Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 669 The Weapons Supervisor of the Great Jin Dynasty

Military Weapons Supervision was originally a yamen under the Ministry of War. For a period of time, the Ministry of Returned Military and the Ministry of Work were jointly in charge. However, during Emperor Wu’s time, this yamen was separated from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Work and became an independent one. yamen.

  The supervisor of the military equipment supervisor is only a fifth-rank official, but he is directly under the emperor, which means...he has no boss.

Originally, this yamen was subordinate to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry also intervened, but since the time of Emperor Wu, the system was restructured, and the Weapons Supervisor was independent. The Ministry of War paid the money to buy it from the Ordnance Monitor.

Under this process, the weapons supervisor actually became a military factory in Dajin, and the asking price of this military factory will be higher than the actual cost, and the extra profit is used to subsidize the artisans of the weapon supervisor, and buying iron ore.

The reason why Emperor Wu restructured in this way was to create more weapons to supply the fronts on both sides of the Great Jin Dynasty at that time. At that time, the treatment of the artisans in the weapons supervisor was very low and the production efficiency was not high. Everyone has a lot of income, and they get a commission from each weapon, so that the enthusiasm of the weapon supervisor has reached an unprecedented level, and it has provided for the war on the north and south fronts for seven or eight years.

   This "piece-based" reform, when Li Xin heard about it for the first time, also admired Emperor Wu's almost advanced vision and insight.

  Because Emperor Wu ruled the world and became the most dazzling emperor in the history of the Jin Dynasty, the rules he set have not changed, and until now, the Military Weapons Supervisor still maintains this system.

The Military Equipment Supervisor was not in the capital city, but in the suburbs of Beijing, about 10 or 20 miles away from the capital. After the horse carriage from the Jing'an Hou Mansion left the capital, it took another hour or so before arriving at the entrance of the Military Equipment Supervisor. The Marquis of Jing An in black, Shi Ran got off the carriage.

   Chen Shiliu, who was accompanying him, had already walked in front of Li Xin, and when he arrived at the door of the Weapons Prison, he looked solemn and said solemnly, "My lord, I want to see Zhao Jianzheng."

The military supervision area has always been forbidden for outsiders to enter, and because the quality of the military supervision is not high, usually when there is something going on at the Ministry of War, he is sent to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to speak. But I have never been to the dirty ordnance supervisor in person.

However, these people did not dare to neglect, and immediately went down to report. Not long after, a middle-aged man in his early forties ran out all the way, walked to Li Xin, bowed his head and said, "Xiaguan Zhao De, I have seen you before. Lord Li."

Li Xin smiled at the supervisor, who was not high in rank, but had a lot of real power and a lot of oil and water, and said, "The Ministry of War has been ordered by His Majesty to buy a batch of weapons from the Ordnance Supervisor, and this official came here specially for the weapons. Supervisor, discuss with Zhao Jianzheng."

  Zhao De bowed his head deeply and said respectfully: "Master Hou wants to find Xiaguan, send someone to deliver a message, Xiaguan will naturally come to the door to ask to see, there is no reason for Lord Hou to come to the door in person..."

   "The lower officials are frightened."

  Li Xin smiled and said, "Let's go in and talk?"

  Zhao De hurriedly made way, bowed and said, "Master Hou, please."

Li Xin just walked into this military equipment monitoring area, which covers an area of ​​dozens of acres. The interior of the military equipment monitoring station is a piece of low-rise bungalows. You can smell a very strong charcoal fire everywhere, and there are many people coming and going. They were all black and gray craftsmen, who avoided Zhao De far away and did not dare to approach.

The group quickly arrived at the gate of Jianzheng's room. Zhao Jianzheng bent over and invited Li Xin in, and then asked Li Xin to sit on the main seat. The Marquis of Jing'an was not polite and sat on the main seat. down.

   He is too different from the position of the Ordnance Supervisor. If he doesn't sit, then there will be a problem.

   After sitting down, Li Xin looked at Zhao De with a smile, and asked, "Zhao Jianzheng, how many arrows, knives, spears, and infantry armor are still in the weapons prison?"

Most of the swords and armors of front-line soldiers are from the Weapons Supervisor. Of course, it is impossible for one Weapons Supervisor to meet the weapon needs of the entire Jin Dynasty. In addition to the Weapons Supervisor, there are also many places in Dajin where weapons can be prepared. However, for decades, it has been recognized that the quality of the armor produced by the Ordnance Supervision is the best.

   However, the weapons supervisor in the capital is only famous for making knives and armor. Dajin also has another "arms factory", which is more famous than the weapons supervisor in the capital for the production of crossbows and spears.

The other military factory is naturally the "general prisoner" in the old Northern Zhou capital. People in the north are good at archery, so the bow and crossbow made by the general prisoner is very powerful. Military generals all hope to have a longbow that will be produced by the supervisor.

  The northern bow comes to the southern armor, which is the consensus of all the people in the Jin Dynasty for 40 years.

   In fact, it has been more than forty years. When the North and the South confronted each other, it was a microcosm of the characteristics of the Southern Jin and the Northern Zhou. It was just that the Northern Zhou, who was good at shooting and cavalry, was beaten to death by a reckless man named Ye Sheng.

Zhao De lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Go back to Lord Li, these years of great Jin Chengping, from five years ago to now, there have been no large-scale wars, so there are not many armors in the armory, only less than 10,000. Deputy, there are about 20,000 pairs of knives and crossbows, and 50,000 arrows can be raised."

  Li Xin frowned and said, "In the Arms Prison, is there only so much reserves?"

The Emperor Taikang had already started to prepare the money for the war three years ago, and there are materials that need to be prepared, so it is reasonable to say that the military equipment supervisor should also start producing related military materials early, it makes no sense until now , that's all.

   Zhao De said with a wry smile: "Master Hou, our Military Weapons Superintendent has no money allocated by the Ministry of Households. It would be good to have these reserves. There are no documents from the Ministry of War, and the Military Weapons Superintendent can't even buy iron ore..."

  Li Xin frowned slightly, feeling a little strange.

   But he still has to do what he has to do.

   "The military needs all of these things."

Li Xin waved his hand vigorously, and said, "Calculate how much it will cost, come to my house tomorrow and tell me, and then send someone to my house to move the money. From today, the weapons supervisor will be at full capacity, and the Ministry of War will at least 20,000 sets of armor and 100,000 arrows."

   "This is only needed temporarily. After that, His Majesty should give an order to the Ordnance Superintendent."

  This first batch of supplies is to be given to Yunzhou City. If the war in the north really breaks out, these three million pieces will definitely not be enough to see.

  Li Xin once estimated that if you want to conquer the Yuwen divisions, if everything goes well, you will need to invest at least 30 million yuan in order to conquer them!

   Zhao De took a deep breath, stood up from the chair, and said respectfully, "Xiaguan, obey!"

Li Xin also stood up from the main seat, glanced at the craftsmen who were doing things outside, and said lightly: "Zhao Jianzheng, this officer knows that there are rules in the military equipment supervision, and you have to take money from it. I'm too lazy to ask, but this official reminds Zhao Jianzheng that this is something that His Majesty personally explained, you can take the money, but don't overdo it."

   "At least half of the income of the weapon supervisor must actually fall into the hands of the craftsmen, because the imperial court needs large-scale weapons from today, does Zhao Jianzheng understand?"

   In the time of Emperor Wu, all the income was distributed to the craftsmen, but even the best rules would change. Decades have passed, and today’s weapons supervisors are no longer the same.

   Zhao De froze in his heart, then bowed his head respectfully.

   "Xieguan, remember the teachings of Lord Hou!"

   (end of this chapter)