After letting go of this matter, Gao Huaiyuan has completely lost interest in the Jin Kingdom, they are looking for death by themselves, let them go! He should be busy with his business, and he should be busy with his business.

But he didn't want Zhao Yuju's affairs, someone helped him think, and the most enthusiastic of them was his father Gao Jian, Gao Jian also heard about Zhao Yuju for the first time in Shaoxing.

After he learned about this matter, even if Gao Jianjian started to think about it, he never thought that a flat-headed common man that his son had inadvertently befriended at the beginning suddenly soared at this time, and inexplicably became the son of King Yi, and I heard that it was Shi Miyuan, the first person in the court today, so he began to sit in the house and calculate this matter.

Soon he wrote a long letter to Gao Huaiyuan, in which he analyzed the benefits of this matter for Gao Huaiyuan, and asked Gao Huaiyuan to find a way to contact Zhao Yuju, who is now Zhao Guicheng, no matter what, and through Zhao Guicheng, find a way to hang up Shi Miyuan's relationship, no matter how much money is spent, as long as the relationship between Shi Miyuan is opened, their father and son will be prosperous in the future, not to mention that they can go to Beijing to be a big official, at least it should not be a problem to get a prefect when they go back!

After Gao Huaiyuan received his father's letter, he was even more laughed and crying by Gao Jian's plan, his father is really a little dizzy now, he has been an official all his life, and he has not seen the hidden crisis in this matter clearly, and he also wants him to hug Shi Miyuan's thick legs through Zhao Yuju, at this time, according to Ji Xiancheng's thoughts, he can't hide, lest he can't avoid it, Gao Jian also asked him to do it, if he doesn't get it right, people will turn over on their backs, and their father and son are both unlucky.

So he simply put the letter in the cabinet, and simply replied to Gao Jian, asking Gao Jian to be at ease, this matter is not such a simple matter, and you must not wade into troubled waters at this time.

After Gao Jian received Gao Huaiyuan's letter, he was confused, and he couldn't see that this was a basin of muddy water, why didn't Gao Huaiyuan let him wade into troubled water?

So he made persistent efforts, wrote a letter to Gao Huaiyuan again, and even went to Quan's house in person to meet Quan's family, and took out a lot of money to fund Quan's and Zhao Yuju's younger brother Zhao Yurui to study, hoping to find a better background for himself and his son through this way.

It's a pity that all his efforts were in vain, he didn't do it, and Shi Miyuan had already sent someone to check his situation and Gao Huaiyuan's situation.

On this day, the people sent by Shi Miyuan finally returned to Lin'an from Daye County, and saw him in Shi Miyuan's secret room: "Qi Yu Xiangye, the little one is fortunate not to be dishonored this time, and he has already found out the situation of the high county lieutenant!" ”

Shi Miyuan nodded and said, "Very good, thank you for your hard work!" Then you can talk about it! ”

"Thank you Xiangye for your concern, after being ordered a few days ago, I didn't dare to delay, so I set off for Daye County overnight, and lived in Daye County for some days, and privately inquired about a lot of things about this Gao County Lieutenant.

This county lieutenant Gao is actually a martial artist, what he is most concerned about now is not any political affairs, but rolling together with a group of mud legs all day long, starting a bow and arrow club in Daye County, organizing township warriors to practice archery and martial arts and other offensive and killing skills, but because of this, he has made some contributions in Huangzhou.

This person is not very old, this year is about twenty, at this age he became a county lieutenant, and concurrently served as the all-knowing magistrate of Daye County, which is also a good mix, his former backer should be Zhao Fang, the ambassador of Jingxi Road who passed away last year, and there is nothing else to mention*!

It's just that when he served in front of the army, it is said that he worked under Meng Zongzheng, and he was more respected by Meng Zongzheng, and he had a few friends in the army, and the others were not worth mentioning.

There is also a rumor that I heard in Daye County that this county lieutenant Gao is a money-loving person, this person collects any money, and does not do anything when he collects money, which makes many people privately scold him for being immoral, it seems that this guy is not a good official! I don't even know how to love money, but I don't have to retreat! He now has an old mansion of the Gao family under his name, with about 100 acres of fertile land, and there is also a mountain villa, which he has made by relying on the income he has collected in the past few years!

