The black fat man never imagined that happiness would come so suddenly, an hour ago he was still worried about his own life, and an hour later he was already a Datang Congbapin official, although there was still no one under him, but there was no doubt that his life was saved.

Kapil, a senior who came to Datang two years before him, almost dropped his jaw when he saw this honorary duke who had already taken three Datang beauties, and at the same time seemed to see his future.

"Tang Ji, is this the name you gave yourself for the Tang Dynasty?" Kapil asked with a smile as he looked at his kindred.

"Yes, Lord Duke." The black fat man replied honestly.

"You don't have to be so polite with me, regardless of our colleagues, at least we're still of the same race." Kapil seemed to be very talkative, and smiled very sincerely, which calmed the fat black man's somewhat apprehensive heart a little.

However, considering the request made by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just now, he still smiled humbly: "Lord Duke can afford to see that the villain is the luck of the villain, but I don't know what arrangements the Duke has for the rubber tree planting plan that His Royal Highness said?" ”

"There must be a reasonable arrangement for this matter, and I have to think about it here, Your Highness must have arranged a place for you to live in the city, right?" You go back and rest for a few days these days, and then find someone to inform you when I make arrangements. Although Kapil didn't know how to be an official, he also knew that he didn't let his subordinates control his behavior, so he randomly found a reason to send the black fat man with the pseudonym Tang Ji out.

Rubber trees, this kind of thing he had indeed seen on another continent, but he had never thought about how to plant it, after all, he didn't know that Li Chengqian would need this kind of thing at that time.

But fortunately, when he lived in that continent, he had seen the seedlings of this kind of tree, and he still had some ideas in his heart, so when Li Chengqian arranged for him to take the black fat man to plant trees, he did not refuse.

Of course, in order to be able to live better in Datang in the future, it is impossible for him to refuse.

……

A few days passed in a flash, and under Li Chengqian's repeated questions, Kapil had no choice but to set off with the black fat man, accompanied by more than 100 good people who took care of the gardens for the palace.

These people will start from Chang'an, take a boat all the way to Hangzhou, change ships in Hangzhou, and go to Tianzhu by sea, compared to the land route, they will save nearly a month by water, and at the same time do not have to suffer too much.

And not long after they left, Chang'an City once again set off a frenzy.

The imperial court is going to build an ironclad ship, an all-iron battleship, a subversive beginning.

After the news came out, the first to react were those businessmen, these people are worthy of being the most keen-sense of smell in Datang, and as soon as they heard the news, they began to gather with the Research Agency, and Tang Shanzhi was annoyed every day.

Even his old man's house was crowded with people, and countless businessmen entrusted their relationships to find a way, but when they couldn't find Tang Shanzhi, they began to make ideas from Tang Jian's body, so that the old Tang didn't get angry.

At this time, the eldest grandson's mansion, that is, the eldest grandson's house, the old eldest grandson was already smiling and couldn't see his eyes, and the grapes were poured into his stomach one after another, as if he was drinking white water.

"Father, drinking hurts your body, you better drink less." The eldest grandson Chong couldn't stand it when he saw his father's crazy appearance, and couldn't help but dissuade him, but as soon as the words fell, he was glared at by the eldest grandson: "You kid knows a fart, and the old man never hurts himself when he drinks when he is happy." ”

Drinking when you're happy doesn't hurt you? What is this theory? The eldest grandson looked at his father with tears and laughter.

And the eldest grandson Wuji continued: "Li Gaoming's kid finally didn't hurt the old man in vain, and he also knew that he would repay the old man, and he didn't need anything else next time, just this one order alone was enough to earn back all the previous money." ”

"Dad, you've drunk a little too much, or, let's drink a little less." Changsun Chong was already speechless to the old man, he really couldn't understand why the old man was so smart that he was confused about this matter at the moment.

Thinking that Li Chengqian was obviously using his family's money to buy iron at his house, although it was equivalent to making money for the eldest grandson's family, but for Li Chengqian, it was completely empty gloves and white wolves.

However, Changsun Chong's understanding is not equal to Changsun Wuji's understanding, this old man is already stunned, and he only thinks about the order he received from Li Chengqian today, which is tens of millions of catties of steel, according to the current price of steel, how can he almost double the assets in the hands of the Changsun family.

Tens of millions of catties of steel, tens of millions of catties of steel, the eldest grandson Wuji's mind was full of a series of numbers and countless copper coins.

As for the ...... of the problem that Changsun Chong considered, to be honest, Changsun Wuji also thought about it, but what can be done, it is not so easy to make money, how can Li Chengqian's kid be better than a monkey and let others take advantage of him.

So in general, this matter is of course Li Chengqian's most advantageous, but it is not a loss for the eldest grandson's family, after all, the money was only used by Li Chengqian to invest, not spent by him privately, that is to say, even if the money is gone, there is still something there in the end, and the eldest grandson's family has not suffered a loss.

In the end, the eldest grandson Wuji drank too much unexpectedly, and was carried into the bedroom by the servants to sleep unconsciously.

……

Half a month later, the raw materials were in place, and a stormy shipbuilding project began.

Outside the city, in a clearing near the Wei River, a huge shuttle-shaped earth pit was dug with a depth of nearly three zhang, and on the edge of the earth pit were various lifting machinery.

Countless craftsmen either gathered around the edge of the pit or went down to the pit, and arranged the iron plates of a length and width against the pit wall neatly, and then the time was not to go to the sound of a cannon.

This is the first time that the explosive crimping technology has been applied in the Datang shipbuilding industry, and the pit wall of the soil pit plays a supporting role in the process of detonation, and plays a role in reversing under the force of explosive blasting.

In fact, this is not the first time that this method has been used, and the barrels of the new guns that will be used as a prison have been made in this way.

Therefore, the technical engineers who are responsible for crimping have already played this way of bursting pressure perfectly, and every explosion will press the two iron plates tightly together.

Of course, this crimping is not the final process, and this is relatively just the beginning.

After crimping, the craftsmen will drill holes in the joint in a special way, and then rivet the two iron plates with rivets, so that the part that is subjected to burst pressure will not be subjected to excessive force, so that accidents will occur after the ship is launched in the future.

(End of chapter)