Even the blacksmith in Lijiabao has never seen iron ore, let alone Li Song.
He picked out the ores from his saber one by one, muttering to himself: Magnet... What is the use of this thing?
Just as he was wondering, he heard Li Chengzhi shout again: "Let's go..."
As long as the specific location of the iron ore is found, the rest is naturally how to refine it.
In fact, it is not difficult. Compared with forging iron on Kongtong Mountain before, there are only two more processes: one is mining, and the other is smelting the ore into iron. It can be done with or without a catalyst, and there is no need for a crucible. Compared with forging,
It’s much easier to forge armor and knives.
And it’s not far from the main camp, so you can start the stove on the spot, saving even transportation.
As for clay...
More than a hundred miles to the east is the famous Danxia Landform Scenic Area in Gansu in later generations. Not only does it have high clay, but there are also many thieves...
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It was night, and Li Song's tent was filled with soldiers.
All officers above the captain level are here, more than a hundred of them, and more than 90% of them are members of the Li clan.
The remaining dozen or so are generals with foreign surnames like Huangfu Rang.
Of course, as long as Li Chengzhi is willing, he can let them change their surname to Li at any time.
A group of people looked at Li Chengzhi excitedly: No one expected that just half a month later, Lang Jun would be here?
It was as if they suddenly had a backbone. The tribesmen who had been listless two days ago, and even eating meat no longer tasted good, suddenly became more confident and their eyes gleamed.
So what if you are thousands of miles away from home?
Lang Jun will definitely be able to arrange them properly...
Hundreds of people looked at Li Chengzhi excitedly.
Looking at these expectant eyes, Li Chengzhi couldn't help but feel a trace of guilt in his heart.
If it weren't for him, why would these generals in front of them leave their homes and come to this desolate and cold place thousands of miles away?
If they had stayed in Jingzhou, 10% of these people would have been recruited by Xi Kangsheng, waiting to be rewarded based on their merits.
To be honest, as for whether Li Chengzhi will be suspected by the court because of this, how much does it have to do with them?
Just like what Li Chengzhi said in the past: The reason for loyalty is just because there are not enough chips for betrayal... Not to mention the clan members, who are close relatives, what can they do in the face of absolute interests?
But looking carefully, Li Chengzhi didn't see any complaints in anyone's eyes. Instead, he looked at him expectantly as if he were seeing his parents.
Li Chengzhi is lying when he says he is not moved...
His heart warmed, and he bowed deeply: "Thank you for your hard work!"
A group of generals suddenly panicked. Where could they sit down?
One by one, they all bowed down and shouted, "My husband can't help me..."
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly: What can't be done?
Even if one day, there is a slight possibility that they will become their wives and children, but how many of them will be able to survive by then?
What's more, the situation in Hexi was completely beyond his expectation, and the success rate was reduced by unknown amounts. Even Li Chengzhi himself didn't know if that day would come...
But these words cannot be said even to death, including in front of Li Song and others, otherwise the morale of the army will definitely be shattered immediately.
Li Chengzhi could only grit his teeth and move forward...
He forced out a few smiles and said half-jokingly: "They are all a bunch of rough guys. Even if they are tired or not, they must be holding it in, right?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, as if they wanted to overturn the felt tent.
With just such a sentence, everyone felt that Li Chengzhi was suddenly much closer to them. He was no longer that divine figure who looked like jade and would be ashamed of himself even if he took one more look at it. He was not even a high-ranking commander who could take life and death, but could
They share the joys and sorrows with them, their fathers, brothers, and close relatives who will never leave them.
In fact, since he started the army, Li Chengzhi has always led by example. There has never been a meal that was better than the food and housing of these soldiers.
In addition to necessary entertainment, such as entertaining Yang Shu, Zhang Jingzhi and others, Li Chengzhi ate whatever these people ate...
And his reputation for loving his soldiers like his own children is definitely not just a boast.
Just look at how many casualties the Baijia Battalion suffered from the beginning to the end, and you can clearly see...
However, in order to maintain the majesty of the commander-in-chief, Li Chengzhi was rarely so approachable in the past.
Seeing how kind he suddenly was, these generals suddenly remembered Li Chengzhi's many benefits in the past, and then thought of him running two thousand miles for several days and working tirelessly to appease them. These generals smiled, and their eyes filled with tears.
Tears...
Li Chengzhi also felt hot in his heart. He suppressed his throbbing and said cheerfully: "Don't panic... In two months at most, grandpa will be able to match each of you with a wife... including the soldiers, everyone has a share...
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Li Song was shocked and stood up suddenly.
He thought, did Lang Jun have a fever?
Could it be that Mr. Lang has forgotten how many soldiers there are in the camp?
Four battalions of soldiers, one battalion of white cavalry, a total of five thousand...
Apart from robbing, he really couldn't think of anything else Li Chengzhi could do.
But even if we rob, even if we rob the three counties in Hexi, will there be so many women?
The general below looked at Li Chengzhi blankly as if he were listening to a myth, not knowing whether to believe it or not.
It would be possible to just deal with the one hundred and eighty leaders.
Or it would not be difficult to snatch some women nearby, such as those from the Hu tribe, and then find a female slave in the army.
But what about allowing all these more than 5,000 soldiers to get married here?
What's the joke?
Where do people come from?
"Why are you panic... Sir, when have I ever spoken nonsense?"
Li Chengzhi glared at Li Song, then looked at the group of petrified generals in the hall, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Sir, I will definitely do what I say..."
