"Have you heard that Li Gu and Li Xianggong's family members were all killed by the copper stink?"

"Alas, the copper stink is really perverse, and it is hopeless......"

"Otherwise, I heard that Li Gu colluded with the Khitans, and even planned to take the Queen Mother and His Majesty hostage to the Khitan Kingdom......

"My God, dozens of people in the whole clan ......"

"It is said that it is the hand of Zuo Ziguang's ruthless butcher who is ......"

Li Gu's whole family, old and young, disappeared without a trace, and has become a hot gossip topic in the capital.

Well-informed people in the capital, everyone is spreading that Li Zhongyi is neither benevolent nor righteous, and he is not the lord of the Holy Ming!

With Li Zhongyi's well-known ears and eyes, he already knew that there was a lot of chaos outside. Zuo Ziguang handed over the blacklist on the table, there are dozens of people, and many of them are not low.

If Li Zhongyi wants to suppress these people's nonsense, he only needs to sign it. Within a day, Zuo Ziguang would arrest these people and put them in the small black prison in the Tiqi Division.

However, Li Zhongyi did not agree to Zuo Ziguang's request for arrest. The mouth of the people is worse than the behavior of defending Sichuan, and Li Zhongyi has secretly scolded him before and deeply despised it.

In addition to the gold mines at home, the idle eunuchs or wealthy families, the common people who generally don't know the truth just scold casually, where the scolding is over, it is a typical mouthless and unintentional.

After all, it is not easy to live in Kaifeng. Ordinary people, as soon as their eyes open, have to worry about the big matter of supporting their families, they don't have much time to take care of so many idle things.

However, after the news that Li Gu's entire family was buried alive was deliberately publicized by someone with a heart, the officialdom of the entire Beijing Division, as if a big black bullet had been thrown, suddenly exploded.

When the army went out to fight, the yamen who should have been fishing for special fish, such as: the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, the Taifu Temple, the Sansi Jia case and the Xuan case, the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Ordnance Supervisor and other departments, whether they were the commanders or the officials, one by one, they were waiting to make a fortune.

Who would have thought that whether it was the military orders issued by Li Zhongyi, or the transfer of troops and horses, or the raising of baggage, they were completely monopolized by the General Staff Department, the Baggage Division, and the Marshal's Mansion of the original Li Jiajun system.

That's it, even the A case, the Xuan case, which originally belonged to the Yamen of the Third Division, and even the core ordnance departments such as the Bow and Crossbow Academy, were also swept by Li Zhongyi, and the entire was placed under the jurisdiction of the ordnance supervision.

The national defense handicraft industry is under the jurisdiction of the ordnance superintendent, and for the time being, the advantages certainly outweigh the disadvantages.

At present, the Great Zhou, whether it is steelmaking, ironmaking, or making knives, guns and armor, all have to be completed by the hands of craftsmen, and it belongs to the pure handicraft workshop-style defense industry.

Li Zhongyi has been thinking about using hydraulic forging machines, hydraulic blowers, and coke to make steel, but it will take time, and far water can't save the near fire.

It is true that great things can be done by concentrating forces, but that requires the right approach, otherwise, it will cause a huge waste.

In today's Great Zhou defense handicraft industry, the biggest difficulty is actually the use of coal as fuel, and the iron smelted is very brittle because there are too many impurities, and it is difficult to use weapons directly.

Li Zhongyi did not have any research on steelmaking before, he only knew that steelmaking with coal was definitely the wrong path, and steelmaking with coke was the bright road.

The problem is how to turn coal into coke, which takes a lot of time and repeated experiments.

Fortunately, several veteran craftsmen of the Ordnance Prison are good at repeatedly forging the method of "100 steels". The specific method, in a word, in the process of forging and frying pig iron, constantly add charcoal to it.

According to Li Zhongyi's understanding, this is actually a special method of carburizing steelmaking, which can greatly improve the hardness of steel without being too thin and brittle.

Climbing the tech tree is definitely a boring thing, and you must endure your temperament and loneliness.

