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When Lin Yuyan entered the foundry, he felt that the heat wave was about to burn to his throat, but the foundry was not much different from the outside world, and this was obviously not because it was winter.

Lin Yuyan looked around, but found four or five iron furnaces, and only two of them had fire in them.

No wonder...... Because of the use of cement in the foundry, a house can cover an area of several acres, and a house has dozens of stoves, and most of them are often on fire, and it is strange that it is not hot!

Foil Bell stretched out his hand and said: "Your Highness, this is the foundry of the Arsenal Bureau, it seems that the scale is a little smaller, but the casting of Wancheng is only for the development of [Nine Wrought Iron], and as for the creation of weapons for the border army, the foundry over there in Boshan is in charge." ”

"Hmm......" Lin Yuyan nodded.

There were a lot of craftsmen from the Arsenal Bureau in the room, watching the department lead people in, except for those who had to do it, everyone else put down the work in their hands and looked at this side.

"Masters, this is His Royal Highness Gongzi Yan!" The foil bell is also introduced to many craftsmen.

Most of these craftsmen were from the common people, and they didn't know the etiquette, so they knelt on the ground at the moment and didn't say anything to greet them.

Lin Yuyan waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, you masters should hurry up." ”

Hearing this, these craftsmen slowly stood up.

Foil Tin just let them do whatever they wanted, and then looked at Lin Yuyan and asked, "I don't know what kind of craftsmen Your Highness needs?" ”

"Blacksmiths and bronzesmiths are the best, especially those involved in the development of border weapons!" Lin Yuyan replied.

Hearing this, Foil Bell asked: "Your Majesty has forgotten, Your Highness is now the general in charge of the Shanglin Yuan army, and it is normal to need some craftsmen to develop weapons, although most of the craftsmen involved in the development of weapons under the Military Casting Bureau are in Boshan Iron Mine, but the most top-notch of them are all in the Wancheng Foundry, and now I will introduce a few to Your Highness." ”

Seeing Lin Yuyan nodded, the foil bell walked in front of Lin Yuyan to guide the way, and after a while, it led to an independent craftsman's shop, Lin Yuyan looked around, and found that there were a lot of bronzes, which seemed to be a bronze foundry, and there were many craftsmen inside, except for those handymen outside, Lin Yuyan glanced around, and there were the most craftsmen here, even three or four times that of the blacksmith shop next door.

The foil bell asked people to call over a sturdy man, and took advantage of the gap to say for Lin Yuyan: "Your Highness, the world's bronze masterpiece, either Chu is Qi, among them, Chu State is good at using bronze as a weapon, and it has already brought the sharpness and tenacity of bronze to the peak, I once heard my father say that Wu Yue's swordsmith cast a peerless sword of twenty-five forgings, but it is on an equal footing with the superb bronze sword of Chu State." ”

The foil bell only told this anecdote to the sixth son of the emperor to explain the boredom of the foundry, but he didn't expect that this matter fell into Lin Yuyan's heart, Lin Yuyan asked: "Didn't you say that if iron is superior to bronze, the twenty-five forged sword can only be equal to the bronze sword of Chu State, then the Central Plains countries, including Wu Yue, also developed [wrought iron]?" ”

Hearing this, the foil bell smiled, and then explained to Gongzi Yan: "Your Highness doesn't know, the Chu State has developed the bronze sword to this point, and it is already impossible to advance, the hardness of [Thirty Forging] is already the limit of bronze, and the premise that can refine the bronze of [Thirty Forging] is that it requires extremely harsh conditions of time, place and people, even if it is the Chu State, the bronze of [Twenty Forging] is a minority, and the bronze used by the Chu King's Army is only the level of [Fifteen Forgings], and the regular army is only a [Ten Forging] weapon. ”

Foil bell continued: "As for the Central Plains countries, as well as the land of Wu Yue, there are two reasons for the development of [wrought iron], one is that the Central Plains countries and Wu Yue are not as rich in bronze as Chu State, especially high-quality bronze, which is also the main reason, and secondly, the Central Plains countries all think that bronze has reached the limit, but iron has not, the saying of [100 forged steel] has been sought after, it is said that the limit of iron is [100 forged steel], at that time, the bronze sword is like a clod of soil, and the sword made of 100 forged steel is cut off!" ”

So that's the case, Lin Yuyan also nodded, the bronze texture is indeed not as hard as iron, but because it was discovered earlier than iron, it has been developed to the peak, but ironware is still in the embryonic state, and the princes of the Central Plains with the purpose of dominating the Central Plains are naturally developing iron tools on a large scale.

"Your Highness, the bronze master Qi Sen is here." Seeing that the person he sent out had already returned with the main purpose of this trip, he reminded Lin Yuyan.

Lin Yuyan looked over, Qi Sen? Isn't it the younger brother of Qi Xian, the master craftsman of the foundry, it seems to be a coincidence.

"Qi Sen has seen His Highness!" That Qi Sen had already received a letter from his eldest brother a few days ago, inviting him to go to Shanglin Yuan to do things, but there were some things that had not yet ended on the side of the War Casting Bureau, and Qi Sen delayed the matter, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness Gongziyan, who had single-handedly established the Shanglin Yuan Foundry today, would come in person.

