Although he went to the palace this time, Zhao Hongrun did not achieve his goal of getting his father to admit the "conspiracy" in Jiying Hall that day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I have to say that Wei Tianzi's move was quite clever, he didn't say anything, he didn't do anything, just by "inviting all the meritorious people of the Su Wang Army and his family to be present", it highlighted the huge power of the Su Wang Party, which made Yongwang Hongyu, Xiangwang Hongjing, and Qing Wang Hongxin vigilant.

As for Zhao Hongrun's questioning afterwards, Wei Tianzi just said, "How can I slack off a meritorious person", and he pushed it all away, leaving Zhao Hongrun speechless.

The old man's purpose, Zhao Hongrun can guess a few points: Obviously, Wei Tianzi deliberately let him arouse the vigilance of King Yong, King Xiang, and King Qing, and even targeted, subtly letting him gradually move towards that position in the confrontation of being targeted by several brothers step by step.

Zhao Hongrun really didn't have anything to do about this kind of conspiracy: even if he made up his mind and resolutely didn't want the throne, could he stop King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing and others from targeting him?

Even Zhao Hongrun himself must admit that the power of his Suwang Party is now very strong, and it has threatened the Qingwang Party, which is currently the most powerful, if he thinks differently and lets him look at this matter from the perspective of Qi Wang Hongxin and several people, I am afraid he will no longer turn a blind eye to this matter - from the day of Jiying Palace, anyone who intends to compete for the throne will be wary of him, and even start to suppress him one after another.

On the way back to King Su's mansion, Zhao Hongrun and Jie Ziyuan discussed this matter in the carriage - the cause was the "military bureau" that King Qing wanted to set up.

The War Creation Bureau is only one word different from the War Casting Bureau, of course, this is not Qingwang Hongxin's attempt to even imitate the Military Casting Bureau.

In fact, the full name of the Ordnance Casting Bureau is called the "Ordnance Casting Department of the Great Wei Military Department", referred to as the Ordnance Casting Bureau.

Therefore, the military bureau proposed by Qingwang Hongxin actually only follows this name, but he does not want to conflict with the military casting bureau, so it is referred to as "military bureau", and perhaps in fact the full name of the two divisions is the same.

At this point, Qingwang Hongxin did not have any problems, after all, the War Casting Bureau has now broken away from the rule of the Ministry of War, therefore, on the contrary, the War Casting Bureau should cancel the current name and change the name of the official office, but Zhao Hongrun is used to calling the War Casting Bureau and has never thought of changing the name.

“…… Your Highness, as you have said, whether you clarify or not, it will not be able to counteract the vigilance that King Qing has been wary of you. You see, just one day later, without waiting for His Highness to have any attitude towards that rumor, King Qing raised the matter with the imperial court. Jie Zilu analyzed in the carriage.

Zhao Hongrun nodded approvingly.

In fact, he had already expected that after he instructed the War Casting Bureau to deliberately detain a batch of weapons and equipment from King Qingxin, he guessed that King Qing Hongxin would find a way to create his own ordnance casting workshop sooner or later, not to mention accepting orders from the army in the country, at least the rebel army and the Northern Third Army must be out of the clamp of the War Casting Bureau and the clamp of King Su.

This is not a good sign.

Don't look at Qingwang Hongxin's first step, the threat to Zhao Hongrun is not very big, but the essence is the same: Qingwang Hongxin is already on guard against him and wants to gradually suppress him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun exhaled and asked, "This king can't retreat at this time, can he?" ”

"Exactly!" Jie Zi said with his head bowed: "After the day of Jiying Palace, His Royal Highness and King Qing have become enemies, and if His Highness retreats at this time, it will only boost the arrogance of King Qing's party...... Something has to fight back! Speaking of this, he changed his words and said: "Having said that, King Qing proposed to add a 'military bureau', which is not without benefit to His Highness. ”

Hearing this, Wei Jiao interjected in surprise: "What does Mr. Jie Zi mean that this matter is good for His Highness?" ”

This is incomprehensible.

As the head of the sect guard next to Zhao Hongrun, Wei Jiao knows far more than the rest of the sect guards.

Take the Arsenal Bureau as an example, now the weapons and armor orders of the Wei army are handed over to the Smelting Bureau by the Ministry of War, and the Smelting Bureau is entrusted to the Warfare Casting Bureau.

But then again, due to the integration of resources, the conflict between the Murgical Bureau and the Smelting Bureau to compete for orders was avoided, so that both the Smelting Bureau and the Myoke Bureau gained a lot of benefits.

And now, there is a military manufacturing bureau suddenly, and it is really subordinate to the military department and controlled by Qingwang Hongxin, so let me ask, will the military department still hand over a large number of arms orders to the smelting bureau and the military casting bureau? It must be left to the "War Bureau" as its own person.

As a result, the orders of the Smelting Bureau and the Ordnance Casting Bureau in terms of armaments will certainly be seriously affected.

Seeing that Wei Jiao couldn't understand, Jie Ziyu Zhengse said: "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." In previous years, the Ordnance Casting Bureau was responsible for forging ordnance throughout the country, so how could it not arouse the eyes of others? …… This time, during the war of our Great Wei, with the permission of the imperial court, the private ordnance workshops of the local nobles sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, which is enough to prove that the military casting bureau is not unique, and it can be replaced. But there is nothing wrong with this, there is one more person to share the outside world's eyes on the Military Casting Bureau and His Royal Highness, and weigh the pros and cons, which is actually beneficial, not to mention, the Military Casting Bureau can't actually afford the equipment casting of the national army. ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded slightly, approving Jie Ziyu's words.

