Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 109 The princess is going to inspect the bureau!

"Go to inspect the Military Weapons Bureau in Chengdu." Auntie Zhu said without much hesitation, "To prepare for war, in addition to recruiting soldiers and strengthening training, you also need weapons and equipment.

Among other things, although the soldiers of the Red Lady's Department are called elites, it mostly means that the soldiers are skilled in combat and have rich combat experience.

As far as its weapons and equipment are concerned, they are actually very ordinary, and they are definitely not comparable to the elite division equipped according to the Ming Dynasty's regular army regulations.

Besides, didn't you say before that the development of the military industry is a key factor affecting the combat effectiveness of troops. "

Hao Guangming smiled gratifiedly after hearing this, and praised: "Your thinking is very clear."

"Of course." Auntie Zhu's lips curled up slightly, revealing her tenderness.

Hao Guangming shook his head, restrained his distracting thoughts, and said, "As soon as possible, you sort out the military bureau in Chengdu, and then try your best to produce all kinds of weapons, armor, arrows and other equipment.

It should be more than half a month before Zhang Xianzhong comes to attack Chengdu, enough time for you to improve the equipment of the Red Lady Department a lot. "

Auntie Zhu is no longer a military rookie now, knowing that Daming's manufacturing of weapons and equipment is very slow, she couldn't help but ask, "Is the time too short?"

Hao Guangming said: "As far as your Ming's manufacturing speed is concerned, more than half a month is very short, but I believe that great efforts can produce miracles."

"Making a miracle with great effort?" Auntie Zhu was puzzled when she heard that.

"Um, it's just spending a lot of money, vigorously improving the treatment and status of craftsmen, and then recruiting more people, improving production methods and management methods, in short, doing everything possible to expand production capacity."

Auntie Zhu half understood what she heard, so she nodded slightly savoring, and said, "Then I will ask for your advice when I inspect tomorrow."

While talking, Auntie Zhu couldn't help grabbing Hao Guangming's arm.

Hao Guangming was wearing short sleeves.

The warmth of skin contact came from the opening, and she realized what she had done, and she blushed and let go of her hands.

Her habit of acting was formed by acting like a baby with Chongzhen in the past, but she didn't expect it to fall on Hao Guangming today.

But the feeling just now was completely different from Chongzhen acting like a baby, which made her feel like a deer bumping at the thought of it.

Hao Guangming has experience after all, although his heart fluttered slightly, he didn't show any strange expression.

He said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, it is my great pleasure to observe the scenery of the Ming Dynasty through you and influence the historical process of the Ming Dynasty."

The two chatted for a while, and Hao Guangming went to wash the dishes.

Concubine Zhu took a bath, changed her clothes, and helped Auntie Zhu take a bath. Finally, she put both of their clothes into the washing machine for washing. Then she packed up and took a box of compressed biscuits to Daming as usual.

Hao Guangming returned to the hall, passed the east room to the bathroom in the backyard, took a shower, and then returned to the west room.

Now the old house has been redecorated by him, and air-conditioning is installed, so it won't feel hot even in the hot summer.

Seeing Auntie Zhu sitting on the bed with a mosquito net in the north watching cartoons, he didn't care too much, sat down at the desk next to the bed, and got down to business.

The first thing is of course to send Weixin video to Aimee Zhu to see how she is doing over there.

The video was connected, and Auntie Zhu was looking at the overview of accounts given by Li Yan and Liu Xiaolian in the Chengyun Hall, which was very boring.

And there is no air-conditioning over there, even though Fei Zhen'e brought two ice mirrors beside her and fanned it gently with a fan, Auntie Zhu still felt a little hot.

But it doesn't stop there.

Chengyun Hall in Chengdu at the end of Ming Dynasty would definitely not be as hot as later generations in the same month.

Maintaining the video connection between the two, Hao Guangming started doing other things online.

Right now, Aimee Zhu has initially established a stable territory in Daming, and the next thing she needs to do is to develop in all aspects.

Hao Guangming feels that the most powerful help he can provide under the current conditions is to find out some technologies that Daming needs and can master quickly.

Not all this kind of knowledge can be found on the Internet for free, and some of them need to be paid to be viewed and downloaded.

In addition, people with relevant professional knowledge reserves can also ask questions and offer rewards to answer and provide detailed information.

Hao Guangming is not short of money now, so it is not difficult to do this.

In this way, Hao Guangming consulted and sorted out the materials, and occasionally chatted with Auntie Zhu, and the time passed unconsciously...

There are both central and local weapons manufacturing organizations in Ming Dynasty.

The central part is divided into two, namely the Military Weapons Bureau under the Ministry of Industry, and the Military Staff Bureau directly managed by the emperor.

The local ones are also divided into two, one is the military bureaus of the local guards, and the other is the military bureaus affiliated to the chief secretaries.

Chengdu is the administrative office of the Chief Secretary of Sichuan, so there is a military bureau in the city.

After all, Sichuan is rich, coupled with the important task of deterring the chieftains of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and has repeatedly been involved in various wars in recent decades, the scale of this military bureau is not small.

Its location is in the west of the city. It is a complex of buildings composed of multiple courtyards. Today, there are still thousands of craftsmen and staff of all kinds.

