Wrought iron came out, in the era of the late Han Dynasty, steel smelting has come to an end, and the rest is that the blacksmith slowly carburizes, and the wrought iron is constantly forged into steel, and it is made into a steel knife, a steel spear, a halberd sword, a piece of iron is flattened in the carbon fire, folded, and then continues to forge, this is the hundred refining method, and this is how the hundred refining into steel comes.

But this is too protracted, a hundred refining a good knife, how can it take more than ten days, even if the ordinary soldiers use more than a dozen refining swords and halberds, a skilled blacksmith can not beat a few a day, the man-hours, manpower and material resources required to equip an army of 100,000 are simply astronomical.

Wang Hou really couldn't wait so long, and he couldn't afford to spend that food, so he cheated.

The third time, the smelted pig iron wrought iron was once again put into the furnace, but this time it was very skillfully matched, just like the buns, a piece of pig iron lumps were wrapped in wrought iron beaten into pieces.

In the amazed look of Wang Hammer, Wang Yuan followed Wang Hou's step-by-step instructions, holding a pair of wrapped "buns" with tongs, and kept moving.

It is not easy to practice steel, those black charcoal blocks are roasted by the strong temperature of the eyebrows and hair of the people seem to be burned, in the strong heat, the pig iron is first melted into molten iron, and then intersected with the half-melted wrought iron, Wang Yuan is to change places back and forth for these iron blocks, on the other side, under the blowing of the bellows, a large amount of oxygen is combined with these iron blocks, and the last impurities contained in the steel are also oxidized and deformed on the surface.

When he came, the size of more than 20 lumps was not regular, but it was dark and shiny, exuding a metallic luster, and the heavy steel pieces were placed in front of Wang Hou's table, Wang Yuan was still rubbing his hands as if he saw a peerless beauty, and Wang Hou himself was sitting there stupidly humming, this daredevil, the spirit of craftsmanship is there, but it is so much that I almost choked to death!

As if soothing his lover, his rough hand swept over these iron eggs, and after a long time, Wang Yuan suddenly hugged his fist with great excitement.

"Family master, these steels must be handed over to the villain for a photo, and the villain has the confidence to make a divine weapon comparable to Mo Evil Longyuan!"

However, looking at his big leopard eyes full of anticipation, Wang Hou shook his head leisurely.

"No way!"

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The sound of horses' hooves sounded crisply on the narrow path leading to the mountain, and a group of more than a dozen knights walked briskly up the road through the light snow, but when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, the heroic female knight at the front suddenly pulled the reins of the horse and stopped in amazement.

If in later generations, Wang Hou's mine is definitely a typical example of being banned, it has only been a month and a half and less than two months, the originally smooth and clean small mountain col is not like a look of his scourge, the snow is white elsewhere, the snow here is black, and the coal is covered by the coal surface, to the west, the coal exposed on the surface has been hollowed out of a spiral-shaped deep pit and plunged diagonally into the mountain, and there are many grizzled tenants carrying wicker baskets bought in the market to continuously transport coal outward, on another small hillside in the east, It is like a chessboard lined up in rows of small lying rooms, and there are people constantly burning bricks to build houses.

To the north, tenants drove cattle and stole wood from the mountains to support the buildings, while on the south side, near the crossing, were shacks, one end was women and old people making honeycomb coal with mud, and the other was simply converted into a blacksmith shop, with the sound of clanging and the black smoke of the iron-making furnace constantly rising.

In one word! That's messy!

What's even more strange is that the blacksmith shop here, while striking iron, there are still howling and crying, and he tilted his head in astonishment to look at the coal mine valley that has not come for more than ten days and has been chaotic, and then Cao Hongjie turned over and dismounted in a chic and neat manner, threw the reins back, and ran towards the nearest blacksmith shop next to him with great interest.

"Wang Hou, where's that waste material? I heard that he had gotten a lot of good iron, so I quickly called him out and made a few blades for Miss Ben to play with! ”

I don't love red suits, I love arms! As soon as she entered the door of the blacksmith shop, she slapped the table and shouted, but listening to her shouting, the muscular blacksmith who was crying while rotating the hammer wiped a handful of tears listlessly, pointed inside, and then cried while talking about the hammer, and every time the hammer went down, it was as miserable as smashing his hand.

With a few good swords in mind, he took a collar of armor, and glanced at it curiously, and Cao Hongjie ran inside briskly. It is said that curiosity kills cats, and it is said that women are like cats! This girl is really unqualified as a woman, but Guo Jia who followed behind is qualified as a woman, the old boy is more curious than a cat, he is wrapped in a thick down jacket robed by Wang Hou, curiously looking at this muscular man who is almost 1.9 meters 9 crying like a 190-pound child, watching him curiously make the steel block in his hand into a hoe, put it on the new grinding stone on his feet to polish the blade, and then hang it on the wall.

On the side of the wall, there are already a lot of well-built hoes, and there are workers there to install the hoe handle in an orderly manner, Guo Jia also took off a handful, weighed the weight in his own hands, and tested the sharpened hoe blade in his fingers, and in an instant, he understood that Wang Yuan, a big man with Angzang, was crying for Mao, and when he patted his thigh, he also screamed sadly.

"It's a terrible thing!"

Flicking his sleeves, the first ghost under Cao Cao also hurried into the coal mine with a sad face.

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In the evil feudal society, everyone else lives in a small room, Wang Hou has the privilege to build a big tile house for himself, indoor kitchen, indoor bathroom, the window is also pasted with a layer of paper, leaning against the window, Wang Hou is drinking Chen Deng finally came from the south, this era is not too popular hot tea, and for the first time, Cao Hongjie is like a good baby, obediently sitting on the edge of the kang, listening to his slow and logical speech and pointing to the little brain.

