At this time, Feng Huai was dressed in the armor of a Weiwei, with a Tang sword hanging on his waist, but he was not wearing a helmet, and his hair was tied directly behind his head like a ponytail. Feng Huai was also beautiful, with sword-like eyebrows and tiger eyes, and a tall figure. According to the current situation Standard is the image of a standard handsome man.
"This is this?" Li Yuan looked at the brocade box held by Feng Huai and couldn't help but look at Lu Chen in confusion and asked.
"This is Tang Dao No. 1!" Lu Chen introduced, walked up to Feng Huai, and opened the brocade box. There was a Tang Dao lying on the yellow silk in the brocade box. This Tang Dao was obviously similar to the Tang Dao. The other Tang knives are different.
The golden knife handle was inlaid with glass beads. Of course, Lu Chen also wanted to inlay gems or something, but Lu Chen felt that the gemstones were obviously not as good-looking as the colored glass balls in the base, so he inlaid the glass balls on the handle. The yellow lantern spike hanging behind the handle is lying next to the Tang Dao. There is a golden guard on the handle. Except for the blade, other parts of the Tang Dao are golden. Under the Tang Dao is the scabbard of the Tang Dao. The scabbard is made of green sharkskin, with a gilt five-clawed golden dragon wrapping around the scabbard.
The Tang sword and scabbard in the brocade box shone golden in the sunlight.
"Your Majesty, this is Tang Sword No. 1, which I prepared for Your Majesty!" Lu Chen took the Tang Sword out of the brocade box, turned around and presented it to Li Yuan.
Everyone was shocked by the workmanship of this Tang Dao, because this Tang Dao was so beautiful that it directly attracted everyone's attention. Even Xiao Yu, who was looking for a chance to get involved with Lu Chen, could only be disappointed. He sighed, because he couldn't achieve his purpose of using Tang Sword No. 1 to attack Lu Chen.
"Okay!" Li Yuan reached out and took the Tang knife that Lu Chen presented to him. When he saw the glass ball on the handle, Li Yuan couldn't help but be a little surprised. There was no shortage of gems and other gems in the palace, and Li Yuan had seen a lot, but like This kind of beautiful colored glaze has never been seen by Li Yuan before. It can even be said that this colored glaze is more exquisite than the hourglass in the ironmaking workshop.
"I'm very satisfied!" Li Yuan motioned to Chang Bao, who had already received the brocade box, to come over and put the Tang Dao into the brocade box. "My trip today has been well worth it!" For being able to obtain the method and harvest of blast furnace ironmaking Tang Sword No. 1, Li Yuan was already satisfied with leaving the palace and coming to Lujiazhuang today.
"Your Majesty, I have my own foundation!" Just as Li Yuan finished speaking, he saw Qu Tutong standing among the civil servants and stood up directly.
"Oh? What is Aiqing's original story?" Li Yuan turned to look at Qu Tutong.
"I think your majesty should ask the Marquis of Lu County for the forging method of the Tang Sword!" Qu Tutong glanced at Lu Chen and said directly, and what Qu Tutong said was also a matter of concern to all military generals. It was mainly made by Lu Chen. The Tang sword was so good that even weapons forged by hundreds of steel refiners could not compete with it. If the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could all be equipped with weapons made of such fine steel, who else in the world could stop the army of the Tang Dynasty?
Therefore, after Qu Tutong said these words, all the generals looked at Lu Chen with burning eyes.
However, as soon as Qu Tutong finished speaking, Li Yuan's face darkened, and he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with what Qu Tutong said. In fact, Li Yuan didn't want to obtain Lu Chen's "fine steel" forging skills, but Li Yuan still had something in his heart. There are more considerations. After all, the blast furnace ironmaking method only increases the output of pig iron and wrought iron, and the forging of Bailiang Steel is very laborious and laborious. Lu Chen can create so many fine steel Tangs in a short period of time. Knife, obviously the forging of fine steel is much easier than the smelting of steel.
Li Yuan is relatively relieved to put this forging method with Lu Chen, because Li Yuan knows who Lu Chen is, but if this forging method is handed over to the imperial court, it is impossible to say that it will be easily obtained by aristocratic families. If The aristocratic family also obtained this kind of fine steel forging method, which Li Yuan did not want to see.
"I will consider Qu Aiqing's words, but I have to ask the Marquis of Lu County before I can make a decision!" Li Yuan did not answer Qu Tutong immediately, but turned to look at Lu Chen.
"Your Majesty, I feel that even if I offer my fine steel forging skills to the court now, it will be useless!" Lu Chen naturally knows what Qu Tutong means. If Qu Tutong is related to the family, then it is possible After all, it is very difficult for a general like this who was killed from a sea of blood to be accepted by aristocratic families. Moreover, Qu Tutong is one of the "Twenty-Four Heroes of Lingyan Pavilion" and belongs to the Tiance Mansion. Department, this Qu Tutong wants to obtain the fine steel forging technique from Lu Chen, most likely to arm Qin Wang Li Shimin's team.
"Why is this?" Li Yuan looked at Lu Chen with some confusion and asked, and the others also looked at Lu Chen with confusion.
