"Oh? I'll give it a try! ”

Inside the workshop office building.

Li Zexuan took a sword made of vanadium steel, looked at it seriously for a moment, and couldn't help but exclaim: "The sword body is slender, the blade is like autumn frost, the cold light is dignified, and it has a very textured feeling in the hand, just by virtue of this appearance, it is already better than 95% of the swords on the market!" Not bad! This sword-forging craftsman has very good skills, and he should be rewarded! ”

Li Zexuan nodded with satisfaction, and at this time, he took an iron rod from the corner of the wall behind the door, this iron rod was made of pure iron, and there was no charcoal added to it, and it was not even steel. In fact, although there was steelmaking technology in ancient times, steelmaking technology was only available in some steelmaking workshops and prisons controlled by the imperial court, and most of the iron tools used in people's daily life were pure iron, and there was very little steel!

Li Zexuan picked up the vanadium steel sword, waved it lightly, did not use internal force, and slashed at the iron rod so casually, only to hear the sound of the sword "clang", and left a sword mark about three millimeters deep on the iron rod!

This is already quite remarkable, after all, he just waved it lightly and casually, if he really used all his strength, or even used internal force, then he was sure to use this vanadium steel sword to cut off the iron rod in his hand at once!

This level of sharpness, although not as sharp as his wind-chasing sword, is far more than the sword blade of this era!

Li Zexuan turned around and looked at a piece of vanadium steel armor that Wang Ji was holding, this was a Mingguang armor, the origin of the word "Mingguang armor" is said to be related to the round protection on the chest and back. Because most of this round protection is made of metals such as copper and iron, and the polished aurora resembles a mirror. Wearing the bright light armor on the battlefield, due to the sun's irradiation, it will emit a dazzling "bright light", hence the name bright light armor.

The origin of Mingguang armor is very early, in the Three Kingdoms period has been, the Sui and Tang dynasties are most commonly used is Mingguang armor and two crotch grotch, two crotch crotch armor in the shape of fish scales and other shapes of small armor braiding, the length has been extended to the abdomen, replacing the leather armor skirt before the Sui Dynasty. The hem of the body armor is a meniscus-shaped, lotus-shaped nail plate to protect the lower abdomen. These improvements greatly enhance the defense from the waist down.

In addition to these two types of armor, the Tang Dynasty also developed many new types of armor, according to the "Tang Liudian" records, there are also light to behold, fine scales, mountain inscriptions, bird hammers, white cloth, soap juan, cloth back, infantry, leather armor, wooden armor, chains, vests and other twelve kinds. Among them, the light armor, the chain, the mountain script, the bird hammer, and the fine scale armor are iron armor, and the last three are named after the style of the armor armor plate. Leather armor, wooden armor, white cloth, soap, and cloth back are named after the materials used to make them.

"The style of this Mingguang armor is very good, couldn't the craftsman who built it have been in the general supervisor or the Ministry of Works before?"

Li Zexuan touched the smooth surface of the armor and asked softly.

Wang Ji replied with a smile: "The mountain chief has a good eye!" The craftsman who created this Mingguang armor is named Zhang Hongsheng, and his father is Zhang Yajiu, who was a famous master who will be a supervisor before, with qualifications. The skills are not under Yan Shangshu, but he is now older, retired from prison, and inherited his father's business, Zhang Hongsheng inherited Zhang Yajiu's sword-casting and armor-casting skills, although he only inherited fifty or sixty percent, but he is the most skilled sword-casting and armor-casting master in the workshop! ”

"Zhang Yajiu~?"

When Li Zexuan first heard this name, he still felt a little familiar, and after muttering it twice, he suddenly turned pale and said in shock: "Zhang Yajiu? Mr. Wang, are you saying that this Zhang Hongsheng's father is Zhang Yajiu? Zhang Yajiu has been in prison before? Have you also been a colleague with Yan Shangshu? ”

Zhang Yajiu, the most famous sword-casting master in the Tang Dynasty, the nine swords of the crows cast by him, ranked fourteenth in the list of ancient and modern weapons in China, the famous poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote a poem specifically for the nine swords, called "Crow Nine Swords", the poem wrote: "After the death of Ou Zhizi for a thousand years, the elves secretly taught Zhang Yajiu, the crows nine cast the sword in Wu Mountain, and the gods borrowed from the sky and the sun. ”

In the poem, Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-forging skills were taught by Ou Yezi thousands of years ago when he sent elves to secretly teach.

As for who Ou Yezi is, this person who must have a little historical common sense knows that Ou Yezi is the originator of ancient Chinese sword casting, the founder of Longquan Sword, Ou Yezi was born at the time of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty countries dispute, first Wu State broke through Chu State, and then Wu Yue successively annexed 45 countries south of the Yangtze River. As a teenager, he learned metallurgy from his maternal uncle and began to smelt bronze swords and iron hoes, axes and other production tools. He discovered the difference between the properties of copper and iron, and smelted and forged the first iron sword, "Seven Star Dragon Yuan", referred to as Long Yuan Sword. In the Tang Dynasty, because of the avoidance of the ancestor Li Yuan, the word "yuan" was changed to the word "spring", and it was called "Seven Star Dragon Spring", referred to as Longquan sword, which created a precedent for cold weapons in China.

And Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-casting skills were taught by Ou Yezi with elves, which shows that Zhang Yajiu's sword-casting skills are superb!

However, there is almost no record of Zhang Yajiu's life and deeds in the history books, and only one or two can be inferred from some ancient poems, about his birth date and resume, there is nowhere to check, Li Zexuan didn't expect to hear about Zhang Yajiu's deeds in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and this old brother once actually used to be a prisoner as an emperor, how could he not be shocked?

"The mountain chief also knows Zhang Yajiu? Hehe! Zhang Yajiu is very famous for forging swords, and it is normal for Hou Ye to know him! This person did stay in prison for a period of time, and now when the saint was still the king of Qin, he loved swords, and he heard that Zhang Yajiu's sword-casting skills were extremely exquisite, so he sent someone to invite Zhang Yajiu to go out of the mountain to cast swords, but at that time Zhang Yajiu was arrogant and directly refused His Majesty's request.

But the saint is broad-minded, and he is not annoyed, but he personally visited the door, and under the three visits to the thatched house, Zhang Yajiu finally agreed to go out of the mountain and enter the general as a prisoner on duty, His Majesty's current sword is cast by Zhang Yajiu! ”

Wang Ji explained with a smile.

Li Zexuan nodded suddenly, he didn't expect that there was such a past in this, suddenly, he felt that something was wrong, so he asked: "Zhang Yajiu is not only a famous sword forger, but also respected by today's saints, so even if he is old now, he will retire from the prison officer, but at least he can have no worries about food and clothing?" How did you let your son come to work in our workshop? ”

Wang Ji frowned, and couldn't help but say, "What do you mean by this, Mountain Chief?" Could it be that the craftsmen come to our workshop all for money? Isn't it permissible for people to come because of their own hobbies and to realize their own ideals? ”

Lao Wang was obviously hurt by Li Zexuan's words, thinking that he is now the head of the chemistry department of Yanhuang Academy, and his salary is quite a lot every month, he is not short of money, isn't he also busy in the workshop every day? He's just for the ideal!

Li Zexuan knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his face was embarrassed, and he hurriedly said, "Ahem! Mr. Wang, I didn't mean that, I mean that since Zhang Hongsheng's father was a master master of the prison before, why didn't he recommend Zhang Hongsheng to be the supervisor on duty, but would allow his son to come to our workshop to work? ”

Hearing this, Lao Wang stretched his brows and said: "This mountain chief has to ask the Fu Steward, this Zhang Hongsheng was recruited by the Fu Steward, and the old man doesn't know the specific situation!" ”

"Huh! This Zhang Hongsheng was personally invited by the old man, when the old man told him, there are countless good sword casting materials in our workshop, as long as he can come, all the materials can be called by him, Zhang Hongsheng is like his father, he loves to cast swords, and when he heard the old man's condition, he readily agreed! ”

Just then, Fauber walked in from outside, talking as he went.

Apparently, he had just been outside the house for a while listening to the "corner"!

After hearing this, Li Zexuan immediately felt a little funny, and he said: "Dare to love Fubo only used some materials, and recruited a master of cultivation for the workshop!" Terrible! Terrible! ”

This is from the bottom of the heart, Li Zexuan, who was born in engineering, values technology and talents the most, as long as you have technology, money is not a problem, materials or something, it is not a problem!

If all the technical talents in this world can be recruited with some materials like Zhang Hongsheng, Li Zexuan thinks that there are too many people, let's recruit 3,000 people first!

Fu Bo smiled bitterly, and said a little helplessly: "Young master, don't you know how much material this Zhang Hongsheng costs, every time the workshop gets good sword casting materials, he is scrambling to get it, if you don't give it, you will lose your trust, give it, and it will affect the task you give to the young master, just now, he ran over and asked the old man if there is a new type of steel called vanadium steel in the workshop, let the old man allocate two hundred catties to him first, he wants to practice swords!"

The old man knew that this vanadium steel was refined by the young master with the vanadium ore that he had obtained so hard, how could he give it to him, no? He began to make a fuss at the old man's place, saying that the old man did not believe his words! The old man had no choice but to come over to the young master for help! ”

Li Zexuan couldn't help laughing and said, "Haha! Give it to him! Give him two hundred pounds! Doesn't this Zhang Hongsheng like refining weapons? I happen to have a new set of armor here, and I need him to help build it~! Song Xiaosi, you go to Fu Bo's place and invite Zhang Hongsheng over~! ”

"Yes! Master~! ”

Song Xiaosi answered, and hurriedly ran out.

After a while, under the leadership of Song Xiaosi, a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old shirtless man walked in from outside.

"Zhang Hongsheng see Hou Ye!"

Walking into the office, Song Xiaosi tugged on Zhang Hongsheng's sleeve, and then secretly pointed at Li Zexuan, and then Zhang Hongsheng saluted Li Zexuan.

"No need to be polite!"

