Chapter 149: Reckoning with the Arch Palace
Li Zhongyi clearly realized that if the trend of the original history continued, and the Northern Song Dynasty, which was strict in advocating literature and suppressing martial arts, appeared on the stage of history, the tragedy without China after Yashan would still be staged.
On the basis of the Northern Song Dynasty's system of strict restraint of personal power and prestige and excessive checks and balances on ruling power, even Li Zhongyi was completely unsure that he could win the entire scholarly bureaucracy.
If you don't reform, you will step down, how domineering is this?
It can be seen that once the political and strong people accurately grasp the pulse of the progress of the times, they will play an immeasurable role in promoting the progress of the entire country and society.
The truth is always in the hands of a very small number of people, and Li Zhongyi firmly believes this!
Although the work of making arrow shafts is tedious, after all, it is not a particularly sophisticated technical work. Under Li Zhongyi's personal arrangement, the young craftsman was responsible for splitting wood, Wang Xiaoyi was responsible for on-site guidance, and the rest of the old carpenters were responsible for cutting out the prototype of the arrow shaft.
Then, young craftsmen refine and polish the prototype of the shaft. In fact, this also belongs to the category of assembly line operations, but the scale is slightly smaller than the entire arrow-making process.
Faced with the pressure of the task of making arrows, Li Zhongyi is currently just having a headache and a foot pain, and he has not had time to think about the regularity of it.
The problem of the arrow has been solved, the arrow shaft is also being solved, and the two most difficult joints have broken through, and Li Zhongyi can't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
With the passage of working hours, the craftsmen gradually became familiar with the centralized production method of one specialty and multiple functions, and the work efficiency was greatly improved immediately.
Especially. With the advent of planing in large quantities, the efficiency of cutting wood and making arrow shafts has made great progress.
Twenty days passed. Li Zhongyi has actually completed the task and is secretly advancing towards 100,000 feathered arrows.
"Sun Gong, there is a shortage of blacksmiths, carpenters, and glue smiths in Xiaguan...... In order to paralyze Sun Daqing, Li Zhongyi deliberately went to him every day to complain, asking for money, goods, and things.
Sun Daqing took a sip of tea, sighed and said, "It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice." I'm almost at the bottom of the ingredients here. ”
"Sun Gong, if the supply of raw materials is insufficient, then the lower officials can only go to Gao Gong to reason." Li Zhongyi was not in a hurry at all. Step by step, squeezing Sun Daqing's dodge space.
Due to the new process adopted by Li Zhongyi, the waste of iron and wood is almost negligible. I have already received the raw materials. After careful calculations. In fact, it is enough to make more than 100,000 arrows.
Hehe, Li Zhongyi adheres to the principle of being prepared, as long as he bumps into Sun Daqing, he will complain a lot, so that Sun Daqing mistakenly thinks that he is deliberately looking for fault and wants to shirk responsibility in the future.
Sun Daqing is much smarter than Zhou Chong, as long as Li Zhongyi goes to him to ask for something, he is more or less. will give a little bit, but. And not all at once.
Moreover, Sun Daqing was also entangled by Li Zhongyi, and he didn't dare to stay in the official hall many times.
Today is the first day of Xiu Mu's post, Sun Daqing has no way to avoid it, and Li Zhongyi is arrested.
"No blame, be more considerate of the difficulties below." Sun Daqing knew that he couldn't hide, and if he really wanted Li Zhongyi to make trouble in front of Gao Hongtai, it would only be him Sun who would eat the head of the row, "In this way, I will give you another thousand catties of iron, and one hundred willows and fir trees." ”
When it came to the fat in his mouth, Li Zhongyi naturally wouldn't let it go, he swallowed it unceremoniously, and finally complained bitterly: "Sun Gong, don't talk about 50,000 arrows now, even if it's 20,000, the lower officials haven't made it." ”
Although Sun Daqing felt that Li Zhongyi's attitude was a little strange, the conditions that Li Zhongyi mastered were indeed limited. He has always believed that when the day comes, Li will definitely not be able to hand over 50,000 arrows.
