On June 23, 22 years of Shaoxing, the imperial court presided over the selection of generals because of Yang Congyi's new method of training soldiers, and gave Yang Congyi a martial arts scholar background, and added the official Wu Xianlang, who was appointed as the deputy envoy of the west workshop of the Ordnance Institute, and immediately went to work.

When the imperial court appointed, not only did he feel surprised, but even Lord Zhang felt that this matter was unusual.

The West Workshop is a subordinate institution of the Ordnance Institute, and its main function is to build armor weapons and develop new weapons, and its functions are very special, so those who serve as workshop envoys or deputy envoys are not ordinary people, at least they must be in the army for more than ten years, proficient in the use and performance of various weapons and equipment, and have the ability to test the performance of various weapons and equipment, and this kind of people are generally people with special talents.

Although the court of the Great Song Dynasty was heavy on literature and light on military force, the suppression of military generals by civil ministers was very serious, and the control of military power reached the strongest time since ancient times, but the imperial court was not stingy in the investment in weapons and equipment, and invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the development and manufacture of weapons every year.

Nowadays, most of the workshops in Zhuzhou are abandoned, and the two workshops in the east and west are particularly important to the Great Song Dynasty, so each appointment of the main envoy or deputy envoy must be carefully selected, and the best of the best will be selected.

Obviously, in any respect, Yang Congyi does not have the qualifications and ability to serve as the deputy envoy of the Western Workshop, he does not have enough qualifications in the army, and he has no special talent in ordnance.

But since the imperial court has already issued an appointment, it can only carry it out.

Yang Congyi quickly handed over the errand and documents of the military case and went to the west workshop of the Ordnance Institute to take up his post.

The weapons are located in Lin'an City, but the West Workshop is in Renhe County outside Lin'an City, Yang Congyi has to go to the Ordnance Institute first, and then he can go to the West Workshop to take up his post.

The person in charge of the ordnance station is an internal servant, Yang Congyi can't tell how old he is, but he should not be less than forty years old.

When the chamberlain heard Yang Congyi's name, his face immediately became a little more polite, and he smiled a little more, he was not embarrassed, and he didn't say much, just let Yang Congyi work hard in the workshop and make achievements, and the court would definitely not treat him badly.

In just two quarters of an hour, the entry procedures were completed.

The west workshop was in Renhe County, and Yang Congyi rushed to his post that day.

After arriving at the West Workshop, he found that the entire workshop was in a mess, and thousands of soldiers were busy and anxious, unable to find the slightest clue.

When I asked someone, I found out that the ordnance office had given them an order to manufacture a huge amount of ordnance yesterday, but the chief officer of the workshop was nowhere to be found, and they had the intention of making ordnance, but because no one dared to sign the pledge, they could not receive the materials.

Under careful questioning, Yang Congyi learned that the West Workshop originally had a deputy envoy in charge, but because the workshop had not received the manufacturing task of the Ordnance Institute for a long time, the deputy envoy did not come to the workshop to sit idle and went home to recuperate.

When Yang Congyi first came here, he didn't know anything, and it was not easy to give orders indiscriminately, so he ordered someone to notify everyone to be in charge of affairs.

Ten years ago, the demand for ordnance was greatly reduced, and there were many ordnance piles made ten years ago in the armory, and they could not be used up without war, so the workshop had a very light task in recent years, and only needed to manufacture a small amount of ordnance every year, so that the craftsmanship was unfamiliar immediately, and most of the time was to develop new ordnance and tinker with some useful and useless new things.

I haven't received a big task for many years, and now the ordnance institute suddenly issued a task, which is still a very heavy one, and if it can't be completed on time, the wages will be deducted, and the family has to be fed, how to keep them from panicking?

A few quarters of an hour later, more than 30 people gathered together, looked at Yang Congyi, exchanged heads and ears, and talked about it.

"My surname is Yang, my name is Congyi, and I am the newly appointed deputy envoy of the Western Workshop by the imperial court. Before coming to the Ordnance Institute, I served as the commander of the military case in front of the palace, and I also served as the supervisor of the forbidden army, but when it came to ordnance manufacturing, I knew nothing and had never come into contact with it. The matter of the ordnance manufacturing of the West Workshop, please leave it to you! If you need help, just come to me, I will give my full support! ”

After Yang Congyi finished speaking, everyone who had quieted down a little immediately talked again, and the whole scene was a mess.

"If you have something, just say it out loud, don't talk about it in private!"

Yang Congyi frowned slightly, the soldier really couldn't compare with the real forbidden soldiers, at least in terms of discipline, he didn't know how far behind.

"My lord, how is it possible for us to make 50,000 bows, 500,000 arrows, 50,000 guns, and 30,000 knives in three months? If you don't get it, you won't be paid, you can't do this job! ”

One of them, like the leader, raised his head and shouted.

"So how much can you accomplish in three months under normal circumstances?"

Yang Congyi's heart tightened, he had already asked, there are not many people in the West Workshop, after several reductions in staff, there are now less than 1,500 people, how many ordnance can be made in a month, he really doesn't know.

