Chapter 177: Long Knife

The next is grinding, the grinding of high-grade knives can be called an art, the grinding stone is divided into countless kinds, the high-grade green slurry stone, a piece is worth several times, and the period is as long as three months, which is really slow work out of fine work.

The second forest department only has a grinding wheel and belt grinder that is transported from Meishan, so it can only produce practical knives.

However, today is a test of steel, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

Soon, an unpretentious long knife with a hemp oak handle was ready.

This knife is far from being comparable to the three or four feet thin knives of today's countries, it is five feet long, the knife is three feet eight inches long, and the handle is one foot and two inches, and it concentrates the characteristics of two weapons, knives and guns, and can be used as both guns and knives.

Ah Ho Chizun was itchy to see: "This is a two-handed knife!" I got it! ”

Shi Tong erected six wet straw mats, and Ah Ho Chizun made two strokes with a long knife, and suddenly burst out, "Hey! The ground shouted, and the body smashed the knife, and the knife turned with the person, and used the strength of the waist and back to swing the long knife.

The sword light of Xue Lian flashed, and six rows of straw mats were cut diagonally into six sections from the top right to the bottom left, just like a withered and decayed.

"Good kung fu!" "Good equipment!"

Chen Yu and Chaogu were both experts, and they immediately cheered loudly.

Next, try to wet the thick straw rope, poke multiple layers of cowhide, everyone has a good time, Ah Ho Chizun directly hung half a cow with a rope on the branch of the big tree, and everyone took turns to go up and chop.

Tonight's cook is a hassle-free.

It wasn't until half of the cow was unloaded that Ah Cho Chizun wiped the blade with a silk handkerchief and checked the edge.

Under the cloud-like beautiful burning blade pattern, the cold light on the side of the blade is shining, and there is no bright line on the front, indicating that after everyone slashed wildly, the blade was not damaged at all.

Su You is also very convinced, which keeps the sex absolutely absolute.

The hardness of high manganese steel material is 55 to 60, but whether it is up or down depends on the level of later heat treatment of the knife maker.

The Shi family's knife refining skills are the first rate in the Great Song Dynasty.

First-rate materials, encountering first-class craftsmanship, Su You estimates the hardness of this knife edge, when it is more than sixty.

Ah Homi asked, "What kind of style is this knife?" Which of you has seen it? ”

Su You said: "This is a temporary design based on steel, mainly with both hands. The blade is slender and beautiful, just like He Miao, there is no name, just call it Miao Dao. ”

Chen Yu's eyes were hot: "Mingrun, this, just pay for this......"

For the sake of this baby protecting herself all the way, and the sword ghost on the West Temple Tower saved everyone, Su You gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Cost price, a thousand times!" ”

Chen Yu was originally a master who was not bad for money, and this trip to Dali was even more fattening, where do you care about this: "I am out of 3,000 yuan!" Give me two! I'll send a handful with Yuan Xiu! ”

"Huh? Ouch, I can't do it! "Chaogu is a farmer's child, and this trip to Dali can be regarded as running into a well-off, but there is still no such pride as Chen Luozi's spending a lot of money.

"Deal!" Chen Dayang is so generous, Su You is embarrassed to pit people too hard: "Let's get a simple costume to play with first, wait until you go back to Meishan, and then let the big stone be refined for you, and the two sets of sword suits will be wrapped around me." ”

The high cost is really not nonsense, the main thing is the material. In addition to the price itself, the process is much more complicated than ordinary smelting, and the labor of a pot of molten steel is several times that of ordinary methods.

Only with the craftsmanship level of the Erlin Department, if you get it to the Great Song Dynasty, this thing can't be sold at a good price.

So it's time to talk about business, if you only enter manganese materials and use Meishan iron to make manganese steel, the quality will definitely be lower than Dali iron.

Therefore, the two families agreed that the Shi family would also open an iron mill here, the Second Forest Department would be responsible for purchasing iron materials, and the Shi family would be responsible for refining manganese and making knives.

The resulting finished product, the best small part of the Shijia, as an ordinary commodity sent to Meishan, and then refined, into a high-end luxury goods such as Dali Baojian sold in the Song Dynasty.

This is a huge profit, and in return, most of the remaining general products belong to the Second Forest Department, and in addition to selling, they are mainly used to enrich their own force.

Next, Su You went to Xiao Gao Xianggong to brush his face, and as an investor, he explored coal and iron ore in the Anning estuary area, striving for joint production and reducing costs.

