November 30th, the end of the month, the last day.

Today is the last day for Han Jian to deliver the weapon, and he was supposed to be given two months, but this guy has to say a month, and today we will see if he can deliver the weapon.

If it can be delivered, it will naturally be excellent, but if it can't be delivered, Li Chengzhou will naturally not blame him, after all, this is really a big project, and it is indeed difficult for a strong man to do it in a month.

After Li Chengzhou scribbled the court meeting, he sat in the main hall and waited for Han Jian's good news.

From morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon.

Li Chengzhou couldn't wait and comforted himself.

One month is indeed too short, this kind of work is almost done in two months, and it is too late to wait a month for the army to be assembled, after all, there is no war now, and there is no hurry.

Just as Li Chengzhou wanted to leave, the soldiers outside ran in quickly.

"Your Majesty, Han Jian and the crocodile ask to see you."

Li Chengzhou stood up and ran out.

"The two of them are visiting at the same time, presumably they have already built their weapons, please come in quickly."

Li Chengzhou ordered the soldiers to invite these two people in, but they ran faster than the soldiers.

As soon as the door was opened, the two were standing outside the main hall waiting for Li Chengzhou's summons.

The two bowed their heads and bowed: "Your Majesty, the deadline for January has arrived, and we have come to settle down." ”

"Hurry up, you guys, you are the heroes of the Tang Dynasty, let's go in and say."

Li Chengzhou brought the two into the main hall, and did not sit on a high position, but sat next to the two and listened to them carefully.

Han Jian arched his hand: "Your Majesty, we have completed most of the weapon manufacturing. ”

"Mostly? What is not finished? ”

"What is not finished is the Mo knife, the horse lance, and the horn bow."

Li Chengzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "It doesn't matter, the Mo knife will not be installed in the whole army, and the horse lance and horn bow will only be passed on to the cavalry, we don't have cavalry now, and even if the cavalry is formed in the future, it will not account for too much." What is the quantity of each piece of equipment? ”

"There are 10,000 Tang horizontal knives, 10,000 square shields, 10,000 round shields, more than 5,000 sets of Mingguang armor, more than 9,000 sets of chain mail, 10,000 spears, more than 6,000 horn bows for cavalry, more than 9,000 longbows for infantry, and 10,000 improved crossbows."

"There are more than 4,000 Mo knives and 5,000 horse lances."

"There are countless arrows and crossbows of all kinds."

Li Chengzhou nodded: "Enough is enough, the number is almost enough." Now the people sent by various cities to support the iron mining area can go back, they should be able to be regarded as skilled blacksmiths, and if they stay in Huoniu City, there will be a food shortage. ”

"Your Majesty, how will they settle when they go back?"

"Tell the county commanders that they can buy iron ore from the iron mining area to cast agricultural tools for the people in the jurisdiction, and they can also cast spears and knives to strengthen the strength of the defending army, but they cannot cast armor."

"The minister told these people to tell these county orders when they went back."

"I'll send a herald to tell them these things in detail."

"What will happen to the iron ore mine after that?"

"In the future, more than 2,000 skilled blacksmiths will be recruited to cast weapons for the empire, so that the arsenal is sufficient, after all, a battle will definitely lose a lot of weapons."

"Your Majesty, when the currency circulates for a while, why don't you let these people collectively mint in the iron ore area for another half a month and then let them go back? At that time, the arsenal will be sufficient, and it will be just in time to catch up with the circulation of money. ”

"It's also great. By the way, didn't I ask you to cast copper coin molds and saddle stirrups and horse armor before, how is the progress? ”

"Don't you say that you almost forgot, the molds have been cast more than a dozen, and you can cast 100 catties of copper into copper coins at a time, and you can cast 10,000 copper coins. According to the requirements of the imperial court, the copper coin is printed with the words 'New Tang Tongbao' on the front and the back is printed with the pattern of double dragons playing with pearls, with a diameter of 2.5 centimeters and a square hole of 0.7 centimeters. Now the mold is in the armory, and if you want, you can send it to you at any time. ”

"Two thousand sets of horse armor were made, and five thousand sets of saddle stirrups."

"That's enough, Your Majesty, these harnesses are indeed exquisite, but we don't have horses now, isn't that a waste of resources?"

"You don't care about this, you might as well tell you the truth, we will definitely have horses in the future!"

"And this good thing?"

Han Jian jumped up from his chair excitedly. The crocodile didn't understand why he was so excited.

Li Chengzhou looked at the crocodile: "Crocodile, now that the iron casting has come to an end, what are your plans in the future?" Do you want to stay in Datang, or do you want to travel? ”

The crocodile tilted his head and thought for a moment.

"Can I stay in Datang?"

"Naturally, you have made great contributions, and I naturally welcome you to stay in Tang."

"Then I'll be cheeky and stay in Datang."

"Hahaha, what are you talking about? What do you want to do in Datang? ”

"I can't do it militarily, so I can naturally lead troops to fight; I still have some experience in managing the city, but I'm tired of that, I'm too tired, I just want to study weapons or equipment or something quietly and alone. ”

When Han Jian heard such a description, he couldn't help but interject: "The Mo family's tricks, strange tricks? ”

"Ah, yes, that's it, you don't seem to like you guys like to study that thing, I think it's okay."

Li Chengzhou thought about it for a while, and if he upgraded the summoning system and summoned cross-era scientific and technological products and related books, Datang's scientific and technological level would definitely improve by leaps and bounds.

But the premise of all this is that someone can understand these things and master them proficiently, so that they can be applied reasonably.

If the light summons a product or principle and hands it to a person who has no knowledge, let alone copying it, even if he is asked to use it, he will not use it.

The current technological improvement is not obvious, and after a few levels, the gap is really outrageous.

Therefore, it is necessary to grasp education and science and technology from the very beginning, and we can take advantage of this opportunity to establish scientific research institutes.

"Crocodile, I'm going to set up a scientific research institute, are you interested?"

"I'm not interested, I said I'm only interested in studying those strange tricks."

"emmmm, the scientific research institute is to study that thing, you can also find people who are like-minded with you, in the scientific research institute, I will allocate funds, and I will also make money."

Li Chengzhou was kind and seductive, and the crocodile was a little vigilant.

"Why are you so nice to us?"

"What you said is naturally your credit."

The crocodile reluctantly believed Li Chengzhou's nonsense.

Li Chengzhou is still thinking about the implementation of compulsory education, but there are too few literate readers now, and this is also a big project, so he has to discuss it with Fan Qingyan when he goes back.

"Crocodile, you are in the iron ore mining area and waiting, after I build the scientific research institute, you will move in, do you have any requirements for the scientific research institute?"

"Just build it in Ikezawa Castle."

"Good!"