Although Li Longji is already old, his ambition has decreased compared to when he was young, but after all, he is a powerful emperor with strong self-confidence, even if he is old, his ambition is far beyond ordinary people, of course, the impression to future generations is that it is a great achievement, and so many foreign wars in the later period of Tianbao are the best proof. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And for an empire, the production of iron products is extremely important, without iron products it is impossible to make iron weapons in sufficient quantities to deter enemy countries.

Of course, at this moment, for the Tang Empire, in addition to being used to build cold weapons, iron can also be used to lay railroad tracks, increase the circulation of materials in the Tang Dynasty, and facilitate personnel exchanges, which is very critical to the improvement of national strength, and Li Longji knows this very well.

In addition, as an emperor who already has everything, Li Longji will more or less pursue some enjoyment, snatching his daughter-in-law is the best proof, and going to Huaqing Pool to bathe every once in a while is even more good evidence.

And Daming Palace is far away from Huaqing Pond is dozens of miles away, every time you go to almost the bones to fall apart, you have to recover for a day or two to ease up, and the same is true after returning to the palace, and after taking the iron wheeled car, Li Longji feels that if you take the iron wheel car to the Hot Spring Palace in the future, you will definitely not be so guilty, and the speed can be maintained faster than taking the carriage, so as to save time on the road, and even, because it is convenient to go back and forth, you can go more often.

Li An has successfully configured black powder, so as long as there are enough raw materials and manpower, a large number of finished black powder products can be quickly disposed of, and it is absolutely not a problem to meet the mining of nine mines.

"Your Majesty can rest assured, as long as the imperial court can provide enough sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal powder, not to mention the mining army of tens of thousands of people, even if all the mines in Datang are enough."

Li An patted his chest and reassured Li Longji that he had a reassurance.

When Li Longji heard this, he felt much more relieved, and said softly: "Right now, the black powder workshop has been completed, the preparation of materials and labor is not a problem, and the Ministry of Industry is also idle, I plan to hand over the task of mining iron ore to the Ministry of Industry, in addition, tens of thousands of laborers will be levied in the Guanzhong area, so that the output of pig iron should be greatly increased." ”

"Your Majesty considers, however, spring ploughing is not far away, if you want to levy the people, you should draw more labor at home, if the labor at home is insufficient, and your Majesty is drawn to open mines, it will inevitably affect spring ploughing."

Li An saw that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and began to worry about spring ploughing, after all, the plan of the year lies in spring, if the spring ploughing is delayed, the people may go hungry, in this way, no matter how much pig iron the country has, it is useless, and the people take food as the sky, once there is a famine, the consequences are unimaginable.

Li Longji grinned, and said with a straight face: "The problem of spring ploughing, how can I not think about it, but spring ploughing is only half a month, and when it comes to spring ploughing, I will let all the people who have been requisitioned go back to farming, and come to open mines after spring ploughing, and I will definitely not delay spring ploughing, haha!" ”

"Oh, it's Weichen who is overthinking, it turns out that His Majesty has thought of everything a long time ago."

Ang Lee smiled wryly.

"Okay, it's time for me to go back to the palace, Li Shilang must remember that the Black Powder Workshop is related to the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty, so you must pay special attention to it, and if you have any needs, just tell me."

Li Longji finally expressed his stance that he would support Ang Lee and give Ang Lee the greatest support.

Of course, if anyone wants to get the support of the boss, he must have enough ability, and it is enough to attract the boss and share the boss's worries.

Li An personally sent Li Longji out of the car, and sent Li Longji's car away.

Most of the accompanying courtiers followed Li Longji's car back to the capital, however, some courtiers chose to stay, and these officials who chose to stay were several leaders of the Ministry of Industry, who were responsible for promoting the waterwheel, so they naturally had to stay to carefully study the structure of the waterwheel and communicate with the craftsmen hired by Li An with high salaries, so as to thoroughly understand the technical characteristics of the waterwheel designed by Li An and ensure that the promotion was foolproof.

After these Ministry of Industry officials finished building the black powder workshop, they were praised by Li Longji, and their morale was at a high level, so they were very energetic, and they didn't play with the waterwheel, and they didn't leave for more than an hour.

