Outside the blacksmith shop under the top of the big dragon, there were a few people standing, including Jia Lun, Judicial Zuo Liu Hanchang, Sicang Zuo Wei Jingye, Zuo Shi Wang Zhi and other officials of the county.

In addition, there is also Chu Zaishan, the commander who has just been transferred to the East China Sea.

Originally, there were no garrisons in the East China Sea to guard the border, that is, Haizhou, and there were not many guards, but there was only a town of soldiers and horses near the sea near Huairen County in the north, called Dishui Town.

Because of the waterway, if the Zhou soldiers invaded the south, they would definitely attack Shouzhou, Haozhou, Sizhou and other important towns in the south, and capture those cities, and most of the places in the north of the river would fall.

The East China Sea was sealed, and the Tang lord dispatched a fleet of soldiers and horses to listen to orders under the command of the East China Sea lord, although it was the Tang lord's favor to the East China Sea lord, and when the East China Sea lord's army had not yet been recruited, he guarded the territory for the East China Sea lord, but faintly, there was also a sense of surveillance.

Chu Zaishan's army was fifty heavy foot soldiers, quite well-trained.

Chu Zaishan, in fact, is a little helpless in his heart, he is tired from a pawn to the master, but he is above the battle array, he has always been the first soldier, holding a Mo knife and fighting it out with flesh and blood.

Now, he was sent such an idle errand, he was really depressed, but there was no way, who called no one on top.

And this small lord of the East China Sea Country is also really, alas, people can't say it.

In the past few days, I have been striking iron.

It's ridiculous, isn't it?

In the blacksmith shop, the furnace was blazing, and Lu Ning was shirtless, wielding a hammer to forge the red-hot flowing iron.

It was too hot in the blacksmith shop, and with the splashing of sparks, Liu Hanchang and other officials and Chu Zaishan could only wait outside.

Chu Zaishan, originally full of irritability, these days every day to meet the lord of the country, I heard that the lord of the country is striking iron, today simply came to this blacksmith shop and waiting.

However, looking at Lu Ning's figure striking iron, his expression gradually changed.

Seeing that in the iron shop, the little lord wielded a hammer, like a straw, but beating the red iron, but it was like a mechanical arm, it was so smooth and precise, the sponge was like the black impurities in the red iron, and as the sparks flew around, the black impurities seemed to be visible to the naked eye and were decreasing little by little.

This, what kind of magic skill is this? Is this how Ou Yezi, Ganjiang, and Mo Ye are forged?

Chu Zaishan was horrified in his heart, although he was not a blacksmith, he knew a little bit about the way of striking iron.

Seeing that the quick-iron was heated and burned red again and again, this small country took the initiative to act as if it were some kind of machine, and it continued to repeat, gradually, a few hours passed, and the sky was almost dark, and the lord of the country seemed to not know that he was tired, and he was already dumbfounded.

Although I heard that this small lord was sealed because he shot the lord of Zhou, but the lord of Zhou was ambushed, who shot him to death? It's just shit luck.

But now, Chu Zaishan's eyes flickered, and his heart was terrified, this small country lord, divine power?!

He thought of the rumors in the past few days, and listened to Liu Zuoshi say that the small country master had repaired the cylinder car on the Linhong River, and was preparing to build a few more cylinder cars.

Moreover, this small lord seems to have experience in farming, so he asked someone to dig a fermentation tank to ferment and accumulate fertilizer.

These, Chu Zaishan originally thought that it was just the subordinates of the small lord who were patting on the back, but now that he looks at it, he is afraid, he is afraid that these rumors may not be false!

Looking at the figure of the young lord in the blacksmith shop, Chu Zaishan's face gradually became solemn.

……

Finally, Lu Ning's movements suddenly stopped.

Then, it's time to cool.

Soon the blacksmith shop was full of white smoke, and it was impossible to see inside.

"It's finally done!" Lu Ning walked out laughing.

He was sweating profusely, and he couldn't see his muscular upper body, and it was like rain.

In this world, I always feel that I have no place to vent my strength, but in the past few days, I have vented enough, although I am extremely tired, but it is so comfortable.

There were more than a dozen blacksmiths behind Lu Ning, looking at Lu Ning's back, they were all shocked and admired, this lord of the country could simply be the ancestor of the blacksmith.

"Recast and forged! It is the misunderstanding of our iron smelting, and it is a good craftsman who will become less and less. ”

Lu Ning said with a sigh.

Everyone didn't know the meaning of Lu Ning's words, but Liu Hanchang and other officials naturally nodded yes.

Lu Ning felt that iron-smelting China has been leading the world since ancient times, and iron-casting has been leading Europe for hundreds of years, but it is precisely because of the emergence of iron-casting that the production of pig iron has greatly increased the amount of iron, and it can be used to produce ironware, which has made Huaxia iron-smelting have a misunderstanding.

However, for elite weapons, for high-quality armor, and even for the barrels of firearms in rudiments, it is indispensable to repeatedly forge high-quality steel.

With the technical level now and even hundreds of years later, ironmaking can only be complicated forging, the so-called thousands of tempers! In order to remove part of the carbon content and other impurities in the iron, high-quality steel can be obtained.

