"The father-in-law of the firearms workshop, if you calculate it carefully, it is the grade of the ambassador of the wine vinegar noodle bureau!"

On the edge of the boot camp, a good quality house has also been built out of wood for Wang Tong to live in and temporarily handle official business.

After the assessment and punishment of the training camp, Wang Tong and Cai Nan came here, the weather in May was already quite warm, the doors and windows of the wooden house were all open, and the hanging tulle curtains were blown and fluttering.

The wind with some fishy smell blows into the house, which makes people feel very comfortable, and the Tianjin Acropolis in this era is very close to the sea, and you can see the sea when you stand at the east gate.

Wang Tong sat on the seat with a relaxed expression, smiled and asked Cai Nan, who was a little uneasy, now is there no seat for Cai Nan, he bowed down and nodded, and replied:

"Lu Gonggong is old, Emperor Shizong made firearms at that time, the Ministry of Industry made them, eight out of ten can not be used, the soldiers in the north and south are not willing to want, those say, the officials of the Ministry of War went to the Ministry of Industry to fight, six years ago, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Imperial Supervisor and the Ministry of Industry opened firearms workshops in various places in Beizhili, and there is no difference between the other places and the past, but the firearms made by the Tianjin workshop managed by Gong Lu can have forty percent of the good goods, and it is also regarded as a first-class merit, giving the steward Feng Gonggong a face, otherwise he is a middle-aged self-net into the palace, How can there be an errand to do, and how can we do it today. ”

This is the same as the vast majority of people who may not be able to achieve the prefect in their lifetime, they are not eunuchs from the inner study, and they will not be able to do anything in charge of affairs in this life.

However, this Lu Gonggong seems to be appreciated, and this waist pole is also much harder, and he will naturally not give a good face to an unlucky person like Cai Nan, who has recently fallen and has never dealt with anything before.

Wang Tong heard this, raised his hand and said:

"You sit down and have a sip of tea first, and then you can do it later!"

Cai Nan didn't dare to sit down, this errand was done like this, and he also felt shameless, and he wondered in his heart, this little adult never dragged his work in the mud and water, why was he still leisurely in this simple wooden house.

About half an hour later, when Cai Nan was a little impatient, the sound of horses' hooves stopped outside the house, and someone outside raised his voice to report:

"My lord, Qiao Da brought it." Wang Tong allowed a rough man in his forties to enter the house, and as soon as he entered the door, he knelt down to salute, it was Qiao Da, the foreman of Wang Tong's blacksmith workshop.

"What's the point of asking you to ask?"

"Back to the master, the masters who are currently working in our workshop have said that they can't build it, and in the past two days, the little ones and they have also gone to ask everywhere, and the masters who can do this are all on the side of the firearms workshop with wages, and they are better off, and they don't want to go out."

Wang Tong nodded, turned his head to Cai Nan and said with a smile:

"It seems that we can't do it on our own, wait until you go back to the city and I will get the film and hand it over, Qiao Da, you can go back too, and continue to inquire about this matter."

When a few people went out, Tan Jiang and Zhang Shiqiang and other henchmen walked in, and Tan Jiang hesitated and said:

"Master, there are only a thousand Jinyi guards in a thousand households, and the weapons are swords, guns and firearms, because the role of the Jinyi army is only to suppress the place and monitor the government, sir, you are now going to the workshop to inquire about this artillery, if you are targeted by someone with a heart, I am afraid that you will commit a taboo!"

Ma Sanbiao wiped his waist knife there, indifferently about the content of the discussion, but Zhang Shiqiang had a look of surprise on his face, and Li Hutou's eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

Wang Tong said in a deep voice:

"As for these miscellaneous items inside and outside Tianjin, we still use cannons to deal with them, the people of our recruit training camp are not afraid of them now, this cannon is of other uses, without this sharp weapon, nothing can be done!"

Hearing what Wang Tong said so categorically, the others didn't dare to persuade him, but with a puzzled look on his face, Wang Tong fell into deep thought.

The training on the training ground began again, and the loud slogans came into the room, Ma Sanbiao and Li Hutou were a little unable to sit still, glanced at each other, and were just about to go out, but Wang Tong suddenly opened his mouth and ordered:

"Find a few people to wait on the road, and as soon as the messenger from Jingshi arrives, they will be delivered to me immediately."

The Tianjin Acropolis is not only the turnover before the Cao Yun to the Beijing Division, as early as the Hongzhi period, Tianjin to Jizhen, to the west of Beizhili several rivers have been dredged and navigable.

The imperial court put the official workshop for the manufacture of firearms here, but also took into account the convenient transportation, the import of iron and coal, and the transportation of manufactured weapons to Jizhen, Jingshi, Xuanfu and even Liaozhen can be transferred by water and sea.

In the same way, the cost of iron, coal and various materials, labor hiring, vehicle and ship transportation, and all aspects of the cost of this official workshop to supply firearms to several border towns and important places in the north are huge.

Emperor Tiangao is far from being cared for, a large amount of money flows and flows a lot of oil and water, and he can be in this position for several lifetimes, and he is very profitable.

