Almost in a daze, Ni Mi was put on a broad robe by Zhang Yue and several great officials of the Honglu who had always resisted and even thought it was a "useless thing" and "dragged".

The black Hanfu is worn on her body, and the gorgeous crown and hat are bound to her hair.

Don't say it...

It's really comfortable!

Even in the severe cold temperatures of winter, he felt that his body seemed to be warming up!

Ni Mi don’t understand what this is?

But he did not stop or refuse after all.

Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the decorations on his body.

For some reason, a strange thought suddenly arose in Ni Mi's heart.

"The clothes from the Han Dynasty seem to be quite majestic!" He lifted the ribbon slightly, without the troubles he had imagined, but there were some unexpected surprises. It seemed that the real big man, the warrior, should wear such clothes!

Before he could think about it again, Zhang Yue had already followed the Emperor's Day and made great strides forward.

Ni Mi was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but follow him.

The entire mission followed immediately.

Zhang Yue looked back and smiled without saying a word.

…………………………………………

Two hours later, Zhang Yue led the Wusun mission, a river berth fifty miles east of Xiaoguan.

The rolling Jingshui River flows southward through this, flows to the Wei River Plain downstream, and finally converges with the Wei River and injects into the Yellow River.

At the river berth where this river channel turns, it is the most important pig iron smelting base in Guanzhong for the Shaofu of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The annual production of nearly 100,000 kilograms of iron is about 25 tons.

This was indeed a terrible number BC!

At least it can beat the whole world except China!

Just when you get close to this place, you can see that the rolling smoke rose into the sky, and dozens of iron smelting furnaces rose from the ground.

The scene is quite similar to the earth blast furnace built in a remote township in later generations during the steelmaking process.

Of course, there may be differences in some technologies.

But overall, the similarity is very high!

Archaeological discoveries in later generations can also prove this.

For example, the vertical furnace site of the late Western Han Dynasty unearthed from Guxing Town was 4.5 meters high after restoration, with a long axis of four meters and a short axis of two meters, with an effective volume of more than fifty cubic meters. There are also large quantities of refractory bricks fired using quartz sand, and limestone is used as a combustion aid.

With such a super vertical furnace, the daily output of cast iron may even reach the limit of one ton!

Of course, the biggest problem with the Han Dynasty's iron smelting industry is actually not output.

But raw materials!

There are fewer and fewer iron ore that can be mined on the open-pit, and people can only risk mine iron ore below the surface.

Zhang Yue looked back at Wusun Xiao Kunmo who was following him and whispered: "Please, messenger!"

Ni Mi was a little surprised and looked at the smelting base in front of him that was far beyond his imagination, and asked hesitantly: "What is this?"

"A place that can give the messenger some inspiration!" Zhang Yue said softly.

After listening to the translation, Ni Mi nodded thoughtfully.

Then he followed Zhang Yue's pace and walked towards the workshop ahead.

The members of the Wusun delegation who followed him followed while discussing.

For them, the strange place in front of them was so amazing!

They can't even imagine that such buildings can exist in this world?

And when they stepped into the workshop surrounded by walls and railings, the heat wave immediately swept over.

The scene in front of them shocked them even more.

After the outbreak of the Han-Hungary War, military demands have forced the Han Shaofu to improve the iron smelting technology!

Better smelting technologies, more high-temperature resistant refractory bricks, more efficient smelting methods and faster ore screening methods are constantly summarized.

However, because there is no system and organization responsible for technological upgrades.

Therefore, these countless technologies and new tools born from war have been hovering in progress and degradation.

Even so, the scene of this workshop is scary enough!

Standal furnaces are built along the mountain.

The huge furnace, with thick smoke, flowing out red molten iron.

Several large water trucks rotated slowly, driving a simple mechanical device that blew the bulge and sent the air into the furnace.

There are long rows arranged in front of each vertical furnace.

Hundreds of craftsmen and workers sweated wildly, carrying out various processing of freshly baked cast iron.

All of this looks like a Ukiyo-e painting.

The entire Wusun mission was in shock.

Ni Mi took a deep breath and exclaimed: "This is the place to smelify iron?!!"

He had seen iron smelting workshops built by the Huns in Zhaoxin City and Weilu City of the Huns.

The Huns smelted iron, and there was no difference between them, the Wusun, Dayuan, and Kangju people smelted bronze.

It is to break iron ore manually and put it with charcoal into a simple crucible placed on the surface.

As the flame rises, the iron ore burns with charcoal, and eventually some blocks of pig iron are obtained.

Then, more than a dozen strong men repeatedly forged a piece of iron with good quality, and then processed it into various weapons.

Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with the metal of iron and felt that if Wusun had not had iron ore, a large number of iron tools could be produced in minutes.

But now, he knew that he was wrong!

Compared with this iron smelting workshop of the Huns in the Han Dynasty, it is completely the stone processing site of the savages!

He stared at a vertical furnace in front of him where a lot of molten iron was flowing out, and his eyes did not dare to move a trace of it.

"No wonder, the Huns dare not fight head-on with the Han..."

"No wonder, the whole world dares not offend Han..."

"This method of iron smelting, such scale of iron smelting..."

Ni Mi murmured to himself.

The entire Wusun mission was even more shocked and stunned.

Now, each of them has seen with their own eyes the scale and speed of the advanced iron smelting center of the Han Dynasty.

Everyone was deeply shocked!

They asked themselves, with such a scale, such efficiency, and such a terrifying mode of production.

The Huns could not do it!

As for Wusun...

It's even impossible to do it!

because……

Not to mention the others, even the hundreds or thousands of skilled blacksmiths in this workshop can’t get all together even if they sell them to Wusun!

Not to mention those tall strange brick furnaces and those even more incomprehensible behemoths!

The Han Dynasty people are no longer powerful enemies!

But a monster!

Naked monster!

Who can defeat such a monster?

Who can defeat Him?

Ni Mi closed his eyes in pain, and the moment he saw these blast furnaces and those craftsmen, he felt his heart break into pieces!

Until now, he had to admit that the Han Dynasty was not only strong in its national strength!

Even in other aspects, it was also an existence that crushed Wusun and the Huns.

In the face of such a monster, Wusun can no longer have any chance of winning!

However, Zhang Yue stood aside and carefully observed the expressions of the Wusun delegation.

He knew that his plan had taken the first step to success!
To be continued...