Ye Xun was refuted for being difficult to discuss and be, and Zhu Xuan was reprimanded for being corrected by the Yanshan Health Department. The remaining two Qincha Zhenqian and Chang Xiu, it is impossible for anyone to stand up and seriously find faults. Zhen Qian didn't say it, he couldn't have smashed his seat and smashed his job. Chang Xiu is the right waiter of the Ministry of Works, and this time he is not only here for Huo Shiqi's case; He had other business to do.

Originally, the Ministry of Industry opened three large workshops in Yanshan Sanzhou, in addition to manufacturing ordnance for the guards, but also specializing in ironware. Last winter, Shang Cheng entered Beijing, reached an agreement with the Ministry of Industry, and opened three new workshops in Yanshan, two of which still produce both ordnance and civilian use, and the third one is for another purpose: one is to test the standardized production of unified specifications of ordnance, and the other is to improve and innovate the old technology. The construction of the workshop and the recruitment of craftsmen went smoothly, and many achievements were made a few years ago, such as the new bed crossbow brought to the grassland by the Chinese army, which was the result of this workshop. The achievements of this workshop were not limited to ordnance, but also in iron smelting, blacksmithing, agricultural tools, carpentry, hydraulics, papermaking, printing, drafting, weaving, garment making, ...... Even in terms of jade production, there have been breakthroughs. These new processes cover a large area and involve many aspects, which are completely beyond people's most daring imagination, which directly leads to Yan Bosi becoming the new darling of the Ministry of Industry overnight. Yan Bosi, who had always been regarded as redundant, finally raised his eyebrows, and they submitted detailed flow diagrams and samples of new processes to Shangjing almost every ten years, sometimes even with the latest reports for several days in a row, or the new processes that had just been submitted were immediately replaced by newer and better ones. Such a large-scale and large-scale process improvement suddenly appeared in Yanshan, and this news not only shocked the Ministry of Industry, but even alarmed the Prime Minister's office. You must know that these processes are not only related to military manufacturing, but also closely related to people's daily life and related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Several prime ministers and vice-ministers have taken time out of their busy schedules to inquire into the matter, and have instructed the Ministry of Industry to quickly verify and form a graphic record as soon as possible so that it can be disseminated to all localities......

But this created another problem, the Yanshan Wei Government did not agree with the Ministry of Industry to promote it to various places. The reason is very simple: although the new workshop is jointly managed by the Ministry of Industry and Yanshan, the site, construction, labor and materials of the third workshop are paid for by the Yanshan Weifu family, and the result is that the Weifu spent a lot of money to buy the secret craftsmanship from the craftsmen, and the total investment before and after exceeded 30,000 yuan. It took so much money to get something, and the Ministry of Industry wanted to serve it in a pot when he said a word, how could there be such a good thing in the world? Of course, the Wei Mansion did not dare to worry about the imperial court, but the words were also released, and if the Ministry of Industry really wanted to promote it, it was okay to fill the hole for the Yanshan Wei Mansion first, and then sit down to talk about compensation...... The Ministry of Engineering became popular all at once. A small yamen in Yanshan Weifu District, dare to confront the six departments of the imperial court? picked up the boss's shelf and placed a paperwork, directly asking Yanshan Weifu to return the workshop. Yanshan Weifu was not ambiguous, and immediately submitted the paperwork: pay, of course, you have to pay, but if you want to pay it, you can't pay it to the Ministry of Industry, I will pay it to the Ministry of War!

Now the Ministry of Engineering was dumbfounded. You must know that the Ministry of War has set up workshops for repairing and manufacturing ordnance in various places, and it is completely justified for the Yanshan Weifu to hand over the workshops to the Ministry of War. But if this workshop is in the hands of the Ministry of War, can it still be recovered? Even if you can win the pen and ink lawsuit, it will be a matter of the Year of the Monkey to come back......

