Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 243 General Shi also agrees
Shi Jianzhi led the order and rushed into the palace, only to see dozens of guards holding long swords on Zhao Kuangyin's private training ground, practicing formation attack.

As a strong man of the Shi family, Shi Jianzhi could see the power of this saber just by looking at it, and couldn't help trembling, "Your Majesty! This saber..."

Zhao Kuangyin didn't say much. He raised a long knife and slashed Huashan with all his strength, slashing it at a wooden figure. With a soft "pounce" sound, the wooden figure was chopped into two pieces without any effort at all.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin himself didn't use much force, and he split the wooden man entirely by relying on the weight and sharpness of the blade.

Shi Jianzhi was shocked. He knew that a powerful military commander could use ordinary swords to achieve this effect with his own strength.

But there is no doubt that if you don't cut a few times like that, the sword will collapse, and most of the human strength will be used up. Now the holy majesty is so labor-saving, it is entirely the merit of weapons.

"Your Majesty! Is this... the masterpiece of King Qi?"

"That's right! King Qi has not been idle during this period. He has invented many similar treasures. What do you think of this knife?"

Shi Jianzhi also tried the knife with his own hands.

"Your Majesty! The king of Qi has made great achievements! I think that if my Great Song Dynasty can equip a large number of this sword, the Khitan cavalry will not be feared!"

Zhao Kuangyin nodded heavily, "Of course! But although this knife is good, the cost of mass production is too expensive!"

"It's worth it! It's worth it! Your Majesty! It's worth spending money on this knife, and it's worth spending a lot of money. I would like to call this knife the treasure of the country! With this knife, my Great Song Dynasty will be able to sweep the world. Money is by no means a problem!"

Zhao Kuangyin remained calm, but he recognized Shi Jianzhi's words in his heart, "If you equip these forty knives, and at the same time study several formations, there will be a lot to do in the army formation!"

"Yes! The minister leads the decree!"

Although this knife was good, Zhao Kuangyin didn't keep a few in his bodyguards. Firstly, it was a sharp weapon in battle, and it would be a waste for the close guards to hold it.

Secondly, he also hopes that Shi Jianzhi will study it first. Once the numbers can equip a large team in the future, the battle tactics at that time should be able to bear initial results.

After Shi Jianzhi and the guards retreated, Queen Song stepped forward.

She looked at it from a distance for a while, and she also saw the magic of this knife.

"Your Majesty! This sword is a treasure! If Dezhao can make more, it will be Keliao's sharp weapon on the battlefield in the future!"

When Zhao Kuangyin heard what she said, his brows immediately raised.

"You, how did you know this?"

Zhao Kuangyin's first feeling was that Zhao Dezhao had already colluded with Empress Song for the sake of fame and fortune and the position of the heir apparent.

Zhao Dezhao hoped to use Empress Song to blow his ears.

Empress Song hoped that after Zhao Dezhao succeeded to the throne in the future, she would treat herself and Zhao Defang better.

Although there is a reason for saying this.But Zhao Kuangyin hated the process. He didn't like the queen and his son getting too close, and he didn't want them to form a clique for personal gain.

After all, this is unfair to Zhao Guangyi.

Empress Song observed his words and immediately guessed what he was thinking, and said with a smile, "I didn't know at first, but Princess Yanqing came here this morning. When you went hunting, Your Majesty, Princess Yanqing told me that I often heard about it in the Shi family. The various achievements of my younger brother Dezhao."

"She said that General Shi spoke highly of Dezhao! She also said that in the future Dezhao would definitely make our Great Song Dynasty prosperous."

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly realized that it seemed that his daughter came to talk to Queen Song in the morning, and during the dinner, he talked about the Shi family's evaluation of his son.

In recent days, Zhao Dezhao has been rectifying great scholars, inventing countless new gadgets, successfully experimenting with Champa rice, etc., and so on, his reputation has spread a lot, so it is not surprising that Shi Shouxin has such an evaluation of him.

It also directly shows that Zhao Dezhao did not take advantage of the convenience of Zhao Defang and Queen Song to persuade himself and so on.

"I never imagined that someone with Shi Shouxin's status would think highly of him!"

"It's more than that! Didn't your majesty say last time that the inspector Taiwei Gao Jiedu envoy also admired him? Among the three generals, only Cao Bin followed Jin Wang... um, he walked closer."

It should be said that Queen Song used to be step-by-step and her words were very regular, but the last two sentences are obviously tendentious.

However, Zhao Kuangyin didn't say anything, let alone the queen, he is also a human being, and being a human being inevitably has tendencies.

At least Zhao Kuangyin didn't have any objections to what Empress Song said just now.

Just say it, no matter what, she is still the woman you love.

But having said that, the three founding generals, Gao Huaide, Shi Shouxin, and Cao Bin, all highly praised Zhao Dezhao.

Shi Shouxin praised him for showing signs of it early on, while Gao Huaide didn't comment until after the Shuiluo City defense battle.

As for Cao Bin, in fact, Empress Song had somewhat wronged him. Although Cao Bin was indeed very close to King Jin, Cao Bin did not underestimate Zhao Dezhao at all.

The attitude of these three generals still has a great influence on Zhao Kuangyin.

Now summing up the evaluations of the three, Zhao Kuangyin was actually surprised.

He ordered Shi Jianzhi to be summoned and asked him how much he knew about the Imperial Grain Institute.

The duty of the Imperial City Department is to guard the eight gates of the capital plus one, and it also has multiple functions such as reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation.

Zhao Kuangyin came to him just to ask him what everyone's impression of the Imperial Food Institute was like with so many spies under his command.

Shi Jianzhi was a little scared when he heard it, worried that his subordinates made too much noise, which alarmed the emperor.

However, he has been a close minister for many years, and he judged his words and feelings, and felt that the Holy One really wanted to know the information, and it was not as scary as he thought.

But if you are brave, your intelligence is limited.

Shi Jianzhi thought about it from beginning to end, and found that he was speechless, so he was still flustered after all.

"Your Majesty! I originally wanted to say that I was very familiar with King Qi's Imperial Grain Office, but after thinking about it carefully, there was no definite information. Now that I think about it carefully, it can be seen that King Qi's secrecy work is very good. "

Zhao Kuangyin was very dissatisfied when he heard this, "You know that, are you not as good as me who has only been there once or twice? That being the case, I will personally issue an order today to order your spies to work hard and collect the money from the imperial grain. It is best to ask for the most detailed information.”

"The more detailed the better! If it's useful, I'll give you a big reward. If it's useless, be careful! I don't want to spend a lot of money to raise a bunch of idiots."

Shi Jianzhi was taken aback, and quickly received the order.

But Li Liu was very upset in his heart.

If you want to know the information of the Imperial Grain Institute, you can go to see it yourself and you will know. Why make it difficult for us who can't even get in.

He also threatened to cancel or demote himself if he didn't have decent information, so he really couldn't be careless.

(End of this chapter)