Li Shimin

Chapter 133 Demonstrating the Ironmaking Method
"Follow the old man!"

After hearing this, Li Yuan's face changed, and a pair of skinny hands, like chicken feet, directly grabbed Li Xuan tightly, and walked out.

"Where?"

As for Li Yuan, Li Xuan didn't dare to use any force, so he could only cooperate with him and walked out cautiously, for fear that he would walk too fast or slow and bring the old man down.

"Go to the forge!"

Li Yuan roared anxiously.

"These greenhouses haven't been inspected yet!" Li Xuan said.

"We'll inspect it later!" Li Yuan remained unmoved.

"Then what are you doing at the forge?"

Li Xuan was full of doubts.

"I want to watch you smelt iron!" Li Yuan said.

"Smelting iron?"

Li Xuan was slightly taken aback, and then looked helpless.

"It's just iron making, why are you in such a hurry."

"Iron smelting, how can we not be in a hurry!"

Li Yuan glared at Li Xuan, then urged repeatedly: "Go, go!"

This made Li Xuan startled, and then a wry smile flashed in his eyes. Unexpectedly, Old Man Xiong was in a hurry!

"Exactly, Saburo, the matter of iron smelting is related to the fate of my Tang Dynasty, so I can't neglect it!"

Behind him, Cheng Laosi followed at some point.

Moreover, there are a few veterans beside him.

"Then let me go, it's easier to go!"

Seeing this, Li Xuan sighed softly, and said to Li Yuan.

"Ok?"

At this moment, Li Yuan came to his senses, and subconsciously let go of his hands.

Li Xuan's heart relaxed, and he breathed out slowly.

"If you want to smelt pig iron, can you help me and ask the Shaofu Supervisor to help me forge an iron stove?"

"As long as you follow your method, you can really smelt a thousand catties of pig iron, not to mention two hundred iron stoves, even if it is a thousand, the Shaofu Supervisor and Military Weapons Supervisor can forge it for you!" Li Yuan replied.

At the same time, the pace is fast.

Seeing this, Li Xuan stopped teasing the old man Xiong and slowly accelerated his pace.

Soon, several people entered the forging workshop.

"I have met the Supreme Emperor, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I have seen Saburo, and I have seen several young men!"

In the forging workshop, two craftsmen Ying Qi and Wu Fu are firing some glassware.

Seeing Li Xuan, Li Yuan and others, they hurried in and saluted quickly.

Then, he looked at Li Xuan suspiciously.

"Open the furnace and make iron!"

Li Xuan said.

"Yes!"

After hearing this, Ying Qi and Wu Fu quickly put down the glass in their hands and ran to the larger stove in the corner.

At the same time, Cheng Chusi and Yuchi Baolin had already entered with two carts.

The cart is filled with iron ore.

As for Li Chengqian and the others, they started to light a fire and blow the wind.

Each does his own thing, well organized.

Only Li Xuan stood aside, not moving a muscle.

Li Yuan stared at Li Xuan for a long time, his eyes full of doubts.

"I have led them to practice several times in making iron. Therefore, I just need to watch and don't let them make any mistakes!"

Li Xuan chuckled and explained slowly.

And this time, the iron-smelting furnace has begun to operate rapidly.

On one side, under the pull of the blower by Li Chongyi, the temperature inside the forging furnace has been rising.

Less than a quarter of an hour.

The entire forge has started to heat up.

As for Li Chongyi and the others, they had already taken off their sheepskin jackets and put them in a row of wooden boxes in the corner.

The same is true for Li Yuan and Li Xuan.

The clothes on his body are thin, can you still see the hideous scars on Li Xuan's arms?

"It will take a while to melt the iron ore, why don't you go back to the house to rest for a while, come back in half an hour, it's almost ready!"

Seeing that Li Yuan was sweating profusely, Li Xuan suggested.

"No, the old man is waiting here!" Li Yuan waved his sleeves with a firm expression on his face.

Immediately, he still stared at the iron-smelting furnace that was nearly two people tall.

