Chapter 420

Duan Lun came to Wei Hao and said that there was something, Wei Hao was there to make him tea, and motioned for Duan Lun to continue.

"Shen Yong, this time the Ministry of War transferred two batches of pig iron to the border, one batch is 200,000 catties, one batch is 300,000 catties, and at the beginning of the year, it also transferred 600,000 catties to the border, saying that it is preparing for war.

However, it is summer now, there is no war, and the Turks will not come to our side to rob the money at this time, he said that he is ready, saying that His Majesty may solve the problem in the north this year, and he will get the pig iron in advance, the old man doesn't know if it's true, you are Your Majesty's trusted minister, I don't know if you've heard of it? Duan Lun looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"Solve the problems of the north, not so fast, right? Our court is still accumulating, and now the Turks don't have the strength to kill them in an all-round way, at this time, if it takes him two years, the strength of the Turks will be exhausted, and when the time comes, wouldn't it be better to fight again?

And His Majesty will not fight the Turks at this time, the court has just had a little money, so it will use troops, it should not, if you want to fight, you will have to wait until the spring of the year after next to move troops at the earliest! When Wei Hao heard this, he said to Duan Lun,

When Duan Lun heard it, he also nodded, and felt that it was impossible in his heart, if he really wanted to fight, the Ministry of Industry would make a large number of armor weapons as a backup.

"However, it's not right to adjust pig iron, aren't the weapons and armor coming out of the workshop of the Ministry of Industry?" Wei Hao continued to look at Duan Lun and asked.

"That's the case, but you don't know, there are also craftsmen on the front line, they specialize in repairing armor and weapons, and they also need pig iron, but they don't need so much, after all, on the battlefield, there are not many soldiers who have lost their armor and weapons, and there are not many rotten ones, either they are killed in battle, or they are injured and sent back, but their armor will remain,

Every year, pig iron is shared on the front line, and it will not exceed 40,000 catties, but this year, 1.1 million catties have been mobilized, which is completely abnormal, but the old man heard Hou Junji say that His Majesty wants to solve the matter in the north. The old man didn't dare to delay His Majesty's affairs, so he could only agree to give it! Duan Lun said to Wei Hao,

When Wei Hao heard this, he stood up and stared at Duan Lun: "There is such a thing, it only takes 20,000 catties, and 1.1 million catties are used, and the court also needs money to produce those pig irons, you know, tens of thousands of people are working in the iron mill!" ”

"Yes, Shen Yong, so the old man is also suspicious, will he?" Duan Lun looked at Wei Hao as he spoke,

Wei Hao sat down at the moment, still a little unbelieving in his heart, he knew that this pig iron smuggling must have something to do with the Ministry of War, but he didn't expect that Hou Junji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was also involved, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be, how could Hou Junji do such a stupid thing, this is a foreign country! It's a capital offense! Moreover, this time Hou Junji also went out in person, is he so bold?

"You, it's better to go to Your Majesty, tell Your Majesty about this, don't tell anyone, just tell Your Majesty, after that, Your Majesty will naturally be clear in your heart, otherwise, when something happens, Your Majesty will blame you, and you won't be able to escape!" Wei Hao looked at Duan Lun and said,

Duan Lun looked at it, and felt a sigh in his heart, he felt that Wei Hao seemed to know something, but he was not sure, then thought about it, nodded and said: "Okay, Shen Yong, I know, I will talk about this later!" ”

"Don't, don't wait, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, when you go to report other things, say to Your Majesty, remember, you can only say it to Your Majesty, there are other ministers around, it's not okay!" Wei Hao immediately persuaded Duan Lun,

Duan Lun stared at Wei Hao, and then nodded.

"Okay, come, drink tea!" Wei Hao said with a smile and poured tea for Duan Lun.

