In the depths of winter, when all the people rest, Chang'an City is quiet, even the market is closed, the streets are sparsely populated, most of the wine houses are closed, and only the luxurious places are still operating.

In Zhuo Wangsun's view, Fuguilou is an ominous place, the witch put the poisonous snake around his neck, since that day and night often have nightmares, dreaming of countless black snakes scurrying around the room, on the wall, on the top, on the door frame, the last giant python fell from the sky, the snake head pierced the roof, the scarlet snake core was longer than him, two hideous fangs comparable to a human body, the mouth sprayed green fishy breath, and swallowed him alive in a big mouth......

But Han Yan chose to meet in Fuguilou, fortunately after nearly two months, there was finally a result, do you go or not?

Han Yan came relatively early, the season was sluggish, there was almost no one in the hall, looking for a private room on the second floor, you could condescendingly admire the dancers on the flower platform twisting their waists, kneeling and drinking tea elegantly, looking lazy.

"What smell?" Following the source of the smell, a mummy wrapped in white cloth appeared at the door of Fuguilou, only his eyes were exposed, and his body exuded a choking smell of realgar.

"Ah...... Sigh ......"

Han Yan was choked and sneezed, and the young lady of Fuguilou also hurried out to pick up people.

"Iwashiko, it's me." Zhuo Wangsun ignored the pestering of the young lady, went up to the second floor, and untied the white cloth wrapped around the face, revealing a thin old face, which had only been seen for more than a month.

Waving off the young lady, Han Yan laughed, "What are you doing?" Stay away from me, don't choke me. ”

As he spoke, his nose was itchy, his mouth opened again, and he almost sneezed again, choking on the fishy smell.

Zhuo Wang Sun smiled wryly, "I'm scared of the witch, I'm afraid of the snake......"

"Come on, sit down quickly, I am invading all beasts, don't worry." Han Yan is so happy, how deep is this psychological shadow to be so rude, when partying, it is basic etiquette for the lower person to arrive before the upper person, but I am too lazy to see it with you.

Sitting on opposite sides, Zhuo Wangsun was very angry, and invited the young lady to say: "Give me the best food in your Fuguilou." ”

Han Yan straightened his robe and asked casually, "What are you looking for me, tell me." ”

"Yan Shizi exposed the deception of the whole family, and cleaned up the witch, and saved me from fire and water, Zhuo Wangsun dare not be ungrateful, and wants to invite you to become rich in the world together."

"I am now rich in the world, the crown prince has given me a lot of rewards, and His Majesty has promised me the benefit of paper, although I am not as rich as you, but I don't have to worry about food and clothing."

"You can't think like that, there is a saying: money is only hated when it is used, even the emperor has a shortage of money, let alone us. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the imperial court was short of money, and had to borrow usury from the Wuyan clan in Chang'an to pay the soldiers, which succeeded in quelling the rebellion. The crown prince, as the emperor in the future, should also think about the livelihood of a country, if there is no harvest, he will distribute grain, and where there is a disaster, he will resettle the people, and how much money is not enough to spend. If you have the money and help Your Majesty at that time, how can you not be favored? ”

"It's worthy of a businessman, you're very slippery." Han Yan smiled, "You go on." ”

"I found an iron mine in Linqiong, and as long as the land is ploughed, the ore will be exposed to the ground, and these ores are of good quality, and they can be refined to make tools, but what ...... This mine occupies a lot of barren fields, there are ores underneath, and the crops on it are difficult to grow, but those farmers don't sell their land, and our Han land is owned by private individuals and can be bought and sold, but the farmers don't sell it, and I don't dare to forcibly occupy the land......"

"You have thousands of slaves, and you can't take them over?"

"Yan Shizi said with a smile, our Zhuo family has been smelting iron for generations, but we have never oppressed the people, although we are rich, we don't do bad things, and we have been upright and upright along the way, and there are no evil deeds." Zhuo Wang Sun Yizheng spoke, clenching his fists to the sky.

"Then what do you mean by looking for me, that you don't do evil, but come to me to do it?" Han Yan seemed to be smiling.

"I mainly want to partner with you to open a mine, with you on the top, I have the bottom in my heart, as for the matter of the farmer, it is nothing more than spending more money."

"Why are you coming to me when you can spend more money on them?"

"This ......" Zhuo Wangsun couldn't hide it, and said with a wry smile: "Some people also have a fancy to this mine, but I can't compete with others." ”

"Someone with an official background?"

"That's not it, there are two major clans in Shu County Iron Smelting, my Zhuo Wang Sun is one family, and the other is Cheng Zheng, the Xun family, after the famous family. When Qin Shi Huang unified the country, he forced his ancestors to migrate to Linqiong, Shu County, and his ancestors opened furnaces to smelt and cast, and became rich over time......

"You have thousands of children, how many people are in Cheng Zheng's family?"

On the surface, there are only 600 domestic slaves, but in fact, most of their business is in the deep mountains and old forests, collecting all the unemployed and displaced people who have no land, abandoning their graves, leaving their hometowns, gathering in the deep mountains and poor rivers, and honoring everyone to engage in production. As far as I know, there are 1,500 people in the mountains, and their iron tools are rarely sold to the big Han people, and they are exclusively for barbarians, such as Minyue, Nanyue, Shanyue and other small countries. ”

Han Yan: "Then who is more powerful in the iron-smelting technology of the two of you?" ”

Zhuo Wangsun's face was full of bitterness, "This can't be compared...... Whoever has more family is powerful. ”

"What's that saying?"

