The busy work is over, the rest is to wait, Lu Chen has nothing to do and began to wander around the Zhuangzi, suddenly Lu Chen found a problem, this Zhuangzi is too big, 1,500 acres of Zhuangzi, you can't see the edge at a glance, this has to ride the white fox out, otherwise if you let Lu Chen walk on his legs, Lu Chen will be exhausted.

Lu Chen's primary goal is naturally his own workshop, now the brick kiln and cement kiln have officially started, although there is not a lot of iron slag, but there has been a lot of accumulation before, and the cement kiln can still be maintained for the time being, and the small blast furnace is also under the command of Liu Laosan, is being built, with natural red bricks and cement to build.

"How many days will it take for the blast furnace to be completed?" Lu Chen looked at the blast furnace of more than two people standing in front of him, looked up at the pergola with his hand, and asked Liu Laosan casually on the side.

"Why do you have two days!" Liu Laosan took the drawings given by Lu Chen and reported the progress of the project to Lu Chen.

"Hmm!" Lu Chen glanced at the blast furnace again, thinking in his heart when the iron materials that Li Xiuning helped him get would arrive, and at the same time, if he wanted to make cement for a long time, he still had to get iron ore, and when he went back, he had to flip through the book to see where the nearest iron mine to Lujiazhuang was.

Lu Chen asked Du Yanliang yesterday, it seems that the nearest iron mine to Lujiazhuang has to be more than a hundred miles away, and that iron mine is still operated by Jingzhao Wei, if Lu Chen wants to get ore back from this iron mine, it is simply wishful thinking, after all, he offended Wang Jue and Wei Ting in the Taiji Palace, with these two people, he still wants to get iron ore from this iron mine?

Lu Chen beckoned to Liu Jing on the side, and Liu Jing hurriedly walked over, "Take out the Kanyu map!" Lu Chen instructed Liu Jing, and Liu Jing hurriedly took out the Lujiazhuang Kanyu map in his arms.

The hillside where Lu Chen was at this time was just able to have an unobstructed view of Lujiazhuang, Su Dingfang and Liu Jing stood on both sides in front of Lu Chen, and unfolded the map on the left and right.

"Hmm!" Lu Chen compared the actual layout of Lujiazhuang on the Kanyu map, while comparing, while looking at the Kanyu map, "This can be used as a residential area, and a pond will be expanded here when the time comes..."

"In the future, Lujiazhuang will be built according to this layout!" Finally Lu Chen put down the water-based pen in his hand, in fact, when Lu Chen took out the water-based pen, Su Dingfang and Liu Jing's eyes were attracted by the water-based pen, because this thing is too fast to write and draw, and the thin tip of the pen can easily write beautiful handwriting, and there is no drop of ink, how can it not make the two of them feel magical.

"Take it!" Lu Chen's plan is already in the west, and under this kind of light, it is not so convenient for Lu Chen to revise it, so let's go back and study the rest at night!

Liu Jing put away the Kanyu map, which can also be said to be the planning map, took it with him, and followed Lu Chen back to Lu Mansion.

In the evening, Lu Chen revised a few more places on the plan that he was not satisfied with, until he felt satisfied, and then went to bed.

The next day, when Lu Chen was exercising in the morning, the soldiers in charge of guarding the door of the mansion came in to report that a convoy had come from outside Lujiazhuang, and the team was led by firewood and horses.

As soon as Lu Chen heard it, he knew that Chai Shao had sent him iron materials, but this time was too early, was it so impatient?

However, Lu Chen still changed into a regular suit and brought someone to greet him, although the other party said that he was "commensurate with his brother", but that was also private, on the surface, he was just a marquis, but he was a real prince or a concubine, there was still a gap in grade, and face work still had to be done.

Lu Chen came out with someone, and saw Chai Shao riding on a horse from a distance, with a large group of vehicles coming in the direction of his mansion.

Lu Chen hurriedly greeted him, "I've seen Huo Guogong!" Lu Chen clasped his fists and bowed to Chai Shao.

Chai Shao also saw Lu Chen coming out from a distance, and hurriedly turned over and dismounted, waiting for Lu Chen's arrival in the same place, seeing Lu Chen saluting him, Chai Shao's face suddenly sank: "What Brother Xian said is a little out of sight!" ”

"There are a lot of people, so you still have to avoid it! Brother should know that the foolish brother's reputation is not too much, right? Lu Chen smiled at Chai Shao.

"Where can those people know about the ability of the virtuous brother, a bunch of things that are eye-catching!" Recently, the reputation of Lu Chen in Chang'an City has not been good, Chai Shao lives in Chang'an, how can he not hear these things, but after seeing Lu Chen's magical things, Chai Shao has strengthened his confidence to stand on Lu Chen's side.

Moreover, it doesn't matter what those people say, what matters is what the Li family thinks of Lu Chen, as long as the emperor doesn't feel that Lu Chen is a threat, then Lu Chen has nothing to do, what's the use of those families talking about it.

