Li Kui stood in the corner tower at the head of the city, and saw Cai You being beaten on the ground by Luan Tingyu from the clairmile mirror, and nodded with satisfaction, the tutor of the old Cai family has not been lost!

He came to the city to test the effect of the clairvoyant mirror, and it was definitely an accident to see Cai You, and he dared to pat his chest to assure that all this was not deliberately instructed by him. But Cai Jing's move seemed to be deliberately calling him. Li Kui couldn't help but feel that Cai Jing underestimated him, is he the kind of person with a small belly?

That's right, he and Cai You had a holiday back then, but ...... He had almost forgotten.

Li Kui pointed to a cadre of subordinates and said: "Although this clairvoyant mirror is easy to use, in the hands of the villain, it has become an evil thing that snoops on other people's secrets, and in the hands of people with lofty ideals in my generation, this thing can be carried forward." Do you understand? ”

Zhang Zhu and the others looked at each other, not understanding what Li Kui meant. I had to bow my head and follow Li Kui's words and said, "What the adults have taught is this." ”

It's just that they themselves don't understand that they are villains or gentlemen.

The problem is that Zhang Zhu is also itching in his heart, and wants to get a glimpse of the customs of Xiejie...... It would be better if you saw an acquaintance, especially one who didn't deal with you.

So no one dared to speak, and they all stared at the 'clairvoyant mirror' in Li Kui's hand one by one, and their curiosity drove them to want to get a glimpse. After all, everyone in the Military Command Bureau said that Li Kui was good, but Cai Jing ...... Forget it, this is the person who bears the blame for Li Kui, and even in the Military Command Bureau on weekdays, there are many voices dissatisfied with Cai Jing.

After all, the benefits of the Military Command Bureau are all Li Kui's grace and Li Kui's mouth. Any order that will make people dissatisfied is instructed by Cai Jing.

After Li Kui said a big truth, he handed the clairvoyant mirror to Zhang Zhu, and then said righteously: "Everyone is the backbone of the Military Command Bureau, and the clairvoyant mirror will definitely become a famous thing in the world of our Military Command Bureau, and it is necessary to know its usefulness." Chapter Grant! ”

"The lower official is here."

Zhang Zhu took over the clairie mirror from Li Kui's hand, and couldn't wait to take a look at the ugly things of Cai Jing's family. But because of Li Kui's presence, he endured the anxiety in his heart.

Li Kui said: "You organize everyone to familiarize yourself with the use of the clairvoyant mirror, and the official will go to the palace." ”

After Li Kui left, everyone said eagerly to Zhang Zhu: "Master Zhang, let's see if you have been killed!" ”

"Okay, I'll take a look at it for you."

"Hey, hey, hey......"

"Cai You, this waste looks so miserable!"

"My lord, let me wait and see."

"What's the hurry, the official hasn't enjoyed it yet?"

……

The Military Command Bureau collectively stood on the corner tower and went crazy, and for a time became the target of ridicule from the magnates in the inner city. In this regard, the Military Command Bureau has not refuted a word. Write them down one by one, and use a clairvoyant mirror to look at the back house of these traitors another day. Besides, the Military Command Bureau has become accustomed to being ridiculed, and then when the research results of the Military Command Bureau are brought out, the world pounces on them like two fools who have never seen the world, and shouts: It's really fragrant.

Is the glass cup fragrant?

Fragrant.

But the deceived magnates are very uncomfortable.

Is the glass mirror fragrant?

Fragrant.

But I have never seen the price reduction of the glass workshop of the Military Command Bureau.

However, the business name that got the authorization of the glass mirror also pondered the production of the glass mirror, but the colored glass mirror reflected the shadow of the person like a ghost, and no one bought it at all. And due to the process problems, the cost is also very expensive.

Let's talk about Cai You.

After being violently beaten, Cai You struggled to prop up his upper body from the ground, tilted his head and glanced at Luan Tingyu who pretended that nothing had happened. Cai You was also bad, deliberately did not wipe the dirty blood left on his nose, but deliberately raised his face to let Cai Jing see. It's a pity that Cai Jing is hard-hearted and has no idea of licking the calf at all, and Cai You's plan to win sympathy was disillusioned in the implementation stage.

Cai Jing will be resentful of Luan Tingyu because of his son?

Don't be silly.

Cai Jing beat his son, and he called Li Kui to show it. Of course, he also has itchy hands.

