Li Yizhen felt refreshed today, walking with wind in his eyes. The Longmen account book that had been weighing on his mind had gained some insights. He also explored two caves and ravines with Mrs. Wang. It was really beautiful to the extreme.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the palace, Lu Hancheng ran over and reported, "Your Majesty, you are finally here. Zhao Yeyang of the Jiubian Family is still waiting at the entrance of the inner courtyard of the palace and has not moved."
Li Yi snorted coldly, with disgust in his eyes, "Just wait and see. If you do something wrong, you will look like you have done something wrong. Otherwise, what would he do?"
Cao Qingyan had a wry smile on his face. He had experienced three generations of emperors and had never seen any big storms. Each generation of emperors was very respectful and polite to the family members. But when Li Yi came here, he didn't take the family members seriously at all, and even wanted to clean them up. What do these aristocratic families mean?
"By the way, how's it going at the Supervision Office?"
Lu Hancheng replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Supervision Office has started firing on all cylinders and has reached the final finishing stage."
"Really, so fast?" Li Yi was also very surprised after hearing this.
Yesterday, the Manufacturing Supervision Office only made about 500 rods, and they were all sent to the Beijing camp for training. They were finished today. Isn't this too fast?
What happened last night?
I heard Lu Hancheng say with a look of surprise: "Your Majesty, yesterday there was an expert from the Supervision Office. I heard that he is the successor of a giant of the Mohist family. What is his name?"
"Lu Mu!" Li Yi opened his mouth and shouted.
"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, do you know this person?" Lu Hancheng asked in surprise.
Li Yi nodded, "This is a master-level talent that I just invited."
"Your Majesty is so wise. Master Lu Mu designed a giant box right after he came. There are drill bits on it. Manpower pulls the gears and the drill bits rotate together. It only takes ten people, and one hour can be compared to the entire supervising office in one day. workload.”
Li Yi was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and smiled. He is indeed a giant of the Mohist family. Isn't this the predecessor of machine tools?
Unlike electric machine tools, this machine tool requires human power to pull, but the principle is the same.
Li Yi was overjoyed, isn’t this a prelude to industrialization? Immediately passed on the decree: "It is my decree that Lu Mu has done meritorious service and will be rewarded with horses in the palace. In addition, he will be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry, responsible for the supervision of the palace construction and other matters."
Cao Qingyan knew that Lu Mu was very talented, and had already guessed that he, the successor of the Mohist giant, would be promoted, and did not expect that he would be directly promoted to the rank of Minister.
From a white body to a servant, it only takes a day and a half?
The same was true for Lu Hancheng. Hearing this, he was stunned on the spot.
what's the situation?
Just made a giant box and was rewarded with a minister of the Ministry of Industry, a third-grade official?
Even with all his hard work, even with his head tied to his waistband, he could not achieve the rank of a fourth-grade official, and he was still a military officer.
Is this span a bit too big?
Li Yi didn't give them any time to react, and directly finalized the matter, turned around and walked towards the imperial study room. It was almost midnight, and he had enough time to deal with the Zhao family of the Jiubian family.
Keeping Zhao Qingye's head until now is, firstly, for the overall situation. The imperial court is not strong enough and cannot touch these noble families for the time being. It is easy to influence the whole body. Secondly, it is to blackmail the Zhao family. The Zhao family has lived in the border for a long time and has military and political power. So He must have accumulated a lot of money over the years. If he didn't give him a try, he would be sorry for himself.
Li Yi really has no idea about wooing him. The Zhao family of Jiubian family is not worthy of it!
Li Yi has long wanted to dominate the imperial power. He has long wanted to get rid of the cancer of the era of aristocratic families. Sooner or later, he will have to fight, so why bother to win over them hypocritically.
As for the marriage, Li Yi even scorned it, especially the Zhao family. What good could come from a family like Zhao Qingye, a beast?
The entrance to the inner courtyard.
A young man stood in front of the steps, his body swaying and almost unsteady.
Suddenly, "Your Majesty has arrived!"
He was so frightened that he suddenly woke up. Although his face was slightly tired, he woke up after only half a second, and his eyes were as bright as a torch.
"Finally here!" The tone sounded a bit like relief.
Hearing the footsteps, he bowed slightly and turned around quietly. It was Li Yi who was today's emperor.
The two people's eyes immediately collided.
With just one glance, Zhao Yeyang's pupils shrank, and his body suddenly stiffened. He felt that his whole body was being bound by a hot chain, and he was secretly frightened. Could this be the good-for-nothing emperor that the world said?
Is everyone stupid?
How does this look like trash?
Li Yi also stopped and looked him up and down.
This man should be in his early thirties, wearing an indigo blue brocade suit with the word "Fu". He is extremely wise between his eyebrows and eyes, his face is fair and clean, his beard is flat under the nose, his face is square, and he has a shrewd air all over his body.
