Time flies quickly, another four months have passed, and the roads in the three cities are basically paved with crude cement, and there is no need to worry about wet and muddy roads when traveling.

After a season of improved farming, the rice harvest was abundant, and the whole city was happy. Lei Ming summoned all the generals in the Baishan City Lord's Mansion to discuss the plan, and he asked happily: "Now that the three cities have been governed, the living conditions of the residents have been greatly improved. I wonder if you have any plans for the next time?"

Yang Tian grinned and said, "Now that the soldiers are almost trained in the army, they have passed the period of rapid progress, and it will be more difficult to improve them later." Unless we go to war again......"

"Needless to say, you can consider teaching them to practice qigong, compete more, or increase the difficulty of training. Lei Ming hurriedly stopped Yang Tian's words and put forward his own idea, "Our development has just started, and a few battles will be ruined." ”

Huang Chu, who was sitting in second place on the left, arched his hand to Lei Ming and said, "General Lei, Huang Mouguan has a lot of fish in the Bai River, I don't know if Lu Dao can find a way to catch more and replenish the body of the soldiers and residents." Seeing that Lei Ming and Yang Tian were actually able to open a furnace to smelt a large amount of metal, it should be no problem to catch fish in the White River.

"Well, that's a good proposal!" Lei Ming immediately gave an affirmation, looking at Yang Tiandao, "Yang Tian, aren't the soldiers you trained have nothing to do for the time being? In addition to the daily reconnaissance and guarding, pull me into the Baihe River to practice, weave some nets to catch fish, or catch me directly! Our soldiers want to be able to shoot birds on land and catch fish in the water!"

When Yang Tian heard this, he was happy, the soldiers trained here were better than the special forces, and they were worse than the guns, so he said: "There is no problem with this, I also want to see what limit the soldiers here can be trained to." How many guns are you going to get out?"

Lei Ming rolled his eyes, his lips moved slightly, and Yang Tian's ears sounded: Don't make trouble for me, there are still a lot of things to do.

Yang Tianye's lips moved slightly, and he turned back: I'm also serious, if I don't make something powerful, others will send hundreds of thousands of troops over, and we will surrender obediently!

It turns out that the two of them have recently tried to gather their skills into a line and send it out of their throats, which can achieve the effect of transmitting sound into the secret, and some things that are not easy to say in public can now be said on the spot without fear of being heard by others.

Looking at the generals who were desperately drinking tea, Lei Ming smiled and said, "Our meat is too little, and it seems that it is time to organize people to raise some fish and pigs." Mr. Wen, this task has been entrusted to you. ”

"There's no problem with that. Raising some pigs and fish will easily solve the problem of eating meat. Mr. Wen took the task very happily, and he found that there were too many surprises brought by the thunder, and there were always endless ideas, and he continued, "However, the old man does not know how to raise fish and pigs. ”

The generals laughed, but they didn't expect that Mr. Wen would also joke and ridicule Lei Ming.

"Hehe, it's not difficult. Fish are raised in ponds, and pigs can be raised on the side, and pig manure can fatten a lot of fish. Specifically, you can look for it in Baihe and Hexili, there should be people who can do this job. Lei Ming habitually smiled, patiently explained, and continued, "As for the prevention of fish diseases, we need to find some lime." Belch...... Lime has not been specially fired yet, and it is good to build a furnace to burn it in the future. ”

After hearing this, Mr. Wen lowered his head and thought about it.

Luo Yangtian also raised his opinion at this time, and he said, "General Lei, what to do with those swords we forged?"

As soon as Lei Ming wanted to change the topic to the sword, Luo Yangtian brought it up, and he was really sleepy and sent a pillow, he nodded slightly, and said, "This is also the next idea I want to mention." After a pause, looking at everyone's curious eyes, he continued, "Swords match heroes, I want to sell these swords." ”

Qin Hao's face turned pale when he heard this, Sun Ming and many other brothers often asked when the swords would be sent to them, wouldn't this sale be gone? He couldn't take a lot of care, so he bowed down and said: "General Lei, Qin Hao thinks that this sword should not be sold, this sharp weapon is given to the enemy, and we will suffer a loss if we fight!"

Lei Ming looked at Luo Yangtian, Liao Yun and Lin Chong, and saw that the three of them were also anxious, and he smiled and said: "Listen to me, that kind of sword is just the ordinary equipment of our army, and every soldier is equipped with it, and the generals will be better." ”

Looking at the people who were skeptical, he continued: "Recently, I have redesigned the iron-making furnace, which should be able to smelt iron with better toughness, and I am ready to make a hammer machine, and it will not be difficult to forge sharp weapons." ”

Although everyone didn't understand those things, they were relieved to hear Lei Ming's confident explanation. The strategist deserves to be a strategist, Huang Chu jumped out of the excitement after a while, and asked, "How does General Lei plan to sell those swords?" Huang thinks that by selling them sporadically, he can get more wealth, and he can also control the swords from flowing out too much. ”

"Well, things are expensive, good advice. Lei Ming became more and more imposing as a superior person, and his comments were all from the good side, "I plan to build an auction venue in Hexi City, where these swords will be auctioned." In addition, General Meng was also invited to go to the imperial city and send three swords to Emperor Haotian. ”

Auction? a term never heard before. Mr. Wen frowned and asked, "Auction?"

