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Chapter 118:Wasted Efforts

The wheels rolled, the stones on the ground throb.The slaves pushed the board car full of all kinds of supplies and slowly left Ikhkulen.A team of more than 200 people walked on foot, and did not turn back on the road.Zhou Qingfeng more than 350 subordinates, more than two hundred and twenty to rob with him, the remaining more than one hundred stationed in the just-repaired fortress outside the city.

When the team left, many slaves wanted to follow Zhou Qingfeng, even if it did not matter if they went to war.Because without his master heart, the left-behind slaves always felt that the city of Ehekulen, which was only separated from a river, was a huge threat - psychologically, as long as the slaves educated here in Zhou Qingfeng were given a certain freedom, and began to consciously exclude the original female slave owners.

Standing on the wall of the wooden fence in Echkulun, the real nobles of the women, including Ucha and Yu Ying, were also in a complicated mood.They really did not expect Zhou Qingfeng, a foreign Han Chinese, to have a huge impact on them, and even decided on the rise and fall of a tribe - before Master Zhou left, how their greedy plans to annex him; after Grandpa Zhou left, they felt panicked.

“Is the army really coming from the state-building department?”Ucha hesitated a little, and even his mind became confused.He felt that the relationship between Ikhkulen and the state department was very simple, but after the arrival of Zhou Qingfeng became complicated, "Shouldn't we also follow the west, first a few battles to grab something more?"At least you can't let the boy run away."

The planning of Ucha and others is actually very simple, they recognize the ability of Zhou Qingfeng, but they want to capture the industry and wealth created by Zhou Qingfeng.Ucha wants to take Zhou Qingfeng to war, consume his strength, and let his men die outside - without his hands, Zhou Qingfeng's industry will naturally not be able to operate.The people of Ucha could give him another slave in exchange for an industry like an iron-smelting furnace.

If Zhou Qingfeng returns to strength again, it is nothing more than to do this process again.

What I think is good.

You can see that Zhou Qingfeng is so dashing, Ucha feels a little worried...

"Chou Qingfeng does not have enough horses, his men are all soldiers on foot, how to run?"He just sneered, and he glanced at Ucha.If Zhou Qingfeng sees this scene, he must also joke that Ucha is "bold and bold."At present, the situation has been arranged, and the unwarranted hesitation is not looking for death?

Seeing that Yu Ying was so oblivious to himself, Ucha hated it in his heart and stomped his feet away.He privately summoned his subordinates and demanded that the army immediately sweep north the other wild women's real tribes and collect more supplies and population.After all, he has confidence in bullying those who are poorer and more miserable.

Ying Ying is more pleasant.After watching Zhou Qingfeng's more than two hundred people leave, he was too lazy to make any more cover-ups and waits, personally forcibly took over the fortress built by Zhou Qingfeng and the slaves of the left-behind fortress, and forcibly shoveled himself into the more than one hundred soldiers and more than 400 slaves - in his opinion, regardless of Zhou Qingfeng's expedition results, these cheap he took it.

The fortress was not large, and the remaining slaves could not resist the tycoon, and they could only hand over the control of the fortress.But the fortress is a fortification that can live alone, and it is only a wooden structure.What is most important to Yu Ying is the ironmaking furnace built by Zhou Qingfeng.

This iron furnace is five meters high and one meter in diameter.He walked up the slope of the iron ore by the side of the stove and stood next to the stove to look in.The stove does not look different from the outside.Chu Ying also did not understand the customs of ironmaking, see this tall ironmaking furnace is still there, but feel satisfied.

According to the private planning of the people of Zhu Ying and Ucha, the fortress and the iron furnace were returned to the yoke, and the fire furnace of the pottery was returned to Ucha, and the craftsmen were divided equally.The top of the mountain only kept some slaves.

Zhu Ying felt that he had brought Zhou Qingfeng to Ehkurun, and also taught him a lot of things, and he should have occupied Zhou Qingfeng's industry.Ucha also felt that he was the leader of Zhou Qingfeng, gave him the place where he was settled, and also took Zhou Qingfeng's industry for granted.None of them were ashamed at all.

However, Mr. Zhou actually offered to go west for a reason.Just when Ucha was considering whether it was a "head-staining" behavior of the wild women's real tribe that was only concerned about the northern part of the sweep, after all, there was a threat to the state-building department in the west.

But he could go out with an army to find Nurkhach's troubles, and he did not dare.The result is to let Zhou Qingfeng try - if it is good, he will take the soldiers to follow; if it is not good to fight, it is not a big deal to hand over Zhou Qingfeng to the crime.In short, the Belle Bayes of Ikhkurun had nothing to lose.

The people of Yuying occupied the iron-making furnace, and Ucha soon followed up to occupy the fire kiln.They have long coveted these two "tall" production buildings for a long time, and both sides are very satisfied after getting this industry.Because as long as you have these two big guys with chimneys, you can continue to make money, in the poor place of Ihkurun is a rare good thing.

“All right!”Ucha turned around the second pottery kiln of Zhou Qingfeng, and kept happy.Compared with the first one built by Zhou Qingfeng in the city, the second one is much larger and the output is also soaring."Send the slaves who will burn the pottery, and let them work at once, and give me a good job for the master."