"It's a big deal, isn't it?" Duan Lun looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"I don't know, only Your Majesty knows, we're just doing things!" Wei Hao smiled and said to Duan Lun, as soon as Duan Lun heard him say this, he understood that the matter must be very big, if it wasn't big, with his relationship with Wei Hao, he would definitely tell himself, and when he said this now, he also hinted at himself.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, let's talk about you, what do you mean by you being a young Yin? Why don't you come to the Ministry of Industry and serve as a scholar? Duan Lun looked at Wei Hao and said.

"Look at what you said, the Ministry of Industry is so poor, I go to the Ministry of Industry? Moreover, those ministers in the court look down on the officials of the Ministry of Industry, if I go to the Ministry of Industry, I will pull out all the craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, and then set up a workshop, when the time comes, hehe, no one will do the work of the Ministry of Industry, and my father will know about it, and he won't kill me? Wei Hao said to Duan Lun with a smile.

"Eh, but, it's not bad, now the treatment is up, those craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, in fact, are very grateful to you, if it weren't for your righteous words, those craftsmen in our Ministry of Industry are still poor haha, and now there are still many craftsmen who want to leave their jobs, they want to start their own workshops,

The craftsmen who followed you before, but they all made money, and now the family is not short of money, and the workshop is also very good, and those craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry are also itchy, if they didn't dare to come to you, they would have run away a long time ago, many craftsmen are not familiar with you, so they don't dare to come to you, and I also suppressed them, saying that you are busy, so don't go to trouble you. Duan Lun said to Wei Hao.

"That's good, those civil officials in the province look down on those craftsmen, now look, people make money with their own skills, if there are no craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, I look at those things in the court, who will do it!" Wei Hao said with a smug smile.

"That's what I said, but, Shen Yong, we also have to think about it from the standpoint of the court, if all the craftsmen are taken away, what will Datang do in the future? Those water conservancy, the production of weapons and armor, the construction of houses, etc., who will do it, won't our Datang be finished? Duan Lun persuaded Wei Hao and said.

"I know, so I don't go to the Ministry of Industry, if I go to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry will definitely not leave any craftsmen!" Wei Hao looked at Duan Lun with a smile and said,

Duan Lun looked at Wei Hao helplessly, and after chatting with Duan Lun for a while, Duan Lun left, after all, he was a scholar, and the Ministry of Industry still had a lot of things for him to deal with, and Wei Hao's side, in fact, there was nothing to do, he knew that delegating power, as long as he took care of the key places,

Other places, leave it to other people to do, and now there are many officials in Jingzhao Mansion who have come to report, all of them are talents selected and transferred by Li Shimin and the Ministry of Officials, and some of them are just admitted this year to raise people and jinshi, when they come here, they see that Wei Hao is respectful, and some of them are also Wei Hao's protégés.

Although Wei Hao has not been to the academy much, many people know how this academy came about, plus Wei Hao is originally in a prominent position, those who have just entered the official career, who dares to offend Wei Hao?

And Wei Hao also gave them the opportunity to deal with things more and learn more from those older officials, Wei Hao just sat in the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, listened to the reports of the people below every day, and then gave orders to let them do things.

Until now, Li Chengqian and Li Ke have not been here, and Wei Hao is handling everything.

On this day, Duan Lun was just going to report to the inside about the situation of water conservancy this year, so he went to the Ganlu Hall to ask for a meeting, Li Shimin happened to be reading a book, and there was nothing to do, most of the music was handed over to Li Chengqian to deal with, Duan Lun arrived at the Ganlu Palace, after reporting the water conservancy matters, he hesitated, Li Shimin saw him hesitating, so he asked Duan Lun: "But there is something?" ”

"Your Majesty, there is something I don't know whether to ask or not, but don't ask, the minister is worried that something big may happen, so please forgive your majesty, and the minister must dare to ask!" Duan Lun looked up at Li Shimin and said.

"Oh, something's wrong, okay, ask, this is going to ask!" When Li Shimin heard this, he looked at Duan Lun and said, so Duan Lun told Li Shimin about Hou Junji's transfer of pig iron.

