"Give up the blast furnace? Renjie, you are touching the skin of your mouth up and down, and let thousands of craftsmen in the iron prison drink the northwest wind? Zheng Qi was unhappy with Li Kui's interference in the operation of his iron prison. Especially now that he has been received by the emperor and inspected the iron-smelting workshop. At this time, Zheng Qi is ready to do a big job, how can he be willing to give away the good credit?

But Li Kui disagreed. I can't get used to it, Zheng Qi, this old guy, dares to refute his proposal?

Although iron smelting and steel making seem to be the most cutting-edge technology of this era. But in reality, it's not that easy to do.

Moreover, the outflow of technology will not flow into hostile countries such as Liao and Western Xia. Even if it is outflowed, it will not pose a threat to the Great Song Dynasty. If the Western Xia and Liao returned to the competition with the Great Song Dynasty in terms of national strength, industrial capacity, and population, the Great Song Dynasty would be able to easily defeat the opponent. What is the difference between this and the soldiers of the Liao State jumping off their horses and fighting against the infantry of the Great Song Dynasty?

Luo Huan leg, little man, the big man in Qingzhou and Hebei can't wait for a long time. Down-to-earth, even if the strength of the forbidden army and the Xiang army has declined seriously, the Great Song Dynasty can still beat the Liao and Western Xia people.

What if the Liao and Western Xia learned to cast cannons and flintlock pistols?

It doesn't matter, let's explode. At this time, the comparison is not about the value of individual force, but the contest of national strength.

In the industrial age, the more brutal the off-road will die.

Compared with the population, compared with the level of craftsmen, the opponents of the Great Song Dynasty are all a lot worse than the Great Song Dynasty, but they have to learn from the Great Song Dynasty to fight with a very large logistical consumption of combat methods. After a battle, the inventory in the warehouses of the Great Song Dynasty was exhausted, but what about the Liao State and the Western Xia? must be so poor that he can't fight this battle.

This is the beneficial aspect of the firearms era to the Great Song Dynasty, compared to resources, population and craftsmen, and the army is only a reflection of national strength. This is also the favorite way of fighting in the Central Plains Dynasty, but it is a pity that the northerners have always been martial arts, and they used knives without speaking, and the Great Song Dynasty was very passive. Even if the resources of the Great Song Dynasty are insufficient, it doesn't matter, the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty will always be able to find the resources that the Great Song Dynasty urgently needs.

"Brother Yulin, why can't you turn the corner?" Li Kui's expression seemed to be worried for Zheng Qi, and he said angrily: "Do you know what kind of result your iron prison will become if you continue to develop and want to go?" You can't ignore the use of people alone. ”

"You have to recruit twenty or thirty thousand craftsmen, right?"

Zheng Qi has considered this aspect, and now there are not enough craftsmen. Mainly steelmaking, the lack of mechanized steelmaking industry, this craftsman seems to surround the furnace, black pressed a large area.

If the iron-smelting workshop continues, it will soon expand rapidly. Li Kui pointed at Zheng Qi and asked, "If a small iron prison has 30,000 craftsmen, what should Your Majesty think of you, the iron prison?" Brother Zheng, you are in great danger, do you know? ”

In the official residence, Zheng Qi and Li Kui faced each other, drinking tea with relaxed expressions. But Li Kui could obviously feel that Zheng Qi was floating, and he didn't even listen to him a little.

Of course, there is a reason for this, Zheng Qi has just been praised by the emperor. Promotion and fortune are just around the corner, if he is promoted, even if it is to increase the number of posts to be systematized. If it goes to operation again, other yamen may not be able to enter, but the official position of Kaifeng Mansion Yin is still very promising. The same is the official position of the three products, but the official position of the Yin of the Kaifeng Prefecture is very unpopular among the three officials. The main reason is that the land of Kaifeng Mansion is full of 'ancestors' and 'little ancestors', and it is difficult to manage.

"Your Majesty is naturally happy, if my Great Song Dynasty can smelt brittle pig iron into hemp steel, Your Majesty is not in a hurry to be happy, how can it be as dangerous as Brother Renjie said, what danger will there be? The iron prison is just a place where craftsmen gather, and no one cares about it in the court. ”

Zheng Qi didn't care about Li Kui's intimidation at all, he wasn't scared, he didn't eat it.

Seeing this, Li Kui secretly said in his heart: "Brother Zheng, since you are so stubborn, don't blame me. ”

He immediately pointed at Zheng Qi and asked, "Brother Zheng, if you produce 500,000 stones of hemp steel a year, how many craftsmen do you estimate?" ”

"If you count it all, 30,000 should be enough. The iron supervisors of the Great Song Dynasty were scattered all over the craftsmen, as well as the mines, and the number of laborers was no less than 300,000 or 30,000, which was nothing to the iron supervisors of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Although he is the chief official of the blacksmith workshop, if there are not enough people in charge, the imperial court will not make the chief officer of the iron supervisor a fourth-grade official. Zheng Qi said proudly: "My iron supervisor has mobilized craftsmen from all over the country, which can fully meet the manpower needs of my iron smelting workshop in Beijing." ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Qi squinted his eyes, raised his chin, and his eyebrows were full of pride.

