"Go get a piece of wood."

Zhang Yuan shouted to the side, and then someone brought the trunk of a green bar tree that was quite thick. Aiming at the trunk of the tree, Zhang Yuan raised his axe and slashed it at once, and with a click, the trunk broke in response.

Axes made of steel are more than twice as good as pig iron axes used on a daily basis.

"Childe, did you make an axe out of that piece of steel?"

The trunk was moved by Uncle Zhao, and this sentence was also asked by him, everyone worked in the same yard, although he had not participated in the previous smelting of this iron billet, but on weekdays, everyone knew what was going on when they ate and chatted.

"Yes, this power is much better than the one you usually use, Uncle Zhao, you can use it first, and drain the lying wheel water as soon as possible."

Uncle Zhao was obviously surprised by Zhang Yuan's wasteful behavior of using stainless steel to build an axe, and he was even more surprised when he heard that it was still for himself.

"Childe, a sword made of stainless steel on the market can be sold for hundreds of gold, and if it is made into an axe, the price will be much lower."

Zhang Yuan looked at Uncle Zhao's picking and searching, and while handing him the axe, he pointed to a few iron billets leaning on the edge of the blacksmith's table, which were all poured by the craftsmen according to Zhang Yuan's instructions in the two days when Zhang Yuan forged the axe.

"Do you think we'll be short of steel in the future? Take it, build a horizontal wheel water row earlier, and the price of a water row will not be lower than a steel sword. ”

Seeing the few pieces of iron billet that Zhang Yuan pointed to, Uncle Zhao realized that his son-in-law had mastered the technique of smelting steel, and in the future, not to mention that the axe was made of stainless steel, it was likely that his hoe was made of stainless steel.

"The old slave knows, with this axe, it should be able to shorten the time by a day or two."

"Okay, let's go down to work."

As soon as he learned the price of steel knives and steel swords from Uncle Zhao, Zhang Yuan had the idea of making a fortune on his own, originally he just wanted to build some tools that he needed at home and then fool the tasks given by the system, but now he has a new plan, that is, to forge a batch of weapons made of stainless steel, and then take them out and sell them for money.

From a wage earner who can be slaughtered by others to a capital that can be spent no matter how it is consumed, the first pot of gold is very important.

It is not difficult to let Zhang Yuan forge some iron pots or axes, but if the whole knife comes out, the energy and effort required by these killing weapons will be great, and the most important thing is the skill of building.

Among these people selected by Zhang Yuan himself, there were only four people who really had their own skills, the cook in the kitchen, Uncle Zhao who went out to cut trees with a steel axe, and two blacksmiths who were mixed in the metal smelting business.

"Xiong Da, Xiong Er, you two come over here."

Well, when Zhang Yuan chose these two blacksmiths, he took a fancy to the lives of the two of them.

"Childe, what are you looking for us?"

A person with a tiger's back is a necessary condition to become an excellent blacksmith, and the two brothers Xiong Daxiong and Xiong are no exception, probably because of the name, Zhang Yuan feels that the two of them may have a more honest quality than ordinary people, as for whether there is really one, we will have to wait until the days of getting along in the future are getting along for a longer and longer time to see.

"Have you two ever built a sword before?"

Xiong Daxiong Er is not very old, although it is said that he has been mixed with a bunch of blacksmiths since he was a child, but it has only been six years since he really took the blacksmith hammer and began to work for the Zhuo family, and whether the Zhuo family has ever built swords and other objects, Zhang Yuan is very skeptical now.

"When I was young, I followed my master and made a few swords, and I also made a few daggers."

Zhang Yuan thought about it for a while, when Xiong Daxiong was young, it was estimated that the Seven Kings Rebellion broke out at that time, and then the Zhuo family let these blacksmiths of his family make swords in order to make money from the Han court.

"Well, aren't there two anvils, how about you two sharing the same stove?

Take those iron billets and make two knives out here. ”

Although it is said that they share a stove, as long as you get the rhythm right, nothing will happen.

"It's not a big deal, our two brothers have shared a stove before."

Zhang Yuan's face was happy, and he personally took two iron blanks and placed them on the anvil of Xiong Da Xiong Er.

The two of them first picked up the anvil and looked at it for a while, probably weighing it in their hearts, and then each picked up a chainsaw and began to saw.

Xiong Daxiong Er is a real blacksmith, not a halfway monk like Zhang Yuan, and the smooth operation of the two of them made Zhang Yuan, who was standing on the side, want to applaud him.

If you have half the strength of someone, it won't take you days to forge an axe.

The main material is an iron billet made of cast iron, which has a natural advantage for making a knife or sword.

The pig iron in the middle has basically been converted into carbon steel by the process of carbon penetration, and the two sides are still wrought iron due to force majeure factors, but wrought iron has better ductility than steel, and it is suitable as the back of the knife or the backbone of the sword, and the carbon steel that is already in the middle of the iron billet naturally plays the role of the blade.

Good steel should be used on the cutting edge.

Xiong Da built a knife, and Xiong Er built a sword, and it obviously took more effort to build a sword than to build a knife, and the knife that Xiong Da created soon had the shape that a knife should have.

Then he put down the knife in his hand, ran to the kitchen, and brought three buckets, two of which were filled with water, and the bear put down the two buckets full of water, and ran to the side of the creek to get another bucket of clear snowmelt water.

Zhang Yuan is not a stupid person, he knows that Xiong Da is preparing for quenching, these three buckets of water, one bucket of snowmelt water, one bucket of oil water, and one bucket of water is no different from ordinary water, Zhang Yuan guessed that it was salt water, thinking that he was holding urine for quenching, it was really embarrassing to throw it to his grandmother's house.

But what Zhang Yuan didn't know was that the reason why Xiong Da used oil, water and salt water was because he felt that Zhang Yuan was rich and looked like a scholar who did this, and usually other blacksmiths used urine to quench swords, and urine itself contained other elements in addition to salt, and the effect of quenching swords was more obvious.

After Xiong Da's next set of operations, Zhang Yuan knew that the most important thing to build a sword was to quench it, because the composition of the water was different, and the time and part of Xiong Da dipping the knife in the bucket were also different.

It is estimated that these things will not be mastered without years of practice, and Zhang Yuan began to feel that it is more realistic to complete the task or build axes and hoes.