Want the Fang family to forge armor and ride equipment? OK!

But there is no reason to only let the Fang family dedicate, and the eldest grandson's family, which is the largest in Datang Iron Works, is watching the excitement from the sidelines, right?

Let me bleed, and you won't have a good time!

The eldest grandson Wuji's face darkened, but he had already said: "It's a pity that although the iron factory of my eldest grandson's family is large, the quality of the smelted steel is not enough, and there is no technology and strength in forging armor and riding equipment, so it is really difficult to take on the heavy responsibility." ”

Listening to the words of the eldest grandson Wuji to shirk his responsibility, before Fang Xuanling could speak, Li Ji had already said: "Zhao Guogong doesn't have to worry about this, the eldest grandson's family can have some more pig iron, and let Huating Hou be responsible for forging." ”

Li Ji didn't want to be mistaken by Fang Xuanling for him attacking the Fang family......

With Fang Xuanling's character, he doesn't care much about the money for forging armor and riding equipment, even if he knows that the military department can't take out the money, the court can't take it out, it's like a donation. But only let the Fang family pay this money, but let the eldest grandson's family watch the excitement from the sidelines, and he Li Jike offended Fang Xuanling.

Fang Xuanling is a good person, but it doesn't mean that a good person won't lose his temper.

Suffer from inequality......

The scale of the Changsunjia Iron Factory is the first in the Tang Dynasty, and the forging skills of the Fang family are the best in the Tang Dynasty.

Isn't your eldest grandson unskilled in forging armor and riding equipment? It doesn't matter, the Fang family has technology, you can take out a little more pig iron.

As for the Fang family, there is not so much pig iron? It doesn't matter, the eldest grandson's family has it, you just need to do a little more......

Fang Xuanling raised his eyelids and said in a flat tone: "It's so good." ”

The son can make money, and too much money is not a good thing, so it should be donated to the court, which is acceptable.

But the eldest grandson Wuji's face became more and more ugly.

Li Ji probably didn't know how to smelt iron and forge, and he didn't understand that pig iron was impossible to use for forging tools and iron riding, and pig iron was too brittle to forge armor. Pig iron needs to be smelted again to obtain steel with excellent toughness, which can be used to forge armor weapons.

However, it is unknown how much steel can be smelted from a certain amount of pig iron, and even whether steel can be smelted. The eldest grandson's family provided the Fang family with pig iron, in case the Fang family took a hundred catties of pig iron and smelted fifty catties of steel, but it was said that only ten catties were smelted, and even a furnace was scrapped, wouldn't the eldest grandson's family die?

Li Ji's proposal must not be agreed......

The eldest grandson Wuji secretly looked at the face of His Majesty Li Er, and saw that the emperor had obviously moved, but he didn't force the decision because of his face, but he was obviously waiting for himself to agree.

In desperation, the eldest grandson Wuji had no choice but to say: "The old man is deeply favored by His Majesty, and he should be loyal to the country, so why should he join forces with the Fang family?" How many armor riding equipment forged by the Fang family, my eldest grandson's family must have a lot of them. ”

The words were open, but there was a pain in my heart.

The Fang family's iron-smelting technology is much better than that of the Changsun family, and the cost of the eldest grandson's family is of course much higher than that of the Fang family......

But on this occasion, in front of His Majesty, can I coax it?

I have to hold it up to the death, you must know that because of the matter of the eldest grandson, the relationship between the eldest grandson family and His Majesty is now a little estranged, and this estrangement must not be deepened again, otherwise the eldest grandson's family is in danger......

His Majesty Li Er finally had a happy face and said with a smile: "Both of you are the pillars of the empire, and you are deeply moved by your patriotic heart. The matter was thus decided, and after Mao Gong returned, he worked out the size requirements for the armor and cavalry equipment, and sent them to the two iron factories respectively. ”

"No!"

Li Ji's heart was bubbling with beauty, and he hurriedly responded.

Fang Jun's kid has forged hundreds of armor and riding equipment in a few days, if he is given half a year, how much will he have to forge? What's more, there is the same number of the eldest grandson's family!

As long as he thought about the thousands of armored iron horsemen under his command, who were swept across the mountains and wilderness, and the wind and clouds swept away Hu Luchong, Li Ji couldn't help but grin......

Ma Zhou sighed in his heart.

Above the court, there was indeed intrigue everywhere, and although the confrontation between these words just now seemed to be bland, secretly they did not give an inch. Even a gentleman like Fang Xuanling is sneering and sneering everywhere, and officialdom is not easy to mix......

After a sharp and secret fight, Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji "lost both", Li Ji won a big victory, and His Majesty Li Er calmed down the "jealousy" of Fang Jun in his heart, only Ma Zhou played soy sauce throughout the whole process.

With his current official position as a scholar, he is not qualified to participate in this kind of wrist-wrestling situation.