The general situation is like this, but there is nothing too noteworthy, and it is rumored that this guy was a fierce general when he went into battle, and he led the township soldiers to fight several times, and he fought more beautifully, and he also fought a few hard battles, which is a relatively powerful guy! Have some work on hand! ”

After listening to the words of this subordinate, Shi Miyuan was completely relieved, he didn't want Guicheng to have a too hard *, otherwise, it would not be easy to control, and at the moment, judging from the information he collected, the Gao family father and son were just petty officials, nothing special.

So Shi Miyuan smiled and said: "I see, no one is perfect!" It's not a bad thing for a military general to love money, but it's a bit troublesome if he doesn't love money! According to what you say, this Gao Huaiyuan is a person with a mixed reputation, he has a hand in fighting, but he is very ordinary as an official! There is nothing to pay attention to such people! Don't worry about him anymore! ”

"Yes! The little one got it! I won't care about him anymore! This subordinate hurriedly agreed and exited Shi Miyuan's secret room.

Only then did Shi Miyuan let go of this concern, and instead began to think about the matter of the dragon body of the Heavenly Saint these days.

Zhao Kuo since the Kaixi Northern Expedition failed fiascoly, Han Yanxuan was assassinated by Shi Miyuan and Empress Yang, the originally enthusiastic Zhao Kuo was completely decadent, in his heart there is no longer the ideal of vowing to restore the old land, now Empress Yang controls the harem, Shi Miyuan covers the sky for him to take care of the country, he can basically be said to have nothing to do.

So he can only place his affection in the sound of dogs and horses, the body in the past ten years, is not as good as a day, in the past few years, he is very depressed, in his life, the harem concubines gave birth to a total of eight sons to him, but God is really unfair to him, actually let him see his eight sons go before him one by one, and finally there is one left, I was going to pass the throne to him, but I didn't think about it, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and the last son was still one step ahead of him, and went to the west. So much so that he had to make Zhao Hong, the son of King Yi, the crown prince.

In this way, he fulfilled his previous promise and one day returned the throne to the imperial brother, but the matter has come to this point, and he can only accept this reality, after all, Zhao Hong is also his own nephew, not an outsider.

But at these times, he found that his nephew actually couldn't pee in a pot with his humerus minister Shi Miyuan, Zhao Hong had not yet ascended the throne, so he said that one day he would clean up Shi Miyuan, he said that Shi Miyuan was a traitor to the dictatorship, in his opinion, this is a bit excessive, for so many years, Shi Miyuan in his eyes, can be regarded as conscientious, presiding over the operation of the country for him, if it were not for Shi Miyuan, he couldn't imagine how he would have come over for so many years.

Shi Miyuan is also not interested in Zhao Hong, these times, his subordinates and himself have not been less bad at their ears, exposing Zhao Hong's shortcomings, many things are well-founded, Zhao Kuo is a little bored when he sees Zhao Hong now, he feels that this nephew is really not good, and he doesn't understand his mood at all.

But Zhao Kuo thinks he is not mediocre, in the matter of the prince, he knows Shi Miyuan's thoughts, Shi Miyuan wants to ask him to abolish Zhao Hong, the prince, and set up a new person as the prince, although he trusts Shi Miyuan very much, but he still thinks that it is not easy to replace the prince, after all, the establishment of the prince is the country's great plan, although Zhao Hong has some shortcomings, but there is no big mistake on the whole, he can't say that he will change it.

And if Zhao Hong, the prince, is abolished, who can be made the prince? At present, there is only the new Guicheng in the capital, but in the matter of establishing Guicheng as the prince, Zhao Kuo is one hundred and twenty points unwilling, no matter how bad Zhao Hong is, he is also his own nephew, and the bloodline is closer, what is this Guicheng?

He is just a distant branch of the ancestors, belonging to the descendants of the Zhao family of Zhao Defang's lineage, although the same root, but it has been, the bloodline is far apart, Shi Miyuan got a son who he was the king of Yi, the purpose is to replace Zhao Hong, a hundred years after the province, Zhao Hong's accession to the throne is not good for Shi Miyuan.

