Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 90 Bah, so shameless!

Zhao Jun frowned displeased when he saw Sun Jian's cowardly appearance.

Li Wei ignored them and started chatting with Xue Xiang.

"Master Xue, why didn't you come here on your little donkey today?"

Xue Xiang glanced at him angrily: "I'm afraid that Mr. Li is involved in my donkey's origins!"

"What? Master Xue's donkey is of unknown origin?" Li Wei pretended to be surprised.

Xue Xiang rolled his eyes and wondered why he hadn't realized that this brat was so mean before.

It's not that he is really afraid of Li Wei checking him, including some other officials, it's not that they can't even ride a donkey, but even if he is not afraid of Li Wei checking, he is still afraid of the emperor's suspicion!It's better to keep a low profile and avoid the limelight.

In fact, Li Wei was just joking. He is not stupid. He also knows why these ministers are acting like this today. He is doing this on purpose to disgust people everywhere. He wants you to cause trouble for me. Now you know how powerful I am!

Looking at these ministers working on their legs, Li Wei suddenly discovered a business opportunity. When the Ordnance Bureau's technology is reached in the future, bicycles can be made and sold to these dignitaries. They are healthy and environmentally friendly, and they will definitely make a lot of money!

The bells and drums finally rang, the Meridian Gate opened, the ceremonial officer blew his whip, and the officials stood in line according to grade and department, and entered the court one by one.

In the court, Zhu Biao handed Zhu Yuanzhang the memorial of the investigation results and disposal opinions. After reading it, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became furious and opened his mouth to kill the whole family.

Zhu Biao immediately objected and loudly admonished.

Those civil servants naturally followed Zhu Biao's persuasion. After all, they were all like-minded.

"Kill them all for us!"

"Father, my sons and ministers are against it, Aba Aba..." Zhu Biao repeated what he said yesterday.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right. The imperial court is in the midst of employing people, so it should be treated leniently..."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I second your opinion!"

"Aba Aba..."

Li Wei's eyes widened and he saw Old Zhu blushing with anger. Xiao Zhu also argued righteously, as if there was no discussion yesterday.

If he hadn't personally commented to the father and son yesterday, he would have almost believed it.

Damn, the acting looks quite similar!
Zhu Biao seems to be an honest person, but I didn’t expect him to be such a person!
Li Wei cursed for a while.

After a fierce debate, the court finally reached the plan that Lao Xiaozhu had discussed yesterday, allowing those who had committed relatively minor crimes to perform meritorious service, and if they behaved well, they would be given a lighter sentence.

Seeing that His Majesty had taken a step back, the ministers all praised His Majesty for his wisdom. At the same time, they all felt grateful for His Majesty's kindness.

Li Wei was speechless when he saw it, and lamented that he was still too young, and his drawings were broken...

Suddenly, he realized that he had been plagiarized again. This wearing a shackle to handle the case was his idea!

Although this was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang later, he copied it across time and space based on his ability!

Pooh!These two people are so shameless!
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After going to court, Li Wei hurriedly returned to the Ordnance Bureau. He really didn't want to go to court. These big leaders held meetings instead of doing business all day long, which wasted his time!

The coke oven has been built, and Li Wei asked the craftsmen to try to make coke. This thing is not difficult for today's craftsmen. After several experiments, coke was successfully produced, and then steel could be made. Got it!
The blast furnace had been built a long time ago. Under Li Wei's command, the iron ore, limestone and fluorite used to make slag were crushed and sintered into blocks, and coke powder was added and poured in from the feed port above.

Everything was ready, and the fire started. The wind blower blew hot air upwards, and the iron material mixed with charcoal powder also began to burn.

The craftsmen are already very experienced in iron-making. Now they are just improving it and they are very skilled in the operation.

After continuous heating, the iron material begins to melt. In the past, the iron-making furnace produced semi-liquid molten iron most of the time because the furnace temperature was not enough. Now that coke is used as fuel, the molten iron becomes a very dilute pure liquid. The impurities are also removed more cleanly due to the high temperature.

Finally, after a lot of hard work, the first batch of molten iron came out and immediately flowed into the converter for stirring and refining to further reduce the carbon content.

Because the carbon and phosphorus elements in the converter continue to undergo oxidation reactions after contact with oxygen, the converter can maintain the molten iron state without continuing to heat. Sometimes the temperature is even too high and requires the addition of concentrate powder, limestone, or Fluorite and other slag-forming agents.

Li Wei himself has no experience in manual stirring, to what extent and for how long, so he can only keep trying.

After the molten iron is discharged, iron material is added to the top again and the steelmaking is continued. This is how steelmaking is. Once the fire is ignited, it cannot be stopped and must be continuously smelted. If you want to stop the fire, you must first clear the furnace and then slowly cool down. Otherwise, the molten iron will remain in the furnace. If condensation occurs in the furnace, the entire blast furnace will be destroyed.

This is especially true for industrial steelmaking in later generations. If the steelmaking plant loses power, the losses will be very large. Even if it is notified in advance and restarted, it will cause a lot of cost waste!
Furnaces of steel came out one after another. Li Wei did not rush to make swords, magnetic steel springs or the like. Instead, he ordered people to record the stirring time and then test the new steel.

Hardness, strength, and flexibility determine whether it is suitable for making springs, magnets, and swords. While changing the stirring speed and time, test each batch and record each batch.

