In the middle of the night, Wu Cao came to Chang'an City, asked people to take care of her suitcase, and then went to Li Yuanxing's room.

"Aren't you afraid of assassins?" Wu Cao whispered in Li Yuanxing's ear.

Li Yuanxing was half-asleep and half-awake, and he felt that he was Wu Cao, but he was in a dream. "Are there any female assassins, do you have a dozen!"

The more Wu Cao thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, and many figures flashed in his mind, but he didn't think that Li Yuanxing really didn't wake up, he opened his mouth and bit Li Yuanxing's neck.

Hiss!

Li Yuanxing woke up in pain, saw that it was Wu Cao, and swallowed back the shout that came to his mouth.

"It's a vampire!" Wu Cao rolled his eyes and rode on Li Yuanxing, unable to close his mouth with a smile on his face.

"What's the good thing, look at you happy!" Li Yuanxing stretched out his hand to pull Wu Cao down and let Wu Cao lie down next to him.

Wu Cao pillowed on Li Yuanxing's arm: "Discuss one thing!" ”

"I'll talk about it tomorrow morning!" Li Yuanxing was really sleepy and didn't want to speak.

"Let's build a ship!" Wu Cao said a word, Li Yuanxing didn't speak, he was really sleepy. Wu Cao continued: "I wrote a letter to Brother Cheng and asked him if he had any old wood, and it was big. He sent someone to reply to me, saying that there was, and promised me a good wood! ”

Li Yuanxing's eyes opened suddenly: "No, the wood in the Northeast is good, but not enough!" ”

"I wrote another letter to Feng An!" Wu Cao smiled evilly.

Li Yuanxing raised a finger, and when Li Yuanxing spoke, Wu Cao also said: "Tie Limu!" ”

"Still. Feng Ang didn't know what the iron pear wood was, I just told him some characteristics. Just before I returned to Chang'an, he sent people to send twenty kinds of wood, including iron pear wood, and many very precious and good wood. So, let's build a ship! Wu Cao said very seriously.

This time, Wu Cao did not make his own opinion, but asked for Li Yuanxing's consent.

"Let's build a dock first, and try to build a ship of two or three hundred tons. And then the whole ship of 2,000 tons, this is easy to use! ”

Haha. Wu Cao rolled on the bed with a smile. Pointing at Li Yuanxing: "It's terrible to be uneducated!" ”

"Zheng He's 2,000 sailboats. It's almost 800 tons, but unfortunately he's a flat-bottomed boat, and he's using a composite keel. Our boats are not for the river, but for the sea. So make a twenty to fifty ton one and give it a try. Because we are wooden boats. Not a steel ship. So twenty tons is worth a try! ”

Twenty tons, Li Yuanxing wants to say it's so small.

"The first steamship in Chinese history was 55 feet long. The displacement is about twenty-five tons. For the ship used in the sea, Zheng He's composite keel is not strong and cannot withstand strong wind and waves. We can only make a ship of 2,000 tons from steel, it is impossible to have that much steel in a few years, and the limit of a wooden ship is a displacement of 400 tons, no matter how big it is, it is useless! ”

"Let's build it, all the proceeds of Huazhou will go to the Qin Palace. The Qin Palace's Mansion is responsible for all the expenses of the Imperial Palace! ”

Wu Cao pounced on Li Yuanxing and grabbed Li Yuanxing's clothes: "Fight Shenyang and occupy Changchun." I want wood, I want coal, I want iron. And also a super harbor. You know I'm talking about that one. ”

Port! Li Yuanxing felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, because in the modern era of later generations, the port there did not belong to Huaxia anymore. Thinking of this, Li Yuanxing turned over and got up, lit the candlestick and began to grind the ink.

Wu Cao immediately ran over to help Li Yuanxing sharpen his ink.

The first letter was addressed to Feng An.

Li Yuanxing didn't have too many kind words, just greeted Feng Ang a few words. Then he wrote directly, this king jihua built a sea ship, from Hangzhou to you, looking for a good port, this king suggested a few locations. Then, the amount of wood that Princess Mingyue needs is not much, but it must be fine, and after the sea is opened, Chang'an Xing, Lingnan Xing!

Li Yuanxing signed, and then sealed.

Wu Cao took the warrant, carefully folded it, and put the bag on the fire paint.

"I'll look it up and give him a map to choose from. Because we haven't been there, we don't know how much difference there is between Datang and later generations, let alone whether it is completely controlled by him. ”

"Don't be stingy, when you send someone to deliver a letter, bring a thousand high-grade horizontal knives as a gift." Li Yuanxing commanded while spreading out another piece of paper.

Wu Cao responded: "A thousand knives, a few boxes are loaded." It's better to send another fifty sets of crossbows! ”

"Whatever you want!" When Li Yuanxing spoke, he had already continued to write the second warrant: "Brother Zhijie......"

Li Yuanxing gave Lao Cheng a letter, not an order. I only said that Lao Cheng must help Princess Mingyue get wood, it must be high-quality aged wood, and it must be complete, and the specific requirements are for Princess Mingyue to tell Lao Cheng.

After finishing the work, I went to sleep, and the sleep was dawn.

Qin Qiong did not affect Li Yuanxing's rest, and waited until Li Yuanxing woke up by himself.

When Li Yuanxing came to the front hall, Cui Junsu and Wang Jishan were also there.

