Shule is in the bright and Yutian is in the dark, and they all want to control the second half of the Silk Road. Their current backing is still the Western Turks, but their confidence is that the Tang Dynasty's insufficient troops sent in Shazhou. If this were not the case, the moment Hou Junji took Gaochang, he would be able to continue moving westward.

It takes time.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

The ironwork workshops in Hanyang City are in full swing, and it seems that things in the Western Regions are still far away from them. However, this batch of iron sheets are the linings of the boxes, which are mainly used to prevent grain from seeping and moldy, and also to prevent windy days in the Western Regions. It is a weather where the mouth is full of sand, and grain is becoming more and more important.

"Don't blow the wind."

"yes."

In a factory in Linjiang, the iron bar as thick as a thumb turned into a thinner iron bar through an iron plate with a hole in the vertebral body. At this time, it was necessary to anneale. Zhang De specially built an annealing furnace. After experimenting more than a dozen times, he roughly set a regulation.

The iron plate that passed through the hole again was born, although it was not very uniform, but it was definitely considered sufficient iron wire.

"Tight test, and record it."

"yes."

"Have the wholesale been issued on the eighth day of the first lunar month?"

"I have already sent it out from Chang'an, and people from the capital have checked it."

"Well, that's fine."

The production of wires consumes a lot of fuel, mainly because further heat treatment is required, but these costs are acceptable. For Zhongyuan, the most deficient thing is coal, and any waste is reserves per unit of thousands of years. On the contrary, the iron ore is of poor quality, so Lao Zhang really doesn't remember where there is low purpurite...

Whether the barbed wire is useful or not needs to be tested, but that is not Zhang De’s business, but Cheng Chubi.

Li Desheng knew that Hanyang Wire Factory had production tasks, and the purchaser was the Qiemo Military Office. However, this was not an official procurement, but Cheng Chubi, the commander of the Qiemo Military Office, privately purchased. This was a policy allowed by the court. Generals and officers of the Qiemo Military Office, could privately strengthen the strength of the subordinate troops in order to expand their results.

But in the past, I used to make some ancestral swords and ancestral armor, or even a divine horse or a ancestral magic bow and crossbow. If I can maintain weapons and armor, I am also a technical talent, which is almost the same as the ancestral film.

Cheng Chubi purchased iron wire, naturally not to play with tortoise shell bondage or other schools of rope art. He lacked military strength, but there were many mobs in the Western Regions, and often had one or even two horses. Although he was not a match for the Tang army during the battle, he often ran very fast. Cheng Chubi could not use the limited elite cavalry to play hide-and-seek with these mobs.

If you want to play, just play big!

In the account, Cheng Chubi purchased this batch of Hanyang Wire Factory supplies on credit. However, as long as the profit in the battle is far greater than the purchase amount, it is cost-effective. Whether the wire mesh is useful and how much it is useful still needs to be tested by war.

The generals and officials of the Western Regions now have some rotational meaning, but they are all within a controllable range. For example, the 16 or 17-year-old princes and marquis like Dou Xiaoci went to Longyou to gilt, and usually organized a group of earth groups or Yishu, and few people actually went to the front line to fight.

But what is surprising is that Dou Xiaoci actually went to the front line.

"Everbright, why is Dalang really going to Shazhou? You... he is only sixteen!"

Because Zhang De took care of the Dou family, the rumors spread in Hanyang were about to arrive in Chang'an soon. After Uncle Zhang found out, he immediately expressed his opinion and ran to Dou Dan to show off his face. After a while, he became familiar with each other.

It turns out that human favors need to run around frequently to become eager.

The two of them are brother-in-law, and Zhang De intends to take care of them, so they naturally have a friendship.

Dou Dan, who was crying while wiping his tears, only touched his chest and sighed: "What can I do? What can I do? So what can I do?"