"No blame, I can only ask Gao Gong about this." Sun Daqing is not a fool, and he directly pushed this matter onto Gao Hongtai.
Li Zhongyi knew that this was the result, so he simply got up and said goodbye and went to Gao Hongtai.
"Unfortunately", Gao Hongtai had just left the Yamen of the Third Division, and the officials didn't know where he had gone.
Some people say that Gao Hongtai may have gone to meet the king, and some people say that Gao Hongtai may have gone to the political hall. For a while, there were many opinions, but there was no accurate word.
Li Zhongyi came to Gao Hongtai, but it was just a pretense, in order to confuse Gao, Sun and others.
After Li Zhongyi returned to the arrow-making workshop, Li Xiaoqi excitedly ran to report and said: "Childe, the arrows we made are extremely permeable, and the villain uses a two-stone bow with one hundred and thirty steps (1. 5 meters), it can shoot through ordinary iron armor about three inches. ”
Li Zhongyi rushed to the scene and ordered Li Xiaoqi to do it again, "Whoosh." The bowstring sounded softly, and a feathered arrow sped into a pair of iron armor hanging from the target, and the tail feathers swayed.
Li Xiaoqi smiled proudly and said, "The villain doesn't dare to blow nonsense, he wants to shoot in the stomach, never in the chest." ”
Li Zhongyi glanced at Li Xiaoqi with a smile, he thought to himself, this guy is an old hunter, and if he doesn't have any effort, he will starve to death a long time ago.
Walking to the side of the iron armor, Li Zhongyi took a closer look, and felt that it was indeed as Li Xiaoqi said, the iron arrow pierced into the iron armor fiercely, at least three inches.
Today's Li Zhongyi is no longer a military rookie, according to the experience he summed up when he trained the Hechi Township Army, the bow and arrow of the Houshu army, at a distance of less than a hundred paces, that is, about one hundred and thirty meters apart, with a stone and a half hard bow, can only penetrate two layers of leather armor.
Li Zhongyi didn't know whether the bow was good or bad, so he could only take the elimination method, he turned his head and ordered someone to take the feather arrows produced by the old-fashioned method, wanting to see if it was a problem with the arrow.
As a result, at the same distance, after Li Xiaoqi's arrow, the feather arrow obviously shot on the iron armor, but it did not pierce through, but fell to the ground.
Li Zhongyi walked over and picked up two kinds of feather arrows, and after careful comparison, he felt that the arrows of the old-fashioned feather arrows were actually broken, but the new-style arrows were only slightly blunt.
With this astonishing appearance, Li Zhongyi asked Li Xiaoqi to shoot three times in a row with two kinds of feather arrows, but the result was the same.
Li Zhongyi pondered carefully, and he suddenly realized. It should be the new frying method that has worked.
After having this understanding, Li Zhongyi secretly paid attention to the opportunity in the future. We must take care to improve the technology of steelmaking.
Today's Great Zhou Dynasty seems to be powerful, but in fact it is full of dangers. There is a threat of Khitan iron cavalry in the north, the south has not yet been included in the territory, and the forces in the Central Plains are far from being integrated, and the forces are still very weak.
When Chai Rong was alive, he could control the field. Once he died, Wang Pu, Li Gu and others would assist Zhao Lao Er in his conspiracy to usurp the throne.
In addition, Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin are not fuel-efficient lamps. Each has its own territory, and it is a real warlord, the emperor of the soil.
Li Zhongyi looked at it, but he didn't have much capital at hand. to participate in the battle for the future of the national fortune.
Two days before the showdown with Gao Hongtai. Li Zhongyi went to the Yamen of the Third Division to "work", and after approving a few official documents, an inner servant suddenly came in front of the door, announcing that Li Zhongyi would go to the Vertical Arch Palace.
