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"Why, haven't you refined it yet?"

Lu Chensheng approached, glanced at the students, and asked a question.

Hearing someone approaching, the students were startled at first, and then became vigilant for a moment.

The gentleman had explained it before, and this place will be a confidential place from now on, and outsiders can't get close at will.

But after discovering that it was Mr. approaching, he relaxed a bit.

"Disappointed sir."

All the students bowed their heads when they heard the words, "Sir, it's because we didn't do well."

"It's a bit embarrassing for you to ask you to do this all of a sudden."

Lu Chensheng shook his head, not blaming them.

After taking the salt mine and the refining tools from the side, Lu Chensheng taught them carefully.

The students on the side were also listening very carefully at this moment, and even took out their pens to record.

While explaining, Lu Chensheng began to refine. From the original salt mine, after the complete refining, only fine salt was left.

The snow-white and delicate fine salt is really gratifying to look at.

After Er Hu and others saw it, they couldn't help but leaned forward and watched carefully.

"It turns out that's how fine salt comes from. I knew it was so simple. When there was a lack of salt at home, I went to mine some salt mines and came back."

"That's right. I used to not be able to afford salt at home. I didn't know that this salt could be extracted so easily."

Several students looked at the fine salt, and they were all in a daze, and then recalled the time when they were poor at home.

Lu Chensheng shook his head when he heard the words, maybe they can easily learn to refine table salt, but if they want to make salt by themselves, it's not that simple.

If someone finds out, it will be a felony.

"Okay, let's try it next."

Lu Chensheng didn't say much, but just beckoned these students to try to refine.

Seeing this, Erhu and the others immediately started refining with great interest.

Lu Chensheng stood aside and watched, making sure that they would not make mistakes during the process.

After making sure that they had all learned it, Lu Chensheng left in peace.

After a while, Lu Chensheng came to the iron-making workshop.

The blacksmiths were sweating profusely as they smelted iron, and the sound of continuous beating could be heard from the side.

"how is the progress?"

After Lu Chensheng came in, he asked directly.

"Boss, everything is going well so far."

The blacksmith immediately responded when he heard the words, and Lu Chensheng could see molten iron flowing out from the side.

"The materials are still enough, there is no shortage, right?"

Lu Chensheng nodded when he heard the words, and looked left and right to make sure that there were enough materials here.

In a few days, the transportation team may have to stop for a while. If you don't ensure sufficient materials at this time, you will be in trouble.

"Don't worry, shopkeeper, the materials are sufficient now, enough to last for several months. When we left, we also took a lot of manganese ore, and they are still enough for us now."

When several people heard the words, they immediately nodded and responded.

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng was immediately satisfied.

As for the workshop, whether it can be interrupted right now, it is necessary to ensure sufficient materials in any case.

"Next, let's forge some ironware by the way. The texture doesn't need to be too good."

Those guys from other races like ironware the most. If you want to get a good horse, ironware is probably indispensable.

Lu Chensheng thought about it, and felt that it didn't matter if some were forged.

Anyway, the iron tools given to them are quite behind.

The quality of manganese steel is better than that of steel, so it is really nothing to just give them some iron tools.

Coupled with the fact that Xing Seoul is too short of money today, after Lu Chensheng thought about it, he felt that it would be good to save a little money.

The craftsmen naturally didn't know what Lu Chensheng was thinking, and they didn't really care much about it.

From their point of view, if the shopkeeper wanted these things, he had to forge them, and after listening to them, he just nodded repeatedly to show that he knew.

Lu Chensheng made a tour around and watched the craftsmen's building process, then left the workshop and went to the workshop for calcining cement.

According to Lu Chensheng's explanation earlier, the workshop for calcining cement has already been built, and now it is officially started, and it is not known when it will be calcined.

3Chapter 16 The Arrival of Yu Wensheng

Inside the workshop, the dust was billowing, and after Lu Chensheng entered, he coughed again and again.

"Shopkeeper, don't come in this place."

When the craftsmen on the side saw Lu Chensheng coming in, they spoke in a somewhat anxious tone.

In their view, this kind of opponent is not something that someone like Lu Chensheng can come in.

"I'll come in and see, how is your forging going, what troubles did you encounter?"

Lu Chensheng looked around, his eyes narrowed slightly, the dust inside was really too big.

"According to the shopkeeper's instructions, we are still experimenting, but don't worry, the shopkeeper, we will quickly calcinate what the shopkeeper wants."

When the craftsman heard the words, he quickly responded.

Calcined cement is not so simple.

Limestone still needs to be crushed, and besides limestone, other things have to be added to grind together, which is even more difficult.

The craftsmen kept firmly in mind the steps explained by Lu Chensheng, so Lu Chensheng went in and took a look around, and found that everything was going on in an orderly manner, so he felt a little relieved.

"Well, it's a good job. When the finished product comes out, send someone to notify you."

Lu Chensheng looked around and found that there was nothing he needed to point out. All he needed now was them, and it was enough to forge the finished product in practice.

Under such circumstances, Lu Chensheng didn't stay any longer, turned around and left the workshop.

"Is the collection on the limestone side going smoothly?"

According to the progress of these craftsmen, Lu Chensheng felt that cement should come out soon.

