According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is definitely a big deal related to ordnance. As long as there is a real problem, even if Xu Zhaojie cannot be knocked to the ground all at once, it is definitely possible to make Xu Zhaojie suffer from severe injuries. Serious injury.
Realizing this, Ye Mingsheng began to use this as a breakthrough point to start his investigation. On the one hand, he hoped to obtain through Li Guangbin the situation of the Ministry of War regarding the ordnance handed over by the Xuanwu Army.
On the other hand, Ye Mingsheng still remembered that Xu Zhaojie had a particularly favored concubine named Yang. When he went out to suppress bandits and suppress peasant uprisings, he would always take her with him to indulge in sexual pleasure...
When the original owner was reporting military affairs to Xu Zhaojie, he had seen this Yang family several times and stayed in Xu Zhaojie's military tent many times.
But it is said that this Yang family was later jealous of the feud in Xu's backyard and was scratched with a cat on his forehead. In addition, there was no shortage of women around Xu Zhaojie.
So after getting tired of playing with the Yang family, Xu Zhaojie gave her to one of his cronies, Commander Sun Jiale.
Sun Jiale was also a short-lived ghost. He died in a battle not long after. His wife kicked out the Yang family, and then the Yang family disappeared.
In order to confirm his belief that there was something fishy about those ordnances back then, Ye Mingsheng urgently wanted to get some information from people close to Xu Zhaojie back then, and this Yang was the one Ye Mingsheng thought was the best and most appropriate person to start with. Target!
The old soldier guarding the warehouse that Ye Mingsheng sent Ye Tie to find today was one of Sun Jiale's soldiers back then. Because he and the Yang family were fellow villagers, they had a close relationship, so he thought he might know something about the Yang family. whereabouts, so Ye Mingsheng sent Ye Tie to trick him. Unexpectedly, he was not disappointed...
"Master, when do we take action?" Seeing Ye Mingsheng gradually come back from his thoughts, Ye Tie immediately asked:
Ye Mingsheng waved his hand and said calmly: "Don't worry now, wait until you go to Li Guangbin tomorrow and get the Ministry of War files."
In order to deal with Xu Zhaojie, Li Guangbin worked very hard. Originally, Ye Mingsheng planned to give him five days, but Li Guangbin promised to start taking action today, and three days later, he would let Ye Mingsheng get the dossier of the Ministry of War that recorded the Xuanwu Army's ordnance.
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Early in the morning three days later, Ye Mingsheng sent Ye Tie to Li's Mansion to get the file. However, to his surprise, Chen Yannian's invitation came to his house one step ahead of the file.
Chen Yannian's eldest son Chen Yuze, who was sent to deliver the invitation, said that in order to repay Ye Mingsheng's recommendation, Chen Yannian wanted to treat Ye Mingsheng to dinner in five days.
Ye Mingsheng, who is currently busy dealing with Xu Zhaojie, originally had no interest in having dinner with Chen Yannian. Just when he was about to decline, he heard Chen Yuze hint that the meal was an excuse. In fact, Chen Yannian was preparing to give him a meal in order to repay him. Introduce a few capable people to assist him in Liaoyang.
Ye Mingsheng, who was planning to expand his team, immediately became interested when he heard this, so he naturally changed his tone and agreed to the matter.
The recommendation to Chen Yannian was just to repay Chen Yannian, an old guy, for his help in the palace. I never thought that he would bring me this unexpected joy.
Although Chen Yannian is not a high-ranking official, he has been working hard in the Forbidden Army for decades and has met a lot of people. If he can be considered a capable person, then he is really capable. Ye Mingsheng said this Also looking forward to it very much.
About an hour after Chen Yuze left, Ye Tie also returned to the courtyard with the files that Ye Mingsheng wanted.
With these Ministry of War files, Ye Mingsheng locked himself in the study and ordered everyone in the courtyard that no one could come to the study to disturb him without his greeting.
Sitting on the Grand Master's chair, Ye Mingsheng flipped through these yellowed files and became increasingly excited.
Although these files are not important secrets such as the Ministry of War's operational deployment of the Kipchak Khanate, the enemy's combat deployment, and the garrison map of northern Xinjiang troops, according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, these files are also secrets of the Ministry of War and must not be leaked.
That is to say, Li Guangbin and Mr. Li have extraordinary abilities and can get these things, otherwise Ye Mingsheng will really be blinded this time...
He silently recited the records of the dossier word by word in his mind. It seemed that he couldn't find what he wanted to see. Ye Mingsheng gradually frowned.
After a while, Ye Mingsheng leaned on the Taishi chair, lowered his head and pondered. The content recorded in the file was completely different from what he expected.
In Ye Mingsheng's view, judging from Xu Zhaojie's various actions, he who holds military power is definitely harboring evil intentions!
Based on this view, in Ye Mingsheng's previous assumptions, the reason why the Xuanwu Army's strict management of worn weapons arose was probably because Xu Zhaojie, as the commander, wanted to hide weapons privately and keep those weapons that were not seriously worn, or even only Slightly worn weapons and ordnance are quietly hidden, waiting for the right time to take them out for use!
With the current situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no doubt that ordnance and weapons are a very sensitive issue!
Except for those separatist vassal towns that occupy one side and are not under control, Shangguan Hongyuan, as the chief minister, severely cracks down on all the noble families under his rule. Anyone who secretly manufactures weapons is a red line. Whoever touches it will die. kind.
In addition to strictly observing the red line, in order to fundamentally prevent the various noble clans with ulterior motives from secretly manufacturing weapons, Shangguan Hongyuan also started from the source and firmly controlled all the iron mines under his control, prohibiting any A piece of iron ore flows into the hands of the noble clan...
As for Xu Zhaojie, who harbors evil intentions, in order to cope with possible sudden changes in the court in the future, the first step is to secretly accumulate strength.
After all, he only has 30,000 Xuanwu troops under his command, and under Shangguan Hongyuan's prestige, these 30,000 people may not necessarily follow him. Therefore, if he wants to make a difference, he must prepare manpower, weapons, and food!
Under the strict control of Shangguan Hongyuan, it is already very difficult to secretly create ordnance weapons. Secondly, in addition to the high risks of secretly manufacturing ordnance weapons, it is also difficult to control the quality of secretly manufactured ordnance weapons.
Ordnance weapons include knives, guns, armor, crossbows, firearms and the like, but this does not mean ordinary knives, guns, armors, crossbows, and firearms are ordnance. Ordnance has standards and quality requirements!
