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Mao Geng was unprepared for Zhao Yan to arrange for Xiaobai Zhao to lead the army to take Yizhou.

However, as far as dealing with the Taiwanese natives who are still in the era of slash-and-burn farming, even if the military novice leads the army forward, it should be able to destroy the withering and decay and wantonly ravage the natives who are armed with primitive weapons, provided that this military novice is not stupid.

But it is easy to capture Taiwan, how to deal with the indigenous people, and how to govern Taiwan for a long time, is not something that a white man with limited experience like Zhao Lian can deal with. Although he has rich experience, he also lacks experience in dealing with the natives, and he is going to develop the economy, not to play hide and seek with the natives.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, and the emperor's family affairs are good if they are managed well, and if they are not managed well, they will have to give away their lives.

Of course, if you take a step back and think about it, it is not without a little benefit, at least Zhao Luan should accept new things faster than those old masters, for example, he can accept popular singing last night, which is somewhat a good thing. But it is also difficult to ensure that Zhao Lian deliberately wants to implement a conservative strategy in order to win the heir, and this possibility is not impossible.

Mao Geng listened to Zhao Yan's idea, and for a while his head turned countless back and forth, weighing all kinds of pros and cons, and finally had to face the reality, he is the emperor, he has the final say, we only have to obey orders, then let it be fate. Mao Geng holds on to one thing, I will do my part, and whoever is the leader will be good as long as he does not set up obstacles for me to do things. Generally speaking, leaders like subordinates who do practical things, and if they can't even coax a white leader to the ground, then what face do they have to call themselves traversers!

Of course, some things are still considered very early, and the most important thing now is to take Taiwan along with the line, and there will never be a traverser in Taiwan, and there will never be a departure from the original historical trajectory, in any case, it is very necessary to reconnoiter in advance.

According to his memory, Mao Geng used a pencil to roughly draw out Taiwan's location and terrain, and then reminded the officials to send a reconnaissance fleet to reconnoiter Taiwan first, and then send troops to protect the flag and drive victoriously until it succeeds.

Zhao Tuan has been in power for many years, and the Longxing Northern Expedition was defeated and suffered losses at that time, so he had already arranged a reconnaissance of Yizhou in the morning, but he did not bother Mao Geng to remind, but the map drawn by Mao Geng was still very valuable, and Zhao Tuan was very happy to accept this map, as if Yizhou had been included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

As soon as Zhao Tuan was happy, he named Mao Geng a loose official from the eighth grade, making Mao Geng one of the civil servants of the Great Song Dynasty. With this official body, there is naturally an envoy, Mao Geng's envoy is personally demarcated by Zhao Tuan, one of the envoys is to guide the work of the emperor to build a hot air balloon, and the second envoy is to plan the capture of Yizhou with Zhao Luan. In general, Zhao Tuan still attaches great importance to Mao Geng, Zhao Tuan's meaning is a bit of a subordination of Mao Geng, although Mao Geng feels that he may bring trouble to himself, but this is the instruction of the Son of Heaven, so he has to take one step at a time.

These two envoys didn't have much pressure on Mao Geng, but gave him a lot of freedom.

The Imperial Workshop is also called the Imperial Residence, which is the workshop of the Inner Court to build weapons, where almost the top craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty are concentrated, these craftsmen are selected from the East Workshop, Wanquan Workshop, the Arsenal and the Metropolitan Academy, so the weapons made by the Imperial Work are definitely the most sophisticated weapons in the Great Song Dynasty, and the weapons given by the emperor to the generals come from the Imperial Workshop. At the same time, the Imperial Office was responsible for the development of weapons, and the trial production of hot air balloons was naturally handed over to the Imperial Office.

Mao Geng specially brought Tan Xiaochun and Huang Wangcai to Lin'an this time, with the two of them here, Mao Geng's guidance on the trial production of hot air balloons has become extremely simple, the drawings are prepared in advance, Mao Geng is only in the big links, and the rest will be handed over to Tan Xiaochun with the craftsmen of the Imperial Front Work Institute to make zuò, and sufficient materials are the advantages of the Royal Front Work Institute, so it is only a matter of time before the trial production of hot air balloons.

But after Mao Geng observed the bed crossbow made by the imperial work, he felt that the string and strike of the bed crossbow were too cumbersome, and decided to improve the bed crossbow and introduce ratchet technology, so that he could use the lever to easily pull the crossbow and open the arrow, which used to require many people to pull the bow and open the arrow, after modifying the ratchet, two people or even one person can pull the bow and open the arrow, only a little training, the craftsman of the imperial front work can learn to make the zuò ratchet and modify the bed crossbow. The powerful bed crossbow is a long-range weapon in this era, which is used against the natives of Taiwan, and it is definitely a big killing weapon.

For the modification design of the bed crossbow, Mao Geng soaked in the imperial front work for the first two days.

At the same time, the highest decision-making level of the Great Song Dynasty was disagreeing with the monarchs and ministers over how to take Yizhou, and there was a stalemate in the court.