"Wang Tuqiu! Wang Tuqiu! You're a terrible thing! Stop your people right away and stop hoeing! You're a girl! Lao Tzu's sword steel mouth that I bought for hundreds of times is not as good as yours, and you don't use such a good steel mouth to build weapons, but to build farm tools! Father! I can't wait to kick you twice! ”

Those who are close to pigs are fat, and those who are close to mothers are pseudo! Although Wang Hou is not a sissy, he has lived with him for a long time, and Guo Jia has also become vulgar with him.

But it's no wonder that he is angry and sad, most of these years are still smelted with charcoal at low temperature, I have learned junior high school chemistry and know that the higher the temperature, the stronger the chemical reaction, less than a thousand degrees of furnace temperature, many iron ore covered in the non-metallic impurity elements can not be separated by oxidation, these things in the built sword, so that the strength of the sword decreases, and there is a normal situation of cutting the knife on the battlefield, and it also needs to be fists and feet.

Now coal ironmaking is not nothing, coal does increase the furnace temperature, but coal is not a problem at all, buried in the ground all the year round, the vast majority of coal contains sulfides, these sulfides and metal co-fire, and then into the metal inside, also make the metal hard and brittle, even not as good as the quality of the sword that is forged to remove impurities by the method of low temperature smelting.

Guo Jia carried this big sword with thirteen handsome is the product of this embarrassing situation, the famous blacksmith forged for him for seven hundred days, full of hundred refining swords, but the quality is about medium carbon steel, he also spent more than 100 times, almost didn't spend a lot of money, good guy, the iron material is not as good as Wang Hou's hoe.

Now Guo Jia's feeling is the same as Wang Hou riding a battery car in later generations, watching people pour paint into the Porsche fuel tank, and testing whether he can walk that mood, summing up one word, that is, too fucking loser!

However, Guo Jia shouted a lot in anger, but Wang Hou didn't blink his eyelids, and slowly shook the hot tea in his hand.

"Brother Guo! My king is loyal to the prime minister, so how many big people in the Xu capital look at me unpleasantly, I hoard a little manure here, and a group of people impeach me for destroying feng shui, if I start to build a sword, I can't be impeached for rebellion? Brother Guo, the little brother doesn't look like he will be pushed to the execution ground again and lose his head! ”

"You ......, alas......"

This is reasonable, even the ghost Guo Jia was speechless, shaking his head, he could only look at the blacksmith shop outside the window in pain, and after a while, he was so angry that he shouted sadly.

"What's the matter with telling me to get out of town? It won't be up to you to lose, right? ”

"Of course not, of course not!"

At the mention of this, Wang Hou immediately didn't dare to pretend to be thirteen, and hurriedly poured another cup of tea for Guo Saijiu, respectfully offered it to sit down, and asked with a smile on his face: "Brother Guo has a wide range of friends with chivalry, and there are all three religions and nine streams in the capital city, and the younger brother admires it very much!" ”

"If you have something to say, talk about it, and if you have a fart, let it go!"

Or Wang Hou's own mantra, Guo Jia sat down with the tea bowl crossed Erlang's legs, and unceremoniously scolded Wang Pole's words back to him, listening to Wang Hou, he almost vomited blood, full of sadness, and with a bitter face, Wang Hou had to hug his fist again.

"Then do you know a warlock who can do alchemy thaumaturgy?"

"Oh? You Wang Tuqiu actually believe in the words of a scholar like Dongfang Shuo? ”

Guo Jia, who heard this, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and asked with some surprise, but in an instant, a sinister cunning appeared on Guo Guicai's face.

"Introduced to you, what are the benefits of Guo?"

"Brother Guo, just boasted that you were anxious for justice and justice......"

"Less of this! Lao Tzu doesn't care what those Confucian students chew the root of their tongues, you high-grade steel, give me ten big swords, two lances, you give me a collar again, you want to have a whole body armor, don't make a cuirass to fool me Lao Guo! ”

"Don't mind! Robbery! ”

As soon as he heard this, Wang Hou's face was even more stretched like a bitter melon, extremely sad, but unfortunately, who is Guo Jia? Don't eat him at all!

"Brother Wang, in the city of Xudu, those who have dealings with Fang Shi are Guo Mou, Xun Lingzhong! That's right! Dong Cheng, Dong Taishi, Yang Xiu, Yang Lingguan, and you Jinyang Wang also have friends with Fang Shi, do you want to ask them? ”

Wang Hou almost didn't come out with a mouthful of old blood, Xun Yu was barely his enemy, but he belonged to the side of the Shi clan, and he didn't like to look at himself, there were a few left, it is estimated that he was introduced to Fang Shi, and he didn't dare to ask for it, as soon as they turned around, they could go to Mr. Cao to make a small report, what kind of victory, what witch curse, they could knock on their heads, and in desperation, Wang Hou raised a middle finger with disdain.

"Brother Guo's righteousness is thin and cloudy, Wang is grateful!"

"Brother Wang, what do you mean?"

"Oh! We, Jinyang, are close to Hu Jing, and raising this finger means to express gratitude! ”

"I see! Teachable! ”

didn't know that he was fooled by Wang Hou, and he took advantage of him for half a day, Guo Jia returned satisfied, Cao Hongjie stayed here tonight, and he returned to Xudu by himself.

However, passing by the blacksmith shop, seeing Wang Yuan crying and hanging a shovel on the wall, he reached out and picked up a hoe, waved it on the ground, and with a click, the sharp hoe blade was easily nailed to the ground of the blacksmith shop, looking at the hoe that did not hurt the blade at all, Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh again.

"Loser!!"