Cai Dao, who had just taken over the Ordnance Supervisor, also began a major reform of the entire Ordnance Supervisor.

The institution of the Ordnance Supervision can be traced back to the fourth year of Emperor Yuwen Yong Jiande of the Northern Zhou Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and this institution is also the central first-class arsenal of the imperial dynasty in that era.

From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the central government of the dynasty still followed its old system, set up a military superintendent, and under it, the Tang Dynasty added a subordinate department - the Jiafang Department, as the name suggests, is the department of manufacturing and repairing armor.

In the Great Song Dynasty, Xining promulgated the Ordnance Supervision Law again in July of the sixth year, but this time it used the suggestion of Wang Anshi's eldest son Wang Yanzhi to imitate the Tang Dynasty to re-set the Ordnance Superintendent. In August of that year, all the departments that manufactured weapons were set up with weapons supervisors, and as long as they were responsible for supervising whether the weapons manufactured by these departments were up to standard.

At the same time, for the first time, the Armament Superintendent paid more attention to the group of craftsmen, recruiting many excellent craftsmen to work on improving the existing weapons. Therefore, it did not take long for the supervision of the ordnance superintendent and the efforts of the craftsmen to make the weapons found by the ordnance manufacturing department not only greatly speed up the manufacturing speed, but also greatly improve their quality.

During the Yuanyou period, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu did not abolish this new law, but the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty did not even pay attention to the peasants who carried out their own business, so the end of these craftsmen was even more tragic. The treatment of the ordnance supervisors has plummeted in recent years, and sometimes they will be called like slaves by those civil officials.

Some are even inferior to the slaves of ancient times. At that time, although the slave owners did not have to pay anything, they would at least give their slaves a little food. But after these black-hearted civil officials used up these craftsmen, they did not pay for their wages, they could not take care of their food, and even if they were injured because of their work, they refused to spend money to treat them.

This also leads to the fact that the quality of the weapons manufactured in the Yuanyou period is getting worse and worse, and the number of craftsmen in the weapons prison is getting smaller and smaller.

After Cai Dao learned about what happened in the Ordnance Prison, he only did one thing, that is, he encouraged all the craftsmen in the prison to go to Kaifeng Mansion to complain about the civil officials who used the craftsmen for free in the past eight years and caused them to be disabled.

Cai Dao personally spent money to invite more than a dozen very famous lawyers in Bianliang City, and persuaded these craftsmen to go to Kaifeng Mansion to complain one by one.

sued officials with the people, and most of the targets of the lawsuits were civil officials, which was the first time in the Great Song Dynasty. Naturally, most of the craftsmen in the ordnance prison refused to agree. Cai Dao naturally would not force these kind craftsmen, but he also made it clear that there are no idlers and wastes in the ordnance prison, and those injured and disabled craftsmen, if they don't listen to him, they will all be driven out of the ordnance prison from now on.

Whether it is life or death is the choice of these craftsmen themselves, and the debt is not made by Cai Dao, he has no need, nor does he have the morality to feed these half-ruined and completely wasted craftsmen for those civil officials. Since these craftsmen themselves are unwilling to seek justice for themselves, Cai Dao doesn't want to use these spineless people.

Helplessly, the injured craftsmen had to follow Cai Dao's instructions, they dictated, and the masters wrote in hand, and all the civil officials and military ministers who had not been paid for labor in the past eight years were sued to Kaifeng Mansion.

The reason is also very reasonable, reasonable and legal, the ordnance supervision is the important weapon of the country, and even the Ministry of Industry has no right to govern it, according to this reason, this department is directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor. These civil officials and military generals did not ask for instructions, and privately enlisted these craftsmen, which made these craftsmen fundamentally discordant with the law.

Kaifeng Mansion Yin Yang Wei had a headache after seeing the paper in front of him that was higher than the mountain, he was not idle at all, and there were countless important things waiting for him to deal with every day. What's more, the first stop of the new law is the entire Gyeonggi region, and although Yang Wei is not the chief official, he also has to assist Zhang Dian in his work

This adult is even more famous for being very difficult to serve, and if he doesn't pay attention to it, he messes up his errand, even he, the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, can't escape a scolding.

However, Zhao Xu particularly trusted Zhang Dun, and almost all matters in the DPRK and China had to consult Zhang Dun's opinion. This score is bigger than Han Jin, the prime minister.