Although it is said that "three people become tigers" and "everyone is gold", but it is also divided into whom, now it is obvious that Li Xiuning and several generals of Tiance Mansion have a good relationship with Lu Chen, which can only make the family move their mouths, and if someone from the family really comes to engage Lu Chen in person, it is estimated that it is a matter whether he can go back alive or not, no, it should be 100% impossible to go back.

"Brother Xian, don't take those rumors seriously!" Chai Shao thought that Lu Chen would be troubled by those rumors in the city, and couldn't help but comfort Lu Chen.

"They can say whatever they want!" Lu Chen said very disdainfully, "My current focus is on Lujiazhuang, but it doesn't mean that I am easy to bully, if I am in a hurry, they will not be able to eat and walk around!" Lu Chen looked in the direction of Chang'an City and snorted coldly.

"Don't talk about these unhappy ones! Brother Xian, the foolish brother you want has personally sent it to you! Do you want to inspect the goods? Chai Shao heard Lu Chen's words, and felt the momentum that Lu Chen inadvertently revealed when he spoke just now, this battle-hardened famous general couldn't help but tremble in his heart, Chai Shao didn't expect this man who looked gentle and elegant to be so murderous.

"Since it was sent by my brother personally, how can there be any need to inspect the goods, just let them send them to the blacksmith's workshop!" Lu Chen pointed to the location of the blast furnace on the hillside in the distance.

"What's that?" Seeing the blast furnace standing tall in the middle of the mountain, Chai Shao couldn't help but ask curiously, after all, when he came a few days ago, he didn't have this thing, and he hadn't seen it for a few days, and there was such a thing in Lujiazhuang!

"That's the iron-making blast furnace invented by the foolish brother!" Lu Chen explained to Chai Shao with a smile.

"Can this thing make iron?" Chai Shao pointed to the blast furnace in the distance and said in surprise, you must know that the iron-making method at this time is still a low furnace and a bowl furnace, where have you seen blast furnace iron-making, so Chai Shao still looked at the blast furnace with suspicion.

"This is my Mo family's unique iron-making technique!" Lu Chen once again took out the title of "Heir of the Mo Family".

"Oh! How much iron can be produced from such a furnace? Chai Shao couldn't help but nod when he heard the word "Mo family", but he still asked curiously.

"If the iron ore is enough, it will not be a problem for me to produce one or two thousand catties of iron in this furnace, but I will shrink it, if it is bigger, it will not be a problem to produce ten thousand catties or even one hundred thousand catties in one furnace!" Lu Chen said very proudly.

"Ten thousand catties?! Or even 100,000 catties?! Hearing Lu Chen's words, Chai Shao was shocked again, "Is it 10,000 catties of iron or even 100,000 catties of iron a day?" Chai Shao directly grabbed Lu Chen's wrist and asked eagerly.

"What's 10,000 pounds a day? It is a furnace of 10,000 catties, twelve hours a day, at least three furnaces! Lu Chen gave Chai Shao a look of "look at your appearance that has never seen the world".

"Then if more blast furnaces can be built, then Datang will not lack iron?" Chai Shao began to be born on the battlefield, and he knows too well the importance of iron to the troops, especially now that iron harness has been popularized, Datang has more demand for iron, this is just the army, what about the people's livelihood? People's livelihood also needs a lot of pig iron, don't farm tools and kitchen utensils need iron?

If it can produce hundreds of thousands of catties of iron per day, how can Datang still lack iron!

"Brother! Wake up! Lu Chen really couldn't bear to let Chai Shao fall into his own brain, so he directly patted Chai Shao's shoulder, "Even if you build a blast furnace, do you have so much iron ore to make iron?" Moreover, there are a lot of iron ores in the hands of the family! Lu Chen reminded Chai Shao.

"This..."As soon as he heard Lu Chen's words, Chai Shao's head drooped, indeed, even if Lu Chen came up with such an iron-making method, but the other conditions were stuck in his neck, Chai Shao couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

"The family controls the iron ore just because it is a strange commodity to live in, what if there is too much iron ore?" Lu Chen saw that Chai Shao was a little frustrated, and couldn't help but smile and reminded Chai Shao, the essence of this matter is that there are too few iron ores known to Datang now, if more iron ore is produced, and then the output is increased, the family still controls the iron ore? With their productivity, Lu Chen directly "dumped", which can make the family cry and pound the wall.

"Could it be that Brother Fei Xian has a way to find iron ore?" Hearing Lu Chen's words, Chai Shao immediately understood the meaning of the words, obedient and listening, Lu Chen can say this, there must be this consideration.

"Naturally, there are some means!" At this time, Lu Chen and Chai Shao had already walked into the mansion chatting all the way, the two sat down separately, and Liu Jing served tea to the two.

"Huh?" As soon as Chai Shao entered the hall, he felt that the hall was very warm, and he also saw a black iron pot on the side, with an iron cylinder attached to it, which extended to the outside of the hall, and there was a copper kettle sitting on top of the iron pot, the spout was constantly steaming, and the hot water that Liu Jing used to make tea for the two was the water in the copper kettle.

"Why is it so warm in this hall?" Chai Shao looked at the black jar and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Could it be the reason for this thing?" ”