Zhao Kuo boasted that he was still very clear at this point, even if he didn't like Zhao Hong anymore, but in terms of bloodline, he still tended not to change the prince, so Zhao Kuo never mentioned the matter of replacing the prince.

This matter is still dragging on! Zhao Kuo thought so, these days, he was a little unwell, the imperial doctor saw a lot, and he didn't cure him, but a Taoist priest offered him five stone powder, saying that after taking it, he could cure his illness.

These days, he took a small amount of some, and after taking it, he walked in the temple like a fly, and after he dispersed, he felt a lot more comfortable, but the imperial doctor said that this medicine could not be taken for a long time, nor could it be excessive, so he did not take a large amount, but his spirit has improved a lot.

But what Zhao Kuo didn't know was that his words and deeds fell into Shi Miyuan's ears, Shi Miyuan didn't want Zhao Kuo to have anything to do now, and after hearing that Zhao Kuo had taken Wushi San, he immediately became furious.

"Someone, find out to me who gave five stones to the Holy One, this person deserves to die! The Holy Lord's body is already weak, and once he becomes addicted to Wushisan, won't he harm the Holy Lord? Shi Miyuan immediately found someone to find out about this matter.

Now he can't let Zhao Kuo make any trouble, if Zhao Kuo dies now, Zhao Hong's ascension to the throne will become a fait accompli, although he has laid out the chess pieces now, but there is still a long way to go from success, at least in Queen Yang, he has not yet made sense, this matter Empress Yang is a very critical part, without her support, the abolition of the crown prince is basically a hopeless thing, no matter how he covers the sky with one hand, in the matter of abolishing the prince, he is still a little powerless.

He must buy time, no matter what means, to prevent Zhao Hong from coming to power, otherwise, he may end up with a place to die, and he has a strong sense of crisis in this matter, which has made him feel uneasy about it for the past two years.

But it is not easy to overthrow Zhao Hong, after all, Zhao Hong has also received the support of some ministers in the court, although he controls the way of speech, most of the ministers in the court are under his wing, but there are still a small number of people, do not listen to him much, and always insist on supporting Zhao Hong, among them there are many famous and important ministers, no matter how powerful he is, he can't kill these people in one go! Especially that Zhen Dexiu, who enjoys a high reputation in the court, and is Zhao Hong's teacher, can be said to be his biggest obstacle, Zhen Dexiu's support for Zhao Hong, is one of Zhao Hong's biggest advisers and helpers, he raised his arms and shouted, the government and the opposition will never be in the minority of his people, which is very unfavorable to Shi Miyuan.

So in this matter, he still needs time, and now he can't let Zhao Kuo have a problem at this juncture, he, the emperor, still needs to sit for another two years!

Soon Shi Miyuan found out the Taoist priest who offered five stones to Zhao Kuo, and after some verification, he learned that this Taoist priest was not entrusted by others, but wanted to make some money and reputation in the emperor by offering medicine, so as to open a Taoist temple and promote Taoism for his own benefit.

Shi Miyuan was so angry that he didn't speak, but he made a killing gesture, and the people under his hands immediately understood, didn't say anything, and turned around to go down to do something.

Two days later, when he heard that the Taoist priest who offered medicine to the saint had died violently in his Taoist temple, the cause of death was unknown, so Shi Miyuan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly left for the palace to see Empress Yang.

Empress Yang also heard about Zhao Kuo's stealing of Wushisan, and she was even more angry, and went to Zhao Kuo's dormitory in person to dissuade Zhao Kuo from taking Wushisan again.

And Zhao Kuo has always obeyed his words and plans for Empress Yang, who is six years older than him, and immediately promised not to take this kind of thing again, and to quit drinking in the future, and to avoid taking raw and cold things, he also heard that the Taoist priest who offered medicine to him died violently in the Taoist temple, and thought to himself If the Taoist priest was really a Taoist person, how could he die violently in the Taoist temple? Therefore, he no longer believes that taking Wushisan will be good for him.

Time is slowly draining away like this, Lin'an City is very calm on the surface, and it is still singing and dancing to be leveled, but secretly, it is an undercurrent, and the war between Shi Miyuan's party and Zhao Hong's platoon has just begun.

