Chapter 293: Inspection II

After listening to Wang Zhi's defense, Zhu Houhuang looked at the past. Although these people have been rolling in the coal mine, they are covered with coal black, and they can't see their original faces. But Zhu Houhuang can still see from some special facial designs, and what Wang Zhi said is not bad. These people have obvious Malay characteristics and are not Han Chinese.

The anger in Zhu Houhuang's heart subsided slightly, but the things in front of him still made him feel extremely annoyed.

Obviously, this kind of thing is not a day or two, and even the gold mine is probably like this in the first place. The gold mine is like this, whether Wang Zhi is ready or not, maybe.

And Zhu Houhuang didn't come down to look at these and didn't know at all.

Zhu Houhuang believes that such a thing can be hidden from him, but it may not be able to hide from others, such as Lu Wan, such as Xu Song. But they all hide themselves.

made Zhu Houhuang annoyed and wanted to kill.

To be honest, during this period of time in Dongyong. Zhu Houhuang's heart has long been hardened, and Zhu Houhuang can barely accept the matter of treating barbarian captives as slaves. But such low-level officials joined forces to deceive themselves, which made Zhu Houhuang unbearable.

Or rather, every superior person can't stand it.

But what can be done if you can't stand it? Kill Wang Zhi.

Zhu Houhuang personally cultivated several cronies, including Wang Zhi. Killing Wang Zhi is self-destructive.

Most of the powerful officials in Dongyong were brought over by the people who served as the chief history of King Yong at that time, Zhu Houhuang's own cronies were not many, even if he vigorously cultivated, there were not many people who really became talents, and more seemed to be the person in charge of the brickyard, and he would not grasp the opportunity at all.

Zhu Houhuang secretly said in his heart: "It seems that I must establish an internal supervision body." ”

The official system designed by Zhu Houhuang for Yongguo only has the Shaofu and the Prime Minister's Mansion, and there is no supervision agency in it, and Wu Fengyi's intelligence agency is responsible for a little internal supervision.

However, the focus of the intelligence agencies' supervision is on who has different intentions for Zhu Houhuang's rule, not on who is unfavorable and deceives the superiors and subordinates.

It's just that there are few talents in Yongguo, and it can be said that there are no talents to pick sorghum at all. The status of the supervisory body should not be far from the long history of King Yong, but Zhu Houhuang lacks a person who can compete with Lu Wan.

Zhu Houhuang suddenly thought of Wang Yangming. He then dismissed the thought. Although Wang Yangming has promised to go to Nanyang, it is still unknown whether he will use it for himself. Unknown, Zhu Houhuang won't think much about it. He once again focused his gaze on Wang Zhi's body.

Wang Zhi trembled under Zhu Houhuang's gaze, and didn't dare to say a word, lest Zhu Houhuang kill himself in a fit of anger.

Zhu Houhuang tried to calm down his anger, but said coldly: "Go and see the iron ore and iron work." ”

Wang Zhi's back was wet with cold sweat, and after Zhu Houhuang's sentence, he calmed down a little.

The iron work is just north of Beigang. The iron ore is in the north of Beigang, so the iron work is also in the north of the Beigang, not far from the iron mine, from the coal mine to the iron mine, first to the iron work.

The person in charge of Tiezuo is none other than the self-recommended Wang Ertie.

However, Wang Ertie is very different from the beginning.

At the beginning, Wang Ertie was an ordinary blacksmith, and he was not even a master among blacksmiths, but now Zhu Houhuang sees Wang Ertie is already a technical official.

The darkening color on his face faded slightly, and his figure was not as strong as before, and he even had a little fortune. When he saw Zhu Houhuang, he fell to his knees with a thud and said, "The minister Wang Ertie has seen His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Houhuang saw the current appearance of Wang Ertie, and his heart was slightly relieved. Zhu Houhuang hoped that most of the officials in the future Shaofu would be technocrats, not Confucian officials.

