"The arsenal is the name given to the workshop that produces weapons by the thief security army, similar to the military bureau of the court or something. "Zhang Shaotang has been studying the security army these days, and he also knows some about some organizations within the security army.www.biquge.info The word "arsenal" kept entering his ears, and it was said that the sophisticated weapons and sharp firearms of the security army were produced by the arsenal, so Zhang Shaotang was very impressed by the arsenal, so that he had the idea of establishing his own arsenal.

"Will that work?" Hong Chengchou, who doesn't know much about the production of weapons or anything, doesn't think that generals need to understand these things.

"It will definitely work, the thieves can produce such sharp firearms in the poor mountains and bad waters, and many people cannot eat, and we can requisition craftsmen from the trilateral regions to form an arsenal, and we will definitely be able to make better than them. In addition, we can also ask the Holy Lord to transfer craftsmen from the Armory Bureau and the Gunpowder Bureau to come over, which is much easier than asking the Holy Lord directly for silver. ”

Zhang Shaotang's love for silver is sometimes incomprehensible.

"Why don't you continue to call it the Weapons Bureau, the War Bureau, and what kind of arsenal do you have to call it?" Hong Chengchou is still struggling with this strange name.

"This must be called a factory, the factory is the place where craftsmen make utensils, if the weapons bureau is still opened, the court will inevitably send officials to manage it, but the set of the Beijing division will be moved to Shanxi, and the things produced at that time will still not be usable. We have to change the name so that the court cannot interfere in the arsenal, and then send competent people to manage it, and the things produced are better than those shipped by the court. "Zhang Shaotang has been walking in officialdom for many years, he has never been an official, but he can contact more dark sides of officialdom, he has been completely disappointed in the officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they interfere in anything, they will definitely do it.

"That's very good, think about the wording, write a letter, I'll send it, I think it will be done." Hong Chengchou was completely moved by Zhang Shaotang's words, he was in charge of the trilateral region, and if he concentrated the strength of the craftsmen in the provinces and the management of his own people, he would definitely be able to produce good weapons. So he didn't bother the two masters with anything, and directly asked Zhang Shaotang to draft the recital.

Zhang Shaotang did not shirk, he has been thinking about this matter these days, and he already knows how to write it. After a while, he wrote a draft and showed it to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou first said that in order to reduce the burden on the state's finances, the trilateral region decided to mobilize the merchants in the jurisdiction to serve the troops on the three sides, and requisitioned the merchants to use the craftsmen's sites to build the trilateral arsenals, and the court only needed to transfer the silver originally allocated to the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau to the merchants, and the weapons in the trilateral areas would be produced by these arsenals in a unified manner, so that there would be no need to produce them in Beijing and then transport them to the trilateral areas over long distances. In order to ensure the quality of weapons, the emperor was asked to select 1,000 craftsmen from the Beijing Division Ordnance Bureau to guide the production of weapons in Shanxi. The quality of weapons is related to the lives of soldiers and soldiers, and not a single substandard weapon should be allowed to enter the trilateral area.

Hong Chengchou was very satisfied with it, did not make any changes, copied a copy of the fold himself, used the seal of the governor of the three sides, sent someone to the Beijing division, and at the same time used his relationship between the court and China to fight for the passage of the fold.

The fold was sent to the cabinet minister, and Hong Chengchou said hello, but of course the minister did not express his opinion, and everything waited for the holy ruling. Other people are secretly unhappy when they see the twist, this Hong Chengchou wants to make his own weapons, is to take away the silver allocated by the court directly, and the officials in the court will have less opportunity to deduct money, this matter of cutting off people's financial routes is very atmospheric, but this Hong Chengchou put down his cruel words, and did not let unqualified weapons appear in the trilateral area, and the ministers knew better than anyone what the weapons allocated by the court to the trilateral region were. This is the rhythm of turning his face if he doesn't do this.

It is only in recent years that the guards in the trilateral areas have been abandoned and the quality of the weapons produced is not as good as that of the Beijing Division, so the troops always ask the emperor for the allocation of weapons, so there is nothing against Hong Chengchou to produce his own weapons, and the ministers are neither good at tearing their faces with Hong Chengchou, nor can they find a reason to oppose it.

Hong Chengchou's recital was smoothly placed on Emperor Chongzhen's desk, and Emperor Chongzhen is now a little afraid to see Hong Chengchou's recital, either to ask for soldiers or money, the emperor is most lacking now These two things, it is impossible to give him more.

After watching Hong Chengchou's performance this time, Emperor Chongzhen was rarely happy, Hong Chengchou finally got his senses, and no longer asked the emperor for money, and the things that recruited merchants were used by the state, which was what Emperor Chongzhen liked to see. There was no difference between allocating the silver to the Ordnance Bureau and allocating it to Hong Chengchou to the emperor. As for those lowly craftsmen, Hong Chengchou is willing to raise them, so he should give him more. As long as you don't need silver, you can still do things, so the emperor approved Zhu and agreed to the invitation. And the 1,000 craftsmen selected in the compromises were changed to 1,000 households. The emperor is still very humane, the craftsman is thousands of miles away from Beijing, how to let the family live apart, in fact, the emperor is thinking, if the capable craftsmen are transferred away, the craftsmen are all dragged with their families, leaving the old and weak who will take care of it, it is better to be generous, all of them are given to Hong Chengchou, anyway, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are passed down from generation to generation, regardless of the old and young.

The holy decree was transmitted to the Ordnance Bureau, the War Bureau, and the Gunpowder Bureau, asking each bureau to transfer personnel, and the officials of each bureau already knew the content of Hong Chengchou's twists and turns, and the roots of their teeth itched with hatred for Hong Chengchou, and the silver was directly allocated to the trilateral regions to cut off their financial routes, and they also had the face to come here to ask for people. Since the emperor said that it should be counted according to households, then it is necessary to find a few households for him, and the families of the old craftsmen who are old and unable to do manual work in the families of the bureaus have been selected, and the elderly in the family are more young and middle-aged than the objects of priority, and it is really not possible to have a large number of children who can't do work at home. Soon these thousand craftsmen were made up, and there were more than 10,000 people of all ages, Hong Chengchou, don't you want everyone to get rich, I'll get some people over, you can't ignore these people's food, just these old and weak, eat and eat poor.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were born to serve the court, and a holy decree of the emperor changed their lives, and the whole family packed up their belongings and dragged their families to leave Beijing and embarked on the road to Shanxi. I heard that Shanxi is now suffering from famine for many years, and thieves are everywhere, and they will definitely not have a good life when they get there, but they have no choice, they are in the craftsman's register, and they are under the strict control of the government, and they can't survive if they leave the area designated by the government.

The craftsmen who endured a lot of hardships along the way finally arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and there was no place for such a huge team to settle in the city, so they could only be stationed outside the city to listen to the arrangements of the governor of the three sides.

Hong Chengchou was very happy when he heard that the craftsmen of the Beijing Division had arrived, and he made a special trip to the outside of the city to take a look at these craftsmen, but he rushed to the residence of the craftsmen, and looked at this large area of old people, women and children and felt that his head was big for a while, so many people had to be raised, and there were not many people who could work, and there were really few good things for the officials of the Beijing Division.

Just when Hong Chengchou was worried about these craftsmen, Zhang Chu, who was far away in Yuncheng, was about to drool over these craftsmen as if he had found a treasure, and he vowed to find a way to get these craftsmen. (To be continued.) )