Chapter 586

This month's sign-in reward directly sent Qin Mu a blueprint for the hundred-refinement steel manufacturing method, as well as detailed steps for cement, the production method for refined coal, and a very outrageous item: a telescope!

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

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

He wished he could build a few 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 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, all of whom were Jianghu people; the worst of them could probably defeat a Trap-Breaking Battalion soldier in a one-on-one fight.

"Old Liu, are you testing the swords?" Qin Mu looked at the two young, sturdy men holding swords nearby 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 have you found the reason for the twenty failures?"

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

"I know, it's just that the success rate is still only eighty-five percent."

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

What?

Who am I, where am I?

Why can weapons manufactured with 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 can'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 collision sound, just Wu Li Ke cutting tofu.

A long sword that looked silver-white and shiny directly split a bronze sword into two halves.

This undoubtedly made Zhang Liang look shocked; most swords in this era were still bronze swords, and 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 probably couldn't cut a bronze sword in two 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, and his pupils shrank sharply; a row of iron swords!

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

The iron swords that they once only equipped for at least a ten-thousand-man commander were now thrown on the ground Wu Li Ke garbage.

With a clanging sound, the hundred-refinement steel split an iron sword into two halves again, but this time there was finally a collision sound.

The collision sound pulled Zhang Liang's thoughts back, and Zhang Liang rushed over when he saw this.

Zhang Liang picked up the fragments on the ground and looked at them again and again; confirmed, this is 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 only after Qin Mu nodded did Liu Lao nod; only then did that person hand the sword to Zhang Liang. When Zhang Liang picked up the sword, he was shocked; this sword wasn't heavy to hold, and even felt just right in weight; it would definitely be very enjoyable to use for battle. Zhang Liang touched the blade with his hand; sharp, very sharp!

"Hahaha, if Zifang likes it, then take it and use it." Qin Mu smiled and said.

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, and he hurriedly walked over to help Zhang Liang up.

"Zifang, I understand your heart, but in the future, you are not allowed to kneel at every turn; Bashu 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 then said in unison.

"Commoners pay respects to the Lord!"

It turned out that from the beginning, they didn't know who Qin Mu was; they only felt he should be a big official, but they didn't expect him to be big enough to be the master of Bashu!

In Bashu, there is only one person called Lord, and that is Qin Mu, and Qin Mu gave them work, and status!

This undoubtedly made them all truly grateful from the heart.

"No need for formalities, go back to what you were doing." Qin Mu smiled, waved his hand, and said.

Subsequently, the blacksmiths began to get busy again, but they whispered about Qin Mu from time to time.

"The Lord looks so young, so handsome."

"Old Zhang, don't think about it; you know your daughter yourself, how could the Lord take a fancy to her?"

"I wasn't thinking about that; I'm satisfied just being able to work under the Lord."

"That's right, let's work hard and strive to finish three thousand sets by the end of this month!"

Zhang Liang looked at those blacksmiths with smiles on their faces and deeply felt the greatness of his Lord.

He was actually so low-key, wearing extremely ordinary clothes when going out, and even in such an important place, no one recognized the Lord!

"Old Liu, you guys get busy first, I'll go see those new recruits."

"Okay!"

Qin Mu looked around casually, then left the blacksmith shop and took Zhang Liang deep into the iron mine.

This place was Wu Li Ke a maze, extending in all directions with countless mine tunnels, and each mine tunnel entrance was marked with a code to prevent the miners from getting lost.

And these miners were exactly half of the five hundred thousand new recruits recruited!

After entering the mine tunnel, you could see countless people busy mining there; at this time, Zhang Liang asked curiously again.

"Lord, aren't they afraid of a collapse mining Wu Li Ke this?"

Qin Mu looked at Zhang Liang's confused appearance, and Zhang Liang's cheeks were burning, his face slightly flushed, looking very delicate.

Zhang Liang only felt a bit ashamed; he didn't know anything, yet he thought he was very smart and knowledgeable.

Thinking about it now, it was truly sitting in a well and looking at the sky.

At this time, Qin Mu explained.

"The mine tunnels were designed by Pang Tong and Master Zhuge Liang together; you can ask them when you go back." Qin Mu paused and then turned his head to ask again.

"Don't you guys communicate normally?"

Facing Qin Mu's questioning, Zhang Liang felt ashamed again.

"No."

"You can find them to communicate more; Master Zhuge Liang is recently designing a weapon called the Master Zhuge Repeating Crossbow; perhaps you can go learn it."

"Yes! Zifang will definitely learn humbly from them!"

At this time, Zhang Liang finally recognized Qin Mu, recognized them, was no longer self-righteous, and was willing to integrate into them!