Chapter 72 Credit

It has been October, and it has been a whole year since Xue Chongxun sat in that position.

The snow has not fallen this year, and the river has not started to freeze, but the weather is obviously cold.

Princess Taiping felt that the dry and cold winter in Daming Palace was very bad for her skin, so she decided to go to Huaqing Palace early to spend the winter.

Before this, Queen Li Yan'er had been diagnosed with pregnancy and went to Huaqing Palace to rest.

Xue Chongxun is left in the inner court, but he rarely cares about the affairs of the harem, so Princess Taiping told Princess Jincheng to manage the internal affairs before leaving.

Before, when Xue Chongxun was not in Chang'an, Princess Taiping decided on several major events, one of which was withdrawn from the military power of Du Xian, the chief general of the Hebei marching army. Now Du Xian has returned to Beijing; the other is to transfer the military power to General Zhang Wulang, the Jinwu Guard.

Xue Chongxun and the Minister of the Nanya were both able to accept her treatment. According to the compromise with Xue Chongxun a few months ago, the Minister of the Nanya agreed to the pre-plan for building the Great Wall and the fortress in Hebei.

But Xue Chongxun has never clearly ordered the start of this matter, so the ministers naturally would not mention this, because everyone himself did not agree with the overhaul of the fortifications and no longer opposed the exchange of the exchange of Du Xian.

Of course, people cannot expect him to suddenly wake up and cancel his previous decision. The favor Du Xian received when he returned proves that Xue Chongxun never intended to change his ideas; nor is it because he forgot or delayed. Xue Chongxun often does not go to court to accept worship, but he is still very straightforward in his work.

He is waiting for a news.

One day, the eunuch Yang Sixu went to the greenhouse to meet him and finally brought the news he was waiting for.

Yang Sixu handed over a file from the Shenji Bureau of Wugong County, with dozens of pages of words.

Xue Chongxun flipped through it casually and had to ask Yang Sixu: Did Xiao Dan finish the errand I handed him over?

Report to Your Majesty, it has been completed and it is written in detail on this file.Yang Sixu replied, his tone was very relaxed, and he was naturally stressed out.

Xue Chongxun gently knocked his fingers on a stack of paper below, thinking that he had to finish reading so many words?

He pondered for a moment and handed it back to Yang Sixu: You are supervising the Divine Machinery Bureau, just take a look at this thing.Ask Xiao Dan to send someone to send a truck of "cement" and a truck of "coke" to Chang'an.

He thought that by looking at the real thing, he could determine the success or failure of that thing, and maybe it was more reliable than reading so many words.

Yang Sixu received the order and hurriedly transferred the imperial guards from Xuanwu Gate to Wugong County to pass oral orders. The specific matters that the emperor personally inquired were very efficient. He just sent someone to pass the order in the morning, and the things next to him arrived at the imperial guards office in Xuanwu Gate.

Yang Sixu put two boxes in a box and took them to the greenhouse hall for Xue Chongxun to see.

I saw a box of gray-black powder and a box of black blocks inside. Xue Chongxun took out a piece of stuff that might be coke and looked carefully for a while. In fact, he had never seen coke before...

I have seen cement, but I have seen cement before and obviously not the same thing as the thing in front of me.

He picked up a pinch of powder with his fingers and rubbed it between his fingers, then picked up a towel and wiped it and said: I ordered the Imperial Army to use the cart of cement to bond bricks and stones outside the Xuanwu Gate to build a small wall, and then send the coke to the Afang Office and ask them to use the melted iron. Once the matter is done, you come and report it.

Yang Sixu hurriedly said: I can go and pass the imperial edict.

Others don’t quite understand Xue Chongxun, so he cares about such specific trivial matters and always asks about them personally; but those government affairs related to central areas are ignored. Usually, the government affairs hall provides solutions to the handling methods, and the cabinet reviews and annotations and suggestions should be reviewed by Xue Chongxun in the end, but he basically asks people to use seals directly, and almost no one is not allowed to report them. Therefore, the government affairs handled by the two official offices of the South Ya Office are actually equivalent to imperial edicts.

Xue Chongxun was very open to the imperial power. Of course, the ministers would not feel tired and were very happy to do those things so that they could realize their ambitions and talents.

The next day, Yang Sixu reported the result of the Jiafang Bureau. Coke can melt iron. Xue Chongxun used this to judge that the car might be coke. A short wall outside Xuanwu Gate was also repaired, but Xue Chongxun waited for another three days and guessed that it was almost done before he was ready to go over and inspect.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, he did not go to the inner court to read the memorials, and took a car to Xuanwu Gate directly, then changed his horse and took a team of imperial guards out of the palace gate to a grassland outside. Sure enough, he saw a low wall erected beside the grassland.

Xue Chongxun was wearing a robe and still rode agile horse. He led a team of armored soldiers to the wall. The eunuchs behind the eunuchs and bureaucrats from the Jiafang Bureau also rushed over.

He sat on the horse and looked around. He saw a general who knew him right next to him, Chen Dahu from the Yulin Army. He had played polo with him before, so he pointed at the wall in front with a horse whip and said: Chen Dahu, go and try to lift it down.

Chen Dahu looked embarrassed and still clasped his fists and said: I have the order.

