Xue Ning couldn't help but be amused by Kang Hu's naïve appearance when he saw Kang Hu's honest appearance of these tattered iron armors, but after Xue Ning laughed, he was more sad.

Thinking of the army he once belonged to, because he did not belong to the forbidden army, this was not only poorly equipped, but also poorly fed.

"It's also a bitter thing for these iron-clad men." Xue Ning couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Although these forbidden army iron armors are nothing in Xue Ning's eyes, when they escaped from the national capital, if everyone in Xue Ning's troops could have such equipment, then Xue Ning would have more people left around him now.

It's just that because of poor equipment, how many men died tragically.

"We must not die so many people because of the equipment." Xue Ning paid attention in his heart. If you want to strengthen the army, you must be stronger than the first. This soldier is not a soldier, but a blade armor.

Xue Ning found Shi Tie and asked Shi Tie how much iron ore was in the cottage now.

Shi Tie was already in charge of striking iron inside the cottage, and he knew all these things.

"General Xue, there are not many iron ore reserves on the cottage, but if the general needs to strike iron, I know that there may be iron ore near our cottage."

"Oh, really?" Xue Ning's eyes lit up immediately when he heard Shi Tie's statement.

"Yes, it's true. I found the iron mine when I was passing by when I was caught up the mountain. In the past, although those thieves also told the old man to go down the mountain to look for iron ore, they regarded the old man as a pig and a dog, and even if the old man knew where the iron ore was, he would never tell them! ”

When it comes to the gang of bandits in the past, Shi Tie still gritted his teeth. Hearing Shi Tie say this, Xue Ning couldn't help but laugh directly.

Xin said: "These bandits don't understand the importance of respecting talents. "No, he just gave Shi Tie his due identity and status, the most important thing is that Xue Ning gave Shi Tie the dignity of being a human being, and Shi Tie gave back such a big gift to Xue Ning this time.

"Well, you can take someone to the iron mine to survey it now, and if you can, mine it as soon as possible.

The Giant Wolf Mountain Range, strictly speaking, does not belong to the territory of the Northern Xue Kingdom, which used to claim that the Giant Wolf Mountain Range belonged to the Northern Xue Kingdom, but that was only in name.

The iron ore production of the Northern Xue Kingdom has not been high, and there is actually an iron ore in this giant wolf mountain range, Xue Ning is really surprised.

The iron mine that Shi Tie said was not too far from the giant wolf cottage, and when Xue Ning saw the so-called iron mine with his own eyes, Xue Ning couldn't help but be speechless: "What kind of iron mine is this, is this clearly an iron mountain?" ”

A red mountain peak stood in front of Xue Ning's eyes, and Xue Ning sighed in his heart: "This means that those bandits have no culture, just look at the color of this red mountain peak, where do you need to find any iron ore?"

The red mountain peak is composed of hematite, which is the so-called chemically ferric oxide. Ferric oxide is red in nature, which is a common sense of chemistry that even a junior high school student will know in later generations. But here, except for the blacksmith, no one knows the special nature of this iron mountain.

Iron ore was found, and all that remained was mining. But then the problem arises again.

The giant wolf cottage now occupies a large number of people. At this time, Xue Ning also hoped to mine iron ore at the same time, so it was necessary to allocate a certain amount of manpower, so that the speed of building the city would decrease.

Xue Ning pondered for a while and made a decision.

"Men are drawn from the migrant workers who dig the stone to dig the iron ore, as for the excavation of the stone. Just send the caravan and the men there. "Last time, in order to conceal the whereabouts of himself and the others, Xue Ning detained the caravan they saw at the foot of Julang Mountain that day. The caravan is still locked up in the cottage, because they are not affiliated with Xue Ning, so they have nothing to do every day. I don't work. Many migrant workers have long been unhappy with the people of these caravans.

Why do these people get food and drink every day without working, but we have to work tirelessly?

In fact, Xue Ning also noticed that there was a lot of resentment among the migrant workers against the caravan, but unfortunately, for safety, Xue Ning had to detain the caravan. Originally, Xue Ning detained this caravan, and he didn't embarrass them, and he ate and drank enough every day. But now Xue Ning figured it out: no one should eat white food in this cottage.

Yes, your caravan was deducted by me Xue Ning, but that can only be blamed on your bad luck, appearing at a time when it shouldn't have appeared, and bumping into Xue Ning's gang.

