Chapter Seventy-Eight: The County Officials
Zhang Luo's trip to the county this time.
There is a new plan.
Last time I was in Zhang Changwen.
I learned that Quanzhou Wei had a special cannon foundry and gunpowder workshop.
But Zhang Luo can also think of it.
The Ming Dynasty still attached great importance to firearms.
When the Ming Dynasty was founded.
The imperial army was already equipped with all kinds of firearms.
Like firebolts, firebows are beginning to emerge.
However, these firearms appeared relatively early.
The overall process is not perfect.
The performance is very average.
It's like putting gunpowder on a bow and arrow.
Then shoot out together.
Let's not talk about whether an arrow with gunpowder can reach the enemy.
Bow line technique at that time.
Not enough to support an arrow with gunpowder to send out.
It often explodes as soon as it is shot.
It's easy to accidentally injure allies.
In the Ming Dynasty.
Each time, the people in the workshop came up with some new firearms.
The order is down.
The Ordnance Bureau, the Armor Factory, and the Imperial History Supervisor will all rush to build them.
Then send a full copy of the bill to the household.
As for why you don't make more cold weapons and armor.
These are all things that are within the rules of the imperial court.
How many swords and armor are made every year.
The imperial court set the target.
At the end of the year, the imperial court will send someone to investigate.
Whether the weapons stockpiles in various places are up to standard.
It doesn't matter if it's less.
If you make too much, the annual report can't be matched.
Officials will be punished.
Heavy defensive equipment like Armor.
One piece lasts a long time.
If you can't use it, you have to report it to the report.
Firearms are a different story.
Firearm ammunition is susceptible to water.
This is a phenomenon that the minions know.
If you suffer from the cold, you can't use it.
Report to the imperial court, and the imperial court will allocate more money.
Quanzhou Wei is a David with a large number of 5,000 people.
It is also normal to have your own firearms workshop and cannon foundry.
When Zhang Luo walked outside Jinjiang County last time.
Then I saw a general's artillery.
It should be made by Quanzhou Wei's own family.
I don't know, is there any news from Young Master Xu?
Zhang Luo also planned to let him.
Take yourself to the official's cannon foundry and firearms workshop.
You can also unlock several skills for crafting firearms.
Even if you can't completely build a bird gun and a cannon.
It can achieve self-sufficiency in gunpowder.
That would also temporarily solve the problem of not having enough ammunition for Zhenhaiwei.
Zhang Luo arrived at the fifth.
Early in the morning, I was ready to salute and go.
Arrived at Jinjiang County before noon.
Holding the name sticker that Xu Shouye gave him.
came to the Quanzhou Wei Commander's Mansion.
Give the name sticker to the guards.
The guards saw the Confucian shirt that Zhang Luo was wearing.
But he has the temperament of a reader.
is also holding the name tag of the little master.
There was no idea of driving Zhang Luo away.
hurriedly ran into the mansion.
Then a subordinate of Xu Shouye.
Walked out and told Zhang Luo.
Xu Shouye went to Fuzhou.
It won't be back until two days later.
I didn't see Xu Shouye right away.
Zhang Luojue felt a little pity.
But after two days, there is exactly half a day off.
In order to learn firearms skills.
Zhang Luo can come to the mansion again.
and Zhang Luo, who returned to the county seat.
I want to inquire about the old Liu Dahu again.
This Liu Dahu and Zhen Haiwei have a feud.
Deceive too many households to cooperate in smuggling.
Secretly smuggling armor to the pirates.
It was exposed by too many households.
Then he was falsely accused of illness and died.
Lao Baihu was also brutalized by the Four Kings of the Sea a few years ago.
I can't figure out that Liu Dahu has a grudge.
What is the connection with the four kings of the sea?
Zhang Luo carried a few catties of yellow rock candy on his back.
These are rock sugars that Zhang Luo deliberately did not completely purify.
Because the price of rock sugar will not be because of the color.
This results in a large price gap.
So if it's too white, it will attract attention.
Yellowish rock sugar.
It is more inclined to rock sugar on the market.
Walk into the door of the county school.
Zhang Luo saw several of his classmates.
All four of them went to the county school early.
I found out after a long chat.
Hu Zhao arrived at the county seat three days ago.
He relied on the guidance of the county school.
Let the city gate officials not check his body.
I sold some of my river fish.
This will be a spring breeze on his face.
It seems that this sum is not a good earning.
The Wei brothers and Zhang Shengwen both went to the county school yesterday.
Zhang Shengwen's brother with a good relationship.
He was elected as a scribe in the county office.
Zhang Shengwen also accompanied his brother to his post in the morning.
Wei Kang heard that Zhang Shengwen's brother had become a scribe.
The expression on his face was envious.
Zhang Luo and the four of them converged.
Take out some rock candy and hand it out to the four people.
When I opened the wooden box, I saw the yellowed rock candy inside.
The four hurriedly excused themselves.
"This sugar is worth a lot of silver, we can't eat anything so valuable."
Zhang Shengwen lives in the city.
Know the price of rock sugar in the county.
Even if he takes on several paper-like jobs a day.
He was also reluctant to buy rock candy to eat.
I will only buy a little brown sugar during the New Year's holiday.
Give your family a taste of sweetness.
Hu Zhao and the Wei brothers.
There are all trades to be done at home.
They are more aware of the price of rock sugar.
Zhang Luo still smiled and said:
"There's not a lot of these rock sugars."
"It's a little gift from me, everyone can accept it."
The four of them took a little bit.
saw Zhang Luo dressed in ordinary clothes.
But he is willing to take rock candy out to meet friends.
It is even more clear that Zhang Luo is open-minded.
I have more thoughts about Zhang Luo's deep friendship.
Faintly, among the five people, Zhang Luo is the leader.
An alliance of poor scholars was formed.
The so-called circle of readers.
It's all a small group that develops slowly.
New friends are constantly joining.
So that the group gradually expanded.
At present, the five are not related financially.
The relationship looks a little more white.
I heard that Zhang Shengwen's brother became a scribe.
Zhang Luo pretended not to care and asked him.
"My brothers went to school with me when they were younger."
"Later, I felt that I couldn't read anymore."
"So he went to the county government and became a servant."
"Now it happens that the silver house is empty."
"Zhao Dianshi saw that he was capable, so he recommended him as a scrivener in the account room."
Wei Kang was more familiar with the situation of the county government.
He asked Zhang Shengwen:
"Your Zhang family still knows Zhao Dianshi?"
"Some friendship."
"Zhao Dianshi is in charge of the craftsman's room."
"How did you help your brother become a scribe in the silver house?"
Zhang Shengwen shook his head and said:
"My brother didn't want to."
"But there will always be a lack of scribes."
"If you miss the opportunity, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a long time."
Zhang Luo asked:
"Where are you going to be a scribe, and is there any other way?" 、
Wei Kang nodded:
"Of course, Zhao Dianshi is the history of the craftsman's house."
"I've been in this position for eight years."
"The scribes in the workshop, the ghostwriters were all pushed up by him."
"The roots in the workshop are deep."
"And Yinhufang has always been the power of the Liu family."
"The old scribe of the silver house."
"Recently, I heard that there may be a possibility that I will be promoted to the canon."
"But it hasn't been implemented."
"The little officials in the silver house are all the people of the willow scribes."
"He was a scribe for decades."
"The depth of the tree foundation is not comparable to Zhao Dianshi."
"Your brother has entered the silver house."
"I'm afraid it's not going to be easy."