It’s not that Dou Dan couldn’t stop Dou Xiaoci. It was because his family was in a special situation. He had to maintain the dignity of his relatives, not to lose the face of Queen Taimu, and had to be a human being with his tail. Dou Dan split up early, and the Dou family was completely dispersed and had the dignity of a duke. In fact, the situation at home was exactly the same as that after Qu Tutong’s death.

"Princess Xiangyang..."

"She is helpless, either."

Dou Dan sighed with emotion. It was not just that Dou Xiaoci was not the problem caused by Princess Xiangyang. Because Princess Langya changed her fate against the will of heaven and renovated the nuclear submarine and polished the nuclear warhead in the Liaohe River, now some princesses with strong military power or intelligence are not easy to do things publicly.

Li Shimin's heart is still guarding the Dongguan Kiln like a pet, let alone Li Shimin's sisters?

The person involved, Zhang Gongjin, knew it well, had to say: "The expenses in the capital are getting stronger and stronger. Brother Eunuch, it is not Gongjin who ridiculed him. If the expenses are too short, Zhang will never lack wealth here."

"Hongshen, thank you..."

Dou Dan sighed with emotion. Of course he knew that Zhang Gongjin was not mocking him as poor. In fact, Chang'an could not understand at all these days.

If he guards his salary and land, like Chang'an in the fourth year of Zhenguan, he can still be very comfortable. However, Chang'an in the eleventh year of Zhenguan is not enough to describe the change of time.

In the old days, in Chang'an, the powerful and powerful walked in fur and warm boots. Most of the quilts were used as mats in the house. All the heating was coal stoves, and the coal quality was the anthracite specially supplied by men in Liangfeng County. The previous two-wheeled carriages could not reflect their status at all. Poly built and SF Express, a luxury carriage could directly feed Dou Dan's annual salary to dogs.

It is riding a horse, chasing the wind in the mountains, chasing the wind in Qinghai, and dragon stallions... The fur color is slightly worse, so it is difficult to hang out in the circle of powerful people.

Dou Dan never wanted Wei Zheng to complain about current affairs so that he told his colleagues not to be so luxurious.

After the Dou family in Henan, the famous family that Fufeng started his family was at the point where they went to the west of the city to ask for loans from Hu merchants. It is conceivable that Chang'an City has made it difficult for many marginal nobles to continue to maintain their decent family business.

Dou Xiaoci rarely chased Zhang De to Hanyang and bought a property there, but was forced to the extreme by reality. If he did not stand up, the family would definitely be defeated. Whether it was moving out of Chang'an or being sued by Hu Shang to Chang'an Order, and then being ordered to mortgage the property, it was extremely terrible.

Once this matter is disclosed, if Dou Dan's branch wants to rise again in the future, he must plan for three generations with the reputation of "incompetence"...

Dou Dan really thanks Zhang Gongjin.

However, if he understood that the current atmosphere of Chang'an and the changes in Chang'an were closely related to Zhang Gongjin's nephew, he would not know what to think.

The powerful people who eat meat buns are caring, while the slow and conservative powerful people are gradually marginalized, gradually neglected, and gradually squeezed out of the circle that was once not difficult to get along.

But while the carnival powers were still making a cup of tea, a rumor came out from the people of Chang'an again.

"What?! Your Majesty wants to collect the sugar industry and thinks it is owned by the state?"

"It's unreasonable! The foolish monarch competes with the people for profit!"

"Each province and prefecture has its own distribution and levy house. The Imperial College Priest is still in the Qilu area to be tainted with money, let alone others? Is the emperor trying to kill each family and be rich?"

"That old man Feng Ang actually submitted a memorial, this shameless old thing!"

"Lingnan does not produce sugar at all. If his Feng family can't eat the meat in this pot, they will come and smash the pot? Anyway, the sugar industry sells the specialty, Chang'an still wants to buy gray sugar from Lingnan. Feng Angheng will not lose money..."

The spoonful of white sugar once again brought out ripples that made people imagine.
Chapter completed!