Li Shimin

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The more he listened, the more astonished Zheng Ye became.

After about a stick of incense, Li Xuan yelled.

"Open the furnace!"

Everyone couldn't help but stop talking, staring at the iron furnace.

A streak of fiery red iron juice flowed out from the ironmaking furnace and flowed into the container below before slowly changing color.

After waiting for the last drop of iron juice to flow out, the few people breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zheng Ye, what is the quality of these iron juices?"

Li Shimin stared closely at Zheng Ye and asked.

"Return to Your Majesty, there are very few impurities, comparable to high-grade pig iron!" Zheng Ye was full of excitement.

"Okay, hahaha..."

After hearing this, Li Shimin was overjoyed.

Immediately, he quickly looked at Li Xuan!

"Xuanba, I don't know if this method of making iron can be handed over to the imperial court. The Tang Dynasty is really short of iron tools!"

Xuanba?

Zheng Ye's heart was shocked, he felt that this name was very familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had heard it before!

"This method of making iron is known by both Ying Qi and Wu Fu, and even Gao Ming, Cheng Chusi and others. You can use it however you want!"

Li Xuan glanced at Li Shimin and said quietly.

"However, with this iron-making method, can His Majesty forge 230 large iron furnaces for me?"

"Xuan Ba ​​don't worry, after I go back, I will open the furnace together with the Military Weapon Supervisor, the Shaofu Supervisor, and the General Supervisor to forge a big iron furnace for you!"

Li Shimin said quickly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Xuan's face was filled with joy.

And this time, Li Yuan began to direct Yuchi Baolin and the others to fill the iron ore into the iron furnace!

After getting the method of making iron, Li Shimin didn't stop, so he left in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, that Master Xuanba, is he the one who improved Quyuanli before?"

After leaving Lijiazhuang, Zheng Ye asked Li Shimin curiously.

Li Shimin stopped in his tracks, and glanced at Zheng Ye indifferently, Zheng Ye was startled, his back was covered in cold sweat.

Then, he replied, "It's him!"

"Zheng Jiancheng, today's matter, except for the iron-making method, you are not allowed to say a word about anything about Lijiazhuang!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I just came to Lijiazhuang today to see this kind of iron-making furnace, and I haven't seen or heard of any other people or things!"

Zheng Ye's heart was shaken, and he hurriedly bowed his hands in salute.

After listening, Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction and continued to ask.

"With this iron-smelting method, how much pig iron do you think my Tang Dynasty can smelt in a year?"

"Return to Your Majesty, ten million catties of pig iron must be possible!"

Speaking of ironmaking, Zheng Ye was full of excitement.

"Ten million catties?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin, Cheng Chusi and the others couldn't help but stop, and looked at Zheng Ye in shock.

"Your Majesty, the iron-smelting furnace just now is only as tall as two people, while the iron-smelting furnaces of the Ministry of Industry are generally three feet high. The iron that can be smelted in one furnace is twice as high as that iron-smelting furnace." need more!"

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Chapter 135: One Technique, The Court Moves

"It is so!"

"So, my Tang soldiers, can everyone be armored?"

After listening, Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others couldn't help being excited.

Even, several people looked at the north with ferocious expressions and red eyes.

"Hurry back to the palace!"

"Yes!"

……

"Call the military supervisor and the general supervisor!"

"Yes!……"

In the main hall of Shaofu Supervisor, Li Shiminju sat on the main seat, Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong sat on both sides.

Below, Gongsun Nian, the prime minister of the general supervisor, and Qu Hui, the prime minister of the military weapon, stared angrily at Zheng Ye beside them.

In the morning, His Majesty ordered the Shaofu Supervisor to forge a useless large iron stove, and they all heard about it.

However, before they had time to see the jokes of the Shaofu Supervisor, they were called to the Shaofu Supervisor by Zheng Ye, and the most important His Majesty and Cheng Laomo were still sitting on top.

A cheater, a shameless one, a presumptuous son of man, a scum...

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui are angry and hateful!

"Gongsun Nian, Qu Hui, how many catties of pig iron do you have in the Military Weapons Supervisor and General Zuo Prison?"

Li Shimin asked with a smile on his face.

