Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 63 Bastards
Li Wei called it "good guy". There are more than 9000 people at once. This is a big factory!
He had never been a leader before and felt that the only difference between him and the leader was the chair under his butt. Now that he was sitting in the leader's chair, he suddenly felt a little panicked.

In fact, it is easy to be the servant. The people below will do the following things. If you have something to do, you only need to tell the people below to do it. You only need to supervise it, and it is not impossible to fish occasionally.

But Li Wei is not such a person. Just like when he was in charge of military affairs, although he was reluctant, he was serious about making products and could not let it go.

Li Wei carefully asked about the situation of the Arms Bureau, and then asked them to take him to the Arms Bureau.

The Ordnance Bureau was a bit far away, and the two of them took Li Wei for an hour before arriving, which made him very tired.

When we arrived at the Ordnance Bureau, we were already greeted at the door.

"This is Xu Yong, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, and Lu Ti, the deputy ambassador."

Both of them were minor officials of the ninth rank. When they saw Li Wei, a senior official of the third rank, they hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects.

Li Wei nodded and said nothing more.

After everyone entered, it was very busy inside, with groups of craftsmen running back and forth in a hurry, and various workshops were scattered around.

Guan Ziming and Sun Jian took him around the various workshops and introduced them one by one.

There is a blacksmith workshop for making swords, and the heat is blowing in the face. The blacksmiths are bare-chested, holding hammers, and using tools in one hand to hit the red-hot iron sheets. When the iron sheets cool down, they have to be heated in the furnace again.

Making leather armor also requires beating, boiling, etc. The process is very complicated.

The making of bows and arrows also uses a variety of materials, including animal horns, sinews, wood, hemp rope, etc. At first, Li Wei was puzzled, why does the Ministry of Industry even care about birds and animals? It turns out that it is an important part of making bows and arrows. Material source!

There was also a blast furnace for iron-making, and Li Wei specifically wanted to take a look.

"Lord be careful!"

Guan Ziming was immediately frightened and stopped him. This thing was not safe, and it would be a big trouble to hurt the new servant.

Li Wei thought about it and realized that this thing was not a joke, so he kept a distance and walked around the big blast furnace.

This blast furnace was very similar to the sketch he had in mind. Li Wei asked Xu Yong to summon the responsible craftsman to inquire about the structure in detail.

The craftsman came to him cautiously, fearing that he would be punished if he said something wrong or did something wrong.

"You don't have to be afraid, just tell the truth."

Li Wei comforted him. He walked around and found that the craftsmen in the Arms Bureau were worse off than those in the Military War Bureau. Not only were their clothes shabby, their faces were sallow, they looked malnourished, and some were even thin. skinny.

"Yes, yes, the villain obeys!"

The craftsman still looked panicked.

Li Wei had no choice but to ask like this.

The craftsman briefly explained the structure of the blast furnace. After listening to it, Li Wei found that their current iron-making blast furnace was not much different from what he knew, and was very similar in structure.

"Well, I see, you go down first."

"Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."

The craftsman breathed a sigh of relief and retreated.

Li Wei shook his head, turned and walked away.

Guan Ziming and Sun Jian followed immediately. To be honest, they rarely come here. They are also fifth and sixth grade officials. Although they are not as good as Li Wei, a third-grade boss, they can still be regarded as senior officials. , they generally would not come to such a dirty place where craftsmen work.

Just as everyone was about to leave, an old craftsman carrying a basket stumbled by. Perhaps seeing several of their officials suddenly turning around, he felt nervous and accidentally stepped on his feet. He and the basket fell to the ground, blocking the way. On their way to leave.

The old man's face was pale, and he didn't care whether the fall hurt or not. He quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Sir, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!" The place where the old man fell was still a short distance away from them, and the waste materials scattered on the ground did not splash on them.

Li Wei frowned slightly and hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up.However, before he could move, Sun Jian, who had been shopping impatiently next to him, got angry first, stepped forward and kicked the old man.

"Old guy, you're blind. You dare to block the way of the Lord Assistant. Why don't you go as far away as possible?"

"You bastard, stop it!"

Li Weiwei was shocked, yelled angrily, took two quick steps, and kicked Sun Jian away without mercy.

"You bastard, how can you treat an old man like this? All your sages' books have been read into the dog's belly!"

Li Wei cursed angrily while helping the old man up.

Sun Jian was kicked so hard that he almost fell to the ground. He managed to stabilize his body, and his face suddenly turned ugly. Although Li Weiguan was several ranks older than him, everyone was an official, so he was kicked in public. A kick, this is a bit too much!
Anger surged up, and he was about to step forward to question. Guan Ziming frowned, and quickly stepped forward to hold Sun Jian. He knew that Sun Jian had some connections, and Li Wei had just arrived, but a Shangguan was still a Shangguan. One level above them would kill someone, but the assistant minister was several levels above them.

After being pulled back, Sun Jian quickly calmed down and said nothing with a sullen face.

"Sir, you are just a craftsman, there is no need to be angry."

Guan Ziming tried to smooth things over.

"What a bastard, are craftsmen not human beings in your book of sages? Don't you understand respecting the old and loving the young?"

Li Wei didn't give him any face, and even scolded him.

Guan Ziming's face changed, and he was a little unhappy. Li Wei had a very bad reputation in the court. Everyone knew that he had climbed up the ranks by relying on divine favor. He had neither fame nor qualifications. Such a person was really terrible. Hard to convince the crowd.

However, Li Wei is their immediate boss after all. Although he dare not kill them directly, if he really wants to punish them, they will definitely not get any good results.

Guan Ziming didn't dare to offend, so he had to endure his displeasure and smile: "Yes, yes, my lord is right."

After saying that, he also pulled Sun Jian.

Sun Jian reluctantly followed, "That's what the adults taught you."

"father!"

At this time, a young man suddenly ran over from a distance and shouted to the old man who had just been helped up by Li Wei.

Li Wei's anger subsided a little and handed the old man to his son.

The young man supported the old man and looked at these officials with a look of fear mixed with vigilance.

"Take good care of your dad."

Li Wei gave instructions to the young man, and then shouted loudly to Guan Ziming and other high-ranking officials: "From now on, no one is allowed to beat or scold the craftsmen. Even if the craftsmen are at fault, they must report it to me first. If anyone dares to hit them at will again, When someone curses someone, don’t blame me for being rude to him!”

Hearing this, Guan Ziming and Sun Jian, as well as Xu Yong and Lu Ti, all looked at each other and were very puzzled by Li Wei's order.

"Sir, these craftsmen are often lazy and slow down their work. If they are not encouraged, they may not be able to complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty. If the blame comes, the subordinates will not be able to bear the blame."

Xu Yong replied in embarrassment, in the Ming Dynasty, let alone officials with official status, even for the foremen and supervisors below, it was common for them to beat and scold craftsmen.

Li Wei was unmoved: "You don't have to worry about this. I will be responsible for failing to complete the task. You just need to obey my orders!"

After graduation, he started working as a worker at the bottom of the workshop. He worked hard to earn the salary. Although he was never beaten or scolded, he had personal experience of the hardship and fatigue involved.

Looking at these craftsmen, they are much more difficult than he was before. He would never allow them to be beaten and scolded for such hard work!
When Xu Yong heard this, he paused and agreed: "Yes, it all depends on you!"

Guan Ziming shook his head secretly, and Sun Jian sneered in his heart. In their opinion, this Li Shilang didn't understand the way of being an official at all, and he took over everything when he came up, and he would definitely suffer from him in the future.

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