Testing is a very tedious task, but it must be done. Without good testing, there will be no good product.

Li Wei stipulated a unified mixing method and speed for the craftsmen, at least keeping the difference about the same. Only in this way can the carbon content of the steel produced be slightly more stable, and it would not be completely different depending on the person.

For two or three days in a row, he was busy doing this, selecting suitable steel materials, sorting them into categories, and making records for easy selection and use.

While he was busy, Xu Yong came over again and brought bad news: the Ministry of Accounts still wouldn't pay him!

"What? Still not paying? I'm done with him, right?"

Li Wei, who was busy recording the test results, dropped his pencil on the book angrily and stood up suddenly.

Xu Yong was shocked. Except for the first time when Li Wei came to the Arms Bureau to beat Sun Jian, he had never seen the minister so angry again.Li Weiwei cursed and got angry. He was busy to death, and these dog officials were looking for trouble for him!
"You spend all day doing this nonsense, damn it!"

"Luti, come here!"

Li Weiwei shouted and called Lu Ti over.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

Luti came forward cautiously and asked.

"If you continue to test and record according to my method, you must record it carefully!"

Li Wei ordered. In fact, he was a little worried about leaving it to Lu Ti. After all, Lu Ti didn't understand the meaning of some parameters, but there was no way. He was busy with mundane affairs.

Li Wei asked him to continue testing records in his own way, and he left the Arms Bureau cursing.He didn't even return to the Ministry of Works, so he went directly to the Yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Call the bosses out!"

Before the officer at the door of the Hubu Yamen could come up to talk to him, Li Wei shouted directly that he didn't know who was in charge of the Hubu Yamen now, and the post of Shangshu was still vacant anyway.

When the officer saw that the person coming here was not a good person, he did not dare to neglect him and hurried in to report it.

After a while, the officer came out and said tremblingly: "Your Excellency, Mr. Xu, please come in."

Li Wei snorted coldly, this newly appointed minister can do it, he is so arrogant, he didn't even come out and let him go in by himself!
He is really a little swollen now, and no one except Lao Xiaozhu takes him seriously!

The matter was urgent, so he didn't waste any more nonsense. He followed the servant into the Hubu Yamen and met Xu Shilang.

This Xu Shilang was also a probationary minister. Strictly speaking, he was not even as good as Fan Min's acting minister, but now that Fan Min is gone, he is the top steward of the Ministry of Revenue.

"Why haven't we approved the money from the Arms Bureau of the Ministry of Industry? Believe it or not, I'm going to impeach you!"

Li Wei asked loudly as soon as he entered the door.

Xu Hui frowned and secretly cursed the dog thief for being arrogant!
"Li Shilang, the Ministry of Household Affairs is busy with official duties and lacks manpower. All expenditures must be sorted out before disbursement can be made. Please wait patiently, Li Shilang."

The reason was still the same, Li Wei said angrily: "You have also seen Fan Min's fate. Aren't you afraid that I will investigate you?"

"Hmph, Fan Min committed corruption and perverted the law and deserved his death. I am an upright officer. Mr. Li, if you have the ability, go and investigate!"

Xu Hui showed no signs of weakness and snorted coldly.

Li Wei gritted his teeth and glared, pointed at him and threatened: "Okay, just wait for me!"

After saying the harsh words, Li Wei didn't waste time with him and went back directly to order Abu and Laifu to take action.

However, the result was beyond his expectation. Two days later, he got the consumption data of Xu Hui's family and calculated it. It turned out that this dog official was really not greedy, or he was less greedy, or he was prepared. Anyway, he was far different from Fan Min. .

There's no way to take him down with this!
Originally, he thought that by taking down Fan Min, he would kill the chicken and scare the monkeys. If anyone wanted to cause trouble for him in the future, he would have to think carefully. Unexpectedly, he immediately encountered a tough obstacle.

"You won't give it, right? You think there's nothing I can do about it?? Humph!"

In the final analysis, this matter was caused by Lao Zhu's unwillingness to take care of it. It was originally just a matter of the boss's words, but he had to let the people below fight on their own!

Hum, let's fight. Although the Ministry of Industry is regarded as the lowest among the six ministries by officials, its power is not small. If the civil servants can control him, of course he can control these civil servants!
"Come here, call me Guan Ziming and Jiang Shouqing."

Li Weiwei shouted and had the two doctors called over.

Guan Ziming and Jiang Shouqing came hand in hand and saluted Li Wei together.

Li Wei was perfunctory, and then said calmly: "Our Ministry of Industry has been financially tight recently. I'm going to make some adjustments here. Just listen."

"Yes, please give me your instructions."

When the two of them saw that his expression was not good, they both dealt with it carefully.

"Well, Jiang Shouqing, you are still in charge of building the tombs of officials, right?"

"Yes sir."

When an official of a certain level dies, the court will send someone to pay homage and bury him. The Tomb Repair Department of the Ministry of Industry is in charge of the matter, and he is in charge of all officials and royal officials.

"Everything stops!"

Li Wei said directly.

Jiang Shouqing was stunned: "Ah? I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?"

"What's wrong? How can we fix it if we don't have money?"

"..."

Of course Jiang Shouqing knew whether he had money to build the tomb, but the minister said that he couldn't go against his immediate boss if he didn't have money, so he had to agree first.

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