Datang first village

"How much?" Li Er asked again.

"The hull only needs [-] guan. The wood in Chang'an is too expensive, especially a lot of wood has to be shipped from outside. Steam engine, hahaha!" Li Yuanxing smiled, and only Li Yuanxing dared to show off in front of Li Er.

Li Yuanxing smiled, not on purpose.

It is the mass production of steam engines. Within half a year, Yaozhou has more than [-] sets of various machine tools, and [-]% of them have completed the transformation of steam power instead of hydraulic power.

What's more, the completion of the new blast furnace has brought steel production to a peak.

Right now it's the iron ore and coke that can't keep up, not the blast furnace.

"Steam engine, [-] horsepower, the cost is only [-] guan!"

"Three hundred guan!" Li Yuanxing's figure startled Li Er. Li Er didn't know how much the steam would cost, but he knew that the actual cost of the first steam engine on the locomotive was close to [-] guan, which was too big. Point, [-] horsepower, but why is the gap so big.

"Brother Huang, the younger brother said, mass production!"

Li Er understood. He remembered that when he was in the Chamber of Commerce Street, the grocery store owner said that Li Yuanxing thought that the shaft head only needed one penny, not thirteen pennies.

Thinking about it now, Li Er understands another meaning of mass production.

"If the shipyard is located in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Chendi can reduce the total cost to less than [-] guan. It is more convenient to use timber there than in Chang'an. Many timber can be transported by sea from Qiongzhou, bypassing Quanzhou, and then to Hangzhou. Or directly go to sea in Liaodong , shipped to Hangzhou. Chang’an is no longer suitable for building large ships.”

Li Yuanxing, this is a very practical suggestion.

But Li Er shook his head: "Not for the time being, the government's control in Hangzhou is not tight enough. You know, Xiao Xianping has only been settled for a few years, and valuable things are not suitable to be placed there, unless Wu Lang can make it to Hangzhou, otherwise Do not think."

Imperial power, control.

Li Yuanxing, who Li Er cared about, understood, so he didn't argue any more. He just said: "The shipyard in Laizhou is not expensive, but it can't be used for civilian use. It's a military port. My brother didn't intend to let the people know that there is a shipyard. Its existence will be of great use in the future.”

"The Chamber of Commerce in Suzhou and Hangzhou wants to buy boats and let them transport timber by themselves. Give them a few big boats and let them pull wooden rafts."

Li Er thought his suggestion was very good. There were timber in the Qinling Mountains, but they were not suitable for shipbuilding.

Li Yuanxing didn't say anything more. Ships are a trivial matter. As long as there are enough ships to transport food and troops next year, it will be enough.The rest of the questions are not important.

Li Er changed the subject: "I heard that Wulang has found Yuanchang to solve some small troubles for you!"

"This..., he should be having fun secretly."

"It's Goro, you're the one who's really having fun. I heard that Yuanchang has nothing to do, so he ran to Princess Silla recently. If he succeeds, I'll give him a big reward!"

succeed……

The use of this word is so weird, Li Yuanxing plans to stop talking.

Cui Dunli came back from the outside at this time, and after saluting, he said: "Your Highness, the Goguryeo people have moved. Yuan Gai Suwen ordered his men to go down and follow behind the Yaozhou craftsmen. It seems that he is tempted. One more thing, the four thousand material ship is serious. Sell ​​it to merchants? Four thousand boats on the river can be compared to a mobile battle castle."

"Four thousand grains, there are no river boats, only sea boats. Tell them, wait a year later. A wooden boat of four thousand grains meets a pure steel battleship of ten thousand grains. I don't know if it is still a mobile battle fortress! "

Cui Dunli didn't believe Li Yuanxing's words.

Li Er didn't believe it either.

"Goro, can steel float on water?"

"Steel can fly into the sky, and I don't think it's incredible to float on water!"

Li Er stopped talking, he knew Li Yuanxing's sky fortress.Instead, Cui Dunli said: "Steel ships must never be used by civilians again. Your Highness has already put many things in the civilian population. Ten years ago, a fast ship with [-] materials is definitely a sharp weapon for the navy!"

"Sight, vision. I really should put you in Yaozhou to study for the first half year."

"Wu Lang don't want to say that, Cui Changshi is also wholeheartedly for the country. Forget it, today at noon I will be the east, Wangjinglou!"

Whether Wangjinglou will accept Li Er's money is put aside first, and whether Li Er will bring money with him is the key.Of course, he might bring a few taels of gold coins for tipping, and even if you give this thing to Wangjinglou, you won’t be able to get change. One tael of gold coins is at least 1 Qin Wang coins.

Therefore, Li Er treats guests, and Li Yuanxing pays for it.

After everyone came to Wangjinglou, Li Yuanxing specially chose a window facing the main street.

"Goro, what else is there to see?"

"Many batches of workers from Yaozhou have come to Dongshi, and the people in Dongshi have become accustomed to coming from Yaozhou. They are holding Yaozhou ID cards and wearing Goguryeo-colored clothes. But this time is different. Some of them were loyal to Goguryeo once, and I have sent people to investigate the details of these people. Either they are Goguryeo nobles themselves, or they belong to a big Goguryeo family, and there is even one who is a branch of the royal family."

