Chapter 7: Crucible Iron Smelting
Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, looked at the traces on the surrounding stones, and roughly guessed the origin of these meteorites in his heart. However, it is not surprising that Matoufeng is the logistics base where the bearded guests were preparing to build weapons and raise troops. It is said that Helan Mountain is rich in mineral deposits, and this place is really an excellent place if it is used as a place for making iron and making weapons, but I don't know how the bearded guests entered and exited back then. However, Li Xuanqing didn't care about these, since it was left by his "master", it was reasonable for him to inherit it.
Since he learned the Pure Yang Heart Method, Li Xuanqing has also acquiesced in his heart that he is a disciple of the next generation of bearded guests. Seeing these meteorites at this moment, he unceremoniously took possession of them.
So after Chen Yu asked, he smiled and said, "What are we shipping out for?" It's just here to make iron and steel, to build weapons or something, so that it can be taken out. ”
Chen Yu shook his head and said, "Xuanqing, you don't understand, these meteorites seem to have a lot of iron in them, even if you pull all the people from our blacksmith shop over, you won't be able to make iron." We can't do it for two decades. ”
"I have a way, I know a way that can be faster than your blacksmith's shop, and the quality of the iron smelted is better, do you want to know?" Li Xuanqing was secretly amused when he saw Chen Yu's drooling appearance when he looked at the meteorite but couldn't help it, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Pull it down, I've been in the blacksmith shop for several years and haven't seen any other way for the masters to strike iron? What can you do? Chen Yu shouted, then suddenly shocked, and pointed at Li Xuanqing and shouted, "Speak quickly, I know that you kid has a lot of ideas from a little ghost, and I can't say that you really have a way." ”
Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, and explained the crucible steelmaking method of later generations to Chen Yu in detail. Speaking of which, Li Xuanqing knew that the crucible steelmaking method was completely due to the use of this soil method by some of his relatives in his previous life, and Li Xuanqing, who had been in this relative's house since he was a child, was extremely familiar with crucible steelmaking.
However, this is definitely unheard of news more than a thousand years ago, Rao is a professional iron striker like Chen Yu, and he was shocked after hearing it. However, although crucible iron smelting has been eliminated in later generations, it still took Chen Yu half a day to slowly understand what Li Xuanqing said.
However, the crucible steelmaking method itself is not difficult, but no one has ever known that the melting point of graphite clay can be so high, and the essence of graphite can reduce iron in smelting. Although the crucible steelmaking method was eliminated in later generations, it was the first time in human history that liquid iron was obtained, which was a huge milestone in the history of steel smelting.
After Li Xuanqing finished speaking, he quietly waited for Chen Yu's reaction. Although he knows every step of the crucible steelmaking method, the specific operator has to be Chen Yu, after all, in this era, he has an innate "unsuitability" for ironmaking. And Li Xuanqing, who has been a playmate since childhood, knows that his brother has an indescribable talent in this regard.
"Xuanqing, although you can quickly obtain wrought iron with this method, it is still not enough to rely on the two of us, manpower is not enough." Chen Yu was silent for a long time, looked up at the meteorites around him, and was embarrassed: "Moreover, I don't know what the graphite you said is, where it is." ”
Li Xuanqing was stunned when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "In fact, we can find a way to manpower, such as Tianxiang, Tianyi and them can." As for graphite, I know where it is, I have seen it in Helan Mountain before, not much, but it is definitely enough for us. ”
Chen Yu was relieved when he heard Li Xuanqing's words, Tianxiang and the others were all orphans like himself, and now they are begging in Lingzhou City for a living, but they have a good relationship with Chen Yu, and they have similar personalities, and they usually play together more. Although I don't know what Li Xuanqing wants to do in the end, Li Xuanqing has been the one with the best brain among his group since he was a child, and it must be a good thing for him to be able to take his brothers with him.
