"Old Yao, take back ten sets of these vats and give them to others. Keep one set for yourself, but don't let your two sons keep it."
At the same time as the Li Family Zhuangzi and the front line, Li Yi met Yao Chong and the others.
He took out a set of enamel utensils. Several people wanted to laugh, but Yao Chong was the only one with a sullen face.
Yesterday, he said that he wanted Li Yi to solve the problem of rust. But today, when he came to discuss other things, Li Yi took it out.
This rhythm was too familiar. It seemed that every time Yao Chong said something, Li Yi had already prepared it in advance.
Yao Chong thought that he should take oxygen. He couldn't take it anymore and was about to collapse.
Was his life so bad? Was he always so unlucky?
"What's wrong with my son?" Yao Chong continued to stare.
"You contributed a lot to the Tang dynasty, or else I would have dealt with your son." Li Yi was not polite at all.
Yao Chong's arrest had nothing to do with corruption, but it was true that his family did not do anything good.
Was Wei Zhigu wronged? When he went to inspect Henan, Yao Chong's son handed him a note to protect the people who took bribes and broke the law.
If he protected them, he would let down His Majesty and his position. If he didn't protect them, he was worried that Yao Chong would deal with him.
He refused and came back to tell His Majesty, but was betrayed by His Majesty.
Wasn't it because Yao Chong was important? Was this something that people would do?
"Deal with it then. Do you think I'm afraid of you? Do you think … this thing will work? Don't take it out and lie to me. "
Yao Chong's voice was low at first, but he raised it again when he turned around.
"There are five people in the regiment now, and there are also five people outside. One set for each." Li Yi was not in the mood to talk nonsense.
"Others will definitely know when they see it. Isn't it just coating the outside of the iron plate?" Yao Chong flicked the enamel jar with his finger and discovered the secret.
"I'll lend you a kiln and you can burn it slowly. Do you know how big the fire is and how long it will take? "Li Yi curled his lips.
"We'll find out eventually, and then you won't be able to sell it for a good price. This thing costs a lot." Yao Chong was still stubborn. He waved the enamel jar in his hand.
"10 RMB. In the future, when you sell it for 10 RMB, you have to pay 1 RMB of tax." Li Yi said according to the agreed price.
Yao Chong lowered his head and drank the tea in the enamel jar. He didn't say anything.
If the price was too low, he wouldn't have enough capital to test a bunch of things.
More importantly, he felt that if he sold it so cheaply, Li Yi would make the recipe public in the future, and everyone could burn it.
Whoever obtained it first and then kept trying it out would probably burn all the kilns before they could even try it out.
"Do we have to let other people know about the recipe?" Liu Youqiu also thought of the same problem.
"First, I'll burn the military kettle. I'll sell it after I make some money. Other people don't make much profit from producing this thing. Instead of burning porcelain, I'll burn it.
I'll take a look at the export side and burn some of it. I'll ask someone to send it to Guangzhou and bring it out. If the people outside accept it, I won't make it public. "
Li Yi told him his plan.
Once it was made public, everyone would burn it. The price would be hard to control.
He wanted to burn some patterned ones that were glazed twice or thrice, especially for export.
The enamel without any patterns was for the people of the Tang dynasty.
He would ask Guangzhou's Department of Shipping to stop them. If they encountered any pure enamel, they wouldn't be allowed to export it.
"I'm here to ask, what's the use of warships in the Yellow River?" Li Rizhi knew the situation of the enamel and stated his purpose.
"Warships can only be steamers. We don't have any at the moment. If other ships go there, it will be a hindrance. It will force the Tubo people to take the opportunity to build more boats and rafts at Sister Lake to burn our ships."
Li Yi disagreed. It wasn't easy to send the warships over, but they would be targeted by the Tubo people.
The Tubo people couldn't build big ships, but they could build rafts. The army had to think of ways to protect the warships. It was putting the cart before the horse.
"What if the Tubo people build more boats and rafts now?" Yao Chong raised his own question.
"It means they want to take the initiative to attack us from the water. We'll wait.
The speed of the ships will be there. Wherever they gather, our people will be there to defend.
If there are too many rafts gathered, our ships will go to the middle of the river and shoot the sky-scraping monkeys to blow up the people on the shore. Then we'll take the rafts back. "
Li Yi pondered for a while. He wondered what the rafts would be used for. Obviously, it was to counterattack.
The speed of the army on land and the speed of the ships in the river were different.
The army could retreat during the day and then go around from a far place. In order to coordinate with the army, the rafts had to move first and keep an eye on the boats.
Moreover, it was easy for the ships to go down the Yellow River, but it was difficult to go against the current.
It was impossible to use rafts on the Yellow River with bamboo poles. They could only use oars to row slowly.
If oars were so easy to use, why would there be boatmen?
This was the Yellow River during the rainy season, not the ditch in front of the door.
…
On the west bank of the Yellow River, Zasykuzé's tent was at the back. He did not dare to set it up at the front.
Even the most beautiful and largest tent was not his. There were people going in and out of that tent, looking very busy.
He was afraid that if he was exposed, the Tang army's hot air balloons and big kites would fly over with explosives.
If he knew the location during the day and flew at night, he would be blown up if he was not careful.
At the moment, he was thinking about building a ship and rafts. The tool he was using now was a sheepskin raft. He would use oars to row.
He saw Bo Xie's drawing of the ship in the intelligence report, including the general structure. It was not very detailed, so Bo Xie could not dismantle the ship.
He rented a ship. When there was no one around, he dragged it to the shore and studied it carefully.
The research was almost pushed back into the water. He could not dismantle the ship he rented under Tubo's name.
Bo Xie did not have any outside helpers. They were all taken care of.
What if he took advantage of the Tang dynasty people stepping on the ship and killed them and seized the ship? There was no concrete evidence before, but now there was evidence to kill him directly.
However, Bo Xie gave detailed drawings of other things, such as threshers, mills, and washing machines.
In theory, connecting rods were the same. As long as he thought about it, he would know how to build a ship.
Zasykuzé was thinking. He wanted a ship that could go up and down freely in the Yellow River.
He also had sheep on sheepskin rafts. The tribes that came with him brought horses, cows, and sheep. Let them kill the sheep to build rafts?
Then after the war, even if they won, they would starve to death.
What would they eat when the weather turned cold? Would they expect to eat some highland barley? They could also kill the yaks. They would not eat meat and could not resist the cold.
"Can the raft be rowed?" Tashi Kuge asked the Qianhu of the tribe he had been in.
The Qianhu looked like he had lost his soul. He shook his head. "It can't. The raft is too big and the wood is heavy. Most of it is in the water. I don't dare to think about rowing against the current. "
After that, he returned to his previous dull look. He was sad.
Guan Lin's family was gone. According to the description of the people he went to find, there was a secret passage under Guan Lin's house.
Obviously, Guan Lin's family was hiding or running away.
He had treated his family well. Why didn't they come with him?
Who would he look for if he got sick in the future? If he had known that they would run away, he would have caught them and brought them with him.
"I should take my medicine." Zasykuzé suddenly said and yawned.
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