In this month, the steel smelter that was built was gradually put into production.
Because he was using the advanced iron-making method that Liu Xuan had bought from the system store, the amount of iron produced was much higher than that of the Three Kingdoms period.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the amount of iron produced was about 30%-35%, which meant that 100 catties of iron ore could produce 35 catties of pig iron.
If he used the iron-making method provided by the system, the iron yield could be increased by 10%, about 45%. In other words, 100 catties of iron ore could produce 45 catties of pig iron.
To make pig iron into wrought iron, it was estimated that about five catties would be lost for every hundred catties.
In this way, Liu Xuan could only smelt eight to nine thousand catties of wrought iron from the ten thousand kilograms of iron ore that he had exchanged from the Yuan family.
Forging an ordinary one-handed sword would require about three catties of wrought iron.
Eight to nine thousand catties, he could only forge three thousand iron swords at most.
Of course.
Liu Xuan did not forge the iron into blacksmiths. Instead, he let the craftsmen continue to smelt it until it became harder steel. Only then did he let them forge the steel into the tip of the spear.
As for the handle of the spear, it was made of white wax!
In ancient times, most of the long-handled weapons were made of white wax.
This was because the white wax pole was as white as jade, hard but not hard, soft but not broken. The pole body could be bent to an astonishing 180 degrees without splitting. It had strong flexibility, dense fiber density, and strong natural tension. It would not split in dry places and would not be deformed in wet places. Its elasticity and toughness were incomparable to other wood.
In the end, he obtained a total of 7,000 spears.
"Not enough, still not enough!"
Although the production of 7,000 spears had greatly alleviated the problem of the soldiers not having any weapons, Liu Xuan was not satisfied.
Because he would definitely recruit more soldiers in the future. He couldn't let the soldiers he recruited later go into battle empty-handed, right?
Moreover, he had to be careful.
Apart from weapons, armor was also necessary.
The amount of steel needed to forge a set of armor was far from what weapons could compare to.
Even if it was just to forge a light armor, it would require at least five to six catties of steel.
If it was heavy armor, it would start at ten catties, and twenty catties was not a lot!
Hence, he decided to do it.
The mining of iron ore in the mountains southwest of Daijun was naturally put on the agenda.
However, the iron mine was located deep in the mountains, and only a small part of it was exposed. Most of it was buried under the soil, so it was really difficult to mine it.
Although Liu Xuan had gathered hundreds of workers to mine, they could only mine 600 to 700 catties of iron ore every day.
Attention!
What he said here was that it was only mined.
This was because transportation was extremely inconvenient in the deep mountains.
Therefore, less than 300 catties of iron ore were transported out of the mountains every day. Adding the losses in the smelting process, the daily output of the steel smelter was only about 100 catties.
The production was too low.
For this reason, Li Xuan specially arranged for the Construction Division to build a cement road from the iron ore mine to the smelter.
When the cement road was completed, the pig iron production in Daijun should be able to double.
Although it was still not much, as the saying goes, every little makes a mickle.
If he could produce 200 catties of wrought iron every day, he would be able to produce 70,000 to 80,000 catties in a year. It was barely acceptable.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was already October.
The potatoes sown in August also welcomed their harvest.
In fact, from the moment the potatoes were sown, Jian Yong and Tian Chou had been constantly asking Liu Xuan about all sorts of things related to potatoes.
Liu Xuan was also annoyed by the questions, so he simply spent dozens of Reputation Points to buy a book from the system store that recorded the details of potato planting and threw it to the two of them.
From that day onwards, Liu Xuan's ears immediately quieted down.
……
Of course.
Although Liu Xuan had been busy every day, he would still take an hour to compete with Zhang Ren.
Everyone knew the reason why he didn't fight Guan Yu.
Liu Xuan would never say that he did not want to fight Guan Yu because he would be killed in an instant.
After two months, Liu Xuan's martial arts skills had made good progress. He could already take more than 20 moves from Zhang Ren.
The speed of Liu Xuan's progress in martial arts had once amazed Zhang Ren. He had expressed his regret in front of Liu Xuan many times, saying that if Liu Xuan had trained his martial arts since he was young, his martial arts would definitely have surpassed his by now.
Liu Xuan also felt a little regretful.
After all.
Who didn't want to become stronger?
However, Zhang Ren's next words gave Liu Xuan some hope.
What he meant was that his master, Tong Yuan, had a prescription in his hands. If one soaked in it for a long time and practiced it hard, it would have the effect of improving one's root bone. Moreover, it would have a miraculous effect on people like Liu Xuan who had not trained their martial arts since they were young!
Zhang Ren also said that if there was a chance next time, he could bring Liu Xuan to visit his master, Tong Yuan.
Liu Xuan was overjoyed.
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(After thinking about it, I feel that the main character's martial strength should be slightly strengthened. I don't expect him to have first-class strength like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the others, but he should at least have the strength of a quasi-first-class or second-class peak, right?)
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