Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 442 The Iron Smelting Method
What Momen lacks most is top craftsmen.

Under Ziying's order, iron mining and smelting in Yue County developed rapidly.

When Ziying went to Yue County two months later, he had already smelted a formed iron sword.

Nanyue Ancient Luo City has now become the county seat of Yue County, and Zhong Ziying in Ancient Luo City is holding an iron sword newly refined by Momen and looking at it carefully.

"General Ren, what do you think of this iron sword?" After examining it confidently, Ziying handed the iron sword in his hand to Ren Xiao who was with him.

The Six Kingdoms mostly used iron swords, but on the battlefield, the iron swords of the Six Kingdoms were no match for Qin's bronze swords. In Ren Xiao's opinion, iron was only suitable for making some agricultural tools, not swords at all.

Although Ren Xiao didn't quite understand why Ziying insisted on casting the sword with iron, he took it as he said.

Ren Xiao took the iron sword in his hand, and his first reaction was that the iron sword was useless!
It's not that he has never seen iron swords before, but most of the iron swords he saw before were less than two feet long, but this iron sword was at least two and a half feet long at first glance.

You must know that the bronze sword that Qin Jun used to traverse the world is only this length, and the iron sword is absolutely crunchy at this length.

Most of today's iron weapons are mostly made of pig iron, which has a high carbon content. Modern people know that high carbon content makes the iron more brittle and cannot withstand fierce confrontation.

"King Qin, this iron sword is probably useless." Seeing this, Ren Xiao said directly to Ziying: "Although this iron sword has been tempered to more than two feet, but the iron sword is easy to break if it wants to grow. I'm afraid this sword should only be used as a decoration."

Ren Xiao belittled the iron sword that the Mo Sect disciple worked so hard to forge as an ornament, and the Mo Sect disciple who brought the sword was a little annoyed when he heard it.

"General Ren, the iron sword refined by my Momen can't be compared with ordinary iron swords!"

As the No. [-] figure in the Nanyue Qin Army, Ren Xiao had long known that the group of "helpers" summoned by the King of Qin were from the Mo sect, but Ziying was his great benefactor, so naturally there was no reason to make a small report. Moreover, he has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom for many years, and he naturally knows what to say and what not to say.

"This kind of iron sword can be cut off with a single stroke of my Qin Jun's bronze sword. What is it if it's not an ornament?" Ren Xiao replied confidently when he heard the words of the Momen disciple.

The criterion for judging whether a weapon is good or bad is naturally practice. Seeing that the two are arguing, Ziying can only let the two of them fight with real swords and guns.

"You are holding this sword." Ren Xiao handed the iron sword to the disciple of the Mo Sect who brought the sword, and ordered another Qin Jun to hand over a bronze sword, holding the bronze sword and slashing at the iron sword.

"Boring~" There was a sound of gold and iron clanging, and a scene that surprised Ren Xiao appeared. This iron sword was actually the same as the bronze sword in his hand, only a small gap appeared, and it was not broken!
As a general of the Qin army, Ren Xiao once fought against the armies of the six nations holding iron swords when he was young. In his memory, the iron swords of the armies of the six nations were not only short but also in the confrontation with the bronze sword of the Qin army. It is easy to break when it is intense.

Ren Xiao, who didn't believe in evil, slashed against him several times in a series of "boring boring boring", except for a few more gaps in the two swords, the iron sword was still not broken.

"My Momen's smelting skills are far inferior even to the Qi State's Examination and Industry Administration." The Momen disciple said triumphantly looking at Ren Xiao with an incredible expression on his face.

"King Qin, this iron sword should be forged vigorously." Ren Xiao said to Ziying after recovering.

Momen was able to forge an iron sword equivalent to Qin's bronze sword, which shows that the Qin army's weapons can completely replace bronze swords with iron swords in the future. Although the quality is similar, one is US dollars and the other is evil gold. Much worse, the cost of making a bronze sword can make several iron swords.

"You try again with mine." Just when the Momen disciple was full of joy, Ziying's words immediately turned him into a bitter face.

Just because what Ziying handed over turned out to be his Longyuan Sword!
One of Juzi's sabers is the Longyuan Sword. Although not many people know about this in Momen, as one of the new generation masters of Momen, he naturally knows it.

This was forged from extraterrestrial meteorite!

As he expected, Ren Xiao took Longyuan Sword and the newly smelted iron sword to fight, accompanied by a crisp sound, the iron sword - broke.

"What a sword that cuts iron like mud." Ren Xiao sighed in admiration and reluctantly handed Long Yuan back to Ziying.

As a general who has experienced many battles, he naturally has little resistance to a magic weapon like Long Yuan, but such a magic weapon is hard to come by.

I am afraid that there are not many in the whole world.

Ziying took the broken iron sword and inspected it carefully, and he also roughly understood the current level of Momen's iron smelting technology.

The iron swords cast by Momen are still not out of the category of pig iron. However, under the urging of generations of master craftsmen of Momen, they should have made some progress, reducing the carbon content in pig iron to increase its toughness It has increased its practicality to the level of Qin Jun's bronze sword.

However, Ziying knows that the limit of iron is far more than that, his Longyuan sword is also iron in essence, but its carbon content is in a reasonable range, so it can be called steel.

"What's your name?" Ziying asked the Momen disciple.

"Hui Juzi, my name is Mochen." The young man replied.

"Mochen?" Ziying was stunned when he heard that, and one of the elders of the Linzi headquarters of the Momen called Mochen. When he first went to Linzi, it was the Momen headquarters that Elder Mochen led him to visit.

However, Elder Mo Chen passed away a few years ago due to his advanced age.

"What is your relationship with Elder Mo Chen?"

"Mo Chen was originally a pseudonym, and when my family ancestor died, he bestowed Mo Chen's life on me, and asked me to be the dust of Mo Sect."

It turns out that this young man is the grandson of Elder Mo Chen, no wonder he has such superb smelting technology.

"I have a task for you." Ziying said to Mo Chen with a broken sword in his hand, "Go back and melt the iron you smelted and keep stirring it.

Calculate the time period, take some condensate from time to time, and use it to recast the sword. "

"Dare to ask the giant, why is this?" Mo Chen asked Ziying's order.

Mo Chen didn't quite understand Ziying's order. He melted the iron, stirred it constantly, and then took some of the solidified iron to forge the sword again. Isn't that superfluous?

However, Ziying smiled inscrutablely: "You just do what I say, and remember when the sword forged by solidification is the sharpest."

"Promise!" Although I don't understand why Juzi asked them to do useless work, orders are orders, and Momen's execution ability is also reflected in Juzi's supreme authority.

When Mo Chen retreated, Ren Xiao came up with a puzzled expression.

"King Qin, what is the meaning of this move?"

"General Ren, can my Longyuan be considered good?" Ziying asked.

"The peerless sword."

"This way of casting a sword, even if it can't be compared with Long Yuan, the method is almost the same." Ziying replied with a smile.

Ziying’s method, in the eyes of modern people, is really simple. Isn’t it just that the carbon content is high, the iron is burned and stirred continuously, so that the carbon and some impurities in it are continuously reacted with the air to oxidize.

This is also the rudimentary form of the steel frying method that appeared in the Han Dynasty, but Ziying is not sure about the timing of this time. Over time, pig iron may be smelted into soft wrought iron after smelting to the end.

So Ziying can only request that Mo Chen and the others try to take iron in different time periods, and try to find the best time.

(End of this chapter)