Li Kuique sneered: "You craftsmen are all young and powerful, right?" ”

"That's nature." Zheng Qi said proudly: "Our errand is a chore, not a young and strong man, and he can't stand it at all." ”

"30,000 young people, if you are in my hometown, you can rebel with a stick."

"Renjie, don't scare me!"

Li Kui looked at the proud Zheng Qi, but with a leisurely sentence, the smugness on Zheng Qi's face suddenly disappeared without a trace. also scared this young fourth-grade official so frightened that he almost fell to the ground.

Is this possible?

It's really possible, but the question is how could Zheng Qi rebel? Hell, a stick can rebel, this is the capital, not Yizhou, the thief's nest of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Kui didn't give Zheng Qi a chance to refute at all, and then said: "Of course, Brother Zheng must be a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty. But Brother Yulin, have you thought about it? Your workshop also produces the finest armor and weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, do you think that if a traitor says to His Majesty that you are going to rebel, will he believe in slander, or will he believe you as a loyal minister? Some people say that your iron-smelting workshop can form 30,000 armor soldiers overnight, what should you do? ”

Zheng Qi was so frightened that the corners of his mouth were crooked, and when he looked at Li Kui's appearance, he wanted to point at Li Kui's nose and scold: "Master looks at you like a traitor." Unfortunately, he didn't dare. Zheng Qi trembled for a long time, and found that he had entered a dead end. Immediately, he had no choice but to get up and make a miserable gesture in the direction of the palace: "Wow, the minister! ”

Don't think about it, according to the urine nature of all the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, they must believe slander.

Even Zheng Qi had already expected this result, what else was there to say? Especially Li Kui was not ready to let Zheng Qi go, and asked him: "You have transferred all the craftsmen of the subway supervisors to the capital, wouldn't it be that the merits of the mine supervisors and iron envoys under your command have been gathered in the capital and enjoyed by you exclusively." If you do this, you will know that it is all your subordinates who have offended, but if anyone is dissatisfied with you, and says something that should not be said, and is listened to by someone with a heart, you are heinous and sinful. In the end, it is likely to be sent to Salmon Island. ”

The prime minister and privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty can all be wiped out by slander, Zheng Qi, a small iron supervisor, still dares to call out? Isn't this crazy not knowing who your last name is?

In the face of such a person, Li Kui's first reaction was to be cured.

Zheng Qi wilted, insolent and insolent in less than a pillar of incense, just in front of Li Kui like a frosted eggplant, wilted and depressed, I don't know the truth and think that what happened to Master Zheng by Li Kui?

Li Kui saw Zheng Qi so depressed and frightened, and then his heart lit up.

Makes you crazy!

Of course, Li Kui didn't deliberately give maggots to people to make things bad, but for Zheng Qi and the good of the Great Song Dynasty.

But if Li Kui speaks well and Zheng Qi doesn't listen, what can he do.

But now Zheng Qi, seeing Li Kui, seemed to see a life-saving straw, he desperately pulled Li Kui's arm and begged for help: "I also asked Brother Renjie to save my brother." ”

Poor thing!

Zheng Daguan, who had just been encouraged by the emperor, took a stand of incense and rested completely.

"It's not easy to do, is it? Although the blast furnace steelmaking was the idea given by the younger brother to the elder brother, but now you have boasted to Your Majesty, if you don't act, you will be guilty of bullying the king. But if you do, it's very dangerous. Li Kui was even frightened, and Zheng Qi was not lightly harmed. Even if Zheng Qi knew that Li Kui was scaring him, he didn't dare to complain in the slightest.

Because the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, regardless of whether he was a faint monarch or a bright monarch, as long as he heard that there might be a rebellion at the gate of the capital, his first reaction was to kill him.

The founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty relied on this hand to get the national honor, and no one else was allowed to have such an opportunity.

As for being wronged?

What doesn't exist, the emperor can't even rehabilitate him, who scared you?

Zheng Qi also thought about it, could it be that Li Kui's credit was not mentioned in front of the emperor before, which made this little brother unhappy? But is Li Kui such a small-bellied person?

"It's not easy!"

"Renjie, my brother knelt down for you."

Zheng Qi is a dignified four-grade official, and he knelt when he said he knelt, without any hesitation. What kind of literati's integrity, the dignity of being a human being, is about to die, what kind of dignity is talking about, nonsense.

Li Kui picked up Qiao at this time, deliberately dragged it and refused to speak, and waited until Zheng Qi knelt down, then he pretended to pull Zheng Qi's arm and stood up, and deliberately complained: "Brother Yulin, you and I are of one heart and one mind, why do you want to humiliate the younger brother?" But when he can help, is the little brother the kind of person who can't be saved when he sees death? ”

I think so.