Lei Ming scratched his head, and said with a slightly red face: "That's an item, give a reserve price, and then everyone who wants to buy participates in the bidding, and the one with the highest price gets a way to sell the item." ”

"Oh~", a few voices came, and Lei Ming remembered that they didn't know what to do.

In the following two months, Lei Ming designed the mold, repeated tests with crude concrete more than 30 times, and fired the grinding wheel. There is a square hole in the middle of the grinding wheel, and a wooden shaft is pierced through the square hole, which is erected on an iron frame, and a simple hand grinder is made after the wooden shaft is pierced and a crank handle is added. With this grinder, sharpening an ordinary sword is much simpler.

Because there is a large amount of crude iron, it can be forged and used in the construction of the new iron-making blast furnace, so the construction standard of the new furnace is much higher; moreover, Lei Ming knows that the technology is very rich, and a lot of diversion refining methods have been added, and the new blast furnace has completely become a steel-making furnace, which can directly produce high-quality steel, saving the labor of the previous craftsmen.

He also made a pulley in one go, pulled the steel wire and manually rubbed out the steel rope, and used the principle of the pulley to make a hammer machine, but it lacked lubricating oil and had to be replaced with edible oil. The hammer is equipped with a heavy hammer head and is used to reforge the steel, which is folded and forged several times to produce high-quality steel. Swords can be made from this steel, and even surpass those new swords from previous generations.

While the generals were amazed, they were also stunned by the previous practice of summoning so many elites to participate in sword forging, knowing that Lu Dao could make such excellent steel, why let them forge those rotten irons?

Lei Ming smiled and explained, first of all, without their forging skills, lack of high-quality steel, they would not be able to build an excellent steel-making furnace behind; secondly, those forging methods are fundamental, if you want to make a sword, you have to rely on those methods to make it;

The craftsmen were originally a little frustrated, but after hearing Lei Ming's explanation, they all smiled, and they also worked harder to improve their forging skills......

After half a year of tinkering, it was late autumn, and everything was on the right track, just before the precipitation of time and the accumulation of skills. The rice paddies outside the city are a large area of gold, except for the faint "tinkling" sound, the cheerful chirping of birds and the laughter of farmers in the fields.

Those residents were far from imagining that the earth-shaking changes would take place in less than two years after they came, and as long as they were willing to work, their food and housing problems would be solved in a unified manner, and they would get better and better. The young adults in the jurisdiction are now desperate to serve Lei Ming, but they are unwilling to expand the army because of Lei Ming, so they can only participate in Lei Ming and others who have projects and tasks.

Lei Ming and Yang Tian have now grown to one meter and seven tall, both of them are thin and graceful, no matter where they go, they are warmly cheered by the masses, and sometimes there are bold girls who want to run to court. Lei Ming just dodged and ran, Yang Tiangang laughed when he saw the beautiful Gang, but his body had not yet developed, so he didn't dare to steal it, otherwise he didn't know how many girls and children in the road would suffer.

The hall dedicated to the auction is a semicircular hall with beamless columns of more than 400 square meters, which is made of newly baked steel bars as bones and coarse concrete pouring. It is located in the middle of Hexi City, where the cement road is wide and smooth, extending in all directions. The curved façade is painted flat white lime, and the inside is gray cement. The curved façade faces the crossroads, with three doors for easy access, and a number of iron-bard hollow windows on the high walls for ventilation. When I entered the door, I saw that the light was slightly dim, and the columnar sunlight shone through the windows, but I could still see the situation in the hall, which was a row of wide wooden armchairs that were recessed and stretched down to the rectangular auction table. On both sides of the auction table, there are two red cloths covering a door each, which is where the auctioneers enter and exit. Residents often stop to look at this strange building, and if it weren't for the soldiers guarding it, they would have rushed inside to take a look.

Lei Ming led Yang Tian, Mr. Wen and many other generals into the bright auction hall full of torches, and listened to the exclamations of the generals who saw this kind of ultra-avant-garde architecture for the first time, and their hearts were full of pride.

Under such humble conditions, Lei Ming was able to build such a majestic auction hall, which made Yang Tian's admiration for Lei Ming one more thing: this is the person who created miracles!

Mr. Wen sighed: "Thundering, there is such a building, I'm afraid they don't have to take out the sword, they are also willing to dig gold!"

"Yes, Huang has also walked through a lot of places, but he has never seen such a building, which is eye-opening!" Huang Chu also did not hesitate to praise.

"Hee-hee, other people can't build something like this without steel bars, without cement, and without such a level of mechanical calculations. So it's normal that you haven't seen it. Yang Tian was also stained with light, and his face was full of smug smiles.

"Okay, we've visited, let's talk about tomorrow's auction. Lei Ming sat on the wide and luxurious chair, patted the smooth black hardwood armrest, and said, "Tomorrow, Mr. Huang Chu will preside over the auction, Lin Chong and Liao Yun will be the messengers of the treasure and come out with the sword." Yang Tian can transfer some brothers from the elite battalion to guard outside the hall. ”