.Cui Hao's disease

After discussing with Zhuge Liang, Liu Xie had an idea in his mind, but he was not in a hurry to implement it. Instead, he first asked Zhuge Jin, the right minister of Zhiluofu, to convene a meeting on the Zhiluo meeting to discuss the new eight policies proposed by Zhuge Liang.

Liu Xie and Xun personally attended the scene to support it, intermarriage strategies, use business to build roads, elite troops to expand service strategies, open towns to open markets, and Yanzhou’s big business strategies to pass immediately, while the three policies that have too much impact on trading companies, or have no significant impact on trading companies, and the three policies that have too much impact on trading companies and bureaucratic groups have been opposed by most officials in the governing office.

Liu Xie didn't say a word, just watched them argue quietly. In addition to Zhuge Jin and Hu Zhaoding's support, actual departments such as industry, commerce, agriculture and finance represented by Jiang Wan were inspiring and opposing.

After two consecutive days of arguments, Liu Xie couldn't help it and asked Jiang Wan in public: "What is the bad thing about reducing wealth and increasing poverty, accounting and turning slaves into people's policies? You must give me a reason today, otherwise the implementation of these three policies will be left to the National Court for decision."

Jiang Wan replied: "First, the policy of reducing wealth and increasing poverty. The same tax policy of the empire has been implemented for a long time. Among the people of the empire, no matter the poor, the wealthy and noble, they pay the tax on the empire at the same tax rate. This is a equitable strategy. If the rich pay more taxes, they will definitely seek more. If the governing government relies on the tax support of the rich, they will only be able to shift to the rich. Any rich dare not punish them, and the rich dare not speak out. This is a bad tumor of reducing wealth and increasing poverty." "Secondly, the accounting is the independent review of the policy. Although there are tax evasion in the empire now, it is a minority, and it is only possible to find a severe punishment. Finally, it is a policy of turning slaves into people's policies. The proposed servitude can be converted to common people for ten years. This is by no means a good strategy. The trading company should report to the candidates for common people based on their performance. The empire does not need to be controlled, and those who serve the people are private money for the trading company, and the governing government is not qualified to deal with it!"

Jiang Wan's answer to Liu Xie was not too refuted, but he did not give up. The plan to reduce wealth and increase poverty, the accounting and the plan to make the people are three laws that can only take effect after a long period of implementation. Too much argument will lead to the loss of opportunities for implementation. For example, if the current serf movement does not find a way to fundamentally solve it, even if the Han Empire's military strength is strong, it will be dragged down sooner or later.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "I will revise the "Hospital Law" to set up a basic salary system for workers, and have relevant minimum standards for living, housing and food, and be motivated and positive. Those who are over 32 years old can be converted into commoners and enjoy the minimum basic salary of apprentices for commoners. There is no need for Zhiluofu to discuss this issue. The National Court and I have established the law and you will implement it. The plan to reduce wealth and increase poverty, and the accounting will review the plan independently. I will also pass the relevant laws as soon as possible. You greet the trading company and the farm. Zhiluofu has no power to set the law. Let you discuss that you must be prepared. Once the law is settled, prepare the relevant implementation plan!"

Jiang Wan knew that as soon as Liu Xie came back, the Han Empire had returned from the previous strong state of the Zhiluo Mansion to the strong state of the Central Imperial Court. Liu Xie must have the final say in the governance strategy of the empire. The responsibility of the Zhiluo Mansion could only be implemented. Zhuge Jin and others even surrounded Liu Xie and no longer opposed it. They replied: "Since the emperor has decided, the ministers and others will implement it carefully. Never let it fall into form!"

Liu Xie nodded slightly and suddenly found that Cui Hao, who was formerly the Minister of Personnel of Zhiluofu, had become Yang Huai. He felt very strange and asked, "Where is the person Cui Hao?"

Zhuge Jin said: "After the emperor's expedition to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, he also took charge of the Military Supervisor. This transfer order was proposed by him. Considering his relationship with the emperor, we did not stop it too much. Lord Chen Qun and Lord Xun also agreed!"

