Li Qi reluctantly accepted the fact that since the Middle Tang Dynasty, especially since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the so-called loyalty and righteousness have been worthless in the eyes of those commanders, and everything is based on the interests of the family. In fact, the situation of the original Jin army is good, since Li Cunqiao became the king of Jin, Zhou Dewei, Li Sizhao, Li Cunzhang, Li Cunxian and other Jin army generals have not rebelled, even Li Siyuan, because he was pushed to the position of emperor by the rebellious Wei Bojun, and he had no idea of rebellion at first.

It's just that because Li Cunmiao appointed eunuchs after becoming the emperor, what he did made the original generals feel cold and became detached. In addition, Zhou Dewei, Li Sizhao, Li Cunzhang, Li Cunxian and other mainstay generals of the Jin army passed away one after another, which is also another major reason for the situation to get out of control after the Xingjiaomen Change.

In a turmoil, the heirs of the Jin King Li Keyong and Li Cunmiao's father and son were almost wiped out by the rebels, which is really a terrible thing. Therefore, Li Qi is ready to use interests to attract these nobles to the same boat. In this way, in the event of an accident, everyone is in the same boat.

Zhenwu Festival envoy, the veteran An Jinquan rushed back to Jinyang with a thousand cavalry, which made Li Qi breathe a sigh of relief.

For this reason, he personally led hundreds of officials and generals of Jinyang to the north of the city outside the Daxia Gate to welcome the arrival of the old general.

Seeing An Jinquan get down from the carriage, Li Qi took the initiative to step forward and give a salute.

This An Jinquan's status in the Jin army is relatively special, he lived for more than seventy years, and served as the personal guard of Li Qi's great-grandfather Li Guochang, and he is the same generation as Li Keyong, the king of Jin, even if Li Qi calls him Ah Weng (grandfather).

"An Aweng has worked hard all the way, the kid has something, and he has to work for your old man to come forward, I'm really ashamed!" Li Qi said first.

"With Prince Lao personally greeting him, the old minister was terrified." An Jinquan returned the salute with both hands in fists, but there was no fear on his face, but he was refreshed: "The old minister of Luoyang has also heard about it, the family and country are unfortunate, and it is the fault of the old minister that he cannot share the worries for His Majesty...... I haven't seen him in the past few years, but the prince is now calm and heroic, quite like the style of the martial emperor, and the old minister is very pleased to see it. ”

Li Qi said: "The family and country are in danger, and there must be a pillar veteran like you in charge, and the kid can feel more at ease." ”

An Jinquan said with a smile: "The bones of the old minister are not worth much, and it depends on the prince's arrangement." ”

The group entered Jinyang City, and the arrival of the veteran An Jinquan made Li Qi feel a lot more at ease.

There were at least a thousand Yunzhou elites in the city, suppressing the minds of some people.

Finally, 3,000 infantry troops were cobbled together from the Xin Dynasty and Taiyuan Prefecture, and Zhang Jingda replaced Li Yanchao Ren Fenzhou Assassin History, and led the army to defend the three gates of the Bird and Mouse Humanity to prevent Li Congke from marching into Jinyang. In this year, there was no promotion fee to support the army at all, and only the settling-in fee of five times per soldier cost one-third of the savings of the Taiyuan treasury.

If the army and the officials in various places did not have money and food, they would not be able to function normally.

With the initial stabilization of the situation, how to obtain money and food to maintain the expenditure of the army and the government has become the most important problem for Li Qi to solve at present.

Don't cover your eyes for floating clouds, and you should look at the scenery for a long time......

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

What Li Qi is facing now is internal and external troubles, a lot of bad things that make people anxious, how can he have the leisure to imagine the future, poetry and the distance can't be seen, only the current is left.

It's better to live than to die!

The green seedlings in the fields are only now just growing a handful of heights, and they will not be able to harvest until September, and there is little hope for the land, so they can only find a way elsewhere.

