In any case, after leaving Huazhou for more than half a year, I was finally remembered again and the ban was lifted, which is also a very happy thing.

Although even if Yu Wentai does not order the grounding, Li Tai has been so busy for more than half a year that he has no time to wander elsewhere. But people are so strange, whether or not they can leave the earth is my business, but if you want to order forbidden to leave, it is power, it is a shackle, so I can't feel the slightest freedom!

Although he was still a little unhappy in his heart, after reading the letter, Li Tai packed his bags, and integrated the cattle and horses collected by Beizhou and prepared to escort them south in the near future, and escorted them back by the way.

The first stop on the south is Chengcheng Defense, which is different from the two defense cities in the north and consuls in various affairs, and the affairs of Chengcheng Defense are the most simple. The defense city was built by Chengcheng County, and when it was not completed and delivered, more than 1,000 township tyrants in Shangyuan Township had already been recruited, and Li Yantou, the defense master, directly led his troops to settle in.

Chengcheng County belongs to Huazhou, and last year Li Tai suppressed the bandits, and the bandits in the territory did not disappear completely, but they were also greatly reined in. Li Yantou led his troops to garrison here, and the main task every day was to train men.

Therefore, the Chengcheng defense army is more outstanding than the other two defense weather, aside from the individual force, the basic military quality of prohibiting orders, not chaotic arrays, and orderly advance and retreat is considered to have been fully possessed.

Moreover, most of the Chengcheng guards are Shang Yuan's younger brothers, with Li Tai's rural situation and prestige in Shangyuan, even if he leaves his post one day, other people may not continue to follow, but these Shangyuan soldiers will definitely move with him.

Li Tai was not in a hurry, simply stayed in Chengcheng for two days, pulled the people out of the defense city, and practiced with the five hundred elite horsemen and men and horses in the defense of the city.

So Li Tai decided to carry out a defense adjustment in the second half of the year, and deployed the three defense personnel and horses, and there was a training camp to prepare for the war.

After the exercise, he crossed the nearest river and came to the territory of Baishui.

Today's Baishuizhuang is Li Tai's military industrial base camp, and the smelting and forging craftsmen who have gathered before and after the snares are gathered here, from Luoshui to Baishui, several districts work day and night, and the smelting furnaces set up along the river are full of smoke, contributing their own real strength to the environmental pollution of Kansai and the accelerated end of the Xiaoice River period.

The workshop covers an area of more than ten hectares, with nearly 5,000 craftsmen and craftsmen, and nearly 2,000 craftsmen who really work. In addition to Li Tai's own various means, Liu Min also gave a hundred smelters and blacksmiths after returning to his hometown.

After the establishment of the workshop, basic consumables such as Feng Shi have been basically self-sufficient, and the production of bows, knives, guns and armor has also steadily increased.

In just over half a year, the workshop has produced more than 5,000 knives, more than 6,000 spears and spears, more than 3,000 bows, more than 700 standard armors, and nearly 300 long-handled swords.

Although the quantity is not low, but the yield rate is a bit worrisome, the yield rate is less than seventy percent, the material loss rate is high, some ordnance with higher forging difficulty such as the horse chopping knife, Li Tai's ration department is 100 handles, nearly half of it is scrapped after two months of use, and it is still in the process of hunting and training this kind of non-high-intensity combat, it can be seen that it is still flashy and practical, and the actual combat is worrisome.

Li Tai is also a little helpless about this, he was just a general history in his previous life, and he was not an eighth-level blacksmith, he knew a little about personnel allusions and historical context, but if he wanted to find out about heavy industry, it would be difficult for him.

Kansai has been in turmoil for many years, and today's craftsmanship level is a grade lower than that of Hebei, but I am afraid that it is not more than that, and even Dugu Xin wants to make a Su Tiebao knife again.

Even if you are lucky enough to find one or two skilled craftsmen, a set of smelting and forging procedures will be carried out, and then standardized and popularized and widely equipped, it is far from a short period of work.

Not to mention that Li Tai's craftsmen are mainly temple workers who changed careers from smelting and casting Buddha statues, although they all play with metal, but the process and use of casting and forging are very different, and technological progress also requires a process and time.

At present, the consumption of raising soldiers and workshops has become the bulk of Li Tai's expenses.

The former has other plans to think of and various means to supplement, but the latter is simply a gold cave, Li Tai last year to suppress bandits and rob the Buddhist temple obtained iron has long been consumed, and now the materials used are newly smelted.

More than half of the stolen goods of Hongfa Temple that he secretly collected last year have not been digested and realized, and if it weren't for Liu Min's timely Yu family's wealth, I'm afraid it would not be able to be maintained.

The cost of cultivating craftsmen by himself is too high, and Li Tai has been thinking about where to get a large number of skilled smiths, either near the Jinyang Bafu of his eldest brother He Liuhun on the other side, or the Turkic tribes that have risen in the Jinshan Mountains in Mobei.

Although the goal is quite clear, he can't afford to provoke either of them. Therefore, at present, this workshop with high investment and low return must continue to be maintained, even if the cost of ordnance is higher than that of external procurement, but in order to avoid being choked, it still cannot be given up halfway.

Money is a bastard, let's be greedy after spending it! This does not wither the old iron and brushed a big rocket of 500,000 silks, and when it is officially implemented next year, it will be another monkey!

