Chapter 201: Evaporating Silver
"Drink tea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" The old man handed over a cup of brewed tea and sat next to Lin Lan.
"Old, this money is obviously from the military salary, why do you want to go to the Ministry of Industry to ask for an account?" Lin Lan was able to ask for this money, and in the heart of this internal affairs governor, there has been a great improvement, and it has naturally eased.
The bad old man rubbed his hands and said, "You just took office, so naturally you don't understand the rules of today's officialdom." For example, the palace wants to buy an egg. The money was taken out of the treasury, and it was supposed to be handed over directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and someone was sent to buy it. But now, the money was first sent to the worship room, and then from the eunuchs on duty in the Internal Affairs Office, and then to the hands of the Internal Affairs Office. This is still a trivial matter, take the silver of this munition.
The Ministry of War was transferred to the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry was then assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it was impossible to say who was deducted in the middle, who was well fed and who was hungry, and in the end it was naturally difficult to do. If you hadn't gone to ask for silver, it is estimated that the Ministry of War would have kicked it to the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry would have kicked it to the Ministry of War. ”
Lin Lan saw that the old man had been tinkering with the drawings on the table, so he asked, "What are you tinkering with?" ”
"I don't know what boring people in the palace have come up with, so I have to ask the Department of Creation to improve a clairvoyant mirror thing, I have a headache."
"Uh...... This boring person is exactly below. ”
The bad old man squirted out a mouthful of water and said, "That's you?" ”
"That's why the Holy One asked me to come to the Creation Division to help transform this clairvoyant mirror."
The bad old man was overjoyed and said, "It's just the timely rain." This thing sent from the palace, this is the only one, and the masters of the Creation Division dare not disassemble it, for fear that it will be difficult to recover, but it will be difficult to break. With the lord you coming to know about the supervision, this matter will definitely be fine. ”
"Okay, I'd like to ask you something."
"That's it. Our internal affairs office is relatively special, so that there are not too many rules. Among the Lang of several divisions, plus me, they are all craftsmen. ”
"Since I am now a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I take the liberty of asking, are there any fraudulent firearms and ammunition sent out by the Armament Division?" Although Lin Lan asked this, he was a person with a bit of brains, and he would not say that there was anything in it, but in the future, he would have to work together in the Internal Affairs Office, and the firearms that Lin Lan had in hand would naturally come in handy, and if he was not credible, he naturally could not be handed over to him.
Xing Lao's face turned blank and said, "Do you think I'm also the kind of person who deducts silver taels?" ”
"I'm just asking more, you don't have to be so stubborn."
The old man pouted his beard and snorted: "No mustard? You're saying it's like no one, you're ruining my character! ”
Lin Lanfeng said lightly: "Before I went to work, I heard rumors in the city that the small paintings of the new trees in the house are not ancient, and this person will be out of the Internal Affairs Office." The Ministry of Internal Affairs has always been an oily and water yamen. ”
"Lin Lan, there are those in the Internal Affairs Office who work and don't care about the accounts, and there are those who don't work in the accounts. The people who are in charge of the accounts are all in the palace, you say, I am in charge of the internal affairs office, and I can't touch the silver all year round, where does the greedy capital come from? Let's talk about this firearms and ammunition, each batch is tested by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, and if it is unqualified, it will be returned and recasted. ”
"I've heard an old man from the Northwest say that there is such a thing."
Xing Lao looked left and right, and said, "The equipment that our Internal Affairs Office has gone out is fine, it doesn't mean that these things on the battlefield are okay." In terms of quantity and quality, who can say for sure? In terms of the number of firearms approved from the Ministry of War in recent years, the number of firearms prepared has been significantly reduced, and it has been reduced by a dive, in addition to the fact that there are fewer wars, it is very likely that a large amount of silver taels have been deducted from them. It is not known to whose pocket the evaporated silver went. ”
The Engineer's desk was littered with drawings.
