"Five hundred!" Wei Yuanfang said immediately, and after speaking, he felt that it seemed to be a lot, it was not easy to build iron armor, and I am afraid that the Duhu Mansion did not have much inventory, right? And the price is high, and if you want too much, I'm afraid that the Duhu Mansion will also be embarrassed, so I hurriedly added, "If it's inconvenient, it's okay to have three hundred pairs of iron armor!" ”

"If it's five hundred pairs, I can arrange for someone to transport them over now!" Shen Long smiled secretly, Wei Yuanfang probably thought that his side was like the Tang Dynasty, using pure handmade iron armor, in that case, it would really consume a lot of manpower and material resources to make five hundred pairs of iron armor, and the price was unacceptable.

But now, he has set up a rudimentary coal-iron consortium in Juliucheng, using hydraulic machinery to build iron armor, and the iron armor is produced from the assembly line like flowing water, which is faster than the craftsmen in the Datang Workshop, and the cost is only a fraction of theirs.

"I don't have a lot of money to carry on this trip, and I hope to be a little more tolerant in terms of price." Wei Yuanfang was pleasantly surprised when he heard that he could make up five hundred pairs, but he immediately began to worry about money, Princess Xian'an's dowry was so much, and the Uighurs' output was not high, plus she had to spend money to win people's hearts, so she really couldn't come up with much money for a while.

"These five hundred pairs of iron armor should be given to Her Royal Highness by the lower officials!" With a wave of his hand, Shen Long directly gave away this batch of iron armor, which can make Princess Xian'an's power grow, and it will be of great benefit to the Tang Dynasty and the Imperial Protectorate, how can this be exchanged for a little money? And since the construction of the workshop in Tuntian, the Metropolitan Protectorate will definitely not be short of money.

"Warp!" Wei Yuanfang thought that he had heard it wrong, now a pair of iron armor in the Tang Dynasty costs 3,000 guan, and 500 pairs of iron armor is 1.5 million guan, even with the wealth of the Tang Dynasty, he can't afford to equip too much, resulting in the armored cavalry that prevailed during the Northern and Southern Dynasties There are few left, and as a result, Shen Long actually gave him five hundred pairs of armor in one go.

Even if the armor made by the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate is not as good as the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty, then no matter how cheap it is, it will have to be three hundred sets, right? 500 pairs is also 150,000 yuan, just give it away?

However, what surprised him even more was still to come, Shen Long still felt that it was not enjoyable after sending five hundred pairs of iron armor, and continued to ask, "Yuan Fang? Will 500 pairs be a little less? How many reliable people does Her Royal Highness have in the Princess? If everyone can wear iron armor, it will probably be more effective for Her Royal Highness to speak in the Uighurs in the future, right? ”

"Omitted! That's five hundred pairs of iron armor! You're not kidding, are you? Wei Yuanfang seemed to have been grabbed by the throat, and it took a long time to squeeze out such a sentence.

"How dare I joke about such a big deal?" Shen Long saw that it might be a little difficult to convince Wei Yuanfang in the vernacular, so he took him out of Tingzhou, hurried to the outside of Juliu City, pointed to the iron-making furnace that was emitting black smoke and said, "This place can produce two million catties of iron a year. ”

"Omitted! My Datang only collects two million catties of iron tax every year! Wei Yuanfang was even more stupid, learned the lessons of the Sui Dynasty's official runs, and allowed private and private iron mines to levy a 20% iron tax, and the annual iron tax in these years was about two million catties, which means that Datang produced more than 10 million catties of iron every year, which was just more than 5,000 tons.

As a result, just a small iron yard here in Shenlong, the annual iron production is comparable to the total amount of Datang iron tax, how can you make Wei Yuanfang believe it?

"Yuan Fang will know when he goes in!" What is this, the annual output of iron is only 1,000 tons, if this is put in the future, a village-level steel plant can crush you into slag, and the six cities of the future will have an annual output of one million tons of steel plants to be de-produced because the output is too low, what is a thousand tons?

After entering it, Wei Yuanfang only felt a burst of hot air rushing to his face, which was hotter than when he passed by Chishi Mountain (which is now the Flame Mountain), and it happened that when the molten iron came out of the furnace, when he saw a furnace of red-hot molten iron flowing into the casting mold and turning into iron, Wei Yuanfang's brain went down directly.

When the iron was completely cool, Wei Yuanfang hurriedly ran over to check it, touched and licked it, and finally directly took out his horizontal knife to chop, until the horizontal knife was cut off, he believed that this was a real iron ingot!

"Jingluo, I really believe that you can really come up with five hundred sets of armor, but even if you have iron, it is not easy to make five hundred pairs of armor, right?" Although he has so much iron on his side, there has always been a shortage of craftsmen in the Western Regions, where did he find someone to build so many iron armor? It's not enough to rely on the craftsmen of the Togo Prefecture alone.

"Don't worry, Yuanfang, and follow me to the river to have a look!" Shen Long continued to take him to the next place, it was not hot here, but the continuous, huge DuangDuang sound made Wei Yuanfang upset for a while, until Shen Long gave him a pair of earmuffs, and Wei Yuanfang felt better after putting them on.

"Omitted! That's how you built your iron armor? Seeing that the hydraulic forging hammer kept falling, smashing pieces of iron into armor, Wei Yuanfang knelt again.

"One, two, three, four, five......" He saw that in just such a short time, there were five pairs of armor on the assembly line, and then only need to be simply polished, and then perforated and spliced together the armor pieces with leather cords.

"Hey, it's still slow, the weather has been a little cold recently, the amount of water in the river has dropped, and the speed of building iron armor has also slowed down, otherwise it can be faster!" Shen Long regretted that now the river next to the workshop is flowing with ice and snow melt water from the Tianshan Mountains, and the water is abundant in summer, but when it is cold, this speed has to be reduced, and once the river is frozen, this assembly line has to be stopped and turned into handmade again.

So Shen Long was still thinking about whether to take out the steam engine, there was no shortage of coal next to the six cities, and change the hydraulic forging hammer to a steam forging hammer, so that he would not have to worry about not being able to work because of the lack of water flow, and he would not have to build a new workshop in the future and put it on the riverside.

"Jinglu, if you can take out 3,000 iron armor! The princess will be able to control the Uighur king's tent! After coming out of the workshop for a long time, Wei Yuanfang was a little sober, and the first thing he did when he woke up was to hold on to Shen Long's arm and ask for the iron armor!

"That's three thousand! I also don't want money, just treat it as if I gave it to Her Royal Highness the Princess! Shen Long promised to come down, three thousand pairs of iron armor, at this time, as long as they are used properly, they are definitely enough to decide the life and death of a tribe.

"I'll arrange for manpower to prepare immediately, and I'll be with Yuan Fang when I go back!" Shen Long planned to personally make a trip to the Uighur king's tent to ensure that the Uighur coup d'état would develop according to his wishes.

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