Mu Jianming smiled awkwardly: "Those pirates, no, it was the sailors who looked down on our training, and the last general pulled out the brothers of the Shenji Battalion to compete with them, three hundred against six hundred, and we won the first game, so they were convinced, and vowed to compete again after a month." ”

"After a month, the sailor will inevitably increase a lot of strength according to my method, and when the Shenji Battalion will be three hundred against six hundred, I'm afraid it will be mysterious, you have to step up your practice, it's better to do this, a month later, I will personally go to watch your competition, if anyone wins, I will give a celebration wine to whom, you don't lose my face." Zhu Jun said.

"The last will obey." Mu Jianming hugged his fists.

At this time, Xiao Guizi hurriedly walked in and said, "Your Majesty, the iron pot outside the house is burning red." ”

Zhu Jun nodded, picked up the concrete wrapped on the table, and walked out of the hut. Outside the house, several little eunuchs teamed up a small stove, the fire was incited by the little eunuch to be extremely vigorous, the flames went straight to the old high, and an iron pot was put on the stove, and the iron pot had been burned red.

Zhu Jun rolled up his long sleeves, uncovered the small bag wrapped in concrete, raised his hand slightly, and poured all the concrete into the iron pot, only to hear the squeak of the bottom of the nest, obviously the few water vapor in the concrete is rapidly evaporating, Zhu Jun personally picked up the spatula on the side and shoveled back and forth, and finally covered the pot.

"Your Majesty, are you going to do what you want to do?" Mu Jianming, who was following closely behind Zhu Jun, had a chill down his spine, this emperor took an iron pot to cook the soil, could it be that he was taking people to eat? He shouted in his heart that it was not good, he knew that as soon as he finished speaking, he should resign, why bother to look at this excitement, maybe this plate of 'mud vegetables' was just put on the pot and the emperor would give it to himself to eat.

Zhu Jun carefully observed the changes in the iron pot, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, and then said with a smile: "Where is it, you take a good look, whether our fortifications can be built depends on it." ”

Mu Jianming let out a long breath, and then calmed down and carefully observed the flames at the bottom of the furnace.

After another moment of burning, a strong pungent smell came from the pot, and Xiao Guizi on the side covered his nose and looked at the bottom of the pot intently, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you don't turn off the fire, I'm afraid the bottom of this pot will burn through." ”

Zhu Jun felt that the fire was not hot enough, but he only used an iron pot to calcine the mature material to see the effect, and if it was successful, he could build several small blast furnaces to calcinate the raw material mixed with lime and clay.

"Turn off the heat, bring the clinker in the pot to me after it cools, Mu Aiqing, you go back to rest first, you have to train early tomorrow, and the rest of the people are here to take care of it." Zhu Jun exhaled, then went back to the house, and went to the side hall to rest, maybe he was too tired in the past few days, and he slept leisurely.

Until he woke up on the second day, Zhu Jun found that he had been covered with a gold silk embroidered blanket. The dawn of the morning sprinkled a small piece of pale yellow in the house through the paper window, and Zhu Jun looked around through the hazy light, only to see that Xiao Guizi was sleeping on the ground not far away, obviously he didn't dare to disturb when he saw that he was asleep last night, and he was afraid that he would wake up in the middle of the night, so he slept here all night.

Before the crossing, he always felt that the eunuch was an evil creature, they instigated the emperor, brought disaster to the country and disordered government, yin and yang weirdness, framed Zhongliang, etc., and waited until he was there, only to know that these were just poor people, Zhu Jun can be ruthless to the enemy, but to treat these eunuchs who get along with themselves day and night, and think about their own lives everywhere But they can't be ruthless, Zhu Jun stood up carefully, unwilling to disturb him, paced a few steps lightly in the house, put on his coat, opened the door and was about to go out to go around, but there was a voice of Xiao Guizi behind him.

"Your Majesty, the slave and maid should die, the slave and maid are actually asleep while serving the emperor."

Zhu Jun turned around and said softly, "Little Guizi, are you awake too?" Get up, I will grant you a day off today, and go back and rest, I don't need anyone to take care of me. ”

He finally knew why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was willing to trust them knowing that the eunuchs were misleading the country, in the court full of power and cunning, only those eunuchs are with you day and night, caring about your well-being, taking care of your life, in a sense, the eunuchs are the emperor's closest relatives, if even they can't be trusted, then who can the emperor trust?

Sighing and sighing, although Zhu Jun is unwilling to snub these eunuchs, he will not let these eunuchs interfere in politics, in this era of the jungle, as the king of the dead country, only by holding on to this last vestige of power can there be hope of survival.

"Your Majesty, last night you asked the slave to show you the cooked clinker, and the slave didn't dare to disturb you when she saw you sleeping." Xiao Guizi got up, patted the dust on his body, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, walked towards Zhu Jun in broken steps, and handed over the clinker to Zhu Jun.

