After the major wealthy families of the Tang Dynasty promised that they could give war spoils as war dividends in the imperial court, they contributed money to provide military expenses. And Li Junxian once again saw the financial resources of those big clans, and a few big clans actually provided the expenses that could supply 500,000 troops to fight for a year, which was very amazing. In this battle, most of the time it was necessary to fight a big battle, so that the troubles of the grassland could be completely eradicated. It will not work without sending hundreds of thousands of troops.

Li Junxian didn't know the outcome of this battle, because the result of his crossing turned this war that was just a sneak attack into a big war, a big war between countries. However, Li Junxian was not too worried about this battle, because there were many famous generals in Datang and had a lot of financial resources to provide military supplies. But the Turks were miserable, they had nothing but to survive the winter on the grain they had accumulated. Now, not only can they not come to loot Datang, but Datang wants to find their bad luck, so they are miserable this time.

What's more, Li Junxian has this firearms unit, and he is not afraid of the Turks. Even if other troops are defeated, Li Junxian can win back a city through the firearms troops of the special guard, and at most it will be an undefeated result. Therefore, Li Junxian is not worried that this battle will be lost at all, at most it is just a draw.

"General Lee has arrived!" The guard at the door of the gunpowder workshop shouted.

The gunpowder workers hurriedly came to receive Li Junxian.

"How's your work? Any requirements? Li Junxian asked.

The foreman replied: "General Li, we don't have any needs, and we are doing well here." The imperial court provided a house and provided a lot of money, and we could all get by. General Li, you have given a lot of money, and in a few years we can all buy a few acres of land, which can be passed on to our children and grandchildren. ”

Because this gunpowder worker was more dangerous, Li Junxian had to spend a high salary to attract workers. These workers were attracted by Li Junxian's high salary. If there are no high salaries, I am afraid that not many workers will want to come and work here. However, those workers have been doing it for a long time, but they also feel that there is nothing in this job, as long as the relevant precautions are done, there is no danger at all.

"Now that the imperial court is preparing for war, our special guard is going to take the lead, so I want you to hurry up and give birth. At least fifty bases are required, otherwise it will not be possible to fight a big war smoothly. Li Junxian said.

"What? Fifty bases? The gunpowder foreman was shocked.

"Yes, fifty cardinal numbers, this is still at least. Our next battle is a big war. And our special guard is going to use firearms, and the consumption of gunpowder is not ordinary. Therefore, you must hurry up and produce, otherwise we will not have enough gunpowder by then, and your problem will not be small. Li Junxian said.

"Well, we're understaffed." The foreman said.

"If you are short of manpower, you should recruit them quickly, and I will give you money, and if you can recruit people, you can come. Of course, if you have any relatives and friends, you can also introduce them, as long as you are diligent and courageous. It's all useless. Li Junxian said.

"Okay, General Li, since you have spoken, then I will call all my relatives and friends. Guarantee to complete your mission, General Lee. The gunpowder foreman immediately patted his chest and reassured.

Li Junxian then came to the steel plant, which is currently managed by Tie Gao, an expert in ancient materials. The steel mill has expanded a lot in recent years, and there are hundreds of people working. After the expansion of the steel plant, Li Junxian also added the assembly line method. In this way, the production speed of steel is much faster. The current steel plant, despite the fact that there are only a few hundred people, is enough to supply the steel needs of more than 10,000 people in Tyveid. On the contrary, there is still a lot of surplus.

"Master Tiegao, the most important thing for you to organize the workers and hurry up to produce all kinds of steel weapons. From ordinary mild steel crossbows, to those artillery, you have to hurry up and produce. We're about to have a big battle, so I'm afraid you're going to have to work overtime. I'll give you a method, and that's three shifts. Eight hours of work per shift, changing people without changing tools, all speed up production for me! Li Junxian said.

"General Li, of course we can speed up production, but we don't have enough raw materials!" Tie Gao said helplessly.

In ancient times, the production of steel was very low, and Li Junxian also replaced the bow and crossbow with a bow made of soft steel, which consumed even more steel. And now that the war is imminent, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are mobilizing, and the craftsmen of the ordnance supervision are also producing ordnance. Datang's war machine has begun to operate, and the consumption of steel is very large.

"This ......" Li Junxian really doesn't have any good way.

Now that all the armies of Datang need steel, how can they go to the tiger's mouth to grab food? This time, I can't use that cheap holy decree, because if I use it, Li Shimin will definitely recover it. Unless you can make those people in other armies willingly give steel to themselves, you are not afraid that they will go to Li Shimin to complain.

"Master Tiegao, we might as well do this, let's exchange steel for iron!" Li Junxian said.

"Steel for iron?" Tiegao didn't understand what it meant.

"What I mean by this is that we trade steel for pig iron from other armies. We can take our steel and go and exchange their ordinary pig iron, so that we have steel. And they got the steel, and they probably won't say much. Even, we can give them that ductile iron, so that we can make even more money. Let's set the ratio at 10 to 1 for the time being! Li Junxian said.

Tie Gao's mouth was wide open, he obviously didn't expect Li Junxian to have this idea. There is no shortage of steel here, as long as you put pig iron into the furnace, you can quickly get a batch. This steelmaking furnace is the result of Li Junxian and Tie Gao in the past two years, and they have come up with the soil method of steelmaking. Although it is a local method of steelmaking, it is much higher than that of people of this era.

However, other armies do not have this convenience, and they have to have craftsmen forge steel many times before they can obtain it, and the cost is not less than dozens of times. And Li Junxian's ratio of ten to one is exchanged for pig iron with them, I'm afraid they will all come and exchange it!

"General Li, this is too ...... You're all colleagues! "Tie Gao is embarrassed, and now he is a little embarrassed about Li Junxian's method of pit colleagues.

"What are you embarrassed to do? We have the technology, and this is the power of technology. If we come up with new technology and we don't get a return, then what are we doing with it? Li Junxian said righteously. (To be continued......)