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Chapter 66 Man is not destroyed by heaven and earth

Chen Ying bought 3,000 acres of wasteland in Qinglin, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, there is not much at all. At the time of delivery, Chen Ying was still Chen Ying, but when Chen Ying's identity as Hou Mo Chen's younger brother was exposed, Zhao Zhiyong, the county leader of Wannian County, gave Chen Ying about 1,000 acres of wild forests along the west bank of the Jieyu River at a price that was almost free.

Chen Ying bought this forest at a price of one hundred and sixty gold, which is equivalent to one thousand six hundred guan, in fact, not counting the value of the land, just these timber materials that can be cut down are more than 1,600 guan. And more than 100 villagers in Qinglin heard that Chen Ying opened a manor here, and under the leadership of the mayor, the land of the entire village was also attached to Chen Ying's name.

Chen Ying naturally knew that the real purpose of these people was to evade taxes and all kinds of forced labor, Chen Ying really needed the use of land, of course, there were many nobles like Chen Ying who had tax exemption privileges, even if he did not accept the affiliation of these villagers, in fact, these yeoman farmers would find other powerful people to refuge.

In just over two months, Chen Ying's land under his name amounted to more than 6,000 mu, although ninety percent of it was wasteland, but it was an indisputable fact that Chen Ying was called a small landlord in a short period of time.

Chen Ying led Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning to Qinglin, Li Xiuning took a fancy to Chen Ying's yard at a glance, after more than two months of construction, this yard has begun to take shape, covering an area equivalent to more than 20 acres, along the rammed Yongdao, at this time the Yongdao on both sides of the transplanted some lush shrubs and flowers, which looks vibrant.

The main body of Chen Ying's courtyard is still mainly wooden, with towers, pavilions, corridors, rockeries, streams and pine waves outside the courtyard, which are integrated and full of vitality. In particular, Chen Ying asked the carpenter to create a set of furniture for later generations, and the sofa was made of spring steel covered with lambskin, which was the same as the sofa of later generations. Li Xiuning sat on the sofa and instantly wanted to take possession of the furniture in it.

But she didn't speak, because Li Xiuning knew that everything about Chen Ying was hers.

Chen Ying's wooden living room is a rectangular table, about one zhang and two feet long, about three feet wide, and about two feet high, and the desktop is polished with fine Lantian jade.

Chen Ying is a person who knows how to enjoy, he had no chance before, he had to work hard, but now that he has the conditions, he takes care of his life impeccably.

The pineapple wood hollow carved screen, the thin silk as thin as the wings of a cicada act as window paper, and of course, in order to meet the harsh winter in the future, the floor is also laid with terracotta pipes for floor heating pipes.

Of course, Chen Ying also asked people to build a toilet in later generations, using white porcelain tiles to build a bathtub of more than a dozen square meters, if it were not for the fact that this is only a temporary living house, Chen Ying would also plan to build a large swimming pool indoors in the future.

After Li Jiancheng sat down, the two daughters of Red Sleeves and Tianxiang hurriedly served tea. Holding the tea, Li Jiancheng also muttered to himself: "Good armor, good knife, good knife!" ”

Chen Ying sighed bitterly and said: "High manganese steel is not a difficult thing, if I have a manganese mine in my hand, in this way, I can create more weapons that sharpen iron like mud!" ”

Li Jiancheng asked puzzledly: "Chen Qing, what kind of high-manganese steel are you talking about?" ”

"This high-manganese steel is a high-quality alloy steel, and Modao is made of this high-manganese steel!" Chen Ying sighed and said: "It's a pity that the manganese sand I use is too small, only more than three hundred catties, and a Mo knife will use up nearly two catties......"

Li Xiuning said in surprise: "I didn't expect Chen Lang to make steel!" ”

Chen Ying said lightly: "Isn't it strange? Steelmaking is not a complicated matter. ”

Li Xiuning smiled bitterly, although steelmaking is not difficult, but at this time, whether it is frying steel, filling steel, or 100 steelmaking, the production capacity of steel is very small, although the cost of frying steel is relatively low, but the quality is too poor, and although 100 steelmaking can make high-quality steel, but this technology only experienced old craftsmen have this technology, especially a steel horizontal knife of 100 steel, it takes a year to create one, the horizontal knife equipped in the Tang Army, although it is known as 100 steel, but it is just a claim, the highest is only 70 refining, and some of them are only thirty refinements, just sharper.