He only thought of it when Zhang Jingzhi mentioned to him that tens of thousands of rebels in Jingzhou would be exiled to Hexi.
Regardless of men or women, the place of exile for these 40,000 to 50,000 rebellious people will only be border towns, and Wuwei Town and Jiuquan have long been abolished, so only Dunhuang Town in the far west of Hexi is left.
No matter how many people make it to Dunhuang Town alive, all the men will be forced into the army by then, while the women will have a 20% chance of being used as camp prostitutes, and an 80% chance of being sold to Hu merchants by the Dunhuang general. Only those with strong backgrounds and prominent family members will survive.
For example, Li Yun's cousin, the Huihou family of Xiangwu, rebelled, and dozens of his family members were exiled to Wuwei Town. If Li Qi hadn't protected him, they would probably have ended up like this.
But this is a very small number, not even one in ten thousand people.
Li Chengzhi thought, instead of watching these female relatives being used as military prostitutes or being sold like animals to the Western Regions, why couldn't they be rescued?
Making wives for ration soldiers and soldiers is only secondary, not even mentioning whether they can stabilize the morale of the army.
If there is no hope of rebellion, at least these thousands of soldiers can be allowed to multiply here. No matter how chaotic the Central Plains is in the future, the descendants of these soldiers can at least guard the gate of the North for the Han family...
Take another ten thousand steps back and only consider saving these women from fire and water, which is what Li Chengzhi will do.
These are living people, not animals...
It has nothing to do with the Holy Mother or not, but it has nothing to do with Li Chengzhi’s bottom line as a human being.
……
Naturally, the matter of stealing people with Zhang Jingzhi cannot be known to so many people for the time being, so the eyes of these generals turned blue, and Li Chengzhi did not even explain.
"Bring it up..."
Hearing Li Chengzhi's shout, the generals saw Li Rui walking up again holding a wooden bucket.
The bucket is not big, just a standard 1-jun bucket, covered with red cloth. I don’t know what it contains, but I can tell by the look on Li Rui that it’s not light.
But before they could be suspicious for long, Li Chengzhi asked Li Song to lift the red cloth.
As the red cloth was lifted, the tent suddenly lit up, as if thousands of rays of light were rising.
Another example is seeing the rainbow after the rain. The light is overflowing. Everyone feels that it is bright and bright. Hundreds of people narrowed their eyes in unison.
Everyone's face is reflected with a layer of colorful and extremely psychedelic light...
Ninety percent of these people are descendants of the Li family. They have memorized the Book of Songs since they were young, and they have also memorized "Li Sao".
Looking at this bucket of jewels, they couldn't help but think of the poem in it: folding a beautiful branch is considered shameful, fine Qiongjuan is considered glutinous rice; driving a flying dragon for me, mixed Yao elephants are considered a car...
No, it seemed even more beautiful than what was described in the poem... They swore that they had never seen such a beautiful pearl.
Among these people, the one with the best family background is Huangfu Rang, a real powerful man from Jingzhou. He has worn many fine jade and gemstones, but when has he ever seen such a bright color, such a vivid light, one of them actually hit the target?
There seem to be several colors of gemstones?
For a moment, there was silence in the tent, and the only sounds were the mountain wind blowing against the felt tent, and the faint sound of the heartbeat.
It was silent for ten breaths, and no one knew who was taking the lead. The sound of breathing suddenly sounded in the tent.
Li Song's face was livid, and he was so distressed that he was almost bleeding.
At this time, only he knew what it was and where it came from.
Liuli!
Even Lang Jun only practiced two fights...
I have already taken it out, is there any reason to take it back?
Li Chengzhi ignored Li Song's dissuading eyes and chuckled: "Don't be so worthless, it's just glass beads... I'll just use them as your salary..."
The eyes of a group of rough guys all popped out.
Glass beads...just?
When Hu merchants from the Western Regions went to Chang'an and Luoyang to do business, Jingzhou was the place they must pass through, so most of these people had seen what colored glaze was, and some of them had bought it, like Huangfu Rang.
But no matter how big or small those colored glazes are, they are at most brighter than fine white porcelain. At most they can be called "moist", but they are still far from "transparent".
And the colors are mostly single, with more than 90% of them being white as the base, with a few mixed with other colors, and rarely more than two colors.
Even if it is that kind, although I dare not say that the price is comparable to gold, one thumb is more than enough to exchange for a pound of copper or two stones of grain...
What's more, this kind of glass bead, which is almost as big as a chicken and as transparent as crystal, is extremely dazzling, extremely psychedelic, and colorful?
To be honest, if Li Chengzhi hadn't said it, no one would have dared to recognize it as Liuli.
It’s hard to say who the noble family is, but if it is sold to a Xianbei noble like Xi Kangsheng, they will definitely rush to get it if the price is increased ten times...
"It's just a dead thing!"
Li Chengzhi smiled lightly and pointed at Li Song: "Let's share it, ten pills for each person, which will be reduced to one year's salary..."
Everyone was stunned, and suddenly felt a rush of blood rushing to their heads: The annual salary of a seventh-grade captain like Hu Baozong is only twelve gold (copper), and such a salary is enough.
But I actually have ten pills in a year?
The flesh on Li Song's distressed face twitched.
Didn’t Lang Jun enter the city a long time ago and meet Erlang and his wife?
Why can Lang Jun be allowed to take out such a treasure and defeat him?
Just as he was complaining, he heard Li Chengzhi say: "Well, there is another fight...but it is much smaller than this, so one pawn for each pawn should be enough..."
Li Song's eyesight went dark and he almost fell over...