The current situation is not only extremely urgent, but also extremely urgent.
These divine arm bows, hand grenades... are all for use by the restructured Tang Dynasty Forbidden Army.
After the restructuring, all the Forbidden Army will be the Xuanjia Army.
The number is reduced to 100,000. With this number of soldiers, how can we ensure that the combat effectiveness does not decrease but increases?
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could not become supermen overnight.
Then the weapons and equipment must be getting stronger.
Otherwise, wouldn’t this Turkic people be happy?
Now that there is something wrong with the iron material, Li Er is in a state of mind.
The key is that it doesn't matter if your mentality is explosive or not. If the Turks find out about this, they might be directly imprisoned in a few days.
Du Ruhui was sweating profusely.
But what is better than Li Er is that he is not so nervous and anxious.
The reason...
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be so anxious about this matter."
"Du Ruhui, you think I'm easy to fool, right?"
"Your Majesty, it's really not true. But don't we have a palace... and the iron-making method of Shengxiang Marquis?"
"By recasting these iron materials in this way, you can actually get high-quality refined iron in the end."
Li Er was originally depressed.
When Du Ruhui said this, his eyes suddenly lit up.
After being stunned for a while, he looked at Du Ruhui and cursed with a smile, "Dear Du Ruhui, you should have told me earlier."
"Me too...Oh, I'm getting old! I ignored such an important thing, and I was scared half to death by you for nothing!"
Du Ruhui looked embarrassed and looked at Duan Lun.
Duan Lun couldn't hold himself any longer after hearing this and whispered,
"Your Majesty, according to this principle, there is indeed no big problem. But..."
"Um?"
Hearing Duan Lun say this, Li Er instinctively felt bad.
Are there any other problems?
Duan Lun then spoke.
"...It's just...the deadline for completion needs to be extended..."
"Another delay?...Well, it's not easy to create new weapons, so I can't blame you. How long will the delay be?"
"Your Majesty, about five years."
Li Er:......
Subconsciously, I reached out and grabbed another vase on the desk...
It almost fell to the ground again.
Nima, five years???
"It takes five years? This... In the past, when you talked about delays, it was only three days and five days. If you add up, now it is more than half completed. How... how did it suddenly have to be delayed for another five years???"
"Your Majesty...that's it."
"Because of this...sigh." Duan Lun organized the conversation for a long time, and finally sighed and simply said, "Originally, the construction period would not have been so long. Because the iron materials originally purchased were all fine iron.
Use Sheng Xianghou's method to recast it and it will become the best steel."
"That is to say..."
"Your Majesty, in other words, to use high-quality iron materials to make weapons and other objects, according to Shengxiang Hou's book, only half a book's worth of work was needed. But now, all the processes in the original book have to be completed.
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"There are even some iron materials, and even the soil on the iron slag is still there... This kind of process requires more than one book. The good and the bad vary, and the situation is complicated. Craftsmen need to adopt different processes according to the materials, which takes time.
Screening..."
"Okay, okay, no need to say anything, I understand."
Li Er covered his face again and shut himself up.
He remembered.
When Li Sheng showed him the hunting knife, he seemed to have vaguely mentioned that it took the blacksmith at the entrance of the village more than half a year to make the hunting knife.
Half a year, that was when Sheng'er himself was in the village and could visit the blacksmith from time to time and personally instruct the blacksmith on how to forge iron.
Now...
Li Er understood.
"So for the current plan... we can only delay as much as possible, cover up the news, and prevent the Turks from suddenly launching an attack?"
Du Ruhui's expression was also ugly, and he spent a lot of effort every time he said a word.
But...this serious matter still needs to be explained clearly.
"Your Majesty...that's exactly what it is."
Li Er:......wdnmd.
Qi Wang, the fifth surname, is really cruel!
This will directly delay the pacification of the Turks for several years.
In an instant, my whole body was numb.
Du Ruhui felt a little sympathetic when he saw Li Er's frustrated expression.
Because actually... there was another truth that he didn't dare to tell.
How can it be so easy to block messages?
Weapons are produced in factories, where countless craftsmen gather in one place to produce weapons.
With so many people, so many eyes and so many mouths, who knows when the news will leak out...
Blockade is simply impossible.
A forced order to arrest the family members of these craftsmen and hold them hostage?
No, this is simply not possible.
In previous eras, this could have been done, but now...
If you held someone's family hostage today, if you want to recruit craftsmen in the future, who will care about you?
Du Ruhui suddenly discovered.
Many things had changed so much that he didn't know how to say good things to Li Sheng for a while.
As soon as the factory appeared, the status of craftsmen increased invisibly, and so did their income.
Now let alone scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, the income and status of these craftsmen... have almost reached the level of "scholars" in disguise.
It is said that the punishment cannot be used to punish the doctor, but what can be executed in the past dynasties is often the punishment that cannot be used to punish the doctor's family. Now, craftsmen also have such rights. As for income, needless to say!
They are almost on par with, or even more than, the grassroots literati, bureaucrats, and petty officials.
Du Ruhui felt...the world had changed a bit too much.
Although these are all good things, I always feel that I can’t control it...
If you have the chance, you should ask His Highness for advice!
Li Er was depressed for a while, but fortunately he was not as irritable as before.
He sighed and suddenly seemed to remember something.
"Forget it, Keming."
"Anyway, things have come to this, so it's better to have fun while you're at it."
"Your Majesty, this?"
Du Ruhui was also stunned. I wonder if your Majesty has now entered the stage of Sima Zhong of the Western Jin Dynasty?
Sima Zhong was Emperor Hui of Jin in the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, there were many noble families and the people were starving to death. Sima Zhong saw that who could handle this, so he simply gave up and came up with a famous saying:
Why not eat ground meat?
Your Majesty, are you following Jin Hui's example and giving up treatment?
"Why are you looking at me? I'm so old, can I still take out fine iron from my crotch for you?"
"Call Wei Penzi, Xuanling, the auxiliary crew and the others, and let's go to Youzhou to relax!"
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Li Er's mood was also complicated.
It is clear that the situation has been very good recently. Please note that it is not a small good or a medium good, but a great good.
As a result, something went wrong again while taking a nap.
He didn't even know whether God was blessing him or teasing him.
It’s not easy to be the Holy Emperor...
After much thought, I decided to be a good father first and visit my son more often.
Call Queen Changsun.
Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Changsun Wuji...
The three civil servants all follow. Li Junxian drives the car!