Therefore, when Chang Xiulin left Beijing, the Ministry of Industry urgently handed him an official business, which was to coordinate with the Yanshan Wei Mansion to deal with this matter. It's just that this leader of the literary world has always been a self-named scholar, and he thinks that this matter is not a problem, so he leaves the specific affairs to his subordinates to deal with, and he travels every day to write poems and articles. However, he didn't do anything serious, at least he had found time to go to the Wei Mansion a few times. But the war had just ended, and the military affairs at the end of the sweep were one after another, Zhang Shao was so busy that he couldn't even see his figure, and several Si Cao of the Wei Mansion couldn't be the master, so the matter has been delayed until now.

There are no eyebrows in the matter, and Chang Xiu is also anxious. It has been almost a month since the calculation time, and it is time to return to Beijing in a blink of an eye, and if he doesn't get things done, it will be difficult for him to make a difference in the ministry when he returns to Beijing. I finally bumped into Zhang Shao here today, how could he jump out and go against Shang Cheng?

When he talked about the difficulties, Shang Cheng was both surprised and embarrassed. He was amazed that so many new processes could appear in this workshop, which was supposed to improve and standardize ordnance; And what makes him embarrassed is that this is indeed an ordnance workshop, and the Wei Mansion has always been investing money, and now it has just improved a little, and the Ministry of Industry wants to take it back, which is really a bit excessive. In addition, he also admired himself a little bit to look at it one by one, you are really prescient! Fortunately, you reminded Zhang Shao to take money to buy technology, no, not to mention the rudiments of ordnance standardization, and so many achievements......

He asked Zhang Shao: "Why didn't you tell me what Chang Shilang said?" ”

Zhang Shao smiled: "This is a trivial matter, I haven't even asked, not to mention that you are so busy that you don't have time to eat every day, let alone pay attention to it." I handed it over to the people below to dispose of. ”

Zhang Shao had a gentleman's frank and sincere smile on his face, and several Beijing officials felt that what he said should not be a lie. Even Chang Xiu believes that the officials of the Ministry of Industry misunderstood Zhang Shao. But Shang Cheng and Zhang Shao have been working together for a long time, and they can't get to know this person better. Generally speaking, when talking about this kind of thing, the more Zhang Shao smiles and the more sincere and sincere he looks, the more it shows that there is a problem. He thought for a moment, groaned and asked, "Do you have a financial disagreement with the Ministry of Industry?" ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Shao shook his head vigorously, and said indifferently, "The expenses of the workshop have account books, and the expenses of each expenditure are recorded. What a disagreement this is. We have absolutely no disagreement with the Ministry of Industry! He smiled and waved his hand, as if it were as simple as getting rid of a pesky mosquito.

The more he was like this, the more suspicious Shang Cheng became, and he twisted his face and asked Chang Xiu again: "Master Chang, is that so?" ”

Chang Xiu smiled bitterly and said, "Master Zhang is joking. Since the establishment of that workshop, the total expenditure has exceeded 67,000 yuan, in addition to the 32,000 yuan for the redemption of craftsmanship and the due expenses for the site, labor, ironwood raw materials, etc., there are also 21,000 yuan for the ordnance expenses of the Yanshan Guard. He grinned, and his face fell into tears. As of the day before yesterday, more than 20,000 yuan of the purchase of ordnance had not been transferred to the account of the workshop, and the workshop also owed money to others on credit. The Wei government now wants our Ministry of Industry to fill this shortfall, this matter...... I'm afraid it can't be justified, right? ”

Zhang Shao spread his hands and said, "The Wei Mansion doesn't have this money now." The money is all in the workshop. If the Ministry of Industry wants to recover the workshop, it has to make up for this part of the expenses. ”

"Lord Zhang, the more than 20,000 yuan is military expenses, and now that the war is over, the imperial court will naturally allocate ......."

"Then wait until the money is allocated." Zhang Shao unceremoniously cut off his words.

