"Uncle, Cao Bao has been the most loyal and contributed a lot in recent years, not to mention anything else, just say that he supervised the construction of our Wang family's family temple, then he can eat and sleep on the construction site, if we don't save him, he will definitely be finished this time!" Wang Shan pleaded.

"Did our family let him eat empty salary, corruption?" Wang Zhenmeng's eyes glared and said angrily.

"But our family repairs the temple, and a lot of the use is taken from the middle and the back, don't you know all of this?" Wang Shan snorted.

"Do you know what that hole he is?"

"Big brother, Yu Shoucheng has done a lot of things for us over the years, especially in the Craftsman Division, which is the key department of Nanya, if he falls, then we will have one less eyeliner in Nanya, in other words, we will have one less eyeliner in Jinyiwei!" Wang Lin spoke desperately to Yu Shoucheng.

Cao Bao is Wang Shan's person, Yu Shoucheng is Wang Lin's, although Wang Shan and Wang Lin are both Wang Zhen's nephews, but at this time, they both want to protect their own interests and their own people.

Wang Zhen is also weighing in his heart, whose interests are greater, Cao Bao is loyal, but his brain is not smart enough, Yu Shoucheng's brain is slippery enough, but loyalty will be discounted!

Although Yu Shoucheng is in trouble now, it has not yet reached the point of being out of control, but Cao Bao's crime is big, and the middle and rear institutes are burned, it is impossible not to be held accountable, even if the final conclusion is an accident, he cannot escape punishment.

In the final analysis, the case of the Zhonghou Institute has nothing to do with Guo Nu, because the Zhonghou Institute was not under Guo Nu's control before, and this case will eventually implicate Ma Shun and others who were demoted. If this is all revealed, it will be investigated.

And although Yu Shoucheng's status in Jinyiwei is not low, and his position in the craftsman division is also very important, but his current value is probably not as good as Cao Bao!

What he is worried about now is what will happen to Guo Fu, Wang Shan's fire prevention and burning of the Zhonghou Institute completely angered him!

When he just took over the Jinyi Guard, he gave him such a play, didn't he deliberately embarrass him?

Guo Nu really wants to bite to the death, whether he can save Cao Bao, he can't say, not to mention the attitude of the master.

Recent. Guo Nu entered the palace significantly more often. This is also a rather dangerous signal, especially for Wang Zhen.

In the matter of disposing of the Warat and Tatar tribute missions, they all let Jinyiwei steal the limelight, especially that Meng Yan. And the East Factory followed. I didn't even get any soup.

"Uncle. The evidence was burned by his nephew, and Guo Laohu couldn't find evidence even if he wanted to investigate. ”

"Aren't there still witnesses?"

"It's none of their business, they haven't taken less over the years. If you say it, you will go to jail yourself, do you think they are stupid? Wang Shan retorted.

"Wang Shan, if you hadn't caused such a big trouble this time, my uncle wouldn't have been so embarrassed, in this way, you can take out half of the deficit in the middle and back office, and your uncle will make up the other half for you, early tomorrow morning, you will personally go to Nanya to make up for the shortfall!" Wang Zhen thought about it for a while and decided to favor Cao Bao.

An obedient and loyal subordinate is always much better than a subordinate who is smart but not very obedient.

"Uncle......" Wang Lin begged, Wang Zhen said this, which was equivalent to giving up Yu Shoucheng.

"Uncle has decided, Wang Lin, if you want to keep Yu Shoucheng, you can make up for the embezzled money for him, and maybe you can save his life."

Wang Lin's face was scornful, and it was impossible for him to repay the money for Yu Shoucheng.

"Lord Weng, Gonggong Jiang is here!"

"You all go back first, and I'll call you when there's something!" Wang Zhen waved his hand and asked Wang Shan and Wang Lin to leave quickly.

"Dong Weng, it has been found out, the Holy Lord summoned Meng Yan to ......"

"As our family expected, the saint has been married to the queen for more than two years, and he has not yet seen a pregnancy, so the saint should be in a hurry."

"What the Queen Mother means is that Dong Weng pretends not to know anything about this matter, and just try his best to cooperate." Jiang Mian is the person next to the Empress Dowager Sun, so naturally he will not be too low to Wang Zhen, otherwise if the Empress Dowager Sun knows, I am afraid that she will be the first to knock him into the abyss.

"Please ask Father-in-law Jiang to inform the Queen Mother on his behalf, our family knows it!" Wang Zhen also replied very politely.

"That's good, that's good!"

This is the warning given to him by the Empress Dowager Sun, Wang Zhen understands that the emperor is now childless, for the Empress Dowager Sun, the continuation of the national honor is the top priority, whoever destroys it is her enemy!

Meng Yan is not a good person, but now that he has a use value, and before he loses his value, Empress Dowager Sun is unwilling to be destroyed by anyone.

In this way, Yu Shoucheng's side will not be able to protect it.

Although the cases of Cao Bao and Yu Shoucheng are related to Meng Yan, there is a direct conflict between Yu Shoucheng and Meng Yan in the Nanya, and the Zhonghou Institute is only an indirect conflict, if it weren't for Cao Bao's idiot.

