Pei Lian's last sentence was really unacceptable, Li Yuan's face became more and more gloomy, his eyes were so angry that he was about to burst into flames, and there was silence in the imperial study, like the calm before the storm was coming. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, Li Shimin stepped forward and said: "Father, the son has a word. ”

Li Shimin's appearance made the string that was about to break suddenly loosen, and everyone sighed softly, Li Yuan restrained the monstrous anger in his heart, and said for a while: "Say it!" ”

"The lack of armor of the father and emperor can actually be solved, and the son has a way."

"Go on!" Li Yuan's face finally softened a little.

"Erchen knows that there are still more than 50,000 sets of armor in Wuwei County and Hehuang County in Hexi, which were collected after the surrender of Li Liang and Xue Rengao's army, because Erchen felt that the quality was not very good, so it was not collected by the military, and it is still in the warehouses in the two counties, and we can make use of it."

Li Yuan also remembered it, as if there was such a thing, he didn't pay attention to it at the time, so he forgot about it.

"But you said the quality is not very good, can we use it?" Li Yuan asked with some concern.

"Father Qi, the spear and the sword are actually okay, but the armor is relatively rough, all of them are leather armor, and the ministers consider that the armor of the 20,000 Royal Forest Army can be temporarily replaced with leather armor, and the good armor will be given to the combat army."

Li Shimin's plan won the unanimous approval of everyone, Chen Shuda said with a smile: "In fact, there is no need to change with the Imperial Forest Army, now the recruits need to be trained, and it is okay to equip leather armor, and after the armor is in place, the recruits can be put into training." ”

Li Yuan nodded, although it was an expedient measure, but at least it also solved the immediate crisis, so he said to Li Shimin: "This matter will be handed over to the emperor, and it will be done as soon as possible!" ”

"Father, don't worry, the son will do it when he turns around!"

Li Yuan said to everyone again: "Let's talk about pig iron again!" Although the immediate crisis has been solved, if the pig iron problem is not solved, we will still have a huge future. ”

Liu Wenjing stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen has made a discovery." ”

"Liu Xiangguo, please speak!"

Liu Wenjing said unhurriedly: "The iron mines of the previous dynasty were mainly concentrated in Jianghuai and Jingzhou, smelting in Luoyang and Jiangdu, and there were no mines in the Guanlong area, but Weichen read the old official documents and found that during the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was large-scale iron ore mining in Shuzhou, and the mines were located in Longshan County and Meishan County. ”

Pei Lin was really unwilling in his heart, he laughed dryly and said: "Liu Xiangguo's idea is good, and the plan is also feasible, but it will take at least a year for the mine to resume mining and smelt the first molten iron, but now we don't have a pound of pig iron in our hands, what should we do this year?" How to solve the problem of weapon consumption replenishment? ”

Liu Wenjing glanced at him contemptuously and said: "Pig iron not only exists in the official treasury, but also exists in many places, such as the people, every household has pig iron products, as well as the iron bell and iron Buddha of the temple, and the damaged weapons can also be returned to the furnace, and even we can buy from outside, I am not pointing to the Northern Sui to buy, they will not sell, I mean to buy from the West, sent to us by the Sogdian caravan, so many sources of pig iron, how can Pei Xiangguo be helpless?" ”

Pei Lin was speechless, and said for a while: "It's always not appropriate to compete with the people for profit. ”

Liu Wenjing was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but Li Yuan waved his hand to interrupt their argument, and said to Li Jiancheng: "It is urgent to solve the problem of pig iron, you have to do everything possible to solve this matter, I don't want to disturb the people, but there is no way, if we can't keep up with the Sui army, we will be defeated by them sooner or later." ”

"Sons obey orders!"

Li Yuan nodded, and said to Li Shimin: "There is also Du Fuwei, since I have named him the king of Huainan County, I hope that he will not be in vain, and I must consider letting him go back at the appropriate time, and I must not let Zhang Xuan sit firmly in Jianghuai." ”

Li Shimin bowed down and said, "Please rest assured, my father, the ministers are already actively preparing for this matter." ”

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Li Jiancheng returned to the East Palace with a heavy heart, and as soon as he entered the palace gate, Wei Zheng greeted him and said a few words, Li Jiancheng frowned, "What is she doing at this time?" ”

"Weichen also asked her, she just said that there was a big matter to discuss with His Highness, but she refused to say it explicitly."

"You just deal with her, I don't have time to mind her business." Li Jiancheng was a little upset.

"Wechen knows."

Wei Zheng saluted and turned around to leave, but at this time, Li Jiancheng thought of something, hesitated and said, "Wait a minute!" ”

Wei Zheng stopped, "Does Your Highness have any other orders?" ”

Li Jiancheng pondered for a long time and said, "Okay, I'll see her and ask her to wait in the outer mansion." ”

Li Jiancheng's outer mansion is his father's Tang Palace, because Li Jiancheng is the crown prince, he needs to live in the East Palace, but Li Yuan handed over most of the government affairs to him, and it is no longer realistic to live only in the East Palace, so Li Yuan rewarded him with the former Tang Palace, as Li Jiancheng's foreign palace.

