Li Tai came to the palace and waited in the side hall as usual, drinking Luoyang black tea and eating Nanliang cakes. When he returned to the palace, he went home. The chamberlain next to him was still waiting on him.
However, when the king's servant came over and saw Li Tai, he quickly greeted him respectfully and said:
"King Wei, why did you eat it? Your Majesty has already asked Guanglu Temple to prepare a delicious meal waiting for you!"
"First fill your stomach!" Li Tai said calmly, took out a jade and handed it to the king's servant, "Aye, you want to see me?"
The king's servant calmly accepted the jade and said with a smile,
"The sage is asking his servants to come over to declare you King Wei. You'd better go and see King Wei as soon as possible. The sage is very happy recently."
"Oh?" Li Tai was stunned when he heard what the servant Wang said, but he didn't continue to ask in detail.
Because exploring these secrets by yourself will not be of any benefit to you.
To be more precise, I want to take an upright route, not a Machiavellian route. Information is very important to me, but excessive pursuit of information around Li Shimin may cause unnecessary trouble.
So Li Tai just said, "Who are the ministers in Tai Chi Hall at this moment?"
The king's servant glanced at Li Tai unexpectedly, but he didn't mean to hide it and said to Li Tai,
"There are Prime Minister Du, Duke Zheng, Duke Wei, and Duke Chen!"
When Li Tai heard this, he understood that Zheng Guogong was Wei Zheng, Wei Guogong Li Jing, and Chen Guogong Hou Junji. They were basically the most senior leaders in the military and political circles.
Li Tai didn't expect that Li Jing would also participate. Shouldn't he continue to recuperate at home?
Li Tai took a deep breath, not understanding what he had done. Did he need to give himself such a big fight?
Even if Wang Xuance defeated Tubo, in the end, in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was just a small barbarian country in the southwest.
Even if Wang Xuance had some merit, it wouldn't be enough to involve so many people!
In any case, Li Tai soon arrived at the Tai Chi Hall. After seeing Li Shimin salute, Li Shimin smiled and said,
"You have been quite lively this year, tell me what you have done!"
"Aye, I haven't caused any trouble this year. I've been very obedient and have been building roads in Henan Province!" Li Tai said to Li Shimin with an innocent look on his face.
"Oh~" Li Shimin smiled when he heard Li Tai's words, "Really? Where did the academy soldiers' armor come from!?"
"The armor of the academy soldiers? Isn't that the method of making fish scale armor taught by the imperial court?" Li Tai said he didn't understand.
"Ahem!" Li Shimin coughed a few times, but saw two soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, who were struggling to lift the armor that was almost as high as a person and brought it to Li Tai.
After putting it down with a bang, Li Tai looked at the ground first, but he didn't know what the ground was made of.
There are no holes in it. I really don’t know what it is made of.
"Aye...is there anything wrong with this armor?" Li Tai glanced around the hall and soon found Fang Xuanling. Then he pointed at Fang Xuanling and said, "This armor has been reported to the prime minister.
Yes, I didn’t forge armor privately!”
"King Wei, you never said that this one hundred and sixty kilogram armor was iron armor!" Fang Xuanling said helplessly.
"What is the armor if it's not iron armor? Could it be stone armor? Can a person wear it?!"
Li Tai became a little anxious when he saw Fang Xuanling not taking the blame. In Li Tai's opinion, Fang Xuanling was trying to trick him!
"Aye, don't listen to the slander from the roommate. I made it clear when I reported it to the Ministry of Education!"
Li Tai looked at Fang Xuanling and wanted to throw the blame on him, so he decisively emphasized that he was absolutely innocent.
"That's enough!" When Li Shimin heard this, he interrupted Li Tai and said solemnly,
"A piece of armor weighs one hundred and sixty kilograms. If you get four thousand armors out, there will be a total of six.4 million kilograms of steel.
Not to mention the various miscellaneous steel weapons, which together weigh almost seven million kilograms.
Where on earth did you get so much iron? Is your steel city enough?!"
"About five days... no, seven days of production!" Li Tai stretched out his fingers and estimated the steel on his hands.
"What did you say!" Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, and even didn't even react.
"King Wei, you are not kidding!" Hou Junji, who was looking at Li Tai angrily, now looked at Li Tai with bright eyes.
