The market in Chaisang City, Gan Ning has come to visit many times. Not to mention that when he was crisscrossing the waters of the Yangtze River, he had come to the market in this Chaisang city; Even a few days ago, when he was free, he Gan Ning also went shopping. Even during the most chaotic period of the six counties of Jiangdong, the market in Chaisang City was not as depressed as it is today; What's more, a few days ago, there was a lot of people in this market!

"Did something big happen last night?" There is also such speculation that Gan Ning has.

The safety of Kong Ming's military division is of paramount importance, and if there is any major change in Chaisang City, he Gan Ning has to guard against it.

The blacksmith was a little disappointed when he heard Gan Ning's inquiry. now

The whole bazaar was not very prosperous, and there were not many customers at all, so his blacksmith did not light the fire, or rather, the fire that was lit in the morning, and then the blacksmith extinguished it because there were no customers in the whole market. When the fire burns, even if it does not strike iron, does it not need to consume charcoal?

However, the blacksmith replied, "What else could it be?" ”

"In recent days, the city of Chaisang, and even the entire Jiangdong, have been full of rumors unfavorable to Wu Hou. The government said that this was a trick by Sikong Cao Cao, and the purpose was to make our Jiangdong uneasy. Therefore, yesterday afternoon, the city began to search for spies. ”

"The whole city is searching for spies, this bazaar can be popular before there are ghosts!"

It's not that the blacksmith is well-informed. Those who can open a blacksmith shop in the capital of a state are not easy to connect with, and they have some connections with the government. Therefore, the whole city searched for spies, and the old blacksmith could be said to know why he had come soon.

Knowing the reason, Gan Ning was a little surprised, and then quietly looked back at the military advisor.

He remembered that seven days ago, the military advisor asked him to contact some water bandits in Jiangdong just to spread these rumors. It's just that what Gan Ning doesn't understand is that this is obviously a rumor created by Kong Ming's military division, how can it become Cao Cao's pot now?!

"I see!" Zhuge Liang's heart was bright.

He just didn't understand the depressed situation of this Chaisang City just now, and now that he knew the reason, he didn't care.

At the beginning, Gan Ning contacted the local water bandits in Jiangdong to spread rumors, but the purpose was just to block Sun Quan, if their Sun brothers were torn apart because of this rumor, he Zhuge Kongming happened to watch a farce.

Unexpectedly, this rumor is now Cao Cao's back.

However, Zhuge Liang is still looking forward to what the little Zhengtai of the Sun family can do.

……

The consequences of the rumors have yet to be further fermented, and Zhuge Liang does not need to pay attention to it now. He will not forget the purpose of his visit to the market today. Under the expectation of the old blacksmith, Zhuge Liang walked into the shop, looked at the various farm tools hanging on the shelves, and asked:

"Shopkeeper, how many fine irons do you have in this shop?"

Naturally, a blacksmith doesn't just know how to build farm tools. Any blacksmith who can open a blacksmith shop is also very good at crafting blade armor. Zhuge Liang remembered that there was a master blacksmith in Xiangyang City, who could even make rough magic weapons for monks!

As for the fact that there are few knives and guns in the blacksmith shop, and there are more farm tools, this is just a need for the environment.

Swords and guns are controlled weapons, and blacksmiths occasionally make a few knives and guns for people, and the official will not bother; But with blades being sold in blacksmiths on a large scale, do you want turmoil in the city or what?

Zhuge Liang looked for this blacksmith shop, naturally not to buy weapons.

For ordinary weapons, there are iron mines and artisan battalions in Hanzhong, which does not need to be worried about by his Zhuge military division. Besides, calculating the lack of weapons and armor in Hanzhong, and the lack of support from Jingxiang, why do you have to travel thousands of miles to purchase weapons from Jiangdong?

Zhuge Liang looked for this blacksmith shop, at first it was just to make some tools for making popcorn. However, when the old blacksmith was soliciting customers just now, he asked Gan Ning if he wanted to buy fine iron, which made Zhuge Liang's heart move.

Refined iron, that's the favorite of the generals.

But all the weapons in the hands of the powerful generals are almost all made of fine iron. Weapons made of fine iron can conduct true qi well, so that the waste of true qi can also be reduced when performing secret techniques. For example, Guan Laoer's Qinglong Yanyue Knife, as well as the Zhangba Snake Spear in Zhang Laosan's hand, were made of fine iron from the beginning.

Of course, using meteorite to build weapons is also a favorite of military generals.

The problem is that meteoric iron is not common, but refined iron is.

Zhuge Liang needs refined iron, well, to be more precise, Uncle Liu Huang needs a lot of refined iron.

Under Uncle Liu Huang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others did not say that the weapons in their hands were naturally good, but they didn't need refined iron to cast blades. But the newcomers Wei Yan and Guan Ping need a good weapon at hand.

However, although there are many iron ores in Hanzhong, it does not produce refined iron.

Iron ore can be smelted into iron, but not all iron ore can be smelted into refined iron. This is like in later generations, the national steel output can exceed hundreds of millions of tons, but the output of special steel, can have millions of tons every year, thank God.

Nowadays, there are many generals under Uncle Liu Huang, and the gap in fine iron is very large.

Even if Liu Jingzhou supports, he will not support such important strategic materials.

Therefore, now, Zhuge Liang has encountered a blacksmith shop with fine iron, and naturally he will not let it go.

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"Naturally, there is fine iron, and it is more than enough to build a weapon for this general!" The old blacksmith said proudly.

In fact, any blacksmith who can open a blacksmith shop can always get some fine iron through various ways to fill the façade, as for how much fine iron can be obtained, it depends on the individual's ability. Even if the local government forcibly searched for it, it would not be possible to search it all.

Of course, there are also blacksmiths who are lucky enough to find some small iron ore that can smelt refined iron, and that is to make a fortune.

"Only a hundred catties of refined iron, that's too little!" Zhuge Liang said with a rather disappointed expression.

In Zhuge Liang's heart, he was not as disappointed as he was. Searching for fine iron, it is not bad to be able to buy 100 catties; Besides, Zhuge Liang felt that the old blacksmith was afraid that he was not telling the truth, and the fine iron in his hand must be more than a hundred catties.

Sure enough, hearing that Zhuge Liang was too little, the old blacksmith looked at Zhuge Liang and Gan Ning seriously, and made sure that they were not spies sent by the government, and after confirming that they were not locals, the old blacksmith said in a mysterious voice: "How much fine iron do you need?" ”

"There's a play?" Zhuge Liang said in his heart.

The old blacksmith must have owned an iron ore, and the size of the iron ore must be able to smelt refined iron. Otherwise, a mere blacksmith shop would not be able to ask a customer how much fine iron he needed.

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