Chapter 74 Recruiting Craftsmen
In fact, Zhang Fengyi is an old fried dough stick, and he can probably see that the Liu family is just using some money to make use of him.
But it doesn't matter. He, an official, is similar to a person who opens the door to do business, and he has absolutely no reason to push the guests out of the door.
Moreover, he thought he was the Minister of War and the troops in charge of the world. The generals and generals from all over the country had to obey his orders, just to make him an intermediary and a guarantee. If the other party refused to agree, it would not give him face. He also wanted to use this time to test whether his own face was worth 30,000 taels.
In his personal self-evaluation, he himself thinks his face is worth 30,000 taels.
Moreover, Zhang Fengyi is very short of money now, because Wen Tiren's birthday is coming soon, and he hopes to give the other party a good gift and a generous gift, hoping that when he has a problem, the other party can help him.
So the Liu family took out 30,000 taels of silver, and he took it without hesitation.
Of course, he didn't mean that he had to collect the 30,000 yuan of the Liu family. If Liu Zeqing gave him 40,000 yuan of the Liu family, he would definitely return the 30,000 yuan of the Liu family. However, Liu Zeqing would not give him any face at all, so he would take the Liu family first, and it would be a little bit worthwhile.
This is called being an official for thousands of miles only for wealth.
Liu Bu saw that it was so simple and so easy to get things done.
If an ordinary officer has excellent martial arts skills, brave combat, and fights with his life, he may not be able to become a garrison officer after several years, but after he takes the money, he will immediately become the official.
Moreover, Zhang Fengyi is so good that he has no bottom line to sell official positions, but he also directly collects money and manages local affairs. This is entirely for money, and there is no bottom line at all.
Moreover, as the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty and the first person in charge of the army, he was all such a person. If the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, can the people below be better?
Liu Bu got the approval from Zhang Fengyi, so they sent 40,000 taels of silver into the Shangshu Mansion, and then exchanged a note that said, "Lu Bu was appointed as the Thousand General of the Jimo Camp."
The next day, they directly entered the Ministry of War with this two-finger wide strip, and entered the key department of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War.
They handed the note to the head of the official in charge of the affairs officer. After reading the note, the other party nodded, and immediately signed a letter of appointment for him, Liu Bu, issued official uniforms and waist cards, and then he officially became the chief garrison of Jimo Camp. It was so simple that Liu Bu could not react a little.
Liu Bu asked Liu Yuanshan and said, "It's that simple?"
Liu Yuanshan said: "Is this simple? Look at how much money we have thrown out for this position? I guess if a person has worked in this position for three years, he may not be able to get 10,000 taels of silver, so our offer is very high. Others cannot afford this price. What reason does Zhang Fengyi have to refuse us?"
Liu Bu said: "There are only the officials in the world. What luck can the Ming Dynasty have?"
Liu Yuanshan said, "What do you mean? Only by doing your own things can you control the affairs of the world."
In fact, Liu Yuanshan was not interested in the world at all, and the only thing he was interested in was making money.
Liu Yuanshan said, "We have done our business in the capital. The rest is to disperse the goods. Leave the goods to Liu Gui. They will help us handle them well. If nothing happens, I want to go back to Jimo tomorrow."
Liu Bu said, "I still want to see it in the capital so soon."
Liu Yuanshan said, "Actually, there is nothing good to see here. When it comes to the prosperity of the city, he is not as good as Linqing. He is just more solemn and grand than Linqing, because there is an emperor here, right? It is the center of the world."
Liu Bu also felt the same way. He still yearned for the capital. After all, this is the heart of the Ming Empire and the totem of the world of Ming Dynasty. However, after entering Beijing, it was not as beautiful as he imagined.
The streets here are dirty and full of garbage. Sewage flows over the ground, rats run around, and many people urinate on the spot. What is even more unpleasant is that many people ride horses, and there is no feces behind the horse's butts, and they directly pull it to the ground, making the ground even more dirty.
Liu Bu followed his personal soldiers around the outer city of Beijing for a few times, and the impression here gave him was that it was dirty and messy. Is this the capital of the Ming Empire? It is the most prosperous city today.
It would be much better if they entered the inner city. After all, the people living here are all high-ranking officials, and there are also people on the streets to clean them, and there will be no signs of urination, spitting, and throwing garbage everywhere.