"Ha, okay, I know, I can't go out or not, I'm not sure now, since the transfer has passed, forget it, but next time, you are not allowed to agree, you can transfer pig iron from the iron mill, that is, you and the military department Shangshu, in addition, you can also transfer some alone, in addition, I need my consent, and Shen Yong's consent, by the way, Shen Yong went to the iron mill to transfer pig iron?" Li Shimin said with a smile, and then asked Duan Lun.

"The pig iron has not been mobilized, but the steel has been mobilized, all of which are steel bars, and they have all been pulled to the palace, and the minister happened to see a lot of steel bars piled up on the construction site of the new palace next to him that day!" Duan Lun said to Li Shimin.

"I have also seen this, they are all used to build palaces, and sometimes I can see those craftsmen camel steel bars!" Li Shimin nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, the border repairs weapons and armor, but you don't need so much pig iron!" Duan Lun looked at Li Shimin tentatively and asked.

"You can just know about this matter yourself, don't tell others, I know, in the future, you have to pay attention to the pig iron from the Ministry of Industry, if the Ministry of War still wants to use this way to mobilize pig iron, if you refuse, let them come to me!" Li Shimin looked at Duan Lun and said as he stabilized him.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister knows how to do it!" When Duan Lun heard Li Shimin say this, he felt confident in his heart, and soon, Duan Lun left.

Li Shimin walked to the window, looked at the scenery of the small garden outside the Ganlu Hall through the glass of the window, and thought in his heart, is Hou Junji crazy, in this way, he took away more than 1 million catties of pig iron, and the normal selling price will cost 10,000 yuan.

At the same time, Li Shimin also thought that now that the eldest grandson Wuji has arrived at the northeast border, it is estimated that he will come back in half a month at most, and he will see what kind of transfer report the eldest grandson Wuji will give him, before he asked Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Jian to take over the command of the Northeast and let them secretly investigate this matter, this matter has been clarified, and the list of the generals involved is now also taken out.

Also, where did the pig iron come from, how it was sent to the border, how it passed through the border pass, all of them were found out, and there were also children of the family involved, and there was also a list.

It's just that I don't know how many officials are involved in the court, but I didn't expect that Hou Junji really stood up and dared to operate like this, which made Li Shimin completely unable to figure it out, did Hou Junji die? I want to see how Hou Junji will explain this matter to himself at that time.

"Lao Hong!" Then Li Shimin greeted him, and Gonggong Hong immediately walked over from the shadows.

"Those who went to the north, what news did you hear?" Li Shimin asked.

"Yes, however, the news is fragmentary, so the little one didn't report it, and when they come back, the little one will gather all the news and hand it over to Your Majesty!" Gonggong Hong immediately arched his hand and said.

"By the way, your nephew, are you still used to it in Chang'an?" Li Shimin asked.

"I'm still used to it, now Your Majesty has rewarded the title, the mansion and the good land, what else is not used to, and the old slave also asked him to follow Shen Yong to do things, people from small places, here in the capital, there are many nobles, it's not good to offend people, let Shen Yong teach him!" Gonggong Hong immediately said to Li Shimin.

"Well, okay, let him follow Shen Yong, okay, you go down, wait for them to come back, and gather the news as soon as possible!" Li Shimin said to Gonggong Hong.

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty!" Gonggong Hong gave up his hand again, and then retreated back, and retreated into the dark.

In the next few days, Wei Hao was still busy in Jingzhao Mansion,

This morning, Wei Hao received a notice that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would come to Jingzhao Mansion today to inspect the situation in Jingzhao Mansion. Wei Hao also asked those officials to prepare for it, and he didn't need to prepare anything anyway!

After a while, the prince's guard of honor arrived, and Li Chengqian also got down from the carriage.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Wei Hao led a group of officials to greet him at the door.

"Well, excuse me, hard work, Shen Yong, you have also worked hard, well, why didn't you see Right Shaoyin?" Li Chengqian stood there and asked.