Li Jiancheng's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "What does Chen Qing mean that this Mo knife can only be built with a maximum of one hundred and fifty handles?" ”

"How can there be so many!" Chen Ying smiled helplessly: "The Mingguang armor still needs nearly two catties of manganese sand, and the horizontal knife only needs ten taels." I have already used up more than two hundred catties, and the remaining manganese sand in two days will be used up at most, and I can create ten more sets of armor and ten Mo knives at most! ”

Li Jiancheng also fantasized about having a hoplite unit subordinate to the East Palace, comparing Li Shimin's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and when he heard Chen Ying say that the manganese sand was gone, he immediately became anxious: "Where did this manganese sand come from?" Where is the manganese sand? ”

Chen Yingdao: "These manganese sand is the waste slag extracted from the salt mine in Lingzhou, in fact, it is very cost-effective to make steel in Chang'an, the best way is to directly cast the Mo knife, horizontal knife or nail blade in Lingzhou, heat treatment in Chang'an, assembly and processing. Lingzhou occupies an absolute advantage, with rich iron ore, coal, salt ore and manganese sand, but it is a pity that the Lingzhou formed when I was in Lingzhou will be a supervisor, and it was shut down by the new Lingzhou governor Li Daozong! ”

In fact, there are pros and cons to everything, if there is no Li Daozong will be a prison in Lingzhou, and Lingzhou will be a prison craftsman who has no livelihood, and he will not be far away from more than 2,000 miles, come to Chen Ying, or he will accidentally hit and transport the manganese sand in the salt mine to Chang'an as salt, and Chen Ying will not be able to make high manganese steel.

Of course, there are not so many ifs in the world. Although Chen Ying knew that high manganese steel was a high-quality alloy steel, and he also knew the ratio between carbon, manganese and iron in high manganese steel, he didn't know where manganese ore was, and he didn't know how to refine manganese sand.

Li Jiancheng suddenly got up and said to Chen Ying: "Bring a set of Mingguang armor, a Mo knife, and a horizontal knife, and immediately enter the palace with the palace!" ”

As soon as Chen Ying heard it, he knew Li Jiancheng's intention, which was to use the advantages of high-manganese steel to impress Li Yuan and let Lingzhou re-establish the prison. But this has nothing to do with Chen Ying, Chen Ying naturally doesn't want to make wedding dresses for others.

Chen Ying glanced at Li Xiuning, who held the horizontal knife in his hand: "This is the palace's, no one wants to snatch it!" ”

Chen Yingchong Li Jiancheng bowed and hugged his fists and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, this move is inappropriate. ”

"Uh......" Li Jiancheng was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "What does Chen Qing mean by this?" ”

"The minister hasn't explained clearly to His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister hasn't seen the manganese ore in Lingzhou, and he doesn't know what the manganese content is, but I think it won't be too much." Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "The minister has inquired with Wei Meng, this kind of manganese ore has only appeared recently, and there are not many of them, and it only takes more than 300 catties to boil out 10,000 stone salts." ”

The salt mines in Lingzhou are stone salt ores, which belong to anhydrite-stone salt ore, marl-stone salt ore (or argillaceous stone salt ore), and argillaceous calcium salt-stone salt ore, which belong to associated mines. Normally, the salt content of this kind of stone salt mine is more than three times that of seawater, close to ten percent or more, that is to say, mining one hundred catties of salt ore, grinding into powder, after analysis, you can get more than ten catties of salt, but how much manganese can be contained in it, everything is unknown, it should not be too big, Chen Ying does not remember that there is a large manganese mine in Wuzhong City, Ningxia in later generations.

Li Jiancheng understood what Chen Ying meant, because there was too little manganese ore, and he wanted to use a horizontal knife or a Mo knife made of high manganese steel to change all the clothes of the Tang Army, which is not realistic at present, if Lingzhou will be handed over to Li Yuan as a prisoner, then the left and right guards of the East Palace will be disguised into Mo knives or armor made of high manganese steel, it will definitely be no fun, with Li Yuan's nature, good things will definitely be used in the left and right military guards, left and right imperial guards or left and right Xiao guards. These six guards are under the jurisdiction of 67 Zhichong Mansions, and the direct force is close to 100,000 horses.

As the saying goes, if people are not for themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed. Li Jiancheng saw that Chen Ying was not worried at all, so he asked, "What is Chen Qing's opinion?" ”

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