Zhou Qingfeng had trained some slaves who had burned pottery for the real nobles in the city, and these slaves were sent under the whip.On the other side, Yu Ying is also full of heart and determined to do a big job.He also forcibly sent some slaves to Zhou Qingfeng to work here to study, especially the operation of this ironmaking furnace is more important.

In order to learn the secret skills of military formations, Zhou Qingfeng also helped Yu Ying train a lot of iron-making apprentices.

Now the two production buildings have been replaced with new masters, and the fiery work scene has reappeared.

Digging clay, crushing ore, kneading pottery, burning charcoal, pottery also need to dry to burn, iron can be prepared immediately after the fire.It took a whole day to prepare, and the next day, Zhu Ying personally supervised the slave to push the mine truck to pour the broken iron ore into the furnace, and smoke and fire began to appear on the chimney of the kung fu stove for a while.

Excited, very excited!

This was the first iron-making furnace in the hands of a real woman in hundreds of years, and before that the real woman's iron was supplied by Mingming.

This is the day after Zhou Qingfeng led the team to leave, and all the nobles in the city came to visit their "own" ironmaking furnace.Especially when you see the rising flame jumping in the stove, a group of people all laugh and are extremely happy.If the temperature around the stove is not too high, they will even go up and look at it in person.

"If the boy on the sheep returns alive this time, he must build us a few more iron-making furnaces."

“More slaves who can be iron-making, and there are not enough of these slaves at the moment.”

"Slaves are good to say that there is not enough in the city to go north to catch, and it can't be finished."

A group of Belle Bayzi in the city said non-stop, looking forward to their own more industries.It was only that the longer they stayed by the iron-making furnace, the more they felt the heat, and the slaves who took care of the iron-making furnace could not stay by the stove, and all were retreating.

"What's the matter?"“Is the stove coming out of the iron?”

“Come back, the iron water hasn’t come out yet.”But somehow, it's too hot around the stove to treat people."

"You slaves are just lazy, Zhou Qingfeng's slaves did not work this way?"Why don't they call it hot?Give me up and see, and when you can't make iron and water, you will be thrown into the furnace for smelting."

The slaves kept going backwards.He waved his whip and kept beating, and his hand was strong, shouting at the slave who was looking after the iron furnace, and had to go to the iron-smelting furnace.Just close to the near temperature is too high, the heat is forced to even let the hair roll, people close to even the eyes can not open.

After a few strokes, he felt himself something was wrong.Before Zhou Qingfeng organized ironmaking, he also personally came to see, several times close and did not feel hot people can not stay.Today, the temperature is too strong, and the flames seem to be coming out of the stove.

"Look... look, look, fire, stove is on fire."

“How did the fire come out of the stove?”

"What's the matter?"I didn’t see that last time!”

The slaves could no longer stay and fled.He also saw that the flame from a fire did not come out of the chimney of the iron-making furnace, but from the refractory brick of the stove - this was clearly cracked!

"There's a lot of stitches on the stove."

"Well, the stove is broken."

"We're dead, it's a broken stove."

The iron-making furnace eventually burned into a torch, and the raging fire in broad daylight was visible for several miles.All the people had to retreat until all the charcoal piled in the stove burned out.And when the charcoal burns out, the iron ore mixed in is really turned into iron water.Just because no one operated, when the temperature was lowered, the iron water was frozen in the stove again.

This is good, the whole ironmaking furnace is completely scrapped, completely no fun.

This scene made Wucha and Chu Ying and others all furious, one by one shouting to arrest the iron-melting slaves and forcing them to ask.But no one could tell what was going on, except that the real blacksmith of Ucha's men gave the general fact that the stove must have been watered from the top of the stove at the last ceasefire, and there was a gap in the cracking of the furnace wall.

Watering?Who watered it?

Is that still to say?It must have been done by Mr. Chow.

Ucha learned of this, and ran to see the fire kiln that he had occupied.The result is not good to look, a closer look at the inside of the kiln is also covered with all kinds of cracks, which is certainly also the kiln when the boiling is directly watered.

This next ticket of the real nobles directly caught the blind, they only realized that they are planning others, others are also secretly guarded - the technology of firing pottery teaches you, the technology of refining iron water is not hidden, but the technology of building a kiln and ironmaking furnace can not be learned to remember at a glance, which involves quite complex mathematics and architectural science.

Zhou Qingfeng in order to build these two buildings have a lot of brains, real women want to start from scratch.First of all, let's make nine-year compulsory education popularization.

When it was finally determined that the two burned buildings could not be repaired or rebuilt, Ucha and others gathered again, all of them angry and scolded Zhou Qingfeng for being too cunning.

"I'll send someone to chase you and get the boy back."The conspiracy was seen through early, Ucha was already in a hurry, remembering that his son was still dead in the hands of the other party, but also to count the old and new hatred together.

Yu Ying also wanted to understand that he had been played by Zhou Qingfeng, and more understood that the boy's past sense was all pretending to be himself, but in fact he had ulterior motives - originally wanted to cultivate a obedient slave, and now he realized that this was not the case at all!

"The boy can't escape, I'll take someone to pursue me myself."Ying Ying was furious, and under the impulse, he could not pinch Zhou Qingfeng to death!

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