After visiting the young emperor, Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang felt that what His Majesty said was a bit unreliable, they also made a skeptical response to this. The facts quickly verified that what they said was not false. Even if the trend of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty was exactly the same as the prediction of the young emperor, they were almost inseparable. In desperation, Zhenjin chose to belong to the general's power to the Mongols, finance to the Semu people, and politically rely on the Han system.

As Boyan was ordered to return to Beijing, he went to Shangdu and left the northwest of the town with the third prince Tiemur. Sang Ge also entered the Secretariat amid the opposition of Han ministers. His first fire burned to the Secretariat in the Secretariat in his own administration, the Secretariat in the Secretariat in the Secretariat in his administration. The Secretariat in the Secretariat in the modern audit meaning is similar, which is to check the money and grain and sort out the accounts by checking the accounts.

It should be said that Brother Sang is very clever. He passed the procuratorate of the Secretariat and found that he had owed nearly 5,000 ingots of money and nearly 2,000 ingots of money in a vacancies, which gave him an excuse to rectify the Secretariat. As a result, a large number of Secretariat officials were dismissed, and Brother Sang also gained great reputation in the severe rectification. So he took the opportunity to expand the scope of the hook examination to various ministries and provinces.

Under the current political environment of the Mongol Yuan, embezzlement and accepting bribes have become the norm. If it is said that all officials are not corrupt, it may be a bit unfair to them, but nine out of ten officials are corrupt. At that time, all the warehouse departments were investigated and the momentum was very strong. As a result, a large number of central officials were dismissed. The Han officials in charge of the previous administration could not escape the crime of dereliction of duty and were implicated, and were impeached by Sang Ge and were either afraid of his deterrence, and had to compromise with him.

Under the severe attack of Brother Sang, the Mongolian Yuan court changed the world overnight. A large number of officials were dismissed. Those who did not step down were panic and turned to him for protection. Many people also began to follow his path to seek official positions. In just over a month, Brother Sang used the name of Gouka to attack dissidents, promoted his confidants, and quickly grasped the power of the Secretariat.

However, Brother Sang did not stop there. He took the opportunity to report to the real gold to establish the third rank of the "Search and Li Department" to specialize in coordinating the pursuit of money and grain. The real gold did not expect that in the two years he was in power, a large number of court officials actually committed traitors under his nose, so he approved the report and ordered them to take the examination of money and grain in the world. Therefore, the scope of the examination was expanded, and various places generally conducted inventory and collection of accumulated annual payments of money and grain, and the deadline was urgent.

Sang Ge should be very smart from a political perspective. In his memorial, he said that the purpose of the hook test was to solve the problem of insufficient national use and not to hurt the people. This was very in line with the appetite of real gold, and it was also consistent with the Confucian concept of "people first", and then received support from the Khan. However, Sang Ge expanded his power and attacked Han officials who were always incompatible with him in the local area. The vacancy was filled by the Semu people and the Mongols, and the financial management faction once again controlled the government affairs.

On the other hand, the real gold adopted the strategy of Yue Chi Cha'er and restarted the peace talks with the Southern Dynasties again in order to obtain a strategic time buffer, avoid fighting on both sides, and obtain the required materials through trade. This time, he sent An Tong, the left prime minister of the Shangshu Province, to take charge of the matter in Yangzhou, and at the same time appointed Ma Shao, the right prime minister of Henan Province, as the deputy envoy to assist in the matter.

Ma Shao was also a famous scholar. In the early days of the Yuan Dynasty, he recommended himself to the court and was appreciated by Kublai Khan. He was called a "scholar". He served as the chief minister of the Left and Left Office of the Secretariat and the governor of Shanzhou. He was diligent in his work and loved the people, and was praised by local scholars and people. In the tenth year of Zhiyuan, he was appointed as the chief minister of the East and West Road of Shandong, and took disaster relief as his priority. In the 13th year, he was transferred to the position of Tongzhi of the General Administration of Hezhou Road. Next year, he was promoted to the Minister of the Secretariat and was promoted to the Minister of War and the Minister of the Secretariat and the Political Affairs Office of the Secretariat. He was honest and upright, and he was incompatible with Sang Ge. Both of them had conflicts and later transferred to Henan Province.

