Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 192 The villain comes to the door
Liu Mu said the reward.

"Thank you, sir." The craftsman was a slave and kowtowed heavily.

He believed Liu Mu's words, and Liu Mu's promise was very credible.

I once said that these people work hard and have half a catty of meat every day.But now everyone has a catty of meat every day.

At the moment, the craftsman expressed his determination on behalf of the people in the workshop: "I am willing to change to three shifts a day."

"Forging iron is hard work. After a long time, the physical strength will be insufficient, and you will not be able to strike good steel. As for the third class, we will talk about it in the future. Right now, follow the rules of the fourth class and work hard to make good iron."

"Yes."

Li Yuan said at this time: "Just use the molten steel from the furnace just now, and you will make a knife for me, a short knife. I am not in a hurry, three to five days is not too long. I want to see your craftsmanship."

"Thank you, thank you saint." The craftsman was very moved.

To be able to fight a dagger for the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, as a slave, this is something he dared not even think about, and it also makes the people around him envious.

After leaving the steel workshop, Li Yuan smiled all over his face: "Very good, very good. I believe what you said about five thousand stones and iron. Now it seems that if this place is well built, ten thousand stones and steel a year is not a problem."

Throughout the Tang Dynasty, the peak steel output was [-] tons.

Five thousand tons is equivalent to one hundred thousand stone steel.

Li Yuan has been surprised by Liumu here, it can indeed produce [-] stones and steels a year.

But no one knows better than Liumu. Liumu knows that later generations can directly turn ore into steel, and there are two to three hundred tons in one furnace. In fact, one ton here is less than [-] kilograms, which is [-]% of the output.

And the manpower consumption is huge.

There are hundreds of people in the workshop, and there are also ore smashers, coking workers, and feldspar workers outside.This is not counting coal digging, feldspar digging, and transportation. More than 1 people are busy here, and the figure of [-] shi is once lacking in confidence.

Helpless, there is really no way to compare the era of large-scale machine industry with the era of full manpower.

However, Tang Emperor Li Yuan was satisfied.

Leaving the steel workshop, Liu Mu asked Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty to sit in a soft sedan chair. It was at least a day's walk away from the so-called Li Palace built by Liu Mu.

That night, while temporarily camping in a valley to rest, Liu Mu came to Li Yuan's tent.

"Sage, do you want to send a bigger official to manage this steel workshop?"

"Why did you send another bigger official?" Li Yuan asked.

"Because, self-made armor will be exiled for three thousand miles, and this Gangfang minister doesn't want it anymore." Liu Mu called himself a minister because he was already an official.

Li Yuan was thinking, did Liu Mu advance by retreating, or was he really afraid that the steel workshop would cause trouble for him.

In the end, Li Yuan still said: "I don't want it. It is enough for you to hand over [-] stone and steel every year, and the rest will be discussed." Li Yuan rejected Liu Mu's proposal.At the end, Li Yuan added a sentence: "This is a sacred order and cannot be violated."

"Yes."

Li Yuan said to Liu Mu again: "I think it's better for you to stay away from Chang'an."

"I thank the sage." Liu Mu also thought about running far away, and it would be better to take tens of thousands of people to Hainan Island.

Now that his identity has been revealed, Liu Mu feels very troublesome in the whirlpool of the Prince's Mansion and King Qin's Mansion.

Just when Liu Mu was about to say that he planned to go to Laizhou, who would have thought that Li Yuan said again: "Although I think it's good for you to stay away from Chang'an, you can't go."

Liu Mu really wanted to shout out: What do you mean, old man, you are playing with me.

Li Yuan smiled: "This is asking for trouble. Once the output of the steel workshop is known to the court, you can't do without Chang'an."

Willow regretted it, really regretted it.

We should wait for Li Shimin to sit on the throne before building this steel workshop. We can't even send it out now, so we have to get involved in the battle for the throne.

"Sage, Xiaomin, do you think it's okay to go to Bingzhou for a tour?"

"Okay, I'm sure." Li Yuan agreed.

The next day, I finally arrived at the location of the later Renzhi Palace. It is impossible to build a palace complex here in a short period of time, but dozens of unique wooden houses can be built here.The imperial guards used tents on the periphery, and a lot of wooden houses could be allocated.

"Saint, do you still remember the interesting story I told you?" Liu Mu held a box of mahjong with both hands.

In one day, Liu Mu made Emperor Tang fall in love with mahjong.

And Liu Mu also found an excuse to leave Yaozhou and ran back to Sanyuan.

Dugu Lanruo, who came back with Liu Mu, sat in a carriage with Liu Mu on the road.

"Tell me, what happened?" What Dugu Lanruo didn't understand was that Liu Mu didn't want to be an official, but why did he suddenly become an official.There must be some reason for this, and she was patient until now before asking.

Liu Mu asked Dugu Lanruo to lean against him: "This is called death, and I caused trouble for myself. I thought I was very good, but suddenly found that I was very ordinary. The matter is very simple. I was involved in the prince's mansion and Qin Wang's mansion Controversy, the sage let me be an official, that is, let me go from the dark to the bright."

"This is to protect you." Although Dugu Lanruo is a woman, her knowledge is not bad.

Liu Mu nodded: "That's right, it's protecting me. It seems safe to hide in the dark, but if the Prince Qin's Mansion and the Prince's Mansion are in the same situation, the person hiding in the dark will be more dangerous, and I will be in the open." None of the petty officials in Prince Qin's Mansion moved me without excuses."

"You're not stupid."

"I am trying to persuade others that it is the saddest thing to stand in the middle at this time. It is really stupid to put on the posture of standing in the middle. But I still want to hide for a few days. I count the time and hide for ten days Half a month is enough, the ten days and a half month just after the confinement of the crown prince ended." Liu Mu expressed his thoughts.

Dugu Lanruo asked: "How to hide?"

"Borrow medicinal materials to go to the ordnance, and go to Bingzhou once. Then come back, calculate the time and it will be almost the same."

Dugu Lanruo made up her mind, it seemed like what Liu Mu said.

What Liu Mu wanted to hide was not the prince, but Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.Liu Mu didn't want the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to think that he was a little conspirator, so when the Prince Qin's Mansion and the Prince's Mansion fought again, Liu Mu was going to avoid it.

At least for the first round, don't let yourself play.

Finally, the convoy returned to Sanyuan.

But Dugu Lanruo turned her head and glanced north: "Actually, it's pretty good on the mountain in Huayuan. Are you worried that you will make mistakes in front of the saint?"

"No. I care about my field." Liu Mu replied with a smile.

Liu Mu really wanted to go back to Sanyuan because the harvest season was coming soon.

But to Liu Mu's surprise, he only came back for a day, and before he recovered from the fatigue of the journey, there was a vicious guest at home.

Cui Yiye has been staring at Sanyuan. As soon as Liu Mu came back, he came over from Chang'an.

The house where Liu Mu lived was the one given by Li Bi, and the one where Tang Emperor Li Yuan lived temporarily for a few days.

Cui Yiye did not come alone, he still brought Dou Shikuan with him, as well as gifts of ten carriages.In the first of these wagons was a chest full of silver cakes.

(End of this chapter)