"Oh! It turned out to be Lord Zheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, disrespectful! Disrespectful! Lu Chen arched his hand casually at Zheng Shanguo, and said with a smile, for this kind of person who relies on the old and sells the old, Lu Chen has never given any face, not to mention that the other party is still a member of the family, and Lu Chen will not give the other party any good face.

All the civil and military officers also saw Lu Chen's perfunctory appearance, and Chai Shao and the others, who were familiar with Lu Chen, were directly holding back their laughter, just now Wang Qi and Wei Ting had been given 15,000 acres of fertile land by Lu Chen, and this old boy was probably not much better.

As for what Lu Chen said about increasing the output of ironmaking, Chai Shao suddenly thought of the blast furnace that Lu Chen had mentioned to him, but he went to visit the training of Beiweiwei at that time, and Su Chang's incident happened later, so Chai Shao has not seen how the blast furnace makes iron, and how the output of the blast furnace ironmaking is, and Li Yanjun, the princess of Langya, who has really seen the output of the blast furnace ironmaking, is sitting in the Langya Palace at this time, sitting on the embroidery bed, holding the song "Qingping Tune" written by Lu Chen to her!

"A branch of red dew condenses incense, and the clouds and rain Wushan break the intestines in vain. By asking who in the Han Palace is like, poor Feiyan leans on new makeup. Li Yanjun muttered poems while looking at "Qingping Tune", the more she thought about a pretty face, the better, and then thought of Lu Chen's high-spirited appearance, and couldn't help but laugh hehehe.

"Princess, what's wrong?" Chun'e, the palace maid standing at the door of the room, heard Li Yanjun's snickering voice, and couldn't help but ask another palace maid, Lian Cui.

"How do I know! The princess has been reading that poem for almost a morning, and if she laughs for a while, it can't be hysteria, right? Lian Cui guessed quietly.

"Don't talk nonsense! If you want me to say, the princess may have met the person she likes, and this poem may have been written by the person she likes! Chun'e said with a grin.

"Really?" Lian Cui looked at Chun'e with some surprise, these two palace maids are not very old, they are only thirteen or fourteen years old, "If the princess is still a concubine, will we also follow out of the palace?" "I don't know if Lian Cui's thinking is more jumpy than Chun'e, and it is directly related to what happened after Li Yanjun is still a horse.

"Then who knows, I guess it depends on whether the princess wants us to serve or not, right?" Chun'e pondered for a moment and said, because after the princess was still a concubine in the past, the palace maids who had served them were still left in the palace.

"I don't know who is so lucky to be so worried about our princess!" Lian Cui said with a grin.

"I heard that His Royal Highness left the palace and went to Lujiazhuang! Could it be the new Chang'an County Marquis? Chun'e muttered in a low voice with Pian Cui.

"Really?" Lian Cui looked at Chun'e with some surprise.

"It's hard to say! Although I heard that there have been ministers who have proposed marriage to His Majesty, but they have all been rejected by His Majesty, but His Royal Highness has come back from Lujiazhuang this time, and he is a little unrelenting, I estimate that eight or nine will not leave ten! Chun'e said in a speculative tone.

"What do you two say?" At this moment, Li Yanjun suddenly appeared in front of the two palace maids, just now the two palace maids were muttering here, Li Yanjun didn't notice it at first, but when Li Yanjun noticed it, she walked over, and what these two palace maids said later was really listened to by Li Yanjun.

"Your Highness, I... We didn't say anything! Seeing Li Yanjun, the two hurriedly saluted and said, with a trembling look, you must know that there are not a few people who will be punished or even beaten to death when they talk about the affairs of the main family outside, not to mention that this is the inner courtyard of the palace, Li Yanjun beat them to death in anger, they all deserved it, after all, they were talking about Her Royal Highness the princess in private.

"Humph!" Li Yanjun snorted coldly, "How can you discuss Lu Xianhou at will?" ”

"Huh?!" Hearing Li Yanjun's words, Chun'e and Lian Cui were stunned, "Shouldn't we say that the two of us are talking about you?" Why did you run to Lu Xianhou? The two secretly glanced at each other and muttered to themselves in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it, and it seemed that Li Yanjun was not angry because of what they whispered.

"Your Highness, the two of us are just saying, if Your Highness is still a horse in the future, will you let us continue to serve you!" Chun'e directly reported what the two of them muttered just now to Li Yanjun.

As soon as he heard the words "Shang Concubine", he thought of Lu Chen again, and suddenly Li Yanjun's face turned red, "Who said that this palace wants Shang Concubine!" Slap your mouths again! Although Li Yanjun said this, there was no threat in his words at all, but more like relieving his blushing.

"Your Highness, what kind of person is that Lu County Marquis?" Lian Cui smiled and leaned in front of Li Yanjun and asked.

"Lu Xianhou?" Hearing Lian Cui's inquiry, Li Yanjun couldn't help but recall what Lu Chen had done in front of him in the past two days, but immediately reacted, "What are you asking for?" Eventful! Get out of your way! Li Yanjun glared at Lian Cui directly, followed by a flick of her sleeves and returned to the embroidery bed to continue to look at the song "Qingping Tune" written by Lu Chen.