"Chen Yu, you go back now, call them, if someone asks, say that I broke my leg in the mountains, just ask someone to carry me back." Call them all. Li Xuanqing thought for a while and continued, "By the way, find a way to bring your iron-striking tools, otherwise you won't be able to fight." I'm here to recuperate. ”
Chen Yu wanted to say something, but seeing Li Xuanqing's indifferent expression, he sighed and shook his head secretly, this guy still had a faint expression as always, but he was also relieved. After a slight pause, he asked, "We're going to spend a lot of time here, right?" Do you want to bring some daily necessities? ”
Li Xuanqing tilted his head and thought for a while, nodded, and added, "Remember to bring more salt." ”
Chen Yu nodded, and the two of them saw that it was already past noon, so they didn't delay any longer, and began to go back in the direction they came.
After dragging for an hour, the two of them returned to the previous valley, but it was already afternoon at this time, and Chen Yu didn't plan to go back, but just climbed up the Nantianmen and returned to the cave, brought all the items that had been stored there before, found many branches, and built a shed, and began to light a fire to continue roasting the big insect.
After the two of them ate some tiger meat indiscriminately. Chen Yu went to the shed early to rest, he had to rush back to Lingzhou City early tomorrow morning, only Li Xuanqing lit the fire and checked the injury on his leg.
However, at this time, Li Xuanqing could be regarded as knowing the effect of his previous operation of the Pure Yang Heart Method, because when roasting tiger meat, the two sat together, Chen Yu looked at Li Xuanqing for a long time, and said whether he fell into which mud, why did he stink so much all over his body. Suddenly reminded Li Xuanqing of what happened before. The memory of his previous life made him react immediately, this is probably the legendary hair cutting and marrow. So after eating, I went to take a shower after seeing that my injuries were fine.
After taking a bath, Li Xuanqing looked at the sky, began to sit cross-legged, and silently began to practice the Pure Yang Heart Method. Although he had just cultivated the Pure Yang True Qi, his faint instinct made Li Xuanqing feel that if he persevered, then this Pure Yang Heart Method would definitely bring him more than just a simple effect of promoting the improvement of his injuries. You must know that this is the internal strength of the bearded guest, the head of the Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust, even if it does not have such a magical effect as invented by later novelists, it is estimated that it is not much worse.
Li Xuanqing continued to mobilize the pure yang true qi in the dantian to circulate his whole body, only to see Li Xuanqing's body slowly seep out a trace of heat, and at the same time, there seemed to be an invisible air flow between heaven and earth that began to rotate slowly in a vortex shape centered on Li Xuanqing.
At this moment, Li Xuanqing's mind was silent, and as the true qi in his body oscillated, the tiger skin wrapped around his body began to slowly bulge, like an inflated balloon, and the faint white gas above his head stood like a thin pillar of smoke.
This situation lasted for an hour, Li Xuanqing's work was complete, and he slowly opened his eyes, and in just a moment, an indescribable mysterious aura leaked out of his body, and the momentum that burst out made his hair windless and automatic.
Li Xuanqing looked at the fire in front of him, slowly stretched out his right hand, and began to try to mobilize the pure yang true qi in his body. "Huh" was originally burning quietly, and Chen Yu's chosen place was sheltered from the wind, so the flames were not moving, but at this time, it was blown forward by a strong air flow out of thin air, and the fire rose out of thin air, and a dry firewood on the fire was also swept out of the fire by this strong wind, and was pushed more than three feet away.
Fortunately, this place was cleaned up by Chen Yu, except for the dry firewood collected, there was nothing else to ignite. Li Xuanqing looked at his palm, and with an inexplicable shock, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Sure enough, this is the power of internal strength. I was able to experience the power of the legendary internal strength. This must be another parallel plane in the legend, right? After all, if there really was such a magical exercise in ancient times, then it would not be possible for nothing to be handed down. Li Xuanqing looked up at the sky, but found that there was no difference between this starry sky and his previous life.
What kind of weird situation should this be? Li Xuanqing couldn't help but shake his head, he came to this era inexplicably, did he need to do something? What does it mean that this kind of miraculous exercise is obtained out of thin air?
These questions made Li Xuanqing scratch, but he couldn't find the answers. It's just that there seems to be a mysterious force pushing him forward, and even those meteorites may not have been left by the bearded guest. But in which direction does this force push itself?
Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Li Xuanqing is not used to his fate being controlled by others, especially this kind of mysterious power that he can't understand. Your own destiny should be in your own hands.
