Chapter 460: Armament

The arrival of Yang Zaisi was unthinkable in Henan Province.

Qin Shaoyou has been in a good mood recently, the construction of the canal has been completed, the prosperity of all industries, this Mengjin and Luoyang are not far away, and there are canals connected, and now the cities on both sides have tacit understanding to expand in the opposite direction, and now between Mengjin and Luoyang, it is difficult to have any boundaries.

Wu Zetian began to play her role in Luoyang Palace, these days, she has met many people, Li Lingyue also entered the palace, temporarily living in the palace, mother and daughter, naturally there will be a lot to say.

Everything seems to be going smoothly.

There seems to be a lot of news circulating in a low voice throughout Henan Mansion, and some people even bluntly recognized Wu Zetian, the 'Son of Heaven'.

The Wei family's suppression everywhere has already made many people's hearts like a fish in their throats, they know very well that Qin Shaoyou, who they rely on for survival, is just a court official, since he is an order official, he will have his limitations, at this time, there is no monarch who wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, but Qin Shaoyou's high-ranking official Houlu today is given by the court, and sooner or later, the court can also take it back.

This...... is the main reason for the real unsettleness.

Many businessmen have always been uneasy about this, and this insecurity, to a certain extent, also makes people afraid to invest on a large scale.

And now, when the emperor suddenly took control of Luoyang Palace and killed Wei Zhengde, he had a posture that was incompatible with the Wei family, and then summoned Qin Shaoyou for the first time, so everyone had a bottom in their hearts.

Anyway, there is still a son of heaven in Henan Mansion, and with this Dinghai God Needle, everyone's hearts are also a little more settled.

The Shang Jia is like this, and so is the Shence Army, although they try their best to be loyal to Qin Shaoyou and have a great bad feeling towards the Wei family, but everyone knows that the Wei family controls the dynasty. Controlling the Son of Heaven, once the imperial court wants to turn against Qin Shaoyou, they will naturally become rebels, and the brand of rebels still makes people feel a little bad after all, but now, even if the imperial court has any will, they have no worries.

The Son of Heaven can issue an edict, but can't the Emperor issue an edict? Emperor Taishang is also an emperor, but he is just a son of heaven who has taken a back seat. But whoever is the Son of Heaven has her legitimacy and authority.

What's even more ridiculous is that a lot of envoys from various countries actually came from Chang'an, all of them came to meet Wu Zetian, and even some envoys simply handed the letter of state to Wu Zetian, maybe in their hearts. Wu Zetian has a greater influence on them, or rather, everyone is used to turning over Wu Zetian.

Everything is always justified, and what Wu Zetian solved was this Qin Shaoyou's biggest heart disease.

Qin Shaoyou has been inspecting some workshops at the junction of Mengjin and Luoyang in the past few days. Now that the canal has been opened up, the demand has increased greatly, and workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, which can be said to be in full swing. Every morning, thousands of craftsmen come to work, many on passenger boats.

If some of them have a bad life. For the time being, they live in some nearby houses, most of which are rammed with soil, and when it rains, they leak everywhere, and several people rent one, so it also brings a lot of problems, but at the moment, the Shence Mansion is powerless to solve it, so it can only be temporarily laid-off.

As soon as there are many people, it is inevitable that all kinds of emerging industries will emerge, all kinds of restaurants, countless, and some people even joke that there are more restaurants in Mengjin than in an ordinary state capital.

As for the owners of the restaurant business, there are tens of thousands, and this alone has created a lot of 'small rich' homes.

In fact, this is also understandable, in the past, men ploughed the land, women took care of the housework, on the one hand, the ploughing land almost did not bring any income, on the other hand, ordinary people, in addition to rushing to the market to eat something to mix half-full, people in this era have no need to enter and leave the restaurant, and now, men and women have to work, women who do not work, some are in the countryside to run the family's fields, work is cash, men can not open a gang at home, naturally look for some cheap restaurants to mix food and clothing.

Qin Shaoyou was dressed in civilian clothes, and took the guards to see a few workshops, most of the workshops around here are producing bricks and stones, because of the construction of canals, as well as the construction of roads and bridges, and the construction of houses everywhere, so the demand for masonry is huge, so this business is booming.

In the past, the vast majority of people built a house, only need to use soil to ram up, put on straw, get a few tiles, and it will become a nest, but now, to build such a house, it is to be made fun of, the vast majority of people, with green bricks and white tiles, bricks built of houses are firmer, and not easy to leak rain, the appearance is better. Therefore, the demand for ordinary bricks is the strongest, and there are some bricks and stones, which are to meet the needs of the families of the very rich, with more and more rich households, in order to be different from others, so ordinary bricks can no longer satisfy their appetite, and because of this, the brick kiln in order to get this more profitable big customer, it began to burn all kinds of better bricks and stones - such as ceramic tiles at any cost.

The craft of ceramics, this era has long been mastered, some wealthy households, has begun to be popular in their halls and the ground to lay this kind of tile, the cost of this tile is naturally amazing, but can not stand the cost of people, so now the sale of ceramic tiles, is very vigorous.

Qin Shaoyou didn't come here for these luxurious things, he came for the cannonballs.

Artillery has become an artifact in the Shence Army, and now it has begun to be applied on a large scale, but this cannonball has now begun to bring forth the new, ordinary cannonballs, don't look at the might, often the lethality is very small, after all, it is an iron lump, the role of artillery, but to smash this iron lump out, therefore, the hollow charge of the cannonball has now become a big stone in Qin Shaoyou's heart, if it can be solved, the power of the artillery may be greatly improved.

Shen Cejun has tried many methods and materials, but Qin Shaoyou, but he hit the idea on the tile, want to start here, today he invited a few brick kilns to try some, planning to ask someone to take it back to try it, this kind of outside is a layer of ceramics, can effectively insulate the heat, but at the same time the inside is sealed and filled with gunpowder and iron nails of the hollow porcelain bullet, in the end can play an effective role, but we still need to see.

It's just that at this time, someone told him that Yang Zaisi brought his family to Luoyang, Qin Shaoyou was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "It's good to come." Quick, where are the people now, immediately prepare the car, no, prepare the horse ......" (to be continued.) )