Time flows like water.
In the blink of an eye.
Another half year has passed.
During this half year.
Xu was promoted to Xu's army and became a general.
Every two days, he continued to search for a woman with a pure spiritual root with the little Taoist nun.
In the past six months, although I had been searching relatively leisurely, I still found another forty women with ordinary spiritual roots and a dozen women with mid-level spiritual roots.
Yes, I have gained a lot in the past six months.
At the same time, Xu Sheng did not slack off in getting these women pregnant when he returned home at night.
Including Jiang Chuling is pregnant again.
Zhou Xiaoxun, Yang Yutong, Yang Yugan, Mu Tianyi and a dozen other concubines have all given birth to children to Xu Sheng.
Now Xu Sheng's spiritual root children have been born as many as nineteen.
Eleven are boys and eight are girls.
Xu Sheng was very happy about this.
Seeing that there are still a large number of wives and concubines waiting to give birth, Xu Sheng is very satisfied.
Moreover, after Zhou Xiaoxun, Yang Yutong, Yang Yugan and Mu Tianyi recovered, they were favored by Xu Sheng again and were pregnant with new children.
Xu Sheng was also full of sense of accomplishment.
As for the ten middle-grade spiritual root women who came to assassinate Xu Sheng.
After spending half a year living as canaries, each of them has become white and tender!
There should be no toxins in your body.
Then they also all got pregnant by Xu Sheng.
Of course, it will probably be more than a year before they give birth to a child.
As for Xu Longtao, there has been little movement in the past six months.
Xu Huateng did not have any order to replace the young commander.
However, Xu Huateng often consulted Xu Sheng and Xu Longtao to discuss world affairs, and now the Chu family is indeed getting stronger and stronger.
Even the Jiang family, a warlord close to the Chu family, has already occupied the territory of several cities by the Chu family.
The situation in the world is getting more and more anxious.
But Xu Sheng still didn't find oil or gunpowder.
However, Xu Sheng's steelmaking technology has achieved a breakthrough!
When he was on Earth, although Xu Sheng was not a professional in this field, he had some knowledge about it.
So after he expressed some of his ideas, and after many experiments and research by many blacksmiths he found, a steel process that was more advanced than this world was born!
Better steel can be produced in large quantities.
This is great news.
Xu Sheng felt excited.
With the blessing of this new type of steel that surpasses current contemporary steel technology!
Their Xu clan's equipment will be greatly enhanced!
Even if the Chu family's army supported by Hu Xinfeng was blessed by the so-called war god's book of war, it might not be able to defeat their Xu family's army.
When.
The Chu family's combat strategy is more clever, but the Xu family's equipment is even more fierce!
It’s not certain who will win on either side!
Of course, we want to popularize this steel into the military and equip the entire army with it as quickly as possible.
Xu Huateng must nod!
So this afternoon.
Xu Huateng and several other veteran-level heroes of the Xu family came to Xu Sheng's house.
Including Marshal Xu Longtao also followed.
Of course, these people are absolutely trustworthy.
Apart from the internal power struggle, these people are absolutely devoted to the Xu family.
So Xu Sheng didn't avoid any of them.
He directly showed everyone the results of his new steel-making method.
Some of the best weapons in this world are made by good blacksmiths who have been hammering and hammering them for a long time.
But the equipment used by soldiers in the army cannot be equipped with such high-quality steel.
Because it is difficult to produce in large quantities.
Xu Sheng studied on Earth and learned about the development of steel in Earth's history.
he knows:
Pig iron is produced from iron ore and contains about a little over 2% carbon.
The carbon content of wrought iron is less than 0.05%, and it is made by a more sophisticated frying and refining method.
Steel is iron with a carbon content of 0.05% to 2%.
So I want to make good steel!
In fact, the principle is just to fiddle with the carbon content in the iron.
It was with grasping the principles that Xu Sheng proposed the research direction, and many blacksmiths have been experimenting for so long, and now they finally got the results!
"Father and elders, what do you think of this sword? What do you think of this armor?"
After everyone arrived, Xu Sheng showed the results directly.
"This knife is extremely hard and extremely sharp!" Xu Huateng nodded: "This is a good knife!"
Some of Xu's core ministers around Xu Huateng also said repeatedly:
"This sword is similar to the sword I got from the sword master before!"
"Young Master Fourteenth, from which famous master did you get this sword?"
"This armor is good. It should be made by a famous master, right? Its material requires good swordsmiths and forging apprentices to hammer and refine it day and night!"
They sighed with emotion.
"Fourteenth brother, what do you mean?"
Of course Xu Longtao asked: "Just because you got a good sword and a good pair of armor, you have to call your father and all the elders over to see you?"
Yes, Xu Huateng and the ministers of the Xu family basically have some such swords and armors in their houses. After all, some forging masters can still make them carefully.
"This knife was not made by a famous artist! It was made by an ordinary forger in my house!"
Of course, Xu Sheng shook his head and said directly: "I know, you are still confused now! But I just want to say one thing, if this kind of steel can be mass-produced, what will be the result?"
Hearing Xu Sheng's last words, Xu Huateng and all the important officials present widened their eyes!
