Sword comes

An idle sword boat?

Everyone in the imperial study was a little surprised. They didn't know why the Imperial Master asked about this matter as soon as he sat down. They thought the first thing to discuss today should be when our Dali would make the identity of the Imperial Master public and choose an auspicious day so that the court could hold a celebration to announce it to the world.

The Dali sword boat and the mountain ferry were important battlefield weapons produced by the Dali Dynasty and the Mohist School, consuming a great deal of manpower, material resources and financial resources from the court. In recent decades, the Ministry of Works has been able to join the Ministry of War in scolding the Ministry of Revenue thanks to these sword boats and ferry.

Those "dockyards" were the first-class forbidden areas in Dali. Even if it was the highest-ranking military inspector who wanted to see the "launching" process of these two "treasures" with his own eyes, he needed to go through layers of approval and inspection, and he also needed the nod and approval of His Majesty the Emperor and Imperial Preceptor Cui Luo. After Cui Luo secretly resigned as Imperial Preceptor, no inspector could go to the dockyards in recent years. Since the inspector could not go, the other nine ministers in the capital and the secondary capital could not even dream of going there.

For the monks of the Dali branch, one of their most important duties after the war was to take turns guarding those shipyards to prevent internal thieves and leaks.

The Minister of War, Shen Chen, a veteran of three dynasties, is now an octogenarian with weak spirits.

When the old minister was still young, he scolded Cui Guoshi as a foreigner. The old man had never been to the battlefield in his life, but he was in charge of the Ministry of War.

Shen Chen, leaning on his crutches with both hands, turned his head and looked at the new right assistant minister beside him, Wu Wangcheng, with a smile. He was a new face who had just qualified to attend the small court meeting. He was in his forties, a general of a state who had been promoted to assistant minister. He had crawled out of the dead several times and rose all the way up from the Dali border army. He had no relationship with the surnames of several senior pillars of the state, and was a close confidant of Luo Wang Song Mu.

When he was ordered to come to the capital, Wu Wangcheng spent his own money to rent a haunted house that was said to be extremely evil.

He was not very happy to be a Beijing official. Even when summoned by the Emperor to make reports, Wu Wangcheng still maintained this clear attitude, indicating that he would rather lead troops to fight in the wild battlefield.

Generally speaking, being able to become a general of a state with military merit, becoming a frontier official, and then jumping to the capital to be promoted to a minister, especially a minister of the Ministry of War, for the Dali officialdom, this promotion picture is unbeatable! Envy is beyond envy. After five or six years of experience in the central officialdom of the capital and the Ministry of War, and then being sent to the local areas, a "beautiful posthumous title" chosen by the emperor instead of the Ministry of Rites is almost in the bag.

Seeing that the old minister was just looking at him with a smile, Wu Wangcheng stood up and said, "Reporting to the national teacher, there are three docks in Huangtian Dang, Yuzhou, which have been completed recently and are under construction, totaling six ships. They are ready to be transferred to the wilderness battlefield together with the three mountain ferries around the beginning of summer next year. When the sword boats set off to the wilderness, they can escort the ferries. The six sword boats and three ferries have been registered and filed with the Zhongtu Confucian Temple."

The sword boat and the ferry boat have not been named yet. According to convention, they are all named after the state. Now the locals in Dali are arguing about this, but Wuwang City is not stupid enough to bring this matter to the table today.

Chen Pingan nodded. He was quite familiar with the construction period of the Dali Sword Boat. "Then even if there are six idle sword boats, it's fine as long as they can be launched."

Wu Wangcheng asked in confusion, "Excuse me, Imperial Master, why are you in such a hurry to get the sword boat into the air? But is there something wrong on the battlefield in the wilderness? The Confucian Temple suddenly decided to urgently need the sword boat to rush to a certain place?"

Since Song Changjing and Song Mu did not inform Dali to mobilize the sword boats in advance, Wu Wangcheng of the Ministry of War believed that it could only be the intention of the Central Plains Confucian Temple.

Chen Ping'an stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly, saying with a smile: "Minister Wu sits down to discuss matters, and then he doesn't need to stand up to reply. I remember that this is the old rule of the small court meeting, or are the elders teaming up and deliberately not talking to you, wanting to see you make a fool of yourself for as many days as they can? Well, it seems that this is also an old rule, but it is unwritten."

