Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

At the foot of the obsidian mine in Ningjing County, a group of elderly miners are standing in a line. They have been in the dark mine for a long time and are not used to the sunlight outside.

When these miners were bought back as slaves, they were all still in their twenties. After ten years of mining in the mines, all of them were already very old.

After ten years of hard work in the mines, and still alive to this day, they have surpassed 50% of the miners.

"Everyone, please line up. Mr. Zhang is kind and will allow you to be free. He will also give each of you a certain amount of money so that you can spend your old age peacefully."

A blackwater soldier stood next to the team and shouted loudly, while another blackwater soldier registered the name of each miner, pressed his fingerprint, and distributed a lot of money.

After each miner received the money, he would hold the heavy copper coins and kowtow to the Blackwater Army to express his gratitude.

At this time, the soldiers of the Blackwater Army will tell everyone that this is a favor from Mr. Zhang.

At the same time, the miners in the mine can also take an extra day off today and go outside to bask in the sun. For them, sunshine is also a luxury.

"It turns out that after ten years of service, we can really leave freely. I thought I would die in this life."

"It's not that bad. Look, there's still money to be paid!"

"One thousand coins per person, that much money can buy several wives."

"Put me down, you want several wives. You have a small body, no fat on your body, and you can pee on your shoes. Can you still accept it? Don't take advantage of the old man next door."

"With this much money, if I buy some fat to replenish my body, I might be able to do a few more flutters."

People always have to have some hope, so that they can have the courage to persevere in desperate situations.

Since Zhang He took over the mine, he has begun to eliminate the old and weak miners who survived and provided certain monetary subsidies.

Now this money is just a drop in the bucket for Zhang He, but it can allow these miners to spend their old age peacefully.

At this time, Zhu Zheng brought back a group of young slaves from outside to supplement the personnel gap in the mine.

"Zhu Shi is back!"

A soldier came over immediately. Zhu Zheng had now been promoted to the highest rank and was responsible for managing this obsidian mine.

"You register these 200 people and send them all into the mine."

"OK!"

Zhu Zheng gave the order and left. The soldiers led the 200 slaves to register one by one. Each of them was given a set of tools and sent them into the mine with a few instructions.

When these 200 people were sent into the dark mine, they were still a little uncomfortable and confused.

Only one of the short, fat miners looked a little different. His eyes were no longer cloudy at this moment. He threw away the mining tools in his hand and walked deeper into the mine alone.

The short, fat miner walked alone in the mine without lighting, but he could still move quickly through it. When he passed by some miners, they could only feel a breeze passing by.

After years of excavation in the obsidian mine, there are many branches.

The short and fat man now reached the end of a mine. The spiritual energy here had become thinner. It was obvious that this was an abandoned mine.

After walking in vain, the short and fat man felt unhappy, so he punched the stone wall hard, causing the stone wall to shatter immediately. The power of this punch was at least that of a foundation-building monk.

The short and fat man walked back a mile, grabbed a miner, and tortured him. Based on the miner's confession, he drew a simple map with the approximate direction of each mine tunnel marked on it.

"Is that what it looks like?"

The short and fat man brought the map to the miner and asked him to confirm it.

"Yes! Yes! That's it. Can I go?"

The captured miner was trembling, and the two miners who were traveling with him were killed by the immortal master on the spot. Only he was left here to be tortured for information.

"Have you ever seen this kind of ore?"

The short and fat man took out a piece of purple-red obsidian. When the ore was taken out, the temperature in the mine also increased a bit.

"Never seen it before."

The miner shook his head in confusion.

The short and fat man was too lazy to talk to an ant at this time. With a wave of his hand, the miner's head was shattered.

Next, he randomly captured two miners, tortured the terrain, and completed the map of the entire mine structure.

With the topographic map in hand, the next step is to investigate the mines one by one.

His mission this time was to find the purple-red obsidian mine without alerting the enemy, and to find out the reserves of this mine. Other matters had nothing to do with him.

Apart from the miners, there are no other Blackwater troops in this mine, so he can do whatever he wants.

At the speed of a foundation-building immortal cultivator, the exploration of a mine can be completed very quickly.

Two days later, the short, fat man appeared in a hot mine.

