Jiang Wenhao personally interrogated the Western Xia who sent different salaries from the Western Xia, so this spy only knew about this mission, and sure enough, as Li Chang said, Du Wenhao asked the Western Xia army about the countermeasures of the Great Song Buwei battalion tactics, and the person did not know the specific situation.

This spy was tortured for the second time, and even explained the bad thing of peeking at the neighbor's girl taking a bath when he was a child, and he really couldn't dig up more things, so Du Wenhao gave up.

Today's harvest is already very satisfying for him. He was going to the palace. The harvest of this report made Gao Ditao know the great usefulness of setting up this organization.

Du Wenhao entered the palace, Gao Yidi was not in the palace, and went to the construction site.

These days, in addition to listening to politics in the east gate hall. She spends almost all of her time on the construction site personally supervising the construction.

The land acquisition and relocation of the new Houyuan has already been completed. The site leveling is also finished, and now the artificial lake has begun to be excavated, this project is very huge, and it will not be completed for a while and a half, so Gao Yiyi actually does not have much work to do, but her heart is on this, and she always feels empty when she is not on the construction site, so she comes to the construction site to wander. Du Wenhao found the construction site and saw that the high-dropping Huang Luo umbrella was under a big tree on the high ground, so he came to the bottom of the slope, and the chamberlain, palace maids and guards saw him coming, and hurriedly gave a salute without notifying.

Du Wenhao strolled up the hill, sure enough. I saw Gao Yiyi holding his cheeks and looking at the busy construction site below. coughed lightly and said, "The Empress Dowager is so elegant." ”

Gao Huiyi was taken aback, heard his voice, hurriedly turned around, and said happily: "You're here!" Come here! ”

Du Wenhao hurriedly walked to her side.

"Throne!" Gao gushed.

Father-in-law Jiao hurriedly brought a chair over and put it on the beveled edge. Du Wenhao thanked him and sat down. Father-in-law Jiao knew that they were going to talk about private matters, so with a wave of his hand, he retreated to Xiaozhi with the palace maids and eunuch guards.

Under.

Gao Huotao pointed to the workers below who were as busy as ants, as well as the construction site that had been partially dug up, and said: "I asked the workers to work in three shifts alternately, working day and night. The Ministry of Industry said. At this pace, at the beginning of the new year, the artificial lake will almost be dug up.

As long as the lake is dug well, everything else will be done. ”

"yes, it's still pretty fast."

"Oh, I can't wait to fix it right away."

I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! Du Wenhao said with a smile. The last time you dealt with those officials who opposed the reform of the armed forces, you were a little anxious, and our people from the State Security Bureau heard that some people in the DPRK and China were talking about how it was not good for you to suppress civil and military officials like this. ”

Gao Huojiu nodded and said: "I also felt that I was too anxious and ruthless afterwards, I should just demote them out of the capital, just like the first emperor, there should be no objections." ”

"Yes, but let's fight crookedly, I've already found out, then Han Zhen is really not a good bird! He who decapitates his sins! The same is true for Li Chang in the imperial history! ”

Gao Huojiu was very surprised: "What's wrong with the two of them?" ”

Du Wenhao told the interrogation again.

After listening to this, Gao Huojiu was stunned for a long time, and said gloomily: "Even the imperial history Zhongcheng is not clean, who else is clean among the ministers of the court?" ”

Du Wenhao also sighed: "Yes, the enemy can even buy our rulers, and our national security situation has reached a terrible point!" ”

Gao Huojiu nodded heavily: "Well, so you are very thoughtful, the establishment of the National Security Bureau is very necessary and timely." It's never too late to make amends! You must start with this case, dig deeper, and no matter who you dig up, you must investigate it to the end, and you will never tolerate it! Even if you find out the relatives of the emperor, princes and ministers, they will be treated equally! ”

"Good! With your superior treasure, I'm not afraid of anything. Hey. However, I still have to ask you for a clear decree before I dare to do it. ”

"Well, you say."

"I am an ancestor and do not kill scholars. If the scholars and doctors who have committed crimes use this as a shield, our deterrent effect will be much smaller, and many cases will not be investigated. I want to please you."

"I understand, I immediately decree that as long as your NSA decides to execute the person, this rule will not apply!"

Du Wenhao smiled: "You can support the work of the National Security Bureau like this, what else can't you do." However, although this is good, the National Security Bureau has just been established, and its power is already great enough, and if it is stipulated in this way, it will cause disgust among the ministers, so let's not draw the fire to the National Security Bureau. ”

"It makes sense, so what do you say should be regulated?"

"I thought about it, when Lu Huiqing conspired to assassinate the first emperor and was exterminated by the first emperor, based on this precedent, the minister who committed the felony of treason can be sentenced to death. After Han Zhen was captured, he was sentenced for betraying our army, which led to the defeat of Yongle City and the annihilation of 200,000 soldiers. Execute it, Zhulian Nine Clans, but it's better not to execute Zhulian, as long as the punishment is confiscated as a slave, it's already fine. At that time, you personally issued an edict to execute him, and then let the edict of the compilation office to execute Lu Huiqing of the first emperor and Han Zhen of you to execute it into an edict and promulgate it, so that it has the legal effect of universal application, and then I can follow these two edicts, and let the ten masters who committed the crimes of rebellion and treason be sentenced to death and said with a smile: "This is a good idea!" Both in accordance with the rules. It will not arouse the opposition of the ministers. Xiang Gong is really smart".

