"Father, this is not possible. There are only five local cannons in total. Can you not let go?" Li Chengqian did not ask the old man who had brought the way to him, because there was no need. He just wanted to let Old Li realize that these cannons are useful now and they should not be given randomly.

"Can you produce more of your local cannons? I am almost annoyed by them. If you have given you so much money, you can't make more and go back and give them some points." At this time, Lao Li was still thinking about the 30,000 yuan he spent, and felt that this money should be able to handle the local cannons.

"Father, the technology of those cannons is not yet mature and cannot be mass-produced now." Li Chengqian shook his head. In his opinion, there is no need to produce the important local cannons. It is better to continue to study new weapons than to have the energy.

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty should not have any major wars to fight in recent years. Even if it is a war, it is still fighting like a group of nomads, and there is no use of cannons.

"No matter whether it is mature or not, you can't have some for them?" Li Er just wants to calm his ears now. As for whether the art of cannon technology is mature, he doesn't care much about this.

Moreover, the cannon that can shoot 500 steps is already very good in Lao Li's opinion. It is enough to use it to score goals. As for Li Chengqian's intention to create a cannon that can attack targets ten miles away, Li Er thought it was completely unnecessary.

On this issue, Li Er and Li Chengqian have completely different views, and neither side can convince each other. However, from an objective perspective, Li Er's view is more practical. After all, the cannon that can shoot ten miles is no different from the cannon that can shoot one mile, except for being used to pretend to be a calf.

"It's OK to do some, but I don't have money." Since the old man couldn't change his mind, Li Chengqian simply started from the root and rubbed his fingers to find Lao Li to continue asking for money. As long as he gave money, it would be a piece of cake to build a few cannons.

But whether in the Tang Dynasty or later generations, it is the most difficult to get project payments. Even if Li Chengqian is the prince, he will not make it easier to get money.

So, when the old man shook his head and refused, Li Chengqian had no expression, but spread his hands and said, "Father, this thing is iron, and it takes a lot of steel to make it. You can't let me turn it out of thin air, right?"

Queen Changsun didn't say anything, just stood aside and watched Li Er and his son fighting with a smile on his lips.

Although Lao Li kept glaring at his eyes, Empress Changsun knew that this was just a game played by the father and son, a psychological game that only the royal family could have. Everything depends on Li Chengqian's psychological endurance. If he could achieve his demands under the pressure of Lao Li, then it would be his victory, otherwise it would be failure.

This is also a kind of examination. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, such examination will always be with Li Chengqian, and the day when Lao Li gave up his throne in the end.

Li Chengqian, who was in the middle of these sects, also knew, so he had been struggling and trying to "survive" under the pressure of the old man. Perhaps this was the price the crown prince had to pay.

"How to solve the problem is your problem. At the beginning, you asked for 30,000 yuan. Now the sixteen guards are asking for artillery. You can watch what to do. In short, don't let them bother me again." Li Er picked up the already slightly cool lotus seed soup and planned to end the conversation.

"Father, please give me more money. 30,000 guan is really not enough. Cannons cannot be used in one or two. If you want to use it, you must use it in large quantities. If all the sixteen guards are equipped, the total amount will not be more than 6,000, which will be of any effect at all." Li Chengqian had a bitter face and continued to cry for the poor.

In fact, when Lao Li decided to hand over the matter to him, a bold idea arose in his heart. All the "fighting" he is doing now is just to get the greatest benefit for himself and to make the old man find a sense of accomplishment.

However, Li Er was frightened by Li Chengqian's words and his hands were trembling, and the lotus seed soup almost fell to the ground: "How many do you say? Six thousand doors? Do you want to make six thousand doors like this?"

"Father, there are not many six thousand gates. There are only three hundred and seventy-five gates in each guard, one guard and five mansions, and each mansion has only seventy-five gates..." Li Chengqian counted little by little with his fingers, but was soon interrupted by the old man.

"I can calculate this, you don't have to tell me." Old Li's face was full of depression. This little brat really didn't feel sorry for selling his master's land. Sixteen guards were divided into six thousand cannons, and one guard had three hundred and seventy-five. Don't this kid know that the current sixteen guards don't even have 300 crossbows and catapults?

"Father, I don't want to calculate this number. It's really a cannon that has to be formed to be useful. It's useless to split one or two balls, right?" Li Chengqian shrugged innocently. The old man on both sides did not use overheating weapons. If you can, just scare him. As for what will happen in the future, I will talk about it later.

"If you follow the numbers you said, how much do you want?" Li Er put aside the matter of how many cannons each guard was divided, and planned to listen to and ask Li Chengqian how much money it would cost.

"100,000 guan...".

"100,000 guan! Why don't you go and grab it?" Li Er was startled by the number of 100,000 guan, and slapped the table and stood up, staring at Li Chengqian, with the expression on his face as if he wanted to eat people.

"Father, the earth cannon is not like a catapult. It's enough to have stones. The earth cannon must have gunpowder and shells. Without a large amount of gunpowder and shells, the thing is just a piece of broken iron and has no use at all." Li Chengqian shrank his neck, for fear that the old man would rush over and beat him up.

One hundred thousand guan, it doesn’t sound like a lot, but how much tax was in the Tang Dynasty in that year? In order to reduce the taxes to the people, Li Er has not raised the tax rate in recent years. The money in the treasury can be said to be as high as the annual spending, but it has not saved much. How could he take out one hundred thousand guan at once?

If you talk about the inner treasury, you can take out the money, but the inner treasury money is used to build a palace on Longshouyuan. How could you take it out and fill the hole of the Sixteen Guards?

So now the problem that originally belonged to Li Chengqian has been pushed back to Lao Li. Should we equip the sixteen guards with cannons, and if so, how much equipment is!

Li Chengqian is not Li Er. He would not really do such a thankless thing as allocating artillery to the Sixteen Guards. There was no good thing for those old killers. In terms of Li Chengqian's qualifications, it was not qualified at all. If you really talk about it, you would not have any result except being bullied.

So it is better to scare the old man back at a price of 100,000 yuan and take the initiative to take the errand back. After all, it is easier to deal with an old man than to deal with sixteen old men.
Chapter completed!