"Back to Your Highness, I just sent someone to look for it, I believe it will come over soon!" Wei Hao immediately arched his hand and said, Wei Hao will do such a thing, it is impossible to offend Li Ke, besides, Li Chengqian's notification is too late, he has already sent someone to go, whether he can notify in time, it is not his own business.

"Well, okay, let's go, let's see how Jingzhao Mansion is preparing now!" Li Chengqian nodded with a smile, walked inside with his hands behind his back, Wei Hao followed behind, and when he arrived inside, Li Chengqian sat on the main seat, and Wei Hao began to report on the preparations for Jingzhao Mansion.

"Your Highness, Jingzhao Mansion has almost been established now, and the responsibilities have been divided, in the future, all the construction of the entire inner city will be the responsibility of Jingzhao Mansion, and the construction of the outer area will be the responsibility of the two counties.

In addition, the tax part, the court returns half of the tax to the Jingzhao Mansion every year according to the tax paid by the Jingzhao Mansion, and it is expected that there will be about 300,000 yuan per year.

In addition, there are many people in Chang'an who do not have a house to live, this is the responsibility of our yamen, we need to build resettlement houses, so that the people have a place to live, these, all need to spend money, the top priority is to solve the problem of living for the people, once it is winter, if Chang'an City freezes to death, that is our responsibility! Wei Hao sat there and said to Li Chengqian.

"Well, okay, you plan for this matter, and come alone when the time comes!" Li Chengqian heard Wei Hao say this, nodded and said.

"The minister expects that the establishment of a new settlement may require 150,000 yuan, and there is some surplus, the minister wants to plan out a few schools, in addition, it is also necessary to plan public toilets, and now shopping outside, people don't even have a place to solve their personal problems!" Wei Hao continued to say to Li Chengqian.

"Public restroom?" Li Chengqian looked at Wei Hao incomprehensibly.

"It's a thatched house!" Wei Hao explained.

"This, is this going to be built too?" Li Chengqian looked at Wei Hao incomprehensibly.

"Your Highness, how the people of a city look at the yamen, is to see how many things the yamen has done for the people, although we are the yamen, although it is said to be to manage the people, it is better to say that it is to serve the people, if the people live in peace and happiness, then our yamen has nothing to do, if we do not do a good job in the yamen, the people will hate the yamen, Your Highness, the minister asks for your approval!" Wei Hao sat there and continued to explain to Li Chengqian.

"Okay, approve, you do things carefully, Lone knows, you write a good plan, Lone will approve!" Li Chengqian immediately nodded and said, he remembered what the queen mother said, Shen Yong just did whatever he did in Chang'an Mansion, he had to support it, because the last person to benefit must be himself, and Shen Yong would not harm himself.

"On behalf of the people of Chang'an City, thank you, Your Highness!" Wei Hao immediately said to Li Chengqian.

"Well, Lone also wants to thank you, there are many things, Lone may not be able to think about it, and you still need to propose more!" Li Chengqian also looked at Wei Hao with a smile and said,

At this time, Li Ke rushed in from outside, and then said to Li Chengqian: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince, the ministers have lost their welcome, please forgive me!" ”

"Well, it doesn't matter, you have just returned to Beijing not long ago, and you also need time to sort out the affairs in the house, plus you also have a lot of friends, and when you are busy with these things, you can come to Jingzhao Mansion again!" Lone is also very busy, today is also deliberately free to take a look at Jingzhao Mansion, it is indeed a good job, in the future, Lone will take out as much time as possible every ten days to go to Jingzhao Mansion to deal with things! Li Chengqian smiled at Li Ke and said,

It sounds like there is no problem, but there is a sense of blame behind it, Li Ke is now the right young Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, and he should have been in Jingzhao Mansion, but he was busy with his own family affairs and gathering with those friends every day, and he simply forgot his duties, and he was originally unqualified.

"His Royal Highness's criticism is that the minister will definitely correct it, and in the future, he will be on duty in Jingzhao Mansion as much as possible." Li Ke immediately arched his hand and said, also unhappy in his heart.