"The leader is mighty, and the leader is victorious."

Yun Mo could only be silent about Uncle Chen's slogan, as long as he didn't shout "The East is undefeated and dominates the rivers and lakes", because Yun Mo had not yet experienced the taste of a woman, and he didn't want to be a eunuch.

"Uncle Chen, let's talk about this grape ditch mineral! We need steel so much now, it's the foundation of everything! ”

"Chief, you really found the right person, the old man has read a few books, and he knows a lot about all kinds of ores.

In fact, there are a lot of minerals in our grape ditch, digging more than ten meters underground is the best coal, and the coal we are burning now is mined from the previous mine.

Chief, look at this red mountain stone, in fact, this is iron ore, we used to have an iron-making workshop, and after the men almost died, this iron-making workshop was abandoned. ”

This is really a very unexpected surprise, iron ore and coal can be found in this grape ditch, and the grape ditch can also be used for farming and animal husbandry, as long as a city wall is built at the mouth of the grape ditch, then this grape ditch is a fairy land that will never be trapped to death.

This place is God's greatest gift to this group of suffering Han people, but Zhang Ying and they are so weak that they can't use everything here, maybe they don't have enough knowledge and don't know how to use the resources here reasonably!

"Uncle Chen, take me to see your abandoned iron-making workshop."

The ironworks are hidden in the half-man-tall weeds, an earthen blast furnace is covered with wild grape vines, and the thatched huts next to it are only ruined.

Yun Mo jumped off the war horse, took out the Tang knife and split the grass in front of him to open the way, Yun Mo just wanted to see what the structure of this earth blast furnace was, and after he circled around the earth blast furnace three times, he understood the structure of this earth blast furnace.

This is a very primitive earth blast furnace, there is no heat storage chamber, there is no adsorption material addition port, such a blast furnace can only smelt pig iron with a high content of impurities.

"Uncle Chen, is the iron you smelted before very brittle?"

"Chief, how do you know?"

"Of course I know that what you smelt is pig iron, and it must be hammered countless times before it can be made into other tools, because the manpower and financial resources spent are too great, so your equipment production has always been very limited."

"Chief, you are a god, can you tell me how you know this?"

"Analysis! The structure of this earth blast furnace already speaks for itself. ”

Uncle Chen's old face is full of admiration:

"The chief has read a lot of books!"

"Of course, sixteen years of reading! Cramming education, but it suffocated me. ”

"What is cramming education?"

"Compared with indoctrination education, it is to blindly instill knowledge in you, whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not, you will be instilled in your old man."

"It's a great way to educate!"

All right! Uncle Chen also didn't understand some advanced teaching concepts in later generations, and it was better to tell the ancient people about the education system of later generations than to play the piano to the cow.

"Uncle Chen, how long will it take to add a heat storage chamber and side windows to this earthen blast furnace?"

Speaking of the things in the ethnic group, Uncle Chen is like a few treasures:

"Chief, it depends on how you distribute the manpower, there are one hundred and thirty-two women who can work in our group, six middle-aged men who lack arms and legs, and thirty-six children."

This needs to be planned well, Yun Mo looked at the earthen blast furnace and thought in his heart, and after a while, he said to Elder Uncle Chen:

"The women's team needs fifty people, and it is their task to make salt and exchange food, this cannot be less, our road to exchanging salt for food is definitely not smooth, and the number of people is small, and we can't protect the food we exchange for at all.

Send another fifty people to farm, and the remaining thirty-two will come here to make steel! Seven men with missing arms and legs grazing, Uncle Chen, your future task is to teach children to read and write, and the inheritance of the Han family cannot be severed because of the difficulties of life.

In addition, all the adults in our tribe must learn to use crossbows, and when I go out with the women's team to change food, they will also have the ability to protect their families.

Uncle Chen, you see if this distribution will work. ”

"Since the leader has decided, let's do it like this."

In fact, what Uncle Chen said is also right, if the leader of an ethnic group has no prestige, then the ethnic group is also scattered, and it is only a matter of time before it is completely wiped out by others.