Thinking about it like this, Li Tai was full of enthusiasm again, and made up his mind to deduct half of the two Suili gifts, if they were really too generous, maybe they would feel that they were quite rich. As far as Yuwentai's virtue is concerned, no matter how much he gives gifts, he may not be able to see the money back, and the key is that he has a lot of children.

In mid-July, Li Tai finally returned to Wuxiang County, thinking that Yu Jin's manor was still north of his own Shangyuanzhuang, so he planned to cross the river and make a detour, go home and change into patched clothes to visit again.

After all, his group of hundreds of people, strong men and horses, and escorting hundreds of truckloads of supplies and herds of cattle and horses, is really eye-catching.

But when he just came to the ferry, there were more than 20 horsemen riding horses in the east, and the first brocade-robed young man smiled at Li Tai from afar: "In the name of my uncle, I am here to welcome Governor Li Dadu to return to his hometown, and the Governor of Dadu will not come harmed?" ”

When Li Tai visited Yu Jin's house last year, he saw this young man, his name was Yu Kuan, Yu Jin's subordinate, and he was only one year younger than himself.

Seeing that he couldn't dodge, he could only slowly move forward, and said with a smile on his chin: "I am used to it, why not work to welcome it." The general is so polite that he made Hui'an come to greet him, and it was difficult to be gracious! It's just that I'm surrounded by sand and fear of pollution, can I bathe and visit again after I return? ”

Yu Kuan turned over and dismounted, and went straight to the bridle, before turning his head and saying with a smile: "The demeanor of the Metropolitan Governor is outstanding, and wherever he stands, Penghu also adds brilliance. My uncle solemnly instructed me to stop the Metropolitan Governor before he entered the palace, so as to add glory to the happy events of my family in the future. ”

Li Tai was also helpless when he heard this, so he could only turn over and dismount, and instructed his subordinates to bring all the materials and goods back to the village, and he took dozens of followers to follow Yu Kuan and go to Yu Jin's manor.

"Most of the governors have not been in the business for many years, but they are already strong in their careers, and they are really ashamed of their peers!"

Yu Kuan saw Li Tai's entourage driving, and immediately said with envy.

His father Yu Hu died before he entered the trouble, and he has been living with his uncle Yu Jin, and he is still in vain, and he is ashamed and envious to see that Li Tai, who is only one year older than him, has become the governor of Sanfang City, who has nearly 10,000 horses.

"Alas, I'm just glamorous on the outside, and I sell my reputation, and I swallow my voice hard inside!"

Li Tai sighed when he heard this, and said to Kuan: "Hui'an, you show off your talents, cultivate calmly, and stay until the year of entering the matter, you will be strong inside and outside, and you will only be in the moment!" ”

He didn't say this because he was cheap and behaved, he really envied these second generations.

Yu Jin is a general in office, and last year he was appointed as the left servant of Shangshu, and concurrently led the chief of the Prime Minister's Mansion, except for those Yuan and Wei clansmen who were supported by the vacant position, it seems that he is already the second only person in the imperial court, the military and political circles of the hegemony and the Daxing Taiyu Wentai.

With such a parent-elder support, even if Yu Kuan is only white, his career will inevitably be unimpeded and soaring. Compared with these real powerful second generations, he only took advantage of a stupid bird to fly first and not miss any opportunity.

Yu Kuan invited Li Taiqiang into his manor, but Yu Jin was not in the village, but personally organized this meaningful wedding in the mansion of Huazhou City.

Li Tai bathed and ate in this village for a while, and then went to Huazhou City with Yu Kuan.

After traveling outside the city, he found that the layout of Huazhou City was very different from when he left last year. Several small cities were built around the city, which should have been used to garrison the directly subordinate army of the Bafu and make the defense around Huazhou City more solid.

The city itself has also extended a part outward, the expansion is mainly the Bafu Xingtai, along the city wall outward to expand a whole military city, the scale of the front and back is superimposed, has greatly exceeded the imperial city of Chang'an City, and gradually has the later Tongzhou Palace weather.

Li Tai couldn't help but feel sour when he saw this, and the money he gave me to build a defensive city was all deducted by you to build a house for himself! In this way, the Bafu has to have half of me, and when Yuwentai doesn't live, he has to go in and live for a few years!

The group entered the city from the west of the city, and when they passed through the city gate, the general guarding the city suddenly greeted him with a happy face, and said from afar: "When will Ah Lang return?" ”

Li Tai raised his eyes and saw that it was also a pleasure, this guard was Li Quji. He knew that the Wuxiang County soldiers led by Zhou Changming had joined the Sixth Army of the Supplemental Mansion, but he didn't expect that he had been arranged to participate in the defense of the city.

"At the beginning of the month, the martial arts were excellent, and the servants had to make up for the city gate governor, and Fang Zuo took up the new shift, and he had already told Uncle Yu Zhusheng, but he didn't have time to tell Ah Lang from afar."

Li Qujian looked up proudly and said, but Li Tai raised his face and said in a deep voice: "The city defense guard is the most important, the alarm bell in his heart rings for a long time, and the miscellaneous feelings will be recounted when he returns home, and he can't leave his position directly!" ”

After hearing this, Li Qujian hurriedly restrained his smile, bowed his head to Li Tai again, and then quickly returned to his post.

Although Li Tai has a straight face, his heart is happy, damn Lao Tzu is also a city defense person, who the will stare at me again, be careful when you enter and exit Huazhou, just see if Lao Tzu can get you!