Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Upon hearing this, Minister of Revenue Zeng Tai and Minister of Works Zhao Jun immediately stepped out from the queue.

Zhao Jun wanted to speak, but Zeng Tai beat him to it.

"Your Majesty, the land and property are ready, and we are just waiting for Lord Changle to come to the Ministry of Revenue to hand them over."

After Zeng Tai finished speaking, Zhao Jun also hurriedly spoke:

"I sent people to survey the city yesterday, and the craftsmen estimate that the construction of the garrison will be completed within fifteen days."

"In addition, the candidates for the craftsmen have been listed. They are just waiting for Lord Changle to come to the Ministry of Industry to hand over the work. Then they can leave and be transferred."

"It's just that the Ministry of Revenue hasn't allocated funds yet, so the craftsmen are struggling to make ends meet. Construction of the Institute of Science and Technology hasn't even begun yet."

When Zeng Tai heard Zhao Jun's complaint, he immediately started to defend himself.

"Your Majesty, I have not received your order, so I dare not arbitrarily use the Ministry of Revenue's treasury to make random allocations!"

"Besides, the Ministry of Revenue's treasury is currently short of money. Your Majesty, please investigate!"

Wei Wu watched the two perform from the side without any emotion in his heart.

It looks like they are tearing each other apart, but in fact they are just passing the buck.

They said everything was ready and waiting for me to take over, but in fact there was nothing.

The headquarters of the Institute of Science and Technology has not been built yet. Is it useful to obtain the land deeds and land deeds? Is it useful to select personnel?

As the saying goes, a Minister of Revenue who doesn't cry poor is not a competent Minister of Revenue. This is absolutely true.

It’s just a science and technology institute. The craftsmen are already prepared, and the Ministry of Revenue only needs to pay for the materials.

Even so, Zeng Tai was about to cry poor in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he was a Pixiu and there was nothing wrong with that.

As for Zhao Jun, he could justifiably slack off without any funding.

To be honest, they all knew very well that since Zhu Yuanzhang said they had to do it, they had to do it.

But he did this deliberately to disgust people, especially Wei Wu.

As for the reason, it was of course Li Shanchang.

Anyway, their behavior was within the rules, and Zhu Yuanzhang would not punish them for this matter.

At the same time, they could also give Li Shanchang an attitude, after all, they witnessed the conflict between the two with their own eyes.

The weight of Li Shanchang, the leader of civil officials, is far beyond that of Wei Wu, a small character.

Facts proved that their approach was indeed correct. Li Shanchang felt very happy when he saw Wei Wu being defeated.

It’s a pity that the two of them were destined to fail in this play, and Li Shanchang also had a good time in vain.

Because from the very beginning, Wei Wu and Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of transferring the funds through the Ministry of Revenue.

After all, the purpose of the Ming Royal Science and Technology Research Institute is to be responsible only to the emperor and not to be controlled by officials.

Otherwise, once bureaucracy seeps in, you won’t be able to conduct research in peace.

So after the two ministers finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke immediately.

"The money will not be paid out of the national treasury. The Ministry of Revenue only needs to prepare a detailed account of the funds, and the money will be paid out from our internal treasury."

After hearing this, Zeng Tai and Zhao Jun stopped arguing and spoke up to express their understanding.

Li Shanchang, who was usually calm, now looked a little gloomy.

It was not because of Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but because Wei Wu made a strange gesture to him.

Although he didn't understand what it meant, he just felt humiliated.

But just as he was about to speak, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke again.

"If there's nothing else to do here, let's dismiss the court! Wei Wu, stay and discuss matters with us in the back hall."

After all the civil and military officials bowed and saluted, the eunuch helped Zhu Yuanzhang back to the back hall.

Later, Wei Wu also came to the back hall, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's question.

"Xiao Wu, what did that gesture you made to Li Shanchang just now mean?"

Wei Wu chuckled and then said something nonsense.

"Uncle Zhu, that's a greeting gesture. It could be a greeting to him, or to his parents and relatives."

"is it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Wei Wu suspiciously, obviously not believing what he said.

Seeing this, Wei Wu could only explain again.