Jianchang Mansion is handled by Xiao Gao Xianggong, and the surrounding tribes are handled by the Erlin Department, which can increase Dali's steel production, and I believe that Xiao Gao Xianggong has no reason not to agree.

In the evening, Mr. Fan and Su You sat in the study, deducing the consequences of the development of the matter.

First of all, there must really be coal and iron, this Su oil is very confident, and Panzhihua in later generations is mostly open-pit mines, and the reserves are extremely rich, and it is only a matter of time to find it.

After finding it, will Dali turn its face?

There is the friendship between Su You and Xiao Gao Xianggong, the deterrence of the Second Forest Department in the north, and more importantly, there are major common interests, which should not be.

Third, will the Second Forest Department collude with Dali?

First of all, the Erlin Department is the state of the Great Song Dynasty, if it colludes with Dali, it is treason, and the fate of Nong Zhigao is not far away. Secondly, there is Mr. Fan's guidance to Ah Ho Chizun for decades, there is the influence of Su oil on Ah Ho Mi, and more importantly, the economic relationship has made Erlin and Meishan become grasshoppers on a rope, and Yi people are not fools, so they will let go of such a big profit.

After analyzing it for a night, Mr. Fan said to Su You: "This matter is very commensurate, and it is also beneficial for all parties. ”

Su You nodded: "That is, after the production rises in the future, the Erlin Department will sell more swords to the Great Song Dynasty, even if it is a general product, it is much better than those swords in the army, right?" ”

Mr. Fan smiled: "You think too much, how much can the sword sell to Dali?" How much can it be sold to surrounding tribes? How much is it sold to the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Su You patted his head: "Hey! I was really dizzy, forgetting that Da Song is the biggest demander! No, it looks like it's time to go to bed. ”

In the next few days, the craftsmen of the Second Forest Department learned the windmill and began to find the terrain to build everywhere.

Shi Tong led the tethered and cast the belt to build, and made a batch of swords, and the nobles of the Erlin Department, the military leaders, and Chen Yuchaogu all got one.

Even Ah Ho Yuanzhen and Su You, one of them also made a shorter one, Ah Ho Yuanzhen was so excited, and pulled Su You every day to show off his might against the mushrooms all over the mountains and valleys.

It is really full of mushrooms, and the locals only dare to eat chicken fir at present, and stay away from other varieties such as beef liver and lamb tripe.

Because those mushrooms will be poisoned if they are not handled well, and at the same time, you can't eat all the chicken fir alone, so there is no need to eat those.

Su You is not afraid, the people of the Second Forest Department think it is not delicious, that is because there is less oil in the dish, and in another way, it is the first delicacy in the world in Su You's mind.

Braised in oil, braised in a soup pot...... Su You is all beautiful, and I feel that Erlinbu is really a child who is so biased by God that there is no boundary.

After seeing the copper mine and smelting pit, Su You and his party should have embarked on the road back to Meishan.

But Ah Ho Chizun didn't let people go, and there was about to be a big festival on the valley grassland, so Su You and his party should be left behind anyway, and they would leave after the festival.

The name of the festival is "Kusi", which means New Year, and it is chosen on the day after the harvest of the crops, and the third day of the celebration.

Luolan, Bedeng, Hemp, Fenglu, Bacui...... The surrounding tribes, large and small, all drove cattle, sheep, mules and horses to the prairie at the foot of the Erlinbu Mountain, and the farthest Huazhubu even came from the west of Shanxian Mansion.

Sometimes Su You is wondering what kind of existence the Erlin Department is.

The border between Dali and the Great Song Dynasty is somewhat blurred, and between the two is filled with a large number of southwestern Yi tribes.

Sometimes these tribes fell to the Great Song Dynasty, sometimes to Dali, and more often than not, both sides were too lazy to manage them and left them to fend for themselves.

The princes in power never seem to have set their sights on this, they don't know how to take precautions, they don't seem to know what kind of existence the wolf king who struggled out in such an environment will be once he dominates the group.

Or they also have their own bad accounts, and they can't reach it.

There are more and more representatives of tribes on the grassland, and you can see the lights at night and hear the songs that have been running all night.

Ah Ho Chizun led Ah Ho Lie and Ah Ho Mi, and sometimes called Yuan Zhen, and shuttled through the big tents of various tribes, which was really like the situation when the bigwigs of later generations participated in the group discussions of the congress.

Striving for the support of the vast majority and reaching a consensus on the topics of the conference in advance, Ah Ho Chizun has long been familiar with this hand.

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