Datang romantic little landlord

But even so, the official minted copper coins still have a third of the profit.

However, the private casting of copper coins by aristocratic families does not mine copper mines to obtain copper, but sells and melts ancient coins for recasting, so the profit is higher.

After all, in the warehouses of these thousand-year-old families, I don't know how many five baht coins of the Han Dynasty and round hole coins of the Sui Dynasty accumulated over the past dynasties.

After the Tang Dynasty abolished the five baht coins, these ancient coins piled up like hills among the aristocratic families, and they could not be circulated in the market without being remelted.

Only limited by the casting process, the private money cast by the aristocratic family can only be used as two or three.But even so, the aristocratic family is not losing money at all, and is naturally willing to smelt and cast a large number of ancient coins in stock to realize them.

All the private money that Li Er and Li Wangyou used to mint coins was exchanged from aristocratic families and merchants on a one-for-two basis.

Even if [-]% of the loss is discarded and finally made into copper coins, Li Er can still make a lot of money.

"Haha, I really didn't trust the wrong person, Ziyou, this is a profitable business, yes, I am quite satisfied. After recasting your private money, I will share [-]% of the profit with you, Ziyou Don't think too little."

How could Li Wangyou feel too little, and thanked Li Er with a smile.

"Uncle, my nephew still has a business. I don't know if uncle is interested. This business does not make money, but it can protect my foundation of the great Tang Dynasty forever. Uncle, are you interested?"

Li Wangyou's words naturally aroused Li Er's interest...

514 Hundred Refinements Treasure Sword

For Li Er, gold and jewelry are naturally not as important as Datang's Jiangshan Yonggu.Hearing what Li Wangyou said, Li Er also put away his smiling face, and asked seriously: "Ziyou, tell me, what is the deal?"

"Uncle, do you know how to make steel?"

Li Er nodded, and took off the horizontal knife on his waist: "This Dingtang knife of mine is the Bailian treasure knife. It was originally the emperor's personal weapon, and it was later given to me."

With Li Er's permission, Li Wangyou reached out and took the Dingtang knife, lightly pressed the lock on the scabbard, and pulled out half of the knife to watch.

The blade is like autumn frost, the blade is like a mirror, and the air is cold.A little cold light condensed on the edge of the blade, as if it was flowing non-stop, adding to the coolness of the sharpness of the knife.

"It really is a precious sword!" Li Wangyou pushed the knife back into the scabbard, and handed the Dingtang knife back to Li Er with both hands.

This Dingtang knife is also famous in history, and it is rumored that this knife has the air of an emperor.Of course, Li Wangyou didn't see any imperial airs, but he was sure that this was a good knife that could cut through iron like mud.

"Uncle, such a treasured sword, I don't know if my imperial army of the Tang Dynasty has the equipment?" Li Wangyou deliberately pretended to be stupid and asked Li Er.

Li Er laughed naturally: "Haha, Ziyou, do you think this hundred-refined sword is a cabbage in the field? It's not easy to make such a hundred-refined steel. Even Zhijie and others have coveted my precious sword for a long time. How can we equip ordinary soldiers of the imperial guards?"

Li Wangyou nodded with a smile: "Uncle, if my nephew can make a large batch of these hundred-refined swords, and the price is twice as expensive as ordinary horizontal swords, will uncle be willing to let the imperial army equip them?"

What he said made Li Er's hand holding the teacup tremble in fright, and spilled the hot tea in the teacup into the clothes room.

Li Er didn't care to wipe the tea, and slapped the desks in front of him: "Ziyou, what are you talking about? Hundred-refined swords are made in batches? The cost is only twice as expensive as ordinary horizontal swords? How is this possible? You don't know, Ziyou. Do you know what is Baisteelmaking?"

"Hey, uncle, nephew naturally knows. If you don't believe me, ask Liben, is nephew lying?" Li Wangyou smiled and pointed to Yan Liben beside him.

Of course, Yan Liben nodded his head like a chicken sucking rice, including the cost Li Wangyou said, which was also estimated when he and Li Wangyou were chatting just now.

There was a reason for Li Er's surprise. The price of this Hundred Refined Treasure Sword was very different from the price of ordinary horizontal swords.

In "Water Margin", Yang Zhi sells knives for three thousand guan, which is already cheap.After all, Yang Zhi's ancestral treasured sword, which can cut hairs and coins easily, must be a hundred-refined treasured sword.

The horizontal knife equipped by the imperial army of the Tang Dynasty is priced at two thousand Wen, which is two copper coins.

As for ordinary folk knives, you can buy one for less than a hundred coins. In comparison, horizontal knives are already very expensive.

But according to what Li Wangyou said, a horizontal knife made of [-]-year-old steel can be bought with four copper coins. How can Li Er not be surprised?

