In the middle of the night, Wu Zhao came to Chang'an City, asked someone to keep an eye on her box, and then went to Li Yuanxing's room.
"Aren't you afraid of assassins?" Wu Zhao whispered in Li Yuanxing's ear.
Li Yuanxing was half asleep and half awake, feeling that it was Wu Zhao, but he thought he was in a dream. "Are there any female assassins? Let's fight!"
The more Wu Zhao thought about it, the more strange it became. Many figures flashed through his mind, but he didn't think that Li Yuanxing was really awake. He opened his mouth and bit Li Yuanxing's neck hard.
hiss!
Li Yuanxing woke up from the pain. When he saw it was Wu Zhao, he swallowed back the cry that reached his lips.
"It's a vampire!" Wu Zhao rolled his eyes and rode on Li Yuanxing, smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.
"What a good thing, let's see how happy you are!" Li Yuanxing stretched out his hand to pull Wu Zhao down and let Wu Zhao lie down next to him.
Wu Zhao rested his head on Li Yuanxing's arm: "We need to discuss something!"
"Let's talk tomorrow morning!" Li Yuanxing was really sleepy and didn't want to talk.
"Build a ship!" Wu Zhao said, but Li Yuanxing didn't say anything. He was really sleepy. But Wu Zhao continued: "I wrote a letter to Brother Cheng and asked him if he had any old wood and wanted to
Big one. He sent someone to reply to me, saying that he had it and that he would make sure it was good wood that I would be satisfied with!"
Li Yuanxing's eyes suddenly opened: "No, the wood in the Northeast is good, but not enough!"
"I wrote another letter to Feng Ang!" Wu Zhao smiled mischievously.
Li Yuanxing raised a finger. When Li Yuanxing spoke, Wu Zhao followed suit and said, "Tielimu!"
"However, Feng Ang didn't know what kind of iron pear wood it was. I just told him some of its characteristics. Just before I returned to Chang'an, he sent someone to send twenty kinds of wood, including iron pear wood, and also some
There is a lot of very precious and good wood. So, let’s build ships!” Wu Zhao said seriously.
This time, Wu Zhao did not make his own decision, but obtained Li Yuanxing's consent.
"Build a dock first and try to build a ship of two to three hundred tons. Then we can build a ship of two thousand tons. This will be useful!"
Hahaha. Wu Zhao rolled on the bed with laughter and pointed at Li Yuanxing: "It's terrible to be uneducated!"
"Zheng He's two-thousand-material sailboat is almost equivalent to 800 tons. Unfortunately, it is a flat-bottomed boat and uses a composite keel. Our boat is not for river use, but for use in the sea, so
We need to build a twenty to fifty ton one to try first. Because we are a wooden ship, not a steel ship, so twenty ton is worth a try!"
Twenty tons, Li Yuanxing said, it is so small.
"The first steamship in Chinese history was fifty-five feet long and had a displacement of about twenty-five tons. For ships used at sea, the Zhenghe composite keel was not strong and could not withstand strong winds and waves. For a two-thousand-ton ship, we
It can only be made of steel. It is impossible to have that much steel in a few years. The limit of a wooden ship is a displacement of 400 tons. No matter how big it is, it will be useless!"
"Let's build it. All the profits from Huazhou will go to the Qin Palace. The Qin Palace will be responsible for all the expenses of the palace!"
Wu Zhao jumped on Li Yuanxing and grabbed Li Yuanxing's clothes: "Capture Shenyang and occupy Changchun. We need wood, coal, and iron. We also need a super seaport. You know which one I'm talking about."
Port! Li Yuanxing felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, because in the modern era, the port there no longer belongs to China. Thinking of this, Li Yuanxing got up, lit a candlestick and started to polish ink.
Wu Zhao immediately ran over to help Li Yuanxing grind the ink.
The first letter was written to Feng Ang.
Li Yuanxing didn't have many polite words, he just greeted Feng An a few words. Then he wrote directly, I plan to build a sea ship from Hangzhou to you, and find a good port. I suggest several locations. Then, Princess Mingyue needs
The quantity of wood should not be large, but it should be refined. After the sea is opened to navigation, Chang'an will prosper and Lingnan will prosper!
Li Yuanxing signed it and then used his seal.
Wu Zhao took the warrant, folded it carefully, and painted the bag with fire paint.
"I will check the location and give him a map to choose. Because we have never been there, we don't know how different the Tang Dynasty is from later generations, not to mention whether it is completely controlled by him."
"Don't be stingy. When you send someone to deliver the letter, bring a thousand other horizontal knives as gifts." Li Yuanxing ordered while spreading out another piece of paper.
Wu Zhao responded: "A thousand knives can be packed in just a few boxes. How about sending another fifty sets of Liannu!"
"It's up to you!" When Li Yuanxing spoke, he had already continued to write the second warrant: "Brother Zhijie..."
What Li Yuanxing sent to Lao Cheng was a letter, not an order. He only asked Lao Cheng to help Princess Mingyue obtain wood. It must be high-quality aged wood, and it must be complete. Princess Mingyue must tell Lao Cheng the specific requirements.
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After finishing my work, I went to bed and it was already dark.
Qin Qiong did not affect Li Yuanxing's rest and waited until Li Yuanxing woke up on his own.