This Lu Gonggong is also different from other eunuchs who tear their faces and make money everywhere, and fifty percent of the things made by the workshop he manages are available.

Although fifty percent is available, it has been the highest evaluation in various military towns and battalion heads, after all, the firearms made by the Ministry of Industry can be used less than one percent, and the most made by other eunuch supervision workshops is thirty percent.

In addition, Lu Gonggong read less, but he has no teacher to play up and down, and he understands very well, the silver that should be given to the ancestors above has never been less than a point, and it is more than the norm.

Speaking effectively may not be smooth for everything, good weather, Lu Gongcheng lost his temper in his own official office, so many years of pampering, his old man is not as fine as the palace eunuchs, the skin and flesh are white and pure, but the appearance of a black man, if it is not for the lack of a beard, I am afraid that people will think that he is running a boat on the canal.

The little eunuchs who listened to the errand below, and the foremen in the workshop, were all in the main hall of the workshop official office, and everyone stood with their heads bowed, and they didn't dare to take a breath of the atmosphere.

"You killing talents, the five thousand three-eyed guns on the Xuanfu side are so urgent, how much has been done, and the work will be stopped today, don't you wait for the supervision of the Imperial Horse Supervisor to kill a few heads!"

Everyone's heads lowered a lot, and no one dared to speak, seeing this, Father-in-law Lu was even more angry, pointing to the person who looked like a master in front of him and shouted:

"Fan Dazui, aren't you the best at speaking, why are you dumb at this time, you come and give our family an explanation!?"

The "Fan Dazui" who was shouted by him raised his head in embarrassment, looked at the few people around him, and perhaps felt that those people shrank even more in his eyes, "Fan Dazui" scolded in his heart, but he had to whisper:

"Father-in-law Lu, these three ghost craftsmen on our side, didn't come to your old man's house before, saying that they were processing money."

"When I first recruited him, didn't I say that I would pay twenty-five taels of silver a month, at such a price, our Ming Dynasty can't even catch up with the cabinet scholars, what else do they want, why don't our family know about this!?"

Na Fan's big mouth voice was a little quieter, and he whispered:

"When the father-in-law and the father-in-law who supervised the grain ate and drank there, and when they came back, they fell asleep, and the little ones also wanted to discuss with those ghosts to see if they could."

As he was talking, an oncoming object flew violently, and he subconsciously dodged, but his face had already been hit, but a brush was thrown over, and Father-in-law Lu slapped the table vigorously and scolded angrily:

"How much more!?"

"Two thousand four hundred taels a year, there will be a separate red envelope silver on the New Year's Day, this amount is too big, the small ones dare not agree, who would have thought that these few ghosts who don't know etiquette actually instigated those craftsmen to stop working, and what else to say, without them watching, our workshop can't make qualified firearms."

As soon as the number was said, Father-in-law Nalu's eyes seemed to be able to breathe fire, and he stood up and shouted:

"Two thousand four hundred taels, three people are seven thousand two hundred taels, our family is only a year!"

Halfway through his words, he consciously stopped, so as to tell him how much he could make in a year, and a man dressed as a porter ran in quickly.

This porter looked at the people in the hall who were silent and strange-looking, and hurriedly accompanied a smile, and when he came to Grandpa Lu, he whispered a few words, and the panting Grandpa Lu glared again, and shouted angrily:

"We don't see our family, the killing talent who has been mixed to such an extent, and he came to ask our family for help, didn't the little thief who protected him dig up more than a dozen people from our workshop, let them do it themselves, he has been in the palace for so many years, when will Jinyiwei use cannons, it's really a bad brain, it's about to be sent away!"

After a few reprimands, the porter ran out again, and Father-in-law Lu was distracted by this incident, and his anger went away, and he asked in a cold voice:

"I really think we won't be able to open the furnace without them, Lao Shi, you arranged those clever apprentices, can you learn things in the past two years?"

The following person said with a dry smile:

"Back to my father-in-law, those ghosts have a lot of eyes, and I don't know what craft they are hiding, but what they can do, we can do too"

As he was talking, the porter who had just run out ran back again, Father-in-law Lu raised his eyebrows, and was about to get angry, but the porter hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words, and Father-in-law Lu's angry face immediately turned into consternation, staring at the porter and asking in a low voice:

"Can you see clearly, is it Zhang Cheng and Zhang's father-in-law's post?"

The porter nodded vigorously, and Father-in-law Lu sat back in his seat suddenly, stood up again after a pause, gritted his teeth and said:

"Fan Dazui, you go to reply, just say that there are too many firearms manufacturing bills taken by the imperial court, and they are very busy here, so they really can't spare anyone to help, but since it is Zhang's greeting, then grit your teeth and smoke three knowledgeable masters, and they will be sent over in a while, you go to pass the word first!"

Fan went out with a big mouth, and Grandpa Lu said coldly:

"Lao Shi, you go to the guards now, arrest those three greedy ghosts, strip them all and send them out, and then tell the other craftsmen to start the furnace and work, and whoever doesn't go will be caught and cut down!!"

(To be continued)