Menes packed his bags and prepared to return to the territory, this trip to the Nine Gods Fortress, although many people died, but there were also gains, mainly to know Gu A and Isu, and Isu awakened the undertaker's godhead, or the kind of super-large godhead, as soon as he woke up, he entered the third level, which can have the ability of fire charges.

Gua decided to follow Menes back to the territory to build a temple and preach his teachings, after all, Menes promised to build a temple for him to recruit followers, but unexpectedly Issu finally decided to stay here, not to join the Nine Gods Legion, although Zose also tried to keep Ysu, but Ysu wanted to stay in the Desert of Death and become a wandering hunter.

The valley area is a prosperous world of drunken dreams and death, but that world does not belong to Isu, there are too many people there, Isu feels that he should wander alone in the desert, and loneliness is also one of the fates of the mourners.

Stinger also decided to stay in the Desert of Death, she used the money from the hunt of the undead to add her own money, bought the ruins of the Tavern of Tears, and recruited some helpers to rebuild the tavern, where there was free air, bohemian hunters, and most importantly, to make money, undead hunters always needed a place to put their bodies or corpses.

Menes returned to the territory with the fragments of the Divine Punishment Mummy, and the Divine Punishment Mummies were all broken into pieces, and Jett said helplessly after reading it, "It is estimated that only half of them can be recovered, and the others will become lonely ghosts." ”

Since souls can only wander around, then at least give the shell a stable room, through these days of getting along, Menes no longer hates these sinful souls, and even begins to like this group of once heinous mummies, these mummies who fought side by side with him.

Menes decided to reward these mummies who fought side by side with him, and the mummies that could be resurrected in the future were given food and drink, although they could never be full, and eating was just a waste, but it was possible to soothe their bodies, and they should be given a proper rest or a good rest, although they did not need to rest like machines, but they could still feel comfortable when they could rest.

When Menes passed through the coal mining village, he saw that the living conditions of the locals had been greatly improved, the coal mining brigade sent by Buthamon had started, the whole car of coal was transported to the river valley, and the local villagers had new jobs because of mining, and the mining team continued to transport coal out and various materials in.

Before entering the Holy Cat City, I met Bute Hamon and brought everyone out to greet Menes, this fat man has eaten too well recently, and he has gained weight again, and his clothes are becoming more and more gorgeous, and I heard that he has married a new little wife, and he is the richest in the whole city.

When Daidia heard that Menes was coming back, she finally ran out of her research room and came to greet Menes with materials and research results, he had too many questions to ask Menes, the red brick firing had been successful, but the firing of cement had not been good, and Menes needed some advice.

Dedia was so excited that she ignored the expectant glances of Menes and Nana, and Menes had no choice but to listen to Dedia talk about the results of her research.

In the end, it was Winover who rushed over and reminded Dadia that you are a child, don't bother people if you don't care about the needs of adult men.

Nana's eyes were red when she saw Menice, and she was embarrassed to speak in front of everyone, but Menes didn't have so many scruples, and as soon as Daidia left, she picked up Nana and rode into the city together.

Nana's face flushed, her eyebrows lowered and she leaned shyly on Menis's shoulder.

"Did you miss me?" Menis whispered to Nana's ear.

"When we get home, let's move first!" Menis said deliberately loudly.

"Ahhh......h

The people around listened to it and snickered, and it was a long time since they left home, and everyone was homesick.

Entering the city, Menes disbanded the team on the spot and went home, Rasim had a family and returned immediately with the family, an old man in Gua could only follow Menes, Jet's home was the temple, and the first thing he did when he returned was to go to the temple to take care of his gods.

Menes entered the house and began to exercise in bed impatiently, and the place full of male hormones in the Death Desert did make Menes feel aggrieved and panicked.

The two of them sit on the bed to eat when they are tired of activities, Menes is too lazy to get out of bed, these days they always sleep on the hard planks or sandy ground, the soft mattress is really comfortable, good food and wine, gentle women, this is life, as long as the undead beasts do not come to disturb, Menes decided not to go to any damn desert again.

The next day, after a big sleep, Menes got up, and Daidia had been waiting in the hall of Menes's house, and when she saw Menes getting up, she hurried up to meet Menes, and pulled Menes to see the cement samples she had fired.

After seeing the sample, Menes can only say that it is not bad, in fact, it basically meets the requirements, but Daidia always feels that it is not perfect enough, Menes has to bite the bullet and say, or you try to calcinate at high temperature, I estimate that the temperature of your blast furnace is not enough.

In fact, Menes himself really didn't know the requirements of cement calcination, he just knew the general situation, and if he really said that his understanding of this thing was not as good as that of Daidia, but he still remembered the word high-temperature calcination.

