There are single-plank bridges, straight ladders, various high and low obstacles, etc. on the playground, which dazzles these people.
Lu Bu showed it off in person, jumping up and down in a circle and running down even a little breathless.
Everyone was a little confused. Training the army mainly includes weapons training, physical training and formation formation.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him like a fool, Lu Bu couldn't help but became angry: "Why, you think it's fun, don't you? You all think it's easy? Run a lap for me each!"
Everyone had no choice but to follow Lu Bu's example and run a lap each.
Lu Bu felt better after seeing Zhao Yun and others running back panting.
"Don't underestimate this! Whether an army can fight, what is the most important thing?
First, it’s discipline! Discipline is the duty of a soldier! From now on, whether you are a general or a leading soldier, you must strictly abide by discipline!
The second is physical fitness! Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime!
In the future, physical fitness assessments will be conducted regularly and irregularly. Anyone who cannot pass the assessment will be demoted if they should be demoted, and be removed if they should be removed!
I don't want to spend a lot of food to support a huge army that can easily cost one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand. I want to create an invincible elite army that can defeat a hundred elite soldiers!
Gao Shun, from now on you will be the chief instructor of the entire army, and I will teach you about training! "
"Your order!" Gao Shun agreed.
Lu Bu had extremely strict requirements on his subordinates, but he did not hang out on the school grounds all day long.
There are too many things that need to be done by him. The construction of the new city requires occasional guidance and guidance. The excavation of coal wells, coking and charcoal production, iron ore mining, refractory brick firing, and blast furnace construction all have to be designed and supervised by him alone.
Although he had learned this knowledge in textbooks before, and Lu Bu remembered it fairly well, it was not that easy to actually do it.
Take refractory bricks, for example, which are actually clay plus some refractory binders such as gypsum and lime.
However, if the proportion is not well controlled, the high temperature resistance of refractory bricks will be greatly reduced, and the kiln will be useless after several furnaces of iron smelting.
Although the old masters who had been making iron for decades were amazed by the blast furnace built by Lu Bu, Lu Bu was still dissatisfied. Such a blast furnace fell far short of his standards!
As for how much iron ore powder, how much coke, and how much limestone to add when making iron, it also needs to be tested again and again.
The iron smelting technology of the Han Dynasty was definitely hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world at that time, but in Lu Bu's opinion, it was just one word: rough!
When I saw the mixed ore powder poured in from the top of the blast furnace, and then furnace after furnace of molten iron flowed out from below.
Then it was stirred and stirred in a big crucible and it became steel?
Picking up a knife made of steel and trying it, Mi Zhu couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the iron mines in the distance: This seemingly ordinary mountain turned into a golden mountain when it came to Lu Bu!
With iron, coal, and such steel-making technology, it would be difficult not to make a fortune!
No wonder Lu Bu was so vowed to do sea trade and organize a caravan. It turned out that he had expected this day!
If these iron items are transported to Samhan or Japan, the profit will definitely be ten times more than that!
With such good steel, how many weapons and armors can be made to form a steel army!
"Zizhong, I have also designed a few farm tools, which are a little different from the ones used now. You have asked people to build samples in the past two days to test the effects first.
If it is good, first replace all the old farm tools on your farm, and sell the excess for takeout! "
Lu Bu said as he took out some pieces of silk and handed them to Mi Zhu.
Mi Zhu took it with a smile, carefully folded it and put it in his arms, and then said:
"Marquis Wen, I know you are very busy, but shouldn't you hurry up and get your marriage to Yi'er done?"
If you had doubts about Lu Bu's ability before, Mi Zhu is convinced now: Lu Bu will be the big tree that the Mi family will rely on in the future!
We must quickly cook the raw rice into cooked rice!
It's best to let your sister give birth to ten or eight sons for Lu Bu while Lu Bu doesn't have any children yet!
Lu Bu laughed: "Don't worry, I've been too busy recently and I have to go out.
It's not good to just leave your new wife at home and go out by yourself just after getting married, isn't it? It won’t be too late to tell you when I come back! "
Mi Zhu said with some reluctance: "Marquis Wen is now a person of status, what can't he let his subordinates do?"
But Lu Bu said: "Hey, I want to find an expert, so I have to go there in person to show my sincerity!"
Just as he was talking, someone came to report: "General Wei Xu's fleet is back!"
Lu Bu was overjoyed: "Oh? You're back so soon? Zizhong, come with me and have a look!"
When I walked outside the city, I saw Wei Xu and Fan Yi riding horses and leading many people.
Lu Bu took two steps and greeted, "Brother-in-law! You've had a hard journey!"
Wei Xu hurriedly urged his horse forward, turned over and dismounted, raised his hands and saluted: "My lord, Wei Xu is lucky to have lived up to his command! Please take a look!"
As he said that, he pointed back and saw hundreds of soldiers escorting a large group of short men with disheveled hair, wearing leather clothes and only a pair of thongs on their lower bodies coming this way.
"This...is this from Hu State in Zhouzhou?" Mi Zhu had a dark look on his face.
"Is this a native of Zhou Hu?" Lu Bu also asked in the same way.
"Exactly!" Wei Xu replied.
"Why just such a small amount? How many people are there in total?" Lu Bu frowned.
Wei Xu replied: "There are more than 1,300 people in total, some died on the road..."
"There are only so many people in Hu State?"
"No, it was mainly because they were too short and thin and might not have the strength, so I only picked some strong ones and captured them..." Wei Xu could already feel Lu Bu's dissatisfaction.
Lu Bu sighed: "Alas! You still fail to understand my thoughts! What are you afraid of if you are short? As long as your limbs are sound and you can work, I want them all!
But you don’t know that the coal shaft is only five or six feet high, so these short Hu people can do just that!
And can you still cultivate land and do menial work if you are short? "
Wei Xu hurriedly said: "I am short-sighted. I will catch more next time I go!"
Lu Bu thought for a moment and said: "It's too inefficient to go back and forth like this! Next time you bring more people with you, occupy a place when you get to Hu State, and just arrest people every day.
I will regularly send the fleet to pick up people from the Hu State stronghold in Zhou. This way, the efficiency should be improved a lot!
Also, I’ll ask for livestock next time! All good cattle, sheep, and horses were brought back alive.
Those of inferior quality will be slaughtered locally. In addition to eating it yourself, the meat will be dried and the leather will be tanned and shipped back..."
Wei Xu nodded in agreement.
Mi Zhu on the side had a dark look on his face: What about doing business overseas as promised?
I bet you went to Zhou Hu State to rob!
Listening to Lu Bu's tone, this time is just the beginning?
