Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 277
It has to be said that Huang Mengyu, a highly pragmatic person who never read his name from history books in his previous life, is actually quite efficient in his work.

After accepting the high-practical task, Huang Zhenshou summoned all the police officers in several fortresses in and around Datong City overnight. In the early morning of the second day, the sky was just pale, with two dark circles under his eyes Huang Zhenshou brought them to visit Deputy Envoy Gao.

To be honest, Gao Wushi was a little surprised by Huang Zhenshou's serious and serious work attitude - he has been a so-called "Xiaoge Lao" for half a year, and he has already seen court officials in the process of watching politics with the prince every day. The procrastination often takes about a month for a cabinet decision to get feedback from around the capital.

If it is a remote area, it will be even more speechless. For example, after Liu Xian came to Guizhou to suppress the rebellion, from the central government's decision to approve it to Liu Xian's dispatch of troops, it took only three to five months, and there was basically no response.

Although he also knows the level of communication in this era, it is not surprising that the nearby ones rely on roaring, and the far ones rely on walking. However, Daming's post station system is obviously quite developed, and a "Delivery Station" was specially set up to strengthen For logistics, the capital even has institutions such as Huitongguan and Wumanyi.

However, the decision of the cabinet actually took less than a month to arrive in Guizhou, and the round-trip trip counted as two months at most. The soldiers and horses brought by Liu Xian were also his headquarters. For training, why did it take five months to send troops?It can be seen that the efficiency of officials at all levels is low.

After such a comparison, Gao Yushi also understands why so many emperors favor and trust eunuchs——like their arms and fingers!

This kind of work attitude, Gao Yushi was a young cadre who had been taught by the party and the people for many years, that is, when he knew that he might be promoted soon, he could barely achieve it. Compared with the two, he felt a little ashamed .

Huang Zhenshou and seven prison officers respectfully met Deputy Envoy Gao, and Gao Wushi gave them a seat with a smile. As a result, only Huang Mengyu sat next to his buttocks as yesterday, and the other seven prison officers sat next to each other. The gun officials all said that there is no place for them to sit in front of Gao Shidu.

But Gao Wushi knew that they didn't dare to sit down because of Huang Mengyu, not because he, the prince, was accompanying him.

There are actually many rules among eunuchs, even stricter than the ranks of civil and military officials. When they saw Huang Zhenshou, the majestic Datong eunuch, they only dared to sit down half of their buttocks in front of the high-level pragmatism, thinking that their ranks were higher than Huang Zhenshou. If it is more than one level lower, how can you still sit?I'm afraid it wasn't for the buttocks not daring to drop, and instead of squatting, it would be better not to sit.

Because Gao Wushi "works" in the Wenhua Palace, it is the eunuchs who deal with a lot on weekdays. Knowing their embarrassment, he doesn't force it, so he said to Huang Mengyu: "Huang Zhenshou's errands are well done, the emperor and the young master and Meng’s palm print, I will tell them the truth.”

Huang Zhenshou's face was full of smiles, although he was sitting, he bowed his head and bowed his head: "I would like to thank Gao Sidu for taking care of me, servant, but in fact, this is the job of a servant, and it is not worth mentioning."

Hey, this posture is really low enough.

You must know that the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty are different from other dynasties. Even in front of the emperor, eunuchs with a status like the guarding eunuch in Datong can not call themselves "servants" but ministers.

However, Huang Zhenshou is also a fine person after all, the most classic sentence is "it's not worth mentioning"-it's not worth mentioning at first, but Gao Shidu, you must mention it!

Gao Shidu is not a first-time official, so he laughed immediately: "How can we not mention the credit that we should have?"

Huang Zhenshou saw that he understood the three flavors of officialdom so much, he smiled more heartily, and complimented him: "My maidservant heard earlier that Gao Shi was stunned and talented, and he was a young man who was knowledgeable. I just wish I hadn't seen each other. Today I know that the ancients were sincere and never deceived me." , As expected, there is no one worthy of a great reputation..." After a round of praise, he only almost exaggerated his high pragmatism to the sky.

"Huang Zhenshou has won the award..." Gao Wushi saw that this was not the way to go, when he could get to the point, he quickly interrupted: "Regarding what I said last night, does Huang Zhenshou have any arrangements?"

When it came to business, Huang Mengyu immediately stopped bragging, and said seriously: "Master Gao, there are three gun supervisors in the city of Datong, and they are in charge of three firearms warehouses. Medicine. There are four forts near the outside of the city, where there are four forts with guns and internal officers, but they are not so detailed. Cannons, guns and gunpowder are all together. According to the wishes of the slaves, the four outside are scattered , I’m afraid it will be difficult for us to check them one by one today, so why not check these three in Datong City first. As for which way to go first, I’d like to ask the senior servant to read you to decide, and there are no slaves here.”

Gao Yushi understands Huang Mengyu's meaning of "everything is possible": Although the gun supervisors are in charge of the firearms warehouse management, what they manage is only the warehouse after all. As long as the number of guns, artillery and gunpowder is the same, they don't care about the quality. That's the problem of manufacturing and quality inspection, and it can't be blamed on their warehouse staff.

Whether Huang Mengyu and his group of people secretly sold gunpowder, guns and artillery, it stands to reason that high-level pragmatism can also "observe politics", but he is not very interested.

With a high sense of pragmatism, of course he will feel that he is not here to be the head of the Datong Anti-Corruption Bureau. Why should he be distracted by these nonsense things?

His goal is very clear: to produce conclusive evidence to prove that the firearms equipped by the Northern Army are not only outdated, but also poor in quality. Therefore, even if the imperial court does not have the financial resources and determination to make a comprehensive reform of the military industry system, at least a pilot reform must be carried out—that is, Permit the pilot establishment of private arms factories.

Uh... To put it bluntly, it is actually an excuse for setting up a military factory for myself.

Could it be that a person like him, Gao Shidu, is a great benevolent person who opens philanthropic halls for free and does good deeds?Don't be kidding, if he really opened a philanthropy one day, it must be for the sake of fame, and it can't be a conscience discovery.After all, in Gao Yushi's eyes, even opening a charity hall should be an almshouse opened by the imperial court, because it is the imperial court's duty to help the disadvantaged. Privately opening a charity hall is either out of mind or has an intention in mind.

At this time, Gao Yushi thought for a while and made a decision: "I am here to inspect the armaments, mainly to look at firearms, and you probably understand the original intention, which is that I may face retaliation from my answer right now. I said that if I want to send troops Attack, in fact, although the cannon is powerful, it can't actually hit a few people, so let's look at the firecracker first."

Gao Yushi still insists on his previous point of view: Cannons are mainly used in field battles and sieges. Using cannons to defend a city is a completely evil (religious) behavior at least in this era, and only people like Yuan Dushi will use it as a magic weapon for victory.

(End of this chapter)