After Park Yuxing left, Qin Mu was in a low mood, he wanted that Park Yuxing had obtained the flintlock pistol, a hot weapon that changed the war, and it would be easy to unify Silla and win the entire Tang Dynasty.

When the Ryukyus invaded China, it was an invasion across the sea, and now Silla borders the Tang Dynasty, and it is not impossible to be small and broad.

Qin Mu planned to escape Silla and return to Datang within three months.

"What's wrong?" Ruoqin looked at Qin Mu in a daze with a basin of water.

She put the water on the ground and picked up a towel to wipe Qin Mu's hands.

Qin Mu sat up slightly, his eyes were full of worries.

"Park Yuxing, do you want you to do something for him? Brother, you must really want to return to Datang. ”

Qin Mu took her hand, "Ruoqin, are you still willing to return to Datang with me?" ”

Ruoqin smiled slightly, "I'm all your people, I'll go wherever you go." ”

Qin Mu laughed happily, and the suppressed emotions in his heart eased a lot.

"Ruoqin, I'll give you happiness."

Ruoqin's face was filled with a happy smile, and she was already very happy to be by Qin Mu's side in her heart.

Two days later, Qin Mu's body recovered seventy or eighty percent.

He asked Park Woo-sung to gather all the blacksmiths on the back cover to build the house.

Looking at the hundreds of people in the courtyard, Park Yuxing asked suspiciously, "Are these people enough?" ”

"It's not enough, it's not enough, you know that the steel needed for the barrel of this musket alone requires more than a dozen steps, and after the steel is made, it will need to be processed, and hundreds of people will be needed for large-scale manufacturing, and it will take at least a thousand people to produce a musket."

A sneering smile appeared at the corner of Qin Mu's mouth, "I wonder if Master Pu's family background can support it?" ”

Park Yuxing pretended to be calm, of course he couldn't support it, each of these craftsmen had a monthly salary of 200 wen per person, according to 2,000 people, they needed 400 taels of silver a month, and 1,200 taels in three months, these are okay, the money of iron ore is several times the money of craftsmen.

Coupled with the materials, workshops, and so on, at least forty or fifty thousand taels of silver are required.

Although he is a king, his autonomy is not as great as he imagined, in addition to his own land, the court does not give much money, and he has to smuggle steel from the Tang Dynasty to do it.

In order to make a musket, he didn't even have the money to recruit troops and horses.

"That, Qin Mu, I think three months is too short, how about I give you half a year?"

Qin Mu nodded embarrassedly, "Well, it's okay, we can slow down a bit, but this workshop needs one, I think of a book of great profits." ”

"What's that?" Park Yuxing asked excitedly.

"Glass!"

"What is glass?"

"That is, your glass, this thing can be made into a cup, bowl or something, sell it to Datang, a piece of dozens of taels of silver, its raw materials are much cheaper than iron ore."

"Oh!" Pu Yuxing stared at Qin Mu in disbelief and urged, "Then let's do this first!" ”

Seeing such a huge profit, he doesn't care what muskets are or not, he can have everything before he has money.

"However, it is still necessary to build a blast furnace in the early stage, because the refining process of the two of them is very similar."

Blast furnaces are needed to reduce ore to make glass and steel, which is an unavoidable way.

Qin Mu walked up to everyone and shouted, "The literate blacksmith stands up." ”

The people below, you look at me, I look at you, and no one stands up.

"Well, Master Park, your place..."

Park Yuxing was also very helpless, "They don't even understand what you say, so why don't I go to Datang and recruit a few people over?" ”

The trick that Park Yuxing said was actually a clear kidnapping.

"Then you hurry up and do it, it's not far from the Mid-Autumn Festival." Qin Mu said with his hands behind his back and on his toes.

"Build the blast furnace first, and then you can recognize the map."

Qin Mu returned to the room and drew a drawing of the structure of the blast furnace, and then became a shopkeeper.

A few days later, Qin Mu lay in a rocking chair in the newly built workshop, drinking tea, accompanied by Ruoqin.

"Brother, do you still want it?"

"Ruoqin, remember, you are not my servant, lie down obediently, we are on vacation now."

"Vacation?"

Qin Mu talked about the future, "In my hometown, newlyweds are going out to play everywhere, now we are trapped in Silla, this fart place is nothing to see, and when I return to Datang, I will definitely take you through the three mountains and five mountains, kick seven or eight famous buildings, and feel the great rivers and mountains of our Datang." ”

Ruoqin was very happy when she heard it.

Xiaoqing ran over from a distance at this time, "Where are you going, take me!" ”

Wu Zhengji also followed.

"Okay, let's go, let's go together! By the way, how is your perfume workshop over there? ”

Xiaoqing explained: "It's already being put into production over there, but it's far worse than Luoyang's, they're all so stupid..."

"It's okay, it's okay, there's a lot of time, it's almost enough." Qin Mu replied lazily.

In Luoyang City, Qin Mu's Li Mansion was already overgrown with weeds, and occasionally a few resting craftsmen took a nap in it.

Shangguan Wan'er walked to the door and glanced inside.

Since Qin Mu left, she always felt that life was a lot boring.