In particular, the most basic material science and technology, the acquisition of the core formula of metallurgy, without tens of thousands of repeated exploration, it is impossible to get it.

In the past, whether it was a craftsman in the ordnance prison or a worker in the crossbow courtyard of the third division, their actual social status, income and political treatment were in essence not much different from those of slaves.

The most important scientific and technological personnel who climbed the science and technology tree, all the craftsmen of Da Zhou, all got up earlier than chickens, slept later than dogs, and were tired and busy in the workshop, but they could only barely make ends meet

Li Zhongyi really wanted to give great preferential treatment to the craftsmen, but the huge obstacle in front of him was not a single bureaucrat, but the entire scholar and bureaucracy that monopolized the qualifications of officials.

Raising the social status of craftsmen and raising their income level by a large margin is the only way to rejuvenate the country through science and education!

However, with the obstruction of the entire bureaucracy, the difficulty of reforming the distribution mechanism can be daunting.

To put it bluntly, in the course of reform, there will always be vested interest groups that will lose their privileged interests. The reform that Li Zhongyi wants to do is to dig up the roots of scholars, that is, to completely deny the monopoly logic of the official-based monopoly that everything is inferior, and only the high level of reading (being an official)!

On that day, the farce at Li Zhongyi's enthronement ceremony was actually a tentative attack on Li Zhongyi by the entire Wenchen Group.

Don't look at the nerds who show their faces, however, the black hands hidden behind them are also gradually exposed to Zuo Ziguang and Li Yanqing's secret reports.

The inside story is absolutely amazing, and there are big bureaucrats and big gate valve families in Kaifeng City, who are more or less involved in it.

Even if they don't want to confront Li Zhongyi head-on, so as not to suffer a big loss, most of them take a position of acquiescence or connivance.

Acquiescence or connivance is actually a silent rebellion against Li Zhongyi's new policy. They may not be directly involved in the farce, but they are secretly contributing to the situation and planning to reap the dividends in the future.

It is always the majority who are silent, and if they do not explode in silence, they will perish in sinking!

This means that Li Zhongyi's new regime is far from having a solid foundation, and it is absolutely impossible for the strata who have been deprived of their special interests to just give up.

One day, sooner or later, the two opposing sides will come to a complete general outbreak. At that time, it will be up to God to decide who will kill the deer!

Li Zhongyi went to the ordnance prison early in the morning, and Li Hu supervised the gunsmiths, and cast thirty new 6-pounder bronze cannons and ten 9-pounder cannons from clay molds.

Because the matter of bronze artillery is related to the country's capital and national fortunes, Li Zhongyi didn't care about breakfast, so he hurriedly went out.

However, not long after he went out, Li Zhonghao, accompanied by Wang Dahu, rushed to the ruling palace in a carriage.

After sending someone to go in at the door, Li Dahe was overjoyed, immediately put down his chopsticks, and wanted to go out to pick up Erlang, who he had been looking forward to for a long time.

"I said, 'You are the Father, and he is the Son, is there any reason why the Father welcomes the Son into the house?' Mrs. Xue couldn't stand it anymore, and a cold wind blew from the oblique thorn.

"Oops, I'm such an old fool." After Li Dahe poured a basin of cold water on Mrs. Xue's head, he suddenly woke up that Erlang, who had just returned home, was not only very discordant with Li Zhongyi, but also had old grievances with Mrs. Xue.

"Hmph, where are you old and confused, you are obviously crazy with joy, and you have forgotten the dignity of father and son." Mrs. Xue is no longer the cheap concubine who needs to look at Li Dahe's eyes and act back then, or it won't be long before she is the biological mother of the emperor of the new dynasty and the well-known queen mother.

"Madam, it's been so long since what happened back then, why are you bothered?" Li Dahe was anxious and angry, but he couldn't help Mrs. Xue at all, so he had to persuade him gently.

"Hmph, when your wife and children were full, how could you ever know my pain. If I hadn't knelt at Cao's feet and begged for mercy back then, she would have already taken care of her tooth and planned to sell me into that extremely filthy place when you entered the palace to guard. Mrs. Xue couldn't help crying bitterly when she thought of the sadness, and her hatred kept surging upward.