Originally, Wang Xuance stepped on him to take the position, which made Hou Junji feel very uncomfortable.
But now after hearing Li Tai's words, Hou Junji felt that if King Wei was willing to do logistics for him in the future, then this holiday would not be a problem!
Think about it again, this time Wang Xuance killed Tubo and saved his own horse farm, at least it will not affect his annual horse income.
Considering that there are dozens and hundreds of horses every year, as long as Wang Xuance sends a few more Qinghai horses this year, the matter will be over.
"I never joke in business!" Facing Hou Junji's question, Li Tai said with great force and fearlessness.
Even at this moment, Li Tai's seriousness and Li Tai's talent as a monarch are clearly revealed along with Li Tai's will!
Again, Li Tai didn't want to hide anything.
Because you want to follow the general trend, the stronger the power in your hands, the more determined your comrades will be, and the more neutral factions around you will be shaken.
As for the princeling who clings to Li Chengqian, this is not someone Li Tai can win over in the first place.
They are shaken and even despaired by the pressure brought by their own strength. Forcing them to make mistakes is what Li Tai wants.
Otherwise, as long as Li Shimin does not waver, he will have no chance!
"Spiritual talent, no, monarch's talent! Several people present looked at Li Tai's monarch's talent and couldn't help but feel a little moved.
Even if Wei Zheng moved his mouth, he had no intention of saying anything more.
After all, this is not a completely historical Tang Dynasty, but a slightly fantasy Tang Dynasty.
So sometimes a person's qualifications can be seen in front of everyone. For example, if you want an official position above the fourth rank, in addition to working hard to get the qualifications, if you have spiritual talent or warrior talent, then you can directly have it.
Get the corresponding tickets.
Because no one would deliberately do evil to someone who is almost destined to climb to the highest position. Unless they have a different stance or the person in power is greedy for power, as long as they show corresponding abilities, such people will be the backbone of the imperial court.
Among them, Lu Cai and Li Chunfeng were like this. As for Ma Zhou, after he showed corresponding abilities, he was directly accepted by Du Ruhui as his political successor.
As for the monarch's talent, what should I say? In a country with an absolute monarchy, it is a sin in itself for the person who possesses this talent to be someone other than the king.
However, if this person is the emperor's son, it will be slightly different.
After all, even the emperor hopes that his successor will be better than himself. A successor with the talent of a monarch is the best successor in itself.
If in a foreign race such as the Turks, a prince like Li Tai showed the talent of a monarch, he could almost be directly established as the heir.
But in Datang, it can only be said that the people in the middle were shaken even more, and Li Chengqian was even more stressed!
Li Shimin waved his hand, and Li Tai clearly felt that his monarch talent shrank directly, and the flames fluttered, making him shiver, as if he had seen some natural enemy.
Li Shimin said: "It's just innate ability. No one here has it yet. What's the point of showing off!"
Li Tai silently looked at the people present, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Li Jing and Hou Junji... Well, if they were not there, Li Tai wouldn't believe it anyway. For a moment, Li Tai felt that he
It doesn't seem to be that powerful.
"Can I know why Aye's talent as a monarch makes people feel so oppressive?" Li Tai asked weakly.
"Kill the two owners of the monarch's talent with your own hands, and your monarch's talent will also have this ability!"
Li Shimin smiled at Li Tai, as if he wanted to say at this moment, do you want to try it yourself?
Li Tai decisively shrank his head and decided not to talk about this topic any more. If he continued to talk, he would be afraid that his fate would be miserable!
Li Shimin shook his head and said, "Go on and tell me how you got your steel production!"
"It mainly develops blast furnace ironmaking. A blast furnace can produce about seven or eight tons of steel per day!" Li Tai explained as he looked at Li Shi.
"Oh?" Fang Xuanling said with some confusion after hearing this, "Even seven or eight tons of steel per day is not enough!"
"But I didn't say there is only one blast furnace. Basically, I try to build ten with eight seats every month," Li Tai said,
"But this technology is immature. It can basically only guarantee the bottom for about one season, and then the blast furnace will burn and collapse. We need to continue to study the blast furnace technology.