Soon, someone brought Xue Ning's meaning to the caravan, and when the caravan heard that this group of officers and soldiers actually wanted their own people to dig rocks, the first thought in their hearts was: "Why! ”

"Why? Hmph, that's not enough! Wei Hang saw that these businessmen actually dared to blow their beards and stare at him, and he didn't talk nonsense with these people, and directly showed the long sword on his waist.

"Do it or not, if you do it, move right now, someone outside will take you to the construction site, if you don't do it, then I'll send you on your way now." It also happened to save a meal of food at noon! ”

Wei Hang's face was full of ferocity, and the fierce light in his eyes burst out as he spoke, which frightened these businessmen one by one.

Although they were reluctant to do it, although they were extremely reluctant in their hearts, under the power of Wei Hang's swords, these merchants could only give in.

After solving the manpower problem, then the rest is Xue Ning's work.

Xue Ning found Shi Tie and handed over a few drawings he had made to Shi Tie, Shi Tie turned out that Xue Ning handed him the sheepskin drawings, looked at them carefully, looked up, and his eyes were full of doubts.

"General Xue, forgive the old man for being stupid, what are these things?" Shi Tie didn't understand anything on the drawings drawn by Xue Ning at all. Of course, this did not surprise Xue Ning.

"These are some of the measuring tools I invented, this one is called "ruler", this one is called "compass", this one is called "micrometer", this is ......" Xue Ning carefully explained to Shi Tie one by one what these things he drew were called, and what their functions were.

Shi Tie's gaze went from the initial confusion to the final shock, and when Xue Ning explained all the tools, Shi Tie was already shocked by Xue Ning.

"This ...... This is simply a measuring tool that only the immortal family can have, if these things are made......"

Shi Tie didn't dare to imagine what earth-shaking changes would be brought to people's lives if these things were made and used to make iron, not only iron, but also daily life.

"Well, it's not so easy to make these things, first of all, the materials of these things are relatively special, ordinary iron is not enough, you need steel to ......"

Shi Tie was puzzled, he knew this iron, he was doing the work of striking iron. But what is this steel? He has no idea.

Xue Ning also knew that if he talked too much to Shi Tie at one time, he couldn't accept it. So he stopped in time, and instead ordered Shi Tie to build the things on this drawing first.

Shi Tie took the other drawing that Xue Ning handed him, and asked again puzzled, "General Xue, what is this?" "Today's Shi Tie really felt ashamed, in front of Xue Ning, he, a senior old blacksmith, actually acted like a fool. Xue Ning took out an object, he just didn't understand, he didn't know. Take out one, but you don't know it.

Shi Tie's heart was embarrassed, but Xue Ning didn't care. After all, due to the limitations of the technology of the era, it is normal for Shi Tie to have never seen a modern blast furnace.

"This thing is called a blast furnace, and it can be used to make coke, which is one of the important raw materials for forging steel......"

Xue Ning knew that there were many open-pit coal mines in the Giant Wolf Mountain Range, and these coal mines were used to make coke and coke to make steel. Forge weapons from steel, so that you can completely throw away the broken things of the forbidden army.

People of this age were unaware of the huge gap between the two materials, pig iron and steel. But the people of this world don't know, isn't he Xue Ning still unclear?

All kinds of magic weapons in the cultivation realm, if you want to forge weapons, you have to spend a lot of precious materials. And those materials were often extremely scarce, and if Xue Ning wanted to equip his subordinates, it was naturally impossible for him to choose refining magic weapons. If you can't refine magic weapons, then steel weapons and armor are the best choice.

Although Shi Tie still didn't understand what Xue Ning's so-called steelmaking was all about, Shi Tie knew that he could do it with the blast furnace that Xue Ning asked him to build.

The only trouble is that Xue Ning asked the blast furnace to be built as soon as possible. But the problem is that pig iron is needed to build a blast furnace, and there are not many pig iron reserves in the cottage.

When Shi Tie found Xue Ning, Xue Ning just thought about it and decided: "Then return the hundreds of pairs of iron armor to the furnace and recast them first." ”

Xue Ning's words would smelt hundreds of iron armors. In this way, the problem of Yuan Tie was solved, but there was a problem with Kang Hu Weihang.

When Shi Tie told the two that Xue Ning wanted him to return those iron armors to the furnace and reforge them, the two of them were in a hurry, and almost drew their swords and cut Shi Tie on the spot. Fortunately, he was stopped by the soldiers around him.

