"What's your last name?" XT debutant

The young man bowed to him slightly, and replied respectfully: "My surname is Bai, my name is Yi, and I am from Xinzheng, this is the first time I have entered Beijing to take the exam, and I also ask the Taoist chief for more advice." ”

Li Mi heard that he was from Xinzheng, and couldn't help but sigh slightly: "Last year, Cui Qinggong rebelled in the Central Plains, and you must have suffered a lot from it." ”

"The warlords fought and destroyed the Central Plains, and my Bai family's house was burned down by the rebels, and I fled with my father and brother to the ancestral land in Hedong to pick up my life."

Bai Juyi also sighed, but he remembered the new atmosphere of Datang in recent months, and his spirit also lifted up: "However, the new emperor ascended the throne and changed the name of the country to Dazhi, which also makes us see the hope of Datang, although I am young, I am willing to serve the country as soon as possible." ”

Li Mi nodded, he remembered the three words of Bai Juyi in his heart, at this time, the guy served him a glass of wine, Li Mi poured a glass of wine, raised his glass and said with a smile: "Come, I salute you, I wish you an early nomination for the gold list." ”

At this time, someone next to him suddenly smiled and said: "With Brother Bai's wonderful poem, the title of the gold list should not be a problem." ”

Li Mi and Bai Juyi turned their heads together, only to see a young scholar sitting next to them, his skin was dark, his eyes were bright, seeing that Li Mi and Bai Juyi's attention was attracted by him, he moved the wine and food over and said with a smile: "In Xia Liu Zongyuan, he is from Chang'an, one person is bored with drinking, and the two are willing to drink together." ”

Bai Juyi saw that he was also very young, and seemed to be a little younger than himself, so he couldn't help but feel a lot more good, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Bai Juyi in Xiaxinzheng, when I first arrived in Chang'an, I also asked Brother Liu for more advice." ”

"It turns out that Brother Bai is the first to come to Chang'an, so have you been to the Wild Goose Pagoda and seen the name of the Wild Goose Pagoda? Have you ever been to Qujiang and tasted Qujiang drinking? Chang'an's major famous monuments, can Brother Bai have admired Li Taibai's "Will Enter the Wine"? Can you lie down on Dongshi Street where He Zhizhang is drunk? ”

Liu Zongyuan's words attracted Bai Juyi's yearning, and he sighed and said, "I haven't been anywhere. ”

"What's so hard about that? I'll take Brother Bai with me. Liu Zongyuan smiled heartily. He raised his glass and said, "How about we go after drinking this glass?" ”

"Then thank you, Brother Liu." Bai Juyi drank all the wine in the cup. Take out a dozen pennies and put them on the table. Simply packed up things. He bowed his hand to Li Mi and left.

Li Mi watched their heroic backs disappear. He nodded secretly. Datang has many talents. Your Majesty is fortunate!

He drank a few more glasses of wine. He also departed.

It has been more than two months since Zhang Huan ascended the throne. Two months may be just a moment in life. But Zhang Huandi needs to spend his whole life slowly reminiscing about these two months. It was a turning point in his life for two months. It was he who ruled the land for two months.

Two months allowed him to get used to the life of an emperor. His role has also changed from the prime minister's steward of Pepsi to the master of the land that only asks about big things. Nevertheless. Datang has a vast territory. At the beginning of the gradual recovery of national strength. XT made him feel emaciated. But there was one thing that made him very happy. Last month, he issued a probation edict. Amnesty was granted to all those who had been forced to go to the mountains to work as bandits or into the water as a result of the warlord fighting. He is not to blame in the past, just like Ding Nan gave the field. The results are very ideal. In the Jianghuai region alone, 57 bandits surrendered to 55. and their parents, wives and children. There are more than 200,000 people. The law and order have improved, and the people's minds are determined. This in turn created a good start for his next step of reform.

However, what has worried Zhang Huan is that the Hui people who appeared two months ago have been meticulously made, although several large-scale investigations have been launched, but these people seem to have evaporated in the world, without a trace, Zhang Huan also knows that they are actually still hiding somewhere in the Tang Dynasty, like a poisonous spider shrunk into a gap, waiting for the opportunity to come, these people have become a piece of his heart. It has always been hanging in the depths of his heart, for which he expanded the National Security Department twice in a row, and upgraded it to the National Security Administration, which is at the same level as the Supervision Office, and is the Fifth Court of the Imperial Historical Observatory, which is officially listed as the Imperial Court Administration.

