Seeing the new dean of artillery production from afar, the Lord came over in a dashing manner, waiting for the officials to hurry over, Wang Daquan smiled and said: "Lord Li, we meet again, Wang welcomes Lord Li to my weapons prison, and at the same time, we are waiting for Tanhualang to say hello!" ”

Li Xiang didn't expect that the specifications of this greeting were very similar, and he was surprised: "Don't dare, don't dare!" Lord Wang and Lord Shen greeted him personally, and all his colleagues also came, which was really frustrating! ”

Shen Rong smiled: "Master Li, you're welcome!" Who is not clear in everyone's heart, who is the most popular in front of the emperor today? Who is the first genius of the Great Song Dynasty? Naturally, it has to be Master Li! Besides, if it weren't for Lord Li inventing artillery, how could the status of our ordnance supervisor rise? This is all a blessing to Master Tuo Li! ”

Li Xiang hurriedly said modestly: "How dare you!" Lord Shen must not say such things again in the future, if it spreads, it will not be good! ”

Wang Daquan smiled and introduced some officials to Li Xiang of the Ordnance Supervisor, Li Xiang knew that these people would be his colleagues in the future, in addition to Wang Daquan and Shen Rong, the two chief and deputy chief officers, there were also supervisors, master books, etc., and at the same time, the prison was also divided into 6 cases, including work, construction, materials, soldiers, miscellaneous inspection laws, and the Imperial Ordnance Institute, and each of these cases was also responsible for officials. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Everyone hugged Li Xiang and entered the official hall of the ordnance supervisor.

Through some conversation, Li Xiang also roughly understood the composition of the ordnance supervisor at this time.

Speaking of the ordnance supervisor at this time, the scale is still quite large, a total of more than 7,000 craftsmen, its manufacturing workshops are: wood, drums, rattan mats, bamboo, lacquer, vests, crossbows, strips, saddles, oil clothes, vests, ropes, lacquer armor, swords, sticky, tools, pinching, carved wood, candles, lichens, iron armor, nails, iron bodies, vests, cooking, sharpening swords, leather armor, nail heads, copper, crossbows, nails, crossbows, nails, nails, Lacquerware, wrong grinding, spinning, scales, silver, threading, polishing twine, guns, horns, pots, grinding heads, etc. Judging from the name, the division of labor is still relatively detailed, and of course, compared with the arsenals of later generations, it is still in a relatively backward state.

At the same time, these workshops were also divided into inner and outer courts. The weapons made by the inner court workshops are generally more sophisticated than those of the outer court workshops, and are often used as legal weapons to be handed down to the workshops. The Outer Court Workshop is mainly responsible for the manufacturing of a considerable part of the weapons of the garrison in Beijing and Zhulu, including the East and West Workshop, the East and West Guangbei, the Wanquan Workshop, the Bow and Crossbow Courtyard and the Bow and Crossbow Arrow Yard. After Dongxi Guangbei was subordinate to the Ordnance Prison, it became a specialized gunpowder and firearms workshop. The Bow and Crossbow Courtyard is in charge of making bows, crossbows, armor, instruments, flags, swords, and stirrups, while the Bow and Crossbow Courtyard is in charge of making long arrows and crossbow arrows.

Now, there is another large-scale artillery production institute, and before Li Xiang came, Zhang Shijie, the deputy envoy, was temporarily appointed as the acting director.

Zhang Shijie? As soon as Li Xiang heard this name, he felt a little familiar! The super 3D printer immediately followed Li Xiang's idea and showed its data.

Sure enough, it's that Zhang Shijie! Li Xiang took a look, it turned out that his subordinate was also a great character!

In history, Zhang Shijie was a famous anti-Yuan general in the late Song Dynasty and a national hero. He once served as a Taifu, a privy deputy envoy, and a duke of Yue. Together with Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang, they are known as the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty.