Listening to Li Yuanxing's words, Li Er was also watching on the streets of Xiangdong City with a telescope.

Naturally, Li Er couldn't see anything.

But Li Yuanxing said: "Yaozhou takes turns to have holidays, and basically 100 people come to Chang'an every day, so they are sent to Chang'an, and I think it is a natural opportunity."

"What is Goro planning?" Li Er asked.

"Give them a chance, let them escape! With the king's biggest secret, escape back to Goguryeo with the steam engine, hahaha!" Li Yuanxing laughed heartily.

Li Er didn't need Li Yuanxing's explanation, this was an opportunity to consume Goguryeo's national strength.

Li Yuanxing regards the steam engine as a very useful tool, but Goguryeo can't do it. If Goguryeo wants to manufacture it, it will consume more than Datang's first manufacturing. They consume [-] jin of fine steel. There may not be a successful result.

Then, the Goguryeo people will open a large number of mines and then practice steel.

Li Er, who made steam steel, has seen it before, and that thing can be compared with the Qianlian Steel of the former Sui Dynasty. This thing is too much consumption for Goguryeo.It's just, let these people escape, how can they escape.How much he escaped, and how to deal with the rest, Li Er was a little worried that Li Yuanxing would soften his heart.

There was a slight, rhythmic knock on the door.

Cui Dunli went to open the door in person, and Li Chang, who was limping on one leg, came in. He first saluted Li Er, and then stood in front of Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, they are like cats that have seen a fish. The Goguryeo people are still looking for it." The way to contact them proactively, but one of them quietly threw a note to the courtyard where the Goguryeo people live in Yingbin Garden!"

"They are not professional after all!" Li Yuanxing said calmly.

Li Chang didn't answer, but just stood aside.

"Block Yaozhou's commercial hall in Chang'an, and then order all the people who go out of Yaozhou to go back to Yaozhou. Let those craftsmen in charge of the steam engine take the Koguryo craftsmen to conduct a maintenance and inspection of the steam at the pier within three days, and then rush back. Yaozhou. Your task is to force them to escape within three days, and let them know that returning to Yaozhou after three days will be a dead end!"

Li Yuanxing gave orders while considering the details.

"Your Highness, can you see blood?" Li Chang asked deliberately.

Li Yuanxing hadn't answered yet, but Li Er said, "If it's easier if you see blood, I'll make the decision for you."

"Thank you, my lord!" Li Chang was very grateful for Li Er's support for him at this time. In Li Chang's heart, King Qin was still too kind!

Li Chang gave a salute and left the room.

Li Yuanxing stood up: "Brother Huang, my brother is going back to King Qinzhuang."

"So urgent?" Li Er was puzzled. Li Yuanxing was in such a hurry that he had to go back without even eating lunch.

"Your brother wants to personally arrange for thousands of miles of hunting, and he must let Nayuan Gai Suwen know that he has picked up the treasure. Then Datang put pressure on Goguryeo to let them hand over their people. Then, let the Ministry of Rites go Talk about it, don't have to work too hard, just wait for the first half of the year and wait for the war to start." Li Yuanxing had something on his mind, and he didn't have much interest in eating.

Li Yuanxing spoke out his plan in one breath.

Li Er asked, "Wu Lang thinks, where can this battle go?"

"Brother Huang, it's not that we can get there in the first battle. It's about what is the strategic goal to be achieved in this battle? What is our purpose in fighting this battle, and what else do we want? Then it is enough to achieve the strategic goal, and it is too much Attacking will multiply the deaths of soldiers and the consumption of supplies."

What Li Yuanxing explained was the meaning of modern warfare, not that the more captured, the better.

But Li Er said slowly: "Brother, I want to destroy the whole Goguryeo!"

"Your brother disagrees, and now the entire Goguryeo has been destroyed. My Tang Dynasty is laboring the people and money, and the national power is greatly damaged. And then, no matter how Baekje fights, Silla may not choose to surrender, and there may be a war. Keep enough strength, Datang You still have many enemies." After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he put a piece of jade on the table.

"Brother Huang, what do you think of this jade? First-class jade craftsmen call this jade, jadeite. This is the highest-quality ice jadeite, which is priceless. This small piece is at least worth the boat of my younger brother. Of course, the price is It was artificially speculated, but we Han people love jade, from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, even if no one speculates on the price of such jade, since the emperor, will this jade be regarded as a stone by people?"

Li Er picked up the jade, he is a person who understands jade.

How could this piece be buried as a stone, it would only make it more expensive.

"This one is third-rate at most. I don't know about these things, but I heard that there are other colors of the top grade, and there are three colors coexisting, and there are many very miraculous top grades that I can't describe. Unfortunately, this jade But it is not in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but it is in a place where four seasons of rice can be harvested in that year!"

It's not that Li Er has never seen jadeite, it was among the treasures presented by Feng An, but the quality is far inferior to Li Yuanxing's.