The Strongest Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies

Chapter 395 Take You to the Well
Lu Bu invited Guo Tu and Cui Yan to take a walk down the mine. Of course, they had to go to the underground craftsmen's bathing place to change their clothes.

When he arrived at the bathing place of the coal mine craftsmen, Guo Tuzan said, "It must be much happier to bathe in this place than in a wooden barrel."

"Happy or not, Guo Gong will realize later." After changing his clothes, Lu Bu smiled at him.

The clothes worn by the miners in the mine are short jackets with very short hems.

In the eyes of Guo Tu and Cui Yan, who were used to wearing long clothes, it was really strange to wear this kind of clothes on their bodies.

After changing his clothes, Cui Yan asked Lu Bu, "Dare to ask Marquis Chu, why are these clothes so short?"

"Short is right." Lu Bu replied, "Short clothes like this make it easier to do things. If you wear long clothes and go down the mine, and the hem and sleeves are wrong, how can you work?"

Lu Bu's answer convinced Guo Tu and Cui Yan, so they didn't ask any more questions.

Following Lu Bu to the mine entrance, Guo Tu and Cui Yan saw a miner vigorously shaking a huge fan.

Since there is no electricity, the fan can only be shaken by manpower.

Different from other things, there are a total of six miners shaking the fan, and every moment will change to another person to shake it, otherwise, if only one person shakes it for a long time, not only the normal operation of the fan cannot be guaranteed, but the arm of the person who shakes the fan will definitely be sore to break.

Seeing the fan, Guo Tu asked Lu Bu again: "General Lu, what is this?"

"The mine is ventilated." Lu Bu replied: "There is no breath coming in from below, and people will be suffocated to death in it. How can we send the coal up? With this kind of thing, we can dig out the coal from the ground. Yuan The public wants to use it to forge steel, without this, it is impossible to send even a piece of it to the ground."

They thought they would make a lot of money by finding a coal mine, but neither Guo Tu nor Cui Yan thought that mining a coal mine would be such a hassle.

The two looked at each other and followed Lu Bu down the mine.

Entering the mine, the scene in front of them gradually darkened.

Just as Guo Tu was about to ask a question, the steward who followed behind ordered someone to light a torch.

"A torch is needed to enter the mine." Guo Tu was even more astonished.

Lifting the torch, Lu Bu felt restless for a while.

The open flame lighting has never been solved. If it continues like this, sooner or later there will be a big accident in the coal mine.

Although he left the matter to Liu Hong, Lu Bu didn't expect him to actually generate electricity and use it to generate electricity to illuminate the road under the mine.

The lighting problem in the mine still needs to be solved.

"I don't understand." Following Lu Bu down into the mine, Cui Yan said: "Since the coal mine is underground, just dig the ground, why do we have to open a passage below? It's no wonder that coal is transported from underground like this. Very slow."

"The coal is hundreds of steps underground." Lu Bu said, "How deep do we have to dig from above? The coal mined will not be worth the man-hours spent."

"What General Lu said is true." Guo Tu, who was following him, said, "It's still General Lu who sees clearly."

Along the way, they passed several places with wind turbines, and Lu Bu explained them one by one.

The two of them understood the reason for doing this, and they had no other feelings except that it was troublesome.

After going down the mine once, they felt that it was really not easy to mine coal, and they also felt that the pile of coal on the top did not look like much, and it might have been accumulated by the artisans here after a long time.

As he was walking, a miner with a basket on his back came head-on.

The miner bowed and walked towards the entrance of the mine step by step.

Watching the miners walk by, Cui Yan asked, "Is there only one person who can carry this amount of coal every time?"

"It all depends on manpower. There aren't many baskets in this basket." Lu Bu sighed and said, "I would like to transport more at a time, but it's a pity that there are only so many people can halfway. The coal was sent out at night. Let’s not talk about the importance of human life, just say that if the craftsmen are all tired, who will come to work in the coal mine in the future? No matter how much coal there is here, they can only watch them lying on the ground. underground."

"What Chu Hou said is reasonable, but we don't understand the reason." Both Guo Tu and Cui Yan agreed.

When they entered the mine, they saw many frames supported by wood along the way. When they reached the depths of the mine, those frames turned into steel.