Li Dahe was dumbfounded on the spot, he, as a father, naturally has meat on the palms and backs of his hands, and neither of his two sons can give up.

Moreover, the better Li Zhongyi mixes, the more Li Dahe is worried about the angry Li Zhonghao.

This person is not afraid of not knowing the goods, and he is most afraid of comparing goods!

It's like when the girlfriends get together, the shrewd husband of the girlfriends will always be a hundred times stronger than their honest husband, just afraid of comparing!

Until the time when he was seeking an official for the unangry Li Zhongyi, before he didn't notice the big heels, although Li Dahe did not become a high-ranking official in the pharmaceutical industry, he also repeatedly avoided big waves and dangerous pits.

Li Dahe has been in the court for a long time, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, and Mrs. Xue's residual anger has not been extinguished, which is very understandable to him.

In order not to continue to stimulate Mrs. Xue, Li Dahe took a deep breath, sat back down at the table, picked up chopsticks and continued to eat.

The so-called, filial piety is the first, there are three unfilial piety, and no queen is great!

Today's Mrs. Xue, not to mention anything else, just importing Ding for the old Li family and continuing the great achievement of cigarettes is enough to make Li Dahe more patient, and more gentle and tactful in handling housework.

Mrs. Xue knew in her heart that Li Da and Ming Minghou were anxious to see Li Zhonghao's loser, but they deliberately pretended to be fine, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became.

If it weren't for the relationship between husband and wife for many years, as well as Li Dahe's maintenance of her in the past, and Li Zhongyi's multifaceted care, Mrs. Xue would have flipped the table a long time ago and waited impatiently.

Outside the gate of the ruling palace, Wang Dahu sent Li Zhonghao to the door, stopped his steps, and said coldly: "You are good at doing it yourself, if you dare to fan the flames and make waves, Lao Tzu will fight to be a wicked person, and he will destroy you." ”

Li Zhonghao Huo Ran turned his head and stared at Wang Dahu deadly, obviously breathing extremely fast, but he could endure it, and he didn't make a sound.

Who is Wang Dahu? In the early years, Wang Dahu was a jailer in the edict prison, eating and taking cards, and deliberately killing prisoners, but he did not do less.

The problem is that after Wang Dahu did his tricks, he couldn't find out the real cause of the prisoner's death even after years of resentment.

Wang Dahu's unique skill is actually to take a few thick books, tie them to the prisoner's belly, and then use a sledgehammer to beat the thick books fiercely. Hehe, in less than a dozen strokes, the prisoner's internal organs will be shattered, and he will die of exhaustion within half a day, without an autopsy, and there is no external injury at all.

"Hmph, others may not dare to touch you, if you have the guts, try it, see if Lao Tzu dares to kill you?" Wang Dahu put down this sentence with confidence, turned around and left, never looking back.

Li Zhonghao stared at Wang Dahu's back with resentment, although he was absolutely unconvinced, however, he was not a real stupid.

Wang Dahu is not only the first hardcore confidant to follow Li Zhongyi's side, but also one of Li Zhongyi's only two sworn brothers.

Over the years, Wang Dahu has secretly managed all kinds of ghosts, snakes, and gods in Kaifeng City for Li Zhongyi, and the potential power is amazing.

Wang Dahu has never been a braggart character, in the entire Great Zhou, except for him and Huang Jingsheng, at most Zuo Ziguang, no one dared to make such a red fruit intimidation in front of Li Zhonghao.

Li Zhonghao is also half an understanding person, of course he knows that Wang Dahu is by no means alarmist, but full of confidence!

Because, Li Zhongyi's personality is the most nostalgic for the old, and he often says that clothes are not as good as new, and people are not as good as the old. Li Zhonghao annoyed Li Zhongyi like that, and Li Zhongyi looked at Li Dahe's face, but still raised his noble hand and let Li Zhonghao go.

When Zhao Kuangyi heard that Li Zhonghao was back again, he couldn't help but laugh with his back to the sky, and said loudly: "This is really a sleep and a pillow, God help me!" ”