"My Lord! This blueprint is wonderful beyond words! "
"I didn't expect it to have such a structure. Interesting, really interesting!"
After seeing the blueprint, Ma Jun was deeply attracted.
He didn't even stutter when he spoke.
As a craftsman, Ma Jun's craftsmanship spirit was very deep. How could he not be happy when he saw something that was similar to his own?
Bai Feng smiled faintly and said:
"Are you confident that you can make it?"
Ma Jun rubbed his chin:
"My Lord, forgive me for being blunt, but I'm not completely confident that I can make this thing."
"Look, although this thing is big, its internal structure is extremely precise and interlocked."
"Moreover, since it's forging steel, I'm afraid this thing can't be made of pig iron."
Bai Feng couldn't help but nod heavily.
A master craftsman was a master craftsman. He could see this point.
Indeed, this steel furnace used the method of pouring steel, so the material used to make it must be extremely strong and tough. Moreover, the melting point was much higher than iron.
This material couldn't even be made of steel.
Otherwise, the furnace would have been scrapped in just one day.
"My Lord, what material should be used to make this thing?"
Ma Jun boldly asked:
"In my impression, the strongest material is steel. However, since it's used to make steel, I'm afraid that steel can't do it."
"If I don't have the materials, even if I'm confident, I can't make it."
Bai Feng said indifferently:
"Don't worry about this. I have the materials here. As long as you can make it, it's fine."
After saying that, Bai Feng thought of something and exchanged the materials to build the steel furnace in the System Store.
This material was an alloy. In fact, steel furnaces existed around the Song Dynasty. Thousand forged steel was used.
However, it was impossible to make Thousand forged steel now.
Moreover, Thousand forged steel was far inferior to modern alloys.
There were many rare metals in alloys. Whether in terms of toughness or melting point, they were much better than Thousand forged steel.
However, these materials were too expensive.
Bai Feng spent 5,000 skill points to exchange for a ton of it.
That was 5,000 skill points!
Bai Feng only had forty to fifty thousand Skill Points on hand. He would definitely have a lot of things to exchange for in the future.
Most importantly, Bai Feng did not have a main mission.
There wasn't even a side quest.
Without a source of Skill Points, he would be living off his past savings.
These forty to fifty thousand skill points were simply not enough.
Fortunately, the seeds only needed to be exchanged once.
As long as they grew, the seeds could be extracted.
Corn could be planted with germs, potatoes could be planted directly in the ground, and sugarcane and the like were also very easy to grow.
However, some of these techniques and blueprints required tens of thousands of skill points.
If he wanted to use it in the future, it would be awkward if he ran out of skill points.
"What … what kind of material is this?!"
After seeing the alloy, Ma Jun's eyes widened.
He had never even heard of such a thing, let alone seen it.
Soon, Ma Jun began the test.
The hardness of the alloy was far beyond his imagination.
To be able to cut through fine iron before it was even forged, this kind of toughness was simply unheard of!
"Awesome!"
"With this, I'm confident that I can forge it!"
Ma Jun immediately patted his chest and laughed happily.
Bai Feng waved his hand and said,
"As long as you can forge it, I'll agree to one of your requests."
"But the prerequisite is that it's within my ability. Money and food are all fine."
Ma Jun said excitedly,
"I don't want money or food."
"As long as you can let me forge it with steel, I'll be satisfied."
Bai Feng waved his hand and said,
"Of course. Not only that, I'll give you a salary every month. It's about the same as that of a third-rank official."
"But I have a request."
"If you want to forge it, you can't forge it in Fufeng. You have to come with me to Xuchang."
"No problem."
Ma Jun didn't even think about it before agreeing.
This condition was naturally satisfied.
Originally, Ma Jun liked to travel and had no relatives at home.
To Ma Jun, Fufeng was just a place where he grew up. That was all.
What's more, Xuchang had better resources. Why not?
Just like that, Bai Feng brought Ma Jun back to Xuchang.
On the way, Ma Jun couldn't help but ask curiously,
"Military Advisor, are you forging this Hundred wrought steel to make armor?"
"If that's the case, I'm good at it. But I'm still not very good at making weapons."
Bai Feng smiled faintly and said,
"Neither."
"Whether it's weapons or armor, I naturally have craftsmen to forge them with Hundred wrought steel."
"What you want to study is not weapons, but thermal weapons."
"Thermal weapons?"
Ma Jun was instantly stunned.
What was a thermal weapon?
He increasingly felt that this military advisor was too strange.
Not only was the thing he took out strange, but he was also very strange. His words were also very strange.
Bai Feng said indifferently,
"You can think of it as a crossbow, but compared to a crossbow, a gun is more powerful and faster."
"What's fired is steel balls, not arrows."
Ma Jun nodded as if he understood.
Bai Feng continued,
"It's not just a gun. The most important thing is to use gunpowder and Hundred wrought steel to make explosives, which can also be called grenades."
"It can trigger an explosion."
"I have the blueprint here. As long as you make the steelmaking furnace, I'll give it to you."
Ma Jun immediately nodded, his heart full of anticipation.
He had never expected that such a pie would fall from the sky.
Someone offered more precise mechanical blueprints, materials, and so on.
On the other hand, he only needed to forge, and he could still get money, so why not?
Ma Jun was a fanatic for machinery. This was not a job for him at all.
He was not afraid to do it, but if he was not allowed to do it, it would be worse than death.
Under the escort of the black-armored cavalry, everyone quickly returned to Xuchang.
Then..,
Bai Feng received an urgent report from the frontline.
"Oh?"
"Deng Ai has already taken down the first city of Bashu?"
Bai Feng raised his eyebrows slightly.
He did not expect Deng Ai to be more intelligent than he had imagined.
Although the soldiers and generals given to him were extremely strong, without a strategy, there was no way they could fight against Bashu.
Although Bashu only had a city defense army, Bashu was full of talents, especially strategists, who were as numerous as the hairs on an ox.
Whether it was Fa Zheng, Zhang Song, or Liu Ba, they were all famous strategists during the three kingdoms period.
In history, Liu Bei entered Shu and recruited a large number of talents from Bashu before he began to establish Shu Han.
Otherwise, Liu Bei would not be qualified to be called king until he died.
It seemed that it was only a matter of time before Deng Ai took down Bashu.
However, another piece of news also reached Bai Feng.
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