Unlike ordinary rulers, Li Zhongyi's emphasis on scientific and technological talents has been raised to a strategic level.

During the Qiang Han Dynasty, skilled craftsmen not only received high salaries, but their political status also increased unprecedentedly.

Although, the highest official position that craftsmen can attain is only from the false title of the seventh rank. However, this is the first time in history.

The Son of Heaven caress the four people, and Shinong is a businessman. Among them, the scholars were the most noble, followed by the landlords and yeoman farmers, and the craftsmen and merchants were unusually low.

After Li Zhongyi completely mastered the government, the status of craftsmen and merchants was unprecedentedly improved.

As far as the merchants were concerned, their children already had the right to participate in the imperial examinations, which was an inevitable product of Li Zhongyi's strong promotion of mercantilism.

Now, craftsmen who have mastered the crafts of metallurgy, gunpowder making, barrel drilling, waterwheeling, and cannon making can obtain official positions from the seventh rank or lower by virtue of their skillful craftsmanship, and the elevation of the status of the entire class is obviously of great milestone significance.

Therefore, when Li Zhongyi heard that something had happened to the ordnance supervisor, his heart immediately pinched.

Li Hu saw Li Zhongyi's eyes staring at him, he couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp for a while, but he had to tell the truth.

"Your Majesty, the quality of artillery is still not very stable, and the ratio of explosives is more than ten to three." Li Hu stubbornly reported the major incident, "Three craftsmen were seriously injured because they couldn't dodge in time. ”

Li Zhongyi frowned and remained silent, which made Li Hu more and more uneasy.

In the ordnance prison, there have been frequent cases of major accidents caused by non-standard operations, which is a typical disease of state-owned enterprises.

After all, craftsmen are not soldiers, their education level is generally low, and the illiteracy rate is at least more than 95%, which can easily lead to a lack of attention from top to bottom to standardize the operation process.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and pondered for a while, then slowly said, "It's time for the craftsmen to learn culture." ”

Although Li Hu is very dedicated, there is still the logic of a military general in his thoughts, and his mind did not turn around at once, but he just looked at Li Zhongyi with a smile.

Li Zhongyi felt that he had to make it clear to Li Hu, otherwise, the hidden danger of accidents in the ordnance prison would never be avoided.

Accompanied by Li Hu, Li Zhongyi took the initiative to visit the three craftsmen who were seriously injured. After careful examination, Li Zhongyi found that the craftsman named Zhang Yi had been hit in the head by the flying bronze shards, and the injury was the most serious.

As for the other two craftsmen, one was wounded in the arm and the other in the leg. The injury is not serious, the trouble is that there is already an infection.

In this era when there are no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, wound infections can only rely on the individual's physique to carry them, and if they can't carry it, they will die.

Fortunately, Li Zhongyi mastered several very effective anti-inflammatory Chinese medicine prescriptions, and without saying a word, he immediately prescribed the prescription and ordered someone to go to a nearby town to grab the medicine and fry it.

As for Zhang Yi, who was seriously injured in the head, Li Zhongyi could only take out the copper piece and apply anti-infection medicine, and there was nothing else to do.

After all, no matter how brilliant Li Zhongyi's medical skills are, in this era of lack of medical treatment and lack of advanced surgical instruments, he does not have the conditions for brain surgery at all.

After Li Zhongyi disposed of it properly, he walked outside and stood under the porch with his hands in his hands, especially nostalgic for the good days when he had cigarettes.

Men, once they are in a bad mood or irritable, cigarettes and alcohol are the best partners.

Li Zhongyi's face was gloomy, and the people with knives and relatives around him held their breath one by one, and they didn't dare to take half a mouthful.

Zhang Sanzheng soon learned the news, and in the face of the informant who was staring at him, Zhang Sanzheng had to sigh again and again to say that he could not do anything.

Li Zhongyi is not such a moody monarch, and when he is in a bad mood, he actually doesn't have many times.

However, Li Zhongyi has a characteristic, when he is in a bad mood, he has the characteristic of not approaching people, and even a first-class henchman like Zhang Sanzheng does not dare to lean over easily.

When Li Zhongyi is in a bad mood, it is impossible to kill his subordinates indiscriminately to get angry, but if he easily provokes his subordinates, he will fall into the big pit he dug and cannot extricate himself.

Last time, Zhang Sanzheng suffered a big loss and was punished for copying the entire Guards Drill Code 50 times, which was simply a tearful copy, and the copying was painful.

After Zhang Sanzheng's lesson, the cronies and generals of the Qinya Battalion and the Guards Army all knew that when Li Zhongyi was in a bad mood, they must not provoke him.

Li Zhongyi stood under the porch with his hands in his hands, standing for more than half an hour, and when he took a step, the nearby people with knives were secretly relieved.

As a result of yesterday's artillery explosion, the entire workshop was ordered to stop work pending the results of the accident assessment.

Accompanied by Li Hu, Li Zhongyi came to the artillery casting yard, where the craftsmen were sitting in groups in all corners of the field, and everyone was talking about all kinds of gossip about the accident.

