"Mr. Wu, this is the latest batch of goods, mainly the seeds, salt, and more bamboo shoots we found from the previous general, I don't know how about the bamboo shoots we sent last time? Alive? Zheng Ning asked with a smile.

"It's alive, thank you Mr. Zheng for sending someone over last time." Wu Ping arched his hand seriously and said.

There was originally bamboo in Liangzhou, but there are not many places where bamboo grows in Liangzhou, and the bamboo sent by Zheng Ning is said to have been dug from Zheng Ning's main family, and Zheng Ning's main family was also transplanted from the Central Plains.

The first batch of bamboo shoots sent by Zheng Ning was purple bamboo, and the bamboo shoots had not yet grown out completely, so they were dug up by Zheng Ning, wrapped in soil, and sent directly on horseback.

The first batch of bamboo shoots sent over was not much, only ten, but because they were dug whole, with the assistance of fairy spring water, they quickly survived, and even grew out of the land.

This Wu Ping didn't tell Zheng Ning, because in the past ten days, the first batch of buried bamboo shoots not only grow, but they also seem to have begun to grow and expand wildly in the soil, and even the expansion speed is much crazier than this alfalfa grass.

However, the purple bamboo forest is not here, but a carefully selected place near Yangguan.

Because the general said that the bamboo forest was very important to them, although Wu Ping did not understand, but Wu Ping asked the carpenter, and they said that bamboo is very important whether it is to build a house or make furniture. And it is very important for them to repair the city wall of Yumen Pass and so on in the later period.

"You're welcome, I wonder if the general is back?" Zheng Ning asked tentatively.

"The general hasn't come back yet, but the general has taken the country of Loulan, and from now on Loulan is no longer a country, but a city of our Han tribe." Wu Ping said very casually, but anyone could hear the smugness in that tone.

And Zheng Ning was stunned, Loulan also won? This...... Although Loulan is a small country, how long has it been? Huo Gang not only defeated the Turks, but also surrendered the entire Tongluo tribe, and now even the Loulan Kingdom has been defeated? Doesn't this mean that in this short period of time in the Western Regions, don't talk about An Xinggui, even if His Majesty Li Er wants to do anything to him, he won't have a chance?

"General Shenwei, congratulations to Mr. Wu." Zheng Ning immediately arched his hand towards the West and said with a smile.

"Rejoice and rejoice." Wu Ping also smiled, "Originally, I should have bought such a good news that I should have set up a banquet to entertain Leader Zheng's caravan, but unfortunately we are relatively short of supplies here, so we can only entertain with mutton today." ”

"It's too polite, the mutton is good, the mutton is good." Zheng Ning immediately spoke.

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Just after Zheng Ning sent the supplies down and left again, Huo Gang finally rushed to the limestone mining area near Montenegro, and when it was still a long distance away from the mining area, Huo Gang saw two tall buildings.

One of them is wooden, typical of a European-style tower windmill, but the windmill has not yet been installed, but the wooden frame around the windmill has been completely erected. The other building, although not very tall, can be seen to be the first cellar furnace.

However, the furnace is almost finished.

The news of Huo Gang's return had already been notified by the cavalry in advance of these craftsmen, so when Huo Gang came over, these craftsmen were already waiting for Huo Gang in unison.

"Welcome back from the general's victory." When Huo Gang arrived, these craftsmen spoke loudly in unison, saying that the smile on their faces could not be hidden.

Although they had known the news for a long time, when they saw that Huo Gang came over safely and sound, that heart could be completely let go, because only if Huo Gang was safe, they could be safe.

"Haha, I can win thanks to everyone, how is your work?" Huo Gang turned over and dismounted with a smile, and asked directly.

In front of these own people, Huo Gang let go a lot.

"General, the cellar furnace was basically completed three days ago, and the last brick is missing, we would like to ask the general to put it on with your own hands." Sun Er immediately bowed his hand and said seriously.

"Okay, no problem, you all talk about your work progress and any other difficulties." Huo Gang agreed very simply.

"Yes, General, I have found a few pieces of clay, although the area is not large, but it should be enough for us to use, I have roughly calculated, if we all fire bricks, it is enough for us to renovate the city wall of Yumen Pass several times, and there should be other clay around here, we have been preparing for firing refractory bricks for the past few days, as long as the cellar furnace is ready, we can directly fire these refractory bricks." Sun Er said immediately.

"Back to the general, we carpenters have built more than a dozen small wooden tower windmills of different shapes, the whole structure has been determined, and now it is time to install the blades, but because the wood needs to be processed, it will take about ten days. After our calculations, the windmill drives the stone mill, and there is no problem in grinding these ores! Lu Mu also said directly.

"Back to the general, we have carved out four large stone mills, these stone mills range from large to small, and these ores should be able to reach the powder form that the general needs after grinding more than three times." Tian Zhong also responded.

"Well, it's all good, are there any problems now?" Huo Gang thought for a while and asked.

"We're so short on staff right now, so the progress of the work is a bit slow." Sun Er immediately spoke, because there are only a few of them, but not everyone can do this, so their work progress has been slowed down because of this.

"Don't worry, soon, the manpower here will increase greatly!" Huo Gang immediately smiled, after those Turks from Luobu rushed over, they would not be short of manpower here.

"That's fine."

"Let's go, then I'll put this last brick on it, and then, let's open the furnace directly!" Huo Gang said seriously.

Compared with leading troops to fight, in fact, Huo Gang prefers to develop his own territory, because the territory is strong enough, and all foreign enemies are paper tigers, as long as you look at Bai Mayi from the comparison between them and the enemy.

This gap is not horses and soldiers, although these two also have a great impact, but the most important thing is weapons and equipment!

"General, please come with me." Sun Er immediately made a gesture of please excitedly and led the way directly in front.

When they walked in front of this first cellar furnace, Huo Gang saw this cellar furnace that was mostly made of stone, and there was an obvious gap in it, which was the location of the last stone brick, in fact, this stone brick did not affect the use, but in Sun Er's heart, only Huo Gang put it on it, which meant that it was completely completed!