After watching, everyone went to the administrative building, and Wu Zetian listened to the report.

"Let's drink tea, this is Persian tea!" Princess Taiping greeted herself.

"What good tea can Persia have!" Zhang Changzong sneered.

But when he drank a cup of tea, he stopped squeaking.

The color of the tea is green and even, the aroma is pure, the taste is mellow and fresh, and it is not inferior to the good tea of the Middle Earth!

Everyone has drunk tea, and some ministers have their own thoughts.

In the past, Wei Xi's army consumed a lot of tea, and the soldiers were so addicted to tea that they could not go without tea for a day (they did not have a sufficient supply of green vegetables and fresh fruits, and they ate steaming fried noodles and beef jerky, so it was easy to poop).

The bigwigs were dizzy, and they actually wanted to use tea to make the Western Army, control the outflow of tea, and want them to out.

It's a pity that the big guys miscalculated, Wei Xi is an authentic countryman, and the temper of the countryman is that the more blockade the more prosperous.

He and Princess Taiping opened up a large number of tea plantations in Persia, fully meeting the requirements of their own army, making the calculations of the big men fail, and also choking the arteries of the East-West railway, and in turn extorting the trade caravans of the big men who trafficked tea to the West!

Now that the tea production of Persia did not require him to seek the East, the Oriental tea plantations went bankrupt a lot.

……

A visit to the steel mill was debriefed by a female steward, who first explained the steelmaking process.

The rapid expansion of the Western Army in Xifu and the shortage of manpower were a big problem, so that women were also put into production and in the army

Of course, the big guys don't care about the steelmaking process, they have no interest in dirty, hard work, they only care about one number, and that is steel production!

"After the completion of the first phase of this steel plant, the iron output will be three million catties a year, after the completion of the second phase, the iron output will be seven million catties a year, and after the completion of the third phase, the iron output will be 10 million catties a year, and the third phase of the project will be completed within five years! It is expected to reach 20 million catties within ten years! The plain-looking housekeeper said in a crisp voice.

As for the production of steel, she was vague.

20 million catties of iron is equivalent to 10,000 tons of iron!

What is the place of this number in the world?

The production of pig iron in the Tang Dynasty was about 1,000 tons, and until 1670, Russia, the country with the largest pig iron production, had only 2,400 tons, while the official pig iron production during the Tian/Yongle period reached 10,000 tons.

This is only a steel factory in the hands of Princess Taiping, and she also said that she is still preparing to build a new factory, and she also has a factory in the east, so to speak, she accounts for as much as eighty percent of the steel production of the entire Han territory.

The previous Meat Eaters (Officials) didn't care about steel, and they used Meat Shield to charge.

But Wei Xi's troops can be described as steel armed to the teeth (armor isn't it?). People wear iron helmets, iron heavy armor, horses have iron armor, iron weapons, a large number of arrowheads, hang all kinds of heroes, plus the construction of railways and construction shops to use a lot of steel, therefore, the elite officials are also concerned about steel production, but they are not lawful, the production of steel is less and the quality is inferior, the most steel and the most output is still the Xifu system.

After the report, everyone talked for a while, and Zhang Changzong asked intentionally or unintentionally: "I once saw a lot of copper ingots on the road, which seem to be newly minted ......."

The steward looked at Princess Taiping, and when she nodded, the steward replied: "There is copper on the Persian plateau, and the reserves are very high, and our steel mill is used as a sideline to open furnaces to smelt copper. ”

Everyone's faces were blank, and Wei Xi was really "fledgling!" ”

He has tea, coal and steel, horses, people, a lot of grain, and even money (copper)!

The output is huge, self-produced and sold, not asking for people!

Everyone is very envious, and some people can't sleep after they go back.

……

Not surprisingly, when the group left Isfahan, everyone was given a gift.

The soldiers were swords or broadswords, and the scholars were daggers.

The weapons made of steel precision here shine coldly, sharpen iron like mud, and make quick decisions, showing a very high level!

Needless to say, everyone has different thoughts again.

In fact, they have regrets, because they did not see the production of the most important artillery, flying thunder cannons, and catapults, these three things are the big killers of the siege, as well as the construction of the train, but Princess Taiping kept it a strict secret. All production processes are under the control of the Western Government

……

The train headed south, took a fork in the road, and they were going to the port city of Abadan.

The oncoming wind brought saltiness, and they reached the shores of the Red Sea.

The Red Sea in front of you, the sea is directly connected to the desert, it is not worthy of the name, the sea water is super super blue, why is it called the Red Sea?

As soon as you arrive, you will be served a snack: dates!

Everyone tasted it, it was so sweet that it was greasy, and I only felt that the strength was restored, and I washed the hard work of the journey.

Someone asked Wei Sili, the head of the Xifu Escort Regiment: "Such a delicious thing, why doesn't the master of the horse supply a large amount of Shendu, it should be collected as much as you want, just like your beef jerky!" ”

In fact, this is a disservice to him, the guys went to the production area of beef jerky, and were surprised to find that the price of beef jerky in Shendu was more than three times that of there!

Wei Sili wondered which pot to open and which pot to mention, so he had to say loudly: "Someone asked why it is called the Red Sea just now, and its name is that the wind from the Afrikaner Desert often comes from the Afrikan Desert on its sea, sending hot air currents and reddish-yellow dust and mist, which makes the sky darker and the sea surface dark red; At the same time, a kind of red seaweed grows in large numbers in the sea, making the sea water red, hence the name Red Sea. ”

Avoiding the date palm problem, the current yield is not high, because Wei Xi's expedition to the west, the army cut down a large number of date palm trees, and at the same time destroyed the fields, causing a lot of dead people in West Asia.

People die and trees die, and replanting trees is not a one-time thing.

They visited the harbor, but they saw a forest of sails, where accents, ethnicities, and costumes of all kinds intersected, and countless goods went up and down.

There are also huge boats sailing out of the port, the momentum is amazing, this boat is as high as five or six floors.

The port city of Abadan has recovered from the chaos of war and is rejuvenated.

"The trade volume here is tens of millions a year, mainly connecting Africa, India and the South Seas, and it has been connected with the merchant ships of Guangzhou." Wei Sili said very briefly, and he didn't show off, most of the officials were insensitive, only some people such as Di Renjie, who was like a human spirit, and his heart fluctuated like waves in the Red Sea!

"This means that the power of the Tang people has infiltrated this vast area!"

He is a person who sees through the world, but he can't help but get excited, the land runs from east to west, the ocean is also our world, the vast territory occupied by Wei Xi is far beyond the emperors of the past dynasties, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages, is not as good as him, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who attacked the Huns in the north will be willing to bow down, and Tang Taizong will be ashamed of himself!

Suddenly, someone pointed out, "Look, what kind of ship is that?" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw five very unusual ships.