Chapter 66: Heaven and Earth are destroyed

Chen Ying bought three thousand acres of wasteland in the Qinglin. It looked like a lot, but in fact, there was not much distribution after distribution. At the time of delivery, Chen Ying was still Chen Ying, but when Chen Ying was the younger brother of Hou Mo Chen, the county magistrate Zhao Zhiyong gave Chen Ying an almost free price of about 1,000 acres of wild woods along the west bank of Jieyu River.

Chen Ying bought this forest with 160 gold, equivalent to 160 guan. In fact, it is not the value of the land. The wood that can be cut down alone is more than 1600 guan. And more than 100 villagers in the Qinglin heard that Chen Ying opened a manor here. Under the leadership of the village chief, the land in the entire village was also affiliated with Chen Ying's name.

Chen Ying naturally knew that the real purpose of these people was to evade taxes and various corvee labor. Chen Ying really needed land use too much. Of course, there were many nobles like Chen Ying who had tax exemption privileges. Even if he did not accept the affiliation of these villagers, in fact, these self-cultivated farmers would also seek other powerful people to affiliate.

In just over two months, Chen Ying's land had more than 6,000 mu of land. Although 90% of it was wasteland, it was an indisputable fact that Chen Ying was called a small landlord in a short period of time.

Chen Ying led Li Jiancheng and when Li Xiuning came to the Qinglin, Li Xiuning took a fancy to Chen Ying's yard at a glance. After more than two months of construction, the yard has begun to take shape, covering an area of ​​more than 20 acres. Along the compact corridor, some lush shrubs and flowers were transplanted on both sides of the corridor, which looked vibrant.

The main body of Chen Ying's courtyard is still mainly wood, with towers, pavilions, corridors, rockery, streams and pine waves outside the courtyard, which are integrated and full of vitality. In particular, Chen Ying asked the carpenter to create a set of furniture from later generations. The sofa is covered with spring steel and lambskin, which is exactly the same as the sofas from later generations. Li Xiuning sat on the sofa and instantly wanted to take up the furniture inside.

But she didn't speak because Li Xiuning knew that everything about Chen Ying was hers.

Chen Ying's wooden building living room is a rectangular table, about 1 2 feet long and about 3 feet wide, and about 2 feet high. The desktop is made of good Lantian jade. Only one desktop will be worth hundreds of millions of yuan in later generations. However, in this era, the price Chen Ying paid was only labor and transportation costs, plus a 20% discount on the order for a four-wheeled carriage.

Chen Ying is a person who knows how to enjoy. He used to have no chance and had to work hard, but now with the conditions, he manages his life impeccably.

The hollow carved screen of pineapple wood, and the thin silk as thin as a cicada's wings act as window paper. Of course, in order to welcome the harsh winter in the future, floor heating pipes with ceramic pipes are also laid on the ground.

Of course, Chen Ying also asked someone to build a toilet from later generations and built a bathtub of more than ten square meters with white porcelain pieces. If it weren't for the fact that this was just a temporary residence, Chen Ying would also plan to build a large swimming pool indoors in the future.

After Li Jiancheng sat down, Hongxiu and Tianxiang girls quickly served tea. Holding the tea, Li Jiancheng murmured to himself: "What a armor, a good knife, a good knife!"

Chen Ying sighed distressedly and said, "High manganese steel is not a difficult thing. If I have a manganese ore in my hand, I can create more weapons that can cut iron like mud!"

Li Jiancheng asked in confusion: "Chen Qing, what is the high manganese steel you are talking about?"

"This high manganese steel is a high-quality alloy steel. Modao is made of this high manganese steel!" Chen Ying sighed and said, "It's a pity that the manganese sand I use is too little, only more than 300 kilograms. A Modao will use nearly two kilograms..."

Li Xiuning said in surprise: "I didn't expect Chen Lang to make steel!"

Chen Ying said lightly: "Is it strange? Steelmaking is not such a complicated matter."

Li Xiuning smiled bitterly. Although steelmaking is not difficult, at this time, whether it is steel making, steel filling, or steel making, the production capacity of steel is very small. Although the cost of steel making is relatively low, the quality is too poor. Although the Baijing Steel can produce high-quality steel, only experienced old craftsmen have this technology, especially a steel horizontal knife of Baijing Steel making, which takes one year to build one. Although the horizontal knife equipped in the Tang army is known as Baijing Steel making, it is only known, with a maximum of only seventy refinements, and the other part is only thirty refinements, which is just a little sharper.

