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Next, Li Xuan's inspection speed of these more than 200 glass greenhouses accelerated a lot.
For every two greenhouses, there will be a veteran in charge.
And these veterans all have decades of farming experience.
Therefore, he only needed to take a few general glances, mainly to see if the vegetables would be frozen to death or if there were any major problems.
Of course, if you visit these glass greenhouses every day and take a look at these green vegetables, you will feel much better.
"I have met the Supreme Emperor, I have met Saburo, I have met His Highness the Prince, and I have met several young gentlemen!"
Cheng Laosi is also responsible for two glass greenhouses.
All day long, except for sleeping and eating, they basically stay in the glass greenhouse.
"How is the temperature in the greenhouse today compared to yesterday?"
Li Xuan asked casually while watching.
"Back to Saburo, the sun came out today, and the greenhouse is obviously warmer than yesterday!"
Cheng Laosi, who was wearing a sheepskin cotton-padded jacket and with a shiny purple-black face, looked exactly like an old sheepherder.
"What do you think about putting a large iron stove in every greenhouse?" Li Xuan asked.
"Put the big iron stove into the greenhouse?"
Cheng Laosi was stunned and thought slowly for a moment. His eyes widened and his face was filled with joy.
"Saburo, but that big stove in your house?"
"Exactly!" Li Xuan nodded lightly.
"A large stove can warm a greenhouse a lot. If you can put one in it, it would be great!"
Cheng Laosi said repeatedly, his face full of expectation.
"Then, starting from tomorrow, you have to continue in the forge and start forging the iron furnace!"
Li Xuan said.
"It doesn't matter, as long as we can forge a big iron furnace, I can open the furnace at night!" Cheng Laosi said firmly.
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and said: "When it's dark and you can't see, you can just forge normally during the day!"
"But Saburo, this requires two hundred and thirty large iron furnaces. If we just rely on forging during the day, then by next year, we old guys may not even be able to forge fifty iron furnaces."
Cheng Laosi looked anxious.
"Then please ask the Supreme Emperor or His Majesty to help you forge it!" Li Xuan said.
"Um?"
On the side, before Li Yuan could react, Li Xuan took on a big job for him.
After being stunned for a moment, he quickly said: "I can only do my best in this matter!"
Li Xuan was startled and looked at Li Yuan in shock.
"Old man, there are only 200 large iron furnaces, but they are all forged for your glass greenhouse. Why are you so evasive?"
"Xuanba, it's not that I don't want to help, but the two hundred large iron furnaces require too much pig iron. Even if I step forward, I won't be able to get so much pig iron!"
Li Yuan sighed softly and continued to explain: "More than two hundred large iron furnaces, plus so many iron cylinders, if used to forge armor, can equip at least a thousand armored troops. Now, the Turks around the Tang Dynasty,
Goguryeo, Tubo and other barbarian countries are eyeing us, and the Ministry of War is urging us for armor every day, but we really can't squeeze out such pig iron."
"The Tang Dynasty was so big, but it still lacked pig iron to make it?"
Li Xuan was stunned again.
"lack!"
On the side, Cheng Laosi, Li Chengqian, and even Cheng Chusi all nodded firmly.
"But, forging pig iron is such a simple matter, how can there be a shortage of pig iron?"
Li Xuan's face was full of doubts.
"Is it easy to forge pig iron?"
Hearing Li Xuan's words, Li Yuan, Cheng Laosi and others all looked shocked.
Immediately, the look he looked at Li Xuan was full of weirdness.
"Xuanba, do you know how much pig iron the imperial court can forge in a year?"
"How many?"
Only then did Li Xuan realize that this was the Tang Dynasty, not later generations. A smelting company could forge tens of thousands of kilograms of pig iron in one day.
"Ten million catties!" Li Yuan said slowly.
"Ten million?"
Li Xuan couldn't help but widen his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
Then, after thinking about it secretly for a moment, a trace of embarrassment flashed across his face.
"I didn't expect that I could forge such a small amount of pig iron. No wonder you are so stingy about this matter!"
Don't listen that ten million kilograms of pig iron is a lot, but if you calculate it carefully, you will find that ten million kilograms of pig iron is really not enough for Datang.
For example, Li Xuan wants to forge 230 large iron furnaces. Each large iron furnace is estimated to be one hundred and fifty kilograms. In addition to the iron barrels, one large iron furnace must be equipped with twenty kilograms of iron.
Bottle.
This time, 39,000 kilograms of pig iron will be consumed.
"Yes, if we, the Tang Dynasty, had enough iron armor, let alone the Turks, even small barbarian countries such as Goguryeo and Silla, we, the Tang Dynasty, could directly crush them!"
Li Yuan's face was filled with emotion.
Cheng Laosi also sighed with a look on his face.
"I didn't expect that the Tang Dynasty could produce ten million kilograms of pig iron a year. It's really..."
With that said, Li Xuan didn't know how to continue.
"how?"
Li Yuan looked at Li Xuan with curiosity on his face.
"Those craftsmen and officials who forge pig iron are all incompetent!"
Li Xuan curled his lips and said.
"inability?"
Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed disapproval.
"Xuanba, do you know how much pig iron there is when stacked together?"
"How much is ten million kilograms?"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly, "There were so many sergeants in the Tang Dynasty, even ten million kilograms of pig iron were not enough. In addition, the people's farming tools and iron tools for daily life, these ten million pig iron, I don't know what the Ministry of Industry
How can we share such a small amount of pig iron with the Ministry of Household Affairs and even the Ministry of War?"
As he spoke, he seemed to think of something.
Li Xuan turned to look at Li Yuan.
"Old man, do you think that if I give 40,000 kilograms of pig iron to the Ministry of Industry or the Shaofu Superintendent or the Ordnance Supervisor, can they help me build an iron stove?"
"How do you pay back?"
Li Yuan asked subconsciously, and then gently shook his head.
"Don't say that the Ministry of Industry or the Ordnance Supervisor dare not agree to this matter, not even Erlang dares to agree to this matter!"
"I'm just borrowing their pig iron to forge a big iron stove. Am I not going to give it back?"
Li Xuan's face turned anxious.
However, I saw the disbelieving look on Li Yuan's face.
He knew how difficult it was to forge pig iron!
How is it possible to repay 40,000 kilograms of pig iron?
"Is it okay if I return 80,000 kilograms of pig iron?"
Li Xuan continued to ask.
"One hundred thousand?..."
Hearing this, Li Yuan was even more helpless.
"Xuanba, do you know how difficult it is to forge pig iron?"
"I don't know!"
Li Xuan shook his head gently.
"Xuanba, the matter of pig iron is not a child's play, it is a state matter of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Yuan looked solemn, "Ten blacksmiths can forge more than 200 kilograms of pig iron for one day!"
Forehead!
Hearing this, Li Xuan was speechless.
"Old man, do you know how many kilograms of pig iron I forged in that small forge in one day?"
"How many pounds?"
Li Yuan asked with curiosity on his face.
"A thousand pounds!"
"A thousand pounds?"
Li Yuan was shocked and full of disbelief, "How is this possible?"
"Why is this impossible?"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly, "Gao Ming and Cheng Chusi can all testify to this matter!"
Hearing this, Li Yuan quickly looked at Li Chengqian.
"Gao Ming, is this true?"
"Back to Grandpa Huang, this is absolutely true. We also helped when forging those pig irons!"
At this moment, Li Chengqian's expression also changed slightly, and he suddenly realized that Li Xuan forged a thousand kilograms of pig iron in one day, how important it was to the Tang Dynasty!