Everyone looked at each other and their expressions immediately changed.
Realized the importance of this matter.
"What? Fourteenth brother? What do you mean?"
Xu Longtao's face changed: "Do you mean that you can't produce such a good knife and such armor in large quantities? How is this possible? Such a good knife is absolutely impossible without the time, energy and effort of a casting master. Make it!”
"Xiao Shisi, what's going on?"
Xu Huateng also coughed and asked excitedly: "Is this true or false?"
The other important ministers also looked at Xu Sheng in shock.
Xu Sheng can certainly understand their shock.
After all, the steel technology Xu Sheng has brought out now is beyond the level they have seen in this era!
This is the so-called dimensionality reduction strike.
It's like being on Earth.
When you were still driving your car on the ground, someone suddenly took out an aircraft and told you that now you only need to put on an aircraft like a backpack and you can fly in the air to go to school or work.
You will be as shocked as these people are now.
"Of course I'm not kidding!"
Xu Sheng said: "If we hadn't already achieved results, how could I have invited my father and all the important officials here!"
As he spoke, Xu Sheng turned around and raised his hand to invite everyone to visit the steelmaking experimental base in the mansion with him.
And let the foundry workers refine a furnace of good steel with their own hands!
Let everyone witness the time it takes to form everything and the cost of materials!
"How is this possible? How is this possible!"
Xu Longtao couldn't believe it: "Such a good steel can be mastered so quickly? And it can be done by an ordinary foundry worker?"
"Little Fourteen, what on earth is going on!"
Xu Huateng's face was also flushed with excitement, and he looked around the steel-making furnace: "How did you do it? How did you do it? How did you achieve this amazing result!"
Faced with everyone's shocked questions.
"After I returned to the Xu family, I learned about the Chu family's possession of Ebony's Military Book!"
Xu Sheng also immediately replied: "So I feel very uneasy! After returning home, I have been thinking about countermeasures! The God of War Wu Mu is invincible in history, and his military wisdom cannot be questioned. We cannot get this military book. If we want to It seems difficult to defeat the Chu family in terms of tactics and strategies on the battlefield! So I wanted to find another way! Tactically, we are unbeatable, but if our equipment can be improved, then it is still unclear who will win and who will lose! "
Everyone listened to Xu Sheng's speech with bated breath.
"In the past six months, I have been living and talking with soldiers in the army!"
Xu Sheng said: "That's when I noticed that the weapons and armor materials used by the soldiers were relatively inferior! In the past, I was so focused on practicing martial arts that I didn't pay much attention to these situations! So I started thinking of ways to improve my steelmaking skills! Therefore, I started to think of ways to improve my steelmaking skills! I found these casting experts, and with their help, I experimented again and again to achieve the current results.”
Xu Sheng also introduced each of the core talents in the foundry base.
Don’t be shy about giving credit to them.
"Actually, it was all the Fourteenth Young Master's idea. We didn't think it was possible at first!"
One of the old bald casting men said: "Especially my old man had the strongest doubts at the beginning! I thought that the Fourteenth Young Master was having some wild ideas! But I didn't expect that it actually happened! I'm really impressed with my whole body! Compared to the Fourteenth Young Master, this is I have spent half my life casting it like a fool!"
The other foundry apprentices all echoed the same words.
“I just came up with ideas!”
Xu Sheng said: "But you are the ones who tested it!"
Xu Huateng immediately said that everyone would be rewarded heavily.
Naturally, all of these people thanked him happily.
Then Xu Huateng and a group of Xu family executives followed Xu Sheng.
Xu Longtao also followed behind dumbfounded.
"I first improved the steel smelting furnace!"
Xu Sheng explained to them: "Make it look like this. Look, it's thin at both ends and thick in the middle, like a big waist drum! Why is it set up like this? Because of this shape..."
In fact, Xu Sheng made the furnace.
It's nothing more than the blast furnace of the Earth's Song Dynasty.
It is already more advanced than the steel-making furnace in this other world where Xu Sheng is now.
"Also, I designed this, and its name is! Blower!"
Xu Sheng pointed to another thing and said: "Its function is to increase oxygen intake!"
At the same time, Xu Sheng turned his finger again: "This is a water wheel here. It borrows the power of flowing water to provide kinetic energy for the blower! There is no need to let the apprentices blow and fan stupidly beside them like the steel masters in the past made steel. Oh no!"
Xu Huateng and Xu Longtao, as well as the core officials of the Xu family, looked at each other in confusion and looked at each other in confusion.
"It can actually use the continuous rotation of flowing water to continuously generate never-ending power!"
One of the old ministers in charge of manufacturing even exclaimed: "Oh my God, how wonderful! The Fourteenth Young Master is really a god! I have been managing the Ministry of Industry for half my life, and I have never seen such a wonderful operation."
And in the amazement of everyone.
“In the past, some people forged iron and steel by quenching it with water!”
Xu Sheng continued: "But I wonder if we can't change it to something else? Would it be better to change it to something else? So after experiments, we found that using animal urine or animal fat can indeed achieve better results. Effect……"
Everyone held their breath and listened carefully.