Zhu Jun unfolded the cloth bag, carefully looked at the blue-gray dust, and felt that the color was darker than the cement in the previous life, which may contain some impurities, but the specific effect can only be known after trying, he nodded, stuffed the small cloth bag from the new bag into his arms and said to Xiao Guizi: "Thank you for your hard work, you go to rest, I let the craftsmen try the effect." ”

After a month of construction, the number of wooden houses and bamboo houses in the village has increased a lot, and under Mu Tianbo's planning, it seems to be scattered.

Along the road, several early craftsmen saw Zhu Jun's figure from a distance, and knelt on the ground to salute, but Zhu Jun did not stop him, and asked people to gather all the stonemasons at the entrance of the village.

At this time, the sky has been brightened, the stonemasons gathered at the entrance of the village in twos and threes, many people still have a misty sleepy eyes, after saluting Zhu Jun, Zhu Jun raised the cloth bag in his hand: "Everyone is working hard today, mix this bag of cement clinker with some water, and then mix some sand and gravel into it, and smear it in the brick joints, if there is an effect, then build a blast furnace for mass production according to my method, if you encounter any trouble, you can go to the Ministry of Industry to solve it." ”

The stonemasons took the clinker, carefully put it in the jar, and picked up a load of sea sand, which is near the sea, and the sand is everywhere, so there is no need to worry about the lack of materials, under the guidance of Zhu Jun, the stonemasons poured the sand into the jar according to a certain proportion, and added a small amount of water, and stirred it in the jar with a pestle.

Someone brought a chair to Zhu Jun and asked him to sit on the chair and watch, Zhu Jun waited on the chair with half his eyes open, at this time, dozens of local people wearing white clothes on a black background and turbans on their heads came over with shouts, Zhu Jun kept his mind, looked at it from a distance, and saw that they did not carry weapons in their hands, so he was relieved.

Zhu Jun instructed the good stonemasons to continue to do things, and he took a few guards at the entrance of the village to meet them, and the local people were old and young, and when they saw Zhu Jun coming, an old man came out with a cane and said in a stiff Chinese language: "Dare to ask the son, is this a purchase of iron filings?" ”

Zhu Jun remembered that he had asked Mu Tianbo to buy all kinds of raw materials from the surrounding natives, so he nodded and said, "Exactly, please follow me into the village." ”

The old man shook his head vigilantly, and said a few words in local dialect with a few big men around him: "There are a lot of useless iron filings in our tribe, but you Han people say that you can sell them for money, we still don't believe it, you Han people are very cunning, we are afraid of being deceived, so if you want to buy our iron filings, you can bring silver to our tribe, and you are not allowed to bring weapons." ”

Zhu Jun couldn't help but smile, he didn't expect that the impression of the Han people in the minds of these natives was so low, he nodded, doing business was originally to be on guard against each other, and after a few more trips, they would be able to trust each other.

"In that case, then I'll go with you to the tribe to check the goods, but you came early in the morning, and you didn't have breakfast, why don't I have someone to get some water and gruel, and eat some outside this village before you hurry?"

The old man was obviously hungry too, and when he heard Zhu Jun say the word gruel, he couldn't help licking his shriveled lips, and after a long silence, he shook his head and said, "No, you just need to bring the silver two and us back to the tribe." ”

Zhu Jun turned sideways and instructed the guards on the side: "You go to the treasury to get some silver, and bring some breakfast for the villagers to eat, and then follow me to see the goods, don't tell Lord Mu about these things, I have my own opinions." ”

The guard bowed down and said, "Do you want to call a few more brothers to guard you in case of accidents?" Besides, Lord Mu has instructed, the emperor is a golden body, how can he follow a few natives to go casually, if there is nothing to do, even if the small one is cut with a thousand knives, it will be difficult to atone for his sins, and please think twice. ”

Zhu Jun said: "We are going to do business, where is there so much danger, you go and come back quickly, if you are not at ease, you can call a few more people, but don't let those ministers know." ”

The guards had no choice but to go.

Zhu Jun knew that there were many ethnic groups in Myanmar, but he didn't know which tribe these were, so he asked the old man: "Dare to ask the old man's surname, how far is your tribe from here?" ”

"My name is Toulon and I am the elder of the Hekron tribe, and our tribe is not far from here, just climb the mountain in the distance." Toulon pointed to the mountain peak in the distance, his expression was a little arrogant, obviously thinking that his elder status was extremely noble, and he did not take Zhu Jun in his eyes.

Zhu Jun looked at the mountain peak in the distance, which was next to the valley, forming a natural barrier for the valley, thinking of this, he suddenly couldn't help but be taken aback, originally there was only one entrance to the valley, but since these natives can climb over that peak, they can obviously also climb over the valley from the other side of the mountain, isn't the barrier in their own valley useless?