Never thought I would become the emperor

Chapter 74 Smelter 2
"Oh?"

The corners of the old man's mouth raised slightly, and he heard a surprised sound. At the same time, he put down what he was doing and turned around slowly.

His dark yellow eyeballs directly skipped over Gao Shun who was standing in front of him, and then looked at the tall and mighty Lu Bu standing behind Gao Shun without moving.

Immediately afterwards, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he stood up with a "thump", and said respectfully, "My lord!"

"My lord?"

Gao Shun exclaimed, could it be that the old man in front of him is also Lu Bu's subordinate?
Being called the lord by a nearly 90-year-old man, Lu Bu couldn't help but smile awkwardly: "You don't have to be polite, old man."

While talking, Lu Bu motioned Gao Shun to support the old man.

Gao Shun immediately understood and took a step forward, but the old man's thin hands blocked him, and he saw the old man looking at Lu Bu with piercing eyes and said: "My lord, you must have come here to get the copper coins, right? "

"copper?"

Lu Bu looked at the old man suspiciously. He also knew that this smelter could mint copper coins, but how long has it been summoned just now? It took less than half a day to produce them?

"Yes, we dug a mine on the mountain, which is full of iron ore and copper mines, and we can't finish digging it, my lord. So I took it upon myself to smelt all these copper mines into copper coins. The copper coins are all piled up in the back now, waiting for you, my lord, to get them."

The old man said quickly, his tone full of pride.

"Wan Guan?"

Gao Shun opened his mouth wide in surprise, and stayed where he was.

Hearing the old man's words, Lu Bu's eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "Go, take me to have a look."

"My lord, please come to the general."

The old man straightened up, picked up the crutch in the corner and walked forward tremblingly.

Lu Bu and Gao Shun hurriedly followed.

The blacksmiths around saw the old man and greeted him one after another. In the process, Lu Bu and Gao Shun also learned that the white-haired old man was the owner of the smelter, and he was 92 years old this year. Yes, it's called Furong.

Although Lu Bu didn't know if his name could really bring him wealth, he could clearly feel the atmosphere inside when visiting the entire smelter. The thriving scene made Lu Bu admire the old man's management .

"Uncle Fu, who are these two?"

A young man stopped what he was doing, looked at Lu Bu and the others curiously and said.

"How presumptuous! Don't hurry up and do your work."

The old man was on crutches, and his majestic voice came to everyone's ears.

Everyone immediately closed their mouths and did not dare to speak, but they still smiled at Lu Bu and Gao Shun with their usual kind smiles.

The blacksmiths picked up the hammers at hand and struck the iron stone carefully. Each of their strikes was extraordinarily serious and focused, just like a professional master carver carving a jade stone.

Gao Shun walked to a shop run by a blacksmith himself, pointed to an extremely sharp sword hanging above and asked, "How much does this cost?"

"Ten copper coins. Seeing that you have a good relationship with Uncle Fu, I will sell you five copper coins."

The blacksmith smiled kindly.

"Okay, no problem." Gao Shun was overjoyed and agreed quickly, then took out a money bag from his armor, took out five copper coins and handed it over.

The blacksmith quickly took it, put the money away, picked up his hammer, and while beating the pig iron, asked curiously: "Hey, where are you from?"

"Luoyang."

Gao Shun held the treasured sword in his hand, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he was, he turned his head and said with a smile.

"Luoyang? I heard that it's a good place, but I haven't been to Luoyang City yet. Is it very lively there?"

Hearing the word Luoyang, the blacksmith suddenly became interested and said with a smile.

Gao Shun laughed loudly: "Yes, it's very lively there."

The blacksmith smiled and said, "When I have money, I'll go and have a look."

"Okay, you'll definitely love that."

Gao Shun smiled.

Seeing the conversation between Gao Shun, who was not superior to others because of his different positions, and an ordinary blacksmith, Lu Bu suddenly felt a little touched in his heart, turned his head to Fugui and asked, "How many workers do we have here?"

Fu Gui chuckled, "My lord, there are 1000 blacksmiths. If you count the workers on the mountain, there are [-] blacksmiths in total."

"1000 people."

Lu Bu frowned. This is a huge number.

"My lord, this way please."

Unknowingly, Fugui and Lu Bu had come to a slightly remote room, Fugui turned sideways and said respectfully.

Lu Bu nodded, turned around and greeted Gao Shun behind him, and then walked in with Fugui.

It was very dark inside, there was not even a light of fire, Fugui casually took out a candle from the door, went to the door and lit it with the weak candlelight, and with the help of the weak light, Lu Bu and Fugui walked in together .

Under the light of the fire, Lu Bu could clearly see that the surroundings were filled with wooden barrels one after another, filled with brown things.

Lu Bu took a step forward and bent down to take a look. It was filled with round copper coins one after another, with the word "five baht" engraved on it.

"Are these five baht coins?"

Lu Bu stared at the five baht coins in the wooden barrel with piercing eyes, and asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Yes, the ten thousand coins are all five baht."

Fugui replied.

Hearing this exciting answer, Lu Bu couldn't help but put his hand into the wooden barrel, feeling the faint coldness from the five baht coins, the smile on his face could no longer be stopped.

"How much five baht can our factory produce every day?"

Lu Bu stood up and asked impatiently.

"If the materials are sufficient, we can produce Wanguan every day."

Fugui straightened his chest and replied proudly.

Lu Bu said: "Okay, I'll give you the materials, and you must make sure to produce ten thousand five baht for me every day."

Fugui said in surprise: "My lord, are you kidding me?"

"No, I will send someone over in a few days. Then you can just go there and get the materials."

Lu Bu smiled faintly and walked towards the door.

Fugui froze in place, did happiness come so suddenly?
Before he reached the door, Lu Bu saw Gao Shun squatting beside the wooden box in heavy armor, staring blankly at the five baht coins inside, and exclaimed from time to time.

"With this money, the soldiers can be paid."

Gao Shun said excitedly, his eyes were full of fiery flames, and his cheeks were even flushed because of overexcitement.

(End of this chapter)