When the group came out of Qingjiang Shipyard, their faces were not very good-looking, especially Wei Guangwei and Sun Juxiang.

As the only two government-run shipyards belonging to the two imperial courts of the Great Zhou Dynasty, their backwardness and twilight made the group can't help but shake their heads.

It is no wonder that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver invested by the Ministry of Industry in this shipyard every year have been lost.

Not to mention the rest, I casually checked the list of registered craftsmen, the shortage is huge, which is shocking, although the steward explained in every way, but who are Cui Jingrong, Wei Guangwei and Sun Juxiang? are all those who have been through the storm on such occasions for a long time, that is, Feng Ziying and a few of them can see how deep the cats are hidden here, let alone how many of them?

It is estimated that at least seventy percent of them are false reports, that is to say, there should have been more than 4,000 to 5,000 craftsmen, only less than 1,500 are really in the shipyard, and the other 3,000 people are either paid at all levels in the shipyard, and there is no such person at all, or they are hanging in the shipyard, but in fact, they have already gone to do their own private work or are assigned by the peak to do other work.

Huai'an Qingjiang Shipyard and Jinling Longjiang Shipyard are the two major government-run shipyards in Dazhou, one is mainly engaged in the production of cao boats, and the other is mainly engaged in the production of river boats and sea vessels.

At the earliest, the Qingjiang Shipyard belonged to the Governor of Caoyun and the Ministry of Industry of Nanjing, but after Li Sancai took over the Governor of Caoyun, he clearly proposed that it should either be handed over to the Governor of Caoyun directly, or it would be handed over to the Ministry of Industry directly, and suggested that it should be returned to the Ministry of Industry, so the Qingjiang Shipyard was placed under the direct management of the Ministry of Industry.

Now it seems that this is undoubtedly a wise move.

"Uncle Xian, I'm afraid I'll have to write to your officials in the Ministry of Industry after you go back, this Qingjiang Shipyard is like this, I'm just afraid of ......" Cui Jingrong couldn't help but joke until he left Huai'an and got on the boat: "I don't dare to say anything about it in Huai'an, for fear that someone will want to kill people and kill people." ”

Wei Guangwei's forehead was dripping with sweat, and he shook his head again and again: "Master Cui, don't joke, don't joke,......"

This crime has fallen, except for a few officials who have just taken office in the Ministry of Industry, I am afraid that a storm will immediately be rolled up in the Ministry of Industry, especially the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing.

Qingjiang Shipyard was transferred from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry to the Beijing Ministry of Industry after Li Sancai took over the proposal five years ago when he was appointed as the governor of Cao.

Cao Du didn't care, the Nanjing Ministry of Industry naturally wanted to take over, but the imperial court was obviously not at ease to hand over to the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, so the Nanjing Ministry of Industry also had a long relationship with the Beijing Ministry of Industry.

It was also in consideration of the increasingly heavy task of the boats built by the Qingjiang Shipyard, and the Ministry of Industry of the Beijing Division was really not at ease to hand it over to the Ministry of Industry of Nanjing, so the imperial court was determined to take it back, and naturally it was strongly resisted by the Ministry of Industry of Nanjing.

But it seems that in the past few years, the situation of this Qingjiang shipyard has not changed much, and there are many reasons for it, but there is one thing that everyone knows by heart, that is, no one wants to offend these people.

Who knows how many Jingshi members are implicated in these people, you must know that Emperor Yuanxi went to the south of the Yangtze River six times to build sixty percent of the dragon boats built in Longjiang, forty percent built in Qingjiang, these more than 20 years, how much more than one million?

An ordinary boat is only two or three hundred taels of silver, that is, a high-grade boat that emphasizes quality and material selection is only added to three percent, and four hundred taels of silver is the top of the sky, but how much does a dragon boat cost? Tens of thousands of taels at every turn, the special dragon boat of the emperor's throne is worth tens of thousands of taels, how much profit there is during the period, how much fertilizer water flows into the pockets of countless people, it is self-evident.

Therefore, everyone knows the depth of the shipyard, but everyone turns a blind eye, even the Metropolitan Procuratorate has always only only blown the wind and does not rain, and some letters asking for verification of the accounts of the Qingjiang Lifting Division and the Longjiang Lifting Division have been checked, but they have not been sent, and over time they have been put aside.

I didn't see Sun Juxiang's face beside him, his face was pale, and his hands were already clenched, obviously dissatisfied with this situation to the extreme.

Feng Ziying, Fan Jingwen, and He Fengsheng did not interject.

Feng Ziying was reluctant to intervene, and Fan Jingwen and He Fengsheng were not qualified to intervene.

Fan and He are here to follow and learn to do things, listen more, watch more and talk less, if Cui Jingrong asks them to say, they can talk about their own views and thoughts, and if they don't ask, then hold back.