Therefore, I put a little more thought into the raw materials.

"It's all going well, but this rock is too hard, and it's not easy to collect."

When a worker heard this, he immediately said something.

Lu Chensheng frowned slightly. If the progress is a bit slow, how about setting up some explosives to try and explode some?

Thinking of this, Lu Chensheng's heart moved immediately, and then he found the craftsmen who had arranged the explosives before.

According to Lu Chensheng's request, these people began to prepare some explosives.

A lot of raw materials have been prepared before, but now there is no shortage of raw materials.

When these things were ordered, it was already dusk.

In such a situation, Lu Chensheng shook his head helplessly, and the time passed too quickly.

After a while, Lu Chensheng returned home, and an attendant also hurried in at this moment.

"The shopkeeper, a man came from outside the city, he said his name is Liu Wensheng, and he came to look for the shopkeeper."

Liu Wensheng?

Lu Chensheng was startled when he heard this, why did Liu Wensheng come here?

But immediately, a gleam of joy appeared on Lu Chensheng's face.

"What about people, bring them here quickly."

The attendant saw that his shopkeeper really knew this Liu Wensheng, so he hurried out to lead someone.

After a while, a person who looked like a refugee was brought to Lu Chensheng.

Although the clothes were a little ragged, Lu Chensheng could tell at a glance that it was indeed Liu Wensheng.

"Brother Liu, why did you become like this?"

Lu Chensheng was startled, and quickly took Liu Wensheng to the yard to wash his face and put on clean clothes.

There was a wry smile on Liu Wensheng's face, "It's a good thing Brother Lu, you are really here, otherwise, Liu Mou would really be a refugee."

"What's going on, can you tell me carefully?"

Lu Chensheng sat down with the other party, and then his eyes were full of suspicion and strangeness.

Logically speaking, as the other party, it wouldn't be like this. Could it be that Jiang Jinjing was following him?

"Hey, after the new emperor came to the throne, at first he only took action against some of the former ministers, demoted and exiled, and then heard the news that he was going to take action against you.

My cousin brought the news that if the emperor really wanted to take action against you, I was afraid that I would not be able to save my life, so I went out of the imperial capital to investigate the case with an excuse.

Not long after that, when I saw the emperor ordering the recall, I felt that something was wrong, so I ran away and came here pretending to be a refugee along the way. "

Liu Wensheng's face was full of bitterness, how could he have imagined that the emperor's ascension to the throne would involve himself.

When I was in the imperial capital before, neither of the two factions intended to take refuge in the past. How did things become like this?

Lu Chensheng also sighed when he heard the words, and looked at Liu Wensheng at the side, "Hey, brother Liu has been implicated by me."

Hearing the situation in these words, he knew that the other party was implicated by him, and the people in the imperial capital more or less knew that Liu Wensheng had a good relationship with him.

Therefore, Jiang Jinjing wanted to deal with Lu Chensheng, and it was quite normal for Liu Wensheng to be implicated.

Liu Wensheng waved his hand, "Brother Lu is not to blame for this matter, who would have known that the new Emperor's aura is so small? Just because of a book, I will kill you, Brother Lu."

"It's not because of a book, it's just an excuse. What he thinks about is probably some of my previous possessions. Now that the national treasury is empty, although he has great talents, it is inevitable that he will be distressed by this matter.

If you can take me down, with some of my business, after the treasury is enriched, there will naturally be a place to use it. "

Lu Chensheng shook his head, after all, it was in the past that he made a living by making money, which made the other party jealous.

From a family of country gentry, Jiang Jinjing didn't dare to touch him, but Lu Chensheng did.

In the past, the other party also moved the Lu family up and down, making it clear that they wanted the Lu family to have no successors, and now naturally they will not keep future troubles.

So in this way, moving Lu Chensheng is easy to understand.

Liu Wensheng also guessed something, and now he nodded silently when he heard this.

During these times, too many things happened at once, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Long ago, Lu Chensheng told him that the prince's seizure of the throne was extremely dangerous, and he didn't feel much about it, but now he has a deep feeling.

It was not easy to escape this way, and he almost died on the way.

"Then what is Brother Lu's plan now? Are you really going to rebel?"

Not long after he left, he heard the news that Lu Chensheng was going to rebel, and there was an uproar in the Jiang country.

I found some teahouses, and after asking, I found out that Lu Chensheng came to Wudeng City, but now it has also been renamed Xing Seoul City.

Judging from the meaning of the name, Lu Chensheng really has a bit of a desire to rebel.

"Yeah, Brother Liu, would you like to stay and help me?"

Lu Chensheng didn't shy away from it, and nodded in recognition.

Rebellion is necessary. Lu Chensheng must take revenge for what Jiang Jinjing did. In addition, Lu Chensheng has been dissatisfied with the systems of these countries for a long time.

Now it just happens to be resolved together.

3Chapter 17 Unloading the mill and killing the donkey

Hearing what Lu Chensheng said, Liu Wensheng was taken aback for a moment, probably never thought that Lu Chensheng really wanted to rebel.

Although I already had some guesses in my heart, I was still a little surprised when I heard Lu Chensheng admit it now.