His Majesty Li Er was in a good mood, so he asked, "Can Zhang Liang set off for the south?" ”

Ma Zhou replied: "We set off early this morning and went south by boat. ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded.

He was extremely satisfied with Fang Jun's series of methods in Jiangnan. It's just that Fang Jun's "mallet" temper still reassures him. The establishment of the City Ship Division is equivalent to competing for interests in the hands of the Jiangnan Shi clan, how can those Shi clans who have always regarded Jiangnan as a forbidden country give up and sit back and watch Fang Jun set up the City Ship Division?

Open and secret battles are inevitable.

Once the Jiangnan Shi clan has any out-of-character practices, according to Fang Jun's temper, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not react violently.

Zhang Liang is old-fashioned, and it is impossible for him to collude with Fang Jun, the two of them are enterprising and the other is steady, which just restrain each other and complement each other.

His Majesty Li Er asked again: "Did the royal sailors ever send out the permission to set up a special workshop to make earth-shaking thunder?" Oh, and that request from the 'Manufacturing Bureau', the Central Counsellor has already approved, don't delay. ”

These things were handled by Ma Zhou personally: "Back to Your Majesty, the will to grant Huatinghou's request has been issued, and according to Your Majesty's will, a batch of sky-shaking thunder has been transferred from the 'Shenji Battalion' to Jiangnan, so that Huating Hou will not have any earth-shaking thunder available in the short term." ”

Everyone here is from Jin Ge Iron Horse, even Fang Xuanling, who is a civilian official, has encountered several wars, and he has a considerable level of military skills. I know what kind of power the Heaven-Shaking Thunder will produce once it is applied to the battle of the Mariners.

*****

The guns in the "manufacturing bureau" rumbled, and while testing the performance of the guns, the gunners were trained. Most of the soldiers and civilians in Huating Town not only did not know what artillery was, but they had never even heard of firearms such as earth-shaking thunder, and they were panicked by the sound of cannons in the "Manufacturing Bureau", and they thought it was "the earth dragon turned over......

The ships of the sailors were constantly coming and going all day long, and they were constantly drilling.

There are four new warships, and the keels of the warships under construction in the dockyard have been laid, and the hull has begun to take shape, but it will take about a month to be completed. There are 20 warships in this batch, and there are 30 cargo ships at the same time, all of which are Fang Jun's "cornucopia......

According to Fang Jun's plan, the military port and the naval division belong to the establishment of the "Royal Naval Division" as a whole, and are the private property of His Majesty Li Er. Although the City Department and the Manufacturing Bureau were built on the land of Huating Town, they were each equivalent to a yamen of the imperial court, which meant that Fang Jun contributed his own territory to the imperial court free of charge. And Huating Town, all of which are Fang Jun's private land, including salt works and shipyards, are naturally Fang Jun's private property.

Don't look at the shipwright, most of the shipwrights and craftsmen in the shipyard have the background of the imperial court, but the craftsmen are not worth much these days, and no one cares if they go or stay!

In Fang Jun's mind, the status of the shipyard is naturally countless levels higher than that of the salt factory, even if the salt factory sells a huge amount of money of more than 10 million yuan at once, it will continue to create wealth in the future......

Not to mention that the shipyard carries Fang Jun's dream of conquering the deep blue, just from the aspect of creating profits, it will not be inferior to the salt farm!

The shipyard is Fang Jun's, and the sailor is His Majesty Li Er's, so the sailor wants to equip the new warship built by the shipyard, except for the four ships brought by Liang Renfang that were built by the Laizhou shipyard and automatically incorporated into the sailor's establishment, the new sailing ship that wants the shipyard in the future is naturally to pay for it! The merchant ships built with the new sailing concept are suitable for ocean transportation, and after the operation of the city, they will inevitably become the products that businessmen are eager for!

Shipyards and iron works, in this era, this is equivalent to a country's heavy industry, for Fang Jun, who has lofty ambitions, he must be in his own hands, so that he can make rapid progress by virtue of his insight beyond the times, and will not be restricted everywhere.

And the shipyard has Li Xiaogong's shares, although the prince has never come to see it from beginning to end, but as long as there is his share, His Majesty Li Er will not stretch out his hand unscrupulously, even if he is red-eyed......

At this moment, Zhang Liang, the new deputy head of Canghai Road, arrived by water.

The warships of the imperial court went all the way down the river to Wusongkou, and the five big ships rode the wind and waves, and the ships were full of Zhang Liang's generals, with bright armor and fierce momentum. But when the fleet arrived at the wharf of Wusongjiang, the tensor standing on the bow of the ship was full of gloomy faces, and almost broke out on the spot!

On the Wusong River, the boats are like clouds and sails, and the wharf of Nuoda is full of traffic and goods, which is a prosperous scene.

However, no one glanced at him, and in the entire Huating Town, no one came to greet him, the deputy head of the Canghai Road March......