Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

Ren Zhong didn't mention the copper coins. The quantity wasn't large yet, and he hadn't figured out a trading model. Unlike penicillin, which was easy to carry around, if not handled well, Ren Zhong's life in the base area wouldn't be so easy.

In this regard, Ren Zhong wouldn't be foolish enough to challenge human nature.

After trading penicillin with Zhang Wanhe, Ren Zhong, feeling he didn't have much to do, decided to check on the progress of the earthen kiln and the research of Zhu Zhendong and his team.

Arriving at the earthen kiln construction site, Ren Zhong almost thought he had gone to the wrong place!

Damn, did I go to the wrong place?

Ren Zhong rubbed his eyes vigorously. An earthen kiln, already showing its basic shape, appeared before him!

Back and forth, it had only been a week, but they had managed to build half of an earthen kiln on an empty space!

"Brother Ren, take a look and see if it's like this? If there are any problems, tell me quickly so I can have them fix it!" Li Yunlong, who had been shouting and directing the transportation of clay, saw Ren Zhong coming and called out from afar.

Ren Zhong had just mentioned that Zhang Wanhe had arrived, and Li Yunlong, the kid, had disappeared in the blink of an eye. So, he was busy coming here to work!

"Old Li, how is the progress so fast? How did you do it?" Ren Zhong gave a thumbs up, praising Li Yunlong, "Old Li, it's a real waste for you not to be a contractor. With your work speed, you could build a big villa from scratch in three years!"

"Brother Ren, what contractor, what big villa, don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and come see if there are any problems. Tens of thousands of people in the base area are holding guns and waiting for us to make bullets. When I think about what you said, that if we build this place, we can produce at least tens of thousands of rounds of gunpowder a month, I, Old Li, can't sleep at all!" Li Yunlong glared his small eyes and shouted at Ren Zhong.

Although Li Yunlong wasn't completely trusting of Ren Zhong yet, after spending these days together, the guy had really done a lot for the base area. Not to mention the tens of thousands of silver dollars worth of penicillin. On one hand, it gave the base area a life-saving medicine effective against inflammation. On the other hand, it also gave the base area a way to make money, allowing Zhang Wanhe to earn the base area's medical expenses through being a middleman, not to mention earning another sum.

Just the production of gunpowder that Li Yunlong was currently doing, Ren Zhong was providing both technology and money to build it. If spies could all do what Ren Zhong was doing, Li Yunlong would wish he had ten or eight of them here!

So, Li Yunlong had gradually begun to recognize Ren Zhong as a person, and naturally didn't treat him as an outsider in his heart. Old Li's nature was exposed, and he would shout and scold as he pleased.

"Old Li, what's the rush? Aren't I coming over?" Ren Zhong didn't mind. This was Old Li's true self. No wonder he quickly gained a foothold and won over the hearts of the soldiers, from the New First Regiment to the Independent Regiment.

This temper was just too suitable for mixing in the army.

Ren Zhong ran over, stepping deep and shallow, and saw that the earthen kiln was more than a person's height inside, even taller than he had originally requested. "How is it? I figured that if it was bigger, we could burn more, so I expanded it a little bit." Li Yunlong, covered in sweat and mud, said to Ren Zhong as if he were taking credit.

"I say, Old Li, you should be more careful. If you change it like this, I don't know if the firing temperature will be enough. An earthen kiln isn't like the bigger the better." Ren Zhong didn't know if it would work.

"If adding coke can solve the problem, then it's not a big deal." Ren Zhong continued Old Man Li's words, "Jin Province doesn't lack coal, so naturally it won't lack coke."

"Master Li, I see that the clay Old Li chose is this kind of earthy gray and dense, which seems different from the soil here. Is there any significance to this?"

Most of the soil in the Taihang Mountains is reddish. The one Old Li chose was not only gray and dense, but also seemed to be finer, without too many lumps and impurities.

"Boss Ren, this is clay we found in another place. The inner wall of the earthen kiln is made of bricks made from this clay. After firing, it will become hard and fire-resistant, and the earthen kiln will not deform even if it is fired for a long time." Old Man Li, the kiln worker, glanced at it and explained.

So, this is refractory clay. Ren Zhong suddenly understood. He had checked the mineral resources of this area in the main world, and there were really many kinds, forming a scale of more than 20 kinds, including coal, iron, copper, uranium, phosphorus, bauxite, asbestos, crystal, mica, feldspar, silica, marble, dolomite, and refractory clay. Among them, coal and iron reserves were abundant and distributed everywhere. Within these dozens of kilometers, the coal reserves were several billion tons!

Of course, some coal was buried deep underground, and the current simple mining methods could not be used to mine it.

He didn't expect that Old Man Li would find refractory clay so quickly. This thing was a good treasure. Not only was it indispensable for burning earthen kilns, but it was also indispensable for Ren Zhong's upcoming large-scale steelmaking.

Ren Zhong had only conducted research on this area on the Internet. Ren Zhong hadn't had time to see the real scene. Now that the clay mine had been found, then he should also go to the scene to see which coal and iron mines were suitable for Old Li and the others to mine.

Ren Zhong added a new task to himself. Exploration was still a relatively sensitive matter, and it couldn't be solved by spending money. Although the approximate location of the current coal and iron mines could be found on the Internet, Ren Zhong was still not at ease without seeing the actual situation on the ground.

"Brother Ren, tell me if Old Li is doing well?" Li Yunlong looked at Ren Zhong like this, knowing that there was probably no problem, and said with a smile, taking credit.

Li Yunlong was originally a dog-faced person, and he was the most knowledgeable about hitting a snake with a stick.

"Yes, Old Li, your progress is amazing. Tell me how you did it?" Ren Zhong really wanted to know how Li Yunlong had almost completed a month's worth of work in a week.

"Haha, what's so difficult about that? You have silver dollars to provide meals, and I, Old Li, went to the base area to find more people, divided them into three teams to work in shifts. One team works for three shichen, and nine shichen a day! This isn't how we caught up with the progress." Li Yunlong said with a slight smugness.

Damn, nine shichen a day, that's eighteen hours. Capitalists would cry when they heard Old Li's method.

Not lacking at all, Old Li was on-site supervising, and the progress of digging the pit was very fast. A prototype had already been built, and it seemed that building it in a month was not a big problem.

After all, this was mainly a physical job. Old Li was anxious and got two teams to work in shifts, which meant they could work for eighteen hours a day!

Looking at Old Li's bloodshot eyes, well, if Old Li couldn't hold on, this kid would probably come up with a 24-hour four-shift system. Old Li's talent in civil engineering was really unquestionable. He had taught himself and turned a limited construction site into a 6-hour shift assembly line operation, changing people but not the work surface.

Really, it was too much of a waste for Li Yunlong not to be a contractor.

However, Ren Zhong immediately thought of Old Li's other famous battle, the progress of the tunnel work to annihilate the Yamazaki Brigade, and immediately felt relieved. Just in terms of civil engineering work, Ding Wei and Kong Jie tied together were no match for Li Yunlong.

Okay, with Old Li here, Ren Zhong felt that it didn't seem like a dream to recreate a construction madman in the Bright Sword world.

"Brother Ren, Boss Ren, what kind of look is that? Why do I, Old Li, feel a chill down my back?" Looking at Ren Zhong's eyes constantly sizing him up, Li Yunlong inexplicably felt a little panicked, and always felt that something bad was about to befall him.

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