Li Ji lacks everything now, that is, he is not short of money.

What are you doing with so much money, of course, to equip the army.

"Weapons supervisor, 800 chariots and 500 stone throwers will be built in three months."

The weapons supervisor bowed down and received the order: "The minister obeys the order."

"Bao Zhangzheng Li Baoguo, I order you to urge Si Tiantai to make more gunpowder, and strive for all branches of the 100,000 forbidden army in my capital to be able to hold it, and use it as the main weapon!"

Li Baoguo stood up and bowed down and said, "The minister obeys the order."

In the alchemy room in the palace, Li Ji sent part of the alchemists to the Xishan Liuli Factory, and part of them stayed to develop gunpowder.

The alchemy room was also changed into a gunpowder workshop, and Li Ji ordered it to belong to Si Tiantai.

It stands to reason that Si Tiantai doesn't care about this, but Li Baoguo is better at gunpowder, so Li Ji had no choice but to allocate the gunpowder workshop department to Si Tiantai.

The generals of the Forbidden Army were quite resistant to gunpowder, believing that it was courage to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Something like this is of no use except to bluff people.

However, Li Ji strictly ordered all armies to be equipped with gunpowder and use stone-throwing vehicles as launchers.

Fortunately, the gunpowder workshop lived up to expectations and developed a thunderbolt for the Ma Bu army, which was mainly thrown.

Thunderbolts, similar to modern grenades. Although the power is a little worse, the appearance is a little weird. A wooden handle with a round copper warhead on the head.

When throwing, it is not a grenade that can pull the string and smoke, but it needs to be removed from the body, and then the fuse is ignited with a fire fold and thrown out.

Moreover, this kind of thunderbolt is very easy to extinguish after being thrown, because after the lead is flying in the air for a period of time, the ash in the lead is easily restricted by various factors, and it often goes out when it is thrown out, and it will not explode.

Or due to the error in the ratio of gunpowder, the copper warhead is not properly smelted, and the thunderbolt thrown out is often blown in half, and it cannot cause lethality to the enemy.

Ten thunderbolts were thrown, and only five or six exploded to cause lethality. As a result, many soldiers were resistant to these firearms, believing them to be impractical.

However, Li Ji issued a strict order that all forbidden armies must use firearms as the main force.

This caused a strange phenomenon, many forbidden troops were fully equipped, spears and swords, armored war horses and uniforms. Compared to the incompatible Zhengchen on their bodies, they often have some dingling copper bumps hanging from their waists.

But there is a firearm, and Li Ji is extremely satisfied. Also loved by soldiers, that is rockets.

Of course, the rockets mentioned here are not the kind used in modern warfare, and with Datang's current capabilities, it will not be possible to build them in another thousand years.

This rocket is a type of gunpowder tied to a bow and arrow, which is tied to an arrow and then fired with an archer.

Although the range of the bow and arrow tied to gunpowder was shorter, the power was increased. When an arrow is fired, the gunpowder on the arrow will explode when it hits the enemy, causing a certain amount of damage to the enemy.

Therefore, as soon as the gunpowder workshop was developed, it was immediately very popular with the archers.

Li Ji extended the Gaozong system, re-established the Sixteen Guards, and restructured part of the forbidden army.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it followed the old system of Kaihuang and was still called the Sixteen Mansions. In the second year of Longshuo, when Tang Gaozong changed the name of a hundred officials, it was officially called Sixteen Wei.

There are 16 guards in the center, of which 12 guards are the leading bodies of the government soldiers:

Left and right guards, left and right Xiao guards, left and right military guards, left and right Wei guards, left and right leading guards and left and right Jinwu guards.

Sixteen guards, and the other four guards are the left and right prison guards and the left and right thousand cow guards. The left and right prison guards are in charge of the door guards, and the left and right Qianniu guards lead Qianniu to prepare for the emperor's attendants and honor guards.

Because the 16 guards are located in the south of the palace, they are staggered with the "Northern Ya Forbidden Army" guarding the north gate of the palace and composed of recruited soldiers, and they contain each other.

The increase in the number of military branches made the power of generals dispersed, so that there was no threat to the imperial power.

Except for Li Ji, no one mobilized them.

Imperial power should also maintain its high degree of centralization at all times.

Only when power is concentrated in his own hands can the emperor sit at ease.

So Zhao Zhanguo's son Zhao Fang plunged into the construction of the glass greenhouse one by one.

With the influx of artesian people, there are now people in the capital, and these hundreds of hectares of fertile fields are all good land that depends on water. Some can even use windmills to get water, and some have wells in the fields.

To make a greenhouse, the water source must be guaranteed.

Another thing is that the big fat pigs in the capital are growing well. Strangely enough, there are very few pigs suffering from the plague, perhaps because of the lack of germs in this era. In other words, these pigs have exercised a lot, their physique has increased, and their resistance has also become stronger.

Fat pigs are not as fat and fat as in modern pig farms, they eat tubers, weeds, and are very thin.

Tens of thousands of pigs produce a large amount of pig manure every day, which is a pure natural organic fertilizer.

The glass greenhouse purchased a large number of pig manure, and for a time there was a manure boom in Luoyang City. People have collected human pig manure and sold it to glass greenhouses.

Every day, people use horse-drawn carts to harvest this fertilizer in the city and transport it to the glass greenhouse to make organic fertilizer.

The glass greenhouse is made of wooden frames. Anyway, there is wood, according to Li Ji's instructions, the greenhouses are sitting in the north and facing south, and the east and west are transversely facing the sunny slope, which is conducive to winter lighting.

