Mao Geng was unprepared for Zhao Xing to arrange for Xiaobai Zhao Han to lead his army to capture Yizhou.

However, for the Taiwanese natives who are still in the era of slash-and-burn farming, even if the military novice leads his army, he should be able to destroy and ravage those natives holding primitive weapons. The premise is that this military novice is not stupid.

But it is easy to conquer Taiwan. How to deal with indigenous people and how to govern Taiwan for a long time is not something that Zhao Han, a novice with limited experience, can deal with. Although he has rich experience, he still lacks the experience of dealing with indigenous people. Moreover, he develops the economy and does not play hide-and-seek games with indigenous people. He doesn’t know whether it is a blessing or a disaster when he is a novice leader like Zhao Han.

What I am most reluctant to intervene is the prince’s fight for the throne. As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clean official to make a decision on family affairs. If the emperor’s family affairs are well managed, he will be given away his life if he is not well managed. This kind of high-risk political game is not something that he, as a political rookie, can play.

Of course, if you take a step back, there is no benefit. At least Zhao Han should accept new things faster than those old masters. For example, he could accept popular singing last night, which is somewhat a good thing. But it is difficult to guarantee that Zhao Han deliberately implemented a conservative strategy in order to fight for the throne, and this possibility is not impossible.

After hearing Zhao Xing's idea, Mao Geng turned his mind countless times and measured all the pros and cons. In the end, he had to face the reality. He was the emperor and he had the final say. We only had to obey our orders, so let it go. Mao Geng held on to one thing, and I would do my part well. Whoever is the leader should just not set obstacles for me to do things. Generally speaking, leaders like to do practical subordinates. If he can't even coax a novice leader, then he still has the face to call himself a time traveler!

Of course, some things are still too early to consider. Now the most important thing is to successfully take down Taiwan. There will always be time travelers in Taiwan, and they will never deviate from the original historical trajectory. In any case, pre-reconnaissance is very necessary.

Based on his memory, Mao Geng roughly drew the location and terrain of Taiwan with a pencil, and then reminded the officials to send a reconnaissance fleet to conduct reconnaissance on Taiwan first, and then send troops to protect the flag and drive to the victory.

Zhao Group was in power for many years, and the Northern Expedition of Longxing was defeated and suffered losses, so she had already arranged to conduct reconnaissance on Yizhou in the morning. It was not a reminder for Mao Geng, but the map drawn by Mao Geng was still very valuable. Zhao Group was very happy to accept this map, as if Yizhou had been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Guo was happy, he appointed Mao Geng as a scattered official from the eighth rank of Fenglang, which made Mao Geng among the civil servants of the Song Dynasty. With this official position, there was naturally a vocational envoy. Mao Geng's vocational envoy was personally designated by Zhao Guo. One of the vocational envoys was to guide the hot air balloons in the imperial front work, and the second was to plan the conquest of Yizhou with Zhao Guo. In general, Zhao Guo still attached great importance to Mao Geng. Zhao Guo's meaning was a bit like the transfer of Mao Geng into Zhao Guo's subordinates. Although Mao Geng felt that it might cause trouble to himself, it was instructed by the emperor and had to take one step at a time.

These two positions did not have much pressure on Mao Geng, but instead gave himself a lot of freedom.

The Imperial Work Office is also called the Imperial Work Office. It is a workshop for the inner court to build weapons. It gathers almost the top craftsmen in the Song Dynasty. These craftsmen were selected from the Dongshe Workshop, Wanquan Workshop, the Manufacturing Military Weapons and the Duzuo Courtyard. Therefore, the weapons made by the Imperial Work are definitely the most exquisite weapons in the Song Dynasty. The weapons given to the generals by the emperor came from the Imperial Work Office. The Imperial Work Office also assumed the responsibility for the development of weapons, and the trial production of the hot air balloon was naturally handed over to the Imperial Work Office.

Mao Geng specially brought Tan Xiaochun and Huang Wangcai to Lin'an this time. With them both, Mao Geng's guidance on trial production of hot air balloons became particularly simple. The drawings were prepared in advance. Mao Geng only checked the major aspects, and the others were left to Tan Xiaochun with the craftsmen of the Imperial Front Work Institute. The sufficient materials were the advantage of the Imperial Front Work Institute, so it was only a matter of time to try out the hot air balloons.

However, after observing the bed crossbow made by Yuqian, Mao Geng felt that the stringing and firing of the bed crossbow was too cumbersome, so he decided to improve the bed crossbow and introduce ratchet technology. In this way, he could easily pull the crossbow with lever. In the past, many people needed to pull the bow and open the arrow. After modifying the ratchet, two people or even one person could pull the bow and open the arrow. Just a little training, the craftsmen at Yuqian Working Institute could learn to make ratchets and modify the bed crossbow. The powerful bed crossbow is a long-range weapon of this era, used to deal with the indigenous people of Taiwan, and it is definitely a killer weapon.

For the modification design of the bed crossbow, Mao Geng spent the last two days at the imperial office.

