Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Keep putting it down until the concrete slab is crushed." Li Zhen remained unmoved. The pressure resistance of a thousand catties is not enough. Even the momentary impact can withstand a thousand catties, and the compressive capacity is at least It takes two thousand catties to be considered qualified.

"Yes." Wu Xiangyang had no choice but to obey orders and continue to add sandbags to it.

"Giggle!" When sixty sandbags were placed, the cement board finally couldn't bear the weight and groaned in pain.

"Let it go, keep putting it on." The joy on Li Zhen's face became more and more intense. At first, he thought that the pressure resistance of two thousand catties was considered good, but now it was three thousand catties, and the abnormality appeared.

"Yes, go ahead."

The sandbags continued to be placed upwards, and every time one was added, the joy on Li Zhen's face became more and more joyful. Finally, when seventy sandbags were placed, there was a "click", and the cement board finally let out an overwhelmed moan. One is broken into two.

"Three thousand five hundred catties, it's already bigger than I expected." The joy in Li Zhen's heart was even stronger. You must know that this cement board is pure cement board, and no sand or gravel has been added to it. If it is mixed with sand and pebbles, it will become Concrete, that strength will again multiply.

"Rewards, there are many rewards." Under the agitation of Li Zhen, she couldn't hold back her excitement, and with a wave of her little hand, she threw out a lot of money.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your reward." Wu Xiangyang was the first to react, and quickly kowtowed to Li Zhen.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

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The rest followed suit.

"I'll leave it to you here. The formula of No. [-] cement must be strictly kept secret, and vigilance will be enforced recently, because Ben has to be guarded outside the entrance of the cement kiln at all times." After finishing the cement test, Li Zhen was ready to return to the palace. asked.

This time when he returned to the palace, he brought a bag of cement and the last piece of cement slab that was successfully curd - this was to announce the good news to Li Shimin, and to ask for a reward by the way.

"Yes, Your Highness, don't worry, your subordinates will make arrangements for everything." Wu Xiangyang immediately assured.

"Well, with your words, I'm relieved, and I'm leaving." After Li Zhen finished speaking, he rode away. Li Ergou and others quickly guarded the carriage and followed Li Zhen.

Li Zhen was eager to repay Li Shimin's credit, but she didn't expect that someone in Chang'an City was already planning to make trouble for him.

The matter had to start with Wang Tixin, who was released by Li Zhen, but Wang Tixin was beaten up by Li Zhen and sent back. Naturally, he harbored hatred. When he saw Li Yuanchang, he couldn’t help adding fuel and jealousy, and went a step further in Li Zhen’s original words. artistic processing.

"Crack!" The good teacup was smashed into pieces, and Li Yuanchang's furious voice came at the same time: "Bastard, what is he? How dare he be so arrogant? Come on."

"Your Highness." Wang Yuanjun, Li Yuanchang's pro-military commander (regular official position is the Dianjun of the Hanwangfu, and he is the fifth rank), immediately stood up.

"Send me an army and kill Li Zhen for me." Li Yuanchang's face turned black. In fact, after Wang Tixin's embellishment, he has become a despicable, shameless, insidious, cunning, double-faced, scheming, and scheming. Shameless villain, not to mention greedy, three feet high, and endlessly demanding, he is really a fighting scum among scum, and a third-rank bastard among melees.

How could Li Yuanchang endure being scolded like this?Although he felt that he had a bad reputation on weekdays, he couldn't be such a jerk, right?I am a prince, although I am a jerk, but I still have the Zongzheng Mansion on my head, how dare I go too far?

Now Li Zhen has ruined his reputation so much, if he really spread the word, his reputation will really be ruined.However, his reputation is not good at all. After Li Zhen added fuel to the fire, maybe even the Zongzheng Mansion will be involved, and then the nasty things he did secretly will be unstoppable.

