Chapter 145: Painstaking

Zhao Ta personally inspected the production base, this is the first time he came to the northwest, Sun Erqian and Yang Feng welcomed the prince into the base, here is still hung with the sign of "Shengyitang Northwest Warehouse", the front yard is a restaurant, a store, a warehouse, now is the time for the south to the north to import and export goods, the courtyard of hundreds of acres of land is full of cars, a scene of busy traffic, and a thriving business.

Go further, is the tannery, garment factory, printing and dyeing, horse yard, grain processing factory, woolen factory, on the surface here is a front shop and back factory comprehensive business warehouse, there is no abnormality at all, but after passing through a wasteland, here is a stone wall up to three zhang, the front and back are completely isolated, from a guarded gate to enter, and through two gates, the eyes feel empty, there is really a hole inside, it is a scene again.

It can be said that it is heavily guarded, with watchtowers built on the high ground on both sides, overlooking the valley, and no one can escape their eyes when they enter or leave. A group of people turned into the Tiaozhi Valley, immediately felt the hot wind blowing in the face, the smoke in the valley, the fire soared to the sky, there were more than a dozen two-zhang high iron smelting furnaces standing in front of them, there were two or three hundred people around busy baking, feeding, stirring, blowing, busy in full swing, "Erqian, how much iron and how much steel can be produced every month now?" Zhao asked.

"Lord Wang, if it is normal every month, it can produce 50,000 catties of iron, 15,000 catties of steel, and have an income of 14500 yuan per month, but we all use it ourselves, which can only be regarded as a loss!" Sun Erqian said with a smile.

"Well, it's good, it can guarantee what we need, even if you do a great job!" Zhao Ta nodded and said, but blood was dripping in his heart, this is all his own money.

Sun Erqian is indeed a talent, he divided all the military workshops, one in a branch valley, and did not disturb each other, and then they entered the gun workshop, and there were more guards here. There is a shortage of water in the northwest, but there is no shortage of wind, and the winds are continuous throughout the four seasons, which also makes Zhao Ta grasp the labor of several large windmills squeaking and twisting, driving the hammer to forge pieces of woolly iron into stainless steel, and then process them into parts as needed.

"What are these people doing?" Zhao Tan turned around and asked.

"These people sent by the prince are very skilled, and they can get started after a few days of training, to be honest, I don't think they are worse than those old craftsmen from Xiangyi, and they have produced six hundred guns in just over a month!" Sun Erqian said with a snicker.

"Okay, yes, I really should reward you well, work hard for a few months, and strive to produce 6,000 guns by March next year, and I will reward you for completing the task!" Zhao Ta breathed a sigh of relief and said, at this rate, the whole army will be able to have a gun after the training.

"Lord Xie, but this credit should be credited to Master Yang, these people can only have this achievement under his supervision!" Sun Erqian glanced at Yang Feng and said, although Yang Feng is now the second shopkeeper, he has always called himself the prince's half-pulled master, so he still asked everyone to call him master, and he didn't want to listen to the title of the second shopkeeper.

"Oh, how did Master Yang do it?" Zhao Ta turned his head in a little surprise and asked.

"Lord, I don't have any good way, just tell them to have food to eat after completing their daily work, more than meat, they can only starve if they don't succeed, this method is still learned from the prince!" Yang Feng saw the prince asking, looked at the people around him and straightened his waist and said, the subtext is, 'Why don't you want to call me Master Sheng, I am still the person next to the prince, you all have to respect me!' ’

"Ha Luha, Master Yang has worked hard in the northwest in the past few years, if you have any requirements, just say it, this king will try his best to meet it!" Zhao Ta knew that Yang Feng's temperament was a donkey, if you respect him for three points, he will pay you back ten points, and it is precisely because of his temperament that he caused trouble in the northwest, which made Zhao Ta dislike, so he snubbed him for several years. …,

"Lord Wang, how dare you say hard work in front of you, once it is ordered by the prince, I will never give up, as long as the prince is happy, what is my hard work, and what are the requirements!" Yang Feng was really hard to change, so he praised him for a few words, and then started again.

"Alas, it's still an 'old man' like Master Yang, this king won a great victory in the northwest a few days ago, reported to the saint, and asked Master Yang for an official, he was originally the Jiupin Bao Yilang who was reported, but the saint looked at it and said, 'Yang Feng has been guarding Erlang's side, loyal and loyal, and awarded the cultivation of Wulang', Shengsheng mentioned the eight products to you!" Zhao Ta said matter-of-factly.

"Huh?!" Yang Feng was surprised and delighted, he originally wanted to return to the prince, just thinking that he could ask for an official to do it, but now it has come true in a blink of an eye, "The emperor and his old man also know me, so that the lower officials will be broken and there is no way to repay them!" Yang Fengyao said excitedly to the southeast.

"This is natural, the official uniform and the letter are all in my car, and I will get it for you later, but I heard that although Master Yang has courted Mrs. Sifang, he does not have a son yet, you have to work hard, otherwise this official will have a cheap son-in-law in the future, I still have a secret recipe left for me by Imperial Doctor Wang, do you want to try it..."Zhao Ta grabbed Yang Feng's shoulder and whispered, but the people around him heard it clearly.