However, Lao Cai is a scholar and is also old, and it doesn't hurt to punch his son, Cai You may not only not get a lesson, but also make Cai Jing tired enough.

Besides, Luan Tingyu is the captain recruited by Li Kui into the Military Unification Bureau, don't look at this person by Cai Jing's side, it seems to protect Cai Jing. But Cai Jing always felt that Luan Tingyu was a spy and deliberately came to spy on his villain.

It is also possible that Cai Jing is thinking too much. But Cai Jing would rather think of people badly than think of people more noblely.

Luan Tingyu is not the Yu Hou of the Cai family, the head of the family's guards, and a little person who wants to be trained. Also, Cai Jing was also angry with Cai You's son, but the family ugly can't always ask in front of outsiders, and after waving his hand to get rid of Luan Tingyu, Cai Jing pointed at Cai You and said angrily: "Evil obstacles, you know that the ugly thing you sit down has been looked at, and you don't know that my Cai family doesn't have a shameless person like you." ”

Cai You's eyes widened, and after looking around, he didn't see any sign of anyone, so he tightened his clothes, hurriedly tied his belt, and said puzzledly: "Daddy, there is no one around!" ”

Cai Jing pointed out the window: "Look over there?" ”

"Over there?"

"Are there a dozen or so people on the edge of the corner building?"

Cai You squinted and looked carefully for a while, and found that he could only see the outline of the building of the corner tower, to say that there were more than ten people? It's just a gray shadow, where can you see clearly. Cai You felt that his father was making a fool, and suddenly laughed and said, "Dad, are you confused, where is anyone?" Besides, how can you see clearly from such a distance. ”

Confused?

I'm afraid you want to say 'old fool', right?

Cai Jing's biggest advantage is that he does not accept the old man, and he is said to be old and confused by his son, which is not only a great unfilial piety, but also a contempt for him. Cai Jing raised his neck angrily and shouted, "Luan Tingyu." ”

"Your Excellency!"

Luan Tingyu pushed the door in and bowed to Cai Jing.

Cai Jing pointed at his son Cai You, and said angrily: "Hit me, keep fighting!" ”

Not to mention what Cai You was beaten by Luan Tingyu in the end, but after Cai Jing returned home, he ordered the doorman to escort his son back to his hometown, and he didn't want this bastard son anymore. As for why his son came to the capital from Hangzhou?

Cai Jing couldn't do anything about it.

The son is not successful, and the responsibility of being a mother is not small.

The reason why Cai You came back to the capital must have been because his mother sent him money, and he also told him how beautiful and rich the Cai family is now.

Cai You, who is studying at Hangzhou Academy, has long been fed up with the study career of taking a small exam every ten years and a big exam every month. Especially since he was still a student who had learned too much, he was pinned on by the teacher and even the mountain chief, and he was also counting on him to be able to win the Jinshi quota for the academy. But I know my own affairs, if Cai You can succeed in Taixue, can he be sent to Hangzhou Academy by his father?

He is a scumbag in Taixue, isn't he a scumbag if he goes to other academies?

Students who study too much are divided into lower houses, middle houses and upper houses. He gave up his life as a lower life, but he was used as a higher life, and hell was nothing more than that.

Let's talk about Li Kui.

Anything that has something good in the Military Command Bureau is a treasure worth paying tribute to.

Not to mention the glass cup and glass mirror, these have become important tributes for the emperor to reward his courtiers. The magic of the clairvoyant mirror must also be seen by the emperor.

After all, Li Kui is also weak-minded, and since the establishment of the Military Unification Bureau, he has not done much business. If he doesn't come up with some research results, the emperor won't be able to explain where he is.

"Your Majesty, Li Kui is here."

Emperor Zhao Xu put it in the chapter, supported his waist, moved his muscles in the palace, and said with a tired face: "Biography!" ”

Emperor Zhao Xu, like his father, was very diligent. Although the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is not large, it cannot compare with the Han and Tang Dynasties; But if we talk about the urban population and economic prosperity, the Qin and Han dynasties combined cannot compare with the Great Song Dynasty. And in such a large empire, even the case of execution after the autumn requires the emperor's approval, plus disaster relief in various places, quelling rebellions, and the Western Army waging war to raise money and food...... Many affairs were enough to trap the emperor in the palace and not be able to move.