In any case, no matter what era it is, there is one principle that remains the same, and if you want to take control of your own destiny, you must become stronger. If you can be powerful to the extreme, maybe you can get rid of this predestined power, and then you should be able to make your own decisions.
Also, I am now at the beginning of a troubled world, whether it is for myself in this life, or in order to change this history, I should become stronger, if I can change history, then maybe I can unravel the veil of the mysterious power that makes me uneasy.
Thinking of this, Li Xuanqing sighed unconsciously, closed his eyes and stopped thinking about it, he seemed to be no matter what, at least there were still a lot of things for himself now, and the golden finger of the traverser still existed. However, this should have been prepared by the bearded guest for his future disciples, and he was given good luck by himself. But this is also right, when the bearded guest gave up fighting for the world and traveled to Fusang, maybe he was really prescient, and he expected that the disciples of later generations might encounter troubled times, should this be a gift for entering the WTO and competing for power?
Li Xuanqing suppressed these chaotic thoughts in his heart, these things are not something that can be changed by his current self no matter what, sometimes reality is not a bad thing at all, and reality can forget troubles at all.
Li Xuanqing fell into a deep sleep until he was woken up by Chen Yu, but this was already early the next morning. When Li Xuan came to his senses, Chen Yu had already begun to prepare breakfast. In other words, Chen Yu seems to be quite talented in eating, and he was able to get two hares in the early morning, and I don't know how he caught them.
Chen Yu saw that Li Xuan came to his senses, grinned, handed him a roasted rabbit, and did not speak.
"Looks like you're looking good!" Chen Yu picked up another rabbit and muttered while gnawing on it, and only after a while did he raise his head, clear the west in his mouth, and said, "I will probably rush back in three days, and you will find a place to hide in the mountains in these three days, and your legs are not well What if you encounter a big insect again?" ”
Li Xuanqing smiled when he heard this, shook his head, stood up and walked a few steps, and smiled at Chen Yu: "Do you think I still have any problems now?" ”
Chen Yu was surprised to see that Li Xuanqing's walking had returned to normal now, and couldn't help asking, "This speed is too fast, right?" What did your life-saver you never meet eat for you, so soon? ”
In fact, Li Xuanqing's leg was much better after last night's luck and healing, but it was not so magical, but he didn't want Chen Yu to worry, but he also wanted to use this to pave the way for his future affairs, so he smiled, picked up the books, and explained: "Actually, it's nothing, the Taoist left me a few books, which recorded some healing exercises, and I haven't had time to read the rest." So you don't have to worry about me, just go and come back quickly. ”
Although what Li Xuanqing said was still a little vague, Chen Yu was not a fool, and he instantly understood that these books were not expected to be simple, but he didn't ask in detail, but he could see from it that Li Xuanqing called his remaining partners over to do something, plus he said before that he used these meteorites to build weapons. So what the final purpose is is self-evident.
Although Chen Yu looked very aggressive, he was really thick and fine, and after learning what Li Xuanqing wanted to do, he suddenly felt that Li Xuanqing had changed at this moment, and it seemed that he was no longer the silent teenager he was before. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Li Xuanqing, but saw that he was also looking towards him at this moment, the familiar silence in his faint eyes was still so familiar, which made him secretly put his mind down, although he didn't understand why he had so many thoughts, but as long as he was still his former partner, then everything else didn't matter. Besides, this guy has been silent since he was a child, and he looks preoccupied, maybe he has thought about it a long time ago, but now he finally has the opportunity to achieve it.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu didn't delay any longer, stood up with the unfinished half of the rabbit, shook his hand, and said as he walked: "I'm going to rush back early, you pay more attention to yourself, and I'll bring a few of them over to join you in three days." ”
Li Xuanqing saw his demeanor just now, and he naturally knew what he was thinking just now after knowing him for many years, but he didn't explain anything, just said to Chen Yu in a light tone as always: "Heizi, don't worry, I'm still me, but I think we all have the ability to change our lives in the future." ”
Chen Yu, who was far away, froze after hearing Li Xuanqing's words, raised his hand, and his voice came from afar, "I'm waiting to be a general." ”