The output of Fukuoka Steel Mill is staggering.

It has reached an annual output of 800,000 tons, although it is inferior to the small steel mills of later generations, but it is already a miraculous steel mill in the era of Datang.

Li Shimin asked about the output, and Liu Mu replied: "It is equivalent to two hundred times the output of Wude in five years." ”

In the five years of Wude, the total steel output of Datang was about 8 million catties, or 4,000 tons.

Li Shimin silently looked out the window, the output of the two major steel mills in Fukuoka and Xingzhou accounted for about seventy percent of the entire Datang steel output, especially the steel mills in Fukuoka can be said to be the continuous expansion of the strength of the whole Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin doesn't know much about steel, and he doesn't know how much the annual production capacity of a blast furnace is.

However, a steel mill can reach 200 times the total output of Datang Iron and Steel in Wude in five years, which Li Shimin likes.

"When I was in Huating, the popular enamel bowls and enamel cups in Huating. This is all because the production of steel has gone up, otherwise iron would have been used to make bowls. ”

Li Shimin turned his head and asked, "When are you going to fight Goguryeo?" ”

Liu Mu replied: "Father said that you can not fight. ”

Ha, haha!

Li Shimin's laughter was only laughter, no smile, and after laughing, Li Shimin looked at Liu Mu: "Joke, if you don't destroy Goguryeo, why do you treat the people of the world?" ”

Liu Mu retorted: "I didn't say that I wouldn't die, I just said that I wouldn't fight." ”

"If you don't fight, how can you extinguish?" Li Shimin was a little puzzled.

"I haven't thought about it yet, but after hearing that Goguryeo has been rich in recent years and can spend money to buy a large amount of food, he has wantonly encouraged childbearing, and it has only been a few years, and as far as Wenyue Pavilion investigates, the number of children under the age of five in Goguryeo has increased by more than 400,000, close to 500,000."

Hearing this data, Li Shimin smiled coldly: "If you don't fight, wait another fifteen years, and Goguryeo will be able to have at least 350,000 more young people, and young people are troops." ”

Liu Mu retorted again: "Second brother, who said that young and strong are soldiers?" ”

"I just said it...... Wait a minute. Li Shimin came back to his senses, he suddenly thought that at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it was true that young and strong were equal to troops, but now it is not, young and strong can only be potential troops, and the real strength is obtained by hard training, and the era of picking up a knife is a soldier has passed.

With that kind of soldier, the elite of Datang can fight 3,000 to 100,000.

Li Shimin said: "A few days ago, I heard from the pharmacist that the Goguryeo people have begun to have some suspicions, we have sealed the sea, and have been claiming to Goguryeo that our Tang Dynasty and the Great Peace Kingdom are fighting viciously, especially the battle at sea is very fierce, so no ships are allowed to go to sea. They already have some suspicions. ”

"What about doubt?" Yanagi asked rhetorically with disdain.

"Suspicion means that they want to make a move, I understand what my father meant, in my father's mind, after the Goguryeo people are trained, they can increase the population of the Tang Dynasty, after all, they have the same root as us."

Liu Mu didn't speak, waiting for Li Shimin to continue.

Li Shimin said: "The Ministry of War has calculated that if the army is raised to fight Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty must be prepared to kill more than 20,000 elites and disarm 20,000 elites, and the materials consumed will be 70 million yuan. And the population of Goguryeo will drop by at least one million, which is also unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty. ”

Yanagi asked, "Have you calculated the decapitation operation?" ”

"This is the result of the raid on the royal city as the first battle, and then the result, if there is a full-scale war, there will be more casualties."

Liu Mu asked again: "Have you calculated to divide and delay the war?" ”

Li Shimin nodded: "It has been calculated, but the results of several calculations are not the same." First of all, Goguryeo was divided into four, with iron ore as one, Wangcheng as two, the eastern coastline as three, and the northern mountains as four. The best estimate of such a result is that Goguryeo's young and strong people were killed and wounded by 1.3 million. ”

Liu Mu asked again: "Second brother, have you calculated peaceful naturalization?" ”

Li Shimin nodded: "Yes, but the cycle is too long, the second brother doesn't want to wait for twenty years, in case of failure, when Goguryeo has a population of eight million, it will be even more unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty." ”

Without waiting for Liu Mu to ask Li Shimin again, he said again: "You mentioned the financial collapse before, and few people understand, so you haven't calculated it." However, Shangshu Province believed that this kind of trick was too evil, which was equivalent to cutting off the livelihood of more than 5 million people in Goguryeo and Baekje, and it was not available until it was absolutely necessary. ”

Although Li Shimin didn't understand the economic collapse that Liu Mu was talking about, it was really terrifying to think that all the paper money was invalid, which was equivalent to Goguryeo, from the country to the people, and all the money in his hand was gone.

Li Shimin asked Liu Mu again: "Really don't fight?" ”

"It's not right now to fight, it's too late to wait a few years, if you really need to fight, I'll talk about it on my father's side, and I can't say that the calculation on the side of the military department is wrong, but they may not have thought of it in some places."

Liu Mu's words didn't go too deep, for the whole of Goguryeo, Liu Mu actually had other ways.

Li Shimin suddenly looked at Liu Mu: "If it is for this matter, you will not be in a hurry to return to Chang'an, the second brother knows that the six edicts are fighting fiercely, and the six edicts occupy the geographical advantage, the people." It was not an easy battlefield, there were at least five fierce battles in the first stage, and after the second stage went deep into the hinterland of the Six Edicts, there were even more fierce battles. ”

"I want to go to Hwahara for a few days."

Liu Mu gave Li Shimin an answer.

Li Shimin immediately said: "Then I'll go too, Huayuan has recently closed a valley, and no one is allowed to approach there, and the second brother is very curious." ”

Liu Mu said with a smile: "Second brother said that it was funny, Huayuan has a forbidden area, but no one dares to stop the Tang Emperor." ”

"No!" Li Shimin waved his hand: "No one dares to stop the Tang Emperor, but if the Tang Emperor knows, then someone dares to chase the Tang Emperor to ask, and even hope to get special permission to see what is in the forbidden area." Especially the military department and the old generals. ”

Liu Mu immediately said: "What I arranged in Huayuan is for the people's livelihood, not for the war. ”

Li Shimin pulled Liu Mu back to the table, first added a little charcoal to the hot pot and added a little water to the hot pot, and said to Liu Mu while continuing to eat: "Daomen used the method you said to make a medicine, and the people from the military department found this medicine, and the list said that angina was urgently treated, but ......"

Li Shimin didn't say any more, because the way this thing was made was provided by Liu Mu.

Liu Mu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "They seem to have found that this thing is stronger than the explosive power of gunpowder, but it is very unstable when turned into a weapon, and they probably want to study it further." ”

"Yes."

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin couldn't help laughing.