However, the development of things seems to be less and less in accordance with Jia Chaochang's ideas, although the people here are his subordinates, they are not the kind that must obey orders, they have their own forces, have their own demands, and under the difficulty of reconciling the public, a large number of disputes eventually arise.

One by one, the privy envoys expressed their opinions, Jia Chaochang's face was a little ugly, and some of them thought that the price of this iron material was a little too much, but they agreed with the situation of the field, not a few, the number of 10 million catties was a little bigger, a little more proper, 5 million catties, this should be relatively normal, a month's consumption, and the total amount is only a little more than 170,000 catties, which is acceptable.

Recently, the finances of the Privy Council have been a little tight, the war in the northwest, the bottomless pit in Hebei, I don't know how much to invest, now, Han Qi is also going to Shaanxi, and he must go with money, otherwise, a privy envoy will be easily emptied.

Everyone may encounter such a situation, if a batch is saved from the military itself, even if the three divisions will take it, the rest will be enough to deal with some problems, which is a very good thing for all the chief officers of the Privy Council.

Anyone has to go down to a place where a war is likely to start one day, and you go down alone, with money, with soldiers, these are two completely different things, two choices.

Everyone hopes that one day in the future, they will go down with a large amount of funds like Han Qi, but at present, the funds in the Northern Song Dynasty are so tight that they don't know if they will be able to raise so much money when they go down.

So saving a little, even if it's just a possibility, is nothing.

It's the same as Cao Di's thoughts, this is iron, not some other products, other products may be fake, iron is such a thing, how to fake, even if it is shoddy, such a price, even if it is all unusable, return to the furnace, at least seven or eight percent can be refined, so that it will not be a loss.

Price and iron itself are the fundamental reasons that shake the ideas of these high-ranking officials.

Because Han Qi first proposed it, it can be said that Han Qi was the culprit who destroyed Jia Chaochang's Xu Tuzhi, coupled with the relationship between identity and location, when Han Qi received the fold, everyone read it and said their thoughts.

When this letter was handed to Han Qi, Jia Chaochang glanced at Han Qi fiercely at the others, maybe he had no choice, but who is Han Qi, the youngest privy deputy envoy, young, representing the infinite possibilities in the future, and also means that this seniority is very shallow.

That's right, Han Qi was transferred back to serve as the deputy privy envoy in the third year of Qingli, and before that, he had never been qualified to be the head of a Dao, at most in Shaanxi, assisting Xia Zhu.

Xia Zhu is now in leisure because of the relationship between the Western Xia War, and at the same time, the relationship between Xia Zhu and Han Qi is not very good, and the two are just simple colleagues.

Persimmon wants to find a soft pinch, not to mention that he is still the culprit, Jia Chaochang is thinking in his heart, how to suppress Han Qi.

Tian Guo, Zhang Sheng, they are also privy envoys, their qualifications are very good, and even the power of the family is higher than Han Qi, even if it is the same opportunity, Jia Chaochang has no way to target it, but Han Qi is different.

Han Qi's foundation is unstable, his foundation comes completely from Fan Zhongyan, it is precisely because of the new law called for by Fan Zhongyan that he entered the Privy Council and became the privy deputy envoy, but now, even Fan Zhongyan himself is unable to return to the sky, you know, now Renzong has taken the initiative to give up, in this case, what is the problem with suppressing Han Qi.

Of course, Han Qi knew that Jia Chaochang's thoughts, in fact, during the implementation of the new law, he felt Jia Chaochang's character more and more, which was a standard duplicity.

Jia Chaochang and Zhang De are like two, they are the kind of people who talk about the Tao, but in fact, if they don't have any bottom line, they will definitely not be able to give up their rights, Fan Zhongyan was gaining power at the time, of course they tortured it, and then Fan Zhongyan lost a little, they immediately gave up without hesitation, there is no possibility, this is what politicians do.

The people gathered in Fan Zhongyan are all gentlemen's party, and the gentlemen are not the party, but now, when Renzong's mentality changes, the situation of his family is embarrassing.

It doesn't mean that Jia Chaochang, the top boss, can deal with him, he knows this very well, and he is not afraid of offending him, now he has to clear himself below, where is he going, Shaanxi Fourth Road, it looks like a huge territory, but in fact, those who are willing to go, one does not, it is the land of the four wars, and there may be a war at any time, in the same way, all kinds of expenses are also like flowing water, a little not deep, the whole cost will make them look good, not only no one, but also may have to take responsibility, who will pass.