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui couldn't help but tremble, looked at each other, and then quickly cupped their hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have more than 2000 Quyuanli shaft heads to be built in the Military Weapons Supervision Department. Urging the forging of ordnance, the military inspector is currently asking the Ministry of Industry for pig iron!"

"Your Majesty, the general and the prisoner also have a thousand iron shafts for Quyuanli to be forged, and..."

However, the story is not over yet.

Cheng Zhijie stared, "You two don't fart here!"

"Su Guogong?"

In a word, the excuse that Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui came up with after working hard for a long time was suppressed.

"Your Majesty asked the two of you to report how many catties of pig iron you have left in the yamen. It's so smeared with ink, it doesn't look like a man at all!"

"Your Majesty's forgiveness!"

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui were shocked.

Hastily saluted, with a crying voice in his words.

"Your Majesty, it's not that I'm reluctant, but that there really isn't a catty of extra pig iron to spare in the armory prison!"

"Your Majesty, I only have [-] catties of pig iron for a year as a prisoner. This year, I have already used up the pig iron. The pig iron is allotted by the Ministry of Industry for the purpose of forging the iron shafts of Quyuanli!"

After listening, Li Shimin frowned slightly and sighed softly.But he didn't blame the two, but said directly.

"Then let's suspend making Quyuanli's iron shaft head and build the big iron stove first!"

"His Majesty!"

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui couldn't believe it.

"Ok?"

Li Shimin looked cold.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Seeing this, Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui hurriedly saluted.

"Each person is in charge of sixty large iron furnaces first!"

Li Shimin continued, "As for the drawings, go to Zheng Ye for them. The day after tomorrow, you will forge at least [-] pieces!"

"This?...Your Majesty, there is not enough pig iron!"

Now, everyone including Zheng Ye was shocked.

"There will be a subordinate from the labor department to allocate it to you!"

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin stood up and walked out.

"Tie Zheng, how dare you treat me so miserably?"

Unwilling, Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui turned their heads to look at Zheng Ye, the culprit beside him.

"More than 200 large iron stoves, do you know how many catties of pig iron will be consumed? This time, you, Zheng Ye, are the sinner of Datang!"

"Tomorrow, this old man must impeach you!"

The more they talked, the angrier they became.

"Hey, don't worry, the two supervisors!"

On the contrary, it was Zheng Ye with a faint smile on his face.

"This makes me wait in a hurry. There are two hundred iron stoves, and at least 2 catties of pig iron are needed!"

"I'm afraid the two of you forgot the iron cylinder that the iron stove needs to be equipped with!" Zheng Ye added with a smile on his face.

"Iron tube?"

Hearing this, Qu Hui's face became even more angry, he stared at Zheng Ye closely, and gritted his teeth.

"In this way, at least [-] catties of pig iron are needed?"

"more or less!"

Zheng Ye nodded lightly.

"With so much pig iron, how many pieces of Quyuanli's iron shaft heads and how many pieces of armored weapons can be forged?"

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui lamented.

“But worth it!”

Zheng Ye explained with a smile: "Your Majesty only used more than 200 large iron stoves to exchange for a method that can quickly smelt iron!"

"The art of iron smelting?"

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui's eyes lit up, and they quickly looked at Zheng Ye.

"Exactly, I saw with my own eyes that a two-person-high iron-smelting furnace can smelt two hundred catties of high-quality pig iron in less than an hour!"

"what?"

"Zheng Jiancheng, you have witnessed this matter with your own eyes. Is there really such a wonderful way to make iron?"

In an instant, Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui looked at Zheng Ye excitedly.

Excited, the address for Zheng Ye also began to change.

"Two supervisors, when did I, Zheng Ye, deceive you two about such a big matter?"

Zheng Ye was not angry, but explained seriously.

"Hahaha……"

"Happy event, what a great happy event!"

"In this way, we will never lack pig iron again!"

"Your Majesty is wise, these [-] large iron furnaces are really worth it!..."

Gongsun Nian and Qu Hui were overjoyed.

If Li Shimin told about this matter, the two of them might still have doubts.

However, when Zheng Ye, the supervisor of the Shaofu, said it, the two of them believed it completely.

"Zheng Jiancheng, do you know which master provided the iron making technique?"

"You two don't ask too much..."

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