Zhao Jun frowned very unhappily when he saw Sun Jian's cowardly appearance.

Li Wei didn't answer them, but chatted with Xue Xiang.

"Lord Xue, why didn't you ride your little donkey here today?"

Xue Xiang glanced at him angrily: "I'm afraid that Li Shilang will join me and the donkey will come from an unknown source!" ”

"What? Lord Xue's donkey turned out to be of unknown origin? Li Wei pretended to be surprised.

Xue Xiang rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, why didn't he find out that this stinky boy was so cheap before.

It's not that he is really afraid of Li Wei's participation in him, including some other officials, and it is not that he can't even afford to ride a donkey, but even if he is not afraid of Li Weicha, he is also afraid that the emperor will be jealous! It's better to keep a low profile and avoid the limelight.

In fact, Li Wei is just joking, he is not stupid, he also knows why these ministers are like this today, he is disgusting everywhere on purpose, let you make trouble for me, now you know how good I am!

Looking at these ministers who went to work on their legs, Li Wei suddenly found a business opportunity, and when the technology of the Ordnance Bureau reached in the future, he could build bicycles to sell to these dignitaries, healthy and environmentally friendly, and he would definitely make a lot of money!

The bells and drums finally sounded, the noon gate opened, the ceremonial officials sounded their whips, and the officials stood in line according to the grade departments and entered the court in turn.

In the court, Zhu Biao handed over the results of the investigation and the disposition of the report to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately furious when he saw it, and he opened his mouth to kill the whole family.

Zhu Biao immediately objected and admonished loudly.

Those ministers naturally followed Zhu Biao's persuasion, after all, they were all in the same spirit.

"Kill them all!"

"Father, son-in-law opposed, Abba Abba ......" Zhu Biao repeated yesterday's words.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, the imperial court is at the time of employing people, and it should be dealt with leniently......"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!"

"Abba Abba ......"

Li Wei's eyes widened, looking at Lao Zhu's face red with anger, and Xiao Zhu's righteous words were arguing, as if they hadn't discussed it yesterday.

If he hadn't personally commented on the two fathers and sons yesterday, he would have almost believed it.

Damn, it's quite similar!

Zhu Biao looks honest, I didn't expect to be such a person!

Li Wei slandered for a while.

After some fierce debate, the court finally reached the plan that Lao Xiaozhu had discussed yesterday, so that Dai Xiao, who committed a relatively minor crime, would make meritorious service, and if he performed well, he would be punished lightly.

Seeing that His Majesty had taken a step back, the ministers praised the emperor's wisdom one after another, and at the same time thanked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for his kindness.

Li Wei was speechless, and he felt that he was still too young, Too young, too simple......

Suddenly, he realized that he had been plagiarized again, and this flail case was his creativity!

Although this was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang later, it was copied by him across time and space with his ability!

Bah! These two are so shameless!

……

After going down to the court, Li Wei returned to the Ordnance Bureau in a hurry, he really didn't want to go to the court, these big leaders didn't do their business all day long to know that the conference would be held, delaying his time!

The coke oven has been built, Li Wei began to let the craftsmen try to start making coke, this thing is not difficult for the current craftsmen, after a few tests, the coke was successfully produced, and then it can be made of steel!

The blast furnace had already been built, and under the command of Li Wei, iron ore and limestone and fluorite used to make slag were crushed and sintered into blocks, coke powder was added, and poured into the material mouth from above.

Everything was ready, the fire began, the wind blower whirred the hot air upwards, and the iron mixed with charcoal powder began to burn.

The craftsmen are already very experienced in making iron, and now they are only improving it, and they are very skilled in the operation.

After continuous heating, the iron began to melt, the previous iron-making furnace because of the furnace temperature is not enough, most of the time the output is semi-liquid molten iron, now changed to coke as fuel, the molten iron becomes a very dilute pure liquid state, and the impurities in it are also removed cleaner because of the high temperature.

Finally, after some hard work, the first molten iron came out and immediately flowed into the converter for stirring and refining to further reduce the carbon content.

The molten iron in the converter is still oxidizing after the carbon and phosphorus elements in it are in contact with oxygen, so the converter does not need to continue to heat and can keep the molten iron state all the time, and even sometimes the temperature is too high and it is necessary to add concentrate powder, or limestone, fluorite and other slag making agents.

For manual stirring, to what extent and for how long, Li Wei himself has no experience, so he can only keep trying.

After the molten iron is finished, the iron is added again and continues to be smelted, steelmaking is like this, once the ignition can not be stopped, it must be continuously refined, if you want to stop the fire, you must first clear the furnace, and then slowly cool down, otherwise, the molten iron will condense in the furnace, and the whole blast furnace will be wasted.

This is especially true for industrial steelmaking in later generations, if the steelmaking plant once the power is off, the loss caused is very large, even if it is notified in advance and then re-ignited, it will cause a great waste of costs!

When the steel came out one furnace after another, Li Wei did not rush to make sword magnetic steel springs or anything, but ordered someone to write down the time of stirring, and then test the newly produced steel.

Hardness, strength, flexibility, whether it is suitable for making springs or magnets, swords, while changing the stirring speed and time, while the test of a furnace, a furnace of the record.

Testing is a tedious job, but it has to be done, and there is no good product without good testing.

