Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 91 Carry forward the bad things

Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict, and all expenses within the Ministry of Works were earmarked for special purposes. It was not easy for Li Wei to misappropriate without authorization, but it was still okay to drag it out first and then stop it. The Ministry of Accounts could drag him, why couldn't he drag others?
"Also, Guan Ziming, all the porcelain produced by the pottery kiln has been stored for me. Except for the royal ones, if anyone else asks for it, they will say they don't have it. We have no money!"

"Uh, I obey your orders!"

In addition to the imperial kilns, the yamen also need to use a lot of porcelain. What's more, in addition to porcelain, they also need to bake bricks, which are all done by the official kiln of the Ministry of Industry. There are also houses in each yamen, which are also made by workers. The Ministry of Works gave him a job, these dog officials live in the Ministry of Works, use the work of the Ministry of Works, and belittle the Ministry of Works. They are really shameless!

Li Wei carried forward his rotten spirit and issued an order. Most of the Ministry of Works went on strike. Those under his control stopped supplying materials to the court, such as porcelain, charcoal, official carriages, etc. Those who were repairing tombs also stopped!
Let them drink from the northwest wind!
Within two days of this, all the officials couldn't sit still. My dear, I have nothing, how can I still work?

The court once again set off a wave of impeachment craze for Li Wei:

Zhang Zongyi: "Your Majesty, I am impeaching Li Wei for his laziness and delay in his administration!"

Li Wei: "Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to do it, but I have no money!"

Zhao Ben: "Your Majesty, I impeach Li Wei and delay the government affairs..."

Li Wei: “No money!”

Xu Hui: "I impeach Li Wei..."

Li Wei: “No money!”

……

Due to the suspension of materials supply to the Ministry of Industry, all departments were affected and impeached Li Wei for his inaction.

If we say that the boss of the Ministry of Industry is Xue Xiang, we should impeach him first. However, in the eyes of the ministers, Li Wei is a power traitor who acts recklessly on the basis of his "holy favor". I am afraid that Xue Xiang, the old minister, has been ignored, so he still has to be impeached. Li Wei!
But Li Wei is also a bachelor. No matter how you play, I only have two words: no money!

If Hubu is cheating, I will cheat too, so let’s just waste it!
He didn't believe that Lao Zhu didn't care. If there was nothing he could do in the end, he would sell the official kiln porcelain in stock, which would increase product diversity for the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce!
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Li Wei..."

"No money!"

"..."

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, Li Wei slapped him back out of habit.

Then I found out that it was Lao Zhu who was speaking. I was shocked and quickly added:
"Well, Your Majesty, I really have no money. If the Ministry of Revenue doesn't give me money, there's nothing I can do about it."

Li Wei pointed the finger at the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was ashen. He originally just wanted to give this kid some problems to make him jealous, but this kid's map cannon offended people again and again. When the trouble got to this point, he had to stop it!
In fact, Li Wei's approach is also a commonly used method in officialdom. If you block me, I will block you, and no one can gain anything.

But when hundreds of officials fight, it is the court that suffers in the end. This is something Lao Zhu will never allow!
If other emperors wanted to let go, they might get along with each other, or simply let them fight over it, but that was not the case with Lao Zhu!
He first glared at Li Wei, snorted coldly, and then turned to the Ministry of Finance: "Xu Hui! What's going on? Why is the Ministry of Works delaying the payment?"

Xu Hui's heart trembled, and he quickly said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs is short of manpower, and many affairs cannot be handled in time..."

Xu Hui opened his mouth and still did the same thing. Zhu Yuanzhang angrily said: "If you can't handle it, why don't you handle it? We don't care if we have enough people. I'll give you three days to handle everything that needs to be handled, or I'll chop off your head!" Xu Hui shuddered and quickly lowered his head and said respectfully: "Yes, I will do my best!!"