The craftsmen here are basically resident craftsmen, who need to serve the government for ten days a month, and the government needs to provide a certain amount of money and food every month as usual.

This is not much money and food, barely worth ten days of rations.

In the morning, when it was just dawn, smoke rose from the homes of the craftsmen.

The same is true in the old Wangtou's house.

Old Wangtou has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son has married a wife and gave birth to a boy, which is regarded as a continuation of incense for the old Wang family.

The youngest, Yaomeier, is also married.

But Er'er, who was in his early twenties, was still a bachelor.

It is always difficult for a craftsman family like theirs to marry, so they often marry in exchange.

His eldest daughter-in-law was married in exchange for a younger sister.

Therefore, the old Wangtou often laments that if he had known earlier, he would have worked harder to give birth to an extra girl, so that the second son would not be single.

The one who is making breakfast is the daughter-in-law. As for the old Wangtou's mother-in-law, she fell ill two years ago and died.

"Father, baby, we are running out of rice." The daughter-in-law's voice came from the kitchen.

"I see, didn't I just talk about it yesterday." The eldest son Wang Baoshuan came out of the room, yawning in response.

Old Wangtou was sitting in front of the house, already sharpening his arrows.

He knew that what the daughter-in-law said was not to the eldest son, but to him, the father-in-law.

Since the spring of this year, the Eight Great Kings entered Sichuan from the east, and the daily work in the bureau increased a lot, but the money and food to supply the craftsmen did not increase.

Not only did it not rise, but it also owed money and food for two months.

Nowadays, many artisan households are either looking for ways to make money and hire someone to lead the class, or they are stealing and selling things in the bureau, and then borrow some usury from the Shu Palace to survive.

Old Wangtou's grandparents had been working as blacksmiths in the bureau, and they had been honest all their lives. They had no connections outside, and couldn't get any jobs that could make "big money", so naturally they couldn't hire someone to lead their shifts.

As for stealing and selling things in the bureau, he never thought about it.

He also didn't want to borrow usury from the Shu Palace, so life is naturally sad now.

Da'er casually took a sip of cold water, rinsed his mouth, washed his face, and came over to sharpen arrowheads together.

"Father, a princess came to the city yesterday. I heard she came from Beijing." Da'er began to gossip while sharpening his arrow.

The old Wangtou said with a dull expression: "What does it have to do with us?"

A few days ago, I heard that Emperor Chongzhen had died, and the old Wangtou had the same blank expression.

Although he honestly worked as a blacksmith for the Ming Dynasty for most of his life and obeyed the law, he really didn't have the slightest feeling for the emperor, princess, and elders who only existed in dramas and rumors.

He doesn't care whether these people die or come and go.

The eldest son leaned closer and said in a low voice: "I heard Guan Shi Yao say that the princess brought soldiers into the city, and immediately occupied the Shu Palace. I was thinking, if the princess really occupied the palace, the usury interest in the future will Not less? Then maybe we can borrow some."

The old Wangtou frowned when he heard this, "Is it something we can talk about in the palace? Do your job honestly!"

After hearing this, Da'er couldn't hold back and said, "If you work honestly, you won't get money or food."

After hearing this, the old Wangtou raised his hand and wanted to slap Da'er, but when he saw his daughter-in-law coming out of the kitchen, he stopped abruptly.

So he lowered his head and continued to sharpen the arrow.

The daughter-in-law didn't say anything, but her face was not good-looking.

When it's time to eat breakfast, drinking the porridge that can be seen in people's shadows, the atmosphere in the house is very strange, and no one has to talk.

Four-year-old Zhong Wa'er licked the bottom of the bowl after finishing the porridge and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."

During this time, because men had to work in the bureau, they could drink two bowls of porridge in the morning, while their daughter-in-law and Zhong Waer could only drink one bowl.

Old Wangtou put the remaining half bowl of clear porridge in front of Zhong Wa'er, got up and said, "I don't have any appetite, let's go to the bureau first."

When we got to the bureau, Pharaoh went to see Er'er first.

Although the second son, Wang Tiezhu, was also a blacksmith, he learned to make guns by himself, so he changed his career.

The pay for making guns is higher than that of ordinary blacksmiths, but now the bureau is still in arrears of money and food.

The family is small, and the eldest son married a wife, and the second son felt inconvenient, so he often ate and lived in the bureau.

Old Wang saw that Er'er was still sleeping soundly, so he didn't bother him, and went to work on his own.

As the sun rose, more and more people came to the bureau, but few of them were doing serious work, either using the tools in the bureau to do outside work, or just chatting.

The conversation was still about the princess leading troops into the Shu Palace yesterday.

There were all kinds of nonsense, and some people even said that the princess knew magic, and the king of Shu was scared and paralyzed with a loud roar, which made the old king laugh.

Shouldn't it be Zhuge Wuhou who knows magic?Why does it sound like you're talking about Zhang Yide?

At Sishi (9:[-] a.m.), the ambassador and deputy envoy of the Armaments Bureau, who usually seldom show up, suddenly came, and the ambassador lost his temper after hurriedly walking around in the bureau.

"What about people? Just a few people? Where did the others die?!"

When the old Wangtou saw the eldest son coming, he watched with cold eyes.

After jumping up and down for a while, a news that made everyone nervous came out.

The princess will be visiting the bureau soon!

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