At this point, Zhu Houhuang finally saw a little hope from Wang Ertie and Li Dagong.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Get up, take Gu to see this iron work." ”

Wang Ertie said: "Yes." ”

He got up and said, "There is more iron now than before. The current iron work is divided into three parts, one part is the agricultural tool area, which specializes in building agricultural tools, the other part is the weapons area, which specializes in building weapons, and the last part is the firearms area. Purpose-built firearms. I don't know where His Highness looks from. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "The people take food as the sky, starting from the farm tool area. ”

"The farm tool area and the weapons area are together, Your Highness, please go this way." Wang Ertie led the way in front. Zhu Houhuang walked into the iron work in the sound of clanging knocks.

Although Wang Ertie divided the iron work into three parts, Zhu Houhuang believed that there were only two parts in the iron work. Part is casting, part is forging.

Zhu Houhuang walked through the farm tool area, although these farm tools are small things, they are all cast. In Zhu Houhuang's view, the farm tools are not much different from the farm tools in the countryside in later generations. You only need to build an iron head, what kind of hoe, and the rest of the wooden poles, after the people buy it, they will naturally build it.

Zhu Houhuang was not very interested in agriculture, but just watched it for a while. Soon walked to the cold weapons area.

Wang Ertie said: "The three thousand pairs of iron armor, three thousand long knives, three thousand spears, and shields and other things that His Highness asked for have all been built. It's just that I don't know when His Highness will send someone to fetch it. ”

Zhu Houhuang was led by Wang Ertie to the warehouse behind the cold weapon area, and Zhu Houhuang saw the boxes side by side. Wang Ertie opened a box, and Zhu Houhuang looked over.

Underneath is a suit of armor.

It seems to be a mountain armor, but the armor piece is big after all, Zhu Houhuang lifted the iron armor, which weighed about one or twenty pounds, and there was a chain mail in this iron armor.

After Zhu Houhuang put down the armor, he looked at another box, which was full of Yanling knives. Zhu Houhuang took out a handle and watched the light flow on the lines on the Yanling knife.

Then Zhu Houhuang looked at the spear with a handle, he looked at it one by one, and knew that this batch of weapons was quite good.

Zhu Houhuang sighed, and said secretly in his heart: "The armor is complete, but the time for the expansion of the army is far away. "When Zhu Houhuang expanded his army, it was not only now, but it was already there. For the county soldiers everywhere, they simply can't use such good weapons.

It's just that Zhu Houhuang is facing the current financial crisis, and he can only press down on the idea of expanding the army.

"Let's go, let's go see the firearms section." Zhu Houhuang said.

"Yes." Wang Ertie said.

Zhu Houhuang came to the firearms area.

I saw a large number of artillery pieces that had been cast, and a large number of iron molds on one side. Zhu Houhuang looked at it twice, and then stopped looking. Because he was already familiar with the iron mold casting method, he couldn't be more familiar with it, and when Wang Ertie developed the first iron mold, he demonstrated it once in front of Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang was more interested in other firearms than artillery. After Zhu Houhuang crossed the place where the cannon was cast, he came to the place where other firearms were made.

Zhu Houhuang looked at the past one by one, there are all kinds of firearms here, such as firearms, such as a swarm of bees, such as ten thousand tigers running arrows, and so on.

Zhu Houhuang frowned when he saw this. for he saw the gunpowder workshop. Zhu Houhuang asked, "The gunpowder workshop is here?" ”

"Yes," Wang Ertie said. "Your Highness, because artillery also needs gunpowder, and gunpowder is also needed for mining, because I am in charge of artillery, Xu Shaocheng handed over the gunpowder workshop to me. The gunpowder workshop was the most expensive place to buy saltpeter and sulfur from the Ryukyus. It costs a lot more than self-produced iron ore. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "This place is so close to the open flame, and it is actually equipped with gunpowder here, so it is not fatal." ”

In the iron work, there are almost everywhere the stoves. Open flames were everywhere, and the gunpowder workshop was not far from the ironwork, almost an alley. Once something happens, the gunpowder workshop is detonated, and most of the iron work cannot be saved. And Wang Ertie didn't feel anything wrong at all.

Zhu Houhuang snorted coldly, he didn't say anything, and immediately left here quickly.

The so-called son of a daughter can't sit down, and when he was dying of Dongyong's serious illness, he realized that if he wants to make a contribution, he must take good care of his useful body.

Zhu Houhuang said secretly as he walked: "After I go out, I want to teach Wang Ertie a good lesson and let him know what safe production is." ”