At the same time, the highest decision-making level of the Song Dynasty was in stalemate in the court about how to take Yizhou, and the monarch and ministers disagreed.

Mao Geng dared not argue with Zhao Xing's intention to let Zhao Han be the commander of the Yizhou, but it did not mean that the ministers were the same. Xiao Shu was the first to express his objection. The old man was also a deputy to the political affairs of the government, but the person in charge of the Privy Council. Xiao Shu was appointed as the Privy Council. Quan Zhi Zhumi was equivalent to the acting chief of staff of the General Staff. Xiao Shui was in charge of the battle. The matter was very large, so Xiao Shui naturally believed that it was necessary to lead the troops by a stable person to go there. Zhao Han had no experience in leading the troops, so he was too risky to lead the troops.

At the level of prime ministers, Zhou Bida and Liu Zheng followed Zhao Sheng closely. Although Wang Lin also opposed the use of Zhao Sheng, he did not mean to oppose the official family. As the co-prime minister, that is, the deputy chief of the Privy Council, who can be understood as the deputy chief of staff, Ge Bi was in a state of soybean in the face of this situation. As a result, Xiao Sui asked to resign from office on the grounds of his old age and illness. His minister Xiao Sui threatened to resign from office, and the king Zhao Feng did not mean to change his mind. The decision-making level was stalemate for a while, and Zhao Feng was not good at using force.

When Mao Geng heard about this from Zhao Han, he sighed in his heart that as an emperor, it is difficult to act arbitrarily! Zhao Xing is not the kind of particularly powerful emperor, and he cannot ignore the attitude of important officials in military and political affairs.

However, Mao Geng didn't care who would be in charge, and he was far less concerned about this than Zhao Han.

On this day, Wen Yuan found a few pieces of land in Lin'an and asked Mao Geng to decide which piece to buy to build a model house in the end.

Mao Geng took a look with Wenyuan and finally got a spot on a piece of land in the most prosperous area. Unfortunately, the area is not large, and the entire area is only a little more than two acres. The area is a little smaller, but what is rare is that this is the downtown area of ​​Lin'an. Mao Geng thought about it for a long time and finally had an idea: buy it and build a building similar to the bell tower in later generations.

According to Mao Geng's concept, the entire building focuses on the pointed square tower. The first floor of the square tower is four meters wide, and the second floor to the fourth floor is two meters wide. A bright-frame glass curtain wall is made on the front of the second and third floors. A large dial is installed on the fourth floor, and a clock-minute and second pointer is installed. The manual clock is turned to display the time outside. The bell is ringing at an integer hour. Of course, this square tower must be made of concrete floors.

As for other buildings, they became the foil of this tower, but after being covered with glazed tiles, the effect should be very shocking.

Mao Geng imagined what the Royal family would react after the landmark model building is built, what the rich people in Lin'an will react, and will the happy venues like Jincuilou consider changing into golden glazed tiles?

Mao Geng looked at Lin'an from a market perspective and felt that many people were potential customers of "Xiang Hua Construction Company".

There was still a stalemate in the court, and Xiao Sui refused to let Zhao Shen move the ridiculous act, but Zhao Shen was waiting for the news that the investigation fleet would send back to Yizhou.

Mao Geng used all his heart and used all three things. At the beginning, he focused his main energy on the construction of the model project three days later. As for Zhao Han, he just occasionally went to the Mao. Anyway, he wanted to fight in Taiwan. The most valuable preparation was to improve the long-range weapons in the imperial office. This is the main thing.

As the days pass by, the model project is under construction.

What is worth reading during this period is that I met Lu You once. Lu You came to the imperial office to inspect the trial production of hot air balloons that day. When the old man saw the ratchet lever bow-pulling device designed by Mao Geng, he praised it for a while. This time it was just a work contact. Lu You, who did not write poetry, looked no different from ordinary literati.

On this day, the investigation fleet finally brought back the news from Yizhou. After some investigation, it can be confirmed that the barbarians in Yizhou were indeed in the primitive stage of slash-and-burn farming, and there were only simple fishing boats. In this situation, they naturally did not have the strength to compete with the Song Dynasty.

With such an investigation result, Zhao Shen did not hesitate and approved Xiao Sui's request for retirement on the same day. Xiao Sui, an old minister who was 73 years old, then served as his wish, that is, he officially retired with the court's salary. After sending Xiao Sui home, no one was ignorant anymore. Zhao Sheng's plan was finally passed smoothly. Zhao Shang was named Duke of Jiaguo and promoted to commander-in-chief. At the same time, he dispatched troops and generals to prepare to reorganize his army to capture Yizhou.

Zhao Shen also ordered his honorary ministers and relatives to follow Zhao Han to conquer Yizhou, and the court would be awarded a favor or promoted. When a discerning person saw that Zhao Shen's plan was to make Zhao Han cultivate his wings. It seemed that Zhao Han was really well-loved. Those who were interested felt that the opportunity was rare and began to try.
Chapter completed!