174. Jiang Wei's Strength
Although Chu He was still calm after the battle, his upper body had completely broken down and even his pants were not in shape.
If Chu He hadn't deliberately used his internal strength to protect the key parts, and Qianyuan Guard would not have attacked the three routes of Chu He, otherwise it would have been a picture that was not suitable for children now.
Chu He finally understood why those generals had to wear armor on the battlefield. In addition to their protective power, maintaining a healthy face is also an extremely important reason. If he had known it, he would not take off his Qianshan armor.
He quickly put Qianshanjia back on his body, put on his robe and tied his belt, and then Chu He felt Captain Chu's majesty return. He glanced at the Qianyuan Guards and said with a smile: "No. Your strength is far beyond my estimate, and he deserves the name Qianyuan Guard!"
Qian Yuanwei looked at Chu He now, and there was even more contempt in the wildness.
Now they realized that Chu He was not only their parents for food and clothing, but also fully qualified to become the commander of Qianyuan Guard.
Even a powerful blood-coagulation martial artist like Captain Jiang Wei, with three hundred Qianyuan Guards, could not defeat Chu He. In the eyes of these mountain people with low vision, Chu He could be comparable to the legendary God of War!
In the final analysis, Qianyuan Wei is actually just ordinary civilians in Changding Township. When they see a warrior, they are enough to be in awe. If a martial artist in the blood coagulation realm is normal, it is not seen once a decade ago. How can they distinguish the difference between Chu He and a real strong man?
Especially Chu He's golden bell cover, which is inseparable from swords and guns. In the eyes of these civilians with low vision, it is definitely a weapon to pretend and force.
Chu He, who was extremely satisfied with Qianyuanwei, waved his hand and flipped the reward, each of whom four strong bones and blood pills were rewarded, and each of them added one or two demon honey to participate in the battle.
Chaos have already emerged. At this time, Chu He cannot be stingy. It is the most important thing to improve the overall combat power of Qianyuan Guard as soon as possible.
For Chu He, the strong bones and blood pills and demon honey are all external things. Only by using them can they prove their value. It is no different from mud.
After reviewing the situation of Qianyuanwei, the two captains of Jiang Wei and Chu Wu were responsible for distributing demon honey and strong bones and blood pills. Chu He then moved to the valley basin of the steelmaking field.
The steelmaking field is also the most important foundation of Chuhe.
The Qianyuan Wei can develop so quickly that the steelmaking field is of great contribution.
At this time, the scale of the steelmaking field also expanded a lot.
When Chu He arrived at the steelmaking ground, he found that there were many strangers. However, Chu Blacksmith had already told him that all the old brothers came from before and could definitely trust them. Chu Blacksmith even used his life as a guarantee.
They came for a while and there was no accident in the steelmaking field. On the contrary, there were many times when someone came to spy on the steelmaking field and was defeated by new craftsmen like Qianyuanwei or the steelmaking field.
Chu He looked at it and found that there were about forty or fifty new craftsmen. Although they looked silly and honest on the surface, they all contained a rebellious aura in their bones and emitted a faint murderous aura. They were obviously not ordinary mountain people.
They also have various scars on their bodies, and some even lack hands and legs, and have incomplete noses and ears.
When Chu blacksmith saw Chu He coming, he immediately brought people to greet him.
Afterwards, Chu Blacksmith and several other managers in charge of the steelmaking field introduced Chu He the current situation of the steelmaking field.
Chu He really has to admire the wisdom of the working people.
Although there is still only one small blast furnace for steelmaking, Chu Blacksmith and others built three ironmaking furnaces according to the style of the steelmaking furnace.
Chu Blacksmith and others were unable to build small steelmaking blast furnaces. After all, they didn’t know how the refractory bricks were obtained. The iron furnaces built can be made, but if they make steel, the temperature is not enough.
Although this world can smelify iron, its efficiency is not high, making iron expensive. An ordinary iron sword weighing about ten pounds costs several taels of silver.
Using an iron smelting furnace to craft iron has improved a lot. Chu He took a look and found that there is too much iron material now and there is no time to make steel. It can be stored as much as 30,000 to 40,000 kilograms. If it is all used to build steel soldiers, it can create two or three thousand steel knives.
After taking Chu He to look at the steelmaking field for a brief look, he said, "Qianyuan, now we can refine about 3,000 kilograms of iron every day. If the iron ore can keep up, the iron smelting furnace can increase the amount of iron smelting, and it is estimated that 10,000 kilograms of iron can be refined a day!"
He paused for a moment, hesitated and said, "However, a single steelmaking furnace cannot keep up with the speed. If possible, I hope I can build two more steelmaking furnaces."
The daily output of 10,000 kilograms is nothing to later generations. The daily output of any small iron smelting farm is calculated by 100 tons. However, in this world with backward production levels, it is definitely an amazing number.
You know, a pound of iron is almost sold for half a tael of silver now. The war has made the iron valuable and the silver cheap. Many people even melted the iron coins and cast weapons directly.
As long as we increase the intensity of mining and increase the iron smelting workers, even if the valley steel smelting farm does not build steel soldiers, the income from iron smelting alone will be 5,000 silver taels a day, and it will be even more amazing to build a steel smelting.
The iron ore was discovered by Chu Shuang. It was not hiding the private mining of the government, and there was no tax or any messy expense. Adding five hundred yuan a month to the miners’ three meals a day can make the miners work hard.
Moreover, the charcoal for iron smelting is made by oneself. It can be said that after removing less than 20% of the labor cost, the income from iron alone can bring Chu He a total of 4,000 taels of silver in a day, and a month is 120,000 taels of silver!
Even now, the iron production is only 3,000 a day, and most of the steel soldiers are made into steel and provided for Qianyuan Guards to use, but the sold steel soldiers have brought more than 500,000 taels of silver to the steel farm in just three months.
In addition to spending on purchasing grain, food, various medicinal materials, Chu Quan, who now manages money, also controls nearly 200,000 taels of silver.
Although the four Qinzhou people donated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver casually, this is half of their property, and it has been accumulated for hundreds of years.
Chu He had accumulated such huge wealth in a short time. If outsiders knew about it, he might not be able to suppress those ambitious people just because of the title of the Demon Army.
Maybe Huang Zhong and Gan Ning secretly helped Qinghe Village to repel many powerful men who covet the secrets of the steelmaking field.
Chu Quan dared not tell others about the income situation. Only the most core people in Qinghe Village knew how amazing the income of the steelmaking farm was.
Chu He now urgently needs to expand and strengthen his own power, so he will no longer hide it. He immediately said that he would build two more steelmaking furnaces to increase the manpower of steelmaking and mining farms.
Chu He decided to keep the secret of the refractory bricks secret.
It’s not that he couldn’t believe Chu Blacksmith, but that refractory bricks were so important. Once the secret of refractory bricks was leaked, others could build small blast furnaces and directly make steel.
Even though Chu He still retains the secret of alloy steel, he is quite weak at this time and it is difficult for him to compete with those major forces.
In the past, Chu He got nearly 2,000 kilograms of demon honey on the hive and some royal jelly, but he couldn't help but consume a lot.
Qianyuanwei, which has thousands of people, needs hundreds of kilograms of demon honey each. In addition to the consumption of his family and others, the inventory is now less than 1,000 kilograms, and most of the royal jelly is given to Chu He.
Royal Jelly is an indispensable contribution to Chu He being able to improve to this level in a short time.
Therefore, after inspecting the steelmaking field, Chu He soon arrived at the cave where the poisonous bees were domesticated and was preparing to check the reproduction of the tiger-headed queen bee worm.
Chapter completed!