Dai Dia was silent for a while and said, I guess it's also the temperature, but my lord, our blast furnace can't burn the high temperature.

Menis said with a coquettish scalp, "Haven't you been shipping a lot of coal lately? This thing has a relatively high combustion value, so you can try it with coal?"

"My lord, I've tried it, it's better than wood, but it still doesn't seem to work. ”

"Then you're going to blow the wind hard!"

"I've tried too, but the water blower and your divine punishment mummy still won't work!" said Dedia in frustration.

"Then ......" Menes looked up in contemplation for a while and said, "try coke, you first dry distillate the coal to see if you can make coke, and then burn it with coke, the coke seems to burn more fully, anyway, you test more, experiment is the only way to test the truth!"

That's all Menes can say now, and she can't figure out anything else.

Daidia did think that Menes always had a whimsy, and when she heard this, she immediately nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll try the coke you said." ”

Daidia didn't know what coke was, but he believed Menes, and as long as Menes had a point, it would work.

Menes felt that this cement could actually be used at present, and he was not in a hurry, he was most anxious to find iron ore, although some iron had been shipped from Lily Harbor recently, but the price was too high, the quantity was too small, and the quality was very average, and these iron could only be used in the production of ordinary weapons.

Menes needs to find iron ore and carry out a large-scale metallurgical industry to produce a large amount of iron, preferably steel, steel is the basis of industrial development, with steel production can make a large number of steel tools, and productivity can be increased.

Not to mention the tools used in daily production in the entire territory at present, even the iron for weapon production is not enough, and if gunpowder is made in the future, it will also need to be made of firearms and cannons to play a role, and there is no need to talk about it without iron.

Menes also wanted to build steam engines, rails, steel warships, tanks, steel buildings, and industrial machinery, all of which required a lot of high-quality steel, so smelting steel was the first step.

Daidia didn't have long to go before she was yelled back by Menes.

"You leave the cement business to someone else, just experiment more, I need you to start studying the smelting of steel now. Menes said.

"Ah, smelting steel? It's good to find a blacksmith, the recruitment posts you spread are useful, there have been a lot of craftsmen recently, including blacksmiths, and we can already smelt steel. Didia replied.

For Daidia, steel is something that can already be manufactured, so why should it be researched, just expand production.

"This ...... At present, all the iron smelted is low-quality, which is made by forging, the quality is poor, the production efficiency is low, and it cannot meet the needs of the future, I want you to study the production of iron smelting blast furnaces with higher output, and at the same time need to improve the smelting technology to produce something called steel, that is what I want. Menis said in one breath.

"Steel?" said Dedia, looking at Menes quizzically.

"Yes, steel, a high-grade product of iron, harder, more versatile, this metal is also smelted from iron ore, the trick is how much carbon is in the metal, in addition to the need for large-scale production, you must increase the temperature of the blast furnace, I said before the use of coke, you have to make it immediately, in addition to the need to study how to purify oxygen, coke and oxygen mixture in order to quickly increase the furnace temperature. ”

"Oxygen? What is this?"

"Oxygen is a gas that exists around us, and there is oxygen in the wind blown by the blower, but it also contains other gases, and oxygen is the main substance that produces combustion chemical reactions with charcoal, and we can increase the temperature of the furnace by purifying the oxygen. ”

Menes looked at the dazed Daidia and sighed and said, "It seems that I shouldn't go to the Death Desert, I should stay in the territory and teach you well, so let's start today, we will resume the previous learning course, and I will teach you the basic chemistry knowledge." ”

"Really?" said Dedia excitedly.

Daidia is not interested in any undead beasts, he likes to listen to Menes lectures the most, Mistress Menes always has a lot of wonderful knowledge, and recently the adults have not made progress in their absence, and there are many basic questions that no one answers.

"Well, I not only want to teach you, but I also want to open a training class, gather all the talented people together and attend classes every day, you really master this knowledge in order to develop the territory rapidly, science and technology is the primary productive force!"

Menes said to do it, while starting to write tutorials while making some teaching and research supplies, and looking for people with a certain foundation in the territory to be students, people learn to pay money, Menes students can earn money for learning, as a result of the announcement as soon as it was issued, a bunch of people came to sign up, but I'm sorry, you have to pass the exam before you are allowed to enter the school, and Menes requires that you must have a certain amount of hands-on ability, and it is best to have been a craftsman before.

Luckily, Menes not only found some people with a certain foundation, but also unexpectedly found a student of the creator Godhead, a craftsman with fine control ability, who gave up the well-paid job in the Pharaonic Village and took the initiative to go to Menes' territory to study, just because he heard that Menes made hydraulic blowers and hydraulic saws.