The twenty bullets had just been packaged, and Wu Yanzhi's guards came in to report: "Ambassador Qiyu, there is a person who claims to be Wei Xiaoyuan who has come to ask for a meeting!" ”

Wei Xiaoyuan? The news is so fast!

"Invite him to my office!"

"Yes!"

Afterwards, Wu Yanzhi took Yao Kuan and Yufei into his room to wait.

Soon, the guards led Wei Xiaoyuan in. Wu Yan looked at it, this person was over sixty years old, with white temples, black and thin, but he was very energetic.

"Grass people Wei Xiaoyuan see Qin Chawu Shaoqing!" He hit the ground!

"No courtesy, please sit down, serve tea!"

Next to him, Yufei personally brought the brewed tea.

"Thank you, Lang Jun!" Wei Xiaoyuan nodded at Yufei.

"My husband must be Wei Yicheng's family, right? This Wei Yicheng has done a lot of evil, and the people have great grievances. I have decided to put it on trial tomorrow in the county market, punish the evil and promote the good! Wu Yanzhi said lightly.

"Qi Wu Shaoqing, Cao Min Wei Xiaoyuan is the uncle of Wei Erlang. Na Erlang was indeed reckless, violated the laws of the imperial court, and did a lot of illegal things.

It stands to reason that Wu Shaoqing can't be too much to deal with him no matter what. However, if Wu Shaoqing can allow the villain's family to atone for his sins, the villain's family will not hesitate to do cows and horses! "His attitude was very humble.

"Atonement? What do you want to do? Wu Yanzhi frowned.

As soon as he heard that Wu Yanzhi's tone showed signs of loosening, his face was much better: "The villain will compensate double for the victims of the violation!" This is one of them.

Second, the villain's family will do their best to cooperate with Ambassador Wu's copper affairs, but if there is anything that needs help, please ask Ambassador Wu to order, and the grass people will never dare to refuse! ”

Wu Yanzhi thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Hmm! Since Uncle Wei is so sincere, I will give him a chance.

Originally, I was going to weigh a hundred canes in the county market, but I changed it to forty heavy canes in the county government, and the county's townships posted a list, and at the same time asked him to write a confession and post the list together! ”

As soon as he heard this, Wei Xiaoyuan knew that Erlang could live, so he hurriedly got up and saluted:

"Thank you, Ambassador Wu! Ambassador Wu, there is a lot of miasma in the south, and my family heard that Ambassador Wu is from the north and is not familiar with the water and soil of Lingnan, so he specially brought some local herbs to send to Ambassador Wu.

This herb is boiled and drunk every day, but it can prevent and treat miasma, regulate the internal organs, and ask Ambassador Wu to try it. In addition, there are some dried fish, which also have Lingnan characteristics, please also try it! ”

"This ...... Good! Then I'll thank you Dalang! A few days later, I went to Siheung and talked to Dalang again! ”

Afterwards, Yao Kuan and Yufei helped move the things into the house.

"By the way, I plan to dig a big road in Dayu Mountain, since the Wei family is the largest family in the local area, I also ask the people of Weiling to donate some money and property to build this road!" Wu Yanzhi added.

"What's so hard about that? The villain can call the shots in this matter, and the Wei family is willing to pledge 500 yuan! ”

"Good!"

On the second day, Wu Yanzhi's general Nawei Erlang fought forty battles and spared his life. Then he was escorted to swim around the streets of Zhenchang County, so that he was disgraced, and then put him back.

There is such a big ugliness, it is estimated that from now on, Wei Erlang will no longer dare to go out at will, at least when Wu Yanzhi was in this place.

……

After detailed inquiry, Wu Yanzhi learned that there were also copper mines in Zhenchang County. After his inspection, he found that the amount of bile water was very small, up to 20,000 catties of copper a year, and it was of little significance to public mining, so he let the locals mine it.

Subsequently, he asked Qi Xuan and Li Shang to issue a letter to all counties in Shaozhou in the name of Qujiang Metallurgical Supervisor, requiring that from now on, truthfully register and report the hardware output within five days, and pay taxes in strict accordance with the proportion of one-tenth of the tax.

This tax will be levied from January this year, and anyone who evades taxes will be severely punished according to the law.

At the same time, Li Shang and the newly arrived metallurgical supervisor Xu Cheng quickly recruited a number of officials, and as for the two Liunei Jiupin supervisors who were lacking, they were also selected by Wu Yanzhi to serve as local people who were familiar with hardware.

In fact, this is also equivalent to the "Southern Election". He wants to set up the Qujiang Metallurgical Supervisor as soon as possible, and there is still a lot of work to be done in the future.

……

After ten days in this place, the bullet and the three rifles, after testing, had no accidents, and were fully usable.

So he selected three nimble and loyal men from among the guards and trained them to use them. The three are: Li Biao, Wang Yuanfu, and Zong Zhaocai.

After a few days of testing, several of them had some accuracy after firing 20 rounds each.

This bullet is also very expensive, so it's not easy to use casually! Wu Yanzhi asked Yao Kuan to keep the bullets, and Yufei kept accounts and distributed them.

Yao Kuan was also full of praise for this rifle, but he also wanted to match one. Wu Yanzhi told him that after the next time it was built, the first one would be sent to him. Moreover, these guards were also under his management, and he was very happy to hear them.

Thanks to the experience of three guns, remanufacturing, it will be much faster. Of course, this is also relative, it is estimated that it will take a hundred to make, and ten blacksmiths may not be able to make it in a year.

The point is that this thing is not easy to make on a large scale now, first, there are not so many suitable steels; The second is that I don't know what kind of mentality the emperor is, this is a sharp weapon for killing, and it is naturally very dangerous for the emperor!

Therefore, Wu Yanzhi's plan was to make twenty branches first, as training and backup. His own guards only need to wear a few guns, and on weekdays, they still have to use swords and bows and arrows.

After this gun was built, in Wu Yan's heart, the most important thing was, of course, to build a mortar!

The technical content of this thing is indeed more complicated than making a rifle. The most complex component is, of course, the fuse. The rest of the components are almost not very technical.

According to Wu Yanzhi's plan, he planned to use the time fuze. It was going to be made by the guys who were working on clocks and machines. Compared to a clock, that thing is much simpler.

However, although the development of mortars and cannons must be hurried, there is no hurry in mass production, and there is no need at present.

It is important to develop some shells that can be fired from bed crossbows, or hand-thrown bombs. That thing could be used immediately on the battlefield and would not arouse the suspicion of the Emperor and his ministers.

……

Wu Yan then rushed to Shixing County, and Wei Yide naturally came to the door to plead guilty. He came to inquire about how Shaozhou's copper affairs would be carried out, and whether all copper mines would be returned to the state.

Wu Yanzhi still had an ambiguous attitude and did not make a clear statement, but only said that the hardware miners such as copper, iron, gold and silver in various places must be included in the unified management of the imperial court.

As for how to manage it, the time is not yet ripe, and of course he did not say it clearly for the time being.

Seeing Wei Yide leave with anxiety in his heart, Wu Yanzhi was very happy.

Li Shang, the new supervisor of Qujiang Metallurgical Supervisor, said: "Sixty miles to the west of this place is under the jurisdiction of Qujiang County, where there is a rather large lead mine, called Supingchang. That one is owned by the Mai family, and the ambassador can go and see it! ”

Mai family? When Wu Yan heard this, a new plan was born. He said: "I won't go for the time being, you go with Judge Qi, and you will leave in the afternoon."

He is in charge of all external affairs of the smelting superintendent and the coinage superintendent, and you just follow his arrangement. I'll give him some more details! ”

"Obedience!"