Accompanied by Bo Caoxin, the lord of Taiyuan, Li Qi went to Jinyang Prison for inspection.

Originally, the Jin army was responsible for the construction of palace buildings, the production of weapons and the production of munitions, which was the main manufacturing department, which was equivalent to a department that integrated the three supervisors of the Tang Dynasty, the Shaofu Supervisor, the General Supervisor and the Ordnance Supervisor. Before the Jin King Li Cunqiao moved the capital to Luoyang, the Jinyang Supervisor was equivalent to the Ministry of Industry of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Jinyang Supervision is located in the east city of Jinyang, on the east bank of the Fen River, and there are about 3,000 craftsmen in the entire workshop. Li Qi walked around the carpentry workshop and the ordnance prison, and found that there was actually an iron-smelting workshop here. However, the ironworks were located near the southeast corner of the city walls, and there was only a small iron-smelting furnace less than two meters high, which was all operated by hand, and its production efficiency was naturally not much better.

Iron smelting is the first priority in the development of machinery production workshops.

Originally, there were three iron supervisors under the rule of the Jin army: the Datong Supervisor of Jiaocheng, the Yongli Supervisor and the Lucheng Iron Supervisor in the eastern suburbs of Taiyuan Prefecture, and the iron tools produced were the best in Zezhou and Luzhou. The pig iron used in Jinyang Prison is mainly from Jiaocheng Prison. The iron ore raw materials of Jiaocheng Iron Supervisor come from Hutu Mountain, and the reserves are not very rich, but they are enough for ancient iron-smelting workshops. Li Qi is not too worried about the problem of raw materials, in later generations, Shanxi is rich in coal and iron resources, is one of the important steel bases in China, and has a great advantage in this regard.

Li Qi came to the iron-smelting workshop and observed the blacksmiths' iron-making process with great interest.

The fire in the iron-making furnace, which is more than one meter high, is blazing, and a craftsman is standing in the grass hut, directing several shirtless men to strike iron with sledgehammers.

Such an iron-making furnace does not completely melt the iron sand to form molten iron, but only sinters it into iron lumps. The sintered red-hot iron is clamped out of the iron-making furnace with tongs, and then placed on the anvil and repeatedly forged with an iron hammer to remove impurities and make its internal structure tight.

Standing in place and watching for a while, Li Qi felt very disappointed, the quality of the iron tools created in this way must not be much better, and these blacksmiths are still using coal to directly sinter iron sand, and the harmful impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus contained in the soot will penetrate into the ironware.

Li Qi looked at the so-called iron-making furnace in Jinyang Prison with a disappointed face, the furnace was only less than two meters high, and it was more appropriate to even call it a larger coal furnace.

"You're going to use this thing to make iron?" Li Qi looked at the prison Wang Zirconium standing beside him with strange eyes.

"Prince, the workshop in Jinyang has always used this kind of small iron-making furnace to smelt iron, only the shape and size are different. The iron furnace of Jinyang Prison is also medium in size among all metallurgical supervisors. Wang Zi saw that Li Qi's face was not good-looking, so he replied in a small heart.

"Doesn't iron smelting need that kind of blast furnace?" Li Qi opened his right arm, gestured to the height, and said, "I mean there are three or five zhang high." ”

Wang Zi smiled on his face: "The prince said that he laughed, that kind of Daye iron furnace is only available in Jiaocheng and Zezhou Iron Prison, and it is only less than two zhang high. We don't have iron mines nearby, and we don't focus on iron smelting, so what do we want to build such a large iron-smelting furnace for, and it costs a lot to build such a tall iron-smelting furnace. ”

Li Qi inquired carefully again and learned that the iron-making blast furnace needed to be made of refractory clay bricks, and even if the blast furnace was built, there would be no iron ore raw material production area around Yuci County.

To develop a machine workshop, you need to use a lot of high-quality steel......

Thinking of this, Li Qi could only help but shake his head and sigh, this self-made man is really not a human thing!

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