Li Tiehammer hesitated, gritted his teeth and said: "Non-villains and others cut corners and don't care, it's really a last resort, the imperial court allocates more than 3,000 taels of silver to the Ordnance Bureau every year, and there is not much left when it is distributed to the workshops, the villains and others have not received the salary for several months, and the manpower is also seriously insufficient, and the military department urges the armor and is urgent, if it cannot be delivered when it expires, the villain and others will have to be punished, and they can only deal with it in this way, so the villains and others are ashamed to engrave their names on the armor made, which is really insulting to the craftsmanship passed on to me by the ancestors!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was dumbfounded when he heard this, he smashed no less than two million taels of silver in the Dongfan Military Factory every year, and the dignified Ming Ordnance Bureau court only allocated more than three thousand taels of silver every year, which is also incredible! Hurriedly turned his head and asked Zheng Guozhu on the side: "Is what he said true?" ……”

Zheng Guozhu nodded a little embarrassed and said: "It's true, the cost allocated by the imperial court to the Ordnance Bureau this year is only 3,780 taels, and the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry has also played to the imperial court many times to ask for an increase in funds, but now the treasury is empty......

Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand hatefully and said: "The silver official has come to find a way, the important weapon of the country, how can he be stingy with investment!" ......" said and turned to Li Tiezhu, and said: "Li Tiezhu, this official guarantees to make up for your salary, and from today on, you will double your salary, and all the less craftsmen will make up for it, so you may assure this official that from now on, the armor made will be a good product, and you will never cut corners?!" ……”

Li Tiezhu was overjoyed when he heard this, and led all the craftsmen to bow their heads and bow, and said loudly: "The adults are willing to uphold justice for the villains, and if the villains cut corners and deal with errands, wouldn't it be better to be pigs and dogs?" The villain guarantees that the armor made from now on will never be defective, and the adults can send someone to check the ...... at any time."

As he was talking, the young craftsman led the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau to come in a hurry, the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau did not know Guo Zhiyuan, but he knew Zheng Guozhu and Xu Jinglei, and Zheng Guozhu and Xu Jinglei were still standing behind Guo Zhiyuan, so they knew that what the young craftsman said was true that the senior members of the Ministry of Industry came to inspect it, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted Guo Zhiyuan: "Xiaguan Cao Dezhi has seen the adult, but I don't know that the adult came to inspect, and he has missed the distance, please ......forgive me."

Guo Zhiyuan saw that this Cao Dezhi was untidy and sleepy-eyed, obviously he was lazy and sleeping on an errand, and he was very unhappy in his heart, but he was not in a hurry, glanced at Cao Dezhi, waved his hand and said: "Get up and speak, this official inspected the Ordnance Bureau today, just to understand the real situation of the Ordnance Bureau, since you are the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau, you must know the situation of the Ordnance Bureau very well, so introduce it to this officer......"

Cao Dezhi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, he was able to become the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau by slipping his beard, but he didn't know anything about business, plus Zhang Naiwang, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, was relatively strong, and he didn't let his deputy interfere in many things, he was also happy to be idle, and he was cheating and playing tricks on weekdays, Guo Zhiyuan asked him to introduce the situation of the Ordnance Bureau, where could he answer, fortunately, he was still a little anxious, looked left and right, and said in a panic: "It's too noisy here, why don't you ask the adult to move to the signing room of the lower official, and then the lower official will introduce the situation to the adult?" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan saw the situation of this armor workshop and knew that the management of the Ordnance Bureau was a complete mess, and the situation of the other workshops was estimated to be not much better, and the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau already knew that he was coming, and it was pointless for him to continue the private visit of Weifu, so he nodded and said: "It's okay, then let's go to your signing room!" ……”

followed Cao Dezhi to the signing room, Cao Dezhi called a few scribes to introduce the situation of the Ordnance Bureau to Guo Zhiyuan, but what kind of boss there is and what kind of subordinates, those scribes are also half a bucket of water, and the information introduced to Guo Zhiyuan is all on the information that Guo Zhiyuan saw in the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry in the morning, and Guo Zhiyuan can't answer the specific questions he asks.

Guo Zhiyuan knew that the management team of the Ordnance Bureau was only afraid that it would be rotten from top to bottom, and he hoped that it would be in vain to learn the true situation of the Ordnance Bureau from them, so he waved his hand and said coldly: "No need to introduce, you bring the current accounts of the Ordnance Bureau and the roster of craftsmen, and the official ......will check it himself."

Cao Dezhi chuckled in his heart when he heard this, although he, the deputy envoy of the Ordnance Bureau, was a fool, but he also knew that the current accounts of the Ordnance Bureau could not withstand inspection, and he was secretly anxious, and he did not dare to disobey Guo Zhiyuan's order, so he had to ask the scribes to take the current accounts of the Ordnance Bureau and the roster of craftsmen for Guo Zhiyuan to check, but secretly he quickly sent someone to inform Zhang Naiwang, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau.

Guo Zhiyuan took the current accounts of the Ordnance Bureau and the roster of craftsmen and flipped through them, although he was not an auditor, but he just casually flipped through the current accounts of the Ordnance Bureau and found that there were many errors and omissions on it, it was a completely bad book, and then he looked at the roster of craftsmen and was even more angry, just now he only saw a dozen craftsmen in the armor workshop, but there were more than 120 people on the roster, he knew that the Ordnance Bureau must have a situation of empty salaries, but now the situation he saw was far more serious than he imagined!

Seeing this situation, Guo Zhiyuan didn't bother to get angry, the management team of the Ordnance Bureau was already rotten, and it must be replaced, so he directly picked up the list of craftsmen and handed it to Xu Jinglei and said: "Lord Xu, you take this roster and go to each workshop to roll call according to the number of people to see how many people actually are?" ……”

"Yes!" Xu Jinglei took the roster and took the order.

Cao Dezhi's face turned white with fright when he heard this, and if he wanted to investigate like Guo Zhiyuan, it had to be a big deal, so he hurriedly stammered: "Big... My lord, this... Roster does... I can't count them, some craftsmen... Craftsman Household Notice... Sick in... Recuperating at home, un... Future Errand ......"

Guo Zhiyuan didn't look at Cao Dezhi, and directly turned his head and instructed Zheng Guozhu: "Lord Zheng, you quickly go back to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to transfer a few capable scribes over, and check the current accounts of this Ordnance Bureau for this official!" ……”

Cao Dezhi was so frightened that he sat directly on the ground, Guo Zhiyuan is preparing to investigate the Ordnance Bureau! How's that for good?!

"Wait!" At this time, a middle-aged man who was full of wine and wearing a nine-grade official uniform walked in, glanced at Guo Zhiyuan, and arched his hand towards Guo Zhiyuan with a big thorn: "This is Lord Guo, the new right attendant of the Ministry of Works?" Zhang Naiwang, the ambassador of the Xiaguan Ordnance Bureau, has seen the adults, and the adults came to inspect my Ordnance Bureau without notifying the lower officials in advance, so that the lower officials could make some preparations! When the adults came to inspect our Ordnance Bureau, the officials were very welcome, but this account could not be checked! ……”