Even because the steel price has increased this year, Changsun’s iron smelting workshops are expected to make profits equivalent to those in the past few years.”

Wang Fugui reported to Li Kuan a little cautiously the news he had found.

It is no secret that the Chu Prince's Mansion and the Changsun Family are incompatible.

The Chu King’s Mansion has always been suppressing the business of the Changsun family.

Overall, the effect is also very good.

Nowadays, if you simply talk about business, the Changsun family can't even enter the top ten in the Tang Dynasty.

However, now that their iron smelting workshop has survived, the situation may be different.

Although it will not pose any threat to the Chu Prince's Mansion, it will be difficult to completely curb them.

"The iron smelting workshop of Changsun's family still has a deep accumulation of technology. Our iron smelting technology may not be a big secret.

Through the words of some craftsmen and some papers in the Journal of Science, it is inevitable that the Changsun family's iron smelting technology can evolve.

However, Datang has a particularly strong demand for steel at present. Even if the Changsun family does not make a breakthrough, other people's iron smelting workshops will sooner or later have technological breakthroughs under the stimulation of high profits."

Li Kuan is now very calm when dealing with Changsun Wuji.

As long as Li Shimin is still in power, it will be difficult for him to kill the Changsun family, and it is not very suitable to kill the Changsun family directly.

But once Li Shimin is gone, what will happen at that time is not what Changsun Wuji has to say.

However, during this period, Li Zhi and Changsun Wuji seemed to be getting closer again, which made Li Kuan feel a little afraid.

This ninth brother is indeed not as cowardly as many people imagine, and has no opinion.

"Your Majesty, although the Changsun family's iron smelting technology has made a breakthrough, there is still some gap compared to us. After we further expand our production capacity in iron smelting workshops in various places, we can engage in price wars with the Changsun family. We still have the hope of destroying the Changsun family's iron smelting workshop."

I don’t know whether Wang Fugui’s words were comforting Li Kuan or comforting himself.

"No need to worry about that. One of our important tasks this year is to promote bicycles and make bicycles a must-have thing for every household in Datang."

With the development of the Tang Dynasty to this day, Li Kuan feels it is time to enter a new stage.

The steam engine has come out and it will definitely usher in a large-scale application without a few years.

At that time, the giant ship of the Tang Dynasty can begin to consider gradually transforming from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

Bicycles are an entry point that Li Kuan thought of.

Although this thing doesn't seem very complicated, if the entire bicycle is disassembled into a loose part, there will be more than 100 parts.

This means that there will be a series of workshops behind it.

The workshops that make bicycle parts are expected to become the source of industrialization in the Tang Dynasty.

Whether it is bolts and nuts, chains, bearings, handlebars, or stamping of guard plates, as long as the output of the bicycle is expanded, these parts are enough to support the development and growth of a workshop.

The current population of the Tang Dynasty should be about 100 million.

Behind this means there are 10 to 20 million families.

As long as 20% of families buy bicycles, it will be a demand for millions.
Chapter completed!