From this we can see that Zhen Jin is still a little sincere about peace talks. After all, what everyone learns is of the same origin and should have a common language. However, Lu Xiufu thought that Xiaohuang's evaluation of this was pertinent. He forgot that the scholars of the Song Dynasty who believed that the Han and Confucians were orthodox, always regarded them as rebellious. They could be said to be treated as water and fire. Putting these two groups of people together to discuss peace talks is a success.

Therefore, after discussing with the young emperor, Lu Xiufu decided to send the mature and steadfast Liu Fu to deal with it. At present, he would naturally not make big concessions under the conditions of taking the initiative. If the negotiation is better, there will be no loss. If it cannot be concluded, it will be a waste of money. After all, the Song Dynasty also needs some supplies from the Mongolian Yuan, such as plowing oxen, horses, fur and other shortages.

At this time, what was unexpected was that some court officials involved in the little emperor's waste and government affairs, were addicted to clever things, and were also misbehaving. This was a way to destroy the country by himself. This made Lu Xiufu and others who knew the truth a little laughed and cried. After several prime ministers decided to suppress all the memorials, so as not to distract the little emperor...

In fact, Zhao Bing was not completely wronged. He has done something extraordinary these days. According to the new military system, some middle and senior officers have reached their retirement position and are no longer able to be promoted in the army. According to the past practice, either retreating to the second line and taking a free position until they retire, or taking a salary home to retire.

However, Zhao Bing felt that these retired officers were all heroes who followed him to conquer the world and had rich practical experience. If they were idle, they not only waste talents, but also made people feel like they were killed. So he adjusted according to the age and talents of these people. Some young middle-level officers were adjusted to various places to serve as chief supervisors, observers and military positions, responsible for the training and command of the garrison troops in the prefectures. Some people were transferred to civil servants, serving as local officials such as magistrates and inspectors, and even worked in powerful departments such as the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice.

Some senior officers not only have good military qualities, but also have experience in managing local areas. Zhao Bing transferred these people to various military states after he transferred them to work. The places called military states are either important military places or frequent wars. They serve as military officials who can play their military expertise and can directly command local troops to fight during wartime, which is much more at ease than those officials from scholars who are not in military affairs.

There are also some officials who work in the logistics and logistics departments. Zhao Bing also makes full use of his talents. He wants them to enter the Ministry of Revenue or serve as military-related departments such as the local Transport Department. Or he still stays in the army to serve as a civilian officer such as the Yuhou and senior military officer. They are familiar with military affairs and know how to cooperate with military commanders, and can also make full use of their talents.

Zhao Bing is like this because these military officials are loyal to them. After all, they are all teams promoted by themselves. In addition, although people from military backgrounds also have problems, they have formed the habit of orders under the long-term constraints of military law. Their execution ability is much stronger than those civil servants. They will not first calculate the pros and cons of the civil servants before starting to execute them. In addition, there are fewer intrigues and intrigues in the army, and their thoughts are still relatively simple, and the local governments can also change the official atmosphere.

However, Zhao Bing did this, which was equivalent to "invading" the civil servant system that had always been controlled by scholars. To be more careful, he stole their "rice bowls", and to be more important, he broke the official system formed since Taizu. This would inevitably cause panic among civil servants, worried that as officials from military backgrounds continued to infiltrate, the situation of valuing civil servants would further change, and one day the court would be controlled by a group of warriors.

In addition, after severely cracking down on street invasion, the transformation of Lin'an City gradually began. Zhao Bing decided to build a square. He knew that sometimes it still needed some sense of ritual. The grand scenes and solemn scenes not only boost morale, but also make people feel oppressed, which makes people feel fearful and shocking.

In the planning, Zhao Bing, who was constrained by the old pattern and current situation of Lin'an City, had always intended to recover the Central Plains, knew that it was unrealistic and unnecessary to build a large-scale palace. To build a square with great momentum, he could only make the idea of ​​the old palace, so he planned to transform a vacant land outside the Hening Gate of the original imperial city. Hening Gate was originally the north gate of the imperial city and the starting point of the Imperial Street. The three provinces and six ministries and relevant government departments were all outside it, and it was also the place where celebrations were held in the past.