Just as some people in later generations say that a Rolls-Royce that is purely handcrafted is only sold at the price of a battery car, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

"Ziyou, don't make trouble, how is this possible?" Even with the endorsement of Yan Liben, the future superintendent, Li Er still shook his head and didn't believe what the two said.

Li Wangyou laughed even more happily, it was a pleasure to stimulate Li Er like this.

"Uncle, think about it, the reason why the [-]-year-old steel is hard to come by is because craftsmen need to work hard and spend countless labors to forge that steel repeatedly, but that's the case?"

"That's right, that's exactly the case. It took me three years to complete this Dingtang Saber." Li Er nodded.

"Uncle, the manpower is limited after all to beat steel. Especially in the case of steelmaking, it naturally takes countless energy from craftsmen. But uncle, have you ever thought about using water power to beat steel by yourself? Just like the coin, you only need to replace the hammer head , it can be beaten day and night, without consuming the physical strength of the craftsman, and it can be hammered continuously by itself."

Li Wangyou's explanation made Li Er suddenly awaken: "This... really can be like this! Ziyou, you are right! It is naturally possible to drive the hammer head with water power and continuously beat the steel! Wonderful, really wonderful! Ziyou, You are really my son of the Li clan, haha, if my Imperial Guards of the Tang Dynasty were all equipped with horizontal knives and mo knives made of hundreds of refined steels, why worry about the invincibility of the Turks?"

Li Er is not a fool either, he understood what Li Wangyou and Yan Liben meant by just looking at the process of hydraulic coin minting.

Using hydraulic power to drive the forging hammer to continuously beat the steel is indeed much faster than using human power to beat it.What's even better is that there is no need for those skilled craftsmen, as long as they are trained, any craftsman can do the same.

A large number of new forging hammers of this kind of waterwheel will be able to generate endless steelmaking, thereby producing a large number of horizontal knives and mo knives to equip the imperial army.

Li Er wanted to understand this, so he got up suddenly, pacing back and forth excitedly.

"Ziyou, if this matter is accomplished, I will not be stingy with giving you the title! Not to mention being a duke, even if you are a prince, I can give you a reward!"

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a practice of not granting a marquis for military merits. At the level of the founding county marquis, it is no longer possible to entrust ordinary meritorious deeds.

As for princes, they are generally only entrusted to the royal clan.

Li Wangyou is now Li Erwei's nephew, and it is also possible that he will be entrusted with the title of prince.

Li Wangyou hurriedly got up to salute: "Uncle, my nephew is not for the title, but just to make some contributions to our Tang soldiers. My nephew is now sixteen years old, and my uncle has been awarded several times. This has already made the little nephew fearful, for fear of insulting his uncle's love. How dare the little nephew accept his uncle's canon again? The uncle should not mention this matter again, otherwise people will listen to it and think that the little nephew is really a lucky minister and a sycophantic minister, and he will give uncle a drink What ecstasy soup."

Li Er snorted coldly: "Hmph, Ziyou, you have great achievements and the country, how can you not be named a noble? How can I pay attention to what they say?"

He looked at Li Wangyou's young face, but sighed again: "But Ziyou, you haven't reached the crown yet, so it's really inappropriate to add a title to you. I don't think about this matter. Don't worry, Ziyou. I know your achievements very well, and when you reach the crown, I will reward you together, and I will definitely not let Ziyou feel cold!"

"My nephew doesn't dare, thank you uncle for his kindness."

Seeing Li Er take back his order, Li Wangyou let out a sigh of relief.

Nima, if you want to add a title to yourself, you really have to elope with your beautiful boss and wander around the world.

Now that I even have Te Niang's "rival in love", I really have to plan my marriage with the beautiful boss.

But no matter how anxious Li Wangyou was, it was unavoidable to keep his father's filial piety for two years.If he wants to marry a beautiful boss, he has to wait until the fourth year of Zhenguan at least.

At that time, Li Wangyou's body will be like this, and the beautiful boss is 26 years old... In the environment of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to get the approval of Li Er and Empress Changsun to marry the beautiful boss, you may have to learn from the Tang monk. Suffering is the key to success.

Thinking of this, Li Wangyou felt a deep pain in the ass.

After Li Er got excited, he asked in detail how to build the ordnance workshop and how much it would cost.All these Li Wangyou pushed to Yan Liben, and he solemnly suggested to Li Er that Yan Liben would be responsible for the construction of this craftsman.

Of course, Li Er nodded in agreement.Nowadays, there is no one in Tang Dynasty who understands this hydraulic forging machine better than Yan Liben. If he can not build it, who will he entrust it to?

Li Er happily allocated [-] copper coins to Yan Liben to expand the mint workshop and build a new ordnance workshop.

And this Huangyu was completely sealed off by the imperial army sent by Li Er.Except for Li Wangyou, Yan Liben and others, no one else was allowed to come in or out, not even a fly was going to be put in.