Li Shimin

Chapter 469 Completion of the giant steel ship
Follow Cui Xuanlan back to Qingzhou.

The Cui family borrowed [-] weapons from His Majesty, intending to mobilize the power of the whole family to attack the barbarian country, but someone leaked it, and it started to cause a commotion among all the aristocratic families in the world.

Since the edict was issued in the Taiji Palace last year, all the aristocratic families in the world who think they have some strength have begun to move around.

However, after a few days of preparation, these aristocratic families found helplessly that the family had enough staff but not enough weapons.

Therefore, we can only prepare to develop in secret.

Unexpectedly, the Qinghe Cui family could come up with such a wonderful idea, and even Li Shimin agreed!
In an instant, the five surnames of Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, Xingyang Zheng, Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li and other five surnames Qiwang, as well as the six Kanxi surnames, the Jiangnan family, the Daibei Hu surname, the Taiyuan Wen surname, and the Taiyuan Tang surname All the powerful families started to come towards Chang'an City again.

After the past two years, the family's caravans did business abroad, and the power of the tribes in the Tang Dynasty just around the Tang Dynasty, these aristocratic families are well aware of it.

However, in this matter, the patriarchs of these aristocratic families were disappointed in the end. At one time, Li Shimin only allowed two aristocratic families to borrow weapons from the Tang Dynasty.

The Cui family has already got the first place, and the remaining ones can only be obtained by the southern family or the northern family.

In the entire city of Chang'an, undercurrents began to surge again.

In the end, the Li family of Longxi got this spot.

However, it is time for spring plowing.

After the allocation of places was completed, the heads of the aristocratic families could only rush home.

The matter of spring plowing is the most important.

If you want to fight, you can only talk about it after the autumn harvest.

The entire Lijiazhuang began to get busy again.

The whole Zhuangzi went to battle together, tearing down the glass greenhouses, pulling out the withered vegetable branches, leveling the fields, and dividing the paddy fields.

For [-] mu of land, a household can allocate about [-] mu of land.

It took half a month to level out 10,000 mu of paddy fields, more than [-] mu of fertile land.

Standing on the edge of the field, the corners of the old butler Li Chang's mouth were cracked to the side of his ears in joy.

With last year's experience, this year's old butler is full of motivation.

After plowing the fields, they began to raise chickens and ducks, pigs and fish.

At the same time, there were dozens of households in Lijiazhuang, and there was good news from the family that some of the households' mothers-in-law and aunts had a big belly.

Afterwards, some older bachelors who had reached the age of marriage greeted all kinds of matchmakers with joy all day long.

Then, carrying all the betrothal gifts, they went to the outer village to give the betrothal gifts.

The entire Lijiazhuang has become the most envied Zhuangzi of all the surrounding villages.

Soon, it will be June.

The weather is getting hotter again.

Cui Mi's stomach is already too big to walk, Zi Yun and an old woman have to follow Cui Mi all day long to avoid falling.

"My lord! Qingzhou Zoubao!"

The housekeeper Li Chang walked in with a letter sealed with wax paint in his hand.

"Qingzhou?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan, who was staring blankly, was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly took the letter.

The more you look, the happier you look.

"Xuanba, what kind of happy event makes you so happy?"

On the side, Li Yuan asked curiously.

"My steel ship was successfully built!"

Li Xuan said with a happy face.

Hearing this, Li Yuan also looked overjoyed, "Then when shall I go to Qingzhou?"

"Go to Qingzhou?..."

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, a look of embarrassment flashed in his eyes, after thinking for a moment, he said firmly.

"Mi'er is nine months pregnant, I want to go to Qingzhou after the baby is born!"

"Alright!"

A trace of astonishment flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, but he nodded again and again.

"However, there is one thing that needs to be prepared in advance!" Li Xuan continued.

"What's the matter?"

Li Yuan was taken aback.

"Sailor, boatman!"

Li Xuan said.

"Since the steel ship has been built, it must have skilled boatmen and sailors!"

"For this matter, you need to find Erlang!" Li Yuan said.

Since Xieli was captured and returned to Chang'an, Li Yuan's attitude towards Li Shimin has improved a lot.

Hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly.

The water army requires more complicated boatmen than the army. In this era, they are equivalent to high-tech talents.

Among them, the most important is the crew chief, that is, the person in charge of sea navigation. This kind of person must be familiar with the method of compass, can measure the sun, moon, star position, weather, and geography. Such a person can only be found by Li Xuan. No more.

The rest are the boatman, who operates the rudder; the head anchor, who manages the berth in the port; and Yaban, who manages the mast of the ship; The accountant is in charge, and Li Jiazhuang can find a few at will.

Then, there is the chief officer, which is equivalent to the chief steward of the whole ship; the rest is the gongshe, that is, the sailors. On a big ship like Cangship, the gongshe is usually a sailor, but when necessary, he must be able to transform into a soldier !

There are also many employees, and only Li Shimin can help him solve these.

"Master, I will go back to the palace immediately and report this matter to Aye!"

On the side, Li Chengqian said quickly.

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded slowly.

Li Chengqian hurried to the palace.

at the same time.

In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin also received a report from the captain of the shipyard.

With a happy expression on his face, Li Shimin took Li Wei directly to Lijiazhuang.

Therefore, Li Xuan, Li Yuan and others who were waiting for Li Chengqian's news at home were all surprised when they saw Li Shimin coming in from the door.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

"Meet Aye!"

Li Shimin bowed to Li Yuan, and then said to Li Xuan: "Xuanba, the Qingzhou shipyard has built a huge steel ship. I wonder when you plan to send people to America?"

Since last year, Li Shimin has been waiting for overseas Hu merchants from the ports of Quanzhou and Leizhou to bring sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other grains from the Americas, and then dedicate them to him.

From then on, the people of Tang Dynasty will never lack food again.

However, until now, although a few Hu merchants brought several plants to offer their merits, they were all similar things, not real sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other plants.

"Your Majesty, a huge ship has just been built, and it has not yet been equipped with a navy, so there is no need to worry about the boatman!"

Li Xuan said slowly.

"Navy?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but startled.

"Xuanba, can the navy be transferred directly from Zhechong Prefectures like Qingzhou or Dengzhou?"

"As long as His Majesty agrees, I have nothing to do!"

Li Xuan said casually.

"However, the steel giant ship is newly built. Those sailors and boatmen need to be familiar with it for at least a month or two before they can skillfully control the giant steel ship!"

"In this way, I ordered Xiaogong to find four experienced captains, a few boatmen, Tou Ding, and Yaban, and then send a group of sailors who are familiar with cleaning steel ships!"

Li Shimin said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly.

"In addition, please order your Majesty to build a second steel giant ship as soon as possible!"

"Xuanba don't worry, with the experience of this steel giant ship, those craftsmen will be much faster when building the second giant ship!"

Li Shimin said in relief.

Hearing this, Li Xuan no longer urged.

During this period of time, the governor's mansions of Shunzhou, Yuzhou, Huazhou, Changzhou, Dingxiang, and Yunzhong were all under construction in full swing.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of Turkic slaves serving hard labor, the affairs of Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others are not much less.

(End of this chapter)