"A certain person in charge of the household department, this is a serious matter, and a certain person can't help but ask!" Cui Junsu obviously didn't plan to stay out of the matter, and Wang Jishan also said: "The Ministry of Rites is in charge of foreign affairs, and there is such a mess in a small state of the subject country, and the Ministry of Rites can't ignore it!" ”

"It seems that things are not simple!" Li Yuanxing said with a smile and sat down.

At that moment, someone brought breakfast, Wu Cao greeted the three Shangshu, and then sat aside obediently, eating breakfast by himself.

Cui Junsu said to Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, things are really complicated. A certain investigation has shown that even if the tribe of the Turki Khan beats itself into steel and sells it, it will not be able to sell 30,000 catties of steel. They only got a total of 23,000 catties of steel ingots, and they couldn't sell them all without using them at all! ”

"What did Goguryeo trade for?" Li Yuanxing asked.

"A note has been placed to let people send the news to Liaodong to check." Qin Qiong answered beside him.

Wang Jishan said again: "I have checked, all the tribes have not obtained so many steel ingots, the most one is the Yan Ya people, they have 30,000 catties of steel ingots, but of their 30,000 catties, 20,000 catties are third-class steel. It was borrowed from the Ministry of Industry four months ago. In order to pay for the military expenses of the First Battle of Liaocheng! ”

"It seems that these 30,000 catties of steel are not shipped by a family." Li Yuanxing didn't care about eating.

"How do you use the steel of Goguryeo?" Qin Qiong asked.

Wang Jishan didn't answer, and first blamed himself: "In this matter, the Ministry of Rites will let the envoys stationed in various states secretly investigate, if this matter is done by many states, then these envoys are guilty of lax supervision!" ”

"Isn't it just 30,000 catties of steel!" Li Yuanxing smiled: "Goguryeo took it, it's useless." ”

"Gorou's words are not right, 30,000 catties of steel, taking the new style of fish scale armor as an example, at least 1,000 pairs can be made, and with this 1,000 pairs of fish scale armor, there can be 1,000 high-grade elite soldiers. This thousand elite soldiers will be a big problem! Qin Qiong's attitude was obvious, he was not afraid of swords, only armor.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, you can have weapons privately, but you can't have armor.

Whether it's leather armor, or steel armor.

With half a pair of armor, you can be exiled for three thousand miles.

Although the armor of the Tang army is now in everyone's hands, it is not worn in ordinary times. It will be taken out for maintenance every month, and it will only be issued to individuals in wartime, whether it is victory or defeat, in addition to counting military merits after the war, the most important thing is to count the armor. How much was damaged and how much was lost.

"30,000 jin is too little, Goguryeo should have 3 million jin!"

Li Yuanxing's words frightened everyone, and they didn't understand what Li Yuanxing meant by this at all.

"Girl, don't patronize and eat. Take note of a few things! ”

Wu Cao drank Zuihou porridge unhurriedly, and said word by word: "Jiang Gan's plan to steal books!" ”

"Remember the last time a letter said that some of them were spies who had mixed in?" Li Yuanxing always smiled after mentioning these words, and Wu Cao said: "When I go back, I will arrange for someone to make some defective steel armor, and then do some tricks, and the power of the steam cannon must definitely be displayed." ”

"Plus the siege shiyan, the shiyan of the cavalry." Li Yuanxing followed up and said.

"So, real drawings or fake drawings?" Wu Cao asked rhetorically.

"Of course it's a real picture. However, it is enough to use a generation of drawings. This drama is going to be done enough, and it must be made to make them believe it. In this case, those steel Goguryeo people will use it as armor, and with more advantageous weapons, the Goguryeo people will definitely do it, and this is still true! ”

After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he smiled very proudly.

"Cold War, Arms Race!" Wu Cao explained to Qin Qiong.

Qin Qiong almost understood: "Since it's a play, then the other party's candidate should be chosen." And you don't need too many people to escape back, just a few people, and the rest ......" Qin Qiong smiled slightly.

Everyone laughed, this attitude is self-evident, that is one word, kill!

"There is only one condition!" Wu Cao stretched out a finger.

"Tell me about it!" Li Yuanxing secretly stared at Wu Cao when he spoke, and that consciousness was girl, don't be nonsense. This is a military event, not a child's game.

Wu Cao didn't think this was a game, but said very seriously: "You set the principles, the details are up to me, and no one is allowed to care, otherwise I won't go to Yaozhou." ”

Threat, that's what threats.

Li Yuanxing didn't want to agree, but Qin Qiong immediately said: "A certain look is okay, and a certain person is just cooperating with the killing." Gorou said that he would have the result of whatever he wanted. Let's just do what we say? ”

Outcome? Li Yuanxing said in his heart, I want to see how deep Wu Cao's scheming is for this girl, and whether she is ruthless enough.

"Well, the first result is to involve Goguryeo in the arms race. However, don't want normal armaments, use the kind of armaments that consume huge materials, of course, people like Zhao Deyan should have a chance to get rich. To drag, drag Goguryeo to the point where there is no money to buy salt! ”

There is no money to buy salt, which was extremely poor in ancient times.

"The second result, those who are restless. It's too cruel to kill, our Datang is merciful, send them to the coal mine, there is always a need for manpower! (To be continued......)