Han Khan

Chapter 98, Blacksmith Shop
Zhang Sheng was pleasantly surprised to find that by building warehouses to collect wood, gold, iron ore and stone, the materials in those warehouses would be directly linked to the storage space of the Ordu Tent in a magical way.

In other words, resources stored in warehouses or mills will be automatically transferred to the town center. Of course, there are certain restrictions on transfer. Only wood in the wood warehouse can be transferred, and other items cannot be transferred.

However, it is regrettable that the space link seems to be a one-way transmission, and items stored in the town center cannot be taken out from the warehouse.

Another embarrassing thing is that... only Zhang Sheng himself and the people produced by the system can enter the mysterious space of the Ordu Golden Tent. Anyone else who enters will be crushed immediately, and not even a bone will be left.

But this also ensures Zhang Sheng's mystery.

After the construction of the temple, Zhang Sheng methodically arranged some system laborers to build a stone wall more than ten kilometers long around the camp to protect the temple and the camp.

After the wall was built, Zhang Sheng arranged for the laborers to build stone warehouses and gold mine warehouses on the hills and slopes around the basin. Since most of the basin was grassland and lakes with almost no trees, no logging warehouses were built.

During this process, many people in the Jinhan tribe watched in amazement. They watched the materials appear out of thin air, and the strong men in blue shorts quickly built high buildings on the ground as if using mysterious methods.

As more and more buildings appeared, the people gradually became numb and no longer cared about the reasons. They simply believed that all of this was a reward from Haotian God's messenger, their emperor.

This deepened the tribesmen's faith in Haotian and the Holy Religion, as well as their obedience to Zhang Sheng's orders.

Under this miracle, the Tatars and many slaves who had not yet converted to the holy religion immediately abandoned their faith and respect for Tengri the Eternal Heaven today.

They tried their best to memorize the honorable names of Zhang Sheng and Lord Haotian, and then recited them in the most standard elegant language. In this way, they became holy believers who believed in Lord Haotian but had not yet been baptized.

Because in their eyes, this Haotian God has now become a true "god", and Zhang Sheng is the messenger of Haotian God in the world, leading mankind to glory.

Zhang Sheng looked up at the sun and knew it was still early. He left nine laborers next to the stone, iron and gold mining warehouses to mine stone, iron ore and gold.

Their work efficiency was so high that the raised area turned into a deep pit in a short while.

Afterwards, Zhang Sheng led 11 Mu Ran system laborers and 200 guards, and eagerly rode away from the camp on their horses.

He wanted to inspect the territory of the Jinhan tribe, defeat the Guchuwuti and occupy the Great Lake Basin. He had not yet carefully understood the surrounding situation. He needed to see the camp with his own eyes before he would feel at ease.

He was not afraid of an enemy raid at this time. Now the entire Great Lakes Basin had been conquered by the Jinhan tribe. The Jinhan tribe could defeat the invading enemy both in field battles and in defense.

To get from the camp to the hills and slopes of Jinshan, you not only need to walk through many flat grasslands, but also need to bypass Lake Uvs.

Lake Uvs is a relatively large shallow saltwater lake. When Zhang Sheng saw the crystallized salt grains on the lakeside, he knew that the salinity of the lake water was very high and it was completely undrinkable.

Zhang Sheng originally wanted to build a dock here to catch fish and increase food, but he gave up the idea because there were no fish in the lake.
Although the water of Lake Uvs comes from the Jinshan Mountain, it is formed by the influx of rivers from the melted ice and snow mountains.

It was still fresh water at that time, but because there was no outlet for Lake Uvs and due to strong evaporation, the lake water became enriched in salt.

So he changed his mind and thought that although he could not catch fish, the lake water so rich in salt could be used to dry and refine salt, which would also be a huge fortune. When he was ready to go back, he specially gathered some people to collect lake salt.

Around the lakeshore and at the river mouth, there are large wetlands and soft swamps, which are very dangerous. Along the way, Zhang Sheng saw many foxes, wolves, and various birds. Zhang Sheng ordered the laborers to build four stone sentry towers around the camp on the hillside five miles away from the camp.

After Zhang Sheng produced some systematic soldiers, he sent some of them to the sentry tower to serve. This was to provide Zhang Sheng with a field of vision to observe the periphery of the camp at any time, as well as the necessary vigilance.

Zhang Sheng looked at the sentry tower gradually rising from the ground, while in his mind he was looking up information about the golden finger.

Now that the system has reached the "Castle Age", Zhang Sheng can actually produce a lot of military units, such as longswordsmen, heavy knights, etc., but he has always been reluctant to produce military units.

Because he was surrounded by many Han and Hu military nobles from Dunhuang, and his guards were very powerful, he did not need to use a lot of resources to produce military personnel in the system.

Moreover, it is a waste of manpower, taking up too much of the precious manpower of the system production, because the system has a fixed rule that the maximum manpower that can be produced can only reach 500, and no more than one can be produced.

But when he saw the system description that "after the death of a personnel unit, the materials they carried will disappear together. When the number of personnel is reduced, they can be produced and replenished again, but the amount cannot exceed 500", his eyes lit up.

This means that as long as the military units he produced died in battle, although the armor and weapons on their bodies would disappear, they could still be produced as long as the manpower did not exceed 500.

So, when the watchtower outside the camp was built, Zhang Sheng immediately returned to the camp.

He then arranged for the 11 remaining laborers to start building stables, infantry camps and shooting ranges.

And the most important blacksmith shop, and 5 blacksmith shops were built in a row.

When Zhang Sheng saw the function of the blacksmith shop displayed in this system, he was stunned. It was so powerful.

That is, to transform the civilians into blacksmiths, and use the wood, gold, silver, copper, iron ore, furs and leathers stored in the big tent to mass-produce uniform armor and weapons.

Originally, the Jinhan tribe had only four guards regiments and 3600 warriors equipped with iron armor. Most of these armors were Tibetan, Uighur, and Tang Dynasty-style ziplock and chain mail, as well as leather armor with iron plates seized on the grasslands after arriving in Mobei. They were a mess and had no unified style.

In the continuous battles against the Tatars and Kuchuti, six or seven hundred guards were killed or wounded, many of their armors were already badly damaged, and they had no stable camp to live in, so they could not carry out repairs.

The number of guards had been fully replenished, but eight or nine hundred of them could only wear tattered armor.

But it doesn't matter. In the future, as long as there are minerals such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and wood, we can continuously mass-produce arrows, bows and crossbows, swords, spears, scale armor, chain mail, and other weapons and armor of the same standard in the blacksmith shop.

In addition, Zhang Sheng also noticed an important problem: when using the cheat code to build a building, the resources required are the same as the settings in the game.

But when it comes to upgrading the technology within a building, the resources required are completely different from the game.

Specifically, the amount of resources required for upgrading is ten or even a hundred times more than in the game, and as the level of scientific research increases, more and more resources are required.

(End of this chapter)