Accompanied by Liu Xunzhi, Wang Yuan walked around again. Although a suitable formula has not yet been refined, Wang Yuan is quite satisfied with the layout here. If there is an opportunity to produce gunpowder in large quantities in the future, it can be used as an arsenal. Buildings can also be built on the enclosed open space to make all kinds of gunpowder-related materials needed.

Before leaving, Liu Xun brought the account book and reported the details of the money spent to Wang Yuan in detail. Wang Yuan also probably understood, in addition to the nearly 70,000 yuan that had to be spent to build ten Dan furnaces and the construction facilities here. The rest of the money was used to buy raw materials such as sulfur saltpeter. The production of these things is not high, and most of them are used by alchemists except for medicinal purposes, and the price is ridiculously high. And the number of ten Dan furnaces consumed is even more amazing. These alchemists didn't care how expensive the materials were, they only managed the refining of one furnace at a time, and they didn't care how much money they spent, so they caused the ten Dan furnaces to become ten big furnaces that burned money, and burned Wang Yuan's money bag to the ground.

Wang Yuan was glad that he had made the decision to close the eight Dan furnaces today, in fact, this was also the purpose of his coming here today. The business of refining recipes can't be stopped, but I don't have so much money to burn them, so I can only settle for the next best. At the beginning, Wang Yuan had the idea of casting a net generally, thinking that the east would not be bright and the west would be bright, and there would always be people who could make some famous names among the ten monks, but now Wang Yuan didn't think so. Until the money problem is solved, the only way to do this is to gather the alchemists and continue refining the recipe with the small amount of raw materials in the existing inventory. Although Wang Yuan saw unhappy expressions on the faces of the monks, Wang Yuan didn't care about their feelings.

On the way back to Yamen, Wang Yuan was thinking about how to solve the problem of shortage of money. Not only the matter of refining gunpowder, but also many ideas about the army need the support of money, and all kinds of ideas in one's mind are limited by the shortage of funds and cannot be implemented, which will be the biggest obstacle to restricting one's own development.

Returning to the Yamen, before he sat down and drank a sip of tea, there was a noise at the door, and on the steps outside the Yamen Datang, Song Jiangong spoke in a loud voice, as if he was very angry.

"It's too unusual, take us as Hanako and send these things, this is too bullying us. Is the handsome in the hall? If you want to find a marshal to comment on it, what is the Ministry of War going to do? Too much deception. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and put down the teacup, but saw Song Jiangong striding into the yamen hall with five or six generals, and saw Wang Yuan sitting in the hall, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute together.

Wang Yuan got up from behind the case and walked to the hall, and said with a smile: "General Song, what's wrong?" He looked angry. ”

Song Jiangong said angrily: "Marshal, how do you communicate with the Ministry of War?" Our Jiannan Army has added 20,000 troops, and the military department should allocate armor, blades and related materials, but they ...... They're just calling Hanako. ”

Wang Yuan said: "What do you say? ”

Song Jiangong rolled his eyes and said, "Dashuai, let's go to the door of the warehouse by yourself and take a look." It's all that, it's just a pile of garbage. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and said, "What's going on, go and see." ”

Everyone rushed out of the door, got on their horses, and went straight to the armory across the street from the Yamen. After a while, I arrived at the square outside the warehouse, but I saw hundreds of carts parked in the field at the entrance of the warehouse and on the street leading to the warehouse. The cart was piled with armor, blades, shields, bows and arrows, tents and other supplies. This is the weapons, equipment and materials escorted by the Ministry of War from the capital to add 20,000 soldiers to the Jiannan Army, which is used to arm the 20,000 newly recruited soldiers.

Wang Yuan and the others rode their horses along the gap next to the convoy to the door of the warehouse, and saw two officials in official robes standing in front of the door of the warehouse talking loudly, looking like they were arguing with the treasurer officials.

Seeing Wang Yuan coming, the treasurer officials hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Wang Yuan turned over and dismounted and shouted in a deep voice: "Treasurer Zhao, what happened?" ”

The treasurer of Zhao hurriedly said: "Report to the marshal, these two are officials from the Ministry of War who escorted the materials to Jiannan, and they want us to unload these materials into the warehouse." However, General Song ordered that no one should enter the warehouse, so an argument broke out here. ”

Song Jiangong said: "I want Secretary Zhao not to enter the warehouse, I always want to ask the handsome to see what they sent, and I was confused and put into the warehouse, and I thought we had some treasure." ”

Wang Yuan frowned and glanced at the two officials, who also knew that the person who came was Wang Yuan, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute. The chubby official arched his hand and said: "See Wang Jiedu's envoy, the next official is Pei Yuanhong, the secretary of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War, and the other one is Yang Fangcheng, a member of the Treasury Department. But why are several generals of the Jiannan Army unwilling to unload their cars and put them into storage, what is the reason? Is it possible that we will escort these materials back to the capital? ”

"Are these things you sent to Hanako? If you like to pull away, you will pull away, Lao Tzu is not rare. Song Jiangong said angrily on the side.

