Li Tiechu hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "It's really a necessity to cut corners without any effort. The imperial court has only more than 3,000 taels of silver allocated to the Military Weapon Bureau every year, and there is very little left in each workshop. The villain has not received any salary for several months, and the manpower is seriously insufficient. The Ministry of War urged the armor to be urgent. If it is not delivered when it is due, the villain will have to be beaten to the board and can only deal with it in this way. Therefore, the villain and others are ashamed to engrave their names on the made armor. It is really a shame to insult the skills passed to me by our ancestors!..."

Guo Zhiyuan was stunned. He spent no less than two million taels of silver in the Dongfan military factory every year, and the imperial court of the Ming Army Weapons Bureau only allocated more than three thousand taels of silver every year. This was incredible! He quickly turned around and asked Zheng Guozhu next to him: "Is what he said true?"

Zheng Guozhu nodded ashamed and said, "It is true. The court allocated only 3,780 taels of fees to the Military Weapon Bureau this year. The Ministry of Works has also submitted to the court many times, demanding additional funds, but the treasury is now empty..."

Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand angrily and said, "I am going to find a way to find a way for the country's important weapons. How can I be stingy to invest in it?" As he said that, he turned to Li Tiechu and said seriously: "Li Tiechu, I promised to make up for your salary, and from today on, I will double your salary, and all the insufficient merchants will be compensated. You may assure me that the armor made from now on will be good products and will never cut corners?!"

When Li Tiechui heard this, he was overjoyed. He led the craftsmen to bow and bow, and shouted: "The adults are willing to preside over justice for villains and others. If villains cut corners and handle errands, wouldn't it be better to pigs and dogs? The villains promise that the armor they make from now on will be of no inferior quality. Adults can send people to randomly check at any time..."

As he was speaking, the young craftsman led the deputy envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau to hurry up. The deputy envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau did not know Guo Zhiyuan, but knew Zheng Guozhu and Xu Jinglei. Zheng Guozhu and Xu Jinglei were still standing behind Guo Zhiyuan, and then he knew what the young craftsman said was not false. He hurriedly knelt down and saluted to Guo Zhiyuan and said, "The lower-ranking official Cao Dezhi has met the lord, but he didn't know that the lord came to inspect. If he had any mistakes, please forgive me..."

Guo Zhiyuan saw that Cao Dezhi was not dressed and sleepy. He was obviously sleeping while on duty. He was very unhappy, but he did not rush to attack. He glanced at Cao Dezhi and waved his hand and said, "Get up and talk. I inspected the Military Weapon Bureau today to understand the real situation of the Military Weapon Bureau. Since you are the deputy envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau, you must have a good understanding of the situation of the Military Weapon Bureau, so let me introduce it to me..."

When Cao Dezhi heard this, he was sweating coldly. He was able to become the deputy envoy of the Military Weapons Bureau by flattering and knowing nothing about business. In addition, Zhang Naiwang, the ambassador of the Military Weapons Bureau, was relatively strong, and he was not allowed to intervene in many things. He was also happy to be idle. When he was stolen on weekdays, Guo Zhiyuan asked him to introduce the situation of the Military Weapons Bureau. Fortunately, he was a little anxious and looked around and said panickedly: "This place is too noisy. Why don't you ask the adults to move to the signing room of the Xiaguan. I'll introduce the situation to the elderly?..."

Guo Zhiyuan saw the situation of the armor workshop and knew that the management of the Military Weapon Bureau was completely messy. The situation in other workshops was probably not much better. Moreover, the Deputy Envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau already knew that he was here, and it was meaningless to continue his private visits on a private basis. He nodded and said, "Okay, then go to your signing room!"

Following Cao Dezhi to the signing room, Cao Dezhi called several clerks to introduce the situation of the Military Equipment Bureau to Guo Zhiyuan. However, the bosses and subordinates were all the same. Those clerks were also half a bucket of water. The information introduced to Guo Zhiyuan was all on the information that Guo Zhiyuan saw in the Ministry of Works in the morning. When Guo Zhiyuan asked specific questions, he could not answer them.

When Guo Zhiyuan saw this, he knew that the management team of the Military Weapon Bureau was afraid that it would be terrible from top to bottom. He hoped that the real situation of the Military Weapon Bureau was in vain, so he waved his hand and said coldly: "No need to introduce it. Take the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau and the list of craftsmen. I check it out..."

Cao Dezhi felt a little sad when he heard this. Although he, the deputy envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau, was a scammer, he knew that the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau could not stand the investigation. He was secretly anxious and did not dare to disobey Guo Zhiyuan's orders. He had to ask the clerks to check the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau and the list of craftsmen for Guo Zhiyuan to check. However, he hurriedly sent someone to notify the ambassador of the Military Weapon Bureau, Zhang Naiwang.

Guo Zhiyuan took the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau and the list of craftsmen. Although he was not an auditor, he just casually looked through the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau and found that there were many mistakes and a totally bad account. Looking at the list of craftsmen, he became even more angry. He had only seen more than a dozen craftsmen in the armor workshop just now, but there were more than 120 people on the list. He had known that the Bureau of Servants must have had a vacant salary, but now the situation was much more serious than he thought!

Seeing this situation, Guo Zhiyuan was too lazy to get angry. The management team of the Military Weapons Bureau was already terrible and must have been replaced. So he picked up the craftsman's list and handed it to Xu Jinglei and said, "Sir Xu, take this list to the workshop and call it by the head to see how many people are there?"

"Yes!" Xu Jinglei took the roster and left.

Cao Dezhi was frightened when he heard this. He wanted to find out something big, and he quickly stammered: "Sir... Sir, this... I can't count the list, some craftsmen... I'm complaining about illness... I'm recuperating at home, but I haven't been to work in the future..."

But Guo Zhiyuan didn't even look at Cao Dezhi, and turned his head and ordered Zheng Guozhu: "Master Zheng, please go back to the Ministry of Works and transfer a few capable clerks to come over and check the accounts of the Military Weapon Bureau for me!..."

Cao Dezhi was so scared that he sat on the ground. Guo Zhiyuan was preparing to check the Military Weapon Bureau to the sky! What should I do?!

"Wait!" At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a ninth-rank official uniform covered in alcohol, walked in, glanced at Guo Zhiyuan, and bowed to Guo Zhiyuan with a big sting, "This is the new right minister of the Ministry of Works, Mr. Guo? Zhang Naiwang, ambassador of the Military Weapon Bureau, has seen the adults. He came to our Military Weapon Bureau to inspect and did not notify the officials in advance, so that he could make some preparations! The officials were very welcome to inspect the military Weapon Bureau, but the account could not be investigated!..."
Chapter completed!