Even if the emperor is lazy and only draws a circle on the recital, the daily government affairs will consume a lot of time.

What's more, Zhao Xu basically reads important concerts.

Not only that, but there are eunuchs on the side, and reading the content of the chapter can be said to be almost dual-purpose and three-purpose.

Even so, Emperor Zhao Xu couldn't wait to conjure up himself so that he could be more relaxed.

"Li Qing is here to tell me that the flintlock pistol has been made?"

Emperor Zhao Xu was also concerned about the flintlock pistol, and the emperor and high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty attached great importance to any weapon that could bring the ground army of the Great Song Dynasty and the northern tribes closer to each other.

And the flintlock pistol was said by Li Kui, especially Li Kui also touted it vigorously, which made Emperor Zhao Xu also have huge expectations for the flintlock pistol.

He also thought that Li Kui had come to tell the flintlock pistol that the emperor who was usually majestic was also happy.

Li Kui dragged the clairvoyant mirror with both hands, and it was not handed over, nor was it handed over.

If the flintlock pistol yielded results, would he dare to show it to the emperor?

It's death. Carrying a murder weapon to face the monarch is a capital crime of rebellion.

But the clairvoyant mirror has no problem in this regard, and what he showed the emperor is the clairvoyant.

Li Kui bowed down and handed over the clairvoyant mirror in his hands to Hao Sui, and then spoke: "Official, through the accumulation of technology such as glass cups and glass mirrors, the Military Command Bureau has been able to make sharp weapons in the army, such as clairvoyant mirrors. ”

"Claircase?"

The emperor was stunned, he took the clairvoyant mirror from Hao Sui's hand, and fiddled left and right for a while, but he didn't see any magic in the thing in his hand.

Li Kui explained: "The official family, the eyes of people, are limited, not the world is limited, and the extremes of people are also; The clairvoyant can increase a person's eyesight several times and reach farther places. On the battlefield, through the clairvoyant mirror, you can see the distance several times the eye, so that the main general can get a more accurate judgment. In the future, the artillery of our Great Song Dynasty should observe the landing point of the artillery shells through a clairvoyant mirror, so as to adjust their ability to command operations. And the main general can also more easily discover the weaknesses of the enemy army, so as to gain a head start on the battlefield. ”

"Oh! How to use it? ”

Sure enough, after listening to Li Kui's explanation of the clairvoyant mirror, Emperor Zhao Xu became interested.

Judging from his performance after he became pro-government, Zhao Xu seems to be very keen on war. It's not that he has a brutal personality, but that the external environment of the Great Song Dynasty has become more and more sinister since Yuan You. Obviously has a very strong national strength, but it has been repeatedly defeated by Western Xia and Qingtang, and at the same time threatened by the Liao State. Zhao Xu was threatened by Liao, and he admitted it, after all, he was bullied a lot, and he was used to it.

However, Western Xia was originally the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and since the rebellion of Li Yuanhao of Western Xia during the Renzong period, the thieves established the Western Xia Kingdom, which is the anger that makes the Great Song Dynasty like a fish in the throat. Moreover, after the establishment of the Western Xia state, the trade route through the Hexi Corridor in the northwest was blocked. This led to the complete severance of trade in Guanzhong, and the defeat of Guanzhong, the worse the strength to resist the Western Xia, almost becoming a vicious circle.

Out of the pride of an emperor, he wanted to return this shame to the enemies of the Great Song Dynasty.

Attacking Western Xia in the north and collecting Hehuang in the west was also Zhao Xu's most urgent goal. However, to his chagrin, these two goals were easily accomplished.

Once made Zhao Xu, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, very depressed, why was the opponent weak, but his ancestors seemed to have been pressed to the ground and rubbed.

What made him even more angry was that his father was also pressed to the ground and rubbed.

In the end, Zhao Xu came to a conclusion that he was the son of luck of the Great Song Dynasty, and good luck should be.

Zhao Xu's expansion is nothing, if he meets a conservative prime minister, even if the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is ambitious, the emperor will have to hide in the harem to do his dreams. It's a pity that Zhang Xuan is more inflated than Zhao Xu. Encountering Zhang Dian is also his calamity. Who would have thought that Zhang Dian not only wanted to restore the land west of the river, but also wanted to defeat Tubo and even attack the Liao State.

This kind of crazy thought, even Wang Anshi didn't dare to think about it back then.

