Chapter 140: Before the Mountain Rain
Soon, the news that Supervisor Jing had offended the new Weapons Supervisor spread in the Weapons Prison, and at the beginning, there were well-informed people in the Weapons Supervisor when they heard that the new Weapons Supervisor would perform his duties, and they were still asserting that this person would not be able to do it for long, and who would have thought that it would only take less than three or five days to kill a Supervisor Jing with a deep background.
Speaking of Supervisor Jing, no one in the Manchu Weapons Supervisor knows that he has a cousin who is the godson of Bian Lingcheng, the general of the prison gate, and there are countless people with a big background like Supervisor Jing in the Weapons Prison.
"Hey, have you heard, yesterday there was a forbidden army surrounding the crossbow workshop, this ordnance supervisor is not simple!"
"Who said no, if you can mobilize the forbidden army, this ability alone is not something we can provoke, these days you are all in good spirits, don't hit your head against it!"
"Coming, coming......"
With a reminder, the people who had gathered to discuss suddenly dispersed, and each pretended to be busy with their own errands.
Armament Supervisor Cheng Zheng Xianli today is the first day of his official duties, due to the deterrent effect of rumors, everywhere he goes, but there are assistants in the Armament Supervisor who are on duty, all of them are respectful and careful, compared with the day before when no one cared, it is really a difference between heaven and earth.
Zheng Xianli sighed secretly and walked into the main hall of the ordnance superintendent, the chief officer of the ordnance superintendent was old and frail, so all the general affairs fell on him, the ordnance superintendent.
The first thing he did when he took office, Qin Jin had already explained, imitating the Qiang heavy crossbow, three days ago, Zheng Xianli had already discussed it with several old craftsmen in the crossbow workshop. After inspecting the Qiang heavy crossbow, these old craftsmen said that they could try to imitate it, and the crossbow workshop still has a large number of mulberry tires and beef tendons that have been processed, as long as the shape is processed according to the specifications, a handful can be made in a few days.
Sure enough, Zheng Xianli sat in the hall for only a moment, and there was a report from the servants, and the craftsmen of the Crossbow Workshop Department were waiting outside.
Zheng Xianli couldn't wait to order the assistant on his side to invite the old craftsman into the main hall, and the assistant official hesitated for a while and persuaded: "Craftsman servant, please enter the main hall, I'm afraid it will lead people to gossip!"
Of course, this assistant official was out of good intentions, and kindly reminded Zheng Xianli that doing so might attract criticism and even affect the official reputation. But Zheng Xianli had other ideas, so that the official could go and invite him, and he didn't have to worry about anything.
After a long time, the old craftsman followed the official into the main hall of the ordnance superintendent, and as soon as they met, he knelt on the ground, and said that he was ashamed.
Zheng Xianli's heart was cold, looking at the old craftsman's expression, he was afraid that something had gone wrong with the imitation of the Qiang people's heavy crossbow.
"It's useless, and the crossbow made according to the shape has only half the range!"
"Do you know why?"
Zheng Xianli let the old craftsman enter the main hall, which is the method of encouragement. Now the old craftsman was ashamed, and said truthfully: "The production process of this crossbow is very different from the crossbow made by my Datang Ordnance Supervision, I'm afraid, I'm afraid I have to study it carefully!"
"It's okay, it's good if there's a reason, just go back and do it again!"
Zheng Xianli picked up the failed heavy crossbow in front of him with great interest, and played with it up and down for a while, except that it was quite unexpected with the Qiang heavy crossbow in terms of shape and feel, and even the production process was much better than that of the Qiang heavy crossbow, how could the range drop instead? He didn't know how to make crossbows, so he could only hand it over to the craftsmen to continue to ponder.
Just when the old craftsman and Zheng Xianli were discussing the method of copying the crossbow, Qin Jin was still entangled in his entanglement with Supervisor Najing.