Du Wenhao and the two of them said okay, and in private they were commensurate with husband and wife, Du Wenhao smiled when he heard it:

"The lady praised it falsely, in fact, for the husband to think. If the scholar kills someone, or even collaborates with the enemy to rebel, he will overthrow our Great Song Dynasty, and we still hold the rule of not killing the scholar doctor to avoid the death penalty, which is really unreasonable

"You have a point. It's just that if you don't kill the scholars, it is the legacy of Emperor Taizu and the law of the ancestors, if it is abolished, I am afraid that the ministers will oppose it."

"This is for sure, because this is their talisman, the gold medal for avoiding death, naturally they will not give up easily, no, I don't want to abolish them all, but the heaviest rebellion and treason can be executed. For the rest of the ordinary crimes, the death penalty is still avoided. I think the ministers should be able to understand that we should be able to execute the ministers for treason and treason. Besides, the rules are set by people, of course we must abide by the laws of our ancestors, and those who are not suitable for social development, or even wrong, should of course be corrected, and must not stick to the old rules, I said, this is called "advancing with the times.!" ”

Gao Taozhi smiled: "Okay! If it were only the execution of the scholars who had committed treason and treason, the ministers would not have been very opposed. Just do what you say. ”

"Okay. When Han Zhen was executed, we had to carry out propaganda with great fanfare, so as to achieve the effect of knocking out Zhenhu, and let the ministers know that the scholars could not rebel and commit treason, otherwise they would lose their heads. At the same time, the government and the opposition will also be aware of the existence of the National Security Bureau, so as to restrain those unstable elements who are ready to act and try to sell national intelligence. ”

"Okay, you can arrange it."

"Okay!" Du Jianhao was very happy.

Gao Huojiu looked at him and smiled, and said, "That's right." It's about to be the beginning of autumn, aren't you going to conduct military exercises? How's the preparation? ”

"Almost, are you going to inspect it?"

"I'm not going, you can do it yourself. Lan'er wants to go and see the excitement, you can take her there. ”

"Lan'er?"

"It's my daughter, the eldest princess of the Qin Kingdom, the child who went hunting with you last time and got lost in the snow."

The eldest princess of the Qin State is named Zhao Lan, and she is not Gao Jiujiu's biological daughter, her biological mother is a talented person of Song Yingzong, Li. This Li Cairen was fortunate to be visited by Song Yingzong. After becoming pregnant, Song Yingzong died before she could be promoted to a concubine.

Li Cairen was heartbroken and exhausted. The blood collapsed during childbirth, and she died immediately after giving birth to Zhao Lan. Zhao Lan was raised by Gao Taoyi. What's more, Gao Zhizhi is his mother-in-law, so he has always recognized Gao Taodi as his mother. Gao Yiyi also regarded it as his own. Pampered since childhood.

When Du Wenhao heard Gao Huoyi mention the eldest princess of the Qin Kingdom. felt a little hot on his face: "Hehe, it's her, is her name Lan'er?" ”

"Yes, Lan'er is very pitiful, she is very bored in the palace alone, and she told me several times that she wants you to accompany her to hunting, but I am worried that you are too busy to pull away, so I refused, this time she heard that you are going to engage in military exercises, she also likes to dance with guns and sticks since she was a child, bend the bow and shoot arrows, shouting that you must go to see the excitement, I can't bear to refuse too much, so I agreed. Take her with you. ”

"Okay. Anyway, there is nothing dangerous about the military exercise, the military exercise is scheduled for the day of the beginning of autumn, and then you can ask her to come to me in Sanya, and go together. ”

"Okay."

It was nearly noon, Gao Diyi and Du Wenhao returned to the palace, and after the two made love, Gao Yitao ordered to pass the meal, and after eating, Du Wenhao said goodbye and left the palace.

The interrogation of Li Chang in the morning reminded Du Wenhao that the Western Xia army was very taboo about the powerful bed crossbow of the Song army. Du Wenhao had long wanted to design and manufacture a cannon that was more powerful than a bed crossbow, but he never had time to let the Ordnance Institute research it. This cannot be delayed any longer.

Du Wenhao took the escort team and rode to the bow and crossbow courtyard of the armory. The young warden of the armament hurriedly welcomed him inside and served him good tea. Du Wenhao ordered the new dean of the Bow and Crossbow Academy to be called. This dean, Li Hong, who was the Mingshen Arm Bow, quickly came up to greet him.

Du Wenhao smiled and said, "How is it?" Last time, I taught you how the experienced craftsmen you gathered, how did you do with the gathering? "It's all done as the general instructs. Waiting for your instructions

Du Wenhao nodded, turned his head and asked the young eunuch next to him, "Do we have all blacksmiths in our weapons?" ”

"Yes, if you want to build siege equipment, how can you do it without a blacksmith, hehe, it can be said that the best blacksmiths in the capital are in our arsenal. People outside want to make a good pot, and they have to come to us. Hey. When the young eunuch saw that Du Wenhao was easy-going, he dared to make a few jokes.

Du Wenhao was overjoyed: "Great, by the way, do we have any alchemists who know how to configure gunpowder?" ”