Chapter 20: Be careful, be careful
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On the other side, Fang Xuanling was not in a good mood. His son had made a contribution, but he was beaten up and not rewarded. Fang Xuanling looked down on Li Shimin's moral integrity. He watched them talk and laugh along the way and did not interrupt. This was called silent resistance. Cheng Zhijie was not in a good mood either. He had wanted to come over and say a few good words before asking Fang Yiai for some benefits. But now, he had come over without saying a word. How could he ask for benefits?
Thinking about it, the only way now was to find Fang Yiai to buy some good steel, right? Forget about the armor, but how could he say it?"This old man wants to buy something from you?" Get lost, and directly open your mouth to buy it? Then why didn't that brat ask for an exorbitant price?
After thinking about it, he couldn't say this matter. He had to trouble His Majesty. However, he couldn't figure it out. What if Li Shiming asked and that brat deliberately raised the price because of this matter? Then wouldn't he have suffered a huge loss?
"Ah Chou, what's wrong today? You're not saying a word. Are you still angry about what happened this morning? Look on the bright side. Who hasn't failed before?”Cheng Zhijie almost went crazy with anger when Li Shiming opened his mouth."Your Majesty, don't you know that your words are very hurtful? How many times have you played this joke in the morning?" He decided to tell Li Shiming to let Fang Yiai vent her anger. At the same time, he would also be happy. He would go back and tell Fang Yiai to ask for a high price. It could be considered as his goodwill to that kid! Anyway, he didn't have to pay for it himself.
Maybe that kid would give him some benefits at that time. Even if he didn't give it to His Majesty, it would be good. Besides, the profit of the steel business was not small. At that time, he would ask that kid to give him some scraps.
I've already made up my mind. Are you laughing at me? When You Cry, he looked at Li Shiming and said,""Your Majesty, I heard that Fang clan's kid got a large batch of steel to equip his Breaking Ranks Camp, and they are all top quality hundred steel, Your Majesty can't be biased, I want them too, but I definitely won't ask for more, just two hundred sets will do, Your Majesty, see if you can get some for me?”
Li Shiming was the one who was stunned. At first, he didn't give Fang Yiai anything other than the military camp and food. When he heard that she wanted him to forge his own weapons and armor, he didn't care much. He thought that it would only be a few sets of leather armor at most, so he gave her the order to do whatever she wanted. However, no one told him that the Breaking Ranks used steel armor.
His Black Armored Army didn't even have steel armor now. This was too f * cking extravagant. The Black Armored Army only used steel sabers at most, and they had just been equipped with them. He didn't expect the Breaking Ranks Camp to actually want to use steel armor. Was this the difference between a rich man and a loser? A set of steel armor would weigh at least 30 jin. Including the weapons, the soldiers of the Breaking Ranks Battalion would need at least 40 jin of steel!
How much steel did 40 jin x 500 people need? Li Shiming felt that his brain was a little dizzy. This was 20000 jin of steel, enough for him to equip 5,000 light cavalry. With some steel, he could easily equip more than 10,000 people!
However, this brat had squandered away 500 people. Li Shiming couldn't accept it. He turned to Fang Xuanling and wanted him to give him an explanation. However, Fang Xuanling didn't say anything. He didn't care about anything. He thought about it and felt that he had just hit Fang Xuanling's child. Now, he wanted to bully Fang Xuanling again. Li Shiming felt that he had gone too far. However, he couldn't bear to give up on these things."I hit your son, so you can hit my son too. It's nothing as long as you beat Steel up.”But he couldn't say it!
He turned around and glanced at Zhangsun Wuji. He realized that Fang Yiai was enjoying the scenery and had no intention of caring at all. Zhangsun Wuji did not want to offend Fang Yiai. If he angered that kid and refused to cooperate with him, where would he cry? Moreover, it was obvious that His Majesty was right. He heard that Fang Yiai had emptied his family's assets. If His Majesty wanted to say something, he had to be joking. He thought that this matter would make Fang Yiai and Fang Xuanling fight to the death with him. He was not a fool.
"Brother Xuanling, look at these flowers. They're blooming quite well. I heard that my beloved has invited Chong-er Fifteen to attend a banquet in the peach forest.”Although Zhangsun Wuji said that he would not offend anyone, he decided to reveal some information to the Emperor. At that time, the Emperor would know what to do.
Fang Xuanling was not joking when he called himself a schemer. He immediately understood what he meant. His son had spent a lot of money on this matter, so he wanted to help his son."That's right, it's not like brother Zhangsun doesn't know, Fang clan is not rich to begin with, and Yi Ai spent a lot of money on refining steel, so he intentionally brought out some fine wine to invite people to taste it together!”Although they were doing business, they couldn't say it directly.
In fact, there was no problem in saying it directly. Although officials could not do business, his son did not inherit the title. Now that he was not an official, it was not a problem for him to do business. No one could say anything about it. He could not let all the officials except the eldest son starve to death, right? But now that His Majesty had the intention of letting him enter the court, he couldn't say it directly!
Li Shiming immediately understood. This was telling him that he couldn't take the money for free even though the other party had spent a lot of money. This was a fight for profit with the people. The Great Tang had never banned the trade of steel. As long as you didn't leave the Great Tang, no one would care about you. Otherwise, how could you cut vegetables and cook? Moreover, many soldiers 'armors and weapons weren't distributed to them, but were brought to the army by themselves. If trade was prohibited, how could they fight?
Besides, he really didn't reward them. He gave them an official position and they didn't want it. No matter what, he still didn't reward them. Even if he gave them some money, it would be fine. Now, he just gave them a beating. Even if he was shameless, he couldn't do this, right?
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