There was laughter in the room.

These two old rules were first introduced by Master Cui.

Wu Wangcheng said honestly, "I just attended a small court meeting and was indeed laughed at for nearly ten days. It was Minister Zhao who told me these two old rules in private, reminding me that I don't have to stand up to answer questions next time. I went back to my own Ministry of War and asked Minister Shen. He said that there is no such bad officialdom in Dali. He also told me earnestly that after all, I am a new face, and the more courtesy, the less blame. I should make myself familiar with the face first, and then go to the Ministry of Revenue to be a beggar. Maybe the arrogant Minister Mu will be willing to meet and scold me."

As he spoke, the face of this high-ranking official in his prime flushed. Nervous!

The Minister of Rites, Zhao Duanjin, looked calm and composed. He picked up the celadon tea bowl on the table beside him and took a sip of tea.

The infighting between the bosses of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue is a common occurrence and nothing new has happened.

Minister of Revenue Mu Yan immediately glanced at the young imperial teacher who looked calm and composed. "Are you beggars?! You come to my Revenue Ministry to beg for food?! If you have any conscience in the Ministry of War, you won't say such crazy nonsense! I am happy to turn you down. If I have any extra money in my pocket, don't I always give it to your Ministry of War first?"

"You've really driven me crazy. Next time you come to the Ministry of Revenue from Wuwang City, you'll turn the tables and say you're a beggar, right? When the time comes, I'll open the door, hold up a bowl, and kowtow to you first!"

As long as he wasn't talking to the Imperial Master, Wu Wangcheng wasn't afraid of Shangshu Mu at all. "Then we two beggars can just wish each other a happy new year. I'm just an assistant minister. It's not embarrassing, and I can make some money."

Chen Pingan turned his head slightly, looked at the emperor who was watching the fun, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the last time I participated in the meeting, it was not like this."

Emperor Song He said with a smile: "I am sorry to make you laugh, Imperial Master."

Sitting down again, Wu Wangcheng felt complicated. It was not that he was worried about the new national teacher being too generous to others, but if the Dali Dynasty maintained too close ties with the Central Plains Confucian Temple, Wu Wangcheng felt that there might be problems. Perhaps the national teacher had his own overall considerations, but for a military commander like Wu Wangcheng who came from the battlefield, the meddling of the Central Plains Confucian Temple was like putting a yoke on the Dali Iron Cavalry. He estimated that the Confucian Temple would certainly give some rewards to the Dali Dynasty, but Wu Wangcheng felt that in this case, would the Dali Iron Cavalry still be the Dali Iron Cavalry that was the best in the nine continents in terms of combat power and military exploits?

When poets talked about the golden-brimmed green horse and the white jade saddle, Wu Wangcheng sneered at it.

King Wu was very afraid that the Dali cavalry would become the vanguard of the Confucian Temple and the embellishment of Confucian sages.

Probably, His Majesty the Emperor and a room full of Dali ministers, even including the young imperial teacher, would not have thought that a problem would make the Vice Minister of War think so deeply and complicatedly.

Wu Wangcheng's career was completely different from those who attended the small court meeting in the room. He followed the Dali Iron Cavalry all the way to the central part of Baopingzhou and Laolong City, and rode his horse to the seaside. He fought and retreated all the way back to the battlefield of the auxiliary capital, and led troops under Su Gaoshan, Cao Ping, and the vassal king Song Mu. It's not that Wu Wangcheng is arrogant, but to be honest, everyone present has made great contributions to Dali, but after all, they only know the bravery and tyranny of the wild monster army on paper, so he dares to say that although he is the lowest official and the least experienced person here today, he knows best how difficult, tragic, and tragic the battle of Jianqi Great Wall was.

Wu Wangcheng hesitated to speak several times.

He wanted to say something inappropriate, but was afraid that he was short-sighted and would offend the last hidden official of the Jianqi Great Wall who was in charge of the war.

The minister had no choice but to reach out and hold the handle of the chair tightly, silently telling himself not to be anxious and to wait and see.

Find an opportunity and speak a few words from my heart to the Imperial Master.

Chen Pingan seemed to change the subject and asked casually, "After you sent the letter, how was it? Did you have any excuses for not coming?"