Supervisor Jing also has a cousin named Jing You, who is a godson by Bian Lingcheng's side, and when he heard that his cousin had been wronged, he was immediately furious. This cousin of Jingyou is no different from his brother of the same birth to him.
This pair of cousins has been dependent on each other since they were young, so they have been dependent on each other since childhood. Later, his brother Jingyou was forced by life to enter the palace as a eunuch, and it was not until Jingyou attached Bian Lingcheng that he took his cousin, that is, Supervisor Jing, to Chang'an, and arranged for him to enter the Weapons Supervision Crossbow Workshop as a supervisor.
After the eunuch Jingyou learned that his cousin had been humiliated and was captured by the people of Jingzhao Mansion, he went to Jingzhao Mansion in anger to ask for someone.
In the past, which of these officials in Beijing was not respectful when he saw him, but today he was told that Yin Wangshou, the young man of Jingzhao, was not in the palace. Jing You clearly saw that Wang Shou's carriage and horse were still waiting outside the door, why wasn't he in the house?
Jing You thought about it, since Shao Yin was not there, then find the subordinate officials of Jingzhao Mansion. Wang Shou was not afraid of offending Jingyou, but those subordinate officials could not afford to offend, so they had to come forward and make a false accusation, welcome him into the public room in Jingzhao Mansion, serve tea and entertain him, and even secretly told him the truth he knew.
"To tell the truth, Shao Yin is also caught in the middle and is in a dilemma, but who is the person who framed Supervisor Jing that day?"
"Who is it?" Jing You was very dissatisfied with the attitude of this subordinate official, and actually asked himself. He took a sip of the hot tea soup to his lips to ease the anger in his heart.
"General Lang of the Shenwu Army, Qin Jin!"
"Who?"
Jingyou's hand shook violently suddenly, and most of the tea soup in the tea bowl spilled out, falling on his hand, between his lips, and it hurt hotly. However, he didn't care about the pain of being burned by the hot tea soup at all.
The subordinate officer repeated it again.
Jingyou's chest was stuffed with ice, and a chill suddenly rose. But soon, he pretended to be indifferent and coughed dryly.
"I just remembered, there are still some miscellaneous things to deal with in the forbidden world, so I won't wait for Shaoyin today!"
After that, Jing You fled and left Jingzhao Mansion.
His series of reactions made the subordinate official stunned for a while, but he didn't expect that Bian Lingcheng's godson was a coward, and he heard that his cousin provoked Qin Jin, the general of the Shenwu Army, like a mouse seeing a cat.
After Wang Shou sent someone to inform Qin Jin of the matter, Zheng Xianli, who was sitting on the side, laughed.
"Bullying the soft and fearing the hard is like this!"
The two chatted for a while, and then talked about the Qiang heavy crossbow that failed to be imitated.
"It's normal for the imitation of the 'Divine Arm Bow' to fail, look at the current situation of the Ordnance Supervisor, it is not easy to make a well-made heavy crossbow in three days, those craftsmen are better than having many years of experience in making crossbows, and there is no way for us to worry about the manufacturing method. ”
At this point, Qin Jin changed his words again, "According to the news that came out of the ban, the Son of Heaven has already planned to deal with Doctor Gao, and it seems that the situation is not good!"
Gao Xianzhi is now imprisoned in Yulin Weizhong, which is where Qin Jin was imprisoned a few days ago.
Zheng Xianli suddenly lowered his voice and said: "If it is a last resort, it is better to rob the prison......"
Qin Jin flatly refused, he knew that Zheng Xianli's affection for Feng Gao and the others was not ordinary, because after all, this person had been in the Anxi Army for many years, but from the overall situation, it was absolutely impossible for the Shenwu Army to jump out of the existing framework rules and do some earth-shattering things.
You must know that the main soldiers of the Shenwu Army are all from the sons and daughters of the nobles and nobles in the city, how could these people betray the imperial court?
Or find another way!