Zhang Laosan was very straightforward on this issue, he said: "I'm just helping the barbarians to contact, this knife must be handed over to you to make." First, I don't have such good steel, and secondly, I know that those quenching skills are taught by Master Xiao Qin, how can I compete with Master Xiao Qin. ”

"Well, if you want to make a dagger, the steel and heat treatment process used must be different, different from what we did yesterday." Qin Hai said.

"Really?" Zhang Laosan was a little itchy again, "Master Xiao Qin, can you teach me at that time?" ”

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "These techniques are not secret techniques, but there are some methods of smelting metals that you can't do with your blacksmith furnace, so it's useless for you to learn these things." ”

"Uh-huh, I know." Zhang Laosan didn't insist, he knew that what Qin Hai said was the truth.

Qin Haidao: "Master Zhang, did you just say that that person wants a good knife, and he is willing to pay any amount." ”

Zhang Laosan said: "Yes, the barbarian told me that his nephew likes knives very much, and he paid a high price to ask someone to make this knife for him, so if you can make him a better knife, he is willing to pay some money." ”

"In that case, if I make him a good knife ten times stronger than those farm tools yesterday, I don't know what price he can get." Qin Hai smiled and threw out a bait.

"This ......" Zhang Laosan hesitated, the other party's request was only comparable to the brute shovel, but Qin Hai claimed that it could be ten times stronger than that shovel, what an artifact against the sky. And such an artifact must require an indispensable cost, is this something that the barbarian nephew can afford? For a moment, he began to regret that he had spoken too much earlier.

"Otherwise, Master Zhang, you ask Master Mangu to bring his nephew over, and we will talk face to face. How much money he can provide, we can ship, and we will definitely not let him suffer. Qin Hai said this later.

At this point, Zhang Laosan promised to let someone bring a message to the barbarian tomorrow to see if his nephew, who was a soldier, was willing to come to the county seat and communicate with Qin Hai and them face-to-face. After chatting about this matter, Zhang Laosan accompanied Qin Hai and them to drink for a while, talked some gossip, and then left in a hurry under the pretext that there was something else at home.

Seeing Zhang Laosan walking away, Ning Mo eagerly asked Qin Hai, "Qin Hai, do you plan to make money from that soldier?" ”

Qin Haidao: "Yes, isn't this an opportunity?" ”

Yu Haitao said: "How much money can a soldier have? Besides, this dagger should be the equipment distributed in their troops, how could he pay for it himself? ”

Qin Hai shook his head and said: "This dagger is not standard equipment, I have seen several military daggers, and it is not the same as his one." I thought to myself, this person must be an equipment fan, I don't know where to find someone to help me make such a dagger. A person like this will definitely not be able to open his legs when he sees good equipment, so it is not a problem for him to pay some money. ”

"But how much can you get for a dagger? 20？ 50？ Besides, people are soldiers, so it's not appropriate for us to kill people like this, right? Ning Mo said that he has always had some respect for soldiers, and he always felt that it was not good to go to a black soldier.

Qin Hai said with a smile: "You remember a sentence, it is called that everything is possible. Since we want to make money, we can't just stare at a few hoes, how much money can we make? I made an appointment to meet with the soldier, mainly to find out if there were any channels to contact the troops, and if I could make some small equipment for the troops, it would be much more profitable than making hoes and shovels. Don't worry, I'm not going to pit our troops, it's a win-win result. ”

"Qin Hai, how did your brain grow, why are you so smart?" Ning Mo looked at Qin Hai with adoring eyes, "I just want to ask him to give 10 yuan, and we will give him a dagger." You've set your eyes on the troops. However, the equipment of the troops is all made in military factories, and the skills of others are much stronger than those of our Qingfeng Factory. ”

Qin Haidao: "The ruler is short, the inch is long, we also have our strengths, not necessarily everything is worse than them." Don't worry, I'll have a way to convince them. ”

"That's natural, Qin Hai, as soon as you make a move, there is no reason why it can't be done." Ning Mo laughed, Qin Hai's self-confidence was also infectious.

"When you're full, where are you going?" Miao Lei put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked the three friends.

"Why don't you play cards? Fighting landlords, do you like Qin Hai? Yu Haitao asked in a flattering tone.

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "I haven't played cards for a long time, and I can't remember how the cards are played." By the way, isn't it a steel mill over here, so let's go to the steel mill while it's still dark. ”

"What's getting better at the steel mill? It's been closed for more than ten years. Yu Haitao said casually.

