Datang: My Peerless Talent Has Been Exposed

Therefore, these three kinds of fairy food are not only a gift from heaven brought by Zhang Nuo, but also a potential crisis for Datang. It depends on how to deal with it next year!

Fang Xuanling is still very satisfied with Li Shimin, the hero. He has the means, the mind, the ambition, and the ability to work hard. As long as he assists well, he might be able to leave his name in history.

Therefore, he expressed his thoughts without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, since the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang has such abilities, then we can't let him sit idle. Isn't he powerful? Then Your Majesty can find him to do more business with him!"

Li Shimin was taken aback, and looked at Fang Xuanling blinking his eyes for a long time before he could react, what do you mean?Aren't the ministers around here a little disgusted with making money from their internal funds? Why did this Fang Qing encourage him to do business?

Seeing that Li Shimin didn't understand, Fang Xuanling hurriedly explained,

"Your Majesty, I don't know how many unpredictable and astonishing craftsmanship are still in the hands of the shopkeeper. If you wait for him to come up with it, you don't know when it will be, but if your majesty cooperates with him What about business?"

"There are three advantages to this matter. First, we can find the things Datang needs most to cooperate with them. After the description of His Majesty just now, I found a rule, that is, no matter what business the little shopkeeper does, he can increase the output of things. The cost has dropped, whether it is the existing wine, books or the salt that is about to cooperate with His Majesty, this is the case!"

"Secondly, the biggest advantage of cooperating with His Majesty is that you don't have to worry about these talents being discovered by other forces, and you don't have to worry about making things difficult for small officials. Shopkeeper Zhang doesn’t need to worry about trivial matters anymore!”

"Finally, if His Majesty continues to cooperate with Shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, even if the money goes into the internal coffers, His Majesty will still generously donate the money if the country is in trouble in the future. Therefore, it doesn't really matter whether the money is earned by His Majesty or the treasury." !"

Li Shimin's face was like a dyeing workshop opened by Fang Xuanling's words, turning blue and white at times, this damn is blatantly saying that you are working for the imperial treasury!

Then he was tactful on the surface, but the meaning was very clear and he told him that he should hurry up to help shopkeeper Xiaozhang and take care of shopkeeper Xiaozhang. Don't let shopkeeper Xiaozhang worry about those trivial things!

This old man is simply not a son of man, he is too disrespectful to me, his mother!

Although Li Shimin also knew that he might not be able to keep up with his little brother Zhang on the road of Kewu, but it's okay to keep some things in mind?In this way, His Majesty the Great Tang Emperor doesn't want to lose face?

At this moment, Li Shimin suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable for Keming and the auxiliary machine to pick Fang Xuanling to trick them. Sometimes this kind of person just owes their mouths!

However, it is the emperor, no matter how much he complains, he still has to do what he should do. Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling seriously and asked,

"Then what kind of business does Fang Qing think I should do? This is not only about making money, but also enhancing the country's power. It's not a good choice!"

Fang Xuanling clapped his hands and smiled, and answered directly without thinking,

"Don't bother Your Majesty, I've already made up my mind, the thing that needs to change and earn money the most is iron making!"

"Thinking that Xiao Zhang's shopkeeper has a big business, and he has a total of [-] sergeants under his name. If he wants to go abroad in the future, he will naturally have to have a strong army. Swords, armor, which one doesn't need iron?"

"So, His Majesty only needs to allocate an iron mine, and then issue an imperial decree to make armor. If you want to come, this little shopkeeper will do it yourself! As for the output is really amazing, if the quality is up to standard and it is cheap, then the imperial court buys it, anyway. Everyone buys it!"

Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling's complacent look, and sighed silently in his heart, Fang Qiao was really not wronged for being tricked!

You just found out about Shopkeeper Xiaozhang's reputation, and you suddenly thought of a way to deceive people. After that, when Shopkeeper Xiaozhang found out, did you think of a way to cheat him back?

You know, he had already thought about it at the beginning, if Fang Xuanling wanted to let these [-] people pass by with swords, guns and armor, Fang Xuanling's move could be regarded as a deadly move!

Chapter 161

Fang Xuanling was not at all embarrassed about cheating Xiao Zhang's shopkeeper!

