On the sixth day of the first month, Li Zhongyi's carriage, surrounded by the guards and the Qinya battalion, slowly marched towards Kaifeng City.

Zhang Sanzheng, the deputy commander of the Guards Army and the commander of the Qinya Battalion, took the lead in the forefront of the entire queue and opened the way for the army.

"Get ......" A rapid sound of horses' hooves woke Zhang Sanzheng from his contemplation, and when he looked up, he saw a hurried hand with chicken feathers on his helmet, galloping towards him.

"The envoy of Zhang, there is a chicken feather sent by the capital Tiqi Division." The anxious handler didn't get off the horse, and directly reported to Zhang Sanzheng.

"Oh, the Timian Rider's hurry, give it to me." Zhang Sanzheng's heart was shocked, the commander of the Tiqi Division was Zuo Ziguang, one of Li Zhongyi's only two disciples, and the chicken feather letter he sent must be a particularly important military matter, and he couldn't be sloppy at all.

After Zhang Sanzheng received the chicken feather letter, he turned his horse and walked back, galloping all the way to Li Zhongyi's carriage.

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from the Tim Cavalry Division." Zhang Sanzheng respectfully clenched his fists and bowed his hands.

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, it must be that the situation in the capital has an uncontrollable trend, otherwise, it is impossible for Zuo Ziguang to use the chicken feather letter to report the news.

Han Xianglan, who was leaning against the wall of the carriage, lifted the curtains, took the chicken feather letter from Zhang Sanzheng's hand, and held it in front of Li Zhongyi with both hands.

Li Zhongyi opened the chicken feather letter, carefully read the content of the letter, and couldn't help but snort coldly, "I don't know the thickness of the sky and the earth, the rotten Confucian!" ”

Han Xianglan's heart was shocked, just from the man's disdainful tone, she guessed that most of the Confucian students in the capital who wanted to make trouble were going to be unlucky.

Since these days, Li Zhongyi has always stayed in Zhengzhou, which is a stone's throw away from Kaifeng, and Han Xianglan has always felt a little strange.

Now, Han Xianglan finally figured out that Li Zhongyi was trying to capture the old and indulge in the strategy, deliberately inducing the Confucian scholars to take risks.

It is impossible to deal with Confucian scholars like Chiguoguo like military generals, otherwise, will you have a reputation?

Luring the snake out of the hole is obviously the best choice, at least Han Xianglan thinks so.

"Lift the curtains." The man commanded, Han Xianglan hurriedly raised her hand and lifted the curtains, and the light in the carriage brightened much brighter in an instant.

Li Zhongyi picked up the carbon pen resting on the small desk, and "brushed and ......brushed" like a fly, all in one go.

"Someone, send this letter back to the Tiqi Division, and hand it over to Zuo Ziguang to open it in person." Li Zhongyi handed the reply letter to Han Xianglan, and Han Xianglan immediately handed it to the urgent hand outside the window.

Not long after, Li Zhongyi received an urgent military report from the Yamen, the commander of the Jiumen, which was written by Li Yunxiao, the commander of the Jiumen.

Li Zhongyi took the military newspaper and read it three times over and over again, and then he gave a reply.

Within two hours, under Han Xianglan's nose, Li Zhongyi received a total of five urgent reports and replied one by one.

"Master, don't be too tired, drink ginseng tea, right?" Han Xianglan didn't have the courage to meddle in military and political affairs, so she had to make a side attack in the name of caring about Li Zhongyi's body.

Li Zhongyi took the ginseng tea, took a sip, and then said with a smile: "Someone wants to do ghosts behind his back, do you think it should be cut down and eradicated, or should it be slowly figured out?" ”

Han Xianglan wanted to continue to pretend to be stupid, but Li Zhongyi's eyes kept staring at her intently, so she couldn't help but not answer.

After pondering for a while, Han Xianglan whispered: "Your Majesty, the concubines didn't dare to speak in vain, the emperor, you must ask, the concubines and concubines said in vain, it is difficult for Confucianism to kill them, it seems that they should be slowly plotted......

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, the Han family is worthy of being born in a famous family, and her views are obviously more in line with the current situation.

Most of the hundreds of thousands of scholars in the world are Confucian believers, and of course it is impossible to kill them all. Therefore, killing a group, degrading a group, and keeping a group are obviously necessary means of rectification.

To put it bluntly, Li Zhongyi deliberately circled in Zhengzhou for many days, just to leave enough time for the Confucian students who made trouble.

The big pit has been dug down, and if you can't take the bait, it depends on the consciousness of the Confucian students!

Don't kill the scholars, that is the basic national policy of the weak Song Dynasty, not the basic national policy of Li Zhongyi.

The so-called getting on the horse to fight the world and getting off the horse to soothe the people, Li Zhongyi has always relied on his own people who have been cultivated by him, rather than the Confucian children who only want to monopolize the right to enter the imperial examination.

Li Zhongyi is not Zhang Xianzhong, he just wants to establish his authority when he kills people, forcing the Confucian disciples to follow his baton in order to enter the office.

From Confucianism alone, it is a long way to go to return to miscellaneous disciplines and restore the grand occasion of a hundred schools of thought!

From Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, under the premise of all mules and horses, hurry up and hurry, and you can arrive without half a day.

However, Li Zhongyi just told Zhang Sanzheng to go slowly, not too fast.

Regarding Li Zhongyi's instructions, Zhang Sanzheng understood in his heart. Under the restraint of Zhang Sanzheng, the whole team rested for a quarter of an hour after walking five miles, which greatly slowed down the speed of the march.

Since the artillery was manufactured, the firearms workshop of the Ordnance Supervisor has moved to Mengjiapu in the western suburbs of Kaifeng.

In order to keep the secret of artillery, there are a total of 3,000 garrisons near Mengjiapu, and these soldiers and horses have three layers of firearms workshops in the vicinity of the generals, and they are surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, which can be said to be leaky.

When Li Zhongyi's team arrived at Mengjiapu, it was already the afternoon of the day later, and he didn't want to go back to Beijing and enter the city immediately, so he simply went to the firearms workshop to see the progress of the development of the tunnel gun.

In the past, Li Zhongyi was engaged in medicine, although he studied both Chinese and Western medicine, he did not understand the mystery of the tunneling gun.

Regarding the tunnel starting gun, Li Zhongyi only knew that it was extremely difficult to drill the barrel of the gun, and that it was difficult to use flint and steel as a firing device.

In addition, Li Zhongyi alone mastered the formula of black powder.

The transition from the era of cold weapons to the age of hot weapons, in addition to artillery, the most important sign is the large-scale use of arquebuses.

Li Zhongyi was well aware of the disadvantages of the arquebus, so he had the intention to bypass the arquebus and fly directly to the stage of the tunnel gun.

It's just that Li Zhongyi is not a professional in the machinery industry. As for the development of the tunnel pistol, he could only hang a heavy reward, and then let the craftsmen slowly grind it, striving to toss the tunnel pistol before he died.

"Sentenced to the military superintendent, the minister Li Hu knocked on the emperor."

When Li Zhongyi arrived at the firearms workshop, Li Hu happened to come from the capital to inspect it, and after he heard the news, he hurriedly ran out of it.

"That's it." Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, raised his right hand, and motioned for Li Hu to get up and speak.

Li Hu stood up straight, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, there was a big incident in the firearms workshop, and after hearing the news, the minister hurried over. ”

"Oh, what's wrong?"

Artillery and artillery craftsmen have always been Li Zhongyi's heart and treasure, and as soon as he heard that something big had happened, he immediately felt worried.