The old prime minister Su Song stepped out and immediately alarmed the emperor.

The emperor listened to Su Song's description of the prospect and was quite moved.

Zhao Xu is not very old, but he has a big heart. Otherwise, he changed his name to Shaosheng in the first era after his pro-government.

Which saint is he chasing?

It's not his father, Emperor Shenzong.

It can be seen that Zhao Xu is unwilling to be an emperor without achievements, and stays in the palace for a lifetime. His restless heart had long since quenched his thirst. But it will take ten years, or even longer, to verify the significance of the change to the Great Song Dynasty. We also have to face countless opposition and resistance, and there is no end in sight to the road ahead.

It doesn't seem to take that long to build two bell towers.

What's more, the success of the change is too far away for Zhao Xu, even if he succeeds, he can only be silly in the palace, but the bell tower is different.

This was built in the imperial city, which was tantamount to turning decay into magic under his nose, and moving two miracles to his eyes.

The emperor was moved, and Prime Minister Zhang Dian naturally couldn't be perfunctory.

I found Li Kui and asked, "How much does it cost?" ”

"Two million."

"Get out."

"A million!"

"You see how much it costs to sell me, right?"

"One million guan, given in three years, can not be less. No matter less, you can't do it. ”

For such a bargaining thing, Su Song, the old man, was very bad, and he didn't participate at all, so he could only let Li Kui go. Of course, Li Kui did not come empty-handed, and the news of the royal project had already alarmed the three yamen in the capital.

The first is the Ministry of Industry.

The second is the Taishi Bureau.

Finally, it's the craftsmanship.

Craftsman is an official position and a yamen. In the Qin and Han dynasties, he was even one of the nine masters. However, after the Sui and Tang dynasties, the status of craftsmen was greatly reduced, the main reason was that the court set up a Ministry of Industry, which stripped the state of large-scale projects and ordnance from the craftsmen and returned them to the Ministry of Industry. The craftsman is gradually left with an empty shell. But the royal construction still has to be made by craftsmen.

Li Kui saw that a team was pulled up, could he give up easily? I rushed to make drawings and design ideas overnight, and then asked Zhang Dun for money.

As long as he makes a contribution in the early stage of the project, with his important position in the project, it is not too much to ask for a second-in-command, right?

For the sake of his career, he felt that he should be able to communicate with Zhang Dian well.

Zhang Dian looked at the drawings brought by Li Kui and was amazed, the tall tower of masonry structure is indeed very difficult to build. But everything can be done, not a technologically insurmountable chasm. The iron tower of Kaibao Temple, with a height of more than 15 zhang, was not built in a few years?

Nowadays, the iron tower of Kaibao Temple has become a landmark building in Kaifeng.

Although the tower has an iron character, it is not an iron tower in the real sense. Because the exterior tile is like rust, it has won the title of iron tower. In fact, the Kaibao Temple Tower is the most typical masonry tower.

The bell tower did not increase much compared to the difficulty of building the tower. But after the completion of the significance is extraordinary, if it is really as Li Kui introduced, the people of the inner city of Bianliang in the Great Song Dynasty can see the bell tower anywhere in the city, and hear the bell tower every day. So what will it mean for Kaifeng, a megacity with a population of millions?

At least, there is no need for conscription in the middle of the night.

Even with it, the soldiers and patrols in the Great Song Dynasty can be reduced. Especially for fire prevention, it can also improve the efficiency of lookouts. With these effects alone, the clock tower can raise the style of Tokyo City to a new level. At this time, there was something wrong with his eyes when he looked at Li Kui.

If this guy had brought it up earlier, maybe he would have been able to agree to Li Kui's idea.

There is no need to go to Su Song.

As a thorn in the side of the law-changing faction, Su Song's character is fine. But he is a political opponent whose position is definitely very problematic.

Zhang Dian also hated Su Song, that was because Su Song was a big man among the conservatives. Second only to Sima Guang and Lu Gong among the conservatives, especially those two are dead, but Su Song is still alive. This made him even more uncomfortable.