Shang Cheng was drinking water from a tea bowl, and when he heard Zhang Shao say it so confidently that he almost didn't squirt out a sip of tea soup. He had never heard of a man who owed money and food to go to war! In order to fight against the Turpentine, the imperial court began to prepare war expenses in Yanshanwei two years earlier, and now the large treasury directly under the governor's mansion in Yanzhou, as well as several large warehouses in Geping and Nanguan, are now hoarding tens of millions of copper coins, as well as more than 7,000 taels of silver and 1,600 taels of gold, and independent account books are also in the governor's mansion; Even the various expenses of this campaign were fully allocated to various yamen and localities before the year. When Zhang Shao said this, he was obviously bullying people and Chang Xiu was not familiar with military affairs.

Chang Xiu is indeed not familiar with military affairs. He was a scholar, although he became famous for his articles and poems when he was a teenager, but he had been stumbling in the imperial examination hall, and he only jumped over the dragon gate at the age of nearly fifty. Since he won the championship at the age of forty-eight, he has never left the capital. He has been unhappy in the examination room for a long time, but his career has been smooth sailing, and in less than ten years, he has become a fourth-grade member from the eighth-grade Xiaohanlin, which can be regarded as high-spirited. It's a pity that he has never been a foreign official, and he has never dealt with military affairs after doing so all the way in the Hanlin Academy, Taixue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry. He is also a literati temperament, chic and arrogant, and he can't talk about it with the figures in the army, so Zhang Shao is obviously bullying him, not only did he not hear it at all, but he actually went to Zhenqian to make an idea for him.

It must be said that the figures in the literary world of the leadership generation are not necessarily qualified politicians. Many times, they can't even be called qualified bureaucrats. For example, Chang Xiu Chang Wenshi, he is a living example. He had just brought out the contradiction between the Ministry of Industry and the Yanshan Weifu in front of everyone, and now he went to the Ministry of War to find a way for him, although this cannot be said to be a tiger skin, but in fact it is not inseparable.

However, we can't help but admit that Chang Xiu is indeed a blessed person; This can be seen from the pride of his career. Although Zhenqian was reluctant to help him from the bottom of his heart, he couldn't let him get off the stage in terms of face. So Zhen Qian casually said to Zhang Shao: "Jixian, today there are Zhu scholars and business governors, in front of the two of them, you can talk about your difficulties and let the two of them make decisions for you." ”

This was supposed to be a perfunctory polite remark. Shang Cheng is just that; Zhu Xuan is a scholar of Wenyingdian University, looking at his high rank and high position, but he has no authority and no real position, in the final analysis, he has no power and no money, what can he do?

As soon as the words were spoken, Yanshan Wenwu came down from Shangcheng, and they all frowned. Zhenqian himself was so remorseful in his heart that he couldn't wait to take back all his words and swallow them all. Hey! It's not good to say anything yourself, why do you want to involve Zhu Xuan? Zhu Xuan has no real power to deal with any major matters, but his second-grade Wenyingdian scholar is not a decoration, he is still Chang Xiu's teacher, and he will build a step for him, and he will not jump out immediately to be the master for his disciples?

Sure enough, as soon as his voice fell, Zhu Xuan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, immediately spoke: "Since the real adults said so, and the adults don't object, then the old man will take the power for a while to see if he can reconcile with Lord Zhang and Lord Chang." Master Zhang, what are your real difficulties, might as well tell us about them? ”

Zhang Shao glared at Zhen Xiang fiercely. Will you suffocate if you don't speak? There was a bit of hesitation on his face, and he said slowly: "The boss understands, we do have difficulties. He stared at the bluestone paving under his feet, and said slowly while searching his intestines and scraping his stomach to weave "difficulties", "The Ministry of Industry wants to get back this workshop, and it also wants to promote the new technology to all places, so that the people of the whole world can benefit, which we can understand and support." He stopped to take a sip of water and continued, "But my lord, don't you know, our Wei Mansion has also suffered a lot in running this workshop...... what "suffering" he has "suffered", he couldn't think clearly for the time being, so he had to aim his eyes at Shang Cheng.

