Zhu Yuanzhang is very strict, and all kinds of expenses within the Ministry of Industry are also earmarked, and Li Wei is not easy to embezzle without authorization, but it is still okay to delay and stop first, and the household department can drag him, why can't he drag others?

"Also, Guan Ziming, the porcelain produced in the pottery kiln has been stored for me, except for the royal use, others come to ask for it and say no, we have no money!"

"Uh, the subordinate obeys!"

In addition to the official kiln, the yamen also need to use a lot of porcelain, not to mention that in addition to porcelain, bricks have to be burned, all of which are done by the official kilns of the Ministry of Industry, and the houses of the yamen are also built by the Ministry of Industry.

Li Wei carried forward the spirit of rottenness, and at the sound of an order, most of the Ministry of Industry entered a state of strike, and the materials supplied to the imperial court by the Ministry of Industry under his control were stopped one after another, such as porcelain, charcoal, official carriages, and grave repairers!

Let them drink the northwest wind!

In this way, within two days, the officials couldn't sit still, good guys, there is nothing, how can they work?

There was another wave of impeachment of Li Wei in the court:

Zhang Zongyi: "Your Majesty, the minister impeached Li Wei for laziness and delay!" ”

Li Wei: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister doesn't want to do it, but the minister has no money!" ”

Zhao Ben: "Your Majesty, the minister impeached Li Wei for delaying the government ......"

Li Wei: "No money!" ”

Xu Hui: "The minister impeached Li Wei ......"

Li Wei: "No money!" ”

……

Due to the suspension of the supply of materials by the Ministry of Industry, all departments have been affected, and Li Wei has been impeached for inaction.

If you want to say that the boss of the Ministry of Industry is Xue Xiang, everyone should play Xue Xiang first, but in the eyes of the ministers, Li Wei is a traitor who relies on the "holy favor" to do misdeeds, and Xue Xiang, the old Shangshu, may have been hollowed out, so he still has to play Li Wei!

But Li Wei is also very single, no matter how you play, I just have two words, no money!

The household is cheating, and I'm cheating, so it's consumed!

He didn't believe that Lao Zhu didn't care, if he really couldn't help it in the end, he would sell the official kiln porcelain in stock, just to increase the product diversity of the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce!

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Li Wei ......"

"No money!"

“……”

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, Li Wei habitually scolded him back.

Then he found that it was Lao Zhu who spoke, and he was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly made up for it:

"That, Your Majesty, I really don't have any money, and if the household department doesn't give money, I can't help it."

Li Wei pointed the finger at the household department in one sentence.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was pale, he just wanted to give this kid some problems to make him have a long heart, but this kid offended people again with a map cannon, and he had to stop it when it came to this point!

In fact, Li Wei's approach is also a commonly used method in officialdom, if you card me, I will card you, and no one can get any good.

But hundreds of officials competed, and it was the imperial court that suffered losses in the end, which Lao Zhu would never allow!

If you want to put aside other emperors, you may have to fight with the mud, or simply let them fight, but Lao Zhu is not!

He first glared at Li Wei fiercely, snorted coldly, and then turned to the household: "Xu Hui!" What's going on? Why is the Ministry of Industry holding on to the money? ”

Xu Hui's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the household department is understaffed, and many affairs cannot be handled......"

Xu Hui opened his mouth and was still the same, Zhu Yuanzhang angrily reprimanded: "If you can't handle it, you won't deal with it?" We don't care if you have enough manpower, give you three days to deal with everything that needs to be handled, otherwise we will cut off your head! ”

Xu Hui shuddered, and hurriedly bowed his head and said respectfully: "Yes, yes, the minister must do his best!" ”

This emperor can't be provoked!

"And you! We have done everything that needs to be done, and if we can't finish it after the deadline, we will beat your ass! ”

After Lao Zhu reprimanded Xu Hui, he didn't let Li Wei go.

Li Wei pouted secretly, it would have been over like this a long time ago, really!

"Obey the order!"

Li Wei also agreed.

Xu Hui lowered his head and felt a burst of indignation in his heart, oh, if I can't do it, I'll cut off my head, if he can't do it, he will only spank it, this is too eccentric!

But he didn't dare to say that.

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly cut through the mess and arranged this matter, and then Xu Hui didn't dare to drag it out, and approved all the money and food in just two days.

After getting the money and food, Li Wei can finally do his own work with peace of mind, not for Lao Zhu, but for a better life in the future.

Of course, he worked with peace of mind, and the ministers didn't plan to just finish it, and the pieces of impeachment against him were still handed to Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial case in an endless stream, and there were more than before, which made Zhu Yuanzhang big for a while.

Ordnance Bureau, after some tedious testing, Li Wei finally selected the various steels he needed, but due to manual mixing, the quality of the steel is still unstable, but it is enough to build a sword.

After the selection of steel, each blast furnace began to make steel, Daming now has a steel output of about 100,000 tons a year, mainly iron, steel is very little, and now Li Wei these blast furnaces, every day non-stop burning, a blast furnace can produce 3,000 tons, this is still small, if you build more, break the steel production record of Daming easily, of course, the mining industry has to keep up.

Under Li Wei's arrangement, these refined molten steel were injected into rows of strip molds connected together to form rough blanks, which were cut into individual blanks when cooled to a certain extent, and then handed over to blacksmiths for forging and forming, and finally polished on the sand wheel driven by water power, and a steel knife was made.

The reason why it is not directly cast is because the quality of the cast knives is still not as good as the forging, and the forged swords have a tight texture and good toughness, while the cast ones are not good.

In the past, if a blacksmith wanted to make a qualified steel knife, he needed to quench and fold it repeatedly, and a hundred forging knives needed to be folded and forged six or seven times repeatedly, and one or two were made a day.

But now it is directly cast into a billet from molten steel, and it is just a matter of forging once, which saves a lot of time, and each person can make at least five handfuls a day, and it is not impossible to make ten handfuls if they are proficient.

Although it is only forged once, because of the good materials, the knife made is not worse than the hundred forging knife at all, and may even be better.

When the Ordnance Bureau was in full swing, Han Yike came again, recently he often came to the Ordnance Bureau to supervise Li Wei's work progress, no way, it's been more than a month, and the 100,000 steel knives required by His Majesty have not been made until now, although Li Wei has repeatedly said that if he wants to fan his guy, he must first stand up, but the time is almost halfway, and there is still no result, Li Wei is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry.

But today, when he came to the Ordnance Bureau again, he saw rows of steel knives stacked on wooden frames, and he was extremely surprised!

I couldn't see a handful of them yesterday, but there are so many today? How is this done?

The doubts in Han Yike's heart were quickly solved, and he saw that those blast furnaces that had not seen fireworks before were all exuding a blazing breath at this time, and some of them were still flowing out of bright molten iron under the operation of craftsmen, and these molten iron were bright and dazzling even in broad daylight.

Han Yike had seen the appearance of molten iron in the past, but now the molten iron that flowed out was not as viscous as before, but really flowed like water.

After the stirring is completed, the craftsman pulls the iron chain attached to the bottom of the furnace, and the ball-like furnace will rotate at an angle, pouring out the molten iron like pouring water, and then fixing the iron chain to prevent the converter from shaking.

Then there is casting, forging, grinding, and a set of steel knives in rows is on the shelves!