However, Li An will not keep food, just now these officials not only picked their own vegetables, but also asked their servants to help pack them, which made Li An's heart quite unhappy.

"Did you make the blender I asked you to build?"

There is still one day to prepare black powder, and these stirrers are very important.

"Li Shilang, it's all done, a whole ten, take a look, where is it?"

A craftsman took Lee Ang to the place where the blender was stored and lifted the burlap covering it.

"Yes, it's quite big, have you tried it? Is it easy to use? ”

Li An is most concerned about the reliability of these stirrers, you know, these are used to stir black powder, if they are unreliable, there is danger, don't want your own life.

"Li Shilang, these have all been tried, and they are very easy to use, this is a stirred grain, which is very uniform."

Li An glanced at it, the five kinds of grain crops were indeed mixed together chaotically, and after shaking these stirrers with his hand, Li An could be sure that these stirrers were indeed of good quality and were fully capable of configuring black powder.

"Wang Ba, you take twenty people and transport these ten mixers to the workshop five miles away, go and come back quickly."

Ang Lee gave the order loudly.

Wang Ba received the order and ran to find someone to complete the task assigned by Li An as soon as possible.

After urging the craftsmen of the processing plant to continue building and laying the railroad tracks, Li An rode his horse and rushed to the home of Daye Fang, although he had to go to work in the black powder workshop early the next morning, but this did not affect Li An's normal life.

"Big brother, it's back, let's wait."

Li An had just returned home on horseback, but he saw Kunxiong, Feiyu, Shouyu, Erniu, Guangsheng and others all gathered outside the gate of his mansion, as if they were waiting for him.

"Since you're all here, why don't you go in, isn't it cold to stand at the gate?"

Li An said with a little blame.

"Big brother, we've just arrived and are about to go in? I saw you back. ”

Li Kunxiong said with a smile, however, Li An knew that they were lying, and looking at their appearance, it was obvious that they had been standing outside for a long time.

These days, Li An is busy inventing black powder, busy with vegetable greenhouses, and busy studying iron wheels and railroad tracks, in short, he is busy, and these brothers all have positions, and they need to be on duty every day, so everyone does not have much free time, and at the same time they are not working in the same unit, so naturally there will be fewer and fewer contacts.

However, although the contacts have become less, the feelings between the brothers have not weakened, the reason why these people did not go in is because they are not at home, and there is Yan Ruyu at home, they feel embarrassed, in addition, Li An has made meritorious contributions many times, and now he is a household servant, and his official position is far more than a few of them, so they naturally have to pay attention to one point and give Li An the most basic respect.

"Brothers, today I would like to introduce you to a new brother, Duan Xiushi, Captain Yulin Military Academy."

Li An looked at Duan Xiushi behind him and introduced loudly.

Duan Xiushi immediately clasped his fists and saluted everyone, although he was not familiar with the few people in front of him, but several meritorious generals under Li An's command, he had naturally heard of them all, and he admired these people very much in his heart, and at the same time had a little jealousy, after all, with Duan Xiushi's conceit, he felt that he was just missing an opportunity, as long as he could serve in the border army, he would definitely be able to find an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so as to achieve greater merit than the people in front of him.

After getting acquainted with each other, Ang Lee led everyone to the main hall and immediately instructed the back kitchen to prepare wine and food. He was going to have a good drink with his brothers.

Ang Lee's mansion has been modernized, and all the servants have been specially trained, so the efficiency of doing things is very efficient, and in a very short time, dozens of plates of delicious food are served.

Most of these dishes were invented by Ang Lee, and half of them are vegetarian dishes, and in such a season, it is definitely a luxury to be able to eat vegetarian dishes.

"Brothers, they all eat and drink well, and they are not enough to add more."

Ang Lee will not feel sorry for these brothers, and he can't eat poor anyway.

"Big brother, congratulations! In such a short period of time, so many shocking things have been made, we grew up with you, why don't we have such ability? ”

Li Kunxiong congratulated Ang Lee, but complained that he was stupid.

"Li Shilang's intelligence is innate, and people's qualifications are different, and their future achievements will naturally be different."

"How can the eldest brother have any qualifications, it is clear that he was smashed by the beam, and then he became very smart."