Of course, there is also a blast furnace that can produce three cubic meters of steel, which is about 21 tons of steel per day. It has been in production for almost half a year. I hope it can survive a year!"
Li Tai explained as much as possible, "Originally, I planned to tell the court once the blast furnace could survive stably for a year. Now that Aye has asked, I will explain it clearly."
"These blast furnaces are the tall chimney buildings you built in the Steel City?" Li Shimin asked.
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Aye, have you sent someone to the Steel City in Luoyang?"
"Ahem, in order to deal with sewage during that time, didn't you invite various people from three mountains and five mountains to deal with it? I thought you wanted to make friends with demons, so I paid a little attention to it!"
Li Shimin coughed a few times. He couldn't let Li Tai know that he asked Bai He to send him a diary every month.
If I tell anyone, will I still have the face?
Fang Xuanling was thoughtful and said, "If so, King Wei, you still have a lot of iron on your hands!"
Hearing this, everyone's eyes couldn't help but look towards Li Tai. Although it is not illegal to hide iron tools privately, the iron tools you store alone are probably higher than the output of the entire Tang Dynasty. How can this happen?
They are all problems!
"There aren't many left!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "The bulk of the iron tools are basically on various farm tools.
Hoes and sickles, for example, are basically placed in agricultural societies first and then leased to local people.
After the people know how to use it, as long as they pay an extra layer of tax every year, the hoe and other farm tools will be lent to them for three years, and after three years, the hoe will belong to the people."
"Isn't this just trying to win over people's hearts?" Wei Zheng couldn't help but frown when he heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai looked at Wei Zheng and said, "There is no way, the common people can't afford it, or to be more precise, the poor farmers can't afford it.
A steel hoe costs at least two tons of money on the market. Although the wooden handle can be made by ordinary people, the hoe is worth the price!
If we don’t sell them half for free, these people would rather use wood or even stone plows!”
Wei Zheng was speechless after hearing Li Tai's words. After all, he had experienced war and was a bandit.
Li Tai continued, "So the training armor worn by the academy soldiers can only be regarded as a fraction.
The most important consumption of steel is in agricultural tools. At least now, the production of steel cannot keep up with the agricultural tools needed by the people across the country.
It is not easy to increase the yield of the crops themselves, but the best way to increase the harvest is to give people more convenient tools to cultivate more fields, and this requires enough steel to be smashed down!"
"If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. This is true for the army, and it is also true for the people. It is a good reputation for the King of Wei to put the people first!" Du Ruhui stood up and laughed and said with a smile.
Li Shimin originally wanted to give Li Tai a hard beating, but seeing that Li Tai had awakened his talent as a monarch, he knew clearly that Li Tai had found his own way to govern.
This kind of person cannot easily change his will because of other people's words, especially the monarch's talent. It is as if he decided on his own idea of helping the world and bringing peace to the people, and then naturally awakened the monarch's talent.
And as his actions implement his will, his talent as a monarch will naturally become more powerful.
Li Tai has obviously found his talent as a monarch.
More importantly, it can be seen from Li Tai's actions that we don't know whether Li Tai is a benevolent person, but at least he will not violate his own political ideas. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as a continuation and expansion of his own political ideas.
So at this moment, Li Shimin can't really blame Li Tai for this behavior.
After all, until now, except that Li Tai is not his eldest son, he is also his very satisfied heir!
"Then what you are talking about, can you get one in Chang'an?!" Li Shimin asked Li Tai at this moment.
"Um... If Aye doesn't mind that this thing may collapse after a season, it can be built near Chang'an, but forget it in Chang'an City, and it's best to build it downstream of the river in the suburbs!" Li Tai said thoughtfully.
"What effect does this thing have on water quality?" Wei Zheng reacted after hearing Li Tai's words.
"Well, if the water flow is discharged directly into the water without treatment, it will cause damage to the water quality.
If the people drink it, they will definitely get sick in large numbers. Chang'an is the best place and this kind of thing must not happen!"
Li Tai explained to Wei Zheng, “So to build a steel city, we need to provide it with a supporting processing system.
This will inevitably occupy a very large area, so it is impossible to build it in Chang'an City. It is best to choose it downstream of the river!"
"That's it!" Wei Zheng nodded and said seriously, "It is a blessing for the country that King Wei can consider the people like this."