Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 240 Visit
The brothers of the Wang family looked east and west, and Wang Laoqi said, "Brother-in-law! It's not bad here, it's going to be cold soon, it's good here, it will always be warm!"

Zhao Dezhao stretched out his thumb and said, "That's right! It's very warm, and you can't wear thick clothes in winter. Your brothers are working here as supervisors, supervising the work of the workers. If they increase the production, you can still Get a commission, well done, I recommend you to work as errands in the Ministry of Industry!"

The brothers of the Wang family looked at each other and thought it was good.

"Okay! Brother-in-law, you are a nice person. Everyone knows that you will never harm us. We are here."

Zhao Dezhao rolled his eyes and said, "Yes! But you are here. According to the rules, you have to sign a contract with the workshop. As long as you work with us, you have to work for at least three years..."

Three days later, the Song Dynasty court was full of good news.

First of all, the new tax law introduced by Zhao Dezhao has been widely welcomed. About half of the wealthy businessmen and big households across the country are willing to donate money in exchange for tax relief.

The other half was not unwilling, but just stopped and watched.

In addition, Sanlu's Champa rice had a bumper harvest, and the impact of the poor harvest in the south of the Yangtze River was minimized, which solved the urgent need of the imperial court's food shortage.

With the widespread implementation of the new tax law, the problem of empty treasury is gradually being filled.

Zhao Kuangyin is a dragon with a happy heart. This day, he took the initiative to take a group of ministers to the ranch in the south of the city to hunt.

This game lasted for a long time, and Zhao Kuangyin personally killed five yellow rabbits, twelve pheasants, and several wild boars and deer.

During this period, Zhao Kuangyin personally took command, assigning civil and military personnel to intercept or block the enemy, creating momentum and having a great time.

Zhao Guangyi, Wang Pu, Zhao Pu and other veteran officials all understood that the Holy Majesty wanted to fight a war, and was addicted to fighting.

During the Battle of Shuiluo City in Weizhou a few days ago, he had the idea of ​​a personal conquest by the imperial driver.

Now, although the war is over and Da Song has won, the addiction has already been hooked.

To talk about such a fun thing, Zhao Dezhao did not participate.

Zhao Dezhao was the busiest during these days.

Not only is he concurrently working in the Hanlin Academy, he also has to give lectures to the disciples of the palace school from time to time, and he also has to take care of the errands of the Imperial Grain Institute at all times.

He has recently invented many rare things, such as some tools used in shipbuilding in the South China Sea, coal refineries, steelmaking furnaces, etc.

The product in the coal smelting workshop is the highest quality coke, and coke is used to make new steel.

At this time, the ironmaking technology was still very limited, and ironware needed to be tempered repeatedly to become solid.

That is both fire and labor-intensive.

And Zhao Dezhao extracted coke, and the temperature used to make steel was directly increased by hundreds of degrees, which greatly improved the quality of steel.

If it is tempered several times as before, the hardness and strength of the iron will not only increase greatly, but also the fatigue resistance will also be greatly improved.

To put it bluntly, the steel tempered by Zhao Dezhao here is used to forge weapons, which are both sharper and more resistant to pressure than before, and the quality of both weapons and defenses has been greatly improved.

But being so busy with these things every day, Zhao Dezhao didn't have time to play, and he missed the appointment that had been scheduled yesterday for hunting.I worked overtime at the Imperial Grain Institute for production.

Coincidentally, Zhao Kuangyin passed by his coal smelting workshop with people hunting. Seeing the chimneys here and the flames splashing everywhere, Zhao Kuangyin thought about barbecue. of.

Suddenly, there was a tinkling, and the sound of metal and iron clanging.

"Strange! Where is this place? How can there be the sound of metal and iron?"

"Report to Your Majesty! This place was just taken down by the King of Qi a few days ago, and now it is considered part of the Royal Food Office, and it is the territory of His Highness King Qi."

"Oh? Is King Qi here?"

"Yes! Your Majesty, King Qi Jintie came here early in the morning and seems to be making steel."

As soon as Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he became interested, changed his mind, waved away all the ministers, and changed into ordinary clothes with a group of guards, and then began to wander around leisurely.

In fact, there are Zhao Dezhao's subordinates everywhere, but fortunately, Jiang An is everyone's acquaintance.

So although a large group of people came, under the leadership of Jiang An, they were invincible and no one stopped them.

Zhao Kuangyin looked around and saw that the Imperial Grain Institute at this time seemed to be much larger than when it was just built.

Moreover, there were several more mysterious workshops with different purposes, which made him very interested.

"The child Dezhao! He has really grown up a lot now, and he is maturing every day."

Since he was surrounded by guards and close officials, Zhao Kuangyin had no scruples, so he naturally expressed emotion.

Seeing that the sage praised King Qi, Jiang An knew that he was happy, so he led him to say more.

"Your Majesty! Wasn't King Qi particularly stubborn back then? You can't see that he will have such great achievements when he grows up!"

Zhao Kuangyin smiled slightly, "Of course! This boy was just a naughty boy when he was young. To put it bluntly, he had no idea that he would achieve such great achievements when he grew up. Even compared with a good boy like Defang, he would still be far behind. arrive."

"I don't like it every day because of this! But at that time, Mrs. Kuaiji said that although this son is stubborn now, he must be sensible when he grows up. She also said that I will be satisfied with him and be proud of him."

Speaking of this, thinking of his married wife, he couldn't help being moved, and his eyes turned red.

Mrs. Kuaiji was the He family who was later named Empress Xiaohui, and died of illness two years before Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne.

She gave birth to Zhao Kuangyin's two eldest princesses and Zhao Dezhao and other children who were deeply favored by him.

She was so virtuous that even the later Queen Wang and Queen Song could not completely replace her in Zhao Kuangyin's heart.

After sighing for a while, thinking that the son now is as promising as his wife said at the beginning, I guess the wife will be very happy if she knows about it.

Zhao Kuangyin calmed down and came outside the coal refinery. Seeing that the temperature here is very high, the workers who come and go are all in late autumn, and they only wear unlined clothes. He thought it was interesting, so he decided to go in and visit.

Just as the guards outside the workshop were about to stop him, he was not stupid when he saw Jiang An. He immediately guessed the true identities of these mysterious people, and quickly moved away to let them in.

As soon as Zhao Kuangyin walked in, he felt the heat hit his face, and was about to take off his clothes to cool off.

Suddenly someone inside was shouting and cursing, "Wang Laoqi, you bastard! I didn't sign the contract before you. Since you are here, you all have to work hard for me."

"If you can't meet the daily quota, don't blame me for being ruthless. Even if your father and your sister are great people, I don't care about it. If I don't work, I will dip my whip in cold water every day and beat you to death!"

(End of this chapter)