Take the mall to Datang

Now that there is a large Baochuan, he naturally wants to do what Emperor Sui Yang failed to do. Expanding the territory is what he has been pursuing since he took the throne.

This time, the Xiaolong was used to inspect the coastal defense, mainly to train the sailors, so that the soldiers could master the experience of going to sea, and at the same time, they also followed the Cangzhou to understand the situation at sea.

For the strength of the pirates, it will be auspicious.

But this time I didn't see pirates.

However, Li Shimin is also anxious. The construction speed of the treasure ship is too slow. The docks in several ports such as Suzhou are now under construction. While the dock is being improved, the treasure ship will be built. Now it will take a long time, one year, two years?

But thinking about it, he was still very confident, so he issued a secret decree to Xin Liangchou, the military supervisor, and then Xin Liangchou's military supervisor began to secretly transport the newly researched large-caliber artillery to Cangzhou.

Li Shimin wanted to transport it secretly, but he still used most of the transportation capacity of the Beiya Forbidden Army and the imperial court.

In the calm and calm, nothing happened except that the Beiya imperial guards went out with a joint name.

After staying in Chang'an for a period of time, several princes left one after another.

Chapter 733 Boiler Design Drawing

In the next few months, the court began to spend heavily to start the construction of the railway to Suzhou.

The bearing equipment purchased by His Royal Highness Prince Qian from the Yuanjia Workshop is now all produced in the Ministry of Industry, and work is started day and night.

There is no shortage of iron mines in Datang. Even the railway and the Cangzhou shipyard are in great demand, but in a few days, iron mines from all over the world have gathered in Chang'an immediately, so that the military inspector and the Ministry of Industry have no shortage of iron.

The Ministry of Industry is afraid that the machine will be "tired". The processing of the bearings is carried out every day. The people dispatched from the military supervision department are very familiar with the equipment. It is too difficult in itself, and the production speed is very fast. Thousands of sets of bearings can be produced every day. was produced.

Most of the people in the Ministry of Industry were building the Daming Palace, and many bearings could not be installed on the carriage quickly. In the end, all these bearings were put into the market and were snapped up by merchants. Those who did not buy at a price lower than the market price were fools.

What Yuan Shan had expected happened, the price of the bearings dropped by an average of [-] cents. This kind of thing can only be done by the Ministry of Industry.

Not to mention that the Ministry of Industry made a lot of money in this wave, and ordered the military supervisor to imitate the bearing equipment. It doesn't mean that the stone crusher has not been done yet, and you are here again.

Zheng Qi has not been idle recently. Thanks to Li Chengqian's intervention, the scale of the bicycle factory has expanded, and the production line for the military inspection and prevention has really been completed. Datang is still the only one who has increased bicycle production.

The bicycle factory, which had not produced for two months, resumed operation. In the first month, it took the money to the East Palace. Zheng Qi was very depressed, because the two bicycle factories that had stopped working were sales inventory, but the inventory was limited after all. After the shortage of goods, the sales volume increased sharply.

But the money earned at this time has a share of the prince.

This is not the first month's benefit counted as a gift.

Li Chengqian was polite, because he saw the money, several carriages worth tens of thousands of guan.

"It's peace of mind to do business with Chairman Zheng, and you can get money so quickly." Li Chengqian said.

"Thanks to His Highness the Crown Prince." Zheng Qi complimented.

"We need a batch of bicycles at the Xishan Circuit. Can we offer a discount on this price?" Li Chengqian asked.

Li Chengqian has shares in the Xishan Circuit, and he also owns the bicycle factory. He is also a little embarrassed, but how can he have a heart in the face of a bunch of dudes.

Zheng Qi wanted to refuse, but he agreed immediately after thinking about it.

"The cost of bicycles is not low. Since His Royal Highness has already spoken, it is natural to have a discount." Zheng Qi said.

This is to remind Li Chengqian of the discount you gave, and the Zheng family is not to blame for making less money.

After saying this, Zheng Qi left.

When Li Chengqian saw the money in the box, he burst out laughing. His heart was extremely happy, and he thought to himself, because his uncle Li Yuanchang had contact with him when he came last time, and Liangzhou is not too far away from Chang'an. , but it is a matter of cooperation.

Interested in a steam boiler capable of heating in winter.