The iron casting in China is often an official monopoly, producing weapons, and paying attention to large-scale production, which is certainly an advantage, but from another point of view, it is also a disadvantage.

Europe is different, they only have the children of the nobility can use good armor and good weapons, so the craftsmen will repeatedly forge the best steel, generation after generation, the skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, in fact, since the Song Dynasty, in terms of the forging of fine steel, China has gradually lagged behind the West and the Arab region.

And to make the barrel of a firearm, it is necessary to use this kind of refined iron.

Ganjia Village, he has already asked people to buy earth nitrate, sulfur charcoal, etc., just look at how much explosive impulse of gunpowder can be contained when the barrel is molded with iron casting after he gradually becomes familiar with the rhythm of iron-striking in this world.

But I don't feel very optimistic.

Maybe in the future, more attention will be paid to the improvement of cold weapons.

"Good knives!" Chu Zaishan suddenly shouted, ran over, and suddenly picked up Lu Ning's cooled Mo knife.

In the past few days, Lu Ning has been tempered a lot, and he is building this Mo knife,

Chu Zaishan held the freshly baked Mo knife, his eyes were blue, and he said in his heart that if I had such an artifact, everyone would have such an artifact, and I was afraid that the combat power would be doubled immediately.

This Mo knife is slightly lighter than the Mo knife of Chu Zaishan's commander, but the blade is extremely sharp, and the handle is extremely comfortable to hold.

Such a divine soldier, Chu Zaishan's heart sighed, and he was speechless.

Looking at Chu Zaishan who was eager to lick the knife in his hand a few times, Gan Erlang scratched his head, but remembered that when he just saw the screws a few days ago, he also had a similar expression, and he could imagine how convenient the craftsmen would be in the future, and how some unsolvable technical problems would be solved.

"You are Chu Zaishan? Good! It's powerful to look at! Today I am the east, let's eat big fish and meat! Lu Ning waved his hand, some experiments finally came to fruition, and he was very happy in his heart.

For example, screws, he relied on his precise control of strength skills, but he created some molds, so that ordinary blacksmiths here can cast screws, of course, compared to the screws of later generations, these pig iron screws cast by ordinary blacksmiths, the quality is one day and the next, and the threads are very rough and easy to rust, but, can also be used?

In addition, Lu Ning also used his own forged steel to create some axes, chisels, planers and other tools used by carpenters, especially planers, which are much easier to use than the planers used by carpenters now.

Repair cylinder car, these tools are very handy.

The improvement of some agricultural tools can also provide some ideas for themselves.

Thinking about it, it's almost all about what you have to do, and the rest, those blacksmith apprentices are slowly pondering.

Otherwise, if you rely on yourself for everything, you won't be able to finish striking iron in your life.

The heart was happy, Lu Ning took Chu Zaishan, Gan Erlang and Zhuxu officials to the house of a craftsman at the foot of the mountain, and ordered the craftsman to sell wine, make some game, and feast, these days, he is very familiar with these craftsmen, of course, the craftsmen, but no one dares to think that he is familiar with the lord of the country in his heart.

Nowadays, the official documents of this county have conveyed to the villages of various fangs, cities, and villages, the closure of the East China Sea, and the fact that the lord of the country is Lu Ning, which has been known to the whole county.

Lu Ning didn't eat much of the fragrant beast meat, but the wine was dry, and he drank it to the fullest.

All the officials didn't dare to speak.

Chu Zaishan is also a little restrained, this young country lord, the grade is almost thirty levels higher than him, he began to feel that this little country lord was a blind cat who killed a mouse to get the merit of greed, and now he doesn't think so, and his heart is even more awe-inspiring.

"The first is really amazing, the villain wants to know, is there anything else you don't understand?" After a few rounds, the reporter Jia Lun was slightly drunk and asked helplessly.

Lu Ning said with a smile: "I don't know a lot, I just like to ponder everything, and I think about it blindly." ”

"First, what are your plans for the future?" With the intention of drinking, Chu Zaishan asked with a half-truthful smile.

Lu Ning was slightly stunned, these words were actually a bit shallow and deep, after all, this Chu was in the mountain, and it was the first time he had seen it.

It seems that these warriors are a little lacking in heart.

Is there such a cliché?

In his previous life, the most honest and honest fool in his action team was not like this?

However, officialdom and the culture of the upper and lower classes were indeed played to the extreme in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and in their own era, they were even more refined.

pondering, his hand suddenly pointed out the paper window, where there were some craftsmen's children, all of them with extremely thin faces, gathered together, each biting their fingers, as if smelling the smell of meat wafting from the house.

"It's not a matter of planning! If there is a small goal, it is that these children under my control will be able to eat meat in the future! ”

Chu Zaishan almost squirted out a mouthful of old wine.

All the officials immediately said a flood of words, what kind of lord is merciful and righteous, what is the heart of the common people, and so on.

However, obviously no one thinks that this is Lu Ning's sincere words, and it is nothing more than the official words of the superiors.

Lu Ning smiled slightly, didn't explain much, picked up the cup, and motioned for a few people to drink.