After saying that, he jumped off his horse, took off his helmet and sword and handed it to his general. He held his breath and suddenly rushed towards the wall, rushed to the wall and shouted loudly, kicked the brick wall sideways.

Unexpectedly, the wall did not move at all. Chen Dahu fell to the ground with a scream of pain, and hurriedly got up and bowed: I'll try again!

Xue Chongxun got off the horse and helped him up and said: No need to try. General Chen can't beat that wall even if he is brave enough, which means that the craftsmen in the Afang Office have made it with sincerity. He asked the Internal Affairs Bureau to reward some money later.

An official hurriedly bowed and said: Your Majesty’s oral order, I dare not do it in a real way.The cart of "cement" sent by the Shenji Bureau was sent. My ministers and others only asked people to build walls with some sand, but did not use other materials. They did not expect that it was very solid.

Xue Chongxun suddenly laughed and seemed very happy. The ministers hurriedly agreed: Your Majesty has obtained this object to build a pass-by city, just like the great Jin Dynasty is unbreakable, and the country has been forever for generations.

It would be nice to have a few hundred years.Xue Chongxun smiled.

After hearing this, the civil and military officials felt that the emperor was very pragmatic, but they said verbally: Your Majesty will live forever and have a foundation for the Great Jin Dynasty for ten thousand years.

Xue Chongxun turned around and said to the officials of the Northern Office: Shenji Office ordered Xiao Dan to do his job well. I am very happy. He was rewarded and promoted him to become the Military Arts Supervisor and returned to the Northern Office of the Imperial Army to serve, and asked him to come back to see me later.

The level of the Shenji Office is the same as that of the Jiafang Office, and the order is the eighth rank; the military weapon supervisor is the superior yamen of the Shenji Office, and the chief is the seventh rank.

Xiao Dan was promoted directly and entered Xue Chongxun's sight. His future was more impressive than the level in front of him.

Everyone was simply envious, jealous and hated. Who was Xiao Dan? He had no family background? He was just an official before. Can such a person have the hope of making a name for himself?

Xiao Dan heard that he was going to the palace to run very fast, which was a kind of honor.

The next morning, he was dressed in a fresh dress, and his low-level dark blue official uniform was spotless and flat, and his whole body was clean. He was only in his twenties, young and red lips and white teeth, which was so proud that he was like a minister of the court waiting to meet him inside and outside.

He noticed that when those real officials who could enter the cabinet passed by the square inside and outside, some even nodded to him to greet him; although he had to bend down to give him a greeting as much as possible, it was already very difficult. If an official of his level in the past saw those officials standing respectfully by the road, they would nod to you if they looked at the sky?

After waiting for a long time, an eunuch took him into the hall, which was a side hall on the side.

After entering the door, he saw Xue Chongxun sitting there wearing clothes of similar color as himself, which looked similar to what he saw in Wugong County last time.

After getting closer, he couldn't look up and looked directly. He fell directly to the floor, his face pressed against the ground, shouting: I'm going to see the emperor, and I'll live forever!

Xue Chongxun's tone was very kind: Wang Shaobo is one or two years younger than you, and he is already in the center of the cabinet and is the minister of the court.As long as the ministers are concerned about national affairs, I will definitely be able to surrender talents without any restrictions.

With a calm sentence, Xiao Dan immediately seemed to see a holy light falling from the sky, full of endless hope. He hurriedly replied: I am keeping in mind Your Majesty's teachings, and working hard in front of the saddle, and not giving up his heart!

Get up and talk.

Xue Chongxun said.

When Xiao Dan was grateful and bent down and stood below, he said in a gentle but unquestionable tone: Coke is of great significance. In the future, using this material to metallurgy in Hedong in Guanzhong will have a great effect on farming, river management and other major events.

Xiao Dan didn't understand how to talk about irrelevant things about farming and river management, but he felt that the emperor's words were of course unfathomable.

Xue Chongxun continued: Cement is a visible immediate benefit, and it can immediately reduce large expenses for the treasury.So with your contribution, I think it is not enough to only upgrade from the eighth grade to the seventh grade, but it is not a good thing for you to upgrade too quickly.

Xiao Dan said: I dare not take credit for me, but I just did my job according to the emperor's will.The emperor cherishes his feelings, and I am even more heartfelt.

Xue Chongxun thought to himself that he could not make it. He could not make it just by thinking about anything he thought about. He could still think of planes and tanks. Can everything he wished for?

So Xiao Dan was very rewarding, and Xue Chongxun smiled and said: All credits belong to officials. What is the use of merit? Who can promote me to be promoted?

He pondered for a moment and said, "Military Arts Supervisor is an important position in the Northern Yamen."The officials in that position are now more steady and less enterprising. He Zhizhang was the last time to innovate the standardization of armor and weapons. It can be said that military weapons supervision has been unrecognizable for several years, and he is no longer suitable to stay in that position.Now I have two things left to you to do. If you do it, you will be the fourth-grade military weapon supervisor.

The military equipment of the Northern Yamen is in charge of repairing armor and crossbows and handing them over to the arsenal on time. It is the military control yamen and belongs to the key department.

Now that the chief of this department has been promised to Xiao Dan, who was originally an unknown man, he only had one thought in his mind: the rise to the top is right in front of him.