For Zhao Yan's intention to let Zhao Lu be the commander of Yizhou, Mao Geng didn't dare to say anything, but it doesn't mean that the ministers are the same, Xiao Sui was the first to object, the old gentleman is also involved in political affairs, but he is in charge of the Privy Council, Xiao Sui is the Privy Council, and the Privy Council is equivalent to the acting chief of staff, Xiao Sui is in charge of the battle, the matter is big, Xiao Sui naturally thinks that it is necessary for a stable person to lead the troops, Zhao Sui has no experience in leading the troops, so he is too risky to lead the troops.

At the level of Zaizhi, the two prime ministers, Zhou Bida and Liuzheng, followed Zhao Yan more closely. Although Wang Lin also opposed the use of Zhao Lu, he had no intention of opposing the official family. As the Privy Council, that is, the deputy of the Privy Council, which can be understood as the deputy chief of the general staff, Ge Yi is faced with this situation, but he is a posture of playing soy sauce. As a result, Xiao Sui asked to resign and retire on the grounds that he was old and sick. The courtier Xiao Sui threatened to resign, and the monarch Zhao Tuan did not want to change his mind, and the decision-making level was stalemate for a while, and Zhao Tuan was not easy to use.

Mao Geng heard about this from Zhao Luan, and sighed in his heart, as an emperor, it is difficult to be arbitrary! Zhao Yan is not the kind of emperor who is particularly strong, and he can't ignore the attitude of important ministers in military and political affairs.

However, Mao Geng doesn't care who is in charge, and he is far from worrying about it like Zhao Luan.

On this day, Wen Yuan found several pieces of land in Lin'an, and asked Mao Geng to decide which piece to buy to build a model house.

Mao Geng looked around with Wen Yuan, and finally took a fancy to a piece of land in the most prosperous area, but unfortunately the area of this land is not large, and the entire area is only a little more than two acres. The area is a little smaller, but it is rare that this is the downtown area of Lin'an, Mao Geng pondered for a long time, and finally had an idea: buy this place and build a building similar to the bell tower of later generations.

According to Mao Geng's conception, the whole building focuses on the pointed square tower, the first floor of the square tower is four meters wide, the second to the fourth floor is two meters wide, and a bright frame glass curtain wall is made on the front of the second and third floors, and a big dial is set up on the fourth floor, which is equipped with the hands of the clock minutes and seconds, and relies on the manual watch to rotate the finger to display the time, and rings the clock every whole hour. Of course, this square tower has to be made of concrete floor slabs.

As for the other buildings, they become the foil of this tower, but when they are covered with glazed tiles, the effect should be impressive.

Mao Geng imagined what would be the royal reaction after the construction of this landmark model building, what would be the reaction of the wealthy people in Lin'an, and whether a party like Jincuilou would also consider replacing it with glittering glazed tiles.

Mao Geng looked at Lin'an from a market perspective and felt that many people were potential customers of "Huaxi Construction Company".

There was still a stalemate in the court, Xiao Sui refused to let Zhao Tuan do that ridiculous act, while Zhao Tuan was waiting for the news that the reconnaissance fleet had returned to Yizhou.

Mao Geng was dedicated to three purposes, at the beginning of the main energy in the imperial front office, three days later the main energy will be focused on the construction of the model project, as for Zhao Luan, only occasionally go to the occasional point, anyway, to conquer Taiwan, the most valuable preparation work, is in the imperial front office, the long-range weapons will be perfected, this is the right thing.

As the days passed, the model project was already under construction.

During this period, it is worth a book is to see a 6 tour, 6 tour that day specially came to the imperial front work to supervise the trial production of hot air balloons, the old gentleman saw the ratchet lever bow and arrow device designed by Mao Geng, and was full of praise for a while. This time it was just a contact at work, and the 6 tours that did not compose poems looked no different from ordinary literati.

On this day, the reconnaissance fleet finally brought back the news of Yizhou, and after some reconnaissance, it can be confirmed that the barbarians there are indeed in the primitive slash-and-burn stage, and there are only rudimentary fishing boats. In such a situation, it is natural that he does not have the strength to compete with the Great Song Dynasty at all.

With such an investigation result, Zhao Tuan did not hesitate, and approved Xiao Sui's request for retirement on the same day, and Xiao Sui, a seventy-three-year-old minister, was enshrined as he wished, that is, he led the court to officially retire. After beating Xiao Sui home, no one was uninteresting anymore, and Zhao Yan's plan was finally smoothed, and Zhao Yan was named the Duke of Jiaguo, promoted to the commander of the capital, and at the same time transferred troops and sent generals to prepare the whole army to capture Yizhou.

Zhao Tuan also ordered the ministers and relatives of the country, and if his children were willing to follow Zhao Luan to capture Yizhou, the imperial court would confer or promote Enyin. Clear-eyed people saw that Zhao Tuan's strategy was intended to let Zhao Lian cultivate wings, it seems that this Zhao Lian is really deeply favored, and those who have a heart feel that the opportunity is rare and begin to be eager to try.