Chapter 202: Currency (2)
In fact, this is also Guo Dalu's move to encircle the city in the countryside, and he aims at the vast countryside of the Great Li Dynasty, and does not compete with those wealthy nobles in the rich areas of the city, otherwise, his RMB loan will be targeted soon after it is launched, and Houlong Village will have to be destroyed. But now, Houlong Village gives any renminbi goods to the poor mud legs, and does not charge interest, and is only treated as a joke by those wealthy businessmen and huge wealthy officials and nobles in the city who specialize in usury and exploiting the people, and no one takes it seriously. Hmph, these oppressive classes, how did they know how powerful Grandpa Taizu's countryside surrounded the city.
However, the promotion of stainless steel farm tools has also made a lot of jokes, those who have the status of good martial arts, although they covet this comparable to the Uzi steel farm tools, but it is not good to pull down the face to grab the farmer's hands of the fat shovel thing, just thinking about it is disgusting enough - the steel palladium over the human fat nail palladium melted, remade into a knife, and then hung on the waist, people asked, oh, your treasure knife is to pick up the feces and urine - hey, you can't afford to lose this face!
But there are also some scoundrels, who are not afraid of losing face, sneaking to the farmhouse, stealing the stainless steel farm tools, and telling the blacksmith to melt and re-turn them into weapons. However, the blacksmith did not have coke, and ordinary firewood and charcoal fire could not handle such stainless steel at all, and he barely made it, but found that the so-called stainless steel farm tools were not all made of steel, only the blade was made of steel, and the others were made of stainless iron.
The steel at the blade is damaged, and only the shop with the signboard of Houlong Village can repair it, but if you don't have RMB in your hand, and the origin of this farm tool is unknown, the shop in Houlong Village will not only not help you repair it, but will also arrest you to the government!
After coming and going, gradually no one had the idea of fighting this steel farm tool, especially the people who were good at martial arts, because they found that there was another way to get a real steel weapon.
This channel is the Longquan Divine Soldier presented by Huang Xueheng, the new county commander of Yinxian County, Huang Xueheng said that in the Fengshen Mountain on the coast of the East China Sea, a spiritual spring was found, and the spring gushed with the sound of the dragon's groan, and the spring water was taken to smelt a hundred refined steel, which could become a divine soldier, called the Longquan Divine Soldier.
This whole thing is nonsense, and it has to do with the folklore created by those tourist destinations in the 21st century, what do you say this spring water has to do with steelmaking? At most, it is used to wash the ore. But I can't stand this boo, you listen, Lingquan Longyin, refining refined steel, this is the way people imagine that smelting divine weapons should be, if you see the blast furnace in Houlong Village burning a furnace of molten steel with choking smoke, then, how sentimentless.
Therefore, Huang Xueheng's Longquan Divine Soldier quickly replaced the limelight of stainless steel farm tools, and became a high-priced bid for the officials and nobles of the Great Li Dynasty.
Longquan Divine Soldier is naturally also tossed out by Guo Dalu to divert his attention, in fact, the Divine Soldier is not made of stainless steel, but stainless steel, shiny, with dragon and phoenix patterns engraved on it, and the sheath is decorated with a pearl with a dragon's eye - in fact, it is a glass bead, with a waist, how much face and more face.
Huang Xueheng sent more than ten of the most beautifully decorated Longquan soldiers, and several bigwigs in the DPRK praised him as a capable official, and he had to be added to the rank of knight, so Huang Xueheng was well-behaved, only saying that he was concerned about Sangzi and was willing to do some practical things for his father and fellow villagers in his hometown of Yinxian County. The bigwigs said that it is really rare for the big Li Dynasty to have such a good cadre, Xiao Huang, I can rest assured that you can do everything, and you can do all the affairs of Yin County, just let it go.
This is the endorsement of the bigwigs for Houlong Village, and no one will indifferently accuse Houlong Village of building weapons and plotting to cause chaos in the future.
However, Guo Dalu is not completely fooling the court, he through Huang Xueheng, he contacted the father of the little master in the household, a few days later, the father of the little master - the head of the household Lang Zhu Zongli played, saying that the craftsman of the household department has recently developed a method of filling steel, which can smelt all iron into steel, and this method can strengthen the military prestige of my great Li Dynasty. After reading the chapter and seeing the steel filling samples presented by the household department, Long Yan Dayue praised all the meritorious ministers, and ordered the household department to set up a special department to smelt and fill steel, so that all the officers and soldiers of the Great Li Dynasty could be equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and armor as soon as possible.
So in the capital, up to the noble sons and brothers, everyone is proud to be able to hang a Longquan sword on their waists, and those who really understand weapons are guarding the homes of the servants of the household, asking for good weapons made by the steel filling method, each taking what he needs, and each fulfilling his wishes. There was only one unhappy, a great displeasure.
