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Chapter 111: The Difficulty of Pig Iron

When Chen Bowen returned home, the house was in chaos and looked like a mess.

My mother cried in the upper room, and the family members were silent. However, his father, Chen Jitai, went out to visit friends and was not at home.

Chen Bowen asked the reason and quickly asked the housekeeper to find his father, and then said to his mother: "Mother, don't worry. After the emperor returned to the palace today, he was not angry, but was very happy. He looked at his sister very much. However, looking at the emperor's intention, he felt that his sister was just an impulse, and he was young, so he was unwilling to harm her for life. The emperor also said that he would not let his family detain her and let her maintain her nature."

"The emperor said it was appreciation, but in fact he didn't want to take her as a concubine? The emperor was wise and probably didn't want your brother to lose his official position, and he still needed you. This dead girl made your father spoiled her so badly! I thought, if she was willing to be a sister, she would be her, and if she had never given birth to her, she couldn't let her be the one alone, so she couldn't be the one who could not become an official! The Chen family still had to rely on your brother to support her. Why would she be so forced to do as a girl?" Mrs. Chen said angrily.

"Mother, the emperor also said that my sister is the most aged and she loves to fantasize. After waiting for a while, it will get better. But what about my father? "Chen Bowen naturally agreed with his mother's idea and also felt that her sister was a bit too distorted.

"If your father spoils her, I will make a fuss with him! If it really doesn't work, I'll leave you!" Mrs. Chen said angrily.

"Mother, don't say that, how can you get to that point? How old are you old? Why are you still having sex? Tell your father well and you can't spoil your sister anymore. If your sister really wants to be a sister, she will fulfill her wish. She can't stand the rules and regulations in the temple when she is young? It's estimated that she will change her mind in less than ten days and half a month." Chen Bowen said.

"Well, my son is right. Bowen, don't tell the emperor what the emperor said, so as not to let her mind come alive." Mrs. Chen said.

"Well, mother, the emperor only lets the message to his family and does not let her use the rules. He did not let me pass on other words. Therefore, not telling these to my sister is not considered a resistant order."

"Okay, wait for your father to come back, let's see what he says. Alas, the little ancestor is not easy to deal with, and the old ancestor is not easy to mess with..." Mrs. Chen was very worried about her master's doting on her daughter. She really didn't know if he would act according to the plan he had agreed with her son.

I guess it won't.

Mrs. Chen has a headache when she thinks about it.

...

Chen Jitai came back. As soon as he entered the room, he saw that there was only his wife and children in the room. He looked solemn, and asked, "What's the matter? I'm playing chess with Huang Rizhang, and I'm about to beat him. Why are you hurriedly asking me to come back? I'm in the air?"

"Oh, Master, it's even more annoying than getting into a room! It's not the trouble of your precious daughter..." Mrs. Chen, who was about to "leave" just now, saw Chen Jitai and immediately reported everything like a mouse and a cat, and looked at him with a gaze.

Chen Bowen also passed on the emperor's will and looked at his father uneasyly.

"Well, it seems that the emperor is not completely ruthless to Qian'er, and there is still room for recovery." Chen Jitai came to such a conclusion after listening to the report of his wife and children.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Chen said anxiously: "Master, don't spoil her anymore. If she wants to be a sister, let her be the one. If it really doesn't work, let's donate more money for indulgence and oil to the nunnery..."

"Shut up! The woman has long hair and short knowledge. What do you know?! Don't worry about this, I'll talk to Qian'er!" Chen Jitai shouted at his wife and got up and went to the daughter's yard.

"Son, look, I also said that my hair is long and short, and the heavy and light ends are heavy, why can't he tell the difference between them? Ouch, what should I do..." Mrs. Chen complained to her son and sobbed softly.

...

Chen Jitai came to his daughter's room, waved his hand and asked all the maids to withdraw, said a few words to his daughter, and then turned around and left.

After hearing his father's words, Chen Jiaoxi's eyes, which had already darkened, gradually became brighter and her expression gradually became happy: "Cooked water! Cooked water!"

"Come on, Miss."

"Come on the mirror. Um, it's so ugly, my eyes are swollen! Hey, cooked water, why is your face swollen? Who beats it? How dare you hit my confidant maid and don't want to live? Tell me, I'll avenge you."

"Well..., that one was beaten by me by myself... It's not bad Miss!"

"That's good. I've never heard of it. Go and get water, I'll clean it up."

...

Zhu Youlang has always been unconscious of landmines and grenades without energy production.

The next day, he raised this question at the Dawn.

"Your Majesty, the casting technology of the military weapon battalion is very mature. The main problem at present is that there is not enough pig iron. If pig iron can be supplied, it will take less than three months to equip mines and grenades to equip the army of 10,000 people." Chen Zizhuang, Minister of War, said.

"There are no iron ore in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the main iron ore is in the belly (referring to the area north of the Yellow River). The three largest iron ore in Jiangnan are Jinxian and Xingguo in Jiangxi, and Huangmei in Hubei, with an annual output of 1 million jin. Unfortunately, these three places were all occupied by the Qing soldiers. The pig iron used in the military weapon camp was transported from Xingguo in the past, with a stock of less than 10,000 jin, so there is no energy production." The chief assistant Qu Shisi continued.

"Your Majesty, there are only two ways to solve the pig iron problem today. One is to recruit from the public, and the other is to take down Xingguo, the closest to me. Xingguo's annual output is 00,000 kilograms, which is barely enough." Qu Shizi proposed a solution again.

Zhu Youlang found Jinxian, Xingguo and Huangmei on the map, and pondered: "There should be iron ore in Guangxi in the future, probably in Nandan. However, now there is a prospecting and a metallurgical station, which is obviously too late. It is not advisable to recruit people from the public and sell iron, as it will hurt the emperor's virtue of loving the people. So, he had to take Xingguo first."

Resources, whether in later generations or in modern times, are indispensable. Many wars initiated by them, are plundering and possessing resources.

Zhu Youlang thought again: "Li Chengdong is fighting in the east, and Yang Guodong is preparing to fight in the west. If Zhang Jiayu is fighting in the middle, our small Yongli can't bear such a large amount of consumption. But without pig iron, landmines and grenades cannot be mass-produced. Without energy production, these mobs are simply opponents of the Qing soldiers. Therefore, one or two iron ore and metallurgical institutes must be taken down. What should we do?"

The general of the Qing Jiangxi army was Jin Shenghuan, and the deputy general was Wang Deren, nicknamed "Wang Zamao". Both of them were Han people. If they could make them rebel against the Qing Dynasty, wouldn't it save their efforts?
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