Li Kunxiong said with a smile.

"Girder smashed your brain?"

Duan Xiushi and Ang Lee have known each other for a short time, and they don't know much about Ang Lee's past.

"Captain Duan, you must not believe it, the eldest brother used to be the same as us, just a stupid boy who can only practice martial arts, no, he should be called a martial arts idiot, he doesn't ask anything but practicing martial arts, but once his head was smashed by the girder of the roof, and he lay down for several days before he woke up, and then, as if he had changed a person, and he became more and more intelligent."

Li Kunxiong obviously drank a little high, and unceremoniously pulled out Li An's old bottom.

However, Ang Lee will not be angry, this is not a shameful thing, but an adventure that Ang Lee is proud of, there is nothing that cannot be known to others.

"Li Shilang, there is such a thing?"

Seeing the affirmative answer from Ang Lee's eyes, Duan Xiushi's face was incredible, he suddenly felt that he should re-examine Ang Lee, perhaps, Ang Lee was even more mysterious than he imagined.

Li An has been accustomed to the puzzled eyes of others, and did not explain too much, but continued to drink and chat with the brothers, today is destined to be a day of relaxation, tomorrow morning, Li An will go to work in the black powder workshop, and at least four hours a day, if he skips work too early, it will definitely make Li Longji unhappy, so there will not be enough time to drink with the brothers.

"Brothers, let us not get drunk today."

Li An let out a loud shout, so that everyone drank openly, and if they didn't get drunk, they wouldn't leave.

Kunxiong Feiyu is the brother of Li An who grew up together, and he drank the most fiercely, pouring bowls and bowls into his stomach, as if his stomach was a bottomless pit.

Duan Xiushi couldn't stand Ang Lee's persuasion, and he was also drinking bowl by bowl, but he had the responsibility to protect Ang Lee, so he never dared to let go of drinking.

A group of brothers eat, drink, chat, talk, and look forward to the future, this feels really cool, and there is nothing more refreshing in life than this.

After being full of wine and food, Li An was barely able to stand, Duan Xiushi didn't drink much, of course there was nothing to do, and Kunxiong and Feiyu all drank and lay down, lying on the table one by one, like a dead pig.

Since they are all brothers, Li An can't blow people away, so he immediately asked Zhao Liu to clean up a few clean houses in the front yard, and let Kunxiong, Feiyu and others, who were unconscious, live in.

"Ah Lang, Madam asked me to send a bowl of sobering soup, Ah Lang should drink it while it's hot!"

Cao'er held a bowl of decanting soup and walked over slowly.

"Huh! My lady is considerate, I drink, I drink. ”

Ang Lee took a sip of the decanting soup and staggered to the backyard.

"Li Shilang, are you okay! Let the lowly help you back! ”

Seeing that Ang Lee was staggering and might fall at any time, Duan Xiushi was really not at ease, now Ang Lee was so important to Datang, in case he fell out of his way, he couldn't afford it.

"No need, Captain Duan, you can live in the front yard! I can walk on my own. ”

Although Ang Li drank a lot, it was still no problem to walk back to the bedroom, although his body was a little shaky, his mind was still clear.

"Ah Lang so you don't have to come with you! There are so many women in the backyard, is this the place you should come along? ”

Cao'er is usually weak, but when she saw Duan Xiushi following behind Li An, her eyes widened, and she was full of momentum.

"Yes, stay in the lowly position."

Duan Xiushi looked extremely heroic, but under Cao'er's questioning, he suddenly nodded resignedly, took a few steps back, and turned to leave.

"Ah Lang, slow down, don't fall."

Cao'er walked over quickly and supported Li An, but with Cao'er's weak physique, it couldn't play a role in supporting at all, just like a wicker, how could it be used as a crutch?

"Oops!"

Li An staggered to the left, and pressed heavily on Cao'er's shoulder.

"Alang, be careful."

Cao'er was so crushed that her legs trembled, and she used all her strength to support Li An.

"Cao'er, you were so brave just now, you scared the dignified Yulin Military Captain away, Ah Lang is the first time to see you so brave."

Li An lay on the grass's right sideburn with a mouthful of wine and praised sincerely. (To be continued.) )