Guo Tu walked to one of the shelves, touched the wet shelf, and asked Lu Bu, "How did such a thick iron pillar get under it?"

Of course Lu Bu would not tell him that this support is actually hollow, and it is jacked up from it with hydraulic pressure to achieve the purpose of support.

At the beginning, Lu Bu spent a lot of thought on how to use hydraulic pressure to push the pillar up.

Now that this kind of directness has been replaced in the depths of the mine, the possibility of roof fall will be much smaller.

"The craftsmen in the mine are not as strong as ordinary people." Lu Bu smiled and said to Guo Tu: "If Mr. Guo wants to try it, I will send someone to come here later."

"Forget it." Looking up at the bracket supporting the roof, Guo Tu said, "I can't bear such a thick iron rod for him. If you want to talk about why coal is so expensive, this time I will I completely understand. Chu Hou invested so much in the coal mine, how much are these iron rods worth?"

"Guo Gong understands it." Lu Bu replied: "Materials, labor, and coal storage in the open field are all troublesome. In fact, I have calculated it a few days ago. Since mining coal mines, I have not No matter how much profit you earn, you will lose a lot.”

"Since it's a loss, why does Marquis Chu continue to do it?" Cui Yan asked in disbelief.

"Thirty thousand sets of armor are worth a lot." Lu Bu didn't answer directly, but instead asked Cui Yan, "Why is Mr. Yuan willing to exchange so many armors with me for coal?"

Cui Yan didn't know what to say when asked by Lu Bu.

The cost of armor is indeed not low. From the selection of cowhide to forging the armor pieces, and then to inlaying the armor pieces on the cowhide, each set of armor consumes a lot of man-hours, manpower and materials.

Thirty thousand sets of fine armor, even for the Yuan family in Hebei, is not a small sum of money.

Yuan Shao is willing to exchange so many armors and Lu Bu for coal, which shows how important coal is in today's world!
"Coal is important, so important that as long as we want sophisticated weapons and armor, we must use them." Lu Bu said: "In order to mine coal, I have indeed invested a lot, but even if I lose money, I must use the coal mines." Continue to operate. Not for other reasons, just for these black stones, which can help me build better weapons, and also allow my soldiers to have better weapons and better armor from now on.”

He went on to say: "The soldiers kill the enemy on the battlefield, and the crudely made ordnance will only give their lives on the battlefield. Although I cannot guarantee that every soldier will go out alive and come back alive, but I can do my best to provide them with The best thing."

It was beyond the expectations of Guo Tu and Cui Yan that Lu Bu could have such an opinion.

What the two of them knew about Lu Bu in the past was that this person was greedy for small profits, and would often sell the people around him for a little profit.

But the Lu Bu in front of them was completely different from the one in their impression.

For the sake of the soldiers of the armed forces, he would rather lose money than continue to operate the coal.

A temperament like this is not at all the Lu Bu that the two of them knew.

Both Guo Tu and Cui Yan looked at each other in astonishment.

Lu Bu said to them: "You two, don't just talk to me here. There are still many places worth seeing in the depths of the coal mine. I will take you to the working face to have a look."

Walking along the alleyway, Guo Tu and others noticed that the air was getting dirty and filthy gradually, and the wind was no longer blowing from the back, but from the front.

"General Lu, why is the wind here not right?" Cui Yan, who noticed the problem, asked Lu Bu, "The wind was blowing from behind before, why did it come here, but it came from the front instead?"

"Actually, there are two roads to the working face." Lu Bu replied, "One is called the wind-in lane, and the other is called the wind-out lane. In order to let the two of you experience the coal mine more deeply, I didn't choose the relatively clean wind-in lane. Instead, I chose a dirty outlet alley."

"What's the difference?" Guo Tu asked.

"As the name suggests, the air inlet lane is used to take in the wind, and the wind outlet lane is to blow the filth from the working face out of the mine." Lu Bu said: "Through the circulation of wind, the working face will always have fresh air. People here So you won’t be suffocated and you won’t suffocate to death.”

What Lu Bu said was easy to understand, Guo Tu and Cui Yan nodded, and Guo Tu even praised: "I never thought that there are so many ways in the coal mine."

