There are a total of 60 officials in the royal palace, and the family affairs and the tent offices are counted separately.

What Li Shimin gave was only to allow Li Yuanjing to select twenty craftsmen to report to him, and then the officials would treat these craftsmen as normal officials.

What title to put on, but in reality these are craftsmen.

On the face, Li Shimin has a way to explain to others, but Li Yuanjing feels that it doesn't matter, the name doesn't matter, he wants to let these people see hope.

Li Shimin left excitedly with the ministers, and along with the five blacksmiths in charge of research, he was also taken away four in one go.

They will work with the superintendent to sort out the data and then build a new blast furnace elsewhere for testing, and if feasible, they will move on to the next step of planning, starting to select a site for large-scale steel refining.

June is a harvest season.

At that time, two months later, when Li Shimin secretly set foot on this land again, he found that it showed a completely different scene from before.

In two months, many things happened in Datang, and many things happened inside and outside the court.

In April, Emperor Li Yuan, who had been occupying Taiji Palace and refused to leave, finally proposed to leave, and Li Shimin placed Li Yuan in his previous dormitory, Hongyi Palace, and renamed it Da'an Palace.

In April of the same year, due to the intensification of the drought, Li Shimin had to apply benevolent government extensively, giving filial piety and righteousness homes and food for the elderly in order to tide over the difficulties.

However, with the intensification of the drought, this year once again adopted the strategy of cash-for-work, but did not continue last year's plan, the continuous drought, so that the imperial court lost the confidence to continue to dredge the river, and instead invested manpower in road construction.

In May, the drought continued, but the biggest thing that happened was the death of Li Yuanfang, the ten-year-old king of Zhou, and before coming to Huangzhuang, Li Shimin had to order prisoners to fight the drought, but the effect was not ideal.

The outside world makes Li Shimin very tired, but Li Yuanjing here is good news one after another.

"You're really impressing!" Looking at the busy Huangzhuang, Li Shimin sighed heavily.

This time, he brought no one, only his own guards.

"It's just that poverty restricts the thinking of the royal brother, these things are actually not big things, as long as you dare to think and dare to do, and don't think nonsense, all ideas are based on feasibility and reliability, even if the final result is not satisfactory, there will always be gains." Thirteen-year-old Li Yuanjing seems to have grown up, revealing a steady and mature appearance that should not appear in people of this age.

"I dare to think about it, but I am bound by everything!" Li Shimin shook his head, he had long planned to support Li Yuanjing, but the emperor couldn't make a decision as soon as his brain was hot.

At present, Li Yuanjing has only arranged two craftsmen to serve as officials in the Zhao Palace, one is the carpenter Yang Li, and the other is Chen Miao, who is in charge of the cement workshop.

There were not many people, but these two people also attracted the attention of the family, and the impeachment notes were handed one after another, and even secretly exerted a lot of pressure.

If it weren't for Li Shimin's constant hard shouldering in the court, Li Yuanjing's current life would not be so comfortable at all.

"Datang is the Tang of the Li family after all, if they want to occupy the bird's nest, they have to ask our Li family if they are willing first!" Li Yuanjing snorted coldly.

He didn't have much resentment towards the family, everyone didn't have a good life in the well and the river.

But the family came to find trouble one after another, which also made Li Yuanjing completely hate them.

That is, at present, the two sides are only fighting in the cloth business, and even so, the Zheng family can't sit still.

In mid-May, Zheng's cloth village suffered a loss in the second month, and then on a dark and windy night, Zheng's cloth village was burned down.

That's right, the Zheng family burned their own cloth village by themselves, this kind of operation is very slippery, right?

But in fact, the Zheng family burned down an empty house, and their real target was the Wanmin cloth shop next door, at this time the city was full of wooden houses, and one family was on fire, and the whole area would suffer.

Even the more than 1,000 pieces of cloth that had been brought with them from the Wanmin Cloth Store were too late to salvage them, and they were reduced to a pile of ashes along with the house.

And this incident also completely angered Li Yuanjing.

"What are you going to do next?" Li Shimin looked at Li Yuanjing with a solemn face, he had never had this kind of thought before, and he was only wary of Li Yuanjing.

But now, Li Shimin found that Li Yuanjing had opened a skylight for himself and allowed him to see a new world.

Therefore, now Li Shimin is also more willing to listen to Li Yuanjing's voice.

"Continue to expand the scale of the weaving mill, secondly, reduce the price month by month, starting next month, one hundred and forty yuan for the cloth, and then every other month, reduce ten yuan, and the final cloth price will stabilize at about eighty or ninety yuan!"

"Hmmm! For next year's taxes, I think I can ask the people to pay more hemp in place of others. Li Shimin nodded gently.

The selling price of eighty or ninety yuan, the actual profit is not much, even if there is the imperial court to sell the main raw material of the weaving mill at a low price, hemp, at this price, they can only earn a maximum of thirty yuan for a piece of cloth, which is really not much.

However, it was Li Yuanjing who promised to suppress the price of cloth, so Li Shimin would cooperate with him in this series of operations.

"Can the royal brother resist?" Li Yuanjing joked with a smile that the output of the weaving mill is not large now, and the impact on the entire cloth market is limited, but if it is now full of horsepower to produce, it will affect the entire Guanzhong region, and even the Central Plains will be affected.

Yang Li finally studied an improved model of the loom in mid-May, although it was not what Li Yuanjing wanted, but the efficiency did improve a lot, the shuttle was replaced by a flying needle, and at the same time the flying needle was fixed on the beating weft, and at the same time a spring was installed on one side, the quality was not good, and a model was made directly according to Li Yuanjing's description, and a little molten iron was poured from next door, and then the cowhide band was used to control the strength of the rebound.

Although it has not yet reached the point of self-drawing, but each time it is threaded, it is only necessary to pull the flying needle by hand, and the speed has increased several times, and skilled workers can weave a piece of cloth in two days at the earliest, and the average speed is in two halves to three days of a cloth.

Compared to before, the efficiency has doubled, and the burning of the Wanmin cloth shop has led to the cessation of sales during this time, and more than 20,000 pieces of cloth are now stored in the warehouse.

And when Yang Li and others complete the transformation of this batch of looms, with the current scale of 5,000 units, according to the average speed of one piece of cloth in three days, 50,000 pieces of cloth can be produced in a month.

What is this concept?

It means that the price of cloth in the entire Datang will collapse completely because of the extra 50,000 pieces of cloth every month.

In fact, Li Yuanjing no longer needs to reduce the price, it is difficult for the people to buy cloth for one hundred and fifty yuan, even if they wait for a few months, they are willing.

But in order to completely kill the Zheng family in the cloth business, Li Yuanjing still decided to reduce the price, one is a personal grudge, and the other is to stand up for Li Shimin.

Of course, Li Shimin knew what Li Yuanjing meant, so he smiled and said, "You are too underestimating me......