Two fear chickens, an ancient giant pig, and five hundred pounds of python meat, this is probably the food that Liu Cang will have to help him improve his physical fitness in the next year.

There was one more rooster and an ancient giant pig each, but seeing that the spirit marrow killed two roosters and one giant pig in one year, the rooster and the giant pig were nothing special except for increasing their physical strength. Liu Cang still planned to eat alone first.

The weather turned cold, and in the Sanshanguan Army Mansion, the Mountain King was lying on a specially made wooden couch. Liu Cang was lying on the Mountain King, his body half sunken into the Mountain King's soft hair.

A tiger that was half the size of the Mountain King and whose fur turned purple-red also rubbed against Liu Cang. The tiger's head directed a fishy wind at Liu Cang, but Liu Cang kicked him off the couch in disgust.

Liu Cang flipped through a book of nine chapters of arithmetic annotated by Zheng Xuan, frowning and looking painful.

Next, Jia Xu sips tea and reads a bamboo slip. Although there is no shortage of paper books in Liu Cang nowadays, Jia Xu still likes this feeling of reading with bamboo slips.

Dafu and Sifu stood beside Liu Cang, and there were still five or six clerks in the hall working on various briefing documents.

Sanshanguan affairs include all kinds of trivial matters related to Liu Cang's industry, which are difficult to compare with serious county matters, but they are also cumbersome and complicated and require constant accounting and recording.

The people's wisdom has not been sealed, everything in the world is full of vitality, and the people's understanding of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes is also very clear.

People in any place can tell you the root cause of price changes. Especially in the past two years, Liu Cang found that compared with people of this era, many people in later generations lived in confusion.

"Fuck you!" Tiaojiao cursed. Liu Cang finally couldn't bear it anymore and jumped off the couch, slamming the book in his hand to the ground.

Dafu and Sifu rolled their eyes in unison. Jia Xu seemed to be startled by Liu Cang, then sighed, got up and walked around the table, picked up the books on the ground, and carefully dusted them off.

"My Lord, why don't you practice martial arts? Or go into the mountains to see the forging iron factory?" Jia Xu asked Liu Cang.

"Asshole, do you think I have a head and a muscle?" Liu Cang was annoyed.

"Haha, my lord is unparalleled in his skills, he knows people well, and he has a good plan. However, this ruler is good, and even if you are not good at magic, it will not be a big deal. Why should your lord be troubled and irritated?" Jia Xu said with a smile.

"But I, the king, can't even compare to you." Liu Cangdu muttered.

"..." Jia Xu didn't want to talk to Liu Cang anymore.

Jia Xu is good at digging holes and deducing personnel affairs, but he is actually not very good at magic. But compared to Liu Cang, who spends all his time thinking about splitting tigers and leopards, there is no reason to be worse than him, right?

Jia Xu was very speechless about his lord's unconscious way of thinking. My lord is so awesome, wouldn't it be good to learn some literary skills? Why do you have to compete with magic?

In the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, when Liu Cang was still showing off his multiplication, Cai Yong threw it in his face.

The Han Dynasty had the arithmetic of the Han Dynasty, and had algorithms that were different from those of the West in later generations. Liu Cang even doubted that anyone in this era could use their own brains to understand the binary system.

Although Liu Cang couldn't understand it, these nine chapters of arithmetic already included various kinds of square root, cube, and Pythagorean test.

Liu Cang was upset when he saw it, especially because Zheng Xuan's various annotations were so in-depth that the middle school textbooks turned into bibles.

The algorithm basis is different from that of later generations, just like the laws of physics must be used to explain dark matter, which also led to Liu Cang's incomprehension.

"Let's go, let's go to the iron yard. Haven't you got the formula for Wujin yet?" Pretending not to notice Jia Xu's strange expression, Liu Cang stretched and walked around the table.

In order to avoid some suspicions, Liu Cang spent more time in Sanshan Pass in the past two years. While rectifying things in Funiu Mountain, he also hoped to retain his upright and orthodox identity before Liu Hong died.

"The Bu family has been loyal to the royal family for generations, and the golden cauldron is mostly used as a sacrificial object. The gold of the cauldron is only used to increase its weight and is easily decayed. It is not as strong as steel. In fact, we don't need to force the golden cauldron." Jia Xu said.

Wujin is the general name for a class of contemporary alloys. Wujin is inherently heavy. Liu Cang wanted a Wujin with an extraordinary weight. Unfortunately, the craftsmen who mastered this recipe were not skilled enough.

Paigang is made of Damascus steel made by Liu Cang. Because he tried to build the conceived Mo Dao, he got the name Paigang.

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"I don't necessarily have to equip my soldiers with heavy troops. The toughness and hardness are enough, and I don't need to be obsessed with weight. But I want to find heavy arrows to break the armor. Don't kill them, and do more research." Liu Cang said to Jia Xu.

"Here." Jia Xu responded and followed Liu Cang out of the mansion.

From a distance outside the mansion, Jin Zi's huge figure stands on the top of the Falling Eagle Tower. When he is still, he looks like a finely crafted sculpture.

