When Ying'er said this, several of the waiters couldn't understand.
"Sister Ying'er, weren't the prices of iron soaring some time ago, and people are saying that Your Majesty has no iron available..."
"Yes, there was a senior official of the fourth rank in the last big household I worked for. He said that His Majesty has no iron available, and sooner or later he will find someone with a fifth surname and a seventh..."
"Five surnames and seven hopes?"
"Hey, yes, yes, it's the Fifth Surname Qiwang. Sooner or later, I have to ask the Fifth Surname Qiwang for help! But what is the Fifth Surname Qiwang?"
"Qi Wang, the fifth surname, is the biggest rich man in the Tang Dynasty. Half of the land in the world belongs to their family. Do you think they are powerful?"
"Isn't all the land in the world your Majesty's?"
"Hey, it belongs to His Majesty. The land deed is also in his hands, so what can Your Majesty do..."
"That's right, I thought His Majesty would have to bow to this Qi Wang sooner or later, but in the end...how could this happen?"
Some of the clerks in Zicheng Zhai are older than Ying'er, and some are younger, but in terms of business qualifications, they are all Ying'er's descendants.
At this time, everyone looked at Ying'er curiously.
Ying'er smiled and unconsciously imitated Li Sheng's movements and expressions.
"Whatever happens to Your Majesty, the young master has his own thoughts about this matter. You guys, work hard. Anyway, His Majesty's shop has been trampled through now. Sooner or later, people will come to our shop."
"When there are more people, you won't have so many messy problems."
At this time, south of Chang'an City...
A blacksmith shop that had been closed early due to the iron monopoly reopened on this day.
Of course, the owner changed to someone else, and it was Li Er's person.
The reason for taking down this blacksmith shop is naturally to sell iron tools!
As of yesterday, Li Er's new weapon forging business... has been two months since the beginning.
Now it's finally completed.
It is also for this reason that the steel factory was very busy yesterday and did not supply to the black market.
Of course, the more important reason is that the new weapons have finally been mass-produced.
…
Li Er has been buying low-quality iron that has only a small increase in price, and using blast furnaces to recast real steel.
These inferior irons are often of really poor quality, and many are even simply mixed with mud.
But it is precisely because of this that
After some operations, no one noticed.
These low-quality iron tools are simply useless. Not to mention being used as weapons, even as hoes, they are not as good as wooden farm tools for farmers.
It's just so funny.
However, if we regard it as semi-finished iron ore... then the quality is not that bad!
After being sent to the blast furnace factory for a while, what comes out is pure and serious steel!
Of course, the bulk of it is used to speed up the construction of various new weapons.
What's the Xuanjia of the Xuanjia Army... Now it's Renren Mingguang Armor!
Divine Arm Bow. "Skilled in bow and horse" in ancient times meant true "strength in martial arts".
And, most importantly...Grenade Dan!
This is also Li Sheng's hard work. There's nothing else but it's simple and easy to build, and it does high damage and is easy to carry!
Of course, all of this requires a lot of steel.
One can imagine the amount of steel consumed by one hundred thousand Mingguang Armor, which is an astronomical figure.
Even if not every part requires steel, the total number is still extremely huge.
Under the premise of this essential product,
There is also the divine arm bow, the key part, Li Sheng directly proposed in the design... use steel sheets to make the bow arms!
Ordinary crossbows are made of wood. If they are made of steel... Although the processing capabilities of this era are not strong, the bow arm needs to be controlled to be longer, otherwise the elasticity will be difficult to exert, or the bow force will be too strong.
But Li Sheng gave up the wooden bow arms and chose steel arms instead.
In the final analysis, this is a kind of crossbow, and its power should be far superior to ordinary crossbows!
Next, there are grenades.
On the contrary, this is a weapon that consumes the least capacity of the blast furnace factory. First of all, the hand grenade does not require high-quality steel, because it relies on fragments to kill. Too strong steel will result in too few fragments and a limited range of damage.
The problem.
But overall...
Half by melting the original black armor stock, half by low-key collection of inferior iron, in the end, the new weapon was completed.
At the same time, these ten blast furnaces built in the wild with huge production capacity...
It won’t just turn off!
Production capacity will continue, and steel output... will naturally continue!
On this day, go to court.
Pei Ji set out from his mansion and headed all the way to the palace.
Recently, he has harvested all the iron in the world, giving him a sense of control like Qin Shi Huang's "casting twelve golden men".
Thinking about it, in just a few days, the Wolf Lord's army will probably be locked up, and Li Er will look groveling...
I couldn't be happier.
When he went out that day, Pei Ji met many officials along the way.
He discovered that for some reason today...
Many officials had strange expressions.
Looking at it from a distance, I always look lost.
But if you approach and say hello, the other person looks at you... and smiles again.
He also spoke very softly and comforted himself that he was older, so he shouldn't worry so much and should be more open-minded about everything...
Pei Ji felt a little strange.
However, no matter what I say, he is also a great scholar in the dynasty.
Isn't it normal for people to have a better outlook?
…
At court today, Pei Ji was more interested in Li Er than anyone else.
At this time, most of Li Er's spies had already become aware of the Turks' movements.
So at this time, Li Er's military reform lacked the most critical new weapons due to the lack of refined iron...
By then, Li Er will probably be extremely anxious.
Can't sleep at night?
Tossing and turning?
Worried all day long?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Thinking about that scene, Pei Ji could laugh out loud for no reason while walking on the road.
But after a while, he really saw Li Er.
But I found something... wrong!
Li Er seemed to be smiling.
Obviously, I am in a very good mood at the moment.
As good as yourself!
During the process of going to court, Pei Ji couldn't help but wonder.
Doesn't Li Er know what's happening on the Turks side?
impossible……
The Xuanjia Army was all composed of Li Er's generals. This guy held the imperial army tightly. Not to mention several princes, a large number of school captains and generals were also his old troops.
Although he thought Li Er was a foolish king, he did not dare to doubt how powerful Li Er was in leading troops in battles.
Such a person had experienced being forced to invade Chang'an by the Turks and sign the Weishui Alliance.
How could he not react at all to Turk's actions?
Still so happy.
Of course, it is also possible that Li Er knew that the Turks were doing something strange, but he was not worried at all, and even regarded the Turks as dead people.
However, this requires Li Er to complete military reforms and complete new weapons.