Chen Ying didn't care about how Wang Gui discussed this matter with the Wang family in Taiyuan. As for whether the Wang family in Taiyuan would take action against Chai, Chen Ying still didn't care.

Chen Ying knew how much profit it is in coal steelmaking. The most important thing now is a problem of technological development direction. Sometimes Chen Ying also sighed that the working people in ancient China were very smart. The origin of the use of steel in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to backward technology, they did not directly replace bronzes, but went through a long process of development.

China's first generation of steelmaking technology adopts the "solid-state reduction method". The so-called solid-state reduction is the product of charcoal reduction in a low-temperature solid-state state using a whole piece of iron ore. The quality of this steel is very unstable and has a low yield, which is in the category of no large-scale mining application.

Until the Western Han Dynasty, China invented the "Hundred Steel Making" technology. In fact, Baishen was also a technical improvement process of carburized steel in the Spring and Autumn Period. The working principle and operation method were similar. Then in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, steel frying methods appeared, and water discharge and blowing and other mechanical processing technologies were adopted, which was a qualitative leap. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, China invented the steel stuffing method.

To be honest, China has always been at the forefront of history in the steelmaking industry or non-ferrous metal smelting industry. Whether it is the Uz Steel or the Damacus knife that was blown to the sky in later generations, it actually uses carburizing and forging technology, which means it is the steelmaking technology invented in the early Western Han Dynasty in China, and the gap is a thousand years.

However, whether it is carburized steel, steel making or steel making or even steel filling, it cannot avoid a fatal problem, that is, the production capacity is too low, so for a long time, the Chinese people had to use wooden tools to farm or produce and live. In Chen Ying's eyes, the meaning of coal is more than that. This should be the first time in the land of China that people have taken the initiative to use coal to convert coal resources into power.

When coal can be used to make fires and cook, to keep warm, or to make steel, when the window paper of "Coal is a treasure" is pierced, it can be imagined that craftsmen from all over the world will spontaneously study and understand its coal principles. Within a hundred years, a large number of coal mines will be mined. With Chen Ying's point of view, the utilization of coal may bring some vitality to the trees in the Loess Plateau and the Qinling Mountains. As long as the ecological balance of the Loess Plateau is not destroyed, the problem of large-scale desertification in northern China will not appear so early.

I hope that if these things are the blood of industry, then coal is the protein of industry. As we all know, when there is a lack of protein, people have no strength at all. Chen Ying’s ultimate goal is to develop technology, liberate more people from the heavy labor, and slowly change this era.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying looked at Wang Gui, then at Li Jiancheng, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the Left Prince, you don't have to worry about it. If you two feel very embarrassed, just pretend that Chen Ying didn't say anything today."

Chen Ying may not have placed all his hopes on the Wang family in Taiyuan. The profits of coke steelmaking are too great. For this huge profit, there will definitely be many people who are willing to stand out for Chen Ying. The seven sects and five hopes are not solid. If it really doesn’t work, Chen Ying will go to the Li family in Zhaojun, or the Lu family in Fanyang, or the Cui family in Qinghe.

As the saying goes, if you leave Zhang, you will not eat a pig.

Hearing his words, Wang Gui couldn't help rolling his eyes. He didn't feel that it was difficult to destroy the Chai clan in Fenzhou. However, the Shandong aristocratic groups were all mixed and connected with each other. It was not difficult to destroy the Chai clan. However, the sequelae after destroying the Chai clan were difficult to digest. However, the temptation of carbon steelmaking was too great.

Li Jiancheng blinked, suddenly burst into laughter and said, "I have a private question to ask Chen Qing, what kind of hatred does Chen Qing and Chai have? Do you want to die? I still have some shame in Chai Chai in Fenzhou. If Chen Qing is willing, I can talk about it on my behalf..."

"Ah..." Chen Yingyou sighed and said, "Actually, my subordinates have no grudges with the Chai family in the past, and no grudges in the past."

When Wang Gui heard this, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "If you don't have grudges, you still want to destroy the whole family. If you have grudges, wouldn't you want to kill the nine clans?"