Five hundred taels of silver can settle the matter, he has to make such a big thing, now it's good, I'm afraid that fifty thousand taels of silver can't be settled!

How much has the cost increased a hundredfold?

Thinking of so much silver, Wang Zhen felt distressed, how much was the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty in a year? One of the forties of his mess is gone.

Meng Fu, because of his illness, he was idle, but the report that Guo Nu asked him to write, even if it was an excerpt, was just the opportunity to write.

After drinking the medicine, the fever subsided a lot.

"Mr. Cai, you can help me see, I don't know how to write excerpts, is it appropriate to write like this?" Meng Yan showed Cai Jin the excerpt he had racked his brains to write.

"Your Majesty the Honorable Emperor ......" Cai Jin almost didn't squirt out a sip of tea, what is this?

"Can't you?" Meng Yan's face was scornful, he really couldn't write Bagu Wen, not to mention that it was still in Chinese, which was too embarrassing.

"Son, Lao Cai, I have lived for almost fifty years, and I have never seen you give the emperor such an excerpt?" Cai Jin shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"The books I read are basically medical books, these four books and five classics and the like, I'm not interested!" Meng Yan smiled embarrassedly.

"Son, you should write like this, the minister Jinyi Weinan Yajiang is the treasurer of the hundred households Meng Yan beats ......"

"Is that what you write?"

"That's the most standard!"

"Okay, you can polish it for me. Then I'm transcribing it, and I'll hand it over tomorrow! Meng Yan said.

"According to the grade of the prince, it is not enough to give the emperor a direct excerpt, right?" Cai Jin asked suspiciously.

"As for me, I have added a rank of dispersion from the council." Meng Yan Road.

"Congratulations to my son!"

"It's been a few days since this appointment, and my excerpt was handed over by Lord Guo Nu, and I don't have this qualification yet." Meng Yan smiled.

"Childe wants to make steel?" After reading Meng Yan's excerpt, Cai Jinna was taken aback.

"Yes, although there is a lot of steel production in our country, the steel output in the south is better than that in the north, and ordinary steel is enough for civilian use, but the quality of steel used in the military must be higher than that of civilian use. Transporting steel is difficult. The value of high-quality steel from the south is several times higher when it is transported to the north, and the north is at the forefront of defense against foreign enemies, and a large amount of steel is needed every year. So. I want to solve it on the spot. In this way, we can bring in high-quality steel from the south without much difficulty, and secondly, it can also greatly increase our armament. Craft better weapons and equipment! Meng Yan said.

"Although this Lao Cai has not studied it, I have heard that the quality of steel in the south is better than that in the north, because the steelmaking process and raw materials they use are different from those in the north?"

"The steel in the south is mainly filled with steel, charcoal is used as fuel, the heat of charcoal is small, and the furnace body is large, and the blower equipment is also ......," Meng Yan said.

"Childe still knows the art of steelmaking?" For a time, Cai Jin was shocked.

"It's nothing, I like to read some miscellaneous books, I understand a little, it's all theoretical things, and I haven't actually operated it yet!" Meng Yan explained.

China's steel technology was leading the world until the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it stagnated after the Qing Dynasty, allowing Westerners to surpass the past.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the Chinese invented the method of frying steel, and knowing that in the eighteenth century, the British mastered the process of frying steel.

The sharpness of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was due to the steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty.

But there is one thing we are not as good as others, that is, we do not have high-quality iron ore, iron ore contains too much sulfur and phosphorus impurities, and there is no technology to remove these impurities, so although our technology is excellent, the steel we have trained is not as good as the West.

Gradually, Western technology has risen, and we have been thrown farther away!

"There are two main types of steel smelting in our dynasty, one is official rule, one is private refining, if you want to make steel, it must belong to private refining, and there are two ways of private refining, one is to package mining, all the steel smelted by adults are purchased by the government, and the other is that the government issues mining and refining licenses......

"I didn't expect there to be so many rules?" Meng Yan was stunned when he heard this, why is it so difficult to run a steel company?

In addition to civilian use, this steel is also a strategic material, which can be used to build weapons, guns and cannons, in other words, with this thing, it can be rebelled!

"Mr. Cai, can you do this, adopt the method of government-private partnership, and the imperial court will give me a certain amount of procurement every year, and I can deal with the excess by myself?" Meng Yan Road.

"I'm afraid not, if it's a huge amount, what if you buy steel to a hostile country?"

"I see." Meng Yan nodded, at this stage, steel exports are basically no fun, of course, the domestic gap is very large, unless the domestic demand is saturated.

How to do this, it's really a headache.

"Mr. Cai, in this way, you can help me polish it first, and then I will think about how to operate this matter!" Meng Yan Road.

"Okay, just obey the old man!"

"Knock Knock ......"

"Come in!"

"My lord, the medicine is hot, it's time for you to drink it!" Lin Yi walked in with a bowl of steaming medicinal soup.

"Trouble Miss Lin, it's not too early, you're busy all day, go back and rest." Meng Yan said gently.

"When the adults finish drinking the medicine, I'll wash the dishes and rest!"

"Okay." For Lin Yi, who was serious and responsible, Meng Yan couldn't find any fault, so he had to pick up the bowl and drink the medicine first. (To be continued......)