Skynet In Another World

Chapter 091 Material Upgrade Plan

After Hong Ze completed the handover of captives and materials at the gate of the village, he did not even remove the armor on his body, so he kept on running. moved towards the direction of the chemistry laboratory. Heading on, I happened to run into Xiling Yan who was about to rush to the city wall construction site.

Xiling Yan looked at Hong Ze wearing a bloody Battle Armor, moving towards Hong Ze slightly nodded, and said: "General Hong has worked hard."

"Young Lady Yan, Master Hong Ji can be in the laboratory?"

Faced with Xiling Yan, Hong Ze's attitude was much better than when he faced Teng Yuan before. Yan is the person close to Hong Ji. Having lived in the Xiao Clan clan for nearly 20 years, Hong Ze still understands the truth about how to behave in the world.

The rugged Hong Ze has a rare smile on his face.

"Boss's should be at the blacksmith workshop right now."

Yan's brows curled up slightly, and he thought about the future.

"Oh? Really! Thank you Young Lady Yan!"

Hong Ze heard that when Hong Ji was at the blacksmith's workshop, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he After hurriedly thanking Xiling Yan, he moved towards the blacksmith workshop and turned.

Blacksmith Workshop

The blacksmiths in the mountain fort succeeded in manufacturing the steam engine according to the blueprint they gave. This made Hong Ji realize that the indigenous craftsmen of this era It's still worthy of use.

Although the steam engine in the mountain fort still has many flaws, Hong Ji knows in his heart that it is not because of the fault of the blacksmiths, but only because of the manufacturing materials.

The steelmaking process of blacksmiths in this era is still very backward. Inferior materials cause the lifespan of the steam engine to be not very long, and failures frequently occur, which greatly affects the construction efficiency in the mountain fort.

In order to solve these problems and also for the future development of the base, teaching blacksmiths to produce high-quality steel has become Hong Ji's top priority today.

"I need you to manufacture these things as quickly as possible according to the blueprint, is there a problem?"

Hong Ji's pair of beautiful eyes stared coldly at the four senior blacksmith Masters , Undoubtedly asked the other four people, they couldn't help but shudder.

"Boss, forgive the old man's ignorance. The so-called blast furnace and converter described on your blueprint were unheard-of and unprecedented by the old man, although the old man does not know what the blast furnace and converter are. What is it for, but the basic components of these two blast furnaces and converters are not more complicated than steam engines. We can manufacture them, but..."

Speaking of what the senior blacksmith said, his face was obviously embarrassed.

"It's just that if the blast furnace and converter are manufactured according to the Boss's blueprint on your blueprint, even if the existing iron ore reserves in the mountain fort are exhausted, it will not be enough to complete one of them!"

Iron ore is an extremely important strategic material, and the control of iron ore by vassal states is extremely strict. The ordinary person wants to get iron ore basically impossible.

Is there a stock of iron ore in the mountain fort here, or it is because Xiao Clan supported mountain fort behind the scenes in the past. But now the mountain fort has changed hands, and Xiao Clan's support naturally no longer exists. Moreover, even Xiao Clan continues to support mountain fort in secret. However, the iron ore required to manufacture blast furnaces and converters is not a small amount. Even Xiao Clan would not dare to mobilize a large amount of iron ore in such a prestigious manner.

"From now on, I will start to manufacture blast furnaces and iron ore. I don’t need you to worry about it, I will solve it."

Hong Ji coldly confessed.

Senior blacksmith Masters: "Yes!"

The blast furnace is the necessary equipment for ironmaking, and the converter can make steel. Iron is the basic raw material for steelmaking. Hong Ji is dissatisfied with the low efficiency of the small-scale local ironmaking of blacksmiths, so he is eager to build a blast furnace to increase the iron output of the mountain fort.

The iron ore problem that senior blacksmith masters are most worried about is not a problem at all for Hong Ji. Hong Ji, who is equipped with a metal detection radar, has clearly detected the mineral resources of the Red Mountain region around the mountain fort.

Just at the foot of a mountain 20 miles north of the mountain fort, there is a small iron ore.

Although the reserves of this small iron ore are not high, they are enough for the early construction of the mountain fort.

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When Hong Ze came to the blacksmith workshop, Hong Ji just confessed that the masters of the blacksmiths had done their best to build the blast furnace. Now there are still some stocks of iron in the mountain fort. For ore, Hong Ji ordered them to first smelt these stocks of iron ore into iron ingots.

Hong Ji turned his head and saw the full-body battle armor Hong Ze moved towards the bloody but excited Hong Ze moved towards himself.

Hong Ji couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth. There is no need to guess at all, Hong Ze's robbery out of this time is again full of rewards.

"Call, call, call, Boss's information is like a god, I led the crowd to set up ambush in the Valley of the Wind, and I really waited for the caravan."

Mentioned this time Hong Ze couldn't hide the excitement on his face because of the ambush and looting.

The terrain of the Red Mountain Region is complex, with criss-crossed peaks and valleys, like a huge maze. In order to avoid the looting of the Red Mountain bandits, the caravans passing through the Red Mountain Region will not take the same route every time.

The caravan wanted to fight a guerrilla war with the Hongshan bandits, but unfortunately they met Hong Ji. Through the life detection radar, Hong Ji can easily grasp the caravans entering his detection radius, and quickly calculate their path, and then send Hong Ze to set up an ambush in advance.

This is the third time the caravan has been successfully set ambush and robbed in the near future. Hong Ji's targets are often large and medium-sized caravans. The small caravan of more than a dozen people is now too low for Hong Ji.

"Successful? This time is the caravan carrying food again?"

Hong Ji's mouth is slightly tilted, and she brushes the beautiful phoenix eyes with extremely seductive brilliance. Such a beautiful Hong Ji, even Hong Ze who is not good at femininity, can't help but dazzle when they meet.

"Well, you're done!" Hong Ze clenched the teeth secretly and forcibly eliminated some extra thoughts in his mind.

"Recently, there are obviously more caravans in Hongshan Territory carrying grain."

Hong Ji brows slightly wrinkle thoughtfully.

"Well, yes, Lu State and Zhongshan State are confronting the two armies at the border. Lu State's national levy of grain and grass has caused Lu State's domestic grain prices to rise. Grain merchants in other countries have seen profitable nature. They rushed to Lu State to resell food."

Hong Ze hurriedly explained to the side.

In this era, the Aristocratic Family constitutes the main body of the ruling power. Although Lu State is controlled by the Lu Family, in fact the major Aristocratic families within it still hold a lot of power.

A vassal state like Lu State is more like a group company in the future world. Lu State is the largest shareholder and chairman of Lu State, and other Aristocratic families are minority shareholders and directors.

Lu State is responsible for the interests of all shareholders of the entire group.

In the war preparation stage, hoarding food until the price of food is sold at the highest point in order to harvest the wealth of the people at the bottom has become the practice of the major Aristocratic families.

Although the practices of the major Aristocratic families are exhausting the power of the bottom people, in order to get the support of the major Aristocratic families, Lu State had to turn a blind eye on this.

"If the people at the bottom suffer more, they will suffer more, but they are a group of insignificant untouchables! If they die, they will die. Once the captives obtained by the Zhongshan State are captured, they can immediately make up for the domestic losses."

I have to say that the most brutal robbers of this era are not people like Hong Ji, but the major Aristocratic families.