Foil bell introduced: "Your Highness, the bronze masterpiece, either Chu is Qi, Chu is based on the soldiers, and the Qi country is based on exquisite bronze ornaments, this Qi Sen is a bronze master from the Qi country, and the bronze ornaments made by the bronze ornaments, there are many old clans in Wancheng...... Large households buy. ”

Foil Bell knew the grievances between Lin Yuyan and the old clan, and his mind was also lively, so he said goodbye to him.

Lin Yuyan didn't care about this small detail, after all, he was an important person from the Soldier Casting Bureau today, and he couldn't save face like this.

"Foil Division, would you like to lend me this person?" Lin Yuyan said.

Foil Bell smiled and said: "Your Highness has seen this, the subordinate said, His Highness has taken a fancy to those people, even if you use it, why ask me!" ”

As Foil Bell expected, his words were exchanged for Lin Yuyan's grateful eyes, which was enough for Foil Bell!

"Master Qi, are you willing to serve me?" Lin Yuyan stepped forward to help Qi Sen and asked.

"Don't give up!" Qi Sen replied with a fist, but then said with a little embarrassment: "Your Highness, Sen has fired a bronze tripod, which is about to be finished, if you withdraw it now, it will be ruined in a flash, and please ask Your Highness to give Sen a few days to report it!" ”

Hearing this, the foil bell also frowned and said: "Qi Sen, that is the bronze of the Kang family, the matter of His Royal Highness Gongzi is very important, I will tell you on the Kang side, you don't need to burn it early!" ”

Lin Yuyan waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, the bronze tripod is the hard work of the master craftsman Qi, how can it be said that it will be wasted, don't worry about the efforts of the past few days, it is not too late for the master of Qi to build the bronze tripod and then come to work." ”

Hearing this, Foil Bell hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness is benevolent and righteous, Qi Sen has not thanked Your Highness!" ”

Qi Sen also arched his hand towards Lin Yuyan, but was stopped by Lin Yuyan: "Don't do this, it's me who bothered you." ”

Hearing this, Qi Sen was also very touched in his heart, although his eldest brother's bronze craftsmanship was not as good as his own, but his eyes were excellent at seeing people, seeing that His Royal Highness treated himself so well, he was really a person who could serve him!

Seeing that this was done, the foil bell immediately said: "Qi Sen, you go down first, and after refining the bronze artifact, you can also select some skilled bronze craftsmen to bring to His Highness." ”

"Yes." Zissen nodded.

Seeing this, Lin Yuyan also looked at the foil bell, the words have already come to this point, what else does Lin Yuyan not understand, the foil bell is stammering himself? !

I don't have any power in the court, and I still have a grudge with the old clan, so there is only one reason for the foil bell to tie myself up.

His second brother and son letter!

However, he actually used the "backbone of the Soldier Casting Bureau" to slap himself, which made Lin Yuyan feel angry and funny, laughing because his trip to the Armor Casting Bureau was really smooth, and it didn't take much effort to bring the master of the Armor Casting Bureau into use, but what was even more angry was that the Armor Casting Bureau, which was the forefront of Wuguo's metal skills, would actually send his most important craftsman out so easily!

Lin Yuyan turned his head and looked at the foil bell meaningfully, this person had a ruddy complexion and a burly body, but his face was full of fat, which made Lin Yuyan understand, this director of the Armor Casting Bureau does not attach importance to the art of casting!

This is why, as far as Lin Yuyan knows, the foil clan is a craft heirloom, whether it is the old engineer foil luo, or the current foundry department foil tin, they all belong to the kind of burly, but they are all capable people, not this foil bell of the military casting bureau seems so ...... Bloated!

Because the foil clan has been exposed to forging skills since childhood, how can the foil bell be so blessed.

Combined with his own understanding of the Foil Clan, looking at this Director of the Soldier Casting Bureau, the son-in-law of the Foil Clan is a man who is keen on the art of power and strategy, and has inherited the casting skills of the Foil Clan.

Compared with this, the foundry director of the foil tin is much more outstanding, and it is not surprising that Lin Yuyan drove the foil tin away from the foil tin brother.

Since I feel that so many craftsmen put it here for waste, the foil bell is so ...... Enthusiastic, so Lin Yuyan is also planning to be polite.

After a short time, the foil bell brought Lin Yuyan to the forging yard, and Lin Yuyan saw a burly man from a distance to clamp out the iron from the stove, touch the blacksmith next to the furnace and start beating.

Foil Bell introduced: "Your Highness, this person's name is Ma Jun, born with a stutter, he doesn't like to talk, but he is quite talented in forging, even his father is quite appreciative of this person, and now he is the highest superhuman in the forging iron skills of the Soldier Casting Bureau, [Eight Wrought Iron] came from his hands, and a few days ago he also said [Nine Wrought Iron], it seems." Nine wrought iron is almost done. ”

Lin Yuyan laughed secretly in his heart, I'm afraid this guy doesn't even know how to forge [Seven Wrought Iron].