"Your Highness, no, it's a big taboo for a prince to transfer troops without a reason, and the target is another prince. If this matter is leaked, even the Supreme Emperor will not be able to keep you." Wang Yuanjun hurriedly advised, what are you kidding, you are a majestic prince, in Chang'an city Privately mobilizing the army, do you want to die, still want to die, still want to die?Even if you don't want to live, we haven't lived enough.

"Then what do you say? Are you going to let him ruin my reputation like this?" Li Yuanchang naturally knew that it was impossible to transfer troops, but did he just watch his reputation lose completely?

"You still have a reputation as a fart?" Wang Yuanjun complained in his heart, but he didn't show any signs of action on his face. Instead, he took the initiative to say: "Although it is impossible to directly mobilize the army, what if we don't use the name of the army?"

"What do you mean?" Li Yuanchang's eyes lit up and he understood what Wang Yuanjun meant. He clapped his hands and laughed and said, "That's right. Those who wear armor are soldiers, but who knows who you are when you take off your armor? Recruit 300 people for me." , I want Li Zhen to die."

"300 people? Is it too many? This is already our entire armed force in Beijing. Besides, His Royal Highness King Yue can't be killed standing behind him." Wang Yuanjun was taken aback. Although he took off his armor, What is the difference between dispatching more than 300 people at one time and directly dispatching the army?Besides, you still want Li Zhen to die, don't you know that he has gods behind him?You really want to die.

"Then how many people do you want?" Li Yuanchang really lost his composure at the moment. Dare to look down on me?If I don't teach you a lesson this time, won't people think I'm afraid of you?Where do I put my face?

"According to Wang Tixin's dictation, His Royal Highness King Yue only brought six people with him. Although they are highly skilled in martial arts, they are hard to beat with four fists. The subordinates reckon that more than 30 people are enough." Wang Yuanjun directly gave Li Yuanchang cut 90.00%.

"Thirty people? No, it's too few. Tu Jiang and more than 20 people can't beat them. Even if there are ten more people, it's probably enough. It's still 100 people." Li Yuanchang directly denied that thirty people are not safe enough. .

"100 people are fine." Wang Yuanjun thought for a while in his heart: "But it's best not to let this happen in the city. In addition, the life of His Royal Highness King Yue must be guaranteed."

"Nonsense, I knew I couldn't put it in the city." Li Yuanchang took a sip of tea and hummed: "Okay, go get ready, I'll pick a better stick too, I want to beat Li Zhenyi myself pause."

"Yes." Wang Yuanjun bowed and retreated.

Chapter 90

Chapter 18 Li Yuanchang Blocks the Road

Li Zhen is in a good mood. As long as she donates the cement to Li Shimin, she will definitely get great benefits from Li Shimin. Even if she wants to add another state fief, it is not impossible.

However, Li Zhen was not so greedy. In fact, this time he mainly wanted a right to mine and smelt metals.In ancient times, even ordinary people knew the importance of steel to the country.

During the Tang Dynasty and even the entire feudal society period, salt and iron were two major projects exclusively owned by the state. Among them, salt was related to the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people in the whole world, and iron was the most powerful fist of the state. It was privately operated (the Zhuo Wangsun of the Western Han Dynasty was an exception. When his family made iron, the Han Dynasty had not yet been established. Even so, the management rights were taken back during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, making the Zhuo family who dominated Sichuan disappear).

Li Zhen is not too rare about the right to manage salt, because he knows that the reason why the price of salt is high in this era is not because the salt is so precious, but because of the difficulty of mining, refining and transportation.

The first is the extraction technology. The current seawater drying process is too complicated and the efficiency is very low;

The second is that there are too few sources. Apart from sea salt, Datang’s second salt producing area is central Sichuan, where mineral salt resources are very rich, but there are too many impurities in the mineral salt, and some are toxic. more difficult;

Then there is the difficulty of transportation. The center of the Tang Dynasty is in Chang'an, in the middle of Babailiguan. Whether it is transported from the middle of Shu or from Henan Province (not Henan Province), it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. The price can't make any money at all.