That is the crown prince, the prince has already arranged all kinds of means, wanting to take down the household servants and others first, these people are the second prince or the light or the secret of the door or the close officials, cut their wings, and then completely eliminate the isolated and helpless second prince, and then, he became the only candidate for the throne, and the father had to lie down to himself.
With the assistance of Zou Ming, the prince arranged a lot of affairs, once launched, like a thunderbolt suddenly descended, there was no way to resist, only to wait for death, listen to the secret spy report of his subordinates, the servants have prepared poison, just wait for the Jinyi guard to come to the door, the whole family will take poison and commit suicide, and will never go to prison to live the days of the prisoners who are not as good as death.
But suddenly, the steel filling method was born, and the servants made great contributions, and the saints praised them again and again, and they were about to be promoted in the near future--the prince knew in his heart that his father and the emperor praised the servants with such fanfare, firstly, to show his merits, and secondly, he was actually warning himself that he could not attack a meritorious man who had made great contributions to the country, right?
What's more, the prince wanted to attack the squires, but the military wouldn't let him.
Now Zhu Shilang and his two younger brothers are in charge of the method of filling steel, and how many generals are waiting for the newly smelted good weapons to be delivered to their hands - you know, for the generals, a good knife and a good armor are one more life on the battlefield, and the most precious thing in the family of many generals is not gold and silver jewelry, but a sword or a piece of armor that has been passed down for many generations.
If the prince dares to move the squires, he will not be able to get along with the millions of generals of the Great Li Dynasty!
The prince's prestige in the army was originally inferior to that of the second prince, although in recent years he has taken the opportunity of supervising the country to desperately press his own people into the army and mix sand, but this army is different from the court, if you want those big-headed soldiers to subdue you, you have to kill a blood gourd with a knife and a shot in the battle, otherwise, in the eyes of those rude men, no matter how big an official you are, you are just a new soldier's egg. Therefore, the prince has planned so far, but he still does not have full confidence in controlling the army.
This sword can't be held firmly in the palm of his hand, and the crown prince is not sure in his heart even if he is not afraid of the second prince, so he is unwilling to further deteriorate the relationship with the military, so he has to stop it for the time being.
On the day when Zhu Shilang was promoted, the prince was alone in the secret room, smashed his most beloved moon mirror, and roared and roared for a long time, but no one knew what the prince was roaring, because several servants who were on duty outside the secret room that day all fell ill and died the next day.
Zou Ming knew where the prince's ignorance fire was heading--Houlong Village, Mr. Houlong, Guo Dalu!
I have long reminded the prince that he should be more careful with Guo Dalu, and I am afraid that it is not the second prince of the great general who is lying on the sickbed, but Guo Dalu, who invented all kinds of strange things in the small village on the side of Fengshen Mountain!
But the prince didn't believe it, in fact, Zou Ming himself was just an intuition, and he really wanted him to analyze the rules and regulations, explaining how the country boy would interfere in such a big thing as the succession to the throne, he couldn't say.
But I never expected that when the prince was preparing to make a thunderous attack and set the overall situation in one fell swoop, Houlong Village and Guo Dalu came out, and a steel-filled method made the prince's servants who wanted to get rid of him become the sweets of the generals, so that the prince threw a rat bogey, and even with a series of arrangements for the second prince, he could not launch it, and he endured it again.
However, now Guo Dalu is no longer easy to move, he and Tianyi Pavilion Lord personal disciple Lou Cen Zhi became friends, and was even invited to go upstairs to read the book, the snow candy he made was very popular, and alcohol was a must-have medicine in the army and in pharmacies everywhere - now the bacteria theory has spread, those doctors who specialize in treating trauma know that alcohol must be used to treat wounds, and now he has tossed out the steel filling method, alas, its momentum has been achieved, its momentum has been achieved.
What's even more terrifying is that Zou Ming can't see through how many incredible secrets Guo Dalu still hides!
Zou Ming sat in the study, the sour branch wood desk was not a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, but a sword, a hoe, the sword is the popular Longquan sword in the capital, but the hoe is the farm tool franchised by the store in Houlong Village, in order to get this farm tool, Zou Ming spent a lot of thought, let the head of his grange deliberately befriend a nearby family who had just wandered to Beijing and got a few acres of barren mountains and landless farmers. After a few cups of yellow soup, the landless peasants were willing to lend the Houlong farm tools they bought with RMB to Zhuangtou for a few days -- the common people spontaneously called the farm tools Houlong farm tools.
Zou Ming suddenly got up, choked, and pulled out the Longquan sword, the blade of the sword was shining brightly in the candlelight, it was really a good sword! Zou Ming let out a long roar, the sword was like a white refining, flashed, and slashed to the hoe stained with mud next to it, the bell sounded, and the two utensils were divided in one blow, and the victory or defeat was decided, the mud hoe was safe and sound, and the blade of the Longquan sword collapsed a large gap in the rice grain.
This is actually not surprising, stainless steel is already on the soft side, not as good as steel. (To be continued.) )