In his opinion, one has to show one's ability, and it is not so simple to strive for fame. Since His Majesty has given such a good opportunity, the rest can only depend on the good fortune of the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang.

Li Shimin stroked the mustache on his chin, thinking about it slowly.

An iron ore and an imperial decree are nothing more than an iron ore. This is not difficult for Li Shimin. The whole world belongs to him. It is only a matter of allocating an iron ore. This is not what he hesitated and pondered about.

"Fang Qing, you said that the matter of making iron and armor is the most important thing in the country. Ordinary people have never touched it in their daily life. What do you think this brother Zhang is going to do?"

Fang Xuanling was a little worried at first that Li Shimin would blame him for cheating on the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, but he didn't expect that His Majesty was thinking about whether the other party could do it?

"Your Majesty, although there are many iron ores in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, it is quite difficult to mine them. At present, the ore is mainly broken by water and fire methods, and then slowly smelted. But now the iron mine next to the shopkeeper Zhang , it’s just a small iron mine, I’m afraid the ore produced is only enough for general use!”

Li Shimin frowned immediately after hearing this. In fact, ironmaking is not difficult at present. Although the ironware produced by ordinary workshops is not very good, at least it can be used, whether it is used to make armor or other things. .

After all, the so-called ironmaking is nothing more than crushing and putting it into a furnace for calcination. As long as there are enough raw materials, it is almost possible to produce pig iron continuously.

But one is that the steelmaking technology is not good. Pig iron is too brittle to be used as a weapon at all. It must be slowly made into steel in the workshop of the iron smelting family. The output is extremely low and it is very labor-intensive.

Iron ore mining is also a difficult problem. The water-fire method mentioned by Fang Xuanling just now is the most primitive mining method. Splash it on, and through a very short time temperature change, the ore will be split into small pieces by the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction.

For the current Tang Dynasty, mining iron ore is undoubtedly very, very slow. Even if the large ore is turned into small ore by the water and fire method, it must be smashed into smaller pieces with hammers and iron brazing afterwards. .

Therefore, as long as Zhang Nuo can come up with a new iron ore mining method, it will inevitably greatly increase the production of pig iron, and as long as the production of pig iron increases, the production of steel will definitely increase one after another, and the overall level of armaments of Datang will inevitably increase. raised.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin said seriously,

"I believe in Xiao Zhang's miraculous method. Even if it is a small iron mine, as long as there is iron mine, he will naturally come up with some new ways to expand production! He has never disappointed me!"

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Shimin's serious expression, and didn't know how to speak.

In fact, he urged Li Shimin to open an iron smelting workshop with this little shopkeeper, in fact, he just wanted to use this little shopkeeper's financial resources.

With so many soldiers in hand and no shortage of money, as long as one gets an iron ore, they will naturally be able to produce raw iron vigorously.

After all, the scale is large, and the output will naturally increase, but he really didn't expect that Li Shimin actually believed that the shopkeeper Zhang could come up with some new mining methods. If the ore is so easy to mine, can other merchants not use it?At least the Ministry of War does not have to worry about pig iron every year.

Besides, the water and fire method has been used for hundreds of years, and I really haven't heard of anyone who can come up with another method. Could it be that other people are idiots?

Whether it is the Mohists who are proficient in the art of mechanism, or those aristocratic families who have been smelting iron and forging swords for hundreds of years, they can only dig the mine hole honestly, and slowly chisel out pieces of ore with a hammer.

Even if Li Shimin bragged about Xiao Zhang's treasurer to the sky, and he is a star king who descends to earth and is unparalleled in wisdom, but in Fang Xuanling's view, even if you have the skills of a fairy, the people who do the work in the end are still ordinary people, isn't it? After you come down to earth, Xingjun, you don’t do anything, just go to mine ore?

As the prime minister of a country, what he needs is a method that can really improve the overall mining level of Datang!

If there is any good steel-making method in the hands of the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, Fang Xuanling believes that, after all, many hermit families have such methods in their hands.

But mining ore is not so simple, the ore is there, and there are only so many tools. Could it be that his shopkeeper Xiao Zhang can teach ordinary people to learn the magic of immortality, and a divine thunder splits the ore?