When Li Yuanxing came to the front hall, Cui Junsu and Wang Jishan were also there.
"Someone is in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. If something serious happened, I have to take care of it!" Cui Junsu obviously did not intend to stay out of the matter. Wang Jishan also said: "The Ministry of Rites is in charge of foreign affairs. If such a mess happens in a small country, the Ministry of Rites cannot ignore it!"
"It seems that things are not simple!" Li Yuanxing said with a smile and sat down.
At that moment, someone brought breakfast. Wu Zhao greeted the three ministers, then sat aside obediently and ate breakfast by himself.
Cui Junsu said to Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, the matter is really complicated. I checked and found that even if Tuli Khan's tribe could make themselves into steel and sell them, they would not be able to sell 30,000 kilograms of steel. They only got two steel ingots in total.
Thirteen thousand catties, and I can’t sell them all without using any of them!”
"What did Goguryeo trade for?" Li Yuanxing asked.
"I've already sent a note and asked someone to send the news to Liaodong for investigation." Qin Qiong responded from the side.
Wang Jishan added: "After checking, no tribe has ever received so many steel ingots. The one with the most is the Mohe people. They have 30,000 kilograms of steel ingots, but among their 30,000 kilograms, 20,000 kilograms are three thousand kilograms.
The steel was borrowed from the Ministry of Industry four months ago by the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay for the military expenses of the First World War in Liaocheng!"
"It seems that these 30,000 kilograms of fine steel are not produced by one company." Li Yuanxing didn't care about eating anymore.
"How do you use the phrase "goguryeo fine steel"? Qin Qiong asked.
Wang Jishan did not answer, but first blamed himself: "The Ministry of Rites will ask the envoys stationed in various states to investigate this matter secretly. If this matter is done by multiple states, then these envoys are guilty of lax supervision!"
"Isn't it just 30,000 kilograms of steel!" Li Yuanxing laughed: "Goguryeo took it, but it was of no use."
"Wu Lang is wrong. Thirty thousand kilograms of steel. Taking the new fish scale armor as an example, at least one thousand pairs can be made. With these one thousand pairs of fish scale armor, there can be one thousand elite soldiers. These one thousand elite soldiers will be
What an annoyance!" Qin Qiong's attitude was very obvious. He was not afraid of swords, but of armor.
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, private individuals could own weapons, but they could not own armor.
Whether it's leather armor or steel armor.
With half a suit of armor, you can be exiled for three thousand miles.
Although the armor of the Tang Dynasty army is currently distributed to everyone, it is not worn in ordinary times. It is taken out for maintenance every month, and is only distributed to individuals during war. Regardless of victory or defeat, in addition to counting military merits after the war,
The most important thing is to count the armor. How much is damaged and how much is lost.
"Thirty thousand catties is too little. Goguryeo should have three million catties!"
Li Yuanxing's words shocked everyone, and they had no idea what Li Yuanxing meant.
"Girl, don't just eat it. Write down a few things!"
Wu Zhao drank the last mouthful of porridge slowly and said word by word: "Jiang Qian's plan to steal books!"
"Remember last time, there was a letter saying that some of them were spies who sneaked in?" Li Yuanxing made Wu Zhao laugh after mentioning these words, and Wu Zhao said: "When we go back, we will arrange for people to make some inferior steel armor, and then we will
With some tricks, the power of the steam cannon must be demonstrated."
"In addition, there are siege experiments and cavalry experiments." Li Yuanxing continued.
"So, are the drawings real or fake?" Wu Zhao asked in return.
"Of course it's a real drawing. However, it's enough to use a generation of blueprints. To make this scene complete, you must make them believe it. In this case, those steel Goguryeo people will use it as armor and have more powerful weapons.
The Goguryeo people would definitely do it, and it’s true!”
After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he smiled very proudly.
"Cold War, arms race!" Wu Zhao explained to Qin Qiong.
Qin Qiong almost understood: "Since it's just a show, the opponent's candidates should be selected. And you don't have to be too many to escape, just a few people. The rest..." Qin Qiong smiled slightly.
Everyone laughed, this attitude is self-evident, it is just one word, kill!
"There is only one condition!" Wu Zhao stretched out a finger.
"Tell me and listen!" Li Yuanxing stared at Wu Zhao secretly as he spoke, with the consciousness that, girl, please stop messing around. This is a major military matter, not a child's game.
Wu Zhao did not regard this as a game, but said very seriously: "You set the principles, and I will take care of the details. No one is allowed to care, otherwise I will not go to Yaozhou."
Threat, this is a threat.
Li Yuanxing didn't want to agree, but Qin Qiong immediately said: "If someone thinks it's okay, someone will just cooperate with the killing. Wu Lang will tell you what result you want. Let's just do it like this?"
The result? Li Yuanxing said to himself, I want to see how scheming this girl Wu Zhao is and whether she is cruel enough.
"Okay, the first result is to involve Goguryeo in the arms race. However, we don't want normal armaments, but the kind of armaments that consume huge amounts of materials. Of course, people like Zhao Deyan should have a chance to get rich. We have to drag it out.
Goguryeo held off until they had no money to buy salt!”
Having no money to buy salt was extremely poor in ancient times.
"The second result is that those restless people are too cruel to kill. Our Tang Dynasty is merciful. Let's send them to the coal mines. There is always a need for manpower there!" (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, novels are better.