At this moment, Zhang Huan was carefully reading the latest investigation report sent by Cui Lianxing from Luoyang, and after two months of careful investigation, Cui Lianxing gradually sorted out a little eyebrows. He has found out that the mastermind behind the assassination of Zhangfu is very likely to be related to a new national teacher in Huifu. And this national teacher has a Persian background, in other words. This incident not only involves Hui Hui, but may also involve the big food.

The minister captured two criminals in Luoyang, according to their confession, all their people have been broken into pieces, distributed in various parts of the Tang Dynasty under the cover of business, and they are tightly organized, they are all one-line contacts, their leaders may have gone to the Jianghuai area, the minister has sent capable people to Yangzhou to investigate, if there are clues, the minister will go to Yangzhou in person

Cui Lianxing is now in Luoyang, and the Luoyang Municipal Bureau found that two Turkic merchants from Shiguo were holding fake customs clearance documents, and they had already detained the two people.

Zhang Huan put down the report, although he was not at the scene, but he still faintly felt that there were some flaws in it, the last time the Hui warrior committed suicide left a deep impression on him, if suicide was their necessary training, then why didn't these two Hui people commit suicide after being caught by the Luoyang City Bureau? also confessed that their leader may be in Jianghuai, which is like a world of difference from the performance of the people who were arrested before, but if it is deliberately arranged, but this is somewhat inconsistent with the usual cunning and cautious style of their leaders, of course, there is another possibility, that is, their leaders did not know that the Hui spy who was arrested last time actually committed suicide after confessing the information.

Could this be their ploy to attack the West? Zhang Huan felt that things didn't seem to be so simple, and he had a hunch that the Hui people might be going to act again.

He immediately took a piece of plain paper and quickly wrote a handwritten message, at this time, An Zhongshun stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, there is news from the Ordnance Supervisor, and everything is ready." "I'm going!" Zhang Huan waited for the ink on the edict to dry, and handed it to An Zhongshun and instructed: "You immediately go to the National Security Administration and ask them to pass this edict to Luoyang." ”

An Zhongshun hurriedly ran away, and Zhang Huan also got up and went to the ordnance prison.

Weiwei Temple, Taifu Temple, and Ordnance Supervision are all military and weapons organs in charge of the Tang Dynasty, all of which are located in the imperial city, of which Weiwei Temple is mainly responsible for the custody and dispatch of ordnance, and has a huge weapons reserve warehouse; The Taifu Temple is in charge of the stable herding and the government of public opinion, mainly responsible for the stocking and management of war horses; The Ordnance Supervision is the research and development center of various advanced weapons in Datang, and Datang's Mo knife, horizontal knife, Mingguang armor, crossbow arrows, etc. are all developed and manufactured here, but after Qingzhi fifteen years later. The finances gradually tightened, in order to cut expenses, Pei Jun laid off more than half of the craftsmen who made weapons, resulting in many excellent craftsmen being hired by various families, among which Longyou's conditions were the most favorable, and almost half of the craftsmen went to Longyou.

After Zhang Huan ascended the throne. The Imperial Court recalled the weapons craftsmen scattered throughout the country to Chang'an, and invested heavily in the research and development of weapons, preparing for a possible war.

The status of the original ordnance supervisor is low, and the ordnance superintendent order is the fourth rank, which is half a level lower than the other temple supervisors, and has now been promoted by Zhang Huan to the third rank, and the current ordnance superintendent is Fang Zongyan, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, who was deposed in the Chu Xingshui incident, and he was reused a month ago.

The ordnance supervision is currently divided into two squares, the left and the right. Zuofang is responsible for the development and creation of weapons; The right fang is responsible for the customization of various utensils, such as flags, tents, and other things, and is also in charge of the material warehouse and the leather horn warehouse.

It turns out that there are three departments of weapons, armor and ordnance in the left square. Now there is a new firearms department, which is responsible for the research and development of gunpowder, and it has just moved from Longyou a month ago.

About a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Huan arrived at the Ordnance Supervisor, which was originally located on the north side of Jingfeng Gate, because of the small area, Zhang Huan divided the right square and the warehouse to the west side of the grassland of Sinong Temple, where there was a large open space, and the gunpowder test site was arranged on the waste stone platform. In this way, the entire ordnance supervision has completely become a base for weapons research and development and manufacturing.

"Your Majesty, it's here!" Long Yuan stopped, and the captain of the Imperial Forest Army whispered a report to wake Zhang Huan from his contemplation, he pulled the curtain a crack, and the front door of the ordnance supervisor was already full of officials, and the person at the head was the ordnance superintendent Fang Zongyan, and behind him stood two young eunuchs, one was Qin Xiaowu, who was in charge of the right fang. The other is transferred from Longyou, Song Qi, who was the first to propose the use of gunpowder in the military, he is the weapons agency of Longyou, and is now officially promoted to the major superintendent of the ordnance superintendent, responsible for the research and development of weapons in the entire Tang Dynasty.

