Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

He thought for a while, then continued to analyze and said: "Li Erlang is going to completely classify salt and iron as official business. Even if we can steal the method of making salt, under the premise of lowering the price of salt in the court, the benefits obtained It will not be very high, and even be punished by the court."

After hearing his words, everyone felt reasonable.

Then, the court fell silent, and they began to feel the horror of Li Shimin's actions.

As soon as the new salt comes out, the future salt will not be of any concern to them. Even if they can reduce the price of salt to [-] yuan, there is no chance of reversal.

What's more, with their salt-making technology, less than [-] yuan is a blood loss.

"Well, you Li Erlang, you are too deceitful, you insist on confronting us!"

Cui Mao couldn't bear it first, and slapped the table angrily.

This time, not only did Yan lose his advantage, but their officials in the court were also severely suppressed.

The imperial court simply issued new salt, and they were completely defeated. All the seven families were no match for the imperial court.

Can they accept this failure?

Impossible to accept!With their pride, all they want is victory.

"No, we absolutely can't sit still, he won't make it easy for us, and I won't make it easy for the court either."

Lu Yulin was very unconvinced and said: "The imperial court suppressed the price of salt, and we continued to increase the prices of other things. I will go back and raise the prices of wine, cloth and silk. I see what Li Erlang can use to resist us." .”

The other five people nodded one after another, expressing their agreement with Lu Yulin's approach, they all went back, and raised the prices of things that could threaten Li Shimin.

After Lu Yulin returned to the Lu family, he thought that the Lu family still had papermaking and printing skills, which could be counterattacked, and immediately went to the Lu family's workshop.

It is already summer now, and it was warm winter in the Tang Dynasty. The weather was hotter than later generations. At this time, it was so hot that Sichuan could grow lychees. Concubine Yang Guifei ate lychees from Sichuan. It was a luxury to have a snowfall in winter.

This is also true, the summer in the Tang Dynasty was very hot, especially in the workshop of the Lu family, the furnaces were constantly operating, and people felt like they were in a furnace.

Lu Yulin had just arrived here, and the heat wave was raging, and soon he was covered with sweat.

Lu Xiuran has been staying in the workshop recently, constantly urging the production of paper and the printing of books. He also has to resist Li Yi'an to prove his strength in the literary world. At this moment, he is sweating and drenched.

"Aye!"

Seeing Lu Yulin coming, he hurried over.

"how is it now?"

Lu Yulin asked.

"Everything is going smoothly. It is really convenient and fast to use those fonts for printing."

Lu Xiuran said excitedly: "In three days at the earliest, my books will be available for sale again."

Lu Yulin calmed down, and said again: "Xiu Ran, help me prepare. My Lu family also wants to print newspapers. I want to regain control of Chang'an's speech and suppress Li Erlang. As for what to print, you can write it down immediately." The reason why the new salt sold by the imperial court is so expensive is because there are poisonous articles in the salt, I want to completely stink the so-called new salt."

Lu Xiuran beckoned, found a craftsman, and said, "Turn on ten more stoves to speed up papermaking."

The craftsman said in embarrassment: "Master, Dalang, our warehouse is almost full, and if we make a lot of paper, I'm afraid there will be no place to put the paper we make."

Lu Yulin asked: "Isn't our warehouse very big? How come there is no room!"

The craftsman said again: "Before we shipped a large amount of phosphor powder, but they were not used, and they were only piled up inside."

The phosphorus powder here is equivalent to the white phosphorus of later generations.

The earliest white phosphorus in history was produced by boiling urine.

However, in this era, Li Yi'an discovered a kind of phosphorus powder that is similar to white phosphorus in later generations. Its activity is almost the same as that of white phosphorus, but people here don't know how to use it, and it only exists in minerals.

Although the ancients didn't know how to use it, the concept of "phosphorus powder" also appeared, and some people had dug it out of minerals, but the amount was not much, so Li Yi'an wrote on the papermaking method.

"Take out all the phosphorus powder and throw it all outside, it's fine if you don't!"

Lu Xiuran said loudly: "Get ready!"

"Yes!"

Artisans can only prepare.

The time soon came to the next day.

At the turn of Weishi and Shenshi, the temperature in the workshop directly soared to its peak under the action of various furnaces.

The phosphorous powder was thrown outside, closer to the furnace, and the temperature was climbing.

You must know that the ignition point of white phosphorus is [-] degrees, and the phosphorus powder may be slightly worse, but it is not as high as that.

Now in the workshop, the temperature emitted by the stove is already above [-] degrees, and with the current weather, the temperature is even more terrifying.

It was the hottest time of the day at the turn of the year.

At this moment, white smoke was rising from the bag containing the phosphorous powder, producing a yellowish-white flame and exuding a large amount of heat.

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Chapter 125

"Why is the weather getting hotter?"

A craftsman who was busy in front of the stove felt as if there was a stove behind him baking him, and the heat was even more unbearable. He wiped his sweat and looked back.

Just at this time, those phosphor powders exploded with a "boom", and the yellow-white flames soared into the sky, dazzling.

"what!"

That dazzling light just broke into the artisan's eyes, instantly turning white.

The tingling sensation in his eyes made him scream, and he covered his hands quickly, and shouted, "My eyes!"

When the other craftsmen heard the movement and turned their heads, the yellow-white flame was still there, but it was not as dazzling as before, and they were all stunned for a while.

"Go away!"

Someone shouted, and then everyone in the workshop panicked.

The fire of spontaneous combustion of phosphorous powder quickly ignited the nearby warehouse, which was full of paper and books, which were flammable items. Once ignited, one can imagine how powerful the fire would be.

They dragged the person with an eye injury outside and threw it aside, and then everyone took wooden buckets and basins to fill the nearby river with water to fight the fire.

Because papermaking must use water, the workshop is next to the river. Although it is convenient, the scene that shocked them soon came again. Water can't put out these fires at all.

The ignition point of phosphorous powder is very low, and water can cool down, but not below the ignition point.