Liu Xie looked at Xun, and Xun whispered: "This was what Pang Tong asked before the expedition with the emperor. Both Chen and Changwen (Chen Qun) thought that Pang Tong's request must have a very important reason, so he agreed to let Cui Hao be transferred to the Integrity General Sacrifice of the Integrity Office of the Integrity Office. However, he has not communicated with us. We are not sure what exactly he is doing. I asked once, and he laughed and said nothing, but according to my estimate, I am afraid that I would not dare to tell us."

Liu Xie was shocked, but did not speak immediately. He just let go of the matter temporarily and left someone a message to Cui Hao, asking him to come to the Central Imperial Court tonight.

After leaving Zhiluo Mansion, Liu Xie went directly to the Firearms Research Institute set up in the northern Yanshan vein by the Central Imperial Academy of the Han Empire. As soon as the carriage arrived outside the institute, he heard a loud "boom" inside, and the whole earth shook a few times.

Liu Xie quickly got off the carriage and asked Chen Kun, the director of the Taixuefu Firearms Research Institute, who came to greet him, and said, "What's going on!"

Chen Kun is a technician who climbed up step by step from an apprentice. He has a rough personality and is not as detained as a scholar. He answered like accustomed to it: "Experience, but it may also be an accidental explosion!"

Liu Xie shook his head and said, "Is there any safety protection?"

Chen Kun said: "No, there was a certain accident when the volume was large at the beginning. Later, a small test was used, and no accident happened. It was just that the sound was quite loud. Anyway, this was a deep mountain area and there were no people. At first, there were several families, and then several major explosions were repeated. They were frightened. Before we could persuade us to move, they ran away first!"

Liu Xie smiled and said, "Don't talk about ordinary people, I'm afraid of the sound just now!"

Chen Kun smiled bitterly and said, "At the beginning, the medicine we prepared was just burning smoke but not exploding. Now it's exploded, and I'm often worried about being afraid!"

Liu Xie smiled faintly and said, "Go in and have a look!"

The current research on firearms in the Han Empire has reached a practical stage, but the limitations of black gunpowder are still very large, and there are many types of firearms, but they are mainly burning and explosion as the auxiliary. Only the specially designed "oil paper divine thunder" has some effect. The improved version of the Shenyuan Car is more practical. 1^6^k^Xiao^Shuo^Shuo^Network

The new Shenyuan car uses the chassis of the old Shenyuan car, and the fixed angle is fixed to a degree and firing upwards, but all materials are made of steel. The iron car is mounted on the car. The iron car is not made of oil, but the strongest black gunpowder. Six separate bamboo tubes are fixed behind the iron car, and the bamboo tubes are also filled with black gunpowder. A slow-fire lead with a core is set inside the iron car. After igniting the outer fire lead, it triggers the iron car to fly into the sky and fall down in an arc. Before and after landing, the lead can burn into the iron car, causing the iron car to explode.

Although the design of the new Shenyuan car is very popular with Liu Xie, after seeing the effect, Liu Xie was somewhat disappointed because there was no explosion at all. He just burned part of the steel ground red and penetrated a hole in Tie Yuan.

Chen Kun sighed, "I sent one a few days ago, and it was successful!" He pointed to a large black hole in the grass in the distance and said, "Sir, the black hole was bombed with an iron pot bomb, but for the time being, there was no good material. This iron pot was thick, it flew very low and had no effect. The iron pot was thin and could not be fried!"

Liu Xie nodded slightly, without blaming him, and asked people to take a sample of the iron pot for him to see. After observing for a long time, he said to Chen Kun: "Changyu. Come and see, first of all, the shape of the iron pot is wrong. The front and bamboo are all in the back. The ratios of the front and back are different. Although you made the iron pot's wings backwards, it is still wrong. Change the method and put the powder barrel under the iron pot. The overall weight is balanced, and the wings are not as good as the iron pot's head.

You need to use steel and wood. After all, you rely on the explosion caused by the abdomen. Don’t use four powder kegs. Put two under the wings. Symmetrically. Maintain balance. The size of the powder keg and the size of the wings should be matched. Tie Yuan should try to make it bigger. The steel plate on the abdomen can be thicker, but it is covered with fine lines. In this way, Tie Yuan will easily explode. And after it explodes, it will be countless small pieces of iron, and its damage will also increase!"