Seeing this, Li Xuan turned his head and glanced at Li Chengqian who was at the side.

Li Chengqian ran out quickly, and soon came in with four small horses in his hands.

Then, put one under Li Yuan's buttocks.

Li Yuan was also polite and sat down directly.

Cheng Lao Si and others who followed in beside him sat cross-legged on the ground.

If Li Yuan didn't leave, Li Xuan was naturally embarrassed to leave.In the past, they always left the two of them to smelt iron, and took turns to take over after a quarter of an hour.

However, if Li Yuan didn't leave here today, they could only take them in the forge, like a sauna, and waited for half an hour.

"Master, it's almost time, it's time to start the furnace!"

Half an hour later, Li Chengqian said to Li Xuan.

After hearing this, Li Yuan was refreshed, but soon looked at Li Xuan with some doubts, did he finish training so quickly?
"Open the furnace!"

Li Xuan didn't pay attention to Li Yuan's questioning eyes, stood up straight, and said slowly.

"Yes!"

Li Chengqian replied.

He gestured to the two craftsmen Ying Qi and Wu Fu beside him.

Wearing thick gloves, the two of them came to the iron furnace and skillfully opened the furnace.

Immediately, a stream of fiery red molten iron slowly flowed out of the furnace.

After all the iron juice flowed out, the two-foot-square container on the ground was nearly half full.

"Your Majesty, this is definitely pig iron!"

Seeing this, Cheng Laosi and the others beside him couldn't help but stare with big eyes and their faces were full of excitement.

"It's pig iron, and it's pig iron with good quality!"

Li Yuan was also full of excitement, shaking his body slightly, "In just one hour, a furnace of molten iron was smelted. This kind of iron smelting method is really amazing!"

"The Supreme Emperor, Your Highness the Crown Prince, Saburo, this furnace of pig iron weighs 220 catties!"

By now, Ying Qi and Wu Fu had already weighed out the pig iron in the container.

"220 pounds?"

Hearing this, Li Yuan couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"It's really 220 catties?"

Ying Qi and Wu Fu looked terrified, and they quickly clasped their hands and replied, "I dare not lie to the Supreme Emperor, this furnace of pig iron definitely weighs 220 catties, not less than a catty!"

"Haha, good, good..."

Li Yuan burst into ecstasy, his face full of joy.

Behind him, Cheng Laosi and the others were also overjoyed.

"In this way, one thousand catties of pig iron can really be forged in one day!"

After Li Yuan finished venting, he said to Li Xuan excitedly: "Don't worry, Xuanba, as long as you inform the Ministry of Industry and the Military Supervision of this iron making method, let alone 230 iron stoves, even if you want to forge For two thousand iron furnaces, the officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Military Weapons Supervision will rush to forge them for you!"

Afterwards, Li Yuan circled around the freshly solidified iron juice twice, and said directly to Li Chengqian: "It's not too late, Gao Ming, you should go back to the palace quickly and tell Yu Erlang about it!"

"Yes, Grandpa Huang!"

Li Chengqian hurriedly cupped his hands in salute.

Then, he said to Li Xuan: "Master, Gao Ming will go back to the palace first."

"Hurry up, remember that there are 230 iron stoves, and each iron stove must be equipped with a three-foot-long iron tube!"

Li Xuan nodded lightly. As for the iron making method that he tested for several days, he just gave it to Li Shimin, he didn't mind at all.

"Yes, Master!"

After saluting again, Li Chengqian hurried out.

"Master, I want to go with Gao Ming!"

At the side, Cheng Chusi also stood up suddenly and bowed his hands in salute.

"Go, Li Chongyi will go too!" Li Xuan said.

"Yes!"

Immediately, Cheng Chusi and Li Chongyi walked out of the forging workshop quickly, and then, like wild horses that had run loose, ran happily to the outside of Li's Village.

Just following Li Chengqian to Chang'an City, the two of them felt a sense of excitement like a holiday.

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(End of this chapter)