Li Wei prescribed a unified mixing method and speed for the craftsmen, at least to keep the difference not much, so that the carbon content of the steel produced in this way can be slightly more stable, so that it will not be very different from each other.

For two or three days in a row, he was busy with these, selecting suitable steels and classifying them, and making records so that they could be selected and used.

When he was busy, Xu Yong came over again and brought bad news: the household department still didn't give money!

"What? Or don't give money? I'm X him XX is not finished, isn't it! ”

Li Wei, who was busy recording the test results, angrily dropped the pencil on the booklet and stood up violently.

Xu Yong was taken aback, except for the first time when Li Wei came to the Ordnance Bureau to beat Sun Jian, he had never seen this squire so angry.

Li Weiwei scolded and sent out a burst of evil fire, he was busy dying, and these dog officials were still looking for trouble for him!

"Clean up all this bullshit all day, fuck!"

"Ruti, come here!"

Li Weiwei shouted and called Lu Ti over.

"My lord, what do you command?"

Ruti cautiously stepped forward and asked.

"You continue to test the record according to my method, you must remember it carefully!"

Li Wei instructed, in fact, he was still a little uneasy to hand it over to Lu Ti, after all, there were some parameters Lu Ti didn't understand what it meant, but there was no way, he was entangled in mundane affairs.

Li Wei asked him to continue the test record in his own way, and he left the Ordnance Bureau with a curse. I didn't even go back to the Ministry of Industry, so I went directly to the Yamen of the Ministry of Households.

"Call your boss out!"

Before the errand officer at the door of the household department had time to step forward to talk, Li Wei shouted directly, and now he didn't know who was in charge of the household department, anyway, the office was still empty.

When the messenger saw that the person who came was not good, he did not dare to slack off, so he hurried in to report it.

After a while, the messenger came out and said tremblingly: "Lord Shilang, we, Xu Shilang, please go in." ”

Li Wei snorted coldly, this newly appointed squire can, the shelf is so big, he didn't even come out and let him in by himself!

He's really a little inflated now, and no one pays attention to him except Lao Xiaozhu!

Things were in a hurry, so he didn't talk nonsense anymore, and followed the messenger into the household yamen and saw this Xu Shilang.

This Xu Shilang is also a trial waiter, strictly speaking, even Fan Min's Dai Shangshu is not as good, but now that Fan Min is gone, he is the highest steward of the household department.

"Why haven't we approved the money from the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry? Believe it or not, I'll play you! ”

Li Wei asked loudly when he entered the door.

Xu Hui frowned, and secretly scolded the dog thief for being arrogant!

"Li Shilang, the household department is busy with official business, and there is a shortage of manpower, so all parties have to sort out the expenses before they can be distributed, and please be patient with Li Shilang and so on."

The reason is still the same as the old, Li Wei said angrily: "Fan Min's fate has also been seen, aren't you afraid that I will check you?" ”

"Hmph, Fan Min is innocent of corruption and perversion of the law, this official is sitting upright, and Lord Li has the ability to investigate!"

Xu Hui did not show weakness and snorted coldly.

Li Wei gritted his teeth and glared, pointed at him and threatened: "Okay, you wait for me!" ”

After letting go of the cruel words, Li Wei didn't waste time with him here, and went back directly to order Abu and Laifu to take action.

However, the result was beyond his expectations, and two days later, he got the consumption data of this Xu Hui family and calculated it, but it turned out that this dog official was really not greedy, or he was less greedy, or he was prepared early, anyway, he was far from Fan Min.

You can't take him down with that!

Originally, he thought that he would take down Fan Min and make an example of him, and if anyone wanted to trouble him in the future, he would have to weigh it, but he didn't expect that he would immediately run into a hard ballast.

"Don't give it, do you? Think I can't do anything about it?? Hum! ”

In the final analysis, this matter is caused by Lao Zhu's unwantedness, it was originally just a matter of the boss's words, and he had to let the people below fight by themselves!

Hmph, let's fight, although the Ministry of Industry is regarded as the cheapest of the six by hundreds of officials, its power is not small, civil officials can handle him, of course he can also control this group of civil officials!

"Come on, call Guan Ziming and Jiang Shouqing to me."

Li Weiwei shouted, and asked people to call these two Lang Zhong over.

Guan Ziming and Jiang Shouqing came together and saluted Li Wei together.

Li Wei was perfunctory, and then instructed lightly: "Recently, our Ministry of Industry has been short of funds, and I have to make adjustments here, just listen." ”

"Yes, please command."

Seeing that his face was not good, the two of them dealt with it carefully.

"Well, Jiang Shouqing, you're still in charge of repairing the graves of officials, right?"

"Yes, sir."

When an official who has reached a certain level dies, the imperial court will send a special person to pay tribute to the burial, and the matter of repairing the tomb is in charge of the Ministry of Industry's Tuntian Qing Officials, and the royal officials are in charge of it.

"It's all stopped!"

Li Wei said directly.

Jiang Shouqing was stunned: "Huh? I'm afraid that's not right, right? ”

"What's wrong, we don't have money, how can we fix it?"

“……”

Of course, Jiang Shouqing knew if he had money to repair the tomb, but the squire said that he had no money, so he couldn't go against his boss, so he could only respond first.