Chen Kun nodded quickly and said, "The Lord is good!"

After receiving praise from the chief academician of the Institute, Liu Xie did not become very happy either. He looked around, frowned, and said, "Why do I think there is nothing here to use on a large scale!"

Chen Kun hurriedly said, "Yes, haven't the emperor seen the catapult car over there?"

Liu Xie looked in the direction he pointed and found two exquisitely-looking wheel-tree slings, and said in confusion: "I asked you to study firearms, why did you go to study catapults again?"

Chen Kun asked someone to take a hemp rope and tie the oil paper bag on the ground, and said, "This is the oil paper thunder. We usually call it earth thunder. It is powerful. It is filled with gunpowder and iron sand. It is ignited and exploded with the lead wire. It can be thrown out with this small catapult. It can be thrown for 300 steps. The lead wire is very long. It usually starts to explode after reaching the ground. There is thick oil paper outside, which is wrapped in more than 30 layers. When the experiment started, a scholar and six apprentices died for this thing. Last year, the Jingzhou Wuwei Trading Company started production in a processing workshop outside Tianjing. During the production, many servants died. Now they are afraid. They are very careful when processing, so few people die!"

Liu Xie raised his hand and signaled Chen Kun to test one for him. Chen Kun immediately asked someone to test it for Liu Xie. As a result, the oil paper bag was blown out three hundred steps away, and a three-meter black earth hole exploded on the ground...1 6k Novel Network, mobile station www.piaotian.com.

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Only then did Liu Xie smile slightly and said, "This is OK, it's a bit practical!"

Chen Kun said: "It's mainly cheap and the cost is very low!"

Liu Xie suddenly remembered something and asked Chen Kun: "What if the navy's ship is full of these things, what if it explodes?"

Chen Kun looked at Liu Xie awkwardly and replied, "What else can I do? The ship is gone!"

Liu Xie smiled and shook his head and said, "This is beneficial, it must be harmful!"

After seeing the actual and effective "oil paper divine thunder", Liu Xie felt much better than before. He summoned all the scholars of the institute and came up with two new topics - "cannons" and "muss guns".

After seeing the initial research results of the institute, Liu Xie felt that the institute was already capable of studying these two main war weapons. Unlike Europe, when the Han Empire was at the beginning, cannons could use the fully cast gun body method instead of welding, which was an important guarantee for the power of the cannons. However, the initial stage of cannons and muskets was still a fixed front-mounted type, and the smooth-bore rear-mounted type was not known when it would take for the smooth-bore rear-mounted type to have relevant knowledge. The rear-mounted type is an important milestone in the development of modern hot weapons, and it is also the time to announce the complete end of cold weapons. But in the same way, this also requires a lot of basic technology to support it. The relevant work cannot be completed in today's era, especially Liu Xie himself knows the appearance of these things, and the real internal working principle is not clear at all.

Liu Xie could do the ground, that is, he would tell these scholars and technicians about the idea of ​​flint rifles. As for shells, Liu Xie did not say anything. He still didn't know why the shells looked so simple. It could explode when they hit the ground and why they didn't explode in the barrel. He was so confused and could not guide anything. However, the ideas of cannons and muskets had a huge impact on scholars and technicians.

Liu Xie did not hope that they would immediately develop a large number of results, but hoped that the Han Empire would have formed firearms and weapons as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Liu Xie also realized the importance of chemistry. The most direct and more powerful explosives need chemistry as the basis, but how should the discipline of chemistry be developed? Liu Xie was confused.

When leaving the Firearms Research Institute, Liu Xie looked at the setting sun in Yanshan, and felt very conflicted. Sometimes he suddenly felt that it would be great if such explosives did not appear, but this was unrealistic. If others had it but you didn't, then you were destined to be beaten. The Han Empire has embarked on a path of no return. No era can be left behind, otherwise such a prosperous empire and a large amount of gold and silver reserves in the empire will attract the whole world.

Everything has its pros and cons. Liu Xie spread his hands and looked speechlessly at the distant sky.