"The current iron smelting method is mainly to fry iron, heat the pig iron into a semi-liquid, put in iron ore powder and stir it continuously, remove the slag, and directly obtain wrought iron. But because the furnace temperature is relatively low, the quality of the wrought iron produced is different, and it has to be reprocessed and forged, we use fried iron as raw material, and the best weapon that has been forged is 100 steel, but it has to be repeatedly heated, folded, and forged, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and cannot be mass-produced.......

"The most powerful thing in the process is 100 steels?"

"Yes, the sword and sword are made of steel, the weapons of ordinary soldiers are ordinary cast iron, and the people's agricultural tools are pig iron, so it is easy to form......"

"Then what kind of black pill do you use to heat the stove?" The coal of the Han Dynasty is called black pill or oblivion stone.

"Isn't Black Dan just Black Dan?" Zhuo Wangsun was a little confused.

"I have a way for you to surpass Cheng Zheng in one fell swoop, and you have the world's top iron-smelting technology, how are you going to thank me?" Han Yan asked with a smile.

"......" Zhuo Wangsun was stunned, only to feel a fire permeating his heart, gradually spreading to his whole body, and even the fear of poisonous snakes was dispelled, "Yan Shizi said that I will do whatever I want, and I will listen to you." ”

"I don't want you to do anything, develop a method for mass production of steel ingots within ten years, and develop steel that is better than 100 steelmaking, and help me build 10,000 sets of weapons, swords, guns, swords, halberds at will."

"You...... You're going to rebel? Zhuo Wangsun was dumbfounded, his hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, and tea was sprinkled on the crotch of his pants, which made his heart cold.

"Bullshit. The Huns have repeatedly swept the border, sooner or later there will be a big war, Your Majesty has been in poor health recently, and the crown prince's accession to the throne is just around the corner, so it is natural to take precautions. Han Yan's eyes were deep, as if he had seen something in the future, and it was his wish to get out of the big man, and he paused and said: "You really think too much, and you don't want weapons now, what about ten years, are you in a hurry?" Besides, do you know that there is a Ming Dynasty outside the Han Dynasty? The weapons there are a hundred times more advanced than our Han Dynasty, if you don't catch up, when the Ming Dynasty comes, there will be no eggs under the nest, and your wealth will be plundered. ”

"......" Zhuo Wangsun was speechless, his heart was so bitter that his guts were about to come out, and he knew that he would not be able to get out of the quagmire if he stepped into the quagmire this time.

The reason why Zhou Yafu unjustly died in prison was because his son Zhou Yang saw that he was old, and secretly bought 500 armor shields, preparing to pay for funeral when he died, but was accused of rebellion, so he was imprisoned.

Although the Zhuo family occasionally makes weapons and armor and secretly sells them to the princes, but they are all small transactions, even if they are discovered, as long as they are not reported to the emperor's ears, the princes can take it down, but this time it is 10,000 sets, and it will take the lives of the whole family.

But if you reject Han Yan, maybe people will kill you......

If you want 10,000 sets of weapons, as long as you say this kind of thing, you will be chasing ducks to the shelves, you can get on it, you can get it, you have to go on it, you have to go on it, there is no choice at all.

However, there are also advantages, you can surpass Cheng Zheng in one fell swoop, let out a bad breath, and you can also be the crown prince, this is the future supreme, and Han Yan will only need weapons after ten years, he can study the process first, and then build weapons after Liu Che ascends the throne, and then it will be reasonable and legal, and the real danger is only the few years of Emperor Jing's reign.

Seeing that Zhuo Wangsun hesitated, Han Yan took a sip of tea and said lightly: "My temper has always been very good, if you don't want to do this business, I won't embarrass you, don't you still have Cheng ...... in Shudi"

Before he finished speaking, Zhuo Wangsun shouted first: "I agree." ”

"Good." Han Yan nodded with satisfaction, and wisdom flashed in his eyes, "Privately making armor is a big crime, I believe you will hide this matter." As for the iron smelting technology, you go to the west of Taiyuan County, where there is Xishan, and there are black pills everywhere, among which there is coke, this thing can make the furnace burn to thousands of degrees, melt gold and break iron, solve the problem of low temperature of the furnace, and you can do more experiments, such as mixing pig iron and wrought iron in one forging, as well as spiral forging, etc., I believe that it will be possible to produce steel ingots in less than two years. ”

"......" Zhuo Wang Sun was speechless for a long time, the Zhuo family has been smelting iron for a living for several generations, trying their best to improve the process, but in the end it is not as good as a teenager to give a few random points, people are more popular than people, and some decadent said: "I have been taught." ”

Han Yan: "I will find a way to help you deal with the matter of your iron mine, I don't want your money, and I don't take your dividends, and I will return me for preparing those 10,000 sets of weapons seriously." ”

"The Zhuo family will live up to the kindness of the son of the rock." Raise your hand and salute.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Han Yan smiled and stretched out his right hand, Zhuo Wangsun was stunned, and he also stretched out his hand in a daze.

After receiving Han Yan's promise, Zhuo Wangsun rushed back to Shu County for several days with anxiety, found the county order to issue a message, and sent fifty domestic slaves to Taiyuan County at once, swearing to find coke for me.

From an honest businessman, he suddenly stepped into the top struggle of the Han Dynasty, Zhuo Wangsun was faintly excited and trembling in his heart, the country has changed, the earth has turned upside down, and it is out of my own hands, what a great glory it is.

Those 10,000 sets of weapons can be all-powerful to sharpen iron like clay, and whoever gets them will surely conquer everything and kill people like cutting grass.