Li Jiancheng's eyebrows frowned slightly: "What Chen Qing means is that this Modao can only be made of at most one hundred and fifty?"

"How could there be that much!" Chen Ying smiled helplessly and said, "The Mingguang armor requires nearly two kilograms of manganese sand, and the horizontal knife is less than ten taels. I have used up more than two hundred kilograms, and at most I will use up all the manganese sand left in two days. At most, I can create ten sets of armor and ten shattered swords!"

Li Jiancheng also fantasized about having a heavy infantry unit affiliated with the Eastern Palace to compare Li Shimin's black armored iron cavalry. When he heard Chen Ying say that the manganese sand was gone, he suddenly became anxious: "Where did these manganese sand come from? Where did there be manganese sand?"

Chen Ying said: "These manganese sands are waste residue extracted from the slag salt mine in Lingzhou. In fact, steelmaking in Chang'an is not cost-effective. The best way is to cast Modao, horizontal knife or armor blade directly in Lingzhou, and heat treatment and assembly processing in Chang'an. Lingzhou has an absolute advantage, with rich steel ore, coal, salt ore and manganese sand. It's a pity that Lingzhou, which I formed when I was in Lingzhou, will be used as a supervisor, and was shut down by Li Daozong, the new general manager of Lingzhou!"

In fact, everything has its pros and cons. If Li Daozong had not closed the Lingzhou supervisor, Lingzhou, which had not made a living, would not have been more than two thousand miles away from the supervisory craftsman, and would have come to join Chen Ying. Otherwise, he would have accidentally transported the manganese sand from the salt mine to Chang'an as salt, and Chen Ying would have no way to make high manganese steel.

Of course, there are not so many ifs in the world. Li Daozong accidentally helped Chen Ying. Although Chen Ying knew that high-manganese steel was a high-quality alloy steel and also knew the ratio between charcoal, manganese and iron in high-manganese steel, he didn't know where manganese ore was, nor did he know how to extract manganese sand.

Li Jiancheng suddenly stood up and said to Chen Ying: "Bring a set of bright light armor, a mo knife, and a horizontal knife, and enter the palace immediately!"

Chen Ying knew Li Jiancheng's intention as soon as he heard this. This was to use the advantages of high manganese steel to impress Li Yuan and let Lingzhou re-establish the supervisor. But this had nothing to do with Chen Ying, so Chen Ying naturally didn't want to make wedding dresses for others.

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning, and Li Xiuning held the horizontal knife in his hand: "This is from this palace, no one can snatch it away!"

Chen Ying bowed to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Highness, this is inappropriate."

"Uh..." Li Jiancheng was stunned and asked back: "What does Chen Qing mean?"

"I haven't explained to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that I have never seen the manganese ore in Lingzhou. I don't know what the manganese content is, but I think it will definitely not be too much." Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "I have asked Wei Meng that this manganese ore sand has only appeared recently, and not much. I have made 10,000 stones of salt and only more than 300 kilograms of salt."

The salt mines in Lingzhou are stone salt mines, which belong to anhydrite-stone-stone ore, marlstone-stone ore (or mud gravel stone salt ore), mud gravel calcium Glauber's salt-stone ore, which belong to the associated ore. Generally speaking, the salt content of this stone salt mine is more than three times that of seawater, nearly ten percent or more. That is to say, one hundred kilograms of salt ore is mined and ground into powder. After analysis, you can get more than ten kilograms of salt, but how much manganese can be contained in it? Everything is unknown. I think it will not be too big. Chen Ying does not remember what large manganese ore there were in Wuzhong City, Ningxia in later generations.

Li Jiancheng understood Chen Ying's meaning. Because there was too little manganese ore sand, he wanted to use horizontal swords or Mo swords made of high manganese steel to change all the Tang army. At present, it was not realistic. If Lingzhou was handed over to Li Yuan as a supervisor, then the left and right guards of the East Palace were replaced with Mo swords or armors made of high manganese steel, which would definitely be unsuccessful. With Li Yuan's nature, good things would definitely be used in the left and right martial guards, left and right imperial guards or left and right guards. The central ban of these six guards had 67 Zhechong Mansions under the jurisdiction of the direct troops of nearly 100,000.

As the saying goes, if people do not care for themselves, heaven will be punished by the earth. Li Jiancheng saw that Chen Ying was not worried at all, so he asked, "What are the great opinions of Chen Qing?"
Chapter completed!