"My lord, we are familiar with a person who can only make two bows a day at most, not counting the later oil and winding, about ten arrows per person per day, one gun a day, one knife in three days, we can't finish it at all!"

The man also didn't know how much they could accomplish in three months, so he could only tell Shangguan how much manpower and how much time it would take to make each ordnance.

Yang Congyi thought about it carefully, the difficulty is indeed very great, according to normal circumstances, the time is definitely not enough, and it will take at least five months to do a good job.

"Don't worry, three times is not short, as long as the materials are sufficient, let's do it first, if we do our best, three months still can't be completed, I will go to the ordnance to explain the situation, and strive to let everyone get paid! I don't understand ordnance manufacturing, but it's up to everyone how much of the tasks assigned by the ordnance can be completed! It's not early today, everyone goes back to prepare, and tomorrow will officially start work, okay? ”

Hearing Yang Congyi say this, everyone felt a little relieved, as long as they could pay their wages, they could still do this job.

"Thank you, sir!"

Many people shouted thanks, and although the voices were not uniform, they were sincere.

When the stewards dispersed, Yang Congyi called his subordinates and asked him to take him with him to walk through the entire western workshop, and asked as he went, he wanted to know more as soon as possible.

The entire western workshop covers a large area, which is many times larger than the previous general camp, and is divided into ten large areas, each of which is subdivided into many small areas.

Walking down in a circle, Yang Congyi's head was extremely big, he felt that the matter of the Western Workshop was more troublesome than the election of the general's camp, and it was easier to trouble than the original superintendent, and he had no confidence at all in serving here, and he didn't know what the imperial court thought.

After sunset, Yang Congyi went back, and the way home from the West Workshop was more than twice as far as that from the front of the palace.

When he returned home, it was already dark, and Qingchen was about to fall asleep when he came back for dinner.

Facing Qingchen's resentful eyes, Yang Congyi told her that he had been promoted, and today he was going to the new yamen to take office, and the road was a little far, which delayed time.

As soon as he heard that his husband had been promoted, the resentful look in Qingchen's eyes immediately disappeared, and he was eager to know what he had been promoted.

But when Yang Congyi told Qingchen that he was now promoted to the deputy envoy of the West Workshop of the Ordnance Institute, she was obviously stunned.

Workshop Vice-Ambassador? Doing rough work? Qingchen was very puzzled, and couldn't help but ask, they all went to the workshop, can they still be promoted?

Yang Congyi explained to her a little about the responsibilities of the workshop and the yamen to which it belonged, and Qingchen gradually became suspicious.

An ordinary dinner immediately turned into a promotion celebration banquet, and even Lian'er was temporarily allowed to sit down and eat at the same table.

On the night of his promotion, he had a lot of ups and downs.

On the third day, Yang Congyi got up early, and as soon as the sun came out, he rushed to the west workshop, and the craftsmen of the workshop had already been busy long before he came.

As soon as he entered the official office, the subordinate officials brought over more than a dozen documents for receiving materials for Yang Congyi to sign.

Yang Congyi didn't understand what the use of those materials was, so he signed directly after asking roughly and agreed to receive them. The task assigned by the armament was very heavy, and the soldiers were racing against time, and he did not dare to delay.

The news that the Jin Kingdom was about to move its capital seemed to have really shocked some people in the DPRK and China, and they had to step up the manufacture of ordnance and prepare to resist the invasion.

Throughout the morning, Yang Congyi signed dozens of material receipt documents at the official office, as well as dozens of material distribution documents, and the strict management of materials in various warehouses was beyond his imagination.

Each material distribution not only has to be signed by the principal or deputy envoy to receive the document, but also to have the principal or deputy envoy to sign and agree to the issuance of the document, that is to say, to receive a material from the warehouse, Yang Congyi needs to sign twice before and after, once the recipient takes the document to sign, and once the warehouse takes the document to sign, rigorous is rigorous, but it is a little troublesome.

However, Yang Congyi can't change it, maybe this is a system that has been used for hundreds of years, if you want to change it, how can it be so easy, besides, the workshop of the ordnance institute is a military powerhouse, and everything is rigorous and cumbersome, and it is not impossible.

kept signing in the morning, and still kept signing in the afternoon, Yang Congyi, as the deputy envoy of the West Workshop, seemed to have nothing else to do except sign.

Fortunately, from the next day, there were fewer people who came to him to sign, and the materials that should be collected should be almost collected, at least in the next few days.

In this way, he had time to walk around, after all, it was really boring to sit in the office.

Under the subdivision of the east and west workshops of the ordnance institute, there are wood, drums, rattan mats, bamboo, lacquer, vests, crossbows, strips, saddles, oil clothes, vests, ropes, lacquer armor, swords, paste, tools, pinching, carved wood, candles, lichens, iron armor, nails, iron bodies, vests, cooking, sharpening swords, leather armor, nail heads, copper, crossbows, nails, red skins, nails, lacquerware, wrong grinding, spinning, scales, silver, threading, There are 60 or 70 types of work, such as polishing twine, guns, horns, pots and guns, and grinding heads.