"Damn, the prince is too ... There are no things at all that can make him say the same as the truth, if he didn't know the inside story of the Dao Dao, he would take it seriously, this method of beating and pulling is not clever, but the prince is perfect, and everyone is tricked. Speaking of himself, he is also a shrewd person, but when compared with the prince, he is like his apprentice, and the means can't be put on the table, so you have to learn it well! Sun Erqian didn't dare to laugh if he wanted to, he didn't dare to say if he wanted to speak, he had mixed feelings and endured hardship.

"Master Yang, you don't know what to do, since Master Meng married Sister Osmanthus, he has had enough of suffering, and he is in charge, how dare he marry the second room, he is so envious of you, he has repeatedly proposed that he doesn't want to be the general manager, and he wants to come to the northwest to exchange with you, and also enjoy the blessings!" Zhao Ta and Yang Feng were homely while walking.

"Really, Lao Meng also gave birth to flowery intestines, then I won't change with him, how good it is here, you must not promise him!" Yang Feng knew that after Meng Tao became the chief steward of the Xiangyi Palace, his heart had been unbalanced, and now when he heard Zhao Ta's nagging, his resentment immediately disappeared, and his whole body was comfortably tight.

"Of course I won't agree, otherwise Sister Osmanthus won't have to mess with me all day long, I won't look for that trouble!" Zhao Ta shook his head and said, Yang Feng knew that the prince had been serving the osmanthus since he was a child, and he was deeply affectionate to her, so he was not surprised, but thought it was, "Master Yang, I want to live here for a few days, I have heard that several sisters-in-law can all cook good food, and I will partner with you at home!" ”

"What the prince said, when you get here, you have to eat and live in my house, how can I rest assured that I am elsewhere!" Yang Feng said angrily, several of his wives listened to themselves boast about how to ask the prince to practice martial arts and how to protect him to grow up, but for so many years, he has not seen the prince give him a message, give him a little reward, and often tease him with this, this time he invited the prince to his house to eat and live, and saw that a few old ladies still dared to talk nonsense, he said and ordered a follower to hurry home and tell a few ladies to get ready.

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Zhao Ta transferred to the military food processing workshop, the armor workshop, the gunpowder workshop, and the soldier workshop, these workshops have begun to take shape, and Sun Erqian is very cautious in doing things, they are all selected in the valley of **, and they do not see each other, and the craftsmen used except for the ones in charge have signed the deed of sale, just like domestic slaves, they have set strict rules and constraints, and they eat and live in this valley, making it difficult for them to leak secrets.

After walking for two miles and seeing the end of the valley, Zhao Ta smelled a strong smell with sulfur, he walked over, and found that the smell came from a black quagmire, "Lord Wang, this is the oil you asked your subordinates to find, in fact, we want it here, it is all gushing out of the ground, we have been using this stick as a torch in the past, and we have to build a dam to block it, and it has accumulated into a waterhole in less than two years, but I don't know what the use of the prince of Lu Dao is?" Sun Erqian said. …,

"Damn, it's really a virtue in my last life, this is a self-injection well, and even drilling wells is saved!" Zhao Ta was pleasantly surprised, "A few days ago, did I make you prepare all the things you prepare?" He asked.

"Lord Wang, Lord Xi came in a hurry, I made people ready overnight, and transferred people for him, but Lord Xi said that it was a matter of confidentiality, and blasted his subordinates out, and sent someone to block the valley mouth, not letting us see!" Sun Erqian said with a wry smile.

"Hehe, that's a way to make money that I just discovered, of course he won't reveal it to you, but with this, at least our base will be able to be flat next year, and we will be able to earn another base within two years!" Zhao Ta explained with a smile.

"Wow! No wonder Lord Xi is so solemn, it turns out that this is the God of Wealth! "Sun Erqian knows how much this base costs a year, when it was formed, the prince allocated one million yuan, and now there is not much left, if it can be earned back in two years, it can also make up for the shortfall, how much money do you have to earn!

Zhao Ta said and walked into the valley guarded by the guards, there was a strange smell and smoke inside, more than a dozen people were busy there, and there were dozens of large vats piled up in the distance. They didn't know that gasoline and diesel would volatilize, and they didn't cover it, and there wasn't much left. That is, far away, otherwise the volatile steam explosion will blow them up, Zhao Ta is also afraid when he thinks about it, he is anxious to ignore the safety issue, and quickly make a few urgent instructions, stop production and rectify it first!

Zhao Ta asked them to relocate the site and build a larger-scale distillation kettle, and at the same time transported more than ten cylinders of paraffin wax to a clean workshop, and instructed Sun Erqian to urgently build some necessary utensils, and find two craftsmen who are good at painting animals and carving, so that they can be used tomorrow. He wants to re-melt these paraffin wax into candles as a birthday gift for his father, and by the way, he also advertises himself, he wants to take advantage of the time before the chaos, and then take some money out of the pockets of those bigwigs and rich people, lest the city be cheaper on the day the city is broken!