Pu Tie had no choice but to collect the money and went back to the village with his son.

The next morning, Pu Tie and his younger brother Pu Cheng rode a horse to the military camp.

Lu Bu was training troops. Although there were not many, the five hundred cavalry charged back and forth with amazing momentum.

Dust is flying, and cavalry shoot archers.

"The lord is so hardworking, he trained troops so early." Pu Tie said.

Lu Bu smiled and said, "This is a habit in the army. Get up at dawn. Let's set off."

Lu Bu did not bring many people, but only brought ten personal soldiers including Lu Tong.

The group rode northward to chase Mopanshan Iron Mine.

It takes only ten miles to walk, as Pu Tie said, there is a valley in front and there are dense woods on both sides.

The valley mouth is only a few dozen meters wide, and the mountain bags on both sides are more than a hundred meters high.

Two arrow towers are built on the mountains on both sides, which can completely protect the entire valley.

The group slowly entered the mountain. The valley was only a few hundred meters deep. Suddenly, it suddenly became clear. There was a huge open land in front of me, with at least hundreds of acres, and a stream flowed through the open land.

Iron smelting requires water sources. What needs to be paid attention to is the river flood season to prevent river water from impacting the iron smelting plant.

Lu Bu was very happy. Not to mention the iron ore, even the big trees around him could cut down tens of thousands of them.

The group put the horses at the foot of the mountain and walked up the mountain for hundreds of meters. The black iron ore was everywhere.

Lu Bu was not proficient in iron ore, so he picked up a piece of iron ore and asked the system to take a look.

Limonite, with an iron content of 51%, and a price of 400 cents per ton.

Lu Bu did not intend to exchange iron ore for exchange. Iron ore is a non-renewable resource, so it is better to exchange it for wood.

"There is all in front of you, and there are at least hundreds of acres of open air. If it is excavated, it should be able to dig a lot." Pu Tie said.

It is impossible to estimate that Lu Bu can have tens of thousands of tons. It is like a mountain, but Lu Bu knows that with his current productivity, he will never be able to mine it in ten or eight years.

"It's a lot, and the amount is very large. We need to develop it as soon as possible. There are not many copper ores associated with it. Where can there be a large amount of copper ores?" Lu Bu asked.

Pu Cheng said: "There is a copper mountain more than ten miles east. Mountain residents often see chalcopyrite ore when they go to the mountains to collect herbs, and there are a lot of them."

"Then build a factory in this valley and name it Limin Da Iron Mine. In addition to the iron smelting furnace, another copper smelting furnace is opened." Lu Bu said.

"Okay, lord."

Pu Tie, Pu Cheng was so happy that the pheasant turned into a phoenix, and the sneaky guerrillas became regular troops.

After Lu Bu thought that it was close to the river and transporting coke from Teng Country was much closer than from Xuzhou, mainly because the ship transport volume was large and there were too many more carriages.

After walking for a while, Lu Bu also found that there were companion copper ores, but the amount was not large.

There are too many uses for copper. The most important purpose is to make money. If you cast it, you can spend it. Moreover, the value of copper coins is quite high and it is hard currency.

"Master Pu, please arrange all the blacksmiths who can make irons in the vicinity to send them to the Xuzhou Weapons Supervisor to build weapons. The skilled craftsmen will cost 300 yuan a month. After the construction of the Liguo Da Iron Mine, they will be transferred back." Lu Bu said.

Pu Tie said: "It will take as long as one to two months to build a simple factory, plus the iron smelting furnace. It's a pity for the craftsmen to rest during this period, and they just happened to go to the weapons supervision."

"You can prepare when you go back, purchase stone bricks and tiles. I will arrange for tiles to build a factory, and then build a blast furnace and iron smelting." Lu Bu said.

Pu Tie said: "Stone materials can be collected on site in the mountains, and there are also blue bricks and tiles nearby. But I have never heard of this blast furnace iron smelting."

Lu Bu said: "Blast furnace iron smelting means building a relatively tall iron smelting furnace. The furnace is vertical, and the iron ore and coke are mixed and burned, and the iron production is very high. You prepare materials first, and I will go back and organize the mason, and after building the factory, start building the iron smelting furnace, and strive to start production as soon as possible."

"It's the lord."

The matter of Limin Da Iron Mine was finalized. The government posted an announcement to urge all the nearby blacksmiths who privately smelted iron to come to Xuzhou weapons supervision to report and adapt. In the past, the matter of privately smelted iron will not be investigated. If it is not reported within one month, it will be severely punished after discovering it.

The notice was posted soon, and the villages were holding gongs and shouting while beating.

Salt and iron have always been specialized in wars. In recent years, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Xuzhou's revolving lantern changes, people's livelihood is difficult and the law is relaxed.

These villages near iron ore are dependent on the mountains to eat, and many people secretly smelve iron at home.

Hut Liu is a blacksmith near Mopan Mountain. He has a blacksmith stove at home. He goes to the mountain to mine during the day and takes it back. He doesn’t dare to do it too much. He hides it in the firewood to make a hundred and eighty kilograms, and goes back to crush it and smel it, and specializes in creating a secret selling of hoes that go around the streets.

Today I was coming to his house and said, "Hotao Liu, please prepare for it. I went to Xuzhou Weapons Supervision to make ironworks in the past two days. Don't do this private iron smelting, and I accidentally lose my head."

The hoe Liu Dadada's mouth was not spoken.

"I know what you think. You feel that making money by refining private iron can be made in five or six hundred yuan a month, or even thousands. But you have to remember that you can only make money with your life and spend it. The governor's yamen issued an announcement and those who make private iron in a month will be dealt with according to the law. Do you know what the rule means?" Li Zheng said.

Joe Liu nodded and said, "I know, I'm considering it."

At least it was a whole family to be killed.

Just as the lion left, Hut Liu was a little unwilling to accept it. He was a famous blacksmith who was good at making swords.

Because no one in the village asked him to build swords and the most he created was a hoe, so he got the title of hoe Liu.

In the middle of the night, Yutou Liu Mantou sat up from the bed sweating profusely.

The wife got up and lit the oil lamp and said, "Old Liu, what's wrong with you? Are you dreaming?"

Hut Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I dreamed that our whole family was caught and imprisoned in prison to die. I was scared to wake up."

"There is a saying that people who know the times are heroes. I know you don't like Lu Bu, and I always feel that he has done a lot of bad things for Dong Zhuo. But everything has to be better. Recently, Lu Bu has donated porridge and grain in Xuzhou, built roads and cleared rivers, and did a lot of good things. He is still very kind to the people. Even our family received a bag of seeds from Wenhou melon yesterday, saying that it was a magical tool to survive the famine, and a melon can bear dozens of kilograms." said the wife.

Hutou Liu suddenly realized and said, "My knowledge is not as good as you and a woman. I will go to the weapons supervision tomorrow."

The next morning, Liu, a hoe, carried a big cake and pickled vegetable roll on his back, and rushed to Xuzhou weapons supervisor with more than a dozen blacksmiths in the village to report.

It was more than 60 miles away, and it was already noon when I arrived at Xuzhou City.

At the south gate of Xuzhou, Lu Bu sat under the straw shed, next to him was Wang Heng, the logistics manager.

A big sign was written outside the straw shed: Blacksmith reception point.

Although every household in life cannot live without craftsmen, the status of craftsmen is very low, and it is indeed unexpected that Lu Bu was receiving at the city gate.

Wang Heng said: "Lord, aren't you busy today? Why do you want to come to the city gate to welcome the craftsmen?"
Chapter completed!