"Hey, Zhang Yi is really unlucky, the five little babies in the family are still underage, alas, how can I live this day?"

"Isn't it, Zhang Yi's luck is really too bad......"

"Who said it wasn't, but the copper cannon blew up, and I can't even figure out the reason......"

When Li Zhongyi walked into the workshop, all kinds of rumors inevitably poured into his ears.

In these years, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

The craftsmen who can enter the artillery workshop are all craftsmen who have been checked by the Ti Cavalry Division and are innocent.

Due to the high wages of the artillery workshop, the income of one craftsman was enough to feed a family of eight, and there was still a lot of money.

After repeated accidents of exploding, but, based on the logic that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, Li Zhongyi did not hear the strange words that he didn't want to do.

Of course, on the side of the artillery workshop, there is not a vegetable garden gate that can be entered and exited at will, and there are strict procedures for hiring craftsmen or dismissing craftsmen.

After all, in today's absence of muskets, artillery is a weapon of mass destruction, which can be described as a heavy weapon of the militaristic state, which must be kept strictly secret and cannot be missed.

"The Emperor's ......" Li Hu was about to remind everyone that the emperor had arrived, but was stopped by Li Zhongyi waving his hand.

One of the parts of treating craftsmen well is not to play prestige in front of craftsmen and give everyone a relaxed working environment. Li Zhongyi said so, and he did so, and the effect has been very good so far.

"Li Bing, yesterday, your shop's paving board rang in the middle of the night, but I was really tired."

"Hahaha, Li Bing is notoriously fierce......"

"Hehe, no wonder, when I went to work today, why did I think Li Bing's lady's eyes were black......"

The craftsmen who had little culture, but each had their own unique craft, like the industrial workers of later generations, often chatted and chatted about the wild road.

Lace news, gossip news, not only the small people in the market love to listen, but the craftsmen love to talk about it, and as soon as they talk about it, it is easy to go to the lower body.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile slightly, although there was an accident of exploding, but everyone's spirit to continue to work did not fall.

This is a great blessing in misfortune, right?

Li Zhongyi pretended not to hear it, and glanced at Li Hu, who was already a little anxious, but Li Hu was too honest to understand what Li Zhongyi meant.

In desperation, Zhang Sanzheng, who saw it very clearly, stepped forward and shouted: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

A cadre of craftsmen was so frightened that they got up and ran over one after another, kneeling down in a large area.

According to Li Zhongyili's rules, not only craftsmen with official positions do not need to kneel, but even ordinary craftsmen are exempted from kneeling.

However, the traditional power of contempt for craftsmen for thousands of years can be said to be deep-rooted, and when craftsmen are panicked, they are prone to weak knees.

"Let's all get up." Li Zhongyi raised his right hand and made a motion to get up.

This time, Li Hu's reaction was very fast, and he hurriedly said loudly: "The emperor said, get up, get up." ”

Li Hu was the biggest official in the ordnance prison, and naturally no one dared to disobey his words, so the craftsmen stood up one after another.

It's just that everyone gathered together, saying all kinds of unpopular things in private, their hearts were weak, and their waists couldn't stand straight.

Li Zhongyi knew what the craftsmen were afraid of, so he smiled and said: "In life, in addition to eating, drinking and having fun, it is the hot kang head of the wife and baby, and I am no exception." ”

Li Hu looked at Li Zhongyi dumbfounded, and he said in his heart, how can an emperor be so self-defeating?

Zhang Sanzheng knew in his heart that these craftsmen present were all treasures that Li Zhongyi valued very much, and in layman's terms, they were all technical talents who were treated as their own people.

Li Zhongyi beckoned, called the craftsmen to the front, and sat around him several times.

"This explosion injured three brothers again, and the lesson is really terrible." Li Zhongyi didn't care about Long Wei at all, so he picked up his robe and sat directly in the middle of the craftsmen.

"Since it is a tragic lesson, we should reflect and summarize it well, so as not to leave orphans and widows, it will be too miserable, do you think this is the case?" Li Zhongyi knew that most of the craftsmen were uneducated, so he simply used the most popular words and phrases to say what was in his heart.

Speaking of this, Li Zhongyi turned his face and said sharply: "The bloody thing is right in front of you, but some people still regard the operation specifications as child's play." If you continue to wander around, you will either give your own life or harm others, and it will only be orphans and widows who suffer......"

Before Li Zhongyi, there had never been an emperor who would be so serious about lowly craftsmen.

With Li Zhongyi's anger, for a while, the air in the entire casting workshop was extremely solemn, and the audience was silent.

"In order to avoid accidents that harm others and yourself, which happen again and again, I ask you to unconditionally and strictly follow the operation specifications to carry out the construction." Li Zhongyi glanced at the audience majestically, and reminded everyone again, "If there are any craftsmen who violate the operation process, they will be ten canes." ”

Li Zhongyi doesn't know much about the filial piety under the stick, but he understands a truth: the appropriate use of violence has a great effect on promoting the production order of the factory.