But I still gave the Liu tribe a bad impression. I felt that this place was the center of the world and the emperor's place, giving people a sense of majesty, but there was nothing else except majesty. Most of the buildings here were very old, just like this ancient empire. Liu Bu and his friends returned to the mansion before the sunset. He climbed up to look far and wide and found that the entire capital was shrouded in the sunset, and there was an indescribable melancholy.
This is the best portrayal of the empire's sunset, the Ming Empire now.
Liu Bu was not a person who forced himself to say sorrow for composing new poems, and he didn't have so much sorrow. He knew why he felt this way, because he knew that this place would be broken by the bandits and rebels ten years later, and then it became the territory of Jiannu in less than half a year, becoming the capital of the later Braid Empire. Then the last dynasty of the Han people perished, entering the three hundred years of great regression in history.
China has been leading the world and leading the world trend for thousands of years. However, after the Braid Empire took over, the West had already used the dividends of the great navigation to start capitalizing, but the Ming Dynasty was regressing in great strides, causing the entire Chinese nation to begin to regress, and eventually became a weak country in the world and a inferior nation in the world.
So when he came here and combined with the current situation, he felt an indescribable melancholy and sadness in his heart.
Looking at the majestic and ancient Beijing city, Liu Bu felt that he was watching an old man in a mourning dress. Although he seemed a little energetic on the outside, he was still alive, but in fact he was corrupt from the inside and was not far from death.
Liu Bu put aside these negative emotions and returned to his own duty room to meet Mao Qiao. Mao Qiao brought five skilled craftsmen today.
Mao Qiao was very happy and very excited. He was proud to invite five master-level craftsmen to come. These were his teachers in the Military Weapon Bureau before and had guided his work. He felt very excited and very pleased that he could give back to these teachers now.
But when Liu Bu saw that there were only five people, his face immediately became gloomy and he seemed a little unhappy.
I, Liu Bu, is a person with status and status. Since I took action, I have to get some benefits. But they came to do this with great fanfare and got five people back. What does this mean? His workshop lacks more than five people.
Because he saw that there were few people on the other side, Liu Bu seemed a little unhappy and absent-minded. Even when Mao Qiao introduced the names to the five craftsmen one by one, he did not pay attention to it, and he did not remember the other party's name at all.
After Mao Qiao finally introduced the person proudly, Mao Qiao asked: "Sir, how do you think of these people?"
Liu Bu said angrily: "How can I know what? These are not beauties, they are all exposed. And you have been going for so long and have called five people. If there are only five people on this trip, we will be very unworthy, and it would be a waste of time."
Liu Bu said so directly that the craftsmen were a little embarrassed, but they could see that Liu Bu was wearing a Qilin suit and was a fifth-rank military officer, so he didn't dare to offend him easily.
Mao Qiao was a little embarrassed. He said, "Now there are only a few people who are willing to come, but the officials dare to assure the master that they are all skilled craftsmen. Master Zhang is good at making armor, Master Li is good at making muskets, Master Zhou is good at making swords, Master Wang is good at making bows and arrows, and Master Gao is good at making cars. They all have their own strengths. When they come to Fushan, you will see their skills, you will find that this is worthwhile."
Liu Bu still felt that there were few people, so he said, "Why don't you find more people? What's the use of a few people?"
Master Li, who is good at building bird guns, said: "What we do now is technical work, and we eat technical food. What's the use of many people? Only with technology can we do it. Even a hundred people without technology can't do anything."
Liu Bu asked, "I will ask you, how many bird guns have you shot in a month?"
Master Li said proudly: "I can build three bird guns in a month."
He had his reason to be proud, because ordinary craftsmen can make at most one bird gun a month, but he can make three, which shows that his technical speed is quite good and quite powerful.
Even Mao Qiao introduced him aside, and he said: "Master Li's musket is one of the best in the military weapon bureau. The bird gun he fired is the most popular and never explodes."
Liu Bu was not happy after hearing the news, but was extremely disappointed and said, "Three pieces a month, why do I want three bird guns? It's only thirty-six a year, and you are willing to work constantly, and there are only thirty-six. Why do I want thirty bird guns to do?"
When he asked Master Li this, he felt a little embarrassed, but he was also a little dissatisfied. He said, "I don't believe that there are people who beat me faster than me. If so, I, Old Li, left immediately and didn't accept the money."
Chapter completed!