shen Yong, drink tea!" Xiao Rui poured tea for Wei Hao, Wei Hao nodded, sat there drinking tea, and began to talk about the things on the iron mill.

The next day, Wei Hao took the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to start preparing for the construction of a new steel furnace, and in the next two days, Wei Hao was also on the side of the iron mill. As soon as the eldest grandson Wuji arrived at the study, he found that Li Shimin asked all the people in the study to come out, and he also confessed that he didn't come out, and no one was allowed to come in and disturb.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with this?" When the eldest grandson Wuji saw such a scene, he sighed in his heart, thinking that something big had happened, so he immediately looked at Li Shimin and asked.

"Sit down!" Li Shimin didn't say much, just asked the eldest grandson Wuji to sit down, the eldest grandson Wuji sat down very nervously, and his head was moved, thinking about whether he had any handle in Li Shimin's hands, but after thinking about it, there should be no.

"What I told you today, you can't say to anyone, remember!" Li Shimin said very seriously to the eldest grandson Wuji.

"Yes, Your Majesty, don't worry!" When the eldest grandson Wuji heard this, his heart relaxed a lot, thinking that this matter probably had little to do with him, otherwise, Li Shimin would not have said this to himself. Li Shimin took a look at the eldest grandson Wuji, who was sitting in danger at the moment, knowing that the matter must be not small.

"Recently, I learned a news, saying that I have at least 1.5 million catties of pig iron in the Tang Dynasty recently, which has been lost to Tubo, Goguryeo, and Turkic, and there may be a maximum of 5 million catties.

Moreover, the profits are amazing, they have benefited at least 60,000 yuan, and even reached 200,000 yuan, if all of them are not well organized, it is impossible to transport those pig irons! Li Shimin sat there and said,

And the eldest grandson Wuji was dumbfounded at the moment, he didn't expect it to be such a big thing.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. I'm afraid it's a rumor, it can't be true, right? The eldest grandson Wuji stared at Li Shimin and said in disbelief.

"Really, I already have the exact news, now I need to find evidence, and I also need to know how many people are involved, this matter, I will hand it over to you to investigate, you, immediately replace me to patrol the border, and at the same time secretly investigate this matter,

Of course, the important thing is that your deputy, that is, the general to investigate, what about you, responsible for the central scheduling, so much pig iron has been transported, you should know, how much impact this will have on our Datang, once the fight starts, the soldiers on the front line who suffer losses, those generals are simply crazy, and dare to take such money! Li Shimin gritted his teeth, his tone was very stern, and he wanted to kill those people.

"Your Majesty, this!" At this moment, the eldest grandson Wuji's mind is running rapidly, a little chaotic,

Thinking about this matter, I'm afraid it's not true, and thinking that if it's true, it must have something to do with the military department, and in addition, I'm also thinking about why His Majesty sent himself over instead of others, whether it was to trust himself, or to say other reasons,

In addition, if you go by yourself, will there be any danger, this time it involves so much money, and it is to investigate the generals who are in charge of the army, if you don't do it well, they will die and the net will be broken, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to return to the capital at that time.

"I know that you definitely don't believe it, but I tell you that it's true, and now it needs to be investigated, and it needs to be investigated secretly, so that those generals can't know about it, and I want to clean them up completely!" Li Shimin sat there and said to the eldest grandson Wuji.

"Yes, the minister went to investigate, but the minister had no clue!" The eldest grandson Wuji had already subconsciously wanted to excuse this matter in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it clearly, he could only say that he didn't know where to start the investigation.

"Just start the investigation from the flow of pig iron in Chang'an City, Luoyang, Taiyuan, and Huazhou, I believe that you will definitely be able to find out, what I need now is how many people are involved, they disregard the safety of the Tang Dynasty, I will not spare them, this time you go out, take 5,000 cavalry out, at the same time, I will also order the troops along the way, you can mobilize the soldiers of the surrounding cities at any time!" Li Shimin continued to comfort the eldest grandson Wuji and said,

When the eldest grandson Wuji heard this, he didn't want to go even more, but now that Li Shimin told himself about it, I'm afraid it won't work if he doesn't go, but if he can recommend someone to go, it is estimated that there will be no problem.

"Your Majesty, in this matter, it may be more appropriate for the minister to recommend Wei Hao to go, as His Majesty's son-in-law, and he is very familiar with the pig iron, it would be better for him to investigate." The eldest grandson Wuji immediately said to Li Shimin.