Chapter 60 Section fifteen

When he got up early the next morning, the busy Shi Yue almost forgot all about "Bai Shui Tan Academic Journal".It is not an idle position to raise Yu Buzhou's case.Because Shi Yue is the emperor's favored minister and a famous minister today, the Sansi envoy, Yantie envoy and other officials simply handed over the matter of the helmet case to Shi Yue. They didn't want to offend Shi Yue because of these; Since Shi Yue came, they didn't dare to take care of the affairs of the Yu Department at all.The judges and long historians of the Zhou case and the Ministry of Yu also had to ask Shi Yue for instructions on everything, so Shi Yue had almost no leisure time.Among the two departments, the Ministry of Yu is in charge of almost the entire mining industry of the Song Dynasty and many handicraft industries; the case is a subsidiary of the Third Division, Salt and Iron Division, and manages military affairs across the country.Shi Yue didn't want to be seen as a joke, so he had to gather his energy and take care of his errands. Fortunately, Pan Zhaolin was very good at handling official duties and helped him share a lot of things.

At the same time, preparations for the establishment of the Weapons Research Institute are also underway.Because the research institute has not yet been built, Shi Yue asked Shen Kuo to form several batches of students who will enter the research institute, and take turns to observe and practice in the iron smelting workshop and the military workshop.There are already many classrooms in Gewuyuan, and some rooms are specially set aside for them to discuss and study, and then come to the iron smelting workshop and the military workshop for experiments.To Shi Yue's dismay, at the beginning, students knew much less than craftsmen.Shi Yue took a lot of thought and wrote a pamphlet about open hearth furnaces, blasts, Western-style waterwheels different from Chinese keel waterwheels, lathes, gunpowder formulas he could understand, and even nitroglycerin and gunwool, etc. He named it "New Works", and he handed the booklet to Shen Kuo, and it will be distributed to all people to study together as long as the Institute is operating stably.From then on, the only thing Shi Yue could do was to set a reward. As long as any of the above inventions could pass his approval, one invention would be rewarded with 3,000 guan and a rank of honor.

At this moment, Shi Yue never imagined that Xining's four-year winter was actually an eventful one. The stove in the Office of the Zhou Case was very warm. Shi Yue asked several colleagues to gather around the stove to keep warm, while talking about interesting anecdotes in the court. From the founding of the country to the current dynasty, it made Shi Yue and others laugh out loud. "Old Shen, what are you talking about, so happy?" A small official named Zhao Gui came in from outside and asked with a smile.Suddenly realizing that Shi Yue was also there, he saluted quickly. Shi Yue waved his hands and said with a smile: "Ignore those empty words today, Lao Zhao, come and sit down, it's too cold outside."

Shen Guitian asked with a smile, "Old Zhao, you visited the Six Departments of the Third Division, what news did you hear?" "There is really news that something happened to the Imperial College." Zhao Gui said indifferently. Shi Yue was startled when he heard that, what could happen to the Imperial College? Those little officials pulled Zhao Gui over and rushed to ask: "Old Zhao, tell me, what happened to the Imperial College? Didn't you mention that the emperor added their money a few days ago? It's three thousand taels a year." Zhao Gui stretched out his hand to the stove and roasted it, and said slowly: "I just heard that the Imperial College issued a question to ask about Wang Mang and the Reform of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Su Song's son Su Jia said a lot of things, and got a Excellent. A man named Su Ye informed Zeng Bu that they were slandering the current affairs. The protector Zeng Bu scolded the Imperial Supervisor Zhang Yan and told Wang Xianggong."

Shi Yue's face became serious, because he asked: "How did Wang Xianggong deal with it?" "How can I deal with it? All the academic officials of the Imperial Academy were dismissed. Li Ding and Chang Zhi went to the Imperial Academy overnight to judge the supervisors. Lu Dian, Li Zongmeng, Ye Tao, Zeng Zhao, and Shen Jichang became the academic officials of the Imperial Academy." Xiao Xiao Officials have always had limited respect for ministers. Shen Guitian scolded with a smile: "In the future, the Wang family can hold a meeting in the Imperial College." Someone asked in puzzlement: "How do you say that?" Shi Yue was also startled.

Shen Guitian smiled and said: "Look at these people, Lu Dian is Wang Xianggong's student, Shen Jichang is Wang Xianggong's sister-in-law, Ye Tao is Wang Xianggong's nephew, Zeng Zhao is Zeng Bu's younger brother..." Everyone laughed loudly, seeing that he was going to continue, Shi Yue coughed quickly and said: "Old Shen, these words are not what we should say." Shen Guitian smiled nonchalantly, and said: "Master Shi, I know you are in a place of suspicion, but don't be afraid, I am not the one who said the crazy things about you, and the colleagues here are not gossips. Flattering, we wouldn't have been in the third division for so long, and we still stayed in the case as a small official. To tell you the truth, I was also born as a fellow Jinshi, not for selection. The year of the Zhongtong Jinshi was eight Grade 8, it is still a grade 8, if you are willing to take care of this mouth, it will not be like this."

Shi Yue was embarrassed for a long time when he heard him robbing the white, thinking that he had good intentions, but there are people in this world who don't like hard things, so he just laughed and said: "Since that's the case, I won't say anything more, I'll go and see The students of the workshop." After saying that, he got up and walked out.He can't do what he wants, but if it spreads the word that Shi Yue and the small official in the case ridiculed the prime minister together, it will be troublesome. As soon as I got out of the gate, I saw a crow landed on a lonely tree by the roadside in the bitter cold wind, spread its wings, swayed on the branch, and called twice desolately.His heart tightened, thinking of what Zhao Gui said just now about what happened in the Imperial College, he let out a long sigh.Wang Anshi is so intolerant of dissent, this matter is probably just an excuse, but he wants to take this opportunity to control the Guozijian, let the students of the Guozijian accept his reform ideas, and train a lot of officials for his new law.

Shi Yue got on the horse, walked and thought about it, suddenly remembered something, his face turned pale, he raised his horsewhip, and lashed hard: "Drive!"

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