Half an hour later, hundreds of cavalry escorted Li Jiancheng's carriage slowly stopped in front of the steps of the outer house, and a domestic servant rushed forward to open the door and helped Li Jiancheng get out of the carriage, "Is Mr. Wei here?" ”

"He just arrived, His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Li Jiancheng glanced at a gorgeous carriage parked opposite, and walked quickly towards the mansion.

Li Jiancheng hadn't seen Gao Hui for almost a year, and when he first saw the door, he thought he had recognized the wrong person, although Gao Hui still put on makeup, but the thick layer of powder on her face couldn't hide her haggard face and thinned face, as if she was ten years old.

"Madame seems to have been unsatisfactory lately?" Li Jiancheng asked with a faint smile.

Gao Hui stood up and saluted, and sighed: "Actually, Your Highness also knows that since the Bohai Society perished, I have become a lost dog. ”

Li Jiancheng sat down and asked with a smile: "In this case, why doesn't Mrs. find a home, husband and children, and spend the rest of her life peacefully?" ”

Gao Hui smiled bitterly and shook her head, she couldn't answer this question, and she didn't want to answer it.

Li Jiancheng looked at her and said, "Madam doesn't know!" The Jiangnan Association has also been dissolved, the general trend of the world has been decided, the latecomers are competing for hegemony, the former Northern Qi and Southern Chen have no chance of recovering the country, isn't your brother doing well now? ”

"Don't mention that shitch to me!"

Gao Hui clenched her silver teeth, she hated her eldest brother Gao Lie, who only knew how to enjoy and his ambition was exhausted, and secretly contacted the government to arrest her, if she hadn't escaped quickly, she would have really been planted.

At this time, Li Jiancheng suddenly found that she was wearing a ring on her hand again, and suddenly realized something, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Mrs. is married again." ”

Gao Hui snorted in her nose, "It's not about getting married, it's just a combination of interests." ”

Li Jiancheng smiled faintly, he didn't care whether Gao Hui was married or not, he only cared about the interests of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng groaned and said: "We lack pig iron, is there a way for Madam to get pig iron for us?" ”

Gao Hui laughed, "Your Highness asked the right person, the Bohai Society has an iron mine in Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, which produces five million catties of iron every year, which is a great source of revenue for us, and it is still in my hands, if Your Highness needs it, I can sell it to Your Highness." ”

Li Jiancheng was overjoyed, "We want all five million catties, and we buy them at a higher price than the market price." ”

"Recently, there is a batch of pig iron in stock, but we have to use it ourselves, starting next month, we will supply 300,000 catties of pig iron to the Tang Army every month, and transport it into Guanzhong via Nanxiang Road."

Li Jiancheng's eyes smiled into a line, "Then please madam." ”

The unexpected gain made Li Jiancheng feel very good, and he also knew that the reason why Gao Hui agreed so happily was because she also had something to ask for herself, so Li Jiancheng took the initiative to ask: "I don't know if Mrs. came to me, what's the matter?" ”

Gao Hui said slowly: "We want to start an incident in Hebei, hoping to get the support of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly became interested and asked, "Madame, might as well tell me in detail, what's going on?" ”

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Zhangnan County, Qinghe County, near Zhangshui, there is a mansion covering an area of nearly 100 acres, surrounded by small rivers, green trees, and is a very elegant place for self-cultivation.

This is the mansion after Dou Jiande returned to seclusion, Dou Jiande's wife and children have died in the war, after surrendering to the Sui army, he married a concubine, at the beginning of the year, the concubine gave birth to a white and fat son, so that Dou Jiande, who had a son in his later years, was ecstatic, named Dou Guinong, and the concubine was also promoted to the wife and wife by virtue of the child.

Zhang Xuan also got the news and named his son a lieutenant with a bounty of five hundred taels.

In a blink of an eye, Dou Jiande's son began to babble and toddle, Dou Jiande held his baby son all day long, taught him to walk and speak, and got great fun in life.

In the evening of this day, Dou Jiande's house unexpectedly came to a few guests, which made Dou Jiande's wife Li a little dissatisfied, she didn't like outsiders to disturb their peaceful life again, especially these people looked fierce and vicious, and they were not good at first glance.

"Xiaohua, come this way!"

Li hid by the side door, she beckoned, called the maid serving tea to her side, and asked in a low voice, "What are they talking about?" ”

"The little maid didn't know, as soon as the little maid entered, they stopped talking, but the old man seemed to be very unhappy and didn't speak all the time."

"You go listen again, listen to what they're talking about next door, and come back and tell me."

"Yes, ma'am!"

The maid bowed and left, Li was really worried in his heart, the master refused to tell him many things, but don't do anything rebellious.

(To be continued.) )