Wei Hang Kanghu didn't believe that His Royal Highness the Third Prince would give such an order at all. That's hundreds of pieces of forbidden army iron armor. Now I'm going to take it back to the furnace to cast that "blast furnace" thing. Is this simply a tyrannical thing?

The two didn't believe it and didn't accept it, so they found Xue Ning.

"That's right, I gave the order, except for the iron armor on your body, the rest of the iron armor must be reforged." Xue Ning's cold gaze swept over Wei Hang and Kanghu, and the heavy coercion made Wei Hang Kanghu and both of them feel tremendous pressure.

Originally, the two of them wanted to make a fuss in front of Xue Ning, but at this moment, facing Xue Ning, the two didn't even dare to breathe too much when they spoke.

"Yes...... However, those are the iron armor of the forbidden army. Three Highnesses. Kang Hu was in a hurry, and he was almost about to cry at this time. Wei Hang even knelt on the ground and begged Xue Ning to take back his fame.

"I've made up my mind, and besides, I've promised you that I'll build better armor in the future, don't you believe me?"

Xue Ning can speak, and his tone is already quite unkind. Wei Hang and Kanghu heard the obvious dissatisfaction in Xue Ning's tone, and the two of them immediately felt a chill in their hearts.

"The last general will not dare."

"If you don't dare, go down, send the iron armor to Shi Tie, tell him to go back to the furnace, remember, don't play any tricks on me, except for what you are wearing, all the rest of the iron armor must be handed back to the furnace."

Xue Ning said his words completely to death, leaving no room for anything, and Wei Hang Kanghu and the others saw that the two of them could not change the meaning of the Third Highness, so they had no choice but to turn around and leave, and when they left, the backs of the two were indescribably lonely.

"Hey...... It's really hard work to take such a group of big bosses......" Xue Ning couldn't help but rub his aching temples when he saw that the two of them finally stopped making trouble. I sighed in my heart.

Let's say that the two of them, Wei Hang and Kanghu, were strictly ordered by Xue Ning to hand over all the excess iron armor. The two of them handed over the iron armor to Shi Tie almost with tears in their eyes. The scene at that time was just like Wei Hang Kanghu and the others sent not iron armor, but their wives and daughters.

When Shi Tie really took the iron armor back to the furnace. Wei Hang Kanghu, as well as many other soldiers under Xue Ning, couldn't help but cry out loud. That kind of grief is really poignant.

The forbidden troops of the national capital, who have not experienced hard times, will never understand the pain of local troops such as Weihang, Kanghu, etc. A small amount of food, and equipment that is too bad to work. No matter what the country does to the army, the first thing to take care of is the forbidden army, and their local armies are simply raised by their mothers.

Xue Ning also heard the cries of the soldiers below in the cottage. At that moment, Xue Ning's nose was also a little sour, but Xue Ning did not change his decision because of this.

"It's a necessary process. Look, Northern Xue Kingdom, I, Xue Ning, will go back soon. ”

Just to deal with a thousand local defenders in Linjiang County, Xue Ning is still quite confident. First of all, for the encirclement and suppression of the defenders of Linjiang County, Xue Ning had already made preparations early. Since the last time Bai Yu escaped from the giant wolf cottage, Xue Ning realized that there would definitely be today.

It's just that Xue Ning didn't expect Bai Yu's revenge to come so quickly. So much so that although Xue Ning is confident that he can resist these thousand local defenders, it is still a little difficult if he wants to leave all the other party behind.

For twenty days, Xue Ning did not fall behind in his own cultivation, because he transferred to the Black Bamboo Dao Sutra, a peerless exercise of unknown rank. Xue Ning's cultivation can be described as a thousand miles in a day.

In just twenty days, Xue Ning's strength had already reached the fourth level of Qi training.

An average of five days to ascend a small realm, which was almost unthinkable in the previous life.

To be able to have such an extraordinary cultivation speed, the effect of the Black Bamboo Dao Sutra is naturally the greatest, and at the same time, it is also because the aura of this world is far more abundant than the world where Xue Ning lived in his previous life.

The mind is introverted, Xue Ning's spiritual sense is inward-looking, the sea of qi is large**, and a rich spiritual qi mass already has four spiral arms at this time. The huge suction generated by the interweaving of the four spiritual qi whirlarms continuously dragged the external spiritual energy into Xue Ning's body