Zhao Fangzhu, who used to be soft and weak, was mentally handicapped and sick. Ever since he took charge of the glass shed, the man has become black and strong.

Yushi Zhao Zhanguo has not seen his son for more than a month, and Zhao Fangzhu was called a wreck in the past. Even he has always looked down on him.

I haven't seen him for more than a month, and I don't know how this child is doing, the more I think about Zhao Zhanguo, the more worried I become.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here, and every family is celebrating the reunion festival. Zhao Zhanguo looked at the full moon in the sky, and he was even more worried.

Zhao Fangchai has been eating and living there since he went to the glass greenhouse. Zhao Zhanguo asked Zhu Youneng, this loser has always said that he is very good and capable, but today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter how busy he is, he should go home.

In a pavilion in the courtyard of Zhao's mansion, Zhao Zhanguo and his wife were speechless. The full moon turned out to be so cold, the dishes on the table were cold, and only a pot of old wine was still warm.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is different, without this nest, the Zhao Mansion is even more deserted.

His wife was holding a handkerchief and weeping in a low voice, thinking that she also missed her son.

Zhao Zhanguo sighed, picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency! Childe is back! The steward ran over in a panic, and his voice was surprised and delighted.

With a bang, the wine glass in Zhao Zhanguo's hand fell to the ground, and his wife stood up abruptly and was about to run towards the door.

Suddenly, a person walked in with a big burden on his back, and Zhao Zhanguo and his wife were stunned for a moment.

The man in front of him is black and strong, is he still the weak son he used to be?

"Dad, mother!" Zhao Fang shouted one by one, put down the burden and handed it to the steward: "The child is back."

The lady rushed over excitedly and beat and beaten, cried and screamed. Zhao Zhanguo found that his son had changed and became confident.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. Quick, sit down. Although he was equally excited in his heart, Zhao Zhanguo still tried to restrain himself.

Zhao Fangzhu no longer squirmed as before, but helped his mother to sit down together: "Dad, the child has benefited a lot from the glass greenhouse."

Zhao Zhanguo saw it, and he nodded: "Well, do it well."

Zhao Fang was stunned for a moment, and in his memory, his father scolded him. Either scolding yourself for being incompetent, or scolding yourself for being a waste, how could you ever praise yourself.

I never thought that he would say this sentence today, Zhao Fangzhu was a little excited, and he took out a copy of the edict from his arms.

"What is this?" Zhao Zhanguo asked.

Zhao Fangzhu said lightly: "Your Majesty sealed it, Dad, you can see it."

Zhao Zhanguo hurriedly grabbed it and opened it, only to see that it was clearly written on it was the Edict of the Son of Heaven. Canonized Zhao Fang as a vegetable farmer, and the payment was also stamped with a jade seal and the seal of the province.

Zhao Zhanguo became excited, his hands trembled, and tears blurred his eyes.

Vegetable farmer, his old Zhao family's nest is abolished as an official. And it is also the Son of Heaven himself, see who dares to look down on his son in the future.

"Glory to the ancestors! Glory to the ancestors! Zhao Zhanguo looked up to the sky and sighed.

Tonight's Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao's Mansion is different. The honest Zhao Fangchai suddenly became mature and steady, and he talked a lot. In the past, it was three sticks that couldn't beat a fart, but now they are talking endlessly.

Especially when it comes to farming, Zhao Fangchai seems to have endless words.

"Dad, I think with this glass greenhouse, there is absolutely no problem with growing fruits and vegetables in the middle of winter. And, you don't know, this pig manure can make the yield several times greater. ”

"Dad, he is a child recommended by the second son of Guangwangfu. Today, His Majesty went to the glass greenhouse, and His Majesty asked the child some questions, I don't know why, this time the child was not nervous at all. As soon as the Son of Heaven was happy, he made the child a vegetable farmer. The book was delivered in the afternoon, and the child was waiting for it, or he would have come back sooner. ”

Zhao Zhanguo was very excited, and his heart was turbulent. This turtle son has really changed, too much change.

For Lao Zhang, a bastard in the matter, the youngest son entered the ministry to ask for an errand and showed off his power in front of him, and mocked his son for being useless.

Liu Dewang, the young superintendent, was even more arrogant, and his second son-in-law was on an errand in Honglu Temple. looked up at the sky even more, and when he saw Zhao Fang, he counted down, as if his son-in-law was excellent in the world.

Lao Tzu, I raised my eyebrows today, your son and son-in-law are a fart, but they just rely on the relationship between the old man and the son to get a little official.

My son is a vegetable farmer, and the Son of Heaven is personally sealed. If there is an edict, the Son of Heaven will issue an edict, and the one that will be officially recognized by the seal is left under the door.

When you see me in the future, see if you are still arrogant or not.

The more Zhao Zhanguo thought about it, the more excited he became, he couldn't wait to go to these two people now and show off in front of them.

Just thinking about it, Zhang Fakui and Liu Dewang, the young government supervisor, actually came.

Zhang Fakui's laughter came from afar: "Hahaha, Lao Zhao, the dog is not talented, and he has won the position of the head of the ministry, and the old man is very relieved."

The apprentice, a low-level official, doesn't even have a grade.

Liu Dewang was not to be outdone: "Honglu Siqing took a fancy to my son-in-law's diligence and asked him to make a book, do you say that the old man is happy or not, haha!"

The book is a low-level official.

Of course, these two people did not simply come to Zhao Zhanguo to pretend to show off, but to ask Zhao Zhanguo for something.

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