After the meal, Luo Chong, She Xin, You Fu, and the others went to the government office of Liuyang Commandery. Luo Chong personally wrote down some information about the properties of molybdenum, methods of refining it, and how to use it to produce molybdenum steel alloy. Finally, he appended an order instructing the Chemistry Group of the Comprehensive Research Institute to jointly develop a new type of molybdenum steel with the Steel Mill of Xingang Commandery.
After finishing, he immediately had the Imperial Guards deliver it to the institute. Then, together with You Fu, She Xin, and the others, he began discussing the industrial layout of the south and the arrangements for the Cannibal Tribe captives the following year.
The group arrived at the meeting hall inside the government office. You Fu immediately had someone bring over the maps they had surveyed in the south, along with several thick volumes of map annotations explaining the characteristics of each location.
However, Luo Chong did not begin with that. Instead, he said, "Let's talk about those Cannibal Tribe slaves first. This is simple and easy to assign."
"Mm."
"Chieftain, please go ahead." She Xin and You Fu hurriedly answered.
"According to the battle report Qu Bing sent back, they have captured more than fourteen thousand people so far, including men, women, the elderly, and children. Around two thousand five hundred are women, while the rest are men capable of working—roughly eleven thousand people. All of these have already been entered into the records.
"But there are still three months until spring, and the fighting is still ongoing. We don't know how many more people they'll be able to bring back, so let's count on fifteen thousand able-bodied slaves.
"Of those fifteen thousand, the mines in Xingang Commandery will need five thousand. However,