But Zhang Dun not only thought about it, but also began to plan and layout.

The Great Song Dynasty's war of annihilation against Western Xia has begun preparations. Of course, this kind of plot was carried out many times in the Great Song Dynasty, such as the war of annihilation against the Liao State. But most of the time, from the emperor to the prime minister, the Great Song Dynasty is just talking and trying to be happy. But Zhang Dun was different, he repeatedly mobilized the materials of the state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty and transported them to the northwest, and the western army was not only not too strong, but weakened.

On the contrary, the strength of the Western Army, which has won many big victories, is still growing.

At first, Zhao Xu didn't believe that he could do it.

It can be that Zhang Dan is too confident, and with confident people, unconfident people will also give birth to self-confidence that they shouldn't have.

Today's Zhao Xu has long since faded away from the traces of a young emperor and has become more confident and calm. But that couldn't hide the weakness of his heart that he sometimes emitted.

So much so that Zhao Xu put more confidence in Li Kui.

It's a big deal, when you can't beat it - let Li Kui go.

Moreover, Li Kui built a new war model for him, which is very much in line with Zhao Xu's wishes. The Great Song Dynasty lacked an iron army capable of fighting, but it definitely did not lack resources. If he could arm the army of the Great Song Dynasty to the teeth for money, what was he afraid of?

Because of this, when the glass cup and the glass mirror appeared, Zhao Xu was still slightly disappointed.

But the steel production of the Great Song Dynasty has given him a lot of confidence.

Even Zhao Xu decided that only artillery and muskets, with cavalry, was the only way out for the Great Song Dynasty.

The clairvoyant mirror is also the battlefield auxiliary tool that Li Kui once instilled in the emperor, Zhao Xu heard that the clairvoyant mirror had been made, and he couldn't help but feel warm.

But he found that he couldn't use the clairvoyant mirror in his hand.

Of course, Li Kui couldn't disappoint the emperor, and pointed to the lid of the clairvoyant mirror and said to the emperor: "Official, this clairvoyant mirror has two covers, in order to protect the cleanliness of the mirror." Close when not in use and open when in use. The big one is facing the object you want to see, and the smaller one is looking at your own eyes. Then stretch the barrel and adjust the distance to use. While speaking, Li Kui took out a clairvoyant mirror from his waist that was exactly the same as Zhao Xu, and explained it to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu followed Li Kui's explanation and learned to give it a try.

Unfortunately, the light in the hall is dim, and it is difficult to achieve the effect at all. Especially if the distance is close, it is not as comfortable as the eyes.

Li Kui saw the disappointment on Zhao Xu's face, and immediately explained: "Your Majesty, this clairvoyant mirror can't be used in the palace, I want to figure out the beauty of this clairvoyant mirror." You need to stand on a high place, or in an open place, to appreciate the wonderful use of this object. ”

The main hall in the palace, although very high. But the emperor can't stand on the roof, can he?

If you stand under the main hall, the height is not very good.

As for the bell tower, although it is very high, how can the emperor risk his life?

As a last resort, I chose a compromise location, the palace wall.

The palace walls of the imperial city are very high, how high are they?

Buildings in the city, except for the roofs of the imperial palace and temples, were not allowed to rise higher than the city walls.

Zhao Xu, who climbed to the top of the city, was a little hesitant, standing on the city wall in broad daylight, a little weird. The view is unobstructed, and almost all the buildings in the inner city can be seen at a glance.

He tried to use the way Li Kui explained, and began to aim at the focal length.

It didn't take long for Zhao Xu to seem to have experienced the wonders of the clairvoyant mirror, his mouth opened into a big circle, and an indecent flush appeared on his cheeks. Even Li Kui felt that Zhao Xu's expression was a little exaggerated, and looked at Hao Sui on the side suspiciously, and asked in a low voice, "What area of the city is the official looking at?" ”

Hao Sui looked around for a while, and said strangely: "Renjie, don't you say you haven't been there?" ”

Facing Hao Sui's slightly disdainful tone and eyes, Li Kui's eyes tightened, and he said in a low voice: "It won't be a teaching workshop, right?" ”

In broad daylight, the emperor used a clairvoyant mirror to peep at the official tricks of the sect, and Li Kui had a helplessness to be accidentally murdered. Isn't this a backlash that scolds him for being a traitor?