The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

In the early morning, some time had passed since the day before yesterday when he inspected the Military Weapons Supervision.Yesterday, Princess Lingxian visited the mansion in the morning. Guo Nuan was very happy, but before he took office, he had a heavy workload. He locked himself in a small dark room, lit candles, and tinkered with some mysterious gadgets, leaving Shengping and Lingxian behind. Chatting about homework.

Before taking office, Guo Nuan suddenly visited the Military Weapons Supervision and was unhappy.He didn't expect that the department he was about to take over would be so chaotic.However, he likes this yamen job very much. It has something to do with the handicraft industry. Men like this kind of hand-made invention work.

"Sigh, it seems that the group of the Military Weapons Supervisor is useless." Guo Nuan shook her head helplessly after returning home.

It was expected to be true, looking at the messy and messy scene in the yamen, it is estimated that Wang Yan, an old man in the officialdom, has almost corrupted it after being stationed in the military prison for so many years.Although the old temple looks good on the outside, it has been eaten away by a group of moths. Since it can't be repaired, it can only be cleaned up and reopened.

On that day, Guo Nuan really wanted to give an order to let all these low-level clerks and bureaucrats go away.

"Unfortunately, the sudden loss of manpower in this yamen will inevitably lead to the serious consequences of immediately stopping the operation. As an important ministerial-level institution of the country, I can't bear the responsibility for the shutdown. Maybe the cheap father-in-law got angry immediately."

Regarding Guo Nuan's explanation, Da Biao also nodded. The fat man knew that this matter should not be rushed. The new officials who had evidence of Wang Yan's corruption and perversion of the law and the freshmen who replenished their incorruptible vitality had to start at the same time.

Guo Nuan seriously ordered the small bureaucrats of the Military Weapons Supervision Department to clean up the internal affairs of the prison office for one day, so Guo Nuan was not in a hurry to go back to check the sanitation.

On the [-]th of the lunar calendar, early in the morning, two days before Guo Nuan was formally appointed as the military supervisor, Guo Nuan was going to drive to the production base of the hand workshop in the south of the city. He heard that there was a bow and arrow workshop and an armor workshop. Come to a private large-scale workshop.Guo Nuan decided to look for it in person without Wang Yan, purely for market research.

Ah Fu's skillful carriage driving skills soon brought the three of them to the iron handicraft workshop street in the south of the city.Jumping out of the carriage, looking up, the straight bluestone road is crowded with passers-by, carriages and carts come, transporting livestock, llamas, donkeys, cows, horses, and elephants from Tianzhu. It is very lively here, and There are ironware shops on both sides, one after the other. It is estimated that this commercial street is three or four miles long.The iron utensils produced by Datang are extremely sophisticated, and they are not only sold domestically but also exported abroad.

What makes this place different from other avenues is that the front of the street is a shop that sells ironware, while the back of the shop is a handicraft workshop, a typical model of sales in the front shop and production in the back alley.The tinkling sound of hammering irons next door is endless, which is also unique to this commercial street.

Walking into an ironware store with the words "Dongshan" on the front, the shopkeeper at the counter is a northerner, tall and tall, with a big beard, big arms and round waist, and the muscles of his arms are like a dragon coiled into graceful and powerful lines. , a simple and honest man.

It stands to reason that the royal handicraft workshops were set up independently. However, after the war, the imperial treasury was in short supply. Guo Nuan felt that if some of the royal state-run handicraft workshops that ate the imperial food were withdrawn, and the remaining production capacity was insufficient, they would be converted to private handicraft workshops for low-cost contract production. Then the government will place an order for purchase.As long as the quality of the production process is supervised, this move is estimated to be able to reduce the expenditure of the military supervision, but the policy forced to save money has also caused great disadvantages. The strategy is not perfect, and there are trade-offs , there is only a decision in which the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Although he has an idea, this vague idea is just a whirl in Guo Nuan's mind, and maybe he needs to investigate it a little bit. The reform cannot be sloppy.

"Young Master? What do you want to buy?" The young and strong man stood in front of the counter and asked with a smile, but he only moved his mouth and smirked at the counter, and he didn't know any sales phrases at all.

"Are you the shopkeeper? So young?"

Guo Nuan and Ah Fu stared at each other for a moment, this guy seemed to be different from the general shopkeeper who looked very clever and shrewd.

"Hehe, my father supervises dozens of apprentices blacksmithing in the workshop next door, and he has no time to take care of the shop. Today I am the shopkeeper." The man rubbed his head and laughed.

"What's your name?" Guo Nuan smiled slightly.

"Daniu! Daming, Zhang Daniu!" The man was very clever and reacted quite quickly to this sentence.

"Oh, it's Zhang's family! Haha, good boy, you, Zhang Daniu, and I, Zhang Dabiao, are a family." Dabiao was immediately happy. This honest boy even had a name similar to his own, and his affection immediately increased a little. point.Guo Nuan and Ah Fu were also quite happy, saying that Zhang Daniu got the name just right, the stocky young man looks as strong as a cow, as for Da Biao, he is indeed "big" tough, with a fat body.....

Guo Nuan sighed in her heart: "Most people in ancient times had no culture, and their names were simple and refreshing enough. There are probably tens of thousands of men with names like Daniu in the countryside of Datang."

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Guo Nuan explained his intentions and asked to visit the workshop of this blacksmith shop. Daniel knew that most big customers would carefully inspect the workshops of the merchants when they purchased large quantities of ironware. Daniel was immediately excited when he heard Guo Nuan's request. Raising his voice, he yelled out Father Zhang who was in the workshop behind the store, "Father, come out to pick up the distinguished guests!"

In other words, he didn't miss it. Guo Nuan is a big customer with great potential. He is the logistics officer responsible for the supply of more than 20 weapons for the Imperial Army. Capability is simply unaffordable.

Daniu led the three of them into the back door, and what came into view was more than [-] mud melting furnaces built on more than ten acres of gray tile scaffolding. The blazing heat made the air temperature a few degrees higher than that of the street outside. The house is full of hundreds of shirtless men with hammers in their hands. Everyone is very busy, sweating profusely, the scarlet fire splashes everywhere, and there is no end to clanging.

It was Zhang Daniu's father who led the three of Guo Nuan to the workshop. This dark and strong old man over fifty years old had bright eyes, a white towel on his head, and his naked upper body showing his strong eight-pack abs.

Guo Nuan lamented that blacksmithing not only produces iron tools, but also handsome men with temperament.This old man not only has strong muscles, but also has a solid and resolute temperament that he has cultivated all year round... Quack, if he walked out of the workshop shirtless and walked around the most prosperous street in Chang'an, the old man Zhang would definitely be able to Killed a large number of creamy scholars and won the favor of a large number of girls.

"I wonder how many knives Master Zhang can produce in a month?" Guo Nuan turned to ask Father Zhang who was walking beside him as a tour guide.

"This shop mainly takes over orders from stores in Shandong and Hedong. Take Huanshou knives as an example. I have more than a dozen masters who specialize in making knives and more than 50 apprentices... Well, I can produce more than 3000 knives a month. .”

Father Zhang said the number conservatively, and then he opened his mouth and smiled openly, showing two rows of big white teeth, and continued: "That's because you need a lot. Our old workshop can do its best to produce [-] high-quality good ones a month." Knife handle."