A moment later, Yang Mu drove the outer court, came to the location of the six ministries, and stopped in front of the yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

Suddenly, Chen You, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came out in a panic to greet him, and the officials of all sizes panicked and were uneasy.

After all, it has always been officials who accept summons and go to Zichen Hall to meet the emperor, when have you ever seen the emperor run into the yamen without any trouble? The emperor's visit to the official yamen has not appeared for many years, without warning, His Majesty the Emperor came to the Ministry of Works, is it a blessing or a curse?

Chen You was worried, he was the head of the Chen family, one of the six major gate valves, and the Chen family was originally a family in the previous dynasty, and the first emperor surrendered after capturing the imperial city, which was continued, but after all, he was not the first group of ministers from the dragon, and his power plummeted, and he belonged to the bottom of the six major gate valves.

And as we all know, His Majesty the Emperor today suppressed the gate valve, and this time he came to the Ministry of Industry, maybe he picked out some bones, and then used the topic to play, then the Chen family will suffer.

Thinking about it carefully, Chen You was sweating on his forehead, how tragic was the fate of the Tian family and the Zhang family? Just two days ago, he was still resting in the teaching department for one night, and saw with his own eyes that many of the female dependents of the convicted officials were tortured miserably, and it was a mother and daughter of the Zhang family who served him, that was ...... Tsk, the taste of a house prostitute is just different......

"Weichen, welcome Your Majesty! I don't know that His Majesty is coming, there are a number of rudenesses, and Weichen will die......" Chen You knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head.

"Calm down, I just came over to take a look, you don't have to be polite." Yang Mu said, and said: "This time the recruits joined the army, and the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of War cooperated closely, and I was very relieved. ”

"Thanks to Your Majesty's blessings, the ministers will definitely do their best to share your Majesty's worries!" Chen You secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and led the officials to follow behind Yang Mu, more respectful than the group of subordinate officials who followed next to ***, so he almost didn't take a small notebook to take notes.

"But...... You still have a lot of problems in the Ministry of Works. Suddenly, Yang Mu turned his head and said.

This sentence directly made Chen You's heart tremble, and he almost didn't stand firm, so he hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Weichen should die, Weichen is at fault, please Your Majesty to condemn you!" ”

The rest of the dozens of officials also hurriedly knelt on the ground, full of panic.

Yang Mu is very satisfied, which shows that he has achieved a lot of results by killing chickens and making an example of monkeys some time ago.

In fact, he did not come this time to embarrass the Ministry of Industry, as the most thankless department of the current six departments, the Ministry of Industry has always been looked down upon by the other five departments, just like those white-collar workers who sat in the office in later generations looked down on the people who set up stalls on the street to repair shoes.

This is related to the nature of the work of the Ministry of Industry, as the general command center of the national construction, the scope of responsibilities includes all kinds of temple construction, tuntian, water conservancy, transportation, but also to the Ministry of War, casting all kinds of weapons and equipment, involving gold, stone, bamboo, lacquer, earth, wood and textile industries, the number of craftsmen is more than ten times the number of officials, and the imperial court is famous for picking the door, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, everywhere is constrained by people, not to mention that there is no oil and water, it can be said that the status is very embarrassing.

However, the biggest purpose of Yang Mu's trip is these craftsmen.

As a later generation with advanced thinking and cognition, he certainly knows that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and craftsmen are the foundation of industry and the driving force of social development and progress.

Glancing at the uneasy officials, Yang Mu asked them to gather the craftsmen, and then began to visit around the Ministry of Industry.

This is a very large courtyard, and the houses are located in a good place, and the area is the largest among the six.

Among them, there are ordnance supervisors, water conservancy supervisors, road administration supervisors, agricultural supervisors, construction supervisors, textile supervisors, miscellaneous construction supervisors, etc., and there are bureaus under each supervision, for example, the armor bureau is divided into the armor bureau, the blade bureau, the bow and arrow bureau, the chariot bureau, the miscellaneous bureau and so on.

"Regarding the ordnance superintendent, I have a question, weapons belong to the scope of the Ministry of War, why is the Ministry of Engineering responsible for casting all kinds of weapons and armor?" Yang Mu asked curiously.

Chen You respectfully explained: "Returning to Your Majesty, when the powers of the six departments were originally assigned, in order to make each department specialize in the arts, and also to check and balance each other, the Ministry of War was only responsible for inspecting and distributing weapons, and at the same time stipulating the number of weapons to be built, and all smelting matters were undertaken by the Ministry of Industry. ”

Yang Mu nodded, at the beginning, the formation of the six departments was hasty, and some small details were handed over to Fan Hongji and Wei Zhongquan to deal with, but he, the emperor who carried out reforms, was not very clear, and when he inquired today, he also felt that this method of mutual supervision and checks and balances was very good, interlocking, improving efficiency and reducing corruption.

As he spoke, Yang Mu walked to the ordnance prison and saw a piece of weapons placed in an open space.

Spears, short blades, arrows......

And on one side of the clearing, kneeling several craftsmen.

"What are they doing? So many weapons put together. Yang Mu asked.

Chen You said: "Back to Your Majesty, they are polishing their weapons, and then testing whether the newly cast weapons meet the requirements of the Ministry of War."

"Oh?" Yang Mu suddenly became interested and said, "Let them demonstrate it." ”

"Yes!" Chen You complied, and then waved his hand and asked several craftsmen to continue.

At this time, no matter how stupid they were, the craftsmen knew what kind of character was coming, and they were so nervous that they each picked up a short knife and sharpened it vigorously on the stone.

After a while, two of the craftsmen glanced at each other, and slashed at a piece of wet wood next to them.

There was a muffled sound, and two short knives were plunged into the wood, about two inches deep.

The two craftsmen nodded in satisfaction, and then placed it in a basket.

"Your Majesty, please see, these are two sharp weapons, which meet the requirements of the Ministry of War." Chen You smiled and explained, obviously thinking that these two craftsmen had given themselves a long face, and said: "All weapons are triple forged, and the Ordnance Supervision has gathered the best blacksmiths in the country, trying not to waste a pound of iron ore." ”

"Is that qualified?" Yang Mu suddenly frowned.

Chen You was stunned, is Your Majesty dissatisfied? However, it is already good to be able to reach this level, the standards of various countries are like this, take the soaked elm, one inch into the wood is qualified, two inches into the wood is a high-quality product, three inches into the wood, that is the treasure knife!

"This ...... Weichen is stupid, and he also asks His Majesty for advice. Chen You said stiffly.

"I ask you, how many blades can a craftsman forge in a month according to this method of sharpening knives?" Yang Mu asked.

"Hmm...... About five handles. Chen You replied.

"Ever thought about getting a grinding disc? Water mill? Yang Mu asked.

"Grinding disc...... Levigation...... Your Majesty forgives the sin, and the micro-minister is stupid, and he doesn't understand it for a while. ”

"Forget it, you heads." Yang Mu glanced at them meaningfully and said, "I originally wanted to tell you a method of forging steel, but now it seems that there is a long way to go."