After two days of investigation, it was found that this mine had the highest probability of containing purple-red obsidian.

Yesterday, he came here for preliminary exploration. This is a rich mine, and high-quality obsidian can be seen everywhere on the walls of the mine.

It's just that the temperature here is too high, and ordinary mortal miners can't stay here for too long, and the mine only digs to the front and then stops.

The short and fat man walked to the end of the mine tunnel. The stone wall in front of him was inlaid with many obsidian stones, and he could break one off with just a pickaxe.

It's just that the temperature here is too high. Even a late-stage foundation-building monk like him is covered in sweat at the moment and can't wipe it off.

The short and fat man could only use a shield to block out the heat, which made him feel much more comfortable.

If this vein contains purple-red obsidian, it is most likely to be here.

The short and fat man took out a flying sword and slashed forward. However, the rock in the vein was too hard, so he slashed more than ten feet deep. There were already a lot of gaps in the flying sword and it could no longer be used. .

The advancing distance of more than ten feet was still surrounded by dense obsidian, but he could not find any of the purple-red obsidian he was looking for.

The short and fat man looked at the stone wall in front of him. He could only put away the flying sword in his hand and took out an escape talisman.

The price of this earth-escape talisman is not cheap. It can only be made by monks who can use the earth-escape technique. It is very difficult to get. He only got two of them in total.

Using the escape talisman can give you the ability to escape from the earth temporarily.

The short, fat man slapped the Earth Escape Talisman on his chest, and instantly a yellow light enveloped him.

Then he banged his head against the cave wall in front of him, and his whole body disappeared into the stone wall.

Protected by yellow light outside his body, the short and fat man swam among the rocks as freely as a fish in the water.

He kept moving forward along the obsidian veins, and saw densely packed obsidian along the way, and the temperature was getting higher and higher.

The shield he offered at the beginning was no longer able to protect him. Fortunately, before coming, the elders of the clan had given him a magic weapon, the Xuanbing Umbrella, which was refined from thousand-year-old Xuanbing.

As soon as this magic weapon was sacrificed, a coolness immediately enveloped the body.

But this coolness could not last long. As he continued to move forward, it began to get hotter and hotter again.

Across the Xuanbing Umbrella magic weapon, his mouth still felt dry, as if he was in an oven.

However, he did not back down, because he had already seen hope, and now there were some purple lines on the obsidian that he could see.

I believe you can see the real purple-red obsidian if you go further.

However, the sky is unpredictable, and people are prone to misfortunes and blessings. Although the Xuanbing Umbrella magical weapon refined from thousands of years of Xuanbing is good, it is not a magic weapon after all.

"Crack!"

Cracks began to appear on the Xuanbing Umbrella and spread rapidly to the surrounding area.

"not good!"

The short, fat man was shocked and turned back immediately.

But it was too late. At this moment, the Xuanbing Umbrella was already covered with cracks, and finally it completely shattered with a "click".

"Ahhhhh"

As the Xuanbing Umbrella shattered, deep in the underground of the mine, there was a burst of screams, and finally everything calmed down, leaving only a charred corpse in the place.

As time goes by, tens of thousands of years later, this charred corpse may turn into a fossil or become a precious specimen for studying ancient humans.

At the moment when the short and fat man died, in the distant Wu Kingdom, in the Fan family ancestral hall, there was a hall of several hundred square meters, with countless flickering lights in the hall.

Suddenly, the flame of one of the lamps flickered and was instantly extinguished.

"No, Fan Xian is dead. You continue to guard here, and I will report to the elders."

A guard trotted out of the ancestral hall.

"Report to Elder Jing that Fan Xian's soul lamp has gone out."

"Okay, I understand, please step back."

Elder Jing, who was meditating inside, spoke calmly, without feeling too surprised, with a slightly disappointed look on his face.

After the visitors had retreated, Elder Jing said to himself: "It seems that the foundation building is still too weak. That's all. Let's send a Jindan to investigate."

Elder Jing muttered to himself, and then sent out another communication talisman to fly into the distance.

Zhang He knew nothing about what happened in the obsidian mine. He has now returned to Ningjing County from Dadu.

