Sun Quan took out a silver coin and looked at it. It looked very similar to that of Yuan Datou in later generations. So he blew a breath and put it in his ear. He could really hear the sound. So he laughed and felt very comfortable. Seeing this, Sun Shangxiang also took out one and put it in his ear. He heard it and found that he heard the sound. He was very curious.

"Second brother, it's so strange. You can hear the sound by blowing this silver coin like this. What kind of immortal method is it? It's so magical!"

"This, my second brother doesn't know. Anyway, it's so magical. The silver coins that can't hear the sound are fake. The silver coins we created from Wuyi can hear the sound."

"Second brother, you have a lot of bags like this, just give me some fun." Sun Shangxiang wanted to spend some money.

"Okay, this silver coin is the first batch in the world. I will leave one myself, and I will give you twenty leftovers to Shang Xiang. A Nian, give all the others to each of your brothers. If you don't have enough, please make up for it. This is a souvenir, please treasure it!"

Several years later, these silver coins became the family heirlooms of brothers, and some people did not sell them for ten thousand yuan.

"A Nian, is the distribution completed? We are going to go back and see our coin factory. Let's go back to the camp!"

"I'm bored. I don't have fun every time I come out, so I shouted to go back!" Sun Shangxiang pouted and was not very happy, but after playing with the silver coins in her hand, she still rode a horse and followed Sun Quan away after she left.

Back at the camp, Sun Quan ordered Chen Nian to get some silver coins, and called Zhuge Jin from Lu Su, and took everyone to inspect the construction site for silver mine refining and silver coin minting.

By the river, earth-made blast furnaces were standing there, like smoke monsters. This earth-made blast furnace was originally used to make steel, but Sun Quan didn't know how to make steel. He could only ask some experienced craftsmen to experiment slowly, recording each experience while experimenting. At the beginning, the craftsmen were illiterate, and Sun Quan arranged these craftsmen to learn literature and literacy with the soldiers and students in the martial arts lecture hall. After more than half a year of experiments, at least a better iron was made. The river water next to the blast furnace had begun to feel the industrial age, and there was also a gas smell in the air, but the dust was still good. Sun Quan still made someone make a soil mask, and it was much better for everyone to wear it.

"The master Zhou Xing pays homage to his lord and swears to be loyal to our lord Sun Quan!" Zhou Xing, the leader who presided over the refining and refining silver coins of the entire blast furnace, saw that Sun Quan came, and immediately brought people to pay his respects.

"Zhou Xing, how is the research on blast furnace steelmaking?" Sun Quan was very concerned about steelmaking, which was related to the quality of the weapons and the combat effectiveness of the army.

"Lord, we have basically mastered the steel stir-frying method and the steel filling method you mentioned. This blast furnace directly produces steel, and there is no clue yet. I am stupid and can't find the trick." Although Zhou Xing is good at crafting iron and steel, he is very real.

"Well, you are already very good. So how is the steel production now? In addition to silver ore, there are also many iron ore in this place, right?"

"Yes, lord, there are all kinds of ores here, and some subordinates don't recognize it. Our current steel production is about 10,000 kilograms a day. There are not enough blast furnaces here, and the manpower is limited. Most of the manpower is arranged to refine silver ores and mint coins."

"Okay, there's no hurry now. Take your time, the manpower will gradually increase, and the refining site and scale will continue to increase. You need to bring more apprentices out and build more such workshops in more places in the future."

"As for the lord's instructions, lord, it's too hot here and the air is not good. Let's go to the coin workshop."

"What's the matter? Okay, let everyone do their own work. I will look around with Zijing and others." After Sun Quan said that, he asked Zhou Xing to go down and go busy, and he took Lu Su and others to turn around.

"Lord, this furnace is so big, how much iron can it be refined?" Lu Su was shocked: "Lord, we can produce 10,000 kilograms of steel a day, which is more important than silver coins. Now our great men's weapons are all iron tools. Except for a few irons, there are very few large amounts of steel. If the weapons and armor of our entire army are made of fine steel, then our army's combat power will be invincible in the world."

"Zijing, it is good to be advanced in weapons, but the most important thing is people." Sun Quan wanted to tell Lu Su that Xiaomi and rifles can defeat aircraft and tanks, not to mention that it is the era of cold weapons. Too proud is undesirable.

Sun Quan took Lu Su around the middle of the blast furnace. When he saw some craftsmen who were not busy for the time being, Sun Quan asked about their family situation and cared about the lives of the craftsmen. Sun Quan had already provided the treatment and status of the craftsmen. Therefore, everyone respected Sun Quan very much. Everyone worked hard in their work. From morning to night, everyone basically worked for more than six hours. Sun Quan, a person who is used to working for eight hours, felt that the employees of this era were really hard to squeeze, and everyone was grateful.

When Sun Quan and his men left the blast furnace area to the silver and coin minting, the craftsmen here had already started to whisper:

"The lord is so heroic."

"The lord treats us so well and is so approachable! He just smiled at me!"

"This is the first time I have seen my lord. I really want to give my woman to my lord as a girl!"

"Dream, your woman is not as beautiful as my family..."

...

Seeing a die-casting machine, driven by hydraulic power, it smashed hundreds of silver coins and cast them out. Sun Quan let the Buddha see a mountain of silver walking towards him. He was in a surprisingly good mood. Sun Shangxiang asked Sun Quan for silver coins. Sun Quan said generously: "How many can you move? Go to the silver treasury to get it yourself!" Sun Shangxiang was so happy. Lu Su saw that his lord favored his sister so much, and it was hard to say anything. After all, this was the lord's family affairs. But state affairs still need to be mentioned, especially the rewards from the army.

"Master, I estimate that the silver coins produced here are 100,000 per day. I wonder how the lord plans to spend so many silver coins?" Lu Su refused to directly say that he would give some rewards to my soldiers.

"Lord, Lord Lu, this silver mine refining is different from iron ore blast furnaces. The silver output is not that high yet, so we can only get up to 50,000 taels of silver a day. Now I have used most of the people to refine silver." Zhou Xing appeared again, and in one sentence, he wanted people.

"Zhou Xing, except for the 10,000 people chosen by Zi Jing, the other 20,000 people were given to you. Don't be anxious. Zi Jing, you will destroy all the small groups of mountain and bandits scattered around you, and let them mine all of them!"

"Yes, lord, I have arranged it, and there will be a result in the next few days. At that time, I promise to give it to Lord Zhou Xing at least tens of thousands of labor." Lu Su was not worried at all about dealing with these small groups of Shan Yue.

"Lord Xie, Lord Xie Lu. Zhou Xing has more people here, the better."

"Zijing, for the future personnel arrangements, you must make good plans. You cannot give them all to Zhou Xing. We also need people to grow crops and vegetables, and build some breeding bases to let everyone live a good life. You cannot transport everything from other places. It is too waste of manpower and material resources." Sun Quan told Lu Su; "Zijing, you have to help me pay attention to talents. You must cultivate more talents for me in Guixi. This will be a base for my future restructuring, a demonstration window, and a talent cradle. I will give this burden to you."

"Lord, I am..." Lu Su was so moved by this trust that he was a little choked: "I will devote my whole life to my death and will definitely live up to the lord's expectations."

"Okay, I believe in Zijing's talent and loyalty, but I also need to take good care of my health, combine work and rest, and exercise every day." Sun Quan showed concern and consideration for Lu Su.

Lu Su was moved to tears and gave a gift from Sun Quan and shouted: "Swear to be loyal to our Lord Sun Quan!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!