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Chapter 42 Revisiting the Iron Smelting Bureau
She is only repairing farm tools, not hoarding weapons and armor, so it shouldn't be considered a taboo.

Of course, she dared to be so presumptuous because of Cui Fuyin's unconditional support.

With the cover of Cui Fuyin, no one would report it.

Immediately doing what he said, Li Yewu began to look for a suitable site for the construction of the iron smelting plant and recruit troops.

However... the dream is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny.

Because the imperial court controls the iron smelting industry, people who can smelt iron are in the hands of the officials, and there are no folks at all.

Although she has a battalion of people as the tool support department on call at any time, but after careful inquiry, everyone can only do carpentry, and none of them can blacksmith.

Li Yewu's idea of ​​setting up an iron smelting factory on his own is defeated by the cold reality...

Even though there are all kinds of hills and valleys in her heart, sometimes she is really helpless.

For example, for a blacksmith shop, if she starts from building a factory to training employees to developing new products step by step, when will she have to wait... However, there are still 10 people waiting to use tools on the hillside.

Besides, even if everyone can afford to wait, her wallet can't afford to wait...

In an instant, Li Yewu's mood fell to the bottom.

Seeing the little madam troubled by the pile of rotten copper and iron, Zi Cui came over silently: "Madam, maybe you can ask Si Ge for help."

"Who?" Li Yewu was at a loss.

Zi Cui looked like you really forgot about Sige: "Sige is also one of us. He went to work in the Iron and Steel Bureau and dealt with iron every day. You might be able to solve the problem if you discuss it with him."

"!" Li Yewu was extremely shocked: "It turns out that our palace still has such talents!"

She thought the house was full of fools who had nothing but loyalty.

"Where is the princess talking, we have all kinds of talents in our house." Zi Cui was dissatisfied.

"...You are right, take me to him quickly."

Li Yewu lifted the hem of her skirt and walked outside, muttering as she walked, "By the way, why didn't you tell me that there are people from us when you went to the Iron and Steel Bureau last time?"

"Si Ge is only a blacksmith in the iron smelting bureau. He never goes to the shop, and even if he comes out, he probably won't be able to talk, so... hehe."

"understood."

Li Yewu nodded transparently, feeling contemptuous in Ms. Zicui's eyes.

Unfortunately, this mysterious Si Ge is just downstream of Zi Cui's chain of contempt.

Speaking of this, I said before that Xiao Jiuxi brought 100 people from the capital to Taihe Prefecture. The names of these 100 people are very interesting.

They form a group of ten people, named after the sequence, the first word is the order of the group, and the last word is the same line of poem:——The song is full of peach blossoms and the wind is the wind in the dream.
The ten people Piru Xiao Jiuxi took to the capital were numbered 1-10.

The names are Yige, Yijin, Yitao, Yihua...

Sige means that he is the boss of the four groups, and the remaining members are called Sijin, Sitao, and Sihua...

Although there was nothing wrong in essence, Li Yewu couldn't help but complain about Xiao Jiuxi, but he was so lazy and perfunctory, these were loyal servants who were willing to give their lives, and it turned out that this was the treatment.

Not a single name!

If she were to be the master of the house, she would definitely think of names for them, and they would have something to do with "wealthy" and "powerful country" to be grand.

……

In this way, Li Yewu hurried back to the main city.

The two of them walked through the West Market and went straight to the Nanmen Metallurgical Bureau.

Before Li Yewu just arrived, no one knew her.

Ever since she frightened away the refugees who besieged Prince Shang's mansion by herself, and led 20 strong men to open up wasteland, this princess has become well-known in Taihe City.

So Li Yewu appeared in the Iron Smelting Bureau again. Needless to say, the manager of the Iron Smelting Bureau greeted him respectfully.

"Wangfei is here, and I have lost my way to welcome you. I also ask Wangfei to forgive me."

Originally, the steward wanted to apologize to the princess, but last time he was ignorant of Taishan and mistook the princess for someone's little maid, it was really rude and dereliction of duty.

Unexpectedly, Li Yewu didn't give him time to greet him.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, well, I want to go to your backyard to find someone who doesn't know the way."

"Uh...of course it's convenient, who do you want to find, Princess?"

"Sige."

The manager of the Metallurgy Bureau raised his brows, somewhat unexpected and somewhat expected, after all, Si Ge and his younger brothers are also the attendants of the palace, so it is normal for the princess to find them.

"You can just go in."

Li Yewu nodded and entered the backyard with Zi Cui.

The backyard is completely different from the front bunk. As soon as I entered, I heard clanging and knocking sounds. The temperature was much higher than the outside. Even the trees in the courtyard were dried out by the sultry heat all year round, and even in spring, they didn’t germinate.

Li Yewu continued to walk towards the shed curiously, and after a while, he saw seven or eight big men raising their hands to strike iron. They were bare-chested and backless, with swollen muscles all over their arms and chest.

Seeing this, Zi Cui covered her eyes shyly.

Li Yewu didn't care much, and asked directly, "Which one is Si Ge?"

All the blacksmiths were taken aback for a moment, seeing who it was, they all stopped their work and bowed to Li Yewu.

"My little one has seen Mrs."

Li Yewu was a little surprised. Although he knew that Sige had come to work in the iron smelting bureau, according to Zi Cui, he was at most a marginal figure. However, seeing the scene with his own eyes, it seems...the people in their palace are the main force...

Just when Li Yewu was surprised, Sige had already packed his clothes and came out.

He is tall and tall, with beards all over his face, and his skin was burnt black and red by the charcoal fire. Speaking of which, Xiao Jiuxi's followers are all good-looking, but these four groups... are all burly and solid men. ... If they were mixed into the bandits, it would not violate peace at all.

"Little madam, I don't know why you came here to find me?"

Although Si Ge has a sturdy appearance, his speech still retains a gentle manner. This kind of roughness with a bit of a scholarly flavor is inexplicably against harmony.

But Li Yewu came to deal with business after all, she tried her best to ignore Si Ge's violation and talked about business.

"I want to discuss with you how to improve the method of ironmaking."

"???"

Si Ge was a little unbelievable: "Princess... no, what does Madam want to improve?"

Rumors about Li Yewu were raging outside, even in this iron smelting bureau, but everyone called her Wang Hao, so that Brother Si unconsciously blurted out calling her Wang Hao.

He lowered his head in embarrassment, not daring to look at Li Yewu.

Li Yewu doesn't care if others call her Wangfei or Madam, it's just a title anyway, calling her more Wangfei or less Madam will not make her live forever, it doesn't matter.

She went straight to the point.

"This kind of white iron..." Li Yewu pointed to the forged iron in the corner, his eyes were full of disgust: "It's too brittle! It's not suitable for digging rocks. I want to talk to you about turning the white iron For gray iron."

"What... what?"

What white iron and gray iron, Si Ge can't understand, but according to Wang Hao's intention, it is to change the hardness of the tool? ?

(End of this chapter)