Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Therefore, under Wu Shigong's instructions, the workshop division issued bids to Nanyang Ironware and Bian's Ironware, asking them to try to produce similar western plate armor within three months.レ&spes;レ And also requires: the price should be lower than 20 taels of silver, and the annual production volume should not be lower than [-] pieces.

For this reason, the Workshop Division each allocated 500 taels of silver for trial production to the two ironware workshops.And also promised: Whichever workshop's trial production of plate armor has excellent comprehensive requirements will immediately get an order for [-] pieces of armor from the Runing Army, and there will be follow-up orders.

From the perspective of modern people, it is very simple to make such armor, just cut two steel plates!However, at this time, there is a huge technical difficulty. It needs repeated hammering by skilled blacksmiths, and there are also high requirements for the number and strength of hammering. Will cause such an expensive price and such a long production cycle.Therefore, the comparison between the two workshops this time is iron processing and production efficiency.

In such a comparison, Bian's ironware, which has more experience in ironware processing, has the upper hand.But in this way, Nanyang Tieqi was worried, so they immediately used their relationship to public relations.

Nanyang ironware is actually like a public property of the Runing Army.Although the joint-stock system was established later, the funds of the Runing Army and the senior civil and military personnel of the Runing Army still hold a lot of shares in it.Coupled with the long-term relationship between the top management of Nanyang Ironware and the civil and military personnel of the Runing Army, there are many people who are willing to speak for Nanyang Ironware.For example, Yang Goudan, the shopkeepers of Nanyang Ironware are all his disciples and grandchildren.

So this time, Nanyang Tieqi also wanted to use this relationship to monopolize the order, so it wanted Wu Shigong to withdraw the practice of bidding.

But Wu Shigong will never compromise on this issue.Where there is competition, there is development.Although Wu Shigong also has some private shares in Nanyang Tieqi, he will definitely not affect the overall interests of the Runing Army for his personal interests.

And in the future, Wu Shigong also wanted to extend this practice to all the expenditures of the Runing Army.It is just like modern government procurement, using bidding to reduce government expenditures and improve the quality of purchased goods.

Seeing Wu Shigong's attitude is very firm, no one will continue this topic.Everyone chatted briefly with their parents for a while, and then they all left one after another, and each went about their own affairs. [

After Deng Qifan left the inner house, he didn't leave immediately.He waved to Xue Zhinong and said, "Is Director Xue free, come and sit with me for a while!"

Although it was a questioning tone, Xue Zhinong never dared to disobey it.So Xue Zhinong followed Deng Qifan to his official residence.

After An Zuo delivered the tea, Deng Qifan straight to the point and said to Xue Zhinong: "I heard that Sun Zhi County in Liu'an is an old man, and my lord is also very fond of the past, but what he did is not in line with our Runing Army's wishes. What does Director Xue think should be done?"

When Wu Shigong received Sun Chengxiu's private letter, he was also overjoyed.But when he learned about Sun Chengxiu's attitude from Chang Meng, Wu Shigong hesitated.

There was a conflict between the interests of the Runing Army and the friendship between friends, so Wu Shigong could only make one decision.After thinking about it again and again, the friendship still prevailed.So Wu Shigong ordered: Do not use illegal means, only spend money at the market price to go to Lu'an to buy land, and establish Tuntian Zhuangzi.

But in this way, the extra money spent is not counted, and the gentry in Lu'an may not be willing to sell the land that the Runing Army is looking for to the Runing Army.This has resulted in: until now, the Tuntian Zhuangzi in Lu'an has not been established.So Deng Qifan was about to use the power of the chief aide to act in private.

In fact, Deng Qifan is also very helpless.The finances of the Runing Army were already very tight, and Deng Qifan wished he could split a penny into two and spend it in half.But Wu Shigong's talk of friendship made the Runing army spend a lot of unjustly money.

That's all right, there's nothing wrong with talking about brotherhood.But now, Deng Qifan and Chang Meng are under great pressure from the local officials.

After dealing with Wu Shigong and the Runing Army for a long time, the local officials and gentry in Ru Ning and Guide have already mastered their skills.That is to abide by the decrees and rules formulated by Wu Shigong and the Runing Army, and use these laws and rules to gain their own benefits from Wu Shigong and the Runing Army.

For example, what happened in Lu'an this time.The branch of the land reclamation firm responsible for that matter is not unique to the Runing Army, but has shares held by other officials and gentry.Wu Shigong could sell Sun Chengxiu's friendship and give up some of the interests of this semicolon, but in doing so, he also gave up the interests of other shareholders.Therefore, this practice caused dissatisfaction among other officials.

Of course, those officials would never dare to vent their dissatisfaction in front of Wu Shigong, but this did not prevent them from putting pressure on Deng Qifan and Chang Meng.Since those officials were well-founded, both Deng Qifan and Chang Meng were a little overwhelmed.

