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Tao Lao Er in Wuqing County is a blacksmith, and a few days ago he got a small piece of steel ingot, half a catty, from the hands of several outsiders, saying that it was the Li family's fine steel, so that Tao Lao Er could try it. He also said that if he used it well, he could go to the store of the Li family in the east of Tian0 Jincheng to buy more, one or two and a half yuan of silver.

Tao Lao Er knocked the steel ingot with a hammer and felt that the quality was not bad. On a whim, he used this steel ingot as the edge of the knife, and a few catties of wool iron as the back of the knife, and made a bone chopping knife.

Not to mention, the quality of the bone chopping knife made is okay. Tao Lao Er asked for a pork leg bone and tried the knife: only to see the knife fall in his hand, the pork leg bone was cut into two ends. Looking at the bone chopping knife again, the edge of the knife is still sharp, and there is no blunt edge.

This Li family steel is indeed very good. One or two and a half pounds of silver is not too expensive.

Tao Lao Er took this bone chopping knife to the vegetable market and found the yellow butcher who sold meat.

"Yellow Butcher, I'll sell you a bone chopping knife!"

The yellow butcher rolled his eyes and said in a rough voice, "I have a bone chopping knife!" Where to buy yours? ”

Tao Lao Er said: "My knife is good, save your work!" ”

The yellow butcher said loudly: "My bone chopping knife is made of Su Gang, can your knife steel be better than Su Gang?" ”

Tao Lao Er smiled, handed over his bone chopping knife and said, "You can try it and you will know!" ”

The yellow butcher took the bone chopping knife, looked left and right, and pulled out a pork rib from the meat stall. As soon as he slashed down, he saw that the pork rib had been easily cut into two pieces. Look at the bone cutting knife again, it is safe and sound.

The yellow butcher said, "Not bad! ”

He took out another pig thigh bone and put it on the board, raised the bone chopping knife and aimed at it, and slashed it down. I heard a bang, and the knife cut through the pig's thigh bone and cut into the board. The pig's thigh bone was cut in half, and the fracture was smooth and sharp.

If it is a knife made of ordinary steel, the edge of the knife will be curled. Even if it is a bone cleaver made by Su Gang, the edge of this knife has to be slightly blunt, and the knife has to be sharpened. But the yellow butcher took out the knife and looked at the edge of the knife, but saw that there was no trace of curling or dulling on the edge of the knife, and it was still sharp, so he couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Yes, pottery blacksmith, your knife is good!" It's a little stronger than a knife made of Sugang. Where does good steel come from? Clapping his hands, the yellow butcher said, "How much is your knife?" It's too expensive for me to afford! ”

Tao Lao Er smiled: "It's not a good knife, I can come to you?" I don't charge you more money, a handful of silver or two! ”

Huang Butcher was stunned when he heard Tao Laoer's words, and he didn't bargain, he took out one or two pieces of silver from under the stall and handed them to the pottery blacksmith, saying, "Okay, Tao blacksmith, if you have good things in the future, you will still look for me!" ”

Tao Lao Er knew that the Huang butcher felt cheap, so he paid so happily. After all, this knife is stronger than the knife made by Sugang, and half a catty of Sugang will cost one, two, two, or three dollars, and the knife made is naturally more expensive. The Li family's half a catty of stainless steel only costs seven dollars and five cents, counting a few cents of silver pig iron, the cost of making a knife is only eight dollars, and Tao Lao Er can earn two dollars of silver.

This business is not bad, and you can earn a tael of silver by doing a few Tao Lao Er a month.

Not to mention anything else, these butchers and restaurant cooks in Wuqing County are afraid that they will like this knife made of steel by the Li family. Tao Lao Er secretly said that he wanted to go to Tianjin to buy more than ten catties of his Li family's stainless steel, and sell it as a knife.

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On November 10, it was already very cold, and the pond had frozen in the evening, and it had not yet melted in the morning. In the morning, there was a little snow at dawn, but it stopped as soon as it was dawn. Li Zhi was wearing a jacket and was looking through the reports in the shop in the third hall of the official hall.

In ten days, the Li family sold more than 1,000 catties of steel. As a new product, this sales are very good. However, Li Zhi hopes to sell 10,000 catties a month, and is not satisfied with the current sales. Li Zhi was thinking about how to expand sales there, but saw Li Xing walking in with a cold air.

"Big brother, you have a stove here, it's really warm!"

Li Zhi asked, "Aren't you going to train soldiers?" How can you come to me when you are free! ”

"The selection regiment is all veterans, and the battalion commander can watch it every day, so I don't need to keep an eye on it!"

Sitting on the chair, Li Xing said casually: "Big brother, do you know that Uncle Han's daughter-in-law in Jingbianfang is dead!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned and asked, "How did you die?" ”

"I got sick with frostbite, coughed constantly, and then I fell ill and died, and I was only in my thirties! This Han Jinxin used to be a hundred households in Jinyiwei, but now he has fallen like this. ”

Li Zhi remembered this Han Jinxin.

This person is a native of Tianjin, and I heard that my grandfather was still a jinshi and became a waiter in the Ministry of Rites. However, his father was a profligate and spent all the family's money. This Han Jinxin originally relied on Zuyin to become the small banner of Jinyiwei, and during the Apocalypse, he was close to the eunuch party and was promoted all the way to the hundred households of Jinyiwei. Who knew that as soon as the Emperor of the Apocalypse died, the eunuchs collapsed, and Emperor Chongzhen vigorously liquidated the eunuchs, and this Han Jinxin was swept away.

Han Jinxin is a remnant of the eunuch party and has a good reputation. The two governors of Tianjin, He Shishou and Cha Dengbei, were both clear streams and hated the eunuchs the most. He and Cha were in charge of Tianjin, and both inside and outside the system in Tianjin were extremely repulsive to the remnants of the eunuch party, and they were eager to kill them as soon as possible. This Han Jinxin can't even find a job under the name of eunuchs, so he relies on pawning his former belongings to make a living. At the beginning, he relied on some family backgrounds to live an ordinary life, but he didn't expect that the court's hatred of the eunuch party for ten years was like a day, and his family's life was not as good as a day, and it was very miserable.

The death of his wife is also unexpected but reasonable news.

In the past, this Han Jinxin liked to stand in the workshop in a daze when he was fine, and he was very kind to children. Li Zhi played with him a lot when he was a child, and he also ate the candy he distributed. At this time, when I heard about the miserable situation of his family, I couldn't help but feel some sympathy.

Li Zhi thought for a while and said to Li Xing: "You call Han Jinxin, I'll find something for him to do!" ”

Li Xing said: "Big brother, he is a eunuch!" If you take him in, what will the governor think? ”

Li Zhi chirped: "What's wrong with the eunuch party? Why didn't you say he was a eunuch when you played with him when you were a kid? ”

"I didn't understand when I was a child."

"You called him!"

Li Xing was helpless and took the order to go out. In the afternoon, Li Xing brought Han Jinxin with him.

Han Jinxin was wearing an old cotton jacket, and it could be seen that the old jacket was made with a satin texture on the outside, which was probably made ten years ago. At this time, the jacket was full of holes. Probably because there was no one to help, and the patched rags at home could not be found. He had a long beard, and with a long malnourished complexion, he looked like he was in his forties and fifties.

Probably because of the loss of his wife, his expression was very depressed and his eyes were glazed. He walked hunched over and kept his eyes on the ground. It wasn't until he walked up to Li Zhi that he glanced up at Li Zhi and knelt down.

"The criminal Han Jinxin has seen the general!" (To be continued.) )