Ning Mo raised his hand and knocked on Yu Haitao's head, and said, "What do you know, Qin Hai said that when he wants to go around the steel plant, he must have a plan, how do you understand?" Right, Qin Hai? ”

Qin Haidao: "I don't have any specific ideas yet. However, I just heard you talk about this steel plant, and I was a little interested in it, so I wanted to go in and have a look while it was still early. ”

"Let's go, let's take a look." Ning Mo actively echoed.

The four of them stood up together, and under the leadership of Ning Mo, they walked towards the gate of the steel mill, more precisely, towards the gate of the steel mill ruins.

The Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant was built in an era of striving for the top, and it is the product of steel production exceeding that of Britain and the United States. After spending a lot of money to build it, the steel plant is facing the problem of shortage of raw materials and backward technology, and has been operating at a huge loss.

The main raw materials used to make steel are iron ore, coal and limestone. The latter two can be met locally in Pingyuan, but the first one has some difficulties. At that time, Pingyuan County organized a large number of people to search in various mountainous areas in the territory, but found some iron ore, but its grade is surprisingly low, and other elements doped in iron ore are very complex, and it is difficult to remove them during smelting, which seriously affects the quality of steel products.

In terms of technology, Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant is a typical "local method", all kinds of equipment are very backward, resulting in high production costs, and the price of locally produced cast iron and steel is actually higher than that of products from other provinces that have been transported over long distances.

In the spirit of slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, Pingyuan County stubbornly held this enterprise until the early 70s, and finally could not hold it anymore, so it had to announce that the factory was discontinued, and the original workers and cadres were transferred to various enterprises, leaving only a few people to guard this large area of the factory and the equipment that was gradually corroding.

In the early years, Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory also used the products of Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant under the high pressure of the county government, and the result was that Qingfeng Factory was almost dragged into the abyss. Later, Ning Zhongying went to the county to make a big fuss, and promised to compensate the steel factory with 5,000 yuan every year, on the condition that the county would no longer shoehorn the fake and shoddy products of steel into the Qingfeng factory. This was subsidized for several years until the steel mill closed.

Just now, when Ning Mo took Qin Hai to the stall at the gate of the steel mill to eat fried noodles, he had already told Qin Hai about the past and present life of the steel mill, of course, Ning Mo didn't know anything about some technical problems, and Qin Hai could only supplement it with his own imagination.

After listening to Ning Mo's introduction, Qin Hai has been thinking about this factory. He wanted to see if there was any potential for such an abandoned factory.

If there is a selection of materials that have contributed the most to human society, there is no doubt that steel should be ranked first. Maybe it's because steel is so common in people's lives that many people don't think it's worth paying attention to. But Qin Hai, as a materials expert, had studied steel the most in his previous life, and he had countless wisdom about steel in his head. What others can't find value may be able to become magical in his eyes.

"Where are you from?"

As soon as the group entered the gate of the steel mill, an old janitor came out of the gatehouse and shouted to them. The old man was wearing a faded old military uniform, and a red armband on his arm, which was quite like an old Red Guard, but unfortunately what he was holding in his hand was not made by Hanyang, but a stir-fry spoon that he didn't have time to put down.

Ning Mo replied with a big grin: "We are Qingfeng!" ”

Ning Mo and the others ran out to eat as soon as they got off work, so they didn't have time to change their work clothes, and each person's work clothes had a few small words on their chests, which couldn't be faked. The old man's gaze turned around the young men a few times, but his attitude was a little kinder, and he asked, "Why are you going?" ”

Ning Mo replied rather nonsensically: "Let's go in and go around and fall in love, okay?" ”

"You four...... Love? "The old man is a little messy, what kind of lineup is this.

Ning Mo stepped forward, took out a cigarette from his pocket, stuffed it into the old man's mouth without saying anything, and said with a smile: "Okay, old man Wang, the steel mill has been closed for decades, what else can be stolen?" You can rest assured, we just have nowhere to go when we are full, go around the factory, take a walk, and we will not steal. ”

The old man was defeated by Ning Mo's cigarette, he took the cigarette off his mouth, looked at the brand, and then carefully clamped it to his ear, ready to save it for a while and enjoy it slowly, while still muttering quietly in his mouth: "What's better about this broken factory...... You're really not here to steal iron? ”

"Are we stupid?" Ning Mo said disdainfully, "As for the iron lumps left in your factory, give them to me for free, I don't want them." Hurry up and stir-fry, I can smell the food in your pot burning. ”

"Just walk around, don't mess around!" The old man obviously smelled the burning smell coming from the guard's room, and hurriedly admonished him, and ran back to continue stir-frying.