It was very pleasant to talk and chat, but soon, Li Tianyang reacted that the other party might not just be as simple as reminiscing.

"I am relieved to hear that you are doing well overseas, as for my aunt and younger siblings, let Tiansheng not have to worry, I will naturally take care of them as the eldest brother."

Li Tianyang came back to his senses and quietly pulled the topic back.

"It's almost time to reminisce about the past, I don't know if there is anything important when you come back to contact the Yellow Hall Master this time?"

"I still can't hide it from you, my lord, this time the helper asked us to come back, and we really have something to discuss with you."

Huang Zijian raised his head and looked at Li Tianyang with a somewhat honest look, but his eloquent shepherd song had already given Li Tianyang a shrewd feeling, but now this appearance is suspected of being clumsy.

"It's all a family, but you don't have to say it's okay, you don't have to sell it to me."

Li Tianyang was not confused, but he was atmospheric, and directly poked the topic away, trying to dispel the other party's doubts.

At least when Li Tianyang wanted to come, now that his younger brother Li Tiansheng came to the door, he should have encountered some insurmountable hurdles and wanted to ask for help. As brothers born in the same vein, although their mother is not the same person, their surname is the same Li, they are both the sons of their deceased father Li De, as an elder brother, Li Tianyang is naturally willing to help this younger brother who was driven out of the sea if he can.

"The little one told the truth."

Huang Zijian was infected by Li Tianyang's calmness, and immediately withdrew the prepared rhetoric, and went straight to the point: "We are here, in fact, to find adults to do business!" ”

"Oh?"

Li Tianyang was a little surprised: "What can you have that makes our hearts move?" And what do we have in our hands that you want? ”

"'There are too many good things in Hongmen's hands, and we mad sharks want countless things, artillery, muskets, warships, what we mad sharks want, but I don't know if the adults are willing to sell them to us?"

Huang Zijian replied with a smile.

"It's no problem for me to give you one or two cannons out of my own pocket, but now Hongmen is honestly not my business alone, and I also have to feed a large group of brothers, and if I have more, I can't call the shots, so you can only buy them yourself."

Li Tianyang heard this, but he was a little distressed, as a person who built a team with his own hands, he knew very well the time, energy and funds required to build a team, presumably at this time his younger brother who was far away in a foreign country was also facing such a dilemma.

Even if the development of the wild shark is smooth now, as wishful as Huang Zijian was when he was chatting before, presumably since the other party has found him, it will definitely not be for something like one or two cannons. But if you want too many firearms and warships, with the time for the other party's development, I'm afraid you won't be able to come up with much money and capital to do business with Hongmen.

"Please rest assured, since we said that we are doing business, we will naturally come according to the rules of doing business, find the door owner, and just report to the door owner, and at the same time report peace to the door owner on behalf of my family; The second is to ask the door master to say hello to the Qixintang below, so that they can give us a little more share. ”

Huang Zijian was also confident, and he had already made preparations, and rejected Li Tianyang's kindness.

"Oh? It's that I underestimated my younger brother, okay, even if you go to Qixintang to buy, as long as you need it, I'll let Qixintang give you a nine-percent discount!! ”

Li Tianyang was surprised again, he didn't expect that his younger brother would impress him again, their strength was unexpectedly profound!

"However, we don't have much money in our hands, I wonder if you can open a back door and let us exchange other outputs as substitutes?"

But then, Huang Zijian's answer disappointed Li Tianyang.

"Huh?"

Li Tianyang's face was embarrassed, it was not that he was unwilling to help, it was that he didn't know what goods the other party used to exchange for these in-demand goods, and at this critical time, Hongmen really didn't need other things such as luxury goods to fill their warehouse.

"Well, can I ask what you are going to do in exchange for these products?"

"Pig iron!"

Huang Zijian only had two words, but it made that Li Tianyang's eyes suddenly light up, and then he thought of the reports of later generations about the land where his younger brothers are now, six or seven out of ten are about ores, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed and asked: "Okay, good!" ”

"How much pig iron can you come up with?"

"300,000 catties!!"

Huang Zijian proudly gave a Da'an, which directly surprised Li Tianyang, and his subsequent words made that Li Tianyang overjoyed: "And from the beginning of next year, we can produce 50,000 catties of pig iron every season, it depends on whether you have the appetite to eat." ”

"Good!"

Li Tianyang slapped the table, and immediately made a decision: "I should make this deal, what do you want, what is the specific exchange ratio, you go and talk to the people of Qixintang!" ”

This is really sleepy someone sent a pillow, has been restricting the development of Hongmen among the several major factors, steel production has always been an important factor, now they Hongmen want to occupy the northeast, and the Qing people to fight hard, in addition to Li Tianyang's selfish desire to kill the biggest opponent in his heart, in fact, it is also related to their need for a huge industrial base.

However, the production of this steel requires foundation and time, and at the same time, many advanced technologies in this era still need to be kept secret, such as the secret open-hearth steelmaking technology of Hongmen, until now it is deep and the most heavily guarded by Hongtang in the dense forest of Bengang, and a radius of dozens of miles has been under martial law, and no one can peek into the secrets.

Whether it is the mining field in the northeast or the expansion of the Shilu mine, it is just a thought for a while, and if you want to fully meet the resources required for the development of Hongmen, it will take at least several years to achieve it.

And what Hongmen lacks most is time, not to mention the current war between them and the Qing Dynasty, not to mention his potential opponents Daxi, Dashun, and Ming Dynasty, all of whom are seizing the time to expand their strength and preparing for the next competition for the world.

In Li Tianyang's heart alone, as he grew older, his body gradually showed decline, which made him involuntarily give birth to a sense of anxiety and urgency, and there was always a feeling of not waiting for me.

Unexpectedly, now that the resources and energy at hand are exhausted, and there is no way to increase the production of pig iron, in the end, it is solved because of his younger brother, but it also makes Li Tianyang feel a sense of creation and making people feel in his heart.

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