Chapter 1131: Zhang Liang

This month's check-in reward directly sent Qin Mu a blueprint for the hundred-refinement steel manufacturing method, as well as detailed steps for cement, and a method for making refined coal, as well as a very outrageous prop, which was a telescope!

That's right, it was a telescope, a 21st-century telescope; with Ba-Shu's current industrial level, it would likely take years to make a telescope.

This made Qin Mu think of making glass to make money, but now he was about to go to war, where would he have time to make glass?

He wished he could build more iron smelting plants to manufacture weapons.

By the way, that hundred-refinement steel manufacturing blueprint not only had the forging method for hundred-refinement steel, but also the designs for several corresponding weapons and armor!

This also made Qin Mu raise the idea of forming special forces, but unfortunately, three thousand sets of weapons and armor hadn't been forged yet.

As for the three thousand people, they had long been prepared, led by Wei Zhuang; they were all Jianghu people, and the worst of them could likely win a one-on-one fight against a soldier of the Trap-Breaking Battalion.

"Old Liu, are you testing swords?" Qin Mu looked at the two young, sturdy men holding swords beside him and asked.

Liu Lao nodded and said.

"Yes, we just made another one; this is the 17,329th long sword, among which 20 long swords failed." Qin Mu felt a trace of regret from Liu Lao's tone, and then continued to ask.

"Oh? Then did you find the reason for the twenty failures?"

Facing Qin Mu's questioning, Liu Lao could only report truthfully.

"I know, but the success rate is still only eighty-five percent."

Liu Lao shook his head; clearly, he was very dissatisfied with this data, however, Zhang Liang behind Qin Mu was stunned.

What?

Who am I, where am I?

Why can weapons made of hundred-refinement steel have an eighty-five percent success rate?

He remembered that the best sword-smiths could only guarantee a seventy percent success rate, and this wasn't even hundred-refinement steel; aren't long swords forged from hundred-refinement steel all one in ten thousand?

No, hundred-refinement steel must be the name of this sword; it couldn't really be hundred-refinement steel!

Zhang Liang determined in his heart that the sword couldn't be hundred-refinement steel.

Just at this moment, the sword testing over there began; there wasn't a trace of impact sound, just like cutting tofu.

A silver-white, shiny long sword directly split a bronze sword into two halves.

This undoubtedly made Zhang Liang lose his color in shock; most swords in this era were still bronze swords, iron swords were already considered precious swords, and hundred-refinement steel, it is said that in this world, only Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng's sword was forged from hundred-refinement steel!

But, this wasn't the point; the point was, Zhang Liang dared to guarantee that even Ying Zheng's sword couldn't split a bronze sword into two with one cut so easily, right?

Just at this moment, the sturdy man holding the bronze sword picked up another long sword; it was an iron sword!

Zhang Liang looked over, his pupils shrank sharply; a row of iron swords!

And there were quite a few iron swords split into two halves on the ground!

Iron swords that they once only equipped for at least ten-thousand-man commanders were now thrown on the ground like trash.

With a "clang," the hundred-refinement steel sword split the iron sword into two again, but this time there was finally the sound of a collision.

The sound of the collision pulled Zhang Liang's thoughts back; Zhang Liang quickly rushed over.

Zhang Liang picked up the fragments on the ground and looked again and again; confirmed, this was an iron sword!

"Can you let me see the sword in your hand?" Zhang Liang asked the sturdy man in front of him with a trembling voice.

That person frowned, then looked at Liu Lao; Liu Lao looked at Qin Mu, and after Qin Mu nodded, Liu Lao nodded, and only then did that person hand the sword to Zhang Liang. At this moment, when Zhang Liang picked up the sword, he was shocked; this sword wasn't heavy, it even felt like the weight was just right, and it would definitely be very satisfying to use it to kill enemies on the battlefield. Zhang Liang touched the blade with his hand; sharp, very sharp!

"Hahaha, Zifang, if you like it, then take it and use it." Qin Mu said with a smile.

And Zhang Liang knelt on the ground very exaggeratedly and shouted.

"Thank you, Lord, for the gift; Zhang Liang has no way to repay the Lord's kindness, and can only use his life's learning to help the Lord conquer the world!"

Facing Zhang Liang's loyalty, Qin Mu was quite happy; he hurriedly walked over and helped Zhang Liang up.

"Zifang, I understand your heart, but in the future, you are not allowed to kneel at every turn; Ba-Shu doesn't have such rules."

Qin Mu's words almost made Zhang Liang cry, and at this time, the blacksmiths around all bowed to Qin Mu, and subsequently said in unison.

"Commoners pay respects to the Lord!"

It turned out that from the beginning they didn't know who Qin Mu was, only feeling he should be a big official, but they didn't expect him to be so big as to be the master of Ba-Shu!

In Ba-Shu, there was only one person called Lord, and that was Qin Mu, and Qin Mu gave them work, as well as status and position!

This undoubtedly made them all truly feel grateful.

"No need for formalities, go back to what you were busy with." Qin Mu said with a smile and waved his hand.

Subsequently, the blacksmiths began to get busy again, only occasionally whispering about Qin Mu. ===== CHAPTER 1133 =====