Longevity starts with learning

"Huh..."

Chu Mu took a long breath and slowly adjusted his mentality.

He firmly believed that since real kung fu existed, he would have the day to come into contact with it.

He couldn't come into contact with it now, just because he hadn't reached that level yet.

He had come to this world and had already started practicing martial arts, so it was undoubtedly a matter of time before he came into contact with that level.

But Chu Mu was somewhat alert to the inexplicable murderous intent in his heart.

It was a very simple truth that different mentalities would inevitably affect the style of doing things.

People always like to solve problems in the way they are best at.

Literati reason and warriors use force, that's it.

With such a mentality, he might be more inclined to the knife in his hand in the future.

I just don't know if this will be good... or bad...

After a moment of thoughts, the light blue light screen panel also appeared in his field of vision.

[Name: Chu Mu. 】

[Skills:

Basic swordsmanship (a glimpse of the door) 20/500]

[Spiritual brilliance value: 15.3%]

He scanned the area habitually, and his eyes finally fixed on the skyrocketing basic swordsmanship proficiency.

In just one or two hours, the proficiency soared by more than ten points!

Such a skyrocketing swordsmanship proficiency clearly shows that he is not messing around, but is really beneficial to his progress in martial arts.

"It's good if it's useful."

Chu Mu exhaled lightly. He was really afraid that he was messing around. After all, these seemingly simple tools are really valuable.

Not to mention the wooden man pile, the wood is iron wood, the wood is extremely hard, and it is naturally quite expensive. In addition, it is wrapped in several layers of thick linen, which is also a lot of money.

The seemingly unimpressive hanging ball is a luxury of this era. Each hanging ball is temporarily modified from the ball of Cuju.

Cuju in this era is a sport for rich people, and the ball used for Cuju is naturally expensive.

Dozens of hanging balls made Chu Mu feel quite painful.

Adding up all the money, this tossing and turning cost him tens of silver.

If he really tossed and turned, it would be equivalent to more than two months of work for nothing.

While thinking, Chu Mu suddenly recalled his previous life.

If it was in his previous life, he would never be so resolute.

Regardless of the cost, he did it as soon as he said it, and the miserable social animal in his previous life would never be as free and easy as he is now.

"It's good now..."

Chu Mu was inexplicably a little sad, mumbling to himself.

"Woo woo woo..."

A slight whimper sounded, Chu Mu looked down, and saw the fluffy puppy rubbing his trouser legs with his head raised.

"I almost forgot about you!"

Chu Mu smiled suddenly, grabbed the puppy, and walked quickly into the kitchen.

There were still a lot of leftovers from last night, which were poured into the rice bowl. The puppy immediately took his short legs and ran to the rice bowl, eating with a chuckle, obviously starving.

Chu Mu was still busy in front of the stove, preparing food to fill his stomach.

He was alone, so he didn't care much. He just fried two side dishes and cooked a little rice, and then dealt with it in front of the stove.

After a simple cleanup, Chu Mu returned to the bedroom.

With a candle and a book, Chu Mu leaned against the head of the bed and slowly flipped through the pages.

About half an hour later, a fire suddenly appeared in the yard, and a bonfire was burning. Under the flickering fire, the hanging ball swayed, the wooden stakes made a muffled sound, and the figure of the knife waving appeared again...

...

The next morning, as usual, after more than half an hour of martial arts practice, Chu Mu changed into a patrol uniform and went out to work.

Nanshan Town was a little deserted in the early morning. Several vendors that Chu Mu often ate at had already met again in the mine.

The vendors who set up stalls at sunrise and closed them at sunset had become corvée laborers who had to work before dawn and could not rest at sunset.

Chu Mu estimated that it would be difficult to eat their cooking in the future.

There was no familiar taste, and Chu Mu was too lazy to be picky. He just ate two bites and walked towards the mine.

Under the continuous wind and snow, the entire mine was already covered with snow. The climate in the mountains was already cool. Under the heavy snow, even though Chu Mu was wearing a thick cotton jacket under his armor, he couldn't help shivering.

Compared with the desertedness in the mountains, the mine was naturally already a scene of great enthusiasm.

In the cold winter, most of the corvées have changed into thick coats. Of course, this is not a benefit for corvées. According to convention, when corvées are recruited to work, they will bring their own winter clothes. If they really don’t bring any, they have to ask their families to bring them before winter.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There are also ragged people in the mines in this cold winter.

Compared with most of the previous mines, the number of corvées has undoubtedly increased a lot now.

There are more than 30 corvées in the mine area where Chu Mu is located.

Chu Mu estimated that in more than half a month, the entire mine has added at least more than 2,000 corvées.

This is undoubtedly a somewhat incredible number, and what is even more incredible is that the conscription of corvées has not seen any signs of ending.

"Why dig so many mines?"

Chu Mu sat under a tree, looking at the corvées working in the wind and snow, and his eyebrows were also puzzled.

After more than half a month, he had naturally found out everything.

Even if the mineral materials were delivered to the county town, it would not be the final destination. It was said that they would be delivered to a higher level.

This is not just the case in Qinghe County. In the surrounding counties, all the mines, no matter what kind of mineral material, follow the same process.

Mining, handing over, and handing over again.

All the procedures are official and have nothing to do with the market.

This means that from Qinghe County to the county town, and even the entire Yanshan County, all the mineral materials that flow into the market can be said to be black goods, and they are all shady.

The problem is... mobilizing so much manpower and material resources, if the mined mineral materials do not flow into the market, where will they go in the end?

Forging weapons?

There is a demand for iron ore. In this era, the demand for iron is also very large, but what about other mineral materials?

As far as Chu Mu knows, Changshan County, which is adjacent to Qinghe County, has several copper mines, which have been mined day by day like Qinghe County for decades, mined, smelted, and handed over day by day for decades.

In this era, iron can still have many uses, what about copper?

In the non-industrial age, the biggest role of copper was coinage, but now that paper money has been used for hundreds of years, what else can copper be used for?

"At least, the official process is to hand it over level by level, which has nothing to do with the market. So where is the final source? Why is it needed?"

Chu Mu guessed secretly.

There is no doubt that such a process is completely unreasonable.

Chu Mu couldn't figure it out, and couldn't find out. At least, no one he could contact in this Nanshan Inspection Office knew it.

Of course, apart from Chu Mu, few people would think about this problem.

"Come here!"

"Gather!"

A shout suddenly rang out, and Chu Mu stood up and walked away quickly.

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