Da Wei Chun

Chapter 102 Unexpectedly
Four words popped out of Li Song's mind immediately: magic weapons...

He asked in surprise: "Lang Jun, how can you be so powerful?"

Nonsense, there are patterns all over the body of the knife, and naturally there are also patterns on the cutting edge.This is equivalent to forming extremely fine serrations on the cutting edge, just like a steak knife, the hell is bad.

But you can't see it with the naked eye, you have to touch it with your hands to feel it.

"It's so beneficial..."

Li Chengzhi explained lazily, but asked impatiently, "Just how much can you sell?"

"Erlang's snowflake steel knife is worth about ten catties of copper, and it is twenty jin of corn... This knife is far sharper than that one, and it doesn't look twice as good. At least it should be exchanged for twenty catties of copper up..."

Halfway through, Li Song gritted his teeth again, feeling distressed in his heart, "My lord, why are you selling such a treasure?"

As bold and unrestrained as Li Jiaerlang, he regarded that Snowflake Knife as his lifeline, and he said more than once that it should be passed down as a family heirloom, let alone this one?
A real treasure handed down from generation to generation...

Li Chengzhi glared at him.

This is Li Song's miser's temper, and when he sees something good, he wants to hug him.

Why not sell?
Whether it is cavalry or infantry, the main weapon is a spear. Even if a horizontal knife is used, a carbon steel forged one is completely sufficient. It is nothing more than a bit sharper to replace it with a Damascus knife.

And such a knife can be exchanged for nearly fifty stones?
Li Chengzhi's brain is swollen so he doesn't sell it?
"It's better to sell it, even if there is no shortage of food for the time being, it would be good to come back with some war horses..."

One can be exchanged for two or three horses, at least another three hundred war horses have been obtained.

He handed the knife to Li Song: "Go to the cobbler, hurry up and make a good scabbard... remember to go to my room and get a few of those glazed beads, put them on the handle and scabbard, and try to sell them well Price……"

The colored glaze that Li Chengzhi mentioned is actually glass, which was fired from quartz sand during the time when he made steel on the mountain.

This thing is not high-tech, much easier than steelmaking.At that time, there were too many people on the mountain, so Li Chengzhi only tried it once and burned some experimental products.

He can't blow it, let alone shape it, so of course he can only cut some glass beads to play with, they are not very round.

It's pretty good-looking, and I have copper and iron at hand. With only these two, Li Chengzhi can match five or six colors such as red, yellow, purple, and green...

Seeing Li Song baring his teeth, looking like he had cut his heart, Li Chengzhi reprimanded him a few more words, and threw Li Song into a scabbard. Li Chengzhi took the old blacksmith and his three sons, and taught them how to scabbard. Refined Damascus steel.

Like those two doctors, the father and son are already the core figures in Li Chengzhi's small group, and they are not afraid of leaking secrets from them...

In addition to temperature control, there are many details that need to be paid attention to. Li Chengzhi can only demonstrate and guide himself, and even sleep directly in the shed.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and the day and night's hard work was not in vain. There were two furnaces in total, and the two steel ingots were branded with dazzling patterns.

Not much, only about ten catties per furnace, mainly because Li Chengzhi was afraid that the crucible would be too large and the iron material would be heated unevenly, so he purposely made it smaller.

However, a total of six to seven hundred catties of manganese-containing iron materials were smelted by four people in two furnaces, and the smelting was finished in half a month...

The next step is forging into weapons.

The process is much simpler than ironmaking with wrought iron blocks, but the difficulty lies in the furnace temperature during tempering.

Before you have accumulated enough experience and don't know how to look at the color of fire, you can only try with copper bars.

As for the vegetable oil, mutton oil and other things used in the fire, it is not a big deal, it is enough to temper more than a hundred knives...

After Li Chengzhi finished explaining to the old blacksmith, Li Song also came back.

Holding a four-foot wooden box in his hand, with tigers and eagles carved on it, it has a somewhat ferocious look.

Before he got there, Li Chengzhi smelled a faint scent of pine, and he knew it was produced overnight.

I didn't realize that Li Song was quite good at it, knowing how to make a secondary knife box...

While he was admiring in his heart, Li Song opened the lid of the box, and when he saw the glass beads on the scabbard, Li Chengzhi couldn't laugh or cry again.

Sure enough, a miser...

I told him to take two more, but he really only took two?

There is a red one on the handle of the knife, a yellow one on the scabbard, and there is no other half.

If you want to give it to Li Chengzhi, you have to create a Big Dipper array on both sides of him...

He sighed secretly, closed the knife case: "Go back to the city!"

Li Song didn't know much about the market, so he had to let Guo Cunxin and Hu Baozong see how much to sell...

……

The sky was already bright and cloudless.

There is some humidity in the cool wind, and there is some earthy smell.

After leaving Zhuangzi, you can see the villagers working in the fields.

It was only five days after the shock, and there was still half a month before planting millet and bean (bean), but the ground had thawed and the soil could be plowed and loosened.

In the huge field, there are many people densely packed, most of them are cows, horses, donkeys, and mules with plows, and people are supporting them behind.

This is not because there are too many livestock in Chaona County, but because Li Chengzhi borrowed all the hundreds of rough horses used to pull carts in the army.

As long as the family is drafted into the army, if you have no money, you can borrow money, if you have no one, you can borrow people, if you have no cattle, you can borrow horses...

All of a sudden, the gates of the barracks outside the city were about to be crushed?

But Li Chengzhi was not very satisfied.

Without it, although they are all young and strong, they are not the tribe of the big clan he expected.

The five hundred cavalry he had originally envisioned were only three hundred now.

This also includes more than 70 veterans of the Li family, more than 30 fortresses from the Song family, and more than [-] Taoist soldiers from Taiping Temple.

That is to say, Hu Baozong begged around eagerly, not to mention borrowing armor, and even Baoding didn't borrow enough for eighty.

Li Chengzhi didn't expect such a result, he was angry and laughed.

Chaona is a large county with 26 parties (similar to a village, with more than 150 households per party), of which [-] parties have Wubao. Not to mention that every fort has twice as many castles as the Li family. According to the regulations of the imperial court, there are fifty armored soldiers in each castle, and there are seven hundred pieces in total.

But Hu Baozong only borrowed one-tenth of it?

This is not just about not giving Hu Baozong face, but directly pressing his face on the ground and rubbing it...

It can be seen how disappointed these powerful families have been with the Hu family of Jingzhou and the governor Hu Shichang?

From an objective standpoint, Li Chengzhi can only say that he deserved it.

But the question is, does he still count on these veterans to fight?
If the big clan really didn't want to send troops, wouldn't they stop fighting this battle?

Li Chengzhi was already on the verge of riding a tiger, and he couldn't allow him to give up halfway...

In desperation, he could only make two preparations:
On the one hand, Guo Cunxin is invited to go out, in the name of "protecting the family and the country, and sending troops together", to see if he can persuade the tycoon.

On the other hand, young and strong civilian children should be recruited as soon as possible...

(End of this chapter)