However, behind these pieces of paper is the Luo pot, and Yang Wei also knows that although the official family doesn't like him very much, they have to use him. In such a contradictory heart, Yang Wei is also concerned.

Since he knew that Cai Dao was standing behind the whole thing, Yang Wei knew that he couldn't afford to offend.

So, Yang Wei came up with an idea, and on the grounds that he was busy with his affairs, he handed over the case to Shaoyin of Kaifeng Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion Cheng, both of whom were auxiliary officials, and the official position of Shaoyin was only unique to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion.

These two officials, Shao Yin is Xie Liangzuo, the same Jinshi of Qin Guan in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Shangcai Ren, and a member of the Luo Party, but he is not a Luo Party in the strict sense.

And Kaifeng Fucheng is Cai Dao's fellow villager, and Shangguan Hui, the nephew of Guan Jun in the palace.

Since Yang Wei pushed it to them, Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui naturally couldn't shirk it, so they could only take the case head-on.

Not to mention, Zhao Xu is still very concerned about this case. He personally sent a personal eunuch to Kaifeng Mansion to prepare to understand the entire trial process on the side.

Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui thought very well, they were ready to follow the confession in the paper, and the first knife was ready to be cut on the generals' bodies, although there were relatively few generals in the craftsmen, after all, the officers of the forbidden army still had the forbidden army available under their hands, and only some difficult projects would they temporarily borrow the craftsmen of the ordnance supervisor.

Unexpectedly, before they summoned these generals, the generals of these defendants took the silver money to visit those craftsmen, and those who should pay for the money were given money, and those who should be compensated for the medical expenses were compensated for the medical expenses. As a result, all the craftsmen who sued the generals in Kaifeng Prefecture withdrew their lawsuits one after another after receiving the money.

The craftsmen had already made a personal relationship with those generals, and now, Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui made wax.

The two of them hoped that those civil officials would be obedient and take the initiative to negotiate privately with these craftsmen, believing that even if these craftsmen had Cai Dao's backing, they would not dare to open their mouths and blackmail civil officials. Therefore, the civil officials who had served the craftsmen only needed to send someone to give the craftsmen some money, and they could completely avoid going to court.

At that time, it was these civil officials who were ashamed, and those craftsmen naturally did not feel that face was more important than money.

But the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty pay the most attention to face, and now these civil officials of the northern conservatives are hugging each other for warmth, and they are naturally unwilling to give in to Cai Dao's trick.

There are people who are afraid of Cai Dao's obscenity and want to reconcile in private, but no one dares to be this rafter. If it is known to his colleagues, he will definitely be abandoned by that group.

These people sent people to cry in front of the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager only asked them, "Have you craftsmen ever served as an ordnance supervisor?" Since you have used it, you have to pay for it, and the ordnance supervisor is to make weapons for the Great Song Dynasty, not your house slaves. ”

In desperation, Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui had to summon the civil officials who tried to resist one by one to Kaifeng Mansion for interrogation according to the pleadings. Moreover, Zhao Xu also issued an order that when the case was interrogated, the middle door of the hall of the Kaifeng Mansion to interrogate the case was opened, and all the people in Bianliang City could go to the trial.

So, at this moment, the entire Kaifeng Mansion is lively.

On the first night before the opening of the hall, a few big men came to the front of the Kaifeng Mansion Yamen with baggage rolls in their arms.

At this time, it was almost dark, and the guards looked at each other puzzledly, and when they saw that they had stopped where they were, they stepped forward to inquire. Only then did they know that these feelings were afraid that when the case started tomorrow, there would be too many people to see, and they would not be able to squeeze in, so they were ready to stay in front of the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion for a night, and they would be able to get a good position at that time.

If this is in other dynasties, these people's practices are undoubtedly dying, but this is Bianliang City of the Great Song Dynasty, except for some special places, there is no curfew. So, there's nothing wrong with what these people do.

These big men are naturally deliberately arranged by Cai Dao to make trouble, all of them are a tyrant on the ground in Bianliang City, and Hua Qiyi was a virtue at the beginning, but although these people are usually overbearing, there is no big evil, and they will do their best to help their neighbors after collecting the money on the ground. Therefore, Cai Dao hired these people through Hua Qiyi's old connections in Bianliang City.

Somehow, this anecdote was immediately spread throughout Bianliang City by good deeds.

So, in front of the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, it was completely lively. Many people took advantage of the night to gather here with their bedding rolls, and there were many shrewd small merchants and hawkers who actually set up small stalls here.