"Father, this can't be done, we only have five earth cannons in total, can you open your mouth." Li Chengqian didn't ask the old man who had come to him, because there was no need for that, he just had to let Lao Li realize that these cannons were still useful now, and they couldn't be given indiscriminately.

"Can you produce more of your earthen cannons? I'm almost annoyed by them, and I give you so much money, you can't get more out of it and go back and give them points. At this time, Lao Li was still thinking about the 30,000 yuan he spent, and felt that the money should be able to handle the matter of the earth cannon.

"Father, the technology of those cannons is not yet mature, and they cannot be mass-produced now." Li Chengqian shook his head, in his opinion, there was no need to produce important earth cannons, and it was better to continue to research new weapons if he had the energy.

Anyway, there shouldn't be any big battles to be fought in Datang in recent years, and even if they do, they are fighting with a group of nomads like turtles, and they don't need such things as cannons at all.

"Whether it's mature or not, can't you get some for them?" Li Er just wanted to keep his ears quiet now, and he didn't care much about whether the cannon technology was immature.

Moreover, a cannon that can shoot 500 steps is already very good in Lao Li's opinion, and it is completely sufficient for breaking doors and the like, as for Li Chengqian's desire to make a cannon that can attack targets ten miles away, Li Er thinks that it is completely unnecessary.

On this issue, Li Er and Li Chengqian have completely different views, and neither side can convince anyone, but from an objective point of view, Li Er's views are more practical. The cannon that can shoot ten miles is placed in Datang, except that it can be used to load calves, there is no difference from the cannon that can play one mile.

"You can get some, but you don't have the money." Since he couldn't change the old man's mind, Li Chengqian simply started from the roots, rubbing his fingers to find Lao Li to continue to ask for money, as long as he gave money, it was not a piece of cake to build a few cannons.

But whether it is in the Tang Dynasty or in the later generations, it is the most difficult thing to ask for project money, even if Li Chengqian is the prince, he will not make the job of asking for money easy.

Therefore, when the old man shook his head and refused, Li Chengqian did not have a trace of expression, but just spread his hands and said: "Father, this thing is iron, and it takes a lot of steel to make it, you can't let me conjure iron ore out of thin air, right?" ”

Empress Eldest Sun didn't speak, just stood aside and watched Li Er's father and son bickering, with a smile embedded in the corner of her mouth.

Although Lao Li has been blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, Empress Changsun knows that this is just a game played by father and son, a kind of psychological game that only the royal family can have. Everything only depends on Li Chengqian's psychological endurance, if he can achieve his demands under the pressure of Lao Li, then it will be his victory, otherwise it will be a failure.

This is also a kind of examination school, as a prince of the Tang Dynasty, such an examination school will always accompany Li Chengqian, and the day when Lao Li gave up his throne in the end.

Li Chengqian, who is a good person, also knows this, so he has been struggling, trying to 'survive' under the oppression of the old man, maybe this is the price that the crown prince must pay.

"How to solve it is your problem, you asked for 30,000 guan I gave it to you at the beginning, and now the sixteen guards are all asking for cannons, what should I do, you can watch it, in short, don't let them bother me again." Li Er picked up the lotus seed soup, which was already slightly cool, and planned to end this conversation.

"Father, you can give some more money, 30,000 guan is really not enough, the cannon is not one or two can be used, if you want to use it, you must use it in large quantities, if the sixteen guards are all equipped, the total amount is not more than six thousand, it will not work at all." Li Chengqian had a bitter face and continued to cry poverty to Lao Li.

In fact, when Lao Li decided to hand over the matter to him, a bold idea was born in his heart, and all the 'struggles' he was doing now were just to obtain the greatest benefits for himself and let the old man find a sense of accomplishment.

However, Li Er's hand shook when he was frightened by Li Chengqian's words, and the lotus seed soup almost fell to the ground: "How much do you say?" Six thousand gates? You're going to make 6,000 doors out of this kind of thing? ”

"Father, there are not many doors of 6,000, there are only 375 doors in each guard, and there are only 75 doors in each house...... Li Chengqian counted with his fingers, but was quickly interrupted by the old man.

"I'll count this, you don't need to tell me to do it." Lao Li's face was full of depression, this stinky boy is really a cub who sells Ye Tian and is not distressed. The sixteen guards are divided into 6,000 cannons, and the one guard has 375 guns, doesn't this bastard know that the current sixteen guards don't even have 300 bed crossbows and trebuchets together?

"Father, the sons and daughters don't want to calculate this number, it's really that the cannon has to form a scale to come in handy, and it's useless to divide one door and two doors." Li Chengqian shrugged his shoulders very innocently, the old man on the left and right didn't use overheated weapons, he could bluff if he could, as for what happened in the future, I will talk about it later.

"How much do you want if you follow the numbers you say?" Li Er put aside the matter of how many cannons each guard distributed, and planned to listen to and ask Li Chengqian how much money he needed.

"100,000 ......".

"100,000! Why don't you kid rob it? Li Er was taken aback by the number of 100,000 guan, slapped the table and stood up, glaring at Li Chengqian, with an expression on his face as if he wanted to eat people.

"Father, the earth cannon is not like a catapult, as long as there are stones, the earth cannon must have gunpowder, and there must be cannonballs, without a large amount of gunpowder and cannonballs, that thing is a piece of broken iron, and it is useless at all." Li Chengqian shrunk his neck, for fear that the old man would rush over and beat him.

100,000 yuan, it doesn't sound like much, but how much was the tax revenue a year in the Tang Dynasty? In order to reduce the tax rate for the people, Li Er has not raised the tax rate in the past few years, and the money in the treasury can be said to be spent every year, and he has not saved much until now, how can he take out 100,000 yuan at once.

If you talk about the inner treasury, this money can be taken out, but the money in the inner treasury is used to build the palace on the Longshou Yuan for Lao Li, how can it be taken out to fill the hole of the sixteen guards.

So now the problem that originally belonged to Li Chengqian has been pushed back to the front of Lao Li, whether to equip the sixteen guards with artillery, and if so, how much equipment!

Li Chengqian is not Li Er, he won't really do such a thankless thing as assigning artillery to the 16th guard, and that group of old killers don't have a good thing, and talking to them about things is not qualified at all in terms of Li Chengqian's qualifications, and if you really want to talk about it, there will be no results at all except being bullied.

Therefore, it is better to scare the old man back directly at a price of 100,000 yuan, and take the initiative to take back this errand, it will be easier to deal with one old man than against sixteen old men.

(End of chapter)