When Li Yu returned to Anton this time, he brought back not only a personal entourage, but also more than 1,000 weapons craftsmen recruited by Cui Xuan from Tangxi Iron City, plus more than 6,000 family members. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although only half of the craftsmen recruited by Li Yu and Cui Xuan a few years ago, among the more than 1,000 weapon craftsmen, there were as many as fifty famous sword-casting masters in Tangxi Iron City. Li Yu was still happy for a while on the way back to Anton, and rewarded Cui Xuan with a thousand taels of gold and a luxury carriage for this. Let him make persistent efforts, and strive to poach all the craftsmen of Tangxi Iron City, Si didn't care about Cui Xuan's smiling face that was more ugly than crying.

After Li Yu walked away, remembering the hard work of more than 1,000 craftsmen before receiving the order, Cui Xuan almost burst into tears and sighed: "Your Highness, you are forcing a certain summoner to tie up all the craftsmen of Tangxi Iron Smelting City to you!" ”

In order to express his importance and respect to the craftsmen, leave a good image of Yan Wang's benevolence and love for the people in their hearts, and make weapons and armor for themselves more sincerely and diligently in the future.

Li Yu dragged on the road for three days to get acquainted with the craftsmen, and also sat down with fifty respected sword-casting masters to talk cordially, shouting and asking for warmth, and was awarded an official position in public (the position of the manager of the Wubei Workshop, but it belongs to the Yanwang Mansion, and there is no quality of the official), and a high amount of respect for the elderly is given.

His Royal Highness King Yan's courtesy, closeness and enthusiasm moved them to tears when they had fought all their lives with weapons and had never seen the sword casting masters of the imperial court before. They all swore to the sky that His Royal Highness King Yan would take care of these young offspring and create the most sophisticated weapons and armor in the world to repay His Highness's knowledge!

With these 50 sword casting masters and more than 1,000 skilled weapon craftsmen in Tangxi Iron City to join the Arsenal Workshop located in the Cast Iron City, the output and quality of weapons in the Arsenal Workshop will be increased by more than 50%, providing Li Yu with a steady stream of high-quality weapons and armor.

Compared with the 50,000 guan settlement fee paid for this and tens of thousands of acres of land and mountains in eastern Liaodong, it is really not worth mentioning.

Cui Xuan was still in charge of the placement of the craftsmen and sent them to the Cast Iron City, and Li Yu, who had been delayed for three days, hurried back to Pyongyang to deal with the Sanjiang changes provoked by Wang Hu.

At the same time, Xue Maoxun, the governor of Taiwan's Governor's Office, who had taken a detour, and Feng Changming, the captain of the gold guard who was in charge of mining Taiwan's gold mines, asked for more troops.

As soon as Li Yu returned to Pyongyang, he convened a meeting of the civilian and military generals of the Imperial Protectorate.

Li Yu was not in Anton, and Li Yuan, who was in charge of the operation of the capital protection mansion in the past few months, and Sima Xue Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief, this great god was finally willing to come back after a few months in Luoyang.

Zhang Shi, Gao Chongli, and Li Yexu, who received the order to come to the meeting, were also happy, or a little excited, to be more precise.

I learned from various newspapers and periodicals sent to Pyongyang by the two capitals that His Royal Highness King Yan held a grand fireworks display in Luoyang on the night of the Shangsi Festival.

As the cronies and generals under the command of King Yan, they still don't know what fireworks are? This makes them embarrassed by the new inventions that have always been produced by the Yan Wangfu and have a sneak peek?

Zhang Shi and Gao Chongli privately talked about whether they wanted to invite His Royal Highness to have a fireworks show in Pyongyang so that they could see and see, what kind of beautiful thing is this fireworks? Unexpectedly, various newspapers and periodicals in Luoyang did not hesitate to report and praise them?

When they saw Li Yu coming out of behind the curtain and sitting on the top with a serious expression, Zhang Shi and Gao Chongli, who were excited to invite His Royal Highness to a fireworks show in Pyongyang, secretly said that the situation was not right today.

Li Yexu stabbed Zhang Shi and Gao Chongli, and warned several friends: "Your Highness is in a bad mood today, let's play the fireworks another day." ”

Zhang Shi and Gao Chongli nodded in response, in the past, His Highness was kind and pleasant when he held a meeting, but today he looked serious, knowing that His Highness was not in a very good mood at the moment.

Li Yu looked at the civil and military generals who were full of Anton sitting quietly on the couch, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, all of them are waiting for themselves to speak.