At this moment, Huya is leading a tour of the newly built steelmaking plant.

For the convenience of transportation, this steelmaking plant was built directly next to the iron ore mine.

“Young Master, look, this is a large steel-making furnace, and the fuel used is coal.

This steel-making furnace is a very large magic weapon with 36 formation runes engraved on it, which are used to control the temperature of the furnace fire and purify and remove impurities. "

Hu Ya enthusiastically introduced the entire steel refining process to Zhang He. The steel refining method here is completely different from the earth's technology. It is a completely different path.

Use formations and some refining methods to refine iron ore into steel.

"The building connected to the steel-making furnace has more than 1,000 spirit-gathering arrays arranged in it. They are connected together to form a super-large spirit-gathering array, which provides spiritual power to the steel-making furnace through rune connections.

These more than 1,000 spirit-gathering arrays are all independent structures. If some of the arrays are broken, it will not affect the normal operation of the steel-making furnace. "

Zhang He had already noticed that spiritual energy was constantly gathering in the sky above this large spirit gathering array.

Afterwards, Hu Ya led Zhang He to inspect the iron mines.

This iron ore mine is relatively shallow and can be mined directly in the open air without digging a hole.

The mining method is still relatively primitive, that is, first blast it with gunpowder, and then hire a large group of miners to knock it with pickaxes, pick it up with your hands, and lift it with wooden frames. It is extremely inefficient and completely incompatible with the steel-making furnace with a strong sense of technology. side.

The only more advanced aspect may be the zombie truck that carries ore.

There is a section of road between the mine and the steel-making furnace. In the absence of large-scale machinery and equipment, transporting iron ore back and forth every day is also a huge project, enough to make a large number of miners vomit blood and die from exhaustion.

In addition, transporting coal from other places to the steel mill also requires a large group of zombies to pull the truck.

Before trains were created, zombies remained an indispensable means of transportation.

There are still a large number of zombies working in Blackwater County.

This time, in order to set up a steelmaking plant, 10,000 zombies were specially transferred from Heishui County.

These zombies howled and happily pulled up the car and ran back and forth on the path, rolling up streaks of smoke.

Sometimes the car is running too fast and cannot be stopped, and the zombie car and iron ore will fall into the rolling steel-making furnace together, becoming a small amount of impurities in the steel.

Zombies do the heaviest work during the day, and they only need to feed some dead grass stained with pig blood every day after get off work, working hard without complaint.

As a large project, the steelmaking plant still employs thousands of workers in addition to zombies.

More than a thousand of them were recruited specifically from Blackwater County.

Because the new generation of young people in Heishui County all come from schools and are educated and literate, when it comes to some more complex operations, it is easier for those with a certain cultural foundation to understand.

At present, this steel-making furnace can produce about 2,000 kilograms of steel per day on average. Although it is far behind the steel-making furnaces on earth, it was already very advanced in the Zhou Dynasty.

Moreover, the quality of the steel produced is much better than that produced by local methods.

If used to make swords, it should be comparable to those hundred forged swords.

After the railway is completed in the future, it can be transported to other places for sale.

In the world of ordinary people, salt and iron are the two most expensive resources. As long as you have one of them, it represents a lot of wealth.

"Sir, this steel-making furnace is only the first one and is considered experimental. We are now planning to build the second steel-making furnace."

"Yes! Well done." Zhang He patted Huya on the shoulder with certainty.

“However, your main task is to do research, and you only need to leave a few people here to guide the subsequent preparations.

You still have more things to do, such as large transport vehicles made of steel.

Also like the production of spiritual tools, or in the longer term, psychic cannons, flying boats or even flying battleships."

Hearing Zhang He mention these, Huya's eyes became brighter and brighter, his hands clenched into fists, and he was uncontrollably excited.

Studying the most advanced technology in the world of immortality and refining the most colorful treasures in the world of immortality is the life he wants.

"Okay! I'll organize the manpower right away! I guarantee you'll see our transport truck running soon."

Huya said goodbye and was busy greeting people.

For people who like to engage in technology, being able to devote themselves wholeheartedly to their favorite career is the greatest satisfaction.

It doesn’t even matter if it’s money or not, it’s just a hobby!