Chapter 132 Inauguration of the Gunpowder Department
They were still very unhappy about such a playboy suddenly coming. Fortunately, this guy is in the Gunpowder Bureau, which is a clear water yamen. It can be said that there are not many of him, but not many of him. Since someone is willing to ask for it, let him stay wherever he wants it!
When the three of them saw Gao Chong's encouragement, they arranged for the military weapon supervisor Chen Ping to take Gao Chong to the post.
Gao Chong hurriedly thanked and followed Chen Ping to the Gunpowder Department. The Gunpowder Department is the smallest and least valued workshop under the Military Arts Prison. They are located at the corner of the Military Arts Prison.
The arrival of the Military Arts Supervisor made the Gunpowder Department in a hurry. Under the leadership of the Chief Feng Muyao, the two supervisors of the Gunpowder Department, six officials and six envoys came out to greet them together.
Chen Ping sat in the lobby and asked Gao Chong to sit next to him. The 15 officials from the Gunpowder Department stood in two rows on both sides. When they saw Chen Ping bringing a young man, they knew what was going to happen.
This Gao Chong looked young, but his majesticity made these people's hearts tremble slightly. The Gunpowder Department once had an order, but he was removed from his post because he had some connections with the thieves in Shandong. From then on, all the things in the Gunpowder Department were presided over by Feng Muyao.
Feng Muyao is a loyal person, who follows the strategies of good and good everyone, and governs without doing anything; he turns a blind eye to whatever his subordinates do as long as they are not out of order. Now that he is so young, he doesn't know what kind of personality he has.
Chen Ping coughed gently and reminded everyone to pay attention: "Everyone, let me introduce it to you first. This is a descendant of our founding king of Kaiping in the Song Dynasty. This martial arts top scholar, Long Live the Dragon of Poetry, Gao Pet Gao Kaiping.
Long live special order: Gao Kaiping will serve as the Military Arts Supervisor from now on. The Gunpowder Department’s Office Order. You and others should assist Gao Da and take our Gunpowder Department to a higher level."
"Yes! I will obey Lord Shen's orders. We will pay homage to Lord Shen." Everyone was polite and bowed to Chen Ping and Gao Chong.
Chen Ping waved his hand, Gao Chong clasped his fists and bowed. Chen Ping then made another enthusiastic speech, and then stood up to say goodbye to everyone.
Gao Chong took the people to the gate. When he saw Chen Ping getting in the car and leaving, he turned around and looked around and said, "How are you? Hold on for a while, let's go back to the meeting."
"Everyone follows the orders of the Lord." Everyone agreed and followed him back to the lobby. Gao Chong came straight to the main seat, then pointed to his newly made chair next to him and said, "Please sit down, please, and I have to trouble the Chief to introduce all the colleagues to me."
Feng Muyao quickly bowed and said, "The subordinate Feng Muyao is the chief of the Military Arts Supervision Gunpowder Department, mainly assisting the administration to order the generals to handle specific matters of the Gunpowder Department."
Then he pointed to the two officials in green robes and said, "Sir, this is the supervisor of the horse, this is the supervisor of Sui Yu, the two supervisors are responsible for monitoring and management craftsmen."
Ma Chenggong and Sui Yu stepped forward and bowed and said, "The emperor is the one who is in charge of the office."
These two people looked very smart. Although they were both very polite, their faces were a little cold, which was obviously not as close to Feng Muyao.
Gao Chong knew that Feng Muyao was a 9th rank official, and these two supervisors were officials of the ninth rank. They were both appointed by the imperial court and did not have the right to dismiss him, so he didn't care much about him.
The remaining officials and magistrates are different. They belong to officials and are equivalent to their own staff. They can directly appoint and remove them, so these people are much more honest.
"Sir, these six are Tang Fu, Wang Fei, Zhou Ying, Guan Hui, Cheng Jia, and Qin Feng. They are officials of the Gunpowder Department, responsible for managing materials, finished products, storage and other materials.
These six are Shipu, Jin Jian, Murong Yuan, Lei Chun, Nan Ba, and Bei Ji. They are the clerks of our Gunpowder Department, responsible for mastering various gunpowder formulas and numerous classics, as well as defense and security matters."
Gao Chong nodded and asked everyone to sit down and said, "Everyone, I will be trusted by the official family, so I will take charge of this gunpowder department. I am a little stingy and don't know much about gunpowder. I'm afraid that I will let you give me some advice in the future."
Everyone saw him being polite, breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up together and said in a disrespectful manner: "You are polite, so young and promising, we are about to wait for your guidance."