Li Jiancheng frowned and looked at Chen Ying with a look of thought.

"This matter is not enough to be sympathetic to outsiders. Please understand His Highness the Crown Prince." Chen Ying smiled embarrassedly at Pei Ju and Wang Gui.

Li Jiancheng's reaction was not beyond Chen Ying's expectations. Li Jiancheng said: "This is my confidant, and there is no secret of his words and deeds."

Chen Ying had no choice but to smile bitterly and said, "It's just that the Chai family in Fenzhou is too ignorant. They held Princess Pingyang's books and held it unwilling to let go, insisting on letting Princess Pingyang keep the rituals for Prince Chai for life."

Chen Ying's tone particularly aggravated the words "Lifelong chastity". Li Jiancheng's face changed drastically when he heard this, and his face turned red with anger: "So brave."

Li Jiancheng is the crown prince, and he is even more of a brother.

When Chinese people deal with things, they often have two sets of behavioral codes, requiring others to be kind and kind. However, as long as they involve themselves or their own relatives, they will immediately change to another set of behavioral codes, such as blood for blood and tooth for tooth.

Wang Gui patted his head and finally realized it suddenly.

Li Jiancheng's handsome face looked particularly gloomy: "Shujie, you know what to do with Chai, Fenzhou!"

Wang Gui couldn't help sitting down and said nothing. Li Jiancheng had already spoken, but there was no room for trouble. It was basically a foregone conclusion. Wang Gui sighed inwardly, why did Chai suffer?

Originally, whether it was Li Yuan or Li Jiancheng, he was somewhat affectionate with Chai, but Chai thought that he could keep the whole family rich by holding Li Xiuning’s books?

This idea is really naive. Now that there is no wealth and honor, it has caused the disaster of extermination. Now that Li Jiancheng has spoken, it can be said that the overall situation has been decided. Although Qin King Li Shimin is incompatible with Li Jiancheng in politics, on the issue of Li Xiuning, their brothers have always been consistent with each other. In other words, Chai now has no one to talk to the court.

The county magistrate of the family was defeated and the prefect of the family was destroyed.

Even if the Wang family in Taiyuan doesn't take action, there are many people who want to please Li Jiancheng. It is unlikely that Chai will do anything else.

...

Chen Ying did not stay at the East Palace to attend the banquet. He said goodbye to Li Jiancheng on the grounds that Li Xiuning was in a bad mood. Chen Ying rode a horse back to the Qinglin from Chang'an and came to the Qinglin, it was already time to hold the lights.

Li Xiuning ate some food and sat in Chen Ying's study and compiled the manuscripts that Chen Ying had in his spare time. At this time, Chen Ying found that most of the craftsmen of this era were illiterate. Even if they knew literacy, they only knew some of the "Kaogong Lu" fragments. Chen Ying decided to sponsor Ge Tong, Wei Meng, Yan Shihu and other craftsmen to edit and annotate a set of craftsmen's encyclopedia "Craftsmanship Sutra".

Li Xiuning asked very strangely: "The Qingliu scholars and officials in the era were ashamed of their work and regarded miscellaneous craftsmanship as strange and lewd skills. Why did Chen Lang compile such a set of books?"

Although I only saw some lists, Li Xiuning discovered that Chen Ying included more than 250 sub-items in thirteen major categories such as metallurgy, casting, craftsmanship, machinery, and exploration. This is a veritable masterpiece.

Chen Ying sighed inwardly that even a junior high school student in later generations could say things like "technology is the primary productive force" and "the economic foundation determines the superstructure". However, in this era, including Li Xiuning, it also believed that this was a waste of resources.

Chen Ying smiled and asked Li Xiuning: "To say something taboo, what is the root cause of Sanniang's unavoidable demise in the Sui Dynasty?"

Li Xiuning had a very strong say in this issue. She said without thinking: "The labor force will continue, and the whole world will die in service...

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "It's not that the strong external enemies are hard to overcome, but that the national finances are on the verge of collapse and it's hard to get a good solution to save them."
Chapter completed!