The rich merchants in Chang'an City all use kangs and flue walls for heating in winter, and the heating equipment with a structure such as stoves and radiators driven by steam boilers is basically available in state-level households, but there are very few of them.

It is mainly installed in the buildings of the Lantian Economic Development Zone, medical halls, canteens and other large-scale dormitories. After all, they are all made of iron, and the orders are all from the Military Supervision.

But it was a bit embarrassing for Li Yuanchang to purchase so many boilers, after all, he was afraid of people talking gossip.

But the news that the princes are going to build a boiler workshop in Lanzhou to produce heating equipment is known to many people, and this is a signal.

During Li Yuanchang's stay in Chang'an, he discussed with Li Chengqian and planned to pay for the construction of a boiler factory. To be honest, in Li Yuanchang's opinion, Filter Chang was just a large blacksmith's shop, so he proposed to cooperate with Li Chengqian.

The coal he sold last time, Li Yuanchang, helped a lot and was still doing stove renovation in Liangzhou University. Of course, it was a bit compulsory, but in the end it was a success. Every year, Liangzhou will pay some money for the coal reserves, and then sell them at a higher price. People, to tell the truth, there are gains but no losses.

In this way, Li Chengqian really agreed. The boiler production drawings are what Li Chengqian needs to provide, and this kind of thing is not a matter of leaking secrets.

Now that so much money has been distributed, the prince has a lot of confidence.

Yuanlai Tea House, Li Chengqian came directly to the office of the Economic and Development Department.

"His Royal Highness, do you mean that you want to buy Guolu's blueprints?" Yuan Shan asked curiously. I really don't know what the prince is doing, and suddenly ran over and said that he wanted to buy the boiler blueprints.

The blueprints are actually not a secret, and the blueprints will only be released if there is cooperation with the military inspector. Li Chengqian is not high enough, so Xin Liangchou of the military inspector can't handle it, but should he agree to this kind of thing, or agree to it.

"The princes of Yuanshan can open a boiler factory in Lanzhou. Of course, the crown prince also wants to open it. Just tell me how much the design drawing will cost you." Li Chengqian asked.

It’s all up to this point, can he say no to it? After thinking about it, anyway, the Military Weapons Supervision has blueprints, and the boiler factory in Lanzhou also has them. They are not afraid of anyone monopolizing them. Besides, the production of boilers requires a lot of iron ore. The Yuan family wants Playing this project is too troublesome to do.

"If His Royal Highness wants it, you can give it whatever you want, [-] guan." Yuan Shan said casually, I don't know if those blacksmiths will think this price is too expensive after seeing it, and he is ready to bargain in his heart.

"Deal!" Li Chengqian agreed straightforwardly.

Yuan Shan was a little speechless, did this kid come to give money for nothing? He agreed so simply.

No matter what Yuan Shan thought, the transaction was still completed.

The boiler design drawings, the merchants in Chang'an City will know about this the next day, and the design drawings only need [-] yuan. You can go to the Ministry of Economics and Development to buy the desired drama.

Although Yuan Shan stayed in the Ministry of Economic Development, the money did come from Yuan's family.

You can make money while sitting, but you never thought there would be merchants coming to buy it.

Li Chengqian was not stupid. Even though many people started investing in blacksmiths after taking the blueprints, the most important thing was not blacksmiths but iron, and in the end they couldn't produce alone.

But Li Chengqian didn't care, but what did the merchants feel? Their purpose was naturally not a blacksmith shop, but hearing that Li Chengqian was going to open a boiler factory, so those who bought the blueprints wanted to join, and what Li Chengqian needed to provide was Just iron.

Li Chengqian laughed when he learned about this. It is true that he does not need to invest by himself. There is a kind of businessman who pays him and he needs to continue to buy iron as the prince.

So the business hit it off. If Li Yuanchang didn't know what he would think after hearing the news, he would have to pay for the finished boilers directly to Liangzhou.

Chapter 734

As His Royal Highness, the Ministry of Industry is still very face-saving, and the increase in iron ore production in Datang is not bad for that demand.

Soon His Royal Highness’s boiler production plan was launched. In order to unify management and save costs, the merchants put the large-scale blacksmith workshop they invested in in the outskirts of Chang’an, where there are few people, and hired dozens of blacksmiths to start knocking. beat.

But soon they encountered a problem. It was not so easy to produce boilers, because the boilers were huge. When planning, they knew that large ironmaking tools and processing tables were needed.