But Su Song was cunning and cunning, and he didn't know how to make the little emperor have a good impression of him. Not only did he have a good impression, but he could also make the little emperor remember the benefits of Su Song. This makes Zhang Dian uncomfortable, in case, this slanderer makes him and the law changer stumbling block, I am afraid that in the end, it is still himself who is uncomfortable. Since Su Song went to specialize in those machines that made Zhang Duan look down on him, he simply let him go. The Taishi Bureau is probably the most unpopular yamen in the Imperial City Division, and there is nothing reluctant to give it to the conservatives.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dian nodded in front of him and looked at Cai Bian. As an archon, Cai Bian naturally has the right to review the appropriation. Cai Bian and Zhang Dian already had a tacit understanding, and then nodded and said: "Yes, but this year's budget is not among them, and it will be allocated next year." ”

Li Kui was not in a hurry, but said with a smile: "This year, we need to build a model, demonstrate, and study the casting parts, and it is not realistic to start construction in a short time." ”

After getting the ruling documents, Li Kui went out of the yamen of Shangshu Province, and Gao Yu, who was waiting at the yamen, was surprised to see the documents in Li Kui's hand, and said in surprise: "Renjie, did you really let you do this?" ”

Gao Yu was surprised that it was not Li Kui who got the thing done.

Instead, he was surprised that Li Kui had no one under his hands from the bare pole, and in less than half a month, he pulled up a temporary yamen with thousands of craftsmen and several yamen to help form a toss-up. also mixed a second-in-command, and the first leader is still the former prime minister Su Song. With Li Kui's ability to toss, is there anything he can't do in this Great Song Dynasty?

Gao Yu is envious.

He played with the Emperor and is still playing football.

Don't look at the official position of a commander, but under his hands is a group of eunuchs who think about the emperor all day long, and in addition, he can't send anyone in the imperial city.

But what about Li Kui?

In the blink of an eye, you can command thousands of people.

On this tossing ability, Gao Yu was amazed.

took the paperwork, went to the Ministry of Industry to report, and then copied it to the Taishi Bureau, and then sent the text to Su Song's hands. As long as the construction of these two bell towers that amaze the world is completed, Li Kui's reward for his first work will be indispensable. When the time comes, it is indispensable to be promoted by two levels. As for the titular leader, Su Song, who was still a scholar of the Guanwen Temple, any attack would be a floating cloud for him. Could it be that the emperor can still promote him to be the prime minister?

When he returned home, Li Kui found that his home was also lively.

It turns out that someone from my hometown has come.

It was not outsiders who came, Li Yun's father Li Qing and grandfather Li Lide both came.

Li Qing sighed at Li Yun, but his eyes showed ardent expectation, and after seeing Li Kui, this expectation turned into deep anger. Of course, he is targeting his son, and he will definitely not be dissatisfied with Li Kui. If Li Kui hadn't woken up at the beginning, Li Qing would not have given up his business as a headhunter and started to buy and sell as a businessman.

Now Li Qing is not short of money, but what he lacks is to improve the family heritage of the family. But Li Yun, this kid, gave up before he even touched the door of a jinshi. also studied under Su Shimen, and also went to Beijing to take the exam. Li Kui has been admitted to the Jinshi, and he is still a Tanhualang in the department, but what about Li Yun?

This kid actually said with a shy face that he wanted to take the martial arts championship.

If you don't even get into the quota of Taixue, what kind of martial arts champion will you toss?

The top 100 in the provincial examination are preferential treatment for those who can enter Taixue without examination. Li Yun's failure made Li Qing quite helpless. If Li Yun can pass the Jinshi examination, then Li Qing's house will also become a well-known family in Yishui County.

There is no need to look at the green robe official uniform on Li Kui's body now, his eyes are hot.

In fact, Li Kui doesn't look like an official, and the official uniform on his body has only been worn for half a month, and he is already out of shape. Fortunately, some officials in the Great Song Dynasty didn't care much about their appearance, and some were even court bigwigs, such as Wang Anshi back then, which made people quite speechless. This person doesn't take a bath, doesn't wash his hair, and likes to catch fleas on his body to relieve boredom, and his hobby is really special.

When Li Yun saw Li Kui, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he faced Li Qing, and his grandfather Li Lide, who was really two big heads. They still insisted on letting Li Yun study, maybe he would be awarded the Jinshi in the next subject?

But Li Yun didn't have this plan at all.

"Second brother, you can come." Li Yun pointed at Li Kui and said to Li Qing: "Dad, you heard the second brother tell you that although he is a Tanhua of the current department, he has been awarded the official of the seventh grade. But in the imperial city, there is not even a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Daddy! Oh yes! The big men in the capital bully and look down on our scholars from small places. Rather than being excluded, it is better to go to the battlefield to gain fame. ”

Li Kui touched his nose, he was not too embarrassed to pout his follower Li Yun's face in front of Li Yun's father.

But Gao Yu smiled and said, "Li Yun, you don't know, right?" Renjie is now a dispatch officer of the Construction Division, and he has thousands of craftsmen and officials under his command, and he is about to be reused. ”

Li Yun turned his head to look at Li Kui in confusion, and said in his heart: "Second brother, you said that you would be salted fish together, you couldn't wait to turn over!" How does this make the little brother live! ”