Li Zexuan smiled slightly, stepped forward to help Zhang Hongsheng up, and then asked, "I heard that you asked Fu Bo for two hundred catties of vanadium steel?" ”

Zhang Hongsheng's heart tightened, and then he saw that Fu Bo was still standing in the room, and in an instant, he figured out the key in his heart, thinking that Fu Bo was suing him for his black state, so he was a little angry and said: "Hou Ye, when Zhang entered this workshop, the Fu Steward promised me, as long as I want the rare sword casting materials, I can try to satisfy me, and now I have just entered the workshop for only three months, does Hou Ye want to let the Fu Steward break his promise?" ”

Seeing that this guy was stalking his neck, staring at his eyes, and looking like he was going to find someone to fight, Fu Bo hurriedly frowned and reprimanded: "Zhang Hongsheng, in front of the Hou Ye, you must not be rude!" Besides, no one wants to take your account for it! ”

"Huh! Fauber, it's okay! Anyway! ”

Li Zexuan waved his hand, not angry at all, since ancient times, people who are very skilled often have a bad temper, for this kind of person, Li Zexuan is very patient.

When Zhang Hongsheng heard the second half of Fu Bo's words, he was stunned for a moment, not bad money? That means that Li Zexuan called him over to give him vanadium steel?

Thinking of this, Zhang Hongsheng immediately changed his face, and arched his hand towards Li Zexuan: "Hou Ye forgives his sins, Zhang is in a hurry, and he contradicts Hou Ye, and I hope that Hou Ye will forgive his sins!" ”

Li Zexuan smiled and said, "It's okay!" The two hundred catties of vanadium steel you asked for from the Fu steward before, Ben Hou approved, and you will go to the steel mill to get it in a while! ”

"Thank you, Master Hou~!"

Zhang Hongsheng was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed his hand.

At the same time, he said in his heart that this young little marquis is still very easy to speak!

Zhang Hongsheng more than two months ago, after being "seduced" to the workshop by Fu Bo, he has been immersed in the blacksmith workshop of the workshop to study the way of sword casting, and he has never seen Li Zexuan, even if he did, no one introduced him to him, and he didn't know him, today is his first meeting with Li Zexuan.

In the morning, Wang Ji handed him a batch of new steel and asked him to build three swords and three pairs of armor.

But inadvertently, he found that the texture of this steel was so hard that he had only seen it in his life, so, out of curiosity, he personally worked on the swords and armor in Li Zexuan's office.

Of course, the sword that was finally built, its sharpness also made him quite satisfied, when Wang Ji went to him in the afternoon to "pick up the goods", he couldn't help but ask Wang Ji what kind of steel it was, and after learning that it was vanadium steel, he ran to Fubo to ask for materials!

So, there is such a farce.

"Ben Hou has long admired Ling Zun's name, I heard that Hongsheng you are forging a sword, quite a Ling Zun true inheritance, Ben Hou has a sword here, how about you come to help see?"

Li Zexuan saw Zhang Hongsheng's happy face, and said in his heart that this technical talent is not so difficult to handle, in order to take advantage of the victory and pursue, he untied the long sword on his waist, and then said to Zhang Hongsheng.

Zhang Hongsheng was a little disappreciative in his heart, and secretly said that you are a rich and noble marquis, what good sword can you have?

However, in order to be able to get the vanadium steel as soon as possible, he still cooperated: "Obey!" Please also borrow the sword to take a look! ”

"Whoa! Here you go! ”

A wicked smile appeared at the corner of Li Zexuan's mouth, and with the scabbard, he threw it to Zhang Hongsheng so "lightly".

Zhang Hongsheng saw that Li Zexuan threw it so casually, so he guessed that the sword was very light, so he also casually took the sword with one hand.

As a result, he was tragic in the blink of an eye!

"Ouch~!"

When the Wind Chasing Sword just hit Zhang Hongsheng's hand, Zhang Hongsheng realized that something was wrong, but at this time, even if he wanted to catch the sword with both hands, it was too late, he could only watch his body, and was "brought" by the Wind Chasing Sword to fall down, seeing that his whole person was about to be planted to the ground, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in front of him, and then a hand pinched his shoulder, preventing him from planting further!

But it was Li Zexuan who dodged, came to him, and supported him!

"Oops! Brother Zhang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Ben Hou forgot to tell you, this sword has a lot of weight, and it frightens you! ”

Li Zexuan hurriedly apologized.

This apology immediately made Zhang Hongsheng's face red, and he waved his hand with shame: "It's Zhang who is shallow, and he didn't know that there is such a small but extremely heavy sword in this world!" No wonder Master Hou! Zhang, this is a sword for Hou Ye! ”

After that, Zhang Hongsheng's heart was also full of surprise, and secretly said What kind of strange sword is this sword? In terms of size and size, it is no different from an ordinary sword, but why is it so heavy? At the very least, this sword is three to four times heavier than a normal sword!

It was precisely because of this that he was caught off guard just now, and he was almost "brought" by this sword and fell to the ground!

After all, he couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, Zhang Hongsheng stood up straight, and slowly pulled out the wind chasing sword from the scabbard, and suddenly, he was stunned!

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