Tapping his index finger on the table, Li Yu said with a somewhat unsightly face: "Wang Hu's expedition to the Black Water Sect and the Yue Xi Department led to a great defeat of the four coalition forces, and Xuanwu Wei was almost disabled. All of you here, as good ministers and good generals of Anton, got more accurate information earlier than me, so let me all share your thoughts on this matter."

"Your Royal Highness, Wang Hu is good at provoking the border, and he also lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he should be ......punished for his crimes."

Cao Shenyan, who was in charge of the criminal law of the Imperial Protectorate, immediately pointed out Wang Hu's culpability, saying that according to the Tang Dynasty Military Law, he should be beheaded according to the law.

This made Zhang Shi, who was good friends with Wang Hu, unhappy, and choked before Yu Shenyan finished speaking: "Yu Eryang, you are not a general who knows the difficulty of leading the troops to fight, and you will kill the leading generals as soon as you are defeated, where do you let Xue Dayang's father be?" ”

Sitting at the head of the military generals' column, Xue Ne, who was expressionless, lay innocently on the gun, and looked at Zhang Shi, who was blushing and talking excitedly with a big mouth in his eyes.

"Xue Jungong has been fighting for the Tang Dynasty for decades, and has made countless meritorious achievements, but so far there has only been a defeat in Dafeichuan. Decades of work can make up for a failure. ”

Yu Shenyan is also the son of former Prime Minister Yu Zhining, how could he be easily led into the trap by Zhang Shi and innocently offend Xue Ne, calmly and leisurely exaggerated Xue Rengui, and refuted the unrelenting Zhang Shi on his merits.

Seeing that the two had a quarreling posture, and took his father's victory or defeat as the criterion for the size of the guilt of the defeat of the king and the tiger, Xue Ne, who was innocently lying on the gun, couldn't calm down, so he had to play to Li Yu: "Your Highness, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers." The promise is to punish the generals according to military law for the sake of a defeat, which will affect the enthusiasm of the generals in the army in the future. In the opinion of the minister, the demotion of Wang Hu to a pawn is enough to show punishment. ”

Gao Chongde, who has always had a gap with Wang Hu, smiled, if Wang Hu, who has always been arrogant, is demoted to a pawn, how can this raise his head in front of a group of generals who were born in the Yan Wangfu? The next time I see him, it won't be too beautiful.

"Your Highness, the minister is just clarifying the military laws and regulations of the imperial court, as a reference for His Highness, and it is not necessary to kill Wang Hu according to the law. How to punish it is still up to His Highness to decide. ”

Yu Shenyan is also a smart person, looking at the generals on the other side, he doesn't have a good face for him, and Zhang Shi, a rough embryo, bites him and doesn't let go. Since he didn't dare to cause His Royal Highness to kill Wang Hu according to the law because of his own words, he was hated by a group of generals from then on.

"Hmph, rats!"

Zhang Shi snorted disdainfully, and Yu Shenyan replied lightly: "Each other!" ”

……

Zhang Shi and Yu Shenyan sprayed each other, and the other people in the hall just watched the play and didn't want to get involved, after all, they didn't want to lie down in this muddy water. It depends on His Highness's intention to punish Wang Hu, but His Royal Highness let the two argue but sat on the throne and didn't say anything.

As one of Li Yu's cronies, in Xue Jun's eyes, His Royal Highness asked the ministers to discuss Wang Hu's defeat, but he just wanted to understand the views of the ministers on this matter as the basis for punishing Wang Hu.

Judging from the current situation, even if Wang Hu was defeated and lost his generals, he did not change his status as His Royal Highness's favorite general.

Except for Yu Shenyan, who talked about the military law of the imperial court and caused him to exchange sprays with Zhang Shi, and Xue Ne said a fair word because the two of them were involved, everyone else was silent, which undoubtedly gave His Highness a reason to punish Wang Hu for lifting high and falling gently.

Wang Hu's battle was too unusual, Li Yu hated that iron was not steel, and secretly scolded him for being a pig, and his cultivation for several years did not play a big role, and he was a typical example of courage and resourcelessness.

But Wang Hu, who is loyal and scheming, cannot be severely punished because of this.

As a qualified ruler, he naturally needs a general like Wang Hu, who has developed limbs and a simple mind, and only knows how to be loyal to him, as a favorite general around him, so as to contain other talented generals, although he is not a good general.

Just as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reused Li Guangli, who had a mediocre record, to share the authority of Wei Qing, who had great military achievements; Song Gaozong reused the fleeing generals Liu Guangshi, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other famous generals.

Just when the ministers in the palace were waiting for Li Yu to make a decision, a messenger suddenly came from outside the door to report.

"Your Highness, good news from Heishui!"