Empress Wu was extremely angry at Qin Mu's escape from prison, and told Luoyang Jin Wuwei that once he saw Qin Mu appear in Luoyang, he would be killed.

The two consecutive prison escapes had already made Empress Wu judge Qin Mu to be an extremely difficult person to control.

"I hope you're well, Qin Mu." Shangguan Wan'er said to herself.

The ultimate beneficiary of Qin Mu's departure is naturally the Luoyang Guild.

Yelan rumors have no owner, and there is still a workshop, so they directly bought the workshop and continued to hire workers.

In Liu Changqing's house in Nanshi, several shopkeepers of the Luoyang Guild were all red.

Drinking and listening to music in the room during the day.

"Oh, today's wine is extraordinarily sweet, hahahaha..."

"Qin Mu's henchman is solved, and our business will be even more prosperous in the future!"

"This is thanks to President Liu's methods, I didn't expect that the squire of the Criminal Department could be used by the president! Admire under it! ”

Chairman Liu smiled and said nothing, only he knew that in order to pass on the idea that the Queen Mother Qin Mu was a profiteer who brought disaster to the country and the people, he wasted a large amount of financial and material resources, and it can be said that half of the family property has bottomed out.

Fortunately, now the Yelan Rumor Workshop has become his, as well as the steel mill, and the drilling rigs.

"Hey, President Liu, I heard that you still gave those workers the monthly money Qin Mu gave, this... What a loss. ”

Chairman Liu smiled confidently, "Loss? I didn't lose at all, I let them continue to work in the workshop, then recruit new people, and when they learned it, I quit them all. ”

"High! President Liu's trick is high! ”

"What about the steel mill? Are you going to do the same? ”

Speaking of the steel plant, Liu Changqing suddenly felt that it was a hot potato.

Qin Mu planted a heel here, and wanted to set up an ironmaking workshop privately, which was the operation of giving people a handle.

"Just put it there, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it can be converted into a Yelan Ballad Processing Workshop."

"That's good, if you are short of people and money, the younger brother can contribute."

"I'm the same!"

Chairman Liu naturally understood that these people wanted to build a new workshop with him in order to get cheaper goods.

"Good talk, good talk, let's drink."

In the White Horse Temple, Xue Huaiyi had just been lifted from the foot ban when he received the news that Qin Mu had escaped from prison, and he was overjoyed.

"Hmph, I really thought I was an immortal! Wild! In this Tang Dynasty, you are a dragon to coil, a tiger to lie on your stomach. ”

Xue Huaiyi has always been very confident, after all, Qin Mu's status as a businessman alone means that he is easy to deal with.

If it weren't for Qin Mu's quick reaction a few times, Qin Yi would have died in the cave in the mountain nest a long time ago.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, Xue Huaiyi changed his clothes and prepared to go to Tianxian Tower to live happily for a while.

The Empress Wu in the Guanfeng Tower was lying on the bed with a sad brow.

Now that she has control of the court, worshipping the Holy Diagram is the first step for her to proclaim the imperial power.

But these are just false names, things that cannot be touched or spread.

She needs to prove that she needs to be added to the military industry, Tubo has coveted the fertile soil of the Central Plains for a long time, and wantonly interfered with the border people, if she can annihilate it in one fell swoop, it will be a world-famous reputation.

However, it is too expensive to directly send troops to encircle and suppress it, and it is not good for the treasury to be empty.

The most important thing is that Shu is mountainous and forested, and it is not easy to march.

An idea popped up from Empress Wu's mind.

Directly drive the people to cut down forests and open roads, first destroy Qiang, and then go straight to Tibet to expand the territory, so as to make the greatest preparations for their ascension to the throne.

At this time, Shangguan Wan'er walked in.

"Wan'er see the queen of heaven."

Empress Wu nodded slightly, "Wan'er, do you think I can become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Shangguan Wan'er was shocked, this was the first time that Empress Wu had said this question directly in front of her.

"Datang is thriving under the governance of the Queen of Heaven, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and you have the ability to govern the world."

"Oh?" Empress Wu felt that Shangguan Wan'er had something to say, "Are you saying I'm not worthy?" ”

"Wan'er didn't mean that, although Datang is thriving, but the hidden crises behind the prosperity are fatal."

Empress Wu suddenly became interested, sat up and asked, "What are the crises?" Tell me about it. ”

"One is military power, my Tang Dynasty soldiers are famous for their bravery, but the veteran is gone, and there is no leader in the void."

Empress Wu smiled helplessly, she had killed many generals who held military power, and now there are really no martial generals.

Although Zhang Guangfu can lead the troops, he is too greedy and is not far from death.

"Go on."

"Second, the government military system has come to an end, and many government soldiers have fled to many places, because each expedition takes too long, at least three years, at most five years, and when they come back, their homes have long been wrong, and the arable land may have been occupied."

Empress Wu nodded, "The government military system was established by Emperor Taizong, and it was very applicable at the beginning of the founding of the country, but now... The land annexation is serious..."

Speaking of land annexation, after thinking of Qin Mu, he always had a feeling that Qin Mu could solve the current problem.