PS: Lalala, tomorrow is the first day of the bi-monthly pass, brothers, are you ready for the monthly pass? I've been thinking about the old orange chrysanthemum for years!

"Uncle Tie!"

"The prince is here, hurry, hurry, sit in the house, Xiao Luzi, make tea......"

"Hey, here it is, Master!"

"Uncle Tie, I'm sorry, I haven't come to see you for a few days, how are you doing these days?" Meng Yan asked warmly.

"Okay, good, some eat, some wear, you see I gained a few pounds all of a sudden!" Uncle Tie said heartily.

"It's good to be fat, you should have made a fortune a long time ago!" Meng Yan laughed, "Have you taken all the medicine I prescribed to you?" ”

"Eat, eat, Xiao Luzi boils it for me every day, and I have to drink three bowls every day, that's called a bitterness!"

"The effect?"

"Yes, my arm is stronger than before, but I can't hold the forty-pound hammer!" Uncle Tie said with a lonely expression.

"Don't worry, take your time, Uncle Tie!"

"I know, I know, I didn't expect this day to happen, this is really a creation!" Uncle Tie said with tears in his eyes.

"Uncle Tie, don't say that, what I told you, how did you study?" Meng Yan asked.

"What you ordered, how dare I be sloppy, in addition to eating and sleeping, I think your idea is possible, but it's not a big place here, and it's not easy to do experiments!" Uncle Tie said.

"It's not easy here, let's go somewhere else, let's find a place outside the city. Let's do it first and see if it works, what do you think? ”

"That's a yes, but it might cost a lot of money?"

"You don't have to worry about money, I'll come!" Meng Yan engaged in honeycomb coal, mainly to accumulate a sum of money.

In fact, this thing is also a small profit but quick turnover, which can be regarded as a relatively stable source of wealth!

What he really wants is steel!

Coke steelmaking!

Although the steel production of the Ming Dynasty is not low, the quality is not high, and now it can still have some advantages in the world, but it will not be long before it is gone!

Pioneering steelmaking technology has been in use for hundreds of years. It's time to knock it out!

Although coke steelmaking technology has long existed. All available are natural coke, and there are too many impurities in the steel smelted to meet the requirements!

Pig iron smelted directly from coal is even worse!

The best steel in the Ming Dynasty was Min Tie, where the forests were dense. The iron impurity content of bamboo charcoal is low. The quality is naturally high!

The second is Zhejiang Railway. Guangdong Railway, Lake Railway, etc.!

Although the steel production in the north is high, the quality of your iron is too poor, especially in Shanxi, a large coal-producing province. On the contrary, the quality of steel is the worst!

There are abundant resources, but the quality is not as good as others, and it can only be used to make some rough iron tools, farm tools or something!

All the steel used to build weapons was transported from Jiangnan, which was a lot of money!

The imperial court spends hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel every year to build weapons, which are transported from Fujian and Zhejiang thousands of miles away, whether they are transported by sea or inland rivers, and when they arrive in the capital, the price will at least double.

However, the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty at present is precisely from the north, and there are many troops in the north, how can there be no weapons on the border?

The quality of the weapons determines the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and this cannot be a little sloppy!

If the steel in the north can meet the needs of the imperial court to manufacture weapons and armor on the border, then the imperial court can save at least one million in military spending every year!

If nothing else, just for the people of the Ming Dynasty who are no longer separated from their wives and families, he will also do it!

"How much does it take to build a small one first, and then build a big one?" Meng Yan said to Uncle Tie.

"Yes, if you build one of the ten cubic meters you said, I calculated that it will cost at least fifty taels of silver, and if you add the supporting coke ovens and other facilities, I think one of two hundred taels of silver should be able to get out!" Uncle Tie said.

"Two hundred taels of silver, not much, I can still take it!" Meng Yan nodded, "In this way, Uncle Tie, you don't have to worry about the production of the briquette furnace, anyway, the technology is not complicated, leave it to Fluttershy to deal with, what about you, from now on, specifically for me, choose the address first, and then determine the construction plan, and we will start construction!" ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Uncle Tie nodded.

"Uncle Tie, do you know a coppersmith with good skills, I want to build something?" Meng Yan remembered the music box he wanted to build, which had to be cooperated by a skilled coppersmith.

"There's one, but I don't know if he lives there anymore, I haven't seen him in years!"

"You give me an address, I'll find it!"

"Well, his name is Copper Camel and he lives in ......"

Lumicang Hutong, Jinyi Wei Zhonghou.

"Master Meng, why are you here again?"

"Didn't you Lord Cao say that I would come today?" Meng Yan's official document on the pension of the general was slapped in front of Nahou Wu at once.

"What about Lord Cao, he won't be here today, right?"

"Lord Meng, it's really a misfortune that you came, Lord Cao just went out for a while, why don't you come back tomorrow?" Hou Wu said with a bitter face.

He didn't dare to disobey Cao Bao's orders, but Meng Yan was also a hundred households, and his title was also above his general banner?

What's more, Meng Yan is a person from the South Ya, and now even the North Ya has been taken down by the South Ya, and the people in the South Ya are all raising their eyebrows one by one!

In this stall, the unlucky one is still the one below.