Xing Lao said: "These are all projects of the Department of Manufacturing, mainly for the restructuring of firearms. The reason why our Dajing Dynasty was able to occupy an advantage in the frontier was all due to the firearms battalions in our army, and the equipment system they had at hand was a small change every five years and a major change in ten years. ”
Lin Lan looked at the masters who were buried in discussing the drawings, these people were the backbone of the Creation Division, and these people who dealt with the drawings every day did not have the ability to embezzle silver. So, did the silver evaporate out of thin air? The annual military salary is more than one million silver, and it is difficult to implement it all, and Lin Lan doesn't believe it when he is killed.
The war is about money and grain, and the barbarians in the northwest want money but no money, and they want grain but no grain, and they can be involved with the huge dynasty for decades, and they also obey these pig brains, how did they come out.
He is not interested in fighting on the battlefield like Qi Feibai, the first family in the family, and he has two more daughters-in-law, he can't be busy, how can he have the kung fu to cut the barbarians, but in Beijing, at least he has to do some serious things, and he can't let some people live too comfortably.
"Everyone, stop what you're doing, and I'll give you a grand introduction."
More than a dozen people raised their heads, put down the rulers and pens in their hands, and looked up and down at Lin Lan beside Xing Lao.
"This is Lin Lan, Lord Lin. It must be an honor for the colleagues of the Department of Creation to work with Lord Lin in the future. ”
A middle-aged man threw the drawings on the table and muttered with an ugly face: "Boss, they all say that our Internal Affairs Office is the Yamen with the most oil and water, and they all want to enter our Internal Affairs Office." We can't see any silver in the Department of Armament all year round, and I'm afraid that this little lord will not be able to work together for a long time, so I think it's better to be assigned to the Armament Division to drink wine and eat meat with the old grandson. ”
"What are you talking about? The clairvoyant mirror you have in hand is Lord Lin's masterpiece, and people are here to be greedy for silver? Just now, I want to come back from the Ministry of Industry for 5,000 taels of allocation, otherwise you will be fighting the autumn wind during the Chinese New Year this year. ”
The middle-aged man glanced at Lin Lan and said, "We don't raise useless people. The lord belongs to the lord, our Dajing Dynasty has not heard of the lord can dominate the yamen, if you can't understand this drawing, don't come to the creation of the division. ”
Xing Lao frowned and said, "Niu Feng, you speak politely." ”
"My temper is like this, and you don't know it."
Lin Lan smiled: "Yes, I like such a cheerful person." ”
He picked up a drawing on the table, swept his eyes, and said: "If you are not mistaken, this should be the section of my Dajing Dynasty's firecracker, this opening facing upwards is the mouth of the charge, and the medicine can be ignited and launched as soon as it is placed here." ”
When everyone heard it, the feeling was not that of a waste lord who came to eat rice, but an expert.
Lin Lan shook his head and smiled: "It's just that such an outdated system, when it encounters a wet tide, it becomes a chicken rib, and it is not even as good as a bow and arrow." After decades, it is difficult to make progress if you still change the soup without changing the medicine. ”
Everyone fell silent. In Lin Lan's words, the problem of dumb fire when it rains is the biggest flaw of firearms, and it is also the problem that the Department of Fabrication has been exploring.
Niu Feng, the Lang Zhong of the Creation Division, naturally understood what Lin Lan said, and hit the nail on the head, so he said: "Everyone knows the problem, but only those who can solve it are capable people, and if they can't solve it, it's useless to talk about it no matter how much they want." Can you? ”
Lin Lan smiled and said, "I can't." ”
The war in the Northwest, fuck, isn't a firearms problem at all. It's fucking, pulling the Italian cannon over, it's also a losing word. Lin Lan naturally wouldn't be so stupid as to hand over the rifle he had developed so simply. Maybe the rifles of the Dajing Dynasty have not yet taken shape, and those barbarians on horseback have already formed a cavalry rifle team, so it will be interesting. (To be continued.) )