South of Dadu, half of the Aquarius Continent has established and restored their own countries, breaking away from their former suzerain, the Dali Dynasty. Some of the imperial courts and immortal sects want to remove the stone tablet that Dali used to place on all the immortal mountains. At the last meeting, all the high-ranking mountain and water spirits of the Aquarius Continent were present, and during the meeting, Nanyue Fan Junmao gave a list of names that someone said were very light and had few names.

The leaders were the Longhong Dynasty, which had a similar foundation to the Huangting Kingdom, and Fengjiao Mountain, which had only one Nascent Soul Master in charge.

Soon, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War of Dali jointly issued an official document, asking the ministers of rites of various courts and respected immortal masters to come to the capital of Dali to discuss the matter.

This official document was absolutely not in conformity with the old system of Dali. It also listed all the names of the country and immortal palaces in great detail, more than sixty in total.

The font was a very beautiful Daliguange style, and it was obviously written by Zhao Duanjin, the Minister of Rites. But the content of the text was extremely murderous.

Dong Hu, the Minister of Rites, secretly moistened his throat and immediately reported: "Not only have they all come, but they have all reported to the Honglu Temple on the agreed date, without any omissions. In addition, there are more than 30 people who are not on the list. They all want to show goodwill to our Dali court, or they want to set up a high-standard Maritime Customs Office along the coast to facilitate maritime trade with Dali, or some people want to make excuses that there are remnants of demons causing trouble in the country, and the country is weak and can't do anything about them, so they want us Dali to send a garrison to maintain stability on the mountain. There are even a few small countries that want to become Dali's vassal states."

The old assistant minister noticed that the young imperial teacher seemed a little disappointed. He wondered whether the imperial teacher felt that the Ministry of Rites had handled the matter too tepidly, or whether he felt sorry that those guys did not give Dali a chance?

The Minister of Justice Ma Yuan asked with a smile: "National Master, does the Secret Records Department of the Ministry of Justice need to improve the realm of the monk Xizhu who is worshipped at Luopu Mountain?"

Chen Pingan nodded and said, "Just add 'Fourteen Realms' to the brackets in the booklet I gave you earlier."

Ma Yuan asked, "Where is the Imperial Master himself? Does our Ministry of Justice need to complete the information?"

Chen Pingan shook his head and said, "No, I am still an immortal at the moment. I will talk about it when I reach the Ascension Realm. Then I will add Qingping Sword Sect and record them together."

Ma Yuan smiled and nodded. Chen Ping'an had taken the initiative to give him a booklet before, which gave a general introduction to Luopu Mountain's family background.

The realms of the two demon sword cultivators, whose current Taoist name is Xizhu and Bai Jing, who currently goes by the alias Xie Gou, are not stated in the booklet.

The last time they sat here to discuss matters, Chen Pingan was still in the Nascent Soul stage.

In the previous meeting, many of the matters that had been agreed upon in the room had already been steadily carried out by the Dali court, and no one dared to take it lightly.

Not only was it the first three things that the young imperial master had to do upon taking office, the formulation of many policies also involved the lifeblood of the court and the situation of the entire Aquarius Continent, and it was also a brand new test paper! Everyone knew that the examiner and teacher who set the questions and marked the papers was the new imperial master.

For example, there are new rules for the promotion of mountain and water spirits. In addition, the Dali court has been working hard to help Yunxia Mountain, Changchun Palace and Laolongcheng sect candidates to find opportunities to be promoted to sects within the rules of the Confucian Temple and remove the word "candidate". For example, on the wild battlefield, there are several more groups of monks going to the front line.

The new Qiantang chief is Cen Wenqian, who has jumped through the official ranks in the Shanshui officialdom to the point where others are dazzled and dumbfounded.

Although Wu Yun failed to "naturally" fill the position of Qiantang Chief, her status as a god was also improved. This water god, who was known for his violent personality, not only expanded his own jurisdiction, but also served as the second-in-command of Qiantang Water Palace, assisting Cen Wenqian in managing the Qiantang River. There are rumors that Wu Yun will be the chief of Qiantang soon, and Cen Wenqian will go directly for the title of Dadu "Bo". If the audience asked, why? The lobbyist raised his finger and pointed to the sky.

There was a small incident during this period, and a temporary change was made. The inspection of the gods of mountains and rivers in the Dali Dynasty was changed from the original too short period of ten years to a relatively relaxed and more reasonable thirty years.