Li Xiang felt that he had picked up a treasure, how could he let himself meet the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty! Two of them became classmates, and one became their own direct subordinates!

Looking at Zhang Shijie's information again, when he was young, he followed Zhang Roushu to defend Qizhou, because of his illegal behavior, he fled to Songzhou and entered Huaibing, and no one knew his name. When Ruan Sicong saw him, he thought he was a peculiar talent, so he told Lu Wende his opinion.

There are still quite a lot of records of Zhang Shijie's achievements in history. In the fourth year of Xianchun, that is, in 1268 AD, the Yuan army built Lumen Fort, and Lu Wende wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to increase troops, so the imperial court sent Zhang Shijie and Xia Gui to support. When Lü Wenhuan surrendered to the Yuan army with the Xiangyang army, the imperial court ordered Zhang Shijie to lead 5,000 soldiers to garrison Ezhou. Zhang Shijie blocked the two cities with iron cables, mixed with artillery, bows and crossbows, and arranged wooden stakes in the main places of Ezhou, and set up many tools needed for attacking. After that, the Yuan army broke through the new city and drove down, Zhang Shijie fought hard, so that the Yuan army could not move forward, the Yuan army sent people to surrender him, Zhang Shijie did not obey.

The Southern Song Dynasty died in 1279 A.D. at the Battle of Yashan in Xinhui, Guangdong, when the commanders of the two armies were Zhang Shijie of the Song army and Zhang Hongfan of the Yuan army. In this naval battle at the beginning of 1279, the two sides invested more than 300,000 troops, fought hard for a whole month in the cold wind of the south in the first month, and finally ended in the annihilation of the Song army. Zhang Shijie also encountered a typhoon on his way to flee Vietnam, and the ship was capsized on the sea of Yangjiang River in today's Guangdong.

It's a pity, in history, the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty all died in the sea!

After reading the information, Li Xiang knew that this Zhang Shijie was a member of the Lu family, and it seemed that Lu Wenxin also arranged for him to come to the Ordnance Prison! The ambition of the Lu family is not small!

Everyone sat down well, and Wang Daquan said with a smile: "Today is the big day for our Tanhualang to go to our military weapons superintendent, and the old man has also prepared a little thin wine for Tanhualang!" If you are here today, then let the official accompany you, go to the official office to look around, familiarize yourself with the environment, and do you have to be busy with today. It's good to deal with it slowly within three to five days. Shijie, you will have to listen to Master Li in the future. ”

Zhang Shijie hurriedly said: "Yes, my lord!" Xia Guan has long been looking forward to Lord Li coming, speaking of which, although Xia Guan has been in the army for many years, he really doesn't know much about the things of this artillery. ”

Li Xiang smiled: "Brother Zhang is too polite! It is already remarkable that more than 1,000 people in this artillery production institute can carry out the development of artillery in an orderly manner under your organization. Speaking of which, in terms of leading soldiers, I have no experience, and everything has to be done by Brother Lao Zhang! Of course, I will take care of the technical problems. ”

Zhang Shijie hurriedly arched his hand and said, "My lord, don't be like this!" Just call me Shijie! From now on, the lower officials should act under the orders of their lords. ”

After chatting for a while, Wang Daquan led Li Xiang and walked around the ordnance supervisor's office. Of course, the workshop or something, many of them are not near this official office, and the office of the artillery production institute is also here, it is a small courtyard, next to the bow and crossbow courtyard and the bow and crossbow arrow building yard, but it is much larger than the two offices, after all, the status is different.

The office of the artillery production institute is not bad, not only has many office rooms, but even the office rooms of the chief envoy and deputy envoy are connected to the rest room, which is the same as the office of the senior executives of large companies in later generations. Li Xiang inspected his office, the conditions were not bad, the office furniture was new, and it was all clean, there were four treasures of the study room on a small table, and there was also a small row of bookshelves behind him, as well as four official chairs, and a coffee table.