"Fang Zongyan led the ministers of the weapons supervisor to see His Majesty the Emperor."

As soon as Zhang Huan got off the dragon chariot, Fang Zongyan led a group of subordinates to greet him, Zhang Huan raised his hand slightly, "Zhong Aiqing is flat!" ”

He looked behind him again, but he didn't see Du Huan's figure. Then he asked Fang Zongyan, "Why didn't Mr. Du see him?" ”

Fang Zongyan was stunned. He looked around, but he really didn't see Du Huan. He asked in surprise: "Didn't Du Huan come out together?" Where is he? ”

"I'm here!" The voice came from the right side of the gate, and I saw Du Huan holding an extremely heavy white robe, running profusely, he ran to Zhang Huan, panting and saluting: "The minister went to take off this dress, a step late, please forgive your majesty." ”

Du Huan was recommended by Pei Mingyuan because he was very familiar with the weapons and equipment of the Great Food Land, and now he is serving as an ordnance supervisor, specializing in weapon research and development, and the white robe in his hand is his latest research and development achievement.

"Is this the fire suit developed by Mr. Du?" Zhang Huan took the robe in Du Huan's hand with great interest, this kind of robe seems to be very heavy, but in fact the weight is very light, which is why he came to the Ordnance Prison today, Du Huan developed the legendary fire ane suit.

The raw material of the fire suit is today's asbestos, which is used to defend against fire, the big food conquered Greece several times, all of them were defeated on the Greek fire, and learned from the pain, the big food on the side of the development of fire prevention equipment at the same time, but also carried out in-depth research on the Greek fire, especially the big food is rich in fire oil, so the large fire oil weapon is a sharp weapon of theirs, mainly equipped in the Northern Army and the Egyptian Army, and last year's attack on Anxi The big food army was mainly based on the Tocharian and Persian armies, and did not carry fire oil weapons.

But in the future, if there is a war with the Great Eclipse, it will inevitably encounter the Great Eclipse Army's ground fire and oil weapons, and the Tang Army cannot afford to take precautions.

"Back to Your Majesty, there are two kinds of this kind of fire oil suit, this is to sew the fire oil cloth in the clothes, which can resist ordinary fire, but when encountering the sharpest fire oil bomb and fire dragon ship of the Great Food Army, this fire oil suit may be difficult to resist, and the minister used a small piece of fire plate to make a fire plate and a fire shield, and the minister did an experiment, which can fully resist the impact of the fire after the fire oil bomb broke out.

Huohuan cloth was invented in the pre-Qin period, Du Huan was captured by Da Shi in the battle of Talas, was selected to make the Tang Dynasty's bed crossbow, by chance, he proposed that the fire cloth can be fireproof, and was highly valued by the Great Food military, which suffered from the pain of Greek fire, so as to enter the Great Food Ordnance Research Center, specifically responsible for the development of fire armor, and came into contact with many secrets of the Great Food weapons.

This time he was recommended by Pei Mingyuan to enter the Tang Dynasty Weapons Prison, he first made the fire alkane suit and fire alkane armor, he saw that the emperor was very interested in this, so he smiled and said: "The minister will conduct an experiment soon, Your Majesty may wish to watch it together." ”

Zhang Huan nodded and smiled happily: "I am here for this today, since I have already prepared, it can be done immediately!" ”

The test was conducted in an open field, with walls built around it for protection, and a grandstand was erected, on which Zhang Huan, accompanied by Fang Zongyan, sat down.

"Your Majesty, this Du Huan is not simple! After reading the "Records of the Scriptures" he wrote, the minister knew that the world was so big that there were no surprises. In the stands, Fang Zongyan saw that Zhang Huan attached great importance to this Du Huan, and he also sighed with some emotion: "What he wrote in his book is that in a big country called Egypt, there are pyramids made of boulders hundreds of zhang high, and there are also high sphinx monsters carved with stone hundreds of zhang high next to the pyramids, which makes people really want to see it with their own eyes."

Zhang Huan smiled slightly: "If Fang Aiqing is interested, I will let Fang Aiqing be the main envoy next time, and I will send a big meal for my Tang Dynasty, how about it?" ”

"The minister is willing to serve His Majesty."

At this moment, a rapid drum beat sounded, and the experiment began.