Chapter 039: Blueprint System
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Early the next morning, as soon as Long Tian woke up, his mother spread her legs willingly, silently beckoning him to enter.
Long Tian playfully rubbed his glans against his mother’s clitoris, teasing her with a lewd smile.
“Mother, you want it?”
“Mm-hmm, yes. Come inside.”
Her breathing became erratic, and a rosy flush crept across her cheeks, betraying her lingering bashfulness.
“Then call me ‘Husband.’ In this bed, I am your husband, you are my wife… and also my mother!”
Long Tian’s lecherous grin was deliberate; he intended to tease her into accepting him as her husband.
Over time, she would naturally treat him as her husband.
“Husband… come inside. I want it! Ah!”
Mother suppressed her shyness, but as soon as she finished speaking, Long Tian thrust inside.
Once again filled to the brim, that emptiness and loneliness within her gradually faded, replaced by an overwhelming sense of fulfillment.
Her beautiful legs willingly wrapped around his powerful waist, serving her son as she would serve a husband.
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Half an hour later, Long Tian emerged from his mother’s room, satisfied.
He left her gasping on the bed, her fair skin flushed a deep pink, her eyes hazy in the post-coital afterglow.
The alluring slit between her legs remained parted, revealing a gaping hole from which fresh, hot, thick fluid was overflowing!
[Ding! Dong Ya’s affection for you has reached max value. She can now become your Companion.]
[Ding! You have more than four Companions. Unlocking the Blueprint System.]
A sudden pang of pain shot through his head as a massive influx of knowledge flooded his brain.
A new branch of the System appeared before his eyes.
It was a completely new panel, primarily focused on lifestyle and utility blueprints.
Each blueprint corresponded to a specific item crafting recipe.
The items were vast and varied. Clicking on them revealed the materials required.
Some of these required secondary blueprints to craft the necessary base materials.
[Categories: Base, Tools, Hunting, Textiles, Industrial, Cooking, Medical, Agriculture & Husbandry.]
Long Tian looked at the complex options. Every category had its own sub-branches. For instance, the “Base” category included decorations, housing, storage, and materials.
Agriculture & Husbandry was split into farming and livestock.
Every blueprint was interconnected.
Unlocking them simply took time, ranging from one hour to ten days; the more advanced the blueprint, the longer the research time.
[Sulfur Pesticide]: Protects crops from fungi, pests, and animals.
- Research Time: 1 day.
- Materials: 1 bowl of water, 1 portion of sulfur, 1 portion of quicklime, 1 hammer tool.
- Production Time: Takes 30 minutes to produce 1 unit sulfur pesticide.
[Quicklime]: Material for constructing houses and crafting other items. Produced by smelting stones and boulders in a furnace or advanced furnace, then breaking them with a hammer.
- Research Time: None.
- Smelting time: 8 hours.
[Fiber Extraction]: Extracts fiber from Snake Grass. Each portion of grass yields 2 portions of fiber.
- Processing Time: 30 minutes.
Long Tian looked at these intricate blueprints and felt a moment of realization.
If he wanted to unlock them, he had to start now and systematically unlock them step by step, starting from basic to advanced.
He needed to align his production with his developmental needs: extract materials, craft the tools needed for extraction, and then manufacture the final products.
Navigating the list, Long Tian chose to unlock the Kiln(furnace) first.
The kiln served multiple vital functions: smelting metals, firing ceramics, and calcining stones.
He didn’t need to craft basic tools yet since he could simply buy those in town; those could be unlocked later.
He needed the Kiln to start producing raw industrial materials.
With metal in hand, he could craft more advanced tools or weapons.
Copper products, in turn, were essential for other fields—like cooking pots for better food, or cauldrons for brewing medicine.
No one understood the critical role and impact of medicine in this era better than he did!
In this age, a simple cold or fever could claim a life due to complications and the lack of medical technology.
The scarcity of medical technology meant many diseases remained untreatable or incurable.
Take cataracts, for instance, a condition easily corrected with surgery in the future.
Yet in this era, it was a death sentence.
First, there was no clinical knowledge. Second, the necessary surgical instruments and sterilization methods were unavailable.
Furthermore, the late Eastern Han was an era of chaos.
Beyond the dog-eat-dog nature of this time, natural disasters, man-made calamities, and rampant plagues were all severe threats.
This was exactly why Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turbans, could raise a massive rebellion with a single shout…
“Saving one life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.”
For a man with advanced medical knowledge, gaining fame and power was incredibly simple.
The reason physicians currently held a low social status was simply that their medical efficacy was too low.
High-tier medical skills and medicine could be his ultimate leverage.
He could use them to recruit subordinates, earn favors, or even as high-stakes bargaining chips.
No one is truly fearless of death, and the wealthier one is, the more they dread it.
Add to that the spread of plague, and population becomes the most vital resource.
He could use his medical “miracles” to gather refugees, cultivate wastelands, and stockpile massive amounts of grain.
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With nothing pressing at hand, Long Tian once again invited Fa Zheng to accompany him on a tour of the craftsmen’s camp.
Fa Zheng felt rather helpless.
To be fair, putting aside his personal hatred, Long Tian didn’t seem like an exceptionally “brilliant lord” yet.
Moreover, he held no significant official position, merely a County Captain with authority over local troops.
He certainly didn’t qualify as a wise ruler.
To Fa Zheng, one needed status akin to Dong Zhuo’s, at the very least, to even remotely qualify for recruiting talent.
Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, only the Grand General was permitted to establish a private office and recruit talent; otherwise, it was considered treason.
However, this rule had slowly eroded with time because the dynasty’s founding was tied to the support of great clans.
When Emperor Liu Xiu took the throne, he had to repay those clans, leading to the gradual decline of the central talent-control system.
The Mechanical Workshop was a scene of bustling heat.
Blacksmiths were busy forging and refurbishing farm tools and kitchen knives, as well as manufacturing the famous Water-Dragon Carriages (irrigation pumps).
Everything was focused on agriculture, though one section was quietly researching crossbow bolts.
Fa Zheng followed with a sour face. In his heart, he was unwilling to pledge allegiance to Long Tian. This was hardly a wise choice.
“Forging armor, weapons, and large crossbows without imperial permission… if exposed by someone with ulterior motives, even a County Captain like you would face punishment!”
This wasn’t a helpful reminder; it was pure mockery.
Fa Zheng was quite unhappy with Long Tian in his heart.
The fact that Long Tian was younger than him wasn’t the main issue, loyalty to a lord had nothing to do with age.
What made him most unhappy was that his own mother and sister had both been taken as concubines…
It was a total humiliation!
If they were at least official wives, he wouldn’t be this furious!
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