Not cheap? Chen Fei was a little crying and laughing when he heard this. This is not a low price! If it weren't for the fact that he had the technology to fire glass, I am afraid that this technology would not have been realized at all!

After getting Chen Fei's answer, Li Shimin was slightly disappointed. Such a high price is definitely not affordable for the common people, which means that growing vegetables in winter cannot be popularized throughout the country.

To put it more colloquially - he was happy in vain! It can be said that he came with a ride and returned with a failure.

Although it is a novelty to be able to grow vegetables in winter, Li Shimin has no intention of continuing to observe after seeing it.

In order to be able to get such a piece of land, Chen Fei spent two years and so many glasses, and wanted to make another copy of the same ...... I'm afraid it's too difficult, and there's no need for that.

He lost interest in the greenhouse, so Li Shimin didn't want to stay in this smelly place, so he took the lead and walked out. The minister behind him was relieved, followed together, and fled as if he had to leave here.

After getting out of the glass Dapeng, Li Shimin quickly noticed the Dapeng next to him made of silk. However, the distance was a bit far, and Li Shimin didn't see clearly whether the bread was silk or cloth.

"Chen Fei, what's that? Is it also a greenhouse? Are there vegetables growing in there, too? ”

Chen Fei glanced at it, nodded helplessly, and responded: "Yes, that is also a greenhouse, but the bread outside is ...... It is silk, and the cost of this acre of land is not known how many times higher than that of a glass greenhouse, so the minister finally built a greenhouse with glass. “

Silk...... When Li Shimin heard these two words, the flesh on his face twitched fiercely.

How much silk does it cost to build a greenhouse on an acre of land? Li Shimin glanced at Chen Fei and said in his heart, this kid is really rich!

But fortunately, he has money, and many of the experiments in the Qi Workshop are actually done by Chen Fei himself, otherwise it would be a very large expense for the treasury.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin wanted to stop Chen Ji's shop several times, but finally did not speak. Moreover, the pre-tax donations that Chen Kee's shop pays to the national treasury every year are not small amounts, so he simply turns a blind eye and ignores them completely. Otherwise, it will be spread that he Li Shimin is greedy for the property of his courtiers, and this reputation will be too ugly.

"Zicheng."

"The minister is here."

"When the vegetables are ripe, they are brought to the palace, and I will taste how the vegetables grown in this winter are different from those in normal times."

Nima knew there would be this one! Chen Fei said helplessly: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The news that vegetables can be grown in winter has passed with thunder and rain. Although it is a new thing, it has not received too much attention, and it has just become an interesting thing that people praise after dinner.

However, the fact of growing vegetables in winter has made Li Shimin pay more attention to the strange workshop, which can surprise him, and has made him feel more and more important.

A few years ago, Li Shimin issued an edict to merge the weapons workshop under the original Ministry of Industry into the Qi Workshop, which was separated from the three provinces and six ministries and directly belonged to the emperor.

Undoubtedly, this news smells a lot of unusualness. Although the Strange Workshop was originally an independent workshop, now that the Weapons Workshop has been merged, the meaning of it is thought-provoking.

This is tantamount to promoting Chen Fei and Li Zhuo in disguise! Although the position is still the same as the original, the power is greater, what is it that is not a disguised promotion?

The difference is that there are two more young eunuchs in the Qi Workshop, who are mainly responsible for the daily management and finances of the workshop.

Chen Fei doesn't care, his status in Qi Gongfang is roughly equivalent to the "technical director" of later generations, and the personnel, finance, or anything has nothing to do with him. Anyway, if you don't give money or don't give money, I'll go down to Your Majesty, see if you allocate money, give it to people!

As for Li Zhuo...... He doesn't care, he is a lazy person, and having someone to help him share the work is exactly what he is happy to see.

Although he delegated power, Chen Fei found that Li Zhuo was still very shrewd and not as casual as he imagined. He only delegated authority, but the most critical financial and human audits still require his nod and approval. As the name goes, there can be no mistakes.

In fact, Chen Fei knew that Li Zhuo had a little calculation in his heart - you are tired of doing the work, even if you let go of it, in the end, the full strength is still with me. Defy? You bite me!

When the new official met two bastards who sang and harmonized, he really wanted to cry without tears, and finally had to pinch his nose and accept this reality. Who let them have bad luck, not to mention being demoted in disguise, and they just met two scoundrels, and they could only swallow their stomachs full of resentment - who let His Majesty face these two?

In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, in the late spring and early summer, a team of more than ten people, dressed in tatters, fled from the west to the territory of the Tang Dynasty in embarrassment. Behind them, there were about three or four hundred soldiers of the Arab Empire in pursuit, looking at the posture, the former should be evading the pursuit of the latter.

Fortunately, not long after they entered the Anxi Protectorate, they encountered a Tang army patrolling.

The Tang army of the Anxi Protectorate has been honed in the past few years, and it is no longer the ragtag army that has not been on the battlefield at the beginning, and will be chaotic and unaware of the generals as soon as the war starts.

During these years, they practiced warfare, practiced martial arts, and often fought skirmishes with the Arab Empire and the Western Turks.

Actual combat and weekday training have already reborn them and become a strong border guard. The sophisticated equipment and the war made the foreign invaders frightened when they saw it, and they did not dare to provoke it at all.

When the pursuers of the Arab Empire saw that there was a Tang army in front of them that was no less numerous than them, and that the other side had formed a battle formation, they immediately gave up the pursuit of the team of more than ten people and ordered to retreat.

When the team of more than ten people saw the pursuers withdrawing, they were tired and thirsty and dismounted, laughing heartily and making prayer gestures, as if praying.

But before they could rejoice for long, they found themselves surrounded by a more formidable army......

"These are...... Monkey? When the Tang soldiers saw the appearance of this group of people, they speculated. Most of the Tang troops in the Anxi Protectorate were composed of soldiers from the former Western Regions, and although they were already part of the Tang Dynasty, they were still regarded as Hu people, and even some arrogant Guanzhong people would say that they were "monkeys".

But...... The people in front of them looked more like "monkeys" than they did, because their hair was blonde and their eyes were blue, like ...... Monkeys in clothes!

"Hey! What do I have to say? Who are you? Why did you break into my Datang's border? A soldier put a knife on the necks of these people, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly shouted: "@¥%......#¥@@"

Soldiers...... What's the matter, I can't even speak to people, could it really be a monkey? This...... Is the monkey a sperm?

(End of chapter)