The soldiers of the government brought the horses, and Liu Cang and Jia Xu wanted to go to Mo Tiechangfang. Dafu and Sifu followed them. The giant tiger followed and ran out. The gold on the Falling Eagle Tower suddenly flew into the sky with its wings and disappeared.

There are ranch slave camps to the east of Motie Mountain, while Liu Cang's various private workshops are located to the west of Motie Mountain.

Iron and coal can be extracted from Motieshan. Salt well technology has been perfected in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Cang even opened a well salt workshop there.

From burning, iron-making, and even glass making, Liu Cang just suggested some directions, and his own craftsmen have already implemented them in just a few years.

In the iron factory, a heavy hammer mechanism several feet high has been abandoned. If Liu Cang was not afraid of attracting external conflicts, Liu Cang used punch hammers to forge steel, and the output of ordinary steel ingots would have increased dramatically.

At the foot of Motie Mountain, a five-car parallel highway connects Baiyao Mountain to Sanshanguan. On the side of the mountain, beside the tributary of the river, the walls of each workshop are built with bricks and stones.

The river is a branch of the Yellow River and eventually flows to Baiyao. Because many workshops draw water, this river probably has no connection with aquatic products.

On the steep slopes of the mountain, slopes were built with earth and rocks to facilitate the transportation of coal and rail down the mountain. It is said that Liu Cang has actually made cement, but now the mining is still supported by monitor lizards and badgers, and there is currently no manpower to rectify the white cement.

Limestone surrounding the mountain.

Slaves mined mostly shallow mines, but the lizard Liu Cang captured in his early years and the wolverine were able to dig out deep pits and dig out deeper ores.

Regarding the operation of using animals to dig holes and remove stones, Liu Cang originally planned to capture pangolins.

But that thing is a small beast. The key is that it is timid, very small. It can only shrink down at every turn, but it can still be scared to death. In the end, Liu Cang had no choice but to give up on the evil beast.

Bullock carts haul glass through Sanshanguan and transport it to Lubei County. Here, only glass is sold outside, and other products are for personal use and storage.

Slaves were responsible for road construction, construction, mining, transportation, etc., but slaves were not allowed to enter the workshop.

Most of the craftsmen and apprentices were Liu Cang's servants, and some were young men from broken families sent by Pan Feng and Ji Ling from Zhuo County and Wu County who were willing to work as a craftsman.

"Ding dong~ding dong~" The sound of iron hammering was intensive. The closer we got to the iron field, the temperature of the outside air seemed to increase.

The iron farm was built on a higher ground near the mountain, with a waterwheel diverting water, making it look like a camp or a fort.

There are scattered observation towers inside the three-meter low wall, and blast furnace fires can be seen from a distance. A dozen elite soldiers with wolf beasts are on duty outside the gate of the iron yard, and there are also many wolf troops under Liu Cang's command patrolling in shifts within the territory.

"See Your Highness." The wolf army on duty had a saber across his waist and held a sword with a length of ten meters. Liu Cang deliberately shortened the blade so that powerful men could also use it in mounted combat. The single-pointed one was used for infantry to kill horses, and the three-pointed one was for infantry to kill horses.

Those who are assigned to fight on horseback with the wolf army.

"En." He drove the horse straight in, followed by the mountain king, and the war wolf clamped its tail.

A heat wave hit the iron yard. In addition to the large steel melting furnace, there was a dry pot furnace about one meter away along the wall. Hundreds of small furnaces surrounded half of the iron yard, which also made the temperature in the iron yard seem to have clear boundaries.

Strictly speaking, wootz steel is not capable of mass production, and graphite crucibles are basically made one by one and burned one by one.

But after confirming the formula, and through a year of habitual exploration, more furnaces were gradually built here. Under the supervision of skilled craftsmen and apprentices, hundreds of steel ingots could be produced in a week or two.

However, like Damascus steel, Damascus steel was called Paigang by Liu Cang, while wootz steel was called No. 3 Zijin by Liu Cang.

Well, Liu Cang has only determined three distinctive alloy smelting formulas for the time being. Purple gold No. 1 has high wear resistance, Purple gold No. 2 can pull strings, and wootz steel is the third type, which becomes Purple gold No. 3.

In one corner of the iron yard are piles of iron ore, meteorite, coal, coke, quartz, graphite and other materials. In addition to the blacksmiths who are making iron and steel, there are hundreds of shirtless people swinging hammers on various anvils.

Strong man.

When the hammer fell, sparks burst out accompanied by a tinkling sound. Seeing Liu Cang's arrival, most of these strong men grinned at Liu Cang, as if showing off, and started hammering harder.

Flying Bear Camp. After three years, in addition to being good at stabbing and burying people, they can switch jobs as blacksmiths at any time, or in other words, many of them are actually part-time blacksmiths.

In addition to the weapons they use themselves, they make qualified weapons, armor pieces, and iron arrows. If they lose their heads, they can get paid on a piece-rate basis.

Liu Cang had some vague plans. Perhaps his side job as a soldier in the future would be murder and arson...

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