"It's okay, I'm not on duty today, I'll wait for him!" Meng Yan put away the paperwork, put it in his pocket, took a chair, and sat in the courtyard to bask in the sun!

"Who's ...... that"

"Humble Hou Five!"

"Go make a pot of tea for this official, buy some melon seeds and peanuts by the way, I'll find something to pass the time!" Meng Yan Road.

"Hey, okay, you wait, I'll buy it for you on the street!"

"Come back, this is money for you, the official doesn't like to deduct subordinates, even if it's more than it is for you to run errands!"

"Hey, okay. Okay, thank you, Lord Meng! Hou Wu took the money and ran out.

The construction site of Zhihua Temple.

"Why is he here again, what did you say?"

"I said that as soon as you went out on your front foot, he moved a chair and sat in our yard, saying that he was waiting for you to come back?"

"Then let him wait, I don't have time to deal with him!" Cao Bao sneered.

"Lord Cao, but this is not a way to drag on, in case he gets up there. Are you also in trouble? ”

"Don't be afraid of him. Behind us are Wang Shan and Wang Lin, who are these two adults, don't you need to tell me? ”

"Understood, understood. What do you say when you go back? ”

"He's willing to wait. Just let him wait. When you get impatient, you will naturally get out! Cao Bao said.

The construction of Zhihua Temple cost a lot. He embezzled a lot of money and food from the middle, and he was worried that he couldn't plug the hole, and he didn't plan to give Meng Yan's father Meng Xian's more than 500 taels of pension at all!

Even if he is filial to the prince, this is also a matter of course.

To build Zhihua Temple, which of the princes and ministers of the capital did not donate money? This money is donated, which can be regarded as giving him face!

Cao Bao had already thought of an excuse.

"Master Meng, the tea is ready for you, you can taste it slowly."

"Got it, don't you have any interesting books here, find me one or two, and I'll pass the time!"

"This ......"

"Then I'll go in and find it myself?"

"Don't, don't, I'll find you!"

Finally, Hou Wu came back, bringing a large bag of melon seeds and peanuts, and Meng Yan didn't embarrass him, knowing that he was just a little person, and it was useless to get angry at him.

"Hou Wu, come on, chat with the official, you have nothing to do anyway?"

"Master Meng, this is not good, what about being on duty?"

"This middle and rear office is deserted, what big can you do, come, come, come, chat with me, you haven't left the door of this middle and rear office, it's not a desertion!" Meng Yan beckoned.

"Hou Wu, how many years have you been on an errand in the middle and rear offices?"

"It's been five years!"

"How many people are in the family?"

"Seven families, my mother, daughter-in-law, two babies, one older and one younger, and a younger sister, just got married last year......"

"You're raising your family alone?"

"Well, I'm the only big man in the family, and the baby is still young, so I rely on this little money and food from the court." Hou Wu said.

"Is it enough?"

"To be honest, just relying on this little money and rice issued by the imperial court, it is really not enough, if it weren't for our Jinyiwei who usually has some filial piety, this life really can't go on......" Hou Wu's chatter box opened.

In three or two sentences, Meng Yan basically understood the situation of the Zhonghou Institute through Hou Wu's mouth, but Hou Wu himself was in the dark, not aware at all, he told all his secrets!

This Cao Bao is really a human being, as his name suggests, what a straw bag!

Not to mention the filling of private pockets, he also deducted his subordinates, used public weapons for private use, and embezzled the money and grain allocated by the imperial court to Jinyiwei, which was shoddy and shoddy, and gave it to Wang Zhen to build a family temple privately!

This is simply unscrupulous, lawlessness to the extreme!

If this kind of person still stays in Jinyiwei and lets him be free and rich, wouldn't it be intolerable to heaven?

Others were jealous of the two brothers Wang Shan and Wang Lin behind him, but Meng Yan didn't take these two wine bags and rice bags to heart at all!

Without Wang Zhen, these two people would be a piece of!

However, these two people can't move now, which will cause Wang Zhen's strong backlash, when the time comes, don't fight the wolf and not die, but be bitten by the wolf fiercely!

But this Cao Bao must be won, and he must not be given a chance to turn over, which is also Guo Nu's powerful move to take charge of Jinyiwei!

A thousand households, neither big nor small, is enough to deter those stupid people.

"It looks like Master Cao won't be able to come today, that's okay, I'll come back tomorrow!" Meng Yan patted the peanut shell on his body and stood up.

"Master Meng, you go slowly!"

"Alright, I've soiled your yard, where is your broom, I'll sweep it for you?"

"Don't, don't, it's not killing us, we can do all this work!"

"That's okay, that's it, I'll come back tomorrow!" Meng Yan clapped his hands and said.

"Master Meng, you are leaving, you are leaving!" Hou Wu bowed his head and said.

"Boss, isn't this Lord Meng so fierce?"

"What do you know, people don't care about us little minions, their minds are hidden here!" Hou Wushou pointed to his chest and said, "Hurry up and sweep the yard, go, change shifts, and go home for dinner!" ”

"Lord Xiao Meng, according to your orders, Zhang San'er is already secretly investigating Cao Bao, I believe there will be news soon!"

"Got it, Lao Da, let Zhang San'er be careful, although Cao Bao is a straw bag, after all, he has been a brocade guard for many years!" Meng Yan commanded.

"Understood!" (To be continued......)