Deng Qifan also persuaded Wu Shigong tactfully, but Wu Shigong's attitude was quite firm.When Wu Shigong was at the end of the cold, there was only Sun Chengxiu as a friend, so Wu Shigong couldn't let go of this friendship no matter what.So Deng Qifan decided to take action himself.He does not hesitate to be a villain himself, and strives for the greatest benefit for the Runing Army.

But after hearing Deng Qifan's words, Xue Zhinong hesitated.Xue Zhinong's Department of Mountains and Rivers is a very special department, which should and can only obey orders from Wu Shigong alone.But Deng Qifan's identity is still there, and now Deng Qifan is bluntly trying to exceed his authority, which makes it difficult for Xue Zhinong to make a decision.So Xue Zhinong could only wait in silence.

Deng Qifan was also mentally prepared for Xue Zhinong's attitude, so he went on to say: "We as subordinates, sometimes we can't only care about ourselves, but also relieve adults' worries. Although what we say now is a bit over the top, it is for the sake of adults. It's also for the good of our Runing army. If your lord blames me, I will fully bear it."

"Then what should Mr. Deng do when he is young?" Hearing that Deng Qifan had spoken so clearly, Xue Zhinong could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb. [

Deng Qifan nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Let the magistrate no longer take care of the farming. How should we do this? You are familiar with the Shanchuan Division, and I will let the shopkeeper listen to you. No matter what you do, as long as the magistrate stands idly by." Just do it."

"Can you really do anything?" Xue Zhinong asked again.

"It's all right! But you have to be careful: Hugh hurts Sun Zhi County, and also hurts his family. Otherwise, it's not very good for adults. Also, don't talk about it for adults."

Xue Zhinong thought for a while, then bowed his hands to Deng Qifan and said, "Mr. Deng! I understand."

With the expansion of the power of the Runing Army, there are some things that Wu Shigong can no longer settle with one word.When his ideas go against the overall interests of the Runing Army, the civil and military subordinates will go against Wu Shigong's wishes and act independently.And it won't be the only time, nor will it be the last.

But at this moment, Wu Shigong was receiving two special guests in the study.

"Master! This is young master! Young master, this is your father, kowtow to him!" In the study, a servant of the Xue family named Xue Quan, with a four or five-year-old child, knelt to Wu Shigong reported.

"What's going on here? What's going on? How's Lord Hou and Madam? How's Fei'er? How's Lin'er?" While talking, Wu Shigong thumped the table heavily.His face was flushed, his beard and hair were all stretched out, and he looked furious.

Xue Chengping who was standing was so frightened that he burst into tears. Xue Quan immediately hugged Xue Chengping to comfort him, and then told Wu Shigong: "Hou's residence is fine. Master Hou, his wife, miss, and son are all fine. This time I went out of Beijing secretly, just to send the young master over."

Hearing this, Wu Shigong was relieved a little. He walked up to Xue Chengping, smiled and said, "You are Ping'er."

Xue Chengping looked timidly at his father whom he had never met before. With tears in his eyes, he called softly, "Master Father."

Wu Shigong was immediately elated, he bent down and hugged Xue Chengping.Then he went back to his seat and sat down, put Xue Chengping on his lap, and then said to Xue Quan: "Don't kneel down either. Stand up and talk about it!"

So Xue Quan explained the ins and outs to Wu Shigong in detail.It turned out that after Xue Lian felt the difficult situation in the capital, he asked his confidant Xue Quan to search secretly, and found a child similar to Xue Chengping to be brought up in the mansion.

After that, Li Daitao froze.Xue Lian found another opportunity and asked Xue Quan to send Xue Chengping to Runing on the grounds of sending a letter.As for Xue Chengping's mother-in-law, servant girls, mother-in-law and so on, Xue Lian took a chance to deal with them.So up to now, only Xue Lian, Mrs. Zhang, Xue Yufei and Xue Quan in the Hou's mansion knew that Xue Chengping had been dropped.

At this time, Wu Shigong felt deeply remorseful: he was very prosperous in Runing, but he did not expect his father-in-law and his family to suffer in danger.Especially my wife and eldest son, I am really sorry for them, and I have not fulfilled my responsibilities as a husband and father at all.

And now the father-in-law has sent Ping'er over again.Could this be Tuogu?Will there be an "Orphan of Zhao" in my own home?Wu Shigong immediately suffered from angina.He couldn't bear the pain of losing a loved one at all.

At this time, Wu Shigong didn't notice, Xue Quan knelt down again.He stuffed a pill into his mouth, bit it into pieces and swallowed it, then kowtowed to Wu Shigong and said, "Master Hou said: Let my uncle take good care of the young master. The villain can be regarded as living up to the trust of Lord Hou." gone."

Wu Shigong glanced over and found that something was wrong with Xue Quan. He immediately ran over with Xue Chengping in his arms, and kicked Xue Quan who had started to twitch to the ground.Seeing Xue Quan's appearance, Wu Shigong immediately shouted: "Come here!" rs

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