"There are many ways." Lu Bu grinned: "We can still recognize each other here, wait until we go to the mine, and then see if we can recognize each other clearly."

Looking at Lu Bu suspiciously, neither Guo Tu nor Cui Yan said anything.

Both of them were thinking in their hearts, the person is still the same person, there is no change at all, is it possible that they will become someone else when they leave here?

They didn't agree with Lu Bu's statement from the bottom of their hearts, but neither of them would expose it. After all, when they came to the mine, they saw many things that completely overturned their previous guesses about the coal mine.

The coal is placed on the ground, it looks like a piece of black, if it is not able to burn and generate high heat, no one would believe that they are buried in such a deep place underground, and it is so difficult to mine.

Lu Bu explained to the two of them all the way, but the coal mine steward who followed them remained silent.

Lu Bu said everything that should be said, and he knew a lot of things that he didn't even have Lu Bu's expertise in. It was obviously inappropriate to interrupt at this moment.

Leading Guo Tu and Cui Yan to the working side along Chufeng Lane, after walking for a while, Cui Yan asked, "Why is it so far away?"

"Far?" Lu Bu seemed to be very surprised and said: "How can this distance be considered far? If you want to say far, it will be really far when the coal mines are mined deeper in the future."

"The craftsman who carried the coal on his back just started from the front?" Cui Yan asked.

"Coal is mined from the working face. If he doesn't start from here, where else can he start from?" Lu Bu said: "The Xuzhou coal mine has only been mined for a short time. As the coal mine grows bigger and bigger in the future, we have to leave." The distance will also be longer and longer, and some working faces are even dozens of miles away from the place where the mine exits."

Cui Yan couldn't imagine what Lu Bu said.

Although there is air convection under the mine, people still feel suffocated when walking in the tunnel.

"Guo Gong, Cui Gong, be careful where you step." Walking forward, Guo Tu staggered, Lu Bu supported him, and then reminded: "The ground below the mine shaft is nothing compared to the ground. If you fall here, you can easily grin your teeth. In severe cases, the muscles and bones will be injured and the bones will be permanently disabled.”

Not quite believing what Lu Bu said, Guo Tu replied, "Isn't it a little scary for General Lu to say that?"

"Cui Gong, can you pat the hat that Guo Gong is wearing?" Lu Bu asked Cui Yan.

Cui Yan looked at him suspiciously, but did not make a move.

Lu Bu replied, "I don't mean anything else, I just want Mr. Guo to know the difference between being underground and being on the ground. You don't need to slap too hard, just lightly slap it."

Looking at Guo Tu, Cui Yan still didn't make a move.

"Since General Lu said so, please ask Cui Gong to pat me." Guo Tu said to Cui Yan: "You still need some strength. I wear this hard thing, and Cui Gong can't hurt me."

Guo Tu asked him to slap, Cui Yan said: "Since Mr. Guo wants me to slap, then I have to offend."

Following what Lu Bu said, Cui Yan patted Guo Tu's hat.

He didn't use much force, but Guo Tu felt that his head was in a daze and he almost couldn't stop.

Lu Bu supported him again, and said to the two of them: "With Cui Gong's strength just now, if it is above the mine, I am afraid it will not feel too much, but it will be very different when it is below the mine. So you should be careful when you go underground. Some are better."

After being photographed by Cui Yan, Guo Tu, who knew how powerful he was, really walked carefully afterward.

After walking for a long time, they saw a faint flickering fire in front of them.

Accompanied by the firelight, they heard the sound of "jingling".

Pointing to the place where the beating sound came from ahead, Lu Bu said to Guo Tu and Cui Yan, "We're here."

"It took me so far to get there." Guo Tu replied, "It's really not easy for a craftsman working underground."

"It takes such a long distance to come here, and it takes the same distance to go back." Lu Bu replied, "It's hard enough to go back and forth without bringing anything, not to mention that the craftsmen have to bring tools to go out. Sometimes you have to carry coal on your back.”

"I thought that Chu Hou asked for such a high price indiscriminately." Cui Yan also nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Now I went to the bottom of the mine to look again, and I realized that there was no such thing. I thought of it." Worse."

"Anyone who knows me well knows how to be kind." Lu Bu chuckled, "How could it be possible to ask for such a price?"

(End of this chapter)