"Everyone sits! Don't be polite!" Gao Chong laughed and said, "It's better if we don't want these false gifts! But at work, I hope everyone will work diligently and never play with false gifts for me."
"Yes!" Everyone's hearts rose again.
Gao Chong looked at them and said, "I am a newcomer, and the staff will not make any adjustments; but everyone should remember: if you don't adjust now, it does not mean that I won't adjust in the future.
Today I will assign the first task first. After I go back, I will write a job responsibility for myself and give it to me in three days. We are determining our work goals according to our work content, and then assessing our achievements based on the goals you set. Those who have completed rewards and those who have not completed punishments. Everyone should think about it carefully.”
The officials under his command looked at each other. This has never happened before! What are you afraid of? Young people just like to be innovative.
"Don't worry, everyone, I will still come up with my work plan in three days and give it to everyone for consideration. You are welcome to supervise me."
"Ah!" Everyone was even more stunned. Everyone was resentful, but seeing that the chief officer had to do this same thing, he suddenly felt much more balanced.
"Don't worry, you can think about it carefully when you go down, sort out your work well, and discuss it with each other, and just ask me for consultation. Okay, you all go down! Feng Muyao stayed."
Everyone was one after another and left one after another. Feng Muyao didn't know what Gao Chong left him for, so he agreed and waited for further instructions.
"Mu Yao, you are an old man from the Gunpowder Department. I believe you are familiar with the situation here. Let's walk around and introduce me to the situation here."
Although Feng Muyao may not be very capable, he has been a director for more than 10 years and is a member of the government affairs here. He quickly agreed and walked out of the lobby with Gao Chong.
After all, gunpowder is a flammable and explosive thing. It is not stored and produced together. It is stored in the East and produced in the West.
They first came to the storage warehouse. Tang Fu, the chief of the six officials, and hurriedly came up to introduce the storage situation here to them.
What is stored in front are important raw materials for producing gunpowder such as saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal.
When they entered the warehouse, a pungent smell made everyone frown. However, Tang Fu seemed to have no feeling at all, and introduced the things in it to him with knowledge.
These materials are also divided into good or bad, and are distinguished by categories. For example, those of saltpeter are transported from Sichuan from thousands of miles away, and of course some are made using local methods.
"Sir, I feel ashamed! The firearms we make are not very popular with the army, and there are fewer funds on them. There are not many raw materials here, and they can produce hundreds of thunders or more than 100,000 rockets, which is about ten days of use."
Gao Chong refused to comment, nodded and walked backwards. Behind was the firearm warehouse, which was already filled with dense firearms.
"Sir, this is the firearm we make. It is usually made as we go out of the warehouse. Because the military is not used much, we haven't made it in large quantities for a long time."
Gao Chong reached out and touched the rack, his hands were covered with dust. He frowned and said, "How long has the firearm been in there been no moving? Such a maintenance is not qualified. Tang Fu arranged to clean the place. I will check it tomorrow."
Tang Fu smiled bitterly and nodded quickly, "Yes! Sir, I'll make arrangements! In fact, the firearms inside have not moved for more than half a year, especially the ones inside have been for several years."
"This won't work! What should I do if the firearm fails? How is this shelf life defined? Those that exceed the deadline must be destroyed."
"Shelf life?" This adult's new term was called by him, and they only realized what it meant by guessing. It felt very difficult, and then another shelf life came out.
"It is the time when these goods periods can be stored without problems. You are professionals, so make sure that all firearms are within the shelf life. If they have problems on the battlefield, it will be light for people to suffer."
"Yes! Sir, I'll make arrangements!" Tang Fu sighed in his heart. The new official took office and three fires. It seemed that this fire was burning on his head.
"Tell me what kind of firearms we have?"
"Sir, our firearms mainly include fireballs, fireballs, thorns fireballs, thunder fireballs, smoke balls, poison smoke balls, iron mouth fire kites, bamboo fire kites, and rockets. These functions are mainly used for setting fires.
There are also various kinds of thunders that will cause huge noises to shock the enemy after these firearms are ignited. We will add some iron nails and porcelain pieces to them, which can also cause damage to the surrounding half acre of radius."
Gao Chong suddenly became interested and said, "Take me to see these thunders."
"Please come with me, sir." Tang Fu agreed and took Gao Chong into another warehouse. There were many shelves on it, with iron, ceramic, paper bags and various shapes of thunder.
This sky-bang thunder is the size of a small watermelon. Gao Chong picked up one and weighed it in his hand. It weighed 5 or 6 pounds. Not everyone is born with divine power like himself. Such a small watermelon-like thing is hard to start. How far can it be thrown? Will it be bombarded with him? No wonder no one uses it?
Chapter completed!