Chapter 1040: The Terrified Wei Yuanfang

"Five hundred!" Wei Yuanfang said immediately, and after he finished speaking, he felt that it seemed a little too much. Iron armor is not easy to build, and the Dufu Mansion probably doesn't have much in stock, right? Moreover, the price is high, and if you ask for too much, I am afraid that the Duhu Mansion will be embarrassed, so I quickly added, "If it is inconvenient, you can have three hundred sets of armor!"

"If it's five hundred sets, I can arrange people to transport them over now!" Shen Long laughed secretly. Wei Yuanfang probably thought that his side was like Datang, who made iron armors by hand, and in that case five hundred sets of iron armors It will really consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and the price is unacceptably high.

But now, he has created a rudimentary coal-iron complex in Juliu City, using hydraulic machinery to forge iron armor, and each piece of iron armor is produced from the assembly line like flowing water, faster than the craftsmen in the Datang Workshop I don't know how many times, and the cost is only a fraction of theirs.

"I don't have much money with me on this trip, so I hope you can be more lenient in terms of price." Wei Yuanfang was pleasantly surprised when he heard that he could make up 500 pairs, but he immediately began to worry about money. There are only so many dowries, and Uighur's output is not high, and she has to spend money to win people's hearts, so she really can't spend much money for a while.

"These 500 pairs of iron armors should be given to Her Highness the Princess by the lower officials!" With a wave of his hand, Shen Long directly gave away these armors, which would strengthen Princess Xian'an's power, and have great influence on both Tang and Tang Dynasty. Protecting the government is of great benefit, how can this be exchanged for a little money? And since the construction of the workshop in the field, the Duhufu will definitely not be short of money.

"Jinglue!" Wei Yuanfang thought he had heard it wrong. Now, a pair of Tang's iron armor costs 3,000 guan, and 500 pairs of iron armor cost 1.5 million guan. There are too many armored cavalry that were popular during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and now there are not many armored cavalry left. As a result, Shen Long gave him five hundred armors in one go.

Even if the armor made by Beiting Duhufu is not as good as Datang's Mingguang armor, no matter how cheap it is, it will cost three hundred guan, right? Five hundred pairs is also one hundred and fifty thousand guan, just give it away like this?

However, what surprised him even more was still to come. Shen Long still felt unsatisfied after delivering the five hundred armors, so he continued to ask, "Yuan Fang? Will the five hundred armors be a little less? How many reliable people does Your Highness have?" ? If everyone can put on iron armor, it will be more useful for Her Royal Highness to speak in Uighur in the future, right?"

"Jinglue! These are five hundred armors! Are you kidding me?" Wei Yuanfang seemed to be choked by someone, and it took him a long time to say this.

"It's such a big deal, how dare I make a joke?" Shen Long saw that it might be difficult to convince Wei Yuanfang with empty words, so he took him out of Tingzhou and hurried to the outside of Juliu City, pointing at the black smoke. The iron furnace said, "This place can produce two million catties of iron a year."

"Jinglue! My annual iron tax in the Tang Dynasty is only two million catties!" Wei Yuanfang was even more foolish. He learned the lesson of the government-run business in the Sui Dynasty and allowed the private sector.

Private iron mines are taxed with an iron tax of 20. These years, the annual iron tax is about 2 million catties, which means that Datang produces more than 10 million catties of iron every year, which is just over 5,000 tons.

As a result, just a small iron factory here in Shenlong, the annual iron production is comparable to the total amount of iron tax in the Tang Dynasty. How can you convince Wei Yuanfang?

"Yuan Fang will know when you enter!" What is this? The annual iron production is only 1,000 tons. If this is put in later generations, a village-level steel factory can crush you into slag. A steel plant with an annual output of one million tons will be cut off because the output is too low. What is a thousand tons?

After entering inside, Wei Yuanfang only felt a burst of hot air rushing towards his face, hotter than when he passed Chishi Mountain (now the Flame Mountain). When the molten iron flowed into the casting mold and turned into iron lumps, Wei Yuanfang's mind immediately crashed.

When the iron block had completely cooled down, Wei Yuanfang hurried over to check it, touched and licked it, and finally took out his own horizontal knife to chop it. He didn't believe it was real until he cut off the horizontal knife. Iron ingots!

"Jing Lue, I really believe that you can really come up with 500 sets of armor now, but it is not easy to make 500 sets of armor even if you have iron?" Although he has so much iron here, there has always been a lack of craftsmen in the Western Regions. Where did he find someone to build so many armors? It's not enough to rely solely on the craftsmen of the Protectorate's Mansion.

"Yuan Fang, don't worry, just follow me to the riverside to see!" Shen Long continued to take him to the next place, it was not hot here, but Wei Yuan could hear the continuous and loud duangduang sound. Fang was upset for a while, until Shen Long gave him a pair of earmuffs and Wei Yuanfang got better after putting them on.

"Jinglue! Is this how you forge iron armor?" Wei Yuanfang knelt down again when he saw the hydraulic forging hammer falling continuously, smashing pieces of iron plates into armor.

"One, two, three, four, five..." He saw that in just a short while, five pairs of armors were formed on the assembly line, and then only simple polishing was needed, and then the armor pieces were stitched together with leather cords for piercing. That's enough, if it's put in Chang'an's armor workshop, how many craftsmen will have to work for days!

"Hey, it's still slow. The weather has been a little cold recently, and the water in the river has dropped, so the speed of making iron armor has also slowed down, or it could have been faster!" Shen Long felt regretful, and now the water in the river next to the workshop The flow is melted ice and snow water from the Tianshan Mountains. In summer, there is plenty of water, but when it is cold, the speed has to be reduced. Once the river freezes, this assembly line has to stop working and become handmade again.

So Shen Long was still thinking about whether to take out the steam engine. There is no shortage of coal next to Juliu City. If you change the hydraulic forging hammer into a steam forging hammer, you don’t have to worry about not being able to work because of insufficient water flow. There is no need to put it on the riverside to build a new workshop.

"Jinglue, if you can take out three thousand iron armors! The princess will definitely be able to control the Uighur King's Tent!" After coming out of the workshop for a long time, Wei Yuan just woke up a little bit. Grab Shen Long's arm and ask for the iron armor!

"Then three thousand pairs! Also free of money, just treat it as a gift from me to Your Highness the Princess!" Shen Long agreed, three thousand pairs of iron armor, at this time, as long as they are used properly, they are absolutely enough to determine the life and death of a tribe.

"I'll arrange manpower to prepare right away, and I'll be with Yuan Fang when I go back!" Shen Long planned to go to the Uighur king's account in person to ensure that the Uighur coup would develop according to his wishes.