"Eight or nine is not far from ten!" Lian Cui and Xiu'e glanced at each other, the two looked at each other and smiled, and then what should they do, as for this matter, both of them had a tacit understanding and never mentioned it.

In the Tai Chi Palace, Lu Chen still looked at Zheng Shanguo with a smile.

"Lu Xianhou doesn't need to be polite, this official is just skeptical that Lu Xianhou can increase pig iron production by himself!" Zheng Shanguo looked at Lu Chen with a condescending attitude, but he did have this capital, you know, Zheng Shanguo is not only a person from the Zheng family in Xingyang, but also has a relationship with the Qinghe Cui family, Zheng Shanguo's biological mother is a person from the Qinghe Cui family, and three or four out of ten iron mines in the Tang Dynasty can be in the hands of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and the Qinghe Cui family also controls a part of the iron ore.

If all the iron ore in the hands of the Qinghe Cui family and the Xingyang Zheng family are counted together, these two great families basically control nearly half of the iron ore in Datang, if Lu Chen really has the technology to increase pig iron production in his hands, it is definitely a huge threat to the two families.

"Oh! It turns out that Zheng Shangshu is also suspicious of Ben Hou's words! Lu Chen looked at Zheng Shanguo with a smile, and those who were familiar with Lu Chen knew that Lu Chen was preparing to dig a pit for Zheng Shanguo.

"You always have to be suspicious of Ben Hou, Ben Hou, and I don't have so much effort to accompany you to grind your mouth, otherwise, how about we also set up a word?" Lu Chen smiled at Zheng Shanguo, "As far as Ben Hou knows, your Zheng family has a lot of mines, and Ben Hou doesn't want much, two mines, how about it?" Lu Chen said, stretching out two fingers at Zheng Shanguo.

"What if the county marquis can't confirm it?" Zheng Shanguo looked at Lu Chen with a gloomy face and asked in a deep voice.

"If you can't confirm it, do you see this?" Lu Chen pointed to the iron stove, "When the time comes, how about Ben Hou hand over the production method of this iron furnace and the technology of cleaning the charcoal to you, Zheng Clan?" ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Zheng Shanguo's eyes lit up, you must know that the Xingyang Zheng clan and the Qinghe Cui clan both have a large amount of iron ore in their hands, if they can get the technology in Lu Chen's hands, then the wealth created by this technology alone will be enough to strengthen the Zheng family and the Cui family again.

"No!" However, Zheng Shanguo still thinks that compared with these techniques, it is more cost-effective to hold Lu Chen in his hands, after all, Lu Chen has too many secrets.

"What's wrong?" Lu Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at Zheng Shanguo, "Isn't this thing and the technology of cleaning charcoal enough to exchange the two mines of your Zheng family?" ”

"This official thinks that if you add Lu Xianhou, it's almost the same!" Zheng Shanguo sneered at Lu Chen and said, "Don't you dare Lu County?" ”

"You have a big appetite!" Lu Chen squinted at Zheng Shanguo, "If you add Ben Hou, there will be more than two mines!" Lu Chen sneered and said.

"I don't know how many mines Lu Xianhou thinks he is worth?" Zheng Shanguo looked at Lu Chen with a smile, as the family with the most iron ore, they are very familiar with the production of pig iron, and they have not thought about increasing production, but their increase in output is nothing more than increasing labor, but the input and output are obviously not proportional.

"Five!" Lu Chen stretched out a hand directly at Zheng Shanguo, "Do you dare to bet?" Lu Chen looked at Zheng Shanguo and said.

"Good!" Zheng Shanguo simply agreed, Zheng Shanguo really didn't believe that Lu Chen had a way to greatly increase the output of pig iron, "But I said in advance, if you increase labor or something to increase production, this official will not admit it!" Zheng Shanguo also proposed the methods he could think of in advance, blocking one of Lu Chen's ways.

"No problem!" Lu Chen nodded directly and agreed, "But if you use the method of increasing labor to increase production, even if Ben Hou loses!" ”

"Your Majesty, please also give pen and ink, and the minister should use the words of Lu County Hou as a basis!" This time, it was Zheng Shanguo who made a request to Li Yuan to use pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"Hmm!" Li Yuan has been sitting behind the Long Shu case this time watching the two of them talk, after Zheng Shanguo made an application, Li Yuan simply agreed, the reason why Li Yuan did not interject to interrupt, or stop Lu Chen, is from the incident just now, Li Yuan knew that Lu Chen's order to go to the court this time was aimed at these families, and if Lu Chen was not completely sure, he would not make such a bet with Zheng Shanguo.

Soon, the chamberlain brought the pen, ink, paper and inkstone over again, but this time it was Zheng Shanguo who wrote it, and Lu Chen dictated, and when Zheng Shanguo finished writing, Lu Chen confirmed again that it was indeed written according to what he said, and the two signed and stamped the notes respectively, and this time Zheng Shanguo directly wrote three copies.