Zheng Qi really thought so in his heart. But in the face of Li Kui, he didn't dare to say it. He was so proud just now, like an old dog who is always disliked by his owner, and suddenly the owner didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong that day, and touched his head, and this excitement was like trembling with excitement in the cracks of his bones. even neglected Li Kui's great contribution to the Iron Prison.

"Renjie, don't say anything, my brother has a concubine in the family, who is nine years old. It's just her mother's status, but she's well-behaved and lovely. It's impossible to be a wife to someone, if the virtuous brother doesn't dislike it......"

"I'm not that kind of person?" Li Kuiyi said in a righteous manner, his dignified Tianzhang Pavilion Mansion is not a nursery school for young girls in the Great Song Dynasty, and everyone wants to stuff it into it.

Seeing that Zheng Qi was completely convinced, Li Kui then spoke: "Brother Yulin, you are a fan of the authorities. Wouldn't you have sent the blueprints of the blast furnace to the craftsmen to the iron supervisor's workshops in various places and ordered them to build them? ”

"Will this be a leak of confidentiality? In case of...... It was stolen by the Khitans, brother, I just have a mouth all over my body, and I can't escape the blame! Zheng Qi said worriedly, he was frightened by Li Kui, and he didn't dare to make any mistakes.

"What does this have to do with you? Besides, the Khitans have learned, can the Khitans still ride iron horses to attack my Great Song Dynasty? ”

Li Kui said angrily: "A good boss wants to give his subordinates the opportunity to make a fortune and make meritorious contributions, you will be punished by God if you eat alone like this!" Of course, if something happens, you have the responsibility to lead, but the main thing is to know the person, not to be a serious crime. ”

Zheng Qi hesitated for a while, thought for a long time, and finally seemed to understand: "Renjie, brother, I understand, I'll do it." ”

After speaking, Zheng Qi hurriedly arranged for people to prepare for the technology to sink into various workshops.

Li Kui sighed and said in his heart: "It's not easy for me, in order to promote technology, it's really good-hearted!" ”

In the past, Li Kui believed that only when the Great Song Dynasty seized the short decades and developed a feudal dynasty with only handicraft industry into an empire with primary industry, could he completely get rid of the threat of the northern tribes.

This idea has not changed today's Li Kui.

But he didn't have faith in himself.

How to build a country that can reach the primary industrial system, he can't do it.

It's not a height that can be reached by inventing anything. It's a complete industrial system. Later, he was relieved, and the reason for his relief was that he still couldn't do it.

If he could, he might have done it at home.

If he built a base with a heavy industry base and produced standard firearms, what would he take the Jinshi exam? Isn't it good to prepare directly to be the emperor? But apart from his vision being a little farther than the Great Song Dynasty people and seeing big scenes, what else is there?

He doesn't even know how to build a small train, and he is ashamed to study the industrial system, so don't slap himself in the face. Today's Li Kui, he privately evaluates himself: He is a thief with a high level of culture, who went astray and became an official.

However, even so, he still wanted to rely on limited conditions to lift the industry of the Great Song Dynasty. The ancients were not stupid, and the light of wisdom often flashed on Li Kui. But the largest peer system before the Great Song Dynasty was nothing else, but the pottery industry, and the Central Plains was full of ceramic kilns, one next to the other.

What Jun porcelain, Ru kiln, Yaozhou kiln, Cizhou kiln, basically every state of the Great Song Dynasty, there are local well-known kiln factories.

It is famous for its overseas marketing.

In addition, the popularity of kilns led to the rise of coal, or coal extraction. The reason is that charcoal is too late to consume.

But what else?

The silk textile industry is very prosperous, but it is not on a large scale. Other industries are also very extensive, but not large-scale. That's why he's obsessed with pushing the technology to the next level.

Everything else is virtual, and only when the output goes up is the most important thing. He didn't believe that if the steel output of the Great Song Dynasty exceeded one million tons, it would still look like a bird?

At that time, it will not be the time for the grassland tribe to threaten and bully the Great Song Dynasty, but to pray for immortality every day and let the Great Song people who are running all over the land not come.

Fortunately, Da Song is already on the right path.

For Li Kui, the end of the iron-smelting workshop at the moment is to make flintlock pistols. As long as the flintlock pistol comes out, with artillery, plus heavy cavalry, it can sweep the entire north. Of course, there is a situation where you must not go out to fight, rainy days and snowy days will kill yourself.

However, he also needed to be prepared, he came to the glass workshop, called the steward Han Jing, and instructed him: "You take someone to the iron prison in person, and discuss with Master Lu how to set the standard." In addition, after Han Gonglian came to the iron prison, he asked him to come to see the official. ”

"It's my lord!"

Han Jing is now the most prominent management talent under Li Kui, and the technology and management are the same, and only when they are promoted can they achieve blowout development.