Even if you don’t understand, listen carefully.
Didn’t you see that the commander was staring excitedly as he listened?
Xu Sheng continued to introduce.
That’s right!
People in this other world where Xu Sheng is now only use water to quench iron.
Just like what you see on Earth's TV, blacksmiths often put red iron blocks into water, making a squeaking sound and causing white mist to rise.
The method used by Xu Sheng now is nothing more than the double quenching method in the history of the earth.
This method appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the earth.
As for the principle?
Grease can make metal have better toughness, and it is not easy to deform or crack!
Urine contains salt so much that it ensures the hardness of steel!
Modern steelmaking on the earth before time travel has actually developed to a level beyond what Xu Sheng is showing at this moment.
But Xu Sheng couldn't do it.
He can only do this now!
Of course, this level of dimensionality reduction is enough to impact the steel craftsmanship in today's world.
"This matter must be kept absolutely confidential!" After hearing this, Xu Huateng solemnly ordered: "This steel craft is the top secret of our Xu family! All craftsmen have become top secret personnel."
"With this method! Our Xu family's military strength will be strengthened!" An important minister said: "It can even directly affect the Xu family's life and death!"
"Fourteenth brother, this skill is profound!" Xu Longtao also said in a solemn voice.
He was thwarted again.
He thought hard about the strategy to break the situation without any clue, and Xu Sheng came up with it within half a year of his return.
"The Fourteenth Young Master is my Xu family's lucky star!" One important minister even said directly.
"The Fourteenth Young Master has a broad mind!" Several other important ministers said.
Because at this time, everyone knew that Xu Sheng and Xu Longtao had recently been discussed by various people about the replacement of young commanders.
In fact, Xu Sheng could hide such steel skills without showing them.
Equip your own private soldiers and wait until the commander-in-chief Xu Huateng leaves.
It is very possible for Xu Sheng to rise up and seize the position of commander in chief.
Of course, everyone thought of the time when Xu Sheng took the initiative to reject the position of young marshal.
So it's understandable.
In short, everyone understood at this moment that Xu Sheng took it out without hiding it because he really had the overall interests of the Xu family in mind.
This is indeed the case for Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng actually doesn't care that much about whether he can be a young marshal or a marshal.
What he wants is for the Chu family to be destroyed and for Hu Xinfeng to be captured.
"Xiao Shisi, you always surprise people!"
Xu Huateng also patted Xu Sheng on the shoulder: "I can't believe that you have only been back for half a year and you have solved my father's biggest problem! With this enhanced equipment, my father can finally feel at ease and can finally sleep tonight. Have a good sleep!”
Signs that the Chu family is about to rise continue to appear.
Xu Huateng is very sensitive to the general trend of the world.
Of course he noticed.
It was also because of this that he often couldn't sleep.
This is one of the reasons why his health is getting worse and worse.
Of course, although Xu Sheng made another great contribution, Xu Huateng did not announce that he would replace the young commander.
Xu Sheng didn't care about this either.
Xu Longtao did not take action against Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng's life went on as usual.
More than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Xu Sheng's new steelmaking method has been vigorously developed by Xu Huateng over the past year.
The equipment in Xu's army has a brand new look!
The combat power has been improved by several levels.
And Xu Sheng found about sixty more women with spiritual roots intermittently.
All of these people are now pregnant.
Now Xu Sheng's women have reached more than two hundred.
And this day.
The number of spiritual root children born to Xu Sheng has reached two hundred!
"The goal we set at the beginning has finally been achieved!" Xu Sheng also smiled slightly at this.
He looked at the two hundred wives and concubines in his mansion, most of whom were pregnant.
Xu Sheng thought it was almost done.
Unless he sees a woman with high-grade spiritual roots, Xu Sheng, a woman with ordinary spiritual roots, is not prepared to accept her anymore.
Moreover, women with high-grade spiritual roots will no longer be drowned in the sea of people.
So Xu Sheng asked the little Taoist nun to stop the hard work of helping him sense continuously.
"Then the last goal is left!" The little Taoist nun stood next to Xu Sheng and said: "Strive for power in the world and capture Hu Xinfeng!"
On the day when they were talking like this, Xu Sheng suddenly received an urgent call from Xu Huateng.
When Xu Sheng went over to attend the meeting, he suddenly heard a shocking news.
The Jiang family, a warlord close to the Chu family, was attacked by the Chu family and overran the city overnight. Now they have lost most of their territory.
Moreover, Xu Huateng analyzed that the Jiang family is very likely to be destroyed!
Xu Huateng then ordered that the Xu family enter a state of combat readiness!
After these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone present changed.
"The war is really coming!" Xu Sheng also thought to himself: "Hu Xinfeng, Hu Xinfeng, back then you wanted to destroy me and imprison me like a cow. This time, don't blame me for destroying your Taoism and imprisoning you like a **!"
certainly!
The final result.
We still have to see whether the Chu army, which was enhanced by Hu Xinfeng's War God's Art of War, is stronger.
The Xu family's army, equipped with new equipment developed by Xu Sheng, is even stronger!
