Tiangongfang, is where the workshop area is located, in the later Banzhou District, Li Zuo planned all the factories and workshops here, originally he was going to call it the workshop area directly, but it was unanimously opposed by everyone.

Then Li Zuo thought of the heavenly creations of the later generations, so he named it the Heavenly Workshop.

In just two years, Tiangongfang has become a famous location, first, it is very heavily guarded, within a radius of ten miles, except for craftsmen and local residents, only Li Zuo, Shi Shoudao, and Zhang Guibo can enter and exit here freely.

Again, all the products sold here are marked by the Tiangongfang, so that many people know the name Tiangongfang, but they don't know where it is.

Today, the Tiangongfang not only produces cement, steel, porcelain, glass, perfume, etc., but also produces weapons and military rations.

This was thanks to the information brought by Rizo, and with these outputs, he was able to afford to raise an army of nearly 80,000.

And these materials are thanks to a video that Li Zuo did before about the invention and creation after traveling to ancient times, in addition to the audio-visual materials, the textual materials collected when making the video are also there.

When the car drove to the mountain road not far from the cave and fell into a collapsed road, Rizo took all the things off the car and took it to the cave to avoid the rain, just in case.

Fortunately, he can not be black-eyed in this era.

Looking at the appearance of the Tiangong Workshop from a distance, Li Mingwu suddenly said: "This time, the Nanzhao army is coming, I'm afraid it's for the sake of the wealth here, right?" ”

"If nothing else, I think I've taken a fancy to Banshu's wealth." Li Zuo nodded and said with a smile: "After all, I can't hide the large-scale purchase of grain from people outside, plus the promotion of potatoes, although it is secret, but after all, there are many people, and it is inevitable that the news of high-yield grain will be spread." ”

Li Mingwu smiled when he heard this, and then asked with concern, "How is it?" Can you be sure? ”

"Hahaha, that must be sure!" Li Zuo laughed when he heard this, and said confidently: "Don't hide it from the old man, I have spent a lot of money training the army in the past two years, just for this day." ”

"Oh?" Seeing this, Li Mingwu immediately asked curiously, "How do you say this?" ”

"The emperor is mediocre and incompetent, the people are facing serious harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the eunuch dictatorship, the division of feudal towns, the party strife of courtiers, the whole society is full of holes, and the people are struggling to make a living.

After a pause, Li Zuo continued: "And where we are now, the foreign enemies who are threatening are Nanzhao and Tubo. ”

"And Tubo is now self-reliant among its internal generals, with years of scuffle, and slave rebellions, it can be said that it has existed in name only, and it is too busy to take care of itself, and it is not a big threat to us."

"Only the ambitious Nanzhao poses a great threat to us, and this is not difficult to see from the Nanzhao's continuous invasion of our country's Annam, Xichuan and Qianzhong in recent years."

After a pause, Li Zuo smiled and continued: "However, what you don't know, old man, is that in fact, Nanzhao is also a foreign powerhouse, as long as he defeats the main force of his northern attack, his national strength will naturally collapse, and at that time, they will have to be chaotic internally, and they will no longer be able to threaten us." ”

Hearing this, Limingwu nodded thoughtfully, and then smiled and said: "It's very good for you to arrange it like this, we can fight our own people to the death, but remember not to be cheap, there are lessons from the Anshi Rebellion in the near future, and as for the far ones, the disasters of Wuhu Chaohua are still vivid!" ”

"Don't worry, old man, those who offend me in China will be punished even if they are far away! So it was in ancient times, so it is now, and so it will be in the future! As a descendant of China, Zuo Yong dare not forget! ”

Hearing Li Zuo's answer, Li Mingwu nodded with satisfaction, then looked at the dozen or so huge chimneys in the Heavenly Workshop that were billowing with smoke and asked, "That's your improved iron-making method, right?" ”

Hearing this, Li Zuo looked at Li Mingwu's gaze and found that he had arrived at the door of the outer perimeter of the Heavenly Workshop at this time, but he did not walk towards the workshop, but turned a corner and pushed Li Mingwu to take a road on the left.

It was the site of another farm and one of the first farms to be planned.

"Yes, the blast furnace ironmaking method improved by the craftsmen now has increased the output several times compared with the previous ironmaking method, and the quality is not much better." Li Zuo slowly pushed Limingwu towards the farm and responded with a smile: "There is a miasma of smoke in the Fang District, I won't take you in, let's go to another farm to have a look, there are still a lot of good things there!" ”

"Okay, okay, the old man is a little curious."

The old and young were talking and laughing, and after a while, they came to a ravine not far from the Heavenly Workshop.

"This is a sea tomato, also known as a tomato, which I accidentally bought from an overseas Hu merchant." Li Zuo pointed to a large piece of red tomatoes full of large and small green at the entrance and introduced to Li Mingwu: "This thing can be used as a fruit or a vegetable, it can be eaten raw, or it can be cooked and fried." ”

After that, Li Zuo went to the field and picked a few large and small tomatoes that were already red and ripe, wiped them with a clean handkerchief, and handed one to Li Mingwu Dao: "Old man, you taste it." ”

"The peppers here are similar to dogwood, but they are more spicy, and they are used for stir-frying."

"This one is a peanut, and it's not ripe yet......."

"There's pumpkins growing over here, you've probably seen them."

"This piece is planted with watermelon, from Anxi, there should be people in the Central Plains planting it, it is a good thing to quench the heat and quench your thirst, I will ask someone to pick one for you to taste in a while."

"The carrots here are also obtained from overseas merchants."

"This is corn, old man, you see, this is what corn looks like that has been opened."

"The sunflowers planted on the edge of the corn field are called sunflowers, and when they are ripe, they will produce a cake of sunflower seeds, which will be used to extract oil or be used as a snack."

"This large area of sugar cane under this hill is called sugar cane, you should have seen it before, and our white sugar is obtained from it."

"The piece on the opposite hill is planted with a plant called cotton, which I got by accident from the Nanzhao people, and it is said to come from a country south of Nanzhao."

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As he walked, Li Zuo introduced Li Mingwu to the crops he saw, most of which he had brought from modern times, and some that he had collected freshly, such as cotton, cantaloupe, and carrots.

There are also some that already exist in this era, but they have not yet been planted on a large scale, such as watermelons that will not be planted in the Central Plains until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, sugarcane that will be planted on a large scale in the Song Dynasty, and so on.

After arriving at Li Zuo's house here, Li Zuo called a little steward named Wu Liu from this farm: "Uncle Wu, stir-fry a few vegetables with the vegetables here for a while, and in addition, go pick a watermelon." ”

"Yes." After Wu Liu heard the words, he hurriedly went down to prepare.

While Li Zuo was arranging things, Li Mingwu looked around the room, and he felt fresh when he saw everything.

Transparent glass windows, vanity mirrors, dressing mirrors, stainless steel spoons, chopsticks, fine porcelain, all kinds of chairs and tables, snow-white salt, sugar, etc., everything produced by Tiangongfang is available here.

After looking around, Liming Wucai sighed: "Seeing this, the Tiangongfang deserves to be called the Tiangongfang, and the name is really not wrong." ”

Li Zuo immediately smiled when he heard this, and said: "Don't hide it from the old man, because I often come here to live for a few days, so the things here are so complete, but many things here have not been sold yet!" If you like it, I'll have someone send you a set when you go back later. ”

At this moment, Zhang Guibo suddenly hurriedly came over........