The vertical arch hall has always been the main place for Chai Rong to convene important ministers to discuss matters, and its political significance is not trivial.
The corners of Li Zhongyi's mouth curled slightly, and he said in his heart, Lao Tzu is finally qualified to enter the Vertical Arch Hall and express his opinion.
Able to speak in front of the emperor and the prime minister. For Li Zhongyi, it means his financial management ability. It has been highly recognized by Chai Rong.
After Li Zhongyi entered the palace, he saw Chai Rong wearing civilian clothes, sitting alone on the imperial couch, and in front of him stood Fan Zhen, Wang Pu and Li Gu, the three prime ministers.
"Minister Li Zhongyi pays a visit to His Majesty." Li Zhongyi saluted Chai Rong, and Chai Rong waved his hand lightly, "That's it." ”
Fan Zhen got Chai Rong's hint, so he asked Li Zhongyi: "I heard that you have a kind of object in your house that quickly calculates accounts, called an abacus?" ”
Li Zhongyi thought to himself, Chai Rong stared at him really closely, could he even sleep with that little concubine in his arms at night, he knew?
On that day, the bottle complained that it was too slow to calculate the accounts with "calculation chips", and it was easy to make mistakes. Li Zhongyi, out of consideration for reducing the work pressure of the person next to him, made an abacus based on his past memories and taught the use of the bottle.
"Back to Fan Xianggong's words, it's just a tool for calculating small accounts in the house." Li Zhongyi didn't have anything to hide, but deliberately reduced the power of the abacus.
"Old Fan, Sensei talks nonsense with him." Chai Rong suddenly raised his hand and pointed to a pile of account books, looked at Li Zhongyi with a smile and said, "I don't know, don't leave." ”
Li Zhongyi thought to himself, Chai Rong called him, did he just want to test his arithmetic ability?
"Whoa." Accounting has always been Li Zhongyi's forte, no matter what Chai Rong thinks, if he can show fast and accurate accounting ability, it is definitely not a bad thing.
However, when Li Zhongyi picked up an account book and looked at it intently, he was immediately dumbfounded.
Where is this account book, it's a running account, and it's densely written, it's hard to see the details.
Li Zhongyi even looked at two account books, both of which were the same running accounts, and it was rare to die if he wanted to find a number.
"Your Majesty, if you don't send a few literate people to cooperate, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the minister to finish these account books in one day." Li Zhongyi is not a vegetarian, and when it is time to put forward conditions, he must take the opportunity to put them forward.
The three prime ministers looked at each other, their eyes flickered, and finally, Fan Zhen asked Li Zhongyi tentatively: "Are you saying that you can calculate so many account books alone in one day?" ”
Li Zhongyi looked at Fan Zhen with some surprise and said, "Back to Fan Xianggong, as long as someone cooperates, Xia Guan will definitely be able to finish it in one day." ”
What gave Li Zhongyi a headache was not the numbers in the accounts, but the big problem that the accounts were very chaotic.
Chai Rong glanced at Li Zhongyi coldly, nodded at Fan Qian, and ordered: "Transfer five hall officials over, I want to see how he can finish so many accounts in one day?" ”
After the five hall officials were transferred, Li Zhongyi asked the chamberlain to bring a few large long scrolls for painting and cut them into several sections.
Then, Li Zhongyi used the paperweight on Chai Rong's table as a meter ruler to draw a table of credit and debit accounting.
Three of the five parishmen, each holding a book in his hand, began to read the account of the matter.
Li Zhongyi led the remaining two officials to make records on the form one by one, but when they needed to write Arabic numerals, Li Zhongyi made the marking.
There is great strength in the number of people, and when everyone gathers firewood, the fire is more vigorous. In less than an hour, more than a dozen disorganized account books were gradually sorted out clearly by Li Zhongyi. (To be continued!)
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