It is these three reasons that also lead to high salt prices.

But Li Zhen knew that there were many salt lakes on the snow-covered plateau in Tubo. The salt lakes here were not only rich in salt, but also closer to Chang'an.He originally planned to mention it to Li Shimin when he had the opportunity. Guanzhong has suffered from salt for a long time. If Li Shimin knows that there is a large salt-producing land not far from him, then it will not be a matter of Tubo's invasion or not. , but the Tang Lord did not take the initiative to fight Tubo.

Although she has no interest in salt, Li Zhen is still quite interested in steel.In his previous life, he was a top student in science and engineering, and he had countless designs in his mind. The only problem was that he was trapped by the untimely supply of materials, otherwise he would have realized the various designs in his mind long ago.

As the backbone of industry, no matter what Li Zhen wanted to design, she couldn't bypass the threshold of steel in the Tang Dynasty, but the quality of steel at this time was really bad.

After Li Zhen visited the iron smelting workshop in the Shaojian Mansion, she became desperate. It didn't mean that the craftsmen at this time couldn't smelt good steel, the problem was that it was too troublesome.At this time, there was already a steel pouring method, but the steel produced by the current steel pouring method barely reached the level of crude steel. If you want to go further to get better steel, you can only beat it manually, and the efficiency is slow. To die, if all the steel from the Shaojian Mansion is used for my experiments, I am afraid that the Ministry of War has not gone crazy (all the good steel has been given to Li Zhen, what do we use to fight?), Li Zhen will go crazy first (the supply of materials is not timely , almost going crazy in a hurry).

So, adhering to the great concept of doing it yourself to get enough food and clothing, Li Zhen decided to play on her own, instead of bringing the young prison mansion to play.As long as you can build a blast furnace yourself, how much steel you want is not up to you?At that time, two furnaces of steel will be smelted, one furnace will be used, and the other furnace will be dumped—no way, rich and self-willed, I envy your Young Prison House to death.

"Your Highness, there are people blocking the way." Sitting on the horse, Li Zhen was yelling at her own steel empire, and Wang Jin, who was looking ahead, woke Li Zhen up.

"Huh? Who?" Li Zhen looked up quickly, and found that there were more than 30 people blocking the road ahead.

"It seems to be a man from the King of Han." Li Ergou followed up in a carriage, and when he heard Li Zhen's question, he quickly replied: "The man in the middle seems to be Wang Yuanjun, the Dianjun of the King of Han's Mansion, and he is also the number one expert in the King of Han's mansion. In terms of skill, I am afraid that he is still above his subordinates."

"My Cao, what a dick? It's a pity that the number one master of my palace hasn't arrived yet." Li Zhen was surprised at first, and then regretted, when will the number one master of his palace come?

"Your Highness, can we be more serious? There are enemies ahead." Li Ergou is also drunk with Li Zhen, the enemies have already surrounded him, can you cooperate and show some face?

"What are you afraid of? I'm not afraid. What are you afraid of?" Li Zhen had a look of indifference. This king is not easy to provoke. If you really annoy me, don't blame me for being cruel.

"Nonsense, isn't it? Of course you are not afraid. You are the prince of the Tang Dynasty. Who dares to kill you? But we can't do it. Whether we leave you and run away, or are surrounded by them, the end should not be too bad." Good." Li Ergou's ability to complain is getting stronger and stronger, if he can be given a complaining energy collector, maybe he can become a superman.

"You are from the King of Han, right? What do you mean by coming to me? Could it be that Li Yuanchang is going to tear his face and fight me desperately?" Wang Yuanjun was only about ten steps away from Li Zhen, just when he was about to say a few words , but Li Zhen asked first.

"" Wang Yuanjun opened his mouth, you are too open-minded, aren't you?Although His Highness the King of Han is indeed ready to tear his face apart, you can't say it clearly.