And Gao Huaiyuan, who was far away in Daye County, temporarily put down Zhao Yuju's matter during this time, and no longer thought about anything, and he turned his attention back to his career.

At these times, after his rectification, Daye's various affairs can be said to be carried out in an orderly manner, with Ji Xiancheng, a great immortal, to help him, many complicated affairs of the yamen basically do not have to worry too much, he even runs to visit the mountains and rivers every once in a while, in the eyes of some people, he, the county lieutenant who manages a county, is somewhat idle.

But in essence, where does Gao Huaiyuan have the leisure and elegance to go to the mountains and rivers! Every time he travels, he only brings a few of his most intimate attendants, that is, Li Ruohu, who came out of Crouching Tiger Village.

It seems that he is traveling in the mountains and rivers, but after entering the mountains, he finds a remote place, but he does the work of an artilleryman.

During this time, the progress of his artillery workshop was very fast, under the leadership of the craftsman Jin Tong, the craftsmen in the copper work broke through several technical thresholds in a row, cast two kinds of small and medium-caliber firearms, and simplified the process, improved the casting quality, Gao Huaiyuan ran to the mountain, is to test this kind of his trump card.

Every time he went into the mountains to hunt nominally, in essence he was personally experimenting with these firearms, for this sharp weapon, he poured a lot of effort, others have no concept of the application of artillery, only he understands it in his heart, so in order to avoid detours, he can only personally experience this matter, and constantly put forward his suggestions for improvement.

Artillery is a simple thing to say, but when it is really done, it is not easy, it is not a simple copper pipe, after loading ammunition, just shoot out.

Even ancient artillery is a whole system, which includes not only the gun body, but also the gun carriage, as well as the gun carriage, etc., and even the loading equipment must be equipped in a complete set.

Although Gao Huaiyuan knows the principle, he is not engaged in this technology after all, and he can only use his memory, cross the river by feeling the stones, and constantly find problems, solve problems, and summarize various experiences in use.

For more than a year, he has done this thing, and finally advanced his firecracker to the point where it can be practical, the quality of both firearms has been greatly improved, the charge has also been increased, the length of the body tube has been increased again, and the original manual grinding of the inner chamber process has also been changed to the original hydraulic turbine-driven drill bit boring, so both the range and the quality have made leaps and bounds.

The caliber of the medium-caliber gun is roughly about 80 millimeters, the weight is more than 500 catties, the length of the cannon body is about one meter three, when firing a solid iron bullet, the firing range can reach five miles away, and when firing a scattered bullet, it can also reach more than one mile, and the coverage of the scattered bullet is very large, and the bow and crossbow can be completely suppressed in terms of range and power, and a cannon is comparable to the power of an archer with more than 100 people, and it is the most powerful weapon he currently masters.

If the caliber is larger, one is inconvenient to travel, the other is that the casting material is bronze, and the bronze hardness is not enough, when firing a round projectile, it will quickly cause deformation of the gun chamber, and the material that is really suitable for casting large-caliber artillery is still to use iron or steel, but at the moment he has little demand for this, so this caliber is already not small, the key problem is to make such a large-caliber artillery, where can he use it!

Moreover, the gun carriage of this kind of gun, he also carefully designed, within the range of recoil bearing, stop the foot to die, basically can ensure that after firing, the gun carriage will not be damaged, and when firing at a small angle, it can resist the recoil, so that the gun will no longer appear to overturn the gun, and will not retreat, jump on the spot and land, can be loaded in situ, reducing the trouble of pushing the gun to reset.

The gun carriage of several of these guns was also equipped with two hardwood wheels, which could be hauled by mules and horses, rather than fixed in one place, which was the first artillery he designed for mobile field use, and for the development of artillery, this thing was already a product of the times.

In order to quickly reload, he also improved the procedure of artillery charge, divided the gunpowder into a fixed weight, loaded into the silk sewn medicine bag, each time loading only need to take out the medicine bag, stuffed into the gun muzzle, with the gun rod to tamp to the tail of the gun, reduce the trouble of each charge, even with the loose bullet, but also with linen cloth wrapped standard weight, can be loaded at any time, so that the loading speed of this kind of gun is several times higher than the earliest time, greatly simplifying the loading procedure.