"Dad, I'll send ten guards to the Dumhou Mansion when I go back."

"Take care of yourself, no matter how big you poke such a big basket, your father won't be able to save you little rabbit!"

The old faint marquis Chu Yong scolded bitterly and went back to the dim marquis mansion in a carriage.

I guess he doesn't want to go out during this time... The Marquis of Xiao Duan lives in the Pingwang Mansion, and there are many people, so it is difficult to provoke.

But there are not so many guards in the Duhou Mansion, only some old and weak people.

Fortunately, the yamen of Jinling Mansion is on Changle Street, not far away, and the yamen often inspect, but no one dares to make trouble in Wanghou Lane and Wuyi Lane.

...

Chu Tianxiu got into a carriage from the Ping Wangfu.

Li Yu and Zu'er, Di'er, and Di'er were waiting in the carriage, and when they saw Chu Tianxiu coming back, they were finally relieved.

Zu'er patted her undulating chest, her face pale, "Uncle is back, a group of people in the court who shouted and shouted to kill scared us to death." ”

The carriage slowly headed towards the Pingwang Mansion.

"Husband, the matter of banning copper has been solved?"

Li Yu said worriedly.

"Well, the court passed it, and the order will be implemented in the world on the same day."

Chu Tianxiu smiled slightly, and said a little strangely: "My father usually doesn't go to court, how can he suddenly go to court?" Who asked him to come? ”

"It was the emperor who sent a great eunuch out and asked us to find the old marquis."

Li Yu said.

"Emperor? ... It seems that all this was expected by the emperor. ”

Chu Tianxiu nodded slightly, understanding.

"I was still thinking about what means the emperor would use to force the Manchu ministers to give in. I didn't expect my father to come over with the Holy Decree of Taizu and forcibly pass it.

However, regardless of soft or hard means, the emperor firmly controlled the politics of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty had nothing to do but complain about it.

The only people who can threaten the emperor are the ambitious and extremely powerful princes and kings. But they are not in the court, unless they rebel, they can't enter Jinling City. ”

Li Yu shook his head, "It may not be cost-effective to rebel for this matter." Even if there were no copper coins, the fiefdom had a lot of income, and the princes and kings might not be able to make up their minds to rebel. However, I am afraid that those princes will not dare to do anything to the court, but they will take revenge on their husbands in a fit of anger. ”

"I guess they don't have a better way than assassination! Strengthening the guards of the Ping Wangfu is. ”

Chu Tianxiu said.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a headache in his heart.

If this little dusk marquis is really going to be assassinated by assassins, I am afraid that the emperor will have a sufficient charge to punish the princes and kings.

Could it be that the emperor also expected this?!

...

After Chu Tianxiu returned to Pingwang's Mansion, he sent someone to send a secret letter to Danyang County that night to Li Kangnian, the county leader.

Let Li Kangnian secretly build a hundred refining armor and a hundred refining knives.

In just half a year's transformation and development, Danyang County has built as many as 100 new soil blast furnaces in one go, and has changed from an agricultural county to an industrial county.

If it is the most powerful county in Dachu, I am afraid it must be Danyang County.

There are 15,000 young people, women, children, and children in the county, and every household makes a living by digging iron ore, transporting ore, burning iron ore, and striking ironware.

As for the chores of the county's ploughland, you can just hire the landless and poor to do it - it can be solved for a little money. Now Danyang County is so rich that there is no shortage of money at all.

The greatly improved earth blast furnace can quench the highest quality steel of the Great Chu Dynasty - fried steel and hundred steel.

With a huge production capacity of tens of thousands of catties of iron a day, it has already been the largest iron appliance production base in the territory of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Every day, we can produce large quantities of agricultural tools, such as hoes, plows, kitchen knives, and kitchen knives, and then ship them to various counties and counties for sale.

The geography of Danyang County is too unique.

With Ma'anshan, the first open-pit giant mine in the south of the Yangtze River, the iron ore cannot be dug at all.

It is also close to Jinling City, a giant city with a population of one million, and every household buys a kitchen knife, hoe and kitchen knife, which is an unimaginably huge market.

The agricultural tools produced can be transported to Jinling City and sold in one day, and the cost can be recovered soon and continued to be invested in expanding production.

It is the convenience of this market that has allowed Danyang County to rapidly expand the production capacity of 100 earthen blast furnaces.

To the north of Danyang County is the Central Plains, and to the south is the Jiangnan River, which is being greatly developed.

The market for steel farm tools is unimaginably large.

Chu Tianxiu ordered Li Kangnian to arrange a group of blacksmiths to secretly build three hundred sets of new steel armor and replace them with the guards of the Ping Wangfu.

Although he has no soldiers in his hands, there are 300 personal soldiers in the palace!

The guards of the Ping Wangfu are all soldiers of the palace, and most of them are the children of the Li family.

The children of the Li family, except for Li Rong, the king of Ping, only Li Yu, the lord of Danyang, can be easily mobilized with a word.

Taiwei Li Rong can legally own 300 armor soldiers, all of whom carry swords and armor, so he does not have to worry about being accused of rebellion.

The best equipment of the Great Chu Dynasty was iron armor, which was the treatment of the forbidden army.

And the quality of all the 100 steels is much better than the leather armor and the standard iron armor of the palace forbidden army.

When the iron knife is cut up, it is only a shallow knife mark, and dozens of knives can't break the armor.

Each armorer is equipped with a Hundred Refining Knife that sharpens iron like clay, which is enough to slash down the opponent with a single sword.

Chu Tianxiu pondered, just having a hundred refining armor and a close hundred refining battle knives, these were not enough.

You also need long-range shooting to be able to attack and defend both.

Then build a batch of hundreds of steel armor-piercing crossbows, ordinary leather armor, iron armor, the kind that can be pierced by an arrow.

By the way, there are still many excellent war horses in the Pingwang Mansion, which can run long distances.

Equipped with a saddle and stirrups, it can also be hard to dry on the front.

Craft leather armor and even steel armor for them all.

The well-trained 300 guards of the Pingwang Mansion all changed into new steel armor, carried strong crossbows, and rode on a batch of armored war horses, and their combat effectiveness was absolutely strong.

Three hundred guards are enough to sweep away three thousand soldiers with ordinary leather armor.

Outside the city, I don't dare to say anything about the field battle.

At least in this Jinling City, even if thousands of soldiers besiege it and want to attack the Pingwang Mansion, it is impossible.

Usually on the streets, he brings ten heavily armed armor guards to protect his own safety, which is more than enough.

"Hehe, what is combat effectiveness? Productivity is combat effectiveness! ”

Chu Tianxiu was proud in his heart.

That's the huge advantage of going through two thousand years, knowing what is most important.

Without the huge steel production base of Danyang County, hundreds of earthen blast furnaces produce steel day and night. The county's 15,000 people are all engaged in large-scale steelmaking production.

Who can burst out as many as 300 pairs of 100 Refining Armor, 300 Hundred Refining Knives, and 100 Armor-Piercing Powerful Crossbows in a very short period of time?

This required a sufficiently high level of steelmaking technology, a large amount of iron ore, a large group of top blacksmiths, and up to tens of thousands of taels of silver.

No one can do it.

Even the Great Chu Imperial Court and the Weapons Supervision Department of the Taiwei Mansion can't do it, they are still building iron weapons, and they haven't mastered the technology of steelmaking at all.

A fully equipped armor soldier can kill seven in and seven out of an ordinary armor soldier.

A large group of elite soldiers can almost walk sideways on the battlefield.

Those princes and kings want to assassinate him?

Hehe!

It might be easier to rebel directly.