This Zhao Yeyang has some skills!
He is not even a little bit better than the martial artist Zhao Wuyang. It seems that this matter will not be solved easily.
"Zhao Yeyang of the Zhao family of the Jiubian family pays homage to your majesty. Long live your majesty!" He suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yi. His breath was calm, neither humble nor arrogant. He was much better than Zhao Qingye and Zhao Wuyang.
Li Yi ignored him, as if he hadn't seen him at all, and walked straight towards the inner courtyard.
Only Zhao Yeyang was left kneeling on the ground with a messy look on his face.
What do you mean, Your Majesty?
Do you want to break up with me and the Zhao family?
Cao Qingyan walked up to him, winked secretly, and whispered: "Master Zhao, don't kneel down, get up quickly."
"Eunuch Cao, long time no see, how are you?" The two seemed to know each other very well and greeted each other as soon as they met.
"Okay, thanks to you, everything is fine." Cao Qingyan laughed.
There was no point in talking any more, so Zhao Yeyang asked directly: "What's wrong with Your Majesty? You feel like you are very dissatisfied with my Zhao family?"
Cao Qingyan rolled his eyes, "Mr. Zhao, what do you think?"
"That nephew of yours is amazing. He assassinated His Majesty, sold his official positions, raped women, and threatened his Majesty. Is there anything in the world that he wouldn't dare to do?"
Zhao Yeyang was frightened when he heard this. He had already scolded Zhao Qingye bloody in his heart. He was really a loser. He failed to achieve anything but failed.
"Eunuch Cao, please help me. What should I, the Zhao family, do to calm His Majesty's anger?"
Cao Qingyan gave a sly smile and said, "That's not easy, how about money?"
"Silver?" Zhao Yeyang rolled his eyes and immediately understood that what is most lacking today is money. This is much simpler. If something can be done with money, is it still a problem?
In the imperial study room.
Li Yi sat on the couch with his legs crossed and carefully looked at the news from various places. There were uprisings and disaster relief everywhere, and nothing good happened.
At the door, Zhao Yeyang carefully stepped into the imperial study and knelt down respectfully.
The atmosphere suddenly became strange, very quiet, and also very depressing.
In Nuo Da's imperial study room, the only sound was the sound of reading the book.
Zhao Yeyang lowered his head and occasionally took a peek. His eyes were full of fear.
Facing this emperor whom the world regarded as a good-for-nothing, he had a different feeling. An invisible pressure made him unable to breathe.
After a long time, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and spoke first, "Your Majesty, my young master is lawless, provokes troubles, and offends Your Majesty. Our Zhao family is willing to bear all the blame. I just hope that Your Majesty can eliminate it." Put out the fire.”
He had a good attitude in admitting his mistakes and was very knowledgeable in his speech, but Li Yi didn't accept this at all and didn't even raise his head, "I don't dare to get angry. I'm worried about what the Zhao family master will do?"
Zhao Yeyang's heart trembled, "I, the head of the Zhao family, have absolutely no qualms with His Majesty. God can tell you!"
"Really?" Li Yi raised his head, a pair of dark eyes showing a knife-like murderous intent, "But that's not what Mr. Zhao said. According to the implication of your Mr. Zhao's words, thanks to the absence of the Zhao family, if the Zhao family was here, he would He will not directly draw his sword and force me to abdicate and let him sit as the emperor."
"ah!"
Zhao Yeyang was enlightened like a thunderbolt, and immediately shuddered. He plotted to usurp the throne. This was a serious crime that could destroy the family. No one dared to admit it. Even Young Master Yan was so powerful that he would not dare to take this step easily.
"I don't dare, Your Majesty. I, the Zhao family, have been favored by the Emperor, and I would never dare to have any wrong thoughts. Your Majesty, please tell me clearly!"
Li Yi smiled coldly, "I don't dare, I dare not. Zhao Qingye threatened me personally in front of the civil and military officials of the court. Without Zhao Songyang's instruction, would he dare?"
Zhao Yeyang was really on the verge of crying now, so he could only say: "Your Majesty, I wonder what price our Zhao family will pay to let Your Majesty put out the fire?"
"Your Majesty is dissatisfied. This time, in order to admit his mistake and express his attitude to Your Majesty, the head of the family not only brought some gold and silver jewelry, but also two hundred thousand stones of military rations."
Hearing this, Cao Qingyan and Lu Hancheng both felt their hearts pounding. Two hundred thousand stones of military rations?
Even Li Yi's expression changed with surprise. How rich are these aristocratic families? This is just a small family among aristocratic families, and they took out 200,000 shi of military rations in one go.
You know, these military rations are enough to feed tens of thousands of troops.
Isn’t this too rich?
Immediately, he snorted coldly, his eyes full of displeasure. If the Zhao family is not squeezed out this time, this matter will never end!
"Do you think I look like a beggar?" Li Yi's tone suddenly became angry.
