"Humph!"

Zhang Haihui sneered, the look of disdain on his face was undisguised.

The scene became noisy.

"Five hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver, this is not a penny and a half, why should His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes do this?"

"Isn't it, there's no need to be so pushy."

"It's not like this is spent so indiscriminately, and it's unpleasant to keep up with the official family."

"At that time, when the Shangguan family reported 680,000 taels, they should have given up and let them build it!"

“……”

Shangguan Yunfei was so angry in his heart.

How can there be such a business?

Even if you don't make money, you can't lose money like this!

He has repeatedly communicated and demonstrated with the top steelmaking masters in his family that no matter how strong Li Changfeng's smelting technology is, it is impossible to reduce the cost to this extent.

This is clearly aimed at their Shangguan family.

But he really didn't dare to take it.

A mere hundreds of thousands of taels is nothing to the Shangguan family, but if it continues to be tough, it will be tantamount to a complete face-to-face with Li Changfeng.

Completely turning his face with Li Changfeng is equivalent to turning his face with Emperor Qianwu and Daqian.

Now that Daqian has artillery and muskets and other killing weapons in the town, the barbarian temples are helpless, where do they have the courage.

The fact that the Wangjia Yunzhou lair was bombed into ruins is still vivid.

Shangguan Yunfei could only choose to compromise.

"Ahem!"

Seeing that the scene was noisy, Feng Quji coughed loudly twice.

After calming down, he looked at Shangguan Yunfei.

"Did the Shangguan family confirm that they wouldn't follow?"

Shangguan Yunfei squeezed out a smile: "Don't follow." ”

Feng Qujian nodded and announced loudly: "Okay, then this project will belong to His Royal Highness the Ninth Emperor Prince, and the auction will end." ”

As soon as the words fell, Shangguan Yunfei couldn't wait to leave with a gloomy face, and the others also said goodbye after saluting Li Changfeng.

Feng Qujian stayed at the end, found Li Changfeng and sighed: "Your Highness, why bother to be rash? You have not only made a loss-making deal in this way, but also offended the Shangguan family, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Li Changfeng smiled dumbly: "This prince will do a loss-making business?" ”

When he threw out an olive branch, the Shangguan family did not respond for a long time, so he asked people to calculate the cost and throw out the budget with the smelting technology that is common in Daqian today.

In fact, with the iron ore screening and purification technology he has mastered now, and the technology of removing impurities can greatly reduce the cost, and the support of quenching technology does not require manual repeated forging, which compresses the cost.

Even in the new steelmaking plant that is about to be launched, steam engines are used in many processes, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

This kind of gap is the gap between the era of industrialization and the era of farming, which is something that people like Shangguan and Feng Quji cannot imagine and understand.

Feng Qu was stunned for a moment: "Your Highness, are you sure you won't lose money?" ”

Li Changfeng smiled: "That's nature. ”

Feng Quji glanced at Li Changfeng deeply, obviously still not believing it, thinking that Li Changfeng was just to fight in the ring with the official family.

However, he didn't delve into this, and said with a dry laugh: "It's good not to lose money." ”

Then after a few words, he took his leave and left.

With the departure of the bidders, the news of today's events quickly spread in the capital.

In addition to praising Li Changfeng for really being open and transparent, the most discussed thing is that he is a wronged leader.

His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes, who have always been the best at making money, actually started a loss-making business?

It's outrageous.

Li Changfeng looked indifferent.

He won't lose money on this deal at all.

Of course, it is true that there is not much to earn.

But he didn't care, he just wanted to beat the arrogance of the Shangguan family, so that the other families who were about to make a move knew his determination in this matter and didn't make obstacles for him.

This incident was just an insignificant episode for Li Changfeng, but it was indeed a great insult to the Shangguan family.

After Shangguan Yunfei returned to the mansion, he was furious, and frantically smashed everything he could see in the mansion, like an angry wild boar.

"Bastard! What a bastard! ”

"It's been hundreds of years, and no one from that royal family has ever targeted my Shangguan family like this!"

"Damn! Li Changfeng, this bastard is really damned! ”

“……”

After a period of frenzied venting, Shangguan Yunfei gradually regained his composure, his eyes were cold.

"Gunpowder! It's all because of gunpowder! ”

"Without gunpowder, there would be no artillery and muskets, and what kind of grenades!"

"If we also get gunpowder, we can also make artillery muskets and grenades, and when that time comes, will the Li royal family dare to be so arrogant?"

"We must do everything we can to get the formula for gunpowder!"

Shangguan Yunfei's mind is very clear, gunpowder is the fundamental reliance on the concessions of the major families and the aggressiveness of the Li royal family.

In fact, he is not the only one who is playing such an idea, other families of the eight great families, important ministers in the court, and even the eldest prince and others are also playing the idea of gunpowder.

It's just that the gunpowder factory in the Huangzhuang is heavily guarded, and no one else can enter except for Emperor Qianwu and Li Changfeng, who can enter and leave freely.

Even a bird can't fly in.

Even if they fly in, they will be watched by the guards until they are shot and burned.

The purpose is very simple, that is, to avoid such a thing as Asuka passing the book and leaking the secrets inside.

In terms of secrecy, both Li Changfeng and Emperor Qianwu did everything.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Railways, under the control of Li Changfeng, the construction of the Daqian railway network officially began.

Such a large project requires a huge amount of manpower and material resources, similar to the infrastructure investment and construction of the country where Li Changfeng lived in his previous life, which not only provides a large number of jobs, but also stimulates related business development.

Daqian's economy is developing rapidly under his promotion.

The common people earn wages through labor, the merchants make profits by deploying and providing materials, and the cadres collect commercial taxes from the merchants to subsidize the finance.

Up and down, everyone rejoiced.

Just when everything was progressing in an orderly manner, a letter of state from the Goryeo Kingdom was sent to Emperor Qianwu's desk.

Different from the last time, this time the letter was written by the king of Goryeo himself, and his words were extremely respectful and sincere, praising the Daqian artillery and other Zhenguo killing weapons to convince the world, and asking the Daqian to send troops to help kill the Japanese invaders.

He even called Emperor Qianwu the Heavenly Khan!

This is tantamount to completely letting go of his dignity and patting Emperor Qianwu's sycophants.

It was really like hyenas that the would-be robbers had harmed the Goryeo Kingdom so badly that the king of Goryeo had to beg for a big job.

For the title of Tian Khan, although Emperor Qianwu knew that it was a compliment, he was still very happy and laughed in the imperial study.

However, he did not lose his mind and had no intention of sending troops.

The next morning, Emperor Qianwu asked Gao Dali to read the national letter to his ministers.

The ministers consulted, but no result was discussed.

Now that the Hu people in the north are all ready to make a move on the big Qian, and the money from the treasury is going to be used to build the railway, where is the energy and silver to help the Goryeo Kingdom?

Let them fend for themselves.

(End of chapter)