Jia Chaochang also thought of this, so his expression was ugly, what is worse than Shaanxi, he is about to suffer a military disaster, maybe he is a black pot.

A Zaifu, at worst, is to go to these places, other inland states, or Taoism, then it is not demeaning, it is a flat tone with the title of prime minister.

Shaanxi is a place of four wars, and everyone else is afraid of it, but Han Qi did not hesitate, not that he was righteous and awe-inspiring, but that Zhao Xin's explanation saw hope.

If you want to popularize the longbow and the fortress on a large scale, then the iron material is the most important thing, the consumption of the iron material in the fortress is endless, but the current iron material is a little too expensive, and the price is a little outrageous, all of which are steel as the skeleton of the fortress, and this cost is not something that the Northern Song Dynasty can afford.

At the same time, this total amount is certain, there is not much for Han Qi to take away, if it is simply the current Privy Council, all the iron materials needed, there is no margin in this book, but the blacksmith workshop will solve everything.

Unlike other privy envoys, Han Qi had enough confidence in Zhao Xin, and when he looked at all the numbers and explanations on the fold, he did not have a heart of scrutiny, but read the report.

Sure enough, Cao Di's recitals are very different from the previous ones, which contain a lot of data, and they are very comprehensive, with a little bit of Zhao Xin's style.

In Baozhou's contact with Zhao Xin, the biggest impression on Han Qi is that some of the reports and documents handled by Zhao Xin do not have those beautiful rhetoric and sentences, but only practical information, including data, indicators, and some real examples, which can quickly make people think of a physical object.

Cao Di's twists and turns are obviously affected by this, and the data in it is quite detailed, which is also the fundamental reason for some privy envoys to change their attitudes, because literary language and rhetoric can deceive people, but the real data cannot deceive people, and even for the sake of acceptance, Cao Di also told the whole process of procurement, the quantity purchased by the Daimyo's mansion, and the quantity of these iron materials.

In particular, the quality and price of his information were mentioned, which is also the most questionable place for some privy councillors, the privy council is a minority obeying the majority, but if you don't convince the majority of the privy councillors, it should not be able to solve the problem.

Han Qi knew that if this problem was not solved, this twist and turn and procurement plan would become an empty word.

The insistence in the middle is not because it is too little, but because it is too much, and a pound of iron saves more than ten or twenty wen, although it is a little beyond everyone's imagination, some privy envoys like Tian Qian, for the first time, still feel that it may be really possible.

But all of a sudden, for the entire Northern Song Dynasty military, it may save millions of guan, which is not a small number, and most people's first feeling is that this is impossible.

That's right, this is really impossible, this impossible is for the manual work of feudal society, for the general development of industry and technology, this is really impossible, but Zhao Xin's current is beyond this level, beyond the development of this science and technology, directly using some secret recipes, these secret recipes seem to be in the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the 21st century, it is still male. 、

Zhao Xin didn't know what the catalyst for iron smelting was, which was also the root of his hesitation before, if he had known that a large number of qualified iron smelting catalysts had been born in the Northern Song Dynasty, he might have started this project as early as Miaojiazhuang.

To a certain extent, this is a false proposition, but in some areas, such as materials and catalysts, this is not necessarily a false proposition.

Just like some people describe a thing on the Internet, a machine gun, traveled to the Stone Age, will people in the Stone Age use it at that time, the answer is yes, because to shoot, is to hold the gun, pull the trigger, this simple action, any child will.

Maybe in the face of the unknown, there will be huge doubts, even mixed with sacrifice, but to say that it is completely useless, even if it is a lie.

Perhaps we can imagine a scenario in which a primitive man accidentally got a rifle and used it only as a stick, and this rifle was strong and made of good steel, which was more useful than stone sticks and wooden sticks.

But an accident, accidentally, pulled the bolt of the gun, and even shot a bullet, it is good to say that it did not hit, after hitting people and animals, showing a huge effect, the use of this gun, can not be hidden.

Learning is the biggest feature that distinguishes people from animals, from drilling wood to make fire, to the mature use of flames, human beings are moving forward more and more in the field of transforming nature, grabbing things that may be supernatural, but various items in real life, that is normal, who can guarantee that they will not accidentally find other aspects of the role of this item.

The catalyst is like this, he is produced in order to promote the acceleration of chemical reactions, and the technology of later generations can find the principle from the middle through a large number of experiments, and then find a suitable catalyst, but in ancient times, perhaps an accident can contribute to the production of this catalyst.