"Your Majesty, the method of casting fine steel requires a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron. The current iron output in the Tang Dynasty is not enough to support the forging of fine steel. Your Majesty must have understood the iron output here!" Lu Chen said here Pointing to the iron-making workshop not far away, Li Yuan also nodded. Lu Chen's iron-making workshop can produce at least more than 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms of iron a day.
"But even so, I have only forged more than fifty Tang knives!" Lu Chen said with a sincere expression on his face, but Lu Chen did not say the specific transformation, he just said something ambiguous , directly made Li Yuan and these civil and military officials think that fine steel requires a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron to forge. In fact, Lu Chen's fine steel ingots were piled up in the warehouse of the Hou Mansion for several rooms, and these were all kept by Lu Chen for future use. It will be used to develop muskets, and Lu Chen doesn't want to give this fine steel forging method to the imperial court now.
Because Lu Chen also knew that if this method was handed over, although the imperial court would get fine steel, the same aristocratic families would also get it, and the aristocratic families might even be able to forge fine steel faster than the imperial court.
Before the musket was developed, Lu Chen had no intention of contributing the open-hearth steel-making method to the imperial court. What's more, the imperial court didn't even develop the blast-furnace iron-making method. They only thought about the open-hearth steel-making method. That was fundamental. It's impossible. After all, the open-hearth steelmaking method does require a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron to support it. If the output cannot increase, it will only make it cheaper for those aristocratic families.
"That's it!" After hearing Lu Chen's explanation, Li Yuan nodded, and Qu Tutong and others really had nothing to say. After all, according to Lu Chen, the current iron production of the Tang Dynasty really cannot satisfy the forging skills. With the demand for steel, don’t ordinary people no longer use iron? Are all the iron materials in the treasury used to forge fine steel? Then there is no need to fight outside, Datang will have to be in chaos inside.
"It's my presumption!" Qu Tutong is also a person who can take things up and let them go. Since he knew that he had acted too hastily, and Li Yuan's expression was quite unkind just now, Qu Tutong saluted Li Yuan directly.
"I don't blame those who don't know! My beloved is also thinking about the country, so what's the crime?" Li Yuan was also very satisfied with Lu Chen's well-founded rejection. Only then did the expression on his face look better. Li Yuan had never thought about Tutong. After all, Qu Tutong was also considering the imperial court. But if Lu Chen was really forced to contribute this fine steel forging method, Li Yuan would definitely scold Qu Tutong bloody when he went back.
"Thank you for your grace!" Qu Tutong knew that Li Yuan said this and said that he would not blame himself. Qu Tutong hurriedly saluted Li Yuan again. After saluting Li Yuan, he turned around and hugged Lu Chen with a fist and said: "Marquis of Lu County, I am anxious for the moment, but I still hope to see the Marquis of Lu County, Haihan!" These words were said sincerely, without any false or perfunctory meaning.
"Lord Qu, you are so polite! It is said that those who don't know are not to blame!" Lu Chen returned the salute to Qu Tutong, "Your Majesty also said that Lord Qu is dedicated to serving the country. How can I blame Lord Qu?"
Seeing the two of them saluting each other, Li Yuan also knew that the clouds had cleared for the day, but what would happen in the future depended on what Qu Tutong did. As for Lu Chen, Li Yuan knew that in this matter, Lu Chen was I won't bother these generals.
"That being the case, I've seen almost everything here! I've been out for a long time, and it's time to return to the palace!" Li Yuan said with great satisfaction.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Lu Chen naturally couldn't follow Li Yuan back to the palace, so he sent Li Yuan and others directly outside Lujiazhuang and saluted Li Yuan.
After watching Li Yuan leave Lujiazhuang with the ceremonial guards and civil and military officials, Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't that Lu Chen was afraid of something happening, it was mainly because he was too tired to deal with these people.
"Chang Bao, please tell me that Li Xiuning will dispatch 3,000 people to Lujiazhuang, with full authority to follow the directions of the journey. As for the numbers..." Li Yuan, who returned to the Nuan Pavilion of Tai Chi Hall, sat behind the Long Bookcase and ordered directly to Chang Bao, "Let's call them Beiwei Guards! Since Lu Chen's guards are called Beiwei Guards, these three thousand people are also my guards for Lu Chen, so let's call them this name!" Li Yuan thought for a moment and made a decision.
"Yes!" Chang Bao hurriedly agreed, but said secretly in his heart: "Good guy, a county prince has a larger guard than the Duke of the country. How can this be justified? It seems that your majesty really prefers this Lu county prince!"
Just when Chang Bao was about to turn around and leave to deliver the edict, he was stopped by Li Yuan again: "By the way, Chang Bao, here is another edict, saying that Lu Chen's contribution to the blast furnace iron-making method has made him directly promoted to Chang'an County. male!"
"Yes!" Hearing that Lu Chen had been promoted again, Chang Bao's heart skipped a beat, but he still turned around and responded. Seeing that Li Yuan had no other instructions, he went out to greet the eunuchs to give Li Yuan's orders.
"This Lu Chen is really powerful. In just a short time, he has been promoted to Chang'an County Duke!" As soon as Chang Bao conveyed Li Yuan's two orders, Xiao Yu got the news at home and couldn't help but start in the study. He was pacing back and forth with an angry expression on his face.
On the other side, Wang Gui and Wei Ting also summoned the heads of several other aristocratic families in Chang'an, and all of them gathered at Wang Gui's home.
