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When the two people who stood at the pinnacle of power in the Tang Dynasty, as well as Li Mu, the newly promoted viscount, sat in the conference hall of the Ministry of War.

Tea tasting and talking.

Let's talk about some ancient scriptures and poems in hundreds of forums.

However, there is something wrong with this style of painting, because Li Mugen doesn't understand those, and he doesn't know anything about ancient scriptures, poems, and ancient books.

However, if it is a poem, Li Mu can plagiarize a few poems: the bright moonlight in front of the bed, two pairs of shoes on the ground or something.

Of course, Li Mulai came to the military department to have a serious matter.

Drinking tea is just a decoration of the business, and there is no need to go into details.

In the past few years, whether Datang is external or internal, it can be regarded as using troops for many years.

The consumption of weapons can also be said to be very huge.

Don't look at history, Datang is so prosperous, or so rich.

The army is also very strong.

But just like other dynasties, the Tang Dynasty used troops abroad, and it was mostly defeated and won less.

There are a lot of factors that go into this.

But one of these factors is the weaponry.

In terms of weapons, doesn't it mean that Datang's cold weapon forging technology is not good? No, precisely because the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous era in Chinese history.

Its cold weapon forging technology can be said to have reached the highest technical standards of that era.

Since it is said that Datang's forging technology is already very high, why is the weapon still a reason to limit the military strength of the Datang army.

This is due to Datang's steel production.

Someone once investigated, or speculated based on historical data, that Datang's annual steel output was only 5,000 tons.

What is this concept if it were converted to modern times?

In modern times, even if the production of 5,000 tons of steel is handed over to a private steelmaking workshop.

Maybe it's not enough for people to stuff their teeth.

From this point of view, Datang's annual steel production is really not enough to supply the use of an empire.

These five thousand tons of steel could not be supplied only to the army.

There is also a need to consume in other areas.

Take a Mo knife to calculate, the New Tang Dynasty Book records: Xing Jia holds a Mo knife weighing fifteen catties to take the city. The thief will enter, raise the knife and kill several people, and the thief will be angry.

That is to say, a Mo knife will weigh fifteen catties, and the fifteen catties here are not the modern fifteen catties.

Rather, it was from the Tang Dynasty.

One catty in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to 666 grams in modern times, and fifteen catties were equivalent to ten kilograms.

10,000 knives cost 100 tons of steel, although there will be a lot of discrepancies.

But the exact number won't be much worse.

It takes 100 tons of steel to lift 10,000 Mo knives alone, but Datang doesn't just have one weapon, Mo Dao.

There are other weapons that require steel.

In this way, 5,000 tons of steel is no different from a drop in the bucket for Datang's army.

This is also why Li Er will agree to Li Mu's request, and the military department and the household department will also nod in agreement.

The three provinces also expressed their support.

Because if Li Mu can really provide the army with stainless steel weapons, then it can not only improve the overall combat effectiveness of the army.

It can also reduce the casualties of soldiers on the battlefield as much as possible.

In this way, it can also deter the enemies around you who are ready to move.

After all, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers who stood at the peak of power in this era, whether they were civil officials or military generals.

They have all experienced the battlefield of life and death.

Even Li Er's right-hand man, as a strategist's Fang Mou Du Xuan, has also been on the battlefield once.

They still have a high degree of approval for being able to improve the overall strength of the Tang army.

Now Datang doesn't have that kind of thinking, which emphasizes literature over military force.

In the end, in the tea drinking of Li Mu and Du Ruhui's eldest grandson Wuji, the plan for the purchase of weapons by the Ministry of War was preliminarily decided.

The Ministry of War plans to purchase 10,000 Mo knives and 10,000 horizontal knives at one time.

It was used to inspect the quality of the weapons provided by Li Mu in the military department.

"Okay, the next thing is not the old man's." After speaking, Du Ruhui picked up his open bag of tea leaves and left the negotiation table.

Du Ruhui felt that if he didn't leave, the old guy of the eldest grandson would definitely take half of his tea.

Although he had just confided in the number of weapons he had purchased in advance, he believed that a person as cunning as the eldest grandson would not let the other party get too much benefit.

Du Ruhui went to follow the method demonstrated by Li Mu to taste tea.

Only the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Mu were left at the scene, the two non-fuel-efficient lamps, one large and one small.

In a good impression of Li Mu's awakening of his sister, the eldest grandson Wuji didn't have any intention of embarrassing Li Mu too much, so he asked first.

"Since the Ministry of War has given the quantity for purchase, I don't know how the price set by the Naturalized Viscount can be, so I might as well say it and listen to it."

"Mo knife four taels of gold, horizontal knife two taels of gold."

This number was calculated by Li Mu in his heart, and the reason for the purification of gold was also added to it, but this price also has a range, the so-called sky-high asking price, sitting on the ground to pay back.

If Li Mu gives an actual low price as soon as he comes up, there will be no room for counteroffer.

In the same way, if the price offered is too high, the negotiations that have not yet begun may break up.

Although the Ministry of War has already set a list for procurement, it is also blind if there is no money allocated by the Ministry of Households.

The eldest grandson Wuji, who was drinking tea, nodded secretly in his heart, this price is not too expensive, and it is reasonable.

After all, now a good iron knife in Datang costs 2,000 Wen, which is equivalent to about three coins in gold.

The eldest grandson Wuji had seen the sword that Li Mu gave to Li Zhi, and it can be said that there was not a trace of crack in the case of slashing with the best iron knife. Still able to stay sharp.

A sword indeed.

Coupled with the dagger that Li Daozong showed him, the eldest grandson Wuji also somewhat agreed to this price.

However, out of the responsibility of the head of the household, he still has to suppress the price.

"It's too expensive, the household department can't take out so much gold, so if you calculate it, the household department will have to take out a total of 60,000 taels of gold."

The eldest grandson Wuji knew that this was just a trial purchase by the Ministry of War.

If the weapons provided by Li Mu are really as good as they say, the Ministry of War will definitely purchase them in large quantities in the future.

If the price is not lowered at this time, even if the household has a large gold inventory, it will not be able to withstand the large-scale purchase of weapons by the military department.

"Then I don't know, what price is the eldest grandson going to offer?" Li Mu intends to hand over this pricing power to the other party.

"Mo knife one or two." The eldest grandson Wuji thought for a moment and then said, "The horizontal knife is five coins of gold." ”

"No, in this way, I don't even have enough money for the journey, if that's the case, I might as well not make this deal with the military department."

Li Mu waved his hand, looking like he wanted to give up.

"Naturalized viscount, is it a sale? You have to talk about it, you can't accept the price I offered, you can also mention it. Eldest Sun Wuji smiled.

In the next, under the tug-of-war between the two, both sides wasted a lot of tongues.

In the end, the household department tried to purchase a batch of army-standard weapons from Li Mu at the price of two taels of gold for the Mo knife and one tael of gold for the horizontal knife, totaling 30,000 taels of gold.

Li Mu was very satisfied with this price, and the eldest grandson Wujida also reached the goal in his heart.

After all the negotiations were over, Li Mu remembered the matter of his five hundred food estates.