Dual Transmigration: Starting from being captured and brought to the Hehuan Sect!

The Cantonese bird answered without hesitation:

"Your subordinate obeys."

Lin Mo asked Zhang Tie to select the five best-performing members of the guard team during this period of training and have them return to the Thousand Households with Yue Pengniao to serve as instructors.

These five people were selected from the best of the first batch of guards. Each of them can write and calculate basic common characters, and their military skills are outstanding. They are proficient in standing at attention, marching in formation, emergency assembly, and military boxing.

Lin Mo then asked Zhang Tie to take out the batch of modern military training materials he had given him before, and picked out a few of the most practical ones to give to Yue Pengniao.

Yue Pengniao took the training manuals with simple line drawings on the covers with both hands, and was dumbfounded when she opened the first page.

The book had pictures of little people standing in a square formation, with dense symbols next to them. He recognized some of the characters, but he didn't understand what they meant at all.

Although he had a hundred questions in his mind, he didn't dare to ask a single one.

The things given by adults are definitely useful. If he doesn't understand them, that's his problem. He can go back and study them slowly.

Lin Mo gave a few more instructions: if any of the former officers in the Thousand Households were disobedient, Yue Pengniao should submit their names so he could send someone to "talk" to them. If that didn't work, they would either be expelled from the military or dealt with directly by the warlord.

Yue Pengniao noted everything down, then rode back to camp with the five instructors and the stack of training manuals.

The relocation of the thousand households was faster than Lin Mo had anticipated.

In just three days, Yue Pengniao moved all its troops from the west of the city to the newly designated camp south of Lianhai County. When there weren't enough tents, they built simple barracks out of wood. The training ground was leveled out on the same day.

The next morning, more than 600 officers and soldiers were brought out and lined up on the training ground. Five instructors selected from the guard team were each in charge of a squad and began to teach them from the beginning according to the modern infantry training syllabus.

The seasoned veterans, who had served most of their lives in the military, initially didn't buy it, thinking that what these bald young men were teaching was all just empty talk. A conflict broke out on the very first day, with both sides shoving each other on the training field.

Upon hearing this, Lin Mo immediately called Zhang Tie over and announced extra training in front of the entire battalion.

Each person must do 200 push-ups; no food is allowed until they finish.

Yue Pengniao stood on the platform watching without intervening. Only after the push-ups were finished did he walk up to the veterans and say condescendingly:

"What the instructor says is what I, the commander, say. If this happens again, I will be court-martialed."

Some people were still unconvinced at the time, but as a sumptuous lunch was served, with rice and pork belly, everyone shut their mouths.

From then on, no one dared to use spikes on the training field anymore.

In his spare time, Lin Mo threw himself into the preparation of the steelmaking production line.

The pig iron was smelted, but the cast iron was hard enough but not tough enough. It couldn't be used for anything else, not even for making farm tools!

Therefore, steel must be supplied as soon as possible.

He returned to the main world and asked Xinlu to help him contact a metallurgical equipment supplier to order a small top-blown converter steelmaking equipment.

He didn't want the converter body, oxygen lance system, cooling water circulation device, flue gas dust removal pipeline, or continuous casting machine. The molten steel will be temporarily processed using ingot casting, and continuous casting will be implemented after the output increases.

In addition, a small rolling mill and a matching heating furnace were purchased to roll steel ingots into steel plates and reinforcing bars.

Su Qing checked off each item on the list in the warehouse, silently calculating the cost in her mind as she did so. The total price of this steelmaking equipment alone was approaching tens of millions.

However, she didn't ask any further questions. She was already used to Lin Mo's spending speed. In any case, the company had ample cash flow, and the profits from the pills were enough to support this scale of procurement.

After the equipment arrived, Lin Mo spent nearly ten more days directing everyone to build the main framework of the steel plant at the foot of the mine.

The steel frame structure of the converter workshop was welded using I-beams transported from the main world according to the blueprints. Blowers, oxygen generators, and cooling water pumps were all in place, and thermocouples and automatic temperature control instruments were all connected to the control cabinet.

The blacksmith workshop next to the steel plant was also upgraded, with the addition of heat treatment furnaces and quenching tanks. The rolled steel plates can be directly heat-treated and processed in the workshop.

The first batch of local steelworkers in Lianhai County were those old blacksmiths who learned how to operate the equipment from the blueprints in the main world under Lin Mo's guidance. Now they not only know how to make hoes from pig iron produced by the blast furnace, but they have also learned to read furnace temperature curves and temperature control instruments.

After everything was ready, the converter was officially put into trial production.

Molten iron is poured directly into the converter from the blast furnace taphole through the trough. The oxygen lance is inserted into the furnace chamber from the top of the furnace. The moment pure oxygen is blown into the molten iron, a dazzling white flame shoots out from the furnace mouth, illuminating the entire workshop as if it were daytime.

During the ten-minute blowing process, the instrument lights on the control cabinet flickered, and several newly trained operators stared nervously at the temperature curve, their palms sweating profusely.

After the blowing process was completed, samples were taken for testing. The carbon content dropped to the predetermined range, and the tapping temperature was normal.

Lin Mo ordered the steel to be tapped. The molten steel was poured from the converter into the ladle, then into the casting sand box. The red-hot molten steel cooled slowly in the sand mold. Finally, the sand box was opened, and a silver-gray steel ingot lay steadily in the sand.

An old blacksmith struck the iron with his hammer, producing a crisp, clear sound, completely different from the dull, muffled sound of pig iron. He was so excited he almost dropped the hammer, and turned to shout to Lin Mo:

"Sir, it's steel! Fine steel!"

"As long as it's good steel, we should increase production as soon as possible."

Lin Mo stepped out of the steel plant.

"Yes, sir!"

After returning to the county government office, he asked Long Qingxue to fetch the Yue Peng bird.

The Yue Peng bird had just come down from the training ground at the Thousand Household Office, still covered in sweat and without even taking off its armor, when it trotted into the back hall of the county government office and knelt on one knee to pay its respects.

"Sir, you wanted to see me?"

"Friend, I'd like to visit your father and discuss some business with him. Could you introduce me?"

Upon hearing this, the Yue Peng bird's eyes lit up immediately.

During the time he followed Lin Mo, he witnessed more miraculous methods than he had heard of myths in the first half of his life.

A lighter that spontaneously combusts with the slightest press.

A light bulb that can stay lit all night without oil or wax.

Walkie-talkies that can transmit messages instantly over distances of several miles.

A camera that allows you to see everything inside and outside the county government office without leaving your home.

A water pump that can draw groundwater up.

And then there's the gray powder produced from burning, which, after being mixed with water and sand and dried, becomes cement that hardens like stone.

Any one of these items, if placed in Hezhou City, would be a rare treasure that would make competitors scramble for them.

Now this living god is actually taking the initiative to propose doing business with the old man. This is not a business negotiation; it's like the God of Wealth personally throwing gold ingots into the Yue family's courtyard.

He quickly patted his chest and replied:

"No problem, sir! If my father knew you were willing to come in person, he'd be so happy he wouldn't be able to sleep."

"So, when do you think we should set off?"

"Either way, I'm ready to depart at any time!"

"Then let's do it tomorrow."

"Yes, I will arrange the carriages and horses immediately!"

The Yue Peng bird retreated in high spirits.