Shang Cheng nodded, his face was overwhelmed with emotion, and he sighed and said, "Master Zhu, what Lord Zhang said is indeed the truth. Last year, we reached an agreement with the Ministry of Industry to set up three more workshops in Yanshan, and the preparation, site selection, civil construction, recruitment of craftsmen and so on of each workshop were all personally inquired about by Master Zhang Shao. At the beginning of December last year, heavy snow fell in various parts of Yanshan, and the deepest snow was knee-deep, and the roads were muddy and difficult to walk. But Mr. Zhang remembered the workshop in Duanzhou in his heart, and went to Duanzhou to inspect the construction of the workshop in the snow, and it was a serious illness when he came back...... Not to mention, this hard work and fatigue alone is enough to serve as a model for us......" Lu Ji and Di Xu nodded together, both with admiration. Even Guo Biao, who had not yet arrived in Yanshan at that time, also raised his head and looked at the opposite wall, as if he was recalling the moving situation at that time......

Zhang Shao waved his hand, saying that those little things in the past were not worth mentioning, and said: "Boss, not only our commanders have worked hard for the successful completion of these workshops, but also Lord Lu, Lord Di and General Guo are often concerned about it. He crossed his fingers and detailed the merits of each person, of course, to hire craftsmen to rely on Lu Ji, to supervise the expenditure of money and grain, although Guo Biao arrived late, but after taking office, several workshops went back and forth to inspect and care about ordnance manufacturing, which is an indisputable fact. The most important thing is that the expenses of these workshops are not only supported by the Wei Mansion, but also by the Pastoral Mansion, the Inspectorate and the Admiral's Mansion, as well as the garrisons in various places, all of which squeeze money out of their teeth to supply the Wei Mansion and the workshops...... He told Zhu Xuan and Chang Xiu: "Not to mention the other two workshops, that is, the workshop that the Ministry of Industry wants to recover, of the more than 47,000 real expenses that are available, more than one-third of them are borrowed from the yamen of Yanshan. Otherwise, how can we support it just by relying on our Wei Mansion? Just because of this, the three adults don't know how many people have been scolded by the people below, and several officials in the yamen have also suffered with our Weifu. Alas......" he let out a long sigh.

The implication of this is very clear, if you want to get back the idea of a workshop for nothing, the Ministry of Industry will not fight anymore; If he doesn't get some benefits, then he would rather give the workshop to the military department. Of course, if you want to pick the idea that the Yanshan Health Department is not the same, it is best to dispel it as soon as possible.

In the end, with Zhu Xuan's mediation and Shang Cheng's acquiescence, Chang Xiu, on behalf of the Ministry of Industry, agreed to make up for the cost of Yanshan Weifu's redemption of craftsmanship from craftsmen, and the additional benefits that Weifu hoped to obtain would be compensated by the Ministry of Labor's priority in planning and repairing the road from Yandong to the mainland. And that workshop is still a joint venture between the Ministry of Industry and Yanshan......

Zhu Xuan no longer pursued the Yanshan Health Department, and Chang Xiu also solved his own problems, which was barely a happy result. Taking advantage of his happiness, Shang Cheng enthusiastically invited everyone to have lunch at home......

Coming out of the business, Ye Xun, who was not happy at all, couldn't help but ask Zhu Xuan, why didn't he use the "Zunben Zhenfu" in "Persuading Nong Sangwen Again" to question Shang Cheng. Zhu Xuan said: "Do you think this article can stump him? Lord Ye, Shang Zida is not an ordinary person. He was very curious, how could a person with such a broad and profound vision be a monk who had been a monk before, and he was also an unknown monk......

Ye Xun didn't speak.

He vaguely heard that after Shang Cheng left Beijing last year, the Prime Minister's Office secretly sent people to investigate Shang Cheng's situation in Shangjing and various prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi; It seems that he also secretly ordered the officials to send officials to Shu to understand the situation of Shangcheng in Jiazhou and Chengdu; It is said that there are some results. As for what the result was, because the Prime Minister's Office had a strict order not to leak it, he had no way to inquire......