Chapter Seventy-Two: Sharpening the Knife

Shihe River originates from Maweiba Ridge, Qinglong County, Qinhuangdao, located in the southeast of Zushan Town, and consists of several sources such as Liugou, Jianggou and Shanggou, which is the largest and most important freshwater basin in Qinhuangdao.

To the south through the Shanhaiguan into the Bohai Sea, to the north to the original Guzhu tribe basin, and the Linhu Department is in the Shihe River with the most abundant water basin, the west relies on the Dongmen Forest of Zushan, and the east is the plain land that they have cultivated for many years, planting scattered grain, mainly used for grazing cattle and sheep.

The closest tribe to the Linhu tribe is a large primitive tribe with a population of more than 500 more than ten miles in his lower valley, but most of the people in it are disabled.

In fact, the fourteen tribes established along the Stone River were all slaves who were abandoned by the Linhu Department and exiled to this side to fend for themselves.

Even if they still can't escape the fate of being enslaved by Lin Hu.

I don't know how many generations of slavery, so that the people of these tribes have a deep-rooted impression of the master of the Linhu, as long as it is an order from the Linhu department, they will not hesitate to carry it out.

Therefore, Tu Tan and the Zhu family's pretended to be Lin Hu's restraints, and their internal migration plans along the way were not disturbed in any way, and all the tribes followed the migration to Haodu.

This big tribe of five hundred people is the last tribe, looking at those skeletons who either have broken arms or legs, Tu Tan is very skeptical that they can make it to the capital alive, and what is the use of such people to bring back the capital?

However, when he came, Wang Xu gave a death order, as long as he was panting, he would take it back to the capital.

Although he was a little puzzled, Tu Tan would still resolutely carry out Wang Xu's orders.

"Free up all the wagons, give up ten horses, and pull these men away." Tu Tan ordered his men.

"These people are worthless, and it's just a waste of food to save them." Zhai Qiu's hoarse voice sounded from the side.

"This is the Emperor's order." Tu Tan glanced at him, "Also, you have just learned what it means to think now, don't express your opinions at will, it will be easy for you to lose your life." ”

Zhai Qiu pursed his lips and knelt down to make amends.

"Get up, take someone to clean up here, burn everything you don't need, and we'll camp by the river tonight, and start surveying the terrain tomorrow morning." Tu Tan said coldly.

"A little further on, I'll be able to reach the Ringhubu." Zhai Qiu's originally gloomy eyes suddenly lit up.

"Obey orders." Tu Tan frowned slightly, and put down the horsewhip that he instinctively raised.

Zhai Qiu lowered his head again and led the others to carry out the order.

"It's good to know and ask, and then you can be talented." The Zhu family walked over with a smile and said, "It seems that Zhai Qiu is really a talent. ”

"The Emperor has never made a mistake in looking at people." Tu Tan said with a smile.

The Zhu family squinted his eyes and stared at Tu Tan, "Really?" Do you think the emperor is also very accurate in looking at you? ”

Tu Tan frowned and looked at the Zhu family with puzzled eyes.

The Zhu family smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing, according to the emperor's instructions, I have detected the width of the river in the river basin along the way, and it can indeed carry a light boat, and it only takes three hours to reach the river basin near the millidu, and the distance is shortened by half, and there is no need to consume animal manpower." ”

Tu Tan quietly let go of his clenched palm, and nodded with a smile, "If this is the case, then the transportation work can be handed over to the river in the future, otherwise it will be too manpower and material resources to build the galloping wooden rail here." ”

"The main thing is that there may be an official road near Shihe." The Zhu family said, "According to what the emperor said, in the past, the Guzhu Kingdom and the Feizi Kingdom had frequent exchanges, and it was even more in the ancient Yin Shang period and had a connection with the Yi Department, then there must have been an official road to trade, but it was abandoned later, and it is very likely that it is relying on the side of the Shihe River, and you can find the difference by looking at the trees along the way." ”

"The emperor said that the lonely bamboo country should be hidden in the mountains and forests, hidden in the world is unheard, and out of the world is shocking." Tu Tan said with a smile: "We really have to keep a low profile. ”

"I really want to go to Bai Dibu to see, I don't know what the difference between this city and the Central Plains is." The Zhu family smiled.

"Mr. Zhu has traveled to various countries for so many years, he should have seen a lot of different and more interesting customs, I don't know how it compares with Guzhu Country?" Tu Tan asked with a smile.

"Brother Tu praised it, he did go to some places when he was young, but it was really not as good as what he saw and heard in March." The Zhu family chuckled and said, "It's not about the customs, but from the emperor." ”

"What else?" Tu Tan continued to ask.

"What does Brother Tu want to ask?" The Zhu family raised his eyebrows slightly.