"You...... Outrageous. Pei Yuanhong glared angrily, very angry at Song Jiangong's rudeness.

Wang Yuan waved his hand and said, "General Song, be more restrained." These two are officials of the Ministry of War, so why bother them. It's all errands, and it's not easy. ”

"That is, it is still Wang Jiedu who is reasonable, and he deserves to have started from the capital. People like you out there are unreasonable people who don't talk reasonably. Pei Yuanhong said.

Even if Song Jiangong was about to go crazy, Wang Yuan snorted, and Song Jiangong had to hold back his anger.

Wang Yuan walked to a large cart in front of him, and the materials on the cart had been lifted from the tarpaulin and unloaded on the ground. Song Jiangong stepped forward quickly, took a random piece from a pile of armor on the ground, and unfolded it for Wang Yuan to see.

"Look, this is the armor for our newly recruited soldiers of the Southern Army, look at this armor, half of it has fallen off. Also, there are holes in the top, and the armor pieces are also badly worn, can this thing be worn on the battlefield? The key parts could not protect the soldiers' bodies, and this armor was a broken fishing net, which was really hateful. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and looked at the armor, which was not at all the standard armor that the Tang Dynasty soldiers were wearing. This is a leather armor, which is a kind of armor that has long been eliminated in Datang. The so-called armor is actually the leather armor that is added to the front and back of the body in the mesh outside the leather armor. The whole armor was in tatters, the leather armor pieces fell off more, and the sewn cowhide thread also sprouted. The leather is almost transparent in several places. Not only is it an outdated armor, but it is also an armor that has been used for a long time, and over time, the crevices are full of ashes, emitting an unpleasant smell of decay.

Wang Yuan personally picked up a few other items for inspection, almost all of them were tattered, and they were just for show, and the protective effect was minimal.

"Dashuai, have you seen it? Isn't this bullying us? Song Jiangong said angrily.

"Hold on and take a look at the car behind you." Wang Yuan waved his hand.

Everyone came to the cart loaded with weapons, lifted the tarpaulin, bundles of blades were stacked on the cart, and a smell of rust came to the nostrils, and the weapons in the cart were rusty, like a waste heap. Wang Yuan stretched out his hand and pulled out a long knife, the handle of the long knife was covered with rust, and the edge of the knife was mottled with yellow rust. Wang Yuan swung his knife and slashed at a tree trunk with a thick arm next to him, and the blade entered the trunk for a few inches, and he couldn't even pull it out when he got stuck in it.

Wang Yuan's face was very ugly, this kind of weapon would never be able to cut through the opponent's armor, this was already a weapon that was almost scrapped. Wang Yuan came to the cart full of spears again, pulled out a spear, and looked at the rusty and blunt head of the spear and was silent. Everyone around saw that Da Shuai's face was ugly, and they were all silent, no one dared to speak, and they all stood silently behind Wang Yuan.

At this moment, Wang Yuan no longer needs to spot check, this batch of weapons and materials is indeed all in tatters, I am afraid that the military department will move out all the rotten goods that have been pressed on the bottom of the warehouse for a long time, and send them to Chengdu in one go.

"Dashuai, do you want to collect these rags or not? The priest said, "It's better to tell them all to pull them back, we don't want these things." Song Jiangong leaned in and said in a low voice.

Wang Yuan sighed and said, "Immediately order someone to unload the car and enter the warehouse." ”

"What?" Song Jiangong thought that he had heard it wrong, and the generals around him were also surprised.

Wang Yuan said: "Do you want me to say it a second time?" All are put into storage, repaired what should be repaired, repaired what should be repaired, and grinded that should be milled. In short, don't waste a single thing. ”

After that, Wang Yuan left Song Jiangong, who was standing in a daze, walked to the two officials of the Ministry of War and the Treasury Department, and said with a smile: "The two of you have worked hard, let people unload the car and enter the warehouse here, and the two of you will go to the yamen with me to drink tea and sit down, and I will set up a banquet to entertain the two of you at noon." Rushing from the capital to Chengdu, the road on this road is not easy to walk, and the two of them have worked hard. ”

Pei Yuanhong and Yang Fang were still worried, and when they saw that Wang Yuan agreed to unload the car, they didn't say a word of blame, but were amiable, and they were relieved.

At that moment, the two of them thanked each other and followed Wang Yuan to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy. Song Jiangong led everyone to stand in front of the door of the warehouse and stared dryly, and Treasurer Zhao came up and whispered: "General Song, can you unload the truck?" ”

Song Jiangong said angrily: "Didn't you hear the words of the big handsome?" Unloading trucks, warehousing. You're busy, mending your armor, sharpening your swords and guns, you're all up to you. ”

Song Jiangong turned over and walked away, and Zhao Siku stood in place with a sad face, muttering: "In short, I am unlucky." Come and unload the car into storage. ”