Yun Mo nodded, expressing his approval of Uncle Chen's point of view. Next, Uncle Chen took Yun Mo to see the coal mine, the coal in the Flame Mountain is buried very shallow, less than fifteen meters, and the quality of the coal is also very good, all black and shiny lump coal.

In the end, Uncle Chen took Yun Mo to see their weapons and equipment hiding point, this hiding point is an abandoned coal mine cave, the front of the mine door is full of half-human tall weeds, and the entrance of the mine has been covered by vines.

The two of them struggled to open the vines at the entrance of the cave, and then they went inside, and when they entered the door, they could see hundreds of fine birches arranged neatly, each of which was more than fifty centimeters in diameter, so many birches, it would not be a problem to make thousands of crossbows.

Inside, there were hundreds of sets of leather armor stacked on both sides of the mine, the exact number of which was unknown, most of which had gaps cut by swords, and there were black blood stains on the gaps.

Hanging on the wall are more than thirty pairs of iron armor, all of which are full of traces of knives and axes, and the former owners of these iron armors should have participated in countless battles.

The innermost things are more messy, with a lot of knives, guns, sticks, and sticks, dozens of bows, several large boxes of arrows, and a lot of shields.

From these weapons and equipment, it can be seen that Zhang Ying and their Han ethnic group were definitely very powerful, maybe that was the last foundation of their ancestors to guard half of the Western Regions!

After Yun Mo finished reading the situation in the grape ditch, it was already ten in the evening, and after Yun Mo had eaten a bowl of wild vegetables for dinner, he went to find a place to sleep by the campfire.

Originally, Zhang Ying wanted to give up his thatched house, but Yun Mo resolutely refused to accept it. This place in the Western Regions is very strange, it can heat people to death during the day, and it can freeze people at night.

Yun Mo, who had been wandering in the wasteland for seven or eight days, was very tired, and as soon as his head rested on his backpack, he immediately fell asleep.

After Zhang Ying watched the strong and handsome Yun Mo fall asleep, her face showed a happy and shy look, and the elder Uncle Chen didn't know when he came to her quietly.

"Yingzi...... Yingzi ......"

"Ahh Uncle Chen, when did you come? ”

"Yingzi, your fate is good, I have already found out, Yunmo is an authentic Guanzhong person, hundreds of years ago, where was our ancestral home."

The women of the Western Regions do not have the pretense and reserve of Han girls, if they like it, they like it, and you can know from the smile on Zhang Ying's face how sweet her heart is at this time.

Zhang Ying and their Han group have an unwritten rule, that is, all women, if they can't find the man they like by the age of twenty, they must find a strong man in the group to breed, even if they go outside to find a Han family to breed in the tribe.

That's right, it's breeding, the elegant saying is called Lalang matching, and the truth is very profound, that is, to offset the mortality rate with fertility, and then let your own race continue, simply put, the continuation of the race is higher than personal emotion.

Zhang Ying, the leader, is no exception, how lucky she is to meet Yun Mo, a healthy and handsome Han man, Zhang Ying wants not to cherish it, it is rare and expensive!

Zhang Ying saw that there were more than ten women who had not yet been married, and they looked at Yun Mo's eyes so hotly, because Zhang Ying was the leader, they did not rob them.

"Uncle Chen, how is Brother Li's temperament?"

"Judging from my conversation with him, this baby speaks straightforwardly, without any fancy intestines, and is a typical Guanzhong man's character."

"How's the ability?"

"As for the ability, I can't see much now, but this baby has read books for sixteen years and understands a lot of things, such as salt making and steelmaking, he can do it.

In addition, I found that this baby does not know martial arts and is not very good at horseback riding, so I am sure that this baby used to be a scholar. ”

"Uncle Chen, then you said that I entrusted the clan to Brother Li, right?"

"A very wise choice, I believe that this baby can bring us back to the glory of our ancestors, and I am convinced of this."

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