This emperor cannot be offended!
"And you! We've done everything that needs to be done. If you don't finish it after the deadline, I'll beat your ass!"

After Lao Zhu reprimanded Xu Hui, he did not let Li Wei go.

Li Wei secretly curled his lips, it would have been over if it had been like this, really!
"The minister obeys the order!"

Li Wei also agreed.

Xu Hui lowered his head and felt resentful in his heart, "Oh, if I can't handle it, I'll chop off my head, but if he doesn't handle it, I'll just spank him. This is too biased!"
But he didn't dare say that if he thought so.

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly cut through the mess and arranged the matter. Xu Hui did not dare to delay it anymore, and approved all the money and food in just two days.

After receiving the money and food, Li Wei could finally do his work with peace of mind, not for Lao Zhu, but for his own better life in the future.

Of course, he was able to work with peace of mind, and the ministers did not intend to let it end just like that. Memorials to impeach him were still submitted to Zhu Yuanzhang's case in an endless stream every day, and there were more than before, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel headache.

After some tedious tests at the Ordnance Bureau, Li Wei finally selected the various steel materials he needed. However, due to manual mixing, the quality of the steel materials was still unstable, but it was enough to make a sword.

After selecting the steel, each blast furnace began to make steel at full capacity. Daming's current annual steel production is about [-] tons, of which mainly iron and very little steel. Now these blast furnaces in Li Wei are burning continuously every day. , a blast furnace can produce [-] tons, which is still small. If more are built, it will easily break the Ming Dynasty's steel production record. Of course, the mining industry will have to keep up.

Under Li Wei's arrangement, the refined molten steel was poured into rows of connected strip molds to form rough blanks. After cooling to a certain extent, they were cut into individual knife blanks, and then handed over to the blacksmith for forging and shaping. Finally, A steel knife is made by grinding and cutting it on a water-driven sand wheel.

The reason why it is not directly cast is because the quality of cast knives is still not as good as that of forged ones. The forged swords have a tight texture and good toughness, while the cast ones are not.

In the past, if a blacksmith wanted to make a qualified steel knife, he would need to repeatedly quench, fold and forge it. A hundred-forged knife would need to be repeatedly folded and forged six or seven times, and he could only make one or two in a day.

But now it is directly cast from molten steel into a blank and forged once, which saves a lot of time. Each person can make at least five pieces every day, and if one is skilled, it is not impossible to make ten.

Although it was only forged once, because of the good materials, the resulting knife was no worse than the Hundred Forged Knife, and might even be better.

While the Ordnance Bureau was in full swing, Han Yike came again. Recently, he often came to the Ordnance Bureau to supervise Li Wei's work progress. There was nothing he could do. It had been more than a month, and the [-] steel knives requested by His Majesty were still gone. Even though Li Wei repeatedly said that if anyone wants to slap his fellow, he must set it up first, but the time is almost over and there is still no results. Even if Li Wei is not anxious, he will be anxious.

But when he came to the Ordnance Bureau again today, he saw rows of steel knives stacked on wooden shelves, and he was instantly surprised!

Yesterday I couldn't see a handful, but today there are so many?how did you do that?
The doubts in Han Yike's heart were soon solved. He saw that the blast furnaces that had seen no fireworks before were now exuding a fiery atmosphere, and some were still flowing out bright molten iron under the operation of the craftsmen. Even in the It's blindingly bright even in broad daylight.

Han Yike has seen the appearance of molten iron in the past, but now the molten iron flowing out is not as sticky as before, but really flowing like water.

The flowing molten iron enters a large spherical iron furnace, and then the craftsmen begin to stir. After the mixing is completed, the craftsmen pull the iron chain connected to the bottom of the furnace, and the spherical furnace will tilt and rotate, like pouring water. Pour out the molten iron in the same manner, and then secure the iron chain to prevent the converter from shaking.

Then there's casting, forging, and polishing, and once a set is complete, rows of steel knives are on the shelves!

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