Du He smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Although the prince can be transferred to the prisoners, they mainly make weapons. If there is iron to make farm tools for us, even if the prince attaches importance to the cultivation here, it will not affect military use!"

Du He is telling the truth. In ancient China, the first thing to supply is military.

Moreover, the productivity was very poor during the Zhenguan period, and there was no way to find much iron at all. In addition, blacksmiths had to make irons. The craftsmen in Chang'an City were divided into craftsmen, Shaofu Supervisor and Military Equipment Supervisor. These places had their own responsibilities, and even if Li Chengqian was given face, how many people could they be assigned? How many days could these people work here?

Li Chengqian didn’t know what Du He was thinking?

I walked a few steps to the river with a crutch and found that the section where this flows here was exactly narrow, and the water flow was turbulent, so a hydraulic workshop could be set up.

Although Li Chengqian was not a top student in engineering in his previous life, he still understood the general mechanics. As for iron treatment, it was even simpler. Anyway, he didn't want to make a lot of fine steel now. He just wanted to make some plows, just follow the earth blast furnace he saw in the countryside in his previous life.

Li Chengqian was just doing it, holding this section of the river channel: "Immediately build a shed along the riverside, put stones on the river bank, and start working now, and I will build all the sheds tomorrow morning."

Du He and Zhao Jie looked at each other and didn't know what Li Chengqian was going to do. They walked forward and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is almost dark this day. Why are you building such a long shed?"

"You build a shed today, and I will find someone to build an iron smelting stove under it tomorrow." Li Chengqian said and turned around and asked Pei Xingjian, "Didn't iron ore be found in the mountains before the New Year?"

Pei Xingjian hurriedly replied: "Yes, Your Highness, the iron ore we carried was sold to the smelting department of the Shaofu Supervisor."

Li Chengqian turned to Du He after hearing this, and said, "I will arrange for someone to carry some iron ore tomorrow. Isn't this the one burned outside the city before?"

"Your Highness the Prince, we want to reclaim the farmland. What iron are you making now? Even if you can make iron, you can't make plowshares." Zhao Jie couldn't help but say.

Li Chengqian calmed down and glanced over their faces, and said seriously: "You can do this matter by the Lord King. You can do it. Tell everyone that sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood, and smelting iron will not cause plowing the fields."

When Du He and Zhao Jie saw that Li Cheng became serious, they called themselves the lonely king and did not dare to raise any objections. They hurriedly arranged for people to move the freshly cut firewood to the river to build a shed.

Seeing that they started working, Li Chengqian got into the car and went back to the East Palace directly. He had a lot to do.

The first thing is to improve the hydraulic bellows. Li Chengqian has also read some ancient books from the Tang Dynasty these days. He knows that the Tang people now use fewer hydraulic bellows, and the blowing of this kind of bellows are intermittent, so he wants to change the upper bellows into a modern common fan blade-type blower without the underwater part being unchanged.

In fact, it was made into a fan-shaped one and kept turning it around and letting him breathe in.

Then he wanted to draw the blast furnace drawing. He had seen the earth blast furnace of the iron smelting plant in the village before the reform and opening up. This was not difficult.

A set of hydraulic ironworks must also be designed. These are relatively simple for Li Chengqian, just a matter of radiating several gears in one water.

Li Chengqian drew all the drawings that night and started looking for craftsmen to be the supervisor the next day, and the Shaofu supervisor and the Military Equipment Supervisor allocated craftsmen.

In the next few days, Li Chengqian handled government affairs at Chongjiao Hall every morning, and went out of the palace in the afternoon to see them build iron smelting workshops, blast furnaces, flat furnaces, and hydraulic iron studs.

That afternoon, with the hard work of a large number of craftsmen, Li Chengqian's twenty hydraulic iron scheduling platforms, ten iron-making blast furnaces and two steel-making blast furnaces were finally built.

The day before yesterday, the coke limestone, Hua Gang, etc. were all prepared according to Li Chengqian's requirements.

Li Chengqian looked at these and thought happily, "It's been almost two months since we traveled through time, we have also ordered the technology tree today. When we refine hundreds of refined steel, we should be worthy of those seniors who traveled through time!"

Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace and saw that there were no memorials to be approved in Chongjiao Hall. He was about to send someone to find the Liufangzhang Courthouse, who was on duty, and asked them to go to the iron smelting workshop tomorrow to see the first furnace of steel.

But he saw Changsun Wuji being led by a little eunuch slowly into Chongjiao Hall. He couldn't help but be stunned. Why did he do it?

"Old minister, please see Your Highness!" Changsun Wuji saluted Li Chengqian with a calm expression.

Li Chengqian stood up and smiled and said, "Uncle is exempt from gifts."

When Changsun Wuji sat down, he asked, "My uncle is not in the mansion to recuperate, why are he here to see the Lone King again?"

Changsun Wuji seemed to be unable to hear what he said, and smiled and said, "Your Majesty has issued many orders to ask the old minister to come to the East Palace to Pingzhang Government Affairs. The old minister thought that he should give His Highness more opportunities to experience, so he never came.

But today, Linghu Defen, the Imperial College Priest, submitted a memorial to impeach His Highness: he blindly creates clever things regardless of the season, which will lead to the misfortune of the farming season. Please restrain His Highness from studying in the Eastern Palace."

Li Chengqian sneered and said, "Linghu Defen is the fault of picking the Lone King when he is full. All the things that Lone King does are important things that benefit the country and the people. How can a stupid villain understand?"

Changsun Wuji was unmoved when he heard this, but said with interest: "Oh, did Linghu Defen slander His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Li Chengqian said angrily: "Of course, as the prince's grandpa, my uncle should write a letter to impeach him with ulterior motives and slander the crown prince of the dynasty for his crimes."

Changsun Wuji smiled faintly when he heard this, "What the Crown Prince said is very true. Although the old minister has become a minister in the Eastern Palace, he has been recuperating at home and is not aware of His Royal Highness's actions. How dare he easily impeach the minister?"

Li Chengqian smiled relaxedly when he heard this, "The uncle will go with the Gu Wang to see the iron smelting workshop tomorrow to see if the Gu Wang's actions are beneficial to the country and the people. Then the uncle will determine whether to impeach those who are catching the wind and shadow."

Changsun Wuji seemed to be interested when he heard this, and said, "Oh! If this is true, I want to see, how is the difference between His Highness the Crown Prince's iron smelting workshop and other places?

Since His Royal Highness is doing things that benefit the country and the people, why not issue a decree and let all the officials in Chang'an go and see it tomorrow?"

Li Chengqian could not guess Changsun Wuji's thoughts and asked, "If the Lone King ordered all officials in Chang'an to go to see iron smelting tomorrow, then who will deal with the government?"

Changsun Wuji tempted, "It's okay to go for only half a day. This will not only wash away the false words they have added to the crown prince, but also show the power of the crown prince."

But Li Chengqian became more suspicious after hearing this and said seriously: "Uncle's words are wrong. The name of the wise and virtuous king of the Eastern Palace has been passed down from all over the world. Why should a workshop be used to show the abilities of the lord king?" After thinking about this, he said: "But since my uncle said that, then I'll ask my uncle to draw a order on behalf of the lord king. In addition, I will also write another memorial and ask my father to leave the palace to relax."

"I obey the order!"

Changsun Wuji sneered in his heart, just when you were farming, you said that you would benefit the country and the people. Even if you could make iron, could you still build iron tools immediately?

At that time, the farming season will be delayed by all officials.
Chapter completed!