Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Now that the steelmaking project has fallen into Zhou Xu's hands, needless to say, it will definitely be restarted.

After agreeing to continue investing manpower and material resources in the 'steelmaking' project, Zhou Xu handed the document that he signed and made follow-up arrangements into the hands of a soldier.

"Notify the relevant departments below to implement the steelmaking project as a key project."

"yes!"

With a response, the soldier who took the document hurriedly ran to deliver the order.

At this stage, there are so many things scheduled every day, and each relevant department needs to confirm the arrangements layer by layer. If important projects are not mentioned specifically, who knows how long it will be delayed?

But from the perspective of an entire civilization, there is nothing we can do about it.

He needs enough departments and units to control all aspects of things, but he cannot ensure that each department member can operate as efficiently as he does, just like a company boss cannot completely prevent his employees from working to fish.

However, there is no way to completely eliminate it and completely ignoring it are two different things.

As the country becomes larger and larger, this problem must be dealt with, otherwise this problem will only become more serious.

In fact, Zhou Xu had already started arranging this matter before.

For example, setting up hard work awards, counting performance at the end of the month, and giving bonuses to the top few are relatively gentle methods to encourage everyone to work hard and get more salary.

But on the other hand, for some die-hards for whom ordinary 'inducements' are no longer useful, what should be dealt with must still be dealt with.

However, it may take some time for the effect to fully show.

After a brief distraction, Zhou Xu's attention quickly returned to the documents in front of him as historical issues.

The previous steelmaking project made him begin to have some expectations for these documents.

In fact, there are indeed many serious projects here.

He even discovered the research and development projects of hot air balloons, catapults and bed crossbows among these historical issues.

But needless to say, none of them were successfully developed.

After several rounds of research and development, the resulting sample looked decent in appearance, but the actual effect was a mess, and it did not show any practical value at all.

Obviously, compared with their big Zhou, Yan Sheng's ordnance department lacks a key talent with decisive capabilities like Zhuang Mengdie.

But even Yan Sheng obviously knew the value of these things in the cold weapon era, so when Yan Sheng was still alive, these projects were continuously developed, or in other words, they kept burning money there. , in the eyes of the officials below, these projects have almost become bottomless pits.

But from Yan Sheng's perspective, there is nothing wrong with this idea.

Hot air balloons aside, catapults and bed crossbows can be said to be key weapons in the cold weapon era. Once successfully developed, they can directly change the form of war, so they naturally have research and development value.

But now the hot air balloon and the three-bow crossbow are already in Zhou Xu's hands. As for the catapult, for now, he has no plans to invest in research and development.

Perhaps judging from the specific effects displayed, the catapult and the three-bow crossbow are not consistent, but the positioning of the two in ancient wars is consistent, that is, cannons in the cold weapon era!

The main target of the catapult in the war is also the enemy's defense facilities, and it also destroys the city walls. The three-bow crossbow can also do these things, and even the three-bow crossbow with higher accuracy can do better.

The development funds he has on hand are not unlimited, not to mention that there is a lot of waste waiting for development in the New World, and there are many places that need to spend money.

For Zhou Xu at this stage, the catapult is really unnecessary. It is better to continue to upgrade his three-bow crossbow.

In this way, Zhou Xu cut off all three projects with one stroke of his pen.

The ordnance research and development project itself involves multiple departments. After Zhou Xu made the decision, the relevant documents were quickly sent to a series of relevant departments such as the administrative department, the military and political department, and the financial department for processing.

Seeing the axed projects, several ministers of the relevant departments felt complicated and secretly relieved.

I think Yan Sheng was the most straightforward in allocating funds for these projects. Although he has not been able to produce results, he spent a lot of money on these projects.

This also led many officials at that time to extend their hands towards this project.

As for the money changing hands later and all falling into Zhou Xu's hands, that's another story.

Now seeing these important money-generating projects being cut off, the ministers, who know this in their hearts, are also feeling sad.

But that's okay, these projects are too deeply involved. Although they are all matters of the old dynasty, if they are found out one day, it will definitely have an impact on them.

Now that the project has been cancelled, it can be regarded as clearing up hidden dangers for them.

As the next few days passed, as a key project named by His Majesty himself, all applications for the restart of the steelmaking project were basically given the green light.

On the first day when the project officially started operating, Zhou Xu also planned to take a look in person to understand the situation so that he could have a good idea.

Considering his current status, traveling directly on horseback would inevitably bring some trouble to the surroundings, so Zhou Xu chose to travel by carriage in a relatively low-key manner.

After leaving the palace, the carriage drove all the way and soon arrived outside the forging department. At this moment, there was already a long queue outside the forging department.

This is the blacksmith department recruiting people.

Due to the need to forge weapons for the new recruits, the forging department, whether in the New Continent or the Old Continent, is now fully booked and has no time to spare.

Under this premise, restarting the steelmaking project will inevitably require corresponding manpower, but if they cannot spare it internally, they will have to recruit people.

At this moment, there are still many people who have not yet found their jobs. When they heard that people were being recruited here, they naturally flocked over immediately.

"What did you do before? Why did you come to the Forging Department?"

Asking questions that had been asked countless times in the past two days, the staff responsible for the interview couldn't help but yawn.

When asked, the lean young man answered honestly...

"I was originally a pig farmer in the village. There was a famine before and the pigs were gone. I heard they were recruiting people here two days ago, so I wondered if I could come here to forge."

Upon hearing this, the staff member looked him up and down.

"How much strength can you, a skinny guy like you, have?"

After saying that, he waved his hands with a hint of impatience in his tone.

"Next next."

When the young man heard this, he immediately became anxious.

"I have strength, I have strength!"

As he spoke, the young man wanted to grab the staff member's hand, hoping that the other person would give him a chance, but he was shocked.

"What are you doing?! You want to cause trouble, right? Guard! Guard!!"

The forging department, which is responsible for forging weapons, is considered an important place for ordnance. It is surrounded by guards. As soon as they heard the movement here, the guards not far away rushed over and prepared to kill the obviously panicked young man. Take it.

Just then, a voice sounded...

"Wait!"

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