Sun Juxiang snorted lightly, "Uncle Xian, I'm just afraid that Lord Cui is not joking, Qingjiang Shipyard is erosive, is the Ministry of Industry unaware?" The Nanjing Ministry of Industry has been handed over to your Ministry of Industry for a long time, right? “

Wei Guangwei's face was a little ugly, and he hesitated for a moment before saying: "It's hard to explain the inside story, Brother Bofu, if the younger brother doesn't believe you, you don't know anything?" As far as the younger brother knows, in the second year of Yonglong, the case of Zhao Zhizhong, the deputy of the Qingjiang Lifting Division, who threw himself into the water and died, has not given an explanation from the Nanjing Criminal Department. ”

Cui Jingrong's face sank, "Uncle Xian, be cautious!" ”

Wei Guangwei's neck stiffened, and he protested: "Cui Gong, everything must be said to others, Zhao Zhizhong is an official of my Ministry of Industry, and I am also familiar with him, although he is a good drinker, but he is very measured, and he mostly drinks in his own home, and rarely drinks with outsiders, how can he run out to drink with someone who has nothing to do with him on the 28th day of the cold winter month?" On the way back, he actually committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and the Nanjing Criminal Department previously said that he had fallen into the water, but he was riding all the way back, how did he fall into the water? simply said that after returning home and burning the papers, he committed suicide in fear of sin,......"

"Hmph, he has a deputy lift, not to mention the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, the Qingjiang Lifting Division still has a lifting division and another deputy lifting, when will it be his turn to have a problem? Why is it that you are going to commit suicide? Wei Guangwei suddenly remembered something, turned his head to Sun Juxiang, and his tone was full of resentment: "By the way, Brother Bofu, I remember that not long after, something happened to the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, right?" Looks like the dragon forbidden lieutenants are here too, aren't they? Is there a result? ”

Cui Jingrong and others are not familiar with this public case, but Sun Juxiang knows about it.

This also involves the murder of Su Wenli in the Nanjing Engineering Incident, which is also the case of Yonglong at the beginning of the third year, the two cases are less than a month apart, and the Nanjing Criminal Department and even Long Banwei have come to investigate, but there is no result, and it can only be attributed to the vendetta of the rivers and lakes.

However, this Nanjing engineering department had just come from Zhejiang Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was killed less than a month after taking office, which also caused a great shock, but in the end, it was attributed to Su Wenli's jealousy with a person in the rivers and lakes on the Qinhuai River for a young prostitute who had just debuted, so he was later killed by the people in the rivers and lakes.

Later, the Nanjing Criminal Department, Jinling Mansion, and Suzhou Mansion also set off a purge storm against the people in the rivers and lakes in Nanzhili, and arrested dozens of people of all kinds of flying thieves and green forest thieves in January.

As for the specific insider privacy in this case, it is not something that outsiders can know.

This topic was a little heavy, and Sun Juxiang, who originally seemed to be saying something, could only twist his face to the side, his face was gloomy as water, but he no longer spoke.

Xinnen like Feng Ziying, Fan Jingwen and He Fengsheng, who have just debuted, naturally don't know what else is unknown here, but Cui Jingrong and Wu Liangsi, Wei Guangwei and Sun Juxiang all know something, since this matter has been suppressed, there must be reasons and reasons.

Long Forbidden Captain came without a convincing result, is it really impossible to find out or is it really killed by people in the rivers and lakes, or is there another hidden story?

Cui Jingrong was a little embarrassed and coughed dryly.

He didn't expect to just assess the shipbuilding level and strength of Qingjiang Shipyard, and prepare for the next possible step of opening the sea for shipbuilding and naval fleet, but he didn't expect to cause such a big movement.

Wang Ziteng, the governor of Denglai, has taken office, and the strategy of southern Liaoning has been in full swing on the side of the Ministry of War, which involves the need to open the route between southern Liaoning and Denglai, which has been banned for a long time, which requires the establishment of a shipyard in Denglai, and where do the shipwrights and craftsmen come from, they can only come from Qingjiang and Longjiang.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the Great Zhou Guangyuan period, the Liaodong and Shandong routes have been in a state of ban, and to the Tianping period of the short ban was quickly closed, until the Yuan Xi period of the Renchen rebellion on the eve of the reopening of the ban, but basically did not play much role, as soon as the Renchen rebellion ended, the sea ban resumed, and there was no sound.

On the one hand, it is necessary to start the maritime trade with the DPRK and Japan, and more importantly, it is necessary to strengthen support for Liaodong and improve the situation in Liaodong.

Liaodong's predicament has become more and more obvious, the Jianzhou Jurchens are becoming more and more unified with the entire Jurchen, and their hands have begun to reach out to the Mongol tribes in Liaoxi, once the integration is completed, the Liaoxi Corridor will be almost completely under the threat of the Jurchens, and Liaodong will become a lonely situation.

This was unacceptable to both the Beidi Shiren and the army, including Wu Xun.

This is also unacceptable to Emperor Yonglong, once this happens, I am afraid that his throne may not be able to sit firmly, and even if the Emperor Taishang wants to be replaced, he will be supported by the military generals, even if he is just a scapegoat.

Many people know this.

"Uncle Xian, this matter is not within the scope of what we have to do when we go south this time, if you and Bo Fu have any ideas, you can come down and discuss it again, and there will be feedback after returning to Beijing,......" Cui Jingrong stopped the conversation in time, and then continued, this topic is getting more and more far-reaching, everyone is emotional, who will do this job?

"Uncle Xian, you still briefly sort out the situation of Qingjiang Shipyard, I am afraid that it is difficult to satisfy the imperial court with this situation, Denglai is urging urgently, after arriving in Yangzhou, I am afraid that you will have to come up with an article, I will sign it, and send it to the imperial court."

Cui Jingrong looked at Wei Guangwei, Wei Guangwei responded in a rough voice, but did not say anything more.