At the beginning, the elite army of Wei only had the 80,000 people in the six battalions of the garrison, so as long as the War Casting Bureau was fully operational, it would naturally be able to afford the task of replacing weapons and equipment every two years for these 80,000 troops.

But now? The Wei State has as many as 400,000 standing troops, and if the Military Casting Bureau wants to be responsible for the task of replacing the weapons and equipment of these 400,000 troops every two years, even if the Military Casting Bureau receives technical support from the Smelting Bureau, it will not be able to do it.

Therefore, going out with some armament orders will not have any impact on Zhao Hongrun, but can reduce the blush of outsiders towards him, at least it no longer looks so conspicuous.

The question is whether Qingwang Hongxin is only satisfied with getting a military construction bureau, and whether his next step will be to attack the smelting bureau, this is the question that Zhao Hongrun is pondering.

If Qingwang Hongxin was only satisfied with a military manufacturing bureau and was willing to use the old smelting technology that had been eliminated by the smelting bureau and the military casting bureau to cast armaments, then Zhao Hongrun would have no opinion on this.

But this is impossible, Qingwang Hongxin will attack the Smelting Bureau sooner or later, which is why Jie Ziyu suggested that Zhao Hongrun "must fight back".

The so-called "must fight back" refers to a certain degree of warning to Qingwang Hongxin: You move a military bureau out to play by yourself, I have no opinion, but your hand is not allowed to reach the smelting bureau, this is the bottom line!

"I see." Wei Jiao suddenly realized, and then said to Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, do you need to send someone to the Smelting Bureau to advise?" ”

"That's not necessary." Zhao Hongrun shook his head.

In his opinion, although it was not out of his original intention, two days ago, since Wang Fu, director of the General Administration of Metallurgy, had expressed his intention of "His Royal Highness King Wei Su is looking forward", it is unlikely that he will be bought by King Qingwang, and it will not be good if he rashly increases his eyeliner.

"Alas, I was going to go to the Ministry of Industry to take a walk, please ask about the matter of the "Qin State Craftsman", but this time it is also in the soup for the time being." Zhao Hongrun shook his head with a smile.

Hearing this, Jie Ziyu's heart moved slightly.

Out of "selfishness", of course he hoped that His Royal Highness King Su in front of him would go to the official offices of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites in the past few days to increase the credibility of the rumor that "King Su intends to compete for the throne", but after being beaten by Wei Tianzi, Jie Ziyu did not dare to propose so.

In all fairness, Jie Ziyu did not think of imposing thoughts on Zhao Hongrun, and using soft coercion to make Zhao Hongrun take the throne - this is not what a retainer should do.

Therefore, in the end, it depends on Zhao Hongrun's own opinion, if this Royal Highness makes up his mind to die and not fight for the throne, then Jie Ziyu can only accept his fate and obediently be a guest in King Su's Mansion for a lifetime, so as to repay His Royal Highness King Su for his kindness.

However, on top of this "bottom line", there are some things that Jie Ziyu thinks he can still operate, for example, through the suppression of King Qing Hongxin, let King Su Zhao Hongrun passively participate in the fight for the throne, but unfortunately, he has been warned by Wei Tianzi.

With a feeling of regret, Jie Ziyan said insincerely: "It just so happens that rumors have been spreading all over the past few days, and I think that His Royal Highness will rest in the palace for a few days, so don't show up for the time being, and wait for the rumors to dissipate." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded thoughtfully, stretched his waist and said, "It's just right, this king also takes advantage of this time to rest......"

As soon as he said this, he immediately smiled bitterly.

How can there be any idle time to be lazy, and the affairs at home are still waiting for him to go back to deal with.

Choosing one of the two daughters of Qin Shaojun and Mi Jiang as Princess Su was a proposition that gave him more headaches than the rumors of the competition for the throne.

After the carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of King Su's mansion, Zhao Hongrun turned his head and said to Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, you send someone to run to the post house, and you will ...... invited Qin Shaojun to come, and said that the king would hold a family banquet in the palace today and invite her to the banquet. ”

Due to his external identity as "Prince of Qin", Qin Shaojun Yingying has lived in the post house in the city with Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, Changxin Hou Wang Jian, Yangquan Jun Yingyi and other Qin generals these days, in addition to avoiding suspicion, it is mainly out of reserve - after all, although Zhao Hongrun and Ying Ying have been married in some way in Qin State, but in Wei State, they have not yet married, and Ying Ying is going to marry to Wei as the princess of Qin State after all, so the wedding on Wei's side is more important.

"Yes, the lowly will send someone to him."

Wei Jiao responded with a fist.

After instructing Wei Jiao, Zhao Hongrun walked into the house with Que Er and Jie Zi Ou, and instructed the family to order Lu'er to prepare sumptuous dishes in the side hall of the main house in the north courtyard today.

Subsequently, Zhao Hongrun came to the small garden in the north house, and met Miss Su, Yangyu Xing, Una, and Mi Jiang one by one, and conveyed to them the meaning of "Qin Shaojun will come to the house for a family banquet today".

In this regard, Miss Su, Yang Yu Xing, and Una felt very strange: since it was a family banquet in the palace, why not invite the "princess of Qin who is about to marry into their Su Palace", but invite the prince of Qin State?

Only Mi Jiang knew that Qin Shaojun Yingying was the princess of Qin who was about to marry into their Su Wangfu.

"Is tonight a 'real' meeting?"

Mi Jiang thought secretly.

For some reason, she has never had any obsession with "Princess Su", but she doesn't want to be defeated by the woman from Qin.

Perhaps this is because she has a relationship with Ying Ying's life and status.