"Master Liu, do you know a bricklayer with sufficient skills?" Chen Fei asked.

Master Liu continued to ask: "Mason? What do you want to do with this?"

"You don't have to worry about it. Go and find a bricklayer. I want to ask you if you recognize it. However, if you want someone with very skilled skills, don't just find someone for me. If your skills are not high enough, then I will ruin my big deal this time." Chen Fei said.

Master Liu thought for a while and said, "Miller, one of my elders is a bricklayer, and his skills are very advanced. However, he is over fifty years old and I am afraid he cannot work for a long time. He cannot do too tiring work. He must slow down. I wonder if my doctor can accept it?"

Chen Fei thought for a while and said, "Since that's the case, I'm not in a hurry. It's not easy to sit in a short period of time."

Soon, Master Liu quickly found a bricklayer, and he looked over 60 years old. Although he had known that he was only in his fifties, ancient people looked older, so they looked like they were in their sixties. Looking at this man's gray hair, Chen Fei felt a little reluctant.

"Can you persist?" Chen Fei asked.

"It's okay, Langzhong Chen, since you can see me, I will help you do this. As long as you do it slowly, I will still be able to bear it!" the old man replied.

Chen Fei asked again: "You old surname?"

"Doctor Chen, you have to be polite. My surname is Feng. Just call me Old Man Feng." Old Man Feng said.

Chen Fei saw that Old Man Feng was full of energy and there should be no problem, so he let him come over.

Next, Chen Fei came to the arsenal and took the initiative to find his deputy Yang Hongli. Chen Fei would not interfere with Yang Hongli's affairs, because the division of labor between him and Yang Hongli was Chen Fei in charge of "entry", that is, he was responsible for producing these weapons and equipment and then arranged to enter the warehouse. But once it was put into the warehouse, it was Yang Hongli's responsibility. In the future, everyone would have to approve and agree to it before they could be released. In fact, it was their division of labor. Now Chen Fei wanted to get some raw materials, hoping to see if there was any in the arsenal.

"Brother Yang, do you have bronze here?" Chen Fei asked.

"Bronze, what is that?" Yang Hongli obviously didn't know.

Chen Fei immediately asked: "You don't know that the bronze used to make weapons in the pre-Qin period was buried in the soil and oxidized and turned green. So it is called bronze!"

"It turns out to be tin copper or lead copper! This is not called bronze, it is melted with tin or lead and red copper. Then we obtained these two types of copper. This is not called bronze. I don't know where you got the name of bronze? But this is a suitable name. It seems that you can notify the Ministry of Works and let them change the name!" Yang Hongli said.

Chen Fei was speechless. There was no title of bronze in ancient times, but the name he called archaeological on TV was actually called bronze. Chen Fei also secretly hated himself, why did he come over without checking his phone before? But since Yang Hongli was not too concerned, Chen Fei would not explain much.

"I just want this kind of copper. Can you give me some? You are in charge of the arsenal. Can't I get some of these copper from the arsenal? Since this kind of thing is used for smelting and building weapons, there should be some in the arsenal, right?" Chen Fei asked.

But Yang Hongli said, "No, I don't have these things here?"

"No, really? You don't want to swear by me, right?" Chen Fei asked.

Chen Fei didn't believe in this Yang Hongli, and this Yang Hongli and he had never caught a cold. So Chen Fei thought that this was Yang Hongli deliberately evaded him.

"Dr. Chen, in fact, my Chinese had gradually given up bronze to make weapons as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. We used bronze to make weapons, which were weapons from the Xia and Shang Dynasties. We had switched to iron during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. We did not have any bronze here at all. Our weapons are cast with steel now, so we do not have such so-called bronze here. That is normal." Yang Hongli said.

Chen Fei was speechless. He couldn't find some bronzes anymore, so there was really no way to go for the next plan.

When Yang Hongli saw Chen Fei very much wanted this bronze and immediately said, "Dr. Chen, if you want this kind of thing, I actually have a suggestion here."

"What suggestions?" Chen Fei asked.

Yang Hongli took the initiative to say: "There is no bronze in our arsenal, but there are many places. There are many coin minting prisons everywhere, and this so-called bronze is used to cast coins. As long as the relationship between those coin minting prisons can be opened, there will be no problem to get some bronze."

"Yes! These bronzes are used to cast coins, why didn't I expect them to?" Chen Fei muttered.

Chen Fei suddenly remembered that most of the ancient copper coins were made of bronze, so he could go to these people in the coin minting prison to make some bronze. However, Chen Fei soon became upset. These copper coins were all far away from Chang'an, so he could not go there himself!

"Dr. Chen, don't have to worry. The Ministry of Revenue is supervised by the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Works is responsible for providing the raw materials. So as long as you can start from the Ministry of Works, you can get a batch of this kind of copper. Some of the bronzes in the local coin prisons are produced locally, and some are allocated from the center. If a batch can be intercepted from the Ministry of Works, the goal can be achieved." Yang Hongli said.

"Thank you Brother Yang for your reminder!" Chen Fei said.

Chen Fei immediately started to rush to the room near the Ministry of War, because the Ministry of Works, which was next to the Ministry of War, were all working in the palace. Chen Fei remembered that his old subordinate Zhang Mingde had just taken office as the Ministry of Works. Although this kind of coin minting material was not directly under him, he could use it to touch the people from the Yu tribe and then intercept a batch of bronze raw materials transported to the local area.

As for why Chen Fei had to have bronze, it was because he had something to cast, that is, artillery. Chen Fei hoped to create artillery as soon as possible so that Chinese firearms could appear in the Tang Dynasty in advance. Why bronze was necessary? It was because the steel in this era was not very qualified. Pig iron was too hard and brittle, and cooked iron was too soft, which was not suitable for casting firearms. Therefore, bronze was the best choice. Chen Fei was just thinking of using bronze to cast artillery. As long as the trial production was successful, the Tang Dynasty's military advantage had improved a great era, and the military strength had completely developed rapidly. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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