"I just want to hear Mr. Zhu's views on the future development of the Lonely Bamboo Country." Tu Tan.

"Ask me about this kind of thing?" The Zhu family was stunned, and looked at Tu Tan in some surprise, their eyes full of doubts.

"You know, I'm an ignorant butcher." Tu Tan unexpectedly showed an embarrassed expression: "Seeing that the population of the country is increasing, I, the priest, are indeed becoming more and more frightened." ”

The Zhu family blinked and smiled dumbly, "It turns out that Brother Tu asked about this." ”

"Otherwise, what does Mr. Zhu think I'm asking?" Tu Tan's face was full of doubts.

"It's okay, it's okay." The Zhu family smiled and waved his hand, "Although I haven't been a big official, I also have a lot of brothers under my hands, and I have some experience in the royal family, if Brother Tu doesn't dislike it, I can talk to Brother Tu in detail." ”

"Then there's Mr. Laozhu." Tu Tan laughed.

When Tu Tan and the Zhu family were drinking and having fun by the river, a fire had already ignited in the tribe, and the smoke in the air was not just the smell of burning thatched animal skins, but also many strange smells mixed together, making people feel sick.

But the people in charge of the burning were full of numbness, and dutifully completed the task assigned to them by Zhai Qiu, they must stare at the fire to burn everything here, and then use a shovel to turn the ashes into the soil to finish.

They were all some people brought out by Zhai Qiu from the slave masses, these people had no identity and no name, but they were Zhai Qiu's assistants before.

The raging flames engulfed the not very large tribe, only shrouding a radius of dozens of meters in the firelight, Zhai Qiu concentrated on sharpening the bronze knife in his hand that was already shiny.

This is a standard butcher knife.

It was also the first weapon Zhai Qiu got, which was given to him by Tu Tan.

Tu Tan promised him that when he sharpened the knife to the point where he could blow out his hair and break his hair, he would hand over the art of slaughter to him.

Zhai Qiu had seen Tu Tan's slaughtering technique, a huge wild deer was as fragile as withered grass under his knife, and it was easily disassembled into neat pieces of meat, and even the bones could be pieced together.

The first time he saw this kind of slaughtering technique, he deeply stimulated Zhai Qiu, this is the 'martial arts' he dreamed of, he hoped to learn this kind of martial arts, and then those who had enslaved him, one by one, all the thin skin and bones, their bones, into a specimen collection.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhai Qiu's body, which was already extremely tired, seemed to be flushed with electricity, full of infinite strength, with a creepy smile on the corner of his mouth, and he struggled to sharpen the butcher's knife.

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"It's already up to the standard of a hundred refining knives." Wang Xu used a military shovel to cut off a shaped iron knife and smiled at Tu Shanniang.

Tu Shan Niangzi picked up the iron knife with a disappointed expression, "I thought there were a thousand refinements." ”

"The production process of block iron smelting still needs to be innovated, and the efficiency of manual tempering is not high for the time being, have you tried the hydraulic hammer forging drawings I drew before?" Wang Xu asked.

"Yes, the efficiency of hydraulic hammer forging is countless times higher than that of manual work, and if the water flow is sufficient, it can even be stamped and formed instantly." Tu Shan Niangzi said with some excitement: "It's just a matter of construction materials, with the quality of iron smelting we have now, the cost is too great, so I am so anxious to make a thousand iron smelting." ”

"In this way, you will melt the pig iron into a liquid, pour it into the hundred smelted iron, and maybe you will be able to make steel." Wang Xu said that this is the steel filling method during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is an iron-smelting method that is easier to successfully master than the steel frying method and block ironmaking.

Guzhuguo has now been able to smelt wrought iron of very good quality, that is, the current hundred iron, but still has not reached the hardness of steel, if the test of the steel frying method, without equipment monitoring and accurate formula premise, it is difficult to complete the test.

Rather than experimenting on your own, it is better to go to the Western Regions and grab the formula of the frying steel method from Central Asia.

Although the steel filling method consumes a relatively large amount, at least the success rate is high, and after having steel, in terms of armament quality, there is no pressure to crush all civilizations in the same period, especially in the northeast, which is full of mines.

The day before yesterday, Mohai took people to reclaim the wasteland, and accidentally found an open-pit iron mine and coal mine not far away.

Wang Xu is looking forward to creating a batch of plate armor and horse armor after the steel is manufactured, moose with a load-bearing capacity several times higher than that of war horses, with horse armor and plate armor, such a cavalry is undoubtedly a mobile fortress, except that the mobility is weaker.

But with such an invincible defensive cavalry, Wang Xu didn't think there were any tribes on the grassland that could not be attacked.

As long as their tribes are occupied and their living space is constantly compressed, it is only a matter of time before they are unified.

But the only regret is that such an invincible cavalry could not attack the city walls.