Chapter 316 Your Majesty is a little absent-minded today
Chapter 316 Your Majesty is a little absent-minded today
In order to promote the nuclear weapons plan as soon as possible, Li Changfeng has to go to the scientific research institute every day these days to guide the manufacturing of cement plant equipment and the construction of brick factories on site.
Brick factories are relatively simple. Since they do not use machines, they are labor-intensive industries and are quickly built and put into use.
Even if he stared at it personally, the pass rate of the first batch of red bricks was less than 50%, and more than half of them could not be used.
Li Changfeng selected the qualified products and summarized his experience on the spot. The pass rate of the second batch of red bricks reached 70%.
Now, Li Changfeng let go and devoted himself to the construction of the cement factory.
What he did naturally could not hide it from Emperor Gan Wu.
Seeing that he had not been to the Ministry of Railways or the Air Force Base for so long, Emperor Gan Wu was a little angry and summoned him to the imperial study room to scold him.
"How long have you been to the Ministry of Railways? Don't care about the construction of the Air Force. What are you busy with in one day?"
Li Changfeng said helplessly: "The railway construction standards are there, and there is a dedicated person to keep an eye on them. There is no need to go every day, right? As for the Air Force, isn't there Jianye?"
Emperor Gan Wu was so angry: "You have any reason to be a hand-off manager? Why have you burned that piece of earth recently? Can that thing make money even if that thing makes money?"
"Father, don't look down on those blocks of soil. They will turn into red bricks when burned. It's very useful."
"Hmph! A pile of mud is still sludge. What's the effect?"
Emperor Gan Wu looked disdainful and did not believe what Li Changfeng said.
Helplessly, Li Changfeng popularized the defects of Dagan building materials and the advantages of red bricks to Emperor Ganwu, and then focused on explaining him to cement.
In order to allow Emperor Gan Wu to understand his advantages more intuitively, Li Changfeng said that even the cannons could not be blown up by the wall cast in a solid concrete structure.
Emperor Gan Wu was shocked after hearing this: "Even cannons can't be blown up?! How is this possible?"
Li Changfeng said helplessly: "Father, do you think your son will lie to you?"
Emperor Gan Wu was just a little surprised and did not doubt that he was used to Li Changfeng creating miracles again and again.
He realized the importance of concrete. If it is used to build the city wall, it will become a standing existence. Whether it is used to resist foreign lands or evil beasts, it has an irreplaceable huge role.
This is simply a transformational creation.
You should know that with current technology, if you want to build a solid city wall, you need a lot of glutinous rice paste, which is huge and wastes food.
The emergence of cement will end all this.
Red bricks will greatly shorten the construction time of the building.
"Okay! Get out the cement factory as soon as possible. When the reinforced concrete structure you mentioned is created, I want to see if it is really that hard!"
Listening to the ears is false, and seeing to the eyes is true.
He had decided that if it was as hard as Li Changfeng said, then he would use this method to rebuild the palace wall first.
The next step is the city walls of the capital.
Emperor Gan Wu has even begun to look forward to the whole scene of Da Gan being as solid as a rock.
Li Changfeng smiled and said, "Don't worry, my father, don't think that the profit of cement red bricks is small, but the amount will definitely be very large in the future. However, a big profitable deal will definitely be made as soon as possible."
Emperor Gan Wu laughed and scolded: "I will know money in my mind for a day and don't do any serious business. You have to have snacks for railways and air force."
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Leaving the palace, Li Changfeng went to the railway construction site to take a look.
As for the air force base, Li Changfeng was too lazy to go.
The so-called air force construction now is nothing more than improving some of the shortcomings exposed by hot air balloons in the last war and making more hot air balloons.
Li Jianye is much more concerned about this than him.
However, he remembered another thing, which was to produce steel bars.
He went to the steel mill and arranged the steel bar production before returning home.
In a blink of an eye, a month passed.
For so long, the red bricks produced by the brick factory have accumulated as many as mountains.
Li Changfeng did not deliberately promote this matter, nor did he order a blockade. It gradually spread among the people that this is a new type of building material, which attracted many people's attention.
But the noise is not very big.
After repeated experiments, the cement factory finally produced qualified cement.
Li Changfeng brought cement, sand, gravel and steel bars, built simple molds with wooden boards, and poured a wall about two meters high and half a meter thick in the artillery camp.
Since it was summer and it was completely exhausted on nine days, Li Changfeng reported the matter to Emperor Ganwu.
The morning court this day.
Chen Dingyuan, Minister of Revenue, was reporting to Emperor Gan Wu.
"Your Majesty, now your high prince ninth prince has become the number one taxpayer for me. Last month, I paid a total of more than 580,000 taels of tax. It is no exaggeration to say that your prince ninth prince has become my high prince for my financial affairs. pillar!"
After hearing this, the ministers looked different.
There was surprise.
Have concerns.
The most is jealousy.
I was surprised because Li Changfeng could pay so much tax in a month.
The worry is because Li Changfeng's financial resources have reached the point where he can influence the court.
Jealousy is easy to understand. How can Li Changfeng not be jealous of such richness?
But Emperor Gan Wu seemed to have not listened to anything, and was a little distracted and didn't know what he was thinking.
"His Majesty?"
Chen Dingyuan reminded him.
Emperor Gan Wu came to his senses and asked, "Are you finished?"
"Yes, your Majesty."
"Dear friends have something to report?"
The ministers, look at me and I look at you, but I didn't say anything.
"Since there is nothing wrong, my dear friends will follow me to the artillery camp."
The artillery battalion has always been extremely strict. Although it has made extraordinary achievements in the wars of the south and north, no one in the court has seen the soldiers on the front line with his own eyes.
Even the old general Ye Qingcang is the same.
So as soon as Emperor Gan Wu said this, everyone's eyes lit up.
They all thought they were going to show them the power of artillery, and they had been curious about it for too long.
Emperor Gan Wu stood up and walked two steps, and suddenly stopped again.
"Gu Tiancheng, is Gu Aiqing here?"
The Minister of Works Gu Tiancheng bowed quickly: "Here, Your Majesty."
"Just be there, go."
Emperor Gan Wu nodded and walked out of the hall first.
Gu Tiancheng looked confused.
Didn’t you go to the artillery battalion? No matter how you look at this, it’s all related to the Ministry of War. His Majesty suddenly asked him if he is here, what happened?
Chen Dingyuan, the Minister of Revenue, came forward and asked, "Why did Your Majesty suddenly ask you?"
"How could I know."
"Your Majesty is a little absent-minded today and doesn't know what happened."
Gu Tiancheng thought for a while and said, "It probably has something to do with the artillery battalion."
Emperor Gan Wu did not say anything, and the ministers did not dare to ask, so they could only follow with confusion.
The emperor led all civil and military officials out of the city, and the noise was very loud, which attracted the attention of everyone in the capital.
When they learned that they had gone to the artillery battalion, they became even more curious.