After the investigation, Zhao Bingjudged was still a little small as a square, so he moved all the granaries that were under the Ministry of Revenue and Da Nei to the east of the original palace city, which was close to Dongshuimen, which facilitated the transfer of materials and was also convenient for unified management. In this way, a square of 600 or 700 acres was formed outside Hening Gate, which was used as a place where the imperial court held a major ceremony and reviewed the army.

Of course, this is not just an empty square. Zhao Bing plans to set up a tall flagpole here, and the imperial guards hold flag-raising ceremony here every day to increase the people's sense of identity with the country. He also built an Arc de Triomphe on the Imperial Road in front of the Taimiao, and erected statues of civil and military officials who made immortal contributions in the Song Dynasty's counterattacks against foreign enemies on both sides of the street, extending all the way to the square to inspire people to establish ambition to achieve meritorious deeds.

This also aroused the vigilance of the scholars, worried that this was one of the measures used by the young emperor to improve the status of warriors. So they all "dissuaded" on the grounds that the old palace was abandoned, and the Beigong was located in a corner of the imperial road that did not conform to the creation style, and that it violated the etiquette system. After some controversy, it was not until Zhao Bing agreed to establish the carvings of the stories of ancestors in the corridors around the square that they had given up.

As for Zhao Bing's obsession with clever things, he has always grasped each other accurately. It is known to everyone in the court. The reason why he was involved in this time was because he did too much this time. After he made out the biogas lamp, he has been in the military weapon surveillance in recent days. Not only did he not attend court for this, but he also lived there and did not return home at night, which attracted the attention of all the ministers.

In fact, Zhao Bing was also very helpless. Everyone knew that most of the weapons configured by the Song army were powered by gunpowder, so the production of gunpowder is the top priority. They have tried to use machinery powered by water wheels to prepare gunpowder. When preparing gunpowder, they first started the water wheel and used the water wheel's power to pound the gunpowder to crush the gunpowder under the pounding mill. However, despite several improvements over the years, due to the particularity of gunpowder, most processes are still handmade, resulting in very low production efficiency.

In addition, it is difficult to escape the influence of humidity and rainy climate in Qiongzhou and Jiangnan, and the charcoal in the gunpowder component is very easy to absorb water. This not only leads to the inability to produce during some time periods, but also causes problems in the preservation of gunpowder. The most direct thing is to shorten the effectiveness of gunpowder. Moreover, after gunpowder is distributed to various departments, the storage conditions are poor, especially the problem of the navy is even more serious, which makes them have to use regular scrapping to ensure the validity of gunpowder.

No one can accurately know when the war breaks out, the intensity, and the length of the war lasts, so a certain amount of reserves is needed. This creates another problem: more gunpowder is produced, but it cannot be preserved for a long time, which causes some gunpowder to decrease its power or even fail, causing great waste. However, if the amount of ownership is small, once the war breaks out, the demand for gunpowder increases greatly, and the current production capacity cannot meet the demand for the time being.

Moreover, in the actual manufacturing process, due to the fact that it is still in the manual operation stage, coupled with the uncertainty of the supervision and standards of gunpowder production, it is naturally difficult to achieve high-quality batch-based gunpowder production, and the quality will inevitably be quite rough and inferior. Therefore, Zhao Bing can only use excessive production to achieve precautions, but at the same time, he has to bear the losses caused by expired gunpowder.

For various reasons, Zhao Bing thought of upgrading and renovating some equipment by taking advantage of the opportunity of military equipment supervision, and the gunpowder workshop was the focus. He thought that in modern times in his previous life, Western countries had surpassed China's production and research on gunpowder. Their gunpowder manufacturing industry used steam engines, hydraulic machinery, mechanical granulators, steam heaters, graphite grinders and other advanced machinery to produce gunpowder.

Extract high-purity nitrate and sulfur with advanced industrial equipment; use steam engine to drive the drum-type device to crush and mix the gunpowder mixture, and use a water-pressure machine to place the made gunpowder on the mill to press it into solid and uniform gunpowder blocks; then use a mechanical granulator to make the gunpowder blocks into uniform-sized gunpowder particles; then place the gunpowder particles in the drying room, use a steam heater to increase the indoor temperature to dry the gunpowder particles; finally use a grinder made of graphite to polish the surface of the medicine particles to remove the pores on the gunpowder particles, reducing the hygroscopicity of the gunpowder to prolong the shelf life of the gunpowder.
Chapter completed!