It was already evening when Liu Xie returned to the Central Imperial Court. The royal wife, concubine and his descendants were waiting for him to have dinner. Cui Hao had already arrived outside, so Liu Xie invited Cui Hao to participate in the imperial banquet. Anyway, as his junior brother, it was normal for Cui Hao to occasionally accept invitations to the imperial banquet.

Although Cui Hao accepted Liu Xie's advice, although he was not very reserved when eating, he didn't eat much. Liu Xie saw that he was much thinner than before. He asked casually: "Zhouping. I haven't been sick recently, why don't I arrange for the imperial doctor to take the pulse for you!"

After all, it was a royal banquet. Cai Yan said relaxedly: "The emperor is the same, so why do you need to make arrangements? Isn't it just an opportunity now? After you finish the meal, just let the imperial doctor get the number, and it won't waste much time!"

Cui Hao hurriedly refused: "It's nothing serious. Your Majesty, the Queen doesn't have to worry about her!"

Cai Yan said: "Zhouping, you are much thinner than before, so let the emperor find an imperial doctor to show you. Today, the imperial doctor on duty in the palace happened to be Wang Shuan. He is a joint disciple of Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji. In our Han Kingdom, he is also the number one famous doctor!"

Liu Xie smiled and said, "I have also felt tight chest tightness recently. I often cough at night. Queen, call Wang Shu'an to Xuanji Pavilion. I have discussed political affairs with Zhouping and let him investigate together!" Cai Yan smiled faintly and said, "Your Majesty, don't you find it strange. In the image of my wife, the emperor has not had any illness for so many years, and he has not had a minor illness!"

Liu Xie was stunned. He searched his memories and found that he had never been sick. He hurriedly asked Cui Hao: "Zhouping, did I ever get sick when I was young?"

Cui Hao frowned and thought for a while, and smiled and said, "I'm right to tell the queen. In my image, the emperor has indeed never had any illness!"

Liu Xie was even more surprised and asked again: "Zhouping, are you remembering correctly?"

Cui Hao smiled and said, "Absolutely, I remember one year when Yuan Zhi was hunting outside, and he caught a cold night. After he came back, he passed us all over. Even the teacher and General Chen were infected. The guard of the emperor was still Mr. Wang Yue. At that time, Mr. Wang was still young and in good health. He was still infected, but the emperor did not look like a slight illness!"

The more Liu Xie thought about it, the more strange he became, and said, "This matter is a bit strange. I must ask Wang Shuan tonight. Zhang Ji used to take my pulse for me, but he really didn't say anything at once!"

After the meal, Liu Xie couldn't let go of this matter. He did not talk to Cui Hao first, so he directly asked Wang Shuan to enter Xuanji Pavilion to take his pulse. Wang Shuan called him for a long time and said, "The emperor was in very good health, but a while ago, the emperor rushed back from Babylon. There was a lot of heat on the way. Recently, there was a little internal yin imbalance, and the liver and lungs were in a hurry. I prescribe some cold medicine and drink it slowly. But you can't get angry during this period, otherwise it will be easy to get angry!"

Liu Xie pointed at Wang Shuan and smiled and said, "Shuan is very relieved. I have not found anything that can make me anxious until today!"

Wang Shuan smiled and said, "Yes, my master took the priest every year and found that the priest's body was better than ordinary people, but... it should be the priest's young man who practiced martial arts. The priest should thank Mr. Tong!"

Liu Xie laughed and said, "I deserve to thank you. In a few days, I will go and thank him!" He pointed at Cui Hao and said, "Shu'an, let me see for General Cui. He is very thin recently!"

Wang Shuan waved his hand and said, "No, Lord Cui is in good health now. He is just in a good mood and cannot sleep or eat. The emperor did not notice that Lord Cui's jealousy is red, his tongue is white and his cheeks are dark. That is the result of sleeping day and night!"

When Liu Xie heard Wang Shuan's words, he smiled faintly and said, "Shuan, you go back to the imperial physician first. Go back and prescribe some medicine for Mr. Cui to let him cleanse it!"

Wang Shuan broke his body and said, "That minister has sued him!"
Chapter completed!